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    <h1>
      THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.R.S.
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    <h5>
      CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY TRANSCRIBED FROM THE
      SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY<br /> MAGDALENE COLLEGE
      CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW<br /> AND PRESIDENT OF
      THE COLLEGE (Unabridged) WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES <br /><br />
    </h5>
    <h2>
      By Samuel Pepys
    </h2>
    <h4>
      <br /><br /> Edited With Additions By <br /><br /> Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A.
      <br /><br /> LONDON<br /> GEORGE BELL &amp; SONS YORK ST. COVENT GARDEN<br />
      CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL &amp; CO.
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    <h3>
      1893
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    <h3>
      COMPLETE
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    <p>
      <br /> <br />
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    <p>
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    <blockquote>
      <p class="toc">
        <big><b>CONTENTS</b></big>
      </p>
      <p>
        <br /> <a href="#link2H_PREF1"> PREFACE </a><br /><br /> <a
        href="#link2H_4_0002"> PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE DIARY. </a><br /><br /><br />
        <big><b><a href="#link2H_4_0003"> 1659-1660 </a></b></big>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0003"> JANUARY 1659-1660 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0004"> FEBRUARY 1659-1660 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0005"> MARCH 1659-1660 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0006"> APRIL 1660 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0007"> MAY 1660 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0008"> JUNE 1660 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0009"> JULY 1660 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0010"> AUGUST 1660 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0011"> SEPTEMBER 1660 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0012"> OCTOBER 1660 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0013"> NOVEMBER 1660 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0014"> DECEMBER 1660 </a>
      </p>
      <p>
        <br /><br /><br /> <big><b><a href="#link2H_4_0015"> 1660-1661 </a></b></big>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0015"> JANUARY 1660-1661 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0016"> FEBRUARY 1660-61 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0017"> MARCH 1660-1661 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0018"> APRIL 1661 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0019"> MAY 1661 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0020"> JUNE 1661 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0021"> JULY 1661 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0022"> AUGUST 1661 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0023"> SEPTEMBER 1661 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0024"> OCTOBER 1661 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0025"> NOVEMBER 1661 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0026"> DECEMBER 1661 </a>
      </p>
      <p>
        <br /><br /><br /> <big><b><a href="#link2H_4_0027"> 1661-1662 </a></b></big>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0027"> JANUARY 1661-1662 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0028"> FEBRUARY 1661-1662 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0029"> MARCH 1661-1662 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0030"> APRIL 1662 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0031"> MAY 1662 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0032"> JUNE 1662 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0033"> JULY 1662 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0034"> AUGUST 1662 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0035"> SEPTEMBER 1662 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0036"> OCTOBER 1662 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0037"> NOVEMBER 1662 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0038"> DECEMBER 1662 </a>
      </p>
      <p>
        <br /><br /><br /> <big><b><a href="#link2H_4_0039"> JANUARY 1662-1663 </a></b></big>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0039"> JANUARY 1662-1663 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0040"> FEBRUARY 1662-1663 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0041"> MARCH 1662-1663 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0042"> APRIL 1663 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0043"> MAY 1663 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0044"> JUNE 1663 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0045"> JULY 1663 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0046"> AUGUST 1663 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0047"> SEPTEMBER 1663 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0048"> OCTOBER 1663 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0049"> NOVEMBER 1663 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0050"> DECEMBER 1663 </a>
      </p>
      <p>
        <br /><br /><br /> <big><b><a href="#link2H_4_0051"> 1663-1664 </a></b></big>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0051"> JANUARY 1663-1664 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0052"> FEBRUARY 1663-1664 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0053"> MARCH 1663-1664 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0054"> APRIL 1664 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0055"> MAY 1664 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0056"> JUNE 1664 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0057"> JULY 1664 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0058"> AUGUST 1664 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0059"> SEPTEMBER 1664 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0060"> OCTOBER 1664 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0061"> NOVEMBER 1664 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0062"> DECEMBER 1664 </a>
      </p>
      <p>
        <br /><br /><br /> <big><b><a href="#link2H_4_0063"> 1664-1665 </a></b></big>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0063"> JANUARY 1664-1665 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0064"> FEBRUARY 1664-1665 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0065"> MARCH 1664-1665 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0066"> APRIL 1665 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0067"> MAY 1665 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0068"> JUNE 1665 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0069"> JULY 1665 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0070"> AUGUST 1665 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0071"> SEPTEMBER 1665 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0072"> OCTOBER 1665 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0073"> NOVEMBER 1665 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0074"> DECEMBER 1665 </a>
      </p>
      <p>
        <br /><br /><br /> <big><b><a href="#link2H_4_0075"> 1665-1666 </a></b></big>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0075"> JANUARY 1665-1666 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0076"> FEBRUARY 1665-1666 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0077"> MARCH 1665-1666 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0078"> APRIL 1666 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0079"> MAY 1666 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0080"> JUNE 1666 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0081"> JULY 1666 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0082"> AUGUST 1666 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0083"> SEPTEMBER 1666 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0084"> OCTOBER 1666 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0085"> NOVEMBER 1666 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0086"> DECEMBER 1666 </a>
      </p>
      <p>
        <br /><br /><br /> <big><b><a href="#link2H_4_0087"> 1666-1667 </a></b></big>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0087"> JANUARY 1666-1667 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0088"> FEBRUARY 1666-1667 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0089"> MARCH 1666-1667 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0090"> APRIL 1667 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0091"> MAY 1667 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0092"> JUNE 1667 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0093"> JULY 1667 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0094"> AUGUST 1667 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0095"> SEPTEMBER 1667 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0096"> OCTOBER 1667 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0097"> NOVEMBER 1667 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0098"> DECEMBER 1667 </a>
      </p>
      <p>
        <br /><br /><br /> <big><b><a href="#link2H_4_0099"> 1667-1668 </a></b></big>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0099"> JANUARY 1667-1668 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0100"> FEBRUARY 1667-1668 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0101"> MARCH 1667-1668 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0102"> APRIL 1668 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0103"> MAY 1668 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0104"> JUNE 1668 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0105"> JULY 1668 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0106"> AUGUST 1668 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0107"> SEPTEMBER 1668 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0108"> OCTOBER 1668 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0109"> NOVEMBER 1668 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0110"> DECEMBER 1668 </a>
      </p>
      <p>
        <br /><br /><br /> <big> <b><a href="#link2H_4_0111"> 1668-1669 </a></b></big>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0111"> JANUARY 1668-1669 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0112"> FEBRUARY 1668-1669 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0113"> MARCH 1668-1669 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0114"> APRIL 1669 </a>
      </p>
      <p class="toc">
        <a href="#link2H_4_0115"> MAY 1669 </a>
      </p>
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    <h2>
      PREFACE
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    <p>
      Although the Diary of Samuel Pepys has been in the hands of the public for
      nearly seventy years, it has not hitherto appeared in its entirety. In the
      original edition of 1825 scarcely half of the manuscript was printed. Lord
      Braybrooke added some passages as the various editions were published, but
      in the preface to his last edition he wrote: "there appeared indeed no
      necessity to amplify or in any way to alter the text of the Diary beyond
      the correction of a few verbal errors and corrupt passages hitherto
      overlooked."
    </p>
    <p>
      The public knew nothing as to what was left unprinted, and there was
      therefore a general feeling of gratification when it was announced some
      eighteen years ago that a new edition was to be published by the Rev.
      Mynors Bright, with the addition of new matter equal to a third of the
      whole. It was understood that at last the Diary was to appear in its
      entirety, but there was a passage in Mr. Bright's preface which suggested
      a doubt respecting the necessary completeness. He wrote: "It would have
      been tedious to the reader if I had copied from the Diary the account of
      his daily work at the office."
    </p>
    <p>
      As a matter of fact, Mr. Bright left roughly speaking about one-fifth of
      the whole Diary still unprinted, although he transcribed the whole, and
      bequeathed his transcript to Magdalene College.
    </p>
    <p>
      It has now been decided that the whole of the Diary shall be made public,
      with the exception of a few passages which cannot possibly be printed. It
      may be thought by some that these omissions are due to an unnecessary
      squeamishness, but it is not really so, and readers are therefore asked to
      have faith in the judgment of the editor. Where any passages have been
      omitted marks of omission are added, so that in all cases readers will
      know where anything has been left out.
    </p>
    <p>
      Lord Braybrooke made the remark in his "Life of Pepys," that "the cipher
      employed by him greatly resembles that known by the name of 'Rich's
      system.'" When Mr. Bright came to decipher the MS., he discovered that the
      shorthand system used by Pepys was an earlier one than Rich's, viz., that
      of Thomas Shelton, who made his system public in 1620.
    </p>
    <p>
      In his various editions Lord Braybrooke gave a large number of valuable
      notes, in the collection and arrangement of which he was assisted by the
      late Mr. John Holmes of the British Museum, and the late Mr. James
      Yeowell, sometime sub-editor of "Notes and Queries." Where these notes are
      left unaltered in the present edition the letter "B." has been affixed to
      them, but in many instances the notes have been altered and added to from
      later information, and in these cases no mark is affixed. A large number
      of additional notes are now supplied, but still much has had to be left
      unexplained. Many persons are mentioned in the Diary who were little known
      in the outer world, and in some instances it has been impossible to
      identify them. In other cases, however, it has been possible to throw
      light upon these persons by reference to different portions of the Diary
      itself. I would here ask the kind assistance of any reader who is able to
      illustrate passages that have been left unnoted. I have received much
      assistance from the various books in which the Diary is quoted. Every
      writer on the period covered by the Diary has been pleased to illustrate
      his subject by quotations from Pepys, and from these books it has often
      been possible to find information which helps to explain difficult
      passages in the Diary.
    </p>
    <p>
      Much illustrative matter of value was obtained by Lord Braybrooke from the
      "Diurnall" of Thomas Rugge, which is preserved in the British Museum (Add.
      MSS. 10,116, 10,117). The following is the description of this interesting
      work as given by Lord Braybrooke
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                    "MERCURIUS POLITICUS REDIVIVUS;

  or, A Collection of the most materiall occurrances and transactions
            in Public Affairs since Anno Dni, 1659, untill
                            28 March, 1672,
      serving as an annuall diurnall for future satisfaction and
                             information,
                            BY THOMAS RUGGE.

             Est natura hominum novitatis avida.&mdash;Plinius.

     "This MS. belonged, in 1693, to Thomas Grey, second Earl of
     Stamford.  It has his autograph at the commencement, and on the
     sides are his arms (four quarterings) in gold.  In 1819, it was sold
     by auction in London, as part of the collection of Thomas Lloyd,
     Esq.  (No. 1465), and was then bought by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller.
     Whilst Mr. Lloyd was the possessor, the MS. was lent to Dr. Lingard,
     whose note of thanks to Mr. Lloyd is preserved in the volume.  From
     Thorpe it appears to have passed to Mr. Heber, at the sale of whose
     MSS. in Feb.  1836, by Mr. Evans, of Pall Mall, it was purchased by
     the British Museum for L8 8s.

     "Thomas Rugge was descended from an ancient Norfolk family, and two
     of his ancestors are described as Aldermen of Norwich.  His death
     has been ascertained to have occurred about 1672; and in the Diary
     for the preceding year he complains that on account of his declining
     health, his entries will be but few.  Nothing has been traced of his
     personal circumstances beyond the fact of his having lived for
     fourteen years in Covent Garden, then a fashionable locality."
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    <p>
      Another work I have found of the greatest value is the late Mr. J. E.
      Doyle's "Official Baronage of England" (1886), which contains a mass of
      valuable information not easily to be obtained elsewhere. By reference to
      its pages I have been enabled to correct several erroneous dates in
      previous notes caused by a very natural confusion of years in the case of
      the months of January, February, and March, before it was finally fixed
      that the year should commence in January instead of March. More confusion
      has probably been introduced into history from this than from any other
      cause of a like nature. The reference to two years, as in the case of,
      say, Jan. 5, 1661-62, may appear clumsy, but it is the only safe plan of
      notation. If one year only is mentioned, the reader is never sure whether
      or not the correction has been made. It is a matter for sincere regret
      that the popular support was withheld from Mr. Doyle's important
      undertaking, so that the author's intention of publishing further volumes,
      containing the Baronies not dealt with in those already published, was
      frustrated.
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My labours have been much lightened by the kind help which I have
received from those interested in the subject. Lovers of Pepys are
numerous, and I have found those I have applied to ever willing to
give me such information as they possess. It is a singular pleasure,
therefore, to have an opportunity of expressing publicly my thanks
to these gentlemen, and among them I would especially mention Messrs.
Fennell, Danby P. Fry, J. Eliot Hodgkin, Henry Jackson, J. K. Laughton,
Julian Marshall, John Biddulph Martin, J. E. Matthew, Philip Norman,
Richard B. Prosser, and Hugh Callendar, Fellow of Trinity College,
who verified some of the passages in the manuscript. To the Master
and Fellows of Magdalene College, also, I am especially indebted for
allowing me to consult the treasures of the Pepysian Library, and more
particularly my thanks are due to Mr. Arthur G. Peskett, the Librarian.

                                        H. B. W.
BRAMPTON, OPPIDANS ROAD,          LONDON, N.W.
               February, 1893.
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    <h2>
      PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE DIARY.
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    <p>
      I. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in
      the reigns of Charles II. and James II., comprising his Diary from 1659 to
      1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A.B., of St. John's College,
      Cambridge, from the original Shorthand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a
      Selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord
      Braybrooke. In two volumes. London, Henry Colburn... 1825. 4vo.
    </p>
    <p>
      2. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S.... Second edition. In five
      volumes. London, Henry Colburn.... 1828. 8vo.
    </p>
    <p>
      3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Secretary to the
      Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II.; with a Life and
      Notes by Richard, Lord Braybrooke; the third edition, considerably
      enlarged. London, Henry Colburn.... 1848-49. 5 vols. sm. 8vo.
    </p>
    <p>
      4. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.... The fourth edition,
      revised and corrected. In four volumes. London, published for Henry
      Colburn by his successors, Hurst and Blackett... 1854. 8vo.
    </p>
    <p>
      The copyright of Lord Braybrooke's edition was purchased by the late Mr.
      Henry G. Bohn, who added the book to his Historical Library.
    </p>
    <p>
      5. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., from his MS.
      Cypber in the Pepysian Library, with a Life and Notes by Richard, Lord
      Braybrooke. Deciphered, with additional notes, by the Rev. Mynors Bright,
      M.A.... London, Bickers and Son, 1875-79. 6 vols. 8vo.
    </p>
    <p>
      Nos. 1, 2 and 3 being out of copyright have been reprinted by various
      publishers.
    </p>
    <p>
      No. 5 is out of print.
    </p>
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                 PARTICULARS OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
</pre>
    <p>
      The family of Pepys is one of considerable antiquity in the east of
      England, and the Hon. Walter Courtenay Pepys
    </p>
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     [Mr. W.  C.  Pepys has paid great attention to the history of his
     family, and in 1887 he published an interesting work entitled
     "Genealogy of the Pepys Family, 1273-1887," London, George Bell and
     Sons, which contains the fullest pedigrees of the family yet
     issued.]
</pre>
    <p>
      says that the first mention of the name that he has been able to find is
      in the Hundred Rolls (Edw. I, 1273), where Richard Pepis and John Pepes
      are registered as holding lands in the county of Cambridge. In the next
      century the name of William Pepis is found in deeds relating to lands in
      the parish of Cottenham, co. Cambridge, dated 1329 and 1340 respectively
      (Cole MSS., British Museum, vol. i., p. 56; vol. xlii., p. 44). According
      to the Court Roll of the manor of Pelhams, in the parish of Cottenham,
      Thomas Pepys was "bayliffe of the Abbot of Crowland in 1434," but in spite
      of these references, as well as others to persons of the same name at
      Braintree, Essex, Depedale, Norfolk, &amp;c., the first ancestor of the
      existing branches of the family from whom Mr. Walter Pepys is able to
      trace an undoubted descent, is "William Pepis the elder, of Cottenham, co.
      Cambridge," whose will is dated 20th March, 1519.
    </p>
    <p>
      In 1852 a curious manuscript volume, bound in vellum, and entitled "Liber
      Talboti Pepys de instrumentis ad Feoda pertinentibus exemplificatis," was
      discovered in an old chest in the parish church of Bolney, Sussex, by the
      vicar, the Rev. John Dale, who delivered it to Henry Pepys, Bishop of
      Worcester, and the book is still in the possession of the family. This
      volume contains various genealogical entries, and among them are
      references to the Thomas Pepys of 1434 mentioned above, and to the later
      William Pepys. The reference to the latter runs thus:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "A Noate written out of an ould Booke of my uncle William Pepys."

     "William Pepys, who died at Cottenham, 10 H. 8, was brought up by
     the Abbat of Crowland, in Huntingdonshire, and he was borne in
     Dunbar, in Scotland, a gentleman, whom the said Abbat did make his
     Bayliffe of all his lands in Cambridgeshire, and placed him in
     Cottenham, which William aforesaid had three sonnes, Thomas, John,
     and William, to whom Margaret was mother naturallie, all of whom
     left issue."
</pre>
    <p>
      In illustration of this entry we may refer to the Diary of June 12th,
      1667, where it is written that Roger Pepys told Samuel that "we did
      certainly come out of Scotland with the Abbot of Crowland." The references
      to various members of the family settled in Cottenham and elsewhere, at an
      early date already alluded to, seem to show that there is little
      foundation for this very positive statement.
    </p>
    <p>
      With regard to the standing of the family, Mr. Walter Pepys writes:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "The first of the name in 1273 were evidently but small copyholders.
     Within 150 years (1420) three or four of the name had entered the
     priesthood, and others had become connected with the monastery of
     Croyland as bailiffs, &amp;c.  In 250 years (1520) there were certainly
     two families: one at Cottenham, co. Cambridge, and another at
     Braintree, co. Essex, in comfortable circumstances as yeomen
     farmers.  Within fifty years more (1563), one of the family, Thomas,
     of Southcreeke, co. Norfolk, had entered the ranks of the gentry
     sufficiently to have his coat-of-arms recognized by the Herald
     Cooke, who conducted the Visitation of Norfolk in that year.  From
     that date the majority of the family have been in good
     circumstances, with perhaps more than the average of its members
     taking up public positions."
</pre>
    <p>
      There is a very general notion that Samuel Pepys was of plebeian birth
      because his father followed the trade of a tailor, and his own remark,
      "But I believe indeed our family were never considerable,"&mdash;[February
      10th, 1661-62.] has been brought forward in corroboration of this view,
      but nothing can possibly be more erroneous, and there can be no doubt that
      the Diarist was really proud of his descent. This may be seen from the
      inscription on one of his book-plates, where he is stated to be:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "Samuel Pepys of Brampton in Huntingdonshire, Esq., Secretary of the
     Admiralty to his Matr. King Charles the Second: Descended from ye
     antient family of Pepys of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire."
</pre>
    <p>
      Many members of the family have greatly distinguished themselves since the
      Diarist's day, and of them Mr. Foss wrote ("Judges of England," vol. vi.,
      p. 467):&mdash;
    </p>
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     "In the family of Pepys is illustrated every gradation of legal rank
     from Reader of an Inn of Court to Lord High Chancellor of England."
</pre>
    <p>
      The William Pepys of Cottenham who commences the pedigree had three sons
      and three daughters; from the eldest son (Thomas) descended the first
      Norfolk branch, from the second son (John Pepys of Southcreeke) descended
      the second Norfolk branch, and from the third son (William) descended the
      Impington branch. The latter William had four sons and two daughters; two
      of these sons were named Thomas, and as they were both living at the same
      time one was distinguished as "the black" and the other as "the red."
      Thomas the red had four sons and four daughters. John, born 1601, was the
      third son, and he became the father of Samuel the Diarist. Little is known
      of John Pepys, but we learn when the Diary opens that he was settled in
      London as a tailor. He does not appear to have been a successful man, and
      his son on August 26th, 1661, found that there was only L45 owing to him,
      and that he owed about the same sum. He was a citizen of London in 1650,
      when his son Samuel was admitted to Magdalene College, but at an earlier
      period he appears to have had business relations with Holland.
    </p>
    <p>
      In August, 1661, John Pepys retired to a small property at Brampton (worth
      about L80 per annum), which had been left to him by his eldest brother,
      Robert Pepys, where he died in 1680.
    </p>
    <p>
      The following is a copy of John Pepys's will:
    </p>
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                            "MY FATHER'S WILL.
                        [Indorsement by S. Pepys.]

     "Memorandum.  That I, John Pepys of Ellington, in the county of
     Huntingdon, Gent.", doe declare my mind in the disposall of my
     worldly goods as followeth:

     "First, I desire that my lands and goods left mee by my brother,
     Robert Pepys, deceased, bee delivered up to my eldest son, Samuell
     Pepys, of London, Esqr., according as is expressed in the last Will
     of my brother Robert aforesaid.

     "Secondly, As for what goods I have brought from London, or procured
     since, and what moneys I shall leave behind me or due to me, I
     desire may be disposed of as followeth:

     "Imprimis, I give to the stock of the poore of the parish of
     Brampton, in which church I desire to be enterred, five pounds.

     "Item.  I give to the Poore of Ellington forty shillings.

     "Item.  I desire that my two grandsons, Samuell and John Jackson,
     have ten pounds a piece.

     "Item.  I desire that my daughter, Paulina Jackson, may have my
     largest silver tankerd.

     "Item.  I desire that my son John Pepys may have my gold seale-ring.

     "Lastly.  I desire that the remainder of what I shall leave be
     equally distributed between my sons Samuel and John Pepys and my
     daughter Paulina Jackson.

     "All which I leave to the care of my eldest son Samuel Pepys, to see
     performed, if he shall think fit.

     "In witness hereunto I set my hand."
</pre>
    <p>
      His wife Margaret, whose maiden name has not been discovered, died on the
      25th March, 1667, also at Brampton. The family of these two consisted of
      six sons and five daughters: John (born 1632, died 1640), Samuel (born
      1633, died 1703), Thomas (born 1634, died 1664), Jacob (born 1637, died
      young), Robert (born 1638, died young), and John (born 1641, died 1677);
      Mary (born 1627), Paulina (born 1628), Esther (born 1630), Sarah (born
      1635; these four girls all died young), and Paulina (born 1640, died
      1680), who married John Jackson of Brampton, and had two sons, Samuel and
      John. The latter was made his heir by Samuel Pepys.
    </p>
    <p>
      Samuel Pepys was born on the 23rd February, 1632-3, but the place of birth
      is not known with certainty. Samuel Knight, D.D., author of the "Life of
      Colet," who was a connection of the family (having married Hannah Pepys,
      daughter of Talbot Pepys of Impington), says positively that it was at
      Brampton. His statement cannot be corroborated by the registers of
      Brampton church, as these records do not commence until the year 1654.
    </p>
    <p>
      Samuel's early youth appears to have been spent pretty equally between
      town and country. When he and his brother Tom were children they lived
      with a nurse (Goody Lawrence) at Kingsland, and in after life Samuel
      refers to his habit of shooting with bow and arrow in the fields around
      that place. He then went to school at Huntingdon, from which he was
      transferred to St. Paul's School in London. He remained at the latter
      place until 1650, early in which year his name was entered as a sizar on
      the boards of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was admitted on the 21st June,
      but subsequently he transferred his allegiance to Magdalene College, where
      he was admitted a sizar on the 1st October of this same year. He did not
      enter into residence until March 5th, 1650-51, but in the following month
      he was elected to one of Mr. Spendluffe's scholarships, and two years
      later (October 14th, 1653) he was preferred to one on Dr. John Smith's
      foundation.
    </p>
    <p>
      Little or nothing is known of Pepys's career at college, but soon after
      obtaining the Smith scholarship he got into trouble, and, with a
      companion, was admonished for being drunk.
    </p>
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     [October 21st, 1653.  "Memorandum: that Peapys and Hind were
     solemnly admonished by myself and Mr. Hill, for having been
     scandalously over-served with drink ye night before.  This was done
     in the presence of all the Fellows then resident, in Mr. Hill's
     chamber.&mdash;JOHN WOOD, Registrar."  (From the Registrar's-book of
     Magdalene College.)]
</pre>
    <p>
      His time, however, was not wasted, and there is evidence that he carried
      into his busy life a fair stock of classical learning and a true love of
      letters. Throughout his life he looked back with pleasure to the time he
      spent at the University, and his college was remembered in his will when
      he bequeathed his valuable library. In this same year, 1653, he graduated
      B.A. On the 1st of December, 1655, when he was still without any settled
      means of support, he married Elizabeth St. Michel, a beautiful and
      portionless girl of fifteen. Her father, Alexander Marchant, Sieur de St.
      Michel, was of a good family in Anjou, and son of the High Sheriff of
      Bauge (in Anjou). Having turned Huguenot at the age of twenty-one, when in
      the German service, his father disinherited him, and he also lost the
      reversion of some L20,000 sterling which his uncle, a rich French canon,
      intended to bequeath to him before he left the Roman Catholic church. He
      came over to England in the retinue of Henrietta Maria on her marriage
      with Charles I, but the queen dismissed him on finding that he was a
      Protestant and did not attend mass. Being a handsome man, with courtly
      manners, he found favour in the sight of the widow of an Irish squire
      (daughter of Sir Francis Kingsmill), who married him against the wishes of
      her family. After the marriage, Alexander St. Michel and his wife having
      raised some fifteen hundred pounds, started, for France in the hope of
      recovering some part of the family property. They were unfortunate in all
      their movements, and on their journey to France were taken prisoners by
      the Dunkirkers, who stripped them of all their property. They now settled
      at Bideford in Devonshire, and here or near by were born Elizabeth and the
      rest of the family. At a later period St. Michel served against the
      Spaniards at the taking of Dunkirk and Arras, and settled at Paris. He was
      an unfortunate man throughout life, and his son Balthasar says of him: "My
      father at last grew full of whimsies and propositions of perpetual motion,
      &amp;c., to kings, princes and others, which soaked his pocket, and
      brought all our family so low by his not minding anything else, spending
      all he had got and getting no other employment to bring in more." While he
      was away from Paris, some "deluding papists" and "pretended devouts"
      persuaded Madame St. Michel to place her daughter in the nunnery of the
      Ursulines. When the father heard of this, he hurried back, and managed to
      get Elizabeth out of the nunnery after she had been there twelve days.
      Thinking that France was a dangerous place to live in, he removed his
      family to England, where soon afterwards his daughter was married,
      although, as Lord Braybrooke remarks, we are not told how she became
      acquainted with Pepys. St. Michel was greatly pleased that his daughter
      had become the wife of a true Protestant, and she herself said to him,
      kissing his eyes: "Dear father, though in my tender years I was by my low
      fortune in this world deluded to popery, by the fond dictates thereof I
      have now (joined with my riper years, which give me some understanding) a
      man to my husband too wise and one too religious to the Protestant
      religion to suffer my thoughts to bend that way any more."
    </p>
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     [These particulars are obtained from an interesting letter from
     Balthasar St. Michel to Pepys, dated "Deal, Feb. 8, 1673-4," and
     printed in "Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys,"
     1841, vol. i., pp. 146-53.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Alexander St. Michel kept up his character for fecklessness through life,
      and took out patents for curing smoking chimneys, purifying water, and
      moulding bricks. In 1667 he petitioned the king, asserting that he had
      discovered King Solomon's gold and silver mines, and the Diary of the same
      date contains a curious commentary upon these visions of wealth:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "March 29, 1667.  4s. a week which his (Balty St. Michel's) father
     receives of the French church is all the subsistence his father and
     mother have, and about; L20 a year maintains them."
</pre>
    <p>
      As already noted, Pepys was married on December 1st, 1655. This date is
      given on the authority of the Registers of St. Margaret's Church,
      Westminster,
    </p>
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     [The late Mr. T. C. Noble kindly communicated to me a copy of the
     original marriage certificate, which is as follows: "Samuell Peps
     of this parish Gent. &amp; Elizabeth De Snt. Michell of Martins in the
     fields, Spinster.  Published October 19tn, 22nd, 29th 1655, and
     were married by Richard Sherwin Esqr one of the justices of the
     Peace of the Cittie and Lyberties of Westm.  December 1st.  (Signed)
     Ri. Sherwin."]
</pre>
    <p>
      but strangely enough Pepys himself supposed his wedding day to have been
      October 10th. Lord Braybrooke remarks on this,
    </p>
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     "It is notorious that the registers in those times were very ill
     kept, of which we have here a striking instance....  Surely a
     man who kept a diary could not have made such a blunder."
</pre>
    <p>
      What is even more strange than Pepys's conviction that he was married on
      October 10th is Mrs. Pepys's agreement with him: On October 10th, 1666, we
      read,
    </p>
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     "So home to supper, and to bed, it being my wedding night, but how
     many years I cannot tell; but my wife says ten."
</pre>
    <p>
      Here Mrs. Pepys was wrong, as it was eleven years; so she may have been
      wrong in the day also. In spite of the high authority of Mr. and Mrs.
      Pepys on a question so interesting to them both, we must accept the
      register as conclusive on this point until further evidence of its
      incorrectness is forthcoming.
    </p>
    <p>
      Sir Edward Montage (afterwards Earl of Sandwich), who was Pepys's first
      cousin one remove (Pepys's grandfather and Montage's mother being brother
      and sister), was a true friend to his poor kinsman, and he at once held
      out a helping hand to the imprudent couple, allowing them to live in his
      house. John Pepys does not appear to have been in sufficiently good
      circumstances to pay for the education of his son, and it seems probable
      that Samuel went to the university under his influential cousin's
      patronage. At all events he owed his success in life primarily to Montage,
      to whom he appears to have acted as a sort of agent.
    </p>
    <p>
      On March 26th, 1658, he underwent a successful operation for the stone,
      and we find him celebrating each anniversary of this important event of
      his life with thanksgiving. He went through life with little trouble on
      this score, but when he died at the age of seventy a nest of seven stones
      was found in his left kidney.
    </p>
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     ["June 10th, 1669.  I went this evening to London, to carry Mr.
     Pepys to my brother Richard, now exceedingly afflicted with the
     stone, who had been successfully cut, and carried the stone, as big
     as a tennis ball, to show him and encourage his resolution to go
     thro' the operation."&mdash;Evelyn's Diary.]
</pre>
    <p>
      In June, 1659, Pepys accompanied Sir Edward Montage in the "Naseby," when
      the Admiral of the Baltic Fleet and Algernon Sidney went to the Sound as
      joint commissioners. It was then that Montage corresponded with Charles
      II., but he had to be very secret in his movements on account of the
      suspicions of Sidney. Pepys knew nothing of what was going on, as he
      confesses in the Diary:
    </p>
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     "I do from this raise an opinion of him, to be one of the most
     secret men in the world, which I was not so convinced of before."
</pre>
    <p>
      On Pepys's return to England he obtained an appointment in the office of
      Mr., afterwards Sir George Downing, who was one of the Four Tellers of the
      Receipt of the Exchequer. He was clerk to Downing when he commenced his
      diary on January 1st, 1660, and then lived in Axe Yard, close by King
      Street, Westminster, a place on the site of which was built Fludyer
      Street. This, too, was swept away for the Government offices in 1864-65.
      His salary was L50 a year. Downing invited Pepys to accompany him to
      Holland, but he does not appear to have been very pressing, and a few days
      later in this same January he got him appointed one of the Clerks of the
      Council, but the recipient of the favour does not appear to have been very
      grateful. A great change was now about to take place in Pepys's fortunes,
      for in the following March he was made secretary to Sir Edward Montage in
      his expedition to bring about the Restoration of Charles II., and on the
      23rd he went on board the "Swiftsure" with Montage. On the 30th they
      transferred themselves to the "Naseby." Owing to this appointment of Pepys
      we have in the Diary a very full account of the daily movements of the
      fleet until, events having followed their natural course, Montage had the
      honour of bringing Charles II. to Dover, where the King was received with
      great rejoicing. Several of the ships in the fleet had names which were
      obnoxious to Royalists, and on the 23rd May the King came on board the
      "Naseby" and altered there&mdash;the "Naseby" to the "Charles," the
      "Richard" to the "Royal James," the "Speaker" to the "Mary," the "Winsby"
      to the "Happy Return," the "Wakefield" to the "Richmond," the "Lambert" to
      the "Henrietta," the "Cheriton" to the "Speedwell," and the "Bradford" to
      the "Success." This portion of the Diary is of particular interest, and
      the various excursions in Holland which the Diarist made are described in
      a very amusing manner.
    </p>
    <p>
      When Montagu and Pepys had both returned to London, the former told the
      latter that he had obtained the promise of the office of Clerk of the Acts
      for him. Many difficulties occurred before Pepys actually secured the
      place, so that at times he was inclined to accept the offers which were
      made to him to give it up. General Monk was anxious to get the office for
      Mr. Turner, who was Chief Clerk in the Navy Office, but in the end
      Montagu's influence secured it for Pepys. Then Thomas Barlow, who had been
      appointed Clerk of the Acts in 1638, turned up, and appeared likely to
      become disagreeable. Pepys bought him off with an annuity of too, which he
      did not have to pay for any length of time, as Barlow died in February,
      1664-65. It is not in human nature to be greatly grieved at the death of
      one to whom you have to pay an annuity, and Pepys expresses his feelings
      in a very naive manner:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "For which God knows my heart I could be as sorry as is possible for
     one to be for a stranger by whose death he gets L100 per annum, he
     being a worthy honest man; but when I come to consider the
     providence of God by this means unexpectedly to give me L100 a year
     more in my estate, I have cause to bless God, and do it from the
     bottom of my heart."
</pre>
    <p>
      This office was one of considerable importance, for not only was the
      holder the secretary or registrar of the Navy Board, but he was also one
      of the principal officers of the navy, and, as member of the board, of
      equal rank with the other commissioners. This office Pepys held during the
      whole period of the Diary, and we find him constantly fighting for his
      position, as some of the other members wished to reduce his rank merely to
      that of secretary. In his contention Pepys appears to have been in the
      right, and a valuable MS. volume in the Pepysian library contains an
      extract from the Old Instructions of about 1649, in which this very point
      is argued out. The volume appears to have been made up by William Penn the
      Quaker, from a collection of manuscripts on the affairs of the navy found
      in his father's, "Sir William Penn's closet." It was presented to Charles
      II., with a dedication ending thus:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "I hope enough to justifie soe much freedome with a Prince that is
     so easie to excuse things well intended as this is
                         "BY
                              "Great Prince,
                                   "Thy faithfull subject,
                                        "WM. PENN"

     "London, the 22 of the Mo. called June, 1680."
</pre>
    <p>
      It does not appear how the volume came into Pepys's possession. It may
      have been given him by the king, or he may have taken it as a perquisite
      of his office. The book has an index, which was evidently added by Pepys;
      in this are these entries, which show his appreciation of the contents of
      the MS.:&mdash;
    </p>
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               "Clerk of the Acts,
                    his duty,
                    his necessity and usefulness."
</pre>
    <p>
      The following description of the duty of the Clerk of the Acts shows the
      importance of the office, and the statement that if the clerk is not
      fitted to act as a commissioner he is a blockhead and unfit for his
      employment is particularly racy, and not quite the form of expression one
      would expect to find in an official document:
    </p>
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                           "CLERKE OF THE ACTS.

     "The clarke of the Navye's duty depends principally upon rateing (by
     the Board's approbation) of all bills and recording of them, and all
     orders, contracts &amp; warrants, making up and casting of accompts,
     framing and writing answers to letters, orders, and commands from
     the Councell, Lord High Admirall, or Commissioners of the Admiralty,
     and he ought to be a very able accomptant, well versed in Navall
     affairs and all inferior officers dutyes.

     "It hath been objected by some that the Clarke of the Acts ought to
     be subordinate to the rest of the Commissioners, and not to be
     joyned in equall power with them, although he was so constituted
     from the first institution, which hath been an opinion only of some
     to keep him at a distance, least he might be thought too forward if
     he had joynt power in discovering or argueing against that which
     peradventure private interest would have concealed; it is certaine
     no man sees more of the Navye's Transactions than himselfe, and
     possibly may speak as much to the project if required, or else he is
     a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment.  But why he should
     not make as able a Commissioner as a Shipp wright lett wise men
     judge."
</pre>
    <p>
      In Pepys's patent the salary is stated to be L33 6s. 8d., but this was
      only the ancient "fee out of the Exchequer," which had been attached to
      the office for more than a century. Pepys's salary had been previously
      fixed at L350 a-year.
    </p>
    <p>
      Neither of the two qualifications upon which particular stress is laid in
      the above Instructions was possessed by Pepys. He knew nothing about the
      navy, and so little of accounts that apparently he learned the
      multiplication table for the first time in July, 1661. We see from the
      particulars given in the Diary how hard he worked to obtain the knowledge
      required in his office, and in consequence of his assiduity he soon became
      a model official. When Pepys became Clerk of the Acts he took up his
      residence at the Navy Office, a large building situated between Crutched
      Friars and Seething Lane, with an entrance in each of those places. On
      July 4th, 1660, he went with Commissioner Pett to view the houses, and was
      very pleased with them, but he feared that the more influential officers
      would jockey him out of his rights. His fears were not well grounded, and
      on July 18th he records the fact that he dined in his own apartments,
      which were situated in the Seething Lane front.
    </p>
    <p>
      On July 24th, 1660, Pepys was sworn in as Lord Sandwich's deputy for a
      Clerkship of the Privy Seal. This office, which he did not think much of
      at first, brought him "in for a time L3 a day." In June, 1660, he was made
      Master of Arts by proxy, and soon afterwards he was sworn in as a justice
      of the Peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Hampshire, the counties in
      which the chief dockyards were situated.
    </p>
    <p>
      Pepys's life is written large in the Diary, and it is not necessary here
      to do more than catalogue the chief incidents of it in chronological
      order. In February, 1661-62, he was chosen a Younger Brother of the
      Trinity House, and in April, 1662, when on an official visit to Portsmouth
      Dockyard, he was made a burgess of the town. In August of the same year he
      was appointed one of the commissioners for the affairs of Tangier. Soon
      afterwards Thomas Povy, the treasurer, got his accounts into a muddle, and
      showed himself incompetent for the place, so that Pepys replaced him as
      treasurer to the commission.
    </p>
    <p>
      In March, 1663-64, the Corporation of the Royal Fishery was appointed,
      with the Duke of York as governor, and thirty-two assistants, mostly "very
      great persons." Through Lord Sandwich's influence Pepys was made one of
      these.
    </p>
    <p>
      The time was now arriving when Pepys's general ability and devotion to
      business brought him prominently into notice. During the Dutch war the
      unreadiness of the ships, more particularly in respect to victualling, was
      the cause of great trouble. The Clerk of the Acts did his utmost to set
      things right, and he was appointed Surveyor-General of the Victualling
      Office. The kind way in which Mr. Coventry proposed him as "the fittest
      man in England" for the office, and the Duke of York's expressed approval,
      greatly pleased him.
    </p>
    <p>
      During the fearful period when the Plague was raging, Pepys stuck to his
      business, and the chief management of naval affairs devolved upon him, for
      the meetings at the Navy Office were but thinly attended. In a letter to
      Coventry he wrote:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "The sickness in general thickens round us, and particularly upon
     our neighbourhood.  You, sir, took your turn of the sword; I must
     not, therefore, grudge to take mine of the pestilence."
</pre>
    <p>
      At this time his wife was living at Woolwich, and he himself with his
      clerks at Greenwich; one maid only remained in the house in London.
    </p>
    <p>
      Pepys rendered special service at the time of the Fire of London. He
      communicated the king's wishes to the Lord Mayor, and he saved the Navy
      Office by having up workmen from Woolwich and Deptford Dockyards to pull
      down the houses around, and so prevent the spread of the flames.
    </p>
    <p>
      When peace was at length concluded with the Dutch, and people had time to
      think over the disgrace which the country had suffered by the presence of
      De Ruyter's fleet in the Medway, it was natural that a public inquiry into
      the management of the war should be undertaken. A Parliamentary Committee
      was appointed in October, 1667, to inquire into the matter. Pepys made a
      statement which satisfied the committee, but for months afterwards he was
      continually being summoned to answer some charge, so that he confesses
      himself as mad to "become the hackney of this office in perpetual trouble
      and vexation that need it least."
    </p>
    <p>
      At last a storm broke out in the House of Commons against the principal
      officers of the navy, and some members demanded that they should be put
      out of their places. In the end they were ordered to be heard in their own
      defence at the bar of the House. The whole labour of the defence fell upon
      Pepys, but having made out his case with great skill, he was rewarded by a
      most unexpected success. On the 5th March, 1667-68, he made the great
      speech of his life, and spoke for three hours, with the effect that he so
      far removed the prejudice against the officers of the Navy Board, that no
      further proceedings were taken in parliament on the subject. He was highly
      praised for his speech, and he was naturally much elated at his brilliant
      success.
    </p>
    <p>
      About the year 1664 we first hear of a defect in Pepys's eyesight. He
      consulted the celebrated Cocker, and began to wear green spectacles, but
      gradually this defect became more pronounced, and on the 31st of May,
      1669, he wrote the last words in his Diary:
    </p>
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     "And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my
     own eyes in the keeping of my journal, I being not able to do it any
     longer, having done now as long as to undo my eyes almost every time
     that I take a pen in my hand."
</pre>
    <p>
      He feared blindness and was forced to desist, to his lasting regret and
      our great loss.
    </p>
    <p>
      At this time he obtained leave of absence from the duties of his office,
      and he set out on a tour through France and Holland accompanied by his
      wife. In his travels he was true to the occupation of his life, and made
      collections respecting the French and Dutch navies. Some months after his
      return he spoke of his journey as having been "full of health and
      content," but no sooner had he and his wife returned to London than the
      latter became seriously ill with a fever. The disease took a fatal turn,
      and on the 10th of November, 1669, Elizabeth Pepys died at the early age
      of twenty-nine years, to the great grief of her husband. She died at their
      house in Crutched Friars, and was buried at St. Olave's Church, Hart
      Street, where Pepys erected a monument to her memory.
    </p>
    <p>
      Pepys's successful speech at the bar of the House of Commons made him
      anxious to become a member, and the Duke of York and Sir William Coventry
      heartily supported him in his resolution. An opening occurred in due
      course, at Aldborough, in Suffolk, owing to the death of Sir Robert Brooke
      in 1669, but, in consequence of the death of his wife, Pepys was unable to
      take part in the election. His cause was warmly espoused by the Duke of
      York and by Lord Henry Howard (afterwards Earl of Norwich and sixth Duke
      of Norfolk), but the efforts of his supporters failed, and the contest
      ended in favour of John Bruce, who represented the popular party. In
      November, 1673, Pepys was more successful, and was elected for Castle
      Rising on the elevation of the member, Sir Robert Paston, to the peerage
      as Viscount Yarmouth. His unsuccessful opponent, Mr. Offley, petitioned
      against the return, and the election was determined to be void by the
      Committee of Privileges. The Parliament, however, being prorogued the
      following month without the House's coming to any vote on the subject,
      Pepys was permitted to retain his seat. A most irrelevant matter was
      introduced into the inquiry, and Pepys was charged with having a crucifix
      in his house, from which it was inferred that he was "a papist or popishly
      inclined." The charge was grounded upon reported assertions of Sir John
      Banks and the Earl of Shaftesbury, which they did not stand to when
      examined on the subject, and the charge was not proved to be good.
    </p>
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     ["The House then proceeding upon the debate touching the Election
     for Castle Rising, between Mr. Pepys and Mr. Offley, did, in the
     first place, take into consideration what related personally to Mr.
     Pepys.  Information being given to the House that they had received
     an account from a person of quality, that he saw an Altar with a
     Crucifix upon it, in the house of Mr. Pepys; Mr. Pepys, standing up
     in his place, did heartily and flatly deny that he ever had any
     Altar or Crucifix, or the image or picture of any Saint whatsoever
     in his house, from the top to the bottom of it; and the Members
     being called upon to name the person that gave them the information,
     they were unwilling to declare it without the order of the House;
     which, being made, they named the Earl of Shaftesbury; and the House
     being also informed that Sir J. Banks did likewise see the Altar, he
     was ordered to attend the Bar of the House, to declare what he knew
     of this matter.  'Ordered that Sir William Coventry, Sir Thomas
     Meeres, and Mr. Garraway do attend Lord Shaftesbury on the like
     occasion, and receive what information his Lordship, can give on
     this matter.'"&mdash;Journals of the House of Commons, vol. ix., p.
     306.&mdash;" 13th February, Sir W. Coventry reports that they attended
     the Earl of Shaftesbury, and received from him the account which
     they had put in writing.  The Earl of Shaftesbury denieth that he
     ever saw an Altar in Mr. Pepys's house or lodgings; as to the
     Crucifix, he saith he hath, some imperfect memory of seeing somewhat
     which he conceived to be a Crucifix.  When his Lordship was asked
     the time, he said it was before the burning of the Office of the
     Navy.  Being asked concerning the manner, he said he could not
     remember whether it were painted or carved, or in what manner the
     thing was; and that his memory was so very imperfect in it, that if
     he were upon his oath he could give no testimony."&mdash;.  Ibid., vol.
     ix., p. 309.&mdash;" 16th February&mdash;Sir John Banks was called in&mdash;The
     Speaker desired him to answer what acquaintance he had with; Mr.
     Pepys, and whether he used to have recourse to him to his house and
     had ever seen there any Altar or Crucifix, or whether he knew of his
     being a Papist, or Popishly inclined.  Sir J. Banks said that he had
     known and had been acquainted with Mr. Pepys several years, and had
     often visited him and conversed with him at the Navy Office, and at
     his house there upon several occasions, and that he never saw in his
     house there any Altar or Crucifix, and that he does not believe him
     to be a Papist, or that way inclined in the least, nor had any
     reason or ground to think or believe it."&mdash;Ibid., vol, ix., p. 310.]
</pre>
    <p>
      It will be seen from the extracts from the Journals of the House of
      Commons given in the note that Pepys denied ever having had an altar or
      crucifix in his house. In the Diary there is a distinct statement of his
      possession of a crucifix, but it is not clear from the following extracts
      whether it was not merely a varnished engraving of the Crucifixion which
      he possessed:
    </p>
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     July 20, 1666.  "So I away to Lovett's, there to see how my picture
     goes on to be varnished, a fine crucifix which will be very fine."
     August 2. "At home find Lovett, who showed me my crucifix, which
     will be very fine when done."  Nov. 3.  "This morning comes Mr.
     Lovett and brings me my print of the Passion, varnished by him, and
     the frame which is indeed very fine, though not so fine as I
     expected; but pleases me exceedingly."
</pre>
    <p>
      Whether he had or had not a crucifix in his house was a matter for himself
      alone, and the interference of the House of Commons was a gross violation
      of the liberty of the subject.
    </p>
    <p>
      In connection with Lord Shaftesbury's part in this matter, the late Mr. W.
      D. Christie found the following letter to Sir Thomas Meres among the
      papers at St. Giles's House, Dorsetshire:&mdash;
    </p>
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                              "Exeter House, February 10th, 1674.

     "Sir,&mdash;That there might be no mistake, I thought best to put my
     answer in writing to those questions that yourself, Sir William
     Coventry, and Mr. Garroway were pleased to propose to me this
     morning from the House of Commons, which is that I never designed to
     be a witness against any man for what I either heard or saw, and
     therefore did not take so exact notice of things inquired of as to
     be able to remember them so clearly as is requisite to do in a
     testimony upon honour or oath, or to so great and honourable a body
     as the House of Commons, it being some years distance since I was at
     Mr. Pepys his lodging.  Only that particular of an altar is so
     signal that I must needs have remembered it had I seen any such
     thing, which I am sure I do not.  This I desire you to communicate
     with Sir William Coventry and Mr. Garroway to be delivered as my
     answer to the House of Commons, it being the same I gave you this
     morning.

               "I am, Sir,
                         "Your most humble servant,
                                             "SHAFTESBURY."
</pre>
    <p>
      After reading this letter Sir William Coventry very justly remarked,
      "There are a great many more Catholics than think themselves so, if having
      a crucifix will make one." Mr. Christie resented the remarks on Lord
      Shaftesbury's part in this persecution of Pepys made by Lord Braybrooke,
      who said, "Painful indeed is it to reflect to what length the bad passions
      which party violence inflames could in those days carry a man of
      Shaftesbury's rank, station, and abilities." Mr. Christie observes, "It is
      clear from the letter to Meres that Shaftesbury showed no malice and much
      scrupulousness when a formal charge, involving important results, was
      founded on his loose private conversations." This would be a fair
      vindication if the above attack upon Pepys stood alone, but we shall see
      later on that Shaftesbury was the moving spirit in a still more
      unjustifiable attack.
    </p>
    <p>
      Lord Sandwich died heroically in the naval action in Southwold Bay, and on
      June 24th,1672, his remains were buried with some pomp in Westminster
      Abbey. There were eleven earls among the mourners, and Pepys, as the first
      among "the six Bannerolles," walked in the procession.
    </p>
    <p>
      About this time Pepys was called from his old post of Clerk of the Acts to
      the higher office of Secretary of the Admiralty. His first appointment was
      a piece of favouritism, but it was due to his merits alone that he
      obtained the secretaryship. In the summer of 1673, the Duke of York having
      resigned all his appointments on the passing of the Test Act, the King put
      the Admiralty into commission, and Pepys was appointed Secretary for the
      Affairs of the Navy.
    </p>
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     [The office generally known as Secretary of the Admiralty dates back
     many years, but the officer who filled it was sometimes Secretary to
     the Lord High Admiral, and sometimes to the Commission for that
     office.  "His Majesties Letters Patent for ye erecting the office of
     Secretary of ye Admiralty of England, and creating Samuel Pepys,
     Esq., first Secretary therein," is dated June 10th, 1684.]
</pre>
    <p>
      He was thus brought into more intimate connection with Charles II., who
      took the deepest interest in shipbuilding and all naval affairs. The Duke
      of Buckingham said of the King:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "The great, almost the only pleasure of his mind to which he seemed
     addicted was shipping and sea affairs, which seemed to be so much
     his talent for knowledge as well as inclination, that a war of that
     kind was rather an entertainment than any disturbance to his
     thoughts."
</pre>
    <p>
      When Pepys ceased to be Clerk of the Acts he was able to obtain the
      appointment for his clerk, Thomas Hayter, and his brother, John Pepys, who
      held it jointly. The latter does not appear to have done much credit to
      Samuel. He was appointed Clerk to the Trinity House in 1670 on his
      brother's recommendation, and when he died in 1677 he was in debt L300 to
      his employers, and this sum Samuel had to pay. In 1676 Pepys was Master of
      the Trinity House, and in the following year Master of the Clothworkers'
      Company, when he presented a richly-chased silver cup, which is still used
      at the banquets of the company. On Tuesday, 10th September, 1677, the
      Feast of the Hon. Artillery Company was held at Merchant Taylors' Hall,
      when the Duke of York, the Duke of Somerset, the Lord Chancellor, and
      other distinguished persons were present. On this occasion Viscount
      Newport, Sir Joseph Williamson, and Samuel Pepys officiated as stewards.
    </p>
    <p>
      About this time it is evident that the secretary carried himself with some
      haughtiness as a ruler of the navy, and that this was resented by some. An
      amusing instance will be found in the Parliamentary Debates. On May 11th,
      1678, the King's verbal message to quicken the supply was brought in by
      Mr. Secretary Williamson, when Pepys spoke to this effect:
    </p>
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     "When I promised that the ships should be ready by the 30th of May,
     it was upon the supposition of the money for 90 ships proposed by
     the King and voted by you, their sizes and rates, and I doubt not by
     that time to have 90 ships, and if they fall short it will be only
     from the failing of the Streights ships coming home and those but
     two.....

     "Sir Robert Howard then rose and said, 'Pepys here speaks rather
     like an Admiral than a Secretary, "I" and "we."  I wish he knows
     half as much of the Navy as he pretends.'"
</pre>
    <p>
      Pepys was chosen by the electors of Harwich as their member in the short
      Parliament that sat from March to July, 1679, his colleague being Sir
      Anthony Deane, but both members were sent to the Tower in May on a
      baseless charge, and they were superseded in the next Parliament that met
      on the 17th October, 1679.
    </p>
    <p>
      The high-handed treatment which Pepys underwent at this time exhibits a
      marked instance of the disgraceful persecution connected with the
      so-called Popish plot. He was totally unconnected with the Roman Catholic
      party, but his association with the Duke of York was sufficient to mark
      him as a prey for the men who initiated this "Terror" of the seventeenth
      century. Sir. Edmund Berry Godfrey came to his death in October, 1678, and
      in December Samuel Atkins, Pepys's clerk, was brought to trial as an
      accessory to his murder. Shaftesbury and the others not having succeeded
      in getting at Pepys through his clerk, soon afterwards attacked him more
      directly, using the infamous evidence of Colonel Scott. Much light has
      lately been thrown upon the underhand dealings of this miscreant by Mr. G.
      D. Scull, who printed privately in 1883 a valuable work entitled,
      "Dorothea Scott, otherwise Gotherson, and Hogben of Egerton House, Kent,
      1611-1680."
    </p>
    <p>
      John Scott (calling himself Colonel Scott) ingratiated himself into
      acquaintance with Major Gotherson, and sold to the latter large tracts of
      land in Long Island, to which he had no right whatever. Dorothea
      Gotherson, after her husband's death, took steps to ascertain the exact
      state of her property, and obtained the assistance of Colonel Francis
      Lovelace, Governor of New York. Scott's fraud was discovered, and a
      petition for redress was presented to the King. The result of this was
      that the Duke of York commanded Pepys to collect evidence against Scott,
      and he accordingly brought together a great number of depositions and
      information as to his dishonest proceedings in New England, Long Island,
      Barbadoes, France, Holland, and England, and these papers are preserved
      among the Rawlinson Manuscripts in the Bodleian. Scott had his revenge,
      and accused Pepys of betraying the Navy by sending secret particulars to
      the French Government, and of a design to dethrone the king and extirpate
      the Protestant religion. Pepys and Sir Anthony Deane were committed to the
      Tower under the Speaker's warrant on May 22nd, 1679, and Pepys's place at
      the Admiralty was filled by the appointment of Thomas Hayter. When the two
      prisoners were brought to the bar of the King's Bench on the 2nd of June,
      the Attorney-General refused bail, but subsequently they were allowed to
      find security for L30,000.
    </p>
    <p>
      Pepys was put to great expense in collecting evidence against Scott and
      obtaining witnesses to clear himself of the charges brought against him.
      He employed his brother-in-law, Balthasar St. Michel, to collect evidence
      in France, as he himself explains in a letter to the Commissioners of the
      Navy:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "His Majesty of his gracious regard to me, and the justification of
     my innocence, was then pleased at my humble request to dispence with
     my said brother goeing (with ye shippe about that time designed for
     Tangier) and to give leave to his goeing into France (the scene of
     ye villannys then in practice against me), he being the only person
     whom (from his relation to me, together with his knowledge in the
     place and language, his knowne dilligence and particular affection
     towards mee) I could at that tyme and in soe greate a cause pitch
     on, for committing the care of this affaire of detecting the
     practice of my enemies there."
</pre>
    <p>
      In the end Scott refused to acknowledge to the truth of his original
      deposition, and the prisoners were relieved from their bail on February
      12th, 1679-80. John James, a butler previously in Pepys's service,
      confessed on his deathbed in 1680 that he had trumped up the whole story
      relating to his former master's change of religion at the instigation of
      Mr. William Harbord, M.P. for Thetford.
    </p>
    <p>
      Pepys wrote on July 1st, 1680, to Mrs. Skinner:
    </p>
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     "I would not omit giving you the knowledge of my having at last
     obtained what with as much reason I might have expected a year ago,
     my full discharge from the bondage I have, from one villain's
     practice, so long lain under."
</pre>
    <p>
      William Harbord, of Cadbury, co. Somerset, second son of Sir Charles
      Harbord, whom he succeeded in 1682 as Surveyor. General of the Land
      Revenues of the Crown, was Pepys's most persistent enemy. Several papers
      referring to Harbord's conduct were found at Scott's lodging after his
      flight, and are now preserved among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian.
      One of these was the following memorandum, which shows pretty plainly
      Pepys's opinion of Harbord:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "That about the time of Mr. Pepys's surrender of his employment of
     Secretary of the Admiralty, Capt. Russell and myself being in
     discourse about Mr. Pepys, Mr. Russell delivered himself in these or
     other words to this purport: That he thought it might be of
     advantage to both, if a good understanding were had between his
     brother Harbord and Mr. Pepys, asking me to propose it to Mr. Pepys,
     and he would to his brother, which I agreed to, and went immediately
     from him to Mr. Pepys, and telling him of this discourse, he gave me
     readily this answer in these very words: That he knew of no service
     Mr. Harbord could doe him, or if he could, he should be the last man
     in England he would receive any from."

     [William Harbord sat as M.P.  for Thetford in several parliaments.
     In 1689 he was chosen on the Privy Council, and in 1690 became Vice-
     Treasurer for Ireland.  He was appointed Ambassador to Turkey in
     1692, and died at Belgrade in July of that year.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Besides Scott's dishonesty in his dealings with Major Gotherson, it came
      out that he had cheated the States of Holland out of L7,000, in
      consequence of which he was hanged in effigy at the Hague in 1672. In 1682
      he fled from England to escape from the law, as he had been guilty of
      wilful murder by killing George Butler, a hackney coachman, and he reached
      Norway in safety, where he remained till 1696. In that year some of his
      influential friends obtained a pardon for him from William III., and he
      returned to England.
    </p>
    <p>
      In October, 1680, Pepys attended on Charles II. at Newmarket, and there he
      took down from the King's own mouth the narrative of his Majesty's escape
      from Worcester, which was first published in 1766 by Sir David Dalrymple
      (Lord Hailes) from the MS., which now remains in the Pepysian library both
      in shorthand and in longhand? It is creditable to Charles II. and the Duke
      of York that both brothers highly appreciated the abilities of Pepys, and
      availed themselves of his knowledge of naval affairs.
    </p>
    <p>
      In the following year there was some chance that Pepys might retire from
      public affairs, and take upon himself the headship of one of the chief
      Cambridge colleges. On the death of Sir Thomas Page, the Provost of King's
      College, in August, 1681, Mr. S. Maryon, a Fellow of Clare Hall,
      recommended Pepys to apply to the King for the appointment, being assured
      that the royal mandate if obtained would secure his election. He liked the
      idea, but replied that he believed Colonel Legge (afterwards Lord
      Dartmouth) wanted to get the office for an old tutor. Nothing further
      seems to have been done by Pepys, except that he promised if he were
      chosen to give the whole profit of the first year, and at least half of
      that of each succeeding year, to "be dedicated to the general and public
      use of the college." In the end Dr. John Coplestone was appointed to the
      post.
    </p>
    <p>
      On May 22nd, 1681, the Rev. Dr. Milles, rector of St. Olave's, who is so
      often mentioned in the Diary, gave Pepys a certificate as to his attention
      to the services of the Church. It is not quite clear what was the occasion
      of the certificate, but probably the Diarist wished to have it ready in
      case of another attack upon him in respect to his tendency towards the
      Church of Rome.
    </p>
    <p>
      Early in 1682 Pepys accompanied the Duke of York to Scotland, and narrowly
      escaped shipwreck by the way. Before letters could arrive in London to
      tell of his safety, the news came of the wreck of the "Gloucester" (the
      Duke's ship), and of the loss of many lives. His friends' anxiety was
      relieved by the arrival of a letter which Pepys wrote from Edinburgh to
      Hewer on May 8th, in which he detailed the particulars of the adventure.
      The Duke invited him to go on board the "Gloucester" frigate, but he
      preferred his own yacht (the "Catherine "), in which he had more room, and
      in consequence of his resolution he saved himself from the risk of
      drowning. On May 5th the frigate struck upon the sand called "The Lemon
      and Oar," about sixteen leagues from the mouth of the Humber. This was
      caused by the carelessness of the pilot, to whom Pepys imputed "an
      obstinate over-weening in opposition to the contrary opinions of Sir I.
      Berry, his master, mates, Col. Legg, the Duke himself, and several others,
      concurring unanimously in not being yet clear of the sands." The Duke and
      his party escaped, but numbers were drowned in the sinking ship, and it is
      said that had the wreck occurred two hours earlier, and the accompanying
      yachts been at the distance they had previously been, not a soul would
      have escaped.
    </p>
    <p>
      Pepys stayed in Edinburgh for a short time, and the Duke of York allowed
      him to be present at two councils. He then visited; with Colonel George
      Legge, some of the principal places in the neighbourhood, such as
      Stirling, Linlithgow, Hamilton, and Glasgow. The latter place he describes
      as "a very extraordinary town indeed for beauty and trade, much superior
      to any in Scotland."
    </p>
    <p>
      Pepys had now been out of office for some time, but he was soon to have
      employment again. Tangier, which was acquired at the marriage of the King
      to Katharine of Braganza, had long been an incumbrance, and it was
      resolved at last to destroy the place. Colonel Legge (now Lord Dartmouth)
      was in August, 1683, constituted Captain-General of his Majesty's forces
      in Africa, and Governor of Tangier, and sent with a fleet of about twenty
      sail to demolish and blow up the works, destroy the harbour, and bring
      home the garrison. Pepys received the King's commands to accompany Lord
      Dartmouth on his expedition, but the latter's instructions were secret,
      and Pepys therefore did not know what had been decided upon. He saw quite
      enough, however, to form a strong opinion of the uselessness of the place
      to England. Lord Dartmouth carried out his instructions thoroughly, and on
      March 29th, 1684, he and his party (including Pepys) arrived in the
      English Channel.
    </p>
    <p>
      The King himself now resumed the office of Lord High Admiral, and
      appointed Pepys Secretary of the Admiralty, with a salary of L500 per
      annum. In the Pepysian Library is the original patent, dated June 10th,
      1684: "His Majesty's Letters Patent for ye erecting the office of
      Secretary of ye Admiralty of England, and creating Samuel Pepys, Esq.,
      first Secretary therein." In this office the Diarist remained until the
      period of the Revolution, when his official career was concluded.
    </p>
    <p>
      A very special honour was conferred upon Pepys in this year, when he was
      elected President of the Royal Society in succession to Sir Cyril Wyche,
      and he held the office for two years. Pepys had been admitted a fellow of
      the society on February 15th, 1664-65, and from Birch's "History" we find
      that in the following month he made a statement to the society:&mdash;
    </p>
    <p>
      "Mr. Pepys gave an account of what information he had received from the
      Master of the Jersey ship which had been in company with Major Holmes in
      the Guinea voyage concerning the pendulum watches (March 15th, 1664-5)."
    </p>
    <p>
      The records of the society show that he frequently made himself useful by
      obtaining such information as might be required in his department. After
      he retired from the presidency, he continued to entertain some of the most
      distinguished members of the society on Saturday evenings at his house in
      York Buildings. Evelyn expressed the strongest regret when it was
      necessary to discontinue these meetings on account of the infirmities of
      the host.
    </p>
    <p>
      In 1685 Charles II. died, and was succeeded by James, Duke of York. From
      his intimate association with James it might have been supposed that a
      long period of official life was still before Pepys, but the new king's
      bigotry and incapacity soon made this a practical impossibility. At the
      coronation of James II. Pepys marched in the procession immediately behind
      the king's canopy, as one of the sixteen barons of the Cinque Ports.
    </p>
    <p>
      In the year 1685 a new charter was granted to the Trinity Company, and
      Pepys was named in it the first master, this being the second time that he
      had held the office of master.
    </p>
    <p>
      Evelyn specially refers to the event in his Diary, and mentions the
      distinguished persons present at the dinner on July 20th.
    </p>
    <p>
      It is evident that at this time Pepys was looked upon as a specially
      influential man, and when a parliament was summoned to meet on May 19th,
      1685, he was elected both for Harwich and for Sandwich. He chose to serve
      for Harwich, and Sir Philip Parker was elected to fill his place at
      Sandwich.
    </p>
    <p>
      This parliament was dissolved by proclamation July 2nd, 1687, and on
      August 24th the king declared in council that another parliament should be
      summoned for November 27th, 1688, but great changes took place before that
      date, and when the Convention Parliament was called together in January
      and February, 1689-90, Pepys found no place in it. The right-hand man of
      the exiled monarch was not likely to find favour in the eyes of those who
      were now in possession. When the election for Harwich came on, the
      electors refused to return him, and the streets echoed to the cry of "No
      Tower men, no men out of the Tower!" They did not wish to be represented
      in parliament by a disgraced official.
    </p>
    <p>
      We have little or no information to guide us as to Pepys's proceedings at
      the period of the Revolution. We know that James II. just before his
      flight was sitting to Kneller for a portrait intended for the Secretary to
      the Admiralty, and that Pepys acted in that office for the last time on
      20th February, 1688-89, but between those dates we know nothing of the
      anxieties and troubles that he must have suffered. On the 9th March an
      order was issued from the Commissioners of the Admiralty for him to
      deliver up his books, &amp;c., to Phineas Bowies, who superseded him as
      secretary.
    </p>
    <p>
      Pepys had many firm friends upon whom he could rely, but he had also
      enemies who lost no opportunity of worrying him. On June 10th, 1690,
      Evelyn has this entry in his Diary, which throws some light upon the
      events of the time:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "Mr. Pepys read to me his Remonstrance, skewing with what malice and
     injustice he was suspected with Sir Anth. Deane about the timber of
     which the thirty ships were built by a late Act of Parliament, with
     the exceeding danger which the fleete would shortly be in, by reason
     of the tyranny and incompetency of those who now managed the
     Admiralty and affairs of the Navy, of which he gave an accurate
     state, and shew'd his greate ability."
</pre>
    <p>
      On the 25th of this same month Pepys was committed to the Gatehouse at
      Westminster on a charge of having sent information to the French Court of
      the state of the English navy. There was no evidence of any kind against
      him, and at the end of July he was allowed to return to his own house on
      account of ill-health. Nothing further was done in respect to the charge,
      but he was not free till some time after, and he was long kept in anxiety,
      for even in 1692 he still apprehended some fresh persecution.
    </p>
    <p>
      Sir Peter Palavicini, Mr. James Houblon, Mr. Blackburne, and Mr. Martin
      bailed him, and he sent them the following circular letter:&mdash;
    </p>
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                                             "October 15, 1690.

     "Being this day become once again a free man in every respect, I
     mean but that of my obligation to you and the rest of my friends, to
     whom I stand indebted for my being so, I think it but a reasonable
     part of my duty to pay you and them my thanks for it in a body; but
     know not how otherwise to compass it than by begging you, which I
     hereby do, to take your share with them and me here, to-morrow, of a
     piece of mutton, which is all I dare promise you, besides that of
     being ever,

               "Your most bounden and faithful humble servant,
                                                       "S. P."
</pre>
    <p>
      He employed the enforced idleness caused by being thrust out of his
      employment in the collection of the materials for the valuable work which
      he published in 1690, under the title of "Memoirs of the Navy." Little
      more was left for him to do in life, but as the government became more
      firmly established, and the absolute absurdity of the idea of his
      disloyalty was proved, Pepys held up his head again as a man to be
      respected and consulted, and for the remainder of his life he was looked
      upon as the Nestor of the Navy.
    </p>
    <p>
      There is little more to be told of Pepys's life. He continued to keep up
      an extended correspondence with his many friends, and as Treasurer of
      Christ's Hospital he took very great interest in the welfare of that
      institution. He succeeded in preserving from impending ruin the
      mathematical foundation which had been originally designed by him, and
      through his anxious solicitations endowed and cherished by Charles II. and
      James II. One of the last public acts of his life was the presentation of
      the portrait of the eminent Dr. John Wallis, Savilian Professor of
      Geometry, to the University of Oxford.
    </p>
    <p>
      In 1701 he sent Sir Godfrey Kneller to Oxford to paint the portrait, and
      the University rewarded him with a Latin diploma containing in gorgeous
      language the expression of thanks for his munificence.'
    </p>
    <p>
      On the 26th May, 1703, Samuel Pepys, after long continued suffering,
      breathed his last in the presence of the learned Dr. George Hickes, the
      nonjuring Dean of Worcester, and the following letter from John Jackson to
      his uncle's lifelong friend Evelyn contains particulars as to the cause of
      death:
    </p>
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                       Mr.  Jackson to Mr. Evelyn.

                                        "Clapham, May 28th, 1703.
                                        "Friday night.

     "Honoured Sir,

     "'Tis no small addition to my grief, to be obliged to interrupt the
     quiet of your happy recess with the afflicting tidings of my Uncle
     Pepys's death: knowing how sensibly you will partake with me herein.
     But I should not be faithful to his desires, if I did not beg your
     doing the honour to his memory of accepting mourning from him, as a
     small instance of his most affectionate respect and honour for you.
     I have thought myself extremely unfortunate to be out of the way at
     that only time when you were pleased lately to touch here, and
     express so great a desire of taking your leave of my Uncle; which
     could not but have been admitted by him as a most welcome exception
     to his general orders against being interrupted; and I could most
     heartily wish that the circumstances of your health and distance did
     not forbid me to ask the favour of your assisting in the holding up
     of the pawll at his interment, which is intended to be on Thursday
     next; for if the manes are affected with what passes below, I am
     sure this would have been very grateful to his.

     "I must not omit acquainting you, sir, that upon opening his body,
     (which the uncommonness of his case required of us, for our own
     satisfaction as well as public good) there was found in his left
     kidney a nest of no less than seven stones, of the most irregular,
     figures your imagination can frame, and weighing together four
     ounces and a half, but all fast linked together, and adhering to his
     back; whereby they solve his having felt no greater pains upon
     motion, nor other of the ordinary symptoms of the stone.  Some other
     lesser defects there also were in his body, proceeding from the same
     cause.  But his stamina, in general, were marvellously strong, and
     not only supported him, under the most exquisite pains, weeks beyond
     all expectations; but, in the conclusion, contended for nearly forty
     hours (unassisted by any nourishment) with the very agonies of
     death, some few minutes excepted, before his expiring, which were
     very calm.

     "There remains only for me, under this affliction, to beg the
     consolation and honour of succeeding to your patronage, for my
     Uncle's sake; and leave to number myself, with the same sincerity he
     ever did, among your greatest honourers, which I shall esteem as one
     of the most valuable parts of my inheritances from him; being also,
     with the faithfullest wishes of health and a happy long life to you,

                    "Honoured Sir,
                         "Your most obedient and
                              "Most humble Servant,
                                        "J.  JACKSON.

     "Mr. Hewer, as my Uncle's Executor, and equally your faithful
     Servant, joins with me in every part hereof.

     "The time of my Uncle's departure was about three-quarters past
     three on Wednesday morning last."
</pre>
    <p>
      Evelyn alludes in his Diary to Pepys's death and the present to him of a
      suit of mourning. He speaks in very high terms of his friend:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "1703, May 26th.  This day died Mr. Sam Pepys, a very worthy,
     industrious, and curious person, none in England exceeding him in
     knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed thro' all the most
     considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of the
     Admiralty, all which he performed with great integrity.  When K.
     James II.  went out of England, he laid down his office, and would
     serve no more, but withdrawing himselfe from all public affaires, he
     liv'd at Clapham with his partner Mr. Hewer, formerly his clerk, in
     a very noble and sweete place, where he enjoy'd the fruits of his
     labours in greate prosperity.  He was universally belov'd,
     hospitable, generous, learned in many things, skilfd in music, a
     very greate cherisher of learned men of whom he had the conversation
 ....  Mr. Pepys had been for neere 40 yeeres so much my
     particular friend that Mr. Jackson sent me compleat mourning,
     desiring me to be one to hold up the pall at his magnificent
     obsequies, but my indisposition hinder'd me from doing him this last
     office."
</pre>
    <p>
      The body was brought from Clapham and buried in St. Olave's Church, Hart
      Street, on the 5th June, at nine o'clock at night, in a vault just beneath
      the monument to the memory of Mrs. Pepys. Dr. Hickes performed the last
      sad offices for his friend.
    </p>
    <p>
      Pepys's faithful friend, Hewer, was his executor, and his nephew, John
      Jackson, his heir. Mourning was presented to forty persons, and a large
      number of rings to relations, godchildren, servants, and friends, also to
      representatives of the Royal Society, of the Universities of Cambridge and
      Oxford, of the Admiralty, and of the Navy Office. The bulk of the property
      was bequeathed to Jackson, but the money which was left was much less than
      might have been expected, for at the time of Pepys's death there was a
      balance of L28,007 2s. 1d. due to him from the Crown, and none of this was
      ever paid. The books and other collections were left to Magdalene College,
      Cambridge, but Jackson was to have possession of them during his lifetime.
      These were the most important portion of Pepys's effects, for with them
      was the manuscript of the immortal Diary. The following are the directions
      for the disposition of the library, taken from Harl. MS., No. 7301:
    </p>
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     "For the further settlement and preservation of my said library,
     after the death of my nephew.  John Jackson, I do hereby declare,
     That could I be sure of a constant succession of heirs from my said
     nephew, qualified like himself for the use of such a library, I
     should not entertain a thought of its ever being alienated from
     them.  But this uncertainty considered, with the infinite pains, and
     time, and cost employed in my collecting, methodising and reducing
     the same to the state it now is, I cannot but be greatly solicitous
     that all possible provision should be made for its unalterable
     preservation and perpetual security against the ordinary fate of
     such collections falling into the hands of an incompetent heir, and
     thereby being sold, dissipated, or embezzled.  And since it has
     pleased God to visit me in a manner that leaves little appearance of
     being myself restored to a condition of concerting the necessary
     measures for attaining these ends, I must and do with great
     confidence rely upon the sincerity and direction of my executor and
     said nephew for putting in execution the powers given them, by my
     forementioned will relating hereto, requiring that the same be
     brought to a determination in twelve months after my decease, and
     that special regard be had therein to the following particulars
     which I declare to be my present thoughts and prevailing
     inclinations in this matter, viz.:

     "1.  That after the death of my said nephew, my said library be
     placed and for ever settled in one of our universities, and rather
     in that of Cambridge than Oxford.

     "2.  And rather in a private college there, than in the public
     library.

     "3.  And in the colleges of Trinity or Magdalen preferably to all
     others.

     "4.  And of these too, 'caeteris paribus', rather in the latter, for
     the sake of my own and my nephew's education therein.

     "5.  That in which soever of the two it is, a fair roome be provided
     therein.

     "6.  And if in Trinity, that the said roome be contiguous to, and
     have communication with, the new library there.

     "7.  And if in Magdalen, that it be in the new building there, and
     any part thereof at my nephew's election.

     "8.  That my said library be continued in its present form and no
     other books mixed therein, save what my nephew may add to theirs of
     his own collecting, in distinct presses.

     "9.  That the said room and books so placed and adjusted be called
     by the name of 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana.'

     "10.  That this 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana' be under the sole power and
     custody of the master of the college for the time being, who shall
     neither himself convey, nor suffer to be conveyed by others, any of
     the said books from thence to any other place, except to his own
     lodge in the said college, nor there have more than ten of them at a
     time; and that of those also a strict entry be made and account
     kept, at the time of their having been taken out and returned, in a
     book to be provided, and remain in the said library for that purpose
     only.

     "11.  That before my said library be put into the possession of
     either of the said colleges, that college for which it shall be
     designed, first enter into covenants for performance of the
     foregoing articles.

     "12.  And that for a yet further security herein, the said two
     colleges of Trinity and Magdalen have a reciprocal check upon one
     another; and that college which shall be in present possession of
     the said library, be subject to an annual visitation from the other,
     and to the forfeiture thereof to the life, possession, and use of
     the other, upon conviction of any breach of their said covenants.

                                                  "S. PEPYS."
</pre>
    <p>
      The library and the original book-cases were not transferred to Magdalene
      College until 1724, and there they have been preserved in safety ever
      since.
    </p>
    <p>
      A large number of Pepys's manuscripts appear to have remained unnoticed in
      York Buildings for some years. They never came into Jackson's hands, and
      were thus lost to Magdalene College. Dr. Rawlinson afterwards obtained
      them, and they were included in the bequest of his books to the Bodleian
      Library.
    </p>
    <p>
      Pepys was partial to having his portrait taken, and he sat to Savill,
      Hales, Lely, and Kneller. Hales's portrait, painted in 1666, is now in the
      National Portrait Gallery, and an etching from the original forms the
      frontispiece to this volume. The portrait by Lely is in the Pepysian
      Library. Of the three portraits by Kneller, one is in the hall of
      Magdalene College, another at the Royal Society, and the third was lent to
      the First Special Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, by the late Mr.
      Andrew Pepys Cockerell. Several of the portraits have been engraved, but
      the most interesting of these are those used by Pepys himself as
      book-plates. These were both engraved by Robert White, and taken from
      paintings by Kneller.
    </p>
    <p>
      The church of St. Olave, Hart Street, is intimately associated with Pepys
      both in his life and in his death, and for many years the question had
      been constantly asked by visitors, "Where is Pepys's monument?" On
      Wednesday, July 5th, 1882, a meeting was held in the vestry of the church,
      when an influential committee was appointed, upon which all the great
      institutions with which Pepys was connected were represented by their
      masters, presidents, or other officers, with the object of taking steps to
      obtain an adequate memorial of the Diarist. Mr. (now Sir) Alfred
      Blomfield, architect of the church, presented an appropriate design for a
      monument, and sufficient subscriptions having been obtained for the
      purpose, he superintended its erection. On Tuesday afternoon, March 18th,
      1884, the monument, which was affixed to the wall of the church where the
      gallery containing Pepys's pew formerly stood, was unveiled in the
      presence of a large concourse of visitors. The Earl of Northbrook, First
      Lord of the Admiralty, consented to unveil the monument, but he was at the
      last moment prevented by public business from attending. The late Mr.
      Russell Lowell, then the American Minister, took Lord Northbrook's place,
      and made a very charming and appreciative speech on the occasion, from
      which the following passages are extracted:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "It was proper," his Excellency said, "that he should read a note he
     had received from Lord Northbrook.  This was dated that day from the
     Admiralty, and was as follows:

     "'My dear Mr. Lowell,

     "'I am very much annoyed that I am prevented from assisting at the
     ceremony to-day.  It would be very good if you would say that
     nothing but very urgent business would have kept me away.  I was
     anxious to give my testimony to the merits of Pepys as an Admiralty
     official, leaving his literary merits to you.  He was concerned with
     the administration of the Navy from the Restoration to the
     Revolution, and from 1673 as secretary.  I believe his merits to be
     fairly stated in a contemporary account, which I send.

                         "'Yours very truly,
                                        "'NORTHBROOK.

     "The contemporary account, which Lord Northbrook was good enough to
     send him, said:

     "'Pepys was, without exception, the greatest and most useful
     Minister that ever filled the same situations in England, the acts
     and registers of the Admiralty proving this beyond contradiction.
     The principal rules and establishments in present use in these
     offices are well known to have been of his introducing, and most of
     the officers serving therein since the Restoration, of his bringing-
     up.  He was a most studious promoter and strenuous asserter of order
     and discipline.  Sobriety, diligence, capacity, loyalty, and
     subjection to command were essentials required in all whom he
     advanced.  Where any of these were found wanting, no interest or
     authority was capable of moving him in favour of the highest
     pretender.  Discharging his duty to his Prince and country with a
     religious application and perfect integrity, he feared no one,
     courted no one, and neglected his own fortune.'

     "That was a character drawn, it was true, by a friendly hand, but to
     those who were familiar with the life of Pepys, the praise hardly
     seemed exaggerated.  As regarded his official life, it was
     unnecessary to dilate upon his peculiar merits, for they all knew
     how faithful he was in his duties, and they all knew, too, how many
     faithful officials there were working on in obscurity, who were not
     only never honoured with a monument but who never expected one.  The
     few words, Mr. Lowell went on to remark, which he was expected to
     say upon that occasion, therefore, referred rather to what he
     believed was the true motive which had brought that assembly
     together, and that was by no means the character of Pepys either as
     Clerk of the Acts or as Secretary to the Admiralty.  This was not
     the place in which one could go into a very close examination of the
     character of Pepys as a private man.  He would begin by admitting
     that Pepys was a type, perhaps, of what was now called a
     'Philistine'.  We had no word in England which was equivalent to the
     French adjective Bourgeois; but, at all events, Samuel Pepys was the
     most perfect type that ever existed of the class of people whom this
     word described.  He had all its merits as well as many of its
     defects.  With all those defects, however perhaps in consequence of
     them&mdash;Pepys had written one of the most delightful books that it was
     man's privilege to read in the English language or in any other.
     Whether Pepys intended this Diary to be afterwards read by the
     general public or not&mdash;and this was a doubtful question when it was
     considered that he had left, possibly by inadvertence, a key to his
     cypher behind him&mdash;it was certain that he had left with us a most
     delightful picture, or rather he had left the power in our hands of
     drawing for ourselves some, of the most delightful pictures, of the
     time in which he lived.  There was hardly any book which was
     analogous to it.....  If one were asked what were the reasons
     for liking Pepys, it would be found that they were as numerous as
     the days upon which he made an entry in his Diary, and surely that
     was sufficient argument in his favour.  There was no book, Mr.
     Lowell said, that he knew of, or that occurred to his memory, with
     which Pepys's Diary could fairly be compared, except the journal of
     L'Estoile, who had the same anxious curiosity and the same
     commonness, not to say vulgarity of interest, and the book was
     certainly unique in one respect, and that was the absolute sincerity
     of the author with himself.  Montaigne is conscious that we are
     looking over his shoulder, and Rousseau secretive in comparison with
     him.  The very fact of that sincerity of the author with himself
     argued a certain greatness of character.  Dr. Hickes, who attended
     Pepys at his deathbed, spoke of him as 'this great man,' and said he
     knew no one who died so greatly.  And yet there was something almost
     of the ridiculous in the statement when the 'greatness' was compared
     with the garrulous frankness which Pepys showed towards himself.
     There was no parallel to the character of Pepys, he believed, in
     respect of 'naivete', unless it were found in that of Falstaff, and
     Pepys showed himself, too, like Falstaff, on terms of unbuttoned
     familiarity with himself.  Falstaff had just the same 'naivete', but
     in Falstaff it was the 'naivete' of conscious humour.  In Pepys it
     was quite different, for Pepys's 'naivete' was the inoffensive
     vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass.  Falstaff had
     a sense, too, of inadvertent humour, but it was questionable whether
     Pepys could have had any sense of humour at all, and yet permitted
     himself to be so delightful.  There was probably, however, more
     involuntary humour in Pepys's Diary than there was in any other book
     extant.  When he told his readers of the landing of Charles II. at
     Dover, for instance, it would be remembered how Pepys chronicled the
     fact that the Mayor of Dover presented the Prince with a Bible, for
     which he returned his thanks and said it was the 'most precious Book
     to him in the world.'  Then, again, it would be remembered how, when
     he received a letter addressed 'Samuel Pepys, Esq.,' he confesses in
     the Diary that this pleased him mightily.  When, too, he kicked his
     cookmaid, he admits that he was not sorry for it, but was sorry that
     the footboy of a worthy knight with whom he was acquainted saw him
     do it.  And the last instance he would mention of poor Pepys's
     'naivete' was when he said in the Diary that he could not help
     having a certain pleasant and satisfied feeling when Barlow died.
     Barlow, it must be remembered, received during his life the yearly
     sum from Pepys of L100.  The value of Pepys's book was simply
     priceless, and while there was nothing in it approaching that single
     page in St. Simon where he described that thunder of courtierly red
     heels passing from one wing of the Palace to another as the Prince
     was lying on his death-bed, and favour was to flow from another
     source, still Pepys's Diary was unequalled in its peculiar quality
     of amusement.  The lightest part of the Diary was of value,
     historically, for it enabled one to see London of 200 years ago,
     and, what was more, to see it with the eager eyes of Pepys.  It was
     not Pepys the official who had brought that large gathering together
     that day in honour of his memory: it was Pepys the Diarist."
</pre>
    <p>
      In concluding this account of the chief particulars of Pepys's life it may
      be well to add a few words upon the pronunciation of his name. Various
      attempts appear to have been made to represent this phonetically. Lord
      Braybrooke, in quoting the entry of death from St. Olave's Registers,
      where the spelling is "Peyps," wrote, "This is decisive as to the proper
      pronunciation of the name." This spelling may show that the name was
      pronounced as a monosyllable, but it is scarcely conclusive as to anything
      else, and Lord Braybrooke does not say what he supposes the sound of the
      vowels to have been. At present there are three pronunciations in use&mdash;Peps,
      which is the most usual; Peeps, which is the received one at Magdalene
      College, and Peppis, which I learn from Mr. Walter C. Pepys is the one
      used by other branches of the family. Mr. Pepys has paid particular
      attention to this point, and in his valuable "Genealogy of the Pepys
      Family" (1887) he has collected seventeen varieties of spelling of the
      name, which are as follows, the dates of the documents in which the form
      appears being attached:
    </p>
    <p>
      1. Pepis (1273); 2. Pepy (1439); 3. Pypys (1511); 4. Pipes (1511); 5.
      Peppis (1518); 6. Peppes (1519); 7. Pepes (1520); 8. Peppys (1552); 9.
      Peaps (1636); 10. Pippis (1639); 11. Peapys (1653); 12. Peps (1655); 13.
      Pypes (1656); 14. Peypes (1656); 15. Peeps (1679); 16. Peepes (1683); 17.
      Peyps (1703). Mr. Walter Pepys adds:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "The accepted spelling of the name 'Pepys' was adopted generally
     about the end of the seventeenth century, though it occurs many
     years before that time.  There have been numerous ways of
     pronouncing the name, as 'Peps,' 'Peeps,' and 'Peppis.'  The
     Diarist undoubtedly pronounced it 'Peeps,' and the lineal
     descendants of his sister Paulina, the family of 'Pepys Cockerell'
     pronounce it so to this day.  The other branches of the family all
     pronounce it as 'Peppis,' and I am led to be satisfied that the
     latter pronunciation is correct by the two facts that in the
     earliest known writing it is spelt 'Pepis,' and that the French form
     of the name is 'Pepy.'"
</pre>
    <p>
      The most probable explanation is that the name in the seventeenth century
      was either pronounced 'Pips' or 'Papes'; for both the forms 'ea' and 'ey'
      would represent the latter pronunciation. The general change in the
      pronunciation of the spelling 'ea' from 'ai' to 'ee' took place in a large
      number of words at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the
      eighteenth-century, and three words at least (yea, break, and great) keep
      this old pronunciation still. The present Irish pronunciation of English
      is really the same as the English pronunciation of the seventeenth
      century, when the most extensive settlement of Englishmen in Ireland took
      place, and the Irish always pronounce ea like ai (as, He gave him a nate
      bating&mdash;neat beating). Again, the 'ey' of Peyps would rhyme with they
      and obey. English literature is full of illustrations of the old
      pronunciation of ea, as in "Hudibras;"
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              "Doubtless the pleasure is as great
               In being cheated as to cheat,"
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      which was then a perfect rhyme. In the "Rape of the Lock" tea (tay) rhymes
      with obey, and in Cowper's verses on Alexander Selkirk sea rhymes with
      survey.' It is not likely that the pronunciation of the name was fixed,
      but there is every reason to suppose that the spellings of Peyps and Peaps
      were intended to represent the sound Pepes rather than Peeps.
    </p>
    <p>
      In spite of all the research which has brought to light so many incidents
      of interest in the life of Samuel Pepys, we cannot but feel how dry these
      facts are when placed by the side of the living details of the Diary. It
      is in its pages that the true man is displayed, and it has therefore not
      been thought necessary here to do more than set down in chronological
      order such facts as are known of the life outside the Diary. A fuller
      "appreciation" of the man must be left for some future occasion.
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     [The year did not legally begin in England before the 25th March
     until the act for altering the style fixed the 1st of January as the
     first day of the year, and previous to 1752 the year extended from
     March 25th to the following March 24th.  Thus since 1752 we have
     been in the habit of putting the two dates for the months of January
     and February and March 1 to 24&mdash;in all years previous to 1752.
     Practically, however, many persons considered the year to commence
     with January 1st, as it will be seen Pepys did.  The 1st of January
     was considered as New Year's day long before Pepys's time.  The
     fiscal year has not been altered; and the national accounts are
     still reckoned from old Lady Day, which falls on the 6th of April.]
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    <p>
      Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health,
      without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold.
    </p>
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     [Pepys was successfully cut for the stone on March 26th, 1658.  See
     March 26th below.  Although not suffering from this cause again
     until the end of his life, there are frequent references in the
     Diary to pain whenever he caught cold.  In a letter from Pepys to
     his nephew Jackson, April 8th, 1700, there is a reference to the
     breaking out three years before his death of the wound caused by the
     cutting for the stone: "It has been my calamity for much the
     greatest part of this time to have been kept bedrid, under an evil
     so rarely known as to have had it matter of universal surprise and
     with little less general opinion of its dangerousness; namely, that
     the cicatrice of a wound occasioned upon my cutting for the stone,
     without hearing anything of it in all this time, should after more
     than 40 years' perfect cure, break out again."  At the post-mortem
     examination a nest of seven stones, weighing four and a half ounces,
     was found in the left kidney, which was entirely ulcerated.]
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    <p>
      I lived in Axe Yard,
    </p>
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     [Pepys's house was on the south side of King Street, Westminster;
     it is singular that when he removed to a residence in the city, he
     should have settled close to another Axe Yard.  Fludyer Street
     stands on the site of Axe Yard, which derived its name from a great
     messuage or brewhouse on the west side of King Street, called "The
     Axe," and referred to in a document of the 23rd of Henry VIII&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      having my wife, and servant Jane, and no more in family than us three. My
      wife.... gave me hopes of her being with child, but on the last day of the
      year....[the hope was belied.]
    </p>
    <p>
      [Ed. note:.... are used to denote censored passages]
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    <p>
      The condition of the State was thus; viz. the Rump, after being disturbed
      by my Lord Lambert,
    </p>
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     [John Lambert, major-general in the Parliamentary army.  The title
     Lord was not his by right, but it was frequently given to the
     republican officers.  He was born in 1619, at Calton Hall, in the
     parish of Kirkby-in-Malham-Dale, in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
     In 1642 he was appointed captain of horse under Fairfax, and acted
     as major-general to Cromwell in 1650 during the war in Scotland.
     After this Parliament conferred on him a grant of lands in Scotland
     worth L1000 per annum.  He refused to take the oath of allegiance to
     Cromwell, for which the Protector deprived him of his commission.
     After Cromwell's death he tried to set up a military government.
     The Commons cashiered Lambert, Desborough, and other officers,
     October 12th, 1659, but Lambert retaliated by thrusting out the
     Commons, and set out to meet Monk.  His men fell away from him, and
     he was sent to the Tower, March 3rd, 1660, but escaped.  In 1662 he
     was tried on a charge of high treason and condemned, but his life
     was spared.  It is generally stated that he passed the remainder of
     his life in the island of Guernsey, but this is proved to be
     incorrect by a MS. in the Plymouth Athenaeum, entitled "Plimmouth
     Memoirs collected by James Yonge, 1684" This will be seen from the
     following extracts quoted by Mr. R. J. King, in "Notes and Queries,"
     "1667 Lambert the arch-rebel brought to this island [St. Nicholas,
     at the entrance of Plymouth harbour]."  "1683 Easter day Lambert
     that olde rebell dyed this winter on Plimmouth Island where he had
     been prisoner 15 years and more."]
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    <p>
      was lately returned to sit again. The officers of the Army all forced to
      yield. Lawson
    </p>
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     [Sir John Lawson, the son of a poor man at Hull, entered the navy as
     a common sailor, rose to the rank of admiral, and distinguished
     himself during the Protectorate.  Though a republican, he readily
     closed with the design of restoring the King.  He was vice-admiral
     under the Earl of Sandwich, and commanded the "London" in the
     squadron which conveyed Charles II. to England.  He was mortally
     wounded in the action with the Dutch off Harwich, June, 1665.  He
     must not be confounded with another John Lawson, the Royalist, of
     Brough Hall, in Yorkshire, who was created a Baronet by Charles II,
     July 6th, 1665.]
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    <p>
      lies still in the river, and Monk&mdash;[George Monk, born 1608, created
      Duke of Albemarle, 1660, married Ann Clarges, March, 1654, died January
      3rd, 1676.]&mdash;is with his army in Scotland. Only my Lord Lambert is
      not yet come into the Parliament, nor is it expected that he will without
      being forced to it. The new Common Council of the City do speak very high;
      and had sent to Monk their sword-bearer, to acquaint him with their
      desires for a free and full Parliament, which is at present the desires,
      and the hopes, and expectation of all. Twenty-two of the old secluded
      members
    </p>
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     ["The City sent and invited him [Monk] to dine the next day at
     Guildhall, and there he declared for the members whom the army had
     forced away in year forty-seven and forty-eight, who were known by
     the names of secluded members."&mdash;Burnet's Hist. of his Own Time,
     book i.]
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    <p>
      having been at the House-door the last week to demand entrance, but it was
      denied them; and it is believed that [neither] they nor the people will be
      satisfied till the House be filled. My own private condition very
      handsome, and esteemed rich, but indeed very poor; besides my goods of my
      house, and my office, which at present is somewhat uncertain. Mr. Downing
      master of my office.
    </p>
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     [George Downing was one of the Four Tellers of the Receipt of the
     Exchequer, and in his office Pepys was a clerk.  He was the son of
     Emmanuel Downing of the Inner Temple, afterwards of Salem,
     Massachusetts, and of Lucy, sister of Governor John Winthrop.  He is
     supposed to have been born in August, 1623.  He and his parents went
     to New England in 1638, and he was the second graduate of Harvard
     College.  He returned to England about 1645, and acted as Colonel
     Okey's chaplain before he entered into political life.  Anthony a
     Wood (who incorrectly describes him as the son of Dr. Calybute
     Downing, vicar of Hackney) calls Downing a sider with all times and
     changes: skilled in the common cant, and a preacher occasionally.
     He was sent by Cromwell to Holland in 1657, as resident there.  At
     the Restoration, he espoused the King's cause, and was knighted and
     elected M.P. for Morpeth, in 1661.  Afterwards, becoming
     Secretary to the Treasury and Commissioner of the Customs, he was in
     1663 created a Baronet of East Hatley, in Cambridgeshire, and was
     again sent Ambassador to Holland.  His grandson of the same name,
     who died in 1749, was the founder of Downing College, Cambridge.
     The title became extinct in 1764, upon the decease of Sir John
     Gerrard Downing, the last heir-male of the family.  Sir George
     Downing's character will be found in Lord Clarendon's "Life," vol.
     iii.  p. 4.  Pepys's opinion seems to be somewhat of a mixed kind.
     He died in July, 1684.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Jan. 1st (Lord's day). This morning (we living lately in the garret,) I
      rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other,
      clothes but them. Went to Mr. Gunning's
    </p>
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     [Peter Gunning, afterwards Master of St. John's College, Cambridge,
     and successively Bishop of Chichester and Ely.  He had continued to
     read the Liturgy at the chapel at Exeter House when the Parliament
     was most predominant, for which Cromwell often rebuked him.  Evelyn
     relates that on Christmas Day, 1657, the chapel was surrounded with
     soldiers, and the congregation taken prisoners, he and his wife
     being among them.  There are several notices of Dr. Gunning in
     Evelyn's Diary.  When he obtained the mastership of St. John's
     College upon the ejection of Dr. Tuckney, he allowed that
     Nonconformist divine a handsome annuity during his life.  He was a
     great controversialist, and a man of great reading.  Burnet says he
     "was a very honest sincere man, but of no sound judgment, and of no
     prudence in affairs" ("Hist. of his Own.  Time").  He died July 6th,
     1684, aged seventy-one.]
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    <p>
      chapel at Exeter House, where he made a very good sermon upon these words:&mdash;"That
      in the fulness of time God sent his Son, made of a woman," &amp;c.;
      showing, that, by "made under the law," is meant his circumcision, which
      is solemnized this day. Dined at home in the garret, where my wife dressed
      the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it she burned her hand. I
      staid at home all the afternoon, looking over my accounts; then went with
      my wife to my father's, and in going observed the great posts which the
      City have set up at the Conduit in Fleet-street. Supt at my father's,
      where in came Mrs. The. Turner&mdash;[Theophila Turner, daughter of
      Sergeant John and Jane Turner, who married Sir Arthur Harris, Bart. She
      died 1686.]&mdash;and Madam Morrice, and supt with us. After that my wife
      and I went home with them, and so to our own home.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. In the morning before I went forth old East brought me a dozen of
      bottles of sack, and I gave him a shilling for his pains. Then I went to
      Mr. Sheply,&mdash;[Shepley was a servant of Admiral Sir Edward Montagu]&mdash;who
      was drawing of sack in the wine cellar to send to other places as a gift
      from my Lord, and told me that my Lord had given him order to give me the
      dozen of bottles. Thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthropp
      about the L60 due to my Lord,
    </p>
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     [Sir Edward Montagu, born 1625, son of Sir Sidney Montagu, by
     Paulina, daughter of John Pepys of Cottenham, married Jemima,
     daughter of John Crew of Stene.  He died in action against the Dutch
     in Southwold Bay, May 28th, 1672.  The title of "My Lord" here
     applied to Montagu before he was created Earl of Sandwich is of the
     same character as that given to General Lambert.]
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    <p>
      but missed of him, he being abroad. Then I went to Mr. Crew's
    </p>
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     [John Crew, born 1598, eldest son of Sir Thomas Crew, Sergeant-at-
     Law and Speaker of the House of Commons.  He sat for Brackley in the
     Long Parliament.  Created Baron Crew of Stene, in the county of
     Northampton, at the coronation of Charles II.  He married Jemima,
     daughter and co-heir of Edward Walgrave (or Waldegrave) of Lawford,
     Essex.  His house was in Lincoln's Inn Fields.  He died December
     12th, 1679.]
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    <p>
      and borrowed L10 of Mr. Andrewes for my own use, and so went to my office,
      where there was nothing to do. Then I walked a great while in Westminster
      Hall, where I heard that Lambert was coming up to London; that my Lord
      Fairfax
    </p>
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     [Thomas, Lord Fairfax, Generalissimo of the Parliament forces.
     After the Restoration, he retired to his country seat, where he
     lived in private till his death, 1671.  In a volume (autograph) of
     Lord Fairfax's Poems, preserved in the British Museum, 11744, f. 42,
     the following lines occur upon the 30th of January, on which day the
     King was beheaded.  It is believed that they have never been
     printed.

              "O let that day from time be bloted quitt,
               And beleef of 't in next age be waved,
               In depest silence that act concealed might,
               That so the creadet of our nation might be saved;
               But if the powre devine hath ordered this,
               His will's the law, and our must aquiess."

     These wretched verses have obviously no merit; but they are curious
     as showing that Fairfax, who had refused to act as one of Charles
     I's judges; continued long afterwards to entertain a proper horror
     for that unfortunate monarch's fate.  It has recently been pointed
     out to me, that the lines were not originally composed by Fairfax,
     being only a poor translation of the spirited lines of Statius
     (Sylvarum lib. v.  cap. ii.  l. 88)

              "Excidat illa dies aevo, ne postera credant
               Secula, nos certe taceamus; et obruta multa
               Nocte tegi propria patiamur crimina gentis."

     These verses were first applied by the President de Thou to the
     massacre of St. Bartholomew, 1572; and in our day, by Mr. Pitt, in
     his memorable speech in the House of Commons, January, 1793, after
     the murder of Louis XVI.&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      was in the head of the Irish brigade, but it was not certain what he would
      declare for. The House was to-day upon finishing the act for the Council
      of State, which they did; and for the indemnity to the soldiers; and were
      to sit again thereupon in the afternoon. Great talk that many places have
      declared for a free Parliament; and it is believed that they will be
      forced to fill up the House with the old members. From the Hall I called
      at home, and so went to Mr. Crew's (my wife she was to go to her
      father's), thinking to have dined, but I came too late, so Mr. Moore and I
      and another gentleman went out and drank a cup of ale together in the new
      market, and there I eat some bread and cheese for my dinner. After that
      Mr. Moore and I went as far as Fleet-street together and parted, he going
      into the City, I to find Mr. Calthrop, but failed again of finding him, so
      returned to Mr. Crew's again, and from thence went along with Mrs. Jemimah
    </p>
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     [Mrs. Jemimah, or Mrs. Jem, was Jemima, eldest daughter of Sir
     Edward Montagu.  At this time she and her sister, Mrs. Ann, seem to
     have been living alone with their maids in London, and Pepys's duty
     was to look after them.]
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      home, and there she taught me how to play at cribbage. Then I went home,
      and finding my wife gone to see Mrs. Hunt, I went to Will's,
    </p>
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     [Pepys constantly visited "Will's" about this time; but this could
     not be the famous coffee-house in Covent Garden, because he mentions
     visiting there for the first time, February 3rd, 1663-64.  It was
     most probably the house of William Joyce, who kept a place of
     entertainment at Westminster (see Jan. 29th).]
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      and there sat with Mr. Ashwell talking and singing till nine o'clock, and
      so home, there, having not eaten anything but bread and cheese, my wife
      cut me a slice of brawn which. I received from my Lady;&mdash;[Jemima,
      wife of Sir Edward Montagu, daughter of John Crew of Stene, afterwards
      Lord Crew.]&mdash;which proves as good as ever I had any. So to bed, and
      my wife had a very bad night of it through wind and cold.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. I went out in the morning, it being a great frost, and walked to Mrs.
      Turner's
    </p>
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     [Jane, daughter of John Pepys of South Creake, Norfolk, married to
     John Turner, Sergeant-at-law, Recorder of York; their only child,
     Theophila, frequently mentioned as The.  or Theoph., became the wife
     of Sir Arthur Harris, Bart., of Stowford, Devon, and died 1686,
     s.p.]
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    <p>
      to stop her from coming to see me to-day, because of Mrs. Jem's corning,
      thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthrop, and walked in his
      chamber an hour, but could not see him, so went to Westminster, where I
      found soldiers in my office to receive money, and paid it them. At noon
      went home, where Mrs. Jem, her maid, Mr. Sheply, Hawly, and Moore dined
      with me on a piece of beef and cabbage, and a collar of brawn. We then
      fell to cards till dark, and then I went home with Mrs. Jem, and meeting
      Mr. Hawly got him to bear me company to Chancery Lane, where I spoke with
      Mr. Calthrop, he told me that Sir James Calthrop was lately dead, but that
      he would write to his Lady, that the money may be speedily paid. Thence
      back to White Hall, where I understood that the Parliament had passed the
      act for indemnity to the soldiers and officers that would come in, in so
      many days, and that my Lord Lambert should have benefit of the said act.
      They had also voted that all vacancies in the House, by the death of any
      of the old members, shall be filled up; but those that are living shall
      not be called in. Thence I went home, and there found Mr. Hunt and his
      wife, and Mr. Hawly, who sat with me till ten at night at cards, and so
      broke up and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Early came Mr. Vanly&mdash;[Mr Vanley appears to have been Pepys's
      landlord; he is mentioned again in the Diary on September 20th, 1660.]&mdash;to
      me for his half-year's rent, which I had not in the house, but took his
      man to the office and there paid him. Then I went down into the Hall and
      to Will's, where Hawly brought a piece of his Cheshire cheese, and we were
      merry with it. Then into the Hall again, where I met with the Clerk and
      Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and took them to the Swan' and gave
      them their morning's draft,
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     [It was not usual at this time to sit down to breakfast, but instead
     a morning draught was taken at a tavern.]
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      they being just come to town. Mr. Jenkins shewed me two bills of exchange
      for money to receive upon my Lord's and my pay. It snowed hard all this
      morning, and was very cold, and my nose was much swelled with cold.
      Strange the difference of men's talk! Some say that Lambert must of
      necessity yield up; others, that he is very strong, and that the
      Fifth-monarchy-men [will] stick to him, if he declares for a free
      Parliament. Chillington was sent yesterday to him with the vote of pardon
      and indemnity from the Parliament. From the Hall I came home, where I
      found letters from Hinchinbroke
    </p>
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     [Hinchinbroke was Sir Edward Montagu's seat, from which he
     afterwards took his second title.  Hinchinbroke House, so often
     mentioned in the Diary, stood about half a mile to the westward of
     the town of Huntingdon.  It was erected late in the reign of
     Elizabeth, by Sir Henry Cromwell, on the site of a Benedictine
     nunnery, granted at the Dissolution, with all its appurtenances, to
     his father, Richard Williams, who had assumed the name of Cromwell,
     and whose grandson, Sir Oliver, was the uncle and godfather of the
     Protector.  The knight, who was renowned for, his hospitality, had
     the honour of entertaining King James at Hinchinbroke, but, getting
     into pecuniary difficulties, was obliged to sell his estates, which
     were conveyed, July 28th, 1627, to Sir Sidney Montagu of Barnwell,
     father of the first Earl of Sandwich, in whose descendant they are
     still vested.  On the morning of the 22nd January, 1830, during the
     minority of the seventh Earl, Hinchinbroke was almost entirely
     destroyed by fire, but the pictures and furniture were mostly saved,
     and the house has been rebuilt in the Elizabethan style, and the
     interior greatly improved, under the direction of Edward Blore,
     Esq., R.A.&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      and news of Mr. Sheply's going thither the next week. I dined at home, and
      from thence went to Will's to Shaw, who promised me to go along with me to
      Atkinson's about some money, but I found him at cards with Spicer and D.
      Vines, and could not get him along with me. I was vext at this, and went
      and walked in the Hall, where I heard that the Parliament spent this day
      in fasting and prayer; and in the afternoon came letters from the North,
      that brought certain news that my Lord Lambent his forces were all
      forsaking him, and that he was left with only fifty horse, and that he did
      now declare for the Parliament himself; and that my Lord Fairfax did also
      rest satisfied, and had laid down his arms, and that what he had done was
      only to secure the country against my Lord Lambert his raising of money,
      and free quarter. I went to Will's again, where I found them still at
      cards, and Spicer had won 14s. of Shaw and Vines. Then I spent a little
      time with G. Vines and Maylard at Vines's at our viols.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [It was usual to have a "chest of viols," which consisted of six,
     viz., two trebles, two tenors, and two basses (see note in North's
     "Memoirs of Musick," ed.  Rimbault, p. 70).  The bass viol was also
     called the 'viola da gamba', because it was held between the legs.]
</pre>
    <p>
      So home, and from thence to Mr. Hunt's, and sat with them and Mr. Hawly at
      cards till ten at night, and was much made of by them. Home and so to bed,
      but much troubled with my nose, which was much swelled.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. I went to my office, where the money was again expected from the
      Excise office, but none brought, but was promised to be sent this
      afternoon. I dined with Mr. Sheply, at my Lord's lodgings, upon his
      turkey-pie. And so to my office again; where the Excise money was brought,
      and some of it told to soldiers till it was dark. Then I went home, and
      after writing a letter to my Lord and told him the news that the
      Parliament hath this night voted that the members that were discharged
      from sitting in the years 1648 and 49, were duly discharged; and that
      there should be writs issued presently for the calling of others in their
      places, and that Monk and Fairfax were commanded up to town, and that the
      Prince's lodgings were to be provided for Monk at Whitehall. Then my wife
      and I, it being a great frost, went to Mrs. Jem's, in expectation to eat a
      sack-posset, but Mr. Edward&mdash;[Edward Montage, son of Sir Edward, and
      afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke.]&mdash;not coming it was put off; and so I
      left my wife playing at cards with her, and went myself with my lanthorn
      to Mr. Fage, to consult concerning my nose, who told me it was nothing but
      cold, and after that we did discourse concerning public business; and he
      told me it is true the City had not time enough to do much, but they are
      resolved to shake off the soldiers; and that unless there be a free
      Parliament chosen, he did believe there are half the Common Council will
      not levy any money by order of this Parliament. From thence I went to my
      father's, where I found Mrs. Ramsey and her grandchild, a pretty girl, and
      staid a while and talked with them and my mother, and then took my leave,
      only heard of an invitation to go to dinner to-morrow to my cosen Thomas
      Pepys.&mdash;[Thomas Pepys, probably the son of Thomas Pepys of London
      (born, 1595), brother of Samuel's father, John Pepys.]&mdash;I went back
      to Mrs. Jem, and took my wife and Mrs. Sheply, and went home.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. This morning Mr. Sheply and I did eat our breakfast at Mrs. Harper's,
      (my brother John' being with me,)
    </p>
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     [John Pepys was born in 1641, and his brother Samuel took great
     interest in his welfare, but he did not do any great credit to his
     elder.]
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    <p>
      upon a cold turkey-pie and a goose. From thence I went to my office, where
      we paid money to the soldiers till one o'clock, at which time we made an
      end, and I went home and took my wife and went to my cosen, Thomas Pepys,
      and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the
      venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome. After dinner I
      took my leave, leaving my wife with my cozen Stradwick,&mdash;[Elizabeth,
      daughter of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, and wife of
      Thomas Stradwick.]&mdash;and went to Westminster to Mr. Vines, where
      George and I fiddled a good while, Dick and his wife (who was lately
      brought to bed) and her sister being there, but Mr. Hudson not coming
      according to his promise, I went away, and calling at my house on the
      wench, I took her and the lanthorn with me to my cosen Stradwick, where,
      after a good supper, there being there my father, mother, brothers, and
      sister, my cosen Scott and his wife, Mr. Drawwater and his wife, and her
      brother, Mr. Stradwick, we had a brave cake brought us, and in the
      choosing, Pall was Queen and Mr. Stradwick was King. After that my wife
      and I bid adieu and came home, it being still a great frost.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. At my office as I was receiving money of the probate of wills, in
      came Mrs. Turner, Theoph., Madame Morrice, and Joyce, and after I had done
      I took them home to my house and Mr. Hawly came after, and I got a dish of
      steaks and a rabbit for them, while they were playing a game or two at
      cards. In the middle of our dinner a messenger from Mr. Downing came to
      fetch me to him, so leaving Mr. Hawly there, I went and was forced to stay
      till night in expectation of the French Embassador, who at last came, and
      I had a great deal of good discourse with one of his gentlemen concerning
      the reason of the difference between the zeal of the French and the
      Spaniard. After he was gone I went home, and found my friends still at
      cards, and after that I went along with them to Dr. Whores (sending my
      wife to Mrs. Jem's to a sack-posset), where I heard some symphony and
      songs of his own making, performed by Mr. May, Harding, and Mallard.
      Afterwards I put my friends into a coach, and went to Mrs. Jem's, where I
      wrote a letter to my Lord by the post, and had my part of the posset which
      was saved for me, and so we went home, and put in at my Lord's lodgings,
      where we staid late, eating of part of his turkey-pie, and reading of
      Quarles' Emblems. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Sunday). In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's, where a good sermon,
      wherein he showed the life of Christ, and told us good authority for us to
      believe that Christ did follow his father's trade, and was a carpenter
      till thirty years of age. From thence to my father's to dinner, where I
      found my wife, who was forced to dine there, we not having one coal of
      fire in the house, and it being very hard frosty weather. In the afternoon
      my father, he going to a man's to demand some money due to my Aunt Bells
      my wife and I went to Mr. Mossum's, where a strange doctor made a very
      good sermon. From thence sending my wife to my father's, I went to Mrs.
      Turner's, and staid a little while, and then to my father's, where I found
      Mr. Sheply, and after supper went home together. Here I heard of the death
      of Mr. Palmer, and that he was to be buried at Westminster tomorrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. For these two or three days I have been much troubled with thoughts
      how to get money to pay them that I have borrowed money of, by reason of
      my money being in my uncle's hands. I rose early this morning, and looked
      over and corrected my brother John's speech, which he is to make the next
      apposition,&mdash;[Declamations at St. Paul's School, in which there were
      opponents and respondents.]&mdash;and after that I went towards my office,
      and in my way met with W. Simons, Muddiman, and Jack Price, and went with
      them to Harper's and in many sorts of talk I staid till two of the clock
      in the afternoon. I found Muddiman a good scholar, an arch rogue; and owns
      that though he writes new books for the Parliament, yet he did declare
      that he did it only to get money; and did talk very basely of many of
      them. Among other things, W. Simons told me how his uncle Scobel was on
      Saturday last called to the bar, for entering in the journal of the House,
      for the year 1653, these words: "This day his Excellence the Lord General
      Cromwell dissolved this House;" which words the Parliament voted a
      forgery, and demanded of him how they came to be entered. He answered that
      they were his own handwriting, and that he did it by virtue of his office,
      and the practice of his predecessor; and that the intent of the practice
      was to&mdash;let posterity know how such and such a Parliament was
      dissolved, whether by the command of the King, or by their own neglect, as
      the last House of Lords was; and that to this end, he had said and writ
      that it was dissolved by his Excellence the Lord G[eneral]; and that for
      the word dissolved, he never at the time did hear of any other term; and
      desired pardon if he would not dare to make a word himself when it was six
      years after, before they came themselves to call it an interruption; but
      they were so little satisfied with this answer, that they did chuse a
      committee to report to the House, whether this crime of Mr. Scobell's did
      come within the act of indemnity or no. Thence I went with Muddiman to the
      Coffee-House, and gave 18d. to be entered of the Club. Thence into the
      Hall, where I heard for certain that Monk was coming to London, and that
      Bradshaw's 2 lodgings were preparing for him. Thence to Mrs. Jem's, and
      found her in bed, and she was afraid that it would prove the small-pox.
      Thence back to Westminster Hall, where I heard how Sir H. Vane&mdash;[Sir
      Harry Vane the younger, an inflexible republican. He was executed in 1662,
      on a charge of conspiring the death of Charles I.]&mdash;was this day
      voted out of the House, and to sit no more there; and that he would retire
      himself to his house at Raby, as also all the rest of the nine officers
      that had their commissions formerly taken away from them, were commanded
      to their farthest houses from London during the pleasure of the
      Parliament. Here I met with the Quarter Master of my Lord's troop, and his
      clerk Mr. Jenings, and took them home, and gave them a bottle of wine, and
      the remainder of my collar of brawn; and so good night. After that came in
      Mr. Hawly, who told me that I was mist this day at my office, and that
      to-morrow I must pay all the money that I have, at which I was put to a
      great loss how I should get money to make up my cash, and so went to bed
      in great trouble.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Went out early, and in my way met with Greatorex,&mdash;[Ralph
      Greatorex, the well-known mathematical instrument maker of his day. He is
      frequently mentioned by Pepys.]&mdash;and at an alehouse he showed me the
      first sphere of wire that ever he made, and indeed it was very pleasant;
      thence to Mr. Crew's, and borrowed L10, and so to my office, and was able
      to pay my money. Thence into the Hall, and meeting the Quarter Master,
      Jenings, and Captain Rider, we four went to a cook's to dinner. Thence
      Jenings and I into London (it being through heat of the sun a great thaw
      and dirty) to show our bills of return, and coming back drank a pint of
      wine at the Star in Cheapside. So to Westminster, overtaking Captain
      Okeshott in his silk cloak, whose sword got hold of many people in
      walking. Thence to the Coffee-house, where were a great confluence of
      gentlemen; viz. Mr. Harrington, Poultny, chairman, Gold, Dr. Petty; &amp;c.,
      where admirable discourse till at night. Thence with Doling to Mother
      Lams, who told me how this day Scott
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thomas Scott, M.P., was made Secretary of State to the Commonwealth
     on the 17th of this same January.  He signed the death warrant of
     Charles I., for which he was executed at Charing Cross, October
     16th, 1660.  He gloried in his offence, and desired to have written
     on his tombstone, "Thomas Scott who adjudged to death the late
     king."]
</pre>
    <p>
      was made Intelligencer, and that the rest of the members that were
      objected against last night, their business was to be heard this day
      se'nnight. Thence I went home and wrote a letter, and went to Harper's,
      and staid there till Tom carried it to the postboy at Whitehall. So home
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Being at Will's with Captain Barker, who hath paid me L300 this
      morning at my office, in comes my father, and with him I walked, and leave
      him at W. Joyce's, and went myself to Mr. Crew's, but came too late to
      dine, and therefore after a game at shittle-cocks&mdash;[The game of
      battledore and shuttlecock was formerly much played even in tennis courts,
      and was a very violent game.]&mdash;with Mr. Walgrave and Mr. Edward, I
      returned to my father, and taking him from W. Joyce's, who was not abroad
      himself, we inquired of a porter, and by his direction went to an
      alehouse, where after a cup or two we parted. I went towards London, and
      in my way went in to see Crowly, who was now grown a very great loon and
      very tame. Thence to Mr. Steven's with a pair of silver snuffers, and
      bought a pair of shears to cut silver, and so homeward again. From home I
      went to see Mrs. Jem, who was in bed, and now granted to have the
      small-pox. Back again, and went to the Coffee-house, but tarried not, and
      so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. I drink my morning at Harper's with Mr. Sheply and a seaman, and so
      to my office, where Captain Holland came to see me, and appointed a
      meeting in the afternoon. Then wrote letters to Hinchinbroke and sealed
      them at Will's, and after that went home, and thence to the Half Moon,
      where I found the Captain and Mr. Billingsly and Newman, a barber, where
      we were very merry, and had the young man that plays so well on the Welsh
      harp. Billingsly paid for all. Thence home, and finding my letters this
      day not gone by the carrier I new sealed them, but my brother Tom coming
      we fell into discourse about my intention to feast the Joyces. I sent for
      a bit of meat for him from the cook's, and forgot to send my letters this
      night. So I went to bed, and in discourse broke to my wife what my
      thoughts were concerning my design of getting money by, &amp;c.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Coming in the morning to my office, I met with Mr. Fage and took him
      to the Swan? He told me how high Haselrigge, and Morly, the last night
      began at my Lord Mayor's to exclaim against the City of London, saying
      that they had forfeited their charter. And how the Chamberlain of the City
      did take them down, letting them know how much they were formerly
      beholding to the City, &amp;c. He also told me that Monk's letter that
      came to them by the sword-bearer was a cunning piece, and that which they
      did not much trust to; but they were resolved to make no more applications
      to the Parliament, nor to pay any money, unless the secluded members be
      brought in, or a free Parliament chosen. Thence to my office, where
      nothing to do. So to Will's with Mr. Pinkney, who invited me to their
      feast at his Hall the next Monday. Thence I went home and took my wife and
      dined at Mr. Wades, and after that we went and visited Catan. From thence
      home again, and my wife was very unwilling to let me go forth, but with
      some discontent would go out if I did, and I going forth towards
      Whitehall, I saw she followed me, and so I staid and took her round
      through Whitehall, and so carried her home angry. Thence I went to Mrs.
      Jem, and found her up and merry, and that it did not prove the small-pox,
      but only the swine-pox; so I played a game or two at cards with her. And
      so to Mr. Vines, where he and I and Mr. Hudson played half-a-dozen things,
      there being there Dick's wife and her sister. After that I went home and
      found my wife gone abroad to Mr. Hunt's, and came in a little after me.&mdash;So
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Nothing to do at our office. Thence into the Hall, and just as I was
      going to dinner from Westminster Hall with Mr. Moore (with whom I had been
      in the lobby to hear news, and had spoke with Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper
      about my Lord's lodgings) to his house, I met with Captain Holland, who
      told me that he hath brought his wife to my house, so I posted home and
      got a dish of meat for them. They staid with me all the afternoon, and
      went hence in the evening. Then I went with my wife, and left her at
      market, and went myself to the Coffee-house, and heard exceeding good
      argument against Mr. Harrington's assertion, that overbalance of propriety
      [i.e., property] was the foundation of government. Home, and wrote to
      Hinchinbroke, and sent that and my other letter that missed of going on
      Thursday last. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Having been exceedingly disturbed in the night with the barking of a
      dog of one of our neighbours that I could not sleep for an hour or two, I
      slept late, and then in the morning took physic, and so staid within all
      day. At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I
      could his Greek speech to say the Apposition, though I believe he himself
      was as well able to do it as myself. After that we went to read in the
      great Officiale about the blessing of bells in the Church of Rome. After
      that my wife and I in pleasant discourse till night, then I went to
      supper, and after that to make an end of this week's notes in this book,
      and so to bed. It being a cold day and a great snow my physic did not work
      so well as it should have done.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. In the morning I went up to Mr. Crew's, and at his bedside he gave
      me direction to go to-morrow with Mr. Edward to Twickenham, and likewise
      did talk to me concerning things of state; and expressed his mind how just
      it was that the secluded members should come to sit again. I went from
      thence, and in my way went into an alehouse and drank my morning draft
      with Matthew Andrews and two or three more of his friends, coachmen. And
      of one of them I did hire a coach to carry us to-morrow to Twickenham.
      From thence to my office, where nothing to do; but Mr. Downing he came and
      found me all alone; and did mention to me his going back into Holland, and
      did ask me whether I would go or no, but gave me little encouragement, but
      bid me consider of it; and asked me whether I did not think that Mr. Hawly
      could perform the work of my office alone or no. I confess I was at a
      great loss, all the day after, to bethink myself how to carry this
      business. At noon, Harry Ethall came to me and went along with Mr. Maylard
      by coach as far as Salsbury Court, and there we set him down, and we went
      to the Clerks, where we came a little too late, but in a closet we had a
      very good dinner by Mr. Pinkny's courtesy, and after dinner we had pretty
      good singing, and one, Hazard, sung alone after the old fashion, which was
      very much cried up, but I did not like it. Thence we went to the Green
      Dragon, on Lambeth Hill, both the Mr. Pinkney's, Smith, Harrison, Morrice,
      that sang the bass, Sheply and I, and there we sang of all sorts of
      things, and I ventured with good success upon things at first sight, and
      after that I played on my flageolet, and staid there till nine o'clock,
      very merry and drawn on with one song after another till it came to be so
      late. After that Sheply, Harrison and myself, we went towards Westminster
      on foot, and at the Golden Lion, near Charing Cross, we went in and drank
      a pint of wine, and so parted, and thence home, where I found my wife and
      maid a-washing. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell just
      under my window as I was writing of this very line, and cried, "Past one
      of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning." I then went to bed, and
      left my wife and the maid a-washing still.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Early I went to Mr. Crew's, and having given Mr. Edward money to
      give the servants, I took him into the coach that waited for us and
      carried him to my house, where the coach waited for me while I and the
      child went to Westminster Hall, and bought him some pictures. In the Hall
      I met Mr. Woodfine, and took him to Will's and drank with him. Thence the
      child and I to the coach, where my wife was ready, and so we went towards
      Twickenham. In our way, at Kensington we understood how that my Lord
      Chesterfield had killed another gentleman about half an hour before, and
      was fled.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, ob. 1713, act. suae
     80.  We learn, from the memoir prefixed to his "Printed
     Correspondence," that he fought three duels, disarming and wounding
     his first and second antagonists, and killing the third.  The name
     of the unfortunate gentleman who fell on this occasion was Woolly.
     Lord Chesterfield, absconding, went to Breda, where he obtained the
     royal pardon from Charles II.  He acted a busy part in the eventful
     times in which he lived, and was remarkable for his steady adherence
     to the Stuarts.  Lord Chesterfield's letter to Charles II., and the
     King's answer granting the royal pardon, occur in the Correspondence
     published by General Sir John Murray, in 1829.

     "Jan. 17th, 1659.  The Earl of Chesterfield and Dr. Woolly's son of
     Hammersmith, had a quarrel about a mare of eighteen pounds price;
     the quarrel would not be reconciled, insomuch that a challenge
     passed between them.  They fought a duel on the backside of Mr.
     Colby's house at Kensington, where the Earl and he had several
     passes.  The Earl wounded him in two places, and would fain have
     then ended, but the stubbornness and pride of heart of Mr. Woolly
     would not give over, and the next pass [he] was killed on the spot.
     The Earl fled to Chelsea, and there took water and escaped.  The
     jury found it chance-medley."&mdash;Rugge's "Diurnal," Addit  MSS.,
     British Museum.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      We went forward and came about one of the clock to Mr. Fuller's, but he
      was out of town, so we had a dinner there, and I gave the child 40s. to
      give to the two ushers. After that we parted and went homewards, it being
      market day at Brainford [Brentford]. I set my wife down and went with the
      coach to Mr. Crew's, thinking to have spoke with Mr. Moore and Mrs. Jem,
      he having told me the reason of his melancholy was some unkindness from
      her after so great expressions of love, and how he had spoke to her
      friends and had their consent, and that he would desire me to take an
      occasion of speaking with her, but by no means not to heighten her
      discontent or distaste whatever it be, but to make it up if I can. But he
      being out of doors, I went away and went to see Mrs. Jem, who was now very
      well again, and after a game or two at cards, I left her. So I went to the
      Coffee Club, and heard very good discourse; it was in answer to Mr.
      Harrington's answer, who said that the state of the Roman government was
      not a settled government, and so it was no wonder that the balance of
      propriety [i.e., property] was in one hand, and the command in another, it
      being therefore always in a posture of war; but it was carried by ballot,
      that it was a steady government, though it is true by the voices it had
      been carried before that it was an unsteady government; so to-morrow it is
      to be proved by the opponents that the balance lay in one hand, and the
      government in another. Thence I went to Westminster, and met Shaw and
      Washington, who told me how this day Sydenham
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Colonel William Sydenham had been an active officer during the
     Civil Wars, on the Parliament side; M.P. for Dorsetshire, Governor
     of Melcombe, and one of the Committee of Safety.  He was the elder
     brother of the celebrated physician of that name.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      was voted out of the House for sitting any more this Parliament, and that
      Salloway was voted out likewise and sent to the Tower, during the pleasure
      of the House. Home and wrote by the Post, and carried to Whitehall, and
      coming back turned in at Harper-'s, where Jack Price was, and I drank with
      him and he told me, among other, things, how much the Protector
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Richard Cromwell, third son of Oliver Cromwell, born October 4th,
     1626, admitted a member of Lincoln's Inn, May 27th, 1647, fell into
     debt and devoted himself to hunting and field sports.  His
     succession to his father as Protector was universally accepted at
     first, but the army soon began to murmur because he was not a
     general.  Between the dissensions of various parties he fell, and
     the country was left in a state of anarchy: He went abroad early in
     the summer of 1660, and lived abroad for some years, returning to
     England in 1680.  After his fall he bore the name of John Clarke.
     Died at Cheshunt, July 12th, 1712.]
</pre>
    <p>
      is altered, though he would seem to bear out his trouble very well, yet he
      is scarce able to talk sense with a man; and how he will say that "Who
      should a man trust, if he may not trust to a brother and an uncle;" and
      "how much those men have to answer before God Almighty, for their playing
      the knave with him as they did." He told me also, that there was; L100,000
      offered, and would have been taken for his restitution, had not the
      Parliament come in as they did again; and that he do believe that the
      Protector will live to give a testimony of his valour and revenge yet
      before he dies, and that the Protector will say so himself sometimes.
      Thence I went home, it being late and my wife in bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. To my office and from thence to Will's, and there Mr. Sheply brought
      me letters from the carrier and so I went home. After that to Wilkinson's,
      where we had a dinner for Mr. Talbot, Adams, Pinkny and his son, but his
      son did not come. Here we were very merry, and while I was here Mr. Fuller
      came thither and staid a little, while.
    </p>
    <p>
      After that we all went to my Lord's, whither came afterwards Mr. Harrison,
      and by chance seeing Mr. Butler&mdash;[Mr. Butler is usually styled by
      Pepys Mons. l'Impertinent.]&mdash;coming by I called him in and so we sat
      drinking a bottle of wine till night. At which time Mistress Ann&mdash;[Probably
      Mrs. (afterwards Lady) Anne Montagu, daughter of Sir Edward Montagu, and
      sister to Mrs. Jem.]&mdash;came with the key of my Lord's study for some
      things, and so we all broke up and after I had gone to my house and
      interpreted my Lord's letter by his character&mdash;[The making of ciphers
      was a popular amusement about this time. Pepys made several for Montagu,
      Downing, and others.]&mdash;I came to her again and went with her to her
      lodging and from thence to Mr. Crew's, where I advised with him what to do
      about my Lord's lodgings and what answer to give to Sir Ant. Cooper and so
      I came home and to bed. All the world is at a loss to think what Monk will
      do: the City saying that he will be for them, and the Parliament saying he
      will be for them.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. This morning I was sent for to Mr. Downing, and at his bed side he
      told me, that he had a kindness for me, and that he thought that he had
      done me one; and that was, that he had got me to be one of the Clerks of
      the Council; at which I was a little stumbled, and could not tell what to
      do, whether to thank him or no; but by and by I did; but not very
      heartily, for I feared that his doing of it was but only to ease himself
      of the salary which he gives me. After that Mr. Sheply staying below all
      this time for me we went thence and met Mr. Pierce,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys had two friends named Pierce, one the surgeon and the other
     the purser; he usually (but not always) distinguishes them.  The one
     here alluded to was probably the surgeon, and husband of pretty Mrs.
     Pierce.  After the Restoration James Pearse or Pierce became Surgeon
     to the Duke of York, and he was also Surgeon-General of the Fleet.]
</pre>
    <p>
      so at the Harp and Ball drank our morning draft and so to Whitehall where
      I met with Sir Ant. Cooper and did give him some answer from my Lord and
      he did give us leave to keep the lodgings still. And so we did determine
      thereupon that Mr. Sheply might now go into the country and would do so
      to-morrow. Back I went by Mr. Downing's order and staid there till twelve
      o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings, but he came
      not, so I staid all alone reading the answer of the Dutch Ambassador to
      our State, in answer to the reasons of my Lord's coming home, which he
      gave for his coming, and did labour herein to contradict my Lord's
      arguments for his coming home. Thence to my office and so with Mr. Sheply
      and Moore, to dine upon a turkey with Mrs. Jem, and after that Mr. Moore
      and I went to the French Ordinary, where Mr. Downing this day feasted Sir
      Arth. Haselrigge, and a great many more of the Parliament, and did stay to
      put him in mind of me. Here he gave me a note to go and invite some other
      members to dinner tomorrow. So I went to White Hall, and did stay at
      Marsh's, with Simons, Luellin, and all the rest of the Clerks of the
      Council, who I hear are all turned out, only the two Leighs, and they do
      all tell me that my name was mentioned the last night, but that nothing
      was done in it. Hence I went and did leave some of my notes at the
      lodgings of the members and so home. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. In the morning I went to Mr. Downing's bedside and gave him an
      account what I had done as to his guests, land I went thence to my Lord
      Widdrington who I met in the street, going to seal the patents for the
      judges to-day, and so could not come to dinner. I called upon Mr. Calthrop
      about the money due to my Lord. Here I met with Mr. Woodfine and drank
      with him at the Sun in Chancery Lane and so to Westminster Hall, where at
      the lobby I spoke with the rest of my guests and so to my office. At noon
      went by water with Mr. Maylard and Hales to the Swan in Fish Street at our
      Goal Feast, where we were very merry at our Jole of Ling, and from thence
      after a great and good dinner Mr. Falconberge would go drink a cup of ale
      at a place where I had like to have shot at a scholar that lay over the
      house of office. Thence calling on Mr. Stephens and Wootton (with whom I
      drank) about business of my Lord's I went to the Coffee Club where there
      was nothing done but choosing of a Committee for orders. Thence to
      Westminster Hall where Mrs. Lane and the rest of the maids had their white
      scarfs, all having been at the burial of a young bookseller in the Hall.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [These stationers and booksellers, whose shops disfigured
     Westminster Hall down to a late period, were a privileged class.
     In the statutes for appointing licensers and regulating the press,
     there is a clause exempting them from the pains and penalties of
     these obnoxious laws.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence to Mr. Sheply's and took him to my house and drank with him in
      order to his going to-morrow. So parted and I sat up late making up my
      accounts before he go. This day three citizens of London went to meet Monk
      from the Common Council!
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     "Jan. 20th.  Then there went out of the City, by desire of the Lord
     Mayor and Court of Aldermen, Alderman Fowke and Alderman Vincett,
     alias Vincent, and Mr. Broomfield, to compliment General Monk, who
     lay at Harborough Town, in Leicestershire."

     "Jan. 21st.  Because the Speaker was sick, and Lord General Monk so
     near London, and everybody thought that the City would suffer for
     their affronts to the soldiery, and because they had sent the sword-
     bearer to, the General without the Parliament's consent, and the
     three Aldermen were gone to give him the welcome to town, these four
     lines were in almost everybody's mouth:

                   "Monk under a hood, not well understood,
                    The City pull in their horns;
                    The Speaker is out, and sick of the gout,
                    And the Parliament sit upon thorns."
                    &mdash;Rugge's 'Diurnal.'&mdash;B."
</pre>
    <p>
      21st. Up early in finishing my accounts and writing to my Lord and from
      thence to my Lord's and took leave of Mr. Sheply and possession of all the
      keys and the house. Thence to my office for some money to pay Mr. Sheply
      and sent it him by the old man. I then went to Mr. Downing who chid me
      because I did not give him notice of some of his guests failed him but I
      told him that I sent our porter to tell him and he was not within, but he
      told me that he was within till past twelve o'clock. So the porter or he
      lied. Thence to my office where nothing to do. Then with Mr. Hawly, he and
      I went to Mr. Crew's and dined there. Thence into London, to Mr. Vernon's
      and I received my L25 due by bill for my troopers' pay. Then back again to
      Steadman's. At the Mitre, in Fleet street, in our way calling on Mr. Fage,
      who told me how the City have some hopes of Monk. Thence to the Mitre,
      where I drank a pint of wine, the house being in fitting for Banister to
      come hither from Paget's. Thence to Mrs. Jem and gave her L5. So home and
      left my money and to Whitehall where Luellin and I drank and talked
      together an hour at Marsh's and so up to the clerks' room, where poor Mr.
      Cook, a black man, that is like to be put out of his clerk's place, came
      and railed at me for endeavouring to put him out and get myself in, when I
      was already in a good condition. But I satisfied him and after I had wrote
      a letter there to my Lord, wherein I gave him an account how this day
      Lenthall took his chair again, and [the House] resolved a declaration to
      be brought in on Monday next to satisfy the world what they intend to do.
      So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. I went in the morning to Mr. Messum's, where I met with W. Thurburn
      and sat with him in his pew. A very eloquent sermon about the duty of all
      to give good example in our lives and conversation, which I fear he
      himself was most guilty of not doing. After sermon, at the door by
      appointment my wife met me, and so to my father's to dinner, where we had
      not been to my shame in a fortnight before. After dinner my father shewed
      me a letter from Mr. Widdrington, of Christ's College, in Cambridge,
      wherein he do express very great kindness for my brother, and my father
      intends that my brother shall go to him. To church in the afternoon to Mr.
      Herring, where a lazy poor sermon. And so home with Mrs. Turner and
      sitting with her a while we went to my father's where we supt very merry,
      and so home. This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes, which I have
      bought yesterday of Mr. Wotton.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. In the morning called out to carry L20 to Mr. Downing, which I did
      and came back, and finding Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, I took him to the Axe
      and gave him his morning draft. Thence to my office and there did nothing
      but make up my balance. Came home and found my wife dressing of the girl's
      head, by which she was made to look very pretty. I went out and paid
      Wilkinson what I did owe him, and brought a piece of beef home for dinner.
      Thence I went out and paid Waters, the vintner, and went to see Mrs. Jem,
      where I found my Lady Wright, but Scott was so drunk that he could not be
      seen. Here I staid and made up Mrs. Ann's bills, and played a game or two
      at cards, and thence to Westminster Hall, it being very dark. I paid Mrs.
      Michell, my bookseller, and back to Whitehall, and in the garden, going
      through to the Stone Gallery&mdash;[The Stone Gallery was a long passage
      between the Privy Garden and the river. It led from the Bowling Green to
      the Court of the Palace]&mdash;I fell into a ditch, it being very dark. At
      the Clerk's chamber I met with Simons and Luellin, and went with them to
      Mr. Mount's chamber at the Cock Pit, where we had some rare pot venison,
      and ale to abundance till almost twelve at night, and after a song round
      we went home. This day the Parliament sat late, and resolved of the
      declaration to be printed for the people's satisfaction, promising them a
      great many good things.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. In the morning to my office, where, after I had drank my morning
      draft at Will's with Ethell and Mr. Stevens, I went and told part of the
      excise money till twelve o'clock, and then called on my wife and took her
      to Mr. Pierces, she in the way being exceedingly troubled with a pair of
      new pattens, and I vexed to go so slow, it being late. There when we came
      we found Mrs. Carrick very fine, and one Mr. Lucy, who called one another
      husband and wife, and after dinner a great deal of mad stir. There was
      pulling off Mrs. bride's and Mr. bridegroom's ribbons;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The scramble for ribbons, here mentioned by Pepys in connection
     with weddings (see also January 26th, 1660-61, and February 8th,
     1662-3), doubtless formed part of the ceremony of undressing the
     bridegroom, which, as the age became more refined, fell into disuse.
     All the old plays are silent on the custom; the earliest notice of
     which occurs in the old ballad of the wedding of Arthur O'Bradley,
     printed in the Appendix to "Robin Hood," 1795, where we read&mdash;

                   "Then got they his points and his garters,
                    And cut them in pieces like martyrs;
                    And then they all did play
                    For the honour of Arthur O'Bradley."

     Sir Winston Churchill also observes ("Divi Britannici," p. 340) that
     James I. was no more troubled at his querulous countrymen robbing
     him than a bridegroom at the losing of his points and garters.  Lady
     Fanshawe, in her "Memoirs," says, that at the nuptials of Charles
     II. and the Infanta, "the Bishop of London declared them married in
     the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and then they
     caused the ribbons her Majesty wore to be cut in little pieces; and
     as far as they would go, every one had some."  The practice still
     survives in the form of wedding favours.

     A similar custom is still of every day's occurrence at Dieppe.  Upon
     the morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom
     perambulate the streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests
     at the wedding festival, two and two; each individual wearing two
     bits of narrow ribbon, about two inches in length, of different
     colours, which are pinned crossways upon the breast.  These morsels
     of ribbons originally formed the garters of the bride and
     bridegroom, which had been divided amidst boisterous mirth among the
     assembled company, the moment the happy pair had been formally
     installed in the bridal bed.&mdash;Ex. inf.  Mr. William.Hughes,
     Belvedere, Jersey.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      with a great deal of fooling among them that I and my wife did not like.
      Mr. Lucy and several other gentlemen coming in after dinner, swearing and
      singing as if they were mad, only he singing very handsomely. There came
      in afterwards Mr. Southerne, clerk to Mr. Blackburne, and with him
      Lambert, lieutenant of my Lord's ship, and brought with them the
      declaration that came out to-day from the Parliament, wherein they declare
      for law and gospel, and for tythes; but I do not find people apt to
      believe them. After this taking leave I went to my father's, and my wife
      staying there, he and I went to speak with Mr. Crumlum (in the meantime,
      while it was five o'clock, he being in the school, we went to my cozen Tom
      Pepys' shop, the turner in Paul's Churchyard, and drank with him a pot of
      ale); he gave my father directions what to do about getting my brother an
      exhibition, and spoke very well of my brother. Thence back with my father
      home, where he and I spoke privately in the little room to my sister Pall
      about stealing of things as my wife's scissars and my maid's book, at
      which my father was much troubled. Hence home with my wife and so to
      Whitehall, where I met with Mr. Hunt and Luellin, and drank with them at
      Marsh's, and afterwards went up and wrote to my Lord by the post. This day
      the Parliament gave order that the late Committee of Safety should come
      before them this day se'nnight, and all their papers, and their model of
      Government that they had made, to be brought in with them. So home and
      talked with my wife about our dinner on Thursday.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Called up early to Mr. Downing; he gave me a Character, such a one
      as my Lord's, to make perfect, and likewise gave me his order for L500 to
      carry to Mr. Frost, which I did and so to my office, where I did do
      something about the character till twelve o'clock. Then home find found my
      wife and the maid at my Lord's getting things ready against to-morrow. I
      went by water to my Uncle White's' to dinner, where I met my father, where
      we alone had a fine jole of Ling to dinner. After dinner I took leave, and
      coming home heard that in Cheapside there had been but a little before a
      gibbet set up, and the picture of Huson
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [John Hewson, who, from a low origin, became a colonel in the
     Parliament army, and sat in judgment on the King: he escaped hanging
     by flight, and died in 1662, at Amsterdam.  A curious notice of
     Hewson occurs in Rugge's "Diurnal," December 5th, 1659, which states
     that "he was a cobbler by trade, but a very stout man, and a very
     good commander; but in regard of his former employment, they [the
     city apprentices] threw at him old shoes, and slippers, and
     turniptops, and brick-bats, stones, and tiles."...  "At this
     time [January, 1659-60] there came forth, almost every day, jeering
     books: one was called 'Colonel Hewson's Confession; or, a Parley
     with Pluto,' about his going into London, and taking down the gates
     of Temple-Bar."  He had but one eye, which did not escape the notice
     of his enemies.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      hung upon it in the middle of the street. I called at Paul's Churchyard,
      where I bought Buxtorf's Hebrew Grammar; and read a declaration of the
      gentlemen of Northampton which came out this afternoon. Thence to my
      father's, where I staid with my mother a while and then to Mr. Crew's
      about a picture to be sent into the country, of Mr. Thomas Crew, to my
      Lord. So [to] my Lady Wright to speak with her, but she was abroad, so Mr.
      Evans, her butler, had me into his buttery, and gave me sack and a lesson
      on his lute, which he played very well. Thence I went to my Lord's and got
      most things ready against tomorrow, as fires and laying the cloth, and my
      wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets till eleven
      o'clock. This evening Mr. Downing sent for me, and gave me order to go to
      Mr. Jessop for his papers concerning his dispatch to Holland which were
      not ready, only his order for a ship to transport him he gave me. To my
      Lord's again and so home with my wife, tired with this day's work.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. To my office for L20 to carry to Mr. Downing, which I did and back
      again. Then came Mr. Frost to pay Mr. Downing his L500, and I went to him
      for the warrant and brought it Mr. Frost. Called for some papers at
      Whitehall for Mr. Downing, one of which was an Order of the Council for
      L1800 per annum, to be paid monthly; and the other two, Orders to the
      Commissioners of Customs, to let his goods pass free. Home from my office
      to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner&mdash;viz.
      a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a dish of fowl,
      three pullets, and two dozen of larks all in a dish; a great tart, a
      neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and cheese. My
      company was my father, my uncle Fenner, his two sons, Mr. Pierce, and all
      their wives, and my brother Tom. We were as merry as I could frame myself
      to be in the company, W. Joyce talking after the old rate and drinking
      hard, vexed his father and mother and wife. And I did perceive that Mrs.
      Pierce her coming so gallant, that it put the two young women quite out of
      courage. When it became dark they all went away but Mr. Pierce, and W.
      Joyce, and their wives and Tom, and drank a bottle of wine afterwards, so
      that Will did heartily vex his father and mother by staying. At which I
      and my wife were much pleased. Then they all went and I fell to writing of
      two characters for Mr. Downing, and carried them to him at nine o'clock at
      night, and he did not like them but corrected them, so that to-morrow I am
      to do them anew. To my Lord's lodging again and sat by the great log, it
      being now a very good fire, with my wife, and ate a bit and so home. The
      news this day is a letter that speaks absolutely Monk's concurrence with
      this Parliament, and nothing else, which yet I hardly believe. After
      dinner to-day my father showed me a letter from my Uncle Robert, in answer
      to my last, concerning my money which I would have out of my Coz. Beck's'
      hand, wherein Beck desires it four months longer, which I know not how to
      spare.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Going to my office I met with Tom Newton, my old comrade, and took
      him to the Crown in the Palace, and gave him his morning draft. And as he
      always did, did talk very high what he would do with the Parliament, that
      he would have what place he would, and that he might be one of the Clerks
      to the Council if he would. Here I staid talking with him till the offices
      were all shut, and then I looked in the Hall, and was told by my
      bookseller, Mrs. Michell, that Mr. G. Montagu had inquired there for me.
      So I went to his house, and was forced by him to dine with him, and had a
      plenteous brave dinner and the greatest civility that ever I had from any
      man. Thence home and so to Mrs. Jem, and played with her at cards, and
      coming home again my wife told me that Mr. Hawly had been there to speak
      with me, and seemed angry that I had not been at the office that day, and
      she told me she was afraid that Mr. Downing may have a mind to pick some
      hole in my coat. So I made haste to him, but found no such thing from him,
      but he sent me to Mr. Sherwin's about getting Mr. Squib to come to him
      tomorrow, and I carried him an answer. So home and fell a writing the
      characters for Mr. Downing, and about nine at night Mr. Hawly came, and
      after he was gone I sat up till almost twelve writing, and&mdash;wrote two
      of them. In the morning up early and wrote another, my wife lying in bed
      and reading to me.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. I went to Mr. Downing and carried him three characters, and then to
      my office and wrote another, while Mr. Frost staid telling money. And
      after I had done it Mr. Hawly came into the office and I left him and
      carried it to Mr. Downing, who then told me that he was resolved to be
      gone for Holland this morning. So I to my office again, and dispatch my
      business there, and came with Mr. Hawly to Mr. Downing's lodging, and took
      Mr. Squib from White Hall in a coach thither with me, and there we waited
      in his chamber a great while, till he came in; and in the mean time, sent
      all his things to the barge that lay at Charing-Cross Stairs. Then came he
      in, and took a very civil leave of me, beyond my expectation, for I was
      afraid that he would have told me something of removing me from my office;
      but he did not, but that he would do me any service that lay in his power.
      So I went down and sent a porter to my house for my best fur cap, but he
      coming too late with it I did not present it to him. Thence I went to
      Westminster Hall, and bound up my cap at Mrs. Michell's, who was much
      taken with my cap, and endeavoured to overtake the coach at the Exchange
      and to give it him there, but I met with one that told me that he was
      gone, and so I returned and went to Heaven,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A place of entertainment within or adjoining Westminster Hall.  It
     is called in "Hudibras," "False Heaven, at the end of the Hall."
     There were two other alehouses near Westminster Hall, called Hell
     and Purgatory.

                   "Nor break his fast
                    In Heaven and Hell."

                              Ben Jonson's Alchemist, act v.  SC. 2.]
</pre>
    <p>
      where Luellin and I dined on a breast of mutton all alone, discoursing of
      the changes that we have seen and the happiness of them that have estates
      of their own, and so parted, and I went by appointment to my office and
      paid young Mr. Walton L500; it being very dark he took L300 by content. He
      gave me half a piece and carried me in his coach to St. Clement's, from
      whence I went to Mr. Crew's and made even with Mr. Andrews, and took in
      all my notes and gave him one for all. Then to my Lady Wright and gave her
      my Lord's letter which he bade me give her privately. So home and then to
      Will's for a little news, then came home again and wrote to my Lord, and
      so to Whitehall and gave them to the post-boy. Back again home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. In the morning I went to Mr. Gunning's, where he made an excellent
      sermon upon the 2d of the Galatians, about the difference that fell
      between St. Paul and St. Peter (the feast day of St. Paul being a day or
      two ago), whereby he did prove, that, contrary to the doctrine of the
      Roman Church, St. Paul did never own any dependance, or that he was
      inferior to St. Peter, but that they were equal, only one a particular
      charge of preaching to the Jews, and the other to the Gentiles. Here I met
      with Mr. Moore, and went home with him to dinner to Mr. Crew's, where Mr.
      Spurrier being in town did dine with us. From thence I went home and spent
      the afternoon in casting up my accounts, and do find myself to be worth
      L40 and more, which I did not think, but am afraid that I have forgot
      something. To my father's to supper, where I heard by my brother Tom how
      W. Joyce would the other day have Mr. Pierce and his wife to the tavern
      after they were gone from my house, and that he had so little manners as
      to make Tom pay his share notwithstanding that he went upon his account,
      and by my father I understand that my uncle Fenner and my aunt were much
      pleased with our entertaining them. After supper home without going to see
      Mrs. Turner.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. This morning, before I was up, I fell a-singing of my song, "Great,
      good, and just," &amp;c.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This is the beginning of the Marquis of Montrose's verses on the
     execution of Charles I., which Pepys had set to music:

         "Great, good, and just, could I but rate
          My grief and thy too rigid fate,
          I'd weep the world to such a strain
          That it should deluge once again.
          But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies
          More from Briareus' hands, than Argus eyes,
          I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds,
          And write thy epitaph with blood and wounds."]
</pre>
    <p>
      and put myself thereby in mind that this was the fatal day, now ten years
      since, his Majesty died. Scull the waterman came and brought me a note
      from the Hope from Mr. Hawly with direction, about his money, he tarrying
      there till his master be gone. To my office, where I received money of the
      excise of Mr. Ruddyer, and after we had done went to Will's and staid
      there till 3 o'clock and then I taking my L12 10s. 0d. due to me for my
      last quarter's salary, I went with them by water to London to the house
      where Signr. Torriano used to be and staid there a while with Mr. Ashwell,
      Spicer and Ruddier. Then I went and paid L12 17s. 6d. due from me to
      Captn. Dick Matthews according to his direction the last week in a letter.
      After that I came back by water playing on my flageolette and not finding
      my wife come home again from her father's I went and sat awhile and played
      at cards with Mrs. Jam, whose maid had newly got an ague and was ill
      thereupon. So homewards again, having great need to do my business, and so
      pretending to meet Mr. Shott the wood monger of Whitehall I went and eased
      myself at the Harp and Ball, and thence home where I sat writing till
      bed-time and so to bed. There seems now to be a general cease of talk, it
      being taken for granted that Monk do resolve to stand to the Parliament,
      and nothing else. Spent a little time this night in knocking up nails for
      my hat and cloaks in my chamber.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. In the morning I fell to my lute till 9 o'clock. Then to my Lord's
      lodgings and set out a barrel of soap to be carried to Mrs. Ann. Here I
      met with Nick Bartlet, one that had been a servant of my Lord's at sea and
      at Harper's gave him his morning draft. So to my office where I paid;
      L1200 to Mr. Frost and at noon went to Will's to give one of the Excise
      office a pot of ale that came to-day to tell over a bag of his that
      wanted; L7 in it, which he found over in another bag. Then home and dined
      with my wife when in came Mr. Hawly newly come from shipboard from his
      master, and brought me a letter of direction what to do in his lawsuit
      with Squib about his house and office. After dinner to Westminster Hall,
      where all we clerks had orders to wait upon the Committee, at the Star
      Chamber that is to try Colonel Jones,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Colonel John Jones, impeached, with General Ludlow and Miles
     Corbet, for treasonable practices in Ireland.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and were to give an account what money we had paid him; but the Committee
      did not sit to-day. Hence to Will's, where I sat an hour or two with Mr.
      Godfrey Austin, a scrivener in King Street. Here I met and afterwards
      bought the answer to General Monk's letter, which is a very good one, and
      I keep it by me. Thence to Mrs. Jem, where I found her maid in bed in a
      fit of the ague, and Mrs. Jem among the people below at work and by and by
      she came up hot and merry, as if they had given her wine, at which I was
      troubled, but said nothing; after a game at cards, I went home and wrote
      by the post and coming back called in at Harper's and drank with Mr.
      Pulford, servant to Mr. Waterhouse, who tells me, that whereas my Lord
      Fleetwood should have answered to the Parliament to-day, he wrote a letter
      and desired a little more time, he being a great way out of town. And how
      that he is quite ashamed of himself, and confesses how he had deserved
      this, for his baseness to his brother. And that he is like to pay part of
      the money, paid out of the Exchequer during the Committee of Safety, out
      of his own purse again, which I am glad of. Home and to bed, leaving my
      wife reading in Polixandre.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Polexandre," by Louis Le Roy de Gomberville, was first published
     in 1632.  "The History of Polexander" was "done into English by W.
     Browne," and published in folio, London, 1647.  It was the earliest
     of the French heroic romances, and it appears to have been the model
     for the works of Calprenede and Mdlle. de Scuderi; see Dunlop's
     "History of Fiction" for the plot of the romance.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I could find nothing in Mr. Downing's letter, which Hawly brought me,
      concerning my office; but I could discern that Hawly had a mind that I
      would get to be Clerk of the Council, I suppose that he might have the
      greater salary; but I think it not safe yet to change this for a public
      employment.
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      FEBRUARY 1659-1660
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    <p>
      February 1st. In the morning went to my office where afterwards the old
      man brought me my letters from the carrier. At noon I went home and dined
      with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else. After that I went to the
      Hall and there met with Mr. Swan and went with him to Mr. Downing's
      Counsellor, who did put me in very little hopes about the business between
      Mr. Downing and Squib, and told me that Squib would carry it against him,
      at which I was much troubled, and with him went to Lincoln's Inn and there
      spoke with his attorney, who told me the day that was appointed for the
      trial. From thence I went to Sir Harry Wright's and got him to give me his
      hand for the L60 which I am to-morrow to receive from Mr. Calthrop and
      from thence to Mrs. Jem and spoke with Madam Scott and her husband who did
      promise to have the thing for her neck done this week. Thence home and
      took Gammer East, and James the porter, a soldier, to my Lord's lodgings,
      who told me how they were drawn into the field to-day, and that they were
      ordered to march away to-morrow to make room for General Monk; but they
      did shut their Colonel Fitch, and the rest of the officers out of the
      field, and swore they would not go without their money, and if they would
      not give it them, they would go where they might have it, and that was the
      City. So the Colonel went to the Parliament, and commanded what money
      could be got, to be got against to-morrow for them, and all the rest of
      the soldiers in town, who in all places made a mutiny this day, and do
      agree together. Here I took some bedding to send to Mrs. Ann for her to
      lie in now she hath her fits of the ague. Thence I went to Will's and
      staid like a fool there and played at cards till 9 o'clock and so came
      home, where I found Mr. Hunt and his wife who staid and sat with me till
      10 and so good night.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. Drank at Harper's with Doling, and so to my office, where I found all
      the officers of the regiments in town, waiting to receive money that their
      soldiers might go out of town, and what was in the Exchequer they had. At
      noon after dining at home I called at Harper's for Doling, and he and I
      met with Luellin and drank with him at the Exchequer at Charing Cross, and
      thence he and I went to the Temple to Mr. Calthrop's chamber, and from
      thence had his man by water to London Bridge to Mr. Calthrop, a grocer,
      and received L60 for my Lord. In our way we talked with our waterman,
      White, who told us how the watermen had lately been abused by some that
      had a desire to get in to be watermen to the State, and had lately
      presented an address of nine or ten thousand hands to stand by this
      Parliament, when it was only told them that it was to a petition against
      hackney coaches; and that to-day they had put out another to undeceive the
      world and to clear themselves, and that among the rest Cropp, my waterman
      and one of great practice, was one that did cheat them thus. After I had
      received the money we went to the Bridge Tavern and drank a quart of wine
      and so back by water, landing Mr. Calthrop's man at the Temple and we went
      homewards, but over against Somerset House, hearing the noise of guns, we
      landed and found the Strand full of soldiers. So I took my money and went
      to Mrs. Johnson, my Lord's sempstress, and giving her my money to lay up,
      Doling and I went up stairs to a window, and looked out and see the foot
      face the horse and beat them back, and stood bawling and calling in the
      street for a free Parliament and money. By and by a drum was heard to beat
      a march coming towards them, and they got all ready again and faced them,
      and they proved to be of the same mind with them; and so they made a great
      deal of joy to see one another. After all this, I took my money, and went
      home on foot and laying up my money, and changing my stockings and shoes,
      I this day having left off my great skirt suit, and put on my white suit
      with silver lace coat, and went over to Harper's, where I met with W.
      Simons, Doling, Luellin and three merchants, one of which had occasion to
      use a porter, so they sent for one, and James the soldier came, who told
      us how they had been all day and night upon their guard at St. James's,
      and that through the whole town they did resolve to stand to what they had
      began, and that to-morrow he did believe they would go into the City, and
      be received there. After all this we went to a sport called, selling of a
      horse for a dish of eggs and herrings, and sat talking there till almost
      twelve o'clock and then parted, they were to go as far as Aldgate. Home
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Drank my morning draft at Harper's, and was told there that the
      soldiers were all quiet upon promise of pay. Thence to St. James's Park,
      and walked there to my place for my flageolet and then played a little, it
      being a most pleasant morning and sunshine. Back to Whitehall, where in
      the guard-chamber I saw about thirty or forty 'prentices of the City, who
      were taken at twelve o'clock last night and brought prisoners hither.
      Thence to my office, where I paid a little more money to some of the
      soldiers under Lieut.-Col. Miller (who held out the Tower against the
      Parliament after it was taken away from Fitch by the Committee of Safety,
      and yet he continued in his office). About noon Mrs. Turner came to speak
      with me, and Joyce, and I took them and shewed them the manner of the
      Houses sitting, the doorkeeper very civilly opening the door for us.
      Thence with my cozen Roger Pepys,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Roger Pepys, son of Talbot Pepys of Impington, a barrister of the
     Middle Temple, M.P.  for Cambridge, 1661-78, and Recorder of that
     town, 1660-88.  He married, for the third time, Parnell, daughter
     and heiress of John Duke, of Workingham, co.  Suffolk, and this was
     the wedding for which the posy ring was required.]
</pre>
    <p>
      it being term time, we took him out of the Hall to Priors, the Rhenish
      wine-house, and there had a pint or two of wine and a dish of anchovies,
      and bespoke three or four dozen bottles of wine for him against his
      wedding. After this done he went away, and left me order to call and pay
      for all that Mrs. Turner would have. So we called for nothing more there,
      but went and bespoke a shoulder of mutton at Wilkinson's to be roasted as
      well as it could be done, and sent a bottle of wine home to my house. In
      the meantime she and I and Joyce went walking all over White Hall, whither
      General Monk was newly come, and we saw all his forces march by in very
      good plight and stout officers. Thence to my house where we dined, but
      with a great deal of patience, for the mutton came in raw, and so we were
      fain to stay the stewing of it. In the meantime we sat studying a Posy
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [It is supposed that the fashion of having mottoes inscribed on
     rings was of Roman origin.  In the fourteenth and fifteenth
     centuries the posy was inscribed on the outside of the ring, and in
     the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries it was placed inside.  A
     small volume was published in 1674, entitled "Love's Garland: or
     Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves, and such pretty tokens
     that Lovers send their Loves."]
</pre>
    <p>
      for a ring for her which she is to have at Roger Pepys his wedding. After
      dinner I left them and went to hear news, but only found that the
      Parliament House was most of them with Monk at White Hall, and that in his
      passing through the town he had many calls to him for a free Parliament,
      but little other welcome. I saw in the Palace Yard how unwilling some of
      the old soldiers were yet to go out of town without their money, and swore
      if they had it not in three days, as they were promised, they would do
      them more mischief in the country than if they had staid here; and that is
      very likely, the country being all discontented. The town and guards are
      already full of Monk's soldiers. I returned, and it growing dark I and
      they went to take a turn in the park, where Theoph. (who was sent for to
      us to dinner) outran my wife and another poor woman, that laid a pot of
      ale with me that she would outrun her. After that I set them as far as
      Charing Cross, and there left them and my wife, and I went to see Mrs.
      Ann, who began very high about a flock bed I sent her, but I took her
      down. Here I played at cards till 9 o'clock. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. In the morning at my lute an hour, and so to my office, where I staid
      expecting to have Mr. Squib come to me, but he did not. At noon walking in
      the Hall I found Mr. Swan and got him and Captain Stone together, and
      there advised about Mr. Downing's business. So to Will's, and sat there
      till three o'clock and then to Mr. Swan's, where I found his wife in very
      genteel mourning for her father, and took him out by water to the
      Counsellor at the Temple, Mr. Stephens, and from thence to Gray's Inn,
      thinking to speak with Sotherton Ellis, but found him not, so we met with
      an acquaintance of his in the walks, and went and drank, where I ate some
      bread and butter, having ate nothing all day, while they were by chance
      discoursing of Marriot, the great eater, so that I was, I remember,
      ashamed to eat what I would have done. Here Swan shewed us a ballad to the
      tune of Mardike which was most incomparably wrote in a printed hand, which
      I borrowed of him, but the song proved but silly, and so I did not write
      it out. Thence we went and leaving Swan at his master's, my Lord
      Widdrington, I met with Spicer, Washington, and D. Vines in Lincoln's Inn
      Court, and they were buying of a hanging jack to roast birds on of a
      fellow that was there selling of some. I was fain to slip from there and
      went to Mrs. Crew's to her and advised about a maid to come and be with
      Mrs. Jem while her maid is sick, but she could spare none. Thence to Sir
      Harry Wright's, but my lady not being within I spoke to Mrs. Carter about
      it, who will get one against Monday. So with a link boy
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Links were torches of tow or pitch to light the way.  Ed.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to Scott's, where Mrs. Ann was in a heat, but I spoke not to her, but told
      Mrs. Jem what I had done, and after that went home and wrote letters into
      the country by the post, and then played awhile on my lute, and so done,
      to supper and then to bed. All the news to-day is, that the Parliament
      this morning voted the House to be made up four hundred forthwith. This
      day my wife killed her turkeys that Mr. Sheply gave her, that came out of
      Zealand with my Lord, and could not get her m'd Jane by no means at any
      time to kill anything.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th,(Lord's day). In the morning before church time Mr. Hawly, who had for
      this day or two looked something sadly, which methinks did speak something
      in his breast concerning me, came to me telling me that he was out L24
      which he could not tell what was become of, and that he do remember that
      he had such a sum in a bag the other day, and could not tell what he did
      with it, at which I was very sorry but could not help him. In the morning
      to Mr. Gunning, where a stranger, an old man, preached a good honest
      sermon upon "What manner of love is this that we should be called the sons
      of God." After sermon I could not find my wife, who promised to be at the
      gate against my coming out, and waited there a great while; then went to
      my house and finding her gone I returned and called at the Chequers,
      thinking to dine at the ordinary with Mr. Chetwind and Mr. Thomas, but
      they not being there I went to my father and found her there, and there I
      dined. To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs. Turner's pew my wife
      took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon,
      and so read over the whole book of the story of Tobit. After sermon home
      with Mrs. Turner, staid with her a little while, then she went into the
      court to a christening and we to my father's, where I wrote some notes for
      my brother John to give to the Mercers' to-morrow, it being the day of
      their apposition. After supper home, and before going to bed I staid
      writing of this day its passages, while a drum came by, beating of a
      strange manner of beat, now and then a single stroke, which my wife and I
      wondered at, what the meaning of it should be. This afternoon at church I
      saw Dick Cumberland newly come out of the country from his living, but did
      not speak to him.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Before I went to my office I went to Mr. Crew's and paid Mr. Andrews
      the same L60 that he had received of Mr. Calthrop the last week. So back
      to Westminster and walked with him thither, where we found the soldiers
      all set in the Palace Yard, to make way for General Monk to come to the
      House. At the Hall we parted, and meeting Swan, he and I to the Swan and
      drank our morning draft. So back again to the Hall, where I stood upon the
      steps and saw Monk go by, he making observance to the judges as he went
      along. At noon my father dined with me upon my turkey that was brought
      from Denmark, and after dinner he and I to the Bull Head Tavern, where we
      drank half a pint of wine and so parted. I to Mrs. Ann, and Mrs. Jem being
      gone out of the chamber she and I had a very high bout, I rattled her up,
      she being in her bed, but she becoming more cool, we parted pretty good
      friends. Thence I went to Will's, where I staid at cards till 10 o'clock,
      losing half a crown, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. In the morning I went early to give Mr. Hawly notice of my being
      forced to go into London, but he having also business we left our office
      business to Mr. Spicer and he and I walked as far as the Temple, where I
      halted a little and then went to Paul's School, but it being too soon,
      went and drank my morning draft with my cozen Tom Pepys the turner, and
      saw his house and shop, thence to school, where he that made the speech
      for the seventh form in praise of the founder, did show a book which Mr.
      Crumlum had lately got, which is believed to be of the Founder's own
      writing. After all the speeches, in which my brother John came off as well
      as any of the rest, I went straight home and dined, then to the Hall,
      where in the Palace I saw Monk's soldiers abuse Billing and all the
      Quakers, that were at a meeting-place there, and indeed the soldiers did
      use them very roughly and were to blame.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Fox, or some other 'weighty' friend, on hearing of this,
     complained to Monk, who issued the following order, dated March 9th:
     'I do require all officers and soldiers to forbear to disturb
     peaceable meetings of the Quakers, they doing nothing prejudicial to
     the Parliament or the Commonwealth of England.  George Monk.'  This
     order, we are told, had an excellent effect on the soldiers."&mdash;A. C.
     Bickley's 'George Fox and the Early Quakers, London, 1884, p. 179.
     The Quakers were at this time just coming into notice.  The first
     preaching of George Fox, the founder, was in 1648, and in 1655 the
     preachers of the sect numbered seventy-three.  Fox computed that
     there were seldom less than a thousand quakers in prison.  The
     statute 13 and 14 Car. II.  cap. i. (1662) was "An act for
     preventing the mischiefs and dangers that may arise by certain
     persons called quakers and others, refusing to take lawful oaths."
     Billing is mentioned again on July 22nd, 1667, when he addressed
     Pepys in Westminster Hall.]
</pre>
    <p>
      So after drinking with Mr. Spicer, who had received L600 for me this
      morning, I went to Capt. Stone and with him by coach to the Temple Gardens
      (all the way talking of the disease of the stone), where we met Mr. Squib,
      but would do nothing till to-morrow morning. Thence back on foot home,
      where I found a letter from my Lord in character [private cryptic code
      Ed.], which I construed, and after my wife had shewn me some ribbon and
      shoes that she had taken out of a box of Mr. Montagu's which formerly Mr.
      Kipps had left here when his master was at sea, I went to Mr. Crew and
      advised with him about it, it being concerning my Lord's coming up to
      Town, which he desires upon my advice the last week in my letter. Thence
      calling upon Mrs. Ann I went home, and wrote in character to my Lord in
      answer to his letter. This day Mr. Crew told me that my Lord St. John is
      for a free Parliament, and that he is very great with Monk, who hath now
      the absolute command and power to do any thing that he hath a mind to do.
      Mr. Moore told me of a picture hung up at the Exchange of a great pair of
      buttocks shooting of a turd into Lawson's mouth, and over it was wrote
      "The thanks of the house." Boys do now cry "Kiss my Parliament, instead of
      "Kiss my [rump]," so great and general a contempt is the Rump come to
      among all the good and bad.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. A little practice on my flageolet, and afterwards walking in my yard
      to see my stock of pigeons, which begin now with the spring to breed very
      fast. I was called on by Mr. Fossan, my fellow pupil at Cambridge, and I
      took him to the Swan in the Palace yard, and drank together our morning
      draft. Thence to my office, where I received money, and afterwards Mr.
      Carter, my old friend at Cambridge, meeting me as I was going out of my
      office I took him to the Swan, and in the way I met with Captain Lidcott,
      and so we three went together and drank there, the Captain talking as high
      as ever he did, and more because of the fall of his brother Thurlow.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [John Thurloe, born 1616; Secretary of State to Cromwell; M.P. for
     Ely, 1656, and for the University of Cambridge in Richard Cromwell's
     Parliament of December, 1658.  He was never employed after the
     Restoration, although the King solicited his services.  He died
     February 21st, 1668.  Pepys spells the name Thurlow, which was a
     common spelling at the time.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Hence I went to Captain Stone, who told me how Squib had been with him,
      and that he could do nothing with him, so I returned to Mr. Carter and
      with him to Will's, where I spent upon him and Monsieur L'Impertinent,
      alias Mr. Butler, who I took thither with me, and thence to a Rhenish wine
      house, and in our way met with Mr. Hoole, where I paid for my cozen Roger
      Pepys his wine, and after drinking we parted. So I home, in my way
      delivering a letter which among the rest I had from my Lord to-day to Sir
      N. Wheeler. At home my wife's brother brought her a pretty black dog which
      I liked very well, and went away again. Hence sending a porter with the
      hamper of bottles to the Temple I called in my way upon Mrs. Jem, who was
      much frighted till I came to tell her that her mother was well. So to the
      Temple, where I delivered the wine and received the money of my cos. Roger
      that I laid out, and thence to my father's, where he shewed me a base
      angry letter that he had newly received from my uncle Robert about my
      brother John, at which my father was very sad, but I comforted him and
      wrote an answer. My brother John has an exhibition granted him from the
      school. My father and I went down to his kitchen, and there we eat and
      drank, and about 9 o'clock I went away homewards, and in Fleet Street,
      received a great jostle from a man that had a mind to take the wall, which
      I could not help?
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This was a constant trouble to the pedestrian until the rule of
     passing to the right of the person met was generally accepted.  Gay
     commences his "Trivia" with an allusion to this&mdash;

          "When to assert the wall, and when resign&mdash;"

     and the epigram on the haughty courtier and the scholar is well
     known.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I came home and to bed. Went to bed with my head not well by my too much
      drinking to-day, and I had a boil under my chin which troubled me cruelly.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Soon as out of my bed I wrote letters into the country to go by
      carrier to-day. Before I was out of my bed, I heard the soldiers very busy
      in the morning, getting their horses ready where they lay at Hilton's, but
      I knew not then their meaning in so doing: After I had wrote my letters I
      went to Westminster up and down the Hall, and with Mr. Swan walked a good
      [deal] talking about Mr. Downing's business. I went with him to Mr.
      Phelps's house where he had some business to solicit, where we met Mr.
      Rogers my neighbour, who did solicit against him and talked very high,
      saying that he would not for a L1000 appear in a business that Swan did,
      at which Swan was very angry, but I believe he might be guilty enough. In
      the Hall I understand how Monk is this morning gone into London with his
      army; and met with Mr. Fage, who told me that he do believe that Monk is
      gone to secure some of the Common-council of the City, who were very high
      yesterday there, and did vote that they would not pay any taxes till the
      House was filled up. I went to my office, where I wrote to my Lord after I
      had been at the Upper Bench, where Sir Robert Pye
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir Robert Pye, the elder, was auditor of the Exchequer, and a
     staunch Royalist.  He garrisoned his house at Faringdon, which was
     besieged by his son, of the same names, a decided Republican, son-
     in-law to Hampden, and colonel of horse under Fairfax.  The son,
     here spoken of, was subsequently committed to the Tower for
     presenting a petition to the House of Commons from the county of
     Berks, which he represented in Parliament, complaining of the want
     of a settled form of government.  He had, however, the courage to
     move for an habeas corpus, but judge Newdigate decided that the
     courts of law had not the power to discharge him.  Upon Monk's
     coming to London, the secluded members passed a vote to liberate
     Pye, and at the Restoration he was appointed equerry to the King.
     He died in 1701.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      this morning came to desire his discharge from the Tower; but it could not
      be granted. After that I went to Mrs. Jem, who I had promised to go along
      with to her Aunt Wright's, but she was gone, so I went thither, and after
      drinking a glass of sack I went back to Westminster Hall, and meeting with
      Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who would needs take me home, where Mr. Lucy,
      Burrell, and others dined, and after dinner I went home and to Westminster
      Hall, where meeting Swan I went with him by water to the Temple to our
      Counsel, and did give him a fee to make a motion to-morrow in the
      Exchequer for Mr. Downing. Thence to Westminster Hall, where I heard an
      action very finely pleaded between my Lord Dorset and some other noble
      persons, his lady and other ladies of quality being here, and it was
      about; L330 per annum, that was to be paid to a poor Spittal, which was
      given by some of his predecessors; and given on his side. Thence Swan and
      I to a drinking-house near Temple Bar, where while he wrote I played on my
      flageolet till a dish of poached eggs was got ready for us, which we eat,
      and so by coach home. I called at Mr. Harper's, who told me how Monk had
      this day clapt up many of the Common-council, and that the Parliament had
      voted that he should pull down their gates and portcullisses, their posts
      and their chains, which he do intend to do, and do lie in the City all
      night. I went home and got some ahlum to my mouth, where I have the
      beginnings of a cancer, and had also a plaster to my boil underneath my
      chin.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. In the morning I went to Mr. Swan, who took me to the Court of
      Wards, where I saw the three Lords Commissioners sitting upon some cause
      where Mr. Scobell was concerned, and my Lord Fountaine took him up very
      roughly about some things that he said. After that we went to the
      Exchequer, where the Barons were hearing of causes, and there I made
      affidavit that Mr. Downing was gone into Holland by order of the Council
      of State, and this affidavit I gave to Mr. Stevens our lawyer. Thence to
      my office, where I got money of Mr. Hawly to pay the lawyer, and there
      found Mr. Lenard, one of the Clerks of the Council, and took him to the
      Swan and gave him his morning draft. Then home to dinner, and after that
      to the Exchequer, where I heard all the afternoon a great many causes
      before the Barons; in the end came ours, and Squib proved clearly by his
      patent that the house and office did now belong to him. Our lawyer made
      some kind of opposition, but to no purpose, and so the cause was found
      against us, and the foreman of the jury brought in L10 damages, which the
      whole Court cried shame of, and so he cried 12d. Thence I went home, vexed
      about this business, and there I found Mr. Moore, and with him went into
      London to Mr. Fage about the cancer in my mouth, which begins to grow
      dangerous, who gave me something for it, and also told me what Monk had
      done in the City, how he had pulled down the most part of the gates and
      chains that they could break down, and that he was now gone back to White
      Hall. The City look mighty blank, and cannot tell what in the world to do;
      the Parliament having this day ordered that the Common-council sit no
      more; but that new ones be chosen according to what qualifications they
      shall give them. Thence I went and drank with Mr. Moore at the Sugar Loaf
      by Temple Bar, where Swan and I were last night, and so we parted. At home
      I found Mr. Hunt, who sat talking with me awhile, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. This morning I lay long abed, and then to my office, where I read
      all the morning my Spanish book of Rome. At noon I walked in the Hall,
      where I heard the news of a letter from Monk, who was now gone into the
      City again, and did resolve to stand for the sudden filling up of the
      House, and it was very strange how the countenance of men in the Hall was
      all changed with joy in half an hour's time. So I went up to the lobby,
      where I saw the Speaker reading of the letter; and after it was read, Sir
      A. Haselrigge came out very angry, and Billing&mdash;[The quaker mentioned
      before on the 7th of this month.]&mdash;standing at the door, took him by
      the arm, and cried, "Thou man, will thy beast carry thee no longer? thou
      must fall!" The House presently after rose, and appointed to meet again at
      three o'clock. I went then down into the Hall, where I met with Mr.
      Chetwind, who had not dined no more than myself, and so we went toward
      London, in our way calling at two or three shops, but could have no
      dinner. At last, within Temple Bar, we found a pullet ready roasted, and
      there we dined. After that he went to his office in Chancery Lane, calling
      at the Rolls, where I saw the lawyers pleading. Then to his office, where
      I sat in his study singing, while he was with his man (Mr. Powell's son)
      looking after his business. Thence we took coach for the City to
      Guildhall, where the Hall was full of people expecting Monk and Lord Mayor
      to come thither, and all very joyfull. Here we stayed a great while, and
      at last meeting with a friend of his we went to the 3 Tun tavern and drank
      half a pint of wine, and not liking the wine we went to an alehouse, where
      we met with company of this third man's acquaintance, and there we drank a
      little. Hence I went alone to Guildhall to see whether Monk was come again
      or no, and met with him coming out of the chamber where he had been with
      the Mayor and Aldermen, but such a shout I never heard in all my life,
      crying out, "God bless your Excellence." Here I met with Mr. Lock, and
      took him to an alehouse, and left him there to fetch Chetwind; when we
      were come together, Lock told us the substance of the letter that went
      from Monk to the Parliament; wherein, after complaints that he and his
      officers were put upon such offices against the City as they could not do
      with any content or honour, that there are many members now in the House
      that were of the late tyrannical Committee of Safety. That Lambert and
      Vane are now in town, contrary to the vote of Parliament. That there were
      many in the House that do press for new oaths to be put upon men; whereas
      we have more cause to be sorry for the many oaths that we have already
      taken and broken. That the late petition of the fanatique people presented
      by Barebone, for the imposing of an oath upon all sorts of people, was
      received by the House with thanks. That therefore he [Monk] do desire that
      all writs for filling up of the House be issued by Friday next, and that
      in the mean time, he would retire into the City and only leave them guards
      for the security of the House and Council. The occasion of this was the
      order that he had last night to go into the City and disarm them, and take
      away their charter; whereby he and his officers say that the House had a
      mind to put them upon things that should make them odious; and so it would
      be in their power to do what they would with them. He told us that they
      [the Parliament] had sent Scott and Robinson to him [Monk] this afternoon,
      but he would not hear them. And that the Mayor and Aldermen had offered
      him their own houses for himself and his officers; and that his soldiers
      would lack for nothing. And indeed I saw many people give the soldiers
      drink and money, and all along in the streets cried, "God bless them!" and
      extraordinary good words. Hence we went to a merchant's house hard by,
      where Lock wrote a note and left, where I saw Sir Nich. Crisp, and so we
      went to the Star Tavern (Monk being then at Benson's), where we dined and
      I wrote a letter to my Lord from thence. In Cheapside there was a great
      many bonfires, and Bow bells and all the bells in all the churches as we
      went home were a-ringing. Hence we went homewards, it being about ten
      o'clock. But the common joy that was every where to be seen! The number of
      bonfires, there being fourteen between St. Dunstan's and Temple Bar, and
      at Strand Bridge' I could at one view tell thirty-one fires. In
      King-street seven or eight; and all along burning, and roasting, and
      drinking for rumps. There being rumps tied upon sticks and carried up and
      down. The butchers at the May Pole in the Strand rang a peal with their
      knives when they were going to sacrifice their rump. On Ludgate Hill there
      was one turning of the spit that had a rump tied upon it, and another
      basting of it. Indeed it was past imagination, both the greatness and the
      suddenness of it. At one end of the street you would think there was a
      whole lane of fire, and so hot that we were fain to keep still on the
      further side merely for heat. We came to the Chequers at Charing Cross,
      where Chetwind wrote a letter and I gave him an account of what I had
      wrote for him to write. Thence home and sent my letters to the posthouse
      in London, and my wife and I (after Mr. Hunt was gone, whom I found
      waiting at my house) went out again to show her the fires, and after
      walking as far as the Exchange we returned and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. In the morning, it being Lord's day, Mr. Pierce came to me to
      enquire how things go. We drank our morning draft together and thence to
      White Hall, where Dr. Hones preached; but I staid not to hear, but walking
      in the court, I heard that Sir Arth. Haselrigge was newly gone into the
      City to Monk, and that Monk's wife removed from White Hall last night.
      Home again, where at noon came according to my invitation my cos. Thos.
      Pepys and his partner and dined with me, but before dinner we went and
      took a walk round the park, it being a most pleasant day as ever I saw.
      After dinner we three went into London together, where I heard that Monk
      had been at Paul's in the morning, and the people had shouted much at his
      coming out of the church. In the afternoon he was at a church in
      Broad-street, whereabout he do lodge. But not knowing how to see him we
      went and walked half a hour in Moorfields, which were full of people, it
      being so fine a day. Here I took leave of them, and so to Paul's, where I
      met with Mr. Kirton's' apprentice (the crooked fellow) and walked up and
      down with him two hours, sometimes in the street looking for a tavern to
      drink in, but not finding any open, we durst not knock; other times in the
      churchyard, where one told me that he had seen the letter printed. Thence
      to Mr. Turner's, where I found my wife, Mr. Edw. Pepys, and Roger' and Mr.
      Armiger being there, to whom I gave as good an account of things as I
      could, and so to my father's, where Charles Glascocke was overjoyed to see
      how things are now; who told me the boys had last night broke Barebone's
      windows. Hence home, and being near home we missed our maid, and were at a
      great loss and went back a great way to find her, but when we could not
      see her we went homewards and found her there, got before us which we
      wondered at greatly. So to bed, where my wife and I had some high words
      upon my telling her that I would fling the dog which her brother gave her
      out of window if he [dirtied] the house any more.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. To my office till noon, thence home to dinner, my mouth being very
      bad of the cancer and my left leg beginning to be sore again. After dinner
      to see Mrs. Jem, and in the way met with Catan on foot in the street and
      talked with her a little, so home and took my wife to my father's. In my
      way I went to Playford's, and for two books that I had and 6s. 6d. to boot
      I had my great book of songs which he sells always for r 4s. At my
      father's I staid a while, while my mother sent her maid Bess to Cheapside
      for some herbs to make a water for my mouth. Then I went to see Mr.
      Cumberland, and after a little stay with him I returned, and took my wife
      home, where after supper to bed. This day Monk was invited to White Hall
      to dinner by my Lords; not seeming willing, he would not come. I went to
      Mr. Fage from my father's, who had been this afternoon with Monk, who do
      promise to live and die with the City, and for the honour of the City; and
      indeed the City is very open-handed to the soldiers, that they are most of
      them drunk all day, and have money given them. He did give me something
      for my mouth which I did use this night.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Called out in the morning by Mr. Moore, whose voice my wife hearing
      in my dressing-chamber with me, got herself ready, and came down and
      challenged him for her valentine, this being the day.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The practice of choosing valentines was very general at this time,
     but some of the best examples of the custom are found in this
     Diary.]
</pre>
    <p>
      To Westminster Hall, there being many new remonstrances and declarations
      from many counties to Monk and the City, and one coming from the North
      from Sir Thomas Fairfax. Hence I took him to the Swan and gave him his
      morning draft. So to my office, where Mr. Hill of Worcestershire came to
      see me and my partner in our office, with whom we went to Will's to drink.
      At noon I went home and so to Mr. Crew's, but they had dined, and so I
      went to see Mrs. Jem where I stayed a while, and home again where I stayed
      an hour or two at my lute, and so forth to Westminster Hall, where I heard
      that the Parliament hath now changed the oath so much talked of to a
      promise; and that among other qualifications for the members that are to
      be chosen, one is, that no man, nor the son of any man that hath been in
      arms during the life of the father, shall be capable of being chosen to
      sit in Parliament. To Will's, where like a fool I staid and lost 6d. at
      cards. So home, and wrote a letter to my Lord by the post. So after supper
      to bed. This day, by an order of the House, Sir H. Vane was sent out of
      town to his house in Lincolnshire.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Called up in the morning by Captain Holland and Captain Cuttance,
      and with them to Harper's, thence to my office, thence with Mr. Hill of
      Worcestershire to Will's, where I gave him a letter to Nan Pepys, and some
      merry pamphlets against the Rump to carry to her into the country. So to
      Mr. Crew's, where the dining room being full, Mr. Walgrave and I dined
      below in the buttery by ourselves upon a good dish of buttered salmon.
      Thence to Hering' the merchant about my Lord's Worcester money and back to
      Paul's Churchyard, where I staid reading in Fuller's History of the Church
      of England an hour or two, and so to my father's, where Mr. Hill came to
      me and I gave him direction what to do at Worcester about the money.
      Thence to my Lady Wright's and gave her a letter from my Lord privily. So
      to Mrs. Jem and sat with her, who dined at Mr. Crew's to-day, and told me
      that there was at her coming away at least forty gentlemen (I suppose
      members that were secluded, for Mr. Walgrave told me that there were about
      thirty met there the last night) came dropping in one after another
      thither. Thence home and wrote into the country against to-morrow by the
      carrier and so to bed. At my father's I heard how my cousin Kate Joyce had
      a fall yesterday from her horse and had some hurt thereby. No news to-day,
      but all quiet to see what the Parliament will do about the issuing of the
      writs to-morrow for filling up of the House, according to Monk's desire.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th, In the morning at my lute. Then came Shaw and Hawly, and I gave them
      their morning draft at my house. So to my office, where I wrote by the
      carrier to my Lord and sealed my letter at Will's, and gave it old East to
      carry it to the carrier's, and to take up a box of china oranges and two
      little barrels of scallops at my house, which Captain Cuttance sent to me
      for my Lord. Here I met with Osborne and with Shaw and Spicer, and we went
      to the Sun Tavern in expectation of a dinner, where we had sent us only
      two trenchers-full of meat, at which we were very merry, while in came Mr.
      Wade and his friend Capt. Moyse (who told us of his hopes to get an estate
      merely for his name's sake), and here we staid till seven at night, I
      winning a quart of sack of Shaw that one trencherfull that was sent us was
      all lamb and he that it was veal. I by having but 3d. in my pocket made
      shift to spend no more, whereas if I had had more I had spent more as the
      rest did, so that I see it is an advantage to a man to carry little in his
      pocket. Home, and after supper, and a little at my flute, I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. In the morning Tom that was my Lord's footboy came to see me and had
      10s. of me of the money which I have to keep of his. So that now I have
      but 35s. more of his. Then came Mr. Hills the instrument maker, and I
      consulted with him about the altering my lute and my viall. After that I
      went into my study and did up my accounts, and found that I am about; L40
      beforehand in the world, and that is all. So to my office and from thence
      brought Mr. Hawly home with me to dinner, and after dinner wrote a letter
      to Mr. Downing about his business and gave it Hawly, and so went to Mr.
      Gunning's to his weekly fast, and after sermon, meeting there with
      Monsieur L'Impertinent, we went and walked in the park till it was dark. I
      played on my pipe at the Echo, and then drank a cup of ale at Jacob's. So
      to Westminster Hall, and he with me, where I heard that some of the
      members of the House were gone to meet with some of the secluded members
      and General Monk in the City. Hence we went to White Hall, thinking to
      hear more news, where I met with Mr. Hunt, who told me how Monk had sent
      for all his goods that he had here into the City; and yet again he told
      me, that some of the members of the House had this day laid in firing into
      their lodgings at White Hall for a good while, so that we are at a great
      stand to think what will become of things, whether Monk will stand to the
      Parliament or no. Hence Mons. L'Impertinent and I to Harper's, and there
      drank a cup or two to the King, and to his fair sister Frances&mdash;[Frances
      Butler, the great beauty, who is sometimes styled. la belle Boteler.]&mdash;good
      health, of whom we had much discourse of her not being much the worse for
      the small pox, which she had this last summer. So home and to bed. This
      day we are invited to my uncle Fenner's wedding feast, but went not, this
      being the 27th year.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. A great while at my vial and voice, learning to sing "Fly boy, fly
      boy," without book. So to my office, where little to do. In the Hall I met
      with Mr. Eglin and one Looker, a famous gardener, servant to my Lord
      Salsbury, and among other things the gardener told a strange passage in
      good earnest.... Home to dinner, and then went to my Lord's lodgings to my
      turret there and took away most of my books, and sent them home by my
      maid. Thither came Capt. Holland to me who took me to the Half Moon tavern
      and Mr. Southorne, Blackburne's clerk. Thence he took me to the Mitre in
      Fleet Street, where we heard (in a room over the music room) very plainly
      through the ceiling. Here we parted and I to Mr. Wotton's, and with him to
      an alehouse and drank while he told me a great many stories of comedies
      that he had formerly seen acted, and the names of the principal actors,
      and gave me a very good account of it. Thence to Whitehall, where I met
      with Luellin and in the clerk's chamber wrote a letter to my Lord. So home
      and to bed. This day two soldiers were hanged in the Strand for their late
      mutiny at Somerset-house.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Lord's day). Early in the morning I set my books that I brought home
      yesterday up in order in my study. Thence forth to Mr. Harper's to drink a
      draft of purle,&mdash;[Purl is hot beer flavoured with wormwood or other
      aromatic herbs. The name is also given to hot beer flavoured with gin,
      sugar, and ginger.]&mdash;whither by appointment Monsieur L'Impertinent,
      who did intend too upon my desire to go along with me to St.
      Bartholomew's, to hear one Mr. Sparks, but it raining very hard we went to
      Mr. Gunning's and heard an excellent sermon, and speaking of the character
      that the Scripture gives of Ann the mother of the blessed Virgin, he did
      there speak largely in commendation of widowhood, and not as we do to
      marry two or three wives or husbands, one after another. Here I met with
      Mr. Moore, and went home with him to dinner, where he told me the
      discourse that happened between the secluded members and the members of
      the House, before Monk last Friday. How the secluded said, that they did
      not intend by coming in to express revenge upon these men, but only to
      meet and dissolve themselves, and only to issue writs for a free
      Parliament. He told me how Haselrigge was afraid to have the candle
      carried before him, for fear that the people seeing him, would do him
      hurt; and that he is afraid to appear in the City. That there is great
      likelihood that the secluded members will come in, and so Mr. Crew and my
      Lord are likely to be great men, at which I was very glad. After diner
      there was many secluded members come in to Mr. Crew, which, it being the
      Lord's day, did make Mr. Moore believe that there was something
      extraordinary in the business. Hence home and brought my wife to Mr.
      Mossum's to hear him, and indeed he made a very good sermon, but only too
      eloquent for a pulpit. Here Mr. L'Impertinent helped me to a seat. After
      sermon to my father's; and fell in discourse concerning our going to
      Cambridge the next week with my brother John. To Mrs. Turner where her
      brother, Mr. Edward Pepys, was there, and I sat a great while talking of
      public business of the times with him. So to supper to my Father's, all
      supper talking of John's going to Cambridge. So home, and it raining my
      wife got my mother's French mantle and my brother John's hat, and so we
      went all along home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. In the morning at my lute. Then to my office, where my partner and I
      made even our balance. Took him home to dinner with me, where my brother
      John came to dine with me. After dinner I took him to my study at home and
      at my Lord's, and gave him some books and other things against his going
      to Cambridge. After he was gone I went forth to Westminster Hall, where I
      met with Chetwind, Simons, and Gregory. And with them to Marsh's at
      Whitehall to drink, and staid there a pretty while reading a pamphlet well
      writ and directed to General Monk, in praise of the form of monarchy which
      was settled here before the wars.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This pamphlet is among the Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts
     (British Museum), and dated in MS.  this same day, February 20th&mdash;
     "A Plea for Limited Monarchy as it was established in this Nation
     before the late War.  In an Humble Address to his Excellency General
     Monck.  By a Zealot for the good old Laws of his Country, before any
     Faction or Caprice, with additions."  "An Eccho to the Plea for
     Limited Monarchy, &amp;c.," was published soon afterwards.]
</pre>
    <p>
      They told me how the Speaker Lenthall do refuse to sign the writs for
      choice of new members in the place of the excluded; and by that means the
      writs could not go out to-day. In the evening Simons and I to the Coffee
      Club, where nothing to do only I heard Mr. Harrington, and my Lord of
      Dorset and another Lord, talking of getting another place as the Cockpit,
      and they did believe it would come to something. After a small debate upon
      the question whether learned or unlearned subjects are the best the Club
      broke up very poorly, and I do not think they will meet any more. Hence
      with Vines, &amp;c. to Will's, and after a pot or two home, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. In the morning going out I saw many soldiers going towards
      Westminster, and was told that they were going to admit the secluded
      members again. So I to Westminster Hall, and in Chancery Row I saw about
      twenty of them who had been at White Hall with General Monk, who came
      thither this morning, and made a speech to them, and recommended to them a
      Commonwealth, and against Charles Stuart. They came to the House and went
      in one after another, and at last the Speaker came. But it is very strange
      that this could be carried so private, that the other members of the House
      heard nothing of all this, till they found them in the House, insomuch
      that the soldiers that stood there to let in the secluded members, they
      took for such as they had ordered to stand there to hinder their coming
      in. Mr. Prin came with an old basket-hilt sword on, and had a great many
      great shouts upon his going into the Hall. They sat till noon, and at
      their coming out Mr. Crew saw me, and bid me come to his house, which I
      did, and he would have me dine with him, which I did; and he very joyful
      told me that the House had made General Monk, General of all the Forces in
      England, Scotland, and Ireland; and that upon Monk's desire, for the
      service that Lawson had lately done in pulling down the Committee of
      Safety, he had the command of the Sea for the time being. He advised me to
      send for my Lord forthwith, and told me that there is no question that, if
      he will, he may now be employed again; and that the House do intend to do
      nothing more than to issue writs, and to settle a foundation for a free
      Parliament. After dinner I back to Westminster Hall with him in his coach.
      Here I met with Mr. Lock and Pursell, Masters of Music,&mdash;[Henry
      Purcell, father of the celebrated composer, was gentleman of the Chapel
      Royal.]&mdash;and with them to the Coffee House, into a room next the
      water, by ourselves, where we spent an hour or two till Captain Taylor
      came to us, who told us, that the House had voted the gates of the City to
      be made up again, and the members of the City that are in prison to be set
      at liberty; and that Sir G. Booth's' case be brought into the House
      to-morrow. Here we had variety of brave Italian and Spanish songs, and a
      canon for eight voices, which Mr. Lock had lately made on these words:
      "Domine salvum fac Regem," an admirable thing. Here also Capt. Taylor
      began a discourse of something that he had lately writ about Gavelkind in
      answer to one that had wrote a piece upon the same subject; and indeed
      discovered a great deal of study in antiquity in his discourse. Here out
      of the window it was a most pleasant sight to see the City from one end to
      the other with a glory about it, so high was the light of the bonfires,
      and so thick round the City, and the bells rang everywhere. Hence home and
      wrote to my Lord, afterwards came down and found Mr. Hunt (troubled at
      this change) and Mr. Spong, who staid late with me singing of a song or
      two, and so parted. My wife not very well, went to bed before. This
      morning I met in the Hall with Mr. Fuller, of Christ's, and told him of my
      design to go to Cambridge, and whither. He told me very freely the temper
      of Mr. Widdrington, how he did oppose all the fellows in the College, and
      that there was a great distance between him and the rest, at which I was
      very sorry, for that he told me he feared it would be little to my
      brother's advantage to be his pupil.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. In the morning intended to have gone to Mr. Crew's to borrow some
      money, but it raining I forbore, and went to my Lord's lodging and look
      that all things were well there. Then home and sang a song to my viall, so
      to my office and to Will's, where Mr. Pierce found me out, and told me
      that he would go with me to Cambridge, where Colonel Ayre's regiment, to
      which he was surgeon, lieth. Walking in the Hall, I saw Major-General
      Brown, who had along time been banished by the Rump, but now with his
      beard overgrown, he comes abroad and sat in the House. To my father's to
      dinner, where nothing but a small dish of powdered beef&mdash;[Boiled salt
      beef. To powder was to sprinkle with salt, and the powdering tub a vessel
      in which meat was salted.]&mdash;and dish of carrots; they being all busy
      to get things ready for my brother John to go to-morrow. After dinner, my
      wife staying there, I went to Mr. Crew's, and got; L5 of Mr. Andrews, and
      so to Mrs. Jemimah, who now hath her instrument about her neck, and indeed
      is infinitely, altered, and holds her head upright. I paid her, maid 40s.
      of the money that I have received of Mr. Andrews. Hence home to my study,
      where I only wrote thus much of this day's passages to this * and so out
      again. To White Hall, where I met with Will. Simons and Mr. Mabbot at
      Marsh's, who told me how the House had this day voted that the gates of
      the City should be set up at the cost of the State. And that Major-General
      Brown's being proclaimed a traitor be made void, and several other things
      of that nature. Home for my lanthorn and so to my father's, where I
      directed John what books to put for Cambridge. After that to supper, where
      my Uncle Fenner and my Aunt, The. Turner, and Joyce, at a brave leg of
      veal roasted, and were very merry against John's going to Cambridge. I
      observed this day how abominably Barebone's windows are broke again last
      night. At past 9 o'clock my wife and I went home.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Thursday, my birthday, now twenty-seven years. A pretty fair
      morning, I rose and after writing a while in my study I went forth. To my
      office, where I told Mr. Hawly of my thoughts to go out of town to-morrow.
      Hither Mr. Fuller comes to me and my Uncle Thomas too, thence I took them
      to drink, and so put off my uncle. So with Mr. Fuller home to my house,
      where he dined with me, and he told my wife and me a great many stories of
      his adversities, since these troubles, in being forced to travel in the
      Catholic countries, &amp;c. He shewed me his bills, but I had not money to
      pay him. We parted, and I to Whitehall, where I was to see my horse which
      Mr. Garthwayt lends me to-morrow. So home, where Mr. Pierce comes to me
      about appointing time and place where and when to meet tomorrow. So to
      Westminster Hall, where, after the House rose, I met with Mr. Crew, who
      told me that my Lord was chosen by 73 voices, to be one of the Council of
      State. Mr. Pierpoint had the most, 101, and himself the next, too. He
      brought me in the coach home. He and Mr. Anslow being in it. I back to the
      Hall, and at Mrs. Michell's shop staid talking a great while with her and
      my Chaplain, Mr. Mumford, and drank a pot or two of ale on a wager that
      Mr. Prin is not of the Council. Home and wrote to my Lord the news of the
      choice of the Council by the post, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. I rose very early, and taking horse at Scotland Yard, at Mr.
      Garthwayt's stable, I rode to Mr. Pierces, who rose, and in a quarter of
      an hour, leaving his wife in bed (with whom Mr. Lucy methought was very
      free as she lay in bed), we both mounted, and so set forth about seven of
      the clock, the day and the way very foul. About Ware we overtook Mr.
      Blayton, brother-in-law to Dick Vines, who went thenceforwards with us,
      and at Puckeridge we baited, where we had a loin of mutton fried, and were
      very merry, but the way exceeding bad from Ware thither. Then up again and
      as far as Foulmer, within six miles of Cambridge, my mare being almost
      tired: here we lay at the Chequer, playing at cards till supper, which was
      a breast of veal roasted. I lay with Mr. Pierce, who we left here the next
      morning upon his going to Hinchingbroke to speak with my Lord before his
      going to London, and we two come to Cambridge by eight o'clock in the
      morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. To the Falcon, in the Petty Cury,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The old Falcon Inn is on the south side of Petty Cury.  It is now
     divided into three houses, one of which is the present Falcon Inn,
     the other two being houses with shops.  The Falcon yard is but
     little changed.  From the size of the whole building it must have
     been the principal inn of the town.  The room said to have been used
     by Queen Elizabeth for receptions retains its original form.&mdash;M. B.

     The Petty Cury.  The derivation of the name of this street, so well
     known to all Cambridge men, is a matter of much dispute among
     antiquaries.  (See "Notes and Queries.") The most probable meaning
     of it is the Parva Cokeria, or little cury, where the cooks of the
     town lived, just as "The Poultry," where the Poulters (now
     Poulterers) had their shops.  "The Forme of Cury," a Roll of Antient
     English Cookery, was compiled by the principal cooks of that "best
     and royalest viander of all Christian Kings," Richard the Second,
     and edited with a copious Index and Glossary by Dr. Samuel Pegge,
     1780.&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      where we found my father and brother very well. After dressing myself,
      about ten o'clock, my father, brother, and I to Mr. Widdririgton, at
      Christ's College, who received us very civilly, and caused my brother to
      be admitted, while my father, he, and I, sat talking. After that done, we
      take leave. My father and brother went to visit some friends, Pepys's,
      scholars in Cambridge, while I went to Magdalene College, to Mr. Hill,
      with whom I found Mr. Zanchy, Burton, and Hollins, and was exceeding
      civilly received by them. I took leave on promise to sup with them, and to
      my Inn again, where I dined with some others that were there at an
      ordinary. After dinner my brother to the College, and my father and I to
      my Cozen Angier's, to see them, where Mr. Fairbrother came to us. Here we
      sat a while talking. My father he went to look after his things at the
      carrier's, and my brother's chamber, while Mr. Fairbrother, my Cozen
      Angier, and Mr. Zanchy, whom I met at Mr. Merton's shop (where I bought
      'Elenchus Motuum', having given my former to Mr. Downing when he was
      here), to the Three Tuns, where we drank pretty hard and many healths to
      the King, &amp;c., till it began to be darkish: then we broke up and I and
      Mr. Zanchy went to Magdalene College, where a very handsome supper at Mr.
      Hill's chambers, I suppose upon a club among them, where in their
      discourse I could find that there was nothing at all left of the old
      preciseness in their discourse, specially on Saturday nights. And Mr.
      Zanchy told me that there was no such thing now-a-days among them at any
      time. After supper and some discourse then to my Inn, where I found my
      father in his chamber, and after some discourse, and he well satisfied
      with this day's work, we went to bed, my brother lying with me, his things
      not being come by the carrier that he could not lie in the College.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Sunday). My brother went to the College to Chapel. My father and I
      went out in the morning, and walked out in the fields behind King's
      College, and in King's College Chapel Yard, where we met with Mr.
      Fairbrother, who took us to Botolph's Church, where we heard Mr. Nicholas,
      of Queen's College, who I knew in my time to be Tripos,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Tripos or Bachelor of the Stool, who made the speech on Ash
     Wednesday, when the senior Proctor called him up and exhorted him to
     be witty but modest withal.  Their speeches, especially after the
     Restoration, tended to be boisterous, and even scurrilous.
     "26 Martii 1669.  Da Hollis, fellow of Clare Hall is to make a
     publick Recantation in the Bac. Schools for his Tripos speeche."
     The Tripos verses still come out, and are circulated on Ash
     Wednesday.  The list of successful candidates for honours is printed
     on the same paper, hence the term "Tripos" applied to it.]
</pre>
    <p>
      with great applause, upon this text, "For thy commandments are broad."
      Thence my father and I to Mr. Widdrington's chamber to dinner, where he
      used us very courteously again, and had two Fellow Commoners at table with
      him, and Mr. Pepper, a Fellow of the College. After dinner, while we sat
      talking by the fire, Mr. Pierces man came to tell me that his master was
      come to town, so my father and I took leave, and found Mr. Pierce at our
      Inn, who told us that he had lost his journey, for my Lord was gone from
      Hinchingbroke to London on Thursday last, at which I was a little put to a
      stand. So after a cup of drink I went to Magdalene College to get the
      certificate of the College for my brother's entrance there, that he might
      save his year. I met with Mr. Burton in the Court, who took me to Mr.
      Pechell's chamber, where he was and Mr. Zanchy. By and by, Mr. Pechell and
      Sanchy and I went out, Pechell to Church, Sanchy and I to the Rose Tavern,
      where we sat and drank till sermon done, and then Mr. Pechell came to us,
      and we three sat drinking the King's and his whole family's health till it
      began to be dark. Then we parted; Sanchy and I went to my lodging, where
      we found my father and Mr. Pierce at the door, and I took them both and
      Mr. Blayton to the Rose Tavern, and there gave them a quart or two of
      wine, not telling them that we had been there before. After this we broke
      up, and my father, Mr. Zanchy, and I to my Cosen Angier to supper, where I
      caused two bottles of wine to be carried from the Rose Tavern; that was
      drunk up, and I had not the wit to let them know at table that it was I
      that paid for them, and so I lost my thanks for them. After supper Mr.
      Fairbrother, who supped there with us, took me into a room by himself, and
      shewed me a pitiful copy of verses upon Mr. Prinn which he esteemed very
      good, and desired that I would get them given to Mr. Prinn, in hopes that
      he would get him some place for it, which I said I would do, but did laugh
      in my sleeve to think of his folly, though indeed a man that has always
      expressed great civility to me. After that we sat down and talked; I took
      leave of all my friends, and so to my Inn, where after I had wrote a note
      and enclosed the certificate to Mr. Widdrington, I bade good night to my
      father, and John went to bed, but I staid up a little while, playing the
      fool with the lass of the house at the door of the chamber, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up by four o'clock, and after I was ready, took my leave of my
      father, whom I left in bed, and the same of my brother John, to whom I
      gave 10s. Mr. Blayton and I took horse and straight to Saffron Walden,
      where at the White Hart, we set up our horses, and took the master of the
      house to shew us Audley End House, who took us on foot through the park,
      and so to the house, where the housekeeper shewed us all the house, in
      which the stateliness of the ceilings, chimney-pieces, and form of the
      whole was exceedingly worth seeing. He took us into the cellar, where we
      drank most admirable drink, a health to the King. Here I played on my
      flageolette, there being an excellent echo. He shewed us excellent
      pictures; two especially, those of the four Evangelists and Henry VIII.
      After that I gave the man 2s. for his trouble, and went back again. In our
      going, my landlord carried us through a very old hospital or almshouse,
      where forty poor people was maintained; a very old foundation; and over
      the chimney in the mantelpiece was an inscription in brass: "Orate pre
      anima Thomae Bird," &amp;c.; and the poor box also was on the same
      chimney-piece, with an iron door and locks to it, into which I put 6d.
      They brought me a draft of their drink in a brown bowl, tipt with silver,
      which I drank off, and at the bottom was a picture of the Virgin and the
      child in her arms, done in silver. So we went to our Inn, and after eating
      of something, and kissed the daughter of the house, she being very pretty,
      we took leave, and so that night, the road pretty good, but the weather
      rainy to Ep[p]ing, where we sat and played a game at cards, and after
      supper, and some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house, we went
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up in the morning, and had some red herrings to our breakfast, while
      my boot-heel was a-mending, by the same token the boy left the hole as big
      as it was before. Then to horse, and for London through the forest, where
      we found the way good, but only in one path, which we kept as if we had
      rode through a canal all the way. We found the shops all shut, and the
      militia of the red regiment in arms at the Old Exchange, among whom I
      found and spoke to Nich. Osborne, who told me that it was a
      thanksgiving-day through the City for the return of the Parliament. At
      Paul's I light, Mr. Blayton holding my horse, where I found Dr. Reynolds'
      in the pulpit, and General Monk there, who was to have a great
      entertainment at Grocers' Hall. So home, where my wife and all well.
      Shifted myself,&mdash;[Changed his dress.]&mdash;and so to Mr. Crew's, and
      then to Sir Harry Wright's, where I found my Lord at dinner, who called
      for me in, and was glad to see me. There was at dinner also Mr. John
      Wright and his lady, a very pretty lady, Alderman Allen's daughter. I
      dined here with Will. Howe, and after dinner went out with him to buy a
      hat (calling in my way and saw my mother), which we did at the Plough in
      Fleet Street by my Lord's direction, but not as for him. Here we met with
      Mr. Pierce a little before, and he took us to the Greyhound Tavern, and
      gave us a pint of wine, and as the rest of the seamen do, talked very high
      again of my Lord. After we had done about the hat we went homewards, he to
      Mr. Crew's and I to Mrs. Jem, and sat with her a little. Then home, where
      I found Mr. Sheply, almost drunk, come to see me, afterwards Mr. Spong
      comes, with whom I went up and played with him a Duo or two, and so good
      night. I was indeed a little vexed with Mr. Sheply, but said nothing,
      about his breaking open of my study at my house, merely to give him the
      key of the stair door at my Lord's, which lock he might better have broke
      than mine.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. To my office, and drank at Will's with Mr. Moore, who told me how my
      Lord is chosen General at Sea by the Council, and that it is thought that
      Monk will be joined with him therein. Home and dined, after dinner my wife
      and I by water to London, and thence to Herring's, the merchant in Coleman
      Street, about L50 which he promises I shall have on Saturday next. So to
      my mother's, and then to Mrs. Turner's, of whom I took leave, and her
      company, because she was to go out of town to-morrow with Mr. Pepys into
      Norfolk. Here my cosen Norton gave me a brave cup of metheglin,
    </p>
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     [A liquor made of honey and water, boiled and fermenting.  By 12
     Charles II.  cap. 23, a grant of certain impositions upon beer, ale,
     and other liquors, a duty of 1d.  per gallon was laid upon "all
     metheglin or mead."]
</pre>
    <p>
      the first I ever drank. To my mother's and supped there.
    </p>
    <p>
      She shewed me a letter to my father from my uncle inviting him to come to
      Brampton while he is in the country. So home and to bed. This day my Lord
      came to the House, the first time since he came to town; but he had been
      at the Council before.
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      MARCH 1659-1660
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    <p>
      March 1st. In the morning went to my Lord's lodgings, thinking to have
      spoke with Mr. Sheply, having not been to visit him since my coming to
      town. But he being not within I went up, and out of the box where my
      Lord's pamphlets lay, I chose as many as I had a mind to have for my own
      use and left the rest. Then to my office, where little to do, abut Mr.
      Sheply comes to me, so at dinner time he and I went to Mr. Crew's, whither
      Mr. Thomas was newly come to town, being sent with Sir H. Yelverton, a my
      old school-fellow at Paul's School, to bring the thanks of the county to
      General Monk for the return of the Parliament. But old Mr. Crew and my
      Lord not coming home to dinner, we tarried late before we went to dinner,
      it being the day that John, Mr. John Crew's coachman, was to be buried in
      the afternoon, he being a day or two before killed with a blow of one of
      his horses that struck his skull into his brain. From thence Mr. Sheply
      and I went into London to Mr. Laxton's; my Lord's apothecary, and so by
      water to Westminster, where at the Sun [tavern] he and I spent two or
      three hours in a pint or two of wine, discoursing of matters in the
      country, among other things telling me that my uncle did to him make a
      very kind mention of me, and what he would do for me. Thence I went home,
      and went to bed betimes. This day the Parliament did vote that they would
      not sit longer than the 15th day of this month.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. This morning I went early to my Lord at Mr. Crew's, where I spoke to
      him. Here were a great many come to see him, as Secretary Thurlow who is
      now by this Parliament chosen again Secretary of State. There were also
      General Monk's trumpeters to give my Lord a sound of their trumpets this
      morning. Thence I went to my office, and wrote a letter to Mr. Downing
      about the business of his house. Then going home, I met with Mr. Eglin,
      Chetwind, and Thomas, who took me to the Leg [another tavern] in King's
      street, where we had two brave dishes of meat, one of fish, a carp and
      some other fishes, as well done as ever I ate any. After that to the Swan
      tavern, where we drank a quart or two of wine, and so parted. So I to Mrs.
      Jem and took Mr. Moore with me (who I met in the street), and there I met
      W. Howe and Sheply. After that to Westminster Hall, where I saw Sir G.
      Booth at liberty. This day I hear the City militia is put into good
      posture, and it is thought that Monk will not be able to do any great
      matter against them now, if he have a mind. I understand that my Lord
      Lambert did yesterday send a letter to the Council, and that to-night he
      is to come and appear to the Council in person. Sir Arthur Haselrigge do
      not yet appear in the House. Great is the talk of a single person, and
      that it would now be Charles, George, or Richard again.&mdash;[Charles
      II., or George Monk, or Richard Cromwell.]&mdash;For the last of which, my
      Lord St. John is said to speak high. Great also is the dispute now in the
      House, in whose name the writs shall run for the next Parliament; and it
      is said that Mr. Prin, in open House, said, "In King Charles's." From
      Westminster Hall home. Spent the evening in my study, and so after some
      talk with my wife, then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3d. To Westminster Hall, where I found that my Lord was last night voted
      one of the Generals at Sea, and Monk the other. I met my Lord in the Hall,
      who bid me come to him at noon. I met with Mr. Pierce the purser, Lieut.
      Lambert, Mr. Creed, and Will. Howe, and went with them to the Swan tavern.
      Up to my office, but did nothing. At noon home to dinner to a sheep's
      head. My brother Tom came and dined with me, and told me that my mother
      was not very well, and that my Aunt Fenner was very ill too. After dinner
      I to Warwick House, in Holborn, to my Lord, where he dined with my Lord of
      Manchester, Sir Dudley North, my Lord Fiennes, and my Lord Barkly. I staid
      in the great hall, talking with some gentlemen there, till they all come
      out. Then I, by coach with my Lord, to Mr. Crew's, in our way talking of
      publick things, and how I should look after getting of his Commissioner's
      despatch. He told me he feared there was new design hatching, as if Monk
      had a mind to get into the saddle. Here I left him, and went by
      appointment to Hering, the merchant, but missed of my money, at which I
      was much troubled, but could not help myself. Returning, met Mr. Gifford,
      who took me and gave me half a pint of wine, and told me, as I hear this
      day from many, that things are in a very doubtful posture, some of the
      Parliament being willing to keep the power in their hands. After I had
      left him, I met with Tom Harper, who took me into a place in Drury Lane,
      where we drank a great deal of strong water, more than ever I did in my
      life at onetime before. He talked huge high that my Lord Protector would
      come in place again, which indeed is much discoursed of again, though I do
      not see it possible. Hence home and wrote to my father at Brampton by the
      post. So to bed. This day I was told that my Lord General Fleetwood told
      my lord that he feared the King of Sweden is dead of a fever at
      Gottenburg.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Lord's day. Before I went to church I sang Orpheus' Hymn to my viall.
      After that to Mr. Gunning's, an excellent sermon upon charity. Then to my
      mother to dinner, where my wife and the maid were come. After dinner we
      three to Mr. Messum's where we met Mons. L'Impertinent, who got us a seat
      and told me a ridiculous story how that last week he had caused a simple
      citizen to spend; L80 in entertainments of him and some friends of his
      upon pretence of some service that he would do him in his suit after a
      widow. Then to my mother again, and after supper she and I talked very
      high about religion, I in defence of the religion I was born in. Then
      home.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Early in the morning Mr. Hill comes to string my theorbo,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The theorbo was a bass lute.  Having gut strings it was played with
     the fingers.  There is a humorous comparison of the long waists of
     ladies, which came into fashion about 1621, with the theorbo, by
     Bishop Corbet:

         "She was barr'd up in whale-bones, that did leese
          None of the whale's length, for they reached her knees;
          Off with her head, and then she hath a middle
          As her waste stands, just like the new found fiddle,
          The favourite Theorbo, truth to tell ye,
          Whose neck and throat are deeper than the belly."

                                   Corbet, 'Iter Boreale'.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which we were about till past ten o'clock, with a great deal of pleasure.
      Then to Westminster, where I met with Mr. Sheply and Mr. Pinkney at
      Will's, who took me by water to Billingsgate, at the Salutation Tavern,
      whither by-and-by, Mr. Talbot and Adams came, and bring a great [deal of]
      good meat, a ham of bacon, &amp;c. Here we staid and drank till Mr. Adams
      began to be overcome. Then we parted, and so to Westminster by water, only
      seeing Mr. Pinkney at his own house, where he shewed me how he had alway
      kept the Lion and Unicorn, in the back of his chimney, bright, in
      expectation of the King's coming again. At home I found Mr. Hunt, who told
      me how the Parliament had voted that the Covenant be printed and hung in
      churches again. Great hopes of the King's coming again. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. (Shrove Tuesday.) I called Mr. Sheply and we both went up to my
      Lord's lodgings at Mr. Crew's, where he bade us to go home again, and get
      a fire against an hour after. Which we did at White Hall, whither he came,
      and after talking with him and me about his going to sea, he called me by
      myself to go along with him into the garden, where he asked me how things
      were with me, and what he had endeavoured to do with my uncle to get him
      to do something for me but he would say nothing too. He likewise bade me
      look out now at this turn some good place, and he would use all his own,
      and all the interest of his friends that he had in England, to do me good.
      And asked me whether I could, without too much inconvenience, go to sea as
      his secretary, and bid me think of it. He also began to talk of things of
      State, and told me that he should want one in that capacity at sea, that
      he might trust in, and therefore he would have me to go. He told me also,
      that he did believe the King would come in, and did discourse with me
      about it, and about the affection of the people and City, at which I was
      full glad. After he was gone, I waiting upon him through the garden till
      he came to the Hall, where I left him and went up to my office, where Mr.
      Hawly brought one to me, a seaman, that had promised Rio to him if he get
      him a purser's place, which I think to endeavour to do. Here comes my
      uncle Tom, whom I took to Will's and drank with, poor man, he comes to
      inquire about the knights of Windsor, of which he desires to get to be
      one.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The body of Poor Knights of Windsor was founded by Edward III.  The
     intention of the king with regard to the poor knights was to provide
     relief and comfortable subsistence for such valiant soldiers as
     happened in their old age to fall into poverty and decay.  On
     September 20th, 1659, a Report having been read respecting the Poor
     Knights of Windsor, the House "ordered that it be referred to a
     Committee, to look into the revenue for maintenance of the Poor
     Knights of Windsor," &amp;c.  (See Tighe and Davis's "Annals of
     Windsor.")]
</pre>
    <p>
      While we were drinking, in comes Mr. Day, a carpenter in Westminster, to
      tell me that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that I must go with him to their
      yearly Club upon this day, which I confess I had quite forgot. So I went
      to the Bell, where were Mr. Eglin, Veezy, Vincent a butcher, one more, and
      Mr. Tanner, with whom I played upon a viall, and he a viallin, after
      dinner, and were very merry, with a special good dinner, a leg of veal and
      bacon, two capons and sausages and fritters, with abundance of wine. After
      that I went home, where I found Kate Sterpin who hath not been here a
      great while before. She gone I went to see Mrs. Jem, at whose chamber door
      I found a couple of ladies, but she not being there, we hunted her out,
      and found that she and another had hid themselves behind a door. Well,
      they all went down into the dining-room, where it was full of tag, rag,
      and bobtail, dancing, singing, and drinking, of which I was ashamed, and
      after I had staid a dance or two I went away. Going home, called at my
      Lord's for Mr. Sheply, but found him at the Lion with a pewterer, that he
      had bought pewter to-day of. With them I drank, and so home and wrote by
      the post, by my Lord's command, for J. Goods to come up presently. For my
      Lord intends to go forthwith into the Swiftsure till the Nazeby be ready.
      This day I hear that the Lords do intend to sit, and great store of them
      are now in town, and I see in the Hall to-day. Overton at Hull do stand
      out, but can, it is thought, do nothing; and Lawson, it is said, is gone
      with some ships thither, but all that is nothing. My Lord told me, that
      there was great endeavours to bring in the Protector again; but he told
      me, too, that he did believe it would not last long if he were brought in;
      no, nor the King neither (though he seems to think that he will come in),
      unless he carry himself very soberly and well. Every body now drinks the
      King's health without any fear, whereas before it was very private that a
      man dare do it. Monk this day is feasted at Mercers' Hall, and is invited
      one after another to all the twelve Halls in London! Many think that he is
      honest yet, and some or more think him to be a fool that would raise
      himself, but think that he will undo himself by endeavouring it. My mind,
      I must needs remember, has been very much eased and joyed at my Lord's
      great expressions of kindness this day, and in discourse thereupon my wife
      and I lay awake an hour or two in our bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. (Ash Wednesday.) In the morning I went to my Lord at Mr. Crew's, in
      my way Washington overtook me and told me upon my question whether he knew
      of any place now void that I might have, by power over friends, that this
      day Mr. G. Montagu was to be made 'Custos Rotulorum' for Westminster, and
      that by friends I might get to be named by him Clerk of the Peace, with
      which I was, as I am at all new things, very much joyed, so when I came to
      Mr. Crew's, I spoke to my Lord about it, who told me he believed Mr.
      Montagu had already promised it, and that it was given him only that he
      might gratify one person with the place I look for. Here, among many that
      were here, I met with Mr. Lynes, the surgeon, who promised me some seeds
      of the sensitive plant.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Evelyn, about the same date (August 9th, 1661), "tried several
     experiments on the sensitive plant and humilis, which contracted
     with the least touch of the sun through a burning glass, though it
     rises and opens only when it shines on it"]
</pre>
    <p>
      I spoke too with Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who gave me great encouragement
      to go to sea with my Lord. Thence going homewards, my Lord overtook me in
      his coach, and called me in, and so I went with him to St. James's, and G.
      Montagu being gone to White Hall, we walked over the Park thither, all the
      way he discoursing of the times, and of the change of things since the
      last year, and wondering how he could bear with so great disappointment as
      he did. He did give me the best advice that he could what was best for me,
      whether to stay or go with him, and offered all the ways that could be,
      how he might do me good, with the greatest liberty and love that could be.
      I left him at Whitehall, and myself went to Westminster to my office,
      whither nothing to do, but I did discourse with Mr. Falconbridge about Le
      Squire's place, and had his consent to get it if I could. I afterwards in
      the Hall met with W. Simons, who put me in the best way how to get it
      done. Thence by appointment to the Angel in King Street, where Chetwind,
      Mr. Thomas and Doling were at oysters, and beginning Lent this day with a
      fish dinner. After dinner Mr. Thomas and I by water to London, where I
      went to Herring's and received the L50 of my Lord's upon Frank's bill from
      Worcester. I gave in the bill and set my hand to his bill. Thence I went
      to the Pope's Head Alley and called on Adam Chard, and bought a catcall
      there, it cost me two groats. Thence went and gave him a cup of ale. After
      that to the Sun behind the Exchange, where meeting my uncle Wight by the
      way, took him with me thither, and after drinking a health or two round at
      the Cock (Mr. Thomas being gone thither), we parted, he and I homewards,
      parted at Fleet Street, where I found my father newly come home from
      Brampton very well. He left my uncle with his leg very dangerous, and do
      believe he cannot continue in that condition long. He tells me that my
      uncle did acquaint him very largely what he did intend to do with his
      estate, to make me his heir and give my brother Tom something, and that my
      father and mother should have likewise something, to raise portions for
      John and Pall. I pray God he may be as good as his word. Here I staid and
      supped and so home, there being Joyce Norton there and Ch. Glascock. Going
      home I called at Wotton's and took home a piece of cheese. At home Mr.
      Sheply sat with me a little while, and so we all to bed. This news and my
      Lord's great kindness makes me very cheerful within. I pray God make me
      thankful. This day, according to order, Sir Arthur [Haselrigge] appeared
      at the House; what was done I know not, but there was all the Rumpers
      almost come to the House to-day. My Lord did seem to wonder much why
      Lambert was so willing to be put into the Tower, and thinks he has some
      design in it; but I think that he is so poor that he cannot use his
      liberty for debts, if he were at liberty; and so it is as good and better
      for him to be there, than any where else.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. To Whitehall to bespeak some firing for my father at Short's, and
      likewise to speak to Mr. Blackburne about Batters being gunner in the
      "Wexford." Then to Westminster Hall, where there was a general damp over
      men's minds and faces upon some of the Officers of the Army being about
      making a remonstrance against Charles Stuart or any single person; but at
      noon it was told, that the General had put a stop to it, so all was well
      again. Here I met with Jasper, who was to look for me to bring me to my
      Lord at the lobby; whither sending a note to my Lord, he comes out to me
      and gives me direction to look after getting some money for him from the
      Admiralty, seeing that things are so unsafe, that he would not lay out a
      farthing for the State, till he had received some money of theirs. Home
      about two o'clock, and took my wife by land to Paternoster Row, to buy
      some Paragon for a petticoat and so home again. In my way meeting Mr.
      Moore, who went home with me while I ate a bit and so back to Whitehall
      again, both of us. He waited at the Council for Mr. Crew. I to the
      Admiralty, where I got the order for the money, and have taken care for
      the getting of it assigned upon Mr. Hutchinson, Treasurer for the Navy,
      against tomorrow. Hence going home I met with Mr. King that belonged to
      the Treasurers at War and took him to Harper's, who told me that he and
      the rest of his fellows are cast out of office by the new Treasurers. This
      afternoon, some of the Officers of the Army, and some of the Parliament,
      had a conference at White Hall to make all right again, but I know not
      what is done. This noon I met at the Dog tavern Captain Philip Holland,
      with whom I advised how to make some advantage of my Lord's going to sea,
      which he told me might be by having of five or six servants entered on
      board, and I to give them what wages I pleased, and so their pay to be
      mine; he was also very urgent to have me take the Secretary's place, that
      my Lord did proffer me. At the same time in comes Mr. Wade and Mr. Sterry,
      secretary to the plenipotentiary in Denmark, who brought the news of the
      death of the King of Sweden at Gottenburgh the 3rd of the last month, and
      he told me what a great change he found when he came here, the secluded
      members being restored. He also spoke very freely of Mr. Wades profit,
      which he made while he was in Zeeland, how he did believe that he cheated
      Mr. Powell, and that he made above L500 on the voyage, which Mr. Wade did
      very angrily deny, though I believe he was guilty enough.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. To my Lord at his lodging, and came to Westminster with him in the
      coach, with Mr. Dudley with him, and he in the Painted Chamber
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Painted Chamber, or St. Edward's Chamber, in the old Palace at
     Westminster.  The first name was given to it from the curious
     paintings on the walls, and the second from the tradition that
     Edward the Confessor died in it.]
</pre>
    <p>
      walked a good while; and I telling him that I was willing and ready to go
      with him to sea, he agreed that I should, and advised me what to write to
      Mr. Downing about it, which I did at my office, that by my Lord's desire I
      offered that my place might for a while be supplied by Mr. Moore, and that
      I and my security should be bound by the same bond for him. I went and
      dined at Mr. Crew's, where Mr. Hawly comes to me, and I told him the
      business and shewed him the letter promising him L20 a year, which he
      liked very well of. I did the same to Mr. Moore, which he also took for a
      courtesy. In the afternoon by coach, taking Mr. Butler with me to the Navy
      Office, about the L500 for my Lord, which I am promised to have to-morrow
      morning. Then by coach back again, and at White Hall at the Council
      Chamber spoke with my Lord and got him to sign the acquittance for the
      L500, and he also told me that he had spoke to Mr. Blackburne to put off
      Mr. Creed and that I should come to him for direction in the employment.
      After this Mr. Butler and I to Harper's, where we sat and drank for two
      hours till ten at night; the old woman she was drunk and began to talk
      foolishly in commendation of her son James. Home and to bed. All night
      troubled in my thoughts how to order my business upon this great change
      with me that I could not sleep, and being overheated with drink I made a
      promise the next morning to drink no strong drink this week, for I find
      that it makes me sweat and puts me quite out of order. This day it was
      resolved that the writs do go out in the name of the Keepers of the
      Liberty, and I hear that it is resolved privately that a treaty be offered
      with the King. And that Monk did check his soldiers highly for what they
      did yesterday.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. In the morning went to my father's, whom I took in his cutting
      house,&mdash;[His father was a tailor, and this was his cutting-out room.]&mdash;and
      there I told him my resolution to go to sea with my Lord, and consulted
      with him how to dispose of my wife, and we resolved of letting her be at
      Mr. Bowyer's. Thence to the Treasurer of the Navy, where I received L500
      for my Lord, and having left L200 of it with Mr. Rawlinson at his house
      for Sheply, I went with the rest to the Sun tavern on Fish Street Hill,
      where Mr. Hill, Stevens and Mr. Hater of the Navy Office had invited me,
      where we had good discourse and a fine breakfast of Mr. Hater. Then by
      coach home, where I took occasion to tell my wife of my going to sea, who
      was much troubled at it, and was with some dispute at last willing to
      continue at Mr. Bowyer's in my absence. After this to see Mrs. Jem and
      paid her maid L7, and then to Mr. Blackburne, who told me what Mr. Creed
      did say upon the news of my coming into his place, and that he did propose
      to my Lord that there should be two Secretaries, which made me go to Sir
      H. Wright's where my Lord dined and spoke with him about it, but he seemed
      not to agree to the motion. Hither W. Howe comes to me and so to
      Westminster. In the way he told me, what I was to provide and so forth
      against my going. He went with me to my office, whither also Mr. Madge
      comes half foxed and played the fool upon the violin that made me weary.
      Then to Whitehall and so home and set many of my things in order against
      my going. My wife was late making of caps for me, and the wench making an
      end of a pair of stockings that she was knitting of. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. (Sunday.) All the day busy without my band on, putting up my books
      and things, in order to my going to sea. At night my wife and I went to my
      father's to supper, where J. Norton and Chas. Glascocke supt with us, and
      after supper home, where the wench had provided all things against
      tomorrow to wash, and so to bed, where I much troubled with my cold and
      coughing.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. This day the wench rose at two in the morning to wash, and my wife
      and I lay talking a great while. I by reason of my cold could not tell how
      to sleep. My wife and I to the Exchange, where we bought a great many
      things, where I left her and went into London, and at Bedells the
      bookseller's at the Temple gate I paid L12 10s. 6d. for Mr. Fuller by his
      direction. So came back and at Wilkinson's found Mr. Sheply and some sea
      people, as the cook of the Nazeby and others, at dinner. Then to the White
      Horse in King Street, where I got Mr. Buddle's horse to ride to Huntsmore
      to Mr. Bowyer's, where I found him and all well, and willing to have my
      wife come and board with them while I was at sea, which was the business I
      went about. Here I lay and took a thing for my cold, namely a spoonful of
      honey and a nutmeg scraped into it, by Mr. Bowyer's direction, and so took
      it into my mouth, which I found did do me much good.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. It rained hard and I got up early, and got to London by 8 o'clock at
      my Lord's lodgings, who told me that I was to be secretary, and Creed to
      be deputy treasurer to the Fleet, at which I was troubled, but I could not
      help it. After that to my father's to look after things, and so at my
      shoemaker's and others. At night to Whitehall, where I met with Simons and
      Luellin at drink with them at Roberts at Whitehall. Then to the Admiralty,
      where I talked with Mr. Creed till the Brothers, and they were very
      seemingly willing and glad that I have the place since my Lord would
      dispose of it otherwise than to them. Home and to bed. This day the
      Parliament voted all that had been done by the former Rump against the
      House of Lords be void, and to-night that the writs go out without any
      qualification. Things seem very doubtful what will be the end of all; for
      the Parliament seems to be strong for the King, while the soldiers do all
      talk against.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. To my Lord, where infinity of applications to him and to me. To my
      great trouble, my Lord gives me all the papers that was given to him, to
      put in order and give him an account of them. Here I got half-a-piece of a
      person of Mr. Wright's recommending to my Lord to be Preacher of the
      Speaker frigate. I went hence to St. James's and Mr. Pierce the surgeon
      with me, to speak with Mr. Clerke, Monk's secretary, about getting some
      soldiers removed out of Huntingdon to Oundle, which my Lord told me he did
      to do a courtesy to the town, that he might have the greater interest in
      them, in the choice of the next Parliament; not that he intends to be
      chosen himself, but that he might have Mr. G. Montagu and my Lord
      Mandeville chose there in spite of the Bernards. This done (where I saw
      General Monk and methought he seemed a dull heavy man), he and I to
      Whitehall, where with Luellin we dined at Marsh's. Coming home telling my
      wife what we had to dinner, she had a mind to some cabbage, and I sent for
      some and she had it. Went to the Admiralty, where a strange thing how I am
      already courted by the people. This morning among others that came to me I
      hired a boy of Jenkins of Westminster and Burr to be my clerk. This night
      I went to Mr. Creed's chamber where he gave me the former book of the
      proceedings in the fleet and the Seal. Then to Harper's where old Beard
      was and I took him by coach to my Lord's, but he was not at home, but
      afterwards I found him out at Sir H. Wright's. Thence by coach, it raining
      hard, to Mrs. Jem, where I staid a while, and so home, and late in the
      night put up my things in a sea-chest that Mr. Sheply lent me, and so to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Early packing up my things to be sent by cart with the rest of my
      Lord's. So to Will's, where I took leave of some of my friends. Here I met
      Tom Alcock, one that went to school with me at Huntingdon, but I had not
      seen him these sixteen years. So in the Hall paid and made even with Mrs.
      Michell; afterwards met with old Beale, and at the Axe paid him this
      quarter to Ladyday next. In the afternoon Dick Mathews comes to dine, and
      I went and drank with him at Harper's. So into London by water, and in
      Fish Street my wife and I bought a bit of salmon for 8d. and went to the
      Sun Tavern and ate it, where I did promise to give her all that I have in
      the world but my books, in case I should die at sea. From thence
      homewards; in the way my wife bought linen for three smocks and other
      things. I went to my Lord's and spoke with him. So home with Mrs. Jem by
      coach and then home to my own house. From thence to the Fox in King-street
      to supper on a brave turkey of Mr. Hawly's, with some friends of his
      there, Will Bowyer, &amp;c. After supper I went to Westminster Hall, and
      the Parliament sat till ten at night, thinking and being expected to
      dissolve themselves to-day, but they did not. Great talk to-night that the
      discontented officers did think this night to make a stir, but prevented.
      To the Fox again. Home with my wife, and to bed extraordinary sleepy.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. No sooner out of bed but troubled with abundance of clients, seamen.
      My landlord Vanly's man came to me by my direction yesterday, for I was
      there at his house as I was going to London by water, and I paid him rent
      for my house for this quarter ending at Lady day, and took an acquittance
      that he wrote me from his master. Then to Mr. Sheply, to the Rhenish
      Tavern House, where Mr. Pim, the tailor, was, and gave us a morning draft
      and a neat's tongue. Home and with my wife to London, we dined at my
      father's, where Joyce Norton and Mr. Armiger dined also. After dinner my
      wife took leave of them in order to her going to-morrow to Huntsmore. In
      my way home I went to the Chapel in Chancery Lane to bespeak papers of all
      sorts and other things belonging to writing against my voyage. So home,
      where I spent an hour or two about my business in my study. Thence to the
      Admiralty, and staid a while, so home again, where Will Bowyer came to
      tell us that he would bear my wife company in the coach to-morrow. Then to
      Westminster Hall, where I heard how the Parliament had this day dissolved
      themselves, and did pass very cheerfully through the Hall, and the Speaker
      without his mace. The whole Hall was joyful thereat, as well as
      themselves, and now they begin to talk loud of the King. To-night I am
      told, that yesterday, about five o'clock in the afternoon, one came with a
      ladder to the Great Exchange, and wiped with a brush the inscription that
      was upon King Charles, and that there was a great bonfire made in the
      Exchange, and people called out "God bless. King Charles the Second!"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Then the writing in golden letters, that was engraven under the
     statue of Charles I, in the Royal Exchange ('Exit tyrannus, Regum
     ultimus, anno libertatis Angliae, anno Domini 1648, Januarie xxx.)
     was washed out by a painter, who in the day time raised a ladder,
     and with a pot and brush washed the writing quite out, threw down
     his pot and brush and said it should never do him any more service,
     in regard that it had the honour to put out rebels' hand-writing.
     He then came down, took away his ladder, not a misword said to him,
     and by whose order it was done was not then known.  The merchants
     were glad and joyful, many people were gathered together, and
     against the Exchange made a bonfire. "Rugge's Diurnal."  In the
     Thomason Collection of Civil War Tracts at the British Museum is a
     pamphlet which is dated in MS. March 21st, 1659-60, where this act
     is said to be by order of Monk: "The Loyal Subjects Teares for the
     Sufferings and Absence of their Sovereign Charles II., King of
     England, Scotland, and Ireland; with an Observation upon the
     expunging of 'Exit Tyrannus, Regum ultimus', by order of General
     Monk, and some Advice to the Independents, Anabaptists, Phanatiques,
     &amp;c.  London, 1660."]
</pre>
    <p>
      From the Hall I went home to bed, very sad in mind to part with my wife,
      but God's will be done.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. This morning bade adieu in bed to the company of my wife. We rose
      and I gave my wife some money to serve her for a time, and what papers of
      consequence I had. Then I left her to get her ready and went to my Lord's
      with my boy Eliezer to my Lord's lodging at Mr. Crew's. Here I had much
      business with my Lord, and papers, great store, given me by my Lord to
      dispose of as of the rest. After that, with Mr. Moore home to my house and
      took my wife by coach to the Chequer in Holborn, where, after we had
      drank, &amp;c., she took coach and so farewell. I staid behind with Tom
      Alcock and Mr. Anderson, my old chamber fellow at Cambridge his brother,
      and drank with them there, who were come to me thither about one that
      would have a place at sea. Thence with Mr. Hawly to dinner at Mr. Crew's.
      After dinner to my own house, where all things were put up into the
      dining-room and locked up, and my wife took the keys along with her.
    </p>
    <p>
      This day, in the presence of Mr. Moore (who made it) and Mr. Hawly, I did
      before I went out with my wife, seal my will to her, whereby I did give
      her all that I have in the world, but my books which I give to my brother
      John, excepting only French books, which my wife is to have. In the
      evening at the Admiralty, I met my Lord there and got a commission for
      Williamson to be captain of the Harp frigate, and afterwards went by coach
      taking Mr. Crips with me to my Lord and got him to sign it at table as he
      was at supper. And so to Westminster back again with him with me, who had
      a great desire to go to sea and my Lord told me that he would do him any
      favour. So I went home with him to his mother's house by me in Axe Yard,
      where I found Dr. Clodius's wife and sat there talking and hearing of old
      Mrs. Crisp playing of her old lessons upon the harpsichon till it was time
      to go to bed. After that to bed, and Laud, her son lay with me in the best
      chamber in her house, which indeed was finely furnished.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. I rose early and went to the barber's (Jervas) in Palace Yard and I
      was trimmed by him, and afterwards drank with him a cup or two of ale, and
      did begin to hire his man to go with me to sea. Then to my Lord's lodging
      where I found Captain Williamson and gave him his commission to be Captain
      of the Harp, and he gave me a piece of gold and 20s. in silver. So to my
      own house, where I staid a while and then to dinner with Mr. Shepley at my
      Lord's lodgings. After that to Mr. Mossum's, where he made a very gallant
      sermon upon "Pray for the life of the King and the King's son." (Ezra vi.
      10.) From thence to Mr. Crew's, but my Lord not being within I did not
      stay, but went away and met with Mr. Woodfine, who took me to an alehouse
      in Drury Lane, and we sat and drank together, and ate toasted cakes which
      were very good, and we had a great deal of mirth with the mistress of the
      house about them. From thence homewards, and called at Mr. Blagrave's,
      where I took up my note that he had of mine for 40s., which he two years
      ago did give me as a pawn while he had my lute. So that all things are
      even between him and I. So to Mrs. Crisp, where she and her daughter and
      son and I sat talking till ten o'clock at night, I giving them the best
      advice that I could concerning their son, how he should go to sea, and so
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Early to my Lord, where infinity of business to do, which makes my
      head full; and indeed, for these two or three days, I have not been
      without a great many cares and thoughts concerning them. After that to the
      Admiralty, where a good while with Mr. Blackburne, who told me that it was
      much to be feared that the King would come in, for all good men and good
      things were now discouraged. Thence to Wilkinson's, where Mr. Sheply and I
      dined; and while we were at dinner, my Lord Monk's lifeguard come by with
      the Serjeant at Arms before them, with two Proclamations, that all
      Cavaliers do depart the town; but the other that all officers that were
      lately disbanded should do the same. The last of which Mr. R. Creed, I
      remember, said, that he looked upon it as if they had said, that all God's
      people should depart the town. Thence with some sea officers to the Swan,
      where we drank wine till one comes to me to pay me some money from
      Worcester, viz., L25. His name is Wilday. I sat in another room and took
      my money and drank with him till the rest of my company were gone and so
      we parted. Going home the water was high, and so I got Crockford to carry
      me over it. So home, and left my money there. All the discourse now-a-day
      is, that the King will come again; and for all I see, it is the wishes of
      all; and all do believe that it will be so. My mind is still much troubled
      for my poor wife, but I hope that this undertaking will be worth my pains.
      To Whitehall and staid about business at the Admiralty late, then to Tony
      Robins's, where Capt. Stokes, Mr. Luddington and others were, and I did
      solicit the Captain for Laud Crisp, who gave me a promise that he would
      entertain him. After that to Mrs. Crisp's where Dr. Clodius and his wife
      were. He very merry with drink. We played at cards late and so to bed.
      This day my Lord dined at my Lord Mayor's [Allen], and Jasper was made
      drunk, which my Lord was very angry at.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. This morning I rose early and went to my house to put things in a
      little order against my going, which I conceive will be to-morrow (the
      weather still very rainy). After that to my Lord, where I found very great
      deal of business, he giving me all letters and papers that come to him
      about business, for me to give him account of when we come on shipboard.
      Hence with Capt. Isham by coach to Whitehall to the Admiralty. He and I
      and Chetwind, Doling and Luellin dined together at Marsh's at Whitehall.
      So to the Bull Head whither W. Simons comes to us and I gave them my foy
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Foy. A feast given by one who is about to leave a place.  In Kent,
     according to Grose, a treat to friends, either at going abroad or
     coming home.  See Diary, November 25th, 1661.]
</pre>
    <p>
      against my going to sea; and so we took leave one of another, they
      promising me to write to me to sea. Hither comes Pim's boy, by my
      direction, with two monteeres&mdash;[Monteeres, montero (Spanish), a kind
      of huntsman's cap.]&mdash;for me to take my choice of, and I chose the
      saddest colour and left the other for Mr. Sheply. Hence by coach to
      London, and took a short melancholy leave of my father and mother, without
      having them to drink, or say anything of business one to another. And
      indeed I had a fear upon me I should scarce ever see my mother again, she
      having a great cold then upon her. Then to Westminster, where by reason of
      rain and an easterly wind, the water was so high that there was boats
      rowed in King Street and all our yard was drowned, that one could not go
      to my house, so as no man has seen the like almost, most houses full of
      water.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["In this month the wind was very high, and caused great tides, so
     that great hurt was done to the inhabitants of Westminster, King
     Street being quite drowned.  The Maidenhead boat was cast away, and
     twelve persons with her.  Also, about Dover the waters brake in upon
     the mainland; and in Kent was very much damage done; so that report
     said, there was L20,000 worth of harm done."&mdash;Rugge's Diurnal.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Then back by coach to my Lord's; where I met Mr. Sheply, who staid with me
      waiting for my Lord's coming in till very late. Then he and I, and William
      Howe went with our swords to bring my Lord home from Sir H. Wright's. He
      resolved to go to-morrow if the wind ceased. Sheply and I home by coach. I
      to Mrs. Crisp's, who had sat over a good supper long looking for me. So we
      sat talking and laughing till it was very late, and so Laud and I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. To my Lord's, but the wind very high against us, and the weather bad
      we could not go to-day; here I did very much business, and then to my Lord
      Widdrington's from my Lord, with his desire that he might have the
      disposal of the writs of the Cinque Ports. My Lord was very civil to me,
      and called for wine, and writ a long letter in answer. Thence I went to a
      tavern over against Mr. Pierce's with judge Advocate Fowler and Mr. Burr,
      and sat and drank with them two or three pints of wine. After that to Mr.
      Crew's again and gave my Lord an account of what I had done, and so about
      my business to take leave of my father and mother, which by a mistake I
      have put down yesterday. Thence to Westminster to Crisp's, where we were
      very merry; the old woman sent for a supper for me, and gave me a
      handkercher with strawberry buttons on it, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up very early and set things in order at my house, and so took leave
      of Mrs. Crispe and her daughter (who was in bed) and of Mrs. Hunt. Then to
      my Lord's lodging at the gate and did so there, where Mr. Hawly came to me
      and I gave him the key of my house to keep, and he went with me to Mr.
      Crew's, and there I took my last leave of him. But the weather continuing
      very bad my Lord would not go to-day. My Lord spent this morning private
      in sealing of his last will and testament with Mr. W. Mountagu. After that
      I went forth about my own business to buy a pair of riding grey serge
      stockings and sword and belt and hose, and after that took Wotton and
      Brigden to the Pope's Head Tavern in Chancery Lane, where Gilb. Holland
      and Shelston were, and we dined and drank a great deal of wine, and they
      paid all. Strange how these people do now promise me anything; one a
      rapier, the other a vessel of wine or a gun, and one offered me his silver
      hatband to do him a courtesy. I pray God to keep me from being proud or
      too much lifted up hereby. After that to Westminster, and took leave of
      Kate Sterpin who was very sorry to part with me, and after that of Mr.
      George Mountagu, and received my warrant of Mr. Blackburne, to be
      Secretary to the two Generals of the Fleet. Then to take my leave of the
      Clerks of the Council, and thence Doling and Luellin would have me go with
      them to Mount's chamber, where we sat and talked and then I went away. So
      to my Lord (in my way meeting Chetwind and Swan and bade them farewell)
      where I lay all night with Mr. Andrews. This day Mr. Sheply went away on
      board and I sent my boy with him. This day also Mrs. Jemimah went to
      Marrowbone, so I could not see her. Mr. Moore being out of town to-night I
      could not take leave of him nor speak to him about business which troubled
      me much. I left my small case therefore with Mr. Andrews for him.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up early, carried my Lord's will in a black box to Mr. William
      Montagu for him to keep for him. Then to the barber's and put on my cravat
      there. So to my Lord again, who was almost ready to be gone and had staid
      for me. Hither came Gilb. Holland, and brought me a stick rapier and
      Shelston a sugar-loaf, and had brought his wife who he said was a very
      pretty woman to the Ship tavern hard by for me to see but I could not go.
      Young Reeve also brought me a little perspective glass which I bought for
      my Lord, it cost me 8s. So after that my Lord in Sir H. Wright's coach
      with Captain Isham, Mr. Thomas, John Crew, W. Howe, and I in a Hackney to
      the Tower, where the barges staid for us; my Lord and the Captain in one,
      and W. Howe and I, &amp;c., in the other, to the Long Reach, where the
      Swiftsure lay at anchor; (in our way we saw the great breach which the
      late high water had made, to the loss of many L1000 to the people about
      Limehouse.) Soon as my Lord on board, the guns went off bravely from the
      ships. And a little while after comes the Vice-Admiral Lawson, and seemed
      very respectful to my Lord, and so did the rest of the Commanders of the
      frigates that were thereabouts. I to the cabin allotted for me, which was
      the best that any had that belonged to my Lord. I got out some things out
      of my chest for writing and to work presently, Mr. Burr and I both. I
      supped at the deck table with Mr. Sheply. We were late writing of orders
      for the getting of ships ready, &amp;c.; and also making of others to all
      the seaports between Hastings and Yarmouth, to stop all dangerous persons
      that are going or coming between Flanders and there. After that to bed in
      my cabin, which was but short; however I made shift with it and slept very
      well, and the weather being good I was not sick at all yet, I know not
      what I shall be.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. At work hard all the day writing letters to the Council, &amp;c.
      This day Mr. Creed came on: board and dined very boldly with my Lord, but
      he could not get a bed there. At night Capt. Isham who had been at
      Gravesend all last night and to-day came and brought Mr. Lucy (one
      acquainted with Mrs. Pierce, with whom I had been at her house), I drank
      with him in the Captain's cabin, but my business could not stay with him.
      I despatch many letters to-day abroad and it was late before we could get
      to bed. Mr. Sheply and Howe supped with me in my cabin. The boy Eliezer
      flung down a can of beer upon my papers which made me give him a box of
      the ear, it having all spoiled my papers and cost me a great deal of work.
      So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. (Lord's day). About two o'clock in the morning, letters came from
      London by our coxon, so they waked me, but I would not rise but bid him
      stay till morning, which he did, and then I rose and carried them in to my
      Lord, who read them a-bed. Among the rest, there was the writ and mandate
      for him to dispose to the Cinque Ports for choice of Parliament-men. There
      was also one for me from Mr. Blackburne, who with his own hand
      superscribes it to S.P. Esq., of which God knows I was not a little proud.
      After that I wrote a letter to the Clerk of Dover Castle, to come to my
      Lord about issuing of those writs. About ten o'clock Mr. Ibbott, at the
      end of the long table, begun to pray and preach and indeed made a very
      good sermon, upon the duty of all Christians to be stedfast in faith.
      After that Captain Cuttance and I had oysters, my Lord being in his cabin
      not intending to stir out to-day. After that up into the great cabin above
      to dinner with the Captain, where was Captain Isham and all the officers
      of the ship. I took place of all but the Captains; after dinner I wrote a
      great many letters to my friends at London. After that, sermon again, at
      which I slept, God forgive me! After that, it being a fair day, I walked
      with the Captain upon the deck talking. At night I supped with him and
      after that had orders from my Lord about some business to be done against
      to-morrow, which I sat up late and did and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. This day it is two years since it pleased God that I was cut of the
      stone at Mrs. Turner's in Salisbury Court. And did resolve while I live to
      keep it a festival, as I did the last year at my house, and for ever to
      have Mrs. Turner and her company with me. But now it pleases God that I am
      where I am and so prevented to do it openly; only within my soul I can and
      do rejoice, and bless God, being at this time blessed be his holy name, in
      as good health as ever I was in my life. This morning I rose early, and
      went about making of an establishment of the whole Fleet, and a list of
      all the ships, with the number of men and guns: About an hour after that,
      we had a meeting of the principal commanders and seamen, to proportion out
      the number of these things. After that to dinner, there being very many
      commanders on board. All the afternoon very many orders were made, till I
      was very weary. At night Mr. Sheply and W. Howe came and brought some
      bottles of wine and some things to eat in my cabin, where we were very
      merry, remembering the day of being cut for the stone. Captain Cuttance
      came afterwards and sat drinking a bottle of wine till eleven, a kindness
      he do not usually do the greatest officer in the ship. After that to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Early in the morning at making a fair new establishment of the Fleet
      to send to the Council. This morning, the wind came about, and we fell
      into the Hope,&mdash;[A reach of the Thames near Tilbury.]&mdash;and in
      our passing by the Vice-Admiral, he and the rest of the frigates, with
      him, did give us abundance of guns and we them, so much that the report of
      them broke all the windows in my cabin and broke off the iron bar that was
      upon it to keep anybody from creeping in at the Scuttle.&mdash;["A small
      hole or port cut either in the deck or side of a ship, generally for
      ventilation. That in the deck is a small hatch-way."&mdash;Smyth's
      Sailor's Word-Book.]&mdash;This noon I sat the first time with my Lord at
      table since my coming to sea. All the afternoon exceeding busy in writing
      of letters and orders. In the afternoon, Sir Harry Wright came onboard us,
      about his business of being chosen Parliament-man. My Lord brought him to
      see my cabin, when I was hard a-writing. At night supped with my Lord too,
      with the Captain, and after that to work again till it be very late. So to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. This morning and the whole day busy, and that the more because Mr.
      Burr was about his own business all the day at Gravesend. At night there
      was a gentleman very well bred, his name was Banes, going for Flushing,
      who spoke French and Latin very well, brought by direction from Captain
      Clerke hither, as a prisoner, because he called out of the vessel that he
      went in, "Where is your King, we have done our business, Vive le Roi." He
      confessed himself a Cavalier in his heart, and that he and his whole
      family had fought for the King; but that he was then drunk, having been
      all night taking his leave at Gravesend the night before, and so could not
      remember what it was that he said; but in his words and carriage showed
      much of a gentleman. My Lord had a great kindness for him, but did not
      think it safe to release him, but commanded him to be used civilly, so he
      was taken to the Master's Cabin and had supper there. In the meantime I
      wrote a letter to the Council about him, and an order for the vessel to be
      sent for back that he was taken out of. But a while after, he sent a
      letter down to my Lord, which my Lord did like very well, and did advise
      with me what was best to be done. So I put in something to my Lord and
      then to the Captain that the gentleman was to be released and the letter
      stopped, which was done. So I went up and sat and talked with him in Latin
      and French, and drank a bottle or two with him; and about eleven at night
      he took boat again, and so God bless him. Thence I to my cabin and to bed.
      This day we had news of the election at Huntingdon for Bernard and Pedly,
      at which my Lord was much troubled for his friends' missing of it.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. We lie still a little below Gravesend. At night Mr. Sheply returned
      from London, and told us of several elections for the next Parliament.
      That the King's effigies was new making to be set up in the Exchange
      again. This evening was a great whispering of some of the Vice-Admiral's
      captains that they were dissatisfied, and did intend to fight themselves,
      to oppose the General. But it was soon hushed, and the Vice-Admiral did
      wholly deny any such thing, and protested to stand by the General. At
      night Mr. Sheply, W. Howe, and I supped in my cabin. So up to the Master's
      cabin, where we sat talking, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. I was saluted in the morning with two letters, from some that I had
      done a favour to, which brought me in each a piece of gold. This day,
      while my Lord and we were at dinner, the Nazeby came in sight towards us,
      and at last came to anchor close by us. After dinner my Lord and many
      others went on board her, where every thing was out of order, and a new
      chimney made for my Lord in his bedchamber, which he was much pleased
      with. My Lord, in his discourse, discovered a great deal of love to this
      ship.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. This morning Captain Jowles of the "Wexford" came on board, for whom
      I got commission from my Lord to be commander of the ship. Upon the doing
      thereof he was to make the 20s. piece that he sent me yesterday, up L5;
      wherefore he sent me a bill that he did owe me L4., which I sent my boy to
      Gravesend with him, and he did give the boy L4 for me, and the boy gave
      him the bill under his hand. This morning, Mr. Hill that lives in Axe-yard
      was here on board with the Vice-Admiral. I did give him a bottle of wine,
      and was exceedingly satisfied of the power that I have to make my friends
      welcome. Many orders to make all the afternoon. At night Mr. Sheply, Howe,
      Ibbott, and I supped in my cabin together.
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    <p>
      April 1st (Lord's day). Mr. Ibbott preached very well. After dinner my
      Lord did give me a private list of all the ships that were to be set out
      this summer, wherein I do discern that he bath made it his care to put by
      as much of the Anabaptists as he can. By reason of my Lord and my being
      busy to send away the packet by Mr. Cooke of the Nazeby, it was four
      o'clock before we could begin sermon again. This day Captain Guy come on
      board from Dunkirk, who tells me that the King will come in, and that the
      soldiers at Dunkirk do drink the King's health in the streets. At night
      the Captain, Sir R. Stayner, Mr. Sheply, and I did sup together in the
      Captain's cabin. I made a commission for Captain Wilgness, of the Bear,
      to-night, which got me 30s. So after writing a while I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. Up very early, and to get all my things and my boy's packed up. Great
      concourse of commanders here this morning to take leave of my Lord upon
      his going into the Nazeby, so that the table was full, so there dined
      below many commanders, and Mr. Creed, who was much troubled to hear that
      he could not go along with my Lord, for he had already got all his things
      thither, thinking to stay there, but W. Howe was very high against it, and
      he indeed did put him out, though everybody was glad of it. After dinner I
      went in one of the boats with my boy before my Lord, and made shift before
      night to get my cabin in pretty good order. It is but little, but very
      convenient, having one window to the sea and another to the deck, and a
      good bed. This morning comes Mr. Ed. Pickering, like a coxcomb as he
      always was. He tells me that the King will come in, but that Monk did
      resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it.
    </p>
    <p>
      3d. Late to bed. About three in the morning there was great knocking at my
      cabin, which with much difficulty (so they say) waked me, and I rose, but
      it was only for a packet, so went to my bed again, and in the morning gave
      it my Lord. This morning Capt. Isham comes on board to see my Lord and
      drunk his wine before he went into the Downs, there likewise come many
      merchants to get convoy to the Baltique, which a course was taken for.
      They dined with my Lord, and one of them by name Alderman Wood talked much
      to my Lord of the hopes that we have now to be settled, (under the King he
      meant); but my Lord took no notice of it. After dinner which was late my
      Lord went on shore, and after him I and Capt. Sparling went in his boat,
      but the water being almost at low water we could not stay for fear of not
      getting into our boat again. So back again. This day come the Lieutenant
      of the Swiftsure, who was sent by my Lord to Hastings, one of the Cinque
      Ports, to have got Mr. Edward Montagu to have been one of their burgesses,
      but could not, for they were all promised before. After he had done his
      message, I took him and Mr. Pierce, the surgeon (who this day came on
      board, and not before), to my cabin, where we drank a bottle of wine. At
      night, busy a-writing, and so to bed. My heart exceeding heavy for not
      hearing of my dear wife, and indeed I do not remember that ever my heart
      was so apprehensive of her absence as at this very time.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. This morning I dispatch many letters of my own private business to
      London. There come Colonel Thomson with the wooden leg, and General Pen,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This is the first mention in the Diary of Admiral (afterwards Sir
     William) Penn, with whom Pepys was subsequently so particularly
     intimate.  At this time admirals were sometimes styled generals.
     William Penn was born at Bristol in 1621, of the ancient family of
     the Penns of Penn Lodge, Wilts.  He was Captain at the age of
     twenty-one; Rear-Admiral of Ireland at twenty-three; Vice-Admiral of
     England and General in the first Dutch war, at thirty-two.  He was
     subsequently M.P. for Weymouth, Governor of Kingsale, and Vice-
     Admiral of Munster.  He was a highly successful commander, and in
     1654 he obtained possession of Jamaica.  He was appointed a
     Commissioner of the Navy in 1660, in which year he was knighted.
     After the Dutch fight in 1665, where he distinguished himself as
     second in command under the Duke of York, he took leave of the sea,
     but continued to act as a Commissioner for the Navy till 1669, when
     he retired to Wanstead, on account of his bodily infirmities, and
     dying there, September 16th, 1670, aged forty-nine, was buried in
     the church of St. Mary Redcliffe, in Bristol, where a monument to
     his memory was erected.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and dined with my Lord and Mr. Blackburne, who told me that it was certain
      now that the King must of necessity come in, and that one of the Council
      told him there is something doing in order to a treaty already among them.
      And it was strange to hear how Mr. Blackburne did already begin to commend
      him for a sober man, and how quiet he would be under his government, &amp;c.
      I dined all alone to prevent company, which was exceeding great to-day, in
      my cabin. After these two were gone Sir W. Wheeler and Sir John Petters
      came on board and staid about two or three hours, and so went away. The
      Commissioners came to-day, only to consult about a further reducement of
      the Fleet, and to pay them as fast as they can. I did give Davis, their
      servant, L5 10s. to give to Mr. Moore from me, in part of the L7 that I
      borrowed of him, and he is to discount the rest out of the 36s. that he do
      owe me. At night, my Lord resolved to send the Captain of our ship to
      Waymouth and promote his being chosen there, which he did put himself into
      a readiness to do the next morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Infinity of business all the morning of orders to make, that I was
      very much perplexed that Mr. Burr had failed me of coming back last night,
      and we ready to set sail, which we did about noon, and came in the evening
      to Lee roads and anchored. At night Mr. Sheply overtook us who had been at
      Gray's Market this morning. I spent all the afternoon upon the deck, it
      being very pleasant weather. This afternoon Sir Rich. Stayner and Mr.
      Creed, after we were come to anchor, did come on board, and Creed brought
      me L30, which my Lord had ordered him to pay me upon account, and Captain
      Clerke brought me a noted caudle. At night very sleepy to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. This morning came my brother-in-law Balty to see me, and to desire to
      be here with me as Reformado,&mdash;["a broken or disbanded officer."]
      which did much trouble me. But after dinner (my Lord using him very
      civilly, at table) I spoke to my Lord, and he presented me a letter to
      Captain Stokes for him that he should be there. All the day with him
      walking and talking, we under sail as far as the Spitts. In the afternoon,
      W. Howe and I to our viallins, the first time since we came on board. This
      afternoon I made even with my Lord to this day, and did give him all the
      money remaining in my hands. In the evening, it being fine moonshine, I
      staid late walking upon the quarter-deck with Mr. Cuttance, learning of
      some sea terms; and so down to supper and to bed, having an hour before
      put Balty into Burr's cabin, he being out of the ship.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. This day, about nine o'clock in the morning, the wind grew high, and
      we being among the sands lay at anchor; I began to be dizzy and squeamish.
      Before dinner my Lord sent for me down to eat some oysters, the best my
      Lord said that ever he ate in his life, though I have ate as good at
      Bardsey. After dinner, and all the afternoon I walked upon the deck to
      keep myself from being sick, and at last about five o'clock, went to bed
      and got a caudle made me, and sleep upon it very well. This day Mr. Sheply
      went to Sheppy.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). Very calm again, and I pretty well, but my head aked all
      day. About noon set sail; in our way I see many vessels and masts, which
      are now the greatest guides for ships. We had a brave wind all the
      afternoon, and overtook two good merchantmen that overtook us yesterday,
      going to the East Indies. The lieutenant and I lay out of his window with
      his glass, looking at the women that were on board them, being pretty
      handsome. This evening Major Willoughby, who had been here three or four
      days on board with Mr. Pickering, went on board a catch [ketch] for
      Dunkirk. We continued sailing when I went to bed, being somewhat ill
      again, and Will Howe, the surgeon, parson, and Balty supped in the
      Lieutenant's cabin and afterwards sat disputing, the parson for and I
      against extemporary prayers, very hot.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. We having sailed all night, were come in sight of the Nore and South
      Forelands in the morning, and so sailed all day. In the afternoon we had a
      very fresh gale, which I brooked better than I thought I should be able to
      do. This afternoon I first saw France and Calais, with which I was much
      pleased, though it was at a distance. About five o'clock we came to the
      Goodwin, so to the Castles about Deal; where our Fleet lay, among whom we
      anchored. Great was the shout of guns from the castles and ships, and our
      answers, that I never heard yet so great rattling of guns. Nor could we
      see one another on board for the smoke that was among us, nor one ship
      from another. Soon as we came to anchor, the captains came from on board
      their ships all to us on board. This afternoon I wrote letters for my Lord
      to the Council, &amp;c., which Mr. Dickering was to carry, who took his
      leave this night of my Lord, and Balty after I had wrote two or three
      letters by him to my wife and Mr. Bowyer, and had drank a bottle of wine
      with him in my cabin which J. Goods and W. Howe brought on purpose, he
      took leave of me too to go away to-morrow morning with Mr. Dickering. I
      lent Balty 15s. which he was to pay to my wife. It was one in the morning
      before we parted. This evening Mr. Sheply came on board, having escaped a
      very great danger upon a sand coming from Chatham.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. This morning many or most of the commanders in the Fleet came on
      board and dined here, so that some of them and I dined together in the
      Round-house, where we were very merry. Hither came the Vice-Admiral to us,
      and sat and talked and seemed a very good-natured man. At night as I was
      all alone in my cabin, in a melancholy fit playing on my viallin, my Lord
      and Sir R. Stayner came into the coach
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["A sort of chamber or apartment in a large ship of war, just before
     the great cabin.  The floor of it is formed by the aftmost part of
     the quarter deck, and the roof of it by the poop: it is generally
     the habitation of the flag-captain."&mdash;Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and supped there, and called me out to supper with them. After that up to
      the Lieutenant's cabin, where he and I and Sir Richard sat till 11 o'clock
      talking, and so to bed. This day my Lord Goring returned from France, and
      landed at Dover.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. A Gentleman came this morning from my Lord of Manchester to my Lord
      for a pass for Mr. Boyle,' which was made him. I ate a good breakfast by
      my Lord's orders with him in the great cabin below. The wind all this day
      was very high, so that a gentleman that was at dinner with my Lord that
      came along with Sir John Bloys (who seemed a fine man) was forced to rise
      from table. This afternoon came a great packet of letters from London
      directed to me, among the rest two from my wife, the first that I have
      since coming away from London. All the news from London is that things go
      on further towards a King. That the Skinners' Company the other day at
      their entertaining of General Monk had took down the Parliament Arms in
      their Hall, and set up the King's. In the evening my Lord and I had a
      great deal of discourse about the several Captains of the Fleet and his
      interest among them, and had his mind clear to bring in the King. He
      confessed to me that he was not sure of his own Captain [Cuttance] to be
      true to him, and that he did not like Captain Stokes. At night W. Howe and
      I at our viallins in my cabin, where Mr. Ibbott and the lieutenant were
      late. I staid the lieutenant late, shewing him my manner of keeping a
      journal. After that to bed. It comes now into my mind to observe that I am
      sensible that I have been a little too free to make mirth with the
      minister of our ship, he being a very sober and an upright man.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. This day, the weather being very bad, we had no strangers on board.
      In the afternoon came the Vice-Admiral on board, with whom my Lord
      consulted, and I sent a packet to London at night with several letters to
      my friends, as to my wife about my getting of money for her when she
      should need it, to Mr. Bowyer that he tell me when the Messieurs of the
      offices be paid, to Mr. Moore about the business of my office, and making
      even with him as to matter of money. At night after I had despatched my
      letters, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. This day very foul all day for rain and wind. In the afternoon set
      my own things in my cabin and chests in better order than hitherto, and
      set my papers in order. At night sent another packet to London by the
      post, and after that was done I went up to the lieutenant's cabin and
      there we broached a vessel of ale that we had sent for among us from Deal
      to-day. There was the minister and doctor with us. After that till one
      o'clock in the morning writing letters to Mr. Downing about my business of
      continuing my office to myself, only Mr. Moore to execute it for me. I had
      also a very serious and effectual letter from my Lord to him to that
      purpose. After that done then to bed, and it being very rainy, and the
      rain coming upon my bed, I went and lay with John Goods in the great cabin
      below, the wind being so high that we were faro to lower some of the
      masts. I to bed, and what with the goodness of the bed and the rocking of
      the ship I slept till almost ten o'clock, and then&mdash;
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Rose and drank a good morning draught there with Mr. Sheply, which
      occasioned my thinking upon the happy life that I live now, had I nothing
      to care for but myself. The sea was this morning very high, and looking
      out of the window I saw our boat come with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, in it
      in great danger, who endeavouring to come on board us, had like to have
      been drowned had it not been for a rope. This day I was informed that my
      Lord Lambert is got out of the Towers and that there is L100 proffered to
      whoever shall bring him forth to the Council of State.
    </p>
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     [The manner of the escape of John Lambert, out of the Tower, on the
     11th inst., as related by Rugge:&mdash;"That about eight of the clock at
     night he escaped by a rope tied fast to his window, by which he slid
     down, and in each hand he had a handkerchief; and six men were ready
     to receive him, who had a barge to hasten him away.  She who made
     the bed, being privy to his escape, that night, to blind the warder
     when he came to lock the chamber-door, went to bed, and possessed
     Colonel Lambert's place, and put on his night-cap.  So, when the
     said warder came to lock the door, according to his usual manner, he
     found the curtains drawn, and conceiving it to be Colonel John
     Lambert, he said, 'Good night, my Lord.'  To which a seeming voice
     replied, and prevented all further jealousies.  The next morning, on
     coming to unlock the door, and espying her face, he cried out, 'In
     the name of God, Joan, what makes you here?  Where is my Lord
     Lambert?'  She said, 'He is gone; but I cannot tell whither.'
     Whereupon he caused her to rise, and carried her before the officer
     in the Tower, and [she] was committed to custody.  Some said that a
     lady knit for him a garter of silk, by which he was conveyed down,
     and that she received L100 for her pains."&mdash;B]
</pre>
    <p>
      My Lord is chosen at Waymouth this morning; my Lord had his freedom
      brought him by Captain Tiddiman of the port of Dover, by which he is
      capable of being elected for them. This day I heard that the Army had in
      general declared to stand by what the next Parliament shall do. At night
      supped with my Lord.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). Up early and was trimmed by the barber in the great
      cabin below. After that to put my clothes on and then to sermon, and then
      to dinner, where my Lord told us that the University of Cambridge had a
      mind to choose him for their burgess, which he pleased himself with, to
      think that they do look upon him as a thriving man, and said so openly at
      table. At dinner-time Mr. Cook came back from London with a packet which
      caused my Lord to be full of thoughts all day, and at night he bid me
      privately to get two commissions ready, one for Capt. Robert Blake to be
      captain of the Worcester, in the room of Capt. Dekings, an anabaptist, and
      one that had witnessed a great deal of discontent with the present
      proceedings. The other for Capt. Coppin to come out of that into the
      Newbury in the room of Blake, whereby I perceive that General Monk do
      resolve to make a thorough change, to make way for the King. From London I
      hear that since Lambert got out of the Tower, the Fanatiques had held up
      their heads high, but I hope all that will come to nothing. Late a writing
      of letters to London to get ready for Mr. Cook. Then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. And about 4 o'clock in the morning Mr. Cook waked me where I lay in
      the great cabin below, and I did give him his packet and directions for
      London. So to sleep again. All the morning giving out orders and tickets
      to the Commanders of the Fleet to discharge all supernumeraries that they
      had above the number that the Council had set in their last establishment.
      After dinner busy all the afternoon writing, and so till night, then to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. All the morning getting ready commissions for the Vice-Admiral and
      the Rear-Admiral, wherein my Lord was very careful to express the utmost
      of his own power, commanding them to obey what orders they should receive
      from the Parliament, &amp;c., or both or either of the Generals.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir Edward Montagu afterwards recommended the Duke of York as High
     Admiral, to give regular and lawful commissions to the Commanders of
     the Fleet, instead of those which they had received from Sir Edward
     himself, or from the Rump Parliament.&mdash;Kennett's Register, p. 163.]
</pre>
    <p>
      The Vice-Admiral dined with us, and in the afternoon my Lord called me to
      give him the commission for him, which I did, and he gave it him himself.
      A very pleasant afternoon, and I upon the deck all the day, it was so
      clear that my Lord's glass shewed us Calais very plain, and the cliffs
      were as plain to be seen as Kent, and my Lord at first made me believe
      that it was Kent. At night, after supper, my Lord called for the
      Rear-Admiral's commission, which I brought him, and I sitting in my study
      heard my Lord discourse with him concerning D. King's and Newberry's being
      put out of commission. And by the way I did observe that my Lord did speak
      more openly his mind to me afterwards at night than I can find that he did
      to the Rear-Admiral, though his great confidant. For I was with him an
      hour together, when he told me clearly his thoughts that the King would
      carry it, and that he did think himself very happy that he was now at sea,
      as well for his own sake, as that he thought he might do his country some
      service in keeping things quiet. To bed, and shifting myself from top to
      toe, there being J. Goods and W. Howe sat late by my bedside talking. So
      to sleep, every day bringing me a fresh sense of the pleasure of my
      present life.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. This morning very early came Mr. Edward Montagu on board, but what
      was the business of his coming again or before without any servant and
      making no stay at all I cannot guess. This day Sir R. Stayner, Mr. Sheply,
      and as many of my Lord's people as could be spared went to Dover to get
      things ready against to-morrow for the election there. I all the afternoon
      dictating in my cabin (my own head being troubled with multiplicity of
      business) to Burr, who wrote for me above a dozen letters, by which I have
      made my mind more light and clear than I have had it yet since I came on
      board. At night sent a packet to London, and Mr. Cook returned hence
      bringing me this news, that the Sectaries do talk high what they will do,
      but I believe all to no purpose, but the Cavaliers are something unwise to
      talk so high on the other side as they do. That the Lords do meet every
      day at my Lord of Manchester's, and resolve to sit the first day of the
      Parliament. That it is evident now that the General and the Council do
      resolve to make way for the King's coming. And it is now clear that either
      the Fanatiques must now be undone, or the gentry and citizens throughout
      England, and clergy must fall, in spite of their militia and army, which
      is not at all possible I think. At night I supped with W. Howe and Mr.
      Luellin (being the first time that I had been so long with him) in the
      great cabin below. After that to bed, and W. Howe sat by my bedside, and
      he and I sang a psalm or two and so I to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. A great deal of business all this day, and Burr being gone to shore
      without my leave did vex me much. At dinner news was brought us that my
      Lord was chosen at Dover. This afternoon came one Mr. Mansell on board as
      a Reformado, to whom my Lord did shew exceeding great respect, but upon
      what account I do not yet know. This day it has rained much, so that when
      I came to go to bed I found it wet through, so I was fain to wrap myself
      up in a dry sheet, and so lay all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. All the morning I was busy to get my window altered, and to have my
      table set as I would have it, which after it was done I was infinitely
      pleased with it, and also to see what a command I have to have every one
      ready to come and go at my command. This evening came Mr. Boyle on board,
      for whom I writ an order for a ship to transport him to Flushing. He
      supped with my Lord, my Lord using him as a person of honour. This evening
      too came Mr. John Pickering on board us. This evening my head ached
      exceedingly, which I impute to my sitting backwards in my cabin, otherwise
      than I am used to do. To-night Mr. Sheply told me that he heard for
      certain at Dover that Mr. Edw. Montagu did go beyond sea when he was here
      first the other day, and I am apt to believe that he went to speak with
      the King. This day one told me how that at the election at Cambridge for
      knights of the shire, Wendby and Thornton by declaring to stand for the
      Parliament and a King and the settlement of the Church, did carry it
      against all expectation against Sir Dudley North and Sir Thomas Willis! I
      supped to-night with Mr. Sheply below at the half-deck table, and after
      that I saw Mr. Pickering whom my Lord brought down to his cabin, and so to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. This day dined Sir John Boys
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Of Bonnington and Sandwich, Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber to
     Charles I.  He defended Donnington Castle, Berkshire, for the King
     against Jeremiah Horton, 1644, and received an augmentation to his
     arms in consequence.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and some other gentlemen formerly great Cavaliers, and among the rest one
      Mr. Norwood, for whom my Lord give a convoy to carry him to the Brill,&mdash;[Brielle,
      or Den Briel, a seaport town in the province of South Holland.]&mdash;but
      he is certainly going to the King. For my Lord commanded me that I should
      not enter his name in my book. My Lord do show them and that sort of
      people great civility. All their discourse and others are of the King's
      coming, and we begin to speak of it very freely. And heard how in many
      churches in London, and upon many signs there, and upon merchants' ships
      in the river, they had set up the King's arms. In the afternoon the
      Captain would by all means have me up to his cabin, and there treated me
      huge nobly, giving me a barrel of pickled oysters, and opened another for
      me, and a bottle of wine, which was a very great favour. At night late
      singing with W. Howe, and under the barber's hands in the coach. This
      night there came one with a letter from Mr. Edw. Montagu to my Lord, with
      command to deliver it to his own hands. I do believe that he do carry some
      close business on for the King.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys's guess at E. Montagu's business is confirmed by Clarendon's
     account of his employment of him to negotiate with Lord Sandwich on
     behalf of the King.  ("History of the Rebellion," book xvi.)&mdash;Notes
     and Queries, vol. x.  p. 3&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      This day I had a large letter from Mr. Moore, giving me an account of the
      present dispute at London that is like to be at the beginning of the
      Parliament, about the House of Lords, who do resolve to sit with the
      Commons, as not thinking themselves dissolved yet. Which, whether it be
      granted or no, or whether they will sit or no, it will bring a great many
      inconveniences. His letter I keep, it being a very well writ one.
    </p>
    <p>
      22d (Easter Sunday). Several Londoners, strangers, friends of the
      Captains, dined here, who, among other things told us, how the King's Arms
      are every day set up in houses and churches, particularly in Allhallows
      Church in Thames-street, John Simpson's church, which being privately done
      was, a great eye-sore to his people when they came to church and saw it.
      Also they told us for certain, that the King's statue is making by the
      Mercers' Company (who are bound to do it) to set up in the Exchange. After
      sermon in the afternoon I fell to writing letters against to-morrow to
      send to London. After supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. All the morning very busy getting my packet ready for London, only
      for an hour or two had the Captain and Mr. Sheply in my cabin at the
      barrel of pickled oysters that the Captain did give me on Saturday last.
      After dinner I sent Mr. Dunn to London with the packet. This afternoon I
      had 40s. given me by Captain Cowes of the Paradox.' In the evening the
      first time that we had any sport among the seamen, and indeed there was
      extraordinary good sport after my Lord had done playing at ninepins. After
      that W. Howe and I went to play two trebles in the great cabin below,
      which my Lord hearing, after supper he called for our instruments, and
      played a set of Lock's, two trebles, and a base, and that being done, he
      fell to singing of a song made upon the Rump, with which he played himself
      well, to the tune of "The Blacksmith." After all that done, then to bed.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The Blacksmith" was the same tune as "Green Sleeves."  The
     earliest known copy of "The Praise of the Blacksmith" is in "An
     Antidote against Melancholy," 1661.  See "Roxburghe Ballads," ed.
     W. Chappell, 1872, vol. ii.  p. 126.  (Ballad Society:)]
</pre>
    <p>
      24th. This morning I had Mr. Luellin and Mr. Sheply to the remainder of my
      oysters that were left yesterday. After that very busy all the morning.
      While I was at dinner with my Lord, the Coxon of the Vice-Admiral came for
      me to the Vice-Admiral to dinner. So I told my Lord and he gave me leave
      to go. I rose therefore from table and went, where there was very many
      commanders, and very pleasant we were on board the London, which hath a
      state-room much bigger than the Nazeby, but not so rich. After that, with
      the Captain on board our own ship, where we were saluted with the news of
      Lambert's being taken, which news was brought to London on Sunday last. He
      was taken in Northamptonshire by Colonel Ingoldsby, at the head of a
      party, by which means their whole design is broke, and things now very
      open and safe. And every man begins to be merry and full of hopes. In the
      afternoon my Lord gave a great large character to write out, so I spent
      all the day about it, and after supper my Lord and we had some more very
      good musique and singing of "Turne Amaryllis," as it is printed in the
      song book, with which my Lord was very much pleased. After that to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. All the morning about my Lord's character. Dined to-day with Captain
      Clerke on board the Speaker (a very brave ship) where was the
      Vice-Admiral, Rear-Admiral, and many other commanders. After dinner home,
      not a little contented to see how I am treated, and with what respect made
      a fellow to the best commanders in the Fleet. All the afternoon finishing
      of the character, which I did and gave it my Lord, it being very
      handsomely done and a very good one in itself, but that not truly
      Alphabetical. Supped with Mr. Sheply, W. Howe, &amp;c. in Mr. Pierce, the
      Purser's cabin, where very merry, and so to bed. Captain Isham came hither
      to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. This day came Mr. Donne back from London, who brought letters with
      him that signify the meeting of the Parliament yesterday. And in the
      afternoon by other letters I hear, that about twelve of the Lords met and
      had chosen my Lord of Manchester' Speaker of the House of Lords (the young
      Lords that never sat yet, do forbear to sit for the present); and Sir
      Harbottle Grimstone, Speaker for the House of Commons. The House of Lords
      sent to have a conference with the House of Commons, which, after a little
      debate, was granted. Dr. Reynolds' preached before the Commons before they
      sat. My Lord told me how Sir H. Yelverton (formerly my school-fellow) was
      chosen in the first place for Northamptonshire and Mr. Crew in the second.
      And told me how he did believe that the Cavaliers have now the upper hand
      clear of the Presbyterians. All the afternoon I was writing of letters,
      among the rest one to W. Simons, Peter Luellin and Tom Doling, which
      because it is somewhat merry I keep a copy of. After that done Mr. Sheply,
      W. Howe and I down with J. Goods into my Lord's storeroom of wine and
      other drink, where it was very pleasant to observe the massy timbers that
      the ship is made of. We in the room were wholly under water and yet a deck
      below that. After that to supper, where Tom Guy supped with us, and we had
      very good laughing, and after that some musique, where Mr. Pickering
      beginning to play a bass part upon the viall did it so like a fool that I
      was ashamed of him. After that to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. This morning Burr was absent again from on board, which I was
      troubled at, and spoke to Mr. Pierce, Purser, to speak to him of it, and
      it is my mind. This morning Pim [the tailor] spent in my cabin, putting a
      great many ribbons to a suit. After dinner in the afternoon came on board
      Sir Thomas Hatton and Sir R. Maleverer going for Flushing; but all the
      world know that they go where the rest of the many gentlemen go that every
      day flock to the King at Breda.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The King arrived at Breda on the 14th April.  Sir W. Lower writes
     ("Voiage and Residence of Charles II. in Holland," p. 5): "Many
     considerations obliged him to depart the territories under the
     obedience of the King of Spain in this conjuncture of affairs."]
</pre>
    <p>
      They supped here, and my Lord treated them as he do the rest that go
      thither, with a great deal of civility. While we were at supper a packet
      came, wherein much news from several friends. The chief is that, that I
      had from Mr. Moore, viz. that he fears the Cavaliers in the House will be
      so high, that the others will be forced to leave the House and fall in
      with General Monk, and so offer things to the King so high on the
      Presbyterian account that he may refuse, and so they will endeavour some
      more mischief; but when I told my Lord it, he shook his head and told me,
      that the Presbyterians are deceived, for the General is certainly for the
      King's interest, and so they will not be able to prevail that way with
      him. After supper the two knights went on board the Grantham, that is to
      convey them to Flushing. I am informed that the Exchequer is now so low,
      that there is not L20 there, to give the messenger that brought the news
      of Lambert's being taken; which story is very strange that he should lose
      his reputation of being a man of courage now at one blow, for that he was
      not able to fight one stroke, but desired of Colonel Ingoldsby several
      times for God's sake to let him escape. Late reading my letters, my mind
      being much troubled to think that, after all our hopes, we should have any
      cause to fear any more disappointments therein. To bed. This day I made
      even with Mr. Creed, by sending him my bill and he me my money by Burr
      whom I sent for it.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. This morning sending a packet by Mr. Dunne to London. In the
      afternoon I played at ninepins with Mr. Pickering, I and Mr. Pett against
      him and Ted Osgood, and won a crown apiece of him. He had not money enough
      to pay me. After supper my Lord exceeding merry, and he and I and W. Howe
      to sing, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Sunday). This day I put on first my fine cloth suit made of a cloak
      that had like to have been [dirted] a year ago, the very day that I put it
      on. After sermon in the morning Mr. Cook came from London with a packet,
      bringing news how all the young lords that were not in arms against the
      Parliament do now sit. That a letter is come from the King to the House,
      which is locked up by the Council 'till next Tuesday that it may be read
      in the open House when they meet again, they having adjourned till then to
      keep a fast tomorrow. And so the contents is not yet known. L13,000 of the
      L20,000 given to General Monk is paid out of the Exchequer, he giving L12
      among the teller clerks of Exchequer. My Lord called me into the great
      cabin below, where I opened my letters and he told me that the
      Presbyterians are quite mastered by the Cavaliers, and that he fears Mr.
      Crew did go a little too far the other day in keeping out the young lords
      from sitting. That he do expect that the King should be brought over
      suddenly, without staying to make any terms at all, saying that the
      Presbyterians did intend to have brought him in with such conditions as if
      he had been in chains. But he shook his shoulders when he told me how Monk
      had betrayed him, for it was he that did put them upon standing to put out
      the lords and other members that came not within the qualifications, which
      he [Montagu] did not like, but however he [Monk] had done his business,
      though it be with some kind of baseness. After dinner I walked a great
      while upon the deck with the chyrurgeon and purser, and other officers of
      the ship, and they all pray for the King's coming, which I pray God send.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. All the morning getting instructions ready for the Squadron of ships
      that are going to-day to the Streights, among others Captain Teddiman,
      Curtis, and Captain Robert Blake to be commander of the whole Squadron.
      After dinner to ninepins, W. Howe and I against Mr. Creed and the Captain.
      We lost 5s. apiece to them. After that W. Howe, Mr. Sheply and I got my
      Lord's leave to go to see Captain Sparling. So we took boat and first went
      on shore, it being very pleasant in the fields; but a very pitiful town
      Deal is. We went to Fuller's (the famous place for ale), but they have
      none but what was in the vat. After that to Poole's, a tavern in the town,
      where we drank, and so to boat again, and went to the Assistance, where we
      were treated very civilly by the Captain, and he did give us such music
      upon the harp by a fellow that he keeps on board that I never expect to
      hear the like again, yet he is a drunken simple fellow to look on as any I
      ever saw. After that on board the Nazeby, where we found my Lord at
      supper, so I sat down and very pleasant my Lord was with Mr. Creed and
      Sheply, who he puzzled about finding out the meaning of the three notes
      which my Lord had cut over the chrystal of his watch. After supper some
      musique. Then Mr. Sheply, W. Howe and I up to the Lieutenant's cabin,
      where we drank, and I and W. Howe were very merry, and among other frolics
      he pulls out the spigot of the little vessel of ale that was there in the
      cabin and drew some into his mounteere, and after he had drank, I
      endeavouring to dash it in his face, he got my velvet studying cap and
      drew some into mine too, that we made ourselves a great deal of mirth, but
      spoiled my clothes with the ale that we dashed up and down. After that to
      bed very late with drink enough in my head.
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    <p>
      May 1st. This morning I was told how the people of Deal have set up two or
      three Maypoles, and have hung up their flags upon the top of them, and do
      resolve to be very merry to-day. It being a very pleasant day, I wished
      myself in Hide Park. This day I do count myself to have had full two years
      of perfect cure for the stone, for which God of heaven be blessed. This
      day Captain Parker came on board, and without his expectation I had a
      commission for him for the Nonsuch frigate
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The "Nonsuch" was a fourth-rate of thirty-two guns, built at
     Deptford in 1646 by Peter Pett, jun.  The captain was John Parker.]
</pre>
    <p>
      (he being now in the Cheriton), for which he gave me a French pistole.
      Captain H. Cuttance has commission for the Cheriton. After dinner to
      nine-pins, and won something. The rest of the afternoon in my cabin
      writing and piping. While we were at supper we heard a great noise upon
      the Quarter Deck, so we all rose instantly, and found it was to save the
      coxon of the Cheriton, who, dropping overboard, could not be saved, but
      was drowned. To-day I put on my suit that was altered from the great
      skirts to little ones. To-day I hear they were very merry at Deal, setting
      up the King's flag upon one of their maypoles, and drinking his health
      upon their knees in the streets, and firing the guns, which the soldiers
      of the Castle threatened; but durst not oppose.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. In the morning at a breakfast of radishes at the Purser's cabin.
      After that to writing till dinner. At which time comes Dunne from London,
      with letters that tell us the welcome news of the Parliament's votes
      yesterday, which will be remembered for the happiest May-day that bath
      been many a year to England. The King's letter was read in the House,
      wherein he submits himself and all things to them, as to an Act of
      Oblivion to all,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["His Majesty added thereunto an excellent Declaration for the
     safety and repose of those, who tortured in their consciences, for
     having partaken in the rebellion, might fear the punishment of it,
     and in that fear might oppose the tranquillity of the Estate, and
     the calling in of their lawful Prince.  It is printed and published
     as well as the letter, but that shall not hinder me to say, that
     there was never seen a more perfect assemblage of all the most
     excellent natural qualities, and of all the venues, as well Royal as
     Christian, wherewith a great Prince may be endowed, than was found
     in those two wonderful productions."&mdash;Sir William Lowers 'Relation
 ... of the voiage and Residence Which...  Charles the II.
     Hath made in Holland,' Hague, 1660, folio, p. 3.]
</pre>
    <p>
      unless they shall please to except any, as to the confirming of the sales
      of the King's and Church lands, if they see good. The House upon reading
      the letter, ordered L50,000 to be forthwith provided to send to His
      Majesty for his present supply; and a committee chosen to return an answer
      of thanks to His Majesty for his gracious letter; and that the letter be
      kept among the records of the Parliament; and in all this not so much as
      one No. So that Luke Robinson himself stood up and made a recantation for
      what he had done, and promises to be a loyal subject to his Prince for the
      time to come. The City of London have put a Declaration, wherein they do
      disclaim their owing any other government but that of a King, Lords, and
      Commons. Thanks was given by the House to Sir John Greenville,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Created Earl of Bath, 1661; son of Sir Bevil Grenville, killed at
     the battle of Lansdowne; he was, when a boy, left for dead on the
     field at the second battle of Newbury, and said to have been the
     only person entrusted by Charles II. and Monk in bringing about the
     Restoration.]
</pre>
    <p>
      one of the bedchamber to the King, who brought the letter, and they
      continued bare all the time it was reading. Upon notice made from the
      Lords to the Commons, of their desire that the Commons would join with
      them in their vote for King, Lords, and Commons; the Commons did concur
      and voted that all books whatever that are out against the Government of
      King, Lords, and Commons, should be brought into the House and burned.
      Great joy all yesterday at London, and at night more bonfires than ever,
      and ringing of bells, and drinking of the King's health upon their knees
      in the streets, which methinks is a little too much. But every body seems
      to be very joyfull in the business, insomuch that our sea-commanders now
      begin to say so too, which a week ago they would not do.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The picture of King Charles II. was often set up in houses,
     without the least molestation, whereas a while ago, it was almost a
     hanging matter so to do; but now the Rump Parliament was so hated
     and jeered at, that the butchers' boys would say, 'Will you buy any
     Parliament rumps and kidneys?'  And it was a very ordinary thing to
     see little children make a fire in the streets, and burn rumps."
     &mdash;Rugge's Diurnal.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      And our seamen, as many as had money or credit for drink, did do nothing
      else this evening. This day came Mr. North (Sir Dudley North's son) on
      board, to spend a little time here, which my Lord was a little troubled
      at, but he seems to be a fine gentleman, and at night did play his part
      exceeding well at first sight. After musique I went up to the Captain's
      Cabin with him and Lieutenant Ferrers, who came hither to-day from London
      to bring this news to my Lord, and after a bottle of wine we all to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3d. This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter
      to the two Generals to be communicated to the fleet.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["King Charles II. his Declaration to all his loving Subjects of the
     Kingdome of England, dated from his Court at Breda in Holland 4/14
     of April, 1660, and read in Parliament with his Majesties Letter of
     the same date to his Excellence the Ld. Gen. Monck to be
     communicated to the Ld. President of the Council of State and
     to the Officers of the Army under his Command.  London, Printed by
     W. Godbid for John Playford in the Temple, 1660."  40, pp. 8.]
</pre>
    <p>
      The contents of the letter are his offer of grace to all that will come in
      within forty days, only excepting them that the Parliament shall hereafter
      except. That the sales of lands during these troubles, and all other
      things, shall be left to the Parliament, by which he will stand. The
      letter dated at Breda, April, 4 1660, in the 12th year of his reign. Upon
      the receipt of it this morning by an express, Mr. Phillips, one of the
      messengers of the Council from General Monk, my Lord summoned a council of
      war, and in the mean time did dictate to me how he would have the vote
      ordered which he would have pass this council. Which done, the Commanders
      all came on board, and the council sat in the coach (the first council of
      war that had been in my time), where I read the letter and declaration;
      and while they were discoursing upon it, I seemed to draw up a vote, which
      being offered, they passed. Not one man seemed to say no to it, though I
      am confident many in their hearts were against it. After this was done, I
      went up to the quarter-deck with my Lord and the Commanders, and there
      read both the papers and the vote; which done, and demanding their
      opinion, the seamen did all of them cry out, "God bless King Charles!"
      with the greatest joy imaginable. That being done, Sir R. Stayner, who had
      invited us yesterday, took all the Commanders and myself on board him to
      dinner, which not being ready, I went with Captain Hayward to the Plimouth
      and Essex, and did what I had to do there and returned, where very merry
      at dinner. After dinner, to the rest of the ships (staid at the Assistance
      to hear the harper a good while) quite through the fleet. Which was a very
      brave sight to visit all the ships, and to be received with the respect
      and honour that I was on board them all; and much more to see the great
      joy that I brought to all men; not one through the whole fleet showing the
      least dislike of the business. In the evening as I was going on board the
      Vice-Admiral, the General began to fire his guns, which he did all that he
      had in the ship, and so did all the rest of the Commanders, which was very
      gallant, and to hear the bullets go hissing over our heads as we were in
      the boat. This done and finished my Proclamation, I returned to the
      Nazeby, where my Lord was much pleased to hear how all the fleet took it
      in a transport of joy, showed me a private letter of the King's to him,
      and another from the Duke of York in such familiar style as to their
      common friend, with all kindness imaginable. And I found by the letters,
      and so my Lord told me too, that there had been many letters passed
      between them for a great while, and I perceive unknown to Monk. And among
      the rest that had carried these letters Sir John Boys is one, and that Mr.
      Norwood, which had a ship to carry him over the other day, when my Lord
      would not have me put down his name in the book. The King speaks of his
      being courted to come to the Hague, but do desire my Lord's advice whither
      to come to take ship. And the Duke offers to learn the seaman's trade of
      him, in such familiar words as if Jack Cole and I had writ them. This was
      very strange to me, that my Lord should carry all things so wisely and
      prudently as he do, and I was over joyful to see him in so good condition,
      and he did not a little please himself to tell me how he had provided for
      himself so great a hold on the King.
    </p>
    <p>
      After this to supper, and then to writing of letters till twelve at night,
      and so up again at three in the morning. My Lord seemed to put great
      confidence in me, and would take my advice in many things. I perceive his
      being willing to do all the honour in the world to Monk, and to let him
      have all the honour of doing the business, though he will many times
      express his thoughts of him to be but a thick-sculled fool. So that I do
      believe there is some agreement more than ordinary between the King and my
      Lord to let Monk carry on the business, for it is he that must do the
      business, or at least that can hinder it, if he be not flattered and
      observed. This, my Lord will hint himself sometimes. My Lord, I perceive
      by the King's letter, had writ to him about his father, Crew,&mdash;[When
      only seventeen years old, Montagu had married Jemima, daughter of John
      Crew, created afterwards Baron Crew of Stene.]&mdash;and the King did
      speak well of him; but my Lord tells me, that he is afeard that he hath
      too much concerned himself with the Presbyterians against the House of
      Lords, which will do him a great discourtesy.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. I wrote this morning many letters, and to all the copies of the vote
      of the council of war I put my name, that if it should come in print my
      name maybe at it. I sent a copy of the vote to Doling, inclosed in this
      letter:
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     "SIR,

     "He that can fancy a fleet (like ours) in her pride, with pendants
     loose, guns roaring, caps flying, and the loud 'Vive le Roys,'
     echoed from one ship's company to another, he, and he only, can
     apprehend the joy this inclosed vote was received with, or the
     blessing he thought himself possessed of that bore it, and is

                                   "Your humble servant."
</pre>
    <p>
      About nine o'clock I got all my letters done, and sent them by the
      messenger that came yesterday. This morning came Captain Isham on board
      with a gentleman going to the King, by whom very cunningly, my Lord tells
      me, he intends to send an account of this day's and yesterday's actions
      here, notwithstanding he had writ to the Parliament to have leave of them
      to send the King the answer of the fleet. Since my writing of the last
      paragraph, my Lord called me to him to read his letter to the King, to see
      whether I could find any slips in it or no. And as much of the letter' as
      I can remember, is thus:
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     "May it please your Most Excellent Majesty," and so begins.

     "That he yesterday received from General Monk his Majesty's letter
     and direction; and that General Monk had desired him to write to the
     Parliament to have leave to send the vote of the seamen before he
     did send it to him, which he had done by writing to both Speakers;
     but for his private satisfaction he had sent it thus privately (and
     so the copy of the proceedings yesterday was sent him), and that
     this come by a gentleman that came this day on board, intending to
     wait upon his Majesty, that he is my Lord's countryman, and one
     whose friends have suffered much on his Majesty's behalf.  That my
     Lords Pembroke and Salisbury are put out of the House of Lords.
     That my Lord is very joyful that other countries do pay him the
     civility and respect due to him; and that he do much rejoice to see
     that the King do resolve to receive none of their assistance (or
     some such words), from them, he having strength enough in the love
     and loyalty of his own subjects to support him.  That his Majesty
     had chosen the best place, Scheveling,&mdash;[Schevingen, the port of the
     Hague]&mdash;for his embarking, and that there is nothing in the world of
     which he is more ambitious, than to have the honour of attending his
     Majesty, which he hoped would be speedy.  That he had commanded the
     vessel to attend at Helversluce&mdash;[Hellevoetsluis, in South Holland]
     &mdash;till this gentleman returns, that so if his Majesty do not think
     it fit to command the fleet himself, yet that he may be there to
     receive his commands and bring them to his Lordship.  He ends his
     letter, that he is confounded with the thoughts of the high
     expressions of love to him in the King's letter, and concludes,

     "Your most loyall, dutifull, faithfull and obedient subject and
     servant, E. M."
</pre>
    <p>
      The rest of the afternoon at ninepins. In the evening came a packet from
      London, among the rest a letter from my wife, which tells me that she has
      not been well, which did exceedingly trouble me, but my Lord sending Mr.
      Cook at night, I wrote to her and sent a piece of gold enclosed to her,
      and wrote also to Mrs. Bowyer, and enclosed a half piece to her for a
      token. After supper at the table in the coach, my Lord talking concerning
      the uncertainty of the places of the Exchequer to them that had them now;
      he did at last think of an office which do belong to him in case the King
      do restore every man to his places that ever had been patent, which is to
      be one of the clerks of the signet, which will be a fine employment for
      one of his sons. After all this discourse we broke up and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      In the afternoon came a minister on board, one Mr. Sharpe, who is going to
      the King; who tells me that Commissioners are chosen both of Lords and
      Commons to go to the King; and that Dr. Clarges
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thomas Clarges, physician to the army, created a baronet, 1674,
     died 1695.  He had been previously knighted; his sister Anne married
     General Monk.  "The Parliament also permitted General Monk to send
     Mr. Clarges, his brother-in-law, accompanied with some officers of
     the army, to assure his Majesty of the fidelity and obedience of the
     army, which had made publick and solemn protestations thereof, after
     the Letter and Declaration was communicated unto them by the
     General."&mdash;Sir William Lowers Relation... of the Voiage and
     Residence which... Charles the II.  Hath made in Holland,
     Hague, 1660, folio.]
</pre>
    <p>
      is going to him from the Army, and that he will be here to-morrow. My
      letters at night tell me, that the House did deliver their letter to Sir
      John Greenville, in answer to the King's sending, and that they give him
      L500 for his pains, to buy him a jewel, and that besides the L50,000
      ordered to be borrowed of the City for the present use of the King, the
      twelve companies of the City do give every one of them to his Majesty, as
      a present, L1000.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. All the morning very busy writing letters to London, and a packet to
      Mr. Downing, to acquaint him with what had been done lately in the fleet.
      And this I did by my Lord's command, who, I thank him, did of himself
      think of doing it, to do me a kindness, for he writ a letter himself to
      him, thanking him for his kindness to me. All the afternoon at ninepins,
      at night after supper good musique, my Lord, Mr. North, I and W. Howe.
      After that to bed. This evening came Dr. Clarges to Deal, going to the
      King; where the towns-people strewed the streets with herbes against his
      coming, for joy of his going. Never was there so general a content as
      there is now. I cannot but remember that our parson did, in his prayer
      to-night, pray for the long life and happiness of our King and dread
      Soveraign, that may last as long as the sun and moon endureth.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). This morning while we were at sermon comes in Dr.
      Clarges and a dozen gentlemen to see my Lord, who, after sermon, dined
      with him; I remember that last night upon discourse concerning Clarges my
      Lord told me that he was a man of small entendimiento.&mdash;[Entendimiento,
      Spanish: the understanding.]&mdash;This afternoon there was a gentleman
      with me, an officer of Dunkirk going over, who came to me for an order and
      told me he was lately with my uncle and Aunt Fenner and that Kate's fits
      of the convulsions did hold her still. It fell very well to-day, a
      stranger preached here for Mr. Ibbot, one Mr. Stanley, who prayed for King
      Charles, by the Grace of God, &amp;c., which gave great contentment to the
      gentlemen that were on board here, and they said they would talk of it,
      when they come to Breda, as not having it done yet in London so publickly.
      After they were gone from on board, my Lord writ a letter to the King and
      give it to me to carry privately to Sir William Compton' on board the
      Assistance, which I did, and after a health to his Majesty on board there,
      I left them under sail for Breda. Back again and found them at sermon. I
      went up to my cabin and looked over my accounts, and find that, all my
      debts paid and my preparations to sea paid for, I have L640 clear in my
      purse. After supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. This morning Captain Cuttance sent me 12 bottles of Margate ale.
      Three of them I drank presently with some friends in the Coach. My Lord
      went this morning about the flag-ships in a boat, to see what alterations
      there must be, as to the arms and flags. He did give me order also to
      write for silk flags and scarlett waistcloathes.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Waist-cloths are the painted canvas coverings of the hammocks which
     are stowed in the waist-nettings.]
</pre>
    <p>
      For a rich barge; for a noise of trumpets,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A set or company of musicians, an expression constantly used by old
     writers without any disparaging meaning.  It is sometimes applied to
     voices as well as to instruments.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and a set of fidlers. Very great deal of company come today, among others
      Mr. Bellasses, Sir Thomas Lenthropp, Sir Henry Chichley, Colonel Philip
      Honiwood, and Captain Titus, the last of whom my Lord showed all our
      cabins, and I suppose he is to take notice what room there will be for the
      King's entertainment. Here were also all the Jurates of the town of Dover
      come to give my Lord a visit, and after dinner all went away. I could not
      but observe that the Vice-Admiral after dinner came into the great cabin
      below, where the Jurates and I and the commanders for want of room dined,
      and there told us we must drink a health to the King, and himself called
      for a bottle of wine, and begun his and the Duke of York's. In the
      afternoon I lost 5s. at ninepins. After supper musique, and to bed. Having
      also among us at the Coach table wrote a letter to the French ambassador,
      in French, about the release of a ship we had taken. After I was in bed
      Mr. Sheply and W. Howe came and sat in my cabin, where I gave them three
      bottles of Margate ale, and sat laughing and very merry, till almost one
      o'clock in the morning, and so good night.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. All the morning busy. After dinner come several persons of honour, as
      my Lord St. John and others, for convoy to Flushing, and great giving of
      them salutes. My Lord and we at nine-pins: I lost 9s. While we were at
      play Mr. Cook brings me word of my wife. He went to Huntsmore to see her,
      and brought her and my father Bowyer to London, where he left her at my
      father's, very well, and speaks very well of her love to me. My letters
      to-day tell me how it was intended that the King should be proclaimed
      to-day in London, with a great deal of pomp. I had also news who they are
      that are chosen of the Lords and Commons to attend the King. And also the
      whole story of what we did the other day in the fleet, at reading of the
      King's declaration, and my name at the bottom of it. After supper some
      musique and to bed. I resolving to rise betimes to-morrow to write letters
      to London.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up very early, writing a letter to the King, as from the two Generals
      of the fleet, in answer to his letter to them, wherein my Lord do give
      most humble thanks for his gracious letter and declaration; and promises
      all duty and obedience to him. This letter was carried this morning to Sir
      Peter Killigrew,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir Peter Killigrew, Knight, of Arwenack, Cornwall, was known as
     "Peter the Post," from the alacrity with which he despatched "like
     wild fire" all the messages and other commissions entrusted to him
     in the King's cause.  His son Peter, who succeeded his uncle as
     second baronet in 1665, was M.P. for Camelford in 1660.]
</pre>
    <p>
      who came hither this morning early to bring an order from the Lords' House
      to my Lord, giving him power to write an answer to the King. This morning
      my Lord St. John and other persons of honour were here to see my Lord, and
      so away to Flushing. After they were gone my Lord and I to write letters
      to London, which we sent by Mr. Cook, who was very desirous to go because
      of seeing my wife before she went out of town. As we were sitting down to
      dinner, in comes Noble with a letter from the House of Lords to my Lord,
      to desire him to provide ships to transport the Commissioners to the King,
      which are expected here this week. He brought us certain news that the
      King was proclaimed yesterday with great pomp, and brought down one of the
      Proclamations, with great joy to us all; for which God be praised. After
      dinner to ninepins and lost 5s. This morning came Mr. Saunderson,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Afterwards Sir William Sanderson, gentleman of the chamber, author
     of the "History of Mary Queen of Scots, James I., and Charles I."
     His wife, Dame Bridget, was mother of the maids.]
</pre>
    <p>
      that writ the story of the King, hither, who is going over to the King. He
      calls me cozen and seems a very knowing man. After supper to bed betimes,
      leaving my Lord talking in the Coach with the Captain.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. This morning came on board Mr. Pinkney and his son, going to the
      King with a petition finely writ by Mr. Whore, for to be the King's
      embroiderer; for whom and Mr. Saunderson I got a ship. This morning come
      my Lord Winchelsea and a great deal of company, and dined here. In the
      afternoon, while my Lord and we were at musique in the great cabin below,
      comes in a messenger to tell us that Mr. Edward Montagu,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir Edward Montagu's eldest son, afterwards second Earl of
     Sandwich, called by Pepys "The child."]
</pre>
    <p>
      my Lord's son, was come to Deal, who afterwards came on board with Mr.
      Pickering with him. The child was sick in the evening. At night, while my
      Lord was at supper, in comes my Lord Lauderdale and Sir John Greenville,
      who supped here, and so went away. After they were gone, my Lord called me
      into his cabin, and told me how he was commanded to set sail presently for
      the King,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Ordered that General Montagu do observe the command of His Majesty
     for the disposing of the fleet, in order to His Majesty's returning
     home to England to his kingly government: and that all proceedings
     in law be in His Majesty's name."&mdash;Rugge's Diurnal.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and was very glad thereof, and so put me to writing of letters and other
      work that night till it was very late, he going to bed. I got him
      afterwards to sign things in bed. After I had done some more work I to bed
      also.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up very early in the morning, and so about a great deal of business
      in order to our going hence to-day. Burr going on shore last night made me
      very angry. So that I sent for Mr. Pitts to come tome from the
      Vice-Admiral's, intending not to have employed Burr any more. But Burr by
      and by coming and desiring humbly that I would forgive him and Pitts not
      coming I did set him to work. This morning we began to pull down all the
      State's arms in the fleet, having first sent to Dover for painters and
      others to come to set up the King's. The rest of the morning writing of
      letters to London which I afterwards sent by Dunne. I had this morning my
      first opportunity of discoursing with Dr. Clarke,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Timothy Clarke, M. D., one of the original Fellows of the Royal
     Society.  He was appointed one of the physicians in ordinary to
     Charles II.  on the death of Dr. Quartermaine in 1667.]
</pre>
    <p>
      whom I found to be a very pretty man and very knowing. He is now going in
      this ship to the King. There dined here my Lord Crafford and my Lord
      Cavendish, and other Scotchmen whom I afterwards ordered to be received on
      board the Plymouth, and to go along with us. After dinner we set sail from
      the Downs, I leaving my boy to go to Deal for my linen. In the afternoon
      overtook us three or four gentlemen; two of the Berties, and one Mr.
      Dormerhoy, a Scotch gentleman, whom I afterwards found to be a very fine
      man, who, telling my Lord that they heard the Commissioners were come out
      of London to-day, my Lord dropt anchor over against Dover Castle (which
      give us about thirty guns in passing), and upon a high debate with the
      Vice and Rear Admiral whether it were safe to go and not stay for the
      Commissioners, he did resolve to send Sir R. Stayner to Dover, to enquire
      of my Lord Winchelsea, whether or no they are come out of London, and then
      to resolve to-morrow morning of going or not; which was done. It blew very
      hard all this night that I was afeard of my boy. About 11 at night came
      the boats from Deal, with great store of provisions, by the same token
      John Goods told me that above 20 of the fowls are smothered, but my boy
      was put on board the Northwich. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. This morning I inquired for my boy, whether he was come well or no,
      and it was told me that he was well in bed. My Lord called me to his
      chamber, he being in bed, and gave me many orders to make for direction
      for the ships that are left in the Downs, giving them the greatest charge
      in the world to bring no passengers with them, when they come after us to
      Scheveling Bay, excepting Mr. Edward Montagu, Mr. Thomas Crew, and Sir H.
      Wright. Sir R. Stayner hath been here early in the morning and told my
      Lord, that my Lord Winchelsea understands by letters, that the
      Commissioners are only to come to Dover to attend the coming over of the
      King. So my Lord did give order for weighing anchor, which we did, and
      sailed all day. In our way in the morning, coming in the midway between
      Dover and Calais, we could see both places very easily, and very pleasant
      it was to me that the further we went the more we lost sight of both
      lands. In the afternoon at cards with Mr. North and the Doctor.&mdash;[Clarke]&mdash;There
      by us, in the Lark frigate, Sir R. Freeman and some others, going from the
      King to England, come to see my Lord and so onward on their voyage. In the
      afternoon upon the quarterdeck the Doctor told Mr. North and me an
      admirable story called "The Fruitless Precaution," an exceeding pretty
      story and worthy my getting without book when I can get the book.[??] This
      evening came Mr. Sheply on board, whom we had left at Deal and Dover
      getting of provision and borrowing of money. In the evening late, after
      discoursing with the Doctor, &amp;c., to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day). Trimmed in the morning, after that to the cook's room
      with Mr. Sheply, the first time that I was there this voyage. Then to the
      quarter-deck, upon which the tailors and painters were at work, cutting
      out some pieces of yellow cloth into the fashion of a crown and C. R. and
      put it upon a fine sheet, and that into the flag instead of the State's
      arms, which after dinner was finished and set up after it had been shewn
      to my Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber, and liked it so
      well as to bid me give the tailors 20s. among them for doing of it. This
      morn Sir J. Boys and Capt. Isham met us in the Nonsuch, the first of whom,
      after a word or two with my Lord, went forward, the other staid. I heard
      by them how Mr. Downing had never made any address to the King, and for
      that was hated exceedingly by the Court, and that he was in a Dutch ship
      which sailed by us, then going to England with disgrace. Also how Mr.
      Morland was knighted by the King this week, and that the King did give the
      reason of it openly, that it was for his giving him intelligence all the
      time he was clerk to Secretary Thurloe. In the afternoon a council of war,
      only to acquaint them that the Harp must be taken out of all their flags,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In May, 1658, the old Union Jack (being the crosses of St. George
     and St. Andrew combined) was revived, with the Irish harp over the
     centre of the flag.  This harp was taken off at the Restoration.
     (See "The National Flags of the Commonwealth," by H. W. Henfrey,"
     Journ. Brit.  Arch.  Assoc.," vol.  xxxi, p. 54.) The sign of the
     "Commonwealth Arms" was an uncommon one, but a token of one exists&mdash;
     "Francis Wood at ye Commonwealth arms in Mary Maudlens" [St. Mary
     Magdalen, Old Fish Street].]
</pre>
    <p>
      it being very offensive to the King. Mr. Cook, who came after us in the
      Yarmouth, bringing me a letter from my wife and a Latin letter from my
      brother John, with both of which I was exceedingly pleased. No sermon all
      day, we being under sail, only at night prayers, wherein Mr. Ibbott prayed
      for all that were related to us in a spiritual and fleshly way. We came
      within sight of Middle's shore. Late at night we writ letters to the King
      of the news of our coming, and Mr. Edward Picketing carried them. Capt.
      Isham went on shore, nobody showing of him any respect; so the old man
      very fairly took leave of my Lord, and my Lord very coldly bid him "God be
      with you," which was very strange, but that I hear that he keeps a great
      deal of prating and talking on shore, on board, at the King's Courts, what
      command he had with my Lord, &amp;c. After letters were gone then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. In the morning when I woke and rose, I saw myself out of the scuttle
      close by the shore, which afterwards I was told to be the Dutch shore; the
      Hague was clearly to be seen by us. My Lord went up in his nightgown into
      the cuddy,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["A sort of cabin or cook-room, generally in the fore-part, but
     sometimes near the stern of lighters and barges of burden."&mdash;Smyth's
     Sailor's Word-Book.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to see how to dispose thereof for himself and us that belong to him, to
      give order for our removal to-day. Some nasty Dutchmen came on board to
      proffer their boats to carry things from us on shore, &amp;c., to get
      money by us. Before noon some gentlemen came on board from the shore to
      kiss my Lord's hands. And by and by Mr. North and Dr. Clerke went to kiss
      the Queen of Bohemia's' hands, from my Lord, with twelve attendants from
      on board to wait on them, among which I sent my boy, who, like myself, is
      with child to see any strange thing. After noon they came back again after
      having kissed the Queen of Bohemia's hand, and were sent again by my Lord
      to do the same to the Prince of Orange.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Son of the Prince of Orange and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I.
     &mdash;afterwards William III.  He was then in his tenth year, having
     been born in 1650.]
</pre>
    <p>
      So I got the Captain to ask leave for me to go, which my Lord did give,
      and I taking my boy and judge Advocate with me, went in company with them.
      The weather bad; we were sadly washed when we came near the shore, it
      being very hard to land there. The shore is, as all the country between
      that and the Hague, all sand. The rest of the company got a coach by
      themselves; Mr. Creed and I went in the fore part of a coach wherein were
      two very pretty ladies, very fashionable and with black patches, who very
      merrily sang all the way and that very well, and were very free to kiss
      the two blades that were with them. I took out my flageolette and piped,
      but in piping I dropped my rapier-stick, but when I came to the Hague, I
      sent my boy back again for it and he found it, for which I did give him
      6d., but some horses had gone over it and broke the scabbard. The Hague is
      a most neat place in all respects. The houses so neat in all places and
      things as is possible. Here we walked up and down a great while, the town
      being now very full of Englishmen, for that the Londoners were come on
      shore today. But going to see the Prince,&mdash;[Prince of Orange,
      afterwards William III.]&mdash;he was gone forth with his governor, and so
      we walked up and down the town and court to see the place; and by the help
      of a stranger, an Englishman, we saw a great many places, and were made to
      understand many things, as the intention of may-poles, which we saw there
      standing at every great man's door, of different greatness according to
      the quality of the person. About 10 at night the Prince comes home, and we
      found an easy admission. His attendance very inconsiderable as for a
      prince; but yet handsome, and his tutor a fine man, and himself a very
      pretty boy. It was bright moonshine to-night. This done we went to a place
      we had taken to sup in, where a sallet and two or three bones of mutton
      were provided for a matter of ten of us which was very strange. After
      supper the Judge and I to another house, leaving them there, and he and I
      lay in one press bed, there being two more in the same room, but all very
      neat and handsome, my boy sleeping upon a bench by me.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. We lay till past three o'clock, then up and down the town, to see it
      by daylight, where we saw the soldiers of the Prince's guard, all very
      fine, and the burghers of the town with their arms and muskets as bright
      as silver. And meeting this morning a schoolmaster that spoke good English
      and French, he went along with us and shewed us the whole town, and indeed
      I cannot speak enough of the gallantry of the town. Every body of fashion
      speaks French or Latin, or both. The women many of them very pretty and in
      good habits, fashionable and black spots. He went with me to buy a couple
      of baskets, one of them for Mrs. Pierce, the other for my wife. After he
      was gone, we having first drank with him at our lodging, the judge and I
      to the Grande Salle where we were shewed the place where the States
      General sit in council. The hall is a great place, where the flags that
      they take from their enemies are all hung up; and things to be sold, as in
      Westminster Hall, and not much unlike it, but that not so big, but much
      neater. After that to a bookseller's and bought for the love of the
      binding three books: the French Psalms in four parts, Bacon's Organon, and
      Farnab. Rhetor.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Index Rhetoricus" of Thomas Farnaby was a book which went through
     several editions.  The first was published at London by R. Allot in
     1633.]
</pre>
    <p>
      After that the judge, I and my boy by coach to Scheveling again, where we
      went into a house of entertainment and drank there, the wind being very
      high, and we saw two boats overset and the gallants forced to be pulled on
      shore by the heels, while their trunks, portmanteaus, hats, and feathers,
      were swimming in the sea. Among others I saw the ministers that come along
      with the Commissioners (Mr. Case among the rest) sadly dipped.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thomas Case, born 1598, was a famous preacher and a zealous
     advocate for the Solemn League and Covenant, a member of the
     assembly of divines, and rector of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields.  He
     was one of the deputation to Charles II.  at Breda, and appointed a
     royal chaplain.  He was ejected by the Act of Uniformity, but
     remained in London after his ejection.  Died May 30th, 1682.]
</pre>
    <p>
      So they came in where we were, and I being in haste left my Copenhagen
      knife, and so lost it. Having staid here a great while a gentleman that
      was going to kiss my Lord's hand, from the Queen of Bohemia, and I hired a
      Dutch boat for four rixdollars to carry us on board. We were fain to wait
      a great while before we could get off from the shore, the sea being very
      rough. The Dutchman would fain have made all pay that came into our boat
      besides us two and our company, there being many of our ship's company got
      in who were on shore, but some of them had no money, having spent all on
      shore. Coming on board we found all the Commissioners of the House of
      Lords at dinner with my Lord, who after dinner went away for shore. Mr.
      Morland, now Sir Samuel, was here on board, but I do not find that my Lord
      or any body did give him any respect, he being looked upon by him and all
      men as a knave. Among others he betrayed Sir Rich. Willis
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This is somewhat different to the usual account of Morland's
     connection with Sir Richard Willis.  In the beginning of 1659
     Cromwell, Thurloe, and Willis formed a plot to inveigle Charles II.
     into England and into the hands of his enemies.  The plot was
     discussed in Thurloe's office, and Morland, who pretended to be
     asleep, heard it and discovered it.  Willis sent for Morland, and
     received him in a cellar.  He said that one of them must have
     discovered the plot.  He laid his hand upon the Bible and swore that
     he had not been the discoverer, calling upon Morland to do the same.
     Morland, with presence of mind, said he was ready to do so if Willis
     would give him a reason why he should suspect him.  By this ready
     answer he is said to have escaped the ordeal (see Birch's "Life of
     Thurloe").]
</pre>
    <p>
      that married Dr. F. Jones's daughter, that he had paid him L1000 at one
      time by the Protector's and Secretary Thurloe's order, for intelligence
      that he sent concerning the King. In the afternoon my Lord called me on
      purpose to show me his fine cloathes which are now come hither, and indeed
      are very rich as gold and silver can make them, only his sword he and I do
      not like. In the afternoon my Lord and I walked together in the coach two
      hours, talking together upon all sorts of discourse: as religion, wherein
      he is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I, saying, that indeed the
      Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques: he likes
      uniformity and form of prayer; about State-business, among other things he
      told me that his conversion to the King's cause (for so I was saying that
      I wondered from what time the King could look upon him to become his
      friend), commenced from his being in the Sound, when he found what usage
      he was likely to have from a Commonwealth. My Lord, the Captain, and I
      supped in my Lord's chamber, where I did perceive that he did begin to
      show me much more respect than ever he did yet. After supper, my Lord sent
      for me, intending to have me play at cards with him, but I not knowing
      cribbage, we fell into discourse of many things, till it was so rough sea
      and the ship rolled so much that I was not able to stand, and so he bid me
      go to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Soon as I was up I went down to be trimmed below in the great cabin,
      but then come in some with visits, among the rest one from Admiral Opdam,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The admiral celebrated in Lord Dorset's ballad, "To all you ladies
     now at land."

                   "Should foggy Opdam chance to know
                    Our sad and dismal story;
                    The Dutch would scorn so weak a foe,
                    And quit their fort at Goree
                    For what resistance can they find
                    From men who've left their hearts behind?"&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      who spoke Latin well, but not French nor English, to whom my Lord made me
      to give his answer and to entertain; he brought my Lord a tierce of wine
      and a barrel of butter, as a present from the Admiral. After that to
      finish my trimming, and while I was doing of it in comes Mr. North very
      sea-sick from shore, and to bed he goes. After that to dinner, where
      Commissioner Pett was come to take care to get all things ready for the
      King on board. My Lord in his best suit, this the first day, in
      expectation to wait upon the King. But Mr. Edw. Pickering coming from the
      King brought word that the King would not put my Lord to the trouble of
      coming to him; but that he would come to the shore to look upon the fleet
      to-day, which we expected, and had our guns ready to fire, and our scarlet
      waistcloathes out and silk pendants, but he did not come. My Lord and we
      at ninepins this afternoon upon the Quarterdeck, which was very pretty
      sport. This evening came Mr. John Pickering on board, like an ass, with
      his feathers and new suit that he had made at the Hague. My Lord very
      angry for his staying on shore, bidding me a little before to send to him,
      telling me that he was afraid that for his father's sake he might have
      some mischief done him, unless he used the General's name. To supper, and
      after supper to cards. I stood by and looked on till 11 at night and so to
      bed. This afternoon Mr. Edwd. Pickering told me in what a sad, poor
      condition for clothes and money the King was, and all his attendants, when
      he came to him first from my Lord, their clothes not being worth forty
      shillings the best of them.
    </p>
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     [Andrew Marvell alludes to the poor condition, for clothes and
     money, in which the King was at this time, in "A Historical Poem":&mdash;

               "At length, by wonderful impulse of fate,
               The people call him back to help the State;
               And what is more, they send him money, too,
               And clothe him all from head to foot anew."]
</pre>
    <p>
      And how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him some
      money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to
      look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out. My Lord
      told me, too, that the Duke of York is made High Admiral of England.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up early to write down my last two days' observations. Dr. Clerke
      came to me to tell me that he heard this morning, by some Dutch that are
      come on board already to see the ship, that there was a Portuguese taken
      yesterday at the Hague, that had a design to kill the King. But this I
      heard afterwards was only the mistake upon one being observed to walk with
      his sword naked, he having lost his scabbard. Before dinner Mr. Edw.
      Pickering and I, W. Howe, Pim, and my boy,&mdash;[Edward Montagu,
      afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke.]&mdash;to Scheveling, where we took coach,
      and so to the Hague, where walking, intending to find one that might show
      us the King incognito, I met with Captain Whittington (that had formerly
      brought a letter to my Lord from the Mayor of London) and he did promise
      me to do it, but first we went and dined at a French house, but paid 16s.
      for our part of the club. At dinner in came Dr. Cade, a merry mad parson
      of the King's. And they two after dinner got the child and me (the others
      not being able to crowd in) to see the King, who kissed the child very
      affectionately. Then we kissed his, and the Duke of York's, and the
      Princess Royal's hands. The King seems to be a very sober man; and a very
      splendid Court he hath in the number of persons of quality that are about
      him, English very rich in habit. From the King to the Lord Chancellor,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [On January 29th, 1658, Charles II.  entrusted the Great Seal to Sir
     Edward Hyde, with the title of Lord Chancellor, and in that
     character Sir Edward accompanied the King to England.]
</pre>
    <p>
      who did lie bed-rid of the gout: he spoke very merrily to the child and
      me. After that, going to see the Queen of Bohemia, I met with Dr. Fullers
      whom I sent to a tavern with Mr. Edw. Pickering, while I and the rest went
      to see the Queen,&mdash;[Henrietta Maria.]&mdash;who used us very
      respectfully; her hand we all kissed. She seems a very debonaire, but
      plain lady. After that to the Dr.'s, where we drank a while or so. In a
      coach of a friend's of Dr. Cade we went to see a house of the Princess
      Dowager's in a park about half-a-mile or a mile from the Hague, where
      there is one, the most beautiful room for pictures in the whole world. She
      had here one picture upon the top, with these words, dedicating it to the
      memory of her husband:&mdash;"Incomparabili marito, inconsolabilis vidua."
    </p>
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     [Mary, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of Charles I., and widow of
     William of Nassau, Prince of Orange.  She was not supposed to be
     inconsolable, and scandal followed her at the court of Charles II.,
     where she died of small-pox, December 24th, 1660.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Here I met with Mr. Woodcock of Cambridge, Mr. Hardy and another, and Mr.
      Woodcock beginning we had two or three fine songs, he and I, and W. Howe
      to the Echo, which was very pleasant, and the more because in a heaven of
      pleasure and in a strange country, that I never was taken up more with a
      sense of pleasure in my life. After that we parted and back to the Hague
      and took a tour or two about the Forehault,&mdash;[The Voorhout is the
      principal street of the Hague, and it is lined with handsome trees.]&mdash;where
      the ladies in the evening do as our ladies do in Hide Park. But for my
      life I could not find one handsome, but their coaches very rich and
      themselves so too. From thence, taking leave of the Doctor, we took wagon
      to Scheveling, where we had a fray with the Boatswain of the Richmond, who
      would not freely carry us on board, but at last he was willing to it, but
      then it was so late we durst not go. So we returned between 10 and 11 at
      night in the dark with a wagon with one horse to the Hague, where being
      come we went to bed as well as we could be accommodated, and so to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Very early up, and, hearing that the Duke of York, our Lord High
      Admiral, would go on board to-day, Mr. Pickering and I took waggon for
      Scheveling, leaving the child in Mr. Pierces hands, with directions to
      keep him within doors all day till he heard from me. But the wind being
      very high that no boats could get off from shore, we returned to the Hague
      (having breakfasted with a gentleman of the Duke's, and Commissioner Pett,
      sent on purpose to give notice to my Lord of his coming), where I hear
      that the child is gone to Delfe to see the town. So we all and Mr. Ibbott,
      the Minister, took a schuit&mdash;[The trekschuit (drag-boat) along the
      canal is still described as an agreeable conveyance from Leyden to Delft.]&mdash;and
      very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers,
      where most speak French; went after them, but met them by the way. But
      however we went forward making no stop. Where when we were come we got a
      smith's boy of the town to go along with us, but could speak nothing but
      Dutch, and he showed us the church where Van Trump lies entombed with a
      very fine monument. His epitaph concluded thus:&mdash;"Tandem Bello
      Anglico tantum non victor, certe invictus, vivere et vincere desiit."
      There is a sea-fight cut in marble, with the smoke, the best expressed
      that ever I saw in my life. From thence to the great church, that stands
      in a fine great market-place, over against the Stadt-house, and there I
      saw a stately tomb of the old Prince of Orange, of marble and brass;
      wherein among other rarities there are the angels with their trumpets
      expressed as it were crying. Here were very fine organs in both the
      churches. It is a most sweet town, with bridges, and a river in every
      street. Observing that in every house of entertainment there hangs in
      every room a poor-man's box, and desiring to know the reason thereof, it
      was told me that it is their custom to confirm all bargains by putting
      something into the poor people's box, and that binds as fast as any thing.
      We also saw the Guesthouse, where it was very pleasant to see what neat
      preparation there is for the poor. We saw one poor man a-dying there.
      After we had seen all, we light by chance of an English house to drink in,
      where we were very merry, discoursing of the town and the thing that hangs
      up in the Stadthouse like a bushel, which I was told is a sort of
      punishment for some sort of offenders to carry through the streets of the
      town over his head, which is a great weight. Back by water, where a pretty
      sober Dutch lass sat reading all the way, and I could not fasten any
      discourse upon her. At our landing we met with Commissioner Pett going
      down to the water-side with Major Harly, who is going upon a dispatch into
      England. They having a coach I left the Parson and my boy and went along
      with Commissioner Pett, Mr. Ackworth and Mr. Dawes his friends, to the
      Princess Dowager's house again. Thither also my Lord Fairfax and some
      other English Lords did come to see it, and my pleasure was increased by
      seeing of it again. Besides we went into the garden, wherein are gallant
      nuts better than ever I saw, and a fine Echo under the house in a vault
      made on purpose with pillars, where I played on my flageolette to great
      advantage. Back to the Hague, where not finding Mr. Edward, I was much
      troubled, but went with the Parson to supper to Commissioner Pett, where
      we sat late. And among other mirth Mr. Ackworth vyed wives, each
      endeavouring to set his own wife out to the best advantage, he having as
      they said an extraordinary handsome wife. But Mr. Dawes could not be got
      to say anything of his. After that to our lodging where W. Howe and I
      exceeding troubled not to know what is become of our young gentleman. So
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up early, hearing nothing of the child, and went to Scheveling,
      where I found no getting on board, though the Duke of York sent every day
      to see whether he could do it or no. Here I met with Mr. Pinkney and his
      sons, and with them went back to the Hague, in our way lighting and going
      to see a woman that makes pretty rock-work in shells, &amp;c., which could
      I have carried safe I would have bought some of. At the Hague we went to
      buy some pictures, where I saw a sort of painting done upon woollen cloth,
      drawn as if there was a curtain over it, which was very pleasant, but
      dear. Another pretty piece of painting I saw, on which there was a great
      wager laid by young Pinkney and me whether it was a principal or a copy.
      But not knowing how to decide, it was broken off, and I got the old man to
      lay out as much as my piece of gold come to, and so saved my money, which
      had been 24s. lost, I fear. While we were here buying of pictures, we saw
      Mr. Edward and his company land. Who told me that they had been at Leyden
      all night, at which I was very angry with Mr. Pierce, and shall not be
      friends I believe a good while. To our lodging to dinner. After that out
      to buy some linen to wear against to-morrow, and so to the barber's. After
      that by waggon to Lausdune, where the 365 children were born. We saw the
      hill where they say the house stood and sunk wherein the children were
      born. The basins wherein the male and female children were baptized do
      stand over a large table that hangs upon a wall, with the whole story of
      the thing in Dutch and Latin, beginning, "Margarita Herman Comitissa,"
      &amp;c. The thing was done about 200 years ago.
    </p>
    <p>
      The town is a little small village which answers much to one of our small
      villages, such a one as Chesterton in all respects, and one could have
      thought it in England but for the language of the people. We went into a
      little drinking house where there were a great many Dutch boors eating of
      fish in a boorish manner, but very merry in their way. But the houses here
      as neat as in the great places. From thence to the Hague again playing at
      crambo&mdash;[Crambo is described as "a play at short verses in which a
      word is given, and the parties contend who can find most rhymes to it."]&mdash;in
      the waggon, Mr. Edward, Mr. Ibbott, W. Howe, Mr. Pinkney, and I. When we
      were come thither W. Howe, and Mr. Ibbott, and Mr. Pinckney went away for
      Scheveling, while I and the child to walk up and down the town, where I
      met my old chamber-fellow, Mr. Ch. Anderson, and a friend of his (both
      Physicians), Mr. Wright, who took me to a Dutch house, where there was an
      exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport, but it being Saturday we
      could not have much of her company, but however I staid with them (having
      left the child with my uncle Pickering, whom I met in the street) till 12
      at night. By that time Charles was almost drunk, and then broke up, he
      resolving to go thither again, after he had seen me at my lodging, and lie
      with the girl, which he told me he had done in the morning. Going to my
      lodging we met with the bellman, who struck upon a clapper, which I took
      in my hand, and it is just like the clapper that our boys frighten the
      birds away from the corn with in summer time in England. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up early, and with Mr. Pickering and the child by waggon to
      Scheveling, where it not being yet fit to go off, I went to lie down in a
      chamber in the house, where in another bed there was a pretty Dutch woman
      in bed alone, but though I had a month's-mind
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Month's-mind.  An earnest desire or longing, explained as alluding
     to "a woman's longing."  See Shakespeare, "Two Gentlemen of Verona,"
     act i.  sc. 2:

               "I see you have a month's mind to them."&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I had not the boldness to go to her. So there I slept an hour or two. At
      last she rose, and then I rose and walked up and down the chamber, and saw
      her dress herself after the Dutch dress, and talked to her as much as I
      could, and took occasion, from her ring which she wore on her first
      finger, to kiss her hand, but had not the face to offer anything more. So
      at last I left her there and went to my company. About 8 o'clock I went
      into the church at Scheveling, which was pretty handsome, and in the
      chancel a very great upper part of the mouth of a whale, which indeed was
      of a prodigious bigness, bigger than one of our long boats that belong to
      one of our ships. Commissioner Pett at last came to our lodging, and
      caused the boats to go off; so some in one boat and some in another we all
      bid adieu to the shore. But through badness of weather we were in great
      danger, and a great while before we could get to the ship, so that of all
      the company not one but myself that was not sick. I keeping myself in the
      open air, though I was soundly wet for it. This hath not been known four
      days together such weather at this time of year, a great while. Indeed our
      fleet was thought to be in great danger, but we found all well, and Mr.
      Thos. Crew came on board. I having spoke a word or two with my Lord, being
      not very well settled, partly through last night's drinking and want of
      sleep, I lay down in my gown upon my bed and slept till the 4 o'clock gun
      the next morning waked me, which I took for 8 at night, and rising ...
      mistook the sun rising for the sun setting on Sunday night.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. So into my naked bed
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This is a somewhat late use of an expression which was once
     universal.  It was formerly the custom for both sexes to sleep in
     bed without any nightlinen.

              "Who sees his true love in her naked bed,
               Teaching the sheets a whiter hue than white."

                              Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis.

     Nares ("Glossary") notes the expression so late as in the very odd
     novel by T. Amory, called "John Bunde," where a young lady declares,
     after an alarm, "that she would never go into naked bed on board
     ship again."  Octavo edition, vol. i.  p. 90.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and slept till 9 o'clock, and then John Goods waked me, [by] and by the
      captain's boy brought me four barrels of Mallows oysters, which Captain
      Tatnell had sent me from Murlace.&mdash;[Apparently Mallows stands for St.
      Malo and Murlace for Morlaise.]&mdash;The weather foul all this day also.
      After dinner, about writing one thing or other all day, and setting my
      papers in order, having been so long absent. At night Mr. Pierce, Purser
      (the other Pierce and I having not spoken to one another since we fell out
      about Mr. Edward), and Mr. Cook sat with me in my cabin and supped with
      me, and then I went to bed. By letters that came hither in my absence, I
      understand that the Parliament had ordered all persons to be secured, in
      order to a trial, that did sit as judges in the late King's death, and all
      the officers too attending the Court. Sir John Lenthall moving in the
      House, that all that had borne arms against the King should be exempted
      from pardon, he was called to the bar of the House, and after a severe
      reproof he was degraded his knighthood. At Court I find that all things
      grow high. The old clergy talk as being sure of their lands again, and
      laugh at the Presbytery; and it is believed that the sales of the King's
      and Bishops' lands will never be confirmed by Parliament, there being
      nothing now in any man's, power to hinder them and the King from doing
      what they have a mind, but every body willing to submit to any thing. We
      expect every day to have the King and Duke on board as soon as it is fair.
      My Lord do nothing now, but offers all things to the pleasure of the Duke
      as Lord High Admiral. So that I am at a loss what to do.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up very early, and now beginning to be settled in my wits again, I
      went about setting down my last four days' observations this morning.
      After that, was trimmed by a barber that has not trimmed me yet, my
      Spaniard being on shore. News brought that the two Dukes are coming on
      board, which, by and by, they did, in a Dutch boats the Duke of York in
      yellow trimmings, the Duke of Gloucester
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the youngest child of Charles L, born
     July 6th, 16&mdash;, who, with his sister Elizabeth, was allowed a
     meeting with his father on the night before the King's execution.
     Burnet says: "He was active, and loved business; was apt to have
     particular friendships, and had an insinuating temper which was
     generally very acceptable.  The King loved him much better than the
     Duke of York."  He died of smallpox at Whitehall, September 13th,
     1660, and was buried in Henry VII's Chapel.]
</pre>
    <p>
      in grey and red. My Lord went in a boat to meet them, the Captain, myself,
      and others, standing at the entering port. So soon as they were entered we
      shot the guns off round the fleet. After that they went to view the ship
      all over, and were most exceedingly pleased with it. They seem to be both
      very fine gentlemen. After that done, upon the quarter-deck table, under
      the awning, the Duke of York and my Lord, Mr. Coventry,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [William Coventry, to whom Pepys became so warmly attached
     afterwards, was the fourth son of Thomas, first Lord Coventry, the
     Lord Keeper.  He was born in 1628, and entered at Queen's College,
     Oxford, in 1642; after the Restoration he became private secretary
     to the Duke of York, his commission as Secretary to the Lord High
     Admiral not being conferred until 1664; elected M.P. for Great
     Yarmouth in 1661.  In 1662 he was appointed an extra Commissioner of
     the Navy, an office he held until 1667; in 1665, knighted and sworn
     a Privy Councillor, and, in 1667, constituted a Commissioner of the
     Treasury; but, having been forbid the court on account of his
     challenging the Duke of Buckingham, he retired into the country, nor
     could he subsequently be prevailed upon to accept of any official
     employment.  Burnet calls Sir William Coventry the best speaker in
     the House of Commons, and "a man of the finest and best temper that
     belonged to the court," and Pepys never omits an opportunity of
     paying a tribute to his public and private worth.  He died, 1686, of
     gout in the stomach.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and I, spent an hour at allotting to every ship their service, in their
      return to England; which having done, they went to dinner, where the table
      was very full: the two Dukes at the upper end, my Lord Opdam next on one
      side, and my Lord on the other. Two guns given to every man while he was
      drinking the King's health, and so likewise to the Duke's health. I took
      down Monsieur d'Esquier to the great cabin below, and dined with him in
      state alone with only one or two friends of his. All dinner the harper
      belonging to Captain Sparling played to the Dukes. After dinner, the Dukes
      and my Lord to see the Vice and Rear-Admirals; and I in a boat after them.
      After that done, they made to the shore in the Dutch boat that brought
      them, and I got into the boat with them; but the shore was so full of
      people to expect their coming, as that it was as black (which otherwise is
      white sand), as every one could stand by another. When we came near the
      shore, my Lord left them and came into his own boat, and General Pen and I
      with him; my Lord being very well pleased with this day's work. By the
      time we came on board again, news is sent us that the King is on shore; so
      my Lord fired all his guns round twice, and all the fleet after him, which
      in the end fell into disorder, which seemed very handsome. The gun over
      against my cabin I fired myself to the King, which was the first time that
      he had been saluted by his own ships since this change; but holding my
      head too much over the gun, I had almost spoiled my right eye. Nothing in
      the world but going of guns almost all this day. In the evening we began
      to remove cabins; I to the carpenter's cabin, and Dr. Clerke with me, who
      came on board this afternoon, having been twice ducked in the sea to-day
      coming from shore, and Mr. North and John Pickering the like. Many of the
      King's servants came on board to-night; and so many Dutch of all sorts
      came to see the ship till it was quite dark, that we could not pass by one
      another, which was a great trouble to us all. This afternoon Mr. Downing
      (who was knighted yesterday by the King') was here on board, and had a
      ship for his passage into England, with his lady and servants.
    </p>
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     ["About midnight arrived there Mr. Downing, who did the affairs of
     England to the Lords the Estates, in quality of Resident under
     Oliver Cromwell, and afterward under the pretended Parliament, which
     having changed the form of the government, after having cast forth
     the last Protector, had continued him in his imploiment, under the
     quality of Extraordinary Envoy.  He began to have respect for the
     King's person, when he knew that all England declared for a free
     parliament, and departed from Holland without order, as soon as he
     understood that there was nothing that could longer oppose the re-
     establishment of monarchal government, with a design to crave
     letters of recommendation to General Monk.  This lord considered
     him, as well because of the birth of his wife, which is illustrious,
     as because Downing had expressed some respect for him in a time when
     that eminent person could not yet discover his intentions.  He had
     his letters when he arrived at midnight at the house of the Spanish
     Embassador, as we have said.  He presented them forthwith to the
     King, who arose from table a while after, read the letters, receiv'd
     the submissions of Downing, and granted him the pardon and grace
     which he asked for him to whom he could deny nothing.  Some daies
     after the King knighted him, and would it should be believed, that
     the strong aversions which this minister of the Protector had made
     appear against him on all occasions, and with all sorts of persons
     indifferently, even a few daies before the publick and general
     declaration of all England, proceeded not from any evil intention,
     but only from a deep dissimulation, wherewith he was constrained to
     cover his true sentiments, for fear to prejudice the affairs of his
     Majesty."&mdash;Sir William Lowers Relation... of the Voiage and
     Residence which...  Charles the II.  hath made in Holland,
     Hague, 1660, folio, pp. 72-73.]
</pre>
    <p>
      By the same token he called me to him when I was going to write the order,
      to tell me that I must write him Sir G. Downing. My Lord lay in the
      roundhouse to-night. This evening I was late writing a French letter
      myself by my Lord's order to Monsieur Kragh, Embassador de Denmarke a la
      Haye, which my Lord signed in bed. After that I to bed, and the Doctor,
      and sleep well.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. The Doctor and I waked very merry, only my eye was very red and ill
      in the morning from yesterday's hurt. In the morning came infinity of
      people on board from the King to go along with him. My Lord, Mr. Crew, and
      others, go on shore to meet the King as he comes off from shore, where Sir
      R. Stayner bringing His Majesty into the boat, I hear that His Majesty did
      with a great deal of affection kiss my Lord upon his first meeting. The
      King, with the two Dukes and Queen of Bohemia, Princess Royal, and Prince
      of Orange, came on board, where I in their coming in kissed the King's,
      Queen's, and Princess's hands, having done the other before. Infinite
      shooting off of the guns, and that in a disorder on purpose, which was
      better than if it had been otherwise. All day nothing but Lords and
      persons of honour on board, that we were exceeding full. Dined in a great
      deal of state, the Royall company by themselves in the coach, which was a
      blessed sight to see. I dined with Dr. Clerke, Dr. Quarterman, and Mr.
      Darcy in my cabin. This morning Mr. Lucy came on board, to whom and his
      company of the King's Guard in another ship my Lord did give three dozen
      of bottles of wine. He made friends between Mr. Pierce and me. After
      dinner the King and Duke altered the name of some of the ships, viz. the
      Nazeby into Charles; the Richard, James; the Speakers Mary; the Dunbar
      (which was not in company with us), the Henry; Winsly, Happy Return;
      Wakefield, Richmond; Lambert; the Henrietta; Cheriton, the Speedwell;
      Bradford, the Success. That done, the Queen, Princess Royal, and Prince of
      Orange, took leave of the King, and the Duke of York went on board the
      London, and the Duke of Gloucester, the Swiftsure. Which done, we weighed
      anchor, and with a fresh gale and most happy weather we set sail for
      England. All the afternoon the King walked here and there, up and down
      (quite contrary to what I thought him to have been), very active and
      stirring. Upon the quarterdeck he fell into discourse of his escape from
      Worcester,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [For the King's own account of his escape dictated to Pepys, see
     "Boscobel" (Bohn's "Standard Library").]
</pre>
    <p>
      where it made me ready to weep to hear the stories that he told of his
      difficulties that he had passed through, as his travelling four days and
      three nights on foot, every step up to his knees in dirt, with nothing but
      a green coat and a pair of country breeches on, and a pair of country
      shoes that made him so sore all over his feet, that he could scarce stir.
      Yet he was forced to run away from a miller and other company, that took
      them for rogues. His sitting at table at one place, where the master of
      the house, that had not seen him in eight years, did know him, but kept it
      private; when at the same table there was one that had been of his own
      regiment at Worcester, could not know him, but made him drink the King's
      health, and said that the King was at least four fingers higher than he.
      At another place he was by some servants of the house made to drink, that
      they might know him not to be a Roundhead, which they swore he was. In
      another place at his inn, the master of the house,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This was at Brighton.  The inn was the "George," and the innkeeper
     was named Smith.  Charles related this circumstance again to Pepys
     in October, 1680.  He then said, "And here also I ran into another
     very great danger, as being confident I was known by the master of
     the inn; for, as I was standing after supper by the fireside,
     leaning my hand upon a chair, and all the rest of the company being
     gone into another room, the master of the inn came in and fell a-
     talking with me, and just as he was looking about, and saw there was
     nobody in the room, he upon a sudden kissed my hand that was upon
     the back of the chair, and said to me, 'God bless you wheresoever
     you go!  I do not doubt before I die, but to be a lord, and my wife
     a lady.' So I laughed, and went away into the next room."]
</pre>
    <p>
      as the King was standing with his hands upon the back of a chair by the
      fire-side, kneeled down and kissed his hand, privately, saying, that he
      would not ask him who he was, but bid God bless him whither he was going.
      Then the difficulty of getting a boat to get into France, where he was
      fain to plot with the master thereof to keep his design from the four men
      and a boy (which was all his ship's company), and so got to Fecamp in
      France.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [On Saturday, October 11th, 1651, Colonel Gunter made an agreement
     at Chichester with Nicholas Tettersell, through Francis Mansell (a
     French merchant), to have Tettersell's vessel ready at an hour's
     warning.  Charles II., in his narrative dictated to Pepys in 1680,
     said, "We went to a place, four miles off Shoreham, called
     Brighthelmstone, where we were to meet with the master of the ship,
     as thinking it more convenient to meet there than just at Shoreham,
     where the ship was.  So when we came to the inn at Brighthelmstone
     we met with one, the merchant Francis Mansell] who had hired the
     vessel, in company with her master [Tettersell], the merchant only
     knowing me, as having hired her only to carry over a person of
     quality that was escaped from the battle of Worcester without naming
     anybody."

     The boat was supposed to be bound for Poole, but Charles says in his
     narrative: "As we were sailing the master came to me, and desired me
     that I would persuade his men to use their best endeavours with him
     to get him to set us on shore in France, the better to cover him
     from any suspicion thereof, upon which I went to the men, which were
     four and a boy."

     After the Restoration Mansell was granted a pension of L200 a year,
     and Tettersell one of L100 a year.  (See "Captain Nicholas
     Tettersell and the Escape of Charles II.," by F. E. Sawyer, F.S.A.,
     "Sussex Archaeological Collections," vol. xxxii.  pp. 81-104).)
</pre>
    <p>
      At Rouen he looked so poorly, that the people went into the rooms before
      he went away to see whether he had not stole something or other. In the
      evening I went up to my Lord to write letters for England, which we sent
      away with word of our coming, by Mr. Edw. Pickering. The King supped alone
      in the coach; after that I got a dish, and we four supped in my cabin, as
      at noon. About bed-time my Lord Bartlett
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A mistake for Lord Berkeley of Berkeley, who had been deputed, with
     Lord Middlesex and four other Peers, by the House of Lords to
     present an address of congratulation to the King.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      (who I had offered my service to before) sent for me to get him a bed, who
      with much ado I did get to bed to my Lord Middlesex in the great cabin
      below, but I was cruelly troubled before I could dispose of him, and quit
      myself of him. So to my cabin again, where the company still was, and were
      talking more of the King's difficulties; as how he was fain to eat a piece
      of bread and cheese out of a poor boy's pocket; how, at a Catholique
      house, he was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while in the house
      for his privacy. After that our company broke up, and the Doctor and I to
      bed. We have all the Lords Commissioners on board us, and many others.
      Under sail all night, and most glorious weather.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and made myself as fine as I could, with the Tinning stockings
      on and wide canons&mdash;["Cannions, boot hose tops; an old-fashioned
      ornament for the legs." That is to say, a particular addition to breeches.]&mdash;that
      I bought the other day at Hague. Extraordinary press of noble company, and
      great mirth all the day. There dined with me in my cabin (that is, the
      carpenter's) Dr. Earle
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [John Earle, born about 1601; appointed in 1643 one of the
     Westminster Assembly of Divines, but his principles did not allow
     him to act.  He accompanied Charles II. when he was obliged to fly
     from England.  Dean of Westminster at the Restoration, Bishop of
     Worcester, November 30th, 1662, and translated to Salisbury,
     September 28th, 1663.  He was tender to the Nonconformists, and
     Baxter wrote of him, "O that they were all such!"  Author of
     "Microcosmography."  Died November 17th, 1665, and was buried in the
     chapel of Merton College, of which he had been a Fellow.  Charles
     II.  had the highest esteem for him.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and Mr. Hollis,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Denzil Holles, second son of John, first Earl of Clare, born at
     Houghton, Notts, in 1597.  He was one of the five members charged
     with high treason by Charles I. in 1641.  He was a Presbyterian, and
     one of the Commissioners sent by Parliament to wait on Charles II.
     at the Hague.  Sir William Lower, in his "Relation," 1660, writes:
     "All agreed that never person spake with more affection nor
     expressed himself in better terms than Mr. Denzil Hollis, who was
     orator for the Deputies of the Lower House, to whom those of London
     were joined."  He was created Baron Holles on April 20th, 1661, on
     the occasion of the coronation of Charles II.]
</pre>
    <p>
      the King's Chaplins, Dr. Scarborough,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Charles Scarburgh, M.D., an eminent physician who suffered for the
     royal cause during the Civil Wars.  He was born in London, and
     educated at St. Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge.  He was
     ejected from his fellowship at Caius, and withdrew to Oxford.  He
     entered himself at Merton College, then presided over by Harvey,
     with whom he formed a lifelong friendship.  He was knighted by
     Charles II. in 1669, and attended the King in his last illness.  He
     was also physician to James II. and to William III., and died
     February 26th, 1693-4.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Dr. Quarterman, and Dr. Clerke, Physicians, Mr. Darcy, and Mr. Fox
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Stephen Fox, born 1627, and said to have been a choir-boy in
     Salisbury Cathedral.  He was the first person to announce the death
     of Cromwell to Charles II., and at the Restoration he was made Clerk
     of the Green Cloth, and afterwards Paymaster of the Forces.  He was
     knighted in 1665.  He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Whittle
     of Lancashire.  (See June 25th, 1660.) Fox died in 1716.  His sons
     Stephen and Henry were created respectively Earl of Ilchester and
     Lord Holland.]
</pre>
    <p>
      (both very fine gentlemen), the King's servants, where we had brave
      discourse. Walking upon the decks, where persons of honour all the
      afternoon, among others, Thomas Killigrew (a merry droll, but a gentleman
      of great esteem with the King), who told us many merry stories: one, how
      he wrote a letter three or four days ago to the Princess Royal, about a
      Queen Dowager of Judaea and Palestine, that was at the Hague incognita,
      that made love to the King, &amp;c., which was Mr. Cary (a courtier's)
      wife that had been a nun, who are all married to Jesus. At supper the
      three Drs. of Physic again at my cabin; where I put Dr. Scarborough in
      mind of what I heard him say about the use of the eyes, which he owned,
      that children do, in every day's experience, look several ways with both
      their eyes, till custom teaches them otherwise. And that we do now see but
      with one eye, our eyes looking in parallel lines. After this discourse I
      was called to write a pass for my Lord Mandeville to take up horses to
      London, which I wrote in the King's name,&mdash;[This right of purveyance
      was abolished in Charles's reign.]&mdash;and carried it to him to sign,
      which was the first and only one that ever he signed in the ship Charles.
      To bed, coming in sight of land a little before night.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. By the morning we were come close to the land, and every body made
      ready to get on shore. The King and the two Dukes did eat their breakfast
      before they went, and there being set some ship's diet before them, only
      to show them the manner of the ship's diet, they eat of nothing else but
      pease and pork, and boiled beef. I had Mr. Darcy in my cabin and Dr.
      Clerke, who eat with me, told me how the King had given L50 to Mr. Sheply
      for my Lord's servants, and L500 among the officers and common men of the
      ship. I spoke with the Duke of York about business, who called me Pepys by
      name, and upon my desire did promise me his future favour. Great
      expectation of the King's making some Knights, but there was none. About
      noon (though the brigantine that Beale made was there ready to carry him)
      yet he would go in my Lord's barge with the two Dukes. Our Captain
      steered, and my Lord went along bare with him. I went, and Mr. Mansell,
      and one of the King's footmen, with a dog that the King loved,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Charles II.'s love of dogs is well known, but it is not so well
     known that his dogs were continually being stolen from him.  In the
     "Mercurius Publicus," June 28-July 5, 1660, is the following
     advertisement, apparently drawn up by the King himself: "We must
     call upon you again for a Black Dog between a greyhound and a
     spaniel, no white about him, onely a streak on his brest, and his
     tayl a little bobbed.  It is His Majesties own Dog, and doubtless
     was stoln, for the dog was not born nor bred in England, and would
     never forsake His master.  Whoesoever findes him may acquaint any at
     Whitehal for the Dog was better known at Court, than those who stole
     him.  Will they never leave robbing his Majesty!  Must he not keep a
     Dog?  This dog's place (though better than some imagine) is the only
     place which nobody offers to beg."  (Quoted in "Notes and Queries,"
     7th S., vii. 26, where are printed two other advertisements of
     Charles's lost dogs.)]
</pre>
    <p>
      (which [dirted] the boat, which made us laugh, and me think that a King
      and all that belong to him are but just as others are), in a boat by
      ourselves, and so got on shore when the King did, who was received by
      General Monk with all imaginable love and respect at his entrance upon the
      land of Dover. Infinite the crowd of people and the horsemen, citizens,
      and noblemen of all sorts. The Mayor of the town came and gave him his
      white staff, the badge of his place, which the King did give him again.
      The Mayor also presented him from the town a very rich Bible, which he
      took and said it was the thing that he loved above all things in the
      world. A canopy was provided for him to stand under, which he did, and
      talked awhile with General Monk and others, and so into a stately coach
      there set for him, and so away through the town towards Canterbury,
      without making any stay at Dover. The shouting and joy expressed by all is
      past imagination. Seeing that my Lord did not stir out of his barge, I got
      into a boat, and so into his barge, whither Mr. John Crew stepped, and
      spoke a word or two to my Lord, and so returned, we back to the ship, and
      going did see a man almost drowned that fell out of his boat into the sea,
      but with much ado was got out. My Lord almost transported with joy that he
      had done all this without any the least blur or obstruction in the world,
      that could give an offence to any, and with the great honour he thought it
      would be to him. Being overtook by the brigantine, my Lord and we went out
      of our barge into it, and so went on board with Sir W. Batten,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Clarendon describes William Batten as an obscure fellow, and,
     although unknown to the service, a good seaman, who was in 1642 made
     Surveyor to the Navy; in which employ he evinced great animosity
     against the King.  The following year, while Vice-Admiral to the
     Earl of Warwick, he chased a Dutch man-of-war into Burlington Bay,
     knowing that Queen Henrietta Maria was on board; and then, learning
     that she had landed and was lodged on the quay, he fired above a
     hundred shot upon the house, some of which passing through her
     majesty's chamber, she was obliged, though indisposed, to retire for
     safety into the open fields.  This act, brutal as it was, found
     favour with the Parliament.  But Batten became afterwards
     discontented; and, when a portion of the fleet revolted, he carried
     the "Constant Warwick," one of the best ships in the Parliament
     navy, over into Holland, with several seamen of note.  For this act
     of treachery he was knighted and made a Rear-Admiral by Prince
     Charles.  We hear no more of Batten till the Restoration, when he
     became a Commissioner of the Navy, and was soon after M.P. for
     Rochester.  See an account of his second wife, in note to November
     24th, 1660, and of his illness and death, October 5th, 1667.  He had
     a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Martha, by his first wife.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and the Vice and Rear-Admirals. At night my Lord supped and Mr. Thomas
      Crew with Captain Stoakes, I supped with the Captain, who told me what the
      King had given us. My Lord returned late, and at his coming did give me
      order to cause the marke to be gilded, and a Crown and C. R. to be made at
      the head of the coach table, where the King to-day with his own hand did
      mark his height, which accordingly I caused the painter to do, and is now
      done as is to be seen.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Thanks to God I got to bed in my own poor cabin, and slept well till
      9 o'clock this morning. Mr. North and Dr. Clerke and all the great company
      being gone, I found myself very uncouth all this day for want thereof. My
      Lord dined with the Vice-Admiral to-day (who is as officious, poor man! as
      any spaniel can be; but I believe all to no purpose, for I believe he will
      not hold his place), so I dined commander at the coach table to-day, and
      all the officers of the ship with me, and Mr. White of Dover. After a game
      or two at nine-pins, to work all the afternoon, making above twenty
      orders. In the evening my Lord having been a-shore, the first time that he
      hath been a-shore since he came out of the Hope (having resolved not to go
      till he had brought his Majesty into England), returned on board with a
      great deal of pleasure. I supped with the Captain in his cabin with young
      Captain Cuttance, and afterwards a messenger from the King came with a
      letter, and to go into France, and by that means we supped again with him
      at 12 o'clock at night. This night the Captain told me that my Lord had
      appointed me L30 out of the 1000 ducats which the King had given to the
      ship, at which my heart was very much joyed. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Lord's day). Called up by John Goods to see the Garter and Heralds
      coat, which lay in the coach, brought by Sir Edward Walker,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Edward Walker was knighted February 2nd, 1644-5, and on the 24th of
     the same month was sworn in as Garter King at Arms.  He adhered to
     the cause of the king, and published "Iter Carolinum", being a
     succinct account of the necessitated marches, retreats, and
     sufferings of his Majesty King Charles I., from Jan. 10, 1641, to
     the time of his death in 1648, collected by a daily attendant upon
     his sacred Majesty during all that time: He joined Charles II. in
     exile, and received the reward of his loyalty at the Restoration.
     He died at Whitehall, February 19th, 1676-7, and was buried at
     Stratford-on-Avon, his daughter having married Sir John Clepton of
     that place.]
</pre>
    <p>
      King at Arms, this morning, for my Lord. My Lord hath summoned all the
      Commanders on board him, to see the ceremony, which was thus: Sir Edward
      putting on his coat, and having laid the George and Garter, and the King's
      letter to my Lord, upon a crimson cushion (in the coach, all the
      Commanders standing by), makes three congees to him, holding the cushion
      in his arms. Then laying it down with the things upon it upon a chair, he
      takes the letter, and delivers it to my Lord, which my Lord breaks open
      and gives him to read. It was directed to our trusty and well beloved Sir
      Edward Montagu, Knight, one of our Generals at sea, and our Companion
      elect of our Noble Order of the Garter. The contents of the letter is to
      show that the Kings of England have for many years made use of this
      honour, as a special mark of favour, to persons of good extraction and
      virtue (and that many Emperors, Kings and Princes of other countries have
      borne this honour), and that whereas my Lord is of a noble family, and
      hath now done the King such service by sea, at this time, as he hath done;
      he do send him this George and Garter to wear as Knight of the Order, with
      a dispensation for the other ceremonies of the habit of the Order, and
      other things, till hereafter, when it can be done. So the herald putting
      the ribbon about his neck, and the Garter about his left leg, he salutes
      him with joy as Knight of the Garter, and that was all. After that was
      done, and the Captain and I had breakfasted with Sir Edward while my Lord
      was writing of a letter, he took his leave of my Lord, and so to shore
      again to the King at Canterbury, where he yesterday gave the like honour
      to General Monk,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["His Majesty put the George on his Excellency, and the two Dukes
     put on the Garter.  The Princes thus honoured the Lord-General for
     the restoration of that lawful family."&mdash;Rugge's Diurnal.]
</pre>
    <p>
      who are the only two for many years that have had the Garter given them,
      before they had other honours of Earldom, or the like, excepting only the
      Duke of Buckingham, who was only Sir George Villiers when he was made
      Knight of the Garter. A while after Mr. Thos. Crew and Mr. J. Pickering
      (who had staid long enough to make all the world see him to be a fool),
      took ship for London. So there now remain no strangers with my Lord but
      Mr. Hetley, who had been with us a day before the King went from us. My
      Lord and the ship's company down to sermon. I staid above to write and
      look over my new song book, which came last night to me from London in
      lieu of that that my Lord had of me. The officers being all on board,
      there was not room for me at table, so I dined in my cabin, where, among
      other things, Mr. Drum brought me a lobster and a bottle of oil, instead
      of a bottle of vinegar, whereby I spoiled my dinner. Many orders in the
      ordering of ships this afternoon. Late to a sermon. After that up to the
      Lieutenant's cabin, where Mr. Sheply, I, and the Minister supped, and
      after that I went down to W. Howe's cabin, and there, with a great deal of
      pleasure, singing till it was late. After that to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Called up at two in the morning for letters for my Lord from the
      Duke of York, but I went to bed again till 5. Trimmed early this morning.
      This morning the Captain did call over all the men in the ship (not the
      boys), and give every one of them a ducat of the King's money that he gave
      the ship, and the officers according to their quality. I received in the
      Captain's cabin, for my share, sixty ducats. The rest of the morning busy
      writing letters. So was my Lord that he would not come to dinner. After
      dinner to write again in order to sending to London, but my Lord did not
      finish his, so we did not send to London to-day. A great part of the
      afternoon at nine-pins with my Lord and Mr. Hetley. I lost about 4s.
      Supped with my Lord, and after that to bed. At night I had a strange dream
      of&mdash;myself, which I really did, and having kicked my clothes off, I
      got cold; and found myself all much wet in the morning, and had a great
      deal of pain... which made me very melancholy.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. The King's birthday. Busy all the morning writing letters to London,
      among the rest one to Mr. Chetwind to give me an account of the fees due
      to the Herald for the Order of the Garter, which my Lord desires to know.
      After dinner got all ready and sent away Mr. Cook to London with a letter
      and token to my wife. After that abroad to shore with my Lord (which he
      offered me of himself, saying that I had a great deal of work to do this
      month, which was very true). On shore we took horses, my Lord and Mr.
      Edward, Mr. Hetly and I, and three or four servants, and had a great deal
      of pleasure in riding. Among other things my Lord showed me a house that
      cost a great deal of money, and is built in so barren and inconvenient a
      place that my Lord calls it the fool's house. At last we came upon a very
      high cliff by the sea-side, and rode under it, we having laid great
      wagers, I and Dr. Mathews, that it was not so high as Paul's; my Lord and
      Mr. Hetly, that it was. But we riding under it, my Lord made a pretty good
      measure of it with two sticks, and found it to be not above thirty-five
      yards high, and Paul's is reckoned to be about ninety. From thence toward
      the barge again, and in our way found the people at Deal going to make a
      bonfire for joy of the day, it being the King's birthday, and had some
      guns which they did fire at my Lord's coming by. For which I did give
      twenty shillings among them to drink. While we were on the top of the
      cliffe, we saw and heard our guns in the fleet go off for the same joy.
      And it being a pretty fair day we could see above twenty miles into
      France. Being returned on board, my Lord called for Mr. Sheply's book of
      Paul's, by which we were confirmed in our wager. After that to supper and
      then to musique, and so to bed. The pain that I have got last night by
      cold is not yet gone, but troubles me at the time of.... This day, it is
      thought, the King do enter the city of London.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Divers maidens, in behalf of themselves and others, presented a
     petition to the Lord Mayor of London, wherein they pray his Lordship
     to grant them leave and liberty to meet His Majesty on the day of
     his passing through the city; and if their petition be granted, that
     they will all be clad in white waistcoats and crimson petticoats,
     and other ornaments of triumph and rejoicing."-Rugge's Diurnal, May,
     1660.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      30th. About eight o'clock in the morning the lieutenant came to me to know
      whether I would eat a dish of mackerel, newly catched, for my breakfast,
      which the Captain and we did in the coach. All yesterday and to-day I had
      a great deal of pain... and in my back, which made me afeard. But it
      proved nothing but cold, which I took yesterday night. All this morning
      making up my accounts, in which I counted that I had made myself now worth
      about L80, at which my heart was glad, and blessed God. Many Dover men
      come and dine with my Lord. My Lord at ninepins in the afternoon. In the
      afternoon Mr. Sheply told me how my Lord had put me down for 70 guilders
      among the money which was given to my Lord's servants, which my heart did
      much rejoice at. My Lord supped alone in his chamber. Sir R. Stayner
      supped with us, and among other things told us how some of his men did
      grumble that no more of the Duke's money come to their share and so would
      not receive any; whereupon he called up those that had taken it, and gives
      them three shares apiece more, which was very good, and made good sport
      among the seamen. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. This day my Lord took physic, and came not out of his chamber.
    </p>
    <p>
      All the morning making orders. After dinner a great while below in the
      great cabin trying with W. Howe some of Mr. Laws' songs,' particularly
      that of "What is a kiss," with which we had a great deal of pleasure.
      After that to making of orders again. Captain Sparling of the Assistance
      brought me a pair of silk stockings of a light blue, which I was much
      pleased with. The Captain and I to supper, and after that a most pleasant
      walk till to at night with him upon the deck, it being a fine evening. My
      pain was gone again that I had yesterday, blessed be God. This day the
      month ends, I in very good health, and all the world in a merry mood
      because of the King's coming. This day I began to teach Mr. Edward; who I
      find to have a very good foundation laid for his Latin by Mr. Fuller. I
      expect every minute to hear how my poor wife do. I find myself in all
      things well as to body and mind, but troubled for the absence of my wife.
    </p>
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    <p>
      June 1st. This morning Mr. Sheply disposed of the money that the Duke of
      York did give my Lord's servants, 22 ducatoons 3 came to my share, whereof
      he told me to give Jaspar something because my Lord left him out.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Foreign coins were in frequent use at this time.  A Proclamation,
     January 29th, 1660-61, declared certain foreign gold and silver
     coins to be current at certain rates.  The rate of the ducatoon was
     at 5s. 9d.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I did give Mr. Sheply the fine pair of buckskin gloves that I bought
      myself about five years ago. My Lord took physic to-day, and so come not
      out all day. The Captain on shore all day. After dinner Captain Jefferys
      and W. Howe, and the Lieutenant and I to ninepins, where I lost about two
      shillings and so fooled away all the afternoon. At night Mr. Cooke comes
      from London with letters, leaving all things there very gallant and
      joyful. And brought us word that the Parliament had ordered the 29th of
      May, the King's birthday, to be for ever kept as a day of thanksgiving for
      our redemption from tyranny, and the King's return to his Government, he
      entering London that day. My wife was in London when he came thither, and
      had been there a week with Mr. Bowyer and his wife. My poor wife has not
      been well a week before, but thanks be to God is well again. She would
      fain see me and be at her house again, but we must be content. She writes
      word how the Joyces grow very rich and very proud, but it is no matter,
      and that there was a talk that I should be knighted by the King, which
      they (the Joyces) laugh at; but I think myself happier in my wife and
      estate than they are in theirs. To bed. The Captain come on board, when I
      was going to bed, quite fuddled; and himself the next morning told me so
      too, that the Vice-Admiral, Rear-Admiral, and he had been drinking all
      day.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. Being with my Lord in the morning about business in his cabin, I took
      occasion to give him thanks for his love to me in the share that he had
      given me of his Majesty's money, and the Duke's. He told the he hoped to
      do me a more lasting kindness, if all things stand as they are now between
      him and the King, but, says he, "We must have a little patience and we
      will rise together; in the mean time I will do you all the good jobs I
      can." Which was great content for me to hear from my Lord. All the morning
      with the Captain, computing how much the thirty ships that come with the
      King from Scheveling their pay comes to for a month (because the King
      promised to give them all a month's pay), and it comes to L6,538, and the
      Charles particularly L777. I wish we had the money. All the afternoon with
      two or three captains in the Captain's cabin, drinking of white wine and
      sugar, and eating pickled oysters, where Captain Sparling told us the best
      story that ever I heard, about a gentleman that persuaded a country fool
      to let him gut his oysters or else they would stink. At night writing
      letters to London and Weymouth, for my Lord being now to sit in the House
      of Peers he endeavours to get Mr. Edward Montagu for Weymouth and Mr.
      George for Dover. Mr. Cooke late with me in my cabin while I wrote to my
      wife, and drank a bottle of wine and so took leave of me on his journey
      and I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3d. Waked in the morning by one who when I asked who it was, he told me
      one from Bridewell, which proved Captain Holland. I rose presently to him.
      He is come to get an order for the setting out of his ship, and to renew
      his commission. He tells me how every man goes to the Lord Mayor to set
      down their names, as such as do accept of his Majesty's pardon, and showed
      me a certificate under the Lord Mayor's hand that he had done so.
    </p>
    <p>
      At sermon in the morning; after dinner into my cabin, to cast my accounts
      up, and find myself to be worth near L100, for which I bless Almighty God,
      it being more than I hoped for so soon, being I believe not clearly worth
      L25 when I came to sea besides my house and goods. Then to set my papers
      in order, they being increased much upon my hands through want of time to
      put them in order. The ship's company all this while at sermon. After
      sermon my Lord did give me instruction to write to London about business,
      which done, after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Waked in the morning at four o'clock to give some money to Mr. Hetly,
      who was to go to London with the letters that I wrote yesterday night.
      After he was gone I went and lay down in my gown upon my bed again an hour
      or two. At last waked by a messenger come for a Post Warrant for Mr. Hetly
      and Mr. Creed, who stood to give so little for their horses that the men
      would not let them have any without a warrant, which I sent them. All the
      morning getting Captain Holland's commission done, which I did, and he at
      noon went away. I took my leave of him upon the quarter-deck with a bottle
      of sack, my Lord being just set down to dinner. Then he being gone I went
      to dinner and after dinner to my cabin to write. This afternoon I showed
      my Lord my accounts, which he passed, and so I think myself to be worth
      near L100 now. In the evening I made an order for Captain Sparling of the
      Assistance to go to Middleburgh, to fetch over some of the King's goods. I
      took the opportunity to send all my Dutch money, 70 ducatoons and 29 gold
      ducats to be changed, if he can, for English money, which is the first
      venture that ever I made, and so I have been since a little afeard of it.
      After supper some music and so to bed. This morning the King's
      Proclamation against drinking, swearing, and debauchery, was read to our
      ships' companies in the fleet, and indeed it gives great satisfaction to
      all.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The King's "Proclamation against vicious, debauched, and prophane
     Persons" is dated May 30th.  It is printed in "Somers's Tracts," ed.
     1812, vol. vii.  p. 423.]
</pre>
    <p>
      5th. A-bed late. In the morning my Lord went on shore with the
      Vice-Admiral a-fishing, and at dinner returned. In the afternoon I played
      at ninepins with my Lord, and when he went in again I got him to sign my
      accounts for L115, and so upon my private balance I find myself confirmed
      in my estimation that I am worth L100. In the evening in my cabin a great
      while getting the song without book, "Help, help Divinity, &amp;c." After
      supper my Lord called for the lieutenant's cittern, and with two
      candlesticks with money in them for symballs, we made barber's music,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In the "Notices of Popular Histories," printed for the Percy
     Society, there is a curious woodcut representing the interior of a
     barber's shop, in which, according to the old custom, the person
     waiting to be shaved is playing on the "ghittern" till his turn
     arrives.  Decker also mentions a "barber's cittern," for every
     serving-man to play upon.  This is no doubt "the barber's music"
     with which Lord Sandwich entertained himself.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      with which my Lord was well pleased. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. In the morning I had letters come, that told me among other things,
      that my Lord's place of Clerk of the Signet was fallen to him, which he
      did most lovingly tell me that I should execute, in case he could not get
      a better employment for me at the end of the year. Because he thought that
      the Duke of York would command all, but he hoped that the Duke would not
      remove me but to my advantage.
    </p>
    <p>
      I had a great deal of talk about my uncle Robert,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Robert Pepys of Brampton, eldest son of Thomas Pepys the red, and
     brother of Samuel's father.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and he told me that he could not tell how his mind stood as to his estate,
      but he would do all that lay in his power for me. After dinner came Mr.
      Gooke from London, who told me that my wife he left well at Huntsmore,
      though her health not altogether so constant as it used to be, which my
      heart is troubled for. Mr. Moore's letters tell me that he thinks my Lord
      will be suddenly sent for up to London, and so I got myself in readiness
      to go.
    </p>
    <p>
      My letters tell me, that Mr. Calamy
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Edmund Calamy, D.D., the celebrated Nonconformist divine, born
     February, 1600, appointed Chaplain to Charles II., 1660.  He refused
     the bishopric of Lichfield which was offered to him.  Died October
     29th, 1666.]
</pre>
    <p>
      had preached before the King in a surplice (this I heard afterwards to be
      false); that my Lord, Gen. Monk, and three more Lords, are made
      Commissioners for the Treasury;
    </p>
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     [The names of the Commissioners were&mdash;Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards
     Earl of Clarendon, General Monk, Thomas, Earl of Southampton, John,
     Lord Robartes, Thomas, Lord Colepeper, Sir Edward Montagu, with Sir
     Edward Nicholas and Sir William Morrice as principal Secretaries of
     State.  The patents are dated June 19th, 1660.]
</pre>
    <p>
      that my Lord had some great place conferred on him, and they say Master of
      the Wardrobe;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The duty of the Master of the Wardrobe was to provide "proper
     furniture for coronations, marriages, and funerals" of the sovereign
     and royal family, "cloaths of state, beds, hangings, and other
     necessaries for the houses of foreign ambassadors, cloaths of state
     for Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Prince of Wales, and ambassadors
     abroad," as also to provide robes for Ministers of State, Knights of
     the Garter, &amp;c.  The last Master of the Wardrobe was Ralph, Duke of
     Montague, who died 1709.]
</pre>
    <p>
      that the two Dukes&mdash;[Duke of York and Duke of Gloucester.]&mdash;do
      haunt the Park much, and that they were at a play, Madam Epicene,&mdash;["Epicene,
      or the Silent Woman," a comedy, by Ben Jonson.]&mdash;the other day; that
      Sir. Ant. Cooper, Mr. Hollis, and Mr. Annesly,&amp; late President of the
      Council of State, are made Privy Councillors to the King. At night very
      busy sending Mr. Donne away to London, and wrote to my father for a coat
      to be made me against I come to London, which I think will not be long. At
      night Mr. Edward Montagu came on board and staid long up with my Lord. I
      to bed and about one in the morning,
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. W. Howe called me up to give him a letter to carry to my Lord that
      came to me to-day, which I did and so to, sleep again. About three in the
      morning the people began to wash the deck, and the water came pouring into
      my mouth, which waked me, and I was fain to rise and get on my gown, and
      sleep leaning on my table. This morning Mr. Montagu went away again. After
      dinner come Mr. John Wright and Mr. Moore, with the sight of whom my heart
      was very glad. They brought an order for my Lord's coming up to London,
      which my Lord resolved to do tomorrow. All the afternoon getting my things
      in order to set forth to-morrow. At night walked up and down with Mr.
      Moore, who did give me an account of all things at London. Among others,
      how the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst, but they will not be
      able to do any thing. Most of the Commanders on board and supped with my
      Lord. Late at night came Mr. Edw. Pickering from London, but I could not
      see him this night. I went with Mr. Moore to the Master's cabin, and saw
      him there in order to going to bed. After that to my own cabin to put
      things in order and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Out early, took horses at Deale. I troubled much with the King's
      gittar, and Fairbrother, the rogue that I intrusted with the carrying of
      it on foot, whom I thought I had lost. Col. Dixwell's horse taken by a
      soldier and delivered to my Lord, and by him to me to carry to London.
      Came to Canterbury, dined there. I saw the minster and the remains of
      Becket's tomb. To Sittiligborne and Rochester. At Chatham and Rochester
      the ships and bridge. Mr. Hetly's mistake about dinner. Come to Gravesend.
      A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen a great while.
      Supped with my Lord, drank late below with Penrose, the Captain. To bed
      late, having first laid out all my things against to-morrow to put myself
      in a walking garb. Weary and hot to bed to Mr. Moore.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up betimes, 25s. the reckoning for very bare. Paid the house and by
      boats to London, six boats. Mr. Moore, W. Howe, and I, and then the child
      in the room of W. Howe. Landed at the Temple. To Mr. Crew's. To my
      father's and put myself into a handsome posture to wait upon my Lord,
      dined there. To White Hall with my Lord and Mr. Edwd. Montagu. Found the
      King in the Park. There walked. Gallantly great.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. (Lord's day.) At my father's found my wife and to walk with her in
      Lincoln's Inn walks.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Betimes to my Lord. Extremely much people and business. So with him
      to Whitehall to the Duke. Back with him by coach and left him in Covent
      Garden. I back to Will's and the Hall to see my father. Then to the Leg in
      King Street with Mr. Moore, and sent for. L'Impertinent to dinner with me.
      After that with Mr. Moore about Privy Seal business. To Mr. Watkins, so to
      Mr. Crew's. Then towards my father's met my Lord and with him to Dorset
      House to the Chancellor. So to Mr. Crew's and saw my Lord at supper, and
      then home, and went to see Mrs. Turner, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Visited by the two Pierces, Mr. Blackburne, Dr. Clerk and Mr. Creed,
      and did give them a ham of bacon. So to my Lord and with him to the Duke
      of Gloucester. The two Dukes dined with the Speaker, and I saw there a
      fine entertainment and dined with the pages. To Mr. Crew's, whither came
      Mr. Greatorex, and with him to the Faithornes, and so to the Devils
      tavern. To my Lord's and staid till 12 at night about business. So to my
      father's, my father and mother in bed, who had been with my uncle Fenner,
      &amp;c., and my wife all day and expected me. But I found Mr. Cook there,
      and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. To my Lord's and thence to the Treasurer's of the Navy,' with Mr.
      Creed and Pierce the Purser to Rawlinson's, whither my uncle Wight came,
      and I spent 12s. upon them. So to Mr. Crew's, where I blotted a new carpet&mdash;[It
      was customary to use carpets as table cloths.]&mdash;that was hired, but
      got it out again with fair water. By water with my Lord in a boat to
      Westminster, and to the Admiralty, now in a new place. After business done
      there to the Rhenish wine-house with Mr. Blackburne, Creed, and Wivell. So
      to my Lord's lodging and to my father's, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up to my Lord and from him to the Treasurer of the Navy for L500.
      After that to a tavern with Washington the Purser, very gallant, and ate
      and drank. To Mr. Crew's and laid my money. To my Lady Pickering with the
      plate that she did give my Lord the other day. Then to Will's and met
      William Symons and Doling and Luellin, and with them to the Bull-head, and
      then to a new alehouse in Brewer's Yard, where Winter that had the fray
      with Stoakes, and from them to my father's.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. All the morning at the Commissioners of the Navy about getting out
      my bill for L650 for the last quarter, which I got done with a great deal
      of ease, which is not common. After that with Mr. Turner to the Dolphin
      and drunk, and so by water to W. Symons, where D. Scobell with his wife, a
      pretty and rich woman. Mrs. Symons, a very fine woman, very merry after
      dinner with marrying of Luellin and D. Scobell's kinswoman that was there.
      Then to my Lord who told me how the King has given him the place of the
      great Wardrobe. My Lord resolves to have Sarah again. I to my father's,
      and then to see my uncle and aunt Fenner. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Rose betimes and abroad in one shirt, which brought me a great cold
      and pain. Murford took me to Harvey's by my father's to drink and told me
      of a business that I hope to get L5 by. To my Lord, and so to White Hall
      with him about the Clerk of the Privy Seal's place, which he is to have.
    </p>
    <p>
      Then to the Admiralty, where I wrote same letters. Here Coll. Thompson
      told me, as a great secret; that the Nazeby was on fire when the King was
      there, but that is not known; when God knows it is quite false. Got a
      piece of gold from Major Holmes for the horse of Dixwell's I brought to
      town. Dined at Mr. Crew's, and after dinner with my Lord to Whitehall.
      Court attendance infinite tedious. Back with my Lord to my Lady Wright's
      and staid till it had done raining, which it had not done a great while.
      After that at night home to my father's and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). Lay long abed. To Mr. Mossum's; a good sermon. This day
      the organs did begin to play at White Hall before the King.&mdash;[All
      organs were removed from churches by an ordinance dated 1644.]&mdash;Dined
      at my father's. After dinner to Mr. Mossum's again, and so in the garden,
      and heard Chippell's father preach, that was Page to the Protector, and
      just by the window that I stood at sat Mrs. Butler, the great beauty.
      After sermon to my Lord. Mr. Edward and I into Gray's Inn walks, and saw
      many beauties. So to my father's, where Mr. Cook, W. Bowyer, and my coz
      Roger Wharton supped and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. To my Lord's, where much business and some hopes of getting some
      money thereby. With him to the Parliament House, where he did intend to
      have gone to have made his appearance to-day, but he met Mr. Crew upon the
      stairs, and would not go in. He went to Mrs. Brown's, and staid till word
      was brought him what was done in the House. This day they made an end of
      the twenty men to be excepted from pardon to their estates. By barge to
      Stepny with my Lord, where at Trinity House we had great entertainment.
      With, my Lord there went Sir W. Pen, Sir H. Wright, Hetly, Pierce; Creed,
      Hill, I and other servants. Back again to the Admiralty, and so to my
      Lord's lodgings, where he told me that he did look after the place of the
      Clerk of the Acts&mdash;[The letters patent appointing Pepys to the office
      of Clerk of the Acts is dated July 13th, 1660.]&mdash;for me. So to Mr.
      Crew's and my father's and to bed. My wife went this day to Huntsmore for
      her things, and I was very lonely all night. This evening my wife's
      brother, Balty, came to me to let me know his bad condition and to get a
      place for him, but I perceive he stands upon a place for a gentleman, that
      may not stain his family when, God help him, he wants bread.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Called on betimes by Murford, who showed me five pieces to get a
      business done for him and I am resolved to do it., Much business at my
      Lord's. This morning my Lord went into the House of Commons, and there had
      the thanks of the House, in the name of the Parliament and Commons of
      England, for his late service to his King and Country. A motion was made
      for a reward for him, but it was quashed by Mr. Annesly, who, above most
      men, is engaged to my Lord's and Mr. Crew's families. Meeting with Captain
      Stoakes at Whitehall, I dined with him and Mr. Gullop, a parson (with whom
      afterwards I was much offended at his importunity and impertinence, such
      another as Elborough),
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thomas Elborough was one of Pepys's schoolfellows, and afterwards
     curate of St. Lawrence Poultney.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and Mr. Butler, who complimented much after the same manner as the parson
      did. After that towards my Lord's at Mr. Crew's, but was met with by a
      servant of my Lady Pickering, who took me to her and she told me the story
      of her husband's case and desired my assistance with my Lord, and did give
      me, wrapped up in paper, L5 in silver. After that to my Lord's, and with
      him to Whitehall and my Lady Pickering. My Lord went at night with the
      King to Baynard's Castle' to supper, and I home to my father's to bed. My
      wife and the girl and dog came home to-day. When I came home I found a
      quantity of chocolate left for me, I know not from whom. We hear of W.
      Howe being sick to-day, but he was well at night.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up by 4 in the morning to write letters to sea and a commission for
      him that Murford solicited for. Called on by Captain Sparling, who did
      give me my Dutch money again, and so much as he had changed into English
      money, by which my mind was eased of a great deal of trouble. Some other
      sea captains. I did give them a good morning draught, and so to my Lord
      (who lay long in bed this day, because he came home late from supper with
      the King). With my Lord to the Parliament House, and, after that, with him
      to General Monk's, where he dined at the Cock-pit. I home and dined with
      my wife, now making all things ready there again. Thence to my Lady
      Pickering, who did give me the best intelligence about the Wardrobe.
      Afterwards to the Cockpit to my Lord with Mr. Townsend, one formerly and
      now again to be employed as Deputy of the Wardrobe. Thence to the
      Admiralty, and despatched away Mr. Cooke to sea; whose business was a
      letter from my Lord about Mr. G. Montagu to be chosen as a Parliament-man
      in my Lord's room at Dover;' and another to the Vice-Admiral to give my
      Lord a constant account of all things in the fleet, merely that he may
      thereby keep up his power there; another letter to Captn. Cuttance to send
      the barge that brought the King on shore, to Hinchingbroke by Lynne. To my
      own house, meeting G. Vines, and drank with him at Charing Cross, now the
      King's Head Tavern. With my wife to my father's, where met with Swan,&mdash;[William
      Swan is called a fanatic and a very rogue in other parts of the Diary.]&mdash;an
      old hypocrite, and with him, his friend and my father, and my cozen Scott
      to the Bear Tavern. To my father's and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. To my Lord, much business. With him to the Council Chamber, where he
      was sworn; and the charge of his being admitted Privy Counsellor is L26.
      To the Dog Tavern at Westminster, where Murford with Captain Curle and two
      friends of theirs went to drink. Captain Curle, late of the Maria, gave me
      five pieces in gold and a silver can for my wife for the Commission I did
      give him this day for his ship, dated April 20, 1660 last. Thence to the
      Parliament door and came to Mr. Crew's to dinner with my Lord, and with my
      Lord to see the great Wardrobe, where Mr. Townsend brought us to the
      governor of some poor children in tawny clothes; who had been maintained
      there these eleven years, which put my Lord to a stand how to dispose of
      them, that he may have the house for his use. The children did sing
      finely, and my Lord did bid me give them five pieces in gold at his going
      away. Thence back to White Hall, where, the King being gone abroad, my
      Lord and I walked a great while discoursing of the simplicity of the
      Protector, in his losing all that his father had left him. My Lord told
      me, that the last words that he parted with the Protector with (when he
      went to the Sound), were, that he should rejoice more to see him in his
      grave at his return home, than that he should give way to such things as
      were then in hatching, and afterwards did ruin him: and the Protector
      said, that whatever G. Montagu, my Lord Broghill, Jones, and the
      Secretary, would have him to do, he would do it, be it what it would.
      Thence to my wife, meeting Mr. Blagrave, who went home with me, and did
      give me a lesson upon the flageolet, and handselled my silver can with my
      wife and me. To my father's, where Sir Thomas Honeywood and his family
      were come of a sudden, and so we forced to lie all together in a little
      chamber, three stories high.
    </p>
    <p>
      22d. To my Lord, where much business. With him to White Hall, where the
      Duke of York not being up, we walked a good while in the Shield Gallery.
      Mr. Hill (who for these two or three days hath constantly attended my
      Lord) told me of an offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity, which I told my
      Lord of in the balcone in this gallery, and he said he would think of it.
      I to my Lord's and gave order for horses to be got to draw my Lord's great
      coach to Mr. Crew's. Mr. Morrice the upholsterer came himself to-day to
      take notice what furniture we lack for our lodgings at Whitehall. My dear
      friend Mr. Fuller of Twickenham and I dined alone at the Sun Tavern, where
      he told me how he had the grant of being Dean of St. Patrick's, in
      Ireland; and I told him my condition, and both rejoiced one for another.
      Thence to my Lord's, and had the great coach to Brigham's, who went with
      me to the Half Moon, and gave me a can of good julep, and told me how my
      Lady Monk deals with him and others for their places, asking him L500,
      though he was formerly the King's coach-maker, and sworn to it. My Lord
      abroad, and I to my house and set things in a little order there. So with
      Mr. Moore to my father's, I staying with Mrs. Turner who stood at her door
      as I passed. Among other things she told me for certain how my old Lady
      Middlesex&mdash;&mdash;herself the other day in the presence of the King,
      and people took notice of it. Thence called at my father's, and so to Mr.
      Crew's, where Mr. Hetley had sent a letter for me, and two pair of silk
      stockings, one for W. Howe, and the other for me. To Sir H. Wright's to my
      Lord, where he, was, and took direction about business, and so by link
      home about 11 o'clock. To bed, the first time since my coming from sea, in
      my own house, for which God be praised.
    </p>
    <p>
      23d. By water with Mr. Hill towards my Lord's lodging and so to my Lord.
      With him to Whitehall, where I left him and went to Mr. Holmes to deliver
      him the horse of Dixwell's that had staid there fourteen days at the Bell.
      So to my Lord's lodgings, where Tom Guy came to me, and there staid to see
      the King touch people for the King's evil. But he did not come at all, it
      rayned so; and the poor people were forced to stand all the morning in the
      rain in the garden. Afterward he touched them in the Banquetting-house.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This ceremony is usually traced to Edward the Confessor, but there
     is no direct evidence of the early Norman kings having touched for
     the evil.  Sir John Fortescue, in his defence of the House of
     Lancaster against that of York, argued that the crown could not
     descend to a female, because the Queen is not qualified by the form
     of anointing her, used at the coronation, to cure the disease called
     the King's evil.  Burn asserts, "History of Parish Registers," 1862,
     p. 179, that "between 1660 and 1682, 92,107 persons were touched for
     the evil."  Everyone coming to the court for that purpose, brought a
     certificate signed by the minister and churchwardens, that he had
     not at any time been touched by His Majesty.  The practice was
     supposed to have expired with the Stuarts, but the point being
     disputed, reference was made to the library of the Duke of Sussex,
     and four several Oxford editions of the Book of Common Prayer were
     found, all printed after the accession of the house of Hanover, and
     all containing, as an integral part of the service, "The Office for
     the Healing."  The stamp of gold with which the King crossed the
     sore of the sick person was called an angel, and of the value of ten
     shillings.  It had a hole bored through it, through which a ribbon
     was drawn, and the angel was hanged about the patient's neck till
     the cure was perfected.  The stamp has the impression of St. Michael
     the Archangel on one side, and a ship in full sail on the other.
     "My Lord Anglesey had a daughter cured of the King's evil with three
     others on Tuesday."&mdash;MS.  Letter of William Greenhill to Lady Bacon,
     dated December 31st, 1629, preserved at Audley End.  Charles II.
     "touched" before he came to the throne.  "It is certain that the
     King hath very often touched the sick, as well at Breda, where he
     touched 260 from Saturday the 17 of April to Sunday the 23 of May,
     as at Bruges and Bruxels, during the residence he made there; and
     the English assure...  it was not without success, since it was
     the experience that drew thither every day, a great number of those
     diseased even from the most remote provinces of Germany."&mdash;Sir
     William Lower's Relation of the Voiage and Residence which Charles
     the II. hath made in Holland, Hague, 1660, p. 78.  Sir William Lower
     gives a long account of the touching for the evil by Charles before
     the Restoration.]
</pre>
    <p>
      With my Lord, to my Lord Frezendorfe's, where he dined to-day. Where he
      told me that he had obtained a promise of the Clerk of the Acts place for
      me, at which I was glad. Met with Mr. Chetwind, and dined with him at
      Hargrave's, the Cornchandler, in St. Martin's Lane, where a good dinner,
      where he showed me some good pictures, and an instrument he called an
      Angelique.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [An angelique is described as a species of guitar in Murray's "New
     English Dictionary," and this passage from the Diary is given as a
     quotation.  The word appears as angelot in Phillips's "English
     Dictionary" (1678), and is used in Browning's "Sordello," as a
     "plaything of page or girl."]
</pre>
    <p>
      With him to London, changing all my Dutch money at Backwell's
    </p>
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     [Alderman Edward Backwell, an eminent banker and goldsmith, who is
     frequently mentioned in the Diary.  His shop was in Lombard Street.
     He was ruined by the closing of the Exchequer by Charles II. in
     1672.  The crown then owed him L295,994 16s. 6d., in lieu of which
     the King gave him an annuity of L17,759 13s. 8d.  Backwell retired
     into Holland after the closing of the Exchequer, and died there in
     1679.  See Hilton Price's "Handbook of London Bankers," 1876.]
</pre>
    <p>
      for English, and then to Cardinal's Cap, where he and the City
      Remembrancer who paid for all. Back to Westminster, where my Lord was, and
      discoursed with him awhile about his family affairs. So he went away, I
      home and wrote letters into the country, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Sunday. Drank my morning draft at Harper's, and bought a pair of
      gloves there. So to Mr. G. Montagu, and told him what I had received from
      Dover, about his business likely to be chosen there. So home and thence
      with my wife towards my father's. She went thither, I to Mr. Crew's, where
      I dined and my Lord at my Lord Montagu of Boughton in Little Queen Street.
      In the afternoon to Mr. Mossum's with Mr. Moore, and we sat in Mr.
      Butler's pew. Then to Whitehall looking for my Lord but in vain, and back
      again to Mr. Crew's where I found him and did give him letters. Among
      others some simple ones from our Lieutenant, Lieut. Lambert to him and
      myself, which made Mr. Crew and us all laugh. I went to my father's to
      tell him that I would not come to supper, and so after my business done at
      Mr. Crew's I went home and my wife within a little while after me, my mind
      all this while full of thoughts for my place of Clerk of the Acts.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. With my Lord at White Hall, all the morning. I spoke with Mr.
      Coventry about my business, who promised me all the assistance I could
      expect. Dined with young Mr. Powell, lately come from the Sound, being
      amused at our great changes here, and Mr. Southerne, now Clerk to Mr.
      Coventry, at the Leg in King-street. Thence to the Admiralty, where I met
      with Mr. Turner
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thomas Turner (or Tourner) was General Clerk at the Navy Office,
     and on June 30th he offered Pepys L150 to be made joint Clerk of the
     Acts with him.  In a list of the Admiralty officers just before the
     King came in, preserved in the British Museum, there occur, Richard
     Hutchinson; Treasury of the Navy, salary L1500; Thomas Tourner,
     General Clerk, for himself and clerk, L100.]
</pre>
    <p>
      of the Navy-office, who did look after the place of Clerk of the Acts. He
      was very civil to me, and I to him, and shall be so. There came a letter
      from my Lady Monk to my Lord about it this evening, but he refused to come
      to her, but meeting in White Hall, with Sir Thomas Clarges, her brother,
      my Lord returned answer, that he could not desist in my business; and that
      he believed that General Monk would take it ill if my Lord should name the
      officers in his army; and therefore he desired to have the naming of one
      officer in the fleet. With my Lord by coach to Mr. Crew's, and very merry
      by the way, discoursing of the late changes and his good fortune. Thence
      home, and then with my wife to Dorset House, to deliver a list of the
      names of the justices of the peace for Huntingdonshire. By coach, taking
      Mr. Fox part of the way with me, that was with us with the King on board
      the Nazeby, who I found to have married Mrs. Whittle, that lived at Mr.
      Geer's so long. A very civil gentleman. At Dorset House I met with Mr.
      Kipps, my old friend, with whom the world is well changed, he being now
      sealbearer to the Lord Chancellor, at which my wife and I are well
      pleased, he being a very good natured man. Home and late writing letters.
      Then to my Lord's lodging, this being the first night of his coming to
      Whitehall to lie since his coming from sea.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. My Lord dined at his lodgings all alone to-day. I went to Secretary
      Nicholas
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State to Charles I. and II.
     He was dismissed from his office through the intrigues of Lady
     Castlemaine in 1663.  He died 1669, aged seventy-seven.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to carry him my Lord's resolutions about his title, which he had chosen,
      and that is Portsmouth.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Montagu changed his mind, and ultimately took his title from the
     town of Sandwich, leaving that of Portsmouth for the use of a King's
     mistress.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I met with Mr. Throgmorton, a merchant, who went with me to the old Three
      Tuns, at Charing Cross, who did give me five pieces of gold for to do him
      a small piece of service about a convoy to Bilbo, which I did. In the
      afternoon, one Mr. Watts came to me, a merchant, to offer me L500 if I
      would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place. I pray God direct me in
      what I do herein. Went to my house, where I found my father, and carried
      him and my wife to Whitefriars, and myself to Puddlewharf, to the
      Wardrobe, to Mr. Townsend, who went with me to Backwell, the goldsmith's,
      and there we chose L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary
      Nicholas. Back and staid at my father's, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. With my Lord to the Duke, where he spoke to Mr. Coventry to despatch
      my business of the Acts, in which place every body gives me joy, as if I
      were in it, which God send.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The letters patent, dated July 13th, 12 Charles II., recite and
     revoke letters patent of February 16th, 14 Charles I., whereby the
     office of Clerk of the Ships had been given to Dennis Fleming and
     Thomas Barlow, or the survivor.  D. F. was then dead, but T. B.
     living, and Samuel Pepys was appointed in his room, at a salary of
     L33 6s. 8d. per annum, with 3s. 4d. for each day employed in
     travelling, and L6 per annum for boathire, and all fees due.  This
     salary was only the ancient "fee out of the Exchequer," which had
     been attached to the office for more than a century.  Pepys's salary
     had been previously fixed at L350 a year.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Dined with my Lord and all the officers of his regiment, who invited my
      Lord and his friends, as many as he would bring, to dinner, at the Swan,
      at Dowgate, a poor house and ill dressed, but very good fish and plenty.
      Here Mr. Symons, the Surgeon, told me how he was likely to lose his estate
      that he had bought, at which I was not a little pleased. To Westminster,
      and with Mr. Howe by coach to the Speaker's, where my Lord supped with the
      King, but I could not get in. So back again, and after a song or two in my
      chamber in the dark, which do (now that the bed is out) sound very well, I
      went home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. My brother Tom came to me with patterns to choose for a suit. I paid
      him all to this day, and did give him L10 upon account. To Mr. Coventry,
      who told me that he would do me all right in my business. To Sir G.
      Downing, the first visit I have made him since he came. He is so stingy a
      fellow I care not to see him; I quite cleared myself of his office, and
      did give him liberty to take any body in. Hawly and he are parted too, he
      is going to serve Sir Thos. Ingram. I went also this morning to see Mrs.
      Pierce, the chirurgeon['s wife]. I found her in bed in her house in
      Margaret churchyard. Her husband returned to sea. I did invite her to go
      to dinner with me and my wife to-day. After all this to my Lord, who lay
      a-bed till eleven o'clock, it being almost five before he went to bed,
      they supped so late last night with the King. This morning I saw poor
      Bishop Wren
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Matthew Wren, born 1585, successively Bishop of Hereford, Norwich,
     and Ely.  At the commencement of the Rebellion he was sent to the
     Tower, and remained a prisoner there eighteen years.  Died April
     24th, 1667.]
</pre>
    <p>
      going to Chappel, it being a thanksgiving-day
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["A Proclamation for setting apart a day of Solemn and Publick
     Thanksgiving throughout the whole Kingdom," dated June 5th, 1660.]
</pre>
    <p>
      for the King's return. After my Lord was awake, I went up to him to the
      Nursery, where he do lie, and, having talked with him a little, I took
      leave and carried my wife and Mrs. Pierce to Clothworkers'-Hall, to
      dinner, where Mr. Pierce, the Purser, met us. We were invited by Mr.
      Chaplin, the Victualler, where Nich. Osborne was. Our entertainment very
      good, a brave hall, good company, and very good music. Where among other
      things I was pleased that I could find out a man by his voice, whom I had
      never seen before, to be one that sang behind the curtaine formerly at Sir
      W. Davenant's opera. Here Dr. Gauden and Mr. Gauden the victualler dined
      with us. After dinner to Mr. Rawlinson's,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Daniel Rawlinson kept the Mitre in Fenchurch Street, and there is a
     farthing token of his extant, "At the Mitetr in Fenchurch Streete,
     D. M. R."  The initials stand for Daniel and Margaret Rawlinson (see
     "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed.  Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 595) In
     "Reliquiae Hearnianae" (ed.  Bliss, 1869, vol. ii.  p. 39) is the
     following extract from Thomas Rawlinson's Note Book R.: "Of Daniel
     Rawlinson, my grandfather, who kept the Mitre tavern in Fenchurch
     Street, and of whose being sequestred in the Rump time I have heard
     much, the Whiggs tell this, that upon the king's murder he hung his
     signe in mourning.  He certainly judged right.  The honour of the
     Mitre was much eclipsed through the loss of so good a parent of the
     church of England.  These rogues say, this endeared him so much to
     the churchmen that he soon throve amain and got a good estate."
     Mrs. Rawlinson died of the plague (see August 9th, 1666), and the
     house was burnt in the Great Fire.  Mr. Rawlinson rebuilt the Mitre,
     and he had the panels of the great room painted with allegorical
     figures by Isaac Fuller.  Daniel was father of Sir Thomas Rawlinson,
     of whom Thomas Hearne writes (October 1st, 1705): "Sir Thomas
     Rawlinson is chosen Lord Mayor of London for ye ensueing
     notwithstanding the great opposition of ye Whigg party" (Hearne's
     "Collections," ed. Doble, 1885, vol. i.  p. 51).  The well-known
     antiquaries, Thomas and Richard Rawlinson, sons of Sir Thomas, were
     therefore grandsons of Daniel.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to see him and his wife, and would have gone to my Aunt Wight, but that
      her only child, a daughter, died last night. Home and to my Lord, who
      supped within, and Mr. E. Montagu, Mr. Thos. Crew, and others with him sat
      up late. I home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. This day or two my maid Jane&mdash;[Jane Wayneman.]&mdash;has been
      lame, that we cannot tell what to do for want of her. Up and to White
      Hall, where I got my warrant from the Duke to be Clerk of the Acts. Also I
      got my Lord's warrant from the Secretary for his honour of Earle of
      Portsmouth, and Viscount Montagu of Hinchingbroke. So to my Lord, to give
      him an account of what I had done. Then to Sir Geffery Palmer, to give
      them to him to have bills drawn upon them, who told me that my Lord must
      have some good Latinist to make the preamble to his Patent, which must
      express his late service in the best terms that he can, and he told me in
      what high flaunting terms Sir J. Greenville had caused his to be done,
      which he do not like; but that Sir Richard Fanshawe had done General
      Monk's very well. Back to Westminster, and meeting Mr. Townsend in the
      Palace, he and I and another or two went and dined at the Leg there. Then
      to White Hall, where I was told by Mr. Hutchinson at the Admiralty, that
      Mr. Barlow, my predecessor, Clerk of the Acts, is yet alive, and coming up
      to town to look after his place, which made my heart sad a little. At
      night told my Lord thereof, and he bade me get possession of my Patent;
      and he would do all that could be done to keep him out. This night my Lord
      and I looked over the list of the Captains,. and marked some that my Lord
      had a mind to have put out. Home and to bed. Our wench very lame, abed
      these two days.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. By times to Sir R. Fanshawe to draw up the preamble to my Lord's
      Patent. So to my Lord, and with him to White Hall, where I saw a great
      many fine antique heads of marble, that my Lord Northumberland had given
      the King. Here meeting with Mr. De Cretz, he looked over many of the
      pieces, in the gallery with me and told me [by] whose hands they were,
      with great pleasure. Dined at home and Mr. Hawly with me upon six of my
      pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill here. This day came Will,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [William Wayneman was constantly getting into trouble, and Pepys had
     to cane him.  He was dismissed on July 7th, 1663.]
</pre>
    <p>
      my boy, to me; the wench continuing lame, so that my wife could not be
      longer without somebody to help her. In the afternoon with Sir Edward
      Walker, at his lodgings by St. Giles Church, for my Lord's pedigree, and
      carried it to Sir R. Fanshawe. To Mr. Crew's, and there took money and
      paid Mrs. Anne, Mrs. Jemima's maid, off quite, and so she went away and
      another came to her. To White Hall with Mr. Moore, where I met with a
      letter from Mr. Turner, offering me L150 to be joined with me in my
      patent, and to advise me how to improve the advantage of my place, and to
      keep off Barlow. To my Lord's till late at night, and so home.
    </p>
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      JULY 1660
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    <h3>
      July 1st. This morning came home my fine Camlett cloak,
    </h3>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Camlet was a mixed stuff of wool and silk.  It was very expensive,
     and later Pepys gave L24 for a suit.  (See June 1st, 1664.)]
</pre>
    <p>
      with gold buttons, and a silk suit, which cost me much money, and I pray
      God to make me able to pay for it. I went to the cook's and got a good
      joint of meat, and my wife and I dined at home alone. In the afternoon to
      the Abbey, where a good sermon by a stranger, but no Common Prayer yet.
      After sermon called in at Mrs. Crisp's, where I saw Mynheer Roder, that is
      to marry Sam Hartlib's sister, a great fortune for her to light on, she
      being worth nothing in the world. Here I also saw Mrs. Greenlife, who is
      come again to live in Axe Yard with her new husband Mr. Adams. Then to my
      Lord's, where I staid a while. So to see for Mr. Creed to speak about
      getting a copy of Barlow's patent. To my Lord's, where late at night comes
      Mr. Morland, whom I left prating with my Lord, and so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Infinite of business that my heart and head and all were full. Met
      with purser Washington, with whom and a lady, a friend of his, I dined at
      the Bell Tavern in King Street, but the rogue had no more manners than to
      invite me and to let me pay my club. All the afternoon with my Lord, going
      up and down the town; at seven at night he went home, and there the
      principal Officers of the Navy,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A list of the Officers of the Admiralty, May 31st, 1660.  From a
     MS. in the Pepysian Library in Pepys's own handwriting.
     His Royal Highness James, Duke of York, Lord High Admiral.
     Sir George Carteret, Treasurer.
     Sir Robert Slingsby, (soon after) Comptroller.
     Sir William Batten, Surveyor.
     Samuel Pepys, Esq., Clerk of the Acts.

     John, Lord Berkeley (of Stratton,)|
     Sir William Penn,                 | Commissioners.
     Peter Pett, Esq.&mdash;B,]             |
</pre>
    <p>
      among the rest myself was reckoned one. We had order to meet to-morrow, to
      draw up such an order of the Council as would put us into action before
      our patents were passed. At which my heart was glad. At night supped with
      my Lord, he and I together, in the great dining-room alone by ourselves,
      the first time I ever did it in London. Home to bed, my maid pretty well
      again.
    </p>
    <p>
      3d. All the morning the Officers and Commissioners of the Navy, we met at
      Sir G. Carteret's
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir George Carteret, born 1599, had originally been bred to the sea
     service, and became Comptroller of the Navy to Charles I., and
     Governor of Jersey, where he obtained considerable reputation by his
     gallant defence of that island against the Parliament forces.  At
     the Restoration he was made Vice-Chamberlain to the King, Treasurer
     of the Navy, and a Privy Councillor, and in 1661 he was elected M.P.
     for Portsmouth.  In 1666 he exchanged the Treasurership of the Navy
     with the Earl of Anglesea for the Vice-Treasurership of Ireland.  He
     became a Commissioner of the Admiralty in 1673.  He continued in
     favour with Charles II. till his death, January 14th, 1679, in his
     eightieth year.  He married his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of Sir
     Philip Carteret, Knight of St. Ouen, and had issue three sons and
     five daughters.]
</pre>
    <p>
      chamber, and agreed upon orders for the Council to supersede the old ones,
      and empower us to act. Dined with Mr. Stephens, the Treasurer's man of the
      Navy, and Mr. Turner, to whom I offered L50 out of my own purse for one
      year, and the benefit of a Clerk's allowance beside, which he thanked me
      for; but I find he hath some design yet in his head, which I could not
      think of. In the afternoon my heart was quite pulled down, by being told
      that Mr. Barlow was to enquire to-day for Mr. Coventry; but at night I met
      with my Lord, who told me that I need not fear, for he would get me the
      place against the world. And when I came to W. Howe, he told me that Dr.
      Petty had been with my Lord, and did tell him that Barlow was a sickly
      man, and did not intend to execute the place himself, which put me in
      great comfort again. Till 2 in the morning writing letters and things for
      my Lord to send to sea. So home to my wife to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up very early in the morning and landing my wife at White Friars
      stairs, I went to the Bridge and so to the Treasurer's of the Navy, with
      whom I spake about the business of my office, who put me into very good
      hopes of my business. At his house comes Commissioner Pett, and he and I
      went to view the houses in Seething Lane, belonging to the Navy,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Navy Office was erected on the site of Lumley House, formerly
     belonging to the Fratres Sancta Crucis (or Crutched Friars), and all
     business connected with naval concerns was transacted there till its
     removal to Somerset House.&mdash;The ground was afterwards occupied by
     the East India Company's warehouses.  The civil business of the
     Admiralty was removed from Somerset House to Spring Gardens in
     1869.]
</pre>
    <p>
      where I find the worst very good, and had great fears in my mind that they
      will shuffle me out of them, which troubles me. From thence to the Excise
      Office in Broad Street, where I received L500 for my Lord, by appointment
      of the Treasurer, and went afterwards down with Mr. Luddyard and drank my
      morning draft with him and other officers. Thence to Mr. Backewell's, the
      goldsmith, where I took my Lord's L100 in plate for Mr. Secretary
      Nicholas, and my own piece of plate, being a state dish and cup in chased
      work for Mr. Coventry, cost me above L19. Carried these and the money by
      coach to my Lord's at White Hall, and from thence carried Nicholas's plate
      to his house and left it there, intending to speak with him anon. So to
      Westminster Hall, where meeting with M. L'Impertinent and W. Bowyer, I
      took them to the Sun Tavern, and gave them a lobster and some wine, and
      sat talking like a fool till 4 o'clock. So to my Lord's, and walking all
      the afternoon in White Hall Court, in expectation of what shall be done in
      the Council as to our business. It was strange to see how all the people
      flocked together bare, to see the King looking out of the Council window.
      At night my Lord told me how my orders that I drew last night about giving
      us power to act, are granted by the Council. At which he and I were very
      glad. Home and to bed, my boy lying in my house this night the first time.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. This morning my brother Tom brought me my jackanapes coat with silver
      buttons. It rained this morning, which makes us fear that the glory of
      this great day will be lost; the King and Parliament being to be
      entertained by the City to-day with great pomp.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["July 5th.  His Majesty, the two Dukes, the House of Lords, and the
     House of Commons, and the Privy Council, dined at the Guildhall.
     Every Hall appeared with their colours and streamers to attend His
     Majesty; the Masters in gold chains.  Twelve pageants in the streets
     between Temple Bar and Guildhall.  Forty brace of bucks were that
     day spent in the City of London."&mdash;Rugge's Diurnal.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Mr. Hater' was with me to-day, and I agreed with him to be my clerk.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thomas Hayter.  He remained with Pepys for some time; and by his
     assistance was made Petty Purveyor of Petty Missions.  He succeeded
     Pepys as Clerk of the Acts in 1673, and in 1679 he was Secretary of
     the Admiralty, and Comptroller of the Navy from 1680 to 1682.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Being at White Hall, I saw the King, the Dukes, and all their attendants
      go forth in the rain to the City, and it bedraggled many a fine suit of
      clothes. I was forced to walk all the morning in White Hall, not knowing
      how to get out because of the rain. Met with Mr. Cooling, my Lord
      Chamberlain's secretary, who took me to dinner among the gentlemen
      waiters, and after dinner into the wine-cellar. He told me how he had a
      project for all us Secretaries to join together, and get money by bringing
      all business into our hands. Thence to the Admiralty, where Mr. Blackburne
      and I (it beginning to hold up) went and walked an hour or two in the
      Park, he giving of me light in many things in my way in this office that I
      go about. And in the evening I got my present of plate carried to Mr.
      Coventry's. At my Lord's at night comes Dr. Petty to me, to tell me that
      Barlow had come to town, and other things, which put me into a despair,
      and I went to bed very sad.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. In the morning with my Lord at Whitehall, got the order of the
      Council for us to act. From thence to Westminster Hall, and there met with
      the Doctor that shewed us so much kindness at the Hague, and took him to
      the Sun tavern, and drank with him. So to my Lord's and dined with W. Howe
      and Sarah, thinking it might be the last time that I might dine with them
      together. In the afternoon my Lord and I, and Mr. Coventry and Sir G.
      Carteret, went and took possession of the Navy Office, whereby my mind was
      a little cheered, but my hopes not great. From thence Sir G. Carteret and
      I to the Treasurer's Office, where he set some things in order. And so
      home, calling upon Sir Geoffry Palmer, who did give me advice about my
      patent, which put me to some doubt to know what to do, Barlow being alive.
      Afterwards called at Mr. Pim's, about getting me a coat of velvet, and he
      took me to the Half Moon, and the house so full that we staid above half
      an hour before we could get anything. So to my Lord's, where in the dark
      W. Howe and I did sing extemporys, and I find by use that we are able to
      sing a bass and a treble pretty well. So home, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. To my Lord, one with me to buy a Clerk's place, and I did demand
      L100. To the Council Chamber, where I took an order for the advance of the
      salaries of the officers of the Navy, and I find mine to be raised to L350
      per annum. Thence to the Change, where I bought two fine prints of Ragotti
      from Rubens, and afterwards dined with my Uncle and Aunt Wight, where her
      sister Cox and her husband were. After that to Mr. Rawlinson's with my
      uncle, and thence to the Navy Office, where I began to take an inventory
      of the papers, and goods, and books of the office. To my Lord's, late
      writing letters. So home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). To White Hall chapel, where I got in with ease by going
      before the Lord Chancellor with Mr. Kipps. Here I heard very good music,
      the first time that ever I remember to have heard the organs and
      singing-men in surplices in my life.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [During the Commonwealth organs were destroyed all over the country,
     and the following is the title of the Ordinances under which this
     destruction took place: "Two Ordinances of the Lords and Commons
     assembled in Parliament, for the speedy demolishing of all organs,
     images, and all matters of superstitious monuments in all Cathedrals
     and Collegiate or Parish Churches and Chapels throughout the Kingdom
     of England and the dominion of Wales; the better to accomplish the
     blessed reformation so happily begun, and to remove all offences and
     things illegal in the worship of God.  Dated May 9th, 1644."  When
     at the period of the Restoration music again obtained its proper
     place in the services of the Church, there was much work for the
     organ builders.  According to Dr. Rimbault ("Hopkins on the Organ,"
     1855, p. 74), it was more than fifty years after the Restoration
     when our parish churches began commonly to be supplied with organs.
     Drake says, in his "Eboracum" (published in 1733), that at that date
     only one parish church in the city of York possessed an organ.
     Bernard Schmidt, better known as "Father Smith," came to England
     from Germany at the time of the Restoration, and he it was who built
     the organ at the Chapel Royal.  He was in high favour with Charles
     II., who allowed, him apartments in Whitehall Palace.]
</pre>
    <p>
      The Bishop of Chichester preached before the King, and made a great
      flattering sermon, which I did not like that Clergy should meddle with
      matters of state. Dined with Mr. Luellin and Salisbury at a cook's shop.
      Home, and staid all the afternoon with my wife till after sermon. There
      till Mr. Fairebrother came to call us out to my father's to supper. He
      told me how he had perfectly procured me to be made Master in Arts by
      proxy, which did somewhat please me, though I remember my cousin Roger
      Pepys was the other day persuading me from it. While we were at supper
      came Win. Howe to supper to us, and after supper went home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. All the morning at Sir G. Palmer's advising about getting my bill
      drawn. From thence to the Navy office, where in the afternoon we met and
      sat, and there I begun to sign bills in the Office the first time. From
      thence Captain Holland and Mr. Browne of Harwich took me to a tavern and
      did give me a collation. From thence to the Temple to further my bills
      being done, and so home to my Lord, and thence to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. This day I put on first my new silk suit, the first that ever I wore
      in my life. This morning came Nan Pepys' husband Mr. Hall to see me being
      lately come to town. I had never seen him before. I took him to the Swan
      tavern with Mr. Eglin and there drank our morning draft. Home, and called
      my wife, and took her to Dr. Clodius's to a great wedding of Nan Hartlib
      to Mynheer Roder, which was kept at Goring House with very great state,
      cost, and noble company. But, among all the beauties there, my wife was
      thought the greatest. After dinner I left the company, and carried my wife
      to Mrs. Turner's. I went to the Attorney-General's, and had my bill which
      cost me seven pieces. I called my wife, and set her home. And finding my
      Lord in White Hall garden, I got him to go to the Secretary's, which he
      did, and desired the dispatch of his and my bills to be signed by the
      King. His bill is to be Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbroke, and
      Baron of St. Neot's.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The motive for Sir Edward Montagu's so suddenly altering his
     intended title is not explained; probably, the change was adopted as
     a compliment to the town of Sandwich, off which the Fleet was lying
     before it sailed to bring Charles from Scheveling.  Montagu had also
     received marked attentions from Sir John Boys and other principal
     men at Sandwich; and it may be recollected, as an additional reason,
     that one or both of the seats for that borough have usually been
     placed at the disposal of the Admiralty.  The title of Portsmouth
     was given, in 1673, for her life, to the celebrated Louise de
     Querouaille, and becoming extinct with her, was, in 1743, conferred
     upon John Wallop, Viscount Lymington, the ancestor of the present
     Earl of Portsmouth.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Home, with my mind pretty quiet: not returning, as I said I would, to see
      the bride put to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. With Sir W. Pen by water to the Navy office, where we met, and
      dispatched business. And that being done, we went all to dinner to the
      Dolphin, upon Major Brown's invitation. After that to the office again,
      where I was vexed, and so was Commissioner Pett, to see a busy fellow come
      to look out the best lodgings for my Lord Barkley, and the combining
      between him and Sir W. Pen; and, indeed, was troubled much at it. Home to
      White Hall, and took out my bill signed by the King, and carried it to Mr.
      Watkins of the Privy Seal to be despatched there, and going home to take a
      cap, I borrowed a pair of sheets of Mr. Howe, and by coach went to the
      Navy office, and lay (Mr. Hater, my clerk, with me) at Commissioner
      Willoughby's' house, where I was received by him very civilly and slept
      well.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up early and by coach to White Hall with Commissioner Pett, where,
      after we had talked with my Lord, I went to the Privy Seal and got my bill
      perfected there, and at the Signet: and then to the House of Lords, and
      met with Mr. Kipps, who directed me to Mr. Beale to get my patent
      engrossed; but he not having time to get it done in Chancery-hand, I was
      forced to run all up and down Chancery-lane, and the Six Clerks' Office
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Six Clerks' Office was in Chancery Lane, near the Holborn end.
     The business of the office was to enrol commissions, pardons,
     patents, warrants, &amp;c., that had passed the Great Seal; also other
     business in Chancery.  In the early history of the Court of
     Chancery, the Six Clerks and their under-clerks appear to have acted
     as the attorneys of the suitors.  As business increased, these
     under-clerks became a distinct body, and were recognized by the
     court under the denomination of 'sworn clerks,' or 'clerks in
     court.'  The advance of commerce, with its consequent accession of
     wealth, so multiplied the subjects requiring the judgment of a Court
     of Equity, that the limits of a public office were found wholly
     inadequate to supply a sufficient number of officers to conduct the
     business of the suitors.  Hence originated the 'Solicitors' of the
     "Court of Chancery."  See Smith's "Chancery Practice," p. 62, 3rd
     edit.  The "Six Clerks" were abolished by act of Parliament,
     5 Vict.  c. 5.]
</pre>
    <p>
      but could find none that could write the hand, that were at leisure. And
      so in a despair went to the Admiralty, where we met the first time there,
      my Lord Montagu, my Lord Barkley, Mr. Coventry, and all the rest of the
      principal Officers and Commissioners, [except] only the Controller, who is
      not yet chosen. At night to Mr. Kipps's lodgings, but not finding him, I
      went to Mr. Spong's and there I found him and got him to come to me to my
      Lord's lodgings at 11 o'clock of night, when I got him to take my bill to
      write it himself (which was a great providence that he could do it)
      against to-morrow morning. I late writing letters to sea by the post, and
      so home to bed. In great trouble because I heard at Mr. Beale's to-day
      that Barlow had been there and said that he would make a stop in the
      business.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up early, the first day that I put on my black camlett coat with
      silver buttons. To Mr. Spong, whom I found in his night-down writing of my
      patent, and he had done as far as he could "for that &amp;c." by 8
      o'clock. It being done, we carried it to Worcester House to the
      Chancellor, where Mr. Kipps (a strange providence that he should now be in
      a condition to do me a kindness, which I never thought him capable of
      doing for me), got me the Chancellor's recepi to my bill; and so carried
      it to Mr. Beale for a dockett; but he was very angry, and unwilling to do
      it, because he said it was ill writ (because I had got it writ by another
      hand, and not by him); but by much importunity I got Mr. Spong to go to
      his office and make an end of my patent; and in the mean time Mr. Beale to
      be preparing my dockett, which being done, I did give him two pieces,
      after which it was strange how civil and tractable he was to me. From
      thence I went to the Navy office, where we despatched much business, and
      resolved of the houses for the Officers and Commissioners, which I was
      glad of, and I got leave to have a door made me into the leads. From
      thence, much troubled in mind about my patent, I went to Mr. Beale again,
      who had now finished my patent and made it ready for the Seal, about an
      hour after I went to meet him at the Chancellor's. So I went away towards
      Westminster, and in my way met with Mr. Spong, and went with him to Mr.
      Lilly and ate some bread and cheese, and drank with him, who still would
      be giving me council of getting my patent out, for fear of another change,
      and my Lord Montagu's fall. After that to Worcester House, where by Mr.
      Kipps's means, and my pressing in General Montagu's name to the
      Chancellor, I did, beyond all expectation, get my seal passed; and while
      it was doing in one room, I was forced to keep Sir G. Carteret (who by
      chance met me there, ignorant of my business) in talk, while it was a
      doing. Went home and brought my wife with me into London, and some money,
      with which I paid Mr. Beale L9 in all, and took my patent of him and went
      to my wife again, whom I had left in a coach at the door of Hinde Court,
      and presented her with my patent at which she was overjoyed; so to the
      Navy office, and showed her my house, and were both mightily pleased at
      all things there, and so to my business. So home with her, leaving her at
      her mother's door. I to my Lord's, where I dispatched an order for a ship
      to fetch Sir R. Honywood home, for which I got two pieces of my Lady
      Honywood by young Mr. Powell. Late writing letters; and great doings of
      music at the next house, which was Whally's; the King and Dukes there with
      Madame Palmer,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Barbara Villiers, only child of William, second Viscount Grandison,
     born November, 1640, married April 14th, 1659, to Roger Palmer,
     created Earl of Castlemaine, 1661.  She became the King's mistress
     soon after the Restoration, and was in 1670 made Baroness Nonsuch,
     Countess of Southampton, and Duchess of Cleveland.  She had six
     children by the King, one of them being created Duke of Grafton, and
     the eldest son succeeding her as Duke of Cleveland.  She
     subsequently married Beau Fielding, whom she prosecuted for bigamy.
     She died October 9th, 1709, aged sixty-nine.  Her life was written
     by G. Steinman Steinman, and privately printed 1871, with addenda
     1874, and second addenda 1878.]
</pre>
    <p>
      a pretty woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold.
      Here at the old door that did go into his lodgings, my Lord, I, and W.
      Howe, did stand listening a great while to the music. After that home to
      bed. This day I should have been at Guildhall to have borne witness for my
      brother Hawly against Black Collar, but I could not, at which I was
      troubled. To bed with the greatest quiet of mind that I have had a great
      while, having ate nothing but a bit of bread and cheese at Lilly's to-day,
      and a bit of bread and butter after I was a-bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up early and advised with my wife for the putting of all our things
      in a readiness to be sent to our new house. To my Lord's, where he was in
      bed very late. So with Major Tollhurst and others to Harper's, and I sent
      for my barrel of pickled oysters and there ate them; while we were doing
      so, comes in Mr. Pagan Fisher; the poet, and promises me what he had long
      ago done, a book in praise of the King of France, with my armes, and a
      dedication to me very handsome. After him comes Mr. Sheply come from sea
      yesterday, whom I was glad to see that he may ease me of the trouble of my
      Lord's business. So to my Lord's, where I staid doing his business and
      taking his commands. After that to Westminster Hall, where I paid all my
      debts in order to my going away from hence. Here I met with Mr. Eglin, who
      would needs take me to the Leg in King Street and gave me a dish of meat
      to dinner; and so I sent for Mons. L'Impertinent, where we sat long and
      were merry. After that parted, and I took Mr. Butler [Mons. L'Impertinent]
      with me into London by coach and shewed him my house at the Navy Office,
      and did give order for the laying in coals. So into Fenchurch Street, and
      did give him a glass of wine at Rawlinson's, and was trimmed in the
      street. So to my Lord's late writing letters, and so home, where I found
      my wife had packed up all her goods in the house fit for a removal. So to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Lay long in bed to recover my rest. Going forth met with Mr. Sheply,
      and went and drank my morning draft with him at Wilkinson's, and my
      brother Spicer.&mdash;[Jack Spicer, brother clerk of the Privy Seal.]&mdash;After
      that to Westminster Abbey, and in Henry the Seventh's Chappell heard part
      of a sermon, the first that ever I heard there. To my Lord's and dined all
      alone at the table with him. After dinner he and I alone fell to
      discourse, and I find him plainly to be a sceptic in all things of
      religion, and to make no great matter of anything therein, but to be a
      perfect Stoic. In the afternoon to Henry the Seventh's Chappell, where I
      heard service and a sermon there, and after that meeting W. Bowyer there,
      he and I to the Park, and walked a good while till night. So to Harper's
      and drank together, and Captain Stokes came to us and so I fell into
      discourse of buying paper at the first hand in my office, and the Captain
      promised me to buy it for me in France. After that to my Lord's lodgings,
      where I wrote some business and so home. My wife at home all the day, she
      having no clothes out, all being packed up yesterday. For this month I
      have wholly neglected anything of news, and so have beyond belief been
      ignorant how things go, but now by my patent my mind is in some quiet,
      which God keep. I was not at my father's to-day, I being afraid to go for
      fear he should still solicit me to speak to my Lord for a place in the
      Wardrobe, which I dare not do, because of my own business yet. My wife and
      I mightily pleased with our new house that we hope to have. My patent has
      cost me a great deal of money, about L40, which is the only thing at
      present which do trouble me much. In the afternoon to Henry the Seventh's
      chapel, where I heard a sermon and spent (God forgive me) most of my time
      in looking upon Mrs. Butler. After that with W. Bowyer to walk in the
      Park. Afterwards to my Lord's lodgings, and so home to bed, having not
      been at my father's to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th, This morning it proved very rainy weather so that I could not remove
      my goods to my house. I to my office and did business there, and so home,
      it being then sunrise, but by the time that I got to my house it began to
      rain again, so that I could not carry my goods by cart as I would have
      done. After that to my Lord's and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. This morning (as indeed all the mornings nowadays) much business at
      my Lord's. There came to my house before I went out Mr. Barlow, an old
      consumptive man, and fair conditioned, with whom I did discourse a great
      while, and after much talk I did grant him what he asked, viz., L50 per
      annum, if my salary be not increased, and (100 per annum, in case it be to
      L350), at which he was very well pleased to be paid as I received my money
      and not otherwise. Going to my Lord's I found my Lord had got a great cold
      and kept his bed, and so I brought him to my Lord's bedside, and he and I
      did agree together to this purpose what I should allow him. That done and
      the day proving fair I went home and got all my goods packed up and sent
      away, and my wife and I and Mrs. Hunt went by coach, overtaking the carts
      a-drinking in the Strand. Being come to my house and set in the goods, and
      at night sent my wife and Mrs. Hunt to buy something for supper; they
      bought a Quarter of Lamb, and so we ate it, but it was not half roasted.
      Will, Mr. Blackburne's nephew, is so obedient, that I am greatly glad of
      him. At night he and I and Mrs. Hunt home by water to Westminster. I to my
      Lord, and after having done some business with him in his chamber in the
      Nursery, which has been now his chamber since he came from sea, I went on
      foot with a linkboy to my home, where I found my wife in bed and Jane
      washing the house, and Will the boy sleeping, and a great deal of sport I
      had before I could wake him. I to bed the first night that I ever lay here
      with my wife.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. This morning the carpenter made an end of my door out of my chamber
      upon the leads.
    </p>
    <p>
      This morning we met at the office: I dined at my house in Seething Lane,
      and after that, going about 4 o'clock to Westminster, I met with Mr.
      Carter and Mr. Cooke coming to see me in a coach, and so I returned home.
      I did also meet with Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, with a porter with him, with
      a barrel of Lemons, which my man Burr sends me from sea. I took all these
      people home to my house and did give them some drink, and after them comes
      Mr. Sheply, and after a little stay we all went by water to Westminster as
      far as the New Exchange. Thence to my Lord about business, and being in
      talk in comes one with half a buck from Hinchinbroke, and it smelling a
      little strong my Lord did give it me (though it was as good as any could
      be). I did carry it to my mother, where I had not been a great while, and
      indeed had no great mind to go, because my father did lay upon me
      continually to do him a kindness at the Wardrobe, which I could not do
      because of my own business being so fresh with my Lord. But my father was
      not at home, and so I did leave the venison with her to dispose of as she
      pleased. After that home, where W. Hewer now was, and did lie this night
      with us, the first night. My mind very quiet, only a little trouble I have
      for the great debts which I have still upon me to the Secretary, Mr.
      Kipps, and Mr. Spong for my patent.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. I did lie late a-bed. I and my wife by water, landed her at
      Whitefriars with her boy with an iron of our new range which is already
      broke and my wife will have changed, and many other things she has to buy
      with the help of my father to-day. I to my Lord and found him in bed. This
      day I received my commission to swear people the oath of allegiance and
      supremacy delivered me by my Lord. After talk with my Lord I went to
      Westminster Hall, where I took Mr. Michell and his wife, and Mrs. Murford
      we sent for afterwards, to the Dog Tavern, where I did give them a dish of
      anchovies and olives and paid for all, and did talk of our old discourse
      when we did use to talk of the King, in the time of the Rump, privately;
      after that to the Admiralty Office, in White Hall, where I staid and writ
      my last observations for these four days last past. Great talk of the
      difference between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Clergy, but I believe it
      will come to nothing. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. We sat at the office this morning, Sir W. Batten and Mr. Pett being
      upon a survey to Chatham. This morning I sent my wife to my father's and
      he is to give me L5 worth of pewter. After we rose at the office, I went
      to my father's, where my Uncle Fenner and all his crew and Captain Holland
      and his wife and my wife were at dinner at a venison pasty of the venison
      that I did give my mother the other day. I did this time show so much
      coldness to W. Joyce that I believe all the table took notice of it. After
      that to Westminster about my Lord's business and so home, my Lord having
      not been well these two or three days, and I hear that Mr. Barnwell at
      Hinchinbroke is fallen sick again. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. This morning Mr. Barlow had appointed for me to bring him what form
      I would have the agreement between him and me to pass, which I did to his
      lodgings at the Golden Eagle in the new street&mdash;[Still retains the
      name New Street.]&mdash;between Fetter Lane and Shoe Lane, where he liked
      it very well, and I from him went to get Mr. Spong to engross it in
      duplicates. To my Lord and spoke to him about the business of the Privy
      Seal for me to be sworn, though I got nothing by it, but to do Mr. Moore a
      kindness, which he did give me a good answer to. Went to the Six Clerks'
      office to Mr. Spong for the writings, and dined with him at a club at the
      next door, where we had three voices to sing catches. So to my house to
      write letters and so to Whitehall about business of my Lord's concerning
      his creation,&mdash;[As Earl of Sandwich.]&mdash;and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Lord's day. All this last night it had rained hard. My brother Tom
      came this morning the first time to see me, and I paid him all that I owe
      my father to this day. Afterwards I went out and looked into several
      churches, and so to my uncle Fenner's, whither my wife was got before me,
      and we, my father and mother, and all the Joyces, and my aunt Bell, whom I
      had not seen many a year before. After dinner to White Hall (my wife to
      church with K. Joyce), where I find my Lord at home, and walked in the
      garden with him, he showing me all the respect that can be. I left him and
      went to walk in the Park, where great endeavouring to get into the inward
      Park,&mdash;[This is still railed off from St. James's Park, and called
      the Enclosure.]&mdash;but could not get in; one man was basted by the
      keeper, for carrying some people over on his back through the water.
      Afterwards to my Lord's, where I staid and drank with Mr. Sheply, having
      first sent to get a pair of oars. It was the first time that ever I went
      by water on the Lord's day. Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I
      read prayers out of the Common Prayer Book, the first time that ever I
      read prayers in this house. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. This morning Mr. Barlow comes to me, and he and I went forth to a
      scrivener in Fenchurch Street, whom we found sick of the gout in bed, and
      signed and sealed our agreement before him. He urged to have these words
      (in consideration whereof) to be interlined, which I granted, though
      against my will. Met this morning at the office, and afterwards Mr. Barlow
      by appointment came and dined with me, and both of us very pleasant and
      pleased. After dinner to my Lord, who took me to Secretary Nicholas, and
      there before him and Secretary Morris, my Lord and I upon our knees
      together took our oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy; and the Oath of the
      Privy Seal, of which I was much glad, though I am not likely to get
      anything by it at present; but I do desire it, for fear of a turn-out of
      our office. That done and my Lord gone from me, I went with Mr. Cooling
      and his brother, and Sam Hartlibb, little Jennings and some others to the
      King's Head Tavern at Charing Cross, where after drinking I took boat and
      so home, where we supped merrily among ourselves (our little boy proving a
      droll) and so after prayers to bed. This day my Lord had heard that Mr.
      Barnwell was dead, but it is not so yet, though he be very ill. I was
      troubled all this day with Mr. Cooke, being willing to do him good, but my
      mind is so taken up with my own business that I cannot.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. To White Hall, where I did acquaint Mr. Watkins with my being sworn
      into the Privy Seal, at which he was much troubled, but put it up and did
      offer me a kinsman of his to be my clerk, which I did give him some hope
      of, though I never intend it. In the afternoon I spent much time in
      walking in White Hall Court with Mr. Bickerstaffe, who was very glad of my
      Lord's being sworn, because of his business with his brother Baron, which
      is referred to my Lord Chancellor, and to be ended to-morrow. Baron had
      got a grant beyond sea, to come in before the reversionary of the Privy
      Seal. This afternoon Mr. Mathews came to me, to get a certificate of my
      Lord's and my being sworn, which I put in some forwardness, and so home
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. In the morning at the office, and after that down to Whitehall,
      where I met with Mr. Creed, and with him and a Welsh schoolmaster, a good
      scholar but a very pedagogue, to the ordinary at the Leg in King Street.'
      I got my certificate of my Lord's and my being sworn. This morning my Lord
      took leave of the House of Commons, and had the thanks of the House for
      his great services to his country. In the afternoon (but this is a
      mistake, for it was yesterday in the afternoon) Monsieur L'Impertinent and
      I met and I took him to the Sun and drank with him, and in the evening
      going away we met his mother and sisters and father coming from the
      Gatehouse; where they lodge, where I did the first time salute them all,
      and very pretty Madame Frances&mdash;[Frances Butler, the beauty.]&mdash;is
      indeed. After that very late home and called in Tower Street, and there at
      a barber's was trimmed the first time. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Early to White Hall, thinking to have a meeting of my Lord and the
      principal officers, but my Lord could not, it being the day that he was to
      go and be admitted in the House of Lords, his patent being done, which he
      presented upon his knees to the Speaker; and so it was read in the House,
      and he took his place. I at the Privy Seal Office with Mr. Hooker, who
      brought me acquainted with Mr. Crofts of the Signet, and I invited them to
      a dish of meat at the Leg in King Street, and so we dined there and I paid
      for all and had very good light given me as to my employment there.
      Afterwards to Mr. Pierces, where I should have dined but I could not, but
      found Mr. Sheply and W. Howe there. After we had drunk hard we parted, and
      I went away and met Dr. Castle, who is one of the Clerks of the Privy
      Seal, and told him how things were with my Lord and me, which he received
      very gladly. I was this day told how Baron against all expectation and law
      has got the place of Bickerstaffe, and so I question whether he will not
      lay claim to wait the next month, but my Lord tells me that he will stand
      for it. In the evening I met with T. Doling, who carried me to St. James's
      Fair,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [August, 1661: "This year the Fair, called St. James's Fair, was
     kept the full appointed time, being a fortnight; but during that
     time many lewd and infamous persons were by his Majesty's express
     command to the Lord Chamberlain, and his Lordship's direction to
     Robert Nelson, Esq., committed to the House of Correction."&mdash;Rugge's
     Diurnal.  St; James's fair was held first in the open space near St.
     James's Palace, and afterwards in St. James's Market.  It was
     prohibited by the Parliament in 1651, but revived at the
     Restoration.  It was, however, finally suppressed before the close
     of the reign of Charles II.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and there meeting with W. Symons and his wife, and Luellin, and D.
      Scobell's wife and cousin, we went to Wood's at the Pell Mell
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This is one of the earliest references to Pall Mall as an inhabited
     street, and also one of the earliest uses of the word clubbing.]
</pre>
    <p>
      (our old house for clubbing), and there we spent till 10 at night, at
      which time I sent to my Lord's for my clerk Will to come to me, and so by
      link home to bed. Where I found Commissioner Willoughby had sent for all
      his things away out of my bedchamber, which is a little disappointment,
      but it is better than pay too dear for them.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th: The last night Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen came to their houses at
      the office. Met this morning and did business till noon. Dined at home and
      from thence to my Lord's where Will, my clerk, and I were all the
      afternoon making up my accounts, which we had done by night, and I find
      myself worth about L100 after all my expenses. At night I sent to W.
      Bowyer to bring me L100, being that he had in his hands of my Lord's. in
      keeping, out of which I paid Mr. Sheply all that remained due to my Lord
      upon my balance, and took the rest home with me late at night. We got a
      coach, but the horses were tired and could not carry us farther than St.
      Dunstan's. So we 'light and took a link and so home weary to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Early in the morning rose, and a boy brought me a letter from Poet
      Fisher, who tells me that he is upon a panegyrique of the King, and
      desired to borrow a piece of me; and I sent him half a piece. To
      Westminster, and there dined with Mr. Sheply and W. Howe, afterwards
      meeting with Mr. Henson, who had formerly had the brave clock that went
      with bullets (which is now taken away from him by the King, it being his
      goods).
    </p>
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     [Some clocks are still made with a small ball, or bullet, on an
     inclined plane, which turns every minute.  The King's clocks
     probably dropped bullets.  Gainsborough the painter had a brother
     who was a dissenting minister at Henley-on-Thames, and possessed a
     strong genius for mechanics.  He invented a clock of a very peculiar
     construction, which, after his death, was deposited in the British
     Museum.  It told the hour by a little bell, and was kept in motion
     by a leaden bullet, which dropped from a spiral reservoir at the top
     of the clock, into a little ivory bucket.  This was so contrived as
     to discharge it at the bottom, and by means of a counter-weight was
     carried up to the top of the clock, where it received another
     bullet, which was discharged as the former.  This seems to have been
     an attempt at the perpetual motion.&mdash;Gentleman's Magazine, 1785,
     p. 931.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I went with him to the Swan Tavern and sent for Mr. Butler, who was now
      all full of his high discourse in praise of Ireland, whither he and his
      whole family are going by Coll. Dillon's persuasion, but so many lies I
      never heard in praise of anything as he told of Ireland. So home late at
      night and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Lord's day. I and my boy Will to Whitehall, and I with my Lord to
      White Hall Chappell, where I heard a cold sermon of the Bishop of
      Salisbury's, and the ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them.
      My Lord went to dinner at Kensington with my Lord Camden. So I dined and
      took Mr. Birfett, my Lord's chaplain, and his friend along with me, with
      Mr. Sheply at my Lord's. In the afternoon with Dick Vines and his brother
      Payton, we walked to Lisson Green and Marybone and back again, and finding
      my Lord at home I got him to look over my accounts, which he did approve
      of and signed them, and so we are even to this day. Of this I was glad,
      and do think myself worth clear money about L120. Home late, calling in at
      my father's without stay. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Sat at our office to-day, and my father came this day the first time
      to see us at my new office. And Mrs. Crisp by chance came in and sat with
      us, looked over our house and advised about the furnishing of it. This
      afternoon I got my L50, due to me for my first quarter's salary as
      Secretary to my Lord, paid to Tho. Hater for me, which he received and
      brought home to me, of which I am full glad. To Westminster and among
      other things met with Mr. Moore, and took him and his friend, a bookseller
      of Paul's Churchyard, to the Rhenish Winehouse, and drinking there the
      sword-bearer of London (Mr. Man) came to ask for us, with whom we sat
      late, discoursing about the worth of my office of Clerk of the Acts, which
      he hath a mind to buy, and I asked four years' purchase. We are to speak
      more of it to-morrow. Home on foot, and seeing him at home at Butler's
      merry, he lent me a torch, which Will carried, and so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. To White Hall, where my Lord and the principal officers met, and had
      a great discourse about raising of money for the Navy, which is in very
      sad condition, and money must be raised for it. Mr. Blackburne, Dr.
      Clerke, and I to the Quaker's and dined there. I back to the Admiralty,
      and there was doing things in order to the calculating of the debts of the
      Navy and other business, all the afternoon. At night I went to the Privy
      Seal, where I found Mr. Crofts and Mathews making up all their things to
      leave the office tomorrow, to those that come to wait the next month. I
      took them to the Sun Tavern and there made them drink, and discoursed
      concerning the office, and what I was to expect tomorrow about Baron, who
      pretends to the next month. Late home by coach so far as Ludgate with Mr.
      Mathews, and thence home on foot with W. Hewer with me, and so to bed.
    </p>
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    <p>
      August 1st. Up very early, and by water to Whitehall to my Lord's, and
      there up to my Lord's lodging (Win. Howe being now ill of the gout at Mr.
      Pierce's), and there talked with him about the affairs of the Navy, and
      how I was now to wait today at the Privy Seal. Commissioner Pett went with
      me, whom I desired to make my excuse at the office for my absence this
      day. Hence to the Privy Seal Office, where I got (by Mr. Mathews' means)
      possession of the books and table, but with some expectation of Baron's
      bringing of a warrant from the King to have this month. Nothing done this
      morning, Baron having spoke to Mr. Woodson and Groome (clerks to Mr.
      Trumbull of the Signet) to keep all work in their hands till the
      afternoon, at which time he expected to have his warrant from the King for
      this month.&mdash;[The clerks of the Privy Seal took the duty of
      attendance for a month by turns.]&mdash;I took at noon Mr. Harper to the
      Leg in King Street, and did give him his dinner, who did still advise me
      much to act wholly myself at the Privy Seal, but I told him that I could
      not, because I had other business to take up my time. In the afternoon at,
      the office again, where we had many things to sign; and I went to the
      Council Chamber, and there got my Lord to sign the first bill, and the
      rest all myself; but received no money today. After I had signed all, I
      went with Dick Scobell and Luellin to drink at a bottle beer house in the
      Strand, and after staying there a while (had sent W. Hewer home before), I
      took boat and homewards went, and in Fish Street bought a Lobster, and as
      I had bought it I met with Winter and Mr. Delabarr, and there with a piece
      of sturgeon of theirs we went to the Sun Tavern in the street and ate
      them. Late home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. To Westminster by water with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen (our
      servants in another boat) to the Admiralty; and from thence I went to my
      Lord's to fetch him thither, where we stayed in the morning about ordering
      of money for the victuailers, and advising how to get a sum of money to
      carry on the business of the Navy. From thence dined with Mr. Blackburne
      at his house with his friends (his wife being in the country and just upon
      her return to London), where we were very well treated and merry. From
      thence W. Hewer and I to the office of Privy Seal, where I stayed all the
      afternoon, and received about L40 for yesterday and to-day, at which my
      heart rejoiced for God's blessing to me, to give me this advantage by
      chance, there being of this L40 about L10 due to me for this day's work.
      So great is the present profit of this office, above what it was in the
      King's time; there being the last month about 300 bills; whereas in the
      late King's time it was much to have 40. With my money home by coach, it,
      being the first time that I could get home before our gates were shut
      since I came to the Navy office. When I came home I found my wife not very
      well of her old pain.... which she had when we were married first. I went
      and cast up the expense that I laid out upon my former house (because
      there are so many that are desirous of it, and I am, in my mind, loth to
      let it go out of my hands, for fear of a turn). I find my layings-out to
      come to about L20, which with my fine will come to about L22 to him that
      shall hire my house of me.&mdash;[Pepys wished to let his house in Axe
      Yard now that he had apartments at the Navy Office.]&mdash;To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up betimes this morning, and after the barber had done with me, then
      to the office, where I and Sir William Pen only did meet and despatch
      business. At noon my wife and I by coach to Dr. Clerke's to dinner: I was
      very much taken with his lady, a comely, proper woman, though not
      handsome; but a woman of the best language I ever heard. Here dined Mrs.
      Pierce and her husband. After dinner I took leave to go to Westminster,
      where I was at the Privy Seal Office all day, signing things and taking
      money, so that I could not do as I had intended, that is to return to them
      and go to the Red Bull Playhouse,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This well-known theatre was situated in St. John's Street on the
     site of Red Bull Yard.  Pepys went there on March 23rd, 1661, when
     he expressed a very poor opinion of the place.  T. Carew, in some
     commendatory lines on Sir William.  Davenant's play, "The just
     Italian," 1630, abuses both audiences and actors:&mdash;

              "There are the men in crowded heaps that throng
               To that adulterate stage, where not a tongue
               Of th' untun'd kennel can a line repeat
               Of serious sense."

     There is a token of this house (see "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed.
     Williamson, vol. i., 1889, p. 725).]
</pre>
    <p>
      but I took coach and went to see whether it was done so or no, and I found
      it done. So I returned to Dr. Clerke's, where I found them and my wife,
      and by and by took leave and went away home.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. To White Hall, where I found my Lord gone with the King by water to
      dine at the Tower with Sir J. Robinson,' Lieutenant. I found my Lady
      Jemimah&mdash;[Lady Jemima Montage, daughter of Lord Sandwich, previously
      described as Mrs. Jem.]&mdash;at my Lord's, with whom I staid and dined,
      all alone; after dinner to the Privy Seal Office, where I did business. So
      to a Committee of Parliament (Sir Hen[eage] Finch, Chairman), to give them
      an answer to an order of theirs, "that we could not give them any account
      of the Accounts of the Navy in the years 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, as they
      desire." After that I went and bespoke some linen of Betty Lane in the
      Hall, and after that to the Trumpet, where I sat and talked with her,
      &amp;c. At night, it being very rainy, and it thundering and lightning
      exceedingly, I took coach at the Trumpet door, taking Monsieur
      L'Impertinent along with me as far as the Savoy, where he said he went to
      lie with Cary Dillon,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Colonel Cary Dillon, a friend of the Butlers, who courted the fair
     Frances; but the engagement was subsequently broken off, see
     December 31 st, 1661.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and is still upon the mind of going (he and his whole family) to Ireland.
      Having set him down I made haste home, and in the courtyard, it being very
      dark, I heard a man inquire for my house, and having asked his business,
      he told me that my man William (who went this morning&mdash;out of town to
      meet his aunt Blackburne) was come home not very well to his mother, and
      so could not come home to-night. At which I was very sorry. I found my
      wife still in pain. To bed, having not time to write letters, and indeed
      having so many to write to all places that I have no heart to go about
      them. Mrs. Shaw did die yesterday and her husband so sick that he is not
      like to live.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Lord's day. My wife being much in pain, I went this morning to Dr.
      Williams (who had cured her once before of this business), in Holborn, and
      he did give me an ointment which I sent home by my boy, and a plaister
      which I took with me to Westminster (having called and seen my mother in
      the morning as I went to the doctor), where I dined with Mr. Sheply (my
      Lord dining at Kensington). After dinner to St. Margaret's, where the
      first time I ever heard Common Prayer in that Church. I sat with Mr. Hill
      in his pew; Mr. Hill that married in Axe Yard and that was aboard us in
      the Hope. Church done I went and Mr. Sheply to see W. Howe at Mr. Pierces,
      where I staid singing of songs and psalms an hour or two, and were very
      pleasant with Mrs. Pierce and him. Thence to my Lord's, where I staid and
      talked and drank with Mr. Sheply. After that to Westminster stairs, where
      I saw a fray between Mynheer Clinke, a Dutchman, that was at Hartlibb's
      wedding, and a waterman, which made good sport. After that I got a
      Gravesend boat, that was come up to fetch some bread on this side the
      bridge, and got them to carry me to the bridge, and so home, where I found
      my wife. After prayers I to bed to her, she having had a very bad night of
      it. This morning before I was up Will came home pretty well again, he
      having been only weary with riding, which he is not used to.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. This morning at the office, and, that being done, home to dinner all
      alone, my wife being ill in pain a-bed, which I was troubled at, and not a
      little impatient. After dinner to Whitehall at the Privy Seal all the
      afternoon, and at night with Mr. Man to Mr. Rawlinson's in Fenchurch
      Street, where we staid till eleven o'clock at night. So home and to bed,
      my wife being all this day in great pain. This night Mr. Man offered me
      L1000 for my office of Clerk of the Acts, which made my mouth water; but
      yet I dare not take it till I speak with my Lord to have his consent.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. This morning to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and took Mr. Moore and
      myself and dined at my Lord's with Mr. Sheply. While I was at dinner in
      come Sam. Hartlibb and his brother-in-law, now knighted by the King, to
      request my promise of a ship for them to Holland, which I had promised to
      get for them. After dinner to the Privy Seal all the afternoon. At night,
      meeting Sam. Hartlibb, he took me by coach to Kensington, to my Lord of
      Holland's; I staid in the coach while he went in about his business. He
      staying long I left the coach and walked back again before on foot (a very
      pleasant walk) to Kensington, where I drank and staid very long waiting
      for him. At last he came, and after drinking at the inn we went towards
      Westminster. Here I endeavoured to have looked out Jane that formerly
      lived at Dr. Williams' at Cambridge, whom I had long thought to live at
      present here, but I found myself in an error, meeting one in the place
      where I expected to have found her, but she proved not she though very
      like her. We went to the Bullhead, where he and I sat and drank till 11 at
      night, and so home on foot. Found my wife pretty well again, and so to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. We met at the office, and after that to dinner at home, and from
      thence with my wife by water to Catan Sterpin, with whom and her mistress
      Pye we sat discoursing of Kate's marriage to Mons. Petit, her mistress and
      I giving the best advice we could for her to suspend her marriage till
      Mons. Petit had got some place that may be able to maintain her, and not
      for him to live upon the portion that she shall bring him. From thence to
      Mr. Butler's to see his daughters, the first time that ever we made a
      visit to them. We found them very pretty, and Coll. Dillon there, a very
      merry and witty companion, but methinks they live in a gaudy but very poor
      condition. From thence, my wife and I intending to see Mrs. Blackburne,
      who had been a day or two again to see my wife, but my wife was not in
      condition to be seen, but she not being at home my wife went to her
      mother's and I to the Privy Seal. At night from the Privy Seal, Mr.
      Woodson and Mr. Jennings and I to the Sun Tavern till it was late, and
      from thence to my Lord's, where my wife was come from Mrs. Blackburne's to
      me, and after I had done some business with my Lord, she and I went to
      Mrs. Hunt's, who would needs have us to lie at her house to-night, she
      being with my wife so late at my Lord's with us, and would not let us go
      home to-night. We lay there all night very pleasantly and at ease...
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Left my wife at Mrs. Hunt's and I to my Lord's, and from thence with
      judge Advocate Fowler, Mr. Creed, and Mr. Sheply to the Rhenish
      Wine-house, and Captain Hayward of the Plymouth, who is now ordered to
      carry my Lord Winchelsea, Embassador to Constantinople. We were very
      merry, and judge Advocate did give Captain Hayward his Oath of Allegiance
      and Supremacy. Thence to my office of Privy Seal, and, having signed some
      things there, with Mr. Moore and Dean Fuller to the Leg in King Street,
      and, sending for my wife, we dined there very merry, and after dinner,
      parted. After dinner with my wife to Mrs. Blackburne to visit her. She
      being within I left my wife there, and I to the Privy Seal, where I
      despatch some business, and from thence to Mrs. Blackburne again, who did
      treat my wife and me with a great deal of civility, and did give us a fine
      collation of collar of beef, &amp;c. Thence I, having my head full of
      drink from having drunk so much Rhenish wine in the morning, and more in
      the afternoon at Mrs. Blackburne's, came home and so to bed, not well, and
      very ill all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. I had a great deal of pain all night, and a great loosing upon me so
      that I could not sleep. In the morning I rose with much pain and to the
      office. I went and dined at home, and after dinner with great pain in my
      back I went by water to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and that done with
      Mr. Moore and Creed to Hide Park by coach, and saw a fine foot-race three
      times round the Park between an Irishman and Crow, that was once my Lord
      Claypoole's footman. (By the way I cannot forget that my Lord Claypoole
      did the other day make enquiry of Mrs. Hunt, concerning my House in
      Axe-yard, and did set her on work to get it of me for him, which methinks
      is a very great change.) Crow beat the other by above two miles. Returned
      from Hide Park, I went to my Lord's, and took Will (who waited for me
      there) by coach and went home, taking my lute home with me. It had been
      all this while since I came from sea at my Lord's for him to play on. To
      bed in some pain still. For this month or two it is not imaginable how
      busy my head has been, so that I have neglected to write letters to my
      uncle Robert in answer to many of his, and to other friends, nor indeed
      have I done anything as to my own family, and especially this month my
      waiting at the Privy Seal makes me much more unable to think of anything,
      because of my constant attendance there after I have done at the Navy
      Office. But blessed be God for my good chance of the Privy Seal, where I
      get every day I believe about L3. This place I got by chance, and my Lord
      did give it me by chance, neither he nor I thinking it to be of the worth
      that he and I find it to be. Never since I was a man in the world was I
      ever so great a stranger to public affairs as now I am, having not read a
      new book or anything like it, or enquiring after any news, or what the
      Parliament do, or in any wise how things go. Many people look after my
      house in Axe-yard to hire it, so that I am troubled with them, and I have
      a mind to get the money to buy goods for my house at the Navy Office, and
      yet I am loth to put it off because that Mr. Man bids me L1000 for my
      office, which is so great a sum that I am loth to settle myself at my new
      house, lest I should take Mr. Man's offer in case I found my Lord willing
      to it.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. I rose to-day without any pain, which makes me think that my pain
      yesterday was nothing but from my drinking too much the day before. To my
      Lord this morning, who did give me order to get some things ready against
      the afternoon for the Admiralty where he would meet. To the Privy Seal,
      and from thence going to my own house in Axeyard, I went in to Mrs.
      Crisp's, where I met with Mr. Hartlibb; for whom I wrote a letter for my
      Lord to sign for a ship for his brother and sister, who went away hence
      this day to Gravesend, and from thence to Holland. I found by discourse
      with Mrs. Crisp that he is very jealous of her, for that she is yet very
      kind to her old servant Meade. Hence to my Lord's to dinner with Mr.
      Sheply, so to the Privy Seal; and at night home, and then sent for the
      barber, and was trimmed in the kitchen, the first time that ever I was so.
      I was vexed this night that W. Hewer was out of doors till ten at night
      but was pretty well satisfied again when my wife told me that he wept
      because I was angry, though indeed he did give me a good reason for his
      being out; but I thought it a good occasion to let him know that I do
      expect his being at home. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Lord's day. To my Lord, and with him to White Hall Chappell, where
      Mr. Calamy preached, and made a good sermon upon these words "To whom much
      is given, of him much is required." He was very officious with his three
      reverences to the King, as others do. After sermon a brave anthem of
      Captain Cooke's,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Henry Cooke, chorister of the Chapel Royal, adhered to the royal
     cause at the breaking out of the Civil Wars, and for his bravery
     obtained a captain's commission.  At the Restoration he received the
     appointment of Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal; he was an
     excellent musician, and three of his pupils turned out very
     distinguished musicians, viz, Pelham Humphrey, John Blow, and
     Michael Wise.  He was one of the original performers in the "Siege,
     of Rhodes."  He died July 13th, 1672,: and was buried in the
     cloisters of Westminster Abbey.  In another place, Pepys says, "a
     vain coxcomb he is, though he sings so well."]
</pre>
    <p>
      which he himself sung, and the King was well pleased with it. My Lord
      dined at my Lord Chamberlain's, and I at his house with Mr. Sheply. After
      dinner I did give Mr. Donne; who is going to sea, the key of my cabin and
      direction for the putting up of my things.
    </p>
    <p>
      After, that I went to walk, and meeting Mrs. Lane of Westminster Hall, I
      took her to my Lord's, and did give her a bottle of wine in the garden,
      where Mr. Fairbrother, of Cambridge, did come and found us, and drank with
      us. After that I took her to my house, where I was exceeding free in
      dallying with her, and she not unfree to take it. At night home and called
      at my father's, where I found Mr. Fairbrother, but I did not stay but went
      homewards and called in at Mr. Rawlinson's, whither my uncle Wight was
      coming and did come, but was exceeding angry (he being a little fuddled,
      and I think it was that I should see him in that case) as I never saw him
      in my life, which I was somewhat troubled at. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. A sitting day at our office. After dinner to Whitehall; to the Privy
      Seal, whither my father came to me, and staid talking with me a great
      while, telling me that he had propounded Mr. John Pickering for Sir Thomas
      Honywood's daughter, which I think he do not deserve for his own merit: I
      know not what he may do for his estate. My father and Creed and I to the
      old Rhenish Winehouse, and talked and drank till night. Then my father
      home, and I to my Lord's; where he told me that he would suddenly go into
      the country, and so did commend the business of his sea commission to me
      in his absence. After that home by coach, and took my L100 that I had
      formerly left at Mr. Rawlinson's, home with me, which is the first that
      ever I was master of at once. To prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. To the Privy Seal, and thence to my Lord's, where Mr. Pim, the
      tailor, and I agreed upon making me a velvet coat. From thence to the
      Privy Seal again, where Sir Samuel Morland came in with a Baronet's grant
      to pass, which the King had given him to make money of. Here he staid with
      me a great while; and told me the whole manner of his serving the King in
      the time of the Protector; and how Thurloe's bad usage made him to do it;
      how he discovered Sir R. Willis, and how he hath sunk his fortune for the
      King; and that now the King hath given him a pension of L500 per annum out
      of the Post Office for life, and the benefit of two Baronets; all which do
      make me begin to think that he is not so much a fool as I took him to be.
      Home by water to the Tower, where my father, Mr. Fairbrother, and Cooke
      dined with me. After dinner in comes young Captain Cuttance of the
      Speedwell, who is sent up for the gratuity given the seamen that brought
      the King over. He brought me a firkin of butter for my wife, which is very
      welcome. My father, after dinner, takes leave, after I had given him 40s.
      for the last half year for my brother John at Cambridge. I did also make
      even with Mr. Fairbrother for my degree of Master of Arts, which cost me
      about L9 16s. To White Hall, and my wife with me by water, where at the
      Privy Seal and elsewhere all the afternoon. At night home with her by
      water, where I made good sport with having the girl and the boy to comb my
      head, before I went to bed, in the kitchen.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. To the office, and after dinner by water to White Hall, where I
      found the King gone this morning by 5 of the clock to see a Dutch
      pleasure-boat below bridge,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A yacht which was greatly admired, and was imitated and improved by
     Commissioner Pett, who built a yacht for the King in 1661, which was
     called the "Jenny."  Queen Elizabeth had a yacht, and one was built
     by Phineas Pett in 1604.]
</pre>
    <p>
      where he dines, and my Lord with him. The King do tire all his people that
      are about him with early rising since he came. To the office, all the
      afternoon I staid there, and in the evening went to Westminster Hall,
      where I staid at Mrs. Michell's, and with her and her husband sent for
      some drink, and drank with them. By the same token she and Mrs. Murford
      and another old woman of the Hall were going a gossiping tonight. From
      thence to my Lord's, where I found him within, and he did give me
      direction about his business in his absence, he intending to go into the
      country to-morrow morning. Here I lay all night in the old chamber which I
      had now given up to W. Howe, with whom I did intend to lie, but he and I
      fell to play with one another, so that I made him to go lie with Mr.
      Sheply. So I lay alone all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. This morning my Lord (all things being ready) carried me by coach to
      Mr. Crew's, (in the way talking how good he did hope my place would be to
      me, and in general speaking that it was not the salary of any place that
      did make a man rich, but the opportunity of getting money while he is in
      the place) where he took leave, and went into the coach, and so for
      Hinchinbroke. My Lady Jemimah and Mr. Thomas Crew in the coach with him.
      Hence to Whitehall about noon, where I met with Mr. Madge, who took me
      along with him and Captain Cooke (the famous singer) and other masters of
      music to dinner at an ordinary about Charing Cross where we dined, all
      paying their club. Hence to the Privy Seal, where there has been but
      little work these two days. In the evening home.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. To the office, and that done home to dinner where Mr. Unthanke, my
      wife's tailor, dined with us, we having nothing but a dish of sheep's
      trotters. After dinner by water to Whitehall, where a great deal of
      business at the Privy Seal. At night I and Creed and the judge-Advocate
      went to Mr. Pim, the tailor's, who took us to the Half Moon, and there did
      give us great store of wine and anchovies, and would pay for them all.
      This night I saw Mr. Creed show many the strangest emotions to shift off
      his drink I ever saw in my life. By coach home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. This morning I took my wife towards Westminster by water, and landed
      her at Whitefriars, with L5 to buy her a petticoat, and I to the Privy
      Seal. By and by comes my wife to tell me that my father has persuaded her
      to buy a most fine cloth of 26s. a yard, and a rich lace, that the
      petticoat will come to L5, at which I was somewhat troubled, but she doing
      it very innocently, I could not be angry. I did give her more money, and
      sent her away, and I and Creed and Captain Hayward (who is now unkindly
      put out of the Plymouth to make way for Captain Allen to go to
      Constantinople, and put into his ship the Dover, which I know will trouble
      my Lord) went and dined at the Leg in King Street, where Captain Ferrers,
      my Lord's Cornet, comes to us, who after dinner took me and Creed to the
      Cockpitt play,
    </p>
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     [The Cockpit Theatre, situated in Drury Lane, was occupied as a
     playhouse in the reign of James I.  It was occupied by Davenant and
     his company in 1658, and they remained in it until November 15th,
     1660, when they removed to Salisbury Court.]
</pre>
    <p>
      the first that I have had time to see since my coming from sea, "The
      Loyall Subject," where one Kinaston, a boy, acted the Duke's sister, but
      made the loveliest lady that ever I saw in my life, only her voice not
      very good. After the play done, we three went to drink, and by Captain
      Ferrers' means, Kinaston and another that acted Archas, the General, came
      and drank with us. Hence home by coach, and after being trimmed, leaving
      my wife to look after her little bitch, which was just now a-whelping, I
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Lord's day). In the morning my wife tells me that the bitch has
      whelped four young ones and is very well after it, my wife having had a
      great fear that she would die thereof, the dog that got them being very
      big. This morning Sir W. Batten, Pen, and myself, went to church to the
      churchwardens, to demand a pew, which at present could not be given us,
      but we are resolved to have one built. So we staid and heard Mr. Mills;' a
      very, good minister. Home to dinner, where my wife had on her new
      petticoat that she bought yesterday, which indeed is a very fine cloth and
      a fine lace; but that being of a light colour, and the lace all silver, it
      makes no great show. Mr. Creed and my brother Tom dined with me. After
      dinner my wife went and fetched the little puppies to us, which are very
      pretty ones. After they were gone, I went up to put my papers in order,
      and finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up, I was angry with
      her, which I was troubled for. After that my wife and I went and walked in
      the garden, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Office day). As Sir W. Pen and I were walking in the garden, a
      messenger came to me from the Duke of York to fetch me to the Lord
      Chancellor. So (Mrs. Turner with her daughter The. being come to my house
      to speak with me about a friend of hers to send to sea) I went with her in
      her coach as far as Worcester House, but my Lord Chancellor being gone to
      the House of Lords, I went thither, and (there being a law case before
      them this day) got in, and there staid all the morning, seeing their
      manner of sitting on woolpacks, &amp;c., which I never did before.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [It is said that these woolpacks were placed in the House of Lords
     for the judges to sit on, so that the fact that wool was a main
     source of our national wealth might be kept in the popular mind.
     The Lord Chancellor's seat is now called the Woolsack.]
</pre>
    <p>
      After the House was up, I spoke to my Lord, and had order from him to come
      to him at night. This morning Mr. Creed did give me the Papers that
      concern my Lord's sea commission, which he left in my hands and went to
      sea this day to look after the gratuity money.
    </p>
    <p>
      This afternoon at the Privy Seal, where reckoning with Mr. Moore, he had
      got L100 for me together, which I was glad of, guessing that the profits
      of this month would come to L100.
    </p>
    <p>
      In the evening I went all alone to drink at Mr. Harper's, where I found
      Mrs. Crisp's daughter, with whom and her friends I staid and drank, and so
      with W. Hewer by coach to Worcester House, where I light, sending him home
      with the L100 that I received to-day. Here I staid, and saw my Lord
      Chancellor come into his Great Hall, where wonderful how much company
      there was to expect him at a Seal. Before he would begin any business, he
      took my papers of the state of the debts of the Fleet, and there viewed
      them before all the people, and did give me his advice privately how to
      order things, to get as much money as we can of the Parliament. That being
      done, I went home, where I found all my things come home from sea (sent by
      desire by Mr. Dun), of which I was glad, though many of my things are
      quite spoilt with mould by reason of lying so long a shipboard, and my
      cabin being not tight. I spent much time to dispose of them tonight, and
      so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. This morning I went to White Hall with Sir W. Pen by water, who in
      our passage told me how he was bred up under Sir W. Batten. We went to Mr.
      Coventry's chamber, and consulted of drawing my papers of debts of the
      Navy against the afternoon for the Committee. So to the Admiralty, where
      W. Hewer and I did them, and after that he went to his Aunt's Blackburn
      (who has a kinswoman dead at her house to-day, and was to be buried
      to-night, by which means he staid very late out). I to Westminster Hall,
      where I met Mr. Crew and dined with him, where there dined one Mr.
      Hickeman, an Oxford man, who spoke very much against the height of the now
      old clergy, for putting out many of the religious fellows of Colleges, and
      inveighing against them for their being drunk, which, if true, I am sorry
      to hear. After that towards Westminster, where I called on Mr. Pim, and
      there found my velvet coat (the first that ever I had) done, and a velvet
      mantle, which I took to the Privy Seal Office, and there locked them up,
      and went to the Queen's Court, and there, after much waiting, spoke with
      Colonel Birch, who read my papers, and desired some addition, which done I
      returned to the Privy Seal, where little to do, and with Mr. Moore towards
      London, and in our way meeting Monsieur Eschar (Mr. Montagu's man), about
      the Savoy, he took us to the Brazennose Tavern, and there drank and so
      parted, and I home by coach, and there, it being post-night, I wrote to my
      Lord to give him notice that all things are well; that General Monk is
      made Lieutenant of Ireland, which my Lord Roberts (made Deputy) do not
      like of, to be Deputy to any man but the King himself. After that to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Office, which done, Sir W. Pen took me into the garden, and there
      told me how Mr. Turner do intend to petition the Duke for an allowance
      extra as one of the Clerks of the Navy, which he desired me to join with
      him in the furthering of, which I promised to do so that it did not
      reflect upon me or to my damage to have any other added, as if I was not
      able to perform my place; which he did wholly disown to be any of his
      intention, but far from it. I took Mr. Hater home with me to dinner, with
      whom I did advise, who did give me the same counsel. After dinner he and I
      to the office about doing something more as to the debts of the Navy than
      I had done yesterday, and so to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and having
      done there, with my father (who came to see me) to Westminster Hall and
      the Parliament House to look for Col. Birch, but found him not. In the
      House, after the Committee was up, I met with Mr. G. Montagu, and joyed
      him in his entrance (this being his 3d day) for Dover. Here he made me sit
      all alone in the House, none but he and I, half an hour, discoursing how
      things stand, and in short he told me how there was like to be many
      factions at Court between Marquis Ormond, General Monk, and the Lord
      Roberts, about the business of Ireland; as there is already between the
      two Houses about the Act of Indemnity; and in the House of Commons,
      between the Episcopalian and Presbyterian men. Hence to my father's
      (walking with Mr. Herring, the minister of St. Bride's), and took them to
      the Sun Tavern, where I found George, my old drawer, come again. From
      thence by water, landed them at Blackfriars, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. By water to Doctors' Commons to Dr. Walker, to give him my Lord's
      papers to view over concerning his being empowered to be Vice-Admiral
      under the Duke of York. There meeting with Mr. Pinkney, he and I to a
      morning draft, and thence by water to White Hall, to the Parliament House,
      where I spoke with Colonel Birch, and so to the Admiralty chamber, where
      we and Mr. Coventry had a meeting about several businesses. Amongst
      others, it was moved that Phineas Pett (kinsman to the Commissioner) of
      Chatham, should be suspended his employment till he had answered some
      articles put in against him, as that he should formerly say that the King
      was a bastard and his mother a whore. Hence to Westminster Hall, where I
      met with my father Bowyer, and Mr. Spicer, and them I took to the Leg in
      King Street, and did give them a dish or two of meat, and so away to the
      Privy Seal, where, the King being out of town, we have had nothing to do
      these two days. To Westminster Hall, where I met with W. Symons, T.
      Doling, and Mr. Booth, and with them to the Dogg, where we eat a musk
      melon
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Melons were hardly known in England till Sir George Gardiner
     brought one from Spain, when they became in general estimation.  The
     ordinary price was five or six shillings."&mdash;Quarterly Review, vol,
     xix.]
</pre>
    <p>
      (the first that I have eat this year), and were very merry with W. Symons,
      calling him Mr. Dean, because of the Dean's lands that his uncle had left
      him, which are like to be lost all. Hence home by water, and very late at
      night writing letters to my Lord to Hinchinbroke, and also to the
      Vice-Admiral in the Downs, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Office, and thence with Sir William Batten and Sir William Pen to
      the parish church to find out a place where to build a seat or a gallery
      to sit in, and did find one which is to be done speedily. Hence with them
      to dinner at a tavern in Thames Street, where they were invited to a
      roasted haunch of venison and other very good victuals and company. Hence
      to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, but nothing to do. At night by land to my
      father's, where I found my mother not very well. I did give her a pint of
      sack. My father came in, and Dr. T. Pepys, who talked with me in French
      about looking out for a place for him. But I found him a weak man, and
      speaks the worst French that ever I heard of one that had been so long
      beyond sea. Hence into Pant's Churchyard and bought Barkley's Argenis in
      Latin, and so home and to bed. I found at home that Captain Burr had sent
      me 4 dozen bottles of wine today. The King came back to Whitehall
      to-night.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. This morning Mr. Turner and I by coach from our office to Whitehall
      (in our way I calling on Dr. Walker for the papers I did give him the
      other day, which he had perused and found that the Duke's counsel had
      abated something of the former draught which Dr. Walker drew for my Lord)
      to Sir G. Carteret, where we there made up an estimate of the debts of the
      Navy for the Council. At noon I took Mr. Turner and Mr. Moore to the Leg
      in King Street, and did give them a dinner, and afterward to the Sun
      Tavern, and did give Mr. Turner a glass of wine, there coming to us Mr.
      Fowler the apothecary (the judge's son) with a book of lute lessons which
      his father had left there for me, such as he formerly did use to play when
      a young man, and had the use of his hand. To the Privy Seal, and found
      some business now again to do there. To Westminster Hall for a new
      half-shirt of Mrs. Lane, and so home by water. Wrote letters by the post
      to my Lord and to sea. This night W. Hewer brought me home from Mr. Pim's
      my velvet coat and cap, the first that ever I had. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's day). With Sir W. Pen to the parish church, where we are
      placed in the highest pew of all, where a stranger preached a dry and
      tedious long sermon. Dined at home. To church again in the afternoon with
      my wife; in the garden and on the leads at night, and so to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. This morning comes one with a vessel of Northdown ale from Mr.
      Pierce, the purser, to me, and after him another with a brave Turkey
      carpet and a jar of olives from Captain Cuttance, and a pair of fine
      turtle-doves from John Burr to my wife. These things came up to-day in our
      smack, and my boy Ely came along with them, and came after office was done
      to see me. I did give him half a crown because I saw that he was ready to
      cry to see that he could not be entertained by me here. In the afternoon
      to the Privy Seal, where good store of work now toward the end of the
      month. From thence with Mr. Mount, Luellin, and others to the Bull head
      till late, and so home, where about to o'clock Major Hart came to me, whom
      I did receive with wine and anchovies, which made me so dry that I was ill
      with them all night, and was fain to have the girle rise and fetch me some
      drink.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. At home looking over my papers and books and house as to the fitting
      of it to my mind till two in the afternoon. Some time I spent this morning
      beginning to teach my wife some scale in music, and found her apt beyond
      imagination. To the Privy Seal, where great store of work to-day. Colonel
      Scroope&mdash;[Colonel Adrian Scroope, one of the persons who sat in
      judgment upon Charles I.]&mdash;is this day excepted out of the Act of
      Indemnity, which has been now long in coming out, but it is expected
      to-morrow. I carried home L80 from the Privy Seal, by coach, and at night
      spent a little more time with my wife about her music with great content.
      This day I heard my poor mother had then two days been very ill, and I
      fear she will not last long. To bed, a little troubled that I fear my boy
      Will
    </p>
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     [Pepys refers to two Wills.  This was Will Wayneman; the other was
     William Hewer.]
</pre>
    <p>
      is a thief and has stole some money of mine, particularly a letter that
      Mr. Jenkins did leave the last week with me with half a crown in it to
      send to his son.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Office day). Before I went to the office my wife and I examined my
      boy Will about his stealing of things, but he denied all with the greatest
      subtlety and confidence in the world. To the office, and after office then
      to the Church, where we took another view of the place where we had
      resolved to build a gallery, and have set men about doing it. Home to
      dinner, and there I found my wife had discovered my boy Will's theft and a
      great deal more than we imagined, at which I was vexed and intend to put
      him away. To my office at the Privy Seal in the afternoon, and from thence
      at night to the Bull Head, with Mount, Luellin, and others, and hence to
      my father's, and he being at my uncle Fenner's, I went thither to him, and
      there sent for my boy's father and talked with him about his son, and had
      his promise that if I will send home his boy, he will take him
      notwithstanding his indenture. Home at night, and find that my wife had
      found out more of the boy's stealing 6s. out of W. Hewer's closet, and hid
      it in the house of office, at which my heart was troubled. To bed, and
      caused the boy's clothes to be brought up to my chamber. But after we were
      all a-bed, the wench (which lies in our chamber) called us to listen of a
      sudden, which put my wife into such a fright that she shook every joint of
      her, and a long time that I could not get her out of it. The noise was the
      boy, we did believe, got in a desperate mood out of his bed to do himself
      or William [Hewer] some mischief. But the wench went down and got a candle
      lighted, and finding the boy in bed, and locking the doors fast, with a
      candle burning all night, we slept well, but with a great deal of fear.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. We found all well in the morning below stairs, bu the boy in a sad
      plight of seeming sorrow; but he is the most cunning rogue that ever I met
      with of his age. To White Hall, where I met with the Act of Indemnity&mdash;[12
      Car. II. cap. II, an act of free and general pardon, indemnity, and
      oblivion.]&mdash;(so long talked of and hoped for), with the Act of Rate
      for Pole-money, an for judicial proceedings. At Westminster Hall I met
      with Mr. Paget the lawyer, and dined with him at Heaven. This afternoon my
      wife went to Mr. Pierce's wife's child's christening, and was urged to be
      godmother, but I advised her before-hand not to do it, so she did not, but
      as proxy for my Lady Jemimah. This the first day that ever I saw my wife
      wear black patches since we were married!
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The fashion of placing black patches on the face was introduced
     towards the close of the reign of Charles I., and the practice is
     ridiculed in the "Spectator."]
</pre>
    <p>
      My Lord came to town to-day, but coming not home till very late I staid
      till 10 at night, and so home on foot. Mr. Sheply and Mr. Childe this
      night at the tavern.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Early to wait upon my Lord at White Hall, and with him to the Duke's
      chamber. So to my office in Seething Lane. Dined at home, and after dinner
      to my Lord again, who told me that he is ordered to go suddenly to sea,
      and did give me some orders to be drawing up against his going. This
      afternoon I agreed to let my house quite out of my hands to Mr. Dalton
      (one of the wine sellers to the King, with whom I had drunk in the old
      wine cellar two or three times) for L41. At night made even at Privy Seal
      for this month against tomorrow to give up possession, but we know not to
      whom, though we most favour Mr. Bickerstaffe, with whom and Mr. Matthews
      we drank late after office was done at the Sun, discoursing what to do
      about it tomorrow against Baron, and so home and to bed. Blessed be God
      all things continue well with and for me. I pray God fit me for a change
      of my fortune.
    </p>
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    <p>
      September 1st. This morning I took care to get a vessel to carry my Lord's
      things to the Downs on Monday next, and so to White Hall to my Lord, where
      he and I did look over the Commission drawn for him by the Duke's Council,
      which I do not find my Lord displeased with, though short of what Dr.
      Walker did formerly draw for him. Thence to the Privy Seal to see how
      things went there, and I find that Mr. Baron had by a severe warrant from
      the King got possession of the office from his brother Bickerstaffe, which
      is very strange, and much to our admiration, it being against all open
      justice. Mr. Moore and I and several others being invited to-day by Mr.
      Goodman, a friend of his, we dined at the Bullhead upon the best venison
      pasty that ever I eat of in my life, and with one dish more, it was the
      best dinner I ever was at. Here rose in discourse at table a dispute
      between Mr. Moore and Dr. Clerke, the former affirming that it was
      essential to a tragedy to have the argument of it true, which the Doctor
      denied, and left it to me to be judge, and the cause to be determined next
      Tuesday morning at the same place, upon the eating of the remains of the
      pasty, and the loser to spend 10s. All this afternoon sending express to
      the fleet, to order things against my Lord's coming and taking direction
      of my Lord about some rich furniture to take along with him for the
      Princess!&mdash;[Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange, who died in
      December of this year.]&mdash;And talking of this, I hear by Mr. Townsend,
      that there is the greatest preparation against the Prince de Ligne's a
      coming over from the King of Spain, that ever was in England for their
      Embassador. Late home, and what with business and my boy's roguery my mind
      being unquiet, I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd (Sunday). To Westminster, my Lord being gone before my coming to
      chapel. I and Mr. Sheply told out my money, and made even for my Privy
      Seal fees and gratuity money, &amp;c., to this day between my Lord and me.
      After that to chappell, where Dr. Fern, a good honest sermon upon "The
      Lord is my shield." After sermon a dull anthem, and so to my Lord's (he
      dining abroad) and dined with Mr. Sheply. So, to St. Margarett's, and
      heard a good sermon upon the text "Teach us the old way," or something
      like it, wherein he ran over all the new tenets in policy and religion,
      which have brought us into all our late divisions. From church to Mrs.
      Crisp's (having sent Win. Hewer home to tell my wife that I could not come
      home to-night because of my Lord's going out early to-morrow morning),
      where I sat late, and did give them a great deal of wine, it being a
      farewell cup to Laud Crisp. I drank till the daughter began to be very
      loving to me and kind, and I fear is not so good as she should be. To my
      Lord's, and to bed with Mr. Sheply.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up and to Mr.&mdash;&mdash;-, the goldsmith near the new Exchange,
      where I bought my wedding ring, and there, with much ado, got him to put a
      gold ring to the jewell, which the King of Sweden did give my Lord: out of
      which my Lord had now taken the King's picture, and intends to make a
      George of it. This morning at my Lord's I had an opportunity to speak with
      Sir George Downing, who has promised me to give me up my bond, and to pay
      me for my last quarter while I was at sea, that so I may pay Mr. Moore and
      Hawly. About noon my Lord, having taken leave of the King in the Shield
      Gallery (where I saw with what kindness the King did hug my Lord at his
      parting), I went over with him and saw him in his coach at Lambeth, and
      there took leave of him, he going to the Downs, which put me in mind of
      his first voyage that ever he made, which he did begin like this from
      Lambeth. In the afternoon with Mr. Moore to my house to cast up our Privy
      Seal accounts, where I found that my Lord's comes to 400 and odd pounds,
      and mine to L132, out of which I do give him as good as L25 for his pains,
      with which I doubt he is not satisfied, but my heart is full glad. Thence
      with him to Mr. Crew's, and did fetch as much money as did make even our
      accounts between him and me. Home, and there found Mr. Cooke come back
      from my Lord for me to get him some things bought for him to be brought
      after them, a toilet cap and comb case of silk, to make use of in Holland,
      for he goes to the Hague, which I can do to-morrow morning. This day my
      father and my uncle Fenner, and both his sons, have been at my house to
      see it, and my wife did treat them nobly with wine and anchovies. By
      reason of my Lord's going to-day I could not get the office to meet
      to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. I did many things this morning at home before I went out, as looking
      over the joiners, who are flooring my diningroom, and doing business with
      Sir Williams
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Both Sir Williams" is a favourite expression with Pepys, meaning
     Sir William Batten and Sir William Penn.]
</pre>
    <p>
      both at the office, and so to Whitehall, and so to the Bullhead, where we
      had the remains of our pasty, where I did give my verdict against Mr.
      Moore upon last Saturday's wager, where Dr. Fuller coming in do confirm me
      in my verdict. From thence to my Lord's and despatched Mr. Cooke away with
      the things to my Lord. From thence to Axe Yard to my house, where standing
      at the door Mrs. Diana comes by, whom I took into my house upstairs, and
      there did dally with her a great while, and found that in Latin "Nulla
      puella negat." So home by water, and there sat up late setting my papers
      in order, and my money also, and teaching my wife her music lesson, in
      which I take great pleasure. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. To the office. From thence by coach upon the desire of the principal
      officers to a Master of Chancery to give Mr. Stowell his oath, whereby he
      do answer that he did hear Phineas Pett say very high words against the
      King a great while ago. Coming back our coach broke, and so Stowell and I
      to Mr. Rawlinson's, and after a glass of wine parted, and I to the office,
      home to dinner, where (having put away my boy in the morning) his father
      brought him again, but I did so clear up my boy's roguery to his father,
      that he could not speak against my putting him away, and so I did give him
      10s. for the boy's clothes that I made him, and so parted and tore his
      indenture. All the afternoon with the principal officers at Sir W.
      Batten's about Pett's business (where I first saw Col. Slingsby, who has
      now his appointment for Comptroller), but did bring it to no issue. This
      day I saw our Dedimus to be sworn in the peace by, which will be shortly.
      In the evening my wife being a little impatient I went along with her to
      buy her a necklace of pearl, which will cost L4 10s., which I am willing
      to comply with her in for her encouragement, and because I have lately got
      money, having now above L200 in cash beforehand in the world. Home, and
      having in our way bought a rabbit and two little lobsters, my wife and I
      did sup late, and so to bed. Great news now-a-day of the Duke d'Anjou's
    </p>
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     [Philip, Duke of Anjou, afterwards Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis
     XIV.  (born 1640, died 1701), married the Princess Henrietta,
     youngest daughter of Charles I., who was born June 16th, 1644, at
     Exeter.  She was known as "La belle Henriette."  In May, 1670, she
     came to Dover on a political mission from Louis XIV. to her brother
     Charles II., but the visit was undertaken much against the wish of
     her husband.  Her death occurred on her return to France, and
     was attributed to poison.  It was the occasion of one of the finest
     of Bossuet's "Oraisons Funebres."]
</pre>
    <p>
      desire to marry the Princesse Henrietta. Hugh Peters is said to be taken,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Hugh Peters, born at Fowey, Cornwall, and educated at Trinity
     College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. 1622.  He was tried as
     one of the regicides, and executed.  A broadside, entitled "The
     Welsh Hubub, or the Unkennelling and earthing of Hugh Peters that
     crafty Fox," was printed October 3rd, 1660.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and the Duke of Gloucester is ill, and it is said it will prove the
      small-pox.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. To Whitehall by water with Sir W. Batten, and in our passage told me
      how Commissioner Pett did pay himself for the entertainment that he did
      give the King at Chatham at his coming in, and 20s. a day all the time he
      was in Holland, which I wonder at, and so I see there is a great deal of
      envy between the two. At Whitehall I met with Commissioner Pett, who told
      me how Mr. Coventry and Fairbank his solicitor are falling out, one
      complaining of the other for taking too great fees, which is too true. I
      find that Commissioner Pett is under great discontent, and is loth to give
      too much money for his place, and so do greatly desire me to go along with
      him in what we shall agree to give Mr. Coventry, which I have promised
      him, but am unwilling to mix my fortune with him that is going down the
      wind. We all met this morning and afterwards at the Admiralty, where our
      business is to ask provision of victuals ready for the ships in the Downs,
      which we did, Mr. Gauden promising to go himself thither and see it done.
      Dined Will and I at my Lord's upon a joint of meat that I sent Mrs. Sarah
      for. Afterwards to my office and sent all my books to my Lord's, in order
      to send them to my house that I now dwell in. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Not office day, and in the afternoon at home all the day, it being
      the first that I have been at home all day since I came hither. Putting my
      papers, books and other things in order, and writing of letters. This day
      my Lord set sail from the Downs for Holland.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. All day also at home. At night sent for by Sir W. Pen, with whom I
      sat late drinking a glass of wine and discoursing, and I find him to be a
      very sociable man, and an able man, and very cunning.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Sunday). In the morning with Sir W. Pen to church, and a very good
      sermon of Mr. Mills. Home to dinner, and Sir W. Pen with me to such as I
      had, and it was very handsome, it being the first time that he ever saw my
      wife or house since we came hither. Afternoon to church with my wife, and
      after that home, and there walked with Major Hart, who came to see me, in
      the garden, who tells me that we are all like to be speedily disbanded;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Trained Bands were abolished in 1663, but those of the City of
     London were specially excepted.  The officers of the Trained Bands
     were supplied by the Hon.  Artillery Company.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and then I lose the benefit of a muster. After supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Office day). News of the Duke's intention to go tomorrow to the
      fleet for a day or two to meet his sister. Col. Slingsby and I to
      Whitehall, thinking to proffer our service to the Duke to wait upon him,
      but meeting with Sir G. Carteret he sent us in all haste back again to
      hire two Catches for the present use of the Duke. So we returned and
      landed at the Bear at the Bridge foot, where we saw Southwark Fair (I
      having not at all seen Bartholomew Fair), and so to the Tower wharf, where
      we did hire two catches. So to the office and found Sir W. Batten at
      dinner with some friends upon a good chine of beef, on which I ate
      heartily, I being very hungry. Home, where Mr. Snow (whom afterwards we
      called one another cozen) came to me to see me, and with him and one
      Shelston, a simple fellow that looks after an employment (that was with me
      just upon my going to sea last), to a tavern, where till late with them.
      So home, having drunk too much, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. At Sir W. Batten's with Sir W. Pen we drank our morning draft, and
      from thence for an hour in the office and dispatch a little business.
      Dined at Sir W. Batten's, and by this time I see that we are like to have
      a very good correspondence and neighbourhood, but chargeable. All the
      afternoon at home looking over my carpenters. At night I called Thos.
      Hater out of the office to my house to sit and talk with me. After he was
      gone I caused the girl to wash the wainscot of our parlour, which she did
      very well, which caused my wife and I good sport. Up to my chamber to read
      a little, and wrote my Diary for three or four days past. The Duke of York
      did go to-day by break of day to the Downs. The Duke of Gloucester ill.
      The House of Parliament was to adjourn to-day. I know not yet whether it
      be done or no. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Office day). This noon I expected to have had my cousin Snow and my
      father come to dine with me, but it being very rainy they did not come. My
      brother Tom came to my house with a letter from my brother John, wherein
      he desires some books: Barthol. Anatom., Rosin. Rom. Antiq., and Gassend.
      Astronom., the last of which I did give him, and an angel&mdash;[A gold
      coin varying in value at different times from 6s. 8d. to 10s.]&mdash;against
      my father buying of the others. At home all the afternoon looking after my
      workmen, whose laziness do much trouble me. This day the Parliament
      adjourned.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Old East comes to me in the morning with letters, and I did give him
      a bottle of Northdown ale, which made the poor man almost drunk. In the
      afternoon my wife went to the burial of a child of my cozen Scott's, and
      it is observable that within this month my Aunt Wight was brought to bed
      of two girls, my cozen Stradwick of a girl and a boy, and my cozen Scott
      of a boy, and all died. In the afternoon to Westminster, where Mr. Dalton
      was ready with his money to pay me for my house, but our writings not
      being drawn it could not be done to-day. I met with Mr. Hawly, who was
      removing his things from Mr. Bowyer's, where he has lodged a great while,
      and I took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan and drank, and Mr. Hawly did give
      me a little black rattoon,&mdash;[Probably an Indian rattan cane.]&mdash;painted
      and gilt. Home by water. This day the Duke of Gloucester died of the
      small-pox, by the great negligence of the doctors.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Office day). I got L42 15s. appointed me by bill for my employment
      of Secretary to the 4th of this month, it being the last money I shall
      receive upon that score. My wife went this afternoon to see my mother, who
      I hear is very ill, at which my heart is very sad. In the afternoon
      Luellin comes to my house, and takes me out to the Mitre in Wood Street,
      where Mr. Samford, W. Symons and his wife, and Mr. Scobell, Mr. Mount and
      Chetwind, where they were very merry, Luellin being drunk, and I being to
      defend the ladies from his kissing them, I kissed them myself very often
      with a great deal of mirth. Parted very late, they by coach to
      Westminster, and I on foot.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Met very early at our office this morning to pick out the
      twenty-five ships which are to be first paid off: After that to
      Westminster and dined with Mr. Dalton at his office, where we had one
      great court dish, but our papers not being done we could [not] make an end
      of our business till Monday next. Mr. Dalton and I over the water to our
      landlord Vanly, with whom we agree as to Dalton becoming a tenant. Back to
      Westminster, where I met with Dr. Castles, who chidd me for some errors in
      our Privy-Seal business; among the rest, for letting the fees of the six
      judges pass unpaid, which I know not what to say to, till I speak to Mr.
      Moore. I was much troubled, for fear of being forced to pay the money
      myself. Called at my father's going home, and bespoke mourning for myself,
      for the death of the Duke of Gloucester. I found my mother pretty well. So
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Sunday). To Dr. Hardy's church, and sat with Mr. Rawlinson and heard
      a good sermon upon the occasion of the Duke's death. His text was, "And is
      there any evil in the city and the Lord hath not done it?" Home to dinner,
      having some sport with Win. [Hewer], who never had been at Common Prayer
      before. After dinner I alone to Westminster, where I spent my time walking
      up and down in Westminster Abbey till sermon time with Ben. Palmer and
      Fetters the watchmaker, who told me that my Lord of Oxford is also dead of
      the small-pox; in whom his family dies, after 600 years having that honour
      in their family and name. From thence to the Park, where I saw how far
      they had proceeded in the Pell-mell, and in making a river through the
      Park, which I had never seen before since it was begun.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This is the Mall in St. James's Park, which was made by Charles
     II., the former Mall (Pall Mall) having been built upon during the
     Commonwealth.  Charles II. also formed the canal by throwing the
     several small ponds into one.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence to White Hall garden, where I saw the King in purple mourning for
      his brother.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The Queen-mother of France," says Ward, in his Diary, p. 177,
     "died at Agrippina, 1642, and her son Louis, 1643, for whom King
     Charles mourned in Oxford in purple, which is Prince's mourning."]
</pre>
    <p>
      So home, and in my way met with Dinah, who spoke to me and told me she had
      a desire to speak too about some business when I came to Westminster
      again. Which she spoke in such a manner that I was afraid she might tell
      me something that I would not hear of our last meeting at my house at
      Westminster. Home late, being very dark. A gentleman in the Poultry had a
      great and dirty fall over a waterpipe that lay along the channel.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Office very early about casting up the debts of those twenty-five
      ships which are to be paid off, which we are to present to the Committee
      of Parliament. I did give my wife L15 this morning to go to buy mourning
      things for her and me, which she did. Dined at home and Mr. Moore with me,
      and afterwards to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton and drank in the Cellar, where
      Mr. Vanly according to appointment was. Thence forth to see the Prince de
      Ligne, Spanish Embassador, come in to his audience, which was done in very
      great state. That being done, Dalton, Vanly, Scrivener and some friends of
      theirs and I to the Axe, and signed and sealed our writings, and hence to
      the Wine cellar again, where I received L41 for my interest in my house,
      out of which I paid my Landlord to Michaelmas next, and so all is even
      between him and me, and I freed of my poor little house. Home by link with
      my money under my arm. So to bed after I had looked over the things my
      wife had bought to-day, with which being not very well pleased, they
      costing too much, I went to bed in a discontent. Nothing yet from sea,
      where my Lord and the Princess are.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. At home all the morning looking over my workmen in my house. After
      dinner Sir W. Batten, Pen, and myself by coach to Westminster Hall, where
      we met Mr. Wayte the lawyer to the Treasurer, and so we went up to the
      Committee of Parliament, which are to consider of the debts of the Army
      and Navy, and did give in our account of the twenty-five ships. Col. Birch
      was very impertinent and troublesome. But at last we did agree to fit the
      accounts of our ships more perfectly for their view within a few days,
      that they might see what a trouble it is to do what they desire. From
      thence Sir Williams both going by water home, I took Mr. Wayte to the
      Rhenish winehouse, and drank with him and so parted. Thence to Mr. Crew's
      and spoke with Mr. Moore about the business of paying off Baron our share
      of the dividend. So on foot home, by the way buying a hat band and other
      things for my mourning to-morrow. So home and to bed. This day I heard
      that the Duke of York, upon the news of the death of his brother
      yesterday, came hither by post last night.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Office day). I put on my mourning and went to the office. At noon
      thinking to have found my wife in hers, I found that the tailor had failed
      her, at which I was vexed because of an invitation that we have to a
      dinner this day, but after having waited till past one o'clock I went, and
      left her to put on some other clothes and come after me to the Mitre
      tavern in Wood-street (a house of the greatest note in London), where I
      met W. Symons, and D. Scobell, and their wives, Mr. Samford, Luellin,
      Chetwind, one Mr. Vivion, and Mr. White,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [According to Noble, Jeremiah White married Lady Frances Cromwell's
     waiting-woman, in Oliver's lifetime, and they lived together fifty
     years.  Lady Frances had two husbands, Mr. Robert Rich and Sir John
     Russell of Chippenham, the last of whom she survived fifty-two years
     dying 1721-22 The story is, that Oliver found White on his knees to
     Frances Cromwell, and that, to save himself, he pretended to have
     been soliciting her interest with her waiting-woman, whom Oliver
     compelled him to marry.  (Noble's "Life of Cromwell," vol. ii.
     pp. 151, 152.) White was born in 1629 and died 1707.]
</pre>
    <p>
      formerly chaplin to the Lady Protectresse&mdash;[Elizabeth, wife of Oliver
      Cromwell.]&mdash;(and still so, and one they say that is likely to get my
      Lady Francess for his wife). Here we were very merry and had a very good
      dinner, my wife coming after me hither to us.
    </p>
    <p>
      Among other pleasures some of us fell to handycapp,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["A game at cards not unlike Loo, but with this difference, the
     winner of one trick has to put in a double stake, the winner of two
     tricks a triple stake, and so on.  Thus, if six persons are playing,
     and the general stake is 1s., suppose A gains the three tricks, he
     gains 6s., and has to 'hand i' the cap,' or pool, 4s.  for the next
     deal.  Suppose A gains two tricks and B one, then A gains 4s. and B
     2s., and A has to stake 3s. and B 2s. for the next deal."&mdash;Hindley's
     Tavern Anecdotes.&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      a sport that I never knew before, which was very good. We staid till it
      was very late; it rained sadly, but we made shift to get coaches. So home
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. At home, and at the office, and in the garden walking with both Sir
      Williams all the morning. After dinner to Whitehall to Mr. Dalton, and
      with him to my house and took away all my papers that were left in my
      closet, and so I have now nothing more in the house or to do with it. We
      called to speak with my Landlord Beale, but he was not within but spoke
      with the old woman, who takes it very ill that I did not let her have it,
      but I did give her an answer. From thence to Sir G. Downing and staid late
      there (he having sent for me to come to him), which was to tell me how my
      Lord Sandwich had disappointed him of a ship to bring over his child and
      goods, and made great complaint thereof; but I got him to write a letter
      to Lawson, which it may be may do the business for him, I writing another
      also about it. While he was writing, and his Lady and I had a great deal
      of discourse in praise of Holland. By water to the Bridge, and so to Major
      Hart's lodgings in Cannon-street, who used me very kindly with wine and
      good discourse, particularly upon the ill method which Colonel Birch and
      the Committee use in defending of the army and the navy; promising the
      Parliament to save them a great deal of money, when we judge that it will
      cost the King more than if they had nothing to do with it, by reason of
      their delays and scrupulous enquirys into the account of both. So home and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Office day). There all the morning and afternoon till 4 o'clock.
      Hence to Whitehall, thinking to have put up my books at my Lord's, but am
      disappointed from want of a chest which I had at Mr. Bowyer's. Back by
      water about 8 o'clock, and upon the water saw the corpse of the Duke of
      Gloucester brought down Somerset House stairs, to go by water to
      Westminster, to be buried to-night. I landed at the old Swan and went to
      the Hoop Tavern, and (by a former agreement) sent for Mr. Chaplin, who
      with Nicholas Osborne and one Daniel came to us and we drank off two or
      three quarts of wine, which was very good; the drawing of our wine causing
      a great quarrel in the house between the two drawers which should draw us
      the best, which caused a great deal of noise and falling out till the
      master parted them, and came up to us and did give us a large account of
      the liberty that he gives his servants, all alike, to draw what wine they
      will to please his customers; and we did eat above 200 walnuts. About to
      o'clock we broke up and so home, and in my way I called in with them at
      Mr. Chaplin's, where Nicholas Osborne did give me a barrel of samphire,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Samphire was formerly a favourite pickle; hence the "dangerous
     trade" of the samphire gatherer ("King Lear," act iv.  sc. 6) who
     supplied the demand.  It was sold in the streets, and one of the old
     London cries was "I ha' Rock Samphier, Rock Samphier!"]
</pre>
    <p>
      and showed me the keys of Mardyke Fort,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A fort four miles east of Dunkirk, probably dismantled when that
     town was sold to Louis XIV.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which he that was commander of the fort sent him as a token when the fort
      was demolished, which I was mightily pleased to see, and will get them of
      him if I can. Home, where I found my boy (my maid's brother) come out of
      the country to-day, but was gone to bed and so I could not see him
      to-night. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. This morning I called up my boy, and found him a pretty, well-looked
      boy, and one that I think will please me. I went this morning by land to
      Westminster along with Luellin, who came to my house this morning to get
      me to go with him to Capt. Allen to speak with him for his brother to go
      with him to Constantinople, but could not find him. We walked on to Fleet
      street, where at Mr. Standing's in Salsbury Court we drank our morning
      draft and had a pickled herring. Among other discourse here he told me how
      the pretty woman that I always loved at the beginning of Cheapside that
      sells child's coats was served by the Lady Bennett (a famous strumpet),
      who by counterfeiting to fall into a swoon upon the sight of her in her
      shop, became acquainted with her, and at last got her ends of her to lie
      with a gentleman that had hired her to procure this poor soul for him. To
      Westminster to my Lord's, and there in the house of office vomited up all
      my breakfast, my stomach being ill all this day by reason of the last
      night's debauch. Here I sent to Mr. Bowyer's for my chest and put up my
      books and sent them home. I staid here all day in my Lord's chamber and
      upon the leads gazing upon Diana, who looked out of a window upon me. At
      last I went out to Mr. Harper's, and she standing over the way at the
      gate, I went over to her and appointed to meet to-morrow in the afternoon
      at my Lord's. Here I bought a hanging jack. From thence by coach home by
      the way at the New Exchange
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In the Strand; built, under the auspices of James I., in 1608, out
     of the stables of Durham House, the site of the present Adelphi.
     The New Exchange stood where Coutts's banking-house now is.  "It was
     built somewhat on the model of the Royal Exchange, with cellars
     beneath, a walk above, and rows of shops over that, filled chiefly
     with milliners, sempstresses, and the like."  It was also called
     "Britain's Burse."  "He has a lodging in the Strand... to
     watch when ladies are gone to the china houses, or to the Exchange,
     that he may meet them by chance and give them presents, some two or
     three hundred pounds worth of toys, to be laughed at"&mdash;Ben Jonson,
     The Silent Woman, act i.  sc. 1.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I bought a pair of short black stockings, to wear over a pair of silk ones
      for mourning; and here I met with The. Turner and Joyce, buying of things
      to go into mourning too for the Duke, (which is now the mode of all the
      ladies in town), where I wrote some letters by the post to Hinchinbroke to
      let them know that this day Mr. Edw. Pickering is come from my Lord, and
      says that he left him well in Holland, and that he will be here within
      three or four days. To-day not well of my last night's drinking yet. I had
      the boy up to-night for his sister to teach him to put me to bed, and I
      heard him read, which he did pretty well.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). My wife got up to put on her mourning to-day and to go
      to Church this morning. I up and set down my journall for these 5 days
      past. This morning came one from my father's with a black cloth coat, made
      of my short cloak, to walk up and down in. To church my wife and I, with
      Sir W. Batten, where we heard of Mr. Mills a very good sermon upon these
      words, "So run that ye may obtain." After dinner all alone to Westminster.
      At Whitehall I met with Mr. Pierce and his wife (she newly come forth
      after childbirth) both in mourning for the Duke of Gloucester. She went
      with Mr. Child to Whitehall chapel and Mr. Pierce with me to the Abbey,
      where I expected to hear Mr. Baxter or Mr. Rowe preach their farewell
      sermon, and in Mr. Symons's pew I sat and heard Mr. Rowe. Before sermon I
      laughed at the reader, who in his prayer desires of God that He would
      imprint his word on the thumbs of our right hands and on the right great
      toes of our right feet. In the midst of the sermon some plaster fell from
      the top of the Abbey, that made me and all the rest in our pew afeard, and
      I wished myself out. After sermon with Mr. Pierce to Whitehall, and from
      thence to my Lord, but Diana did not come according to our agreement. So
      calling at my father's (where my wife had been this afternoon but was gone
      home) I went home. This afternoon, the King having news of the Princess
      being come to Margate, he and the Duke of York went down thither in barges
      to her.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Office day). From thence to dinner by coach with my wife to my Cozen
      Scott's, and the company not being come, I went over the way to the
      Barber's. So thither again to dinner, where was my uncle Fenner and my
      aunt, my father and mother, and others. Among the rest my Cozen Rich.
      Pepys,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Richard Pepys, eldest son of Richard Pepys, Lord Chief Justice of
     Ireland.  He went to Boston, Mass., in 1634, and returned to England
     about 1646.]
</pre>
    <p>
      their elder brother, whom I had not seen these fourteen years, ever since
      he came from New England. It was strange for us to go a gossiping to her,
      she having newly buried her child that she was brought to bed of. I rose
      from table and went to the Temple church, where I had appointed Sir W.
      Batten to meet him; and there at Sir Heneage Finch Sollicitor General's
      chambers, before him and Sir W. Wilde,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [William Wilde, elected Recorder on November 3rd, 1659, and
     appointed one of the commissioners sent to Breda to desire Charles
     II.  to return to England immediately.  He was knighted after the
     King's return, called to the degree of Serjeant, and created a
     baronet, all in the same year.  In 1668 he ceased to be Recorder,
     and was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas.  In 1673 he
     was removed to the King's Bench.  He was turned out of his office in
     1679 on account of his action in connection with the Popish Plot,
     and died November 23rd of the same year.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Recorder of London (whom we sent for from his chamber) we were sworn
      justices of peace for Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Southampton; with which
      honour I did find myself mightily pleased, though I am wholly ignorant in
      the duty of a justice of peace. From thence with Sir William to Whitehall
      by water (old Mr. Smith with us) intending to speak with Secretary
      Nicholas about the augmentation of our salaries, but being forth we went
      to the Three Tuns tavern, where we drank awhile, and then came in Col.
      Slingsby and another gentleman and sat with us. From thence to my Lord's
      to enquire whether they have had any thing from my Lord or no. Knocking at
      the door, there passed me Mons. L'Impertinent [Mr. Butler] for whom I took
      a coach and went with him to a dancing meeting in Broad Street, at the
      house that was formerly the glass-house, Luke Channel, Master of the
      School, where I saw good dancing, but it growing late, and the room very
      full of people and so very hot, I went home.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. To the office, where Sir W. Batten, Colonel Slingsby, and I sat
      awhile, and Sir R. Ford
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir Richard Ford was one of the commissioners sent to Breda to
     desire Charles II.  to return to England immediately.]
</pre>
    <p>
      coming to us about some business, we talked together of the interest of
      this kingdom to have a peace with Spain and a war with France and Holland;
      where Sir R. Ford talked like a man of great reason and experience. And
      afterwards I did send for a cup of tee'
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [That excellent and by all Physicians, approved, China drink, called
     by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay alias Tee, is sold at the
     Sultaness Head Coffee-House, in Sweetings Rents, by the "Royal
     Exchange, London."  "Coffee, chocolate, and a kind of drink called
     tee, sold in almost every street in 1659."&mdash;Rugge's Diurnal.  It is
     stated in "Boyne's Trade Tokens," ed. Williamson, vol. i., 1889,
     p. 593 "that the word tea occurs on no other tokens than those
     issued from 'the Great Turk' (Morat ye Great) coffeehouse in
     Exchange Alley.  The Dutch East India Company introduced tea into
     Europe in 1610, and it is said to have been first imported into
     England from Holland about 1650.  The English "East India Company"
     purchased and presented 2 lbs. of tea to Charles II. in 1660, and 23
     lbs. in 1666.  The first order for its importation by the company
     was in 1668, and the first consignment of it, amounting to 143 lbs.,
     was received from Bantam in 1669 (see Sir George Birdwood's "Report
     on the Old Records at the India Office," 1890, p. 26).  By act 12
     Car.  II., capp.  23, 24, a duty of 8d. per gallon was imposed upon
     the infusion of tea, as well as on chocolate and sherbet.]
</pre>
    <p>
      (a China drink) of which I never had drank before, and went away. Then
      came Col. Birch and Sir R. Browne by a former appointment, and with them
      from Tower wharf in the barge belonging to our office we went to Deptford
      to pay off the ship Success, which (Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Pen coming
      afterwards to us) we did, Col. Birch being a mighty busy man and one that
      is the most indefatigable and forward to make himself work of any man that
      ever I knew in my life. At the Globe we had a very good dinner, and after
      that to the pay again, which being finished we returned by water again,
      and I from our office with Col. Slingsby by coach to Westminster (I
      setting him down at his lodgings by the way) to inquire for my Lord's
      coming thither (the King and the Princess
    </p>
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     ["The Princess Royall came from Gravesend to Whitehall by water,
     attended by a noble retinue of about one hundred persons, gentry,
     and servants, and tradesmen, and tirewomen, and others, that took
     that opportunity to advance their fortunes, by coming in with so
     excellent a Princess as without question she is."-Rugge's Diurnal.
     A broadside, entitled "Ourania, the High and Mighty Lady the
     Princess Royal of Aurange, congratulated on her most happy arrival,
     September the 25th, 1660," was printed on the 29th.]
</pre>
    <p>
      coming up the river this afternoon as we were at our pay), and I found him
      gone to Mr. Crew's, where I found him well, only had got some corns upon
      his foot which was not well yet. My Lord told me how the ship that brought
      the Princess and him (The Tredagh) did knock six times upon the Kentish
      Knock,
    </p>
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     [A shoal in the North Sea, off the Thames mouth, outside the Long
     Sand, fifteen miles N.N.E. of the North Foreland.  It measures seven
     miles north-eastward, and about two miles in breadth.  It is partly
     dry at low water.  A revolving light was set up in 1840.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which put them in great fear for the ship; but got off well. He told me
      also how the King had knighted Vice-Admiral Lawson and Sir Richard
      Stayner. From him late and by coach home, where the plasterers being at
      work in all the rooms in my house, my wife was fain to make a bed upon the
      ground for her and me, and so there we lay all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Office day. That done to the church, to consult about our gallery.
      So home to dinner, where I found Mrs. Hunt, who brought me a letter for me
      to get my Lord to sign for her husband, which I shall do for her. At home
      with the workmen all the afternoon, our house being in a most sad pickle.
      In the evening to the office, where I fell a-reading of Speed's Geography
      for a while. So home thinking to have found Will at home, but he not being
      come home but gone somewhere else I was very angry, and when he came did
      give him a very great check for it, and so I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. To my Lord at Mr. Crew's, and there took order about some business
      of his, and from thence home to my workmen all the afternoon. In the
      evening to my Lord's, and there did read over with him and Dr. Walker my
      lord's new commission for sea, and advised thereupon how to have it drawn.
      So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Office day). This morning Sir W. Batten and Col. Slingsby went with
      Col. Birch and Sir Wm. Doyly to Chatham to pay off a ship there. So only
      Sir W. Pen and I left here in town. All the afternoon among my workmen
      till 10 or 11 at night, and did give them drink and very merry with them,
      it being my luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on all occasions.
      To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. All day at home to make an end of our dirty work of the plasterers,
      and indeed my kitchen is now so handsome that I did not repent of all the
      trouble that I have been put to, to have it done. This day or yesterday, I
      hear, Prince Rupert
    </p>
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     [This is the first mention in the Diary of this famous prince, third
     son of Frederick, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, and Elizabeth,
     daughter of James I., born December 17th, 1619.  He died at his
     house in Spring Gardens, November 29th, 1682.]
</pre>
    <p>
      is come to Court; but welcome to nobody.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Lord's day). To our Parish church both forenoon and afternoon all
      alone. At night went to bed without prayers, my house being every where
      foul above stairs.
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    <p>
      October 1st. Early to my Lord to Whitehall, and there he did give me some
      work to do for him, and so with all haste to the office. Dined at home,
      and my father by chance with me. After dinner he and I advised about
      hangings for my rooms, which are now almost fit to be hung, the painters
      beginning to do their work to-day. After dinner he and I to the Miter,
      where with my uncle Wight (whom my father fetched thither), while I drank
      a glass of wine privately with Mr. Mansell, a poor Reformado of the
      Charles, who came to see me. Here we staid and drank three or four pints
      of wine and so parted. I home to look after my workmen, and at night to
      bed. The Commissioners are very busy disbanding of the army, which they
      say do cause great robbing. My layings out upon my house an furniture are
      so great that I fear I shall not be able to go through them without
      breaking one of my bags of L100, I having but L200 yet in the world.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. With Sir Wm. Pen by water to Whitehall, being this morning visited
      before I went out by my brother Tom, who told me that for his lying out of
      doors a day and a night my father had forbade him to come any more into
      his house, at which I was troubled, and did soundly chide him for doing
      so, and upon confessing his fault I told him I would speak to my father.
      At Whitehall I met with Captain Clerk, and took him to the Leg in King
      Street, and did give him a dish or two of meat, and his purser that was
      with him, for his old kindness to me on board. After dinner I to
      Whitehall, where I met with Mrs. Hunt, and was forced to wait upon Mr.
      Scawen at a committee to speak for her husband, which I did. After that
      met with Luellin, Mr. Fage, and took them both to the Dog, and did give
      them a glass of wine. After that at Will's I met with Mr. Spicer, and with
      him to the Abbey to see them at vespers. There I found but a thin
      congregation already. So I see that religion, be it what it will, is but a
      humour,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The four humours of the body described by the old physicians were
     supposed to exert their influence upon the mind, and in course of
     time the mind as well as the body was credited with its own
     particular humours.  The modern restricted use of the word humour
     did not become general until the eighteenth century.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and so the esteem of it passeth as other things do. From thence with him
      to see Robin Shaw, who has been a long time ill, and I have not seen him
      since I came from sea. He is much changed, but in hopes to be well again.
      From thence by coach to my father's, and discoursed with him about Tom,
      and did give my advice to take him home again, which I think he will do in
      prudence rather than put him upon learning the way of being worse. So
      home, and from home to Major Hart, who is just going out of town
      to-morrow, and made much of me, and did give me the oaths of supremacy and
      allegiance, that I may be capable of my arrears. So home again, where my
      wife tells me what she has bought to-day, namely, a bed and furniture for
      her chamber, with which very well pleased I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3d. With Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to White Hall, where a meeting of
      the Dukes of York and Albemarle, my Lord Sandwich and all the principal
      officers, about the Winter Guard, but we determined of nothing. To my
      Lord's, who sent a great iron chest to White Hall; and I saw it carried,
      into the King's closet, where I saw most incomparable pictures. Among the
      rest a book open upon a desk, which I durst have sworn was a reall book,
      and back again to my Lord, and dined all alone with him, who do treat me
      with a great deal of respect; and after dinner did discourse an hour with
      me, and advise about some way to get himself some money to make up for all
      his great expenses, saying that he believed that he might have any thing
      that he would ask of the King. This day Mr. Sheply and all my Lord's goods
      came from sea, some of them laid of the Wardrobe and some brought to my
      Lord's house. From thence to our office, where we met and did business,
      and so home and spent the evening looking upon the painters that are at
      work in my house. This day I heard the Duke speak of a great design that
      he and my Lord of Pembroke have, and a great many others, of sending a
      venture to some parts of Africa to dig for gold ore there. They intend to
      admit as many as will venture their money, and so make themselves a
      company. L250 is the lowest share for every man. But I do not find that my
      Lord do much like it. At night Dr. Fairbrother (for so he is lately made
      of the Civil Law) brought home my wife by coach, it being rainy weather,
      she having been abroad today to buy more furniture for her house.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. This morning I was busy looking over papers at the office all alone,
      and being visited by Lieut. Lambert of the Charles (to whom I was formerly
      much beholden), I took him along with me to a little alehouse hard by our
      office, whither my cozen Thomas Pepys the turner had sent for me to show
      me two gentlemen that had a great desire to be known to me, one his name
      is Pepys, of our family, but one that I never heard of before, and the
      other a younger son of Sir Tho. Bendishes, and so we all called cozens.
      After sitting awhile and drinking, my two new cozens, myself, and Lieut.
      Lambert went by water to Whitehall, and from thence I and Lieut. Lambert
      to Westminster Abbey, where we saw Dr. Frewen translated to the
      Archbishoprick of York. Here I saw the Bishops of Winchester, Bangor,
      Rochester, Bath and Wells, and Salisbury, all in their habits, in King
      Henry Seventh's chappell. But, Lord! at their going out, how people did
      most of them look upon them as strange creatures, and few with any kind of
      love or respect. From thence at 2 to my Lord's, where we took Mr. Sheply
      and Wm. Howe to the Raindeer, and had some oysters, which were very good,
      the first I have eat this year. So back to my Lord's to dinner, and after
      dinner Lieut. Lambert and I did look upon my Lord's model, and he told me
      many things in a ship that I desired to understand. From thence by water I
      (leaving Lieut. Lambert at Blackfriars) went home, and there by promise
      met with Robert Shaw and Jack Spicer, who came to see me, and by the way I
      met upon Tower Hill with Mr. Pierce the surgeon and his wife, and took
      them home and did give them good wine, ale, and anchovies, and staid them
      till night, and so adieu. Then to look upon my painters that are now at
      work in my house. At night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Office day; dined at home, and all the afternoon at home to see my
      painters make an end of their work, which they did to-day to my content,
      and I am in great joy to see my house likely once again to be clean. At
      night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Col. Slingsby and I at the office getting a catch ready for the
      Prince de Ligne to carry his things away to-day, who is now going home
      again. About noon comes my cozen H. Alcock, for whom I brought a letter
      for my Lord to sign to my Lord Broghill for some preferment in Ireland,
      whither he is now a-going. After him comes Mr. Creed, who brought me some
      books from Holland with him, well bound and good books, which I thought he
      did intend to give me, but I found that I must pay him. He dined with me
      at my house, and from thence to Whitehall together, where I was to give my
      Lord an account of the stations and victualls of the fleet in order to the
      choosing of a fleet fit for him to take to sea, to bring over the Queen,
      but my Lord not coming in before 9 at night I staid no longer for him, but
      went back again home and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). To White Hall on foot, calling at my father's to change
      my long black cloak for a short one (long cloaks being now quite out); but
      he being gone to church, I could not get one, and therefore I proceeded on
      and came to my Lord before he went to chapel and so went with him, where I
      heard Dr. Spurstow preach before the King a poor dry sermon; but a very
      good anthem of Captn. Cooke's afterwards. Going out of chapel I met with
      Jack Cole, my old friend (whom I had not seen a great while before), and
      have promised to renew acquaintance in London together. To my Lord's and
      dined with him; he all dinner time talking French to me, and telling me
      the story how the Duke of York hath got my Lord Chancellor's daughter with
      child,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Anne Hyde, born March 12th, 1637, daughter of Edward, first Earl of
     Clarendon.  She was attached to the court of the Princess of Orange,
     daughter of Charles I., 1654, and contracted to James, Duke of York,
     at Breda, November 24th, 1659.  The marriage was avowed in London
     September 3rd, 1660.  She joined the Church of Rome in 1669, and
     died March 31st, 1671.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and that she, do lay it to him, and that for certain he did promise her
      marriage, and had signed it with his blood, but that he by stealth had got
      the paper out of her cabinet. And that the King would have him to marry
      her, but that he will not.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Duke of York married Anne Hyde, and he avowed the marriage
     September 3rd, so that Pepys was rather behindhand in his
     information.]
</pre>
    <p>
      So that the thing is very bad for the Duke, and them all; but my Lord do
      make light of it, as a thing that he believes is not a new thing for the
      Duke to do abroad. Discoursing concerning what if the Duke should marry
      her, my Lord told me that among his father's many old sayings that he had
      wrote in a book of his, this is one&mdash;that he that do get a wench with
      child and marry her afterwards is as if a man should&mdash;&mdash;in his
      hat and then clap it on his head. I perceive my Lord is grown a man very
      indifferent in all matters of religion, and so makes nothing of these
      things. After dinner to the Abbey, where I heard them read the
      church-service, but very ridiculously, that indeed I do not in myself like
      it at all. A poor cold sermon of Dr. Lamb's, one of the prebends, in his
      habit, came afterwards, and so all ended, and by my troth a pitiful sorry
      devotion that these men pay. So walked home by land, and before supper I
      read part of the Marian persecution in Mr. Fuller. So to supper, prayers,
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Office day, and my wife being gone out to buy some household stuff, I
      dined all alone, and after dinner to Westminster, in my way meeting Mr.
      Moore coming to me, who went back again with me calling at several places
      about business, at my father's about gilded leather for my dining room, at
      Mr. Crew's about money, at my Lord's about the same, but meeting not Mr.
      Sheply there I went home by water, and Mr. Moore with me, who staid and
      supped with me till almost 9 at night. We love one another's discourse so
      that we cannot part when we do meet. He tells me that the profit of the
      Privy Seal is much fallen, for which I am very sorry. He gone and I to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. This morning Sir W. Batten with Colonel Birch to Deptford, to pay off
      two ships. Sir W. Pen and I staid to do business, and afterwards together
      to White Hall, where I went to my Lord, and found him in bed not well, and
      saw in his chamber his picture,&mdash;[Lord Sandwich's portrait by Lely,
      see post, 22nd of this same month.]&mdash;very well done; and am with
      child
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A figurative expression for an eager longing desire, used by Udall
     and by Spenser.  The latest authority given by Dr. Murray in the
     "New English Dictionary," is Bailey in 1725.]
</pre>
    <p>
      till I get it copied out, which I hope to do when he is gone to sea. To
      Whitehall again, where at Mr. Coventry's chamber I met with Sir W. Pen
      again, and so with him to Redriffe by water, and from thence walked over
      the fields to Deptford (the first pleasant walk I have had a great while),
      and in our way had a great deal of merry discourse, and find him to be a
      merry fellow and pretty good natured, and sings very bawdy songs. So we
      came and found our gentlemen and Mr. Prin at the pay. About noon we dined
      together, and were very merry at table telling of tales. After dinner to
      the pay of another ship till 10 at night, and so home in our barge, a
      clear moonshine night, and it was 12 o'clock before we got home, where I
      found my wife in bed, and part of our chambers hung to-day by the
      upholster, but not being well done I was fretted, and so in a discontent
      to bed. I found Mr. Prin a good, honest, plain man, but in his discourse
      not very free or pleasant. Among all the tales that passed among us
      to-day, he told us of one Damford, that, being a black man, did scald his
      beard with mince-pie, and it came up again all white in that place, and
      continued to his dying day. Sir W. Pen told us a good jest about some
      gentlemen blinding of the drawer, and who he catched was to pay the
      reckoning, and so they got away, and the master of the house coming up to
      see what his man did, his man got hold of him, thinking it to be one of
      the gentlemen, and told him that he was to pay the reckoning.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Office day all the morning. In the afternoon with the upholster
      seeing him do things to my mind, and to my content he did fit my chamber
      and my wife's. At night comes Mr. Moore, and staid late with me to tell me
      how Sir Hards. Waller&mdash;[Sir Hardress Waller, Knt., one of Charles I.
      judges. His sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life.]&mdash;(who
      only pleads guilty), Scott, Coke, Peters, Harrison,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [General Thomas Harrison, son of a butcher at Newcastle-under-Lyme,
     appointed by Cromwell to convey Charles I.  from Windsor to
     Whitehall, in order to his trial.  He signed the warrant for the
     execution of the King.  He was hanged, drawn, and quartered on the
     13th.]
</pre>
    <p>
      &amp;c. were this day arraigned at the bar at the Sessions House, there
      being upon the bench the Lord Mayor, General Monk, my Lord of Sandwich,
      &amp;c.; such a bench of noblemen as had not been ever seen in England!
      They all seem to be dismayed, and will all be condemned without question.
      In Sir Orlando Bridgman's charge, he did wholly rip up the unjustness of
      the war against the King from the beginning, and so it much reflects upon
      all the Long Parliament, though the King had pardoned them, yet they must
      hereby confess that the King do look upon them as traitors. To-morrow they
      are to plead what they have to say. At night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. In the morning to my Lord's, where I met with Mr. Creed, and with
      him and Mr. Blackburne to the Rhenish wine house, where we sat drinking of
      healths a great while, a thing which Mr. Blackburne formerly would not
      upon any terms have done. After we had done there Mr. Creed and I to the
      Leg in King Street, to dinner, where he and I and my Will had a good udder
      to dinner, and from thence to walk in St. James's Park, where we observed
      the several engines at work to draw up water, with which sight I was very
      much pleased. Above all the rest, I liked best that which Mr. Greatorex
      brought, which is one round thing going within all with a pair of stairs
      round; round which being laid at an angle of 45 deg., do carry up the
      water with a great deal of ease. Here, in the Park, we met with Mr.
      Salisbury, who took Mr. Creed and me to the Cockpitt to see "The Moore of
      Venice," which was well done. Burt acted the Moore; 'by the same token, a
      very pretty lady that sat by me, called out, to see Desdemona smothered.
      From thence with Mr. Creed to Hercules Pillars, where we drank and so
      parted, and I went home.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Office day all the morning, and from thence with Sir W. Batten and
      the rest of the officers to a venison pasty of his at the Dolphin, where
      dined withal Col. Washington, Sir Edward Brett, and Major Norwood, very
      noble company. After dinner I went home, where I found Mr. Cooke, who told
      me that my Lady Sandwich is come to town to-day, whereupon I went to
      Westminster to see her, and found her at super, so she made me sit down
      all alone with her, and after supper staid and talked with her, she
      showing me most extraordinary love and kindness, and do give me good
      assurance of my uncle's resolution to make me his heir. From thence home
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. To my Lord's in the morning, where I met with Captain Cuttance, but
      my Lord not being up I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general
      Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered; which was done there, he looking as
      cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He was presently cut down,
      and his head and heart shown to the people, at which there was great
      shouts of joy. It is said, that he said that he was sure to come shortly
      at the right hand of Christ to judge them that now had judged him; and
      that his wife do expect his coming again. Thus it was my chance to see the
      King beheaded at White Hall, and to see the first blood shed in revenge
      for the blood of the King at Charing Cross. From thence to my Lord's, and
      took Captain Cuttance and Mr. Sheply to the Sun Tavern, and did give them
      some oysters. After that I went by water home, where I was angry with my
      wife for her things lying about, and in my passion kicked the little fine
      basket, which I bought her in Holland, and broke it, which troubled me
      after I had done it. Within all the afternoon setting up shelves in my
      study. At night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). Early to my Lord's, in my way meeting with Dr.
      Fairbrother, who walked with me to my father's back again, and there we
      drank my morning draft, my father having gone to church and my mother
      asleep in bed. Here he caused me to put my hand among a great many
      honorable hands to a paper or certificate in his behalf. To White Hall
      chappell, where one Dr. Crofts made an indifferent sermon, and after it an
      anthem, ill sung, which made the King laugh. Here I first did see the
      Princess Royal since she came into England. Here I also observed, how the
      Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wantonly through
      the hangings that parts the King's closet and the closet where the ladies
      sit. To my Lord's, where I found my wife, and she and I did dine with my
      Lady (my Lord dining with my Lord Chamberlain), who did treat my wife with
      a good deal of respect. In the evening we went home through the rain by
      water in a sculler, having borrowed some coats of Mr. Sheply. So home, wet
      and dirty, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Office all the morning. My wife and I by water; I landed her at
      Whitefriars, she went to my father's to dinner, it being my father's
      wedding day, there being a very great dinner, and only the Fenners and
      Joyces there. This morning Mr. Carew
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [John Carew signed the warrant for the execution of Charles I.  He
     held the religion of the Fifth Monarchists, and was tried October
     12th, 1660.  He refused to avail himself of many opportunities of
     escape, and suffered death with much composure.]
</pre>
    <p>
      was hanged and quartered at Charing Cross; but his quarters, by a great
      favour, are not to be hanged up. I was forced to go to my Lord's to get
      him to meet the officers of the Navy this afternoon, and so could not go
      along with her, but I missed my Lord, who was this day upon the bench at
      the Sessions house. So I dined there, and went to White Hall, where I met
      with Sir W. Batten and Pen, who with the Comptroller, Treasurer, and Mr.
      Coventry (at his chamber) made up a list of such ships as are fit to be
      kept out for the winter guard, and the rest to be paid off by the
      Parliament when they can get money, which I doubt will not be a great
      while. That done, I took coach, and called my wife at my father's, and so
      homewards, calling at Thos. Pepys the turner's for some things that we
      wanted. And so home, where I fell to read "The Fruitless Precaution" (a
      book formerly recommended by Dr. Clerke at sea to me), which I read in bed
      till I had made an end of it, and do find it the best writ tale that ever
      I read in my life. After that done to sleep, which I did not very well do,
      because that my wife having a stopping in her nose she snored much, which
      I never did hear her do before.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. This morning my brother Tom came to me, with whom I made even for my
      last clothes to this day, and having eaten a dish of anchovies with him in
      the morning, my wife and I did intend to go forth to see a play at the
      Cockpit this afternoon, but Mr. Moore coming to me, my wife staid at home,
      and he and I went out together, with whom I called at the upholsters and
      several other places that I had business with, and so home with him to the
      Cockpit, where, understanding that "Wit without money" was acted, I would
      not stay, but went home by water, by the way reading of the other two
      stories that are in the book that I read last night, which I do not like
      so well as it. Being come home, Will. told me that my Lord had a mind to
      speak with me to-night; so I returned by water, and, coming there, it was
      only to enquire how the ships were provided with victuals that are to go
      with him to fetch over the Queen, which I gave him a good account of. He
      seemed to be in a melancholy humour, which, I was told by W. Howe, was for
      that he had lately lost a great deal of money at cards, which he fears he
      do too much addict himself to now-a-days. So home by water and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Office day. At noon came Mr. Creed to me, whom I took along with me
      to the Feathers in Fish Street, where I was invited by Captain Cuttance to
      dinner, a dinner made by Mr. Dawes and his brother. We had two or three
      dishes of meat well done; their great design was to get me concerned in a
      business of theirs about a vessel of theirs that is in the service, hired
      by the King, in which I promise to do them all the service I can. From
      thence home again with Mr. Crew, where I finding Mrs. The. Turner and her
      aunt Duke I would not be seen but walked in the garden till they were
      gone, where Mr. Spong came to me and Mr. Creed, Mr. Spong and I went to
      our music to sing, and he being gone, my wife and I went to put up my
      books in order in closet, and I to give her her books. After that to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. This morning, it being expected that Colonel Hacker and Axtell
      should die, I went to Newgate, but found they were reprieved till
      to-morrow. So to my aunt Fenner's, where with her and my uncle I drank my
      morning draft. So to my father's, and did give orders for a pair of black
      baize linings to be made me for my breeches against to-morrow morning,
      which was done. So to my Lord's, where I spoke with my Lord, and he would
      have had me dine with him, but I went thence to Mr. Blackburne, where I
      met my wife and my Will's father and mother (the first time that ever I
      saw them), where we had a very fine dinner. Mr. Creed was also there. This
      day by her high discourse I found Mrs. Blackburne to be a very high dame
      and a costly one. Home with my wife by coach. This afternoon comes Mr.
      Chaplin and N. Osborn to my house, of whom I made very much, and kept them
      with me till late, and so to bed. At my coming home. I did find that The.
      Turner hath sent for a pair of doves that my wife had promised her; and
      because she did not send them in the best cage, she sent them back again
      with a scornful letter, with which I was angry, but yet pretty well
      pleased that she was crossed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Office in the morning. This morning my dining-room was finished with
      green serge hanging and gilt leather, which is very handsome. This morning
      Hacker and Axtell were hanged and quartered, as the rest are. This night I
      sat up late to make up my accounts ready against to-morrow for my Lord. I
      found him to be above L80 in my debt, which is a good sight, and I bless
      God for it.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. This morning one came to me to advise with me where to make me a
      window into my cellar in lieu of one which Sir W. Batten had stopped up,
      and going down into my cellar to look I stepped into a great heap of&mdash;&mdash;by
      which I found that Mr. Turner's house of office is full and comes into my
      cellar, which do trouble me, but I shall have it helped. To my Lord's by
      land, calling at several places about business, where I dined with my Lord
      and Lady; when he was very merry, and did talk very high how he would have
      a French cook, and a master of his horse, and his lady and child to wear
      black patches; which methought was strange, but he is become a perfect
      courtier; and, among other things, my Lady saying that she could get a
      good merchant for her daughter Jem., he answered, that he would rather see
      her with a pedlar's pack at her back, so she married a gentleman, than she
      should marry a citizen. This afternoon, going through London, and calling
      at Crowe's the upholster's, in Saint Bartholomew's, I saw the limbs of
      some of our new traitors set upon Aldersgate, which was a sad sight to
      see; and a bloody week this and the last have been, there being ten
      hanged, drawn, and quartered. Home, and after writing a letter to my uncle
      by the post, I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). To the Parish church in the morning, where a good
      sermon by Mr. Mills. After dinner to my Lord's, and from thence to the
      Abbey, where I met Spicer and D. Vines and others of the old crew. So
      leaving my boy at the Abbey against I came back, we went to Prior's by the
      Hall back door, but there being no drink to be had we went away, and so to
      the Crown in the Palace Yard, I and George Vines by the way calling at
      their house, where he carried me up to the top of his turret, where there
      is Cooke's head set up for a traytor, and Harrison's set up on the other
      side of Westminster Hall. Here I could see them plainly, as also a very
      fair prospect about London. From the Crown to the Abbey to look for my
      boy, but he was gone thence, and so he being a novice I was at a loss what
      was become of him. I called at my Lord's (where I found Mr. Adams, Mr.
      Sheply's friend) and at my father's, but found him not. So home, where I
      found him, but he had found the way home well enough, of which I was glad.
      So after supper, and reading of some chapters, I went to bed. This day or
      two my wife has been troubled with her boils in the old place, which do
      much trouble her. Today at noon (God forgive me) I strung my lute, which I
      had not touched a great while before.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Office day; after that to dinner at home upon some ribs of roast
      beef from the Cook's (which of late we have been forced to do because of
      our house being always under the painters' and other people's hands, that
      we could not dress it ourselves). After dinner to my Lord's, where I found
      all preparing for my Lord's going to sea to fetch the Queen tomorrow. At
      night my Lord came home, with whom I staid long, and talked of many
      things. Among others I got leave to have his picture, that was done by
      Lilly,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Peter Lely, afterwards knighted.  He lived in the Piazza, Covent
     Garden.  This portrait was bought by Lord Braybrooke at Mr. Pepys
     Cockerell's sale in 1848, and is now at Audley End.]
</pre>
    <p>
      copied, and talking of religion, I found him to be a perfect Sceptic, and
      said that all things would not be well while there was so much preaching,
      and that it would be better if nothing but Homilies were to be read in
      Churches. This afternoon (he told me) there hath been a meeting before the
      King and my Lord Chancellor, of some Episcopalian and Presbyterian
      Divines; but what had passed he could not tell me. After I had done talk
      with him, I went to bed with Mr. Sheply in his chamber, but could hardly
      get any sleep all night, the bed being ill made and he a bad bedfellow.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. We rose early in the morning to get things ready for My Lord, and
      Mr. Sheply going to put up his pistols (which were charged with bullets)
      into the holsters, one of them flew off, and it pleased God that, the
      mouth of the gun being downwards, it did us no hurt, but I think I never
      was in more danger in my life, which put me into a great fright. About
      eight o'clock my Lord went; and going through the garden my Lord met with
      Mr. William Montagu, who told him of an estate of land lately come into
      the King's hands, that he had a mind my Lord should beg. To which end my
      Lord writ a letter presently to my Lord Chancellor to do it for him, which
      (after leave taken of my Lord at White Hall bridge) I did carry to Warwick
      House to him; and had a fair promise of him, that he would do it this day
      for my Lord. In my way thither I met the Lord Chancellor and all the
      judges riding on horseback and going to Westminster Hall, it being the
      first day of the term, which was the first time I ever saw any such
      solemnity. Having done there I returned to Whitehall, where meeting with
      my brother Ashwell and his cozen Sam. Ashwell and Mr. Mallard, I took them
      to the Leg in King Street and gave them a dish of meat for dinner and paid
      for it. From thence going to Whitehall I met with Catan Stirpin in
      mourning, who told me that her mistress was lately dead of the small pox,
      and that herself was now married to Monsieur Petit, as also what her
      mistress had left her, which was very well. She also took me to her
      lodging at an Ironmonger's in King Street, which was but very poor, and I
      found by a letter that she shewed me of her husband's to the King, that he
      is a right Frenchman, and full of their own projects, he having a design
      to reform the universities, and to institute schools for the learning of
      all languages, to speak them naturally and not by rule, which I know will
      come to nothing. From thence to my Lord's, where I went forth by coach to
      Mrs. Parker's with my Lady, and so to her house again. From thence I took
      my Lord's picture, and carried it to Mr. de Cretz to be copied. So to
      White Hall, where I met Mr. Spong, and went home with him and played, and
      sang, and eat with him and his mother. After supper we looked over many
      books, and instruments of his, especially his wooden jack in his chimney,
      which goes with the smoke, which indeed is very pretty. I found him to be
      as ingenious and good-natured a man as ever I met with in my life, and
      cannot admire him enough, he being so plain and illiterate a man as he is.
      From thence by coach home and to bed, which was welcome to me after a
      night's absence.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. I lay and slept long to-day. Office day. I took occasion to be angry
      with my wife before I rose about her putting up of half a crown of mine in
      a paper box, which she had forgot where she had lain it. But we were
      friends again as we are always. Then I rose to Jack Cole, who came to see
      me. Then to the office, so home to dinner, where I found Captain Murford,
      who did put L3 into my hands for a friendship I had done him, but I would
      not take it, but bade him keep it till he has enough to buy my wife a
      necklace. This afternoon people at work in my house to make a light in my
      yard into my cellar. To White Hall, in my way met with Mr. Moore, who went
      back with me. He tells me, among other things, that the Duke of York is
      now sorry for his lying with my Lord Chancellor's daughter, who is now
      brought to bed of a boy. From Whitehall to Mr. De Cretz, who I found about
      my Lord's picture. From thence to Mr. Lilly's, where, not finding Mr.
      Spong, I went to Mr. Greatorex, where I met him, and so to an alehouse,
      where I bought of him a drawing-pen; and he did show me the manner of the
      lamp-glasses, which carry the light a great way, good to read in bed by,
      and I intend to have one of them. So to Mr. Lilly's with Mr. Spong, where
      well received, there being a club to-night among his friends. Among the
      rest Esquire Ashmole, who I found was a very ingenious gentleman. With him
      we two sang afterward in Mr. Lilly's study. That done, we all pared; and I
      home by coach, taking Mr. Booker' with me, who did tell me a great many
      fooleries, which may be done by nativities, and blaming Mr. Lilly for
      writing to please his friends and to keep in with the times (as he did
      formerly to his own dishonour), and not according to the rules of art, by
      which he could not well err, as he had done. I set him down at Lime-street
      end, and so home, where I found a box of Carpenter's tools sent by my
      cozen, Thomas Pepys, which I had bespoke of him for to employ myself with
      sometimes. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. All day at home doing something in order to the fitting of my house.
      In the evening to Westminster about business. So home and to bed. This
      night the vault at the end of the cellar was emptied.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Office. My father and Dr. Thomas Pepys dined at my house, the last
      of whom I did almost fox with Margate ale. My father is mightily pleased
      with my ordering of my house. I did give him money to pay several bills.
      After that I to Westminster to White Hall, where I saw the Duke de
      Soissons go from his audience with a very great deal of state: his own
      coach all red velvet covered with gold lace, and drawn by six barbes, and
      attended by twenty pages very rich in clothes. To Westminster Hall, and
      bought, among, other books, one of the Life of our Queen, which I read at
      home to my wife; but it was so sillily writ, that we did nothing but laugh
      at it: among other things it is dedicated to that paragon of virtue and
      beauty, the Duchess of Albemarle. Great talk as if the Duke of York do now
      own the marriage between him and the Chancellor's daughter.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. In London and Westminster all this day paying of money and buying of
      things for my house. In my going I went by chance by my new Lord Mayor's
      house (Sir Richard Browne), by Goldsmith's Hall, which is now fitting, and
      indeed is a very pretty house. In coming back I called at Paul's
      Churchyard and bought Alsted's Encyclopaedia,' which cost me 38s. Home and
      to bed, my wife being much troubled with her old pain.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). There came some pills and plaister this morning from
      Dr. Williams for my wife. I to Westminster Abbey, where with much
      difficulty, going round by the cloysters, I got in; this day being a great
      day for the consecrating of five Bishopps, which was done after sermon;
      but I could not get into Henry the Seventh's chappell. So I went to my
      Lord's, where I dined with my Lady, and my young Lord, and Mr. Sidney, who
      was sent for from Twickenham to see my Lord Mayor's show to-morrow. Mr.
      Child did also dine with us. After dinner to White Hall chappell; my Lady
      and my Lady Jemimah and I up to the King's closet (who is now gone to meet
      the Queen). So meeting with one Mr. Hill, that did know my Lady, he did
      take us into the King's closet, and there we did stay all service-time,
      which I did think a great honour. We went home to my Lord's lodgings
      afterwards, and there I parted with my Lady and went home, where I did
      find my wife pretty well after her physic. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. I up early, it being my Lord Mayor's day,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [When the calendar was reformed in England by the act 24 Geo. II.
     c. 23, different provisions were made as regards those anniversaries
     which affect directly the rights of property and those which do not.
     Thus the old quarter days are still noted in our almanacs, and a
     curious survival of this is brought home to payers of income tax.
     The fiscal year still begins on old Lady-day, which now falls on
     April 6th.  All ecclesiastical fasts and feasts and other
     commemorations which did not affect the rights of property were left
     on their nominal days, such as the execution of Charles I. on
     January 30th and the restoration of Charles II. on May 29th.  The
     change of Lord Mayor's day from the 29th of October to the 9th of
     November was not made by the act for reforming the calendar (c.
     23), but by another act of the same session (c. 48), entitled "An
     Act for the Abbreviation of Michaelmas Term," by which it was
     enacted, "that from and after the said feast of St. Michael, which
     shall be in the year 1752, the said solemnity of presenting and
     swearing the mayors of the city of London, after every annual
     election into the said office, in the manner and form heretofore
     used on the 29th day of October, shall be kept and observed on the
     ninth day of November in every year, unless the same shall fall on
     a Sunday, and in that case on the day following."]
</pre>
    <p>
      (Sir Richd. Browne), and neglecting my office I went to the Wardrobe,
      where I met my Lady Sandwich and all the children; and after drinking of
      some strange and incomparable good clarett of Mr. Rumball's he and Mr.
      Townsend did take us, and set the young Lords at one Mr. Nevill's, a
      draper in Paul's churchyard; and my Lady and my Lady Pickering and I to
      one Mr. Isaacson's, a linendraper at the Key in Cheapside; where there was
      a company of fine ladies, and we were very civilly treated, and had a very
      good place to see the pageants, which were many, and I believe good, for
      such kind of things, but in themselves but poor and absurd. After the
      ladies were placed I took Mr. Townsend and Isaacson to the next door, a
      tavern, and did spend 5s. upon them. The show being done, we got as far as
      Paul's with much ado, where I left my Lady in the coach, and went on foot
      with my Lady Pickering to her lodging, which was a poor one in
      Blackfryars, where she never invited me to go in at all, which methought
      was very strange for her to do. So home, where I was told how my Lady
      Davis is now come to our next lodgings, and has locked up the leads door
      from me, which puts me into so great a disquiet that I went to bed, and
      could not sleep till morning at it.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Within all the morning and dined at home, my mind being so troubled
      that I could not mind nor do anything till I spoke with the Comptroller to
      whom the lodgings belong. In the afternoon, to ease my mind, I went to the
      Cockpit all alone, and there saw a very fine play called "The Tamer
      Tamed;" very well acted. That being done, I went to Mr. Crew's, where I
      had left my boy, and so with him and Mr. Moore (who would go a little way
      with me home, as he will always do) to the Hercules Pillars to drink,
      where we did read over the King's declaration in matters of religion,
      which is come out to-day, which is very well penned, I think to the
      satisfaction of most people. So home, where I am told Mr. Davis's people
      have broken open the bolt of my chamber door that goes upon the leads,
      which I went up to see and did find it so, which did still trouble me more
      and more. And so I sent for Griffith, and got him to search their house to
      see what the meaning of it might be, but can learn nothing to-night. But I
      am a little pleased that I have found this out. I hear nothing yet of my
      Lord, whether he be gone for the Queen from the Downs or no; but I believe
      he is, and that he is now upon coming back again.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st Office day. Much troubled all this morning in my mind about the
      business of my walk on the leads. I spoke of it to the Comptroller and the
      rest of the principal officers, who are all unwilling to meddle in
      anything that may anger my Lady Davis. And so I am fain to give over for
      the time that she do continue therein. Dined at home, and after dinner to
      Westminster Hall, where I met with Billing the quaker at Mrs. Michell's
      shop, who is still of the former opinion he was of against the clergymen
      of all sorts, and a cunning fellow I find him to be. Home, and there I had
      news that Sir W. Pen is resolved to ride to Sir W. Batten's country house
      to-morrow, and would have me go with him, so I sat up late, getting
      together my things to ride in, and was fain to cut an old pair of boots to
      make leathers for those I was to wear. This month I conclude with my mind
      very heavy for the loss of the leads, as also for the greatness of my late
      expenses, insomuch that I do not think that I have above L150 clear money
      in the world, but I have, I believe, got a great deal of good household
      stuff: I hear to-day that the Queen is landed at Dover, and will be here
      on Friday next, November 2nd. My wife has been so ill of late of her old
      pain that I have not known her this fortnight almost, which is a pain to
      me.
    </p>
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      NOVEMBER 1660
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    <p>
      November 1st. This morning Sir W. Pen and I were mounted early, and had
      very merry discourse all the way, he being very good company. We came to
      Sir W. Batten's, where he lives like a prince, and we were made very
      welcome. Among other things he showed us my Lady's closet, where was great
      store of rarities; as also a chair, which he calls King Harry's chair,
      where he that sits down is catched with two irons, that come round about
      him, which makes good sport. Here dined with us two or three more country
      gentle men; among the rest Mr. Christmas, my old school-fellow, with whom
      I had much talk. He did remember that I was a great Roundhead when I was a
      boy, and I was much afraid that he would have remembered the words that I
      said the day the King was beheaded (that, were I to preach upon him, my
      text should be "The memory of the wicked shall rot"); but I found
      afterwards that he did go away from school before that time.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys might well be anxious on this point, for in October of this
     year Phieas Pett, assistant master shipwright at Chatham, was
     dismissed from his post for having when a Child spoken
     disrespectfully of the King.  See ante, August 23rd.]
</pre>
    <p>
      He did make us good sport in imitating Mr. Case, Ash, and Nye, the
      ministers, which he did very well, but a deadly drinker he is, and grown
      exceeding fat. From his house to an ale-house near the church, where we
      sat and drank and were merry, and so we mounted for London again, Sir W.
      Batten with us. We called at Bow and drank there, and took leave of Mr.
      Johnson of Blackwall, who dined with us and rode with us thus far. So home
      by moonlight, it being about 9 o'clock before we got home.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Office. Then dined at home, and by chance Mr. Holliard
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thomas Holliard or Hollier was appointed in 1638 surgeon for scald
     heads at St. Thomas's Hospital, and on January 25th, 1643-4, he was
     chosen surgeon in place of Edward Molins.  In 1670 his son of the
     same names was allowed to take his place during his illness.  Ward,
     in his Diary, p.  235, mentions that the porter at St. Thomas's
     Hospital told him, in 1661, of Mr. Holyard's having cut thirty for
     the stone in one year, who all lived.]
</pre>
    <p>
      called at dinner time and dined with me, with whom I had great discourse
      concerning the cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether any
      effect at all. In the afternoon I went forth and saw some silver bosses
      put upon my new Bible, which cost me 6s. 6d. the making, and 7s. 6d. the
      silver, which, with 9s. 6d. the book, comes in all to L1 3s. 6d. From
      thence with Mr. Cooke that made them, and Mr. Stephens the silversmith to
      the tavern, and did give them a pint of wine. So to White Hall, where when
      I came I saw the boats going very thick to Lambeth, and all the stairs to
      be full of people. I was told the Queen was a-coming;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Nov. 2.  The Queen-mother and the Princess Henrietta came into
     London, the Queen having left this land nineteen years ago.  Her
     coming was very private, Lambeth-way, where the King, Queen, and the
     Duke of York, and the rest, took water, crossed the Thames, and all
     safely arrived at Whitehall.&mdash;"Rugge's Diurnal."]
</pre>
    <p>
      so I got a sculler for sixpence to carry me thither and back again, but I
      could not get to see the Queen; so come back, and to my Lord's, where he
      was come; and I supt with him, he being very merry, telling merry stories
      of the country mayors, how they entertained the King all the way as he
      come along; and how the country gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be
      kissed by the King, not taking his hand to kiss as they should do. I took
      leave of my Lord and Lady, and so took coach at White Hall and carried Mr.
      Childe as far as the Strand, and myself got as far as Ludgate by all the
      bonfires, but with a great deal of trouble; and there the coachman desired
      that I would release him, for he durst not go further for the fires. So he
      would have had a shilling or 6d. for bringing of me so far; but I had but
      3d. about me and did give him it. In Paul's church-yard I called at
      Kirton's, and there they had got a mass book for me, which I bought and
      cost me twelve shillings; and, when I came home, sat up late and read in
      it with great pleasure to my wife, to hear that she was long ago so well
      acquainted with. So to bed. I observed this night very few bonfires in the
      City, not above three in all London, for the Queen's coming; whereby I
      guess that (as I believed before) her coming do please but very few.
    </p>
    <p>
      3d. Saturday. At home all the morning. In the afternoon to White Hall,
      where my Lord and Lady were gone to kiss the Queene's hand. To Westminster
      Hall, where I met with Tom Doling, and we two took Mrs. Lane to the
      alehouse, where I made her angry with commending of Tom Newton and her new
      sweetheart to be both too good for her, so that we parted with much anger,
      which made Tom and me good sport. So home to write letters by the post,
      and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th (Lord's day). In the morn to our own church, where Mr. Mills did begin
      to nibble at the Common Prayer, by saying "Glory be to the Father, &amp;c."
      after he had read the two psalms; but the people had been so little used
      to it, that they could not tell what to answer. This declaration of the
      King's do give the Presbyterians some satisfaction, and a pretence to read
      the Common Prayer, which they would not do before because of their former
      preaching against it. After dinner to Westminster, where I went to my
      Lord's, and having spoke with him, I went to the Abbey, where the first
      time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral! Thence to my Lord's,
      where I found Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and with him and Mr. Sheply, in our
      way calling at the Bell to see the seven Flanders mares that my Lord has
      bought lately, where we drank several bottles of Hull ale. Much company I
      found to come to her, and cannot wonder at it, for she is very pretty and
      wanton. Hence to my father's, where I found my mother in greater and
      greater pain of the stone. I staid long and drank with them, and so home
      and to bed. My wife seemed very pretty to-day, it being the first time I
      had given her leave to wear a black patch.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Office day). Being disappointed of money, we failed of going to
      Deptford to pay off the Henrietta to-day. Dined at home, and at home all
      day, and at the office at night, to make up an account of what the debts
      of nineteen of the twenty-five ships that should have been paid off, is
      increased since the adjournment of the Parliament, they being to sit again
      to-morrow. This 5th of November is observed exceeding well in the City;
      and at night great bonfires and fireworks. At night Mr. Moore came and sat
      with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many law
      notions, in which I took great pleasure. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. In the morning with Sir W. Batten and Pen by water to Westminster,
      where at my Lord's I met with Mr. Creed. With him to see my Lord's picture
      (now almost done), and thence to Westminster Hall, where we found the
      Parliament met to-day, and thence meeting with Mr. Chetwind, I took them
      to the Sun, and did give them a barrel of oysters, and had good discourse;
      among other things Mr. Chetwind told me how he did fear that this late
      business of the Duke of York's would prove fatal to my Lord Chancellor.
      From thence Mr. Creed and I to Wilkinson's, and dined together, and in
      great haste thence to our office, where we met all, for the sale of two
      ships by an inch of candle
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The old-fashioned custom of sale by auction by inch of candle was
     continued in sales by the Admiralty to a somewhat late date.  See
     September 3rd, 1662.]
</pre>
    <p>
      (the first time that ever I saw any of this kind), where I observed how
      they do invite one another, and at last how they all do cry,&mdash;[To cry
      was to bid.]&mdash;and we have much to do to tell who did cry last. The
      ships were the Indian, sold for L1,300, and the Half-moon, sold for L830.
      Home, and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged
      for the King's death, and found good satisfaction in reading thereof. At
      night to bed, and my wife and I did fall out about the dog's being put
      down into the cellar, which I had a mind to have done because of his
      fouling the house, and I would have my will, and so we went to bed and lay
      all night in a quarrel. This night I was troubled all night with a dream
      that my wife was dead, which made me that I slept ill all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Office day). This day my father came to dine at my house, but being
      sent for in the morning I could not stay, but went by water to my Lord,
      where I dined with him, and he in a very merry humour (present Mr. Borfett
      and Childe) at dinner: he, in discourse of the great opinion of the virtue&mdash;gratitude
      (which he did account the greatest thing in the world to him, and had,
      therefore, in his mind been often troubled in the late times how to answer
      his gratitude to the King, who raised his father), did say it was that did
      bring him to his obedience to the King; and did also bless himself with
      his good fortune, in comparison to what it was when I was with him in the
      Sound, when he durst not own his correspondence with the King; which is a
      thing that I never did hear of to this day before; and I do from this
      raise an opinion of him, to be one of the most secret men in the world,
      which I was not so convinced of before. After dinner he bid all go out of
      the room, and did tell me how the King had promised him L4000 per annum
      for ever, and had already given him a bill under his hand (which he showed
      me) for L4000 that Mr. Fox is to pay him. My Lord did advise with me how
      to get this received, and to put out L3000 into safe hands at use, and the
      other he will make use of for his present occasion. This he did advise
      with me about with much secresy. After all this he called for the fiddles
      and books, and we two and W. Howe, and Mr. Childe, did sing and play some
      psalmes of Will. Lawes's, and some songs; and so I went away. So I went to
      see my Lord's picture, which is almost done, and do please me very well.
      Hence to Whitehall to find out Mr. Fox, which I did, and did use me very
      civilly, but I did not see his lady, whom I had so long known when she was
      a maid, Mrs. Whittle. From thence meeting my father Bowyer, I took him to
      Mr. Harper's, and there drank with him. Among other things in discourse he
      told me how my wife's brother had a horse at grass with him, which I was
      troubled to hear, it being his boldness upon my score. Home by coach, and
      read late in the last night's book of Trials, and told my wife about her
      brother's horse at Mr. Bowyer's, who is also much troubled for it, and do
      intend to go to-morrow to inquire the truth. Notwithstanding this was the
      first day of the King's proclamation against hackney coaches coming into
      the streets to stand to be hired, yet I got one to carry me home.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["A Proclamation to restrain the abuses of Hackney Coaches in the
     Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof."  This is
     printed in "Notes and Queries," First Series, vol. viii.  p. 122.
     "In April, 1663, the poor widows of hackney-coachmen petitioned for
     some relief, as the parliament had reduced the number of coaches to
     400; there were before, in and about London, more than 2,000."
     &mdash;Rugge's Diurnal.]
</pre>
    <p>
      8th. This morning Sir Wm. and the Treasurer and I went by barge with Sir
      Wm. Doyley and Mr. Prin to Deptford, to pay off the Henrietta, and had a
      good dinner. I went to Mr. Davys's and saw his house (where I was once
      before a great while ago) and I found him a very pretty man. In the
      afternoon Commissioner Pett and I went on board the yacht, which indeed is
      one of the finest things that ever I saw for neatness and room in so small
      a vessel. Mr. Pett is to make one to outdo this for the honour of his
      country, which I fear he will scarce better. From thence with him as far
      as Ratcliffe, where I left him going by water to London, and I (unwilling
      to leave the rest of the officers) went back again to Deptford, and being
      very much troubled with a sudden looseness, I went into a little alehouse
      at the end of Ratcliffe, and did give a groat for a pot of ale, and there
      I did... So went forward in my walk with some men that were going that way
      a great pace, and in our way we met with many merry seamen that had got
      their money paid them to-day. We sat very late doing the work and waiting
      for the tide, it being moonshine we got to London before two in the
      morning. So home, where I found my wife up, she shewed me her head which
      was very well dressed to-day, she having been to see her father and
      mother. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Lay long in bed this morning though an office day, because of our
      going to bed late last night. Before I went to my office Mr. Creed came to
      me about business, and also Mr. Carter, my old Cambridge friend, came to
      give me a visit, and I did give them a morning draught in my study. So to
      the office, and from thence to dinner with Mr. Wivell at the Hoop Tavern,
      where we had Mr. Shepley, Talbot, Adams, Mr. Chaplin and Osborne, and our
      dinner given us by Mr. Ady and another, Mr. Wine, the King's fishmonger.
      Good sport with Mr. Talbot, who eats no sort of fish, and there was
      nothing else till we sent for a neat's tongue. From thence to Whitehall
      where I found my Lord, who had an organ set up to-day in his dining-room,
      but it seems an ugly one in the form of Bridewell. Thence I went to Sir
      Harry Wright's, where my Lord was busy at cards, and so I staid below with
      Mrs. Carter and Evans (who did give me a lesson upon the lute), till he
      came down, and having talked with him at the door about his late business
      of money, I went to my father's and staid late talking with my father
      about my sister Pall's coming to live with me if she would come and be as
      a servant (which my wife did seem to be pretty willing to do to-day), and
      he seems to take it very well, and intends to consider of it. Home and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up early. Sir Wm. Batten and I to make up an account of the wages of
      the officers and mariners at sea, ready to present to the Committee of
      Parliament this afternoon. Afterwards came the Treasurer and Comptroller,
      and sat all the morning with us till the business was done. So we broke
      up, leaving the thing to be wrote over fair and carried to Trinity House
      for Sir Wm. Batten's hand. When staying very long I found (as appointed)
      the Treasurer and Comptroller at Whitehall, and so we went with a foul
      copy to the Parliament house, where we met with Sir Thos. Clarges and Mr.
      Spry, and after we had given them good satisfaction we parted. The
      Comptroller and I to the coffee-house, where he shewed me the state of his
      case; how the King did owe him about L6000. But I do not see great
      likelihood for them to be paid, since they begin already in Parliament to
      dispute the paying of the just sea-debts, which were already promised to
      be paid, and will be the undoing of thousands if they be not paid. So to
      Whitehall to look but could not find Mr. Fox, and then to Mr. Moore at Mr.
      Crew's, but missed of him also. So to Paul's Churchyard, and there bought
      Montelion, which this year do not prove so good as the last was; so after
      reading it I burnt it. After reading of that and the comedy of the Rump,
      which is also very silly, I went to bed. This night going home, Will and I
      bought a goose.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day). This morning I went to Sir W. Batten's about going to
      Deptford to-morrow, and so eating some hog's pudding of my Lady's making,
      of the hog that I saw a fattening the other day at her house, he and I
      went to Church into our new gallery, the first time it was used, and it
      not being yet quite finished, there came after us Sir W. Pen, Mr. Davis,
      and his eldest son. There being no woman this day, we sat in the foremost
      pew, and behind us our servants, and I hope it will not always be so, it
      not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us. This day also
      did Mr. Mills begin to read all the Common Prayer, which I was glad of.
      Home to dinner, and then walked to Whitehall, it being very cold and foul
      and rainy weather. I found my Lord at home, and after giving him an
      account of some business, I returned and went to my father's where I found
      my wife, and there we supped, and Dr. Thomas Pepys, who my wife told me
      after I was come home, that he had told my brother Thomas that he loved my
      wife so well that if she had a child he would never marry, but leave all
      that he had to my child, and after supper we walked home, my little boy
      carrying a link, and Will leading my wife. So home and to prayers and to
      bed. I should have said that before I got to my Lord's this day I went to
      Mr. Fox's at Whitehall, when I first saw his lady, formerly Mrs. Elizabeth
      Whittle, whom I had formerly a great opinion of, and did make an anagram
      or two upon her name when I was a boy. She proves a very fine lady, and
      mother to fine children. To-day I agreed with Mr. Fox about my taking of
      the; L4000 of him that the King had given my Lord.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Lay long in bed to-day. Sir Wm. Batten went this morning to Deptford
      to pay off the Wolf. Mr. Comptroller and I sat a while at the office to do
      business, and thence I went with him to his house in Lime Street, a fine
      house, and where I never was before, and from thence by coach (setting
      down his sister at the new Exchange) to Westminster Hall, where first I
      met with Jack Spicer and agreed with him to help me to tell money this
      afternoon. Hence to De Cretz, where I saw my Lord's picture finished,
      which do please me very well. So back to the Hall, where by appointment I
      met the Comptroller, and with him and three or four Parliament men I dined
      at Heaven, and after dinner called at Will's on Jack Spicer, and took him
      to Mr. Fox's, who saved me the labour of telling me the money by giving
      me; L3000 by consent (the other L1000 I am to have on Thursday next),
      which I carried by coach to the Exchequer, and put it up in a chest in
      Spicer's office. From thence walked to my father's, where I found my wife,
      who had been with my father to-day, buying of a tablecloth and a dozen of
      napkins of diaper the first that ever I bought in my life. My father and I
      took occasion to go forth, and went and drank at Mr. Standing's, and there
      discoursed seriously about my sister's coming to live with me, which I
      have much mind for her good to have, and yet I am much afeard of her
      ill-nature. Coming home again, he and I, and my wife, my mother and Pall,
      went all together into the little room, and there I told her plainly what
      my mind was, to have her come not as a sister in any respect, but as a
      servant, which she promised me that she would, and with many thanks did
      weep for joy, which did give me and my wife some content and satisfaction.
      So by coach home and to bed. The last night I should have mentioned how my
      wife and I were troubled all night with the sound of drums in our ears,
      which in the morning we found to be Mr. Davys's jack,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The date of the origin of smoke jacks does not appear to be known,
     but the first patent taken out for an improved smoke-jack by Peter
     Clare is dated December 24th, 1770.  The smoke jack consists of a
     wind-wheel fixed in the chimney, which communicates motion by means
     of an endless band to a pulley, whence the motion is transmitted to
     the spit by gearing.  In the valuable introduction to the volume of
     "Abridgments of Specifications relating to Cooking, 1634-1866"
     (Patent Office), mention is made of an Italian work by Bartolomeo
     Scappi, published first at Rome in 1572, and afterwards reprinted at
     Venice in 1622, which gives a complete account of the kitchens of
     the time and the utensils used in them.  In the plates several
     roasting-jacks are represented, one worked by smoke or hot air and
     one by a spring.]
</pre>
    <p>
      but not knowing the cause of its going all night, I understand to-day that
      they have had a great feast to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Early going to my Lord's I met with Mr. Moore, who was going to my
      house, and indeed I found him to be a most careful, painful,&mdash;[Painful,
      i.e. painstaking or laborious. Latimer speaks of the "painful
      magistrates."]&mdash;and able man in business, and took him by water to
      the Wardrobe, and shewed him all the house; and indeed there is a great
      deal of room in it, but very ugly till my Lord hath bestowed great cost
      upon it. So to the Exchequer, and there took Spicer and his fellow clerks
      to the Dog tavern, and did give them a peck of oysters, and so home to
      dinner, where I found my wife making of pies and tarts to try, her oven
      with, which she has never yet done, but not knowing the nature of it, did
      heat it too hot, and so a little overbake her things, but knows how to do
      better another time. At home all the afternoon. At night made up my
      accounts of my sea expenses in order to my clearing off my imprest bill of
      L30 which I had in my hands at the beginning of my voyage; which I intend
      to shew to my Lord to-morrow. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Office day). But this day was the first that we do begin to sit in
      the afternoon, and not in the forenoon, and therefore I went into
      Cheapside to Mr. Beauchamp's, the goldsmith, to look out a piece of plate
      to give Mr. Fox from my Lord, for his favour about the L4,000, and did
      choose a gilt tankard. So to Paul's Churchyard and bought "Cornelianum
      dolium:"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Cornelianum dolium" is a Latin comedy, by T. R., published at
     London in 1638.  Douce attributed it to Thomas Randolph (d. 1635).
     The book has a frontispiece representing the sweating tub which,
     from the name of the patient, was styled Cornelius's tub.  There is
     a description of the play in the "European Magazine," vol. xxxvii.
     (1805), p. 343]
</pre>
    <p>
      So home to dinner, and after that to the office till late at night, and so
      Sir W. Pen, the Comptroller, and I to the Dolphin, where we found Sir W.
      Batten, who is seldom a night from hence, and there we did drink a great
      quantity of sack and did tell many merry stories, and in good humours we
      were all. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. To Westminster, and it being very cold upon the water I went all
      alone to the Sun and drank a draft of mulled white wine, and so to Mr. de
      Cretz, whither I sent for J. Spicer (to appoint him to expect me this
      afternoon at the office, with the other L1000 from Whitehall), and here we
      staid and did see him give some finishing touches to my Lord's picture, so
      at last it is complete to my mind, and I leave mine with him to copy out
      another for himself, and took the original by a porter with me to my
      Lord's, where I found my Lord within, and staid hearing him and Mr. Child
      playing upon my Lord's new organ, the first time I ever heard it. My Lord
      did this day show me the King's picture, which was done in Flanders, that
      the King did promise my Lord before he ever saw him, and that we did
      expect to have had at sea before the King came to us; but it came but
      to-day, and indeed it is the most pleasant and the most like him that ever
      I saw picture in my life. As dinner was coming on table, my wife came to
      my Lord's, and I got her carried in to my Lady, who took physic to-day,
      and was just now hiring of a French maid that was with her, and they could
      not understand one another till my wife came to interpret. Here I did
      leave my wife to dine with my Lord, the first time he ever did take notice
      of her as my wife, and did seem to have a just esteem for her. And did
      myself walk homewards (hearing that Sir W. Pen was gone before in a coach)
      to overtake him and with much ado at last did in Fleet Street, and there I
      went in to him, and there was Sir Arnold Brames, and we all three to Sir
      W. Batten's to dinner, he having a couple of Servants married to-day; and
      so there was a great number of merchants, and others of good quality on
      purpose after dinner to make an offering, which, when dinner was done, we
      did, and I did give ten shillings and no more, though I believe most of
      the rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too. From thence to
      Whitehall again by water to Mr. Fox and by two porters carried away the
      other L1000. He was not within himself, but I had it of his kinsman, and
      did give him L4. and other servants something; but whereas I did intend to
      have given Mr. Fox himself a piece of plate of L50 I was demanded L100,
      for the fee of the office at 6d. a pound, at which I was surprised, but,
      however, I did leave it there till I speak with my Lord. So I carried it
      to the Exchequer, where at Will's I found Mr. Spicer, and so lodged it at
      his office with the rest. From thence after a pot of ale at Will's I took
      boat in the dark and went for all that to the old Swan, and so to Sir Wm.
      Batten's, and leaving some of the gallants at cards I went home, where I
      found my wife much satisfied with my Lord's discourse and respect to her,
      and so after prayers to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up early to my father's, where by appointment Mr. Moore came to me,
      and he and I to the Temple, and thence to Westminster Hall to speak with
      Mr. Wm. Montagu about his looking upon the title of those lands which I do
      take as security for L3000 of my Lord's money. That being done Mr. Moore
      and I parted, and in the Hall I met with Mr. Fontleroy (my old
      acquaintance, whom I had not seen a long time), and he and I to the Swan,
      and in discourse he seems to be wise and say little, though I know things
      are changed against his mind. Thence home by water, where my father, Mr.
      Snow, and Mr. Moore did dine with me. After dinner Mr. Snow and I went up
      together to discourse about the putting out of L80 to a man who lacks the
      money and would give me L15 per annum for 8 years for it, which I did not
      think profit enough, and so he seemed to be disappointed by my refusal of
      it, but I would not now part with my money easily. He seems to do it as a
      great favour to me to offer to come in upon a way of getting of money,
      which they call Bottomry,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The contract of bottomry is a negotiable instrument, which may be
     put in suit by the person to whom it is transferred; it is in use in
     all countries of maritime commerce and interests.  A contract in the
     nature of a mortgage of a ship, when the owner of it borrows money
     to enable him to carry on the voyage, and pledges the keel or bottom
     of the ship as a security for the repayment.  If the ship be lost
     the lender loses his whole money; but if it returns in safety, then
     he shall receive back his principal, and also the premium stipulated
     to be paid, however it may exceed the usual or legal rate of
     interest."&mdash;Smyth's "Sailor's Word Book".]
</pre>
    <p>
      which I do not yet understand, but do believe there may be something in it
      of great profit. After we were parted I went to the office, and there we
      sat all the afternoon, and at night we went to a barrel of oysters at Sir
      W. Batten's, and so home, and I to the setting of my papers in order,
      which did keep me up late. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. In the morning to Whitehall, where I inquired at the Privy Seal
      Office for a form for a nobleman to make one his Chaplain. But I
      understanding that there is not any, I did draw up one, and so to my
      Lord's, and there I did give him it to sign for Mr. Turner to be his first
      Chaplain. I did likewise get my Lord to sign my last sea accounts, so that
      I am even to this day when I have received the balance of Mr. Creed. I
      dined with my Lady and my Lady Pickering, where her son John dined with
      us, who do continue a fool as he ever was since I knew him. His mother
      would fain marry him to get a portion for his sister Betty but he will not
      hear of it. Hither came Major Hart this noon, who tells me that the
      Regiment is now disbanded, and that there is some money coming to me for
      it. I took him to my Lord to Mr. Crew's, and from thence with Mr. Shepley
      and Mr. Moore to the Devil Tavern, and there we drank. So home and wrote
      letters by the post. Then to my lyra viall,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The lyre viol is a viol with extra open bass strings, holding the
     same relation to the viol as the theorbo does to the lute.  A volume
     entitled "Musick's Recreation on the Lyra Viol," was printed by John
     Playford in 1650.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Lord's day). In the morning to our own church, Where Mr. Powel (a
      crook legged man that went formerly with me to Paul's School), preached a
      good sermon. In the afternoon to our own church and my wife with me (the
      first time that she and my Lady Batten came to sit in our new pew), and
      after sermon my Lady took us home and there we supped with her and Sir W.
      Batten, and Pen, and were much made of. The first time that ever my wife
      was there. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Office day). After we had done a little at the office this morning,
      I went with the Treasurer in his coach to White Hall, and in our way, in
      discourse, do find him a very good-natured man; and, talking of those men
      who now stand condemned for murdering the King, he says that he believes
      that, if the law would give leave, the King is a man of so great
      compassion that he would wholly acquit them. Going to my Lord's I met with
      Mr. Shepley, and so he and I to the Sun, and I did give him a morning
      draft of Muscadine.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Muscadine or muscadel, a rich sort of wine.  'Vinum muscatum quod
     moschi odorem referat.'

              "Quaffed off the muscadel, and threw the sops
               All in the sexton's face."

               Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act iii.  SC. 2.&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      And so to see my Lord's picture at De Cretz, and he says it is very like
      him, and I say so too. After that to Westminster Hall, and there hearing
      that Sir W. Batten was at the Leg in the Palace, I went thither, and there
      dined with him and some of the Trinity House men who had obtained
      something to-day at the House of Lords concerning the Ballast Office.
      After dinner I went by water to London to the Globe in Cornhill, and there
      did choose two pictures to hang up in my house, which my wife did not like
      when I came home, and so I sent the picture of Paris back again. To the
      office, where we sat all the afternoon till night. So home, and there came
      Mr. Beauchamp to me with the gilt tankard, and I did pay him for it L20.
      So to my musique and sat up late at it, and so to bed, leaving my wife to
      sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the wench up to wash.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. About two o'clock my wife wakes me, and comes to bed, and so both to
      sleep and the wench to wash. I rose and with Will to my Lord's by land, it
      being a very hard frost, the first we have had this year. There I staid
      with my Lord and Mr. Shepley, looking over my Lord's accounts and to set
      matters straight between him and Shepley, and he did commit the viewing of
      these accounts to me, which was a great joy to me to see that my Lord do
      look upon me as one to put trust in. Hence to the organ, where Mr. Child
      and one Mr Mackworth (who plays finely upon the violin) were playing, and
      so we played till dinner and then dined, where my Lord in a very good
      humour and kind to me. After dinner to the Temple, where I met Mr. Moore
      and discoursed with him about the business of putting out my Lord's L3000,
      and that done, Mr. Shepley and I to the new Play-house near
      Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (which was formerly Gibbon's tennis-court), where the
      play of "Beggar's Bush" was newly begun; and so we went in and saw it, it
      was well acted: and here I saw the first time one Moone,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Michael Mohun, or Moone, the celebrated actor, who had borne a
     major's commission in the King's army.  The period of his death is
     uncertain, but he is known to have been dead in 1691.  Downes
     relates that an eminent poet [Lee] seeing him act Mithridates
     "vented suddenly this saying: 'Oh, Mohun, Mohun, thou little man of
     mettle, if I should write a 100, I'd write a part for thy mouth.'"
     &mdash;Roscius Anglicanus, p.  17.]
</pre>
    <p>
      who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately come over with the
      King, and indeed it is the finest play-house, I believe, that ever was in
      England. From thence, after a pot of ale with Mr. Shepley at a house hard
      by, I went by link home, calling a little by the way at my father's and my
      uncle Fenner's, where all pretty well, and so home, where I found the
      house in a washing pickle, and my wife in a very joyful condition when I
      told her that she is to see the Queen next Thursday, which puts me in mind
      to say that this morning I found my Lord in bed late, he having been with
      the King, Queen, and Princess, at the Cockpit
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Cockpit at Whitehall.  The plays at the Cockpit in Drury Lane
     were acted in the afternoon.]
</pre>
    <p>
      all night, where. General Monk treated them; and after supper a play,
      where the King did put a great affront upon Singleton's' musique, he
      bidding them stop and bade the French musique play, which, my Lord says,
      do much outdo all ours. But while my Lord was rising, I went to Mr. Fox's,
      and there did leave the gilt tankard for Mrs. Fox, and then to the
      counting-house to him, who hath invited me and my wife to dine with him on
      Thursday next, and so to see the Queen and Princesses.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Lay long in bed. This morning my cozen Thomas Pepys, the turner,
      sent me a cupp of lignum vitae
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A hard, compact, black-green wood, obtained from 'Guaiacum
     offcinale', from which pestles, ship-blocks, rollers, castors, &amp;c.,
     are turned.]
</pre>
    <p>
      for a token. This morning my wife and I went to Paternoster Row, and there
      we bought some green watered moyre for a morning wastecoate. And after
      that we went to Mr. Cade's' to choose some pictures for our house. After
      that my wife went home, and I to Pope's Head, and bought me an aggate
      hafted knife, which cost me 5s. So home to dinner, and so to the office
      all the afternoon, and at night to my viallin (the first time that I have
      played on it since I came to this house) in my dining room, and afterwards
      to my lute there, and I took much pleasure to have the neighbours come
      forth into the yard to hear me. So down to supper, and sent for the
      barber, who staid so long with me that he was locked into the house, and
      we were fain to call up Griffith, to let him out. So up to bed, leaving my
      wife to wash herself, and to do other things against to-morrow to go to
      court.
    </p>
    <p>
      22d. This morning came the carpenters to make me a door at the other side
      of my house, going into the entry, which I was much pleased with. At noon
      my wife and I walked to the Old Exchange, and there she bought her a white
      whisk
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A gorget or neckerchief worn by women at this time.  "A woman's
     neck whisk is used both plain and laced, and is called of most a
     gorget or falling whisk, because it falleth about the shoulders."
     &mdash;Randle Hohnt (quoted by Planche).]
</pre>
    <p>
      and put it on, and I a pair of gloves, and so we took coach for Whitehall
      to Mr. Fox's, where we found Mrs. Fox within, and an alderman of London
      paying L1000 or L1500 in gold upon the table for the King, which was the
      most gold that ever I saw together in my life. Mr. Fox came in presently
      and did receive us with a great deal of respect; and then did take my wife
      and I to the Queen's presence-chamber; where he got my wife placed behind
      the Queen's chair, and I got into the crowd, and by and by the Queen and
      the two Princesses came to dinner. The Queen a very little plain old
      woman, and nothing more in her presence in any respect nor garb than any
      ordinary woman. The Princess of Orange I had often seen before. The
      Princess Henrietta is very pretty, but much below my expectation; and her
      dressing of herself with her hair frized short up to her ears, did make
      her seem so much the less to me. But my wife standing near her with two or
      three black patches on, and well dressed, did seem to me much handsomer
      than she. Dinner being done, we went to Mr. Fox's again, where many
      gentlemen dined with us, and most princely dinner, all provided for me and
      my friends, but I bringing none but myself and wife, he did call the
      company to help to eat up so much good victuals. At the end of dinner, my
      Lord Sandwich's health was drunk in the gilt tankard that I did give to
      Mrs. Fox the other day. After dinner I had notice given me by Will my man
      that my Lord did inquire for me, so I went to find him, and met him and
      the Duke of York in a coach going towards Charing Cross. I endeavoured to
      follow them but could not, so I returned to Mr. Fox, and after much
      kindness and good discourse we parted from thence. I took coach for my
      wife and me homewards, and I light at the Maypole in the Strand, and sent
      my wife home. I to the new playhouse and saw part of the "Traitor," a very
      good Tragedy; Mr. Moon did act the Traitor very well. So to my Lord's, and
      sat there with my Lady a great while talking. Among other things, she took
      occasion to inquire (by Madame Dury's late discourse with her) how I did
      treat my wife's father and mother. At which I did give her a good account,
      and she seemed to be very well opinioned of my wife. From thence to White
      Hall at about 9 at night, and there, with Laud the page that went with me,
      we could not get out of Henry the Eighth's gallery into the further part
      of the boarded gallery, where my Lord was walking with my Lord Ormond; and
      we had a key of Sir S. Morland's, but all would not do; till at last, by
      knocking, Mr. Harrison the door-keeper did open us the door, and, after
      some talk with my Lord about getting a catch to carry my Lord St. Albans a
      goods to France, I parted and went home on foot, it being very late and
      dirty, and so weary to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. This morning standing looking upon the workmen doing of my new door
      to my house, there comes Captain Straughan the Scot (to whom the King has
      given half of the money that the two ships lately sold do bring), and he
      would needs take me to the Dolphin, and give me a glass of ale and a peck
      of oysters, he and I. He did talk much what he is able to advise the King
      for good husbandry in his ships, as by ballasting them with lead ore and
      many other tricks, but I do believe that he is a knowing man in
      sea-business. Home and dined, and in the afternoon to the office, where
      till late, and that being done Mr. Creed did come to speak with me, and I
      took him to the Dolphin, where there was Mr. Pierce the purser and his
      wife and some friends of theirs. So I did spend a crown upon them behind
      the bar, they being akin to the people of the house, and this being the
      house where Mr. Pierce was apprentice. After they were gone Mr. Creed and
      I spent an hour in looking over the account which he do intend to pass in
      our office for his lending moneys, which I did advise about and approve or
      disapprove of as I saw cause. After an hour being, serious at this we
      parted about 11 o'clock at night. So I home and to bed, leaving my wife
      and the maid at their linen to get up.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. To my Lord's, where after I had done talking with him Mr. Townsend,
      Rumball, Blackburn, Creed and Shepley and I to the Rhenish winehouse, and
      there I did give them two quarts of Wormwood wine,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) is celebrated for its intensely
     bitter, tonic, and stimulating qualities, which have caused it to be
     used in various medicinal preparations, and also in the making of
     liqueurs, as wormwood wine and creme d'absinthe.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and so we broke up. So we parted, and I and Mr. Creed to Westminster Hall
      and looked over a book or two, and so to my Lord's, where I dined with my
      lady, there being Mr. Child and Mrs. Borfett, who are never absent at
      dinner there, under pretence of a wooing. From thence I to Mr. de Cretz
      and did take away my Lord's picture, which is now finished for me, and I
      paid L3 10s. for it and the frame, and am well pleased with it and the
      price. So carried it home by water, Will being with me. At home, and had a
      fire made in my closet, and put my papers and books and things in order,
      and that being done I fell to entering these two good songs of Mr. Lawes,
      "Helpe, helpe, O helpe," and "O God of Heaven and Hell" in my song book,
      to which I have got Mr. Child to set the base to the Theorbo, and that
      done to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lord's day). In the forenoon I alone to our church, and after dinner
      I went and ranged about to many churches, among the rest to the Temple,
      where I heard Dr. Wilkins' a little (late Maister of Trinity in
      Cambridge). That being done to my father's to see my mother who is
      troubled much with the stone, and that being done I went home, where I had
      a letter brought me from my Lord to get a ship ready to carry the Queen's
      things over to France, she being to go within five or six days. So to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Office day). To it all the morning, and dined at home where my
      father come and dined with me, who seems to take much pleasure to have a
      son that is neat in his house. I being now making my new door into the
      entry, which he do please himself much with. After dinner to the office
      again, and there till night. And that being done the Comptroller and I to
      the Mitre to a glass of wine, when we fell into a discourse of poetry, and
      he did repeat some verses of his own making which were very good. Home,
      there hear that my Lady Batten had given my wife a visit (the first that
      ever she made her), which pleased me exceedingly. So after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. To Whitehall, where I found my Lord gone abroad to the Wardrobe,
      whither he do now go every other morning, and do seem to resolve to
      understand and look after the business himself. From thence to Westminster
      Hall, and in King Street there being a great stop of coaches, there was a
      falling out between a drayman and my Lord Chesterfield's coachman, and one
      of his footmen killed. At the Hall I met with Mr. Creed, and he and I to
      Hell to drink our morning draught, and so to my Lord's again, where I
      found my wife, and she and I dined with him and my Lady, and great company
      of my Lord's friends, and my Lord did show us great respect. Soon as
      dinner was done my wife took her leave, and went with Mr. Blackburne and
      his wife to London to a christening of a Brother's child of his on Tower
      Hill, and I to a play, "The Scorn-full Lady," and that being done, I went
      homewards, and met Mr. Moore, who had been at my house, and took him to my
      father's, and we three to Standing's to drink. Here Mr. Moore told me how
      the House had this day voted the King to have all the Excise for ever.
      This day I do also hear that the Queen's going to France is stopt, which
      do like, me well, because then the King will be in town the next month,
      which is my month again at the Privy Seal. From thence home, where when I
      come I do remember that I did leave my boy Waineman at Whitehall with
      order to stay there for me in the court, at which I was much troubled, but
      about 11 o'clock at night the boy came home well, and so we all to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. This morning went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where Major Hart did
      pay me; L23 14s. 9d., due to me upon my pay in my Lord's troop at the time
      of our disbanding, which is a great blessing to have without taking any
      law in the world for. But now I must put an end to any hopes of getting
      any more, so that I bless God for this. From thence with Mr. Shepley and
      Pinkney to the Sun, and did give them a glass of wine and a peck of
      oysters for joy of my getting this money. So home, where I found that Mr.
      Creed had sent me the L11 5s. that is due to me upon the remains of
      account for my sea business, which is also so much clear money to me, and
      my bill of impresse
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [For "bill of impress" In Italian 'imprestare' means "to lend."  In
     the ancient accounts of persons officially employed by the crown,
     money advanced, paid on, account, was described as "de prestito," or
     "in prestitis."&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      for L30 is also cleared, so that I am wholly clear as to the sea in all
      respects. To the office, and was there till late at night, and among the
      officers do hear that they may have our salaries allowed by the Treasurer,
      which do make me very glad, and praise God for it. Home to supper, and Mr.
      Hater supped with me, whom I did give order to take up my money of the
      Treasurer to-morrow if it can be had. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. In the morning seeing a great deal of foul water come into my
      parlour from under the partition between me and Mr. Davis, I did step
      thither to him and tell him of it, and he did seem very ready to have it
      stopt, and did also tell me how thieves did attempt to rob his house last
      night, which do make us all afraid. This noon I being troubled that the
      workmen that I have to do my door were called to Mr. Davis's away, I sent
      for them, when Mr. Davis sent to inquire a reason of, and I did give him a
      good one, that they were come on purpose to do some work with me that they
      had already begun, with which he was well pleased, and I glad, being
      unwilling to anger them. In the afternoon Sir W. Batten and I met and did
      sell the ship Church for L440; and we asked L391, and that being done, I
      went home, and Dr. Petty came to me about Mr. Barlow's money, and I being
      a little troubled to be so importuned before I had received it, and that
      they would have it stopt in Mr. Fenn's hands, I did force the Doctor to go
      fetch the letter of attorney that he had to receive it only to make him
      same labour, which he did bring, and Mr. Hales came along with him from
      the Treasury with my money for the first quarter (Michaelmas last) that
      ever I received for this employment. So I paid the Dr. L25 and had L62
      10s. for myself, and L7 10s. to myself also for Will's salary, which I do
      intend yet to keep for myself. With this my heart is much rejoiced, and do
      bless Almighty God that he is pleased to send so sudden and unexpected
      payment of my salary so soon after my great disbursements. So that now I
      am worth L200 again. In a great ease of mind and spirit I fell about the
      auditing of Mr. Shepley's last accounts with my Lord by my Lord's desire,
      and about that I sat till 12 o'clock at night, till I began to doze, and
      so to bed, with my heart praising God for his mercy to us.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Office day). To the office, where Sir G. Carteret did give us an
      account how Mr. Holland do intend to prevail with the Parliament to try
      his project of discharging the seamen all at present by ticket, and so
      promise interest to all men that will lend money upon them at eight per
      cent., for so long as they are unpaid; whereby he do think to take away
      the growing debt, which do now lie upon the kingdom for lack of present
      money to discharge the seamen. But this we are, troubled at as some
      diminution to us. I having two barrels of oysters at home, I caused one of
      them and some wine to be brought to the inner room in the office, and
      there the Principal Officers did go and eat them. So we sat till noon, and
      then to dinner, and to it again in the afternoon till night. At home I
      sent for Mr. Hater, and broke the other barrel with him, and did
      afterwards sit down discoursing of sea terms to learn of him. And he being
      gone I went up and sat till twelve at night again to make an end of my
      Lord's accounts, as I did the last night. Which at last I made a good end
      of, and so to bed.
    </p>
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    <p>
      December 1st. This morning, observing some things to be laid up not as
      they should be by the girl, I took a broom and basted her till she cried
      extremely, which made me vexed, but before I went out I left her appeased.
      So to Whitehall, where I found Mr. Moore attending for me at the Privy
      Seal, but nothing to do to-day. I went to my Lord St. Albans lodgings, and
      found him in bed, talking to a priest (he looked like one) that leaned
      along over the side of the bed, and there I desired to know his mind about
      making the catch stay longer, which I got ready for him the other day. He
      seems to be a fine civil gentleman. To my Lord's, and did give up my audit
      of his accounts, which I had been then two days about, and was well
      received by my Lord. I dined with my Lord and Lady, and we had a venison
      pasty. Mr. Shepley and I went into London, and calling upon Mr. Pinkney,
      the goldsmith, he took us to the tavern, and gave us a pint of wine, and
      there fell into our company old Mr. Flower and another gentleman; who tell
      us how a Scotch knight was killed basely the other day at the Fleece in
      Covent Garden, where there had been a great many formerly killed. So to
      Paul's Churchyard, and there I took the little man at Mr. Kirton's and Mr.
      Shepley to Ringstead's at the Star, and after a pint of wine I went home,
      my brains somewhat troubled with so much wine, and after a letter or two
      by the post I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d (Lord's day). My head not very well, and my body out of order by last
      night's drinking, which is my great folly. To church, and Mr. Mills made a
      good sermon; so home to dinner. My wife and I all alone to a leg of
      mutton, the sawce of which being made sweet, I was angry at it, and eat
      none, but only dined upon the marrow bone that we had beside. To church in
      the afternoon, and after sermon took Tom Fuller's Church History and read
      over Henry the 8th's life in it, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. This morning I took a resolution to rise early in the morning, and so
      I rose by candle, which I have not done all this winter, and spent my
      morning in fiddling till time to go to the office, where Sir G. Carteret
      did begin again discourse on Mr. Holland's proposition, which the King do
      take very ill, and so Sir George in lieu of that do propose that the
      seamen should have half in ready money and tickets for the other half, to
      be paid in three months after, which we judge to be very practicable.
      After office home to dinner, where come in my cozen Snow by chance, and I
      had a very good capon to dinner. So to the office till night, and so home,
      and then come Mr. Davis, of Deptford (the first time that ever he was at
      my house), and after him Mons. L'Impertinent, who is to go to Ireland
      to-morrow, and so came to take his leave of me. They both found me under
      the barber's hand; but I had a bottle of good sack in the house, and so
      made them very welcome. Mr. Davis sat with me a good while after the other
      was gone, talking of his hard usage and of the endeavour to put him out of
      his place in the time of the late Commissioners, and he do speak very
      highly of their corruption. After he was gone I fell a reading
      'Cornelianum dolium' till 11 o'clock at night with great pleasure, and
      after that to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. To Whitehall to Sir G. Carteret's chamber, where all the officers
      met, and so we went up to the Duke of York, and he took us into his
      closet, and we did open to him our project of stopping the growing charge
      of the fleet by paying them in hand one moyety, and the other four months
      hence. This he do like, and we returned by his order to Sir G. Carteret's
      chamber, and there we did draw up this design in order to be presented to
      the Parliament. From thence I to my Lord's, and dined with him and told
      him what we had done to-day. Sir Tho. Crew dined with my Lord to-day, and
      we were very merry with Mrs. Borfett, who dined there still as she has
      always done lately. After dinner Sir Tho. and my Lady to the Playhouse to
      see "The Silent Woman." I home by water, and with Mr. Hater in my chamber
      all alone he and I did put this morning's design into order, which being
      done I did carry it to Sir W. Batten, where I found some gentlemen with
      him (Sir W. Pen among the rest pretty merry with drink) playing at cards,
      and there I staid looking upon them till one o'clock in the morning, and
      so Sir W. Pen and I went away, and I to bed. This day the Parliament voted
      that the bodies of Oliver, Ireton, Bradshaw, &amp;c., should be taken up
      out of their graves in the Abbey, and drawn to the gallows, and there
      hanged and buried under it: which (methinks) do trouble me that a man of
      so great courage as he was, should have that dishonour, though otherwise
      he might deserve it enough.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. This morning the Proposal which I wrote the last night I showed to
      the officers this morning, and was well liked of, and I wrote it fair for
      Sir. G. Carteret to show to the King, and so it is to go to the
      Parliament. I dined at home, and after dinner I went to the new Theatre
      and there I saw "The Merry Wives of Windsor" acted, the humours of the
      country gentleman and the French doctor very well done, but the rest but
      very poorly, and Sir J. Falstaffe t as bad as any. From thence to Mr.
      Will. Montagu's chamber to have sealed some writings tonight between Sir
      R. Parkhurst and myself about my Lord's L2000, but he not coming, I went
      to my father's and there found my mother still ill of the stone, and had
      just newly voided one, which she had let drop into the chimney, and looked
      and found it to shew it me. From thence home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. This morning some of the Commissioners of Parliament and Sir W.
      Batten went to Sir G. Carteret's office here in town, and paid off the
      Chesnut. I carried my wife to White Friars and landed her there, and
      myself to Whitehall to the Privy Seal, where abundance of pardons to seal,
      but I was much troubled for it because that there are no fees now coming
      for them to me. Thence Mr. Moore and I alone to the Leg in King Street,
      and dined together on a neat's tongue and udder. From thence by coach to
      Mr. Crew's to my Lord, who told me of his going out of town to-morrow to
      settle the militia in Huntingdonshire, and did desire me to lay up a box
      of some rich jewels and things that there are in it, which I promised to
      do. After much free discourse with my Lord, who tells me his mind as to
      his enlarging his family, &amp;c., and desiring me to look him out a
      Master of the Horse and other servants, we parted. From thence I walked to
      Greatorex (he was not within), but there I met with Mr. Jonas Moore,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Jonas Moore was born at Whitley, Lancashire, February 8th, 1617,
     and was appointed by Charles I. tutor to the Duke of York.  Soon
     after the Restoration he was knighted and made Surveyor-General of
     the Ordnance.  He was famous as a mathematician, and was one of the
     founders of the Royal Society.  He died August 27th, 1679, and at
     his funeral sixty pieces of ordnance were discharged at the Tower.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and took him to the Five Bells,' and drank a glass of wine and left him.
      To the Temple, when Sir R. Parkhurst (as was intended the last night) did
      seal the writings, and is to have the L2000 told to-morrow. From, thence
      by water to Parliament Stairs, and there at an alehouse to Doling (who is
      suddenly to go into Ireland to venture his fortune); Simonds (who is at a
      great loss for L200 present money, which I was loth to let him have,
      though I could now do it, and do love him and think him honest and
      sufficient, yet lothness to part with money did dissuade me from it);
      Luellin (who was very drowsy from a dose that he had got the last night),
      Mr. Mount and several others, among the rest one Mr. Pierce, an army man,
      who did make us the best sport for songs and stories in a Scotch tone
      (which he do very well) that ever I heard in my life. I never knew so good
      a companion in all my observation. From thence to the bridge by water, it
      being a most pleasant moonshine night, with a waterman who did tell such a
      company of bawdy stories, how once he carried a lady from Putney in such a
      night as this, and she bade him lie down by her, which he did, and did
      give her content, and a great deal more roguery. Home and found my girl
      knocking at the door (it being 11 o'clock at night), her mistress having
      sent her out for some trivial business, which did vex me when I came in,
      and so I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet. Before I went forth
      this morning, one came to me to give me notice that the justices of
      Middlesex do meet to-morrow at Hicks Hall, and that I as one am desired to
      be there, but I fear I cannot be there though I much desire it.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. This morning the judge Advocate Fowler came to see me, and he and I
      sat talking till it was time to go to the office. To the office and there
      staid till past 12 o'clock, and so I left the Comptroller and Surveyor and
      went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where I found my Lord gone this morning to
      Huntingdon, as he told me yesterday he would. I staid and dined with my
      Lady, there being Laud the page's mother' there, and dined also with us,
      and seemed to have been a very pretty woman and of good discourse. Before
      dinner I examined Laud in his Latin and found him a very pretty boy and
      gone a great way in Latin. After dinner I took a box of some things of
      value that my Lord had left for me to carry to the Exchequer, which I did,
      and left them with my Brother Spicer, who also had this morning paid L1000
      for me by appointment to Sir R. Parkhurst. So to the Privy Seal, where I
      signed a deadly number of pardons, which do trouble me to get nothing by.
      Home by water, and there was much pleased to see that my little room is
      likely to come to be finished soon. I fell a-reading Fuller's History of
      Abbys, and my wife in Great Cyrus till twelve at night, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. To Whitehall to the Privy Seal, and thence to Mr. Pierces the Surgeon
      to tell them that I would call by and by to go to dinner. But I going into
      Westminster Hall met with Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Pen (who were in a
      great fear that we had committed a great error of L100,000 in our late
      account gone into the Parliament in making it too little), and so I was
      fain to send order to Mr. Pierces to come to my house; and also to leave
      the key of the chest with Mr. Spicer; wherein my Lord's money is, and went
      along with Sir W. Pen by water to the office, and there with Mr. Huchinson
      we did find that we were in no mistake. And so I went to dinner with my
      wife and Mr. and Mrs. Pierce the Surgeon to Mr. Pierce, the Purser (the
      first time that ever I was at his house) who does live very plentifully
      and finely. We had a lovely chine of beef and other good things very
      complete and drank a great deal of wine, and her daughter played after
      dinner upon the virginals,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [All instruments of the harpsichord and spinet kind were styled
     virginals.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and at night by lanthorn home again, and Mr. Pierce and his wife being
      gone home I went to bed, having drunk so much wine that my head was
      troubled and was not very well all night, and the wind I observed was rose
      exceedingly before I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). Being called up early by Sir W. Batten I rose and went
      to his house and he told me the ill news that he had this morning from
      Woolwich, that the Assurance (formerly Captain Holland's ship, and now
      Captain Stoakes's, designed for Guiny and manned and victualled), was by a
      gust of wind sunk down to the bottom. Twenty men drowned. Sir Williams
      both went by barge thither to see how things are, and I am sent to the
      Duke of York to tell him, and by boat with some other company going to
      Whitehall from the Old Swan. I went to the Duke. And first calling upon
      Mr. Coventry at his chamber, I went to the Duke's bed-side, who had sat up
      late last night, and lay long this morning, who was much surprised,
      therewith. This being done I went to chappell, and sat in Mr. Blagrave's
      pew, and there did sing my part along with another before the King, and
      with much ease. From thence going to my Lady I met with a letter from my
      Lord (which Andrew had been at my house to bring me and missed me),
      commanding me to go to Mr. Denham, to get a man to go to him to-morrow to
      Hinchinbroke, to contrive with him about some alterations in his house,
      which I did and got Mr. Kennard. Dined with my Lady and staid all the
      afternoon with her, and had infinite of talk of all kind of things,
      especially of beauty of men and women, with which she seems to be much
      pleased to talk of. From thence at night to Mr. Kennard and took him to
      Mr. Denham, the Surveyor's. Where, while we could not speak with him, his
      chief man (Mr. Cooper) did give us a cup of good sack. From thence with
      Mr. Kennard to my Lady who is much pleased with him, and after a glass of
      sack there; we parted, having taken order for a horse or two for him and
      his servant to be gone to-morrow. So to my father's, where I sat while
      they were at supper, and I found my mother below, stairs and pretty well.
      Thence home, where I hear that the Comptroller had some business with me,
      and (with Giffin's lanthorn) I went to him and there staid in discourse an
      hour 'till late, and among other things he showed me a design of his, by
      the King's making an Order of Knights of the Seal to give an encouragement
      for persons of honour to undertake the service of the sea, and he had done
      it with great pains and very ingeniously. So home and to prayers and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up exceedingly early to go to the Comptroller, but he not being up
      and it being a very fine, bright, moonshine morning I went and walked all
      alone twenty turns in Cornhill, from Gracious Street corner to the Stockes
      and back again, from 6 o'clock till past 7, so long that I was weary, and
      going to the Comptroller's thinking to find him ready, I found him gone,
      at which I was troubled, and being weary went home, and from thence with
      my wife by water to Westminster, and put her to my father Bowyer's (they
      being newly come out of the country), but I could not stay there, but left
      her there. I to the Hall and there met with Col. Slingsby. So hearing that
      the Duke of York is gone down this morning, to see the ship sunk yesterday
      at Woolwich, he and I returned by his coach to the office, and after that
      to dinner. After dinner he came to me again and sat with me at my house,
      ands among other discourse he told me that it is expected that the Duke
      will marry the Lord Chancellor's daughter at last which is likely to be
      the ruin of Mr. Davis and my Lord Barkley, who have carried themselves so
      high against the Chancellor; Sir Chas. Barkley swearing that he and others
      had lain with her often, which all believe to be a lie. He and I in the
      evening to the Coffee House in Cornhill, the first time that ever I was
      there, and I found much pleasure in it, through the diversity of company
      and discourse. Home and found my wife at my Lady Batten's, and have made a
      bargain to go see the ship sunk at Woolwich, where both the Sir Williams
      are still since yesterday, and I do resolve to go along with them. From
      thence home and up to bed, having first been into my study, and to ease my
      mind did go to cast up how my cash stands, and I do find as near as I can
      that I am worth in money clear L240, for which God be praised. This
      afternoon there was a couple of men with me with a book in each of their
      hands, demanding money for pollmoney,
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     [Pepys seems to have been let off very easily, for, by Act of
     Parliament 18 Car. II. cap. I (1666), servants were to pay one
     shilling in the pound of their wages, and others from one shilling
     to three shillings in the pound.]
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    <p>
      and I overlooked the book and saw myself set down Samuel Pepys, gent. 10s.
      for himself and for his servants 2s., which I did presently pay without
      any dispute, but I fear I have not escaped so, and therefore I have long
      ago laid by L10 for them, but I think I am not bound to discover myself.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. My wife and I up very early this day, and though the weather was
      very bad and the wind high, yet my Lady Batten and her maid and we two did
      go by our barge to Woolwich (my Lady being very fearfull) where we found
      both Sir Williams and much other company, expecting the weather to be
      better, that they might go about weighing up the Assurance, which lies
      there (poor ship, that I have been twice merry in, in Captn. Holland's
      time,) under water, only the upper deck may be seen and the masts. Captain
      Stoakes is very melancholy, and being in search for some clothes and money
      of his, which he says he hath lost out of his cabin. I did the first
      office of a justice of Peace to examine a seaman thereupon, but could find
      no reason to commit him. This last tide the Kingsale was also run aboard
      and lost her mainmast, by another ship, which makes us think it ominous to
      the Guiny voyage, to have two of her ships spoilt before they go out.
      After dinner, my Lady being very fearfull she staid and kept my wife
      there, and I and another gentleman, a friend of Sir W. Pen's, went back in
      the barge, very merry by the way, as far as Whitehall in her. To the Privy
      Seal, where I signed many pardons and some few things else. From thence
      Mr. Moore and I into London to a tavern near my house, and there we drank
      and discoursed of ways how to put out a little money to the best
      advantage, and at present he has persuaded me to put out L250 for L50 per
      annum for eight years, and I think I shall do it. Thence home, where I
      found the wench washing, and I up to my study, and there did make up an
      even L100, and sealed it to lie by. After that to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Troubled with the absence of my wife. This morning I went (after the
      Comptroller and I had sat an hour at the office) to Whitehall to dine with
      my Lady, and after dinner to the Privy Seal and sealed abundance of
      pardons and little else. From thence to the Exchequer and did give my
      mother Bowyer a visit and her daughters, the first time that I have seen
      them since I went last to sea. From thence up with J. Spicer to his office
      and took L100, and by coach with it as far as my father's, where I called
      to see them, and my father did offer me six pieces of gold, in lieu of six
      pounds that he borrowed of me the other day, but it went against me to
      take it of him and therefore did not, though I was afterwards a little
      troubled that I did not. Thence home, and took out this L100 and sealed it
      up with the other last night, it being the first L200 that ever I saw
      together of my own in my life. For which God be praised. So to my Lady
      Batten, and sat an hour or two, and talked with her daughter and people in
      the absence of her father and mother and my wife to pass away the time.
      After that home and to bed, reading myself asleep, while the wench sat
      mending my breeches by my bedside.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. All the day long looking upon my workmen who this day began to paint
      my parlour. Only at noon my Lady Batten and my wife came home, and so I
      stepped to my Lady's, where were Sir John Lawson and Captain Holmes, and
      there we dined and had very good red wine of my Lady's own making in
      England.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Also all this day looking upon my workmen. Only met with the
      Comptroller at the office a little both forenoon and afternoon, and at
      night step a little with him to the Coffee House where we light upon very
      good company and had very good discourse concerning insects and their
      having a generative faculty as well as other creatures. This night in
      discourse the Comptroller told me among other persons that were heretofore
      the principal officers of the Navy, there was one Sir Peter Buck, a Clerk
      of the Acts, of which to myself I was not a little proud.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. All day at home looking upon my workmen, only at noon Mr. Moore came
      and brought me some things to sign for the Privy Seal and dined with me.
      We had three eels that my wife and I bought this morning of a man, that
      cried them about, for our dinner, and that was all I did to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. In the morning to church, and then dined at home. In the afternoon I
      to White Hall, where I was surprised with the news of a plot against the
      King's person and my Lord Monk's; and that since last night there are
      about forty taken up on suspicion; and, amongst others, it was my lot to
      meet with Simon Beale, the Trumpeter, who took me and Tom Doling into the
      Guard in Scotland Yard, and showed us Major-General Overton, where I heard
      him deny that he is guilty of any such things; but that whereas it is said
      that he is found to have brought many arms to town, he says it is only to
      sell them, as he will prove by oath. From thence with Tom Doling and
      Boston and D. Vines (whom we met by the way) to Price's, and there we
      drank, and in discourse I learnt a pretty trick to try whether a woman be
      a maid or no, by a string going round her head to meet at the end of her
      nose, which if she be not will come a great way beyond. Thence to my
      Lady's and staid with her an hour or two talking of the Duke of York and
      his lady, the Chancellor's daughter, between whom, she tells me, that all
      is agreed and he will marry her. But I know not how true yet. It rained
      hard, and my Lady would have had me have the coach, but I would not, but
      to my father's, where I met my wife, and there supped, and after supper by
      link home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. All day looking after my workmen, only in the afternoon to the
      office where both Sir Williams were come from Woolwich, and tell us that,
      contrary to their expectations, the Assurance is got up, without much
      damage to her body, only to the goods that she hath within her, which
      argues her to be a strong, good ship. This day my parlour is gilded, which
      do please me well.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. All day at home, without stirring at all, looking after my workmen.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. At noon I went and dined with my Lady at Whitehall, and so back
      again to the office, and after that home to my workmen. This night Mr.
      Gauden sent me a great chine of beef and half a dozen of tongues.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. All day at home with my workmen, that I may get all done before
      Christmas. This day I hear that the Princess Royal has the small pox.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. By water to Whitehall (leaving my wife at Whitefriars going to my
      father's to buy her a muff and mantle), there I signed many things at the
      Privy Seal, and carried L200 from thence to the Exchequer, and laid it up
      with Mr. Hales, and afterwards took him and W. Bowyer to the Swan and
      drank with them. They told me that this is St. Thomas's [day], and that by
      an old custom, this day the Exchequer men had formerly, and do intend this
      night to have a supper; which if I could I promised to come to, but did
      not. To my Lady's, and dined with her: she told me how dangerously ill the
      Princess Royal is and that this morning she was said to be dead. But she
      hears that she hath married herself to young Jermyn, which is worse than
      the Duke of York's marrying the Chancellor's daughter, which is now
      publicly owned. After dinner to the office all the afternoon. At seven at
      night I walked through the dirt to Whitehall to see whether my Lord be
      come to town, and I found him come and at supper, and I supped with him.
      He tells me that my aunt at Brampton has voided a great stone (the first
      time that ever I heard she was troubled therewith) and cannot possibly
      live long, that my uncle is pretty well, but full of pain still. After
      supper home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. All the morning with my painters, who will make an end of all this
      day I hope. At noon I went to the Sun tavern; on Fish Street hill, to a
      dinner of Captn. Teddimans, where was my Lord Inchiquin (who seems to be a
      very fine person), Sir W. Pen, Captn. Cuttance, and one Mr. Lawrence (a
      fine gentleman now going to Algiers), and other good company, where we had
      a very fine dinner, good musique, and a great deal of wine. We staid here
      very late, at last Sir W. Pen and I home together, he so overcome with
      wine that he could hardly go; I was forced to lead him through the streets
      and he was in a very merry and kind mood. I home (found my house clear of
      the workmen and their work ended), my head troubled with wine, and I very
      merry went to bed, my head akeing all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). In the morning to Church, where our pew all covered
      with rosemary and baize. A stranger made a dull sermon. Home and found my
      wife and maid with much ado had made shift to spit a great turkey sent me
      this week from Charles Carter, my old colleague, now minister in
      Huntingdonshire, but not at all roasted, and so I was fain to stay till
      two o'clock, and after that to church with my wife, and a good sermon
      there was, and so home. All the evening at my book, and so to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. In the morning to the office and Commissioner Pett (who seldom comes
      there) told me that he had lately presented a piece of plate (being a
      couple of flaggons) to Mr. Coventry, but he did not receive them, which
      also put me upon doing the same too; and so after dinner I went and chose
      a payre of candlesticks to be made ready for me at Alderman Backwell's. To
      the office again in the afternoon till night, and so home, and with the
      painters till 10 at night, making an end of my house and the arch before
      my door, and so this night I was rid of them and all other work, and my
      house was made ready against to-morrow being Christmas day. This day the
      Princess Royal died at Whitehall.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Christmas day). In the morning very much pleased to see my house
      once more clear of workmen and to be clean, and indeed it is so, far
      better than it was that I do not repent of my trouble that I have been at.
      In the morning to church, where Mr. Mills made a very good sermon. After
      that home to dinner, where my wife and I and my brother Tom (who this
      morning came to see my wife's new mantle put on, which do please me very
      well), to a good shoulder of mutton and a chicken. After dinner to church
      again, my wife and I, where we had a dull sermon of a stranger, which made
      me sleep, and so home, and I, before and after supper, to my lute and
      Fuller's History, at which I staid all alone in my chamber till 12 at
      night, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. In the morning to Alderman Backwell's for the candlesticks for Mr.
      Coventry, but they being not done I went away, and so by coach to Mr.
      Crew's, and there took some money of Mr. Moore's for my Lord, and so to my
      Lord's, where I found Sir Thomas Bond (whom I never saw before) with a
      message from the Queen about vessells for the carrying over of her goods,
      and so with him to Mr. Coventry, and thence to the office (being soundly
      washed going through the bridge) to Sir Wm. Batten and Pen (the last of
      whom took physic to-day), and so I went up to his chamber, and there
      having made an end of the business I returned to White Hall by water, and
      dined with my Lady Sandwich, who at table did tell me how much fault was
      laid upon Dr. Frazer and the rest of the Doctors, for the death of the
      Princess! My Lord did dine this day with Sir Henry Wright, in order to his
      going to sea with the Queen. Thence to my father Bowyer's where I met my
      wife, and with her home by water.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. In the morning to Alderman Backwell's again, where I found the
      candlesticks done, and went along with him in his coach to my Lord's and
      left the candlesticks with Mr. Shepley. I staid in the garden talking much
      with my Lord, who do show me much of his love and do communicate his mind
      in most things to me, which is my great content. Home and with my wife to
      Sir W. Batten's to dinner, where much and good company. My wife not very
      well went home, I staid late there seeing them play at cards, and so home
      to bed. This afternoon there came in a strange lord to Sir William
      Batten's by a mistake and enters discourse with him, so that we could not
      be rid of him till Sir Arn. Breames and Mr. Bens and Sir W. Pen fell
      a-drinking to him till he was drunk, and so sent him away. About the
      middle of the night I was very ill&mdash;I think with eating and drinking
      too much&mdash;and so I was forced to call the maid, who pleased my wife
      and I in her running up and down so innocently in her smock, and vomited
      in the bason, and so to sleep, and in the morning was pretty well, only
      got cold, and so had pain.... as I used to have.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Office day. There all the morning. Dined at home alone with my wife,
      and so staid within all the afternoon and evening; at my lute, with great
      pleasure, and so to bed with great content.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Within all the morning. Several people to speak with me; Mr. Shepley
      for L100; Mr. Kennard and Warren, the merchant, about deals for my Lord.
      Captain Robert Blake lately come from the Straights about some Florence
      Wine for my Lord, and with him I went to Sir W. Pen, who offering me a
      barrel of oysters I took them both home to my house (having by chance a
      good piece of roast beef at the fire for dinner), and there they dined
      with me, and sat talking all the afternoon-good company. Thence to
      Alderman Backwell's and took a brave state-plate and cupp in lieu of the
      candlesticks that I had the other day and carried them by coach to my
      Lord's and left them there. And so back to my father's and saw my mother,
      and so to my uncle Fenner's, whither my father came to me, and there we
      talked and drank, and so away; I home with my father, he telling me what
      bad wives both my cozen Joyces make to their husbands, which I much
      wondered at. After talking of my sister's coming to me next week, I went
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and being up, I went with Will to my
      Lord's, calling in at many churches in my way. There I found Mr. Shepley,
      in his Venetian cap, taking physique in his chamber, and with him I sat
      till dinner. My Lord dined abroad and my Lady in her chamber, so Mr.
      Hetly, Child and I dined together, and after dinner Mr. Child and I spent
      some time at the lute, and so promising to prick me some lessons to my
      theorbo he went away to see Henry Laws, who lies very sick. I to the Abby
      and walked there, seeing the great confusion of people that come there to
      hear the organs. So home, calling in at my father's, but staid not, my
      father and mother being both forth. At home I fell a-reading of Fuller's
      Church History till it was late, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. At the office all the morning and after that home, and not staying
      to dine I went out, and in Paul's Church-yard I bought the play of "Henry
      the Fourth," and so went to the new Theatre (only calling at Mr. Crew's
      and eat a bit with the people there at dinner) and saw it acted; but my
      expectation being too great, it did not please me, as otherwise I believe
      it would; and my having a book, I believe did spoil it a little. That
      being done I went to my Lord's, where I found him private at cards with my
      Lord Lauderdale and some persons of honour. So Mr. Shepley and I over to
      Harper's, and there drank a pot or two, and so parted. My boy taking a cat
      home with him from my Lord's, which Sarah had given him for my wife, we
      being much troubled with mice. At Whitehall inquiring for a coach, there
      was a Frenchman with one eye that was going my way, so he and I hired the
      coach between us and he set me down in Fenchurch Street. Strange how the
      fellow, without asking, did tell me all what he was, and how he had ran
      away from his father and come into England to serve the King, and now
      going back again. Home and to bed.
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     A very fine dinner
     A good handsome wench I kissed, the first that I have seen
     Among all the beauties there, my wife was thought the greatest
     An exceeding pretty lass, and right for the sport
     An offer of L500 for a Baronet's dignity
     And in all this not so much as one
     Asleep, while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside
     Barkley swearing that he and others had lain with her often
     Bought for the love of the binding three books
     Boy up to-night for his sister to teach him to put me to bed
     But we were friends again as we are always
     But I think I am not bound to discover myself
     Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians
     Confusion of years in the case of the months of January (etc.)
     Court attendance infinite tedious
     Cure of the King's evil, which he do deny altogether
     Diana did not come according to our agreement
     Did not like that Clergy should meddle with matters of state
     Dined with my wife on pease porridge and nothing else
     Dined upon six of my pigeons, which my wife has resolved to kill
     Do press for new oaths to be put upon men
     Drink at a bottle beer house in the Strand
     Drinking of the King's health upon their knees in the streets
     Duke of York and Mrs. Palmer did talk to one another very wanton
     Else he is a blockhead, and not fitt for that imployment
     Fashionable and black spots
     Finding my wife's clothes lie carelessly laid up
     First time I had given her leave to wear a black patch
     First time that ever I heard the organs in a cathedral
     Five pieces of gold for to do him a small piece of service
     Fixed that the year should commence in January instead of March
     Formerly say that the King was a bastard and his mother a whore
     Gave him his morning draft
     Gentlewomen did hold up their heads to be kissed by the King
     God help him, he wants bread.
     Had no more manners than to invite me and to let me pay
     Hand i' the cap
     Hanging jack to roast birds on
     Have her come not as a sister in any respect, but as a servant
     Have not known her this fortnight almost, which is a pain to me
     He and I lay in one press bed, there being two more
     He is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, as well as I
     He that must do the business, or at least that can hinder it
     He was fain to lie in the priest's hole a good while
     He did very well, but a deadly drinker he is
     He made the great speech of his life, and spoke for three hours
     He knew nothing about the navy
     Hired her to procure this poor soul for him
     How the Presbyterians would be angry if they durst
     I fear is not so good as she should be
     I never designed to be a witness against any man
     I was demanded L100, for the fee of the office at 6d. a pound
     I took a broom and basted her till she cried extremely
     I pray God to make me able to pay for it.
     I was angry with her, which I was troubled for
     I went to the cook's and got a good joint of meat
     I was exceeding free in dallying with her, and she not unfree
     I was a great Roundhead when I was a boy
     If it should come in print my name maybe at it
     Ill all this day by reason of the last night's debauch
     In discourse he seems to be wise and say little
     In comes Mr. North very sea-sick from shore
     In perpetual trouble and vexation that need it least
     Inoffensive vanity of a man who loved to see himself in the glass
     It not being handsome for our servants to sit so equal with us
     John Pickering on board, like an ass, with his feathers
     King do tire all his people that are about him with early rising
     King's Proclamation against drinking, swearing, and debauchery
     Kiss my Parliament, instead of "Kiss my [rump]"
     Kissed them myself very often with a great deal of mirth
     L100 worth of plate for my Lord to give Secretary Nicholas
     Learned the multiplication table for the first time in  1661
     Learnt a pretty trick to try whether a woman be a maid or no
     Long cloaks being now quite out
     Made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead
     Montaigne is conscious that we are looking over his shoulder
     Most of my time in looking upon Mrs. Butler
     Mottoes inscribed on rings was of Roman origin
     Much troubled with thoughts how to get money
     My luck to meet with a sort of drolling workmen on all occasions
     My new silk suit, the first that ever I wore in my life
     My wife and I had some high words
     My wife was very unwilling to let me go forth
     My wife was making of her tarts and larding of her pullets
     My Lord, who took physic to-day and was in his chamber
     Nothing in it approaching that single page in St. Simon
     Offer me L500 if I would desist from the Clerk of the Acts place
     Petition against hackney coaches
     Playing the fool with the lass of the house
     Posies for Rings, Handkerchers and Gloves
     Presbyterians against the House of Lords
     Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques
     Put to a great loss how I should get money to make up my cash
     Resolve to have the doing of it himself, or else to hinder it
     Sceptic in all things of religion
     She had six children by the King
     Show many the strangest emotions to shift off his drink
     Sit up till 2 o'clock that she may call the wench up to wash
     Smoke jack consists of a wind-wheel fixed in the chimney
     So we went to bed and lay all night in a quarrel
     So I took occasion to go up and to bed in a pet
     Some merry talk with a plain bold maid of the house
     Strange thing how I am already courted by the people
     Strange how civil and tractable he was to me
     The present Irish pronunciation of English
     The rest did give more, and did believe that I did so too
     The ceremonies did not please me, they do so overdo them
     There being ten hanged, drawn, and quartered
     This afternoon I showed my Lord my accounts, which he passed
     This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes
     Thus it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall
     To see the bride put to bed
     To the Swan and drank our morning draft
     To see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn; and quartered
     Upon the leads gazing upon Diana
     We cannot tell what to do for want of her (the maid)
     Wedding for which the posy ring was required
     Went to bed with my head not well by my too much drinking to-day
     Where I find the worst very good
     Which I did give him some hope of, though I never intend it
     Woman that they have a fancy to, to make her husband a cuckold
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      JANUARY 1660-1661
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    <p>
      1660-61. At the end of the last and the beginning of this year, I do live
      in one of the houses belonging to the Navy Office, as one of the principal
      officers, and have done now about half a year. After much trouble with
      workmen I am now almost settled; my family being, myself, my wife, Jane,
      Will. Hewer, and Wayneman,&mdash;[Will Wayneman appears by this to have
      been forgiven for his theft (see ante). He was dismissed on July 8th,
      1663.]&mdash;my girle's brother. Myself in constant good health, and in a
      most handsome and thriving condition. Blessed be Almighty God for it. I am
      now taking of my sister to come and live with me. As to things of State.&mdash;The
      King settled, and loved of all. The Duke of York matched to my Lord
      Chancellor's daughter, which do not please many. The Queen upon her return
      to France with the Princess Henrietta. The Princess of Orange lately dead,
      and we into new mourning for her. We have been lately frighted with a
      great plot, and many taken up on it, and the fright not quite over. The
      Parliament, which had done all this great good to the King, beginning to
      grow factious, the King did dissolve it December 29th last, and another
      likely to be chosen speedily. I take myself now to be worth L300 clear in
      money, and all my goods and all manner of debts paid, which are none at
      all.
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    <p>
      January 1st. Called up this morning by Mr. Moore, who brought me my last
      things for me to sign for the last month, and to my great comfort tells me
      that my fees will come to L80 clear to myself, and about L25 for him,
      which he hath got out of the pardons, though there be no fee due to me at
      all out of them. Then comes in my brother Thomas, and after him my father,
      Dr. Thomas Pepys, my uncle Fenner and his two sons (Anthony's' only child
      dying this morning, yet he was so civil to come, and was pretty merry) to
      breakfast; and I had for them a barrel of oysters, a dish of neat's
      tongues, and a dish of anchovies, wine of all sorts, and Northdown ale. We
      were very merry till about eleven o'clock, and then they went away. At
      noon I carried my wife by coach to my cozen, Thomas Pepys, where we, with
      my father, Dr. Thomas, cozen Stradwick, Scott, and their wives, dined.
      Here I saw first his second wife, which is a very respectfull woman, but
      his dinner a sorry, poor dinner for a man of his estate, there being
      nothing but ordinary meat in it. To-day the King dined at a lord's, two
      doors from us. After dinner I took my wife to Whitehall, I sent her to
      Mrs. Pierces (where we should have dined today), and I to the Privy Seal,
      where Mr. Moore took out all his money, and he and I went to Mr. Pierces;
      in our way seeing the Duke of York bring his Lady this day to wait upon
      the Queen, the first time that ever she did since that great business; and
      the Queen is said to receive her now with much respect and love; and there
      he cast up the fees, and I told the money, by the same token one L100 bag,
      after I had told it, fell all about the room, and I fear I have lost some
      of it. That done I left my friends and went to my Lord's, but he being not
      come in I lodged the money with Mr. Shepley, and bade good night to Mr.
      Moore, and so returned to Mr. Pierces, and there supped with them, and Mr.
      Pierce, the purser, and his wife and mine, where we had a calf's head
      carboned,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Meat cut crosswise and broiled was said to be carboned.  Falstaff
     says in "King Henry IV.," Part L, act v., sc. 3, "Well, if Percy be
     alive, I'll pierce him.  If he do come in my way, so; if he do not,
     if I come in his willingly, let him make a carbonado of me."]
</pre>
    <p>
      but it was raw, we could not eat it, and a good hen. But she is such a
      slut that I do not love her victualls. After supper I sent them home by
      coach, and I went to my Lord's and there played till 12 at night at cards
      at Best with J. Goods and N. Osgood, and then to bed with Mr. Shepley.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. Up early, and being called up to my Lord he did give me many commands
      in his business. As about taking care to write to my uncle that Mr.
      Barnewell's papers should be locked up, in case he should die, he being
      now suspected to be very ill. Also about consulting with Mr. W. Montagu
      for the settling of the L4000 a-year that the King had promised my Lord.
      As also about getting of Mr. George Montagu to be chosen at Huntingdon
      this next Parliament, &amp;c. That done he to White Hall stairs with much
      company, and I with him; where we took water for Lambeth, and there coach
      for Portsmouth. The Queen's things were all in White Hall Court ready to
      be sent away, and her Majesty ready to be gone an hour after to Hampton
      Court to-night, and so to be at Ports mouth on Saturday next. I by water
      to my office, and there all the morning, and so home to dinner, where I
      found Pall (my sister) was come; but I do not let her sit down at table
      with me, which I do at first that she may not expect it hereafter from me.
      After dinner I to Westminster by water, and there found my brother Spicer
      at the Leg with all the rest of the Exchequer men (most of whom I now do
      not know) at dinner. Here I staid and drank with them, and then to Mr.
      George Montagu about the business of election, and he did give me a piece
      in gold; so to my Lord's and got the chest of plate brought to the
      Exchequer, and my brother Spicer put it into his treasury. So to Will's
      with them to a pot of ale, and so parted. I took a turn in the Hall, and
      bought the King and Chancellor's speeches at the dissolving the Parliament
      last Saturday. So to my Lord's, and took my money I brought 'thither last
      night and the silver candlesticks, and by coach left the latter at
      Alderman Backwell's, I having no use for them, and the former home. There
      stood a man at our door, when I carried it in, and saw me, which made me a
      little afeard. Up to my chamber and wrote letters to Huntingdon and did
      other business. This day I lent Sir W. Batten and Captn. Rider my chine of
      beef for to serve at dinner tomorrow at Trinity House, the Duke of
      Albemarle being to be there and all the rest of the Brethren, it being a
      great day for the reading over of their new Charter, which the King hath
      newly given them.
    </p>
    <p>
      3d. Early in the morning to the Exchequer, where I told over what money I
      had of my Lord's and my own there, which I found to be L970. Thence to
      Will's, where Spicer and I eat our dinner of a roasted leg of pork which
      Will did give us, and after that to the Theatre, where was acted "Beggars'
      Bush," it being very well done; and here the first time that ever I saw
      women come upon the stage.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Downes does not give the cast of this play.  After the Restoration
     the acting of female characters by women became common.  The first
     English professional actress was Mrs. Coleman, who acted Ianthe in
     Davenant's "Siege of Rhodes," at Rutland House in 1656.]
</pre>
    <p>
      From thence to my father's, where I found my mother gone by Bird, the
      carrier, to Brampton, upon my uncle's great desire, my aunt being now in
      despair of life. So home.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Office all the morning, my wife and Pall being gone to my father's to
      dress dinner for Mr. Honiwood, my mother being gone out of town. Dined at
      home, and Mr. Moore with me, with whom I had been early this morning at
      White Hall, at the Jewell Office,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Several of the Jewel Office rolls are in the British Museum.  They
     recite all the sums of money given to the King, and the particulars
     of all the plate distributed in his name, as well as gloves and
     sweetmeats.  The Museum possesses these rolls for the 4th, 9th,
     18th, 30th, and 31st Eliz.; for the 13th Charles I.; and the 23rd,
     24th, 26th, and 27th of Charles II.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to choose a piece of gilt plate for my Lord, in return of his offering to
      the King (which it seems is usual at this time of year, and an Earl gives
      twenty pieces in gold in a purse to the King). I chose a gilt tankard,
      weighing 31 ounces and a half, and he is allowed 30; so I paid 12s. for
      the ounce and half over what he is to have; but strange it was for me to
      see what a company of small fees I was called upon by a great many to pay
      there, which, I perceive, is the manner that courtiers do get their
      estates. After dinner Mr. Moore and I to the Theatre, where was "The
      Scornful Lady," acted very well, it being the first play that ever he saw.
      Thence with him to drink a cup of ale at Hercules Pillars, and so parted.
      I called to see my father, who told me by the way how Will and Mary Joyce
      do live a strange life together, nothing but fighting, &amp;c., so that
      sometimes her father has a mind to have them divorced. Thence home.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Home all the morning. Several people came to me about business, among
      others the great Tom Fuller, who came to desire a kindness for a friend of
      his, who hath a mind to go to Jamaica with these two ships that are going,
      which I promised to do. So to Whitehall to my Lady, whom I found at dinner
      and dined with her, and staid with her talking all the afternoon, and
      thence walked to Westminster Hall. So to Will's, and drank with Spicer,
      and thence by coach home, staying a little in Paul's Churchyard, to
      bespeak Ogilby's AEsop's Fables and Tully's Officys to be bound for me. So
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). My wife and I to church this morning, and so home to
      dinner to a boiled leg of mutton all alone. To church again, where, before
      sermon, a long Psalm was set that lasted an hour, while the sexton
      gathered his year's contribucion through the whole church. After sermon
      home, and there I went to my chamber and wrote a letter to send to Mr.
      Coventry, with a piece of plate along with it, which I do preserve among
      my other letters. So to supper, and thence after prayers to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. This morning, news was brought to me to my bedside, that there had
      been a great stir in the City this night by the Fanatiques, who had been
      up and killed six or seven men, but all are fled.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["A great rising in the city of the Fifth-monarchy men, which did
     very much disturb the peace and liberty of the people, so that all
     the train-bands arose in arms, both in London and Westminster, as
     likewise all the king's guards; and most of the noblemen mounted,
     and put all their servants on coach horses, for the defence of his
     Majesty, and the peace of his kingdom."&mdash;Rugge's Diurnal.  The
     notorious Thomas Venner, the Fifth-monarchy man, a cooper and
     preacher to a conventicle in Swan Alley, Coleman Street, with a
     small following (about fifty in number) took arms on the 6th January
     for the avowed purpose of establishing the Millennium.  He was a
     violent enthusiast, and persuaded his followers that they were
     invulnerable.  After exciting much alarm in the City, and
     skirmishing with the Trained Bands, they marched to Caen Wood.  They
     were driven out by a party of guards, but again entered the City,
     where they were overpowered by the Trained Bands.  The men were
     brought to trial and condemned; four, however, were acquitted and
     two reprieved.  The execution of some of these men is mentioned by
     Pepys under date January 19th and 21st.  "A Relation of the
     Arraignment and Trial of those who made the late Rebellious
     Insurrections in London, 1661," is reprinted in "Somers Tracts,"
     vol. vii.  (1812), p. 469.]
</pre>
    <p>
      My Lord Mayor and the whole City had been in arms, above 40,000. To the
      office, and after that to dinner, where my brother Tom came and dined with
      me, and after dinner (leaving 12d. with the servants to buy a cake with at
      night, this day being kept as Twelfth day) Tom and I and my wife to the
      Theatre, and there saw "The Silent Woman." The first time that ever I did
      see it, and it is an excellent play. Among other things here, Kinaston,
      the boy; had the good turn to appear in three shapes: first, as a poor
      woman in ordinary clothes, to please Morose; then in fine clothes, as a
      gallant, and in them was clearly the prettiest woman in the whole house,
      and lastly, as a man; and then likewise did appear the handsomest man in
      the house. From thence by link to my cozen Stradwick's, where my father
      and we and Dr. Pepys, Scott, and his wife, and one Mr. Ward and his; and
      after a good supper, we had an excellent cake, where the mark for the
      Queen was cut, and so there was two queens, my wife and Mrs. Ward; and the
      King being lost, they chose the Doctor to be King, so we made him send for
      some wine, and then home, and in our way home we were in many places
      strictly examined, more than in the worst of times, there being great
      fears of these Fanatiques rising again: for the present I do not hear that
      any of them are taken. Home, it being a clear moonshine and after 12
      o'clock at night. Being come home we found that my people had been very
      merry, and my wife tells me afterwards that she had heard that they had
      got young Davis and some other neighbours with them to be merry, but no
      harm.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. My wife and I lay very long in bed to-day talking and pleasing one
      another in discourse. Being up, Mr. Warren came, and he and I agreed for
      the deals that my Lord is to, have. Then Will and I to Westminster, where
      I dined with my Lady. After dinner I took my Lord Hinchinbroke and Mr.
      Sidney to the Theatre, and shewed them "The Widdow," an indifferent good
      play, but wronged by the women being to seek in their parts. That being
      done, my Lord's coach waited for us, and so back to my Lady's, where she
      made me drink of some Florence wine, and did give me two bottles for my
      wife. From thence walked to my cozen Stradwick's, and there chose a small
      banquet and some other things against our entertainment on Thursday next.
      Thence to Tom Pepys and bought a dozen of trenchers, and so home. Some
      talk to-day of a head of Fanatiques that do appear about Barnett, but I do
      not believe it. However, my Lord Mayor, Sir Richd. Browne, hath carried
      himself very honourably, and hath caused one of their meeting-houses in
      London to be pulled down.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Waked in the morning about six o'clock, by people running up and down
      in Mr. Davis's house, talking that the Fanatiques were up in arms in the
      City. And so I rose and went forth; where in the street I found every body
      in arms at the doors. So I returned (though with no good courage at all,
      but that I might not seem to be afeared), and got my sword and pistol,
      which, however, I had no powder to charge; and went to the door, where I
      found Sir R. Ford, and with him I walked up and down as far as the
      Exchange, and there I left him. In our way, the streets full of
      Train-band, and great stories, what mischief these rogues have done; and I
      think near a dozen have been killed this morning on both sides. Seeing the
      city in this condition, the shops shut, and all things in trouble, I went
      home and sat, it being office day, till noon. So home, and dined at home,
      my father with me, and after dinner he would needs have me go to my uncle
      Wight's (where I have been so long absent that I am ashamed to go). I
      found him at home and his wife, and I can see they have taken my absence
      ill, but all things are past and we good friends, and here I sat with my
      aunt till it was late, my uncle going forth about business. My aunt being
      very fearful to be alone. So home to my lute till late, and then to bed,
      there being strict guards all night in the City, though most of the
      enemies, they say, are killed or taken. This morning my wife and Pall went
      forth early, and I staid within.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. There comes Mr. Hawley to me and brings me my money for the quarter
      of a year's salary of my place under Downing that I was at sea. So I did
      give him half, whereof he did in his nobleness give the odd 5s, to my
      Jane. So we both went forth (calling first to see how Sir W. Pen do, whom
      I found very ill), and at the Hoop by the bridge we drank two pints of
      wormwood and sack. Talking of his wooing afresh of Mrs. Lane, and of his
      going to serve the Bishop of London. Thence by water to Whitehall, and
      found my wife at Mrs. Hunt's. Leaving her to dine there, I went and dined
      with my Lady, and staid to talk a while with her. After dinner Will. comes
      to tell me that he had presented my piece of plate to Mr. Coventry, who
      takes it very kindly, and sends me a very kind letter, and the plate back
      again; of which my heart is very glad. So to Mrs. Hunt, where I found a
      Frenchman, a lodger of hers, at dinner, and just as I came in was kissing
      my wife, which I did not like, though there could not be any hurt in it.
      Thence by coach to my Uncle Wight's with my wife, but they being out of
      doors we went home, where, after I had put some papers in order and
      entered some letters in my book which I have a mind to keep, I went with
      my wife to see Sir W. Pen, who we found ill still, but he do make very
      much of it. Here we sat a great while, at last comes in Mr. Davis and his
      lady (who takes it very ill that my wife never did go to see her), and so
      we fell to talk. Among other things Mr. Davis told us the particular
      examinations of these Fanatiques that are taken: and in short it is this,
      of all these Fanatiques that have done all this, viz., routed all the
      Trainbands that they met with, put the King's life-guards to the run,
      killed about twenty men, broke through the City gates twice; and all this
      in the day-time, when all the City was in arms; are not in all about 31.
      Whereas we did believe them (because they were seen up and down in every
      place almost in the City, and had been about Highgate two or three days,
      and in several other places) to be at least 500. A thing that never was
      heard of, that so few men should dare and do so much mischief. Their word
      was, "The King Jesus, and the heads upon the gates." Few of them would
      receive any quarter, but such as were taken by force and kept alive;
      expecting Jesus to come here and reign in the world presently, and will
      not believe yet but their work will be carried on though they do die. The
      King this day came to town.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Office day. This day comes news, by letters from Portsmouth, that
      the Princess Henrietta is fallen sick of the meazles on board the London,
      after the Queen and she was under sail. And so was forced to come back
      again into Portsmouth harbour; and in their way, by negligence of the
      pilot, run upon the Horse sand. The Queen and she continue aboard, and do
      not intend to come on shore till she sees what will become of the young
      Princess. This news do make people think something indeed, that three of
      the Royal Family should fall sick of the same disease, one after another.
      This morning likewise, we had order to see guards set in all the King's
      yards; and so we do appoint who and who should go to them. Sir Wm. Batten
      to Chatham, Colonel Slingsby and I to Deptford and Woolwich. Portsmouth
      being a garrison, needs none. Dined at home, discontented that my wife do
      not go neater now she has two maids. After dinner comes in Kate Sterpin
      (whom we had not seen a great while) and her husband to see us, with whom
      I staid a while, and then to the office, and left them with my wife. At
      night walked to Paul's Churchyard, and bespoke some books against next
      week, and from thence to the Coffeehouse, where I met Captain Morrice, the
      upholster, who would fain have lent me a horse to-night to have rid with
      him upon the Cityguards, with the Lord Mayor, there being some new
      expectations of these rogues; but I refused by reason of my going out of
      town tomorrow. So home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. With Colonel Slingsby and a friend of his, Major Waters (a deaf and
      most amorous melancholy gentleman, who is under a despayr in love, as the
      Colonel told me, which makes him bad company, though a most good-natured
      man), by water to Redriffe, and so on foot to Deptford (our servants by
      water), where we fell to choosing four captains to command the guards, and
      choosing the places where to keep them, and other things in order
      thereunto. We dined at the Globe, having our messenger with us to take
      care for us. Never till now did I see the great authority of my place, all
      the captains of the fleet coming cap in hand to us. Having staid very late
      there talking with the Colonel, I went home with Mr. Davis, storekeeper
      (whose wife is ill and so I could not see her), and was there most
      prince-like lodged, with so much respect and honour that I was at a loss
      how to behave myself.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. In the morning we all went to church, and sat in the pew belonging
      to us, where a cold sermon of a young man that never had preached before.
      Here Commissioner came with his wife and daughters, the eldest being his
      wife's daughter is a very comely black woman.&mdash;[The old expression
      for a brunette.]&mdash;So to the Globe to dinner, and then with
      Commissioner Pett to his lodgings there (which he hath for the present
      while he is building the King's yacht, which will be a pretty thing, and
      much beyond the Dutchman's), and from thence with him and his wife and
      daughter-in-law by coach to Greenwich Church, where a good sermon, a fine
      church, and a great company of handsome women. After sermon to Deptford
      again; where, at the Commissioner's and the Globe, we staid long. And so I
      to Mr. Davis's to bed again. But no sooner in bed, but we had an alarm,
      and so we rose: and the Comptroller comes into the Yard to us; and seamen
      of all the ships present repair to us, and there we armed with every one a
      handspike, with which they were as fierce as could be. At last we hear
      that it was only five or six men that did ride through the guard in the
      town, without stopping to the guard that was there; and, some say, shot at
      them. But all being quiet there, we caused the seamen to go on board
      again: And so we all to bed (after I had sat awhile with Mr. Davis in his
      study, which is filled with good books and some very good song books) I
      likewise to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. The arms being come this morning from the Tower, we caused them to
      be distributed. I spent much time walking with Lieutenant Lambert, walking
      up and down the yards, who did give me much light into things there, and
      so went along with me and dined with us. After dinner Mrs. Pett, her
      husband being gone this morning with Sir W. Batten to Chatham, lent us her
      coach, and carried us to Woolwich, where we did also dispose of the arms
      there and settle the guards. So to Mr. Pett's, the shipwright, and there
      supped, where he did treat us very handsomely (and strange it is to see
      what neat houses all the officers of the King's yards have), his wife a
      proper woman, and has been handsome, and yet has a very pretty hand.
      Thence I with Mr. Ackworth to his house, where he has a very pretty house,
      and a very proper lovely woman to his wife, who both sat with me in my
      chamber, and they being gone, I went to bed, which was also most neat and
      fine.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and down the yard all the morning and seeing the seamen exercise,
      which they do already very handsomely. Then to dinner at Mr. Ackworth's,
      where there also dined with us one Captain Bethell, a friend of the
      Comptroller's. A good dinner and very handsome. After that and taking our
      leaves of the officers of the yard, we walked to the waterside and in our
      way walked into the rope-yard, where I do look into the tar-houses and
      other places, and took great notice of all the several works belonging to
      the making of a cable. So after a cup of burnt wine&mdash;[Burnt wine was
      somewhat similar to mulled wine, and a favourite drink]&mdash;at the
      tavern there, we took barge and went to Blackwall and viewed the dock and
      the new Wet dock, which is newly made there, and a brave new merchantman
      which is to be launched shortly, and they say to be called the Royal Oak.
      Hence we walked to Dick-Shore, and thence to the Towre and so home. Where
      I found my wife and Pall abroad, so I went to see Sir W. Pen, and there
      found Mr. Coventry come to see him, and now had an opportunity to thank
      him, and he did express much kindness to me. I sat a great while with Sir
      Wm. after he was gone, and had much talk with him. I perceive none of our
      officers care much for one another, but I do keep in with them all as much
      as I can. Sir W. Pen is still very ill as when I went. Home, where my wife
      not yet come home, so I went up to put my papers in order, and then was
      much troubled my wife was not come, it being 10 o'clock just now striking
      as I write this last line. This day I hear the Princess is recovered
      again. The King hath been this afternoon at Deptford, to see the yacht
      that Commissioner Pett is building, which will be very pretty; as also
      that that his brother at Woolwich is in making. By and by comes in my boy
      and tells me that his mistress do lie this night at Mrs. Hunt's, who is
      very ill, with which being something satisfied, I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. This morning I went early to the Comptroller's and so with him by
      coach to Whitehall, to wait upon Mr. Coventry to give him an account of
      what we have done, which having done, I went away to wait upon my Lady;
      but coming to her lodgings I find that she is gone this morning to Chatham
      by coach, thinking to meet me there, which did trouble me exceedingly, and
      I did not know what to do, being loth to follow her, and yet could not
      imagine what she would do when she found me not there. In this trouble, I
      went to take a walk in Westminster Hall and by chance met with Mr. Child,
      who went forth with my Lady to-day, but his horse being bad, he come back
      again, which then did trouble me more, so that I did resolve to go to her;
      and so by boat home and put on my boots, and so over to Southwarke to the
      posthouse, and there took horse and guide to Dartford and thence to
      Rochester (I having good horses and good way, come thither about
      half-an-hour after daylight, which was before 6 o'clock and I set forth
      after two), where I found my Lady and her daughter Jem., and Mrs. Browne'
      and five servants, all at a great loss, not finding me here, but at my
      coming she was overjoyed. The sport was how she had intended to have kept
      herself unknown, and how the Captain (whom she had sent for) of the
      Charles had forsoothed
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [To forsooth is to address in a polite and ceremonious manner.
     "Your city-mannerly word forsooth, use it not too often in any
     case."&mdash;Ben Jonson's Poetaster, act iv., sc.  1.]
</pre>
    <p>
      her, though he knew her well and she him. In fine we supped merry and so
      to bed, there coming several of the Charles's men to see me before, I got
      to bed. The page lay with me.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and breakfast with my Lady. Then come Captains Cuttance and
      Blake to carry her in the barge on board; and so we went through Ham
      Creeke to the Soverayne (a goodly sight all the way to see the brave ships
      that lie here) first, which is a most noble ship. I never saw her before.
      My Lady Sandwich, my Lady Jemimah, Mrs. Browne, Mrs. Grace, and Mary and
      the page, my lady's servants and myself, all went into the lanthorn
      together. From thence to the Charles, where my lady took great pleasure to
      see all the rooms, and to hear me tell her how things are when my Lord is
      there. After we had seen all, then the officers of the ship had prepared a
      handsome breakfast for her, and while she was pledging my Lord's health
      they give her five guns. That done, we went off, and then they give us
      thirteen guns more. I confess it was a great pleasure to myself to see the
      ship that I begun my good fortune in. From thence on board the Newcastle,
      to show my Lady the difference between a great and a small ship. Among
      these ships I did give away L7. So back again and went on shore at
      Chatham, where I had ordered the coach to wait for us. Here I heard that
      Sir William Batten and his lady (who I knew were here, and did endeavour
      to avoyd) were now gone this morning to London. So we took coach, and I
      went into the coach, and went through the town, without making stop at our
      inn, but left J. Goods to pay the reckoning. So I rode with my lady in the
      coach, and the page on the horse that I should have rid on&mdash;he
      desiring it. It begun to be dark before we could come to Dartford, and to
      rain hard, and the horses to fayle, which was our great care to prevent,
      for fear of my Lord's displeasure, so here we sat up for to-night, as also
      Captains Cuttance and Blake, who came along with us. We sat and talked
      till supper, and at supper my Lady and I entered into a great dispute
      concerning what were best for a man to do with his estate&mdash;whether to
      make his elder son heir, which my Lady is for, and I against, but rather
      to make all equall. This discourse took us much time, till it was time to
      go to bed; but we being merry, we bade my Lady goodnight, and intended to
      have gone to the Post-house to drink, and hear a pretty girl play of the
      cittern (and indeed we should have lain there, but by a mistake we did
      not), but it was late, and we could not hear her, and the guard came to
      examine what we were; so we returned to our Inn and to bed, the page and I
      in one bed, and the two captains in another, all in one chamber, where we
      had very good mirth with our most abominable lodging.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. The Captains went with me to the post-house about 9 o'clock, and
      after a morning draft I took horse and guide for London; and through some
      rain, and a great wind in my face, I got to London at eleven o'clock. At
      home found all well, but the monkey loose, which did anger me, and so I
      did strike her till she was almost dead, that they might make her fast
      again, which did still trouble me more. In the afternoon we met at the
      office and sat till night, and then I to see my father who I found well,
      and took him to Standing's' to drink a cup of ale. He told me my aunt at
      Brampton is yet alive and my mother well there. In comes Will Joyce to us
      drunk, and in a talking vapouring humour of his state, and I know not
      what, which did vex me cruelly. After him Mr. Hollier had learned at my
      father's that I was here (where I had appointed to meet him) and so he did
      give me some things to take for prevention. Will Joyce not letting us talk
      as I would I left my father and him and took Mr. Hollier to the Greyhound,
      where he did advise me above all things, both as to the stone and the
      decay of my memory (of which I now complain to him), to avoid drinking
      often, which I am resolved, if I can, to leave off. Hence home, and took
      home with me from the bookseller's Ogilby's AEsop, which he had bound for
      me, and indeed I am very much pleased with the book. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. To the Comptroller's, and with him by coach to White Hall; in our
      way meeting Venner and Pritchard upon a sledge, who with two more Fifth
      Monarchy men were hanged to-day, and the two first drawn and quartered.
      Where we walked up and down, and at last found Sir G. Carteret, whom I had
      not seen a great while, and did discourse with him about our assisting the
      Commissioners in paying off the Fleet, which we think to decline. Here the
      Treasurer did tell me that he did suspect Thos. Hater to be an informer of
      them in this work, which we do take to be a diminution of us, which do
      trouble me, and I do intend to find out the truth. Hence to my Lady, who
      told me how Mr. Hetley is dead of the small-pox going to Portsmouth with
      my Lord. My Lady went forth to dinner to her father's, and so I went to
      the Leg in King Street and had a rabbit for myself and my Will, and after
      dinner I sent him home and myself went to the Theatre, where I saw "The
      Lost Lady," which do not please me much. Here I was troubled to be seen by
      four of our office clerks, which sat in the half-crown box and I in the
      1s. 6d. From thence by link, and bought two mouse traps of Thomas Pepys,
      the Turner, and so went and drank a cup of ale with him, and so home and
      wrote by post to Portsmouth to my Lord and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). To Church in the morning. Dined at home. My wife and I
      to Church in the afternoon, and that being done we went to see my uncle
      and aunt Wight. There I left my wife and came back, and sat with Sir W.
      Pen, who is not yet well again. Thence back again to my wife and supped
      there, and were very merry and so home, and after prayers to write down my
      journall for the last five days, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. This morning Sir W. Batten, the Comptroller and I to Westminster, to
      the Commissioners for paying off the Army and Navy, where the Duke of
      Albemarle was; and we sat with our hats on, and did discourse about paying
      off the ships and do find that they do intend to undertake it without our
      help; and we are glad of it, for it is a work that will much displease the
      poor seamen, and so we are glad to have no hand in it. From thence to the
      Exchequer, and took L200 and carried it home, and so to the office till
      night, and then to see Sir W. Pen, whither came my Lady Batten and her
      daughter, and then I sent for my wife, and so we sat talking till it was
      late. So home to supper and then to bed, having eat no dinner to-day. It
      is strange what weather we have had all this winter; no cold at all; but
      the ways are dusty, and the flyes fly up and down, and the rose-bushes are
      full of leaves, such a time of the year as was never known in this world
      before here. This day many more of the Fifth Monarchy men were hanged.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. To the Comptroller's house, where I read over his proposals to the
      Lord Admiral for the regulating of the officers of the Navy, in which he
      hath taken much pains, only he do seem to have too good opinion of them
      himself. From thence in his coach to Mercer's Chappell, and so up to the
      great hall, where we met with the King's Councell for Trade, upon some
      proposals of theirs for settling convoys for the whole English trade, and
      that by having 33 ships (four fourth-rates, nineteen fifths, ten sixths)
      settled by the King for that purpose, which indeed was argued very finely
      by many persons of honour and merchants that were there. It pleased me
      much now to come in this condition to this place, where I was once a
      petitioner for my exhibition in Paul's School; and also where Sir G.
      Downing (my late master) was chairman, and so but equally concerned with
      me. From thence home, and after a little dinner my wife and I by coach
      into London, and bought some glasses, and then to Whitehall to see Mrs.
      Fox, but she not within, my wife to my mother Bowyer, and I met with Dr.
      Thomas Fuller, and took him to the Dog, where he tells me of his last and
      great book that is coming out: that is, his History of all the Families in
      England;' and could tell me more of my own, than I knew myself. And also
      to what perfection he hath now brought the art of memory; that he did
      lately to four eminently great scholars dictate together in Latin, upon
      different subjects of their proposing, faster than they were able to
      write, till they were tired; and by the way in discourse tells me that the
      best way of beginning a sentence, if a man should be out and forget his
      last sentence (which he never was), that then his last refuge is to begin
      with an Utcunque. From thence I to Mr. Bowyer's, and there sat a while,
      and so to Mr. Fox's, and sat with them a very little while, and then by
      coach home, and so to see Sir Win. Pen, where we found Mrs. Martha Batten
      and two handsome ladies more, and so we staid supper and were very merry,
      and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. To the office all the morning. My wife and people at home busy to
      get things ready for tomorrow's dinner. At noon, without dinner, went into
      the City, and there meeting with Greatorex, we went and drank a pot of
      ale. He told me that he was upon a design to go to Teneriffe to try
      experiments there. With him to Gresham Colledge
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Gresham College occupied the house of Sir Thomas Gresham, in
     Bishopsgate Street, from 1596, when Lady Gresham, Sir Thomas's
     widow, died.  The meeting which Pepys attended was an early one of
     the Royal Society, which was incorporated by royal charter in 1663.]
</pre>
    <p>
      (where I never was before), and saw the manner of the house, and found
      great company of persons of honour there; thence to my bookseller's, and
      for books, and to Stevens, the silversmith, to make clean some plate
      against to-morrow, and so home, by the way paying many little debts for
      wine and pictures, &amp;c., which is my great pleasure. Home and found all
      things in a hurry of business, Slater, our messenger, being here as my
      cook till very late. I in my chamber all the evening looking over my
      Osborn's works and new Emanuel Thesaurus Patriarchae. So late to bed,
      having ate nothing to-day but a piece of bread and cheese at the ale-house
      with Greatorex, and some bread and butter at home.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. At home all day. There dined with me Sir William Batten and his lady
      and daughter, Sir W. Pen, Mr. Fox (his lady being ill could not come), and
      Captain Cuttance; the first dinner I have made since I came hither. This
      cost me above L5, and merry we were&mdash;only my chimney smokes. In the
      afternoon Mr. Hater bringing me my last quarter's salary, which I received
      of him, and so I have now Mr. Barlow's money in my hands. The company all
      go away, and by and by Sir Wms. both and my Lady Batten and his daughter
      come again and supped with me and talked till late, and so to bed, being
      glad that the trouble is over.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. At the office all the morning. Dined at home and Mr. Hater with me,
      and so I did make even with him for the last quarter. After dinner he and
      I to look upon the instructions of my Lord Northumberland's, but we were
      interrupted by Mr. Salisbury's coming in, who came to see me and to show
      me my Lord's picture in little, of his doing. And truly it is strange to
      what a perfection he is come in a year's time. From thence to Paul's
      Churchyard about books, and so back again home. This night comes two
      cages, which I bought this evening for my canary birds, which Captain
      Rooth this day sent me. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Within all the morning. About noon comes one that had formerly known
      me and I him, but I know not his name, to borrow L5 of me, but I had the
      wit to deny him. There dined with me this day both the Pierces' and their
      wives, and Captain Cuttance, and Lieutenant Lambert, with whom we made
      ourselves very merry by taking away his ribbans and garters, having made
      him to confess that he is lately married. The company being gone I went to
      my lute till night, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Lord's day). Before I rose, letters come to me from Portsmouth,
      telling me that the Princess is now well, and my Lord Sandwich set sail
      with the Queen and her yesterday from thence for France. To church,
      leaving my wife sick.... at home, a poor dull sermon of a stranger. Home,
      and at dinner was very angry at my people's eating a fine pudding (made me
      by Slater, the cook, last Thursday) without my wife's leave. To church
      again, a good sermon of Mr. Mills, and after sermon Sir W. Pen and I an
      hour in the garden talking, and he did answer me to many things, I asked
      Mr. Coventry's opinion of me, and Sir W. Batten's of my Lord Sandwich,
      which do both please me. Then to Sir W. Batten's, where very merry, and
      here I met the Comptroller and his lady and daughter (the first time I
      ever saw them) and Mrs. Turner, who and her husband supped with us here (I
      having fetched my wife thither), and after supper we fell to oysters, and
      then Mr. Turner went and fetched some strong waters, and so being very
      merry we parted, and home to bed. This day the parson read a proclamation
      at church, for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast
      for the murther of the late King.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. At the office all the morning; dined at home, and after dinner to
      Fleet Street, with my sword to Mr. Brigden (lately made Captain of the
      Auxiliaries) to be refreshed, and with him to an ale-house, where I met
      Mr. Davenport; and after some talk of Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw's
      bodies being taken out of their graves to-day,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The bodies of Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, John Bradshaw, and
     Thomas Pride, were dug up out of their graves to be hanged at
     Tyburn, and buried under the gallows.  Cromwell's vault having been
     opened, the people crowded very much to see him."&mdash;Rugge's Diurnal.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I went to Mr. Crew's and thence to the Theatre, where I saw again "The
      Lost Lady," which do now please me better than before; and here I sitting
      behind in a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not
      seeing me, but after seeing her to be a very pretty lady, I was not
      troubled at it at all. Thence to Mr. Crew's, and there met Mr. Moore, who
      came lately to me, and went with me to my father's, and with him to
      Standing's, whither came to us Dr. Fairbrother, who I took and my father
      to the Bear and gave a pint of sack and a pint of claret.
    </p>
    <p>
      He do still continue his expressions of respect and love to me, and tells
      me my brother John will make a good scholar. Thence to see the Doctor at
      his lodging at Mr. Holden's, where I bought a hat, cost me 35s. So home by
      moonshine, and by the way was overtaken by the Comptroller's coach, and so
      home to his house with him. So home and to bed. This noon I had my press
      set up in my chamber for papers to be put in.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Mr. Moore making up accounts with me all this morning till Lieut.
      Lambert came, and so with them over the water to Southwark, and so over
      the fields to Lambeth, and there drank, it being a most glorious and warm
      day, even to amazement, for this time of the year. Thence to my Lord's,
      where we found my Lady gone with some company to see Hampton Court, so we
      three went to Blackfryers (the first time I ever was there since plays
      begun), and there after great patience and little expectation, from so
      poor beginning, I saw three acts of "The Mayd in ye Mill" acted to my
      great content. But it being late, I left the play and them, and by water
      through bridge home, and so to Mr. Turner's house, where the Comptroller,
      Sir William Batten, and Mr. Davis and their ladies; and here we had a most
      neat little but costly and genteel supper, and after that a great deal of
      impertinent mirth by Mr. Davis, and some catches, and so broke up, and
      going away, Mr. Davis's eldest son took up my old Lady Slingsby in his
      arms, and carried her to the coach, and is said to be able to carry three
      of the biggest men that were in the company, which I wonder at. So home
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Fast day). The first time that this day hath been yet observed: and
      Mr. Mills made a most excellent sermon, upon "Lord forgive us our former
      iniquities;" speaking excellently of the justice of God in punishing men
      for the sins of their ancestors. Home, and John Goods comes, and after
      dinner I did pay him L30 for my Lady, and after that Sir W. Pen and I into
      Moorfields and had a brave talk, it being a most pleasant day, and besides
      much discourse did please ourselves to see young Davis and Whitton, two of
      our clerks, going by us in the field, who we observe to take much pleasure
      together, and I did most often see them at play together. Back to the Old
      James in Bishopsgate Street, where Sir W. Batten and Sir Wm. Rider met him
      about business of the Trinity House. So I went home, and there understand
      that my mother is come home well from Brampton, and had a letter from my
      brother John, a very ingenious one, and he therein begs to have leave to
      come to town at the Coronacion. Then to my Lady Batten's; where my wife
      and she are lately come back again from being abroad, and seeing of
      Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw hanged and buried at Tyburn. Then I home.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Jan. 30th was kept as a very solemn day of fasting and prayer.
     This morning the carcases of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradshaw (which
     the day before had been brought from the Red Lion Inn, Holborn),
     were drawn upon a sledge to Tyburn, and then taken out of their
     coffins, and in their shrouds hanged by the neck, until the going
     down of the sun.  They were then cut down, their heads taken off,
     and their bodies buried in a grave made under the gallows.  The
     coffin in which was the body of Cromwell was a very rich thing, very
     full of gilded hinges and nails."&mdash;Rugge's Diurnal.]
</pre>
    <p>
      31st. This morning with Mr. Coventry at Whitehall about getting a ship to
      carry my Lord's deals to Lynne, and we have chosen the Gift. Thence at
      noon to my Lord's, where my Lady not well, so I eat a mouthfull of dinner
      there, and thence to the Theatre, and there sat in the pit among the
      company of fine ladys, &amp;c.; and the house was exceeding full, to see
      Argalus and Parthenia, the first time that it hath been acted: and indeed
      it is good, though wronged by my over great expectations, as all things
      else are. Thence to my father's to see my mother, who is pretty well after
      her journey from Brampton. She tells me my aunt is pretty well, yet cannot
      live long. My uncle pretty well too, and she believes would marry again
      were my aunt dead, which God forbid. So home.
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    <p>
      February 1st (Friday). A full office all this morning, and busy about
      answering the Commissioners of Parliament to their letter, wherein they
      desire to borrow two clerks of ours, which we will not grant them. After
      dinner into London and bought some books, and a belt, and had my sword new
      furbished. To the alehouse with Mr. Brigden and W. Symons. At night home.
      So after a little music to bed, leaving my people up getting things ready
      against to-morrow's dinner.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Early to Mr. Moore, and with him to Sir Peter Ball, who proffers my
      uncle Robert much civility in letting him continue in the grounds which he
      had hired of Hetley who is now dead. Thence home, where all things in a
      hurry for dinner, a strange cook being come in the room of Slater, who
      could not come. There dined here my uncle Wight and my aunt, my father and
      mother, and my brother Tom, Dr. Fairbrother and Mr. Mills, the parson, and
      his wife, who is a neighbour's daughter of my uncle Robert's, and knows my
      Aunt Wight and all her and my friends there; and so we had excellent
      company to-day. After dinner I was sent for to Sir G. Carteret's, where he
      was, and I found the Comptroller, who are upon writing a letter to the
      Commissioners of Parliament in some things a rougher stile than our last,
      because they seem to speak high to us. So the Comptroller and I thence to
      a tavern hard by, and there did agree upon drawing up some letters to be
      sent to all the pursers and Clerks of the Cheques to make up their
      accounts. Then home; where I found the parson and his wife gone. And by
      and by the rest of the company, very well pleased, and I too; it being the
      last dinner I intend to make a great while, it having now cost me almost
      L15 in three dinners within this fortnight. In the evening comes Sir W.
      Pen, pretty merry, to sit with me and talk, which we did for an hour or
      two, and so good night, and I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3d (Lord's day). This day I first begun to go forth in my coat and sword,
      as the manner now among gentlemen is. To Whitehall. In my way heard Mr.
      Thomas Fuller preach at the Savoy upon our forgiving of other men's
      trespasses, shewing among other things that we are to go to law never to
      revenge, but only to repayre, which I think a good distinction. So to
      White Hall; where I staid to hear the trumpets and kettle-drums, and then
      the other drums, which are much cried up, though I think it dull, vulgar
      musique. So to Mr. Fox's, unbid; where I had a good dinner and special
      company. Among other discourse, I observed one story, how my Lord of
      Northwich, at a public audience before the King of France, made the Duke
      of Anjou cry, by making ugly faces as he was stepping to the King, but
      undiscovered.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This story relates to circumstances which had occurred many years
     previously.  George, Lord Goring, was sent by Charles I. as
     Ambassador Extraordinary to France in 1644, to witness the oath of
     Louis XIV. to the observance of the treaties concluded with England
     by his father, Louis XIII., and his grandfather, Henry IV.  Louis
     XIV. took this oath at Ruel, on July 3rd, 1644, when he was not yet
     six years of age, and when his brother Philippe, then called Duke of
     Anjou, was not four years old.  Shortly after his return home, Lord
     Goring was created, in September, 1644, Earl of Norwich, the title
     by which he is here mentioned.  Philippe, Duke of Anjou, who was
     frightened by the English nobleman's ugly faces, took the title of
     Duke of Orleans after the death of his uncle, Jean Baptiste Gaston,
     in 1660.  He married his cousin, Henrietta of England.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      And how Sir Phillip Warwick's' lady did wonder to have Mr. Darcy' send for
      several dozen bottles of Rhenish wine to her house, not knowing that the
      wine was his. Thence to my Lord's; where I am told how Sir Thomas Crew's
      Pedro, with two of his countrymen more, did last night kill one soldier of
      four that quarrelled with them in the street, about 10 o'clock. The other
      two are taken; but he is now hid at my Lord's till night, that he do
      intend to make his escape away. So up to my Lady, and sat and talked with
      her long, and so to Westminster Stairs, and there took boat to the bridge,
      and so home, where I met with letters to call us all up to-morrow morning
      to Whitehall about office business.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Early up to Court with Sir W. Pen, where, at Mr. Coventry's chamber,
      we met with all our fellow officers, and there after a hot debate about
      the business of paying off the Fleet, and how far we should join with the
      Commissioners of Parliament, which is now the great business of this month
      more to determine, and about which there is a great deal of difference
      between us, and then how far we should be assistants to them therein. That
      being done, he and I back again home, where I met with my father and
      mother going to my cozen Snow's to Blackwall, and had promised to bring me
      and my wife along with them, which we could not do because we are to go to
      the Dolphin to-day to a dinner of Capt. Tayler's. So at last I let my wife
      go with them, and I to the tavern, where Sir William Pen and the
      Comptroller and several others were, men and women; and we had a very
      great and merry dinner; and after dinner the Comptroller begun some
      sports, among others the naming of people round and afterwards demanding
      questions of them that they are forced to answer their names to, which do
      make very good sport. And here I took pleasure to take the forfeits of the
      ladies who would not do their duty by kissing of them; among others a
      pretty lady, who I found afterwards to be wife to Sir W. Batten's son.
      Home, and then with my wife to see Sir W. Batten, who could not be with us
      this day being ill, but we found him at cards, and here we sat late,
      talking with my Lady and others and Dr. Whistler,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Daniel Whistler, M.D., Fellow of Merton College, whose inaugural
     dissertation on Rickets in 1645 contains the earliest printed
     account of that disease.  He was Gresham Professor of Geometry,
     1648-57, and held several offices at the College of Physicians,
     being elected President in 1683.  He was one of the original Fellows
     of the Royal Society.  Dr. Munk, in his "Roll of the Royal College
     of Physicians," speaks very unfavourably of Whistler, and says that
     he defrauded the college.  He died May 11th, 1684.]
</pre>
    <p>
      who I found good company and a very ingenious man. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Washing-day. My wife and I by water to Westminster. She to her
      mother's and I to Westminster Hall, where I found a full term, and here I
      went to Will's, and there found Shaw and Ashwell and another Bragrave (who
      knew my mother wash-maid to my Lady Veere), who by cursing and swearing
      made me weary of his company and so I went away. Into the Hall and there
      saw my Lord Treasurer (who was sworn to-day at the Exchequer, with a great
      company of Lords and persons of honour to attend him) go up to the
      Treasury Offices, and take possession thereof; and also saw the heads of
      Cromwell, Bradshaw, and Ireton, set up upon the further end of the Hall.
      Then at Mrs. Michell's in the Hall met my wife and Shaw, and she and I and
      Captain Murford to the Dog, and there I gave them some wine, and after
      some mirth and talk (Mr. Langley coming in afterwards) I went by coach to
      the play-house at the Theatre, our coach in King Street breaking, and so
      took another. Here we saw Argalus and Parthenia, which I lately saw, but
      though pleasant for the dancing and singing, I do not find good for any
      wit or design therein. That done home by coach and to supper, being very
      hungry for want of dinner, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Called up by my Cozen Snow, who sat by me while I was trimmed, and
      then I drank with him, he desiring a courtesy for a friend, which I have
      done for him. Then to the office, and there sat long, then to dinner,
      Captain Murford with me. I had a dish of fish and a good hare, which was
      sent me the other day by Goodenough the plasterer. So to the office again,
      where Sir W. Pen and I sat all alone, answering of petitions and nothing
      else, and so to Sir W. Batten's, where comes Mr. Jessop (one whom I could
      not formerly have looked upon, and now he comes cap in hand to us from the
      Commissioners of the Navy, though indeed he is a man of a great estate and
      of good report), about some business from them to us, which we answered by
      letter. Here I sat long with Sir W., who is not well, and then home and to
      my chamber, and some little, music, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. With Sir W. Batten and Pen to Whitehall to Mr. Coventry's chamber, to
      debate upon the business we were upon the other day morning, and thence to
      Westminster Hall. And after a walk to my Lord's; where, while I and my
      Lady were in her chamber in talk, in comes my Lord from sea, to our great
      wonder. He had dined at Havre de Grace on Monday last, and came to the
      Downs the next day, and lay at Canterbury that night; and so to Dartford,
      and thence this morning to White Hall. All my friends his servants well.
      Among others, Mr. Creed and Captain Ferrers tell me the stories of my Lord
      Duke of Buckingham's and my Lord's falling out at Havre de Grace, at
      cards; they two and my Lord St. Alban's playing. The Duke did, to my
      Lord's dishonour, often say that he did in his conscience know the
      contrary to what he then said, about the difference at cards; and so did
      take up the money that he should have lost to my Lord. Which my Lord
      resenting, said nothing then, but that he doubted not but there were ways
      enough to get his money of him. So they parted that night; and my Lord
      sent for Sir R. Stayner and sent him the next morning to the Duke, to know
      whether he did remember what he said last night, and whether he would own
      it with his sword and a second; which he said he would, and so both sides
      agreed. But my Lord St. Alban's, and the Queen and Ambassador Montagu, did
      waylay them at their lodgings till the difference was made up, to my
      Lord's honour; who hath got great reputation thereby. I dined with my
      Lord, and then with Mr. Shepley and Creed (who talked very high of France
      for a fine country) to the tavern, and then I home. To the office, where
      the two Sir Williams had staid for me, and then we drew up a letter to the
      Commissioners of Parliament again, and so to Sir W. Batten, where I staid
      late in talk, and so home, and after writing the letter fair then I went
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. At the office all the morning. At noon to the Exchange to meet Mr.
      Warren the timber merchant, but could not meet with him. Here I met with
      many sea commanders, and among others Captain Cuttle, and Curtis, and
      Mootham, and I, went to the Fleece Tavern to drink; and there we spent
      till four o'clock, telling stories of Algiers, and the manner of the life
      of slaves there! And truly Captn. Mootham and Mr. Dawes (who have been
      both slaves there) did make me fully acquainted with their condition
      there: as, how they eat nothing but bread and water. At their redemption
      they pay so much for the water they drink at the public fountaynes, during
      their being slaves. How they are beat upon the soles of their feet and
      bellies at the liberty of their padron. How they are all, at night, called
      into their master's Bagnard; and there they lie. How the poorest men do
      use their slaves best. How some rogues do live well, if they do invent to
      bring their masters in so much a week by their industry or theft; and then
      they are put to no other work at all. And theft there is counted no great
      crime at all. Thence to Mr. Rawlinson's, having met my old friend Dick
      Scobell, and there I drank a great deal with him, and so home and to bed
      betimes, my head aching.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. To my Lord's with Mr. Creed (who was come to me this morning to get a
      bill of imprest signed), and my Lord being gone out he and I to the
      Rhenish wine-house with Mr. Blackburne. To whom I did make known my fears
      of Will's losing of his time, which he will take care to give him good
      advice about. Afterwards to my Lord's and Mr. Shepley and I did make even
      his accounts and mine. And then with Mr. Creed and two friends of his (my
      late landlord Jones' son one of them), to an ordinary to dinner, and then
      Creed and I to Whitefriars' to the Play-house, and saw "The Mad Lover,"
      the first time I ever saw it acted, which I like pretty well, and home.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Took physique all day, and, God forgive me, did spend
      it in reading of some little French romances. At night my wife and I did
      please ourselves talking of our going into France, which I hope to effect
      this summer. At noon one came to ask for Mrs. Hunt that was here
      yesterday, and it seems is not come home yet, which makes us afraid of
      her. At night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. At the office all the morning. Dined at home, and then to the
      Exchequer, and took Mr. Warren with me to Mr. Kennard, the master joiner,
      at Whitehall, who was at a tavern, and there he and I to him, and agreed
      about getting some of my Lord's deals on board to-morrow. Then with young
      Mr. Reeve home to his house, who did there show me many pretty pleasures
      in perspectives,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ['Telescope' and 'microscope' are both as old as Milton, but for long
     while 'perspective' (glass being sometimes understood and sometimes
     expressed) did the work of these.  It is sometimes written
     'prospective.' Our present use of 'perspective' does not, I suppose,
     date farther back than Dryden.&mdash;Trench's Select Glossary.&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      that I have not seen before, and I did buy a little glass of him cost me
      5s. And so to Mr. Crew's, and with Mr. Moore to see how my father and
      mother did, and so with him to Mr. Adam Chard's' (the first time I ever
      was at his house since he was married) to drink, then we parted, and I
      home to my study, and set some papers and money in order, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. To my Lord's, and there with him all the morning, and then (he going
      out to dinner) I and Mr. Pickering, Creed, and Captain Ferrers to the Leg
      in the Palace to dinner, where strange Pickering's impertinences. Thence
      the two others and I after a great dispute whither to go, we went by water
      to Salsbury Court play-house, where not liking to sit, we went out again,
      and by coach to the Theatre, and there saw "The Scornfull Lady," now done
      by a woman, which makes the play appear much better than ever it did to
      me. Then Creed and I (the other being lost in the crowd) to drink a cup of
      ale at Temple Bar, and there we parted, and I (seeing my father and mother
      by the way) went home.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. At the office all the morning; dined at home, and poor Mr. Wood with
      me, who after dinner would have borrowed money of me, but I would lend
      none. Then to Whitehall by coach with Sir W. Pen, where we did very little
      business, and so back to Mr. Rawlinson's, where I took him and gave him a
      cup of wine, he having formerly known Mr. Rawlinson, and here I met my
      uncle Wight, and he drank with us, and with him to Sir W. Batten's,
      whither I sent for my wife, and we chose Valentines' against to-morrow.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The observation of St. Valentine's day is very ancient in this
     country.  Shakespeare makes Ophelia sing

                   "To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
                    All in the morning betime,
                    And I a maid at your window
                    To be your Valentine."

                         Hamlet, act iv.  sc. 5.&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      My wife chose me, which did much please me; my Lady Batten Sir W. Pen,
      &amp;c. Here we sat late, and so home to bed, having got my Lady Batten to
      give me a spoonful of honey for my cold.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Valentine's day). Up early and to Sir W. Batten's, but would not go
      in till I asked whether they that opened the door was a man or a woman,
      and Mingo, who was there, answered a woman, which, with his tone, made me
      laugh; so up I went and took Mrs. Martha for my Valentine (which I do only
      for complacency), and Sir W. Batten he go in the same manner to my wife,
      and so we were very merry. About 10 o'clock we, with a great deal of
      company, went down by our barge to Deptford, and there only went to see
      how forward Mr. Pett's yacht is; and so all into the barge again, and so
      to Woolwich, on board the Rose-bush, Captain Brown's' ship, that is
      brother-in-law to Sir W. Batten, where we had a very fine dinner, dressed
      on shore, and great mirth and all things successfull; the first time I
      ever carried my wife a-ship-board, as also my boy Wayneman, who hath all
      this day been called young Pepys, as Sir W. Pen's boy young Pen. So home
      by barge again; good weather, but pretty cold. I to my study, and began to
      make up my accounts for my Lord, which I intend to end tomorrow. To bed.
      The talk of the town now is, who the King is like to have for his Queen:
      and whether Lent shall be kept with the strictness of the King's
      proclamation;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["A Proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of
     Flesh in Lent or on fish-dayes appointed by the law to be observed,"
     was dated 29th January, 1660-61].
</pre>
    <p>
      which it is thought cannot be, because of the poor, who cannot buy fish.
      And also the great preparation for the King's crowning is now much thought
      upon and talked of.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. At the office all the morning, and in the afternoon at making up my
      accounts for my Lord to-morrow; and that being done I found myself to be
      clear (as I think) L350 in the world, besides my goods in my house and all
      things paid for.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. To my Lord in the morning, who looked over my accounts and agreed to
      them. I did also get him to sign a bill (which do make my heart merry) for
      L60 to me, in consideration of my work extraordinary at sea this last
      voyage, which I hope to get paid. I dined with my Lord and then to the
      Theatre, where I saw "The Virgin Martyr," a good but too sober a play for
      the company. Then home.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). A most tedious, unreasonable, and impertinent sermon,
      by an Irish Doctor. His text was "Scatter them, O Lord, that delight in
      war." Sir Wm. Batten and I very much angry with the parson. And so I to
      Westminster as soon as I came home to my Lord's, where I dined with Mr.
      Shepley and Howe. After dinner (without speaking to my Lord), Mr. Shepley
      and I into the city, and so I home and took my wife to my uncle Wight's,
      and there did sup with them, and so home again and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. At the office all the morning, dined at home with a very good
      dinner, only my wife and I, which is not yet very usual. In the afternoon
      my wife and I and Mrs. Martha Batten, my Valentine, to the Exchange, and
      there upon a payre of embroydered and six payre of plain white gloves I
      laid out 40s. upon her. Then we went to a mercer's at the end of Lombard
      Street, and there she bought a suit of Lutestring&mdash;[More properly
      called "lustring"; a fine glossy silk.]&mdash;for herself, and so home.
      And at night I got the whole company and Sir Wm. Pen home to my house, and
      there I did give them Rhenish wine and sugar, and continued together till
      it was late, and so to bed. It is much talked that the King is already
      married to the niece of the Prince de Ligne,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Prince de Ligne had no niece, and probably Pepys has made some
     mistake in the name.  Charles at one time made an offer of marriage
     to Mazarin's niece, Hortense Mancini.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and that he hath two sons already by her: which I am sorry to hear; but
      yet am gladder that it should be so, than that the Duke of York and his
      family should come to the crown, he being a professed friend to the
      Catholiques.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. By coach to Whitehall with Colonel Slingsby (carrying Mrs. Turner
      with us) and there he and I up into the house, where we met with Sir G.
      Carteret: who afterwards, with the Duke of York, my Lord Sandwich, and
      others, went into a private room to consult: and we were a little troubled
      that we were not called in with the rest. But I do believe it was upon
      something very private. We staid walking in the gallery; where we met with
      Mr. Slingsby, that was formerly a great friend of Mons. Blondeau, who
      showed me the stamps of the King's new coyne; which is strange to see, how
      good they are in the stamp and bad in the money, for lack of skill to make
      them. But he says Blondeau will shortly come over, and then we shall have
      it better, and the best in the world.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Peter Blondeau, medallist, was invited to London from Paris in
     1649, and appointed by the Council of State to coin their money; but
     the moneyers succeeded in driving him out of the country.  Soon
     after the Restoration he returned, and was appointed engineer to the
     mint.]
</pre>
    <p>
      The Comptroller and I to the Commissioners of Parliament, and after some
      talk away again and to drink a cup of ale. He tells me, he is sure that
      the King is not yet married, as it is said; nor that it is known who he
      will have. To my Lord's and found him dined, and so I lost my dinner, but
      I staid and played with him and Mr. Child, &amp;c., some things of four
      parts, and so it raining hard and bitter cold (the first winter day we
      have yet had this winter), I took coach home and spent the evening in
      reading of a Latin play, the "Naufragium Joculare." And so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. All the morning at the office, dined at home and my brother Tom with
      me, who brought me a pair of fine slippers which he gave me. By and by
      comes little Luellin and friend to see me, and then my coz Stradwick, who
      was never here before. With them I drank a bottle of wine or two, and to
      the office again, and there staid about business late, and then all of us
      to Sir W. Pen's, where we had, and my Lady Batten, Mrs. Martha, and my
      wife, and other company, a good supper, and sat playing at cards and
      talking till 12 at night, and so all to our lodgings.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. To Westminster by coach with Sir W. Pen, and in our way saw the city
      begin to build scaffolds against the Coronacion. To my Lord, and there
      found him out of doors. So to the Hall and called for some caps that I
      have a making there, and here met with Mr. Hawley, and with him to Will's
      and drank, and then by coach with Mr. Langley our old friend into the
      city. I set him down by the way, and I home and there staid all day
      within, having found Mr. Moore, who staid with me till late at night
      talking and reading some good books. Then he went away, and I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. All the morning at the office. At noon with my wife and Pall to my
      father's to dinner, where Dr. Thos. Pepys and my coz Snow and Joyce
      Norton. After dinner came The. Turner, and so I home with her to her
      mother, good woman, whom I had not seen through my great neglect this half
      year, but she would not be angry with me. Here I staid all the afternoon
      talking of the King's being married, which is now the town talk, but I
      believe false. In the evening Mrs. The. and Joyce took us all into the
      coach home, calling in Bishopsgate Street, thinking to have seen a new
      Harpsicon&mdash;[The harpsichord is an instrument larger than a spinet,
      with two or three strings to a note.]&mdash;that she had a making there,
      but it was not done, and so we did not see it. Then to my home, where I
      made very much of her, and then she went home. Then my wife to Sir W.
      Batten's, and there sat a while; he having yesterday sent my wife
      half-a-dozen pairs of gloves, and a pair of silk stockings and garters,
      for her Valentine's gift. Then home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. This my birthday, 28 years. This morning Sir W. Batten, Pen, and I
      did some business, and then I by water to Whitehall, having met Mr.
      Hartlibb by the way at Alderman Backwell's. So he did give me a glass of
      Rhenish wine at the Steeleyard, and so to Whitehall by water. He continues
      of the same bold impertinent humour that he was always of and will ever
      be. He told me how my Lord Chancellor had lately got the Duke of York and
      Duchess, and her woman, my Lord Ossory's and a Doctor, to make oath before
      most of the judges of the kingdom, concerning all the circumstances of
      their marriage. And in fine, it is confessed that they were not fully
      married till about a month or two before she was brought to bed; but that
      they were contracted long before, and time enough for the child to be
      legitimate.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Duke of York's marriage took place September 3rd, 1660.  Anne
     Hyde was contracted to the Duke at Breda, November 24th, 1659.]
</pre>
    <p>
      But I do not hear that it was put to the judges to determine whether it
      was so or no. To my Lord and there spoke to him about his opinion of the
      Light, the sea-mark that Captain Murford is about, and do offer me an
      eighth part to concern myself with it, and my Lord do give me some
      encouragement in it, and I shall go on. I dined herewith Mr. Shepley and
      Howe. After dinner to Whitehall Chappell with Mr. Child, and there did
      hear Captain Cooke and his boy make a trial of an Anthem against tomorrow,
      which was brave musique. Then by water to Whitefriars to the Play-house,
      and there saw "The Changeling," the first time it hath been acted these
      twenty years, and it takes exceedingly. Besides, I see the gallants do
      begin to be tyred with the vanity and pride of the theatre actors who are
      indeed grown very proud and rich. Then by link home, and there to my book
      awhile and to bed. I met to-day with Mr. Townsend, who tells me that the
      old man is yet alive in whose place in the Wardrobe he hopes to get my
      father, which I do resolve to put for. I also met with the Comptroller,
      who told me how it was easy for us all, the principal officers, and proper
      for us, to labour to get into the next Parliament; and would have me to
      ask the Duke's letter, but I shall not endeavour it because it will spend
      much money, though I am sure I could well obtain it. This is now 28 years
      that I am born. And blessed be God, in a state of full content, and great
      hopes to be a happy man in all respects, both to myself and friends.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Sunday). Mr. Mills made as excellent a sermon in the morning against
      drunkenness as ever I heard in my life. I dined at home; another good one
      of his in the afternoon. My Valentine had her fine gloves on at church
      to-day that I did give her. After sermon my wife and I unto Sir Wm. Batten
      and sat awhile. Then home, I to read, then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Sir Wm. Pen and I to my Lord Sandwich's by coach in the morning to
      see him, but he takes physic to-day and so we could not see him. So he
      went away, and I with Luellin to Mr. Mount's chamber at the Cockpit, where
      he did lie of old, and there we drank, and from thence to W. Symons where
      we found him abroad, but she, like a good lady, within, and there we did
      eat some nettle porrige, which was made on purpose to-day for some of
      their coming, and was very good. With her we sat a good while, merry in
      discourse, and so away, Luellin and I to my Lord's, and there dined. He
      told me one of the prettiest stories, how Mr. Blurton, his friend that was
      with him at my house three or four days ago, did go with him the same day
      from my house to the Fleet tavern by Guildhall, and there (by some
      pretence) got the mistress of the house into their company, and by and by
      Luellin calling him Doctor she thought that he really was so, and did
      privately discover her disease to him, which was only some ordinary
      infirmity belonging to women, and he proffering her physic, she desired
      him to come some day and bring it, which he did. After dinner by water to
      the office, and there Sir W. Pen and I met and did business all the
      afternoon, and then I got him to my house and eat a lobster together, and
      so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Shrove Tuesday). I left my wife in bed, being indisposed... I to
      Mrs. Turner's, who I found busy with The. and Joyce making of things ready
      for fritters, so to Mr. Crew's and there delivered Cotgrave's Dictionary'
      to my Lady Jemimah, and then with Mr. Moore to my coz Tom Pepys, but he
      being out of town I spoke with his lady, though not of the business I went
      about, which was to borrow L1000 for my Lord. Back to Mrs. Turner's, where
      several friends, all strangers to me but Mr. Armiger, dined. Very merry
      and the best fritters that ever I eat in my life. After that looked out at
      window; saw the flinging at cocks.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The cruel custom of throwing at cocks on Shrove Tuesday is of
     considerable antiquity.  It is shown in the first print of Hogarth's
     "Four Stages of Cruelty."]
</pre>
    <p>
      Then Mrs. The. and I, and a gentleman that dined there and his daughter, a
      perfect handsome young and very tall lady that lately came out of the
      country, and Mr. Thatcher the Virginall Maister to Bishopsgate Street, and
      there saw the new Harpsicon made for Mrs. The. We offered L12, they
      demanded L14. The Master not being at home, we could make no bargain, so
      parted for to-night. So all by coach to my house, where I found my
      Valentine with my wife, and here they drank, and then went away. Then I
      sat and talked with my Valentine and my wife a good while, and then saw
      her home, and went to Sir W. Batten to the Dolphin, where Mr. Newborne,
      &amp;c., were, and there after a quart or two of wine, we home, and I to
      bed....
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. At the office all the morning, that done I walked in the garden with
      little Captain Murford, where he and I had some discourse concerning the
      Light-House again, and I think I shall appear in the business, he
      promising me that if I can bring it about, it will be worth L100 per
      annum. Then came into the garden to me young Mr. Powell and Mr. Hooke that
      I once knew at Cambridge, and I took them in and gave them a bottle of
      wine, and so parted. Then I called for a dish of fish, which we had for
      dinner, this being the first day of Lent; and I do intend to try whether I
      can keep it or no. My father dined with me and did show me a letter from
      my brother John, wherein he tells us that he is chosen Schollar of the
      house,' which do please me much, because I do perceive now it must chiefly
      come from his merit and not the power of his Tutor, Dr. Widdrington, who
      is now quite out of interest there and hath put over his pupils to Mr.
      Pepper, a young Fellow of the College. With my father to Mr. Rawlinson's,
      where we met my uncle Wight, and after a pint or two away. I walked with
      my father (who gave me an account of the great falling out between my
      uncle Fenner and his son Will) as far as Paul's Churchyard, and so left
      him, and I home. This day the Commissioners of Parliament begin to pay off
      the Fleet, beginning with the Hampshire, and do it at Guildhall, for fear
      of going out of town into the power of the seamen, who are highly incensed
      against them.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Early to wait on my Lord, and after a little talk with him I took
      boat at Whitehall for Redriffe, but in my way overtook Captain Cuttance
      and Teddiman in a boat and so ashore with them at Queenhithe, and so to a
      tavern with them to a barrel of oysters, and so away. Capt. Cuttance and I
      walked from Redriffe to Deptford, where I found both Sir Williams and Sir
      G. Carteret at Mr. Uthwayt's, and there we dined, and notwithstanding my
      resolution, yet for want of other victualls, I did eat flesh this Lent,
      but am resolved to eat as little as I can. After dinner we went to Captain
      Bodilaw's, and there made sale of many old stores by the candle, and good
      sport it was to see how from a small matter bid at first they would come
      to double and treble the price of things. After that Sir W. Pen and I and
      my Lady Batten and her daughter by land to Redriffe, staying a little at
      halfway house, and when we came to take boat, found Sir George, &amp;c.,
      to have staid with the barge a great while for us, which troubled us. Home
      and to bed. This month ends with two great secrets under dispute but yet
      known to very few: first, Who the King will marry; and What the meaning of
      this fleet is which we are now sheathing to set out for the southward.
      Most think against Algier against the Turk, or to the East Indys against
      the Dutch who, we hear, are setting out a great fleet thither.
    </p>
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      MARCH 1660-1661
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    <p>
      March 1st. All the morning at the office. Dined at home only upon fish,
      and Mr. Shepley and Tom Hater with me. After dinner Mr. Shepley and I in
      private talking about my Lord's intentions to go speedily into the
      country, but to what end we know not. We fear he is to go to sea with this
      fleet now preparing. But we wish that he could get his L4000 per annum
      settled before he do go. Then he and I walked into London, he to the
      Wardrobe and I to Whitefryars, and saw "The Bondman" acted; an excellent
      play and well done. But above all that ever I saw, Betterton do the Bond
      man the best. Then to my father's and found my mother ill. After staying a
      while with them, I went home and sat up late, spending my thoughts how to
      get money to bear me out in my great expense at the Coronacion, against
      which all provide, and scaffolds setting up in every street. I had many
      designs in my head to get some, but know not which will take. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. Early with Mr. Moore about Sir Paul Neale's' business with my uncle
      and other things all the morning. Dined with him at Mr. Crew's, and after
      dinner I went to the Theatre, where I found so few people (which is
      strange, and the reason I did not know) that I went out again, and so to
      Salsbury Court, where the house as full as could be; and it seems it was a
      new play, "The Queen's Maske," wherein there are some good humours: among
      others, a good jeer to the old story of the Siege of Troy, making it to be
      a common country tale. But above all it was strange to see so little a boy
      as that was to act Cupid, which is one of the greatest parts in it. Then
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Lord's day): Mr. Woodcocke preached at our church a very good sermon
      upon the imaginacions of the thoughts of man's heart being only evil. So
      home, where being told that my Lord had sent for me I went, and got there
      to dine with my Lord, who is to go into the country tomorrow. I did give
      up the mortgage made to me by Sir R. Parkhurst for L2,000. In the Abby all
      the afternoon. Then at Mr. Pierces the surgeon, where Shepley and I
      supped. So to my Lord's, who comes in late and tells us how news is come
      to-day of Mazarin's being dead, which is very great news and of great
      consequence.&mdash;[This report of the death of Cardinal Mazarin appears
      to have been premature, for he did not die until the 9th of March, 1661.]&mdash;I
      lay tonight with Mr. Shepley here, because of my Lord's going to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. My Lord went this morning on his journey to Hinchingbroke, Mr. Parker
      with him; the chief business being to look over and determine how, and in
      what manner, his great work of building shall be done. Before his going he
      did give me some jewells to keep for him, viz., that that the King of
      Sweden did give him, with the King's own picture in it, most excellently
      done; and a brave George, all of diamonds, and this with the greatest
      expressions of love and confidence that I could imagine or hope for, which
      is a very great joy to me. To the office all the forenoon. Then to dinner
      and so to Whitehall to Mr. Coventry about several businesses, and then
      with Mr. Moore, who went with me to drink a cup of ale, and after some
      good discourse then home and sat late talking with Sir W. Batten. So home
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. With Mr. Pierce, purser, to Westminster Hall, and there met with
      Captain Cuttance, Lieut. Lambert, and Pierce, surgeon, thinking to have
      met with the Commissioners of Parliament, but they not sitting, we went to
      the Swan, where I did give them a barrel of oysters; and so I to my Lady's
      and there dined, and had very much talk and pleasant discourse with my
      Lady, my esteem growing every day higher and higher in her and my Lord. So
      to my father Bowyer's where my wife was, and to the Commissioners of
      Parliament, and there did take some course about having my Lord's salary
      paid tomorrow when; the Charles is paid off, but I was troubled to see how
      high they carry themselves, when in good truth nobody cares for them. So
      home by coach and my wife. I then to the office, where Sir Williams both
      and I set about making an estimate of all the officers' salaries in
      ordinary in the Navy till 10 o'clock at night. So home, and I with my head
      full of thoughts how to get a little present money, I eat a bit of bread
      and cheese, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. At the office all the morning. At dinner Sir W. Batten came and took
      me and my wife to his house to dinner, my Lady being in the country, where
      we had a good Lenten dinner. Then to Whitehall with Captn. Cuttle, and
      there I did some business with Mr. Coventry, and after that home, thinking
      to have had Sir W. Batten, &amp;c., to have eat a wigg&mdash;[Wigg, a kind
      of north country bun or tea-cake, still so called, to my knowledge, in
      Staffordshire.&mdash;M. B.]&mdash;at my house at night. But my Lady being
      come home out of the country ill by reason of much rain that has fallen
      lately, and the waters being very high, we could not, and so I home and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. This morning Sir Williams both went to Woolwich to sell some old
      provisions there. I to Whitehall, and up and down about many businesses.
      Dined at my Lord's, then to Mr. Crew to Mr. Moore, and he and I to London
      to Guildhall to see the seamen paid off, but could not without trouble,
      and so I took him to the Fleece tavern, where the pretty woman that
      Luellin lately told me the story of dwells, but I could not see her. Then
      towards home and met Spicer, D. Vines, Ruddiard, and a company more of my
      old acquaintance, and went into a place to drink some ale, and there we
      staid playing the fool till late, and so I home. At home met with ill news
      that my hopes of getting some money for the Charles were spoiled through
      Mr. Waith's perverseness, which did so vex me that I could not sleep at
      night. But I wrote a letter to him to send to-morrow morning for him to
      take my money for me, and so with good words I thought to coy with him. To
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. All the morning at the office. At noon Sir W. Batten, Col. Slingsby
      and I by coach to the Tower, to Sir John Robinson's, to dinner; where
      great good cheer. High company; among others the Duchess of Albemarle, who
      is ever a plain homely dowdy. After dinner, to drink all the afternoon.
      Towards night the Duchess and ladies went away. Then we set to it again
      till it was very late. And at last came in Sir William Wale, almost
      fuddled; and because I was set between him and another, only to keep them
      from talking and spoiling the company (as we did to others), he fell out
      with the Lieutenant of the Tower; but with much ado we made him under
      stand his error, and then all quiet. And so he carried Sir William Batten
      and I home again in his coach, and so I almost overcome with drink went to
      bed. I was much contented to ride in such state into the Tower, and be
      received among such high company, while Mr. Mount, my Lady Duchess's
      gentleman usher, stood waiting at table, whom I ever thought a man so much
      above me in all respects; also to hear the discourse of so many high
      Cavaliers of things past. It was a great content and joy to me.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. To Whitehall and there with Mr. Creed took a most pleasant walk for
      two hours in the park, which is now a very fair place. Here we had a long
      and candid discourse one to another of one another's condition, and he
      giving me an occasion I told him of my intention to get L60 paid me by him
      for a gratuity for my labour extraordinary at sea. Which he did not seem
      unwilling to, and therefore I am very glad it is out. To my Lord's, where
      we found him lately come from Hinchingbroke, where he left my uncle very
      well, but my aunt not likely to live. I staid and dined with him. He took
      me aside, and asked me what the world spoke of the King's marriage. Which
      I answering as one that knew nothing, he enquired no further of me. But I
      do perceive by it that there is something in it that is ready to come out
      that the world knows not of yet. After dinner into London to Mrs. Turner's
      and my father's, made visits and then home, where I sat late making of my
      journal for four days past, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Heard Mr. Mills in the morning, a good sermon. Dined at
      home on a poor Lenten dinner of coleworts and bacon. In the afternoon
      again to church, and there heard one Castle, whom I knew of my year at
      Cambridge. He made a dull sermon. After sermon came my uncle and aunt
      Wight to see us, and we sat together a great while. Then to reading and at
      night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. At the office all the morning, dined at home and my father and Dr.
      Thos. Pepys with him upon a poor dinner, my wife being abroad. After
      dinner I went to the theatre, and there saw "Love's Mistress" done by
      them, which I do not like in some things as well as their acting in
      Salsbury Court. At night home and found my wife come home, and among other
      things she hath got her teeth new done by La Roche, and are indeed now
      pretty handsome, and I was much pleased with it. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. At the office about business all the morning, so to the Exchange,
      and there met with Nick Osborne lately married, and with him to the
      Fleece, where we drank a glass of wine. So home, where I found Mrs. Hunt
      in great trouble about her husband's losing of his place in the Excise.
      From thence to Guildhall, and there set my hand to the book before Colonel
      King for my sea pay, and blessed be God! they have cast me at midshipman's
      pay, which do make my heart very glad. So, home, and there had Sir W.
      Batten and my Lady and all their company and Capt. Browne and his wife to
      a collation at my house till it was late, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Early up in the morning to read "The Seaman's Grammar and
      Dictionary" I lately have got, which do please me exceeding well. At the
      office all the morning, dined at home, and Mrs. Turner, The. Joyce, and
      Mr. Armiger, and my father and mother with me, where they stand till I was
      weary of their company and so away. Then up to my chamber, and there set
      papers and things in order, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. With Sir W. Batten and Pen to Mr. Coventry's, and there had a
      dispute about my claim to the place of Purveyor of Petty-provisions, and
      at last to my content did conclude to have my hand to all the bills for
      these provisions and Mr. Turner to purvey them, because I would not have
      him to lose the place. Then to my Lord's, and so with Mr. Creed to an
      alehouse, where he told me a long story of his amours at Portsmouth to one
      of Mrs. Boat's daughters, which was very pleasant. Dined with my Lord and
      Lady, and so with Mr. Creed to the Theatre, and there saw "King and no
      King," well acted. Thence with him to the Cock alehouse at Temple Bar,
      where he did ask my advice about his amours, and I did give him it, which
      was to enquire into the condition of his competitor, who is a son of Mr.
      Gauden's, and that I promised to do for him, and he to make [what] use he
      can of it to his advantage. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. At the office all the morning. At noon Sir Williams both and I at a
      great fish dinner at the Dolphin, given us by two tax merchants, and very
      merry we were till night, and so home. This day my wife and Pall went to
      see my Lady Kingston, her brother's lady.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Early at Sir Wm. Pen's, and there before Mr. Turner did reconcile
      the business of the purveyance between us two. Then to Whitehall to my
      Lord's, and dined with him, and so to Whitefriars and saw "The Spanish
      Curate," in which I had no great content. So home, and was very much
      troubled that Will. staid out late, and went to bed early, intending not
      to let him come in, but by and by he comes and I did let him in, and he
      did tell me that he was at Guildhall helping to pay off the seamen, and
      cast the books late. Which since I found to be true. So to sleep, being in
      bed when he came.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). At church in the morning, a stranger preached a good
      honest and painfull sermon. My wife and I dined upon a chine of beef at
      Sir W. Batten's, so to church again. Then home, and put some papers in
      order. Then to supper at Sir W. Batten's again, where my wife by chance
      fell down and hurt her knees exceedingly. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. This morning early Sir W. Batten went to Rochester, where he expects
      to be chosen Parliament man. At the office all the morning, dined at home
      and with my wife to Westminster, where I had business with the
      Commissioner for paying the seamen about my Lord's pay, and my wife at
      Mrs. Hunt's. I called her home, and made inquiry at Greatorex's and in
      other places to hear of Mr. Barlow (thinking to hear that he is dead), but
      I cannot find it so, but the contrary. Home and called at my Lady
      Batten's, and supped there, and so home. This day an ambassador from
      Florence was brought into the town in state. Good hopes given me to-day
      that Mrs. Davis is going away from us, her husband going shortly to
      Ireland. Yesterday it was said was to be the day that the Princess
      Henrietta was to marry the Duke d'Anjou' in France. This day I found in
      the newes-booke that Roger Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the town, the
      first place that we hear of to have made their choice yet. To bed with my
      head and mind full of business, which do a little put me out of order, and
      I do find myself to become more and more thoughtful about getting of money
      than ever heretofore.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. We met at the office this morning about some particular business,
      and then I to Whitehall, and there dined with my Lord, and after dinner
      Mr. Creed and I to White-Fryars, where we saw "The Bondman" acted most
      excellently, and though I have seen it often, yet I am every time more and
      more pleased with Betterton's action. From thence with him and young Mr.
      Jones to Penell's in Fleet Street, and there we drank and talked a good
      while, and so I home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. At the office all the morning, dined at home and Mr. Creed and Mr.
      Shepley with me, and after dinner we did a good deal of business in my
      study about my Lord's accounts to be made up and presented to our office.
      That done to White Hall to Mr. Coventry, where I did some business with
      him, and so with Sir W. Pen (who I found with Mr. Coventry teaching of him
      upon the map to understand Jamaica).
    </p>
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     [Sir William Penn was well fitted to give this information, as it
     was he who took the island from the Spaniards in 1655.]
</pre>
    <p>
      By water in the dark home, and so to my Lady Batten's where my wife was,
      and there we sat and eat and drank till very late, and so home to bed. The
      great talk of the town is the strange election that the City of London
      made yesterday for Parliament-men; viz. Fowke, Love, Jones, and... men
      that are so far from being episcopall that they are thought to be
      Anabaptists; and chosen with a great deal of zeal, in spite of the other
      party that thought themselves very strong, calling out in the Hall, "No
      Bishops! no Lord Bishops!" It do make people to fear it may come to worse,
      by being an example to the country to do the same. And indeed the Bishops
      are so high, that very few do love them.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up very early, and to work and study in my chamber, and then to
      Whitehall to my Lord, and there did stay with him a good while discoursing
      upon his accounts. Here I staid with Mr. Creed all the morning, and at
      noon dined with my Lord, who was very merry, and after dinner we sang and
      fiddled a great while. Then I by water (Mr. Shepley, Pinkney, and others
      going part of the way) home, and then hard at work setting my papers in
      order, and writing letters till night, and so to bed. This day I saw the
      Florence Ambassador go to his audience, the weather very foul, and yet he
      and his company very gallant. After I was a-bed Sir W. Pen sent to desire
      me to go with him to-morrow morning to meet Sir W. Batten coming from
      Rochester.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. This morning I rose early, and my Lady Batten knocked at her door
      that comes into one of my chambers, and called me to know whether I and my
      wife were ready to go. So my wife got her ready, and about eight o'clock I
      got a horseback, and my Lady and her two daughters, and Sir W. Pen into
      coach, and so over London Bridge, and thence to Dartford. The day very
      pleasant, though the way bad. Here we met with Sir W. Batten, and some
      company along with him, who had assisted him in his election at Rochester;
      and so we dined and were very merry. At 5 o'clock we set out again in a
      coach home, and were very merry all the way. At Deptford we met with Mr.
      Newborne, and some other friends and their wives in a coach to meet us,
      and so they went home with us, and at Sir W. Batten's we supped, and
      thence to bed, my head akeing mightily through the wine that I drank
      to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      23d. All the morning at home putting papers in order, dined at home, and
      then out to the Red Bull (where I had not been since plays come up again),
      but coming too soon I went out again and walked all up and down the
      Charterhouse yard and Aldersgate street. At last came back again and went
      in, where I was led by a seaman that knew me, but is here as a servant, up
      to the tireing-room, where strange the confusion and disorder that there
      is among them in fitting themselves, especially here, where the clothes
      are very poor, and the actors but common fellows. At last into the Pitt,
      where I think there was not above ten more than myself, and not one
      hundred in the whole house. And the play, which is called "All's lost by
      Lust," poorly done; and with so much disorder, among others, that in the
      musique-room the boy that was to sing a song, not singing it right, his
      master fell about his ears and beat him so, that it put the whole house in
      an uprore. Thence homewards, and at the Mitre met my uncle Wight, and with
      him Lieut.-Col. Baron, who told us how Crofton, the great Presbyterian
      minister that had lately preached so highly against Bishops, is clapped up
      this day into the Tower. Which do please some, and displease others
      exceedingly. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). My wife and I to church, and then home with Sir W.
      Batten and my Lady to dinner, where very merry, and then to church again,
      where Mr. Mills made a good sermon. Home again, and after a walk in the
      garden Sir W. Batten's two daughters came and sat with us a while, and I
      then up to my chamber to read.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lady day). This morning came workmen to begin the making of me a new
      pair of stairs up out of my parler, which, with other work that I have to
      do, I doubt will keep me this two months and so long I shall be all in
      dirt; but the work do please me very well. To the office, and there all
      the morning, dined at home, and after dinner comes Mr. Salisbury to see
      me, and shewed me a face or two of his paynting, and indeed I perceive
      that he will be a great master. I took him to Whitehall with me by water,
      but he would not by any means be moved to go through bridge, and so we
      were fain to go round by the Old Swan. To my Lord's and there I shewed him
      the King's picture, which he intends to copy out in little. After that I
      and Captain Ferrers to Salisbury Court by water, and saw part of the
      "Queene's Maske." Then I to Mrs. Turner, and there staid talking late.
      The. Turner being in a great chafe, about being disappointed of a room to
      stand in at the Coronacion. Then to my father's, and there staid talking
      with my mother and him late about my dinner to-morrow. So homewards and
      took up a boy that had a lanthorn, that was picking up of rags, and got
      him to light me home, and had great discourse with him how he could get
      sometimes three or four bushells of rags in a day, and got 3d. a bushell
      for them, and many other discourses, what and how many ways there are for
      poor children to get their livings honestly. So home and I to bed at 12
      o'clock at night, being pleased well with the work that my workmen have
      begun to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up early to do business in my study. This is my great day that three
      years ago I was cut of the stone, and, blessed be God, I do yet find
      myself very free from pain again. All this morning I staid at home looking
      after my workmen to my great content about my stairs, and at noon by coach
      to my father's, where Mrs. Turner, The. Joyce, Mr. Morrice, Mr. Armiger,
      Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and his wife, my father and mother, and myself
      and my wife. Very merry at dinner; among other things, because Mrs. Turner
      and her company eat no flesh at all this Lent, and I had a great deal of
      good flesh which made their mouths water. After dinner Mrs. Pierce and her
      husband and I and my wife to Salisbury Court, where coming late he and she
      light of Col. Boone that made room for them, and I and my wife sat in the
      pit, and there met with Mr. Lewes and Tom Whitton, and saw "The Bondman"
      done to admiration. So home by coach, and after a view of what the workmen
      had done to-day I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up early to see my workmen at work. My brother Tom comes to me, and
      among other things I looked over my old clothes and did give him a suit of
      black stuff clothes and a hat and some shoes. At the office all the
      morning, where Sir G. Carteret comes, and there I did get him to promise
      me some money upon a bill of exchange, whereby I shall secure myself of
      L60 which otherwise I should not know how to get. At noon I found my
      stairs quite broke down, that I could not get up but by a ladder; and my
      wife not being well she kept her chamber all this day. To the Dolphin to a
      dinner of Mr. Harris's, where Sir Williams both and my Lady Batten, and
      her two daughters, and other company, where a great deal of mirth, and
      there staid till 11 o'clock at night; and in our mirth I sang and
      sometimes fiddled (there being a noise of fiddlers there), and at last we
      fell to dancing, the first time that ever I did in my life, which I did
      wonder to see myself to do. At last we made Mingo, Sir W. Batten's black,
      and Jack, Sir W. Pen's, dance, and it was strange how the first did dance
      with a great deal of seeming skill. Home, where I found my wife all day in
      her chamber. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up early among my workmen, then Mr. Creed coming to see me I went
      along with him to Sir Robert Slingsby (he being newly maister of that
      title by being made a Baronett) to discourse about Mr. Creed's accounts to
      be made up, and from thence by coach to my cozen Thomas Pepys, to borrow
      L1000 for my Lord, which I am to expect an answer to tomorrow. So to my
      Lord's, and there staid and dined, and after dinner did get my Lord to
      view Mr. Shepley's accounts as I had examined them, and also to sign me a
      bond for my L500. Then with Mr. Shepley to the Theatre and saw "Rollo" ill
      acted. That done to drink a cup of ale and so by coach to London, and
      having set him down in Cheapside I went home, where I found a great deal
      of work done to-day, and also L70 paid me by the Treasurer upon the bill
      of exchange that I have had hopes of so long, so that, my heart in great
      content; I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up among my workmen with great pleasure. Then to the office, where I
      found Sir W. Pen sent down yesterday to Chatham to get two great ships in
      readiness presently to go to the East Indies upon some design against the
      Dutch, we think, at Goa but it is a great secret yet. Dined at home, came
      Mr. Shepley and Moore, and did business with both of them. After that to
      Sir W. Batten's, where great store of company at dinner. Among others my
      schoolfellow, Mr. Christmas, where very merry, and hither came letters
      from above for the fitting of two other ships for the East Indies in all
      haste, and so we got orders presently for the Hampshire and Nonsuch. Then
      home and there put some papers in order, and not knowing what to do, the
      house being so dirty, I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. At the office we and Sir W. Rider to advise what sort of provisions
      to get ready for these ships going to the Indies. Then the Comptroller and
      I by water to Mr. Coventry, and there discoursed upon the same thing. So
      to my coz. Tho. Pepys, and got him to promise me L1,000 to lend my Lord
      upon his and my uncle Robert's and my security. So to my Lord's, and there
      got him to sign a bond to him, which I also signed too, and he did sign
      counter security to us both. Then into London up and down and drank a pint
      of wine with Mr. Creed, and so home and sent a letter and the bonds to my
      uncle to sign for my Lord. This day I spoke with Dr. Castle about making
      up the dividend for the last quarter, and agreed to meet about it on
      Monday.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st (Sunday). At church, where a stranger preached like a fool. From
      thence home and dined with my wife, she staying at home, being unwilling
      to dress herself, the house being all dirty. To church again, and after
      sermon I walked to my father's, and to Mrs. Turner's, where I could not
      woo The. to give me a lesson upon the harpsicon and was angry at it. So
      home and finding Will abroad at Sir W. Batten's talking with the people
      there (Sir W. and my Lady being in the country), I took occasion to be
      angry with him, and so to prayers and to bed.
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    <p>
      April 1st, 1661. This day my waiting at the Privy Seal comes in again. Up
      early among my workmen. So to the once, and went home to dinner with Sir
      W. Batten, and after that to the Goat tavern by Charing Cross to meet Dr.
      Castle, where he and I drank a pint of wine and talked about Privy Seal
      business. Then to the Privy Seal Office and there found Mr. Moore, but no
      business yet. Then to Whitefryars, and there saw part of "Rule a wife and
      have a wife," which I never saw before, but do not like it. So to my
      father, and there finding a discontent between my father and mother about
      the maid (which my father likes and my mother dislikes), I staid till 10
      at night, persuading my mother to understand herself, and that in some
      high words, which I was sorry for, but she is grown, poor woman, very
      froward. So leaving them in the same discontent I went away home, it being
      a brave moonshine, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. Among my workmen early and then along with my wife and Pall to my
      Father's by coach there to have them lie a while till my house be done. I
      found my mother alone weeping upon my last night's quarrel and so left
      her, and took my wife to Charing Cross and there left her to see her
      mother who is not well. So I into St. James's Park, where I saw the Duke
      of York playing at Pelemele,
    </p>
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     [The game was originally played in the road now styled Pall Mall,
     near St. James's Square, but at the Restoration when sports came in
     fashion again the street was so much built over, that it became
     necessary to find another ground.  The Mall in St. James's Park was
     then laid out for the purpose.]

 the first time that ever I saw the sport.  Then to my Lord's, where I
dined with my Lady, and after we had dined in comes my Lord and Ned
Pickering hungry, and there was not a bit of meat left in the house, the
servants having eat up all, at which my Lord was very angry, and at last
got something dressed. Then to the Privy Seal, and signed some things,
and so to White-fryars and saw "The Little Thiefe," which is a very
merry and pretty play, and the little boy do very well. Then to my
Father's, where I found my mother and my wife in a very good mood, and
so left them and went home. Then to the Dolphin to Sir W. Batten, and
Pen, and other company; among others Mr. Delabar; where strange how
these men, who at other times are all wise men, do now, in their drink,
betwitt and reproach one another with their former conditions, and their
actions as in public concernments, till I was ashamed to see it. But
parted all friends at 12 at night after drinking a great deal of wine.
So home and alone to bed.
</pre>
    <p>
      3rd. Up among my workmen, my head akeing all day from last night's
      debauch. To the office all the morning, and at noon dined with Sir W.
      Batten and Pen, who would needs have me drink two drafts of sack to-day to
      cure me of last night's disease, which I thought strange but I think find
      it true.
    </p>
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     [The proverb, "A hair of the dog that bit you," which probably had
     originally a literal meaning, has long been used to inculcate the
     advice of the two Sir Williams.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Then home with my workmen all the afternoon, at night into the garden to
      play on my flageolette, it being moonshine, where I staid a good while,
      and so home and to bed. This day I hear that the Dutch have sent the King
      a great present of money, which we think will stop the match with
      Portugal; and judge this to be the reason that our so great haste in
      sending the two ships to the East Indys is also stayed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. To my workmen, then to my Lord's, and there dined with Mr. Shepley.
      After dinner I went in to my Lord and there we had a great deal of
      musique, and then came my cozen Tom Pepys and there did accept of the
      security which we gave him for his L1000 that we borrow of him, and so the
      money to be paid next week. Then to the Privy Seal, and so with Mr. Moore
      to my father's, where some friends did sup there and we with them and late
      went home, leaving my wife still there. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th: Up among my workmen and so to the office, and then to Sir W. Pen's
      with the other Sir William and Sir John Lawson to dinner, and after that,
      with them to Mr. Lucy's, a merchant, where much good company, and there
      drank a great deal of wine, and in discourse fell to talk of the weight of
      people, which did occasion some wagers, and where, among others, I won
      half a piece to be spent. Then home, and at night to Sir W. Batten's, and
      there very merry with a good barrell of oysters, and this is the present
      life I lead. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up among my workmen, then to Whitehall, and there at Privy Seal and
      elsewhere did business, and among other things met with Mr. Townsend, who
      told of his mistake the other day, to put both his legs through one of his
      knees of his breeches, and went so all day. Then with Mr. Creed and Moore
      to the Leg in the Palace to dinner which I gave them, and after dinner I
      saw the girl of the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, and I
      went in after her and kissed her. Then by water, Creed and I, to Salisbury
      Court and there saw "Love's Quarrell" acted the first time, but I do not
      like the design or words. So calling at my father's, where they and my
      wife well, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). All the morning at home making up my accounts (God
      forgive me!) to give up to my Lord this afternoon. Then about 11 o'clock
      out of doors towards Westminster and put in at Paul's, where I saw our
      minister, Mr. Mills, preaching before my Lord Mayor. So to White Hall, and
      there I met with Dr. Fuller of Twickenham, newly come from Ireland; and
      took him to my Lord's, where he and I dined; and he did give my Lord and
      me a good account of the condition of Ireland, and how it come to pass,
      through the joyning of the Fanatiques and the Presbyterians, that the
      latter and the former are in their declaration put together under the
      names of Fanatiques. After dinner, my Lord and I and Mr. Shepley did look
      over our accounts and settle matters of money between us; and my Lord did
      tell me much of his mind about getting money and other things of his
      family, &amp;c. Then to my father's, where I found Mr. Hunt and his wife
      at supper with my father and mother and my wife, where after supper I left
      them and so home, and then I went to Sir W. Batten's and resolved of a
      journey tomorrow to Chatham, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up early, my Lady Batten knocking at her door that comes into one of
      my chambers. I did give directions to my people and workmen, and so about
      8 o'clock we took barge at the Tower, Sir William Batten and his lady,
      Mrs. Turner, Mr. Fowler and I. A very pleasant passage and so to
      Gravesend, where we dined, and from thence a coach took them and me, and
      Mr. Fowler with some others came from Rochester to meet us, on horseback.
      At Rochester, where alight at Mr. Alcock's and there drank and had good
      sport, with his bringing out so many sorts of cheese. Then to the
      Hillhouse at Chatham, where I never was before, and I found a pretty
      pleasant house and am pleased with the arms that hang up there. Here we
      supped very merry, and late to bed; Sir William telling me that old
      Edgeborrow, his predecessor, did die and walk in my chamber, did make me
      some what afeard, but not so much as for mirth's sake I did seem. So to
      bed in the treasurer's chamber.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. And lay and slept well till 3 in the morning, and then waking, and by
      the light of the moon I saw my pillow (which overnight I flung from me)
      stand upright, but not bethinking myself what it might be, I was a little
      afeard, but sleep overcame all and so lay till high morning, at which time
      I had a candle brought me and a good fire made, and in general it was a
      great pleasure all the time I staid here to see how I am respected and
      honoured by all people; and I find that I begin to know now how to receive
      so much reverence, which at the beginning I could not tell how to do. Sir
      William and I by coach to the dock and there viewed all the storehouses
      and the old goods that are this day to be sold, which was great pleasure
      to me, and so back again by coach home, where we had a good dinner, and
      among other strangers that come, there was Mr. Hempson and his wife, a
      pretty woman, and speaks Latin; Mr. Allen and two daughters of his, both
      very tall and the youngest very handsome, so much as I could not forbear
      to love her exceedingly, having, among other things, the best hand that
      ever I saw. After dinner, we went to fit books and things (Tom Hater being
      this morning come to us) for the sale, by an inch of candle, and very good
      sport we and the ladies that stood by had, to see the people bid. Among
      other things sold there was all the State's arms, which Sir W. Batten
      bought; intending to set up some of the images in his garden, and the rest
      to burn on the Coronacion night. The sale being done, the ladies and I and
      Captain Pett and Mr. Castle took barge and down we went to see the
      Sovereign, which we did, taking great pleasure therein, singing all the
      way, and, among other pleasures, I put my Lady, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Hempson,
      and the two Mrs. Allens into the lanthorn and I went in and kissed them,
      demanding it as a fee due to a principall officer, with all which we were
      exceeding merry, and drunk some bottles of wine and neat's tongue, &amp;c.
      Then back again home and so supped, and after much mirth to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. In the morning to see the Dockhouses. First, Mr. Pett's, the
      builder, and there was very kindly received, and among other things he did
      offer my Lady Batten a parrot, the best I ever saw, that knew Mingo so
      soon as it saw him, having been bred formerly in the house with them; but
      for talking and singing I never heard the like. My Lady did accept of it:
      Then to see Commissioner Pett's house, he and his family being absent, and
      here I wondered how my Lady Batten walked up and down with envious looks
      to see how neat and rich everything is (and indeed both the house and
      garden is most handsome), saying that she would get it, for it belonged
      formerly to the Surveyor of the Navy. Then on board the Prince, now in the
      dock, and indeed it has one and no more rich cabins for carved work, but
      no gold in her. After that back home, and there eat a little dinner. Then
      to Rochester, and there saw the Cathedrall, which is now fitting for use,
      and the organ then a-tuning. Then away thence, observing the great doors
      of the church, which, they say, was covered with the skins of the Danes,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Traditions similar to that at Rochester, here alluded to, are to be
     found in other places in England.  Sir Harry Englefield, in a
     communication made to the Society of Antiquaries, July 2nd, 1789,
     called attention to the curious popular tale preserved in the
     village of Hadstock, Essex, that the door of the church had been
     covered with the skin of a Danish pirate, who had plundered the
     church.  At Worcester, likewise, it was asserted that the north
     doors of the cathedral had been covered with the skin of a person
     who had sacrilegiously robbed the high altar.  The date of these
     doors appears to be the latter part of the fourteenth century, the
     north porch having been built about 1385.  Dart, in his "History of
     the Abbey Church of St. Peter's, Westminster," 1723 (vol. i., book
     ii., p. 64), relates a like tradition then preserved in reference to
     a door, one of three which closed off a chamber from the south
     transept&mdash;namely, a certain building once known as the Chapel of
     Henry VIII., and used as a "Revestry."  This chamber, he states, "is
     inclosed with three doors, the inner cancellated, the middle, which
     is very thick, lined with skins like parchment, and driven full of
     nails.  These skins, they by tradition tell us, were some skins of
     the Danes, tann'd and given here as a memorial of our delivery from
     them."  Portions of this supposed human skin were examined under the
     microscope by the late Mr. John Quekett of the Hunterian Museum, who
     ascertained, beyond question, that in each of the cases the skin was
     human.  From a communication by the late Mr. Albert Way, F.S.A., to
     the late Lord Braybrooke.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and also had much mirth at a tomb, on which was "Come sweet Jesu," and I
      read "Come sweet Mall," &amp;c., at which Captain Pett and I had good
      laughter. So to the Salutacion tavern, where Mr. Alcock and many of the
      town came and entertained us with wine and oysters and other things, and
      hither come Sir John Minnes to us, who is come to-day to see "the Henery,"
      in which he intends to ride as Vice-Admiral in the narrow seas all this
      summer. Here much mirth, but I was a little troubled to stay too long,
      because of going to Hempson's, which afterwards we did, and found it in
      all things a most pretty house, and rarely furnished, only it had a most
      ill access on all sides to it, which is a greatest fault that I think can
      be in a house. Here we had, for my sake, two fiddles, the one a base
      viall, on which he that played, played well some lyra lessons, but both
      together made the worst musique that ever I heard. We had a fine
      collacion, but I took little pleasure in that, for the illness of the
      musique and for the intentness of my mind upon Mrs. Rebecca Allen. After
      we had done eating, the ladies went to dance, and among the men we had, I
      was forced to dance too; and did make an ugly shift. Mrs. R. Allen danced
      very well, and seems the best humoured woman that ever I saw. About 9
      o'clock Sir William and my Lady went home, and we continued dancing an
      hour or two, and so broke up very pleasant and merry, and so walked home,
      I leading Mrs. Rebecca, who seemed, I know not why, in that and other
      things, to be desirous of my favours and would in all things show me
      respects. Going home, she would needs have me sing, and I did pretty well
      and was highly esteemed by them. So to Captain Allen's (where we were last
      night, and heard him play on the harpsicon, and I find him to be a perfect
      good musician), and there, having no mind to leave Mrs. Rebecca, what with
      talk and singing (her father and I), Mrs. Turner and I staid there till 2
      o'clock in the morning and was most exceeding merry, and I had the
      opportunity of kissing Mrs. Rebecca very often. Among other things Captain
      Pett was saying that he thought that he had got his wife with child since
      I came thither. Which I took hold of and was merrily asking him what he
      would take to have it said for my honour that it was of my getting? He
      merrily answered that he would if I would promise to be godfather to it if
      it did come within the time just, and I said that I would. So that I must
      remember to compute it when the time comes.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. At 2 o'clock, with very great mirth, we went to our lodging and to
      bed, and lay till 7, and then called up by Sir W. Batten, so I arose and
      we did some business, and then came Captn. Allen, and he and I withdrew
      and sang a song or two, and among others took pleasure in "Goe and bee
      hanged, that's good-bye." The young ladies come too, and so I did again
      please myself with Mrs. Rebecca, and about 9 o'clock, after we had
      breakfasted, we sett forth for London, and indeed I was a little troubled
      to part with Mrs. Rebecca, for which God forgive me. Thus we went away
      through Rochester, calling and taking leave of Mr. Alcock at the door,
      Capt. Cuttance going with us. We baited at Dartford, and thence to London,
      but of all the journeys that ever I made this was the merriest, and I was
      in a strange mood for mirth.
    </p>
    <p>
      Among other things, I got my Lady to let her maid, Mrs. Anne, to ride all
      the way on horseback, and she rides exceeding well; and so I called her my
      clerk, that she went to wait upon me. I met two little schoolboys going
      with pitchers of ale to their schoolmaster to break up against Easter, and
      I did drink of some of one of them and give him two pence. By and by we
      come to two little girls keeping cows, and I saw one of them very pretty,
      so I had a mind to make her ask my blessing, and telling her that I was
      her godfather, she asked me innocently whether I was not Ned Wooding, and
      I said that I was, so she kneeled down and very simply called, "Pray,
      godfather, pray to God to bless me," which made us very merry, and I gave
      her twopence. In several places, I asked women whether they would sell me
      their children, but they denied me all, but said they would give me one to
      keep for them, if I would. Mrs. Anne and I rode under the man that hangs
      upon Shooter's Hill,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Shooter's Hill, Kent, between the eighth and ninth milestones on
     the Dover road.  It was long a notorious haunt of highwaymen.  The
     custom was to leave the bodies of criminals hanging until the bones
     fell to the ground.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and a filthy sight it was to see how his flesh is shrunk to his bones. So
      home and I found all well, and a deal of work done since I went. I sent to
      see how my wife do, who is well, and my brother John come from Cambridge.
      To Sir W. Batten's and there supped, and very merry with the young ladles.
      So to bed very sleepy for last night's work, concluding that it is the
      pleasantest journey in all respects that ever I had in my life.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up among my workmen, and about 7 o'clock comes my wife to see me and
      my brother John with her, who I am glad to see, but I sent them away
      because of going to the office, and there dined with Sir W. Batten, all
      fish dinner, it being Good Friday. Then home and looking over my workmen,
      and then into the City and saw in what forwardness all things are for the
      Coronacion, which will be very magnificent. Then back again home and to my
      chamber, to set down in my diary all my late journey, which I do with
      great pleasure; and while I am now writing comes one with a tickett to
      invite me to Captain Robert Blake's buriall, for whose death I am very
      sorry, and do much wonder at it, he being a little while since a very
      likely man to live as any I knew. Since my going out of town, there is one
      Alexander Rosse taken and sent to the Counter by Sir Thomas Allen, for
      counterfeiting my hand to a ticket, and we this day at the office have
      given order to Mr. Smith to prosecute him. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. To Whitehall by water from Towre-wharf, where we could not pass the
      ordinary way, because they were mending of the great stone steps against
      the Coronacion. With Sir W. Pen, then to my Lord's, and thence with Capt.
      Cuttance and Capt. Clark to drink our morning draught together, and before
      we could get back again my Lord was gone out. So to Whitehall again and,
      met with my Lord above with the Duke; and after a little talk with him, I
      went to the Banquethouse, and there saw the King heal, the first time that
      ever I saw him do it; which he did with great gravity, and it seemed to me
      to be an ugly office and a simple one. That done to my Lord's and dined
      there, and so by water with parson Turner towards London, and upon my
      telling of him of Mr. Moore to be a fit man to do his business with Bishop
      Wren, about which he was going, he went back out of my boat into another
      to Whitehall, and so I forwards home and there by and by took coach with
      Sir W. Pen and Captain Terne and went to the buriall of Captain Robert
      Blake, at Wapping, and there had each of us a ring, but it being dirty, we
      would not go to church with them, but with our coach we returned home, and
      there staid a little, and then he and I alone to the Dolphin (Sir W.
      Batten being this day gone with his wife to Walthamstow to keep Easter),
      and there had a supper by ourselves, we both being very hungry, and
      staying there late drinking I became very sleepy, and so we went home and
      I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Easter. Lord's day). In the morning towards my father's, and by the
      way heard Mr. Jacomb, at Ludgate, upon these words, "Christ loved you and
      therefore let us love one another," and made a lazy sermon, like a
      Presbyterian. Then to my father's and dined there, and Dr. Fairbrother
      (lately come to town) with us. After dinner I went to the Temple and there
      heard Dr. Griffith, a good sermon for the day; so with Mr. Moore (whom I
      met there) to my Lord's, and there he shewed me a copy of my Lord
      Chancellor's patent for Earl, and I read the preamble, which is very
      short, modest, and good. Here my Lord saw us and spoke to me about getting
      Mr. Moore to come and govern his house while he goes to sea, which I
      promised him to do and did afterwards speak to Mr. Moore, and he is
      willing. Then hearing that Mr. Barnwell was come, with some of my Lord's
      little children, yesterday to town, to see the Coronacion, I went and
      found them at the Goat, at Charing Cross, and there I went and drank with
      them a good while, whom I found in very good health and very merry Then to
      my father's, and after supper seemed willing to go home, and my wife
      seeming to be so too I went away in a discontent, but she, poor wretch,
      followed me as far in the rain and dark as Fleet Bridge to fetch me back
      again, and so I did, and lay with her to-night, which I have not done
      these eight or ten days before.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. From my father's, it being a very foul morning for the King and
      Lords to go to Windsor, I went to the office and there met Mr. Coventry
      and Sir Robt. Slingsby, but did no business, but only appoint to go to
      Deptford together tomorrow. Mr. Coventry being gone, and I having at home
      laid up L200 which I had brought this morning home from Alderman
      Backwell's, I went home by coach with Sir R. Slingsby and dined with him,
      and had a very good dinner. His lady' seems a good woman and very desirous
      they were to hear this noon by the post how the election has gone at
      Newcastle, wherein he is concerned, but the letters are not come yet. To
      my uncle Wight's, and after a little stay with them he and I to Mr.
      Rawlinson's, and there staid all the afternoon, it being very foul, and
      had a little talk with him what good I might make of these ships that go
      to Portugal by venturing some money by them, and he will give me an answer
      to it shortly. So home and sent for the Barber, and after that to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. So soon as word was brought me that Mr. Coventry was come with the
      barge to the Towre, I went to him, and found him reading of the Psalms in
      short hand (which he is now busy about), and had good sport about the long
      marks that are made there for sentences in divinity, which he is never
      like to make use of. Here he and I sat till the Comptroller came and then
      we put off for Deptford, where we went on board the King's pleasure boat
      that Commissioner Pett is making, and indeed it will be a most pretty
      thing. From thence to Commr. Pett's lodging, and there had a good
      breakfast, and in came the two Sir Wms. from Walthamstow, and so we sat
      down and did a great deal of public business about the fitting of the
      fleet that is now going out. That done we went to the Globe and there had
      a good dinner, and by and by took barge again and so home. By the way they
      would have me sing, which I did to Mr. Coventry, who went up to Sir
      William Batten's, and there we staid and talked a good while, and then
      broke up and I home, and then to my father's and there lay with my wife.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. By land and saw the arches, which are now almost done and are very
      fine, and I saw the picture of the ships and other things this morning,
      set up before the East Indy House, which are well done. So to the office,
      and that being done I went to dinner with Sir W. Batten, and then home to
      my workmen, and saw them go on with great content to me. Then comes Mr.
      Allen of Chatham, and I took him to the Mitre and there did drink with
      him, and did get of him the song that pleased me so well there the other
      day, "Of Shitten come Shites the beginning of love." His daughters are to
      come to town to-morrow, but I know not whether I shall see them or no.
      That done I went to the Dolphin by appointment and there I met Sir Wms.
      both and Mr. Castle, and did eat a barrel of oysters and two lobsters,
      which I did give them, and were very merry. Here we had great talk of Mr.
      Warren's being knighted by the King, and Sir W. B. seemed to be very much
      incensed against him. So home.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up with my workmen and then about 9 o'clock took horse with both the
      Sir Williams for Walthamstow, and there we found my Lady and her daughters
      all; and a pleasant day it was, and all things else, but that my Lady was
      in a bad mood, which we were troubled at, and had she been noble she would
      not have been so with her servants, when we came thither, and this Sir W.
      Pen took notice of, as well as I. After dinner we all went to the Church
      stile, and there eat and drank, and I was as merry as I could counterfeit
      myself to be. Then, it raining hard, we left Sir W. Batten, and we two
      returned and called at Mr.&mdash;&mdash;and drank some brave wine there,
      and then homewards again and in our way met with two country fellows upon
      one horse, which I did, without much ado, give the way to, but Sir W. Pen
      would not, but struck them and they him, and so passed away, but they
      giving him some high words, he went back again and struck them off their
      horse, in a simple fury, and without much honour, in my mind, and so came
      away. Home, and I sat with him a good while talking, and then home and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Among my workmen and then to the office, and after that dined with
      Sir W. Batten, and then home, where Sir W. Warren came, and I took him and
      Mr. Shepley and Moore with me to the Mitre, and there I cleared with
      Warren for the deals I bought lately for my Lord of him, and he went away,
      and we staid afterwards a good while and talked, and so parted, it being
      so foul that I could not go to Whitehall to see the Knights of the Bath
      made to-day, which do trouble me mightily. So home, and having staid
      awhile till Will came in (with whom I was vexed for staying abroad), he
      comes and then I went by water to my father's, and then after supper to
      bed with my wife.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Here comes my boy to tell me that the Duke of York had sent for all
      the principal officers, &amp;c., to come to him to-day. So I went by water
      to Mr. Coventry's, and there staid and talked a good while with him till
      all the rest come. We went up and saw the Duke dress himself, and in his
      night habitt he is a very plain man. Then he sent us to his closett, where
      we saw among other things two very fine chests, covered with gold and
      Indian varnish, given him by the East Indy Company of Holland. The Duke
      comes; and after he had told us that the fleet was designed for Algier
      (which was kept from us till now), we did advise about many things as to
      the fitting of the fleet, and so went away. And from thence to the Privy
      Seal, where little to do, and after that took Mr. Creed and Moore and gave
      them their morning draught, and after that to my Lord's, where Sir W. Pen
      came to me, and dined with my Lord. After dinner he and others that dined
      there went away, and then my Lord looked upon his pages' and footmen's
      liverys, which are come home to-day, and will be handsome, though not
      gaudy. Then with my Lady and my Lady Wright to White Hall; and in the
      Banqueting-house saw the King create my Lord Chancellor and several
      others, Earls, and Mr. Crew and several others, Barons: the first being
      led up by Heralds and five old Earls to the King, and there the patent is
      read, and the King puts on his vest, and sword, and coronet, and gives him
      the patent. And then he kisseth the King's hand, and rises and stands
      covered before the king. And the same for the Barons, only he is led up
      but by three of the old Barons, and are girt with swords before they go to
      the King. That being done (which was very pleasant to see their habits), I
      carried my Lady back, and I found my Lord angry, for that his page had let
      my Lord's new beaver be changed for an old hat; then I went away, and with
      Mr. Creed to the Exchange and bought some things, as gloves and
      bandstrings, &amp;c. So back to the Cockpitt, and there, by the favour of
      one Mr. Bowman, he and I got in, and there saw the King and Duke of York
      and his Duchess (which is a plain woman, and like her mother, my Lady
      Chancellor). And so saw "The Humersome Lieutenant" acted before the King,
      but not very well done.
    </p>
    <p>
      But my pleasure was great to see the manner of it, and so many great
      beauties, but above all Mrs. Palmer, with whom the King do discover a
      great deal of familiarity. So Mr. Creed and I (the play being done) went
      to Mrs. Harper's, and there sat and drank, it being about twelve at night.
      The ways being now so dirty, and stopped up with the rayles which are this
      day set up in the streets, I would not go home, but went with him to his
      lodging at Mr. Ware's, and there lay all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). In the morning we were troubled to hear it rain as it
      did, because of the great show tomorrow. After I was ready I walked to my
      father's and there found the late maid to be gone and another come by my
      mother's choice, which my father do not like, and so great difference
      there will be between my father and mother about it. Here dined Doctor
      Thos. Pepys and Dr. Fayrebrother; and all our talk about to-morrow's show,
      and our trouble that it is like to be a wet day. After dinner comes in my
      coz. Snow and his wife, and I think stay there till the show be over. Then
      I went home, and all the way is so thronged with people to see the
      triumphal arches, that I could hardly pass for them. So home, people being
      at church, and I got home unseen, and so up to my chamber and saw done
      these last five or six days' diarys. My mind a little troubled about my
      workmen, which, being foreigners,&mdash;[Foreigners were workmen dwelling
      outside the city.]&mdash;are like to be troubled by a couple of lazy
      rogues that worked with me the other day, that are citizens, and so my
      work will be hindered, but I must prevent it if I can.
    </p>
    <p>
      22d. KING'S GOING FROM YE TOWER TO WHITE HALL.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The king in the early morning of the 22nd went from Whitehall to
     the Tower by water, so that he might proceed from thence through the
     City to Westminster Abbey, there to be crowned.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Up early and made myself as fine as I could, and put on my velvet coat,
      the first day that I put it on, though made half a year ago. And being
      ready, Sir W. Batten, my Lady, and his two daughters and his son and wife,
      and Sir W. Pen and his son and I, went to Mr. Young's, the flag-maker, in
      Corne-hill;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The members of the Navy Office appear to have chosen Mr. Young's
     house on account of its nearness to the second triumphal arch,
     situated near the Royal Exchange, which was dedicated to the Navy.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and there we had a good room to ourselves, with wine and good cake, and
      saw the show very well. In which it is impossible to relate the glory of
      this day, expressed in the clothes of them that rid, and their horses and
      horses clothes, among others, my Lord Sandwich's. Embroidery and diamonds
      were ordinary among them. The Knights of the Bath was a brave sight of
      itself; and their Esquires, among which Mr. Armiger was an Esquire to one
      of the Knights. Remarquable were the two men that represent the two Dukes
      of Normandy and Aquitane. The Bishops come next after Barons, which is the
      higher place; which makes me think that the next Parliament they will be
      called to the House of Lords. My Lord Monk rode bare after the King, and
      led in his hand a spare horse, as being Master of the Horse. The King, in
      a most rich embroidered suit and cloak, looked most noble. Wadlow,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Simon Wadlow was the original of "old Sir Simon the king," the
     favourite air of Squire Western in "Tom Jones."

              "Hang up all the poor hop-drinkers,
               Cries old Sim, the king of skinkers."

     Ben Jonson, Verses over the door into the Apollo.]
</pre>
    <p>
      the vintner, at the Devil; in Fleetstreet, did lead a fine company of
      soldiers, all young comely men, in white doublets. There followed the
      Vice-Chamberlain, Sir G. Carteret, a company of men all like Turks; but I
      know not yet what they are for. The streets all gravelled, and the houses
      hung with carpets before them, made brave show, and the ladies out of the
      windows, one of which over against us I took much notice of, and spoke of
      her, which made good sport among us. So glorious was the show with gold
      and silver, that we were not able to look at it, our eyes at last being so
      much overcome with it. Both the King and the Duke of York took notice of
      us, as he saw us at the window. The show being ended, Mr. Young did give
      us a dinner, at which we were very merry, and pleased above imagination at
      what we have seen. Sir W. Batten going home, he and I called and drunk
      some mum
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Mum.  Ale brewed with wheat at Brunswick.

              "Sedulous and stout
               With bowls of fattening mum."

     J. Phillips, Cyder, Vol. ii.  p. 231.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and laid our wager about my Lady Faulconbridge's name,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Mary, third daughter of Oliver Cromwell, and second wife of Thomas
     Bellasis, second Viscount Fauconberg, created Earl of Fauconberg,
     April 9th, 1689.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which he says not to be Mary, and so I won above 20s. So home, where Will
      and the boy staid and saw the show upon Towre Hill, and Jane at T.
      Pepys's, The. Turner, and my wife at Charles Glassecocke's, in Fleet
      Street. In the evening by water to White Hall to my Lord's, and there I
      spoke with my Lord. He talked with me about his suit, which was made in
      France, and cost him L200, and very rich it is with embroidery. I lay with
      Mr. Shepley, and
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
                             CORONACION DAY.
</pre>
    <p>
      23d. About 4 I rose and got to the Abbey, where I followed Sir J. Denham,
      the Surveyor, with some company that he was leading in. And with much ado,
      by the favour of Mr. Cooper, his man, did get up into a great scaffold
      across the North end of the Abbey, where with a great deal of patience I
      sat from past 4 till 11 before the King came in. And a great pleasure it
      was to see the Abbey raised in the middle, all covered with red, and a
      throne (that is a chair) and footstool on the top of it; and all the
      officers of all kinds, so much as the very fidlers, in red vests. At last
      comes in the Dean and Prebends of Westminster, with the Bishops (many of
      them in cloth of gold copes), and after them the Nobility, all in their
      Parliament robes, which was a most magnificent sight. Then the Duke, and
      the King with a scepter (carried by my Lord Sandwich) and sword and mond
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Mond or orb of gold, with a cross set with precious stones, carried
     by the Duke of Buckingham.]
</pre>
    <p>
      before him, and the crown too. The King in his robes, bare-headed, which
      was very fine. And after all had placed themselves, there was a sermon and
      the service; and then in the Quire at the high altar, the King passed
      through all the ceremonies of the Coronacon, which to my great grief I and
      most in the Abbey could not see. The crown being put upon his head, a
      great shout begun, and he came forth to the throne, and there passed more
      ceremonies: as taking the oath, and having things read to him by the
      Bishop; and his lords (who put on their caps as soon as the King put on
      his crown)
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [As yet barons had no coronet.  A grant of that outward mark of
     dignity was made to them by Charles soon after his coronation.
     Queen Elizabeth had assigned coronets to viscounts.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and bishops come, and kneeled before him. And three times the King at Arms
      went to the three open places on the scaffold, and proclaimed, that if any
      one could show any reason why Charles Stewart should not be King of
      England, that now he should come and speak. And a Generall Pardon also was
      read by the Lord Chancellor, and meddalls flung up and down by my Lord
      Cornwallis, of silver, but I could not come by any. But so great a noise
      that I could make but little of the musique; and indeed, it was lost to
      every body. But I had so great a lust to.... that I went out a little
      while before the King had done all his ceremonies, and went round the
      Abbey to Westminster Hall, all the way within rayles, and 10,000 people,
      with the ground covered with blue cloth; and scaffolds all the way. Into
      the Hall I got, where it was very fine with hangings and scaffolds one
      upon another full of brave ladies; and my wife in one little one, on the
      right hand. Here I staid walking up and down, and at last upon one of the
      side stalls I stood and saw the King come in with all the persons (but the
      soldiers) that were yesterday in the cavalcade; and a most pleasant sight
      it was to see them in their several robes. And the King came in with his
      crown on, and his sceptre in his hand, under a canopy borne up by six
      silver staves, carried by Barons of the Cinque Ports,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys was himself one of the Barons of the Cinque Ports at the
     Coronation of James II.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and little bells at every end. And after a long time, he got up to the
      farther end, and all set themselves down at their several tables; and that
      was also a brave sight: and the King's first course carried up by the
      Knights of the Bath. And many fine ceremonies there was of the Heralds
      leading up people before him, and bowing; and my Lord of Albemarle's going
      to the kitchin and eat a bit of the first dish that was to go to the
      King's table. But, above all, was these three Lords, Northumberland, and
      Suffolk, and the Duke of Ormond, coming before the courses on horseback,
      and staying so all dinner-time, and at last to bring up [Dymock] the
      King's Champion, all in armour on horseback, with his spear and targett
      carried before him. And a Herald proclaims "That if any dare deny Charles
      Stewart to be lawful King of England, here was a Champion that would fight
      with him;"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The terms of the Champion's challenge were as follows: "If any
     person of what degree soever, high or low, shall deny or gainsay our
     Soveraigne Lord King Charles the Second, King of England, Scotland,
     France and Ireland, defender of the faith, Sonne and next heire to
     our Soveraigne Lord Charles the First, the last King deceased, to be
     right heire to the Imperiall Crowne of this Realme of England, or
     that bee ought not to enjoy the same; here is his champion, who
     sayth that he lyeth and is a false Traytor, being ready in person to
     combate with him, and in this quarrell will venture his life against
     him, on what day soever hee shall be appointed."]
</pre>
    <p>
      and with these words, the Champion flings down his gauntlet, and all this
      he do three times in his going up towards the King's table. At last when
      he is come, the King drinks to him, and then sends him the cup which is of
      gold, and he drinks it off, and then rides back again with the cup in his
      hand. I went from table to table to see the Bishops and all others at
      their dinner, and was infinitely pleased with it. And at the Lords' table,
      I met with William Howe, and he spoke to my Lord for me, and he did give
      me four rabbits and a pullet, and so I got it and Mr. Creed and I got Mr.
      Michell to give us some bread, and so we at a stall eat it, as every body
      else did what they could get. I took a great deal of pleasure to go up and
      down, and look upon the ladies, and to hear the musique of all sorts, but
      above all, the 24 violins: About six at night they had dined, and I went
      up to my wife, and there met with a pretty lady (Mrs. Frankleyn, a
      Doctor's wife, a friend of Mr. Bowyer's), and kissed them both, and by and
      by took them down to Mr. Bowyer's. And strange it is to think, that these
      two days have held up fair till now that all is done, and the King gone
      out of the Hall; and then it fell a-raining and thundering and lightening
      as I have not seen it do for some years: which people did take great
      notice of; God's blessing of the work of these two days, which is a
      foolery to take too much notice of such things. I observed little disorder
      in all this, but only the King's footmen had got hold of the canopy, and
      would keep it from the Barons of the Cinque Ports,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Bishop Kennett gives a somewhat fuller account of this unseemly
     broil: "No sooner had the aforesaid Barons brought up the King to
     the foot of the stairs in Westminster Hall, ascending to his throne,
     and turned on the left hand (towards their own table) out of the
     way, but the King's footmen most insolently and violently seized
     upon the canopy, which the Barons endeavouring to keep and defend,
     were by their number and strength dragged clown to the lower end of
     the Hall, nevertheless still keeping their hold; and had not Mr.
     Owen York Herald, being accidentally near the Hall door, and seeing
     the contest, caused the same to be shut, the footmen had certainly
     carried it away by force.  But in the interim also (speedy notice
     hereof having been given the King) one of the Querries were sent
     from him, with command to imprison the footmen, and dismiss them out
     of his service, which put an end to the present disturbance.  These
     footmen were also commanded to make their submission to the Court of
     Claims, which was accordingly done by them the 30th April following,
     and the canopy then delivered back to the said Barons."  Whilst this
     disturbance happened, the upper end of the first table, which had
     been appointed for the Barons of the Cinque Ports, was taken up by
     the Bishops, judges, &amp;c., probably nothing loth to take precedence
     of them; and the poor Barons, naturally unwilling to lose their
     dinner, were necessitated to eat it at the bottom of the second
     table, below the Masters of Chancery and others of the long
     robe.-B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which they endeavoured to force from them again, but could not do it till
      my Lord Duke of Albemarle caused it to be put into Sir R. Pye's' hand till
      tomorrow to be decided. At Mr. Bowyer's; a great deal of company, some I
      knew, others I did not. Here we staid upon the leads and below till it was
      late, expecting to see the fire-works, but they were not performed
      to-night: only the City had a light like a glory round about it with
      bonfires. At last I went to Kingstreet, and there sent Crockford to my
      father's and my house, to tell them I could not come home tonight, because
      of the dirt, and a coach could not be had. And so after drinking a pot of
      ale alone at Mrs. Harper's I returned to Mr. Bowyer's, and after a little
      stay more I took my wife and Mrs. Frankleyn (who I proffered the civility
      of lying with my wife at Mrs. Hunt's to-night) to Axe-yard, in which at
      the further end there were three great bonfires, and a great many great
      gallants, men and women; and they laid hold of us, and would have us drink
      the King's health upon our knees, kneeling upon a faggot, which we all
      did, they drinking to us one after another. Which we thought a strange
      frolique; but these gallants continued thus a great while, and I wondered
      to see how the ladies did tipple. At last I sent my wife and her bedfellow
      to bed, and Mr. Hunt and I went in with Mr. Thornbury (who did give the
      company all their wine, he being yeoman of the wine-cellar to the King) to
      his house; and there, with his wife and two of his sisters, and some
      gallant sparks that were there, we drank the King's health, and nothing
      else, till one of the gentlemen fell down stark drunk, and there lay
      spewing; and I went to my Lord's pretty well. But no sooner a-bed with Mr.
      Shepley but my head began to hum, and I to vomit, and if ever I was foxed
      it was now, which I cannot say yet, because I fell asleep and slept till
      morning. Only when I waked I found myself wet with my spewing. Thus did
      the day end with joy every where; and blessed be God, I have not heard of
      any mischance to any body through it all, but only to Serjt. Glynne, whose
      horse fell upon him yesterday, and is like to kill him, which people do
      please themselves to see how just God is to punish the rogue at such a
      time as this; he being now one of the King's Serjeants, and rode in the
      cavalcade with Maynard, to whom people wish the same fortune. There was
      also this night in King-street, [a woman] had her eye put out by a boy's
      flinging a firebrand into the coach. Now, after all this, I can say that,
      besides the pleasure of the sight of these glorious things, I may now shut
      my eyes against any other objects, nor for the future trouble myself to
      see things of state and show, as being sure never to see the like again in
      this world.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Waked in the morning with my head in a sad taking through the last
      night's drink, which I am very sorry for; so rose and went out with Mr.
      Creed to drink our morning draft, which he did give me in chocolate
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Chocolate was introduced into England about the year 1652.  In the
     "Publick Advertiser" of Tuesday, June 16-22, 1657, we find the
     following; "In Bishopsgate Street in Queen's Head Alley, at a
     Frenchman's house, is an excellent West India drink called
     chocolate, to be sold, where you may have it ready at any time, and
     also unmade at reasonable rates."&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to settle my stomach. And after that I to my wife, who lay with Mrs.
      Frankelyn at the next door to Mrs. Hunt's, and they were ready, and so I
      took them up in a coach, and carried the ladies to Paul's, and there set
      her down, and so my wife and I home, and I to the office. That being done
      my wife and I went to dinner to Sir W. Batten, and all our talk about the
      happy conclusion of these last solemnities. After dinner home, and advised
      with my wife about ordering things in my house, and then she went away to
      my father's to lie, and I staid with my workmen, who do please me very
      well with their work. At night, set myself to write down these three days'
      diary, and while I am about it, I hear the noise of the chambers,&mdash;[A
      chamber is a small piece of ordnance.]&mdash;and other things of the
      fire-works, which are now playing upon the Thames before the King; and I
      wish myself with them, being sorry not to see them. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. All the morning with my workmen with great pleasure to see them near
      coming to an end. At noon Mr. Moore and I went to an Ordinary at the
      King's Head in Towre Street, and there had a dirty dinner. Afterwards home
      and having done some business with him, in comes Mr. Sheply and Pierce the
      surgeon, and they and I to the Mitre and there staid a while and drank,
      and so home and after a little rending to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. At the office all the morning, and at noon dined by myself at home
      on a piece of meat from the cook's, and so at home all the afternoon with
      my workmen, and at night to bed, having some thoughts to order my business
      so as to go to Portsmouth the next week with Sir Robert Slingsby.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. In the morning to my Lord's, and there dined with my Lady, and after
      dinner with Mr. Creed and Captain Ferrers to the Theatre to see "The
      Chances," and after that to the Cock alehouse, where we had a harp and
      viallin played to us, and so home by coach to Sir W. Batten's, who seems
      so inquisitive when my house will be made an end of that I am troubled to
      go thither. So home with some trouble in my mind about it.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). In the morning to my father's, where I dined, and in
      the afternoon to their church, where come Mrs. Turner and Mrs. Edward
      Pepys, and several other ladies, and so I went out of the pew into
      another. And after sermon home with them, and there staid a while and
      talked with them and was sent for to my father's, where my cozen Angier
      and his wife, of Cambridge, to whom I went, and was glad to see them, and
      sent for wine for them, and they supped with my father. After supper my
      father told me of an odd passage the other night in bed between my mother
      and him, and she would not let him come to bed to her out of jealousy of
      him and an ugly wench that lived there lately, the most ill-favoured slut
      that ever I saw in my life, which I was ashamed to hear that my mother
      should be become such a fool, and my father bid me to take notice of it to
      my mother, and to make peace between him and her. All which do trouble me
      very much. So to bed to my wife.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up and with my father towards my house, and by the way met with
      Lieut. Lambert, and with him to the Dolphin in Tower Street and drank our
      morning draught, he being much troubled about his being offered a fourth
      rate ship to be Lieutenant of her now he has been two years Lieutenant in
      a first rate. So to the office, where it is determined that I should go
      to-morrow to Portsmouth. So I went out of the office to Whitehall
      presently, and there spoke with Sir W. Pen and Sir George Carteret and had
      their advice as to my going, and so back again home, where I directed Mr.
      Hater what to do in order to our going to-morrow, and so back again by
      coach to Whitehall and there eat something in the buttery at my Lord's
      with John Goods and Ned Osgood. And so home again, and gave order to my
      workmen what to do in my absence. At night to Sir W. Batten's, and by his
      and Sir W. Pen's persuasion I sent for my wife from my father's, who came
      to us to Mrs. Turner's, where we were all at a collacion to-night till
      twelve o'clock, there being a gentlewoman there that did play well and
      sang well to the Harpsicon, and very merry we were. So home and to bed,
      where my wife had not lain a great while.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. This morning, after order given to my workmen, my wife and I and Mr.
      Creed took coach, and in Fishstreet took up Mr. Hater and his wife, who
      through her mask seemed at first to be an old woman, but afterwards I
      found her to be a very pretty modest black woman. We got a small bait at
      Leatherhead, and so to Godlyman, where we lay all night, and were very
      merry, having this day no other extraordinary rencontre, but my hat
      falling off my head at Newington into the water, by which it was spoiled,
      and I ashamed of it. I am sorry that I am not at London, to be at
      Hide-parke to-morrow, among the great gallants and ladies, which will be
      very fine.
    </p>
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    <p>
      May 1st. Up early, and bated at Petersfield, in the room which the King
      lay in lately at his being there. Here very merry, and played us and our
      wives at bowls. Then we set forth again, and so to Portsmouth, seeming to
      me to be a very pleasant and strong place; and we lay at the Red Lyon,
      where Haselrigge and Scott and Walton did hold their councill, when they
      were here, against Lambert and the Committee of Safety. Several officers
      of the Yard came to see us to-night, and merry we were, but troubled to
      have no better lodgings.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and Mr. Creed and I to walk round the town upon the walls. Then
      to our inn, and there all the officers of the Yard to see me with great
      respect, and I walked with them to the Dock and saw all the stores, and
      much pleased with the sight of the place. Back and brought them all to
      dinner with me, and treated them handsomely; and so after dinner by water
      to the Yard, and there we made the sale of the old provisions. Then we and
      our wives all to see the Montagu, which is a fine ship, and so to the town
      again by water, and then to see the room where the Duke of Buckingham was
      killed by Felton.&mdash;1628. So to our lodging, and to supper and to bed.
      To-night came Mr. Stevens to town to help us to pay off the Fox.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Early to walk with Mr. Creed up and down the town, and it was in his
      and some others' thoughts to have got me made free of the town, but the
      Mayor, it seems, unwilling, and so they could not do it. Then to the
      payhouse, and there paid off the ship, and so to a short dinner, and then
      took coach, leaving Mrs. Hater there to stay with her husband's friends,
      and we to Petersfield, having nothing more of trouble in all my journey,
      but the exceeding unmannerly and most epicure-like palate of Mr. Creed.
      Here my wife and I lay in the room the Queen lately lay at her going into
      France.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up in the morning and took coach, and so to Gilford, where we lay at
      the Red Lyon, the best Inn, and lay in the room the King lately lay in,
      where we had time to see the Hospital, built by Archbishop Abbott, and the
      free school, and were civilly treated by the Mayster. So to supper, and to
      bed, being very merry about our discourse with the Drawers concerning the
      minister of the Town, with a red face and a girdle. So to bed, where we
      lay and sleep well.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). Mr. Creed and I went to the red-faced Parson's church,
      and heard a good sermon of him, better than I looked for. Then home, and
      had a good dinner, and after dinner fell in some talk in Divinity with Mr.
      Stevens that kept us till it was past Church time. Anon we walked into the
      garden, and there played the fool a great while, trying who of Mr. Creed
      or I could go best over the edge of an old fountain well, and I won a
      quart of sack of him. Then to supper in the banquet house, and there my
      wife and I did talk high, she against and I for Mrs. Pierce (that she was
      a beauty), till we were both angry. Then to walk in the fields, and so to
      our quarters, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up by four o'clock and took coach. Mr. Creed rode, and left us that
      we know not whither he went. We went on, thinking to be at home before the
      officers rose, but finding we could not we staid by the way and eat some
      cakes, and so home, where I was much troubled to see no more work done in
      my absence than there was, but it could not be helped. I sent my wife to
      my father's, and I went and sat till late with my Lady Batten, both the
      Sir Williams being gone this day to pay off some ships at Deptford. So
      home and to bed without seeing of them. I hear to-night that the Duke of
      York's son is this day dead, which I believe will please every body; and I
      hear that the Duke and his Lady themselves are not much troubled at it.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. In the morning to Mr. Coventry, Sir G. Carteret, and my Lord's to
      give them an account of my return. My Lady, I find, is, since my going,
      gone to the Wardrobe. Then with Mr. Creed into London, to several places
      about his and my business, being much stopped in our way by the City
      traynebands, who go in much solemnity and pomp this day to muster before
      the King and the Duke, and shops in the City are shut up every where all
      this day. He carried me to an ordinary by the Old Exchange, where we come
      a little too late, but we had very good cheer for our 18d. a-piece, and an
      excellent droll too, my host, and his wife so fine a woman; and sung and
      played so well that I staid a great while and drunk a great deal of wine.
      Then home and staid among my workmen all day, and took order for things
      for the finishing of their work, and so at night to Sir W. Batten's, and
      there supped and so home and to bed, having sent my Lord a letter to-night
      to excuse myself for not going with him to-morrow to the Hope, whither he
      is to go to see in what condition the fleet is in.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. This morning came my brother John to take his leave of me, he being
      to return to Cambridge to-morrow, and after I had chid him for going with
      my Will the other day to Deptford with the principal officers, I did give
      him some good counsell and 20s. in money, and so he went away. All this
      day I staid at home with my workmen without eating anything, and took much
      pleasure to see my work go forward. At night comes my wife not well from
      my father's, having had a fore-tooth drawn out to-day, which do trouble
      me, and the more because I am now in the greatest of all my dirt. My Will
      also returned to-night pretty well, he being gone yesterday not very well
      to his father's. To-day I received a letter from my uncle, to beg an old
      fiddle of me for my Cozen Perkin, the miller, whose mill the wind hath
      lately broke down, and now he hath nothing to live by but fiddling, and he
      must needs have it against Whitsuntide to play to the country girls; but
      it vexed me to see how my uncle writes to me, as if he were not able to
      buy him one. But I intend tomorrow to send him one. At night I set down my
      journal of my late journey to this time, and so to bed. My wife not being
      well and I very angry with her for her coming hither in that condition.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. With my workmen all the morning, my wife being ill and in great pain
      with her old pain, which troubled me much because that my house is in this
      condition of dirt. In the afternoon I went to Whitehall and there spoke
      with my Lord at his lodgings, and there being with him my Lord
      Chamberlain, I spoke for my old waterman Payne, to get into White's place,
      who was waterman to my Lord Chamberlain, and is now to go master of the
      barge to my Lord to sea, and my Lord Chamberlain did promise that Payne
      should be entertained in White's place with him. From thence to Sir G.
      Carteret, and there did get his promise for the payment of the remainder
      of the bill of Mr. Creed's, wherein of late I have been so much concerned,
      which did so much rejoice me that I meeting with Mr. Childe took him to
      the Swan Tavern in King Street, and there did give him a tankard of white
      wine and sugar,&mdash;[The popular taste was formerly for sweet wines, and
      sugar was frequently mixed with the wine.]&mdash;and so I went by water
      home and set myself to get my Lord's accounts made up, which was till nine
      at night before I could finish, and then I walked to the Wardrobe, being
      the first time I was there since my Lady came thither, who I found all
      alone, and so she shewed me all the lodgings as they are now fitted, and
      they seem pretty pleasant. By and by comes in my Lord, and so, after
      looking over my accounts, I returned home, being a dirty and dark walk. So
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. At the office all the morning, and the afternoon among my workmen
      with great pleasure, because being near an end of their work. This
      afternoon came Mr. Blackburn and Creed to see me, and I took them to the
      Dolphin, and there drank a great deal of Rhenish wine with them and so
      home, having some talk with Mr. Blackburn about his kinsman my Will, and
      he did give me good satisfaction in that it is his desire that his kinsman
      should do me all service, and that he would give him the best counsel he
      could to make him good. Which I begin of late to fear that he will not
      because of the bad company that I find that he do begin to take. This
      afternoon Mr. Hater received for me the L225 due upon Mr. Creed's bill in
      which I am concerned so much, which do make me very glad. At night to Sir
      W. Batten and sat a while. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. This morning I went by water with Payne (Mr. Moore being with me) to
      my Lord Chamberlain at Whitehall, and there spoke with my Lord, and he did
      accept of Payne for his waterman, as I had lately endeavoured to get him
      to be. After that Mr. Cooling did give Payne an order to be entertained,
      and so I left him and Mr. Moore, and I went to Graye's Inne, and there to
      a barber's, where I was trimmed, and had my haire cut, in which I am
      lately become a little curious, finding that the length of it do become me
      very much. So, calling at my father's, I went home, and there staid and
      saw my workmen follow their work, which this night is brought to a very
      good condition. This afternoon Mr. Shepley, Moore, and Creed came to me
      all about their several accounts with me, and we did something with them
      all, and so they went away. This evening Mr. Hater brought my last
      quarter's salary, of which I was very glad, because I have lost my first
      bill for it, and so this morning was forced to get another signed by three
      of my fellow officers for it. All this evening till late setting my
      accounts and papers in order, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. My wife had a very troublesome night this night and in great pain,
      but about the morning her swelling broke, and she was in great ease
      presently as she useth to be. So I put in a vent (which Dr. Williams sent
      me yesterday) into the hole to keep it open till all the matter be come
      out, and so I question not that she will soon be well again. I staid at
      home all this morning, being the Lord's day, making up my private accounts
      and setting papers in order. At noon went with my Lady Montagu at the
      Wardrobe, but I found it so late that I came back again, and so dined with
      my wife in her chamber. After dinner I went awhile to my chamber to set my
      papers right. Then I walked forth towards Westminster and at the Savoy
      heard Dr. Fuller preach upon David's words, "I will wait with patience all
      the days of my appointed time until my change comes;" but methought it was
      a poor dry sermon. And I am afeard my former high esteem of his preaching
      was more out of opinion than judgment. From thence homewards, but met with
      Mr. Creed, with whom I went and walked in Grayes-Inn-walks, and from
      thence to Islington, and there eat and drank at the house my father and we
      were wont of old to go to; and after that walked homeward, and parted in
      Smithfield: and so I home, much wondering to see how things are altered
      with Mr. Creed, who, twelve months ago, might have been got to hang
      himself almost as soon as go to a drinking-house on a Sunday.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. All the morning at home among my workmen. At noon Mr. Creed and I
      went to the ordinary behind the Exchange, where we lately were, but I do
      not like it so well as I did. So home with him and to the office, where we
      sat late, and he did deliver his accounts to us. The office being done I
      went home and took pleasure to see my work draw to an end.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up early and by water to Whitehall to my Lord, and there had much
      talk with him about getting some money for him. He told me of his
      intention to get the Muster Master's place for Mr. Pierce, the purser, who
      he has a mind to carry to sea with him, and spoke very slightingly of Mr.
      Creed, as that he had no opinion at all of him, but only he was forced to
      make use of him because of his present accounts. Thence to drink with Mr.
      Shepley and Mr. Pinkny, and so home and among my workmen all day. In the
      evening Mr. Shepley came to me for some money, and so he and I to the
      Mitre, and there we had good wine and a gammon of bacon. My uncle Wight,
      Mr. Talbot, and others were with us, and we were pretty merry. So at night
      home and to bed. Finding my head grow weak now-a-days if I come to drink
      wine, and therefore hope that I shall leave it off of myself, which I pray
      God I could do.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. With my workmen all day till the afternoon, and then to the office,
      where Mr. Creed's accounts were passed. Home and found all my joyner's
      work now done, but only a small job or two, which please me very well.
      This afternoon there came two men with an order from a Committee of Lords
      to demand some books of me out of the office, in order to the examining of
      Mr. Hutchinson's accounts, but I give them a surly answer, and they went
      away to complain, which put me into some trouble with myself, but I
      resolve to go to-morrow myself to these Lords and answer them. To bed,
      being in great fear because of the shavings which lay all up and down the
      house and cellar, for fear of fire.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up early to see whether the work of my house be quite done, and I
      found it to my mind. Staid at home all the morning, and about 2 o'clock
      went in my velvet coat by water to the Savoy, and there, having staid a
      good while, I was called into the Lords, and there, quite contrary to my
      expectations, they did treat me very civilly, telling me that what they
      had done was out of zeal to the King's service, and that they would joyne
      with the governors of the chest with all their hearts, since they knew
      that there was any, which they did not before. I give them very respectful
      answer and so went away to the Theatre, and there saw the latter end of
      "The Mayd's Tragedy," which I never saw before, and methinks it is too sad
      and melancholy. Thence homewards, and meeting Mr. Creed I took him by
      water to the Wardrobe with me, and there we found my Lord newly gone away
      with the Duke of Ormond and some others, whom he had had to the collation;
      and so we, with the rest of the servants in the hall, sat down and eat of
      the best cold meats that ever I eat on in all my life. From thence I went
      home (Mr. Moore with me to the waterside, telling me how kindly he is used
      by my Lord and my Lady since his coming hither as a servant), and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. All the morning at home. At noon Lieutenant Lambert came to me, and
      he and I to the Exchange, and thence to an ordinary over against it, where
      to our dinner we had a fellow play well upon the bagpipes and whistle like
      a bird exceeding well, and I had a fancy to learn to whistle as he do, and
      did promise to come some other day and give him an angell to teach me. To
      the office, and sat there all the afternoon till 9 at night. So home to my
      musique, and my wife and I sat singing in my chamber a good while
      together, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Towards Westminster, from the Towre, by water, and was fain to stand
      upon one of the piers about the bridge,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The dangers of shooting the bridge were so great that a popular
     proverb has it&mdash;London Bridge was made for wise men to go over and
     fools to go under.]
</pre>
    <p>
      before the men could drag their boat through the lock, and which they
      could not do till another was called to help them. Being through bridge I
      found the Thames full of boats and gallys, and upon inquiry found that
      there was a wager to be run this morning. So spying of Payne in a gully, I
      went into him, and there staid, thinking to have gone to Chelsy with them.
      But upon, the start, the wager boats fell foul one of another, till at
      last one of them gives over, pretending foul play, and so the other row
      away alone, and all our sport lost. So, I went ashore, at Westminster; and
      to the Hall I went, where it was very pleasant to see the Hall in the
      condition it is now with the judges on the benches at the further end of
      it, which I had not seen all this term till now. Thence with Mr. Spicer,
      Creed and some others to drink. And so away homewards by water with Mr.
      Creed, whom I left in London going about business and I home, where I
      staid all the afternoon in the garden reading "Faber Fortunae" with great
      pleasure. So home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. (Lord's day) I walked in the morning towards Westminster, and seeing
      many people at York House, I went down and found them at mass, it being
      the Spanish ambassodors; and so I go into one of the gallerys, and there
      heard two masses done, I think, not in so much state as I have seen them
      heretofore. After that into the garden, and walked a turn or two, but
      found it not so fine a place as I always took it for by the outside.
      Thence to my Lord's and there spake with him about business, and then he
      went to Whitehall to dinner, and Capt. Ferrers and Mr. Howe and myself to
      Mr. Wilkinson's at the Crown, and though he had no meat of his own, yet we
      happened to find our cook Mr. Robinson there, who had a dinner for himself
      and some friends, and so he did give us a very fine dinner. Then to my
      Lord's, where we went and sat talking and laughing in the drawing-room a
      great while. All our talk about their going to sea this voyage, which
      Capt. Ferrers is in some doubt whether he shall go or no, but swears that
      he would go, if he were sure never to come back again; and I, giving him
      some hopes, he grew so mad with joy that he fell a-dancing and leaping
      like a madman. Now it fell out so that the balcone windows were open, and
      he went to the rayle and made an offer to leap over, and asked what if he
      should leap over there. I told him I would give him L40 if he did not go
      to sea. With that thought I shut the doors, and W. Howe hindered him all
      we could; yet he opened them again, and, with a vault, leaps down into the
      garden:&mdash;the greatest and most desperate frolic that ever I saw in my
      life. I run to see what was become of him, and we found him crawled upon
      his knees, but could not rise; so we went down into the garden and dragged
      him to the bench, where he looked like a dead man, but could not stir;
      and, though he had broke nothing, yet his pain in his back was such as he
      could not endure. With this, my Lord (who was in the little new room) come
      to us in amaze, and bid us carry him up, which, by our strength, we did,
      and so laid him in East's bed, by the door; where he lay in great pain. We
      sent for a doctor and chyrurgeon, but none to be found, till by-and-by by
      chance comes in Dr. Clerke, who is afeard of him. So we sent to get a
      lodging for him, and I went up to my Lord, where Captain Cooke, Mr.
      Gibbons, and others of the King's musicians were come to present my Lord
      with some songs and symphonys, which were performed very finely. Which
      being done I took leave and supped at my father's, where was my cozen Beck
      come lately out of the country. I am troubled to see my father so much
      decay of a suddain, as he do both in his seeing and hearing, and as much
      to hear of him how my brother Tom do grow disrespectful to him and my
      mother. I took leave and went home, where to prayers (which I have not had
      in my house a good while), and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. At home all the morning; paid L50 to one Mr. Grant for Mr. Barlow,
      for the last half year, and was visited by Mr. Anderson, my former chamber
      fellow at Cambridge, with whom I parted at the Hague, but I did not go
      forthwith him, only gave him a morning draft at home. At noon Mr. Creed
      came to me, and he and I to the Exchange, and so to an ordinary to dinner,
      and after dinner to the Mitre, and there sat drinking while it rained very
      much. Then to the office, where I found Sir Williams both, choosing of
      masters for the new fleet of ships that is ordered to be set forth, and
      Pen seeming to be in an ugly humour, not willing to gratify one that I
      mentioned to be put in, did vex me. We sat late, and so home. Mr. Moore
      came to me when I was going to bed, and sat with me a good while talking
      about my Lord's business and our own and so good night.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up early, and, with Sir R. Slingsby (and Major Waters the deaf
      gentleman, his friend, for company's sake) to the Victualling-office (the
      first time that I ever knew where it was), and there staid while he read a
      commission for enquiry into some of the King's lands and houses
      thereabouts, that are given his brother. And then we took boat to
      Woolwich, where we staid and gave order for the fitting out of some more
      ships presently. And then to Deptford, where we staid and did the same;
      and so took barge again, and were overtaken by the King in his barge, he
      having been down the river with his yacht this day for pleasure to try it;
      and, as I hear, Commissioner Pett's do prove better than the Dutch one,
      and that that his brother built. While we were upon the water, one of the
      greatest showers of rain fell that ever I saw. The Comptroller and I
      landed with our barge at the Temple, and from thence I went to my
      father's, and there did give order about some clothes to be made, and did
      buy a new hat, cost between 20 and 30 shillings, at Mr. Holden's. So home.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. To Westminster, and there missed of my Lord, and so about noon I and
      W. Howe by water to the Wardrobe, where my Lord and all the officers of
      the Wardrobe dined, and several other friends of my Lord, at a venison
      pasty. Before dinner, my Lady Wright and my Lady Jem. sang songs to the
      harpsicon. Very pleasant and merry at dinner. And then I went away by
      water to the office, and there staid till it was late. At night before I
      went to bed the barber came to trim me and wash me, and so to bed, in
      order to my being clean to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. This day I went to my Lord, and about many other things at
      Whitehall, and there made even my accounts with Mr. Shepley at my Lord's,
      and then with him and Mr. Moore and John Bowles to the Rhenish wine house,
      and there came Jonas Moore, the mathematician, to us, and there he did by
      discourse make us fully believe that England and France were once the same
      continent, by very good arguments, and spoke very many things, not so much
      to prove the Scripture false as that the time therein is not well computed
      nor understood. From thence home by water, and there shifted myself into
      my black silk suit (the first day I have put it on this year), and so to
      my Lord Mayor's by coach, with a great deal of honourable company, and
      great entertainment. At table I had very good discourse with Mr. Ashmole,
      wherein he did assure me that frogs and many insects do often fall from
      the sky, ready formed. Dr. Bates's singularity in not rising up nor
      drinking the King's nor other healths at the table was very much observed.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Dr. William Bates, one of the most eminent of the Puritan divines,
     and who took part in the Savoy Conference.  His collected writings
     were published in 1700, and fill a large folio volume.  The
     Dissenters called him silver-tongued Bates.  Calamy affirmed that if
     Bates would have conformed to the Established Church he might have
     been raised to any bishopric in the kingdom.  He died in 1699, aged
     seventy-four.]
</pre>
    <p>
      From thence we all took coach, and to our office, and there sat till it
      was late; and so I home and to bed by day-light. This day was kept a
      holy-day through the town; and it pleased me to see the little boys walk
      up and down in procession with their broom-staffs in their hands, as I had
      myself long ago gone.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys here refers to the perambulation of parishes on Holy
     Thursday, still observed.  This ceremony was sometimes enlivened by
     whipping the boys, for the better impressing on their minds the
     remembrance of the day, and the boundaries of the parish, instead of
     beating houses or stones. But this would not have harmonized well
     with the excellent Hooker's practice on this day, when he "always
     dropped some loving and facetious observations, to be remembered
     against the next year, especially by the boys and young people."
     Amongst Dorsetshire customs, it seems that, in perambulating a manor
     or parish, a boy is tossed into a stream, if that be the boundary;
     if a hedge, a sapling from it is applied for the purpose of
     flagellation.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      24th. At home all the morning making up my private accounts, and this is
      the first time that I do find myself to be clearly worth L500 in money,
      besides all my goods in my house, &amp;c. In the afternoon at the office
      late, and then I went to the Wardrobe, where I found my Lord at supper,
      and therefore I walked a good while till he had done, and I went in to
      him, and there he looked over my accounts. And they were committed to Mr.
      Moore to see me paid what remained due to me. Then down to the kitchen to
      eat a bit of bread and butter, which I did, and there I took one of the
      maids by the chin, thinking her to be Susan, but it proved to be her
      sister, who is very like her. From thence home.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. All the morning at home about business. At noon to the Temple, where
      I staid and looked over a book or two at Playford's, and then to the
      Theatre, where I saw a piece of "The Silent Woman," which pleased me. So
      homewards, and in my way bought "The Bondman" in Paul's Churchyard, and so
      home, where I found all clean, and the hearth and range, as it is now
      enlarged, set up, which pleases me very much.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed. To church and heard a good sermon at
      our own church, where I have not been a great many weeks. Dined with my
      wife alone at home pleasing myself in that my house do begin to look as if
      at last it would be in good order. This day the Parliament received the
      communion of Dr. Gunning at St. Margaret's, Westminster. In the afternoon
      both the Sir Williams came to church, where we had a dull stranger. After
      church home, and so to the Mitre, where I found Dr. Burnett, the first
      time that ever I met him to drink with him, and my uncle Wight and there
      we sat and drank a great deal, and so I to Sir W. Batten's, where I have
      on purpose made myself a great stranger, only to get a high opinion a
      little more of myself in them. Here I heard how Mrs. Browne, Sir W.
      Batten's sister, is brought to bed, and I to be one of the godfathers,
      which I could not nor did deny. Which, however, did trouble me very much
      to be at charge to no purpose, so that I could not sleep hardly all night,
      but in the morning I bethought myself, and I think it is very well I
      should do it. Sir W. Batten told me how Mr. Prin (among the two or three
      that did refuse to-day to receive the sacrament upon their knees) was
      offered by a mistake the drink afterwards, which he did receive, being
      denied the drink by Dr. Gunning, unless he would take it on his knees; and
      after that by another the bread was brought him, and he did take it
      sitting, which is thought very preposterous. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. To the Wardrobe, and from thence with my Lords Sandwich and
      Hinchinbroke to the Lords' House by boat at Westminster, and there I left
      them. Then to the lobby, and after waiting for Sir G. Downing's coming
      out, to speak with him about the giving me up of my bond for my honesty
      when I was his clerk, but to no purpose, I went to Clerke's at the Legg,
      and there I found both Mr. Pierces, Mr. Rolt, formerly too great a man to
      meet upon such even terms, and there we dined very merry, there coming to
      us Captain Ferrers, this being the first day of his going abroad since his
      leap a week ago, which I was greatly glad to see. By water to the office,
      and there sat late, Sir George Carteret coming in, who among other things
      did inquire into the naming of the maisters for this fleet, and was very
      angry that they were named as they are, and above all to see the maister
      of the Adventure (for whom there is some kind of difference between Sir W.
      Pen and me) turned out, who has been in her list. The office done, I went
      with the Comptroller to the Coffee house, and there we discoursed of this,
      and I seem to be fond of him, and indeed I find I must carry fair with all
      as far as I see it safe, but I have got of him leave to have a little room
      from his lodgings to my house, of which I am very glad, besides I do open
      him a way to get lodgings himself in the office, of which I should be very
      glad. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. This morning to the Wardrobe, and thence to a little alehouse hard
      by, to drink with John Bowies, who is now going to Hinchinbroke this day.
      Thence with Mr. Shepley to the Exchange about business, and there, by Mr.
      Rawlinson's favour, got into a balcone over against the Exchange; and
      there saw the hangman burn, by vote of Parliament, two old acts, the one
      for constituting us a Commonwealth, and the others I have forgot. Which
      still do make me think of the greatness of this late turn, and what people
      will do tomorrow against what they all, through profit or fear, did
      promise and practise this day. Then to the Mitre with Mr. Shepley, and
      there dined with D. Rawlinson and some friends of his very well. So home,
      and then to Cheapside about buying a piece of plate to give away to-morrow
      to Mrs. Browne's child. So to the Star in Cheapside, where I left Mr.
      Moore telling L5 out for me, who I found in a great strait for my coming
      back again, and so he went his way at my coming. Then home, where Mr. Cook
      I met and he paid me 30s., an old debt of his to me. So to Sir W. Pen's,
      and there sat alone with him till ten at night in talk with great content,
      he telling me things and persons that I did not understand in the late
      times, and so I home to bed. My cozen John Holcroft (whom I have not seen
      many years) this morning came to see me.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (King's birth-day). Rose early and having made myself fine, and put
      six spoons and a porringer of silver in my pocket to give away to-day, Sir
      W. Pen and I took coach, and (the weather and ways being foul) went to
      Walthamstowe; and being come there heard Mr. Radcliffe, my former school
      fellow at Paul's (who is yet a mere boy), preach upon "Nay, let him take
      all, since my Lord the King is returned," &amp;c. He reads all, and his
      sermon very simple, but I looked for new matter. Back to dinner to Sir
      William Batten's; and then, after a walk in the fine gardens, we went to
      Mrs. Browne's, where Sir W. Pen and I were godfathers, and Mrs. Jordan and
      Shipman godmothers to her boy. And there, before and after the
      christening; we were with the woman above in her chamber; but whether we
      carried ourselves well or ill, I know not; but I was directed by young
      Mrs. Batten. One passage of a lady that eat wafers with her dog did a
      little displease me. I did give the midwife 10s. and the nurse 5s. and the
      maid of the house 2s. But for as much I expected to give the name to the
      child, but did not (it being called John), I forbore then to give my plate
      till another time after a little more advice. All being done, we went to
      Mrs. Shipman's, who is a great butter-woman, and I did see there the most
      of milk and cream, and the cleanest that ever I saw in my life. After we
      had filled our bellies with cream, we took our leaves and away. In our
      way, we had great sport to try who should drive fastest, Sir W. Batten's
      coach, or Sir W. Pen's chariott, they having four, and we two horses, and
      we beat them. But it cost me the spoiling of my clothes and velvet coat
      with dirt. Being come home I to bed, and give my breeches to be dried by
      the fire against to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. To the Wardrobe and there, with my Lord, went into his new barge to
      try her, and found her a good boat, and like my Lord's contrivance of the
      door to come out round and not square as they used to do. Back to the
      Wardrobe with my Lord, and then with Mr. Moore to the Temple, and thence
      to. Greatorex, who took me to Arundell-House, and there showed me some
      fine flowers in his garden, and all the fine statues in the gallery, which
      I formerly had seen, and is a brave sight, and thence to a blind dark
      cellar, where we had two bottles of good ale, and so after giving him
      direction for my silver side-table, I took boat at Arundell stairs, and
      put in at Milford.... So home and found Sir Williams both and my Lady
      going to Deptford to christen Captain Rooth's child, and would have had me
      with them, but I could not go. To the office, where Sir R. Slingsby was,
      and he and I into his and my lodgings to take a view of them, out of a
      desire he has to have mine of me to join to his, and give me Mr. Turner's.
      To the office again, where Sir G. Carteret came and sat a while, he being
      angry for Sir Williams making of the maisters of this fleet upon their own
      heads without a full table. Then the Comptroller and I to the Coffee
      House, and there sat a great while talking of many things. So home and to
      bed. This day, I hear, the Parliament have ordered a bill to be brought in
      for the restoring the Bishops to the House of Lords; which they had not
      done so soon but to spite Mr. Prin, who is every day so bitter against
      them in his discourse in the House.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. I went to my father's thinking to have met with my cozen John
      Holcroft, but he came not, but to my great grief I found my father and
      mother in a great deal of discontent one with another, and indeed my
      mother is grown now so pettish that I know not how my father is able to
      bear with it. I did talk to her so as did not indeed become me, but I
      could not help it, she being so unsufferably foolish and simple, so that
      my father, poor man, is become a very unhappy man. There I dined, and so
      home and to the office all the afternoon till 9 at night, and then home
      and to supper and to bed. Great talk now how the Parliament intend to make
      a collection of free gifts to the King through the Kingdom; but I think it
      will not come to much.
    </p>
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      JUNE 1661
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    <p>
      June 1st. Having taken our leaves of Sir W. Batten and my Lady, who are
      gone this morning to keep their Whitsuntide, Sir W. Pen and I and Mr.
      Gauden by water to Woolwich, and there went from ship to ship to give
      order for and take notice of their forwardness to go forth, and then to
      Deptford and did the like, having dined at Woolwich with Captain Poole at
      the tavern there. From Deptford we walked to Redriffe, calling at the
      half-way house, and there come into a room where there was infinite of new
      cakes placed that are made against Whitsuntide, and there we were very
      merry. By water home, and there did businesses of the office. Among others
      got my Lord's imprest of L1000 and Mr. Creed's of L10,000 against this
      voyage their bills signed. Having wrote letters into the country and read
      some things I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd (Whitsunday). The barber having done with me, I went to church, and
      there heard a good sermon of Mr. Mills, fit for the day. Then home to
      dinner, and then to church again, and going home I found Greatorex (whom I
      expected today at dinner) come to see me, and so he and I in my chamber
      drinking of wine and eating of anchovies an hour or two, discoursing of
      many things in mathematics, and among others he showed me how it comes to
      pass the strength that levers have, and he showed me that what is got as
      to matter of strength is lost by them as to matter of time. It rained very
      hard, as it hath done of late so much that we begin to doubt a famine, and
      so he was forced to stay longer than I desired. At night after prayers to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. To the Wardrobe, where discoursing with my Lord, he did instruct me
      as to the business of the Wardrobe, in case, in his absence, Mr. Townsend
      should die, and told me that he do intend to joyne me and Mr. Moore with
      him as to the business, now he is going to sea, and spoke to me many other
      things, as to one that he do put the greatest confidence in, of which I am
      proud. Here I had a good occasion to tell him (what I have had long in my
      mind) that, since it has pleased God to bless me with something, I am
      desirous to lay out something for my father, and so have pitched upon Mr.
      Young's place in the Wardrobe, which I desired he would give order in his
      absence, if the place should fall that I might have the refusal. Which my
      Lord did freely promise me, at which I was very glad, he saying that he
      would do that at the least. So I saw my Lord into the barge going to
      Whitehall, and I and Mr. Creed home to my house, whither my father and my
      cozen Scott came to dine with me, and so we dined together very well, and
      before we had done in comes my father Bowyer and my mother and four
      daughters, and a young gentleman and his sister, their friends, and there
      staid all the afternoon, which cost me great store of wine, and were very
      merry. By and by I am called to the office, and there staid a little. So
      home again, and took Mr. Creed and left them, and so he and I to the
      Towre, to speak for some ammunition for ships for my Lord; and so he and
      I, with much pleasure, walked quite round the Towre, which I never did
      before. So home, and after a walk with my wife upon the leads, I and she
      went to bed. This morning I and Dr. Peirce went over to the Beare at the
      Bridge foot, thinking to have met my Lord Hinchinbroke and his brother
      setting forth for France; but they being not come we went over to the
      Wardrobe, and there found that my Lord Abbot Montagu being not at Paris,
      my Lord hath a mind to have them stay a little longer before they go.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. The Comptroller came this morning to get me to go see a house or two
      near our office, which he would take for himself or Mr. Turner, and then
      he would have me have Mr. Turner's lodgings and himself mine and Mr.
      Davis's. But the houses did not like us, and so that design at present is
      stopped. Then he and I by water to the bridge, and then walked over the
      Bank-side till we came to the Temple, and so I went over and to my
      father's, where I met with my cozen J. Holcroft, and took him and my
      father and my brother Tom to the Bear tavern and gave them wine, my cozen
      being to go into the country again to-morrow. From thence to my Lord
      Crew's to dinner with him, and had very good discourse about having of
      young noblemen and gentlemen to think of going to sea, as being as
      honourable service as the land war. And among other things he told us how,
      in Queen Elizabeth's time, one young nobleman would wait with a trencher
      at the back of another till he came to age himself. And witnessed in my
      young Lord of Kent, that then was, who waited upon my Lord Bedford at
      table, when a letter came to my Lord Bedford that the Earldom of Kent was
      fallen to his servant, the young Lord; and so he rose from table, and made
      him sit down in his place, and took a lower for himself, for so he was by
      place to sit. From thence to the Theatre and saw "Harry the 4th," a good
      play. That done I went over the water and walked over the fields to
      Southwark, and so home and to my lute. At night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. This morning did give my wife L4 to lay out upon lace and other
      things for herself. I to Wardrobe and so to Whitehall and Westminster,
      where I dined with my Lord and Ned Dickering alone at his lodgings. After
      dinner to the office, where we sat and did business, and Sir W. Pen and I
      went home with Sir R. Slingsby to bowls in his ally, and there had good
      sport, and afterwards went in and drank and talked. So home Sir William
      and I, and it being very hot weather I took my flageolette and played upon
      the leads in the garden, where Sir W. Pen came out in his shirt into his
      leads, and there we staid talking and singing, and drinking great drafts
      of claret, and eating botargo
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Botarga.  The roe of the mullet pressed flat and dried; that of
     commerce, however, is from the tunny, a large fish of passage which
     is common in the Mediterranean.  The best kind comes from Tunis."
     &mdash;Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book.  Botargo was chiefly used to promote
     drinking by causing thirst, and Rabelais makes Gargantua eat it.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and bread and butter till 12 at night, it being moonshine; and so to bed,
      very near fuddled.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. My head hath aked all night, and all this morning, with my last
      night's debauch. Called up this morning by Lieutenant Lambert, who is now
      made Captain of the Norwich, and he and I went down by water to Greenwich,
      in our way observing and discoursing upon the things of a ship, he telling
      me all I asked him, which was of good use to me. There we went and eat and
      drank and heard musique at the Globe, and saw the simple motion that is
      there of a woman with a rod in her hand keeping time to the musique while
      it plays, which is simple, methinks. Back again by water, calling at
      Captain Lambert's house, which is very handsome and neat, and a fine
      prospect at top. So to the office, where we sat a little, and then the
      Captain and I again to Bridewell to Mr. Holland's, where his wife also, a
      plain dowdy, and his mother was. Here I paid Mrs. Holland the money due
      from me to her husband. Here came two young gentlewomen to see Mr.
      Holland, and one of them could play pretty well upon the viallin, but,
      good God! how these ignorant people did cry her up for it! We were very
      merry. I staid and supped there, and so home and to bed. The weather very
      hot, this night I left off my wastecoat.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. To my Lord's at Whitehall, but not finding him I went to the Wardrobe
      and there dined with my Lady, and was very kindly treated by her. After
      dinner to the office, and there till late at night. So home, and to Sir
      William Batten's, who is come this day from Chatham with my Lady, who is
      and has been much troubled with the toothache. Here I staid till late, and
      so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. To Whitehall to my Lord, who did tell me that he would have me go to
      Mr. Townsend, whom he had ordered to discover to me the whole mystery of
      the Wardrobe, and none else but me, and that he will make me deputy with
      him for fear that he should die in my Lord's absence, of which I was glad.
      Then to the Cook's with Mr. Shepley and Mr. Creed, and dined together, and
      then I went to the Theatre and there saw Bartholomew Faire, the first time
      it was acted now a-days. It is a most admirable play and well acted, but
      too much prophane and abusive. From thence, meeting Mr. Creed at the door,
      he and I went to the tobacco shop under Temple Bar gate, and there went up
      to the top of the house and there sat drinking Lambeth ale a good while.
      Then away home, and in my way called upon Mr. Rawlinson (my uncle Wight
      being out of town), for his advice to answer a letter of my uncle Robert,
      wherein he do offer me a purchase to lay some money upon, that joynes upon
      some of his own lands, and plainly telling me that the reason of his
      advice is the convenience that it will give me as to his estate, of which
      I am exceeding glad, and am advised to give up wholly the disposal of my
      money to him, let him do what he will with it, which I shall do. So home
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). This day my wife put on her black silk gown, which is
      now laced all over with black gimp lace, as the fashion is, in which she
      is very pretty. She and I walked to my Lady's at the Wardrobe, and there
      dined and was exceeding much made of. After dinner I left my wife there,
      and I walked to Whitehall, and then went to Mr. Pierce's and sat with his
      wife a good while (who continues very pretty) till he came, and then he
      and I, and Mr. Symons (dancing master), that goes to sea with my Lord, to
      the Swan tavern, and there drank, and so again to White Hall, and there
      met with Dean Fuller, and walked a great while with him; among other
      things discoursed of the liberty the Bishop (by name the of Galloway)
      takes to admit into orders any body that will; among others, Roundtree, a
      simple mechanique that was a person [parson?] formerly in the fleet. He
      told me he would complain of it. By and by we went and got a sculler, and
      landing him at Worcester House, I and W. Howe, who came to us at
      Whitehall, went to the Wardrobe, where I met with Mr. Townsend, who is
      very willing he says to communicate anything for my Lord's advantage to me
      as to his business. I went up to Jane Shore's towre, and there W. Howe and
      I sang, and so took my wife and walked home, and so to bed. After I came
      home a messenger came from my Lord to bid me come to him tomorrow morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Early to my Lord's, who privately told me how the King had made him
      Embassador in the bringing over the Queen.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Katherine of Braganza, daughter of John IV. of Portugal, born 1638,
     married to Charles II., May 21st, 1662.  After the death of the king
     she lived for some time at Somerset House, and then returned to
     Portugal, of which country she became Regent in 1704 on the
     retirement of her brother Don Pedro.  She died December 31st, 1705.]
</pre>
    <p>
      That he is to go to Algier, &amp;c., to settle the business, and to put
      the fleet in order there; and so to come back to Lisbone with three ships,
      and there to meet the fleet that is to follow him. He sent for me, to tell
      me that he do intrust me with the seeing of all things done in his absence
      as to this great preparation, as I shall receive orders from my Lord
      Chancellor and Mr. Edward Montagu. At all which my heart is above measure
      glad; for my Lord's honour, and some profit to myself, I hope. By and by,
      out with Mr. Shepley Walden, Parliament-man for Huntingdon, Rolt,
      Mackworth, and Alderman Backwell, to a house hard by, to drink Lambeth
      ale. So I back to the Wardrobe, and there found my Lord going to Trinity
      House, this being the solemn day of choosing Master, and my Lord is
      chosen, so he dines there to-day. I staid and dined with my Lady; but
      after we were set, comes in some persons of condition, and so the children
      and I rose and dined by ourselves, all the children and I, and were very
      merry and they mighty fond of me. Then to the office, and there sat
      awhile. So home and at night to bed, where we lay in Sir R. Slingsby's
      lodgings in the dining room there in one green bed, my house being now in
      its last work of painting and whiting.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. At the office this morning, Sir G. Carteret with us; and we agreed
      upon a letter to the Duke of York, to tell him the sad condition of this
      office for want of money; how men are not able to serve us more without
      some money; and that now the credit of the office is brought so low, that
      none will sell us any thing without our personal security given for the
      same. All the afternoon abroad about several businesses, and at night home
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Wednesday, a day kept between a fast and a feast, the Bishops not
      being ready enough to keep the fast for foul weather before fair weather
      came; and so they were forced to keep it between both.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A Form of Prayer was published to be used in London on the 12th,
     and in the country on the 19th of June, being the special days
     appointed for a general fast to be kept in the respective places for
     averting those sicknesses and diseases, that dearth and scarcity,
     which justly may be feared from the late immoderate rain and waters:
     for a thanksgiving also for the blessed change of weather; and the
     begging the continuance of it to us for our comfort: And likewise
     for beseeching a Blessing upon the High Court of Parliament now
     assembled: Set forth by his Majesty's authority.  A sermon was
     preached before the Commons by Thomas Greenfield, preacher of
     Lincoln's Inn.  The Lords taxed themselves for the poor&mdash;an earl,
     30s., a baron, 20s.  Those absent from prayers were to pay a
     forfeit.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I to Whitehall, and there with Captain Rolt and Ferrers we went to Lambeth
      to drink our morning draft, where at the Three Mariners, a place noted for
      their ale, we went and staid awhile very merry, and so away. And wanting a
      boat, we found Captain Bun going down the river, and so we went into his
      boat having a lady with him, and he landed them at Westminster and me at
      the Bridge. At home all day with my workmen, and doing several things,
      among others writing the letter resolved of yesterday to the Duke. Then to
      White Hall, where I met my Lord, who told me he must have L300 laid out in
      cloth, to give in Barbary, as presents among the Turks. At which occasion
      of getting something I was very glad. Home to supper, and then to Sir R.
      Slingsby, who with his brother and I went to my Lord's at the Wardrobe,
      and there staid a great while, but he being now taking his leave of his
      friends staid out late, and so they went away. Anon came my Lord in, and I
      staid with him a good while, and then to bed with Mr. Moore in his
      chamber.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. I went up and down to Alderman Backwell's, but his servants not
      being up, I went home and put on my gray cloth suit and faced white coat,
      made of one of my wife's pettycoates, the first time I have had it on, and
      so in a riding garb back again and spoke with Mr. Shaw at the Alderman's,
      who offers me L300 if my Lord pleases to buy this cloth with, which
      pleased me well. So to the Wardrobe and got my Lord to order Mr. Creed to
      imprest so much upon me to be paid by Alderman Backwell. So with my Lord
      to Whitehall by water, and he having taken leave of the King, comes to us
      at his lodgings and from thence goes to the garden stairs and there takes
      barge, and at the stairs was met by Sir R. Slingsby, who there took his
      leave of my Lord, and I heard my Lord thank him for his kindness to me,
      which Sir Robert answered much to my advantage. I went down with my Lord
      in the barge to Deptford, and there went on board the Dutch yacht and
      staid there a good while, W. Howe not being come with my Lord's things,
      which made my Lord very angry. By and by he comes and so we set sayle, and
      anon went to dinner, my Lord and we very merry; and after dinner I went
      down below and there sang, and took leave of W. Howe, Captain Rolt, and
      the rest of my friends, then went up and took leave of my Lord, who give
      me his hand and parted with great respect. So went and Captain Ferrers
      with me into our wherry, and my Lord did give five guns, all they had
      charged, which was the greatest respect my Lord could do me, and of which
      I was not a little proud. So with a sad and merry heart I left them
      sailing pleasantly from Erith, hoping to be in the Downs tomorrow early.
      We toward London in our boat. Pulled off our stockings and bathed our legs
      a great while in the river, which I had not done some years before. By and
      by we come to Greenwich, and thinking to have gone on the King's yacht,
      the King was in her, so we passed by, and at Woolwich went on shore, in
      the company of Captain Poole of Jamaica and young Mr. Kennersley, and many
      others, and so to the tavern where we drank a great deal both wine and
      beer. So we parted hence and went home with Mr. Falconer, who did give us
      cherrys and good wine. So to boat, and young Poole took us on board the
      Charity and gave us wine there, with which I had full enough, and so to
      our wherry again, and there fell asleep till I came almost to the Tower,
      and there the Captain and I parted, and I home and with wine enough in my
      head, went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. To Whitehall to my Lord's, where I found Mr. Edward Montagu and his
      family come to lie during my Lord's absence. I sent to my house by my
      Lord's order his shipp&mdash;[Qy. glass omitted after shipp.]&mdash;and
      triangle virginall. So to my father's, and did give him order about the
      buying of this cloth to send to my Lord. But I could not stay with him
      myself, for having got a great cold by my playing the fool in the water
      yesterday I was in great pain, and so went home by coach to bed, and went
      not to the office at all, and by keeping myself warm, I broke wind and so
      came to some ease. Rose and eat some supper, and so to bed again.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. My father came and drank his morning draft with me, and sat with me
      till I was ready, and so he and I about the business of the cloth. By and
      by I left him and went and dined with my Lady, who, now my Lord is gone,
      is come to her poor housekeeping again. Then to my father's, who tells me
      what he has done, and we resolved upon two pieces of scarlet, two of
      purple, and two of black, and L50 in linen. I home, taking L300 with me
      home from Alderman Backwell's. After writing to my Lord to let him know
      what I had done I was going to bed, but there coming the purser of the
      King's yacht for victualls presently, for the Duke of York is to go down
      to-morrow, I got him to promise stowage for these things there, and so I
      went to bed, bidding Will go and fetch the things from the carrier's
      hither, which about 12 o'clock were brought to my house and laid there all
      night.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). But no purser coming in the morning for them, and I
      hear that the Duke went last night, and so I am at a great loss what to
      do; and so this day (though the Lord's day) staid at home, sending Will up
      and down to know what to do. Sometimes thinking to continue my resolution
      of sending by the carrier to be at Deal on Wednesday next, sometimes to
      send them by sea by a vessel on purpose, but am not yet come to a
      resolution, but am at a very great loss and trouble in mind what in the
      world to do herein. The afternoon (while Will was abroad) I spent in
      reading "The Spanish Gypsey," a play not very good, though commended much.
      At night resolved to hire a Margate Hoy, who would go away to-morrow
      morning, which I did, and sent the things all by him, and put them on
      board about 12 this night, hoping to have them as the wind now serves in
      the Downs to-morrow night. To-bed with some quiet of mind, having sent the
      things away.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Visited this morning by my old friend Mr. Ch. Carter, who staid and
      went to Westminster with me, and there we parted, and I to the Wardrobe
      and dined with my Lady. So home to my painters, who are now about painting
      my stairs. So to the office, and at night we all went to Sir W. Pen's, and
      there sat and drank till 11 at night, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. All this morning at home vexing about the delay of my painters, and
      about four in the afternoon my wife and I by water to Captain Lambert's,
      where we took great pleasure in their turret-garden, and seeing the fine
      needle-works of his wife, the best I ever saw in my life, and afterwards
      had a very handsome treat and good musique that she made upon the
      harpsicon, and with a great deal of pleasure staid till 8 at night, and so
      home again, there being a little pretty witty child that is kept in their
      house that would not let us go without her, and so fell a-crying by the
      water-side. So home, where I met Jack Cole, who staid with me a good
      while, and is still of the old good humour that we were of at school
      together, and I am very glad to see him. He gone, I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. All the morning almost at home, seeing my stairs finished by the
      painters, which pleases me well. So with Mr. Moore to Westminster Hall, it
      being term, and then by water to the Wardrobe, where very merry, and so
      home to the office all the afternoon, and at night to the Exchange to my
      uncle Wight about my intention of purchasing at Brampton. So back again
      home and at night to bed. Thanks be to God I am very well again of my late
      pain, and to-morrow hope to be out of my pain of dirt and trouble in my
      house, of which I am now become very weary. One thing I must observe here
      while I think of it, that I am now become the most negligent man in the
      world as to matters of news, insomuch that, now-a-days, I neither can tell
      any, nor ask any of others.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. At home the greatest part of the day to see my workmen make an end,
      which this night they did to my great content.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. This morning going to my father's I met him, and so he and I went
      and drank our morning draft at the Samson in Paul's Churchyard, and eat
      some gammon of bacon, &amp;c., and then parted, having bought some green
      Say&mdash;[A woollen cloth. "Saye clothe serge."&mdash;Palsgrave.]&mdash;for
      curtains in my parler. Home, and so to the Exchequer, where I met with my
      uncle Wight, and home with him to dinner, where among others (my aunt
      being out of town), Mr. Norbury and I did discourse of his wife's house
      and land at Brampton, which I find too much for me to buy. Home, and in
      the afternoon to the office, and much pleased at night to see my house
      begin to be clean after all the dirt.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Abroad all the morning about several businesses. At noon went and
      dined with my Lord Crew, where very much made of by him and his lady. Then
      to the Theatre, "The Alchymist,"&mdash;[Comedy by Ben Jonson, first
      printed in 1612.]&mdash;which is a most incomparable play. And that being
      done I met with little Luellin and Blirton, who took me to a friend's of
      theirs in Lincoln's Inn fields, one Mr. Hodges, where we drank great store
      of Rhenish wine and were very merry. So I went home, where I found my
      house now very clean, which was great content to me.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). In the morning to church, and my wife not being well, I
      went with Sir W. Batten home to dinner, my Lady being out of town, where
      there was Sir W. Pen, Captain Allen and his daughter Rebecca, and Mr.
      Hempson and his wife. After dinner to church all of us and had a very good
      sermon of a stranger, and so I and the young company to walk first to
      Graye's Inn Walks, where great store of gallants, but above all the ladies
      that I there saw, or ever did see, Mrs. Frances Butler (Monsieur
      L'Impertinent's sister) is the greatest beauty. Then we went to Islington,
      where at the great house I entertained them as well as I could, and so
      home with them, and so to my own home and to bed. Pall, who went this day
      to a child's christening of Kate Joyce's, staid out all night at my
      father's, she not being well.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Midsummer-day). We kept this a holiday, and so went not to the
      office at all. All the morning at home. At noon my father came to see my
      house now it is done, which is now very neat. He and I and Dr. Williams
      (who is come to see my wife, whose soare belly is now grown dangerous as
      she thinks) to the ordinary over against the Exchange, where we dined and
      had great wrangling with the master of the house when the reckoning was
      brought to us, he setting down exceeding high every thing. I home again
      and to Sir W. Batten's, and there sat a good while. So home.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up this morning to put my papers in order that are come from my
      Lord's, so that now I have nothing there remaining that is mine, which I
      have had till now. This morning came Mr. Goodgroome
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Theodore Goodgroome, Pepys's singing-master.  He was probably
     related to John Goodgroome, a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, who is
     also referred to in the Diary.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to me (recommended by Mr. Mage), with whom I agreed presently to give him
      20s. entrance, which I then did, and 20s. a month more to teach me to
      sing, and so we began, and I hope I have come to something in it. His
      first song is "La cruda la bella." He gone my brother Tom comes, with whom
      I made even with my father and the two drapers for the cloths I sent to
      sea lately. At home all day, in the afternoon came Captain Allen and his
      daughter Rebecca and Mr. Hempson, and by and by both Sir Williams, who sat
      with me till it was late, and I had a very gallant collation for them. At
      night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. To Westminster about several businesses, then to dine with my Lady
      at the Wardrobe, taking Dean Fuller along with me; then home, where I
      heard my father had been to find me about special business; so I took
      coach and went to him, and found by a letter to him from my aunt that my
      uncle Robert is taken with a dizziness in his head, so that they desire my
      father to come down to look after his business, by which we guess that he
      is very ill, and so my father do think to go to-morrow. And so God's will
      be done. Back by water to the office, there till night, and so home to my
      musique and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. To my father's, and with him to Mr. Starling's to drink our morning
      draft, and there I told him how I would have him speak to my uncle Robert,
      when he comes thither, concerning my buying of land, that I could pay
      ready money L600 and the rest by L150 per annum, to make up as much as
      will buy L50 per annum, which I do, though I not worth above L500 ready
      money, that he may think me to be a greater saver than I am. Here I took
      my leave of my father, who is going this morning to my uncle upon my
      aunt's letter this week that he is not well and so needs my father's help.
      At noon home, and then with my Lady Batten, Mrs. Rebecca Allen, Mrs.
      Thompson, &amp;c., two coaches of us, we went and saw "Bartholomew Fayre"
      acted very well, and so home again and staid at Sir W. Batten's late, and
      so home to bed. This day Mr. Holden sent me a bever, which cost me L4 5s.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Whilst a hat (see January 28th, 1660-61, ante) cost only 35s.  See
     also Lord Sandwich's vexation at his beaver being stolen, and a hat
     only left in lieu of it, April 30th, 1661, ante; and April 19th and
     26th, 1662, Post.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      28th. At home all the morning practising to sing, which is now my great
      trade, and at noon to my Lady and dined with her. So back and to the
      office, and there sat till 7 at night, and then Sir W. Pen and I in his
      coach went to Moorefields, and there walked, and stood and saw the
      wrestling, which I never saw so much of before, between the north and west
      countrymen. So home, and this night had our bed set up in our room that we
      called the Nursery, where we lay, and I am very much pleased with the
      room.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. By a letter from the Duke complaining of the delay of the ships that
      are to be got ready, Sir Williams both and I went to Deptford and there
      examined into the delays, and were satisfyed. So back again home and staid
      till the afternoon, and then I walked to the Bell at the Maypole in the
      Strand, and thither came to me by appointment Mr. Chetwind, Gregory, and
      Hartlibb, so many of our old club, and Mr. Kipps, where we staid and drank
      and talked with much pleasure till it was late, and so I walked home and
      to bed. Mr. Chetwind by chewing of tobacco is become very fat and sallow,
      whereas he was consumptive, and in our discourse he fell commending of
      "Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity," as the best book, and the only one that
      made him a Christian, which puts me upon the buying of it, which I will do
      shortly.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Lord's day). To church, where we observe the trade of briefs is come
      now up to so constant a course every Sunday, that we resolve to give no
      more to them.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [It appears, from an old MS. account-book of the collections in the
     church of St. Olave, Hart Street, beginning in 1642, still extant,
     that the money gathered on the 30th June, 1661, "for several
     inhabitants of the parish of St. Dunstan in the West towards their
     losse by fire," amounted to "xxs. viiid."  Pepys might complain of
     the trade in briefs, as similar contributions had been levied
     fourteen weeks successively, previous to the one in question at St.
     Olave's church.  Briefs were abolished in 1828.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      A good sermon, and then home to dinner, my wife and I all alone. After
      dinner Sir Williams both and I by water to Whitehall, where having walked
      up and down, at last we met with the Duke of York, according to an order
      sent us yesterday from him, to give him an account where the fault lay in
      the not sending out of the ships, which we find to be only the wind hath
      been against them, and so they could not get out of the river. Hence I to
      Graye's Inn Walk, all alone, and with great pleasure seeing the fine
      ladies walk there. Myself humming to myself (which now-a-days is my
      constant practice since I begun to learn to sing) the trillo, and found by
      use that it do come upon me. Home very weary and to bed, finding my wife
      not sick, but yet out of order, that I fear she will come to be sick. This
      day the Portuguese Embassador came to White Hall to take leave of the
      King; he being now going to end all with the Queen, and to send her over.
      The weather now very fair and pleasant, but very hot. My father gone to
      Brampton to see my uncle Robert, not knowing whether to find him dead or
      alive. Myself lately under a great expense of money upon myself in clothes
      and other things, but I hope to make it up this summer by my having to do
      in getting things ready to send with the next fleet to the Queen.
    </p>
    <p>
      Myself in good health, but mighty apt to take cold, so that this hot
      weather I am fain to wear a cloth before my belly.
    </p>
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      JULY 1661
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    <p>
      July 1st. This morning I went up and down into the city, to buy several
      things, as I have lately done, for my house. Among other things, a fair
      chest of drawers for my own chamber, and an Indian gown for myself. The
      first cost me 33s., the other 34s. Home and dined there, and Theodore
      Goodgroome, my singing master, with me, and then to our singing. After
      that to the office, and then home.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. To Westminster Hall and there walked up and down, it being Term time.
      Spoke with several, among others my cozen Roger Pepys, who was going up to
      the Parliament House, and inquired whether I had heard from my father
      since he went to Brampton, which I had done yesterday, who writes that my
      uncle is by fits stupid, and like a man that is drunk, and sometimes
      speechless. Home, and after my singing master had done, took coach and
      went to Sir William Davenant's Opera; this being the fourth day that it
      hath begun, and the first that I have seen it. To-day was acted the second
      part of "The Siege of Rhodes." We staid a very great while for the King
      and the Queen of Bohemia. And by the breaking of a board over our heads,
      we had a great deal of dust fell into the ladies' necks and the men's
      hair, which made good sport. The King being come, the scene opened; which
      indeed is very fine and magnificent, and well acted, all but the Eunuch,
      who was so much out that he was hissed off the stage. Home and wrote
      letters to my Lord at sea, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. To Westminster to Mr. Edward Montagu about business of my Lord's, and
      so to the Wardrobe, and there dined with my Lady, who is in some mourning
      for her brother, Mr. Saml. Crew, who died yesterday of the spotted fever.
      So home through Duck Lane' to inquire for some Spanish books, but found
      none that pleased me. So to the office, and that being done to Sir W.
      Batten's with the Comptroller, where we sat late talking and disputing
      with Mr. Mills the parson of our parish. This day my Lady Batten and my
      wife were at the burial of a daughter of Sir John Lawson's, and had rings
      for themselves and their husbands. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. At home all the morning; in the afternoon I went to the Theatre, and
      there I saw "Claracilla" (the first time I ever saw it), well acted. But
      strange to see this house, that used to be so thronged, now empty since
      the Opera begun; and so will continue for a while, I believe. Called at my
      father's, and there I heard that my uncle Robert&mdash;[Robert Pepys, of
      Brampton, who died on the following day.]&mdash;continues to have his fits
      of stupefaction every day for 10 or 12 hours together. From thence to the
      Exchange at night, and then went with my uncle Wight to the Mitre and were
      merry, but he takes it very ill that my father would go out of town to
      Brampton on this occasion and would not tell him of it, which I
      endeavoured to remove but could not. Here Mr. Batersby the apothecary was,
      who told me that if my uncle had the emerods&mdash;[Haemorrhoids or piles.]&mdash;(which
      I think he had) and that now they are stopped, he will lay his life that
      bleeding behind by leeches will cure him, but I am resolved not to meddle
      in it. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. At home, and in the afternoon to the office, and that being done all
      went to Sir W. Batten's and there had a venison pasty, and were very
      merry. At night home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Waked this morning with news, brought me by a messenger on purpose,
      that my uncle Robert is dead, and died yesterday; so I rose sorry in some
      respect, glad in my expectations in another respect. So I made myself
      ready, went and told my uncle Wight, my Lady, and some others thereof, and
      bought me a pair of boots in St. Martin's, and got myself ready, and then
      to the Post House and set out about eleven and twelve o'clock, taking the
      messenger with me that came to me, and so we rode and got well by nine
      o'clock to Brampton, where I found my father well. My uncle's corps in a
      coffin standing upon joynt-stools in the chimney in the hall; but it begun
      to smell, and so I caused it to be set forth in the yard all night, and
      watched by two men. My aunt I found in bed in a most nasty ugly pickle,
      made me sick to see it. My father and I lay together tonight, I greedy to
      see the will, but did not ask to see it till to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). In the morning my father and I walked in the garden and
      read the will; where, though he gives me nothing at present till my
      father's death, or at least very little, yet I am glad to see that he hath
      done so well for us, all, and well to the rest of his kindred. After that
      done, we went about getting things, as ribbands and gloves, ready for the
      burial. Which in the afternoon was done; where, it being Sunday, all
      people far and near come in; and in the greatest disorder that ever I saw,
      we made shift to serve them what we had of wine and other things; and then
      to carry him to the church, where Mr. Taylor buried him, and Mr. Turners
      preached a funerall sermon, where he spoke not particularly of him
      anything, but that he was one so well known for his honesty, that it spoke
      for itself above all that he could say for it. And so made a very good
      sermon. Home with some of the company who supped there, and things being
      quiet, at night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th, 9th, Loth, 11th, 12th, 13th. I fell to work, and my father to look
      over my uncle's papers and clothes, and continued all this week upon that
      business, much troubled with my aunt's base, ugly humours. We had news of
      Tom Trice's putting in a caveat against us, in behalf of his mother, to
      whom my uncle hath not given anything, and for good reason therein
      expressed, which troubled us also. But above all, our trouble is to find
      that his estate appears nothing as we expected, and all the world
      believes; nor his papers so well sorted as I would have had them, but all
      in confusion, that break my brains to understand them. We missed also the
      surrenders of his copyhold land, without which the land would not come to
      us, but to the heir at law, so that what with this, and the badness of the
      drink and the ill opinion I have of the meat, and the biting of the gnats
      by night and my disappointment in getting home this week, and the trouble
      of sorting all the papers, I am almost out of my wits with trouble, only I
      appear the more contented, because I would not have my father troubled.
      The latter end of the week Mr. Philips comes home from London, and so we
      advised with him and have the best counsel he could give us, but for all
      that we were not quiet in our minds.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). At home, and Robert Barnwell with us, and dined, and in
      the evening my father and I walked round Portholme and viewed all the
      fields, which was very pleasant. Thence to Hinchingbroke, which is now all
      in dirt, because of my Lord's building, which will make it very
      magnificent. Back to Brampton, and to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up by three o'clock this morning, and rode to Cambridge, and was
      there by seven o'clock, where, after I was trimmed, I went to Christ
      College, and found my brother John at eight o'clock in bed, which vexed
      me. Then to King's College chappell, where I found the scholars in their
      surplices at the service with the organs, which is a strange sight to what
      it used in my time to be here. Then with Dr. Fairbrother (whom I met
      there) to the Rose tavern, and called for some wine, and there met
      fortunately with Mr. Turner of our office, and sent for his wife, and were
      very merry (they being come to settle their son here), and sent also for
      Mr. Sanchy, of Magdalen, with whom and other gentlemen, friends of his, we
      were very merry, and I treated them as well as I could, and so at noon
      took horse again, having taken leave of my cozen Angier, and rode to
      Impington, where I found my old uncle
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Talbot Pepys, sixth son of John Pepys of Impington, was born 1583,
     and therefore at this time he was seventy-eight years of age.  He
     was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and called to the bar at
     the Middle Temple in 1605.  He was M.P. for Cambridge in 1625, and
     Recorder of Cambridge from 1624 to 1660, in which year he was
     succeeded by his son Roger.  He died of the plague, March, 1666,
     aged eighty-three.]
</pre>
    <p>
      sitting all alone, like a man out of the world: he can hardly see; but all
      things else he do pretty livelyly. Then with Dr. John Pepys and him, I
      read over the will, and had their advice therein, who, as to the
      sufficiency thereof confirmed me, and advised me as to the other parts
      thereof. Having done there, I rode to Gravely with much ado to inquire for
      a surrender of my uncle's in some of the copyholders' hands there, but I
      can hear of none, which puts me into very great trouble of mind, and so
      with a sad heart rode home to Brampton, but made myself as cheerful as I
      could to my father, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th, 17th, 18th, 19th. These four days we spent in putting things in
      order, letting of the crop upon the ground, agreeing with Stankes to have
      a care of our business in our absence, and we think ourselves in nothing
      happy but in lighting upon him to be our bayly; in riding to Offord and
      Sturtlow, and up and down all our lands, and in the evening walking, my
      father and I about the fields talking, and had advice from Mr. Moore from
      London, by my desire, that the three witnesses of the will being all
      legatees, will not do the will any wrong. To-night Serjeant Bernard, I
      hear, is come home into the country. To supper and to bed. My aunt
      continuing in her base, hypocritical tricks, which both Jane Perkin (of
      whom we make great use), and the maid do tell us every day of.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up to Huntingdon this morning to Sir Robert Bernard, with whom I met
      Jaspar Trice. So Sir Robert caused us to sit down together and began
      discourse very fairly between us, so I drew out the Will and show it him,
      and [he] spoke between us as well as I could desire, but could come to no
      issue till Tom Trice comes. Then Sir Robert and I fell to talk about the
      money due to us upon surrender from Piggott, L164., which he tells me will
      go with debts to the heir at law, which breaks my heart on the other side.
      Here I staid and dined with Sir Robert Bernard and his lady, my Lady
      Digby, a very good woman. After dinner I went into the town and spent the
      afternoon, sometimes with Mr. Phillips, sometimes with Dr. Symcottes, Mr.
      Vinter, Robert Ethell, and many more friends, and at last Mr. Davenport,
      Phillips, Jaspar Trice, myself and others at Mother&mdash;&mdash;-over
      against the Crown we sat and drank ale and were very merry till 9 at
      night, and so broke up. I walked home, and there found Tom Trice come, and
      he and my father gone to Goody Gorum's, where I found them and Jaspar
      Trice got before me, and Mr. Greene, and there had some calm discourse,
      but came to no issue, and so parted. So home and to bed, being now pretty
      well again of my left hand, which lately was stung and very much swelled.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). At home all the morning, putting my papers in order
      against my going to-morrow and doing many things else to that end. Had a
      good dinner, and Stankes and his wife with us. To my business again in the
      afternoon, and in the evening came the two Trices, Mr. Greene, and Mr.
      Philips, and so we began to argue. At last it came to some agreement that
      for our giving of my aunt L10 she is to quit the house, and for other
      matters they are to be left to the law, which do please us all, and so we
      broke up, pretty well satisfyed. Then came Mr. Barnwell and J. Bowles and
      supped with us, and after supper away, and so I having taken leave of them
      and put things in the best order I could against to-morrow I went to bed.
      Old William Luffe having been here this afternoon and paid up his bond of
      L20, and I did give him into his hand my uncle's surrender of Sturtlow to
      me before Mr. Philips, R. Barnwell, and Mr. Pigott, which he did
      acknowledge to them my uncle did in his lifetime deliver to him.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up by three, and going by four on my way to London; but the day
      proves very cold, so that having put on no stockings but thread ones under
      my boots, I was fain at Bigglesworth to buy a pair of coarse woollen ones,
      and put them on. So by degrees till I come to Hatfield before twelve
      o'clock, where I had a very good dinner with my hostess, at my Lord of
      Salisbury's Inn, and after dinner though weary I walked all alone to the
      Vineyard, which is now a very beautiful place again; and coming back I met
      with Mr. Looker, my Lord's gardener (a friend of Mr. Eglin's), who showed
      me the house, the chappell with brave pictures, and, above all, the
      gardens, such as I never saw in all my life; nor so good flowers, nor so
      great gooseberrys, as big as nutmegs. Back to the inn, and drank with him,
      and so to horse again, and with much ado got to London, and set him up at
      Smithfield; so called at my uncle Fenner's, my mother's, my Lady's, and so
      home, in all which I found all things as well as I could expect. So weary
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Put on my mourning. Made visits to Sir W. Pen and Batten. Then to
      Westminster, and at the Hall staid talking with Mrs. Michell a good while,
      and in the afternoon, finding myself unfit for business, I went to the
      Theatre, and saw "Brenoralt," I never saw before. It seemed a good play,
      but ill acted; only I sat before Mrs. Palmer, the King's mistress, and
      filled my eyes with her, which much pleased me. Then to my father's, where
      by my desire I met my uncle Thomas, and discoursed of my uncle's will to
      him, and did satisfy [him] as well as I could. So to my uncle Wight's, but
      found him out of doors, but my aunt I saw and staid a while, and so home
      and to bed. Troubled to hear how proud and idle Pall is grown, that I am
      resolved not to keep her.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. This morning my wife in bed tells me of our being robbed of our
      silver tankard, which vexed me all day for the negligence of my people to
      leave the door open. My wife and I by water to Whitehall, where I left her
      to her business and I to my cozen Thomas Pepys, and discoursed with him at
      large about our business of my uncle's will. He can give us no light at
      all into his estate, but upon the whole tells me that he do believe that
      he has left but little money, though something more than we have found,
      which is about L500. Here came Sir G. Lane by chance, seeing a bill upon
      the door to hire the house, with whom my coz and I walked all up and down,
      and indeed it is a very pretty place, and he do intend to leave the
      agreement for the House, which is L400 fine, and L46 rent a year to me
      between them. Then to the Wardrobe, but come too late, and so dined with
      the servants. And then to my Lady, who do shew my wife and me the greatest
      favour in the world, in which I take great content. Home by water and to
      the office all the afternoon, which is a great pleasure to me again, to
      talk with persons of quality and to be in command, and I give it out among
      them that the estate left me is L200 a year in land, besides moneys,
      because I would put an esteem upon myself. At night home and to bed after
      I had set down my journals ever since my going from London this journey to
      this house. This afternoon I hear that my man Will hath lost his clock
      with my tankard, at which I am very glad.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. This morning came my box of papers from Brampton of all my uncle's
      papers, which will now set me at work enough. At noon I went to the
      Exchange, where I met my uncle Wight, and found him so discontented about
      my father (whether that he takes it ill that he has not been acquainted
      with things, or whether he takes it ill that he has nothing left him, I
      cannot tell), for which I am much troubled, and so staid not long to talk
      with him. Thence to my mother's, where I found my wife and my aunt Bell
      and Mrs. Ramsey, and great store of tattle there was between the old women
      and my mother, who thinks that there is, God knows what fallen to her,
      which makes me mad, but it was not a proper time to speak to her of it,
      and so I went away with Mr. Moore, and he and I to the Theatre, and saw
      "The Jovial Crew," the first time I saw it, and indeed it is as merry and
      the most innocent play that ever I saw, and well performed. From thence
      home, and wrote to my father and so to bed. Full of thoughts to think of
      the trouble that we shall go through before we come to see what will
      remain to us of all our expectations.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. At home all the morning, and walking met with Mr. Hill of Cambridge
      at Pope's Head Alley with some women with him whom he took and me into the
      tavern there, and did give us wine, and would fain seem to be very knowing
      in the affairs of state, and tells me that yesterday put a change to the
      whole state of England as to the Church; for the King now would be forced
      to favour Presbytery, or the City would leave him: but I heed not what he
      says, though upon enquiry I do find that things in the Parliament are in a
      great disorder. Home at noon and there found Mr. Moore, and with him to an
      ordinary alone and dined, and there he and I read my uncle's will, and I
      had his opinion on it, and still find more and more trouble like to attend
      it. Back to the office all the afternoon, and that done home for all
      night. Having the beginning of this week made a vow to myself to drink no
      wine this week (finding it to unfit me to look after business), and this
      day breaking of it against my will, I am much troubled for it, but I hope
      God will forgive me.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. To Westminster, where at Mr. Montagu's chamber I heard a Frenchman
      play, a friend of Monsieur Eschar's, upon the guitar, most extreme well,
      though at the best methinks it is but a bawble. From thence to Westminster
      Hall, where it was expected that the Parliament was to have been adjourned
      for two or three months, but something hinders it for a day or two. In the
      lobby I spoke with Mr. George Montagu, and advised about a ship to carry
      my Lord Hinchingbroke and the rest of the young gentlemen to France, and
      they have resolved of going in a hired vessell from Rye, and not in a man
      of war. He told me in discourse that my Lord Chancellor is much envied,
      and that many great men, such as the Duke of Buckingham and my Lord of
      Bristoll, do endeavour to undermine him, and that he believes it will not
      be done; for that the King (though he loves him not in the way of a
      companion, as he do these young gallants that can answer him in his
      pleasures), yet cannot be without him, for his policy and service. From
      thence to the Wardrobe, where my wife met me, it being my Lord of
      Sandwich's birthday, and so we had many friends here, Mr. Townsend and his
      wife, and Captain Ferrers lady and Captain Isham, and were very merry, and
      had a good venison pasty. Mr. Pargiter, the merchant, was with us also.
      After dinner Mr. Townsend was called upon by Captain Cooke: so we three
      went to a tavern hard by, and there he did give us a song or two; and
      without doubt he hath the best manner of singing in the world. Back to my
      wife, and with my Lady Jem. and Pall by water through bridge, and showed
      them the ships with great pleasure, and then took them to my house to show
      it them (my Lady their mother having been lately all alone to see it and
      my wife, in my absence in the country), and we treated them well, and were
      very merry. Then back again through bridge, and set them safe at home, and
      so my wife and I by coach home again, and after writing a letter to my
      father at Brampton, who, poor man, is there all alone, and I have not
      heard from him since my coming from him, which troubles me. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). This morning as my wife and I were going to church,
      comes Mrs. Ramsay to see us, so we sent her to church, and we went too,
      and came back to dinner, and she dined with us and was wellcome. To church
      again in the afternoon, and then come home with us Sir W. Pen, and drank
      with us, and then went away, and my wife after him to see his daughter
      that is lately come out of Ireland. I staid at home at my book; she came
      back again and tells me that whereas I expected she should have been a
      great beauty, she is a very plain girl. This evening my wife gives me all
      my linen, which I have put up, and intend to keep it now in my own
      custody. To supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. This morning we began again to sit in the mornings at the office,
      but before we sat down. Sir R. Slingsby and I went to Sir R. Ford's to see
      his house, and we find it will be very convenient for us to have it added
      to the office if he can be got to part with it. Then we sat down and did
      business in the office. So home to dinner, and my brother Tom dined with
      me, and after dinner he and I alone in my chamber had a great deal of
      talk, and I find that unless my father can forbear to make profit of his
      house in London and leave it to Tom, he has no mind to set up the trade
      any where else, and so I know not what to do with him. After this I went
      with him to my mother, and there told her how things do fall out short of
      our expectations, which I did (though it be true) to make her leave off
      her spending, which I find she is nowadays very free in, building upon
      what is left to us by my uncle to bear her out in it, which troubles me
      much. While I was here word is brought that my aunt Fenner is exceeding
      ill, and that my mother is sent for presently to come to her: also that my
      cozen Charles Glassecocke, though very ill himself, is this day gone to
      the country to his brother, John Glassecocke, who is a-dying there. Home.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. After my singing-master had done with me this morning, I went to
      White Hall and Westminster Hall, where I found the King expected to come
      and adjourn the Parliament. I found the two Houses at a great difference,
      about the Lords challenging their privileges not to have their houses
      searched, which makes them deny to pass the House of Commons' Bill for
      searching for pamphlets and seditious books. Thence by water to the
      Wardrobe (meeting the King upon the water going in his barge to adjourn
      the House) where I dined with my Lady, and there met Dr. Thomas Pepys, who
      I found to be a silly talking fellow, but very good-natured. So home to
      the office, where we met about the business of Tangier this afternoon.
      That done, at home I found Mr. Moore, and he and I walked into the City
      and there parted. To Fleet Street to find when the Assizes begin at
      Cambridge and Huntingdon, in order to my going to meet with Roger Pepys
      for counsel. So in Fleet Street I met with Mr. Salisbury, who is now grown
      in less than two years' time so great a limner&mdash;that he is become
      excellent, and gets a great deal of money at it. I took him to Hercules
      Pillars to drink, and there came Mr. Whore (whom I formerly have known), a
      friend of his to him, who is a very ingenious fellow, and there I sat with
      them a good while, and so home and wrote letters late to my Lord and to my
      father, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Singing-master came to me this morning; then to the office all the
      morning. In the afternoon I went to the Theatre, and there I saw "The
      Tamer Tamed" well done. And then home, and prepared to go to Walthamstow
      to-morrow. This night I was forced to borrow L40 of Sir W. Batten.
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    <p>
      August 1st. This morning Sir Williams both, and my wife and I and Mrs.
      Margarett Pen (this first time that I have seen her since she came from
      Ireland) went by coach to Walthamstow, a-gossiping to Mrs. Browne, where I
      did give her six silver spoons&mdash;[But not the porringer of silver. See
      May 29th, 1661.&mdash;M. B]&mdash;for her boy. Here we had a venison
      pasty, brought hot from London, and were very merry. Only I hear how
      nurse's husband has spoken strangely of my Lady Batten how she was such a
      man's whore, who indeed is known to leave her her estate, which we would
      fain have reconciled to-day, but could not and indeed I do believe that
      the story is true. Back again at night home.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. At the office all the morning. At noon Dr. Thos. Pepys dined with me,
      and after dinner my brother Tom came to me and then I made myself ready to
      get a-horseback for Cambridge. So I set out and rode to Ware, this night,
      in the way having much discourse with a fellmonger,&mdash;[A dealer in
      hides.]&mdash;a Quaker, who told me what a wicked man he had been all his
      life-time till within this two years. Here I lay, and
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Got up early the next morning and got to Barkway, where I staid and
      drank, and there met with a letter-carrier of Cambridge, with whom I rode
      all the way to Cambridge, my horse being tired, and myself very wet with
      rain. I went to the Castle Hill, where the judges were at the Assizes; and
      I staid till Roger Pepys rose and went with him, and dined with his
      brother, the Doctor, and Claxton at Trinity Hall. Then parted, and I went
      to the Rose, and there with Mr. Pechell, Sanchy, and others, sat and drank
      till night and were very merry, only they tell me how high the old doctors
      are in the University over those they found there, though a great deal
      better scholars than themselves; for which I am very sorry, and, above
      all, Dr. Gunning. At night I took horse, and rode with Roger Pepys and his
      two brothers to Impington, and there with great respect was led up by them
      to the best chamber in the house, and there slept.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th (Lord's day). Got up, and by and by walked into the orchard with my
      cozen Roger, and there plucked some fruit, and then discoursed at large
      about the business I came for, that is, about my uncle's will, in which he
      did give me good satisfaction, but tells me I shall meet with a great deal
      of trouble in it. However, in all things he told me what I am to expect
      and what to do. To church, and had a good plain sermon, and my uncle
      Talbot went with us and at our coming in the country-people all rose with
      so much reverence; and when the parson begins, he begins "Right
      worshipfull and dearly beloved" to us. Home to dinner, which was very
      good, and then to church again, and so home and to walk up and down and so
      to supper, and after supper to talk about publique matters, wherein Roger
      Pepys&mdash;(who I find a very sober man, and one whom I do now honour
      more than ever before for this discourse sake only) told me how basely
      things have been carried in Parliament by the young men, that did labour
      to oppose all things that were moved by serious men. That they are the
      most prophane swearing fellows that ever he heard in his life, which makes
      him think that they will spoil all, and bring things into a warr again if
      they can. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Early to Huntingdon, but was fain to stay a great while at Stanton
      because of the rain, and there borrowed a coat of a man for 6d., and so he
      rode all the way, poor man, without any. Staid at Huntingdon for a little,
      but the judges are not come hither: so I went to Brampton, and there found
      my father very well, and my aunt gone from the house, which I am glad of,
      though it costs us a great deal of money, viz. L10. Here I dined, and
      after dinner took horse and rode to Yelling, to my cozen Nightingale's,
      who hath a pretty house here, and did learn of her all she could tell me
      concerning my business, and has given me some light by her discourse how I
      may get a surrender made for Graveley lands. Hence to Graveley, and there
      at an alehouse met with Chancler and Jackson (one of my tenants for Cotton
      closes) and another with whom I had a great deal of discourse, much to my
      satisfaction. Hence back again to Brampton and after supper to bed, being
      now very quiet in the house, which is a content to us.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up early and went to Mr. Phillips, but lost my labour, he lying at
      Huntingdon last night, so I went back again and took horse and rode
      thither, where I staid with Thos. Trice and Mr. Philips drinking till
      noon, and then Tom Trice and I to Brampton, where he to Goody Gorum's and
      I home to my father, who could discern that I had been drinking, which he
      did never see or hear of before, so I eat a bit of dinner and went with
      him to Gorum's, and there talked with Tom Trice, and then went and took
      horse for London, and with much ado, the ways being very bad, got to
      Baldwick, and there lay and had a good supper by myself. The landlady
      being a pretty woman, but I durst not take notice of her, her husband
      being there. Before supper I went to see the church, which is a very
      handsome church, but I find that both here, and every where else that I
      come, the Quakers do still continue, and rather grow than lessen. To bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Called up at three o'clock, and was a-horseback by four; and as I was
      eating my breakfast I saw a man riding by that rode a little way upon the
      road with me last night; and he being going with venison in his pan-yards
      to London, I called him in and did give him his breakfast with me, and so
      we went together all the way. At Hatfield we bayted and walked into the
      great house through all the courts; and I would fain have stolen a pretty
      dog that followed me, but I could not, which troubled me. To horse again,
      and by degrees with much ado got to London, where I found all well at home
      and at my father's and my Lady's, but no news yet from my Lord where he
      is. At my Lady's (whither I went with Dean Fuller, who came to my house to
      see me just as I was come home) I met with Mr. Moore, who told me at what
      a loss he was for me, for to-morrow is a Seal day at the Privy Seal, and
      it being my month, I am to wait upon my Lord Roberts, Lord Privy Seal, at
      the Seal. Home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Early in the mornink to Whitehall, but my Lord Privy Seal came not
      all the morning. At noon Mr. Moore and I to the Wardrobe to dinner, where
      my Lady and all merry and well. Back again to the Privy Seal; but my Lord
      comes not all the afternoon, which made me mad and gives all the world
      reason to talk of his delaying of business, as well as of his severity and
      ill using of the Clerks of the Privy Seal. In the evening I took Mons.
      Eschar and Mr. Moore and Dr. Pierce's brother (the souldier) to the tavern
      next the Savoy, and there staid and drank with them. Here I met with Mr.
      Mage, and discoursing of musique Mons. Eschar spoke so much against the
      English and in praise of the French that made him mad, and so he went
      away. After a stay with them a little longer we parted and I home.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. To the office, where word is brought me by a son-in-law of Mr.
      Pierces; the purser, that his father is a dying and that he desires that I
      would come to him before he dies. So I rose from the table and went, where
      I found him not so ill as I thought that he had been ill. So I did promise
      to be a friend to his wife and family if he should die, which was all he
      desired of me, but I do believe he will recover. Back again to the office,
      where I found Sir G. Carteret had a day or two ago invited some of the
      officers to dinner to-day at Deptford. So at noon, when I heard that he
      was a-coming, I went out, because I would see whether he would send to me
      or no to go with them; but he did not, which do a little trouble me till I
      see how it comes to pass. Although in other things I am glad of it because
      of my going again to-day to the Privy Seal. I dined at home, and having
      dined news is brought by Mr. Hater that his wife is now falling into
      labour, so he is come for my wife, who presently went with him. I to White
      Hall, where, after four o'clock, comes my Lord Privy Seal, and so we went
      up to his chamber over the gate at White Hall, where he asked me what
      deputacon I had from My Lord. I told him none; but that I am sworn my
      Lord's deputy by both of the Secretarys, which did satisfy him. So he
      caused Mr. Moore to read over all the bills as is the manner, and all
      ended very well. So that I see the Lyon is not so fierce as he is painted.
      That being done Mons. Eschar (who all this afternoon had been waiting at
      the Privy Seal for the Warrant for L5,000 for my Lord of Sandwich's
      preparation for Portugal) and I took some wine with us and went to visit
      la belle Pierce, who we find very big with child, and a pretty lady, one
      Mrs. Clifford, with her, where we staid and were extraordinary merry. From
      thence I took coach to my father's, where I found him come home this day
      from Brampton (as I expected) very well, and after some discourse about
      business and it being very late I took coach again home, where I hear by
      my wife that Mrs. Hater is not yet delivered, but continues in her pains.
      So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. This morning came the maid that my wife hath lately hired for a
      chamber maid. She is very ugly, so that I cannot care for her, but
      otherwise she seems very good. But however she do come about three weeks
      hence, when my wife comes back from Brampton, if she go with my father. By
      and by came my father to my house, and so he and I went and found out my
      uncle Wight at the Coffee House, and there did agree with him to meet the
      next week with my uncle Thomas and read over the Captain's will before
      them both for their satisfaction. Having done with him I went to my Lady's
      and dined with her, and after dinner took the two young gentlemen and the
      two ladies and carried them and Captain Ferrers to the Theatre, and shewed
      them "The merry Devill of Edmunton," which is a very merry play, the first
      time I ever saw it, which pleased me well. And that being done I took them
      all home by coach to my house and there gave them fruit to eat and wine.
      So by water home with them, and so home myself.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day). To our own church in the forenoon, and in the afternoon
      to Clerkenwell Church, only to see the two
    </p>
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     [A comedy acted at the Globe, and first printed in 1608.  In the
     original entry in the Stationers' books it is said to be by T. B.,
     which may stand for Tony or Anthony Brewer.  The play has been
     attributed without authority both to Shakespeare and to Drayton.]
</pre>
    <p>
      fayre Botelers;&mdash;[Mrs. Frances Butler and her sister.]&mdash;and I
      happened to be placed in the pew where they afterwards came to sit, but
      the pew by their coming being too full, I went out into the next, and
      there sat, and had my full view of them both, but I am out of conceit now
      with them, Colonel Dillon being come back from Ireland again, and do still
      court them, and comes to church with them, which makes me think they are
      not honest. Hence to Graye's-Inn walks, and there staid a good while;
      where I met with Ned Pickering, who told me what a great match of hunting
      of a stagg the King had yesterday; and how the King tired all their
      horses, and come home with not above two or three able to keep pace with
      him. So to my father's, and there supped, and so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. At the office this morning. At home in the afternoon, and had notice
      that my Lord Hinchingbroke is fallen ill, which I fear is with the fruit
      that I did give them on Saturday last at my house: so in the evening I
      went thither and there found him very ill, and in great fear of the
      smallpox. I supped with my Lady, and did consult about him, but we find it
      best to let him lie where he do; and so I went home with my heart full of
      trouble for my Lord Hinchinabroke's sickness, and more for my Lord
      Sandwich's himself, whom we are now confirmed is sick ashore at Alicante,
      who, if he should miscarry, God knows in what condition would his family
      be. I dined to-day with my Lord Crew, who is now at Sir H. Wright's, while
      his new house is making fit for him, and he is much troubled also at these
      things.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. To the Privy Seal in the morning, then to the Wardrobe to dinner,
      where I met my wife, and found my young Lord very ill. So my Lady intends
      to send her other three sons, Sidney, Oliver, and John, to my house, for
      fear of the small-pox. After dinner I went to my father's, where I found
      him within, and went up to him, and there found him settling his papers
      against his removal, and I took some old papers of difference between me
      and my wife and took them away. After that Pall being there I spoke to my
      father about my intention not to keep her longer for such and such
      reasons, which troubled him and me also, and had like to have come to some
      high words between my mother and me, who is become a very simple woman. By
      and by comes in Mrs. Cordery to take her leave of my father, thinking he
      was to go presently into the country, and will have us to come and see her
      before he do go. Then my father and I went forth to Mr. Rawlinson's, where
      afterwards comes my uncle Thomas and his two sons, and then my uncle Wight
      by appointment of us all, and there we read the will and told them how
      things are, and what our thoughts are of kindness to my uncle Thomas if he
      do carry himself peaceable, but otherwise if he persist to keep his caveat
      up against us. So he promised to withdraw it, and seemed to be very well
      contented with things as they are. After a while drinking, we paid all and
      parted, and so I home, and there found my Lady's three sons come, of which
      I am glad that I am in condition to do her and my Lord any service in this
      kind, but my mind is yet very much troubled about my Lord of Sandwich's
      health, which I am afeard of.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. This morning Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen and I, waited upon the
      Duke of York in his chamber, to give him an account of the condition of
      the Navy for lack of money, and how our own very bills are offered upon
      the Exchange, to be sold at 20 in the 100 loss. He is much troubled at it,
      and will speak to the King and Council of it this morning. So I went to my
      Lady's and dined with her, and found my Lord Hinchingbroke somewhat
      better. After dinner Captain Ferrers and I to the Theatre, and there saw
      "The Alchymist;" and there I saw Sir W. Pen, who took us when the play was
      done and carried the Captain to Paul's and set him down, and me home with
      him, and he and I to the Dolphin, but not finding Sir W. Batten there, we
      went and carried a bottle of wine to his house, and there sat a while and
      talked, and so home to bed. At home I found a letter from Mr. Creed of the
      15th of July last, that tells me that my Lord is rid of his pain (which
      was wind got into the muscles of his right side) and his feaver, and is
      now in hopes to go aboard in a day or two, which do give me mighty great
      comfort.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. To the Privy Seal and Whitehall, up and down, and at noon Sir W. Pen
      carried me to Paul's, and so I walked to the Wardrobe and dined with my
      Lady, and there told her, of my Lord's sickness (of which though it hath
      been the town-talk this fortnight, she had heard nothing) and recovery, of
      which she was glad, though hardly persuaded of the latter. I found my Lord
      Hinchingbroke better and better, and the worst past. Thence to the Opera,
      which begins again to-day with "The Witts," never acted yet with scenes;
      and the King and Duke and Duchess were there (who dined to-day with Sir H.
      Finch, reader at the Temple, in great state); and indeed it is a most
      excellent play, and admirable scenes. So home and was overtaken by Sir W.
      Pen in his coach, who has been this afternoon with my Lady Batten, &amp;c.,
      at the Theatre. So I followed him to the Dolphin, where Sir W. Batten was,
      and there we sat awhile, and so home after we had made shift to fuddle Mr.
      Falconer of Woolwich. So home.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. At the office all the morning, though little to be done; because all
      our clerks are gone to the buriall of Tom Whitton, one of the Controller's
      clerks, a very ingenious, and a likely young man to live, as any in the
      Office. But it is such a sickly time both in City and country every where
      (of a sort of fever), that never was heard of almost, unless it was in a
      plague-time.
    </p>
    <p>
      Among others, the famous Tom Fuller is dead of it; and Dr. Nichols, Dean
      of Paul's; and my Lord General Monk is very dangerously ill. Dined at home
      with the children and were merry, and my father with me; who after dinner
      he and I went forth about business. Among other things we found one Dr.
      John Williams at an alehouse, where we staid till past nine at night, in
      Shoe Lane, talking about our country business, and I found him so well
      acquainted with the matters of Gravely that I expect he will be of great
      use to me. So by link home. I understand my Aunt Fenner is upon the point
      of death.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. At the Privy Seal, where we had a seal this morning. Then met with
      Ned Pickering, and walked with him into St. James's Park (where I had not
      been a great while), and there found great and very noble alterations.
      And, in our discourse, he was very forward to complain and to speak loud
      of the lewdness and beggary of the Court, which I am sorry to hear, and
      which I am afeard will bring all to ruin again. So he and I to the
      Wardrobe to dinner, and after dinner Captain Ferrers and I to the Opera,
      and saw "The Witts" again, which I like exceedingly. The Queen of Bohemia
      was here, brought by my Lord Craven. So the Captain and I and another to
      the Devil tavern and drank, and so by coach home. Troubled in mind that I
      cannot bring myself to mind my business, but to be so much in love of
      plays. We have been at a great loss a great while for a vessel that I sent
      about a month ago with, things of my Lord's to Lynn, and cannot till now
      hear of them, but now we are told that they are put into Soale Bay, but to
      what purpose I know not.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Lord's day). To our own church in the morning and so home to dinner,
      where my father and Dr. Tom Pepys came to me to dine, and were very merry.
      After dinner I took my wife and Mr. Sidney to my Lady to see my Lord
      Hinchingbroke, who is now pretty well again, and sits up and walks about
      his chamber. So I went to White Hall, and there hear that my Lord General
      Monk continues very ill: so I went to la belle Pierce and sat with her;
      and then to walk in St. James's Park, and saw great variety of fowl which
      I never saw before and so home. At night fell to read in "Hooker's
      Ecclesiastical Polity," which Mr. Moore did give me last Wednesday very
      handsomely bound; and which I shall read with great pains and love for his
      sake. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. At the office all the morning; at noon the children are sent for by
      their mother my Lady Sandwich to dinner, and my wife goes along with them
      by coach, and she to my father's and dines there, and from thence with
      them to see Mrs. Cordery, who do invite them before my father goes into
      the country, and thither I should have gone too but that I am sent for to
      the Privy Seal, and there I found a thing of my Lord Chancellor's
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This "thing" was probably one of those large grants which Clarendon
     quietly, or, as he himself says, "without noise or scandal,"
     procured from the king.  Besides lands and manors, Clarendon states
     at one time that the king gave him a "little billet into his hand,
     that contained a warrant of his own hand-writing to Sir Stephen Fox
     to pay to the Chancellor the sum of L20,000,&mdash;[approximately 10
     million dollars in the year 2000]&mdash;of which nobody could have
     notice."  In 1662 he received L5,000 out of the money voted to the
     king by the Parliament of Ireland, as he mentions in his vindication
     of himself against the impeachment of the Commons; and we shall see
     that Pepys, in February, 1664, names another sum of L20,000 given to
     the Chancellor to clear the mortgage upon Clarendon Park; and this
     last sum, it was believed, was paid from the money received from
     France by the sale of Dunkirk.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to be sealed this afternoon, and so I am forced to go to Worcester House,
      where severall Lords are met in Council this afternoon. And while I am
      waiting there, in comes the King in a plain common riding-suit and velvet
      cap, in which he seemed a very ordinary man to one that had not known him.
      Here I staid till at last, hearing that my Lord Privy Seal had not the
      seal here, Mr. Moore and I hired a coach and went to Chelsy, and there at
      an alehouse sat and drank and past the time till my Lord Privy Seal came
      to his house, and so we to him and examined and sealed the thing, and so
      homewards, but when we came to look for our coach we found it gone, so we
      were fain to walk home afoot and saved our money. We met with a companion
      that walked with us, and coming among some trees near the Neate houses, he
      began to whistle, which did give us some suspicion, but it proved that he
      that answered him was Mr. Marsh (the Lutenist) and his wife, and so we all
      walked to Westminster together, in our way drinking a while at my cost,
      and had a song of him, but his voice is quite lost. So walked home, and
      there I found that my Lady do keep the children at home, and lets them not
      come any more hither at present, which a little troubles me to lose their
      company. This day my aunt Fenner dyed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. At the office in the morning and all the afternoon at home to put my
      papers in order. This day we come to some agreement with Sir R. Ford for
      his house to be added to the office to enlarge our quarters.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. This morning by appointment I went to my father, and after a morning
      draft he and I went to Dr. Williams, but he not within we went to Mrs.
      Terry, a daughter of Mr. Whately's, who lately offered a proposal of her
      sister for a wife for my brother Tom, and with her we discoursed about and
      agreed to go to her mother this afternoon to speak with her, and in the
      meantime went to Will. Joyce's and to an alehouse, and drank a good while
      together, he being very angry that his father Fenner will give him and his
      brother no more for mourning than their father did give him and my aunt at
      their mother's death, and a very troublesome fellow I still find him to
      be, that his company ever wearys me. From thence about two o'clock to Mrs.
      Whately's, but she being going to dinner we went to Whitehall and there
      staid till past three, and here I understand by Mr. Moore that my Lady
      Sandwich is brought to bed yesterday of a young Lady, and is very well. So
      to Mrs. Whately's again, and there were well received, and she desirous to
      have the thing go forward, only is afeard that her daughter is too young
      and portion not big enough, but offers L200 down with her. The girl is
      very well favoured,, and a very child, but modest, and one I think will do
      very well for my brother: so parted till she hears from Hatfield from her
      husband, who is there; but I find them very desirous of it, and so am I.
      Hence home to my father's, and I to the Wardrobe, where I supped with the
      ladies, and hear their mother is well and the young child, and so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. To the Privy Seal, and sealed; so home at noon, and there took my
      wife by coach to my uncle Fenner's, where there was both at his house and
      the Sessions, great deal of company, but poor entertainment, which I
      wonder at; and the house so hot, that my uncle Wight, my father and I were
      fain to go out, and stay at an alehouse awhile to cool ourselves. Then
      back again and to church, my father's family being all in mourning, doing
      him the greatest honour, the world believing that he did give us it: so to
      church, and staid out the sermon, and then with my aunt Wight, my wife,
      and Pall and I to her house by coach, and there staid and supped upon a
      Westphalia ham, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. This morning I went to my father's, and there found him and my
      mother in a discontent, which troubles me much, and indeed she is become
      very simple and unquiet. Hence he and I to Dr. Williams, and found him
      within, and there we sat and talked a good while, and from him to Tom
      Trice's to an alehouse near, and there sat and talked, and finding him
      fair we examined my uncle's will before him and Dr. Williams, and had them
      sign the copy and so did give T. Trice the original to prove, so he took
      my father and me to one of the judges of the Court, and there we were
      sworn, and so back again to the alehouse and drank and parted. Dr.
      Williams and I to a cook's where we eat a bit of mutton, and away, I to W.
      Joyce's, where by appointment my wife was, and I took her to the Opera,
      and shewed her "The Witts," which I had seen already twice, and was most
      highly pleased with it. So with my wife to the Wardrobe to see my Lady,
      and then home.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. At the office all the morning and did business; by and by we are
      called to Sir W. Batten's to see the strange creature that Captain Holmes
      hath brought with him from Guiny; it is a great baboon, but so much like a
      man in most things, that though they say there is a species of them, yet I
      cannot believe but that it is a monster got of a man and she-baboon. I do
      believe that it already understands much English, and I am of the mind it
      might be taught to speak or make signs. Hence the Comptroller and I to Sir
      Rd. Ford's and viewed the house again, and are come to a complete end with
      him to give him L200 per an. for it. Home and there met Capt. Isham
      inquiring for me to take his leave of me, he being upon his voyage to
      Portugal, and for my letters to my Lord which are not ready. But I took
      him to the Mitre and gave him a glass of sack, and so adieu, and then
      straight to the Opera, and there saw "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," done
      with scenes very well, but above all, Betterton
    </p>
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     [Sir William Davenant introduced the use of scenery.  The character
     of Hamlet was one of Betterton's masterpieces.  Downes tells us that
     he was taught by Davenant how the part was acted by Taylor of the
     Blackfriars, who was instructed by Shakespeare himself.]
</pre>
    <p>
      did the prince's part beyond imagination. Hence homeward, and met with Mr.
      Spong and took him to the Sampson in Paul's churchyard, and there staid
      till late, and it rained hard, so we were fain to get home wet, and so to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lord's day). At church in the morning, and dined at home alone with
      my wife very comfortably, and so again to church with her, and had a very
      good and pungent sermon of Mr. Mills, discoursing the necessity of
      restitution. Home, and I found my Lady Batten and her daughter to look
      something askew upon my wife, because my wife do not buckle to them, and
      is not solicitous for their acquaintance, which I am not troubled at at
      all. By and by comes in my father (he intends to go into the country
      to-morrow), and he and I among other discourse at last called Pall up to
      us, and there in great anger told her before my father that I would keep
      her no longer, and my father he said he would have nothing to do with her.
      At last, after we had brought down her high spirit, I got my father to
      yield that she should go into the country with my mother and him, and stay
      there awhile to see how she will demean herself. That being done, my
      father and I to my uncle Wight's, and there supped, and he took his leave
      of them, and so I walked with [him] as far as Paul's and there parted, and
      I home, my mind at some rest upon this making an end with Pall, who do
      trouble me exceedingly.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. This morning before I went out I made even with my maid Jane, who
      has this day been my maid three years, and is this day to go into the
      country to her mother. The poor girl cried, and I could hardly forbear
      weeping to think of her going, for though she be grown lazy and spoilt by
      Pall's coming, yet I shall never have one to please us better in all
      things, and so harmless, while I live. So I paid her her wages and gave
      her 2s. 6d. over, and bade her adieu, with my mind full of trouble at her
      going. Hence to my father, where he and I and Thomas together setting
      things even, and casting up my father's accounts, and upon the whole I
      find that all he hath in money of his own due to him in the world is but
      L45, and he owes about the same sum: so that I cannot but think in what a
      condition he had left my mother if he should have died before my uncle
      Robert. Hence to Tom Trice for the probate of the will and had it done to
      my mind, which did give my father and me good content. From thence to my
      Lady at the Wardrobe and thence to the Theatre, and saw the "Antipodes,"
      wherein there is much mirth, but no great matter else. Hence with Mr.
      Bostock whom I met there (a clerk formerly of Mr. Phelps) to the Devil
      tavern, and there drank and so away. I to my uncle Fenner's, where my
      father was with him at an alehouse, and so we three went by ourselves and
      sat talking a great while about a broker's daughter that he do propose for
      a wife for Tom, with a great portion, but I fear it will not take, but he
      will do what he can. So we broke up, and going through the street we met
      with a mother and son, friends of my father's man, Ned's, who are angry at
      my father's putting him away, which troubled me and my father, but all
      will be well as to that. We have news this morning of my uncle Thomas and
      his son Thomas being gone into the country without giving notice thereof
      to anybody, which puts us to a stand, but I fear them not. At night at
      home I found a letter from my Lord Sandwich, who is now very well again of
      his feaver, but not yet gone from Alicante, where he lay sick, and was
      twice let blood. This letter dated the 22nd July last, which puts me out
      of doubt of his being ill. In my coming home I called in at the Crane
      tavern at the Stocks by appointment, and there met and took leave of Mr.
      Fanshaw, who goes to-morrow and Captain Isham toward their voyage to
      Portugal. Here we drank a great deal of wine, I too much and Mr. Fanshaw
      till he could hardly go. So we took leave one of another.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. This morning to the Wardrobe, and there took leave of my Lord
      Hinchingbroke and his brother, and saw them go out by coach toward Rye in
      their way to France, whom God bless. Then I was called up to my Lady's
      bedside, where we talked an hour about Mr. Edward Montagu's disposing of
      the L5000 for my Lord's departure for Portugal, and our fears that he will
      not do it to my Lord's honour, and less to his profit, which I am to
      enquire a little after. Hence to the office, and there sat till noon, and
      then my wife and I by coach to my cozen, Thos. Pepys, the Executor, to
      dinner, where some ladies and my father and mother, where very merry, but
      methinks he makes but poor dinners for such guests, though there was a
      poor venison pasty. Hence my wife and I to the Theatre, and there saw "The
      Joviall Crew," where the King, Duke and Duchess, and Madame Palmer, were;
      and my wife, to her great content, had a full sight of them all the while.
      The play full of mirth. Hence to my father's, and there staid to talk a
      while and so by foot home by moonshine. In my way and at home, my wife
      making a sad story to me of her brother Balty's a condition, and would
      have me to do something for him, which I shall endeavour to do, but am
      afeard to meddle therein for fear I shall not be able to wipe my hands of
      him again, when I once concern myself for him. I went to bed, my wife all
      the while telling me his case with tears, which troubled me.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. At home all the morning setting papers in order. At noon to the
      Exchange, and there met with Dr. Williams by appointment, and with him
      went up and down to look for an attorney, a friend of his, to advise with
      about our bond of my aunt Pepys of L200, and he tells me absolutely that
      we shall not be forced to pay interest for the money yet. I do doubt it
      very much. I spent the whole afternoon drinking with him and so home. This
      day I counterfeited a letter to Sir W. Pen, as from the thief that stole
      his tankard lately, only to abuse and laugh at him.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. At the office all the morning, and at noon my father, mother, and my
      aunt Bell (the first time that ever she was at my house) come to dine with
      me, and were very merry. After dinner the two women went to visit my aunt
      Wight, &amp;c., and my father about other business, and I abroad to my
      bookseller, and there staid till four o'clock, at which time by
      appointment I went to meet my father at my uncle Fenner's. So thither I
      went and with him to an alehouse, and there came Mr. Evans, the taylor,
      whose daughter we have had a mind to get for a wife for Tom, and then my
      father, and there we sat a good while and talked about the business; in
      fine he told us that he hath not to except against us or our motion, but
      that the estate that God hath blessed him with is too great to give where
      there is nothing in present possession but a trade and house; and so we
      friendly ended. There parted, my father and I together, and walked a
      little way, and then at Holborn he and I took leave of one another, he
      being to go to Brampton (to settle things against my mother comes)
      tomorrow morning. So I home.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. At noon my wife and I met at the Wardrobe, and there dined with the
      children, and after dinner up to my Lady's bedside, and talked and laughed
      a good while. Then my wife end I to Drury Lane to the French comedy, which
      was so ill done, and the scenes and company and every thing else so nasty
      and out of order and poor, that I was sick all the while in my mind to be
      there. Here my wife met with a son of my Lord Somersett, whom she knew in
      France, a pretty man; I showed him no great countenance, to avoyd further
      acquaintance. That done, there being nothing pleasant but the foolery of
      the farce, we went home.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. At home and the office all the morning, and at noon comes Luellin to
      me, and he and I to the tavern and after that to Bartholomew fair, and
      there upon his motion to a pitiful alehouse, where we had a dirty slut or
      two come up that were whores, but my very heart went against them, so that
      I took no pleasure but a great deal of trouble in being there and getting
      from thence for fear of being seen. From hence he and I walked towards
      Ludgate and parted. I back again to the fair all alone, and there met with
      my Ladies Jemimah and Paulina, with Mr. Pickering and Madamoiselle, at
      seeing the monkeys dance, which was much to see, when they could be
      brought to do so, but it troubled me to sit among such nasty company.
      After that with them into Christ's Hospitall, and there Mr. Pickering
      bought them some fairings, and I did give every one of them a bauble,
      which was the little globes of glass with things hanging in them, which
      pleased the ladies very well. After that home with them in their coach,
      and there was called up to my Lady, and she would have me stay to talk
      with her, which I did I think a full hour. And the poor lady did with so
      much innocency tell me how Mrs. Crispe had told her that she did intend,
      by means of a lady that lies at her house, to get the King to be godfather
      to the young lady that she is in childbed now of; but to see in what a
      manner my Lady told it me, protesting that she sweat in the very telling
      of it, was the greatest pleasure to me in the world to see the simplicity
      and harmlessness of a lady. Then down to supper with the ladies, and so
      home, Mr. Moore (as he and I cannot easily part) leading me as far as
      Fenchurch Street to the Mitre, where we drank a glass of wine and so
      parted, and I home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      Thus ends the month. My maid Jane newly gone, and Pall left now to do all
      the work till another maid comes, which shall not be till she goes away
      into the country with my mother. Myself and wife in good health. My Lord
      Sandwich in the Straits and newly recovered of a great sickness at
      Alicante. My father gone to settle at Brampton, and myself under much
      business and trouble for to settle things in the estate to our content.
      But what is worst, I find myself lately too much given to seeing of plays,
      and expense, and pleasure, which makes me forget my business, which I must
      labour to amend. No money comes in, so that I have been forced to borrow a
      great deal for my own expenses, and to furnish my father, to leave things
      in order. I have some trouble about my brother Tom, who is now left to
      keep my father's trade, in which I have great fears that he will miscarry
      for want of brains and care. At Court things are in very ill condition,
      there being so much emulacion, poverty, and the vices of drinking,
      swearing, and loose amours, that I know not what will be the end of it,
      but confusion. And the Clergy so high, that all people that I meet with do
      protest against their practice. In short, I see no content or satisfaction
      any where, in any one sort of people. The Benevolence
    </p>
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     [A voluntary contribution made by the subjects to their sovereign.
     Upon this occasion the clergy alone gave L33,743: See May 31st,
     1661.&mdash;B]
</pre>
    <p>
      proves so little, and an occasion of so much discontent every where; that
      it had better it had never been set up. I think to subscribe L20. We are
      at our Office quiet, only for lack of money all things go to rack. Our
      very bills offered to be sold upon the Exchange at 10 per cent. loss. We
      are upon getting Sir R. Ford's house added to our Office. But I see so
      many difficulties will follow in pleasing of one another in the dividing
      of it, and in becoming bound personally to pay the rent of L200 per annum,
      that I do believe it will yet scarce come to pass. The season very sickly
      every where of strange and fatal fevers.
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      SEPTEMBER 1661
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    <p>
      September 1st (Lord's day). Last night being very rainy [the rain] broke
      into my house, the gutter being stopped, and spoiled all my ceilings
      almost. At church in the morning, and dined at home with my wife. After
      dinner to Sir W. Batten's, where I found Sir W. Pen and Captain Holmes.
      Here we were very merry with Sir W. Pen about the loss of his tankard,
      though all be but a cheat, and he do not yet understand it; but the
      tankard was stole by Sir W. Batten, and the letter, as from the thief,
      wrote by me, which makes: very good sport. Here I staid all the afternoon,
      and then Captain Holmes and I by coach to White Hall; in our way, I found
      him by discourse, to be a great friend of my Lord's, and he told me there
      was many did seek to remove him; but they were old seamen, such as Sir J.
      Minnes (but he would name no more, though I do believe Sir W. Batten is
      one of them that do envy him), but he says he knows that the King do so
      love him, and the Duke of York too, that there is no fear of him. He seems
      to be very well acquainted with the King's mind, and with all the several
      factions at Court, and spoke all with so much frankness, that I do take
      him to be my Lord's good friend, and one able to do him great service,
      being a cunning fellow, and one (by his own confession to me) that can put
      on two several faces, and look his enemies in the face with as much love
      as his friends. But, good God! what an age is this, and what a world is
      this! that a man cannot live without playing the knave and dissimulation.
      At Whitehall we parted, and I to Mrs. Pierce's, meeting her and Madam
      Clifford in the street, and there staid talking and laughing with them a
      good while, and so back to my mother's, and there supped, and so home and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. In the morning to my cozen Thos. Pepys, executor, and there talked
      with him about my uncle Thomas, his being in the country, but he could not
      advise me to anything therein, not knowing what the other has done in the
      country, and so we parted. And so to Whitehall, and there my Lord Privy
      Seal, who has been out of town this week, not being yet come, we can have
      no seal, and therefore meeting with Mr. Battersby the apothecary in
      Fenchurch Street to the King's Apothecary's chamber in Whitehall, and
      there drank a bottle or two of wine, and so he and I by water towards
      London. I landed at Blackfriars and so to the Wardrobe and dined, and then
      back to Whitehall with Captain Ferrers, and there walked, and thence to
      Westminster Hall, where we met with Mr. Pickering, and so all of us to the
      Rhenish wine house (Prior's), where the master of the house is laying out
      some money in making a cellar with an arch in his yard, which is very
      convenient for him. Here we staid a good while, and so Mr. Pickering and I
      to Westminster Hall again, and there walked an hour or two talking, and
      though he be a fool, yet he keeps much company, and will tell all he sees
      or hears, and so a man may understand what the common talk of the town is,
      and I find by him that there are endeavours to get my Lord out of play at
      sea, which I believe Mr. Coventry and the Duke do think will make them
      more absolute; but I hope, for all this, they will not be able to do it.
      He tells me plainly of the vices of the Court, and how the pox is so
      common there, and so I hear on all hands that it is as common as eating
      and swearing. From him by water to the bridge, and thence to the Mitre,
      where I met my uncle and aunt Wight come to see Mrs. Rawlinson (in her
      husband's absence out of town), and so I staid with them and Mr. Lucas and
      other company, very merry, and so home, Where my wife has been busy all
      the day making of pies, and had been abroad and bought things for herself,
      and tells that she met at the Change with my young ladies of the Wardrobe
      and there helped them to buy things, and also with Mr. Somerset, who did
      give her a bracelet of rings, which did a little trouble me, though I know
      there is no hurt yet in it, but only for fear of further acquaintance. So
      to bed. This night I sent another letter to Sir W. Pen to offer him the
      return of his tankard upon his leaving of 30s. at a place where it should
      be brought. The issue of which I am to expect.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. This day some of us Commissioners went down to Deptford to pay off
      some ships, but I could not go, but staid at home all the morning setting
      papers to rights, and this morning Mr. Howell, our turner, sent me two
      things to file papers on very handsome. Dined at home, and then with my
      wife to the Wardrobe, where my Lady's child was christened (my Lord Crew
      and his Lady, and my Lady Montagu, my Lord's mother-in-law, were the
      witnesses), and named Katherine
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     [Lady Katherine Montagu, youngest daughter of Lord Sandwich,
     married, first, Nicholas Bacon, eldest son and heir of Sir Nicholas
     Bacon, K.B., of Shrubland Hall, co.  Suffolk; and, secondly, the
     Rev. Balthazar Gardeman.  She died January 15th, 1757, at ninety-six
     years, four months.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      (the Queen elect's name); but to my and all our trouble, the Parson of the
      parish christened her, and did not sign the child with the sign of the
      cross. After that was done, we had a very fine banquet, the best I ever
      was at, and so (there being very little company) we by and by broke up,
      and my wife and I to my mother, who I took a liberty to advise about her
      getting things ready to go this week into the country to my father, and
      she (being become now-a-days very simple) took it very ill, and we had a
      great deal of noise and wrangling about it. So home by coach.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. In the morning to the Privy Seal to do some things of the last month,
      my Lord Privy Seal having been some time out of town. Then my wife came to
      me to Whitehall, and we went and walked a good while in St. James's Park
      to see the brave alterations, and so to Wilkinson's, the Cook's, to
      dinner, where we sent for Mrs. Sarah and there dined and had oysters, the
      first I have eat this year, and were pretty good. After dinner by
      agreement to visit Mrs. Symonds, but she is abroad, which I wonder at, and
      so missing her my wife again to my mother's (calling at Mrs. Pierce's, who
      we found brought to bed of a girl last night) and there staid and drank,
      and she resolves to be going to-morrow without fail. Many friends come in
      to take their leave of her, but a great deal of stir I had again tonight
      about getting her to go to see my Lady Sandwich before she goes, which she
      says she will do tomorrow. So I home.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. To the Privy Seal this morning about business, in my way taking leave
      of my mother, who goes to Brampton to-day. But doing my business at the
      Privy Seal pretty soon, I took boat and went to my uncle Fenner's, and
      there I found my mother and my wife and Pall (of whom I had this morning
      at my own house taken leave, and given her 20s. and good counsel how to
      carry herself to my father and mother), and so I took them, it being late,
      to Beard's, where they were staid for, and so I put them into the waggon,
      and saw them going presently, Pall crying exceedingly. Then in with my
      wife, my aunt Bell and Charles Pepys, whom we met there, and drank, and so
      to my uncle Fenner's to dinner (in the way meeting a French footman with
      feathers, who was in quest of my wife, and spoke with her privately, but I
      could not tell what it was, only my wife promised to go to some place
      to-morrow morning, which do trouble my mind how to know whither it was),
      where both his sons and daughters were, and there we were merry and dined.
      After dinner news was brought that my aunt Kite, the butcher's widow in
      London, is sick ready to die and sends for my uncle and me to come to take
      charge of things, and to be entrusted with the care of her daughter. But I
      through want of time to undertake such a business, I was taken up by
      Antony Joyce, which came at last to very high words, which made me very
      angry, and I did not think that he would ever have been such a fool to
      meddle with other people's business, but I saw he spoke worse to his
      father than to me and therefore I bore it the better, but all the company
      was offended with him, so we parted angry he and I, and so my wife and I
      to the fair, and I showed her the Italians dancing the ropes, and the
      women that do strange tumbling tricks and so by foot home vexed in my mind
      about Antony Joyce.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. This morning my uncle Fenner by appointment came and drank his
      morning draft with me, and from thence he and I go to see my aunt Kite (my
      wife holding her resolution to go this morning as she resolved yesterday,
      and though there could not be much hurt in it, yet my own jealousy put a
      hundred things into my mind, which did much trouble me all day), whom we
      found in bed and not like to live as we think, and she told us her mind
      was that if she should die she should give all she had to her daughter,
      only L5 apiece to her second husband's children, in case they live to come
      out of their apprenticeships, and that if her daughter should die before
      marrying, then L10 to be divided between Sarah Kite's children and the
      rest as her own daughter shall dispose of it, and this I set down that I
      may be able to swear in case there should be occasion. From thence to an
      alehouse while it rained, which kept us there I think above two hours, and
      at last we were fain to go through the rainy street home, calling on his
      sister Utbeck and drank there. Then I home to dinner all alone, and thence
      my mind being for my wife's going abroad much troubled and unfit for
      business, I went to the Theatre, and saw "Elder Brother" ill acted; that
      done, meeting here with Sir G. Askew, Sir Theophilus Jones, and another
      Knight, with Sir W. Pen, we to the Ship tavern, and there staid and were
      merry till late at night, and so got a coach, and Sir Wm. and I home,
      where my wife had been long come home, but I seemed very angry, as indeed
      I am, and did not all night show her any countenance, neither before nor
      in bed, and so slept and rose discontented.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. At the office all the morning. At noon Mr. Moore dined with me, and
      then in comes Wm. Joyce to answer a letter of mine I wrote this morning to
      him about a maid of his that my wife had hired, and she sent us word that
      she was hired to stay longer with her master, which mistake he came to
      clear himself of; and I took it very kindly. So I having appointed the
      young ladies at the Wardrobe to go with them to a play to-day, I left him
      and my brother Tom who came along with him to dine, and my wife and I took
      them to the Theatre, where we seated ourselves close by the King, and Duke
      of York, and Madame Palmer, which was great content; and, indeed, I can
      never enough admire her beauty. And here was "Bartholomew Fayre," with the
      puppet-show, acted to-day, which had not been these forty years (it being
      so satyricall against Puritanism, they durst not till now, which is
      strange they should already dare to do it, and the King do countenance
      it), but I do never a whit like it the better for the puppets, but rather
      the worse. Thence home with the ladies, it being by reason of our staying
      a great while for the King's coming, and the length of the play, near nine
      o'clock before it was done, and so in their coach home, and still in
      discontent with my wife, to bed, and rose so this morning also.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). To church, it being a very wet night last night and
      to-day, dined at home, and so to church again with my wife in the
      afternoon, and coming home again found our new maid Doll asleep, that she
      could not hear to let us in, so that we were fain to send the boy in at a
      window to open the door to us. So up to my chamber all alone, and troubled
      in mind to think how much of late I have addicted myself to expense and
      pleasure, that now I can hardly reclaim myself to look after my great
      business of settling Gravely business, until now almost too late. I pray
      God give me grace to begin now to look after my business, but it always
      was, and I fear will ever be, my foible that after I am once got
      behind-hand with business, I am hard to set to it again to recover it. In
      the evening I begun to look over my accounts and upon the whole I do find
      myself, by what I can yet see, worth near L600, for which God be blessed,
      which put me into great comfort. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. To the Privy Seal in the morning, but my Lord did not come, so I went
      with Captain Morrice at his desire into the King's Privy Kitchen to Mr.
      Sayres, the Master Cook, and there we had a good slice of beef or two to
      our breakfast, and from thence he took us into the wine cellar where, by
      my troth, we were very merry, and I drank too much wine, and all along had
      great and particular kindness from Mr. Sayres, but I drank so much wine
      that I was not fit for business, and therefore at noon I went and walked
      in Westminster Hall a while, and thence to Salisbury Court play house,
      where was acted the first time "'Tis pity Shee's a Whore," a simple play
      and ill acted, only it was my fortune to sit by a most pretty and most
      ingenious lady, which pleased me much. Thence home, and found Sir Williams
      both and much more company gone to the Dolphin to drink the 30s. that we
      got the other day of Sir W. Pen about his tankard. Here was Sir R.
      Slingsby, Holmes, Captn. Allen, Mr. Turner, his wife and daughter, my Lady
      Batten, and Mrs. Martha, &amp;c., and an excellent company of fiddlers; so
      we exceeding merry till late; and then we begun to tell Sir W. Pen the
      business, but he had been drinking to-day, and so is almost gone, that we
      could not make him understand it, which caused us more sport. But so much
      the better, for I believe when he do come to understand it he will be
      angry, he has so talked of the business himself and the letter up and down
      that he will be ashamed to be found abused in it. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. At the office all the morn, dined at home; then my wife into Wood
      Street to buy a chest, and thence to buy other things at my uncle Fenner's
      (though by reason of rain we had ill walking), thence to my brother Tom's,
      and there discoursed with him about business, and so to the Wardrobe to
      see my Lady, and after supper with the young ladies, bought a link and
      carried it myself till I met one that would light me home for the link. So
      he light me home with his own, and then I did give him mine. This night I
      found Mary, my cozen W. Joyce's maid, come to me to be my cook maid, and
      so my house is full again. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Early to my cozen Thomas Trice to discourse about our affairs, and
      he did make demand of the L200 and the interest thereof. But for the L200
      I did agree to pay him, but for the other I did desire to be advised. So
      from him to Dr. Williams, who did carry me into his garden, where he hath
      abundance of grapes; and did show me how a dog that he hath do kill all
      the cats that come thither to kill his pigeons, and do afterwards bury
      them; and do it with so much care that they shall be quite covered; that
      if but the tip of the tail hangs out he will take up the cat again, and
      dig the hole deeper. Which is very strange; and he tells me that he do
      believe that he hath killed above 100 cats. After he was ready we went up
      and down to inquire about my affairs and then parted, and to the Wardrobe,
      and there took Mr. Moore to Tom Trice, who promised to let Mr. Moore have
      copies of the bond and my aunt's deed of gift, and so I took him home to
      my house to dinner, where I found my wife's brother, Balty, as fine as
      hands could make him, and his servant, a Frenchman, to wait on him, and
      come to have my wife to visit a young lady which he is a servant to, and
      have hope to trepan and get for his wife. I did give way for my wife to go
      with him, and so after dinner they went, and Mr. Moore and I out again, he
      about his business and I to Dr. Williams: to talk with him again, and he
      and I walking through Lincoln's Fields observed at the Opera a new play,
      "Twelfth Night"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys seldom liked any play of Shakespeare's, and he sadly
     blundered when he supposed "Twelfth Night" was a new play.]
</pre>
    <p>
      was acted there, and the King there; so I, against my own mind and
      resolution, could not forbear to go in, which did make the play seem a
      burthen to me, and I took no pleasure at all in it; and so after it was
      done went home with my mind troubled for my going thither, after my
      swearing to my wife that I would never go to a play without her. So that
      what with this and things going so cross to me as to matters of my uncle's
      estate, makes me very much troubled in my mind, and so to bed. My wife was
      with her brother to see his mistress today, and says she is young, rich,
      and handsome, but not likely for him to get.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Though it was an office day, yet I was forced to go to the Privy
      Seal, at which I was all the morning, and from thence to my Lady's to
      dinner at the Wardrobe; and in my way upon the Thames, I saw the King's
      new pleasure-boat that is come now for the King to take pleasure in above
      bridge; and also two Gundaloes
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Two long boats that were made in Venice, called gondolas, were by
     the Duke of Venice (Dominico Contareni) presented to His Majesty;
     and the attending watermen, being four, were in very rich clothes,
     crimson satin; very big were their breeches and doublets; they wore
     also very large shirts of the same satin, very richly laced."
     &mdash;Rugge's Diurnal.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      that are lately brought, which are very rich and fine. After dinner I went
      into my Lady's chamber where I found her up now out of her childbed, which
      I was glad to see, and after an hour's talk with her I took leave and to
      Tom Trice again, and sat talking and drinking with him about our business
      a great while. I do find I am likely to be forced to pay interest for the
      L200. By and by in comes my uncle Thomas, and as he was always a close
      cunning fellow, so he carries himself to me, and says nothing of what his
      endeavours are, though to my trouble I know that he is about recovering of
      Gravely, but neither I nor he began any discourse of the business. From
      thence to Dr. Williams (at the little blind alehouse in Shoe Lane, at the
      Gridiron, a place I am ashamed to be seen to go into), and there with some
      bland counsel of his we discuss our matters, but I find men of so
      different minds that by my troth I know not what to trust to. It being
      late I took leave, and by link home and called at Sir W. Batten's, and
      there hear that Sir W. Pen do take our jest of the tankard very ill, which
      Pam sorry for.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. This morning I was sent for by my uncle Fenner to come and advise
      about the buriall of my aunt, the butcher, who died yesterday; and from
      thence to the Anchor, by Doctor's Commons, and there Dr. Williams and I
      did write a letter for my purpose to Mr. Sedgewick, of Cambridge, about
      Gravely business, and after that I left him and an attorney with him and
      went to the Wardrobe, where I found my wife, and thence she and I to the
      water to spend the afternoon in pleasure; and so we went to old George's,
      and there eat as much as we would of a hot shoulder of mutton, and so to
      boat again and home. So to bed, my mind very full of business and trouble.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. At the office all the morning, at noon to the Change, and then home
      again. To dinner, where my uncle Fenner by appointment came and dined with
      me, thinking to go together to my aunt Kite's that is dead; but before we
      had dined comes Sir R. Slingsby and his lady, and a great deal of company,
      to take my wife and I out by barge to shew them the King's and Duke's
      yachts. So I was forced to leave my uncle and brother Tom at dinner and go
      forth with them, and we had great pleasure, seeing all four yachts, viz.,
      these two and the two Dutch ones. And so home again, and after writing
      letters by post, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). To my aunt Kite's in the morning to help my uncle
      Fenner to put things in order against anon for the buriall, and at noon
      home again; and after dinner to church, my wife and I, and after sermon
      with my wife to the buriall of my aunt Kite, where besides us and my uncle
      Fenner's family, there was none of any quality, but poor rascally people.
      So we went to church with the corps, and there had service read at the
      grave, and back again with Pegg Kite who will be, I doubt, a troublesome
      carrion to us executors; but if she will not be ruled, I shall fling up my
      executorship. After that home, and Will Joyce along with me where we sat
      and talked and drank and ate an hour or two, and so he went away and I up
      to my chamber and then to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. This morning I was busy at home to take in my part of our freight of
      Coles, which Sir G. Carteret, Sir R. Slingsby, and myself sent for, which
      is 10 Chaldron, 8 of which I took in, and with the other to repay Sir W.
      Pen what I borrowed of him a little while ago. So that from this day I
      should see how long 10 chaldron of coals will serve my house, if it please
      the Lord to let me live to see them burned. In the afternoon by
      appointment to meet Dr. Williams and his attorney, and they and I to Tom
      Trice, and there got him in discourse to confess the words that he had
      said that his mother did desire him not to see my uncle about her L200
      bond while she was alive. Here we were at high words with T. Trice and
      then parted, and we to Standing's, in Fleet Street, where we sat and drank
      and talked a great while about my going down to Gravely Court,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The manorial court of Graveley, in Huntingdonshire, to which
     Impington owed suit or service, and under which the Pepys's copyhold
     estates were held.  See July 8th, 1661, ante.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which will be this week, whereof the Doctor had notice in a letter from
      his sister this week. In the middle of our discourse word was brought me
      from my brother's that there is a fellow come from my father out of the
      country, on purpose to speak to me, so I went to him and he made a story
      how he had lost his letter, but he was sure it was for me to go into the
      country, which I believed, and thought it might be to give me notice of
      Gravely Court, but I afterwards found that it was a rogue that did use to
      play such tricks to get money of people, but he got none of me. At night I
      went home, and there found letters-from my father informing me of the
      Court, and that I must come down and meet him at Impington, which I
      presently resolved to do,
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. And the next morning got up, telling my wife of my journey, and she
      with a few words got me to hire her a horse to go along with me. So I went
      to my Lady's and elsewhere to take leave, and of Mr. Townsend did borrow a
      very fine side-saddle for my wife; and so after all things were ready, she
      and I took coach to the end of the town towards Kingsland, and there got
      upon my horse and she upon her pretty mare that I hired for her, and she
      rides very well. By the mare at one time falling she got a fall, but no
      harm; so we got to Ware, and there supped, and to bed very merry and
      pleasant.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. The next morning up early and begun our march; the way about
      Puckridge&mdash;[Puckeridge, a village in Hertfordshire six and a half
      miles N.N.E, of Ware.]&mdash;very bad, and my wife, in the very last dirty
      place of all, got a fall, but no hurt, though some dirt. At last she
      begun, poor wretch, to be tired, and I to be angry at it, but I was to
      blame; for she is a very good companion as long as she is well. In the
      afternoon we got to Cambridge, where I left my wife at my cozen Angier's
      while I went to Christ's College, and there found my brother in his
      chamber, and talked with him; and so to the barber's, and then to my wife
      again, and remounted for Impington, where my uncle received me and my wife
      very kindly. And by and by in comes my father, and we supped and talked
      and were merry, but being weary and sleepy my wife and I to bed without
      talking with my father anything about our business.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up early, and my father and I alone into the garden, and there
      talked about our business, and what to do therein. So after I had talked
      and advised with my coz Claxton, and then with my uncle by his bedside, we
      all horsed away to Cambridge, where my father and I, having left my wife
      at the Beare with my brother, went to Mr. Sedgewicke, the steward of
      Gravely, and there talked with him, but could get little hopes from
      anything that he would tell us; but at last I did give him a fee, and then
      he was free to tell me what I asked, which was something, though not much
      comfort. From thence to our horses, and with my wife went and rode through
      Sturbridge
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sturbridge fair is of great antiquity.  The first trace of it is
     found in a charter granted about 1211 by King John to the Lepers of
     the Hospital of St. Mary Magdalen at Sturbridge by Cambridge, a fair
     to be held in the close of the hospital on the vigil and feast of
     the Holy Cross (see Cornelius Walford's "Fairs Past and Present,"
     1883, p. 54).]
</pre>
    <p>
      but the fair was almost done. So we did not 'light there at all, but went
      back to Cambridge, and there at the Beare we had some herrings, we and my
      brother, and after dinner set out for Brampton, where we come in very good
      time, and found all things well, and being somewhat weary, after some talk
      about tomorrow's business with my father, we went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Will Stankes and I set out in the morning betimes for Gravely, where
      to an ale-house and drank, and then, going towards the Court House, met my
      uncle Thomas and his son Thomas, with Bradly, the rogue that had betrayed
      us, and one Young, a cunning fellow, who guides them. There passed no
      unkind words at all between us, but I seemed fair and went to drink with
      them. I said little till by and by that we come to the Court, which was a
      simple meeting of a company of country rogues, with the Steward, and two
      Fellows of Jesus College, that are lords of the town where the jury were
      sworn; and I producing no surrender, though I told them I was sure there
      is and must be one somewhere, they found my uncle Thomas heir at law, as
      he is, and so, though I did tell him and his son that they would find
      themselves abused by these fellows, and did advise them to forbear being
      admitted this Court (which they could have done, but that these rogues did
      persuade them to do it now), my uncle was admitted, and his son also, in
      reversion after his father, which he did well in to secure his money. The
      father paid a year and a half for his fine, and the son half a year, in
      all L48, besides about L3 fees; so that I do believe the charges of his
      journeys, and what he gives those two rogues, and other expenses herein,
      cannot be less than L70, which will be a sad thing for them if a surrender
      be found. After all was done, I openly wished them joy in it, and so rode
      to Offord with them and there parted fairly without any words. I took
      occasion to bid them money for their half acre of land, which I had a mind
      to do that in the surrender I might secure Piggott's, which otherwise I
      should be forced to lose. So with Stankes home and supped, and after
      telling my father how things went, I went to bed with my mind in good
      temper, because I see the matter and manner of the Court and the bottom of
      my business, wherein I was before and should always have been ignorant.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. All the morning pleasing myself with my father, going up and down
      the house and garden with my father and my wife, contriving some
      alterations. After dinner (there coming this morning my aunt Hanes and her
      son from London, that is to live with my father) I rode to Huntingdon,
      where I met Mr. Philips, and there put my Bugden
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Bugden, or Buckden, a village and parish in the St. Neots district
     of Huntingdonshire, four miles S.W. of Huntingdon.]
</pre>
    <p>
      matter in order against the Court, and so to Hinchingbroke, where Mr.
      Barnwell shewed me the condition of the house, which is yet very backward,
      and I fear will be very dark in the cloyster when it is done. So home and
      to supper and to bed, very pleasant and quiet.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd (Lord's day). Before church time walking with my father in the garden
      contriving. So to church, where we had common prayer, and a dull sermon by
      one Mr. Case, who yet I heard sing very well. So to dinner, and busy with
      my father about his accounts all the afternoon, and people came to speak
      with us about business. Mr. Barnwell at night came and supped with us. So
      after setting matters even with my father and I, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and sad to hear my father and mother wrangle as they used to do
      in London, of which I took notice to both, and told them that I should
      give over care for anything unless they would spend what they have with
      more love and quiet. So (John Bowles coming to see us before we go) we
      took horse and got early to Baldwick; where there was a fair, and we put
      in and eat a mouthfull of pork, which they made us pay 14d. for, which
      vexed us much. And so away to Stevenage, and staid till a showre was over,
      and so rode easily to Welling, where we supped well, and had two beds in
      the room and so lay single, and still remember it that of all the nights
      that ever I slept in my life I never did pass a night with more epicurism
      of sleep; there being now and then a noise of people stirring that waked
      me, and then it was a very rainy night, and then I was a little weary,
      that what between waking and then sleeping again, one after another, I
      never had so much content in all my life, and so my wife says it was with
      her.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. We rose, and set forth, but found a most sad alteration in the road
      by reason of last night's rains, they being now all dirty and washy,
      though not deep. So we rode easily through, and only drinking at Holloway,
      at the sign of a woman with cakes in one hand and a pot of ale in the
      other, which did give good occasion of mirth, resembling her to the maid
      that served us, we got home very timely and well, and finding there all
      well, and letters from sea, that speak of my Lord's being well, and his
      action, though not considerable of any side, at Argier.&mdash;[Algiers]&mdash;I
      went straight to my Lady, and there sat and talked with her, and so home
      again, and after supper we to bed somewhat weary, hearing of nothing ill
      since my absence but my brother Tom, who is pretty well though again.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. By coach with Sir W. Pen to Covent Garden. By the way, upon my
      desire, he told me that I need not fear any reflection upon my Lord for
      their ill success at Argier, for more could not be done than was done. I
      went to my cozen, Thos. Pepys, there, and talked with him a good while
      about our country business, who is troubled at my uncle Thomas his folly,
      and so we parted; and then meeting Sir R. Slingsby in St. Martin's Lane,
      he and I in his coach through the Mewes, which is the way that now all
      coaches are forced to go, because of a stop at Charing Cross, by reason of
      a drain there to clear the streets. To Whitehall, and there to Mr.
      Coventry, and talked with him, and thence to my Lord Crew's and dined with
      him, where I was used with all imaginable kindness both from him and her.
      And I see that he is afraid that my Lord's reputacon will a little suffer
      in common talk by this late success; but there is no help for it now. The
      Queen of England (as she is now owned and called) I hear doth keep open
      Court, and distinct at Lisbon. Hence, much against my nature and will, yet
      such is the power of the Devil over me I could not refuse it, to the
      Theatre, and saw "The Merry Wives of Windsor," ill done. And that ended,
      with Sir W. Pen and Sir G. More to the tavern, and so home with him by
      coach, and after supper to prayers and to bed. In full quiet of mind as to
      thought, though full of business, blessed be God.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. At the office all the morning, so dined at home, and then abroad
      with my wife by coach to the Theatre to shew her "King and no King," it
      being very well done. And so by coach, though hard to get it, being rainy,
      home. So to my chamber to write letters and the journal for these six last
      days past.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. By coach to Whitehall with my wife (where she went to see Mrs.
      Pierce, who was this day churched, her month of childbed being out). I
      went to Mrs. Montagu and other businesses, and at noon met my wife at the
      Wardrobe; and there dined, where we found Captain Country (my little
      Captain that I loved, who carried me to the Sound), come with some grapes
      and millons
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The antiquity of the cultivation of the melon is very remote.  Both
     the melon (cucaimis melo) and the water-melon (cucumis citrullus)
     were introduced into England at the end of the sixteenth century.
     See vol. i., p. 228.]
</pre>
    <p>
      from my Lord at Lisbon, the first that ever I saw any, and my wife and I
      eat some, and took some home; but the grapes are rare things. Here we
      staid; and in the afternoon comes Mr. Edwd. Montagu (by appointment this
      morning) to talk with my Lady and me about the provisions fit to be
      bought, and sent to my Lord along with him. And told us, that we need not
      trouble ourselves how to buy them, for the King would pay for all, and
      that he would take care to get them: which put my Lady and me into a great
      deal of ease of mind. Here we staid and supped too, and, after my wife had
      put up some of the grapes in a basket for to be sent to the King, we took
      coach and home, where we found a hampire of millons sent to me also.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. At the office in the morning, dined at home, and then Sir W. Pen and
      his daughter and I and my wife to the Theatre, and there saw "Father's own
      Son," a very good play, and the first time I ever saw it, and so at night
      to my house, and there sat and talked and drank and merrily broke up, and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). To church in the morning, and so to dinner, and Sir W.
      Pen and daughter, and Mrs. Poole, his kinswoman, Captain Poole's wife,
      came by appointment to dinner with us, and a good dinner we had for them,
      and were very merry, and so to church again, and then to Sir W. Pen's and
      there supped, where his brother, a traveller, and one that speaks Spanish
      very well, and a merry man, supped with us, and what at dinner and supper
      I drink I know not how, of my own accord, so much wine, that I was even
      almost foxed, and my head aked all night; so home and to bed, without
      prayers, which I never did yet, since I came to the house, of a Sunday
      night: I being now so out of order that I durst not read prayers, for fear
      of being perceived by my servants in what case I was. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. This morning up by moon-shine, at 5 o'clock, to White Hall, to meet
      Mr. Moore at the Privy Seal, but he not being come as appointed, I went
      into King Street to the Red Lyon' to drink my morning draft, and there I
      heard of a fray between the two Embassadors of Spain and France; and that,
      this day, being the day of the entrance of an Embassador from Sweden, they
      intended to fight for the precedence! Our King, I heard, ordered that no
      Englishman should meddle in the business,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Comte de Brienne insinuates, in his "Memoirs," that Charles
     purposely abstained from interfering, in the belief that it was for
     his interest to let France and Spain quarrel, in order to further
     his own designs in the match with Portugal.  Louis certainly held
     that opinion; and he afterwards instructed D'Estrades to solicit
     from the English court the punishment of those Londoners who had
     insulted his ambassador, and to demand the dismissal of De
     Batteville.  Either no Londoner had interfered, or Louis's demand
     had not in England the same force as in Spain; for no one was
     punished.  The latter part of his request it was clearly not for
     Charles to entertain, much less enforce.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      but let them do what they would. And to that end all the soldiers in the
      town were in arms all the day long, and some of the train-bands in the
      City; and a great bustle through the City all the day. Then I to the Privy
      Seal, and there Mr. Moore and a gentleman being come with him, we took
      coach (which was the business I come for) to Chelsy, to my Lord Privy
      Seal, and there got him to seal the business. Here I saw by day-light two
      very fine pictures in the gallery, that a little while ago I saw by night;
      and did also go all over the house, and found it to be the prettiest
      contrived house that ever I saw in my life. So to coach back again; and at
      White Hall light, and saw the soldiers and people running up and down the
      streets. So I went to the Spanish Embassador's and the French, and there
      saw great preparations on both sides; but the French made the most noise
      and vaunted most, the other made no stir almost at all; so that I was
      afraid the other would have had too great a conquest over them. Then to
      the Wardrobe, and dined there, end then abroad and in Cheapside hear that
      the Spanish hath got the best of it, and killed three of the French
      coach-horses and several men, and is gone through the City next to our
      King's coach; at which, it is strange to see how all the City did rejoice.
      And indeed we do naturally all love the Spanish, and hate the French. But
      I, as I am in all things curious, presently got to the water-side, and
      there took oars to Westminster Palace, thinking to have seen them come in
      thither with all the coaches, but they being come and returned, I ran
      after them with my boy after me through all the dirt and the streets full
      of people; till at last, at the Mewes, I saw the Spanish coach go, with
      fifty drawn swords at least to guard it, and our soldiers shouting for
      joy. And so I followed the coach, and then met it at York House, where the
      embassador lies; and there it went in with great state. So then I went to
      the French house, where I observe still, that there is no men in the world
      of a more insolent spirit where they do well, nor before they begin a
      matter, and more abject if they do miscarry, than these people are; for
      they all look like dead men, and not a word among them, but shake their
      heads. The truth is, the Spaniards were not only observed to fight most
      desperately, but also they did outwitt them; first in lining their own
      harness with chains of iron that they could not be cut, then in setting
      their coach in the most advantageous place, and to appoint men to guard
      every one of their horses, and others for to guard the coach, and others
      the coachmen. And, above all, in setting upon the French horses and
      killing them, for by that means the French were not able to stir. There
      were several men slain of the French, and one or two of the Spaniards, and
      one Englishman by a bullet. Which is very observable, the French were at
      least four to one in number, and had near 100 case of pistols among them,
      and the Spaniards had not one gun among them; which is for their honour
      for ever, and the others' disgrace. So, having been very much daubed with
      dirt, I got a coach, and home where I vexed my wife in telling of her this
      story, and pleading for the Spaniards against the French. So ends this
      month; myself and family in good condition of health, but my head full of
      my Lord's and my own and the office business; where we are now very busy
      about the business of sending forces to Tangier,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This place so often mentioned, was first given up to the English
     fleet under Lord Sandwich, by the Portuguese, January 30th, 1662;
     and Lord Peterborough left governor, with a garrison.  The greatest
     pains were    afterwards taken to preserve the fortress, and a fine
     mole was constructed at a vast expense, to improve the harbour.  At
     length, after immense sums of money had been wasted there, the House
     of Commons expressed a dislike to the management of the garrison,
     which they suspected to be a nursery for a popish army, and seemed
     disinclined to maintain it any longer.  The king consequently, in
     1683, sent Lord Dartmouth to bring home the troops, and destroy the
     works; which he performed so effectually, that it would puzzle all
     our engineers to restore the harbour.  It were idle to speculate on
     the benefits which might have accrued to England, by its
     preservation and retention; Tangier fell into the hands of the
     Moors, its importance having ceased, with the demolition of the
     mole.  Many curious views of Tangier were taken by Hollar, during
     its occupation by the English; and his drawings are preserved in the
     British Museum.  Some have been engraved by himself; but the
     impressions are of considerable rarity.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and the fleet to my Lord of Sandwich, who is now at Lisbon to bring over
      the Queen, who do now keep a Court as Queen of England. The business of
      Argier hath of late troubled me, because my Lord hath not done what he
      went for, though he did as much as any man in the world could have done.
      The want of money puts all things, and above all things the Nary, out of
      order; and yet I do not see that the King takes care to bring in any
      money, but thinks of new designs to lay out money.
    </p>
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      OCTOBER 1661
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    <p>
      October 1st. This morning my wife and I lay long in bed, and among other
      things fell into talk of musique, and desired that I would let her learn
      to sing, which I did consider, and promised her she should. So before I
      rose, word was brought me that my singing master, Mr. Goodgroome, was come
      to teach me and so she rose and this morning began to learn also. To the
      office, where busy all day. So to dinner and then to the office again till
      night, and then to my study at home to set matters and papers in order,
      which, though I can hardly bring myself to do, yet do please me much when
      it is done. So eat a bit of bread and cheese, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. All this morning at Pegg Kite's with my uncle Fenner, and two friends
      of his, appraising her goods that her mother has left; but the slut is
      like to prove so troublesome that I am out of heart with troubling myself
      in her business. After we had done we all went to a cook's shop in
      Bishopsgate Street and dined, and then I took them to the tavern and did
      give them a quart of sack, and so parted. I home and then took my wife
      out, and in a coach of a gentlewoman's that had been to visit my Lady
      Batten and was going home again our way, we went to the Theatre, but
      coming late, and sitting in an ill place, I never had so little pleasure
      in a play in my life, yet it was the first time that ever I saw it,
      "Victoria Corombona." Methinks a very poor play. Then at night troubled to
      get my wife home, it being very dark, and so we were forced to have a
      coach. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. At the office all the morning; dined at home, and in the afternoon
      Mr. Moore came to me, and he and I went to Tower Hill to meet with a man,
      and so back all three to my house, and there I signed a bond to Mr.
      Battersby, a friend of Mr. Moore's, who lends me L50, the first money that
      ever I borrowed upon bond for my own occasion, and so I took them to the
      Mitre and a Portugal millon with me; there sat and discoursed in matters
      of religion till night with great pleasure, and so parted, and I home,
      calling at Sir W. Batten's, where his son and his wife were, who had
      yesterday been at the play where we were, and it was good sport to hear
      how she talked of it with admiration like a fool. So home, and my head was
      not well with the wine that I drank to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. By coach to White Hall with Sir W. Pen. So to Mr. Montagu, where his
      man, Mons. Eschar, makes a great com plaint against the English, that they
      did help the Spaniards against the French the other day; and that their
      Embassador do demand justice of our King, and that he do resolve to be
      gone for France the next week; which I, and all that I met with, are very
      glad of. Thence to Paternoster Row, where my Will did receive the L50 I
      borrowed yesterday. I to the Wardrobe to dinner, and there staid most of
      the afternoon very merry with the ladies. Then Captain Ferrers and I to
      the Theatre, and there came too late, so we staid and saw a bit of
      "Victoria," which pleased me worse than it did the other day. So we staid
      not to see it out, but went out and drank a bottle or two of China ale,
      and so home, where I found my wife vexed at her people for grumbling to
      eat Suffolk cheese, which I also am vexed at. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. At the office all the morning, then dined at home, and so staid at
      home all the afternoon putting up my Lord's model of the Royal James,
      which I borrowed of him long ago to hang up in my room. And at night Sir
      W. Pen and I alone to the Dolphin, and there eat some bloat-herrings
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [To bloat is to dry by smoke, a method chiefly used to cure herrings
     or bloaters.  "I have more smoke in my mouth than would blote a
     hundred herrings."&mdash;Beaumont and Fletcher, Island Princess.  "Why,
     you stink like so many bloat-herrings newly taken out of the
     chimney."&mdash;Ben Jonson, "Masque of Augurs."]
</pre>
    <p>
      and drank good sack. Then came in Sir W. Warren and another and staid a
      while with us, and then Sir Arnold Brames, with whom we staid late and
      till we had drank too much wine. So home and I to bed pleased at my
      afternoon's work in hanging up the shipp. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). To church in the morning; Mr. Mills preached, who, I
      expect, should take in snuffe [anger] that my wife not come to his child's
      christening the other day. The winter coming on, many of parish ladies are
      come home and appear at church again; among others, the three sisters the
      Thornbury's, a very fine, and the most zealous people that ever I saw in
      my life, even to admiration, if it were true zeal. There was also my
      pretty black girl, Mrs. Dekins, and Mrs. Margaret Pen, this day come to
      church in a new flowered satin suit that my wife helped to buy her the
      other day. So me to dinner, and to church in the afternoon to St.
      Gregory's, by Paul's, where I saw Mr. Moose in the gallery and went up to
      him and heard a good sermon of Dr. Buck's, one I never heard before, a
      very able man. So home, and in the evening I went to my Valentine, her
      father and mother being out of town, to fetch her to supper to my house,
      and then came Sir W. Pen and would have her to his, so with much sport I
      got them all to mine, and we were merry, and so broke up and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up in the morning and to my uncle Fenner's, thinking to have met Peg
      Kite about her business but she comes not, so I went to Dr. Williams,
      where I found him sick in bed and was sorry for it. So about business all
      day, troubled in my mind till I can hear from Brampton, how things go on
      at Sturtlow, at the Court, which I was cleared in at night by a letter,
      which tells me that my cozen Tom was there to be admitted, in his father's
      name, as heir-at-law, but that he was opposed, and I was admitted by
      proxy, which put me out of great trouble of mind.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. At the office all the morning. After office done, went and eat some
      Colchester oysters with Sir W. Batten at his house, and there, with some
      company; dined and staid there talking all the afternoon; and late after
      dinner took Mrs. Martha out by coach, and carried her to the Theatre in a
      frolique, to my great expense, and there shewed her part of the "Beggar's
      Bush," without much pleasure, but only for a frolique, and so home again.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. This morning went out about my affairs, among others to put my
      Theorbo out to be mended, and then at noon home again, thinking to go with
      Sir Williams both to dinner by invitation to Sir W. Rider's, but at home I
      found Mrs. Pierce, la belle, and Madam Clifford, with whom I was forced to
      stay, and made them the most welcome I could; and I was (God knows) very
      well pleased with their beautiful company, and after dinner took them to
      the Theatre, and shewed them "The Chances;" and so saw them both at home
      and back to the Fleece tavern, in Covent Garden, where Luellin and
      Blurton, and my old friend Frank Bagge, was to meet me, and there staid
      till late very merry. Frank Bagge tells me a story of Mrs. Pepys that
      lived with my Lady Harvy, Mr. Montagu's sister, a good woman; that she had
      been very ill, and often asked for me; that she is in good condition, and
      that nobody could get her to make her will; but that she did still enquire
      for me, and that now she is well she desires to have a chamber at my
      house. Now I do not know whether this is a trick of Bagge's, or a good
      will of hers to do something for me; but I will not trust her, but told
      him I should be glad to see her, and that I would be sure to do all that I
      could to provide a place for her. So by coach home late.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. At the office all the morning; dined at home, and after dinner Sir
      W. Pen and my wife and I to the Theatre (she first going into Covent
      Garden to speak a word with a woman to enquire of her mother, and I in the
      meantime with Sir W. Pen's coach staying at W. Joyce's), where the King
      came to-day, and there was "The Traytor" most admirably acted; and a most
      excellent play it is. So home, and intended to be merry, it being my sixth
      wedding night; but by a late bruise.... I am in so much pain that I eat my
      supper and in pain to bed, yet my wife and I pretty merry.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th: All day in bed with a cataplasm.... and at night rose a little, and
      to bed again in more ease than last night. This noon there came my brother
      and Dr. Tom and Snow to dinner, and by themselves were merry.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. In bed the greatest part of this day also, and my swelling in some
      measure gone. I received a letter this day from my father, that Sir R.
      Bernard do a little fear that my uncle has not observed exactly the custom
      of Brampton in his will about his lands there, which puts me to a great
      trouble in mind, and at, night wrote to him and to my father about it,
      being much troubled at it.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day). Did not stir out all day, but rose and dined below, and
      this day left off half skirts and put on a wastecoate, and my false taby
      wastecoate with gold lace; and in the evening there came Sir W. Batten to
      see me, and sat and supped very kindly with me, and so to prayers and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. This morning I ventured by water abroad to Westminster, but lost my
      labour, for Mr. Montagu was not in town. So to the Wardrobe, and there
      dined with my Lady, which is the first time I have seen her dine abroad
      since her being brought to bed of my Lady Katherine. In the afternoon
      Captain Ferrers and I walked abroad to several places, among others to Mr.
      Pim's, my Lord's Taylour's, and there he went out with us to the Fountain
      tavern and did give us store of wine, and it being the Duke of York's
      birthday, we drank the more to his health. But, Lord! what a sad story he
      makes of his being abused by a Dr. of Physique who is in one part of the
      tenement wherein he dwells. It would make one laugh, though I see he is
      under a great trouble in it. Thence home by link and found a good answer
      from my father that Sir R. Bernard do clear all things as to us and our
      title to Brampton, which puts my heart in great ease and quiet.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. At the office all the morning, and in the afternoon to Paul's
      Churchyard to a blind place, where Mrs. Goldsborough was to meet me (who
      dare not be known where she lives) to treat about the difference which
      remains between my uncle and her. But, Lord! to hear how she talks and how
      she rails against my uncle would make one mad. But I seemed not to be
      troubled at it, but would indeed gladly have an agreement with her. So I
      appoint Mr. Moore and she another against Friday next to look into our
      papers and to see what can be done to conclude the matter. So home in much
      pain by walking too much yesterday.... which much troubles me.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. In bed till 12 o'clock. This morning came several maids to my wife
      to be hired, and at last she pitched upon one Nell, whose mother, an old
      woman, came along with her, but would not be hired under half a year,
      which I am pleased at their drollness. This day dined by appointment with
      me, Dr. Thos. Pepys and my Coz: Snow, and my brother Tom, upon a fin of
      ling and some sounds, neither of which did I ever know before, but most
      excellent meat they are both, that in all my life I never eat the like
      fish. So after dinner came in W. Joyce and eat and drank and were merry.
      So up to my chamber, and put all my papers, at rights, and in the evening
      our maid Mary. (who was with us upon trial for a month) did take leave of
      us, going as we suppose to be married, for the maid liked us and we her,
      but all she said was that she had a mind to live in a tradesman's house
      where there was but one maid. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. At the office all the morning, at noon my wife being gone to my coz
      Snow's with Dr. Thomas Pepys and my brother Tom to a venison pasty (which
      proved a pasty of salted pork); by appointment I went with Captain David
      Lambert to the Exchequer, and from thence by appointment he and I were to
      meet at a cook's shop to dine. But before I went to him Captain. Cock, a
      merchant I had not long known, took me to the Sun tavern and gave me a
      glass of sack, and being a man of great observation and repute, did tell
      me that he was confident that the Parliament, when it comes the next month
      to sit again, would bring trouble with it, and enquire how the King had
      disposed of offices and money, before they will raise more; which, I fear,
      will bring all things to ruin again. Thence to the Cook's and there dined
      with Captain Lambert and his father-in-law, and had much talk of
      Portugall; from whence he is lately come, and he tells me it is a very
      poor dirty place; I mean the City and Court of Lisbon; that the King is a
      very rude and simple fellow; and, for reviling of somebody a little while
      ago, and calling of him cuckold, was run into.... with a sword and had
      been killed, had he not told them that he was their king. That there are
      there no glass windows, nor will they have any; which makes sport among
      our merchants there to talk of an English factor that, being newly come
      thither, writ into England that glass would be a good commodity to send
      thither, &amp;c. That the King has his meat sent up by a dozen of lazy
      guards and in pipkins, sometimes, to his own table; and sometimes nothing
      but fruits, and, now and then, half a hen. And now that the Infanta is
      become our Queen, she is come to have a whole hen or goose to her table,
      which is not ordinary. So home and to look over my papers that concern the
      difference between Mrs. Goldsborough and us; which cost me much pains, but
      contented me much after it was done. So at home all the evening and to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. To White Hall, to Mr. Montagu's, where I met with Mr. Pierce, the
      purser, to advise about the things to be sent to my Lord for the Queen's
      provision, and was cleared in it, and now there is all haste made, for the
      fleet's going. At noon to my Lord's to dinner, and in the afternoon,
      leaving my wife there, Mr. Moore and I to Mrs. Goldsborough, who sent for
      a friend to meet with us, and so we were talking about the difference
      between us till 10 at night. I find it very troublesome, and have brought
      it into some hopes of an agreement, I offering to forgive her L10 that is
      yet due according to my uncle's accounts to us. So we left her friend to
      advise about it, and I hope to hear of her, for I would not by any means
      go to law with a woman of so devilish a tongue as she has. So to my
      Lady's, where I left my wife to lie with Mademoiselle all night, and I by
      link home and to bed. This night lying alone, and the weather cold, and
      having this last 7 or 8 days been troubled with a tumor... which is now
      abated by a poultice of a good handful of bran with half a pint of vinegar
      and a pint of water boiled till it be thick, and then a spoonful of honey
      put to it and so spread in a cloth and laid to it, I first put on my
      waistcoat to lie in all night this year, and do not intend to put it off
      again till spring. I met with complaints at home that my wife left no
      victuals for them all this day.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. At the office all the morning, and at noon Mr. Coventry, who sat
      with us all the morning, and Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Pen, and myself,. by
      coach to Captain Marshe's, at Limehouse, to a house that hath been their
      ancestors for this 250 years, close by the lime-house which gives the name
      to the place. Here they have a design to get the King to hire a dock for
      the herring busses, which is now the great design on foot, to lie up in.
      We had a very good and handsome dinner, and excellent wine. I not being
      neat in clothes, which I find a great fault in me, could not be so merry
      as otherwise, and at all times I am and can be, when I am in good habitt,
      which makes me remember my father Osborne's' rule for a gentleman to spare
      in all things rather than in that. So by coach home, and so to write
      letters by post, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). At home in bed all the morning to ease my late tumour,
      but up to dinner and much offended in mind at a proud trick my man Will
      hath got, to keep his hat on in the house, but I will not speak of it to
      him to-day; but I fear I shall be troubled with his pride and laziness,
      though in other things he is good enough. To church in the afternoon,
      where a sleepy Presbyter preached, and then to Sir W. Batten who is to go
      to Portsmouth to-morrow to wait upon the Duke of York, who goes to take
      possession and to set in order the garrison there. Supped at home and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Early with Mr. Moore by coach to Chelsy, to my Lord Privy Seal's,
      but have missed of coming time enough; and having taken up Mr. Pargiter,
      the goldsmith (who is the man of the world that I do most know and believe
      to be a cheating rogue), we drank our morning draft there together of cake
      and ale, and did make good sport of his losing so much by the King's
      coming in, he having bought much of Crown lands, of which, God forgive me!
      I am very glad. At Whitehall, at the Privy Seal, did with Sir W. Pen take
      advice about passing of things of his there that concern his matters of
      Ireland. Thence to the Wardrobe and dined, and so against my judgment and
      conscience (which God forgive, for my very heart knows that I offend God
      in breaking my vows herein) to the Opera, which is now newly begun to act
      again, after some alteracion of their scene, which do make it very much
      worse; but the play, "Love and Honour," being the first time of their
      acting it, is a very good plot, and well done. So on foot home, and after
      a little business done in my study and supper, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. At the office all the morning, where we had a deputation from the
      Duke in his absence, he being gone to Portsmouth, for us to have the whole
      disposal and ordering of the Fleet. In the afternoon about business up and
      down, and at night to visit Sir R. Slingsby, who is fallen sick of this
      new disease, an ague and fever. So home after visiting my aunt Wight and
      Mrs. Norbury (who continues still a very pleasant lady), and to supper,
      and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. To Whitehall, and there, to drink our morning, Sir W. Pen and I to a
      friend's lodging of his (Col. Pr. Swell), and at noon he and I dined
      together alone at the Legg in King Street, and so by coach to Chelsy to my
      Lord Privy Seal's about business of Sir William's, in which we had a fair
      admittance to talk with my Lord, and had his answer, and so back to the
      Opera, and there I saw again "Love and Honour," and a very good play it
      is. And thence home, calling by the way to see Sir Robert Slingsby, who
      continues ill, and so home. This day all our office is invited against
      Tuesday next, my Lord Mayor's day, to dinner with him at Guildhall. This
      evening Mr. Holliard came and sat with us, and gave us both directions to
      observe.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. At the office all morning, at noon Luellin dined with me, and then
      abroad to Fleet Street, leaving my wife at Tom's while I went out and did
      a little business. So home again, and went to see Sir Robert [Slingsby],
      who continues ill, and this day has not spoke at all, which makes them all
      afeard of him. So home.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. To Whitehall, and so to dinner at the Wardrobe, where my wife met
      me, and there we met with a venison pasty, and my Lady very merry and very
      handsome, methought. After dinner my wife and I to the Opera, and there
      saw again "Love and Honour," a play so good that it has been acted but
      three times and I have seen them all, and all in this week; which is too
      much, and more than I will do again a good while. Coming out of the house
      we met Mrs. Pierce and her comrade Mrs. Clifford, and I seeming willing to
      stay with them to talk my wife grew angry, and whether she be jealous or
      no I know, not, but she loves not that I should speak of Mrs. Pierce. Home
      on foot very discontented, in my way I calling at the Instrument maker,
      Hunt's, and there saw my lute, which is now almost done, it being to have
      a new neck to it and to be made to double strings. So home and to bed.
      This day I did give my man Will a sound lesson about his forbearing to
      give us the respect due to a master and mistress.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. This morning Sir W. Pen and I should have gone out of town with my
      Lady Batten, to have met Sir William coming back from Portsmouth; at
      Kingston, but could not, by reason that my Lord of Peterborough (who is to
      go Governor of Tangier) came this morning, with Sir G. Carteret, to advise
      with us about completing of the affairs and preparacions for that place.
      So at the office all the morning, and in the afternoon Sir W. Pen, my wife
      and I to the Theatre, and there saw "The Country Captain," the first time
      it hath been acted this twenty-five years, a play of my Lord Newcastle's,
      but so silly a play as in all my life I never saw, and the first that ever
      I was weary of in my life. So home again, and in the evening news was
      brought that Sir R. Slingsby, our Comptroller (who hath this day been sick
      a week), is dead; which put me into so great a trouble of mind, that all
      the night I could not sleep, he being a man that loved me, and had many
      qualitys that made me to love him above all the officers and commissioners
      in the Navy. Coming home we called at Dan Rawlinson's; and there drank
      good sack, and so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Lord's day). At church in the morning; where in the pew both Sir
      Williams and I had much talk about the death of Sir Robert, which troubles
      me much; and them in appearance, though I do not believe it; because I
      know that he was a cheque to their engrossing the whole trade of the Navy
      office. Home to dinner, and in the afternoon to church again, my wife with
      me, whose mourning is now grown so old that I am ashamed to go to church
      with her. And after church to see my uncle and aunt Wight, and there staid
      and talked and supped with them, and were merry as we could be in their
      company. Among other things going up into their chamber to see their two
      pictures, which I am forced to commend against my judgment, and also she
      showed us her cabinet, where she had very pretty medals and good jewels.
      So home and to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. At the office all the morning, and dined at home, and so to Paul's
      Churchyard to Hunt's, and there found my Theorbo done, which pleases me
      very well, and costs me 26s. to the altering. But now he tells me it is as
      good a lute as any is in England, and is worth well L10. Hither I sent for
      Captain Ferrers to me, who comes with a friend of his, and they and I to
      the Theatre, and there saw "Argalus and Parthenia," where a woman acted
      Parthenia, and came afterwards on the stage in men's clothes, and had the
      best legs that ever I saw, and I was very well pleased with it. Thence to
      the Ringo alehouse, and thither sent for a belt-maker, and bought of him a
      handsome belt for second mourning, which cost me 24s., and is very neat.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. This day I put on my half cloth black stockings and my new coat of
      the fashion, which pleases me well, and with my beaver I was (after office
      was done) ready to go to my Lord Mayor's feast, as we are all invited; but
      the Sir Williams were both loth to go, because of the crowd, and so none
      of us went, and I staid and dined with them, and so home, and in evening,
      by consent, we met at the Dolphin, where other company came to us, and
      should have been merry, but their wine was so naught, and all other things
      out of order, that we were not so, but staid long at night, and so home
      and to bed. My mind not pleased with the spending of this day, because I
      had proposed a great deal of pleasure to myself this day at Guildhall.
      This Lord Mayor, it seems, brings up again the Custom of Lord Mayors going
      the day of their installment to Paul's, and walking round about the Cross,
      and offering something at the altar.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. All the morning at the office. At noon played on my Theorbo, and
      much pleased therewith; it is now altered with a new neck. In the
      afternoon Captain Lambert called me out by appointment, and we walked
      together to Deptford, and there in his ship, the Norwich, I got him to
      shew me every hole and corner of the ship, much to my information, and the
      purpose of my going. So home again, and at Sir W. Batten's heard how he
      had been already at Sir R. Slingsby's, as we were all invited, and I
      intended this night to go, and there he finds all things out of order, and
      no such thing done to-night, but pretending that the corps stinks, they
      will bury it to-night privately, and so will unbespeak all their guests,
      and there shall be no funerall, which I am sorry for, that there should be
      nothing done for the honour of Sir Robert, but I fear he hath left his
      family in great distraction. Here I staid till late at cards with my Lady
      and Mrs. Martha, and so home. I sent for a bottle or two of wine thither.
      At my coming home I am sorry to find my wife displeased with her maid
      Doll, whose fault is that she cannot keep her peace, but will always be
      talking in an angry manner, though it be without any reason and to no
      purpose, which I am sorry for and do see the inconvenience that do attend
      the increase of a man's fortune by being forced to keep more servants,
      which brings trouble. Sir Henry Vane, Lambert, and others, are lately sent
      suddenly away from the Tower, prisoners to Scilly; but I do not think
      there is any plot as is said, but only a pretence; as there was once
      pretended often against the Cavaliers.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. This morning comes Prior of Brampton to me about the house he has to
      buy of me, but I was forced to be at the office all the morning, and so
      could not talk with him. And so, after the office was done, and dined at
      home, I went to my brother Tom's, and there met him. He demanded some
      abatement, he having agreed with my father for Barton's house, at a price
      which I told him I could not meddle with, but that as for anything to
      secure his title to them I was ready, and so we parted. Thence to Sir
      Robert Bernard, and as his client did ask his advice about my uncle
      Thomas's case and ours as to Gravely, and in short he tells me that there
      is little hopes of recovering it or saving his annuity, which do trouble
      me much, but God's will be done. Hence, with my mind full of trouble, to
      my uncle Fenner's, when at the alehouse I found him drinking and very
      jolly and youthsome, and as one that I believe will in a little time get a
      wife. So home.
    </p>
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    <h2>
      NOVEMBER 1661
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    <p>
      November 1st. I went this morning with Sir W. Pen by coach to Westminster,
      and having done my business at Mr. Montagu's, I went back to him at
      Whitehall, and from thence with him to the 3 Tun Tavern, at Charing Cross,
      and there sent for up the maister of the house's dinner, and dined very
      well upon it, and afterwards had him and his fayre sister (who is very
      great with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen in mirth) up to us, and looked
      over some medals that they shewed us of theirs; and so went away to the
      Theatre, to "The Joviall Crew," and from hence home, and at my house we
      were very merry till late, having sent for his son, Mr. William Pen,
    </p>
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     [The celebrated Quaker, and founder of Pennsylvania.]
</pre>
    <p>
      lately come from Oxford. And after supper parted, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. At the office all the morning; where Sir John Minnes, our new
      comptroller, was fetched by Sir Wm. Pen and myself from Sir Wm. Batten's,
      and led to his place in the office. The first time that he had come
      hither, and he seems a good fair condition man, and one that I am glad
      hath the office. After the office done, I to the Wardrobe, and there
      dined, and in the afternoon had an hour or two's talk with my Lady with
      great pleasure. And so with the two young ladies by coach to my house, and
      gave them some entertainment, and so late at night sent them home with
      Captain Ferrers by coach. This night my boy Wayneman, as I was in my
      chamber, I overheard him let off some gunpowder; and hearing my wife chide
      him below for it, and a noise made, I call him up, and find that it was
      powder that he had put in his pocket, and a match carelessly with it,
      thinking that it was out, and so the match did give fire to the powder,
      and had burnt his side and his hand that he put into his pocket to put out
      the fire. But upon examination, and finding him in a lie about the time
      and place that he bought it, I did extremely beat him, and though it did
      trouble me to do it, yet I thought it necessary to do it. So to write by
      the post, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Lord's day). This day I stirred not out, but took physique, and it
      did work very well, and all the day as I was at leisure I did read in
      Fuller's Holy Warr, which I have of late bought, and did try to make a
      song in the praise of a liberall genius (as I take my own to be) to all
      studies and pleasures, but it not proving to my mind I did reject it and
      so proceeded not in it. At night my wife and I had a good supper by
      ourselves of a pullet hashed, which pleased me much to see my condition
      come to allow ourselves a dish like that, and so at night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. In the morning, being very rainy, by coach with Sir W. Pen and my
      wife to Whitehall, and sent her to Mrs. Bunt's, and he and I to Mr.
      Coventry's about business, and so sent for her again, and all three home
      again, only I to the Mitre (Mr. Rawlinson's), where Mr. Pierce, the
      Purser, had got us a most brave chine of beef, and a dish of marrowbones.
      Our company my uncle Wight, Captain Lambert, one Captain Davies, and
      purser Barter, Mr. Rawlinson, and ourselves; and very merry. After dinner
      I took coach, and called my wife at my brother's, where I left her, and to
      the Opera, where we saw "The Bondman," which of old we both did so doat
      on, and do still; though to both our thinking not so well acted here
      (having too great expectations), as formerly at Salisbury-court. But for
      Betterton he is called by us both the best actor in the world. So home by
      coach, I lighting by the way at my uncle Wight's and staid there a little,
      and so home after my wife, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. At the office all the morning. At noon comes my brother Tom and Mr.
      Armiger to dine with me, and did, and we were very merry. After dinner, I
      having drunk a great deal of wine, I went away, seeming to go about
      business with Sir W. Pen, to my Lady Batten's (Sir William being at
      Chatham), and there sat a good while, and then went away (before I went I
      called at home to see whether they were gone, and found them there, and
      Armiger inviting my wife to go to a play, and like a fool would be
      courting her, but he is an ass, and lays out money with Tom, otherwise I
      should not think him worth half this respect I shew him). To the Dolphin,
      where he and I and Captain Cocke sat late and drank much, seeing the boys
      in the streets flying their crackers, this day being kept all the day very
      strictly in the City. At last broke up, and called at my Lady Batten's
      again and would have gone to cards, but Sir W. Pen was so fuddled that we
      could not try him to play, and therefore we parted, and I home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Going forth this morning I met Mr. Davenport and a friend of his, one
      Mr. Furbisher, to drink their morning draft with me, and I did give it
      them in good wine, and anchovies, and pickled oysters, and took them to
      the Sun in Fish Street, there did give them a barrel of good ones, and a
      great deal of wine, and sent for Mr. W. Bernard (Sir Robert's son), a
      grocer thereabouts, and were very merry, and cost me a good deal of money,
      and at noon left them, and with my head full of wine, and being invited by
      a note from Luellin, that came to my hands this morning in bed, I went to
      Nick Osborne's at the Victualling Office, and there saw his wife, who he
      has lately married, a good sober woman, and new come to their home. We had
      a good dish or two of marrowbones and another of neats' tongues to dinner,
      and that being done I bade them adieu and hastened to Whitehall (calling
      Mr. Moore by the way) to my Lord Privy Seal, who will at last force the
      clerks to bring in a table of their fees, which they have so long denied,
      but I do not join with them, and so he is very respectful to me. So he
      desires me to bring in one which I observe in making of fees, which I will
      speedily do. So back again, and endeavoured to speak with Tom Trice (who I
      fear is hatching some mischief), but could not, which vexed me, and so I
      went home and sat late with pleasure at my lute, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. This morning came one Mr. Hill (sent by Mr. Hunt, the Instrument
      maker), to teach me to play on the Theorbo, but I do not like his play nor
      singing, and so I found a way to put him off. So to the office. And then
      to dinner, and got Mr. Pett the Commissioner to dinner with me, he and I
      alone, my wife not being well, and so after dinner parted. And I to Tom
      Trice, who in short shewed me a writt he had ready for my father, and I
      promised to answer it. So I went to Dr. Williams (who is now pretty well
      got up after his sickness), and after that to Mr. Moore to advise, and so
      returned home late on foot, with my mind cleared, though not satisfied. I
      met with letters at home from my Lord from Lisbone, which speak of his
      being well; and he tells me he had seen at the court there the day before
      he wrote this letter, the Juego de Toro.&mdash;[A bull fight. See May
      24th, 1662.&mdash;B:]&mdash;So fitted myself for bed. Coming home I called
      at my uncle Fenner's, who tells that Peg Kite now hath declared she will
      have the beggarly rogue the weaver, and so we are resolved neither to
      meddle nor make with her.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. This morning up early, and to my Lord Chancellor's with a letter to
      him from my Lord, and did speak with him; and he did ask me whether I was
      son to Mr. Talbot Pepys or no (with whom he was once acquainted in the
      Court of Requests), and spoke to me with great respect. Thence to
      Westminster Hall (it being Term time) and there met with Commissioner
      Pett, and so at noon he and I by appointment to the Sun in New Fish
      Street, where Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and we all were to dine, at an
      invitation of Captain Stoaks and Captain Clerk, and were very merry, and
      by discourse I found Sir J. Minnes a fine gentleman and a very good
      scholler. After dinner to the Wardrobe, and thence to Dr. Williams, who
      went with me (the first time that he has been abroad a great while) to the
      Six Clerks Office to find me a clerk there able to advise me in my
      business with Tom Trice, and after I had heard them talk, and had given me
      some comfort, I went to my brother Tom's, and took him with me to my coz.
      Turner at the Temple, and had his opinion that I should not pay more than
      the principal L200, with which I was much pleased, and so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. At the office all the morning. At noon Mr. Davenport, Phillips, and
      Mr. Wm. Bernard and Furbisher, came by appointment and dined with me, and
      we were very merry. After dinner I to the Wardrobe, and there staid
      talking with my Lady all the afternoon till late at night. Among other
      things my Lady did mightily urge me to lay out money upon my wife, which I
      perceived was a little more earnest than ordinary, and so I seemed to be
      pleased with it, and do resolve to bestow a lace upon her, and what with
      this and other talk, we were exceeding merry. So home at night.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). At our own church in the morning, where Mr. Mills
      preached. Thence alone to the Wardrobe to dinner with my Lady, where my
      Lady continues upon yesterday's discourse still for me to lay out money
      upon my wife, which I think it is best for me to do for her honour and my
      own. Last night died Archibald, my Lady's butler and Mrs. Sarah's brother,
      of a dropsy, which I am troubled at. In the afternoon went and sat with
      Mr. Turner in his pew at St. Gregory's, where I hear our Queen Katherine,
      the first time by name as such, publickly prayed for, and heard Dr. Buck
      upon "Woe unto thee, Corazin," &amp;c., where he started a difficulty,
      which he left to another time to answer, about why God should give means
      of grace to those people which he knew would not receive them, and deny to
      others which he himself confesses, if they had had them, would have
      received them, and they would have been effectual too. I would I could
      hear him explain this, when he do come to it. Thence home to my wife, and
      took her to my Aunt Wight's, and there sat a while with her (my uncle
      being at Katharine hill), and so home, and I to Sir W. Batten's, where
      Captain Cock was, and we sent for two bottles of Canary to the Rose, which
      did do me a great deal of hurt, and did trouble me all night, and, indeed,
      came home so out of order that I was loth to say prayers to-night as I am
      used ever to do on Sundays, which my wife took notice of and people of the
      house, which I was sorry for.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. To the Wardrobe, and with Mr. Townsend and Moore to the Saracen's
      Head to a barrel of oysters, and so Mr. Moore and I to Tom Trice's, with
      whom I did first set my hand to answer to a writt of his this tearm.
      Thence to the Wardrobe to dinner, and there by appointment met my wife,
      who had by my direction brought some laces for my Lady to choose one for
      her. And after dinner I went away, and left my wife and ladies together,
      and all their work was about this lace of hers. Captain Ferrers and I went
      together, and he carried me the first time that ever I saw any gaming
      house, to one, entering into Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, at the end of Bell
      Yard, where strange the folly of men to lay and lose so much money, and
      very glad I was to see the manner of a gamester's life, which I see is
      very miserable, and poor, and unmanly. And thence he took me to a dancing
      school in Fleet Street, where we saw a company of pretty girls dance, but
      I do not in myself like to have young girls exposed to so much vanity. So
      to the Wardrobe, where I found my Lady had agreed upon a lace for my wife
      of L6, which I seemed much glad of that it was no more, though in my mind
      I think it too much, and I pray God keep me so to order myself and my
      wife's expenses that no inconvenience in purse or honour follow this my
      prodigality. So by coach home.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. At the office all the morning. Dined at home alone. So abroad with
      Sir W. Pen. My wife and I to "Bartholomew Fayre," with puppets which I had
      seen once before, and Ate play without puppets often, but though I love
      the play as much as ever I did, yet I do not like the puppets at all, but
      think it to be a lessening to it. Thence to the Greyhound in Fleet Street,
      and there drank some raspberry sack and eat some sasages, and so home very
      merry. This day Holmes come to town; and we do expect hourly to hear what
      usage he hath from the Duke and the King about this late business of
      letting the Swedish Embassador go by him without striking his flag.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [And that, too, in the river Thames itself.  The right of obliging
     ships of all nations to lower topsails, and strike their flag to the
     English, whilst in the British seas, and even on the French coasts,
     had, up to this time, been rigidly enforced.  When Sully was sent by
     Henry IV., in 1603, to congratulate James I. on his accession, and
     in a ship commanded by a vice-admiral of France, he was fired upon
     by the English Admiral Mansel, for daring to hoist the flag of
     France in the presence of that of England, although within sight of
     Calais.  The French flag was lowered, and all Sully's remonstrances
     could obtain no redress for the alleged injury.  According to Rugge,
     Holmes had insisted upon the Swede's lowering his flag, and had even
     fired a shot to enforce the observance of the usual tribute of
     respect, but the ambassador sent his secretary and another gentleman
     on board the English frigate, to assure the captain, upon the word
     and honour of an ambassador, that the king, by a verbal order, had
     given him leave and a dispensation in that particular, and upon this
     false representation he was allowed to proceed on his voyage without
     further question.  This want of caution, and disobedience of orders,
     fell heavily on Holmes, who was imprisoned for two months, and not
     re-appointed to the same ship.  Brahe afterwards made a proper
     submission for the fault he had committed, at his own court.  His
     conduct reminds us of Sir Henry Wotton's definition of an
     ambassador&mdash;that he is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good
     of his country.  A pun upon the term lieger&mdash;ambassador.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      13th. By appointment, we all went this morning to wait upon the Duke of
      York, which we did in his chamber, as he was dressing himself in his
      riding suit to go this day by sea to the Downs. He is in mourning for his
      wife's grandmother, which is thought a great piece of fondness.
    </p>
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     [Fondness, foolishness.

              "Fondness it were for any, being free,
               To covet fetters, tho' they golden be."
                                   Spenser, Sonnet 37,&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      After we had given him our letter relating the bad condition of the Navy
      for want of money, he referred it to his coming back and so parted, and I
      to Whitehall and to see la belle Pierce, and so on foot to my Lord Crew's,
      where I found him come to his new house, which is next to that he lived in
      last; here I was well received by my Lord and Sir Thomas, with whom I had
      great talk: and he tells me in good earnest that he do believe the
      Parliament (which comes to sit again the next week), will be troublesome
      to the Court and Clergy, which God forbid! But they see things carried so
      by my Lord Chancellor and some others, that get money themselves, that
      they will not endure it. From thence to the Theatre, and there saw
      "Father's own Son" again, and so it raining very hard I went home by
      coach, with my mind very heavy for this my expensefull life, which will
      undo me, I fear, after all my hopes, if I do not take up, for now I am
      coming to lay out a great deal of money in clothes for my wife, I must
      forbear other expenses. To bed, and this night began to lie in the little
      green chamber, where the maids lie, but we could not a great while get
      Nell to lie there, because I lie there and my wife, but at last, when she
      saw she must lie there or sit up, she, with much ado, came to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. At the office all the morning. At noon I went by appointment to the
      Sun in Fish Street to a dinner of young Mr. Bernard's for myself, Mr.
      Phillips, Davenport, Weaver, &amp;c., where we had a most excellent
      dinner, but a pie of such pleasant variety of good things, as in all my
      life I never tasted. Hither came to me Captain Lambert to take his leave
      of me, he being this day to set sail for the Straights. We drank his
      farewell and a health to all our friends, and were very merry, and drank
      wine enough. Hence to the Temple to Mr. Turner about drawing up my bill in
      Chancery against T. Trice, and so to Salisbury Court, where Mrs. Turner is
      come to town to-night, but very ill still of an ague, which I was sorry to
      see. So to the Wardrobe and talked with my Lady, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. At home all the morning, and at noon with my wife to the Wardrobe to
      dinner, and there, did shew herself to my Lady in the handkercher that she
      bought the lace for the other day, and indeed it is very handsome. Here I
      left my wife and went to my Lord Privy Seal to Whitehall, and there did
      give him a copy of the Fees of the office as I have received them, and he
      was well pleased with it. So to the Opera, where I met my wife and Captain
      Ferrers and Madamoiselle Le Blanc, and there did see the second part of
      "The Siege of Rhodes" very well done; and so by coach set her home, and
      the coach driving down the hill through Thames Street, which I think never
      any coach did before from that place to the bridge-foot, but going up Fish
      Street Hill his horses were so tired, that they could not be got to go up
      the hill, though all the street boys and men did beat and whip them. At
      last I was fain to send my boy for a link, and so light out of the coach
      till we got to another at the corner of Fenchurch Street, and so home, and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. At the office all the morning. Dined at home, and so about my
      business in the afternoon to the Temple, where I found my Chancery bill
      drawn against T. Trice, which I read and like it, and so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). To our own church, and at noon, by invitation, Sir W.
      Pen dined with me, and I took Mrs. Hester, my Lady Batten's kinswoman, to
      dinner from church with me, and we were very merry. So to church again,
      and heard a simple fellow upon the praise of Church musique, and
      exclaiming against men's wearing their hats on in the church, but I slept
      part of the sermon, till latter prayer and blessing and all was done
      without waking which I never did in my life. So home, and by and by comes
      my uncle Wight and my aunt and Mr. Norbury and his lady, and we drank hard
      and were very merry till supper time, and then we parted, my wife and I
      being invited to Sir W. Pen's, where we also were very merry, and so home
      to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. By coach with Sir W. Pen; my wife and I toward Westminster, but
      seeing Mr. Moore in the street I light and he and I went to Mr.
      Battersby's the minister, in my way I putting in at St. Paul's, where I
      saw the quiristers in their surplices going to prayers, and a few idle
      poor people and boys to hear them, which is the first time I have seen
      them, and am sorry to see things done so out of order, and there I
      received L50 more, which make up L100 that I now have borrowed of him, and
      so I did burn the old bond for L50, and paying him the use of it did make
      a new bond for the whole L100. Here I dined and had a good dinner, and his
      wife a good pretty woman. There was a young Parson at the table that had
      got himself drunk before dinner, which troubled me to see. After dinner to
      Mr. Bowers at Westminster for my wife, and brought her to the Theatre to
      see "Philaster," which I never saw before, but I found it far short of my
      expectations. So by coach home.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. At the office all the morning, and coming home found Mr. Hunt with
      my wife in the chamber alone, which God forgive me did trouble my head,
      but remembering that it was washing and that there was no place else with
      a fire for him to be in, it being also cold weather, I was at ease again.
      He dined with us, and after dinner took coach and carried him with us as
      far as my cozen Scott's, where we set him down and parted, and my wife and
      I staid there at the christening of my cozens boy, where my cozen Samuel
      Pepys, of Ireland, and I were godfathers, and I did name the child Samuel.
      There was a company of pretty women there in the chamber, but we staid
      not, but went with the minister into another room and eat and drank, and
      at last, when most of the women were gone, Sam and I went into my cozen
      Scott, who was got off her bed, and so we staid and talked and were very
      merry, my she-cozen, Stradwick, being godmother. And then I left my wife
      to go home by coach, and I walked to the Temple about my law business, and
      there received a subpoena for T. Trice. I carried it myself to him at the
      usual house at Doctors Commons and did give it him, and so home and to
      bed. It cost me 20s, between the midwife and the two nurses to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. To Westminster Hall by water in the morning, where I saw the King
      going in his barge to the Parliament House; this being the first day of
      their meeting again. And the Bishops, I hear, do take their places in the
      Lords House this day. I walked long in the Hall, but hear nothing of news,
      but what Ned Pickering tells me, which I am troubled at, that Sir J.
      Minnes should send word to the King, that if he did not remove all my Lord
      Sandwich's captains out of this fleet, he believed the King would not be
      master of the fleet at its coming again: and so do endeavour to bring
      disgrace upon my Lord. But I hope all that will not do, for the King loves
      him. Hence by water to the Wardrobe, and dined with my Lady, my Lady
      Wright being there too, whom I find to be a witty but very conceited woman
      and proud. And after dinner Mr. Moore and I to the Temple, and there he
      read my bill and likes it well enough, and so we came back again, he with
      me as far as the lower end of Cheapside, and there I gave him a pint of
      sack and parted, and I home, and went seriously to look over my papers
      touching T. Trice, and I think I have found some that will go near to do
      me more good in this difference of ours than all I have before. So to bed
      with my mind cheery upon it, and lay long reading "Hobbs his Liberty and
      Necessity," and a little but very shrewd piece, and so to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. In the morning again at looking over my last night's papers, and by
      and by comes Mr. Moore, who finds that my papers may do me much good. He
      staid and dined with me, and we had a good surloyne of rost beefe, the
      first that ever I had of my own buying since I kept house; and after
      dinner he and I to the Temple, and there showed Mr. Smallwood my papers,
      who likes them well, and so I left them with him, and went with Mr. Moore
      to Gray's Inn to his chamber, and there he shewed me his old Camden's
      "Britannica", which I intend to buy of him, and so took it away with me,
      and left it at St. Paul's Churchyard to be bound, and so home and to the
      office all the afternoon; it being the first afternoon that we have sat,
      which we are now to do always, so long as the Parliament sits, who this
      day have voted the King L 120,000
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A mistake.  According to the journals, L1,200,000.  And see Diary,
     February 29th, 1663-64.&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to be raised to pay his debts. And after the office with Sir W. Batten to
      the Dolphin, and drank and left him there, and I again to the Temple about
      my business, and so on foot home again and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Within all the morning, and at noon with my wife, by appointment to
      dinner at the Dolphin, where Sir W. Batten, and his lady and daughter
      Matt, and Captain Cocke and his lady, a German lady, but a very great
      beauty, and we dined together, at the spending of some wagers won and lost
      between him and I; and there we had the best musique and very good songs,
      and were very merry and danced, but I was most of all taken with Madam
      Cocke and her little boy, which in mirth his father had given to me. But
      after all our mirth comes a reckoning of L4, besides 40s. to the
      musicians, which did trouble us, but it must be paid, and so I took leave
      and left them there about eight at night. And on foot went to the Temple,
      and then took my cozen Turner's man Roger, and went by his advice to
      Serjeant Fountaine and told him our case, who gives me good comfort in it,
      and I gave him 30s. fee. So home again and to bed. This day a good pretty
      maid was sent my wife by Mary Bowyer, whom my wife has hired.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. To Westminster with my wife (she to her father's), and about 10
      o'clock back again home, and there I to the office a little, and thence by
      coach with Commissioner Pett to Cheapside to one Savill, a painter, who I
      intend shall do my picture and my wife's. Thence I to dinner at the
      Wardrobe, and so home to the office, and there all the afternoon till
      night, and then both Sir Williams to my house, and in comes Captain Cock,
      and they to cards. By and by Sir W. Batten and Cock, after drinking a good
      deal of wine, went away, and Sir W. Pen staid with my wife and I to
      supper, very pleasant, and so good night. This day I have a chine of beef
      sent home, which I bespoke to send, and did send it as a present to my
      uncle Wight.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). Up early, and by appointment to St. Clement Danes to
      church, and there to meet Captain Cocke, who had often commended Mr.
      Alsopp, their minister, to me, who is indeed an able man, but as all
      things else did not come up to my expectations. His text was that all good
      and perfect gifts are from above. Thence Cocke and I to the Sun tavern
      behind the Exchange, and there met with others that are come from the same
      church, and staid and drank and talked with them a little, and so broke
      up, and I to the Wardrobe and there dined, and staid all the afternoon
      with my Lady alone talking, and thence to see Madame Turner, who, poor
      lady, continues very ill, and I begin to be afraid of her. Thence
      homewards, and meeting Mr. Yong, the upholster, he and I to the Mitre, and
      with Mr. Rawlinson sat and drank a quart of sack, and so I to Sir W.
      Batten's and there staid and supped, and so home, where I found an
      invitation sent my wife and I to my uncle Wight's on Tuesday next to the
      chine of beef which I presented them with yesterday. So to prayers and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there
      he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy, he being
      to set sail to-day towards the Streights. Here we had oysters and good
      wine. Having this morning met in the Hall with Mr. Sanchy, we appointed to
      meet at the play this afternoon. At noon, at the rising of the House, I
      met with Sir W. Pen and Major General Massy,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Major-General Edward Massey (or Massie), son of John Massie, was
     captain of one of the foot companies of the Irish Expedition, and
     had Oliver Cromwell as his ensign (see Peacock's "Army Lists in
     1642," p. 65).  He was Governor of Gloucester in its obstinate
     defence against the royal forces, 1643; dismissed by the self-
     denying ordinance when he entered Charles II's service.  He was
     taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester, September 3rd, 1651, but
     escaped abroad.]
</pre>
    <p>
      who I find by discourse to be a very ingenious man, and among other things
      a great master in the secresys of powder and fireworks, and another knight
      to dinner, at the Swan, in the Palace yard, and our meat brought from the
      Legg; and after dinner Sir W. Pen and I to the Theatre, and there saw "The
      Country Captain," a dull play, and that being done, I left him with his
      Torys
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This is a strange use of the word Tory, and an early one also.  The
     word originally meant bogtrotters or wild Irish, and as Penn was
     Governor of Kildare these may have been some of his Irish followers.
     The term was not used politically until about 1679.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and went to the Opera, and saw the last act of "The Bondman," and there
      found Mr. Sanchy and Mrs. Mary Archer, sister to the fair Betty, whom I
      did admire at Cambridge, and thence took them to the Fleece in Covent
      Garden, there to bid good night to Sir W. Pen who staid for me; but Mr.
      Sanchy could not by any argument get his lady to trust herself with him
      into the tavern, which he was much troubled at, and so we returned
      immediately into the city by coach, and at the Mitre in Cheapside there
      light and drank, and then yet her at her uncle's in the Old Jewry. And so
      he and I back again thither, and drank till past 12 at night, till I had
      drank something too much. He all the while telling me his intention to get
      a girl who is worth L1000, and many times we had her sister Betty's
      health, whose memory I love. At last parted, and I well home, only had got
      cold and was hoarse and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. This morning our maid Dorothy and my wife parted, which though she
      be a wench for her tongue not to be borne with, yet I was loth to part
      with her, but I took my leave kindly of her and went out to Savill's, the
      painter, and there sat the first time for my face with him; thence to
      dinner with my Lady; and so after an hour or two's talk in divinity with
      my Lady, Captain Ferrers and Mr. Moore and I to the Theatre, and there saw
      "Hamlett" very well done, and so I home, and found that my wife had been
      with my aunt Wight and Ferrers to wait on my Lady to-day this afternoon,
      and there danced and were very merry, and my Lady very fond as she is
      always of my wife. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. At home all the morning; at noon Will brought me from Whitehall,
      whither I had sent him, some letters from my Lord Sandwich, from Tangier;
      where he continues still, and hath done some execution upon the Turks, and
      retaken an Englishman from them, of one Mr. Parker's, a merchant in
      Marke-lane. In the afternoon Mr. Pett and I met at the office; there being
      none more there than we two I saw there was not the reverence due to us
      observed, and so I took occasion to break up and took Mr. Gawdon along
      with me, and he and I (though it rained) were resolved to go, he to my
      Lord Treasurer's and I to the Chancellor's with a letter from my Lord
      to-day. So to a tavern at the end of Mark Lane, and there we staid till
      with much ado we got a coach, and so to my Lord Treasurer's and lost our
      labours, then to the Chancellor's, and there met with Mr. Dugdale, and
      with him and one Mr. Simons, I think that belongs to my Lord Hatton, and
      Mr. Kipps and others, to the Fountain tavern, and there staid till twelve
      at night drinking and singing, Mr. Simons and one Mr. Agar singing very
      well. Then Mr. Gawdon being almost drunk had the wit to be gone, and so I
      took leave too, and it being a fine moonshine night he and I footed it all
      the way home, but though he was drunk he went such a pace as I did admire
      how he was able to go. When I came home I found our new maid Sarah&mdash;[Sarah
      did not stay long with Mrs. Pepys, who was continually falling out with
      her. She left to enter Sir William Penn's service.]&mdash;come, who is a
      tall and a very well favoured wench, and one that I think will please us.
      So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. I lay long in bed, till Sir Williams both sent me word that we were
      to wait upon the Duke of York to-day; and that they would have me to meet
      them at Westminster Hall, at noon: so I rose and went thither; and there I
      understand that they are gone to Mr. Coventry's lodgings, in the Old
      Palace Yard, to dinner (the first time I knew he had any); and there I met
      them two and Sir G. Carteret, and had a very fine dinner, and good
      welcome, and discourse; and so, by water, after dinner to White Hall to
      the Duke, who met us in his closet; and there he did discourse to us the
      business of Holmes, and did desire of us to know what hath been the common
      practice about making of forrayne ships to strike sail to us, which they
      did all do as much as they could; but I could say nothing to it, which I
      was sorry for. So indeed I was forced to study a lie, and so after we were
      gone from the Duke, I told Mr. Coventry that I had heard Mr. Selden often
      say, that he could prove that in Henry the 7th's time, he did give
      commission to his captains to make the King of Denmark's ships to strike
      to him in the Baltique. From thence Sir W. Pen and I to the Theatre, but
      it was so full that we could hardly get any room, so he went up to one of
      the boxes, and I into the 18d. places, and there saw "Love at first
      sight," a play of Mr. Killigrew's, and the first time that it hath been
      acted since before the troubles, and great expectation there was, but I
      found the play to be a poor thing, and so I perceive every body else do.
      So home, calling at Paul's Churchyard for a "Mare Clausum," having it in
      my mind to write a little matter, what I can gather, about the business of
      striking sayle, and present it to the Duke, which I now think will be a
      good way to make myself known. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. In the morning to the Temple, Mr. Philips and Dr. Williams about my
      several law matters, and so to the Wardrobe to dinner, and after dinner
      stole away, my Lady not dining out of her chamber, and so home and then to
      the office all the afternoon, and that being done Sir W. Batten and I and
      Captain Cock got a bottle of sack into the office, and there we sat late
      and drank and talked, and so home and to bed. I am this day in very good
      health, only got a little cold. The Parliament has sat a pretty while. The
      old condemned judges of the late King have been brought before the
      Parliament, and like to be hanged. I am deep in Chancery against Tom
      Trice, God give a good issue; and myself under great trouble for my late
      great expending of money vainly, which God stop for the future. This is
      the last day for the old State's coyne
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In a speech of Lord Lucas in the House of Lords, the 22nd February,
     1670-1 (which speech was burnt by the common hangman), he thus
     adverted to that coin: "It is evident that there is scarcity of
     money; for all the parliament's money called breeches (a fit stamp
     for the coin of the Rump) is wholly vanished&mdash;the king's
     proclamation and the Dutch have swept it all away, and of his now
     majesty's coin there appears but very little; so that in effect we
     have none left for common use, but a little old lean coined money of
     the late three former princes.  And what supply is preparing for it,
     my lords?  I hear of none, unless it be of copper farthings, and
     this is the metal that is to vindicate, according to the inscription
     on it, the dominion of the four seas."&mdash;Quoted in Penn's "Memorials
     of Sir Wm. Penn," ii.  264.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to pass in common payments, but they say it is to pass in publique
      payments to the King three months still.
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      DECEMBER 1661
    </h2>
    <p>
      December 1st (Lord's day). In the morning at church and heard Mr. Mills.
      At home dined and with me by appointment Mr. Sanchy, who should have
      brought his mistress, Mrs. Mary Archer, of Cambridge, but she could not
      come, but we had a good dinner for him. And so in the afternoon my wife
      went to church, and he and I stayed at home and drank and talked, and he
      stayed with me till night and supped with me, when I expected to have seen
      Jack Cole and Lem. Wagstaffe, but they did not come. We this day cut a
      brave collar of brawn from Winchcombe which proves very good, and also
      opened the glass of girkins which Captain Cocke did give my wife the other
      day, which are rare things. So at night to bed. There hath lately been
      great clapping up of some old statesmen, such as Ireton, Moyer, and
      others, and they say, upon a great plot, but I believe no such thing; but
      it is but justice that they should be served as they served the poor
      Cavaliers; and I believe it will oftentimes be so as long as I live,
      whether there be cause or no. This evening my brother Tom was with me, and
      I did talk again to him about Mr. Townsend's daughter, and I do intend to
      put the business in hand. I pray God give a good end to it.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. To Savill the painter's, but he not being well I could do nothing
      there, and so I returned home, and in my way met Mr. Moore and took him
      with me home; where we staid and talked all the morning, and he dined with
      me, and after dinner went away to the Privy Seal, this being our first day
      this month. By and by called on by Mr. Sanchy and his mistress, and with
      them by coach to the Opera, to see "The Mad Lover," but not much pleased
      with the play. That done home all to my house, where they staid and supped
      and were merry, and at last late bid good night and so we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. To the Paynter's and sat and had more of my picture done; but it do
      not please me, for I fear it will not be like me. At noon from thence to
      the Wardrobe, where dinner not being ready Mr. Moore and I to the Temple
      about my little business at Mr. Turner's, and so back again, and dinner
      being half done I went in to my Lady, where my Lady Wright was at dinner
      with her, and all our talk about the great happiness that my Lady Wright
      says there is in being in the fashion and in variety of fashions, in scorn
      of others that are not so, as citizens' wives and country gentlewomen,
      which though it did displease me enough, yet I said nothing to it. Thence
      by water to the office through bridge, being carried by him in oars that
      the other day rowed in a scull faster than my oars to the Towre, and I did
      give him 6d. At the office all the afternoon, and at night home to read in
      "Mare Clausum" till bedtime, and so to bed, but had a very bad night by
      dreams of my wife's riding with me and her horse throwing her and breaking
      her leg, and then I dreamed that I.. [was] in such pain that I waked with
      it, and had a great deal of pain there a very great while till I fell
      asleep again, and such apprehension I had of it that when I rose and
      trussed up myself thinking that it had been no dream. Till in the daytime
      I found myself very well at ease, and remembered that I did dream so, and
      that Mr. Creed was with me, and that I did complain to him of it, and he
      said he had the same pain in his left that I had in my right... which
      pleased me much to remember.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. To Whitehall with both Sir Williams, thence by water, where I saw a
      man lie dead upon Westminster Stairs that had been drowned yesterday. To
      the Temple, and thence to Mr. Phillips and got my copy of Sturtlow lands.
      So back to the 3 Tuns at Charing Cross, and there met the two Sir Williams
      and Col. Treswell and Mr. Falconer, and dined there at Sir W. Pen's cost,
      and after dinner by water to Cheapside to the painter's, and there found
      my wife, and having sat a little she and I by coach to the Opera and
      Theatre, but coming too late to both, and myself being a little out of
      tune we returned, and I settled to read in "Mare Clausum "till bedtime,
      and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. This morning I went early to the Paynter's and there sat for my
      picture the fourth time, but it do not yet please me, which do much
      trouble me. Thence to the Treasury Office, where I found Sir W. Batten
      come before me, and there we sat to pay off the St. George. By and by came
      Sir W. Pen, and he and I staid while Sir W. Batten went home to dinner,
      and then he came again, and Sir W. Pen and I went and dined at my house,
      and had two mince pies sent thither by our order from the messenger
      Slater, that had dressed some victuals for us, and so we were very merry,
      and after dinner rode out in his coach, he to Whitehall, and my wife and I
      to the Opera, and saw "Hamlett" well performed. Thence to the Temple and
      Mrs. Turner's (who continues still very ill), and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Lay long in bed, and then to Westminster Hall and there walked, and
      then with Mr. Spicer, Hawly, Washington, and little Mr. Ashwell (my old
      friends at the Exchequer) to the Dog, and gave them two or three quarts of
      wine, and so away to White Hall, where, at Sir G. Carteret's, Sir Williams
      both and I dined very pleasantly; and after dinner, by appointment, came
      the Governors of the East India Company, to sign and seal the contract
      between us
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Charles II.'s charter to the Company, confirming and extending the
     former charter, is dated April 3rd, 1661.  Bombay, just acquired as
     part of Queen Katherine's dowry, was made over to the Company by
     Letters Patent dated March 27th, 1669.]
</pre>
    <p>
      (in the King's name) and them. And that done, we all went to the King's
      closet, and there spoke with the King and the Duke of York, who promise to
      be very careful of the India trade to the utmost. So back to Sir G.
      Carteret's and ended our business, and so away homewards, but Sir W.
      Batten offering to go to the 3 Tuns at Charing Cross, where the pretty
      maid the daughter of the house is; I was saying that, that tickled Sir W.
      Pen, he seemed to take these words very captiously and angrily, which I
      saw, and seemed indifferent to go home in his coach with them, and so took
      leave to go to the Council Chamber to speak with my Lord Privy Seal, which
      I did, but they did stay for me, which I was pleased at, but no words
      passed between him and me in all our way home. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. This morning comes Captain Ferrers and the German, Emanuel Luffe, who
      goes as one of my Lord's footmen, though he deserves a much better
      preferment, to take their leave of me, and here I got the German to play
      upon my theorbo, which he did both below and in my wife's chamber, who was
      in bed. He plays bravely. I find by him that my lute is a most excellent
      lute. I did give them a mince pie and a collar of brawn and some wine for
      their breakfast, and were very merry, and sent for Mr. Adamson's neighbour
      to drink Mr. Shepley's health. At last we all parted, but within a quarter
      of an hour after they were gone, and my wife and I were talking about
      buying of a fine scallop which is brought her this morning by a woman to
      be sold, which is to cost her 45s., in comes the German back again, all in
      a goare of blood, which I wondered at, and tells me that he is afeard that
      the Captain is killed by the watermen at Towre Stayres; so I presently
      went thither, and found that upon some rude pressing of the watermen to
      ply the Captain, he struck one of them with his cane, which they would not
      take, but struck him again, and then the German drew his sword and ran at
      one of them, but they were both soundly beaten.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [See a similar outrage, committed by Captain Ferrers, September
     12th, 1662.  Swords were usually worn by footmen.  See May 4th,
     1662, host.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      The Captain is, however, got to the boy that carries him and the pages to
      the Downs, and I went into the alehouse at the Stayres and got them to
      deliver the Captain's feathers, which one from the Captain was come to
      demand, and went home again, and there found my wife dressing of the
      German's head, and so did [give] him a cravett for his neck, and a crown
      in his purse, and sent him away again. Then came Mr. Moore, and he and I
      to Westminster and to Worcester House to see Mr. Montagu before he goes
      away (this night), but could not see him, nor do I think he has a mind to
      see us for fear of our demanding of money of him for anything. So back to
      Whitehall, and eat a bit of meat at Wilkinson's, and then to the Privy
      Seal, and sealed there the first time this month; and, among other things
      that passed, there was a patent for Roger Palmer (Madam Palmer's husband)
      to be Earl of Castlemaine and Baron of Limbricke in Ireland; but the
      honour is tied up to the males got of the body of this wife, the Lady
      Barbary: the reason whereof every body knows. That done, by water to the
      office, when I found Sir W. Pen had been alone all the night and was just
      rose, and so I to him, and with him I found Captain Holmes, who had wrote
      his case, and gives me a copy, as he hath many among his friends, and
      presented the same to the King and Council. Which I shall make use of in
      my attempt of writing something concerning the business of striking sail,
      which I am now about. But he do cry out against Sir John Minnes, as the
      veriest knave and rogue and coward in the world, which I was glad to hear,
      because he has given out bad words concerning my Lord, though I am sorry
      it is so. Here Captain Cox then came in, and he and I staid a good while
      and so good night. Home and wrote by the post to my father, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). In bed all the morning thinking to take physique, but it
      being a frost my wife would not have me. So to dinner at the Wardrobe, and
      after a great deal of good discourse with my Lady after dinner, and among
      other things of the great christening yesterday at Mr. Rumbell's, and
      courtiers and pomp that was there, which I wonder at, I went away up and
      down into all the churches almost between that place and my house, and so
      home. And then came my brother Tom, and staid and talked with me, and I
      hope he will do very well and get money. So to supper and to bed. This
      morning as I was in bed, one brings me T. Trice's answer to my bill in
      chancery from Mr. Smallwood, which I am glad to see, though I am afraid it
      will do me hurt.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. To Whitehall, and thence to the Rhenish wine-house, where I met Mons.
      Eschar and there took leave of him, he being to go this night to the Downs
      towards Portugall, and so spent all the morning. At noon to dinner to the
      Wardrobe; where my Lady Wright was, who did talk much upon the worth and
      the desert of gallantry; and that there was none fit to be courtiers, but
      such as have been abroad and know fashions. Which I endeavoured to oppose;
      and was troubled to hear her talk so, though she be a very wise and
      discreet lady in other things. From thence Mr. Moore and I to the Temple
      about my law business with my cozen Turner, and there we read over T.
      Trice's answer to my bill and advised thereupon what to do in his absence,
      he being to go out of town to-morrow. Thence he and I to Mr. Walpole, my
      attorney, whom I never saw before, and we all to an alehouse hard by, and
      there we talked of our business, and he put me into great hopes, but he is
      but a young man, and so I do not depend so much upon his encouragement. So
      by coach home, and to supper, and to bed, having staid up till 12 at night
      writing letters to my Lord Sandwich and all my friends with him at sea, to
      send to-morrow by Mons. Eschar, who goes tomorrow post to the Downs to go
      along with the fleet to Portugall.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. To Whitehall, and there finding Mons. Eschar to be gone, I sent my
      letters by a porter to the posthouse in Southwark to be sent by despatch
      to the Downs. So to dinner to my Lord Crew's by coach, and in my way had a
      stop of above an hour and a half, which is a great trouble this Parliament
      time, but it cannot be helped. However I got thither before my Lord come
      from the House, and so dined with him, and dinner done, home to the
      office, and there sat late and so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. My brother Tom and then Mr. Moore came to me this morning, and staid
      a while with me, and then I went out, and in my way met with Mr. Howell
      the Turner, who invited me to dine this day at Mr. Rawlinson's with some
      friends of his, officers of the Towre, at a venison pasty, which I
      promised him, and so I went to the Old Bayly, and there staid and drank
      with him, who told me the whole story how Pegg Kite has married herself to
      a weaver, an ugly fellow, to her undoing, of which I am glad that I have
      nothing to do in it. From thence home and put on my velvet coat, and so to
      the Mitre to dinner according to my promise this morning, but going up
      into the room I found at least 12 or more persons, and knew not the face
      of any of them, so I went down again, and though I met Mr. Yong the
      upholster yet I would not be persuaded to stay, but went away and walked
      to the Exchequer, and up and down, and was very hungry, and from thence
      home, when I understand Mr. Howell was come for me to go thither, but I am
      glad I was not at home, and my wife was gone out by coach to Clerkenwell
      to see Mrs. Margaret Pen, who is at school there. So I went to see Sir W.
      Pen, who for this two or three days has not been well, and he and I after
      some talk took a coach and went to Moorfields, and there walked, though it
      was very cold, an hour or two, and went into an alehouse, and there I
      drank some ale and eat some bread and cheese, but he would not eat a bit,
      and so being very merry we went home again. He to his lodgings and I by
      promise to Sir W. Batten's, where he and my lady have gone out of town,
      and so Mrs. Martha was at home alone, and Mrs. Moore and there I supped
      upon some good things left of yesterday's dinner there, where dined a
      great deal of company&mdash;Sir R. Browne and others&mdash;and by and by
      comes in Captain Cox who promised to be here with me, but he staid very
      late, and had been drinking somewhere and was very drunk, and so very
      capricious, which I was troubled to see in a man that I took for a very
      wise and wary man. So I home and left him there, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. We lay long in bed, then up and made me ready, and by and by come
      Will Bowyer and Mr. Gregory, my old Exchequer friend, to see me, and I
      took them to the Dolphin and there did give them a good morning draft, and
      so parted, and invited them and all my old Exchequer acquaintance to come
      and dine with me there on Wednesday next. From thence to the Wardrobe and
      dined with my Lady, where her brother, Mr. John Crew, dined also, and a
      strange gentlewoman dined at the table as a servant of my Lady's; but I
      knew her not, and so I am afeard that poor Madamoiselle was gone, but I
      since understand that she is come as housekeeper to my Lady, and is a
      married woman. From thence to Westminster to my Lord's house to meet my
      Lord Privy Seal, who appointed to seal there this afternoon, but by and by
      word is brought that he is come to Whitehall, and so we are fain to go
      thither to him, and there we staid to seal till it was so late that though
      I got leave to go away before he had done, yet the office was done before
      I could get thither, and so to Sir W. Pen's, and there sat and talked and
      drank with him, and so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. At home all the morning, being by the cold weather, which for these
      two days has been frost, in some pain in my bladder. Dined at home and
      then with my wife to the Paynter's, and there she sat the first time to be
      drawn, while I all the while stood looking on a pretty lady's picture,
      whose face did please me extremely. At last, he having done, I found that
      the dead colour of my wife is good, above what I expected, which pleased
      me exceedingly. So home and to the office about some special business,
      where Sir Williams both were, and from thence with them to the Steelyard,
      where my Lady Batten and others came to us, and there we drank and had
      musique and Captain Cox's company, and he paid all, and so late back again
      home by coach, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. All the morning at home lying in bed with my wife till 11 o'clock.
      Such a habit we have got this winter of lying long abed. Dined at home,
      and in the afternoon to the office. There sat late, and so home and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). To church in the morning, where our young Reader begun
      the first day to read. Sir W. Pen dined with me and we were merry. Again
      to church and so home, and all alone read till bedtime, and so to prayers
      and to bed. I have been troubled this day about a difference between my
      wife and her maid Nell, who is a simple slut, and I am afeard we shall
      find her a cross-grained wench. I am now full of study about writing
      something about our making of strangers strike to us at sea; and so am
      altogether reading Selden and Grotius, and such other authors to that
      purpose.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up by five o'clock this morning by candlelight (which I have not
      done for many a day), being called upon by one Mr. Bollen by appointment,
      who has business to be done with my Lord Privy Seal this morning, and so
      by coach, calling Mr. Moore at the Wardrobe, to Chelsy, and there did get
      my Lord to seal it. And so back again to Westminster Hall, and thence to
      my Lord Sandwich's lodging, where I met my wife (who had been to see Mrs.
      Hunt who was brought to bed the other day of a boy), and got a joint of
      meat thither from the Cook's, and she and I and Sarah dined together, and
      after dinner to the Opera, where there was a new play ("Cutter of Coleman
      Street"),
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Cutter, an old word for a rough swaggerer: hence the title of
     Cowley's play.  It was originally called "The Guardian," when acted
     before Prince Charles at Trinity College, Cambridge, on March 12th,
     1641.]
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    <p>
      made in the year 1658, with reflections much upon the late times; and it
      being the first time, the pay was doubled, and so to save money, my wife
      and I went up into the gallery, and there sat and saw very well; and a
      very good play it is. It seems of Cowly's making. From thence by coach
      home, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and to the Paynter's to see how he went forward in our picture.
      So back again to dinner at home, and then was sent for to the Privy Seal,
      whither I was forced to go and stay so long and late that I was much
      vexed. At last we got all done, and then made haste to the office, where
      they were sat, and there we sat late, and so home to supper and to Selden,
      "Mare Clausum," and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. At the office upon business extraordinary all the morning, then to
      my Lady Sandwich's to dinner, whither my wife, who had been at the
      painter's, came to me, and there dined, and there I left her, and to the
      Temple my brother and I to see Mrs. Turner, who begins to be better, and
      so back to my Lady's, where much made of, and so home to my study till
      bed-time, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. This morning my wife dressed herself fine to go to the christening
      of Mrs. Hunt's child, and so she and I in the way in the morning went to
      the Paynter s, and there she sat till noon, and I all the while looking
      over great variety of good prints which he had, and by and by comes my boy
      to tell us that Mrs. Hunt has been at our house to tell us that the
      christening is not till Saturday next. So after the Paynter had done I did
      like the picture pretty well, and my wife and I went by coach home, but in
      the way I took occasion to fall out with my wife very highly about her
      ribbands being ill matched and of two colours, and to very high words, so
      that, like a passionate fool, I did call her whore, for which I was
      afterwards sorry. But I set her down at home, and went myself by
      appointment to the Dolphin, where Sir W. Warren did give us all a good
      dinner, and that being done, to the office, and there sat late, and so
      home.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Lay long in bed, and then up, and so to the Wardrobe to dinner, and
      from thence out with Mr. Moore towards my house, and in our way met with
      Mr. Swan (my old acquaintance), and we to a tavern, where we had enough of
      his old simple religious talk, and he is still a coxcomb in these things
      as he ever was, and tells me he is setting out a book called "The
      unlawfull use of lawfull things;" but a very simple fellow he is, and so I
      leave him. So we drank and at last parted, and Mr. Moore and I into
      Cornhill, it being dark night, and in the street and on the Exchange
      discoursed about Dominion of the Sea, wherein I am lately so much
      concerned, and so I home and sat late up reading of Mr. Selden, and so to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. To White Hall to the Privy Seal, where my Lord Privy Seal did tell
      us he could seal no more this month, for that he goes thirty miles out of
      town to keep his Christmas. At which I was glad, but only afeard lest any
      thing of the King's should force us to go after him to get a seal in the
      country. Thence to Westminster Hall (having by the way drank with Mrs.
      Sarah and Mrs. Betty at my Lord's lodgings), and thence taken by some
      Exchequer men to the Dogg, where, being St. Thomas's day, by custom they
      have a general meeting at dinner. There I was and all very merry, and
      there I spoke to Mr. Falconberge to look whether he could out of Domesday
      Book, give me any thing concerning the sea, and the dominion thereof;
      which he says he will look after. Thence taking leave to my brother's, and
      there by appointment met with Prior of Brampton who had money to pay me,
      but desiring some advice he stays till Monday. So by coach home to the
      office, where I was vexed to see Sir Williams both seem to think so much
      that I should be a little out of the way, saying that without their
      Register they were not a Committee, which I took in some dudgeon, and see
      clearly that I must keep myself at a little distance with them and not
      crouch, or else I shall never keep myself up even with them. So home and
      wrote letters by the post. This evening my wife come home from christening
      Mrs. Hunt's son, his name John, and a merchant in Mark Lane came along
      with her, that was her partner. So after my business was done, and read
      something in Mr. Selden, I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. To church in the morning, where the Reader made a boyish young
      sermon. Home to dinner, and there I took occasion, from the blacknesse of
      the meat as it came out of the pot, to fall out with my wife and my maid
      for their sluttery, and so left the table, and went up to read in Mr.
      Selden till church time, and then my wife and I to church, and there in
      the pew, with the rest of the company, was Captain Holmes, in his
      gold-laced suit, at which I was troubled because of the old business which
      he attempted upon my wife. So with my mind troubled I sat still, but by
      and by I took occasion from the rain now holding up (it raining when we
      came into the church) to put my wife in mind of going to the christening
      (which she was invited to) of N. Osborne's child, which she did, and so
      went out of the pew, and my mind was eased. So home after sermon and there
      came by appointment Dr. T. Pepys, Will. Joyce, and my brother Tom, and
      supped with me, and very merry they were, and I seemed to be, but I was
      not pleased at all with their company. So they being gone we went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Early up and by coach (before daylight) to the Wardrobe, and took up
      Mr. Moore, and he and I to Chelsy to my Lord Privy Seal, and there sealed
      some things, he being to go out of town for all Christmas to-morrow. So
      back again to Westminster, and from thence by water to the Treasury
      Office, where I found Sir W. Pen paying off the Sophia and Griffen, and
      there I staid with him till noon, and having sent for some collar of beef
      and a mince pie, we eat and drank, and so I left him there and to my
      brother's by appointment to meet Prior, but he came not, so I went and saw
      Mrs. Turner who continues weak, and by and by word was brought me that
      Prior's man was come to Tom's, and so I went and told out L128 which I am
      to receive of him, but Prior not coming I went away and left the money by
      his desire with my brother all night, and they to come to me to-morrow
      morning. So I took coach, and lighting at my bookseller's in Paul's
      Churchyard, I met with Mr. Crumlum and the second master of Paul's School,
      and thence I took them to the Starr, and there we sat and talked, and I
      had great pleasure in their company, and very glad I was of meeting him so
      accidentally, I having omitted too long to go to see him. Here in
      discourse of books I did offer to give the school what books he would
      choose of L5. So we parted, and I home, and to Mr. Selden, and then to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Home all the morning and dined at home, and in the afternoon to the
      office. So home.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. In the morning to church, where at the door of our pew I was fain to
      stay, because that the sexton had not opened the door. A good sermon of
      Mr. Mills. Dined at home all alone, and taking occasion from some fault in
      the meat to complain of my maid's sluttery, my wife and I fell out, and I
      up to my chamber in a discontent. After dinner my wife comes up to me and
      all friends again, and she and I to walk upon the leads, and there Sir W.
      Pen called us, and we went to his house and supped with him, but before
      supper Captain Cock came to us half drunk, and began to talk, but Sir W.
      Pen knowing his humour and that there was no end of his talking, drinks
      four great glasses of wine to him, one after another, healths to the king,
      and by that means made him drunk, and so he went away, and so we sat down
      to supper, and were merry, and so after supper home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. This morning Sir W. Pen and I to the Treasury office, and there we
      paid off the Amity (Captain Stokes's ship that was at Guinny) and another
      ship, and so home, and after dinner Sir William came to me, and he and his
      son and Aaugliter, and I and my wife, by coach to Moorfields to walk; but
      it was most foul weather, and so we went into an alehouse and there eat
      some cakes and ale, and a washeallbowle
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               About the streets are singing."
                         &mdash;Wither's Christmas Carol.

     The old custom of carrying the wassail bowl from door to door, with
     songs and merriment, in Christmas week, is still observed in some of
     our rural districts.&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      woman and girl came to us and sung to us. And after all was done I called
      my boy (Wayneman) to us to eat some cake that was left, and the woman of
      the house told us that he had called for two cakes and a pot of ale for
      himself, at which I was angry, and am resolved to correct him for it. So
      home, and Sir W. Pen and his son and daughter to supper to me to a good
      turkey, and were merry at cards, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. In the morning to my Bookseller's to bespeak a Stephens's Thesaurus,
      for which I offer L4, to give to Paul's School; and from thence to Paul's
      Church; and there I heard Dr. Gunning preach a good sermon upon the day
      (being St. John's day), and did hear him tell a story, which he did
      persuade us to believe to be true, that St. John and the Virgin Mary did
      appear to Gregory, a Bishopp, at his prayer to be confirmed in the faith,
      which I did wonder to hear from him. Here I met with Mr. Crumlum (and told
      him of my endeavour to get Stephens's Thesaurus for the school), and so
      home, and after dinner comes Mr. Faulconberge to see me, and at his desire
      I sent over for his kinsman Mr. Knightly, the merchant, and so he came
      over and sat and drank with us, and at his request I went over with him,
      and there I sat till the evening, and till both Mr. Knightly and Mr.
      Faulconberge (for whom I sent my boy to get a coach to carry him to
      Westminster) were both drunk, and so home, but better wine I never drank
      in all my life. So home, and finding my wife gone to Sir W. Pen's, I went
      thither, and there I sat and played at cards and supped, and so home and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. At home all the morning; and in the afternoon all of us at the
      office, upon a letter from the Duke for the making up of a speedy estimate
      of all the debts of the Navy, which is put into good forwardness. I home
      and Sir W. Pen to my house, who with his children staid playing cards
      late, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). Long in bed with my wife, and though I had determined
      to go to dine with my wife at my Lady's, (chiefly to put off dining with
      Sir W. Pen to-day because Holmes dined there), yet I could not get a coach
      time enough to go thither, and so I dined at home, and my brother Tom with
      me, and then a coach came and I carried my wife to Westminster, and she
      went to see Mrs. Hunt, and I to the Abbey, and there meeting with Mr.
      Hooper, he took me in among the quire, and there I sang with them their
      service, and so that being done, I walked up and down till night for that
      Mr. Coventry was not come to Whitehall since dinner again. At last I went
      thither and he was come, and I spoke with him about some business of the
      office, and so took leave of him, and sent for my wife and the coach, and
      so to the Wardrobe and supped, and staid very long talking with my Lady,
      who seems to doat every day more and more upon us. So home and to prayers,
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. At the office about this estimate and so with my wife and Sir W. Pen
      to see our pictures, which do not much displease us, and so back again,
      and I staid at the Mitre, whither I had invited all my old acquaintance of
      the Exchequer to a good chine of beef, which with three barrels of oysters
      and three pullets, and plenty of wine and mirth, was our dinner, and there
      was about twelve of us, among others Mr. Bowyer, the old man, and Mr.
      Faulconberge, Shadwell, Taylor, Spicer, Woodruffe (who by reason of some
      friend that dined with him came to us after dinner), Servington, &amp;c.,
      and here I made them a foolish promise to give them one this day
      twelvemonth, and so for ever while I live, but I do not intend it. Mere I
      staid as long as I could keep them, and so home to Sir W. Pen, who with
      his children and my wife has been at a play to-day and saw "D'Ambois,"
      which I never saw. Here we staid late at supper and playing at cards, and
      so home and
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. My wife and I this morning to the Paynter's, and there she sat the
      last time, and I stood by and did tell him some little things to do, that
      now her picture I think will please me very well; and after her, her
      little black dogg sat in her lap; and was drawn, which made us very merry;
      so home to dinner, and so to the office; and there late finishing our
      estimate of the debts of the Navy to this day; and it come to near
      L374,000. So home, and after supper, and my barber had trimmed me, I sat
      down to end my journell for this year, and my condition at this time, by
      God's blessing, is thus: my health (only upon catching cold, which brings
      great pain in my back... as it used to be when I had the stone) is very
      good, and so my wife's in all respects: my servants, W. Hewer, Sarah,
      Nell, and Wayneman: my house at the Navy Office. I suppose myself to be
      worth about L500 clear in the world, and my goods of my house my own, and
      what is coming to me from Brampton, when my father dies, which God defer.
      But, by my uncle's death, the whole care and trouble of all, and settling
      of all lies upon me, which is very great, because of law-suits, especially
      that with T. Trice, about the interest of L200, which will, I hope, be
      ended soon. My chiefest thought is now to get a good wife for Tom, there
      being one offered by the Joyces, a cozen of theirs, worth L200 in ready
      money. I am also upon writing a little treatise to present to the Duke,
      about our privilege in the seas, as to other nations striking their flags
      to us. But my greatest trouble is, that I have for this last half year
      been a very great spendthrift in all manner of respects, that I am afeard
      to cast up my accounts, though I hope I am worth what I say above. But I
      will cast them up very shortly. I have newly taken a solemn oath about
      abstaining from plays and wine, which I am resolved to keep according to
      the letter of the oath which I keep by me. The fleet hath been ready to
      sail for Portugall, but hath lacked wind this fortnight, and by that means
      my Lord is forced to keep at sea all this winter, till he brings home the
      Queen, which is the expectation of all now, and the greatest matter of
      publique talk.
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     A most tedious, unreasonable, and impertinent sermon
     A play not very good, though commended much
     A great baboon, but so much like a man in most things
     A little while since a very likely man to live as any I knew
     A lady spit backward upon me by a mistake
     After dinner my wife comes up to me and all friends again
     Ambassador&mdash;that he is an honest man sent to lie abroad
     And so by coach, though hard to get it, being rainy, home
     As all things else did not come up to my expectations
     Begun to smell, and so I caused it to be set forth (corpse)
     Being sure never to see the like again in this world
     Believe that England and France were once the same continent
     Bleeding behind by leeches will cure him
     But she loves not that I should speak of Mrs. Pierce
     By chewing of tobacco is become very fat and sallow
     Cannot bring myself to mind my business
     Chocolate was introduced into England about the year 1652
     Comely black woman.&mdash;[The old expression for a brunette.]
     Coming to lay out a great deal of money in clothes for my wife
     Cruel custom of throwing at cocks on Shrove Tuesday
     Day I first begun to go forth in my coat and sword
     Did extremely beat him, and though it did trouble me to do it
     Did trouble me very much to be at charge to no purpose
     Difference there will be between my father and mother about it
     Discontented that my wife do not go neater now she has two maids
     Dominion of the Sea
     Durst not take notice of her, her husband being there
     Eat of the best cold meats that ever I eat on in all my life
     Exclaiming against men's wearing their hats on in the church
     Faced white coat, made of one of my wife's pettycoates
     Family being all in mourning, doing him the greatest honour
     Fear I shall not be able to wipe my hands of him again
     Fell to dancing, the first time that ever I did in my life
     Finding my wife not sick, but yet out of order
     Foolery to take too much notice of such things
     Found my brother John at eight o'clock in bed, which vexed me
     Found him not so ill as I thought that he had been ill
     Frogs and many insects do often fall from the sky, ready formed
     From some fault in the meat to complain of my maid's sluttery
     Gamester's life, which I see is very miserable, and poor
     Get his lady to trust herself with him into the tavern
     God! what an age is this, and what a world is this
     Good God! how these ignorant people did cry her up for it!
     Good wine, and anchovies, and pickled oysters (for breakfast)
     Greedy to see the will, but did not ask to see it till to-morrow
     Have been so long absent that I am ashamed to go
     His company ever wearys me
     I could not forbear to love her exceedingly
     I took occasion to be angry with him
     I had the opportunity of kissing Mrs. Rebecca very often
     I would fain have stolen a pretty dog that followed me
     I broke wind and so came to some ease
     I was as merry as I could counterfeit myself to be
     I went in and kissed them, demanding it as a fee due
     In men's clothes, and had the best legs that ever I saw
     Inconvenience that do attend the increase of a man's fortune
     Instructed by Shakespeare himself
     Jealousy of him and an ugly wench that lived there lately
     Justice of God in punishing men for the sins of their ancestors
     King, Duke and Duchess, and Madame Palmer, were
     Lady Batten how she was such a man's whore
     Lady Batten to give me a spoonful of honey for my cold
     Lately too much given to seeing of plays, and expense
     Lay with her to-night, which I have not done these eight(days)
     Lewdness and beggary of the Court
     Like a passionate fool, I did call her whore
     Look askew upon my wife, because my wife do not buckle to them
     Made a lazy sermon, like a Presbyterian
     Man cannot live without playing the knave and dissimulation
     My head was not well with the wine that I drank to-day
     My great expense at the Coronacion
     My wife and I fell out
     None will sell us any thing without our personal security given
     Oliver Cromwell as his ensign
     Quakers do still continue, and rather grow than lessen
     Sat before Mrs. Palmer, the King's mistress, and filled my eyes
     Seemed much glad of that it was no more
     She hath got her teeth new done by La Roche
     She would not let him come to bed to her out of jealousy
     She is a very good companion as long as she is well
     Sir W. Pen was so fuddled that we could not try him to play
     So the children and I rose and dined by ourselves
     So home and to bed, where my wife had not lain a great while
     So much wine, that I was even almost foxed
     Sorry in some respect, glad in my expectations in another respec
     Still in discontent with my wife, to bed, and rose so this morn
     Strange the folly of men to lay and lose so much money
     That I might not seem to be afeared
     The Lords taxed themselves for the poor&mdash;an earl, s.
     The unlawfull use of lawfull things
     The barber came to trim me and wash me
     "The Alchymist,"&mdash;[Comedy by Ben Jonson
     The monkey loose, which did anger me, and so I did strike her
     This week made a vow to myself to drink no wine this week
     This day churched, her month of childbed being out
     Those absent from prayers were to pay a forfeit
     To be so much in love of plays
     Took occasion to fall out with my wife very highly
     Took physique, and it did work very well
     Tory&mdash;The term was not used politically until about 1679
     Troubled to see my father so much decay of a suddain
     Vices of the Court, and how the pox is so common there
     Was kissing my wife, which I did not like
     We do naturally all love the Spanish, and hate the French
     We are to go to law never to revenge, but only to repayre
     We had a good surloyne of rost beefe
     What they all, through profit or fear, did promise
     What people will do tomorrow
     Who seems so inquisitive when my house will be made an end of
     Who we found ill still, but he do make very much of it
     Woman with a rod in her hand keeping time to the musique
     Wronged by my over great expectations
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      JANUARY 1661-1662
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    <p>
      January 1st. Waking this morning out of my sleep on a sudden, I did with
      my elbow hit my wife a great blow over her face and nose, which waked her
      with pain, at which I was sorry, and to sleep again. Up and went forth
      with Sir W. Pen by coach towards Westminster, and in my way seeing that
      the "Spanish Curate" was acted today, I light and let him go alone, and I
      home again and sent to young Mr. Pen and his sister to go anon with my
      wife and I to the Theatre. That done, Mr. W. Pen came to me and he and I
      walked out, and to the Stacioner's, and looked over some pictures and
      traps for my house, and so home again to dinner, and by and by came the
      two young Pens, and after we had eat a barrel of oysters we went by coach
      to the play, and there saw it well acted, and a good play it is, only
      Diego the Sexton did overdo his part too much. From thence home, and they
      sat with us till late at night at cards very merry, but the jest was Mr.
      W. Pen had left his sword in the coach, and so my boy and he run out after
      the coach, and by very great chance did at the Exchange meet with the
      coach and got his sword again. So to bed.
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    <p>
      2nd. An invitation sent us before we were up from my Lady Sandwich's, to
      come and dine with her: so at the office all the morning, and at noon
      thither to dinner, where there was a good and great dinner, and the
      company, Mr. William Montagu and his Lady (but she seemed so far from the
      beauty that I expected her from my Lady's talk to be, that it put me into
      an ill humour all the day, to find my expectation so lost), Mr. Rurttball
      and Townsend and their wives. After dinner, borne by water, and so to the
      office till night, and then I went forth, by appointment, to meet with Mr.
      Grant, who promised to meet me at the Coffee-house to bring me acquainted
      with Cooper the great limner in little, but they deceived me, and so I
      went home, and there sat at my lute and singing till almost twelve at
      night, and so to bed. Sir Richd. Fanshaw is come suddenly from Portugall,
      but nobody knows what his business is.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Lay long in bed, and so up and abroad to several places about petty
      businesses. Among others to Tom's, who I find great hopes of that he will
      do well, which I am glad of, and am not now so hasty to get a wife for him
      as I was before. So to dinner to my Lord Crew's with him and his Lady, and
      after dinner to Faithorne's, and there bought some pictures of him; and
      while I was there, comes by the King's life-guard, he being gone to
      Lincoln's Inn this afternoon to see the Revells there; there being,
      according to an old custom, a prince and all his nobles, and other matters
      of sport and charge. So home, and up to my chamber to look over my papers
      and other things, my mind being much troubled for these four or five days
      because of my present great expense, and will be so till I cast up and see
      how my estate stands, and that I am loth to do for fear I have spent too
      much, and delay it the rather that I may pay for my pictures and my
      wife's, and the book that I am buying for Paul's School before I do cast
      up my accompts.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. At home most of the morning hanging up pictures, and seeing how my
      pewter sconces that I have bought will become my stayres and entry, and
      then with my wife by water to Westminster, whither she to her father's and
      I to Westminster Hall, and there walked a turn or two with Mr. Chetwin
      (who had a dog challenged of him by another man that said it was his, but
      Mr. Chetwin called the dog, and the dog at last would follow him, and not
      his old master, and so Chetwin got the dog) and W. Symons, and thence to
      my wife, who met me at my Lord's lodgings, and she and I and old East to
      Wilkinson's to dinner, where we had some rost beef and a mutton pie, and a
      mince-pie, but none of them pleased me. After dinner by coach my wife and
      I home, and I to the office, and there till late, and then I and my wife
      to Sir W. Pen's to cards and supper, and were merry, and much
      correspondence there has been between our two families all this Christmas.
      So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). Left my wife in bed not well... and I to church, and so
      home to dinner, and dined alone upon some marrow bones, and had a fine
      piece of rost beef, but being alone I eat none. So after dinner comes in
      my brother Tom, and he tells me how he hath seen the father and mother of
      the girl which my cozen Joyces would have him to have for a wife, and they
      are much for it, but we are in a great quandary what to do therein, L200
      being but a little money; and I hope, if he continues as he begins, he may
      look out for one with more. To church, and before sermon there was a long
      psalm, and half another sung out while the Sexton gathered what the church
      would give him for this last year. I gave him 3s., and have the last week
      given the Clerk 2s., which I set down that I may know what to do the next
      year, if it please the Lord that I live so long; but the jest was, the
      Clerk begins the 25th psalm, which hath a proper tune to it, and then the
      116th, which cannot be sung with that tune, which seemed very ridiculous.
      After church to Sir W. Batten's, where on purpose I have not been this
      fortnight, and I am resolved to keep myself more reserved to avoyd the
      contempt which otherwise I must fall into, and so home and six and talked
      and supped with my wife, and so up to prayers and to bed, having wrote a
      letter this night to Sir J. Mennes in the Downs for his opinion in the
      business of striking of flags.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Twelfth day). This morning I sent my lute to the Paynter's, and there
      I staid with him all the morning to see him paint the neck of my lute in
      my picture, which I was not pleased with after it was done. Thence to
      dinner to Sir W. Pen's, it being a solemn feast day with him, his wedding
      day, and we had, besides a good chine of beef and other good cheer,
      eighteen mince pies in a dish, the number of the years that he hath been
      married, where Sir W. Batten and his Lady, and daughter was, and Colonel
      Treswell and Major Holmes, who I perceive would fain get to be free and
      friends with my wife, but I shall prevent it, and she herself hath also a
      defyance against him. After dinner they set in to drinking, so that I
      would stay no longer, but went away home, and Captain Cock, who was quite
      drunk, comes after me, and there sat awhile and so away, and anon I went
      again after the company was gone, and sat and played at cards with Sir W.
      Pen and his children, and so after supper home, and there I hear that my
      man Gull was gone to bed, and upon enquiry I hear that he did vomit before
      he went to bed, and complained his head ached, and thereupon though he was
      asleep I sent for him out of his bed, and he rose and came up to me, and I
      appeared very angry and did tax him with being drunk, and he told me that
      he had been with Mr. Southerne and Homewood at the Dolphin, and drank a
      quart of sack, but that his head did ache before he went out. But I do
      believe he has drunk too much, and so I did threaten him to bid his uncle
      dispose of him some other way, and sent him down to bed and do resolve to
      continue to be angry with him. So to bed to my wife, and told her what had
      passed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Long in bed, and then rose and went along with Sir W. Pen on foot to
      Stepny to Mrs. Chappell's (who has the pretty boy to her son), and there
      met my wife and Sir W. Pen's children all, and Mrs. Poole and her boy, and
      there dined and' were very merry, and home again by coach and so to the
      office. In the afternoon and at night to Sir W. Pen's, there supped and
      played at cards with them and were merry, the children being to go all
      away to school again to-morrow. Thence home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. I rose and went to Westminster Hall, and there walked up and down
      upon several businesses, and among others I met with Sir W. Pen, who told
      me that he had this morning heard Sir G. Carteret extremely angry against
      my man Will that he is every other day with the Commissioners of
      Parliament at Westminster, and that his uncle was a rogue, and that he did
      tell his uncle every thing that passes at the office, and Sir William,
      though he loves the lad, did advise me to part with him, which did with
      this surprise mightily trouble me, though I was already angry with him,
      and so to the Wardrobe by water, and all the way did examine Will about
      the business, but did not tell him upon what score, but I find that the
      poor lad do suspect something. To dinner with my Lady, and after dinner
      talked long with her, and so home, and to Sir W. Batten's, and sat and
      talked with him, and so home troubled in mind, and so up to my study and
      read the two treaties before Mr. Selden's "Mare Clausum," and so to bed.
      This night come about L100 from Brampton by carrier to me, in holsters
      from my father, which made me laugh.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. At the office all the morning private with Sir G. Carteret (who I
      expected something from about yesterday's business, but he said nothing),
      Sir W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen, about drawing; up an answer to several
      demands of my Lord Treasurer, and late at it till 2 o'clock. Then to
      dinner, and my wife to Sir W. Pen's, and so to the office again and sat
      till late; and so home, where I found Mr. Armiger below talking with my
      wife, but being offended with him for his leaving of my brother Tom I
      shewed him no countenance, but did take notice of it to him plainly, and I
      perceive he was troubled at it, but I am glad I told him of it. Then (when
      he was gone) up to write several letters by the post, and so to set my
      papers and things in order, and to bed. This morning we agreed upon some
      things to answer to the Duke about the practice of striking of the flags,
      which will now put me upon finishing my resolution of writing something
      upon the subject.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. To White Hall, and there spoke with Sir Paul Neale' about a
      mathematical request of my Lord's to him, which I did deliver to him, and
      he promised to employ somebody to answer it, something about observation
      of the moon and stars, but what I did not mind. Here I met with Mr. Moore,
      who tells me that an injuncon is granted in Chancery against T. Trice, at
      which I was very glad, being before in some trouble for it. With him to
      Westminster Hall, where I walked till noon talking with one or other, and
      so to the Wardrobe to dinner, where tired with Mr. Pickering's company I
      returned to Westminster, by appointment, to meet my wife at Mrs. Hunt's to
      gossip with her, which we did alone, and were very merry, and did give her
      a cup and spoon for my wife's god-child, and so home by coach, and I late
      reading in my chamber and then to bed, my wife being angry that I keep the
      house so late up.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. My brother Tom came to me, and he and I to Mr. Turner the Draper's,
      and paid L15 to him for cloth owing to him by my father for his mourning
      for my uncle, and so to his house, and there invited all the Honiwood's to
      dinner on Monday next. So to the Exchange, and there all the news is of
      the French and Dutch joyning against us; but I do not think it yet true.
      So home to dinner, and in the afternoon to the office, and so to Sir W.
      Batten's, where in discourse I heard the custom of the election of the
      Dukes of Genoa, who for two years are every day attended in the greatest
      state; and four or five hundred men always waiting upon him as a king; and
      when the two years are out, and another is chose, a messenger is, sent to
      him, who stands at the bottom of the stairs, and he at the top, and says,
      "Va. Illustrissima Serenita sta finita, et puede andar en casa."&mdash;"Your
      serenity is now ended; and now you may be going home," and so claps on his
      hat. And the old Duke (having by custom sent his goods home before), walks
      away, it may be but with one man at his heels; and the new one brought
      immediately in his room, in the greatest state in the world. Another
      account was told us, how in the Dukedom of Ragusa, in the Adriatique (a
      State that is little, but more ancient, they say, than Venice, and is
      called the mother of Venice, and the Turks lie round about it), that they
      change all the officers of their guard, for fear of conspiracy, every
      twenty-four hours, so that nobody knows who shall be captain of the guard
      to-night; but two men come to a man, and lay hold of him as a prisoner,
      and carry him to the place; and there he hath the keys of the garrison
      given him, and he presently issues his orders for that night's watch: and
      so always from night to night. Sir Win. Rider told the first of his own
      knowledge; and both he and Sir W. Batten confirm the last. Hence home and
      to read, and so to bed, but very late again.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Lord's day). To church, where a stranger made a very good sermon. At
      noon Sir W. Pen and my good friend Dean Fuller, by appointment, and my
      wife's brother by chance, dined with me very merry and handsomely. After
      dinner the Dean, my wife and I by Sir W. Pen's coach left us, he to
      Whitehall, and my wife and I to visit Mrs. Pierce and thence Mrs. Turner,
      who continues very ill still, and The. is also fallen sick, which do
      trouble me for the poor mother. So home and to read, I being troubled to
      hear my wife rate though not without cause at her mayd Nell, who is a lazy
      slut. So to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. All the morning at home, and Mr. Berkenshaw (whom I have not seen a
      great while, came to see me), who staid with me a great while talking of
      musique, and I am resolved to begin to learn of him to compose, and to
      begin to-morrow, he giving of me so great hopes that I shall soon do it.
      Before twelve o'clock comes, by appointment, Mr. Peter and the Dean, and
      Collonel Noniwood, brothers, to dine with me; but so soon that I was
      troubled at it. But, however, I entertained them with talk and oysters
      till one o'clock, and then we sat down to dinner, not staying for my uncle
      and aunt Wight, at which I was troubled, but they came by and by, and so
      we dined very merry, at least I seemed so, but the dinner does not please
      me, and less the Dean and Collonel, whom I found to be pitiful sorry
      gentlemen, though good-natured, but Mr. Peter above them both, who after
      dinner did show us the experiment (which I had heard talk of) of the
      chymicall glasses, which break all to dust by breaking off a little small
      end; which is a great mystery to me. They being gone, my aunt Wight and my
      wife and I to cards, she teaching of us how to play at gleeke, which is a
      pretty game; but I have not my head so free as to be troubled with it. By
      and by comes my uncle Wight back, and so to supper and talk, and then
      again to cards, when my wife and I beat them two games and they us one,
      and so good night and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. All the morning at home, Mr. Berkenshaw by appointment yesterday
      coming to me, and begun composition of musique, and he being gone I to
      settle my papers and things in my chamber, and so after dinner in the
      afternoon to the office, and thence to my chamber about several businesses
      of the office and my own, and then to supper and to bed. This day my brave
      vellum covers to keep pictures in, come in, which pleases me very much.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. This morning Mr. Berkenshaw came again, and after he had examined me
      and taught me something in my work, he and I went to breakfast in my
      chamber upon a collar of brawn, and after we had eaten, asked me whether
      we had not committed a fault in eating to-day; telling me that it is a
      fast day ordered by the Parliament, to pray for more seasonable weather;
      it having hitherto been summer weather, that it is, both as to warmth and
      every other thing, just as if it were the middle of May or June, which do
      threaten a plague (as all men think) to follow, for so it was almost the
      last winter; and the whole year after hath been a very sickly time to this
      day. I did not stir out of my house all day, but conned my musique, and at
      night after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Towards Cheapside; and in Paul's Churchyard saw the funeral of my
      Lord Cornwallis, late Steward of the King's House, a bold profane talking
      man, go by, and thence I to the Paynter's, and there paid him L6 for the
      two pictures, and 36s. for the two frames. From thence home, and Mr.
      Holliard and my brother Tom dined with me, and he did give me good advice
      about my health. In the afternoon at the office, and at night to Sir W.
      Batten, and there saw him and Captain Cock and Stokes play at cards, and
      afterwards supped with them. Stokes told us, that notwithstanding the
      country of Gambo is so unhealthy, yet the people of the place live very
      long, so as the present king there is 150 years old, which they count by
      rains: because every year it rains continually four months together. He
      also told us, that the kings there have above 100 wives a-piece, and
      offered him the choice of any of his wives to lie with, and so he did
      Captain Holmes. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. To Westminster with Mr. Moore, and there, after several walks up and
      down to hear news, I met with Lany, the Frenchman, who told me that he had
      a letter from France last night, that tells him that my Lord Hinchingbroke
      is dead,&mdash;[proved false]&mdash;and that he did die yesterday was
      se'nnight, which do surprise me exceedingly (though we know that he hath
      been sick these two months), so I hardly ever was in my life; but being
      fearfull that my Lady should come to hear it too suddenly, he and I went
      up to my Lord Crew's, and there I dined with him, and after dinner we told
      him, and the whole family is much disturbed by it: so we consulted what to
      do to tell my Lady of it; and at last we thought of my going first to Mr.
      George Montagu's to hear whether he had any news of it, which I did, and
      there found all his house in great heaviness for the death of his son, Mr.
      George Montagu, who did go with our young gentlemen into France, and that
      they hear nothing at all of our young Lord; so believing that thence comes
      the mistake, I returned to my Lord Crew (in my way in the Piazza seeing a
      house on fire, and all the streets full of people to quench it), and told
      them of it, which they are much glad of, and conclude, and so I hope, that
      my Lord is well; and so I went to my Lady Sandwich, and told her all, and
      after much talk I parted thence with my wife, who had been there all the
      day, and so home to my musique, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. This morning I went to Dr. Williams, and there he told me how T.
      Trice had spoke to him about getting me to meet that our difference might
      be made up between us by ourselves, which I am glad of, and have appointed
      Monday next to be the day. Thence to the Wardrobe, and there hearing it
      would be late before they went to dinner, I went and spent some time in
      Paul's Churchyard among some books, and then returned thither, and there
      dined with my Lady and Sir H. Wright and his lady, all glad of yesterday's
      mistake, and after dinner to the office, and then home and wrote letters
      by the post to my father, and by and by comes Mr. Moore to give me an
      account how Mr. Montagu was gone away of a sudden with the fleet, in such
      haste that he hath left behind some servants, and many things of
      consequence; and among others, my Lord's commission for Embassador.
      Whereupon he and I took coach, and to White Hall to my Lord's lodgings, to
      have spoke with Mr. Ralph Montagu, his brother (and here we staid talking
      with Sarah and the old man); but by and by hearing that he was in Covent
      Garden, we went thither: and at my Lady Harvy's, his sister, I spoke with
      him, and he tells me that the commission is not left behind. And so I went
      thence by the same coach (setting down Mr. Moore) home, and after having
      wrote a letter to my Lord at 12 o'clock at night by post I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Lord's day). To church in the morning, where Mr. Mills preached upon
      Christ's being offered up for our sins, and there proving the equity with
      what justice God would lay our sins upon his Son, he did make such a
      sermon (among other things pleading, from God's universal sovereignty over
      all his creatures, the power he has of commanding what he would of his Son
      by the same rule as that he might have made us all, and the whole world
      from the beginning to have been in hell, arguing from the power the potter
      has over his clay), that I could have wished he had let it alone; and
      speaking again, the Father is now so satisfied by our security for our
      debt, that we might say at the last day as many of us as have interest in
      Christ's death: Lord, we owe thee nothing, our debt is paid. We are not
      beholden to, thee for anything, for thy debt is paid to thee to the full;
      which methinks were very bold words. Home to dinner, and then my wife and
      I on foot to see Mrs. Turner, who continues still sick, and thence into
      the Old Bayly by appointment to speak with Mrs. Norbury who lies at (it
      falls out) next door to my uncle Fenner's; but as God would have it, we
      having no desire to be seen by his people, he having lately married a
      midwife that is old and ugly, and that hath already brought home to him a
      daughter and three children, we were let in at a back door. And here she
      offered me the refusall of some lands of her's at Brampton, if I have a
      mind to buy, which I answered her I was not at present provided to do. She
      took occasion to talk of her sister Wight's making much of the Wights, who
      for namesake only my uncle do shew great kindness to, so I fear may do us
      that are nearer to him a great deal of wrong, if he should die without
      children, which I am sorry for. Thence to my uncle Wight's, and there we
      supped and were merry, though my uncle hath lately lost 200 or 300 at sea,
      and I am troubled to hear that the Turks do take more and more of our
      ships in the Straights, and that our merchants here in London do daily
      break, and are still likely to do so. So home, and I put in at Sir W.
      Batten's, where Major Holmes was, and in our discourse and drinking I did
      give Sir J. Mennes' health, which he swore he would not pledge, and called
      him knave and coward (upon the business of Holmes with the Swedish ship
      lately), which we all and I particularly did desire him to forbear, he
      being of our fraternity, which he took in great dudgeon, and I was vexed
      to hear him persist in calling him so, though I believe it to be true, but
      however he is to blame and I am troubled at it. So home and to prayers,
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. This morning Sir Win. Batten and Pen and I did begin the examining
      the Treasurer's accounts, the first time ever he had passed in the office,
      which is very long, and we were all at it till noon, and then to dinner,
      he providing a fine dinner for us, and we eat it at Sir W. Batten's, where
      we were very merry, there being at table the Treasurer and we three, Mr.
      Wayth, Ferrer, Smith, Turner, and Mr. Morrice, the wine cooper, who this
      day did divide the two butts, which we four did send for, of sherry from
      Cales, and mine was put into a hogshead, and the vessel filled up with
      four gallons of Malaga wine, but what it will stand us in I know not: but
      it is the first great quantity of wine that I ever bought. And after
      dinner to the office all the afternoon till late at night, and then home,
      where my aunt and uncle Wight and Mrs. Anne Wight came to play at cards
      (at gleek which she taught me and my wife last week) and so to supper, and
      then to cards and so good night. Then I to my practice of musique and then
      at 12 o'clock to bed. This day the workmen began to make me a sellar door
      out of the back yard, which will much please me.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. To the finishing of the Treasurer's accounts this morning, and then
      to dinner again, and were merry as yesterday, and so home, and then to the
      office till night, and then home to write letters, and to practise my
      composition of musique, and then to bed. We have heard nothing yet how far
      the fleet hath got toward Portugall, but the wind being changed again, we
      fear they are stopped, and may be beat back again to the coast of Ireland.
    </p>
    <p>
      22d. After musique-practice, to White Hall, and thence to Westminster, in
      my way calling at Mr. George Montagu's, to condole him the loss of his
      son, who was a fine gentleman, and it is no doubt a great discomfort to
      our two young gentlemen, his companions in France. After this discourse he
      told me, among other news, the great jealousys that are now in the
      Parliament House. The Lord Chancellor, it seems, taking occasion from this
      late plot to raise fears in the people, did project the raising of an army
      forthwith, besides the constant militia, thinking to make the Duke of York
      General thereof. But the House did, in very open terms, say, they were
      grown too wise to be fooled again into another army; and said they had
      found how that man that hath the command of an army is not beholden to any
      body to make him King. There are factions (private ones at Court) about
      Madam Palmer; but what it is about I know not. But it is something about
      the King's favour to her now that the Queen is coming. He told me, too,
      what sport the King and Court do make at Mr. Edward Montagu's leaving his
      things behind him. But the Chancellor (taking it a little more seriously)
      did openly say to my Lord Chamberlain, that had it been such a gallant as
      my Lord Mandeville his son, it might have; been taken as a frolique; but
      for him that would be thought a grave coxcomb, it was very strange. Thence
      to the Hall, where I heard the House had ordered all the King's murderers,
      that remain, to be executed, but Fleetwood and Downes. So to the Wardrobe
      and there dined, meeting my wife there, who went after dinner with my Lady
      to see Mr. George Montagu's lady, and I to have a meeting by appointment
      with Tho. Trice and Dr. Williams in order to a treating about the
      difference between us, but I find there is no hopes of ending it but by
      law, and so after a pint or two of wine we parted. So to the Wardrobe for
      my wife again, and so home, and after writing and doing some things to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. All the morning with Mr. Berkenshaw, and after him Mr. Moore in
      discourse of business, and in the afternoon by coach by invitacon to my
      uncle Fenner's, where I found his new wife, a pitiful, old, ugly, illbred
      woman in a hatt, a midwife. Here were many of his, and as many of her
      relations, sorry, mean people; and after choosing our gloves, we all went
      over to the Three Crane Tavern,' and though the best room in the house, in
      such a narrow dogg-hole we were crammed, and I believe we were near forty,
      that it made me loathe my company and victuals; and a sorry poor dinner it
      was too. After dinner, I took aside the two Joyce's, and took occasion to
      thank them for their kind thoughts for a wife for Tom: but that
      considering the possibility there is of my having no child, and what then
      I shall be able to leave him, I do think he may expect in that respect a
      wife with more money, and so desired them to think no more of it. Now the
      jest was Anthony mistakes and thinks that I did all this while encourage
      him (from my thoughts of favour to Tom) to pursue the match till Will
      Joyce tells him that he was mistaken. But how he takes it I know not, but
      I endeavoured to tell it him in the most respectful way that I could. This
      done with my wife by coach to my aunt Wight's, where I left her, and I to
      the office, and that being done to her again, and sat playing at cards
      after supper till 12 at night, and so by moonshine home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. This morning came my cozen Thos. Pepys the Executor, to speak with
      me, and I had much talk with him both about matters of money which my Lord
      Sandwich has of his and I am bond for, as also of my uncle Thomas, who I
      hear by him do stand upon very high terms. Thence to my painter's, and
      there I saw our pictures in the frames, which please me well. Thence to
      the Wardrobe, where very merry with my Lady, and after dinner I seat for
      the pictures thither, and mine is well liked; but she is much offended
      with my wife's, and I am of her opinion, that it do much wrong her; but I
      will have it altered. So home, in my way calling at Pope's Head alley, and
      there bought me a pair of scissars and a brass square. So home and to my
      study and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. At home and the office all the morning. Walking in the garden to
      give the gardener directions what to do this year (for I intend to have
      the garden handsome), Sir W. Pen came to me, and did break a business to
      me about removing his son from Oxford to Cambridge to some private
      college. I proposed Magdalene, but cannot name a tutor at present; but I
      shall think and write about it. Thence with him to the Trinity-house to
      dinner; where Sir Richard Brown (one of the clerks of the Council, and who
      is much concerned against Sir N. Crisp's project of making a great sasse
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A kind of weir with flood-gate, or a navigable sluice.  This
     project is mentioned by Evelyn, January 16th, 1661-62, and Lysons'
     "Environs" vol. iv., p.  392.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      in the King's lands about Deptford, to be a wett-dock to hold 200 sail of
      ships. But the ground, it seems, was long since given by the King to Sir
      Richard) was, and after the Trinity-house men had done their business, the
      master, Sir William Rider, came to bid us welcome; and so to dinner, where
      good cheer and discourse, but I eat a little too much beef, which made me
      sick, and so after dinner we went to the office, and there in a garden I
      went in the dark and vomited, whereby I did much ease my stomach. Thence
      to supper with my wife to Sir W. Pen's, his daughter being come home
      to-day, not being very well, and so while we were at supper comes Mr.
      Moore with letters from my Lord Sandwich, speaking of his lying still at
      Tangier, looking for the fleet; which, we hope, is now in a good way
      thither. So home to write letters by the post to-night, and then again to
      Sir W. Pen's to cards, where very merry, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's day). To church in the morning, and then home to dinner alone
      with my wife, and so both to church in the afternoon and home again, and
      so to read and talk with my wife, and to supper and to bed. It having been
      a very fine clear frosty day-God send us more of them!&mdash;for the warm
      weather all this winter makes us fear a sick summer. But thanks be to God,
      since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do
      mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in
      idle company.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. This morning, both Sir Williams and I by barge to Deptford-yard to
      give orders in businesses there; and called on several ships, also to give
      orders, and so to Woolwich, and there dined at Mr. Falconer's of victuals
      we carried ourselves, and one Mr. Dekins, the father of my Morena, of whom
      we have lately bought some hemp. That being done we went home again. This
      morning, going to take water upon Tower-hill, we met with three sleddes
      standing there to carry my Lord Monson and Sir H. Mildmay and another, to
      the gallows and back again, with ropes about their necks; which is to be
      repeated every year, this being the day of their sentencing the King.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. This morning (after my musique practice with Mr. Berkenshaw) with my
      wife to the Paynter's, where we staid very late to have her picture
      mended, which at last is come to be very like her, and I think well done;
      but the Paynter, though a very honest man, I found to be very silly as to
      matter of skill in shadows, for we were long in discourse, till I was
      almost angry to hear him talk so simply. So home to dinner and then to the
      office, and so home for all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. To Westminster, and at the Parliament door spoke with Mr. Coventry
      about business, and so to the Wardrobe to dinner, and thence to several
      places, and so home, where I found Mrs. Pen and Mrs. Rooth and Smith, who
      played at cards with my wife, and I did give them a barrel of oysters, and
      had a pullet to supper for them, and when it was ready to come to table,
      the foolish girl had not the manners to stay and sup with me, but went
      away, which did vex me cruelly. So I saw her home, and then to supper, and
      so to musique practice, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Fast-day for the murthering of the late King. I went to church, and
      Mr. Mills made a good sermon upon David's words, "Who can lay his hands
      upon the Lord's Anoynted and be guiltless?" So home and to dinner, and
      employed all the afternoon in my chamber, setting things and papers to
      rights, which pleased me very well, and I think I shall begin to take
      pleasure in being at home and minding my business. I pray God I may, for I
      find a great need thereof. At night to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. All the morning, after musique practice, in my cellar, ordering some
      alteracons therein, being much pleased with my new door into the back
      yard. So to dinner, and all the afternoon thinking upon business. I did by
      night set many things in order, which pleased me well, and puts me upon a
      resolution of keeping within doors and minding my business and the
      business of the office, which I pray God I may put in practice. At night
      to bed.
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      FEBRUARY 1661-1662
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    <p>
      February 1st. This morning within till 11 o'clock, and then with
      Commissioner Pett to the office; and he staid there writing, while I and
      Sir W. Pen walked in the garden talking about his business of putting his
      son to Cambridge; and to that end I intend to write to-night to Dr.
      Fairebrother, to give me an account of Mr. Burton of Magdalene. Thence
      with Mr. Pett to the Paynter's; and he likes our pictures very well, and
      so do I. Thence he and I to the Countess of Sandwich, to lead him to her
      to kiss her hands: and dined with her, and told her the news (which Sir W.
      Pen told me to-day) that express is come from my Lord with letters, that
      by a great storm and tempest the mole of Argier is broken down, and many
      of their ships sunk into the mole. So that God Almighty hath now ended
      that unlucky business for us; which is very good news. After dinner to the
      office, where we staid late, and so I home, and late writing letters to my
      father and Dr. Fairebrother, and an angry letter to my brother John for
      not writing to me, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd (Lord's day). To church in the morning, and then home and dined with
      my wife, and so both of us to church again, where we had an Oxford man
      give us a most impertinent sermon upon "Cast your bread upon the waters,
      &amp;c. So home to read, supper, and to prayers, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. After musique practice I went to the office, and there with the two
      Sir Williams all the morning about business, and at noon I dined with Sir
      W. Batten with many friends more, it being his wedding-day, and among
      other froliques, it being their third year, they had three pyes, whereof
      the middlemost was made of an ovall form, in an ovall hole within the
      other two, which made much mirth, and was called the middle piece; and
      above all the rest, we had great striving to steal a spooneful out of it;
      and I remember Mrs. Mills, the minister's wife, did steal one for me and
      did give it me; and to end all, Mrs. Shippman did fill the pye full of
      white wine, it holding at least a pint and a half, and did drink it off
      for a health to Sir William and my Lady, it being the greatest draft that
      ever I did see a woman drink in my life. Before we had dined came Sir G.
      Carteret, and we went all three to the office and did business there till
      night, and then to Sir W. Batten again, and I went along with my lady and
      the rest of the gentlewomen to Major Holmes's, and there we had a fine
      supper, among others, excellent lobsters, which I never eat at this time
      of the year before. The Major bath good lodgings at the Trinity House.
      Here we staid, and at last home, and, being in my chamber, we do hear
      great noise of mirth at Sir William Batten's, tearing the ribbands from my
      Lady and him.&mdash;[As if they were a newly-married couple.]&mdash;So I
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. To Westminster Hall, where it was full term. Here all the morning,
      and at noon to my Lord Crew's, where one Mr. Tempter (an ingenious man and
      a person of honour he seems to be) dined; and, discoursing of the nature
      of serpents, he told us some that in the waste places of Lancashire do
      grow to a great bigness, and that do feed upon larks, which they take
      thus: They observe when the lark is soared to the highest, and do crawl
      till they come to be just underneath them; and there they place themselves
      with their mouths uppermost, and there, as is conceived, they do eject
      poyson up to the bird; for the bird do suddenly come down again in its
      course of a circle, and falls directly into the mouth of the serpent;
      which is very strange. He is a great traveller; and, speaking of the
      tarantula, he says that all the harvest long (about which times they are
      most busy) there are fidlers go up and down the fields every where, in
      expectation of being hired by those that are stung. Thence to the office,
      where late, and so to my chamber and then to bed, my mind a little
      troubled how to put things in order to my advantage in the office in
      readiness to the Duke's orders lately sent to us, and of which we are to
      treat at the office to-morrow morning. This afternoon, going into the
      office, one met me and did serve a subpoena upon me for one Field, whom we
      did commit to prison the other day for some ill words he did give the
      office. The like he had for others, but we shall scour him for it.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Early at the office. Sir G. Carteret, the two Sir Williams and myself
      all alone reading of the Duke's institutions for the settlement of our
      office, whereof we read as much as concerns our own duties, and left the
      other officers for another time. I did move several things for my purpose,
      and did ease my mind. At noon Sir W. Pen dined with me, and after dinner
      he and I and my wife to the Theatre, and went in, but being very early we
      went out again to the next door, and drank some Rhenish wine and sugar,
      and so to the House again, and there saw "Rule a Wife and have a Wife"
      very well done. And here also I did look long upon my Lady Castlemaine,
      who, notwithstanding her late sickness, continues a great beauty. Home and
      supped with Sir W. Pen and played at cards with him, and so home and to
      bed, putting some cataplasm to my.... which begins to swell again.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. At my musique practice, and so into my cellar to my workmen, and I am
      very much pleased with my alteracon there. About noon comes my uncle
      Thomas to me to ask for his annuity, and I did tell him my mind freely. We
      had some high words, but I was willing to end all in peace, and so I made
      him' dine with me, and I have hopes to work my end upon him. After dinner
      the barber trimmed me, and so to the office, where I do begin to be exact
      in my duty there and exacting my privileges, and shall continue to do so.
      None but Sir W. Batten and me here to-night, and so we broke up early, and
      I home and to my chamber to put things in order, and so to bed. My
      swelling I think do begin to go away again.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Among my workmen this morning. By and by by water to Westminster with
      Commissioner Pett (landing my wife at Black Friars) where I hear the
      prisoners in the Tower that are to die are come to the Parliament-house
      this morning. To the Wardrobe to dinner with my Lady; where a civitt cat,
      parrot, apes, and many other things are come from my Lord by Captain Hill,
      who dined with my Lady with us to-day. Thence to the Paynter's, and am
      well pleased with our pictures. So by coach home, where I found the
      joyners putting up my chimney-piece in the dining-room, which pleases me
      well, only the frame for a picture they have made so massy and heavy that
      I cannot tell what to do with it. This evening came my she cozen Porter to
      see us (the first time that we had seen her since we came to this end of
      the town) and after her Mr. Hart, who both staid with us a pretty while
      and so went away. By and by, hearing that Mr. Turner was much troubled at
      what I do in the office, and do give ill words to Sir W. Pen and others of
      me, I am much troubled in my mind, and so went to bed; not that I fear him
      at all, but the natural aptness I have to be troubled at any thing that
      crosses me.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. All the morning in the cellar with the colliers, removing the coles
      out of the old cole hole into the new one, which cost me 8s. the doing;
      but now the cellar is done and made clean, it do please me exceedingly, as
      much as any thing that was ever yet done to my house. I pray God keep me
      from setting my mind too much upon it. About 3 o'clock the colliers having
      done I went up to dinner (my wife having often urged me to come, but my
      mind is so set upon these things that I cannot but be with the workmen to
      see things done to my mind, which if I am not there is seldom done), and
      so to the office, and thence to talk with Sir W. Pen, walking in the dark
      in the garden some turns, he telling me of the ill management of our
      office, and how Wood the timber merchant and others were very knaves,
      which I am apt to believe. Home and wrote letters to my father and my
      brother John, and so to bed. Being a little chillish, intending to take
      physique to-morrow morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). I took physique this day, and was all day in my chamber,
      talking with my wife about her laying out of L20, which I had long since
      promised her to lay out in clothes against Easter for herself, and
      composing some ayres, God forgive me! At night to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Musique practice a good while, then to Paul's Churchyard, and there
      I met with Dr. Fuller's "England's Worthys," the first time that I ever
      saw it; and so I sat down reading in it, till it was two o'clock before I,
      thought of the time going, and so I rose and went home to dinner, being
      much troubled that (though he had some discourse with me about my family
      and arms) he says nothing at all, nor mentions us either in Cambridgeshire
      or Norfolk. But I believe, indeed, our family were never considerable. At
      home all the afternoon, and at night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Musique, then my brother Tom came, and spoke to him about selling of
      Sturtlow, he consents to, and I think will be the best for him,
      considering that he needs money, and has no mind to marry. Dined at home,
      and at the office in the afternoon. So home to musique, my mind being full
      of our alteracons in the garden, and my getting of things in the office
      settled to the advantage of my clerks, which I found Mr. Turner much
      troubled at, and myself am not quiet in mind. But I hope by degrees to
      bring it to it. At night begun to compose songs, and begin with "Gaze not
      on Swans." So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. This morning, till four in the afternoon, I spent abroad, doing of
      many and considerable businesses at Mr. Phillips the lawyer, with Prior,
      Westminster, my Lord Crew's, Wardrobe, &amp;c., and so home about the time
      of day to dinner with my mind very highly contented with my day's work,
      wishing I could do so every day. Then to my chamber drawing up writings,
      in expectation of my uncle Thomas corning. So to my musique and then to
      bed. This night I had half a 100 poor Jack&mdash;[The "poor john" is a
      hake salted and dried. It is frequently referred to in old authors as poor
      fare.]&mdash;sent me by Mr. Adis.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. After musique comes my cozen Tom Pepys the executor, and he did stay
      with me above two hours discoursing about the difference between my uncle
      Thomas and me, and what way there may be to make it up, and I have hopes
      we may do good of it for all this. Then to dinner, and then came Mr.
      Kennard, and he and I and Sir W. Pen went up and down his house to view
      what may be the contrivance and alterations there to the best advantage.
      So home, where Mr. Blackburne (whom I have not seen a long time) was come
      to speak with me, and among other discourse he do tell me plain of the
      corruption of all our Treasurer's officers, and that they hardly pay any
      money under ten per cent.; and that the other day, for a mere assignation
      of L200 to some counties, they took L15 which is very strange. So to the
      office till night, and then home and to write by the post about many
      businesses, and so to bed. Last night died the Queen of Bohemia.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Valentine's day). I did this day purposely shun to be seen at Sir W.
      Batten's, because I would not have his daughter to be my Valentine, as she
      was the last year, there being no great friendship between us now, as
      formerly. This morning in comes W. Bowyer, who was my wife's Valentine,
      she having, at which I made good sport to myself, held her hands all the
      morning, that she might not see the paynters that were at work in gilding
      my chimney-piece and pictures in my diningroom. By and by she and I by
      coach with him to Westminster, by the way leaving at Tom's and my wife's
      father's lodgings each of them some poor Jack, and some she carried to my
      father Bowyer's, where she staid while I walked in the Hall, and there
      among others met with Serj'. Pierce, and I took him aside to drink a cup
      of ale, and he told me the basest thing of Mr. Montagu's and his man
      Eschar's going away in debt, that I am troubled and ashamed, but glad to
      be informed of. He thinks he has left L1000 for my Lord to pay, and that
      he has not laid out L3,000 Out of the L5,000 for my Lord's use, and is not
      able to make an account of any of the money. My wife and I to dinner to
      the Wardrobe, and then to talk with my Lady, and so by coach, it raining
      hard, home, and so to do business and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. With the two Sir Williams to the Trinity-house; and there in their
      society had the business debated of Sir Nicholas Crisp's sasse at
      Deptford. Then to dinner, and after dinner I was sworn a Younger Brother;
      Sir W. Rider being Deputy Master for my Lord of Sandwich; and after I was
      sworn, all the Elder Brothers shake me by the hand: it is their custom, it
      seems. Hence to the office, and so to Sir Wm. Batten's all three, and
      there we staid till late talking together in complaint of the Treasurer's
      instruments. Above all Mr. Waith, at whose child's christening our wives
      and we should have been to-day, but none of them went and I am glad of it,
      for he is a very rogue, So home, and drew up our report for Sir N.
      Crispe's sasse, and so to bed. No news yet of our fleet gone to Tangier,
      which we now begin to think long.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). To church this morning, and so home and to dinner. In
      the afternoon I walked to St. Bride's to church, to hear Dr. Jacomb preach
      upon the recovery, and at the request of Mrs. Turner, who came abroad this
      day, the first time since her long sickness. He preached upon David's
      words, "I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord," and
      made a pretty good sermon, though not extraordinary. After sermon I led
      her home, and sat with her, and there was the Dr. got before us; but
      strange what a command he hath got over Mrs. Turner, who was so carefull
      to get him what he would, after his preaching, to drink, and he, with a
      cunning gravity, knows how to command, and had it, and among other things
      told us that he heard more of the Common Prayer this afternoon (while he
      stood in the vestry, before he went up into the pulpitt) than he had heard
      this twenty years. Thence to my uncle Wight to meet my wife, and with
      other friends of hers and his met by chance we were very merry, and
      supped, and so home, not being very well through my usual pain got by
      cold. So to prayers and to bed, and there had a good draft of mulled ale
      brought me.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. This morning, both Sir Williams, myself, and Captain Cocke and
      Captain Tinker of the Convertine, which we are going to look upon (being
      intended to go with these ships fitting for the East Indys), down to
      Deptford; and thence, after being on shipboard, to Woolwich, and there eat
      something. The Sir Williams being unwilling to eat flesh,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In Lent, of which the observance, intermitted for nineteen years,
     was now reviving.  We have seen that Pepys, as yet, had not cast off
     all show of Puritanism.  "In this month the Fishmongers' Company
     petitioned the King that Lent might be kept, because they had
     provided abundance of fish for this season, and their prayer was
     granted."&mdash;Rugge.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Captain Cocke and I had a breast of veal roasted. And here I drank wine
      upon necessity, being ill for want of it, and I find reason to fear that
      by my too sudden leaving off wine, I do contract many evils upon myself.
      Going and coming we played at gleeke, and I won 9s. 6d. clear, the most
      that ever I won in my life. I pray God it may not tempt me to play again.
      Being come home again we went to the Dolphin, where Mr. Alcock and my Lady
      and Mrs. Martha Batten came to us, and after them many others (as it
      always is where Sir W. Batten goes), and there we had some pullets to
      supper. I eat though I was not very well, and after that left them, and so
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Lay long in bed, then up to the office (we having changed our days
      to Tuesday and Saturday in the morning and Thursday at night), and by and
      by with Sir W. Pen, Mr. Kennard, and others to survey his house again, and
      to contrive for the alterations there, which will be handsome I think.
      After we had done at the office, I walked to the Wardrobe, where with Mr.
      Moore and Mr. Lewis Phillips after dinner we did agree upon the agreement
      between us and Prior and I did seal and sign it. Having agreed with Sir
      Wm. Pen and my wife to meet them at the Opera, and finding by my walking
      in the streets, which were every where full of brick-battes and tyles
      flung down by the extraordinary wind the last night (such as hath not been
      in memory before, unless at the death of the late Protector), that it was
      dangerous to go out of doors; and hearing how several persons had been
      killed to-day by the fall of things in the streets, and that the pageant
      in Fleetstreet is most of it blown down, and hath broke down part of
      several houses, among others Dick Brigden's; and that one Lady Sanderson,
      a person of quality in Covent Garden, was killed by the fall of the house,
      in her bed, last night; I sent my boy home to forbid them to go forth. But
      he bringing me word that they are gone, I went thither and there saw "The
      Law against Lovers," a good play and well performed, especially the little
      girl's (whom I never saw act before) dancing and singing; and were it not
      for her, the loss of Roxalana would spoil the house. So home and to
      musique, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Musique practice: thence to the Trinity House to conclude upon our
      report of Sir N. Crisp's project, who came to us to answer objections, but
      we did give him no ear, but are resolved to stand to our report; though I
      could wish we had shewn him more justice and had heard him. Thence to the
      Wardrobe and dined with my Lady, and talked after dinner as I used to do,
      and so home and up to my chamber to put things in order to my good
      content, and so to musique practice.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. This morning came Mr. Child to see me, and set me something to my
      Theorbo, and by and by come letters from Tangier from my Lord, telling me
      how, upon a great defete given to the Portuguese there by the Moors, he
      had put in 300 men into the town, and so he is in possession, of which we
      are very glad, because now the Spaniard's designs of hindering our getting
      the place are frustrated. I went with the letter inclosed to my Lord
      Chancellor to the House of Lords, and did give it him in the House. And
      thence to the Wardrobe with my Lady's, and there could not stay dinner,
      but went by promise to Mr. Savill's, and there sat the first time for my
      picture in little, which pleaseth me well. So to the office till night and
      then home.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Sunday, Jan.  12.  This morning, the Portuguese, 140 horse in
     Tangier, made a salley into the country for booty, whereof they had
     possessed about 400 cattle, 30 camels, and some horses, and 35 women
     and girls, and being six miles distant from Tangier, were
     intercepted by 100 Moors with harquebusses, who in the first charge
     killed the Aidill with a shot in the head, whereupon the rest of the
     Portuguese ran, and in the pursuit 51 were slain, whereof were 11 of
     the knights, besides the Aidill.  The horses of the 51 were also
     taken by the Moors, and all the booty relieved.

     "Tuesday, Jan. 14.  This morning, Mr. Mules came to me from the
     Governor, for the assistance of some of our men into the castle.

     "Thursday, Jan. 16.  About 80 men out of my own ship, and the
     Princess, went into Tangier, into the lower castle, about four of
     the clock in the afternoon.

     "Friday, Jan. 17.  In the morning, by eight o'clock, the 'Martyr'
     came in from Cales (Cadiz) with provisions, and about ten a clock I
     sent Sir Richard Stayner, with 120 men, besides officers, to the
     assistance of the Governor, into Tangier."&mdash;Lord Sandwich's Journal,
     in Kennet's Register.

     On the 23rd, Lord Sandwich put one hundred more men into Tangier; on
     the 29th and 30th, Lord Peterborough and his garrison arrived from
     England, and received possession from the Portuguese; and, on the
     31st, Sir Richard Stayner and the seamen re-embarked on board Lord
     Sandwich's fleet.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      21st, All the morning putting things in my house in order, and packing up
      glass to send into the country to my father, and books to my brother John,
      and then to my Lord Crew's to dinner; and thence to Mr. Lewes Philip's
      chamber, and there at noon with him for business, and received L80 upon
      Jaspar Trice's account, and so home with it, and so to my chamber for all
      this evening, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. At the office busy all the morning, and thence to dinner to my Lady
      Sandwich's, and thence with Mr. Moore to our Attorney, Wellpoole's, and
      there found that Godfry has basely taken out a judgment against us for the
      L40, for which I am vexed. And thence to buy a pair of stands and a
      hanging shelf for my wife's chamber, and so home, and thither came Mr.
      Savill with the pictures, and we hung them up in our dining-room. It comes
      now to appear very handsome with all my pictures. This evening I wrote
      letters to my father; among other things acquainting him with the unhappy
      accident which hath happened lately to my Lord of Dorset's two oldest
      sons, who, with two Belasses and one Squire Wentworth, were lately
      apprehended for killing and robbing of a tanner about Newington' on
      Wednesday last, and are all now in Newgate. I am much troubled for it, and
      for the grief and disgrace it brings to their familys and friends. After
      this, having got a very great cold, I got something warm to-night, and so
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). My cold being increased, I staid at home all day,
      pleasing myself with my dining-room, now graced with pictures, and reading
      of Dr. Fuller's "Worthys." So I spent the day, and at night comes Sir W.
      Pen and supped and talked with me. This day by God's mercy I am 29 years
      of age, and in very good health, and like to live and get an estate; and
      if I have a heart to be contented, I think I may reckon myself as happy a
      man as any is in the world, for which God be praised. So to prayers and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Long with Mr. Berkenshaw in the morning at my musique practice;
      finishing my song of "Gaze not on Swans," in two parts, which pleases me
      well, and I did give him L5 for this month or five weeks that he hath
      taught me, which is a great deal of money and troubled me to part with it.
      Thence to the Paynter s, and set again for my picture in little, and
      thence over the water to Southwark to Mr. Berkenshaw's house, and there
      sat with him all the afternoon, he showing me his great card of the body
      of musique, which he cries up for a rare thing, and I do believe it cost
      much pains, but is not so useful as he would have it. Then we sat down and
      set "Nulla, nulla sit formido," and he has set it very finely. So home and
      to supper, and then called Will up, and chid him before my wife for
      refusing to go to church with the maids yesterday, and telling his
      mistress that he would not be made a slave of, which vexes me. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. All the morning at the office. At noon with Mr. Moore to the
      Coffee-house, where among other things the great talk was of the effects
      of this late great wind; and I heard one say that he had five great trees
      standing together blown down; and, beginning to lop them, one of them, as
      soon as the lops were cut off, did, by the weight of the root, rise again
      and fasten. We have letters from the forest of Deane, that above 1000
      Oakes and as many beeches are blown down in one walk there. And letters
      from my father tell me of L20 hurt done to us at Brampton. This day in the
      news-book I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their
      case as they did give it in upon examination to a justice of Peace,
      wherein they make themselves a very good tale that they were in pursuit of
      thieves, and that they took this man for one of them, and so killed him;
      and that he himself confessed it was the first time of his robbing; and
      that he did pay dearly for it, for he was a dead man. But I doubt things
      will be proved otherwise, as they say. Home to dinner, and by and by comes
      Mr. Hunt and his wife to see us and staid a good, while with us. Then
      parted, and I to my study in the office. The first time since the
      alteracon that I have begun to do business myself there, and I think I
      shall be well pleased with it. At night home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Mr. Berkenshaw with me all the morning composing of musique to "This
      cursed jealousy, what is it," a song of Sir W. Davenant's. After dinner I
      went to my Bookseller's, W. Joyce's, and several other places to pay my
      debts and do business, I being resolved to cast up my accounts within a
      day or two, for I fear I have run out too far. In coming home I met with a
      face I knew and challenged him, thinking it had been one of the Theatre
      musicians, and did enquire for a song of him, but finding it a mistake,
      and that it was a gentleman that comes sometimes to the office, I was much
      ashamed, but made a pretty good excuse that I took him for a gentleman of
      Gray's Inn who sings well, and so parted. Home for all night and set
      things in order and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. This morning came Mr. Berkenshaw to me and in our discourse I,
      finding that he cries up his rules for most perfect (though I do grant
      them to be very good, and the best I believe that ever yet were made), and
      that I could not persuade him to grant wherein they were somewhat lame, we
      fell to angry words, so that in a pet he flung out of my chamber and I
      never stopped him, having intended to put him off today, whether this had
      happened or no, because I think I have all the rules that he hath to give.
      And so there remains not the practice now to do me good, and it is not for
      me to continue with him at; L5 per month. So I settled to put all his
      rules in fair order in a book, which was my work all the morning till
      dinner. After dinner to the office till late at night, and so home to
      write by the post, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. The boy failing to call us up as I commanded, I was angry, and
      resolved to whip him for that and many other faults, to-day. Early with
      Sir W. Pen by coach to Whitehall, to the Duke of York's chamber, and there
      I presented him from my Lord a fine map of Tangier, done by one Captain
      Beckman, a Swede, that is with my Lord. We staid looking it over a great
      while with the Duke after he was ready. Thence I by water to the
      Painter's, and there sat again for my face in little, and thence home to
      dinner, and so at home all the afternoon. Then came Mr. Moore and staid
      and talked with me, and then I to the office, there being all the
      Admiralty papers brought hither this afternoon from Mr. Blackburne's,
      where they have lain all this while ever since my coming into this office.
      This afternoon Mr. Hater received half a year's salary for me, so that now
      there is not owing me but this quarter, which will be out the next month.
      Home, and to be as good as my word, I bade Will get me a rod, and he and I
      called the boy up to one of the upper rooms of the Comptroller's house
      towards the garden, and there I reckoned all his faults, and whipped him
      soundly, but the rods were so small that I fear they did not much hurt to
      him, but only to my arm, which I am already, within a quarter of an hour,
      not able to stir almost. After supper to bed.
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      MARCH 1661-1662
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    <p>
      March 1st. This morning I paid Sir W. Batten L40, which I have owed him
      this half year, having borrowed it of him. Then to the office all the
      morning, so dined at home, and after dinner comes my uncle Thomas, with
      whom I had some high words of difference, but ended quietly, though I fear
      I shall do no good by fair means upon him. Thence my wife and I by coach,
      first to see my little picture that is a drawing, and thence to the Opera,
      and there saw "Romeo and Juliet," the first time it was ever acted; but it
      is a play of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life, and the worst
      acted that ever I saw these people do, and I am resolved to go no more to
      see the first time of acting, for they were all of them out more or less.
      Thence home, and after supper and wrote by the post, I settled to what I
      had long intended, to cast up my accounts with myself, and after much
      pains to do it and great fear, I do find that I am 1500 in money
      beforehand in the world, which I was afraid I was not, but I find that I
      had spent above L250 this last half year, which troubles me much, but by
      God's blessing I am resolved to take up, having furnished myself with all
      things for a great while, and to-morrow to think upon some rules and
      obligations upon myself to walk by. So with my mind eased of a great deal
      of trouble, though with no great content to find myself above L100 worse
      now than I was half a year ago, I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd (Lord's day). With my mind much eased talking long in bed with my wife
      about our frugall life for the time to come, proposing to her what I could
      and would do if I were worth L2,000, that is, be a knight, and keep my
      coach, which pleased her,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Lord Braybrooke wrote, "This reminds me of a story of my father's,
     when he was of Merton College, and heard Bowen the porter wish that
     he had L100 a-year, to enable him to keep a couple of hunters and a
     pack of foxhounds."]
</pre>
    <p>
      and so I do hope we shall hereafter live to save something, for I am
      resolved to keep myself by rules from expenses. To church in the morning:
      none in the pew but myself. So home to dinner, and after dinner came Sir
      William and talked with me till church time, and then to church, where at
      our going out I was at a loss by Sir W. Pen's putting me upon it whether
      to take my wife or Mrs. Martha (who alone was there), and I began to take
      my wife, but he jogged me, and so I took Martha, and led her down before
      him and my wife. So set her at home, and Sir William and my wife and I to
      walk in the garden, and anon hearing that Sir G. Carteret had sent to see
      whether we were at home or no, Sir William and I went to his house, where
      we waited a good while, they being at prayers, and by and by we went up to
      him; there the business was about hastening the East India ships, about
      which we are to meet to-morrow in the afternoon. So home to my house, and
      Sir William supped with me, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. All the morning at home about business with my brother Tom, and then
      with Mr. Moore, and then I set to make some strict rules for my future
      practice in my expenses, which I did bind myself in the presence of God by
      oath to observe upon penalty therein set down, and I do not doubt but
      hereafter to give a good account of my time and to grow rich, for I do
      find a great deal more of content in these few days, that I do spend well
      about my business, than in all the pleasure of a whole week, besides the
      trouble which I remember I always have after that for the expense of my
      money. Dined at home, and then up to my chamber again about business, and
      so to the office about despatching of the East India ships, where we staid
      till 8 at night, and then after I had been at Sir W. Pen's awhile
      discoursing with him and Mr. Kenard the joiner about the new building in
      his house, I went home, where I found a vessel of oysters sent me from
      Chatham, so I fell to eat some and then to supper, and so after the barber
      had done to bed. I am told that this day the Parliament hath voted 2s. per
      annum for every chimney in England, as a constant revenue for ever to the
      Crown.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Although fumage or smoke money was as old as the Conquest, the
     first parliamentary levy of hearth or chimney money was by statute
     13 and 14 Car. II., c. 10, which gave the king an hereditary revenue
     of two shillings annually upon every hearth in all houses paying
     church or poor rate.  This act was repealed by statute I William and
     Mary, c. 10, it being declared in the preamble as "not only a great
     oppression to the poorer sort, but a badge of slavery upon the whole
     people, exposing every man's house to be entered into and searched
     at pleasure by persons unknown to him."]
</pre>
    <p>
      4th. At the office all the morning, dined at home at noon, and then to the
      office again in the afternoon to put things in order there, my mind being
      very busy in settling the office to ourselves, I having now got distinct
      offices for the other two. By and by Sir W. Pen and I and my wife in his
      coach to Moore Fields, where we walked a great while, though it was no
      fair weather and cold; and after our walk we went to the Pope's Head, and
      eat cakes and other fine things, and so home, and I up to my chamber to
      read and write, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. In the morning to the Painter's about my little picture. Thence to
      Tom's about business, and so to the pewterer's, to buy a poore's-box to
      put my forfeits in, upon breach of my late vows. So to the Wardrobe and
      dined, and thence home and to my office, and there sat looking over my
      papers of my voyage, when we fetched over the King, and tore so many of
      these that were worth nothing, as filled my closet as high as my knees. I
      staid doing this till 10 at night, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up early, my mind full of business, then to the office, where the two
      Sir Williams and I spent the morning passing the victualler's accounts,
      the first I have had to do withal. Then home, where my Uncle Thomas (by
      promise and his son Tom) were come to give me his answer whether he would
      have me go to law or arbitracon with him, but he is unprovided to answer
      me, and desires two days more. I left them to dine with my wife, and
      myself to Mr. Gauden and the two knights at dinner at the Dolphin, and
      thence after dinner to the office back again till night, we having been
      these four or five days very full of business, and I thank God I am well
      pleased with it, and hope I shall continue of that temper, which God
      grant. So after a little being at Sir W. Batten's with Sir G. Carteret
      talking, I went home, and so to my chamber, and then to bed, my mind
      somewhat troubled about Brampton affairs. This night my new camelott
      riding coat to my coloured cloth suit came home. More news to-day of our
      losses at Brampton by the late storm.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Early to White Hall to the chappell, where by Mr. Blagrave's means I
      got into his pew, and heard Dr. Creeton, the great Scotchman, preach
      before the King, and Duke and Duchess, upon the words of Micah:&mdash;"Roule
      yourselves in dust." He made a most learned sermon upon the words; but, in
      his application, the most comical man that ever I heard in my life. Just
      such a man as Hugh Peters; saying that it had been better for the poor
      Cavalier never to have come with the King into England again; for he that
      hath the impudence to deny obedience to the lawful magistrate, and to
      swear to the oath of allegiance, &amp;c., was better treated now-a-days in
      Newgate, than a poor Royalist, that hath suffered all his life for the
      King, is at White Hall among his friends. He discoursed much against a
      man's lying with his wife in Lent, saying that he might be as incontinent
      during that time with his own wife as at another time in another man's
      bed. Thence with Mr. Moore to Whitehall and walked a little, and so to the
      Wardrobe to dinner, and so home to the office about business till late at
      night by myself, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. By coach with both Sir Williams to Westminster; this being a great
      day there in the House to pass the business for chimney-money, which was
      done. In the Hall I met with Serjeant Pierce; and he and I to drink a cup
      of ale at the Swan, and there he told me how my Lady Monk hath disposed of
      all the places which Mr. Edwd. Montagu hoped to have had, as he was Master
      of the Horse to the Queen; which I am afraid will undo him, because he
      depended much upon the profit of what he should make by these places. He
      told me, also, many more scurvy stories of him and his brother Ralph,
      which troubles me to hear of persons of honour as they are. About one
      o'clock with both Sir Williams and another, one Sir Rich. Branes, to the
      Trinity House, but came after they had dined, so we had something got
      ready for us. Here Sir W. Batten was taken with a fit of coughing that
      lasted a great while and made him very ill, and so he went home sick upon
      it. Sir W. Pen. and I to the office, whither afterward came Sir G.
      Carteret; and we sent for Sir Thos. Allen, one of the Aldermen of the
      City, about the business of one Colonel Appesley, whom we had taken
      counterfeiting of bills with all our hands and the officers of the yards,
      so well counterfeited that I should never have mistrusted them. We staid
      about this business at the office till ten at night, and at last did send
      him with a constable to the Counter; and did give warrants for the seizing
      of a complice of his, one Blinkinsopp. So home and wrote to my father, and
      so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). Church in the morning: dined at home, then to Church
      again and heard Mr. Naylor, whom I knew formerly of Keye's College, make a
      most eloquent sermon. Thence to Sir W. Batten's to see how he did, then to
      walk an hour with Sir W. Pen in the garden: then he in to supper with me
      at my house, and so to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. At the office doing business all the morning, and my wife being gone
      to buy some things in the city I dined with Sir W. Batten, and in the
      afternoon met Sir W. Pen at the Treasury Office, and there paid off the
      Guift, where late at night, and so called in and eat a bit at Sir W.
      Batten's again, and so home and to bed, to-morrow being washing day.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. At the office all the morning, and all the afternoon rummaging of
      papers in my chamber, and tearing some and sorting others till late at
      night, and so to bed, my wife being not well all this day. This afternoon
      Mrs. Turner and The. came to see me, her mother not having been abroad
      many a day before, but now is pretty well again and has made me one of the
      first visits.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. At the office from morning till night putting of papers in order,
      that so I may have my office in an orderly condition. I took much pains in
      sorting and folding of papers. Dined at home, and there came Mrs.
      Goldsborough about her old business, but I did give her a short answer and
      sent away. This morning we had news from Mr. Coventry, that Sir G. Downing
      (like a perfidious rogue, though the action is good and of service to the
      King,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [("And hail the treason though we hate the traitor.") On the 21st
     Charles returned his formal thanks to the States for their
     assistance in the matter.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      yet he cannot with any good conscience do it) hath taken Okey, Corbet, and
      Barkestead at Delfe, in Holland, and sent them home in the Blackmore. Sir
      W. Pen, talking to me this afternoon of what a strange thing it is for
      Downing to do this, he told me of a speech he made to the Lords States of
      Holland, telling them to their faces that he observed that he was not
      received with the respect and observance now, that he was when he came
      from the traitor and rebell Cromwell: by whom, I am sure, he hath got all
      he hath in the world,&mdash;and they know it too.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Charles, when residing at Brussels, went to the Hague at night to
     pay a secret visit to his sister, the Princess of Orange.  After his
     arrival, "an old reverend-like man, with a long grey beard and
     ordinary grey clothes," entered the inn and begged for a private
     interview.  He then fell on his knees, and pulling off his disguise,
     discovered himself to be Mr. Downing, then ambassador from Cromwell
     to the States-General.  He informed Charles that the Dutch had
     guaranteed to the English Commonwealth to deliver him into their
     hands should he ever set foot in their territory.  This warning
     probably saved Charles's liberty.&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      13th. All day, either at the office or at home, busy about business till
      late at night, I having lately followed my business much, I find great
      pleasure in it, and a growing content.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. At the office all the morning. At noon Sir W. Pen and I making a
      bargain with the workmen about his house, at which I did see things not so
      well contracted for as I would have, and I was vexed and made him so too
      to see me so critical in the agreement. Home to dinner. In the afternoon
      came the German Dr. Kuffler,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This is the secret of Cornelius van Drebbel (1572-1634), which is
     referred to again by Pepys on November 11th, 1663.  Johannes
     Siberius Kuffler was originally a dyer at Leyden, who married
     Drebbel's daughter. In the "Calendar of State Papers, Domestic,"
     1661-62 (p. 327), is the following entry: "Request of Johannes
     Siberius Kuffler and Jacob Drebble for a trial of their father
     Cornelius Drebble's secret of sinking or destroying ships in a
     moment; and if it succeed, for a reward of L10,000. The secret was
     left them by will, to preserve for the English crown before any
     other state."  Cornelius van Drebbel settled in London, where he
     died. James I.  took some interest in him, and is said to have
     interfered when he was in prison in Austria and in danger of
     execution.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to discourse with us about his engine to blow up ships. We doubted not the
      matter of fact, it being tried in Cromwell's time, but the safety of
      carrying them in ships; but he do tell us, that when he comes to tell the
      King his secret (for none but the Kings, successively, and their heirs
      must know it), it will appear to be of no danger at all. We concluded
      nothing; but shall discourse with the Duke of York to-morrow about it. In
      the afternoon, after we had done with him, I went to speak with my uncle
      Wight and found my aunt to have been ill a good while of a miscarriage, I
      staid and talked with her a good while. Thence home, where I found that
      Sarah the maid had been very ill all day, and my wife fears that she will
      have an ague, which I am much troubled for. Thence to my lute, upon which
      I have not played a week or two, and trying over the two songs of "Nulla,
      nulla," &amp;c., and "Gaze not on Swans," which Mr. Berkenshaw set for me
      a little while ago, I find them most incomparable songs as he has set
      them, of which I am not a little proud, because I am sure none in the
      world has them but myself, not so much as he himself that set them. So to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. With Sir G. Carteret and both the Sir Williams at Whitehall to wait
      on the Duke in his chamber, which we did about getting money for the Navy
      and other things. So back again to the office all the morning. Thence to
      the Exchange to hire a ship for the Maderas, but could get none. Then home
      to dinner, and Sir G. Carteret and I all the afternoon by ourselves upon
      business in the office till late at night. So to write letters and home to
      bed. Troubled at my maid's being ill.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). This morning, till churches were done, I spent going
      from one church to another and hearing a bit here and a bit there. So to
      the Wardrobe to dinner with the young Ladies, and then into my Lady's
      chamber and talked with her a good while, and so walked to White Hall, an
      hour or two in the Park, which is now very pleasant. Here the King and
      Duke came to see their fowl play. The Duke took very civil notice of me.
      So walked home, calling at Tom's, giving him my resolution about my boy's
      livery. Here I spent an hour walking in the garden with Sir W. Pen, and
      then my wife and I thither to supper, where his son William is at home not
      well. But all things, I fear, do not go well with them; they look
      discontentedly, but I know not what ails them. Drinking of cold small beer
      here I fell ill, and was forced to go out and vomit, and so was well again
      and went home by and by to bed. Fearing that Sarah would continue ill,
      wife and I removed this night to our matted chamber and lay there.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. All the morning at the office by myself about setting things in
      order there, and so at noon to the Exchange to see and be seen, and so
      home to dinner and then to the office again till night, and then home and
      after supper and reading a while to bed. Last night the Blackmore pink
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A "pink" was a form of vessel now obsolete, and had a very narrow
     stern. The "Blackmoor" was a sixth-rate of twelve guns, built at
     Chatham by Captain Tayler in 1656.]
</pre>
    <p>
      brought the three prisoners, Barkestead, Okey, and Corbet, to the Tower,
      being taken at Delfe in Holland; where, the Captain tells me, the Dutch
      were a good while before they could be persuaded to let them go, they
      being taken prisoners in their land. But Sir G. Downing would not be
      answered so: though all the world takes notice of him for a most
      ungrateful villain for his pains.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. All the morning at the office with Sir W. Pen. Dined at home, and
      Luellin and Blurton with me. After dinner to the office again, where Sir
      G. Carteret and we staid awhile, and then Sir W. Pen and I on board some
      of the ships now fitting for East Indys and Portugall, to see in what
      forwardness they are, and so back home again, and I write to my father by
      the post about Brampton Court, which is now coming on. But that which
      troubles me is that my Father has now got an ague that I fear may endanger
      his life. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. All the morning and afternoon at my office putting things in order,
      and in the evening I do begin to digest my uncle the Captain's papers into
      one book, which I call my Brampton book, for the clearer understanding
      things how they are with us. So home and supper and to bed. This noon came
      a letter from T. Pepys, the turner, in answer to one of mine the other day
      to him, wherein I did cheque him for not coming to me, as he had promised,
      with his and his father's resolucion about the difference between us. But
      he writes to me in the very same slighting terms that I did to him,
      without the least respect at all, but word for word as I did him, which
      argues a high and noble spirit in him, though it troubles me a little that
      he should make no more of my anger, yet I cannot blame him for doing so,
      he being the elder brother's son, and not depending upon me at all.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. At my office all the morning, at noon to the Exchange, and so home
      to dinner, and then all the afternoon at the office till late at night,
      and so home and to bed, my mind in good ease when I mind business, which
      methinks should be a good argument to me never to do otherwise.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. With Sir W. Batten by water to Whitehall, and he to Westminster. I
      went to see Sarah and my Lord's lodgings, which are now all in dirt, to be
      repaired against my Lord's coming from sea with the Queen. Thence to
      Westminster Hall; and there walked up and down and heard the great
      difference that hath been between my Lord Chancellor and my Lord of
      Bristol, about a proviso that my Lord Chancellor would have brought into
      the Bill for Conformity, that it shall be in the power of the King, when
      he sees fit, to dispense with the Act of Conformity; and though it be
      carried in the House of Lords, yet it is believed it will hardly pass in
      the Commons. Here I met with Chetwind, Parry, and several others, and went
      to a little house behind the Lords' house to drink some wormwood ale,
      which doubtless was a bawdy house, the mistress of the house having the
      look and dress: Here we staid till noon and then parted, I by water to the
      Wardrobe to meet my wife, but my Lady and they had dined, and so I dined
      with the servants, and then up to my Lady, and there staid and talked a
      good while, and then parted and walked into Cheapside, and there saw my
      little picture, for which I am to sit again the next week. So home, and
      staid late writing at my office, and so home and to bed, troubled that now
      my boy is also fallen sick of an ague we fear.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. At the office all the morning. At noon Sir Williams both and I by
      water down to the Lewes, Captain Dekins, his ship, a merchantman, where we
      met the owners, Sir John Lewes and Alderman Lewes, and several other great
      merchants; among others one Jefferys, a merry man that is a fumbler, and
      he and I called brothers, and he made all the mirth in the company. We had
      a very fine dinner, and all our wives' healths, with seven or nine guns
      apiece; and exceeding merry we were, and so home by barge again, and I
      vexed to find Griffin leave the office door open, and had a design to have
      carried away the screw or the carpet in revenge to him, but at last I
      would not, but sent for him and chid him, and so to supper and to bed,
      having drank a great deal of wine.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). This morning was brought me my boy's fine livery, which
      is very handsome, and I do think to keep to black and gold lace upon gray,
      being the colour of my arms, for ever. To church in the morning, and so
      home with Sir W. Batten, and there eat some boiled great oysters, and so
      home, and while I was at dinner with my wife I was sick, and was forced to
      vomit up my oysters again, and then I was well. By and by a coach came to
      call me by my appointment, and so my wife and I carried to Westminster to
      Mrs. Hunt's, and I to Whitehall, Worcester House, and to my Lord
      Treasurer's to have found Sir G. Carteret, but missed in all these places.
      So back to White Hall, and there met with Captn. Isham, this day come from
      Lisbon, with letters from the Queen to the King. And he did give me
      letters which speak that our fleet is all at Lisbon;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [One of these letters was probably from John Creed.  Mr. S. J.
     Davey, of 47, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, in 1889 had in his
     possession nine long letters from Creed to Pepys.  In the first of
     these, dated from Lisbon, March, 1662, Creed wrote: "My Lord
     Embassador doth all he can to hasten the Queen's Majestie's
     embarquement, there being reasons enough against suffering any
     unnecessary delay."  There appear to have been considerable delays
     in the arrangements for the following declaration of Charles II.
     was dated June 22nd, 1661: "Charles R.  Whereas his Maj. is resolved
     to declare, under his Royall hand and seale, the most illustrious
     Lady Infanta of Portugall to be his lawfull wife, before the Treaty
     shall be signed by the King of Portugall; which is to be done only
     for the better expediting the marriage, without sending to Rome for
     a dispensation, which the laws of Portugall would require if the
     said most Illustrious Infanta were to be betrothed in that
     Kingdome," &amp;c.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and that the Queen do not intend to embarque sooner than tomorrow come
      fortnight. So having sent for my wife, she and I to my Lady Sandwich, and
      after a short visit away home. She home, and I to Sir G. Carteret's about
      business, and so home too, and Sarah having her fit we went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Early Sir G. Carteret, both Sir Williams and I on board the
      Experiment, to dispatch her away, she being to carry things to the
      Madeiras with the East Indy fleet. Here (Sir W. Pen going to Deptford to
      send more hands) we staid till noon talking, and eating and drinking a
      good ham of English bacon, and having put things in very good order home,
      where I found Jane, my old maid, come out of the country, and I have a
      mind to have her again. By and by comes La Belle Pierce to see my wife,
      and to bring her a pair of peruques of hair, as the fashion now is for
      ladies to wear; which are pretty, and are of my wife's own hair, or else I
      should not endure them. After a good whiles stay, I went to see if any
      play was acted, and I found none upon the post, it being Passion week. So
      home again, and took water with them towards Westminster; but as we put
      off with the boat Griffin came after me to tell me that Sir G. Carteret
      and the rest were at the office, so I intended to see them through the
      bridge and come back again, but the tide being against us, when we were
      almost through we were carried back again with much danger, and Mrs.
      Pierce was much afeard and frightened. So I carried them to the other side
      and walked to the Beare, and sent them away, and so back again myself to
      the office, but finding nobody there I went again to the Old Swan, and
      thence by water to the New Exchange, and there found them, and thence by
      coach carried my wife to Bowes to buy something, and while they were there
      went to Westminster Hall, and there bought Mr. Grant's book of
      observations upon the weekly bills of mortality, which appear to me upon
      first sight to be very pretty. So back again and took my wife, calling at
      my brother Tom's, whom I found full of work, which I am glad of, and
      thence at the New Exchange and so home, and I to Sir W. Batten's, and
      supped there out of pure hunger and to save getting anything ready at
      home, which is a thing I do not nor shall not use to do. So home and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up early. This being, by God's great blessing, the fourth solemn day
      of my cutting for the stone this day four years, and am by God's mercy in
      very good health, and like to do well, the Lord's name be praised for it.
      To the office and Sir G. Carteret's all the morning about business. At
      noon come my good guests, Madame Turner, The., and Cozen Norton, and a
      gentleman, one Mr. Lewin of the King's Life-Guard; by the same token he
      told us of one of his fellows killed this morning in a duel. I had a
      pretty dinner for them, viz., a brace of stewed carps, six roasted
      chickens, and a jowl of salmon, hot, for the first course; a tanzy
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Tansy (tanacetum), a herb from which puddings were made.  Hence any
     pudding of the kind.  Selden ("Table Talk") says: "Our tansies at
     Easter have reference to the bitter herbs."  See in Wordsworth's
     "University Life in the Eighteenth Century" recipes for "an apple
     tansey," "a bean tansey," and "a gooseberry tansey."&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and two neats' tongues, and cheese the second; and were very merry all the
      afternoon, talking and singing and piping upon the flageolette. In the
      evening they went with great pleasure away, and I with great content and
      my wife walked half an hour in the garden, and so home to supper and to
      bed. We had a man-cook to dress dinner to-day, and sent for Jane to help
      us, and my wife and she agreed at L3 a year (she would not serve under)
      till both could be better provided, and so she stays with us, and I hope
      we shall do well if poor Sarah were but rid of her ague.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Early Sir G. Carteret, both Sir Williams and I by coach to Deptford,
      it being very windy and rainy weather, taking a codd and some prawnes in
      Fish Street with us. We settled to pay the Guernsey, a small ship, but
      come to a great deal of money, it having been unpaid ever since before the
      King came in, by which means not only the King pays wages while the ship
      has lain still, but the poor men have most of them been forced to borrow
      all the money due for their wages before they receive it, and that at a
      dear rate, God knows, so that many of them had very little to receive at
      the table, which grieved me to see it. To dinner, very merry. Then Sir
      George to London, and we again to the pay, and that done by coach home
      again and to the office, doing some business, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Good Friday). At home all the morning, and dined with my wife, a
      good dinner. At my office all the afternoon. At night to my chamber to
      read and sing, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. At the office all the morning. Then to the Wardrobe, and there
      coming late dined with the people below. Then up to my Lady, and staid two
      hours talking with her about her family business with great content and
      confidence in me. So calling at several places I went home, where my
      people are getting the house clean against to-morrow. I to the office and
      wrote several letters by post, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Easter day). Having my old black suit new furbished, I was pretty
      neat in clothes to-day, and my boy, his old suit new trimmed, very
      handsome. To church in the morning, and so home, leaving the two Sir
      Williams to take the Sacrament, which I blame myself that I have hitherto
      neglected all my life, but once or twice at Cambridge.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This does not accord with the certificate which Dr. Mines wrote in
     1681, where he says that Pepys was a constant communicant.  See Life
     of Pepys in vol. i.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Dined with my wife, a good shoulder of veal well dressed by Jane, and
      handsomely served to table, which pleased us much, and made us hope that
      she will serve our turn well enough. My wife and I to church in the
      afternoon, and seated ourselves, she below me, and by that means the
      precedence of the pew, which my Lady Batten and her daughter takes, is
      confounded; and after sermon she and I did stay behind them in the pew,
      and went out by ourselves a good while after them, which we judge a very
      fine project hereafter to avoyd contention. So my wife and I to walk an
      hour or two on the leads, which begins to be very pleasant, the garden
      being in good condition. So to supper, which is also well served in. We
      had a lobster to supper, with a crabb Pegg Pen sent my wife this
      afternoon, the reason of which we cannot think; but something there is of
      plot or design in it, for we have a little while carried ourselves pretty
      strange to them. After supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. This morning Mr. Coventry and all our company met at the office
      about some business of the victualling, which being dispatched we parted.
      I to my Lord Crew's to dinner (in my way calling upon my brother Tom, with
      whom I staid a good while and talked, and find him a man like to do well,
      which contents me much), where used with much respect, and talking with
      him about my Lord's debts, and whether we should make use of an offer of
      Sir G. Carteret's to lend my Lady 4 or L500, he told me by no means, we
      must not oblige my Lord to him, and by the by he made a question whether
      it was not my Lord's interest a little to appear to the King in debt, and
      for people to clamor against him as well as others for their money, that
      by that means the King and the world may see that he do lay out for the
      King's honour upon his own main stock, which many he tells me do, that in
      fine if there be occasion he and I will be bound for it. Thence to Sir
      Thomas Crew's lodgings. He hath been ill, and continues so, under fits of
      apoplexy. Among other things, he and I did discourse much of Mr. Montagu's
      base doings, and the dishonour that he will do my Lord, as well as
      cheating him of 2 or L3,000, which is too true. Thence to the play, where
      coming late, and meeting with Sir W. Pen, who had got room for my wife and
      his daughter in the pit, he and I into one of the boxes, and there we sat
      and heard "The Little Thiefe," a pretty play and well done. Thence home,
      and walked in the garden with them, and then to the house to supper and
      sat late talking, and so to bed.
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    <p>
      April 1st. Within all the morning and at the office. At noon my wife and I
      (having paid our maid Nell her whole wages, who has been with me half a
      year, and now goes away for altogether) to the Wardrobe, where my Lady and
      company had almost dined. We sat down and dined. Here was Mr. Herbert, son
      to Sir Charles Herbert, that lately came with letters from my Lord
      Sandwich to the King. After some discourse we remembered one another to
      have been together at the tavern when Mr. Fanshaw took his leave of me at
      his going to Portugall with Sir Richard. After dinner he and I and the two
      young ladies and my wife to the playhouse, the Opera, and saw "The Mayde
      in the Mill," a pretty good play. In the middle of the play my Lady
      Paulina, who had taken physique this morning, had need to go forth, and so
      I took the poor lady out and carried her to the Grange, and there sent the
      maid of the house into a room to her, and she did what she had a mind to,
      and so back again to the play; and that being done, in their coach I took
      them to Islington, and then, after a walk in the fields, I took them to
      the great cheese-cake house and entertained them, and so home, and after
      an hour's stay with my Lady, their coach carried us home, and so weary to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Mr. Moore came to me, and he and I walked to the Spittle an hour or
      two before my Lord Mayor and the blewcoat boys come, which at last they
      did, and a fine sight of charity it is indeed. We got places and staid to
      hear a sermon; but, it being a Presbyterian one, it was so long, that
      after above an hour of it we went away, and I home and dined; and then my
      wife and I by water to the Opera, and there saw "The Bondman" most
      excellently acted; and though we had seen it so often, yet I never liked
      it better than to-day, Ianthe acting Cleora's part very well now Roxalana
      is gone. We are resolved to see no more plays till Whitsuntide, we having
      been three days together. Met Mr. Sanchy, Smithes; Gale, and Edlin at the
      play, but having no great mind to spend money, I left them there. And so
      home and to supper, and then dispatch business, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. At home and at the office all day. At night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. By barge Sir George, Sir Williams both and I to Deptford, and there
      fell to pay off the Drake and Hampshire, then to dinner, Sir George to his
      lady at his house, and Sir Wm. Pen to Woolwich, and Sir W. Batten and I to
      the tavern, where much company came to us and our dinner, and somewhat
      short by reason of their taking part away with them. Then to pay the rest
      of the Hampshire and the Paradox, and were at it till 9 at night, and so
      by night home by barge safe, and took Tom Hater with some that the clerks
      had to carry home along with us in the barge, the rest staying behind to
      pay tickets, but came home after us that night. So being come home, to
      bed. I was much troubled to-day to see a dead man lie floating upon the
      waters, and had done (they say) these four days, and nobody takes him up
      to bury him, which is very barbarous.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. At the office till almost noon, and then broke up. Then came Sir G.
      Carteret, and he and I walked together alone in the garden, taking notice
      of some faults in the office, particularly of Sir W. Batten's, and he
      seemed to be much pleased with me, and I hope will be the ground of a
      future interest of mine in him, which I shall be glad of. Then with my
      wife abroad, she to the Wardrobe and there dined, and I to the Exchange
      and so to the Wardrobe, but they had dined. After dinner my wife and the
      two ladies to see my aunt Wight, and thence met me at home. From thence
      (after Sir W. Batten and I had viewed our houses with a workman in order
      to the raising of our roofs higher to enlarge our houses) I went with them
      by coach first to Moorfields and there walked, and thence to Islington and
      had a fine walk in the fields there, and so, after eating and drinking,
      home with them, and so by water with my wife home, and after supper to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). By water to White Hall, to Sir G. Carteret, to give him
      an account of the backwardness of the ships we have hired to Portugall: at
      which he is much troubled. Thence to the Chappell, and there, though
      crowded, heard a very honest sermon before the King by a Canon of Christ
      Church, upon these words, "Having a form of godliness, but denying," &amp;c.
      Among other things, did much insist upon the sin of adultery: which
      methought might touch the King, and the more because he forced it into his
      sermon, methinks, besides his text. So up and saw the King at dinner; and
      thence with Sir G. Carteret to his lodgings to dinner, with him and his
      lady, where I saluted her, and was well received as a stranger by her; she
      seems a good lady, and all their discourse, which was very much, was upon
      their sufferings and services for the King. Yet not without some trouble,
      to see that some that had been much bound to them, do now neglect them;
      and others again most civil that have received least from them: and I do
      believe that he hath been a good servant to the King. Thence to walk in
      the Park, where the King and Duke did walk round the Park. After I was
      tired I went and took boat to Milford stairs, and so to Graye's Inn walks,
      the first time I have been there this year, and it is very pleasant and
      full of good company. When tired I walked to the Wardrobe, and there staid
      a little with my Lady, and so by water from Paul's Wharf (where my boat
      staid for me), home and supped with my wife with Sir W. Pen, and so home
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. By water to Whitehall and thence to Westminster, and staid at the
      Parliament-door long to speak with Mr. Coventry, which vexed me. Thence to
      the Lords' House, and stood within the House, while the Bishops and Lords
      did stay till the Chancellor's coming, and then we were put out, and they
      to prayers. There comes a Bishop; and while he was rigging himself, he bid
      his man listen at the door, whereabout in the prayers they were but the
      man told him something, but could not tell whereabouts it was in the
      prayers, nor the Bishop neither, but laughed at the conceit; so went in:
      but, God forgive me! I did tell it by and by to people, and did say that
      the man said that they were about something of saving their souls, but
      could not tell whereabouts in the prayers that was. I sent in a note to my
      Lord Privy Seal, and he came out to me; and I desired he would make
      another deputy for me, because of my great business of the Navy this
      month; but he told me he could not do it without the King's consent, which
      vexed me. So to Dr. Castle's, and there did get a promise from his clerk
      that his master should officiate for me to-morrow. Thence by water to
      Tom's, and there with my wife took coach and to the old Exchange, where
      having bought six large Holland bands, I sent her home, and myself found
      out my uncle Wight and Mr. Rawlinson, and with them went to the tatter's
      house to dinner, and there had a good dinner of cold meat and good wine,
      but was troubled in my head after the little wine I drank, and so home to
      my office, and there did promise to drink no more wine but one glass a
      meal till Whitsuntide next upon any score. Mrs. Bowyer and her daughters
      being at my house I forbore to go to them, having business and my head
      disturbed, but staid at my office till night, and then to walk upon the
      leads with my wife, and so to my chamber and thence to bed. The great talk
      is, that the Spaniards and the Hollanders do intend to set upon the
      Portuguese by sea, at Lisbon, as soon as our fleet is come away; and by
      that means our fleet is not likely to come yet these two months or three;
      which I hope is not true.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up very early and to my office, and there continued till noon. So to
      dinner, and in comes uncle Fenner and the two Joyces. I sent for a barrel
      of oysters and a breast of veal roasted, and were very merry; but I cannot
      down with their dull company and impertinent. After dinner to the office
      again. So at night by coach to Whitehall, and Mr. Coventry not being there
      I brought my business of the office to him, it being almost dark, and so
      came away and took up my wife. By the way home and on Ludgate Hill there
      being a stop I bought two cakes, and they were our supper at home.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Sir George Carteret, Sir Williams both and myself all the morning at
      the office passing the Victualler's accounts, and at noon to dinner at the
      Dolphin, where a good chine of beef and other good cheer. At dinner Sir
      George showed me an account in French of the great famine, which is to the
      greatest extremity in some part of France at this day, which is very
      strange.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [On the 5th of June following, Louis, notwithstanding the scarcity,
     gave that splendid carousal in the court before the Tuileries, from
     which the place has ever since taken its name.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      So to the Exchange, Mrs. Turner (who I found sick in bed), and several
      other places about business, and so home. Supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. To Westminster with the two Sir Williams by water, and did several
      businesses, and so to the Wardrobe with Mr. Moore to dinner. Yesterday
      came Col. Talbot with letters from Portugall, that the Queen is resolved
      to embarque for England this week. Thence to the office all the afternoon.
      My Lord Windsor came to us to discourse of his affairs, and to take his
      leave of us; he being to go Governor of Jamaica with this fleet that is
      now going. Late at the office. Home with my mind full of business. So to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up early to my lute and a song, then about six o'clock with Sir W.
      Pen by water to Deptford; and among the ships now going to Portugall with
      men and horse, to see them dispatched. So to Greenwich; and had a fine
      pleasant walk to Woolwich, having in our company Captn. Minnes, with whom
      I was much pleased to hear him talk in fine language, but pretty well for
      all that. Among other things, he and the other Captains that were with us
      tell me that negros drowned look white and lose their blackness, which I
      never heard before. At Woolwich, up and down to do the same business; and
      so back to Greenwich by water, and there while something is dressing for
      our dinner, Sir William and I walked into the Park, where the King hath
      planted trees and made steps in the hill up to the Castle, which is very
      magnificent. So up and down the house, which is now repayring in the
      Queen's lodgings. So to dinner at the Globe, and Captain Lambert of the
      Duke's pleasure boat came to us and dined with us, and were merry, and so
      home, and I in the evening to the Exchange, and spoke with uncle Wight,
      and so home and walked with my wife on the leads late, and so the barber
      came to me, and so to bed very weary, which I seldom am.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. At the office all the morning, where, among other things, being
      provoked by some impertinence of Sir W. Batten's, I called him
      unreasonable man, at which he was very angry and so was I, but I think we
      shall not much fall out about it. After dinner to several places about
      business, and so home and wrote letters at my office, and one to Mr.
      Coventry about business, and at the close did excuse my not waiting on him
      myself so often as others do for want of leisure. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day). In the morning to Paul's, where I heard a pretty good
      sermon, and thence to dinner with my Lady at the Wardrobe; and after much
      talk with her after dinner, I went to the Temple to Church, and there
      heard another: by the same token a boy, being asleep, fell down a high
      seat to the ground, ready to break his neck, but got no hurt. Thence to
      Graye's Inn walkes; and there met Mr. Pickering and walked with him two
      hours till 8 o'clock till I was quite weary. His discourse most about the
      pride of the Duchess of York; and how all the ladies envy my Lady
      Castlemaine. He intends to go to Portsmouth to meet the Queen this week;
      which is now the discourse and expectation of the town. So home, and no
      sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Field's
      (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office),
      being a bitter petition to the King against our office for not doing
      justice upon his complaint to us of embezzlement of the King's stores by
      one Turpin. I took Sir William to Sir W. Pen's (who was newly come from
      Walthamstow), and there we read it and discoursed, but we do not much fear
      it, the King referring it to the Duke of York. So we drank a glass or two
      of wine, and so home and I to bed, my wife being in bed already.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Being weary last night I lay very long in bed to-day, talking with
      my wife, and persuaded her to go to Brampton, and take Sarah with her,
      next week, to cure her ague by change of ayre, and we agreed all things
      therein. We rose, and at noon dined, and then we to the Paynter's, and
      there sat the last time for my little picture, which I hope will please
      me. Then to Paternoster Row to buy things for my wife against her going.
      So home and walked upon the leads with my wife, and whether she suspected
      anything or no I know not, but she is quite off of her going to Brampton,
      which something troubles me, and yet all my design was that I might the
      freer go to Portsmouth when the rest go to pay off the yards there, which
      will be very shortly. But I will get off if I can. So to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. At the office all the morning. Dined at home. Again at the office in
      the afternoon to despatch letters and so home, and with my wife, by coach,
      to the New Exchange, to buy her some things; where we saw some new-fashion
      pettycoats of sarcenett, with a black broad lace printed round the bottom
      and before, very handsome, and my wife had a mind to one of them, but we
      did not then buy one. But thence to Mr. Bowyer's, thinking to have spoke
      to them for our Sarah to go to Huntsmore for a while to get away her ague,
      but we had not opportunity to do it, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up early and took my physique; it wrought all the morning well. At
      noon dined, and all the afternoon, Mr. Hater to that end coming to me, he
      and I did go about my abstracting all the contracts made in the office
      since we came into it. So at night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. To Mr. Holliard's in the morning, thinking to be let blood, but he
      was gone out. So to White Hall, thinking to have had a Seal at Privy Seal,
      but my Lord did not come, and so I walked back home and staid within all
      the afternoon, there being no office kept to-day, but in the evening Sir
      W. Batten sent for me to tell me that he had this day spoke to the Duke
      about raising our houses, and he hath given us leave to do it, at which,
      being glad, I went home merry, and after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. This morning sending the boy down into the cellar for some beer I
      followed him with a cane, and did there beat him for his staying of awards
      and other faults, and his sister came to me down and begged for him. So I
      forebore, and afterwards, in my wife's chamber, did there talk to Jane how
      much I did love the boy for her sake, and how much it do concern to
      correct the boy for his faults, or else he would be undone. So at last she
      was well pleased. This morning Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Batten and I met at
      the office, and did conclude of our going to Portsmouth next week, in
      which my mind is at a great loss what to do with my wife, for I cannot
      persuade her to go to Brampton, and I am loth to leave her at, home. All
      the afternoon in several places to put things in order for my going. At
      night home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. This morning, before we sat, I went to Aldgate; and at the corner
      shop, a draper's, I stood, and did see Barkestead, Okey, and Corbet, drawn
      towards the gallows at Tiburne; and there they were hanged and quartered.
      They all looked very cheerful; but I hear they all die defending what they
      did to the King to be just; which is very strange. So to the office and
      then home to dinner, and Captain David Lambert came to take his leave of
      me, he being to go back to Tangier there to lie. Then abroad about
      business, and in the evening did get a bever, an old one, but a very good
      one, of Sir W. Batten, for which I must give him something; but I am very
      well pleased with it. So after writing by the post to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). My intention being to go this morning to White Hall to
      hear South, my Lord Chancellor's chaplain, the famous preacher and oratour
      of Oxford, (who the last Lord's day did sink down in the pulpit before the
      King, and could not proceed,) it did rain, and the wind against me, that I
      could by no means get a boat or coach to carry me; and so I staid at
      Paul's, where the judges did all meet, and heard a sermon, it being the
      first Sunday of the term; but they had a very poor sermon. So to my Lady's
      and dined, and so to White Hall to Sir G. Carteret, and so to the
      Chappell, where I challenged my pew as Clerk of the Privy Seal and had it,
      and then walked home with Mr. Blagrave to his old house in the Fishyard,
      and there he had a pretty kinswoman that sings, and we did sing some holy
      things, and afterwards others came in and so I left them, and by water
      through the bridge (which did trouble me) home, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st: This morning I attempted to persuade my wife in bed to go to
      Brampton this week, but she would not, which troubles me, and seeing that
      I could keep it no longer from her, I told her that I was resolved to go
      to Portsmouth to-morrow. Sir W. Batten goes to Chatham to-day, and will be
      back again to come for Portsmouth after us on Thursday next. I went to
      Westminster and several places about business. Then at noon dined with my
      Lord Crew; and after dinner went up to Sir Thos. Crew's chamber, who is
      still ill. He tells me how my Lady Duchess of Richmond and Castlemaine had
      a falling out the other day; and she calls the latter Jane Shore, and did
      hope to see her come to the same end that she did. Coming down again to my
      Lord, he told me that news was come that the Queen is landed; at which I
      took leave, and by coach hurried to White Hall, the bells ringing in
      several places; but I found there no such matter, nor anything like it. So
      I went by appointment to Anthony Joyce's, where I sat with his wife and
      Matt. Joyce an hour or two, and so her husband not being at home, away I
      went and in Cheapside spied him and took him into the coach. Home, and
      there I found my Lady Jemimah, and Anne, and Madamoiselle come to see my
      wife, whom I left, and to talk with Joyce about a project I have of his
      and my joyning, to get some money for my brother Tom and his kinswoman to
      help forward with her portion if they should marry. I mean in buying of
      tallow of him at a low rate for the King, and Tom should have the profit;
      but he tells me the profit will be considerable, at which I was troubled,
      but I have agreed with him to serve some in my absence. He went away, and
      then came Mr. Moore and sat late with me talking about business, and so
      went away and I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. After taking leave of my wife, which we could hardly do kindly,
      because of her mind to go along with me, Sir W. Pen and I took coach and
      so over the bridge to Lambeth, W. Bodham and Tom Hewet going as clerks to
      Sir W. Pen, and my Will for me. Here we got a dish of buttered eggs, and
      there staid till Sir G. Carteret came to us from White Hall, who brought
      Dr. Clerke with him, at which I was very glad, and so we set out, and I
      was very much pleased with his company, and were very merry all the way
      .... We came to Gilford and there passed our time in the garden, cutting
      of sparagus for supper, the best that ever I eat in my life but in the
      house last year. Supped well, and the Doctor and I to bed together,
      calling cozens from his name and my office.
    </p>
    <p>
      23d. Up early, and to Petersfield, and there dined well; and thence got a
      countryman to guide us by Havant, to avoid going through the Forest; but
      he carried us much out of the way, and upon our coming we sent away an
      express to Sir W. Batten to stop his coming, which I did project to make
      good my oath, that my wife should come if any of our wives came, which my
      Lady Batten did intend to do with her husband. The Doctor and I lay
      together at Wiard's, the chyrurgeon's, in Portsmouth, his wife a very
      pretty woman. We lay very well and merrily; in the morning, concluding him
      to be of the eldest blood and house of the Clerkes, because that all the
      fleas came to him and not to me.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up and to Sir G. Carteret's lodgings at Mrs. Stephens's, where we
      keep our table all the time we are here. Thence all of us to the
      Pay-house; but the books not being ready, we went to church to the
      lecture, where there was my Lord Ormond and Manchester, and much London
      company, though not so much as I expected. Here we had a very good sermon
      upon this text: "In love serving one another;" which pleased me very well.
      No news of the Queen at all. So to dinner; and then to the Pay all the
      afternoon. Then W. Pen and I walked to the King's Yard, and there lay at
      Mr. Tippets's, where exceeding well treated.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. All the morning at Portsmouth, at the Pay, and then to dinner, and
      again to the Pay; and at night got the Doctor to go lie with me, and much
      pleased with his company; but I was much troubled in my eyes, by reason of
      the healths I have this day been forced to drink.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Sir George' and I, and his clerk Mr. Stephens, and Mr. Holt our
      guide, over to Gosport; and so rode to Southampton. In our way, besides my
      Lord Southampton's' parks and lands, which in one view we could see L6,000
      per annum, we observed a little church-yard, where the graves are
      accustomed to be all sowed with sage.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Gough says, "It is the custom at this day all over Wales to strew
     the graves, both within and without the church, with green herbs,
     branches of box, flowers, rushes, and flags, for one year, after
     which such as can afford it lay down a stone."&mdash;Brand's Popular
     Antiquities, edited W. C. Hazlitt, vol. ii., p. 218.]
</pre>
    <p>
      At Southampton we went to the Mayor's and there dined, and had sturgeon of
      their own catching the last week, which do not happen in twenty years, and
      it was well ordered. They brought us also some caveare, which I attempted
      to order, but all to no purpose, for they had neither given it salt
      enough, nor are the seedes of the roe broke, but are all in berryes. The
      towne is one most gallant street, and is walled round with stone, &amp;c.,
      and Bevis's picture upon one of the gates; many old walls of religious
      houses, and the key, well worth seeing. After dinner to horse again, being
      in nothing troubled but the badness of my hat, which I borrowed to save my
      beaver. Home by night and wrote letters to London, and so with Sir W. Pen
      to the Dock to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Sunday). Sir W. Pen got trimmed before me, and so took the coach to
      Portsmouth to wait on my Lord Steward to church, and sent the coach for me
      back again. So I rode to church, and met my Lord Chamberlain upon the
      walls of the garrison, who owned and spoke to me. I followed him in the
      crowd of gallants through the Queen's lodgings to chappell; the rooms
      being all rarely furnished, and escaped hardly being set on fire
      yesterday. At chappell we had a most excellent and eloquent sermon. And
      here I spoke and saluted Mrs. Pierce, but being in haste could not learn
      of her where her lodgings are, which vexes me. Thence took Ned Pickering
      to dinner with us, and the two Marshes, father and Son, dined with us, and
      very merry. After dinner Sir W. Batten and I, the Doctor, and Ned
      Pickering by coach to the Yard, and there on board the Swallow in the dock
      hear our navy chaplain preach a sad sermon, full of nonsense and false
      Latin; but prayed for the Right Honourable the principal officers.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Principal officers of the navy, of which body Pepys was one as
     Clerk of the Acts.]
</pre>
    <p>
      After sermon took him to Mr. Tippets's to drink a glass of wine, and so at
      4 back again by coach to Portsmouth, and then visited the Mayor, Mr.
      Timbrell, our anchor-smith, who showed us the present they have for the
      Queen; which is a salt-sellar of silver, the walls christall, with four
      eagles and four greyhounds standing up at the top to bear up a dish; which
      indeed is one of the neatest pieces of plate that ever I saw, and the case
      is very pretty also.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A salt-cellar answering this description is preserved at the
     Tower.]
</pre>
    <p>
      This evening came a merchantman in the harbour, which we hired at London
      to carry horses to Portugall; but, Lord! what running there was to the
      seaside to hear what news, thinking it had come from the Queen. In the
      evening Sir George, Sir W. Pen and I walked round the walls, and thence we
      two with the Doctor to the yard, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. The Doctor and I begun philosophy discourse exceeding pleasant. He
      offers to bring me into the college of virtuosoes&mdash;[The Royal
      Society.]&mdash;and my Lord Brouncker's acquaintance, and to show me some
      anatomy, which makes me very glad; and I shall endeavour it when I come to
      London. Sir W. Pen much troubled upon letters came last night. Showed me
      one of Dr. Owen's
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [John Owen, D.D., a learned Nonconformist divine, and a voluminous
     theological writer, born 1616, made Dean of Christ Church in 1653 by
     the Parliament, and ejected in 1659-60.  He died at Ealing in 1683.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to his son,&mdash;[William Penn, the celebrated Quaker.]&mdash;whereby it
      appears his son is much perverted in his opinion by him; which I now
      perceive is one thing that hath put Sir William so long off the hooks. By
      coach to the Pay-house, and so to work again, and then to dinner, and to
      it again, and so in the evening to the yard, and supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. At the pay all the morning, and so to dinner; and then to it again
      in the afternoon, and after our work was done, Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Pen
      and I walked forth, and I spied Mrs. Pierce and another lady passing by.
      So I left them and went to the ladies, and walked with them up and down,
      and took them to Mrs. Stephens, and there gave them wine and sweetmeats,
      and were very merry; and then comes the Doctor, and we carried them by
      coach to their lodging, which was very poor, but the best they could get,
      and such as made much mirth among us. So I appointed one to watch when the
      gates of the town were ready to be shut, and to give us notice; and so the
      Doctor and I staid with them playing and laughing, and at last were forced
      to bid good night for fear of being locked into the town all night. So we
      walked to the yard, designing how to prevent our going to London tomorrow,
      that we might be merry with these ladies, which I did. So to supper and
      merrily to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. This morning Sir G. Carteret came down to the yard, and there we
      mustered over all the men and determined of some regulations in the yard,
      and then to dinner, all the officers of the yard with us, and after dinner
      walk to Portsmouth, there to pay off the Success, which we did pretty
      early, and so I took leave of Sir W. Pen, he desiring to know whither I
      went, but I would not tell him. I went to the ladies, and there took them
      and walked to the Mayor's to show them the present, and then to the Dock,
      where Mr. Tippets made much of them, and thence back again, the Doctor
      being come to us to their lodgings, whither came our supper by my
      appointment, and we very merry, playing at cards and laughing very merry
      till 12 o'clock at night, and so having staid so long (which we had
      resolved to stay till they bade us be gone), which yet they did not do but
      by consent, we bade them good night, and so past the guards, and went to
      the Doctor's lodgings, and there lay with him, our discourse being much
      about the quality of the lady with Mrs. Pierce, she being somewhat old and
      handsome, and painted and fine, and had a very handsome maid with her,
      which we take to be the marks of a bawd. But Mrs. Pierce says she is a
      stranger to her and met by chance in the coach, and pretends to be a
      dresser. Her name is Eastwood. So to sleep in a bad bed about one o'clock
      in the morning. This afternoon after dinner comes Mr. Stephenson, one of
      the burgesses of the town, to tell me that the Mayor and burgesses did
      desire my acceptance of a burgess-ship, and were ready at the Mayor's to
      make me one. So I went, and there they were all ready, and did with much
      civility give me my oath, and after the oath, did by custom shake me all
      by the hand. So I took them to a tavern and made them drink, and paying
      the reckoning, went away. They having first in the tavern made Mr. Waith
      also a burgess, he coming in while we were drinking. It cost me a piece in
      gold to the Town Clerk, and 10s. to the Bayliffes, and spent 6s.
    </p>
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    <p>
      May 1st. Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Pen, and myself, with our clerks, set out
      this morning from Portsmouth very early, and got by noon to Petersfield;
      several officers of the Yard accompanying us so far. Here we dined and
      were merry. At dinner comes my Lord Carlingford from London, going to
      Portsmouth: tells us that the Duchess of York is brought to bed of a girl,&mdash;[Mary,
      afterwards Queen of England.]&mdash;at which I find nobody pleased; and
      that Prince Rupert and the Duke of Buckingham are sworn of the Privy
      Councell. He himself made a dish with eggs of the butter of the Sparagus,
      which is very fine meat, which I will practise hereafter. To horse again
      after dinner, and got to Gilford, where after supper I to bed, having this
      day been offended by Sir W. Pen's foolish talk, and I offending him with
      my answers. Among others he in discourse complaining of want of
      confidence, did ask me to lend him a grain or two, which I told him I
      thought he was better stored with than myself, before Sir George. So that
      I see I must keep a greater distance than I have done, and I hope I may do
      it because of the interest which I am making with Sir George. To bed all
      alone, and my Will in the truckle bed.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [According to the original Statutes of Corpus Christi Coll. Oxon,
     a Scholar slept in a truckle bed below each Fellow.  Called also
     "a trindle bed."  Compare Hall's description of an obsequious tutor:

                              "He lieth in a truckle bed
                    While his young master lieth o'er his head."

                                                  Satires, ii.  6, 5.

     The bed was drawn in the daytime under the high bed of the tutor.
     See Wordsworth's "University Life in the Eighteenth Century."&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      2nd. Early to coach again and to Kingston, where we baited a little, and
      presently to coach again and got early to London, and I found all well at
      home, and Mr. Hunt and his wife had dined with my wife to-day, and been
      very kind to my wife in my absence. After I had washed myself, it having
      been the hottest day that has been this year, I took them all by coach to
      Mrs. Hunt's, and I to Dr. Clerke's lady, and gave her her letter and
      token. She is a very fine woman, and what with her person and the number
      of fine ladies that were with her, I was much out of countenance, and
      could hardly carry myself like a man among them; but however, I staid till
      my courage was up again, and talked to them, and viewed her house, which
      is most pleasant, and so drank and good-night. And so to my Lord's
      lodgings, where by chance I spied my Lady's coach, and found her and my
      Lady Wright there, and so I spoke to them, and they being gone went to Mr.
      Hunt's for my wife, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Sir W. Pen and I by coach to St. James's, and there to the Duke's
      Chamber, who had been a-hunting this morning and is come back again.
      Thence to Westminster, where I met Mr. Moore, and hear that Mr. Watkins'
      is suddenly dead since my going. To dinner to my Lady Sandwich, and Sir
      Thomas Crew's children coming thither, I took them and all my Ladys to the
      Tower and showed them the lions
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Tower Menagerie was not abolished until the reign of
     William IV.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and all that was to be shown, and so took them to my house, and there made
      much of them, and so saw them back to my Lady's. Sir Thomas Crew's
      children being as pretty and the best behaved that ever I saw of their
      age. Thence, at the goldsmith's, took my picture in little,&mdash;[Miniature
      by Savill]&mdash;which is now done, home with me, and pleases me
      exceedingly and my wife. So to supper and to bed, it being exceeding hot.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th (Lord's day). Lay long talking with my wife, then Mr. Holliard came to
      me and let me blood, about sixteen ounces, I being exceedingly full of
      blood and very good. I begun to be sick; but lying upon my back I was
      presently well again, and did give him 5s. for his pains, and so we
      parted, and I, to my chamber to write down my journall from the beginning
      of my late journey to this house. Dined well, and after dinner, my arm
      tied up with a black ribbon, I walked with my wife to my brother Tom's;
      our boy waiting on us with his sword, which this day he begins to wear, to
      outdo Sir W. Pen's boy, who this day, and Six W. Batten's too, begin to
      wear new livery; but I do take mine to be the neatest of them all. I led
      my wife to Mrs. Turner's pew, and the church being full, it being to hear
      a Doctor who is to preach a probacon sermon, I went out to the Temple and
      there walked, and so when church was done went to Mrs. Turner's, and after
      a stay there, my wife and I walked to Grays Inn, to observe fashions of
      the ladies, because of my wife's making some clothes. Thence homewards,
      and called in at Antony Joyce's, where we found his wife brought home sick
      from church, and was in a convulsion fit. So home and to Sir W. Pen's and
      there supped, and so to prayers at home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. My arme not being well, I staid within all the morning, and dined
      alone at home, my wife being gone out to buy some things for herself, and
      a gown for me to dress myself in. And so all the afternoon looking over my
      papers, and at night walked upon the leads, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. This morning I got my seat set up on the leads, which pleases me
      well. So to the office, and thence to the Change, but could not meet with
      my uncle Wight. So home to dinner and then out again to several places to
      pay money and to understand my debts, and so home and walked with my wife
      on the leads, and so to supper and to bed. I find it a hard matter to
      settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Walked to Westminster; where I understand the news that Mr. Montagu
      is this last night come to the King with news, that he left the Queen and
      fleet in the Bay of Biscay, coming this wayward; and that he believes she
      is now at the Isle of Scilly. So at noon to my Lord Crew's and there
      dined, and after dinner Sir Thos. Crew and I talked together, and among
      other instances of the simple light discourse that sometimes is in the
      Parliament House, he told me how in the late business of Chymny money,
      when all occupiers were to pay, it was questioned whether women were under
      that name to pay, and somebody rose and said that they were not occupiers,
      but occupied. Thence to Paul's Church Yard; where seeing my Lady's
      Sandwich and Carteret, and my wife (who this day made a visit the first
      time to my Lady Carteret), come by coach, and going to Hide Park, I was
      resolved to follow them; and so went to Mrs. Turner's: and thence found
      her out at the Theatre, where I saw the last act of the "Knight of the
      Burning Pestle," which pleased me not at all. And so after the play done,
      she and The. Turner and Mrs. Lucin and I, in her coach to the Park; and
      there found them out, and spoke to them; and observed many fine ladies,
      and staid till all were gone almost. And so to Mrs. Turner's, and there
      supped, and so walked home, and by and by comes my wife home, brought by
      my Lady Carteret to the gate, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. At the office all the morning doing business alone, and then to the
      Wardrobe, where my Lady going out with the children to dinner I staid not,
      but returned home, and was overtaken in St. Paul's Churchyard by Sir G.
      Carteret in his coach, and so he carried me to the Exchange, where I staid
      awhile. He told me that the Queen and the fleet were in Mount's Bay on
      Monday last, and that the Queen endures her sickness pretty well. He also
      told me how Sir John Lawson hath done some execution upon the Turks in the
      Straight, of which I am glad, and told the news the first on the Exchange,
      and was much followed by merchants to tell it. So home and to dinner, and
      by and by to the office, and after the rest gone (my Lady Albemarle being
      this day at dinner at Sir W. Batten's) Sir G. Carteret comes, and he and I
      walked in the garden, and, among other discourse, tells me that it is Mr.
      Coventry that is to come to us as a Commissioner of the Navy; at which he
      is much vexed, and cries out upon Sir W. Pen, and threatens him highly.
      And looking upon his lodgings, which are now enlarging, he in passion
      cried, "Guarda mi spada; for, by God, I may chance to keep him in Ireland,
      when he is there:" for Sir W. Pen is going thither with my Lord
      Lieutenant. But it is my design to keep much in with Sir George; and I
      think I have begun very well towards it. So to the office, and was there
      late doing business, and so with my head full of business I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and to my office, and so to dinner at home, and then to several
      places to pay my debts, and then to Westminster to Dr. Castle, who
      discoursed with me about Privy Seal business, which I do not much mind, it
      being little worth, but by Watkins's&mdash;[clerk of the Privy Seal]&mdash;late
      sudden death we are like to lose money. Thence to Mr. de Cretz, and there
      saw some good pieces that he hath copyed of the King's pieces, some of
      Raphael and Michael Angelo; and I have borrowed an Elizabeth of his
      copying to hang up in my house, and sent it home by Will. Thence with Mr.
      Salisbury, who I met there, into Covent Garden to an alehouse, to see a
      picture that hangs there, which is offered for 20s., and I offered
      fourteen&mdash;but it is worth much more money&mdash;but did not buy it, I
      having no mind to break my oath. Thence to see an Italian puppet play that
      is within the rayles there, which is very pretty, the best that ever I
      saw, and great resort of gallants. So to the Temple and by water home, and
      so walk upon the leads, and in the dark there played upon my flageolette,
      it being a fine still evening, and so to supper and to bed. This day I
      paid Godfrey's debt of 40 and odd pounds. The Duke of York went last night
      to Portsmouth; so that I believe the Queen is near.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. By myself at the office all the morning drawing up instructions for
      Portsmouth yard in those things wherein we at our late being there did
      think fit to reform, and got them signed this morning to send away
      to-night, the Duke being now there. At noon to the Wardrobe; there dined.
      My Lady told me how my Lady Castlemaine do speak of going to lie in at
      Hampton Court; which she and all our ladies are much troubled at, because
      of the King's being forced to show her countenance in the sight of the
      Queen when she comes. Back to the office and there all afternoon, and in
      the evening comes Sir G. Carteret, and he and I did hire a ship for
      Tangier, and other things together; and I find that he do single me out to
      join with me apart from the rest, which I am much glad of. So home, and
      after being trimmed, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day). To our church in the morning, where, our Minister being
      out of town, a dull, flat Presbiter preached. Dined at home, and my wife's
      brother with us, we having a good dish of stewed beef of Jane's own
      dressing, which was well done, and a piece of sturgeon of a barrel sent me
      by Captain Cocke. In the afternoon to White Hall; and there walked an hour
      or two in the Park, where I saw the King now out of mourning, in a suit
      laced with gold and silver, which it was said was out of fashion. Thence
      to the Wardrobe; and there consulted with the ladies about our going to
      Hampton Court to-morrow, and thence home, and after settled business there
      my wife and I to the Wardrobe, and there we lay all night in Captain
      Ferrers' chambers, but the bed so soft that I could not sleep that hot
      night.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Mr. Townsend called us up by four o'clock; and by five the three
      ladies, my wife and I, and Mr. Townsend, his son and daughter, were got to
      the barge and set out. We walked from Mortlake to Richmond, and so to boat
      again. And from Teddington to Hampton Court Mr. Townsend and I walked
      again. And then met the ladies, and were showed the whole house by Mr.
      Marriott; which is indeed nobly furnished, particularly the Queen's bed,
      given her by the States of Holland; a looking-glass sent by the
      Queen-mother from France, hanging in the Queen's chamber, and many brave
      pictures. So to Mr. Marriott's, and there we rested ourselves and drank.
      And so to barge again, and there we had good victuals and wine, and were
      very merry; and got home about eight at night very well. So my wife and I
      took leave of my Ladies, and home by a hackney-coach, the easiest that
      ever I met with, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. All the morning at Westminster and elsewhere about business, and
      dined at the Wardrobe; and after dinner, sat talking an hour or two alone
      with my Lady. She is afeard that my Lady Castlemaine will keep still with
      the King, and I am afeard she will not, for I love her well. Thence to my
      brother's, and finding him in a lie about the lining of my new morning
      gown, saying that it was the same with the outside, I was very angry with
      him and parted so. So home after an hour stay at Paul's Churchyard, and
      there came Mr. Morelock of Chatham, and brought me a stately cake, and I
      perceive he has done the same to the rest, of which I was glad; so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. To Westminster; and at the Privy Seal I saw Mr. Coventry's seal for
      his being Commissioner with us, at which I know not yet whether to be glad
      or otherwise. So doing several things by the way, I walked home, and after
      dinner to the office all the afternoon. At night, all the bells of the
      town rung, and bonfires made for the joy of the Queen's arrival, who came
      and landed at Portsmouth last night. But I do not see much thorough joy,
      but only an indifferent one, in the hearts of people, who are much
      discontented at the pride and luxury of the Court, and running in debt.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up early, Mr. Hater and I to the office, and there I made an end of
      my book of contracts which I have been making an abstract of. Dined at
      home, and spent most of the day at the office. At night to supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Upon a letter this morning from Mr. Moore, I went to my cozen
      Turner's chamber, and there put him drawing a replication to Tom Trice's
      answer speedily. So to Whitehall and there met Mr. Moore, and I walked
      long in Westminster Hall, and thence with him to the Wardrobe to dinner,
      where dined Mrs. Sanderson, the mother of the maids, and after dinner my
      Lady and she and I on foot to Pater Noster Row to buy a petticoat against
      the Queen's coming for my Lady, of plain satin, and other things; and
      being come back again, we there met Mr. Nathaniel Crew
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Nathaniel Crew, born 1633, fifth son of John, first Lord Crew; he
     himself became third Lord Crew in 1697.  Sub-Rector of Lincoln
     College, Oxford, 1659.  Took orders in 1664, and was Rector of
     Lincoln College in 1668; Dean of Chichester, 1669; Bishop of Oxford,
     1671; Bishop of Durham, 1674; sworn of the Privy Council in 1676.
     He was very subservient to James II., and at the Revolution was
     excepted from the general pardon of May, 1690, but he was allowed to
     keep possession of the bishopric of Durham.]
</pre>
    <p>
      at the Wardrobe with a young gentleman, a friend and fellow student of
      his, and of a good family, Mr. Knightly, and known to the Crews, of whom
      my Lady privately told me she hath some thoughts of a match for my Lady
      Jemimah. I like the person very well, and he hath L2000 per annum. Thence
      to the office, and there we sat, and thence after writing letters to all
      my friends with my Lord at Portsmouth, I walked to my brother Tom's to see
      a velvet cloak, which I buy of Mr. Moore. It will cost me L8 10s.; he
      bought it for L6 10s., but it is worth my money. So home and find all
      things made clean against to-morrow, which pleases me well. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Whitsunday). By water to White Hall, and thereto chappell in my pew
      belonging to me as Clerk of the Privy Seal; and there I heard a most
      excellent sermon of Dr. Hacket, Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, upon
      these words: "He that drinketh this water shall never thirst." We had an
      excellent anthem, sung by Captain Cooke and another, and brave musique.
      And then the King came down and offered, and took the sacrament upon his
      knees; a sight very well worth seeing. Hence with Sir G. Carteret to his
      lodging to dinner with his Lady and one Mr. Brevin, a French Divine, we
      were very merry, and good discourse, and I had much talk with my Lady.
      After dinner, and so to chappell again; and there had another good anthem
      of Captain Cooke's. Thence to the Councell-chamber; where the King and
      Councell sat till almost eleven o'clock at night, and I forced to walk up
      and down the gallerys till that time of night. They were reading all the
      bills over that are to pass to-morrow at the House, before the King's
      going out of town and proroguing the House. At last the Councell risen,
      and Sir G. Carteret telling me what the Councell hath ordered about the
      ships designed to carry horse from Ireland to Portugall, which is now
      altered. I got a coach and so home, sending the boat away without me. At
      home I found my wife discontented at my being abroad, but I pleased her.
      She was in her new suit of black sarcenet and yellow petticoat very
      pretty. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Long in bed, sometimes scolding with my wife, and then pleased
      again, and at last up, and put on my riding cloth suit, and a camelott
      coat new, which pleases me well enough. To the Temple about my
      replication, and so to my brother Tom's, and there hear that my father
      will be in town this week. So home, the shops being but some shut and some
      open. I hear that the House of Commons do think much that they should be
      forced to huddle over business this morning against the afternoon, for the
      King to pass their Acts, that he may go out of town.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [To ears accustomed to the official words of speeches from the
     throne at the present day, the familiar tone of the following
     extracts from Charles's speech to the Commons, on the 1st of March;
     will be amusing: "I will conclude with putting you in mind of the
     season of the year, and the convenience of your being in the
     country, in many respects, for the good and welfare of it; for you
     will find much tares have been sowed there in your absence.  The
     arrival of my wife, who I expect some time this month, and the
     necessity of my own being out of town to meet her, and to stay some
     time before she comes hither, makes it very necessary that the
     Parliament be adjourned before Easter, to meet again in the winter.
 ....  The mention of my wife's arrival puts me in mind to
     desire you to put that compliment upon her, that her entrance into
     the town may be with more decency than the ways will now suffer it
     to be; and, to that purpose, I pray you would quickly pass such laws
     as are before you, in order to the amending those ways, and that she
     may not find Whitehall surrounded with water."  Such a bill passed
     the Commons on the 24th June.  From Charles's Speech, March 1st,
     1662.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      But he, I hear since, was forced to stay till almost nine o'clock at night
      before he could have done, and then he prorogued them; and so to Gilford,
      and lay there. Home, and Mr. Hunt dined with me, and were merry. After
      dinner Sir W. Pen and his daughter, and I and my wife by coach to the
      Theatre, and there in a box saw "The Little Thief" well done. Thence to
      Moorefields, and walked and eat some cheesecake and gammon of bacon, but
      when I was come home I was sick, forced to vomit it up again. So my wife
      walking and singing upon the leads till very late, it being pleasant and
      moonshine, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Sir W. Pen and I did a little business at the office, and so home
      again. Then comes Dean Fuller after we had dined, but I got something for
      him, and very merry we were for an hour or two, and I am most pleased with
      his company and goodness. At last parted, and my wife and I by coach to
      the Opera, and there saw the 2nd part of "The Siege of Rhodes," but it is
      not so well done as when Roxalana was there, who, it is said, is now owned
      by my Lord of Oxford.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [For note on Mrs. Davenport, who was deceived by a pretended
     marriage with the Earl of Oxford, see ante.  Lord Oxford's first
     wife died in 1659.  He married, in 1672, his second wife, Diana
     Kirke, of whom nothing more need be said than that she bore an
     inappropriate Christian name.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence to Tower-wharf, and there took boat, and we all walked to Halfeway
      House, and there eat and drank, and were pleasant, and so finally home
      again in the evening, end so good night, this being a very pleasant life
      that we now lead, and have long done; the Lord be blessed, and make us
      thankful. But, though I am much against too much spending, yet I do think
      it best to enjoy some degree of pleasure now that we have health, money,
      and opportunity, rather than to leave pleasures to old age or poverty,
      when we cannot have them so properly.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. My wife and I by water to Westminster, and after she had seen her
      father (of whom lately I have heard nothing at all what he does or her
      mother), she comes to me to my Lord's lodgings, where she and I staid
      walking in White Hall garden. And in the Privy-garden saw the finest
      smocks and linnen petticoats of my Lady Castlemaine's, laced with rich
      lace at the bottom, that ever I saw; and did me good to look upon them. So
      to Wilkinson's, she and I and Sarah to dinner, where I had a good quarter
      of lamb and a salat. Here Sarah told me how the King dined at my Lady
      Castlemaine's, and supped, every day and night the last week; and that the
      night that the bonfires were made for joy of the Queen's arrivall, the
      King was there; but there was no fire at her door, though at all the rest
      of the doors almost in the street; which was much observed: and that the
      King and she did send for a pair of scales and weighed one another; and
      she, being with child, was said to be heaviest. But she is now a most
      disconsolate creature, and comes not out of doors, since the King's going.
      But we went to the Theatre to "The French Dancing Master," and there with
      much pleasure gazed upon her (Lady Castlemaine); but it troubles us to see
      her look dejectedly and slighted by people already. The play pleased us
      very well; but Lacy's part, the Dancing Master, the best in the world.
      Thence to my brother Tom's, in expectation to have met my father to-night
      come out of the country, but he is not yet come, but here we found my
      uncle Fenner and his old wife, whom I had not seen since the wedding
      dinner, nor care to see her. They being gone, my wife and I went and saw
      Mrs. Turner, whom we found not well, and her two boys Charles and Will
      come out of the country, grown very plain boys after three years being
      under their father's care in Yorkshire. Thence to Tom's again, and there
      supped well, my she cozen Scott being there and my father being not come,
      we walked home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22d. This morning comes an order from the Secretary of State, Nicholas,
      for me to let one Mr. Lee, a Councellor, to view what papers I have
      relating to passages of the late times, wherein Sir H. Vane's hand is
      employed, in order to the drawing up his charge; which I did, and at noon
      he, with Sir W. Pen and his daughter, dined with me, and he to his work
      again, and we by coach to the Theatre and saw "Love in a Maze." The play
      hath little in it but Lacy's part of a country fellow, which he did to
      admiration. So home, and supped with Sir W. Pen, where Sir W. Batten and
      Captn. Cocke came to us, to whom I have lately been a great stranger. This
      night we had each of us a letter from Captain Teddiman from the Streights,
      of a peace made upon good terms, by Sir J. Lawson, with the Argier men,
      which is most excellent news? He hath also sent each of us some anchovies,
      olives, and muscatt; but I know not yet what that is, and am ashamed to
      ask. After supper home, and to bed, resolving to make up this week in
      seeing plays and pleasure, and so fall to business next week again for a
      great while.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. At the office good part of the morning, and then about noon with my
      wife on foot to the Wardrobe. My wife went up to the dining room to my
      Lady Paulina, and I staid below talking with Mr. Moore in the parley,
      reading of the King's and Chancellor's late speeches at the proroguing of
      the Houses of Parliament. And while I was reading, news was brought me
      that my Lord Sandwich is come and gone up to my Lady, which put me into
      great suspense of joy, so I went up waiting my Lord's coming out of my
      Lady's chamber, which by and by he did, and looks very well, and my soul
      is glad to see him. He very merry, and hath left the King and Queen at
      Portsmouth, and is come up to stay here till next Wednesday, and then to
      meet the King and Queen at Hampton Court. So to dinner, Mr. Browne, Clerk
      of the House of Lords, and his wife and brother there also; and my Lord
      mighty merry; among other things, saying that the Queen is a very
      agreeable lady, and paints still. After dinner I showed him my letter from
      Teddiman about the news from Argier, which pleases him exceedingly; and he
      writ one to the Duke of York about it, and sent it express. There coming
      much company after dinner to my Lord, my wife and I slunk away to the
      Opera, where we saw "Witt in a Constable," the first time that it is
      acted; but so silly a play I never saw I think in my life. After it was
      done, my wife and I to the puppet play in Covent Garden, which I saw the
      other day, and indeed it is very pleasant. Here among the fidlers I first
      saw a dulcimere
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The dulcimer (or psaltery) consisted of a flat box, acting as a
     resonating chamber, over which strings of wire were stretched: These
     were struck by little hammers.]
</pre>
    <p>
      played on with sticks knocking of the strings, and is very pretty. So by
      water home, and supped with Sir William Pen very merry, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. To the Wardrobe, and there again spoke with my Lord, and saw W.
      Howe, who is grown a very pretty and is a sober fellow. Thence abroad with
      Mr. Creed, of whom I informed myself of all I had a mind to know. Among
      other things, the great difficulty my Lord hath been in all this summer
      for lack of good and full orders from the King; and I doubt our Lords of
      the Councell do not mind things as the late powers did, but their
      pleasures or profit more. That the Juego de Toros is a simple sport, yet
      the greatest in Spain. That the Queen hath given no rewards to any of the
      captains or officers, but only to my Lord Sandwich; and that was a bag of
      gold, which was no honourable present, of about L1400 sterling. How
      recluse the Queen hath ever been, and all the voyage never come upon the
      deck, nor put her head out of her cabin; but did love my Lord's musique,
      and would send for it down to the state-room, and she sit in her cabin
      within hearing of it. That my Lord was forced to have some clashing with
      the Council of Portugall about payment of the portion, before he could get
      it; which was, besides Tangier and a free trade in the Indys, two millions
      of crowns, half now, and the other half in twelve months. But they have
      brought but little money; but the rest in sugars and other commoditys, and
      bills of exchange. That the King of Portugall is a very fool almost, and
      his mother do all, and he is a very poor Prince. After a morning draft at
      the Star in Cheapside, I took him to the Exchange, thence home, but my
      wife having dined, I took him to Fish Street, and there we had a couple of
      lobsters, and dined upon them, and much discourse. And so I to the office,
      and that being done, Sir W. Pen and I to Deptford by water to Captain
      Rooth's to see him, he being very sick, and by land home, calling at
      Halfway house, where we eat and drank. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lord's day). To trimming myself, which I have this week done every
      morning, with a pumice stone,&mdash;[Shaving with pumice stone.]&mdash;which
      I learnt of Mr. Marsh, when I was last at Portsmouth; and I find it very
      easy, speedy, and cleanly, and shall continue the practice of it. To
      church, and heard a good sermon of Mr. Woodcocke's at our church; only in
      his latter prayer for a woman in childbed, he prayed that God would
      deliver her from the hereditary curse of child-bearing, which seemed a
      pretty strange expression. Dined at home, and Mr. Creed with me. This day
      I had the first dish of pease I have had this year. After discourse he and
      I abroad, and walked up and down, and looked into many churches, among
      others Mr. Baxter's at Blackfryers. Then to the Wardrobe, where I found my
      Lord takes physic, so I did not see him, but with Captn. Ferrers in Mr.
      George Montagu's coach to Charing Cross; and there at the Triumph tavern
      he showed me some Portugall ladys, which are come to town before the
      Queen. They are not handsome, and their farthingales a strange dress.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Farthingales had gone out of fashion in England during the reign of
     Charles I., and therefore their use by the Portuguese ladies
     astonished the English.  Evelyn also remarks in his Diary on this
     ugly custom (May 30th, 1662).]
</pre>
    <p>
      Many ladies and persons of quality come to see them. I find nothing in
      them that is pleasing; and I see they have learnt to kiss and look freely
      up and down already, and I do believe will soon forget the recluse
      practice of their own country. They complain much for lack of good water
      to drink. So to the Wardrobe back on foot and supped with my Lady, and so
      home, and after a walk upon the leads with my wife, to prayers and bed.
      The King's guards and some City companies do walk up and down the town
      these five or six days; which makes me think, and they do say, there are
      some plots in laying. God keep us.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up by four o'clock in the morning, and fell to the preparing of some
      accounts for my Lord of Sandwich. By and by, by appointment comes Mr.
      Moore, and, by what appears to us at present, we found that my Lord is
      above L7,000 in debt, and that he hath money coming into him that will
      clear all, and so we think him clear, but very little money in his purse.
      So to my Lord's, and after he was ready, we spent an hour with him, giving
      him an account thereof; and he having some L6,000 in his hands, remaining
      of the King's, he is resolved to make use of that, and get off of it as
      well as he can, which I like well of, for else I fear he will scarce get
      beforehand again a great while. Thence home, and to the Trinity House;
      where the Brethren (who have been at Deptford choosing a new Maister;
      which is Sir J. Minnes, notwithstanding Sir W. Batten did contend highly
      for it: at which I am not a little pleased, because of his proud lady)
      about three o'clock came hither, and so to dinner. I seated myself close
      by Mr. Prin, who, in discourse with me, fell upon what records he hath of
      the lust and wicked lives of the nuns heretofore in England, and showed me
      out of his pocket one wherein thirty nuns for their lust were ejected of
      their house, being not fit to live there, and by the Pope's command to be
      put, however, into other nunnerys. I could not stay to end dinner with
      them, but rose, and privately went out, and by water to my brother's, and
      thence to take my wife to the Redd Bull, where we saw "Doctor Faustus,"
      but so wretchedly and poorly done, that we were sick of it, and the worse
      because by a former resolution it is to be the last play we are to see
      till Michaelmas. Thence homewards by coach, through Moorefields, where we
      stood awhile, and saw the wrestling. At home, got my lute upon the leads,
      and there played, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. To my Lord this morning, and thence to my brother's, where I found
      my father, poor man, come, which I was glad to see. I staid with him till
      noon, and then he went to my cozen Scott's to dinner, who had invited him.
      He tells me his alterations of the house and garden at Brampton, which
      please me well. I could not go with him, and so we parted at Ludgate, and
      I home to dinner, and to the office all the afternoon, and musique in my
      chamber alone at night, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up early to put things in order in my chamber, and then to my
      Lord's, with whom I spoke about several things, and so up and down in
      several places about business with Mr. Creed, among others to Mr. Wotton's
      the shoemaker, and there drank our morning draft, and then home about
      noon, and by and by comes my father by appointment to dine with me, which
      we did very merrily, I desiring to make him as merry as I can, while the
      poor man is in town. After dinner comes my uncle Wight and sat awhile and
      talked with us, and thence we three to the Mum House at Leadenhall, and
      there sat awhile. Then I left them, and to the Wardrobe, where I found my
      Lord gone to Hampton Court. Here I staid all the afternoon till late with
      Creed and Captain Ferrers, thinking whether we should go to-morrow
      together to Hampton Court, but Ferrers his wife coming in by and by to the
      house with the young ladies (with whom she had been abroad), she was
      unwilling to go, whereupon I was willing to put off our going, and so
      home, but still my mind was hankering after our going to-morrow. So to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. At home all the morning. At noon to the Wardrobe, and dined with my
      Lady, and after dinner staid long talking with her; then homeward, and in
      Lumbard Street was called out of a window by Alderman Backwell, where I
      went, and saluted his lady, a very pretty woman. Here was Mr. Creed, and
      it seems they have been under some disorder in fear of a fire at the next
      door, and had been removing their goods, but the fire was over before I
      came. Thence home, and with my wife and the two maids, and the boy, took
      boat and to Foxhall,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Foxhall, Faukeshall, or Vauxhall, a manor in Surrey, properly
     Fulke's.  Hall, and so called from Fulke de Breaute, the notorious
     mercenary follower of King John.  The manor house was afterwards
     known as Copped or Copt Hall.  Sir Samuel Morland obtained a lease
     of the place, and King Charles made him Master of Mechanics, and
     here "he (Morland), anno 1667, built a fine room," says Aubrey, "the
     inside all of looking-glass and fountains, very pleasant to behold."
     The gardens were formed about 1661, and originally called the "New
     Spring Gardens," to distinguish them from the "Old Spring Gardens"
     at Charing Cross, but according to the present description by Pepys
     there was both an Old and a New Spring Garden at Vauxhall.
     Balthazar Monconys, who visited England early in the reign of
     Charles II., describes the 'Jardins Printemps' at Lambeth as having
     lawns and gravel walks, dividing squares of twenty or thirty yards
     enclosed with hedges of gooseberry trees, within which were planted
     roses.]
</pre>
    <p>
      where I had not been a great while. To the Old Spring Garden, and there
      walked long, and the wenches gathered pinks. Here we staid, and seeing
      that we could not have anything to eat, but very dear, and with long stay,
      we went forth again without any notice taken of us, and so we might have
      done if we had had anything. Thence to the New one, where I never was
      before, which much exceeds the other; and here we also walked, and the boy
      crept through the hedge and gathered abundance of roses, and, after a long
      walk, passed out of doors as we did in the other place, and here we had
      cakes and powdered beef&mdash;[salt beef]&mdash;and ale, and so home again
      by water with much pleasure. This day, being the King's birth-day, was
      very solemnly observed; and the more, for that the Queen this day comes to
      Hampton Court. In the evening, bonfires were made, but nothing to the
      great number that was heretofore at the burning of the Rump. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. This morning I made up my accounts, and find myself 'de claro' worth
      about L530, and no more, so little have I increased it since my last
      reckoning; but I confess I have laid out much money in clothes. Upon a
      suddaine motion I took my wife, and Sarah and Will by water, with some
      victuals with us, as low as Gravesend, intending to have gone into the
      Hope to the Royal James, to have seen the ship and Mr. Shepley, but
      meeting Mr. Shepley in a hoy, bringing up my Lord's things, she and I went
      on board, and sailed up with them as far as half-way tree, very glad to
      see Mr. Shepley. Here we saw a little Turk and a negroe, which are
      intended for pages to the two young ladies. Many birds and other pretty
      noveltys there was, but I was afeard of being louzy, and so took boat
      again, and got to London before them, all the way, coming and going,
      reading in the "Wallflower" with great pleasure. So home, and thence to
      the Wardrobe, where Mr. Shepley was come with the things. Here I staid
      talking with my Lady, who is preparing to go to-morrow to Hampton Court.
      So home, and at ten o'clock at night Mr. Shepley came to sup with me. So
      we had a dish of mackerell and pease, and so he bid us good night, going
      to lie on board the hoy, and I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Lay long in bed, and so up to make up my Journall for these two or
      three days past. Then came Anthony Joyce, who duns me for money for the
      tallow which he served in lately by my desire, which vexes me, but I must
      get it him the next by my promise. By and by to White Hall, hearing that
      Sir G. Carteret was come to town, but I could not find him, and so back to
      Tom's, and thence I took my father to my house, and there he dined with
      me, discoursing of our businesses with uncle Thomas and T. Trice. After
      dinner he departed and I to the office where we met, and that being done I
      walked to my Brother's and the Wardrobe and other places about business,
      and so home, and had Sarah to comb my head clean, which I found so foul
      with powdering and other troubles, that I am resolved to try how I can
      keep my head dry without powder; and I did also in a suddaine fit cut off
      all my beard, which I had been a great while bringing up, only that I may
      with my pumice-stone do my whole face, as I now do my chin, and to save
      time, which I find a very easy way and gentile. So she also washed my feet
      in a bath of herbs, and so to bed. This month ends with very fair weather
      for a great while together. My health pretty well, but only wind do now
      and then torment me... extremely. The Queen is brought a few days since to
      Hampton Court; and all people say of her to be a very fine and handsome
      lady, and very discreet; and that the King is pleased enough with her
      which, I fear, will put Madam Castlemaine's nose out of joynt. The Court
      is wholly now at Hampton. A peace with Argier is lately made; which is
      also good news. My father is lately come to town to see us, and though it
      has cost and will cost more money, yet I am pleased with the alteraeons on
      my house at Brampton. My Lord Sandwich is lately come with the Queen from
      sea, very well and in good repute. Upon an audit of my estate I find
      myself worth about L530 'de claro'. The Act for Uniformity is lately
      printed,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["An Act for the Uniformity of public prayers and administration of
     sacraments and other rites and ceremonies, and for establishing the
     form of making, ordaining, and consecrating bishops, priests, and
     deacons in the Church of England."]
</pre>
    <p>
      which, it is thought, will make mad work among the Presbyterian ministers.
      People of all sides are very much discontented; some thinking themselves
      used, contrary to promise, too hardly; and the other, that they are not
      rewarded so much as they expected by the King. God keep us all. I have by
      a late oath obliged myself from wine and plays, of which I find good
      effect.
    </p>
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      JUNE 1662
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    <p>
      June 1st (Lord's day). At church in the morning. A stranger made a very
      good sermon. Dined at home, and Mr. Spong came to see me; so he and I sat
      down a little to sing some French psalms, and then comes Mr. Shepley and
      Mr. Moore, and so we to dinner, and after dinner to church again, where a
      Presbyter made a sad and long sermon, which vexed me, and so home, and so
      to walk on the leads, and supper and to prayers and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up early about business and then to the Wardrobe with Mr. Moore, and
      spoke to my Lord about the exchange of the crusados
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Cruzado, a Portuguese coin of 480 reis.  It is named from a cross
     which it bears on one side, the arms of Portugal being on the other.
     It varied in value at different periods from 2s. 3d. to 4s.]
</pre>
    <p>
      into sterling money, and other matters. So to my father at Tom's, and
      after some talk with him away home, and by and by comes my father to
      dinner with me, and then by coach, setting him down in Cheapside, my wife
      and I to Mrs. Clarke's at Westminster, the first visit that ever we both
      made her yet. We found her in a dishabille, intending to go to Hampton
      Court to-morrow. We had much pretty discourse, and a very fine lady she
      is. Thence by water to Salisbury Court, and Mrs. Turner not being at home,
      home by coach, and so after walking on the leads and supper to bed. This
      day my wife put on her slasht wastecoate, which is very pretty.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up by four o'clock and to my business in my chamber, to even accounts
      with my Lord and myself, and very fain I would become master of L1000, but
      I have not above L530 toward it yet. At the office all the morning, and
      Mr. Coventry brought his patent and took his place with us this morning.
      Upon our making a contract, I went, as I use to do, to draw the heads
      thereof, but Sir W. Pen most basely told me that the Comptroller is to do
      it, and so begun to employ Mr. Turner about it, at which I was much vexed,
      and begun to dispute; and what with the letter of the Duke's orders, and
      Mr. Barlow's letter, and the practice of our predecessors, which Sir G.
      Carteret knew best when he was Comptroller, it was ruled for me. What Sir
      J. Minnes will do when he comes I know not, but Sir W. Pen did it like a
      base raskall, and so I shall remember him while I live. After office done,
      I went down to the Towre Wharf, where Mr. Creed and Shepley was ready with
      three chests of the crusados, being about L6000, ready to bring to shore
      to my house, which they did, and put it in my further cellar, and Mr.
      Shepley took the key. I to my father and Dr. Williams and Tom Trice, by
      appointment, in the Old Bayly, to Short's, the alehouse, but could come to
      no terms with T. Trice. Thence to the Wardrobe, where I found my Lady come
      from Hampton Court, where the Queen hath used her very civilly; and my
      Lady tells me is a most pretty woman, at which I am glad. Yesterday (Sir
      R. Ford told me) the Aldermen of the City did attend her in their habits,
      and did present her with a gold Cupp and L1000 in gold therein. But, he
      told me, that they are so poor in their Chamber, that they were fain to
      call two or three Aldermen to raise fines to make up this sum, among which
      was Sir W. Warren. Home and to the office, where about 8 at night comes
      Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten, and so we did some business, and then
      home and to bed, my mind troubled about Sir W. Pen, his playing the rogue
      with me to-day, as also about the charge of money that is in my house,
      which I had forgot; but I made the maids to rise and light a candle, and
      set it in the dining-room, to scare away thieves, and so to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up early, and Mr. Moore comes to me and tells me that Mr. Barnwell is
      dead, which troubles me something, and the more for that I believe we
      shall lose Mr. Shepley's company. By and by Sir W. Batten and I by water
      to Woolwich; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford's Holland's
      yarn (about which we have lately had so much stir; and I have much
      concerned myself for our ropemaker, Mr. Hughes, who has represented it as
      bad), and we found it to be very bad, and broke sooner than, upon a fair
      triall, five threads of that against four of Riga yarn; and also that some
      of it had old stuff that had been tarred, covered over with new hemp,
      which is such a cheat as hath not been heard of. I was glad of this
      discovery, because I would not have the King's workmen discouraged (as Sir
      W. Batten do most basely do) from representing the faults of merchants'
      goods, where there is any. After eating some fish that we had bought upon
      the water at Falconer's, we went to Woolwich, and there viewed our frames
      of our houses, and so home, and I to my Lord's, who I find resolved to buy
      Brampton Manor of Sir Peter Ball,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir Peter Ball was the Queen's Attorney-General, and Evelyn
     mentions, in his Diary (January 11th, 1661-62), having received from
     him the draft of an act against the nuisance of the smoke of
     London.]
</pre>
    <p>
      at which I am glad. Thence to White Hall, and showed Sir G. Carteret the
      cheat, and so to the Wardrobe, and there staid and supped with my Lady. My
      Lord eating nothing, but writes letters to-night to several places, he
      being to go out of town to-morrow. So late home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. To the Wardrobe, and there my Lord did enquire my opinion of Mr.
      Moore, which I did give to the best advantage I could, and by that means
      shall get him joined with Mr. Townsend in the Wardrobe business. He did
      also give me all Mr. Shepley's and Mr. Moore's accounts to view, which I
      am glad of, as being his great trust in me, and I would willingly keep up
      a good interest with him. So took leave of him (he being to go this day)
      and to the office, where they were just sat down, and I showed them
      yesterday's discovery, and have got Sir R. Ford to be my enemy by it; but
      I care not, for it is my duty, and so did get his bill stopped for the
      present. To dinner, and found Dr. Thos. Pepys at my house; but I was
      called from dinner by a note from Mr. Moore to Alderman Backwell's, to see
      some thousands of my Lord's crusados weighed, and we find that 3,000 come
      to about L530 or 40 generally. Home again and found my father there; we
      talked a good while and so parted. We met at the office in the afternoon
      to finish Mr. Gauden's accounts, but did not do them quite. In the evening
      with Mr. Moore to Backwell's with another 1,200 crusados and saw them
      weighed, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. At my office all alone all the morning, and the smith being with me
      about other things, did open a chest that hath stood ever since I came to
      the office, in my office, and there we found a modell of a fine ship,
      which I long to know whether it be the King's or Mr. Turner's. At noon to
      the Wardrobe by appointment to meet my father, who did come and was well
      treated by my Lady, who tells me she has some thoughts to send her two
      little boys to our house at Brampton, but I have got leave for them to go
      along with me and my wife to Hampton Court to-morrow or Sunday. Thence to
      my brother Tom's, where we found a letter from Pall that my mother is
      dangerously ill in fear of death, which troubles my father and me much,
      but I hope it is otherwise, the letter being four days old since it was
      writ. Home and at my office, and with Mr. Hater set things in order till
      evening, and so home and to bed by daylight. This day at my father's
      desire I lent my brother Tom L20, to be repaid out of the proceeds of
      Sturtlow when we can sell it. I sent the money all in new money by my boy
      from Alderman Backwell's.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. To the office, where all the morning, and I find Mr. Coventry is
      resolved to do much good, and to enquire into all the miscarriages of the
      office. At noon with him and Sir W. Batten to dinner at Trinity House;
      where, among others, Sir J. Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, was, who
      says that yesterday Sir H. Vane had a full hearing at the King's Bench,
      and is found guilty; and that he did never hear any man argue more simply
      than he in all his life, and so others say. My mind in great trouble
      whether I should go as I intended to Hampton Court to-morrow or no. At
      last resolved the contrary, because of the charge thereof, and I am afraid
      now to bring in any accounts for journeys, and so will others I suppose
      be, because of Mr. Coventry's prying into them. Thence sent for to Sir G.
      Carteret's, and there talked with him a good while. I perceive, as he told
      me, were it not that Mr. Coventry had already feathered his nest in
      selling of places, he do like him very well, and hopes great good from
      him. But he complains so of lack of money, that my heart is very sad,
      under the apprehension of the fall of the office. At my office all the
      afternoon, and at night hear that my father is gone into the country, but
      whether to Richmond as he intended, and thence to meet us at Hampton Court
      on Monday, I know not, or to Brampton. At which I am much troubled. In the
      evening home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). Lay till church-time in bed, and so up and to church,
      and there I found Mr. Mills come home out of the country again, and
      preached but a lazy sermon. Home and dined with my wife, and so to church
      again with her. Thence walked to my Lady's, and there supped with her, and
      merry, among other things, with the parrott which my Lord hath brought
      from the sea, which speaks very well, and cries Pall so pleasantly, that
      made my Lord give it my Lady Paulina; but my Lady, her mother, do not like
      it. Home, and observe my man Will to walk with his cloak flung over his
      shoulder, like a Ruffian, which, whether it was that he might not be seen
      to walk along with the footboy, I know not, but I was vexed at it; and
      coming home, and after prayers, I did ask him where he learned that
      immodest garb, and he answered me that it was not immodest, or some such
      slight answer, at which I did give him two boxes on the ears, which I
      never did before, and so was after a little troubled at it.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Early up and at the office with Mr. Hater, making my alphabet of
      contracts, upon the dispatch of which I am now very intent, for that I am
      resolved much to enquire into the price of commodities. Dined at home, and
      after dinner to Greatorex's, and with him and another stranger to the
      Tavern, but I drank no wine. He recommended Bond, of our end of the town,
      to teach me to measure timber, and some other things that I would learn,
      in order to my office. Thence back again to the office, and there T. Hater
      and I did make an end of my alphabet, which did much please me. So home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. At the office all the morning, much business; and great hopes of
      bringing things, by Mr. Coventry's means, to a good condition in the
      office. Dined at home, Mr. Hunt with us; to the office again in the
      afternoon, but not meeting, as was intended, I went to my brother's and
      bookseller's, and other places about business, and paid off all for books
      to this day, and do not intend to buy any more of any kind a good while,
      though I had a great mind to have bought the King's works, as they are new
      printed in folio, and present it to my Lord; but I think it will be best
      to save the money. So home and to bed.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [There is a beautiful copy of "The Workes of King Charles the
     Martyr, and Collections of Declarations, Treaties, &amp;c."  (2 vols.
     folio, 1662), in the Pepysian Library, with a very interesting note
     in the first volume by Pepys (dated October 7th, 1700), to the
     effect that he had collated it with a copy in Lambeth Library,
     presented by Dr. Zachary Cradock, Provost of Eton.  "This book being
     seized on board an English ship was delivered, by order of the
     Inquisition of Lisbon, to some of the English Priests to be perused
     and corrected according to the Rules of the 'Index Expurgatorius.'
     Thus corrected it was given to Barnaby Crafford, English merchant
     there, and by him it was given to me, the English preacher resident
     there A.D. 1670, and by me as I then received it to the Library at
     Lambeth to be there preserved.  Nov. 2, 1678.  'Ita testor', Zach.
     Cradock.&mdash;From which (through the favour of the most Reverend Father
     in God and my most honoured Friend his Grace the present Archbishop
     of Canterbury) I have this 7th of October, 1700, had an opportunity
     given me there (assisted by my clerk, Thomas Henderson), leisurely to
     overlook, and with my uttermost attention to note the said
     Expurgations through each part of this my own Book."  Whole
     sentences in the book are struck through, as well as such words as
     Martyr, Defender of the Faith, More than Conqueror, &amp;c.]
</pre>
    <p>
      11th. At the office all the morning, Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, and I
      about the Victualler's accounts. Then home to dinner and to the office
      again all the afternoon, Mr. Hater and I writing over my Alphabet fair, in
      which I took great pleasure to rule the lines and to have the capitall
      words wrote with red ink. So home and to supper. This evening Savill the
      Paynter came and did varnish over my wife's picture and mine, and I paid
      him for my little picture L3, and so am clear with him. So after supper to
      bed. This day I had a letter from my father that he is got down well, and
      found my mother pretty well again. So that I am vexed with all my heart at
      Pall for writing to him so much concerning my mother's illness (which I
      believe was not so great), so that he should be forced to hasten down on
      the sudden back into the country without taking leave, or having any
      pleasure here.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. This morning I tried on my riding cloth suit with close knees, the
      first that ever I had; and I think they will be very convenient, if not
      too hot to wear any other open knees after them. At the office all the
      morning, where we had a full Board, viz., Sir G. Carteret, Sir John
      Mennes, Sir W. Batten, Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Pen, Mr. Pett, and myself.
      Among many other businesses, I did get a vote signed by all, concerning my
      issuing of warrants, which they did not smell the use I intend to make of
      it; but it is to plead for my clerks to have their right of giving out all
      warrants, at which I am not a little pleased. But a great difference
      happened between Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Coventry, about passing the
      Victualler's account, and whether Sir George is to pay the Victualler his
      money, or the Exchequer; Sir George claiming it to be his place to save
      his threepences. It ended in anger, and I believe will come to be a
      question before the King and Council. I did what I could to keep myself
      unconcerned in it, having some things of my own to do before I would
      appear high in anything. Thence to dinner, by Mr. Gauden's invitation, to
      the Dolphin, where a good dinner; but what is to myself a great wonder;
      that with ease I past the whole dinner without drinking a drop of wine.
      After dinner to the office, my head full of business, and so home, and it
      being the longest day in the year,&mdash;[That is, by the old style. The
      new style was not introduced until 1752]&mdash;I made all my people go to
      bed by daylight. But after I was a-bed and asleep, a note came from my
      brother Tom to tell me that my cozen Anne Pepys, of Worcestershire, her
      husband is dead, and she married again, and her second husband in town,
      and intends to come and see me to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up by 4 o'clock in the morning, and read Cicero's Second Oration
      against Catiline, which pleased me exceedingly; and more I discern therein
      than ever I thought was to be found in him; but I perceive it was my
      ignorance, and that he is as good a writer as ever I read in my life. By
      and by to Sir G. Carteret's, to talk with him about yesterday's difference
      at the office; and offered my service to look into any old books or papers
      that I have, that may make for him. He was well pleased therewith, and did
      much inveigh against Mr. Coventry; telling me how he had done him service
      in the Parliament, when Prin had drawn up things against him for taking of
      money for places; that he did at his desire, and upon his, letters, keep
      him off from doing it. And many other things he told me, as how the King
      was beholden to him, and in what a miserable condition his family would
      be, if he should die before he hath cleared his accounts. Upon the whole,
      I do find that he do much esteem of me, and is my friend, and I may make
      good use of him. Thence to several places about business, among others to
      my brother's, and there Tom Beneere the barber trimmed me. Thence to my
      Lady's, and there dined with her, Mr. Laxton, Gibbons, and Goldgroove with
      us, and after dinner some musique, and so home to my business, and in the
      evening my wife and I, and Sarah and the boy, a most pleasant walk to
      Halfway house, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up by four o'clock in the morning and upon business at my office.
      Then we sat down to business, and about 11 o'clock, having a room got
      ready for us, we all went out to the Tower-hill; and there, over against
      the scaffold, made on purpose this day, saw Sir Henry Vane brought.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir Harry Vane the younger was born 1612.  Charles signed on June
     12th a warrant for the execution of Vane by hanging at Tyburn on the
     14th, which sentence on the following day "upon humble suit made" to
     him, Charles was "graciously pleased to mitigate," as the warrant
     terms it, for the less ignominious punishment of beheading on Tower
     Hill, and with permission that the head and body should be given to
     the relations to be by them decently and privately interred.&mdash;
     Lister's Life of Clarendon, ii, 123.]
</pre>
    <p>
      A very great press of people. He made a long speech, many times
      interrupted by the Sheriff and others there; and they would have taken his
      paper out of his hand, but he would not let it go. But they caused all the
      books of those that writ after him to be given the Sheriff; and the
      trumpets were brought under the scaffold that he might not be heard. Then
      he prayed, and so fitted himself, and received the blow; but the scaffold
      was so crowded that we could not see it done. But Boreman, who had been
      upon the scaffold, came to us and told us, that first he began to speak of
      the irregular proceeding against him; that he was, against Magna Charta,
      denied to have his exceptions against the indictment allowed; and that
      there he was stopped by the Sheriff. Then he drew out his, paper of notes,
      and begun to tell them first his life; that he was born a gentleman, that
      he was bred up and had the quality of a gentleman, and to make him in the
      opinion of the world more a gentleman, he had been, till he was seventeen
      years old, a good fellow, but then it pleased God to lay a foundation of
      grace in his heart, by which he was persuaded, against his worldly
      interest, to leave all preferment and go abroad, where he might serve God
      with more freedom. Then he was called home, and made a member of the Long
      Parliament; where he never did, to this day, any thing against his
      conscience, but all for the glory of God. Here he would have given them an
      account of the proceedings of the Long Parliament, but they so often
      interrupted him, that at last he was forced to give over: and so fell into
      prayer for England in generall, then for the churches in England, and then
      for the City of London: and so fitted himself for the block, and received
      the blow. He had a blister, or issue, upon his neck, which he desired them
      not hurt: he changed not his colour or speech to the last, but died
      justifying himself and the cause he had stood for; and spoke very
      confidently of his being presently at the right hand of Christ; and in
      all, things appeared the most resolved man that ever died in that manner,
      and showed more of heat than cowardize, but yet with all humility and
      gravity. One asked him why he did not pray for the King. He answered,
      "Nay," says he, "you shall see I can pray for the King: I pray God bless
      him!" The King had given his body to his friends; and, therefore, he told
      them that he hoped they would be civil to his body when dead; and desired
      they would let him die like a gentleman and a Christian, and not crowded
      and pressed as he was. So to the office a little, and so to the
      Trinity-house all of us to dinner; and then to the office again all the
      afternoon till night. So home and to bed. This day, I hear, my Lord
      Peterborough is come unexpected from Tangier, to give the King an account
      of the place, which, we fear, is in none of the best condition. We had
      also certain news to-day that the Spaniard is before Lisbon with thirteen
      sail; six Dutch, and the rest his own ships; which will, I fear, be ill
      for Portugall. I writ a letter of all this day's proceedings to my Lord,
      at Hinchingbroke, who, I hear, is very well pleased with the work there.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). To church in the morning and home to dinner, where come
      my brother Tom and Mr. Fisher, my cozen, Nan Pepys's second husband, who,
      I perceive, is a very good-humoured man, an old cavalier. I made as much
      of him as I could, and were merry, and am glad she hath light of so good a
      man. They gone, to church again; but my wife not being dressed as I would
      have her, I was angry, and she, when she was out of doors in her way to
      church, returned home again vexed. But I to church, Mr. Mills, an ordinary
      sermon. So home, and found my wife and Sarah gone to a neighbour church,
      at which I was not much displeased. By and by she comes again, and, after
      a word or two, good friends. And then her brother came to see her, and he
      being gone she told me that she believed he was married and had a wife
      worth L500 to him, and did inquire how he might dispose the money to the
      best advantage, but I forbore to advise her till she could certainly tell
      me how things are with him, being loth to meddle too soon with him. So to
      walk upon the leads, and to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up before four o'clock, and after some business took Will forth, and
      he and I walked over the Tower Hill, but the gate not being open we walked
      through St. Catharine's and Ratcliffe (I think it is) by the waterside
      above a mile before we could get a boat, and so over the water in a scull
      (which I have not done a great while), and walked finally to Deptford,
      where I saw in what forwardness the work is for Sir W. Batten's house and
      mine, and it is almost ready. I also, with Mr. Davis, did view my cozen
      Joyce's tallow, and compared it with the Irish tallow we bought lately,
      and found ours much more white, but as soft as it; now what is the fault,
      or whether it be or no a fault, I know not. So walked home again as far as
      over against the Towre, and so over and home, where I found Sir W. Pen and
      Sir John Minnes discoursing about Sir John Minnes's house and his coming
      to live with us, and I think he intends to have Mr. Turner's house and he
      to come to his lodgings, which I shall be very glad of. We three did go to
      Mr. Turner's to view his house, which I think was to the end that Sir John
      Minnes might see it. Then by water with my wife to the Wardrobe, and dined
      there; and in the afternoon with all the children by water to Greenwich,
      where I showed them the King's yacht, the house, and the park, all very
      pleasant; and so to the tavern, and had the musique of the house, and so
      merrily home again. Will and I walked home from the Wardrobe, having left
      my wife at the Tower Wharf coming by, whom I found gone to bed not very
      well.... So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and Mr. Mayland comes to me and borrowed 30s. of me to be paid
      again out of the money coming to him in the James and Charles for his late
      voyage. So to the office, where all the morning. So home to dinner, my
      wife not being well, but however dined with me. So to the office, and at
      Sir W. Batten's, where we all met by chance and talked, and they drank
      wine; but I forebore all their healths. Sir John Minnes, I perceive, is
      most excellent company. So home and to bed betimes by daylight.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up early; and after reading a little in Cicero, I made me ready and
      to my office, where all the morning very busy. At noon Mr. Creed came to
      me about business, and he and I walked as far as Lincoln's Inn Fields
      together. After a turn or two in the walks we parted, and I to my Lord
      Crew's and dined with him; where I hear the courage of Sir H. Vane at his
      death is talked on every where as a miracle. Thence to Somerset House to
      Sir J. Winter's chamber by appointment, and met Mr. Pett, where he and I
      read over his last contract with the King for the Forest of Dean, whereof
      I took notes because of this new one that he is now in making. That done
      he and I walked to Lilly's, the painter's, where we saw among other rare
      things, the Duchess of York, her whole body, sitting instate in a chair,
      in white sattin, and another of the King, that is not finished; most rare
      things. I did give the fellow something that showed them us, and promised
      to come some other time, and he would show me Lady Castlemaine's, which I
      could not then see, it being locked up! Thence to Wright's, the painter's:
      but, Lord! the difference that is between their two works. Thence to the
      Temple, and there spoke with my cozen Roger, who gives me little hopes in
      the business between my Uncle Tom and us. So Mr. Pett (who staid at his
      son's chamber) and I by coach to the old Exchange, and there parted, and I
      home and at the office till night. My windows at my office are made clean
      to-day and a casement in my closet. So home, and after some merry
      discourse in the kitchen with my wife and maids as I now-a-days often do,
      I being well pleased with both my maids, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up by five o'clock, and while my man Will was getting himself ready
      to come up to me I took and played upon my lute a little. So to dress
      myself, and to my office to prepare things against we meet this morning.
      We sat long to-day, and had a great private business before us about
      contracting with Sir W. Rider, Mr. Cutler, and Captain Cocke, for 500 ton
      of hemp, which we went through, and I am to draw up the conditions. Home
      to dinner, where I found Mr. Moore, and he and I cast up our accounts
      together and evened them, and then with the last chest of crusados to
      Alderman Backwell's, by the same token his lady going to take coach stood
      in the shop, and having a gilded glassfull of perfumed comfits given her
      by Don Duarte de Silva, the Portugall merchant, that is come over with the
      Queen, I did offer at a taste, and so she poured some out into my hand,
      and, though good, yet pleased me the better coming from a pretty lady. So
      home and at the office preparing papers and things, and indeed my head has
      not been so full of business a great while, and with so much pleasure, for
      I begin to see the pleasure it gives. God give me health. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up by four or five o'clock, and to the office, and there drew up the
      agreement between the King and Sir John Winter about the Forrest of Deane;
      and having done it, he came himself (I did not know him to be the Queen's
      Secretary before, but observed him to be a man of fine parts); and we read
      it, and both liked it well. That done, I turned to the Forrest of Deane,
      in Speede's Mapps, and there he showed me how it lies; and the Lea-bayly,
      with the great charge of carrying it to Lydny, and many other things worth
      my knowing; and I do perceive that I am very short in my business by not
      knowing many times the geographical part of my business. At my office till
      Mr. Moore took me out and at my house looked over our papers again, and
      upon our evening accounts did give full discharges one to the other, and
      in his and many other accounts I perceive I shall be better able to give a
      true balance of my estate to myself within a day or two than I have been
      this twelve months. Then he and I to Alderman Backwell's and did the like
      there, and I gave one receipt for all the money I have received thence
      upon the receipt of my Lord's crusados. Then I went to the Exchange, and
      hear that the merchants have a great fear of a breach with the Spaniard;
      for they think he will not brook our having Tangier, Dunkirk, and Jamaica;
      and our merchants begin to draw home their estates as fast as they can.
      Then to Pope's Head Ally, and there bought me a pair of tweezers, cost me
      14s., the first thing like a bawble I have bought a good while, but I do
      it with some trouble of mind, though my conscience tells me that I do it
      with an apprehension of service in my office to have a book to write
      memorandums in, and a pair of compasses in it; but I confess myself the
      willinger to do it because I perceive by my accounts that I shall be
      better by L30 than I expected to be. But by tomorrow night I intend to see
      to the bottom of all my accounts. Then home to dinner, where Mr. Moore met
      me. Then he went away, and I to the office and dispatch much business. So
      in the evening, my wife and I and Jane over the water to the
      Halfway-house, a pretty, pleasant walk, but the wind high. So home again
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up about four o'clock, and settled some private business of my own,
      then made me ready and to the office to prepare things for our meeting
      to-day. By and by we met, and at noon Sir W. Pen and I to the Trinity
      House; where was a feast made by the Wardens, when great good cheer, and
      much, but ordinary company. The Lieutenant of the Tower, upon my demanding
      how Sir H. Vane died, told me that he died in a passion; but all confess
      with so much courage as never man died. Thence to the office, where Sir W.
      Rider, Capt. Cocke, and Mr. Cutler came by appointment to meet me to
      confer about the contract between us and them for 500 tons of hemp. That
      being done, I did other business and so went home, and there found Mr.
      Creed, who staid talking with my wife and me an hour or two, and I put on
      my riding cloth suit, only for him to see how it is, and I think it will
      do very well. He being gone, and I hearing from my wife and the maids'
      complaints made of the boy, I called him up, and with my whip did whip him
      till I was not able to stir, and yet I could not make him confess any of
      the lies that they tax him with. At last, not willing to let him go away a
      conqueror, I took him in task again, and pulled off his frock to his
      shirt, and whipped him till he did confess that he did drink the whey,
      which he had denied, and pulled a pink, and above all did lay the
      candlestick upon the ground in his chamber, which he had denied this
      quarter of a year. I confess it is one of the greatest wonders that ever I
      met with that such a little boy as he could possibly be able to suffer
      half so much as he did to maintain a lie. I think I must be forced to put
      him away. So to bed, with my arm very weary.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd (Lord's day). This day I first put on my slasht doublet, which I like
      very well. Mr. Shepley came to me in the morning, telling me that he and
      my Lord came to town from Hinchinbroke last night. He and I spend an hour
      in looking over his account, and then walked to the Wardrobe, all the way
      discoursing of my Lord's business. He tells me to my great wonder that Mr.
      Barnwell is dead L500 in debt to my Lord. By and by my Lord came from
      church, and I dined, with some others, with him, he very merry, and after
      dinner took me aside and talked of state and other matters. By and by to
      my brother Tom's and took him out with me homewards (calling at the
      Wardrobe to talk a little with Mr. Moore), and so to my house, where I
      paid him all I owed him, and did make the L20 I lately lent him up to L40,
      for which he shall give bond to Mr. Shepley, for it is his money. So my
      wife and I to walk in the garden, where all our talk was against Sir W.
      Pen, against whom I have lately had cause to be much prejudiced. By and by
      he and his daughter came out to walk, so we took no notice of them a great
      while, at last in going home spoke a word or two, and so good night, and
      to bed. This day I am told of a Portugall lady, at Hampton Court, that
      hath dropped a child already since the Queen's coming, but the king would
      not have them searched whose it is; and so it is not commonly known yet.
      Coming home to-night, I met with Will. Swan, who do talk as high for the
      Fanatiques as ever he did in his life; and do pity my Lord Sandwich and me
      that we should be given up to the wickedness of the world; and that a fall
      is coming upon us all; for he finds that he and his company are the true
      spirit of the nation, and the greater part of the nation too, who will
      have liberty of conscience in spite of this "Act of Uniformity," or they
      will die; and if they may not preach abroad, they will preach in their own
      houses. He told me that certainly Sir H. Vane must be gone to Heaven, for
      he died as much a martyr and saint as ever man did; and that the King hath
      lost more by that man's death, than he will get again a good while. At all
      which I know not what to think; but, I confess, I do think that the
      Bishops will never be able to carry it so high as they do.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up early, this morning, and my people are taking down the hangings
      and things in my house because of the great dust that is already made by
      the pulling down of Sir W. Batten's house, and will be by my own when I
      come to it. To my office, and there hard at work all the morning. At noon
      to the Exchange to meet Dr. Williams, who sent me this morning notice of
      his going into the country tomorrow, but could not find him, but meeting
      with Frank Moore, my Lord Lambeth's man formerly, we, and two or three
      friends of his did go to a tavern, and there they drank, but I nothing but
      small beer. In the next room one was playing very finely of the dulcimer,
      which well played I like well, but one of our own company, a talking
      fellow, did in discourse say much of this Act against Seamen,
    </p>
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     [In 1662 was passed "An Act for providing of carriage by land and by
     water for the use of His Majesty's Navy and Ordinance" (13-14 Gar.
     II., cap. 20), which gave power for impressing seamen, &amp;c.]
</pre>
    <p>
      for their being brought to account; and that it was made on purpose for my
      Lord Sandwich, who was in debt L100,000, and hath been forced to have
      pardon oftentimes from Oliver for the same: at which I was vexed at him,
      but thought it not worth my trouble to oppose what he said, but took leave
      and went home, and after a little dinner to my office again, and in the
      evening Sir W. Warren came to me about business, and that being done,
      discoursing of deals, I did offer to go along with him among his deal
      ships, which we did to half a score, where he showed me the difference
      between Dram, Swinsound, Christiania, and others, and told me many
      pleasant notions concerning their manner of cutting and sawing them by
      watermills, and the reason how deals become dearer and cheaper, among
      others, when the snow is not so great as to fill up the values that they
      may pass from hill to hill over the snow, then it is dear carriage. From
      on board he took me to his yard, where vast and many places of deals,
      sparrs, and bulks, &amp;c., the difference between which I never knew
      before, and indeed am very proud of this evening's work. He had me into
      his house, which is most pretty and neat and well furnished. After a
      glass, not of wine, for I would not be tempted to drink any, but a glass
      of mum, I well home by water, but it being late was forced to land at the
      Custom House, and so home and to bed, and after I was a-bed, letters came
      from the Duke for the fitting out of four ships forthwith from Portsmouth
      (I know not yet for what) so I was forced to make Will get them wrote, and
      signed them in bed and sent them away by express. And so to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Midsummer day). Up early and to my office, putting things in order
      against we sit. There came to me my cozen Harry Alcocke, whom I much
      respect, to desire (by a letter from my father to me, where he had been
      some days) my help for him to some place. I proposed the sea to him, and I
      think he will take it, and I hope do well. Sat all the morning, and I
      bless God I find that by my diligence of late and still, I do get ground
      in the office every day. At noon to the Change, where I begin to be known
      also, and so home to dinner, and then to the office all the afternoon
      dispatching business. At night news is brought me that Field the rogue
      hath this day cast me at Guildhall in L30 for his imprisonment, to which I
      signed his commitment with the rest of the officers; but they having been
      parliament-men, that he hath begun the law with me; and threatens more,
      but I hope the Duke of York will bear me out. At night home, and Mr. Spong
      came to me, and so he and I sat singing upon the leads till almost ten at
      night and so he went away (a pretty, harmless, and ingenious man), and I
      to bed, in a very great content of mind, which I hope by my care still in
      my business will continue to me.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up by four o'clock, and put my accounts with my Lord into a very
      good order, and so to my office, where having put many things in order I
      went to the Wardrobe, but found my Lord gone to Hampton Court. After
      discourse with Mr. Shepley we parted, and I into Thames Street, beyond the
      Bridge, and there enquired among the shops the price of tarre and oyle,
      and do find great content in it, and hope to save the King money by this
      practice. So home to dinner, and then to the Change, and so home again,
      and at the office preparing business against to-morrow all the afternoon.
      At night walked with my wife upon the leads, and so to supper and to bed.
      My wife having lately a great pain in her ear, for which this night she
      begins to take physique, and I have got cold and so have a great deal of
      my old pain.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up and took physique, but such as to go abroad with, only to loosen
      me, for I am bound. So to the office, and there all the morning sitting
      till noon, and then took Commissioner Pett home to dinner with me, where
      my stomach was turned when my sturgeon came to table, upon which I saw
      very many little worms creeping, which I suppose was through the staleness
      of the pickle. He being gone, comes Mr. Nicholson, my old fellow-student
      at Magdalene, and we played three or four things upon the violin and
      basse, and so parted, and I to my office till night, and there came Mr.
      Shepley and Creed in order to settling some accounts of my Lord to-night,
      and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up early, not quite rid of my pain. I took more physique, and so
      made myself ready to go forth. So to my Lord, who rose as soon as he heard
      I was there; and in his nightgown and shirt stood talking with me alone
      two hours,. I believe, concerning his greatest matters of state and
      interest. Among other things, that his greatest design is, first, to get
      clear of all debts to the King for the Embassy money, and then a pardon.
      Then, to get his land settled; and then to, discourse and advise what is
      best for him, whether to keep his sea employment longer or no. For he do
      discern that the Duke would be willing to have him out, and that by
      Coventry's means. And here he told me, how the terms at Argier were wholly
      his; and that he did plainly tell Lawson and agree with him, that he would
      have the honour of them, if they should ever be agreed to; and that
      accordingly they did come over hither entitled, "Articles concluded on by
      Sir J. Lawson, according to instructions received from His Royal Highness
      James Duke of York, &amp;c., and from His Excellency the Earle of
      Sandwich." (Which however was more than needed; but Lawson tells my Lord
      in his letter, that it was not he, but the Council of Warr that would have
      "His Royal Highness" put into the title, though he did not contribute one
      word to it.) But the Duke of York did yesterday propose them to the
      Council, to be printed with this title: "Concluded on, by Sir J. Lawson,
      Knt." and my Lord quite left out. Here I find my Lord very politique; for
      he tells me, that he discerns they design to set up Lawson as much as they
      can and that he do counterplot them by setting him up higher still; by
      which they will find themselves spoiled of their design, and at last grow
      jealous of Lawson. This he told me with much pleasure; and that several of
      the Duke's servants, by name my Lord Barkeley [of Stratton], Mr. Talbot,
      and others, had complained to my Lord, of Coventry, and would have him
      out. My Lord do acknowledge that his greatest obstacle is Coventry. He did
      seem to hint such a question as this: "Hitherto I have been supported by
      the King and Chancellor against the Duke; but what if it should come
      about, that it should be the Duke and Chancellor against the King?" which,
      though he said it in these plain words, yet I could not fully understand
      it; but may more here after. My Lord did also tell me, that the Duke
      himself at Portsmouth did thank my Lord for all his pains and care; and
      that he perceived it must be the old Captains that must do the business;
      and that the new ones would spoil all. And that my Lord did very
      discreetly tell the Duke (though quite against his judgement and
      inclination), that, however, the King's new captains ought to be borne
      with a little and encouraged. By which he will oblige that party, and
      prevent, as much as may be, their envy; but he says that certainly things
      will go to rack if ever the old captains should be wholly out, and the new
      ones only command. Then we fell to talk of Sir J. Minnes, of whom my Lord
      hath a very slight opinion, and that at first he did come to my Lord very
      displeased and sullen, and had studied and turned over all his books to
      see whether it had ever been that two flags should ride together in the
      main-top, but could not find it, nay, he did call his captains on board to
      consult them. So when he came by my Lord's side, he took down his flag,
      and all the day did not hoist it again, but next day my Lord did tell him
      that it was not so fit to ride without a flag, and therefore told him that
      he should wear it in the fore-top, for it seems my Lord saw his
      instructions, which were that he should not wear his flag in the maintop
      in the presence of the Duke or my Lord. But that after that my Lord did
      caress him, and he do believe him as much his friend as his interest will
      let him. I told my Lord of the late passage between Swan and me, and he
      told me another lately between Dr. Dell and himself when he was in the
      country. At last we concluded upon dispatching all his accounts as soon as
      possible, and so I parted, and to my office, where I met Sir W. Pen, and
      he desired a turn with me in the garden, where he told me the day now was
      fixed for his going into Ireland;&mdash;[Penn was Governor of Kinsale.-B.]&mdash;and
      that whereas I had mentioned some service he could do a friend of mine
      there, Saml. Pepys,
    </p>
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     [Mentioned elsewhere as "My cousin in Ireland."  He was son of Lord
     Chief Justice Richard Pepys.]
</pre>
    <p>
      he told me he would most readily do what I would command him, and then
      told me we must needs eat a dish of meat together before he went, and so
      invited me and my wife on Sunday next. To all which I did give a cold
      consent, for my heart cannot love or have a good opinion of him since his
      last playing the knave with me, but he took no notice of our difference at
      all, nor I to him, and so parted, and I by water to Deptford, where I
      found Sir W. Batten alone paying off the yard three quarters pay. Thence
      to dinner, where too great a one was prepared, at which I was very much
      troubled, and wished I had not been there. After dinner comes Sir J.
      Minnes and some captains with him, who had been at a Councill of Warr
      to-day, who tell us they have acquitted Captain Hall, who was accused of
      cowardice in letting of old Winter, the Argier pyrate, go away from him
      with a prize or two; and also Captain Diamond of the murder laid to him of
      a man that he had struck, but he lived many months after, till being
      drunk, he fell into the hold, and there broke his jaw and died, but they
      say there are such bawdy articles against him as never were heard of ....
      To the pay again, where I left them, and walked to Redriffe, and so home,
      and there came Mr. Creed and Shepley to me, and staid till night about my
      Lord's accounts, our proceeding to set them in order, and so parted and I
      to bed. Mr. Holliard had been with my wife to-day, and cured her of her
      pain in her ear by taking out a most prodigious quantity of hard wax that
      had hardened itself in the bottom of the ear, of which I am very glad.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up to my Lord's and my own accounts, and so to the office, where all
      the forenoon sitting, and at noon by appointment to the Mitre, where Mr.
      Shepley gave me and Mr. Creed, and I had my uncle Wight with us, a dish of
      fish. Thence to the office again, and there all the afternoon till night,
      and so home, and after talking with my wife to bed. This day a genteel
      woman came to me, claiming kindred of me, as she had once done before, and
      borrowed 10s. of me, promising to repay it at night, but I hear nothing of
      her. I shall trust her no more. Great talk there is of a fear of a war
      with the Dutch; and we have order to pitch upon twenty ships to be
      forthwith set out; but I hope it is but a scarecrow to the world, to let
      them see that we can be ready for them; though, God knows! the King is not
      able to set out five ships at this present without great difficulty, we
      neither having money, credit, nor stores. My mind is now in a wonderful
      condition of quiet and content, more than ever in all my life, since my
      minding the business of my office, which I have done most constantly; and
      I find it to be the very effect of my late oaths against wine and plays,
      which, if God please, I will keep constant in, for now my business is a
      delight to me, and brings me great credit, and my purse encreases too.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). Up by four o'clock, and to the settling of my own
      accounts, and I do find upon my monthly ballance, which I have undertaken
      to keep from month to month, that I am worth L650, the greatest sum that
      ever I was yet master of. I pray God give me a thankfull, spirit, and care
      to improve and encrease it. To church with my wife, who this day put on
      her green petticoat of flowred satin, with fine white and gimp lace of her
      own putting on, which is very pretty. Home with Sir W. Pen to dinner by
      appointment, and to church again in the afternoon, and then home, Mr.
      Shepley coming to me about my Lord's accounts, and in the evening parted,
      and we to supper again to Sir W. Pen. Whatever the matter is, he do much
      fawn upon me, and I perceive would not fall out with me, and his daughter
      mighty officious to my wife, but I shall never be deceived again by him,
      but do hate him and his traitorous tricks with all my heart. It was an
      invitation in order to his taking leave of us to-day, he being to go for
      Ireland in a few days. So home and prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up betimes, and to my office, where I found Griffen's girl making it
      clean, but, God forgive me! what a mind I had to her, but did not meddle
      with her. She being gone, I fell upon boring holes for me to see from my
      closet into the great office, without going forth, wherein I please myself
      much. So settled to business, and at noon with my wife to the Wardrobe,
      and there dined, and staid talking all the afternoon with my Lord, and
      about four o'clock took coach with my wife and Lady, and went toward my
      house, calling at my Lady Carteret's, who was within by chance (she
      keeping altogether at Deptford for a month or two), and so we sat with her
      a little. Among other things told my Lady how my Lady Fanshaw is fallen
      out with her only for speaking in behalf of the French, which my Lady
      wonders at, they having been formerly like sisters, but we see there is no
      true lasting friendship in the world. Thence to my house, where I took
      great pride to lead her through the Court by the hand, she being very
      fine, and her page carrying up her train. She staid a little at my house,
      and then walked through the garden, and took water, and went first on
      board the King's pleasure boat, which pleased her much. Then to Greenwich
      Park; and with much ado she was able to walk up to the top of the hill,
      and so down again, and took boat, and so through bridge to Blackfryers,
      and home, she being much pleased with the ramble in every particular of
      it. So we supped with her, and then walked home, and to bed.
    </p>
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    <p>
      This I take to be as bad a juncture as ever I observed. The King and his
      new Queen minding their pleasures at Hampton Court. All people
      discontented; some that the King do not gratify them enough; and the
      others, Fanatiques of all sorts, that the King do take away their liberty
      of conscience; and the height of the Bishops, who I fear will ruin all
      again. They do much cry up the manner of Sir H. Vane's death, and he
      deserves it. They clamour against the chimney-money, and say they will not
      pay it without force. And in the mean time, like to have war abroad; and
      Portugall to assist, when we have not money to pay for any ordinary
      layings-out at home. Myself all in dirt about building of my house and Sir
      W. Batten's a story higher. Into a good way, fallen on minding my business
      and saving money, which God encrease; and I do take great delight in it,
      and see the benefit of it. In a longing mind of going to see Brampton, but
      cannot get three days time, do what I can. In very good health, my wife
      and myself.
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    <p>
      July 1st. To the office, and there we sat till past noon, and then Captain
      Cuttance and I by water to Deptford, where the Royal James (in which my
      Lord went out the last voyage, though [he] came back in the Charles) was
      paying off by Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen. So to dinner, where I had Mr.
      Sheply to dine with us, and from thence I sent to my Lord to know whether
      she should be a first rate, as the men would have her, or a second. He
      answered that we should forbear paying the officers and such whose pay
      differed upon the rate of the ship, till he could speak with his Royal
      Highness. To the Pay again after dinner, and seeing of Cooper, the mate of
      the ship, whom I knew in the Charles, I spoke to him about teaching the
      mathematiques, and do please myself in my thoughts of learning of him, and
      bade him come to me in a day or two. Towards evening I left them, and to
      Redriffe by land, Mr. Cowly, the Clerk of the Cheque, with me, discoursing
      concerning the abuses of the yard, in which he did give me much light. So
      by water home, and after half an hour sitting talking with my wife, who
      was afeard I did intend to go with my Lord to fetch the Queen mother over,
      in which I did clear her doubts, I went to bed by daylight, in order to my
      rising early to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up while the chimes went four, and to put down my journal, and so to
      my office, to read over such instructions as concern the officers of the
      Yard; for I am much upon seeing into the miscarriages there. By and by, by
      appointment, comes Commissioner Pett; and then a messenger from Mr.
      Coventry, who sits in his boat expecting us, and so we down to him at the
      Tower, and there took water all, and to Deptford (he in our passage taking
      notice how much difference there is between the old Captains for obedience
      and order, and the King's new Captains, which I am very glad to hear him
      confess); and there we went into the Store-house, and viewed first the
      provisions there, and then his books, but Mr. Davis himself was not there,
      he having a kinswoman in the house dead, for which, when by and by I saw
      him, he do trouble himself most ridiculously, as if there was never
      another woman in the world; in which so much laziness, as also in the
      Clerkes of the Cheque and Survey (which after one another we did examine),
      as that I do not perceive that there is one-third of their duties
      performed; but I perceive, to my great content, Mr. Coventry will have
      things reformed. So Mr. Coventry to London, and Pett and I to the Pay,
      where Sir Williams both were paying off the Royal James still, and so to
      dinner, and to the Pay again, where I did relieve several of my Lord
      Sandwich's people, but was sorry to see them so peremptory, and at every
      word would, complain to my Lord, as if they shall have such a command over
      my Lord. In the evening I went forth and took a walk with Mr. Davis, and
      told him what had passed at his office to-day, and did give him my advice,
      and so with the rest by barge home and to bed
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up by four o'clock and to my office till 8 o'clock, writing over two
      copies of our contract with Sir W. Rider, &amp;c., for 500 ton of hempe,
      which, because it is a secret, I have the trouble of writing over as well
      as drawing. Then home to dress myself, and so to the office, where another
      fray between Sir R. Ford and myself about his yarn, wherein I find the
      board to yield on my side, and was glad thereof, though troubled that the
      office should fall upon me of disobliging Sir Richard. At noon we all by
      invitation dined at the Dolphin with the Officers of the Ordnance; where
      Sir W. Compton, Mr. O'Neale,'and other great persons, were, and a very
      great dinner, but I drank as I still do but my allowance of wine. After
      dinner, was brought to Sir W. Compton a gun to discharge seven times, the
      best of all devices that ever I saw, and very serviceable, and not a
      bawble; for it is much approved of, and many thereof made. Thence to my
      office all the afternoon as long as I could see, about setting many
      businesses in order. In the evening came Mr. Lewis to me, and very
      ingeniously did enquire whether I ever did look into the business of the
      Chest at Chatham;
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     [Pepys gives some particulars about the Chest on November 13th,
     1662.  "The Chest at Chatham was originally planned by Sir Francis
     Drake and Sir John Hawkins in 1588, after the defeat of the Armada;
     the seamen voluntarily agreed to have 'defalked' out of their wages
     certain sums to form a fund for relief.  The property became
     considerable, as well as the abuses, and in 1802 the Chest was
     removed to Greenwich.  In 1817, the stock amounted to L300,000
     Consols."&mdash;Hist.  of Rochester, p. 346.&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      and after my readiness to be informed did appear to him, he did produce a
      paper, wherein he stated the government of the Chest to me; and upon the
      whole did tell me how it hath ever been abused, and to this day is; and
      what a meritorious act it would be to look after it; which I am resolved
      to do, if God bless me; and do thank him very much for it. So home, and
      after a turn or two upon the leads with my wife, who has lately had but
      little of my company, since I begun to follow my business, but is
      contented therewith since she sees how I spend my time, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up by five o'clock, and after my journall put in order, to my office
      about my business, which I am resolved to follow, for every day I see what
      ground I get by it. By and by comes Mr. Cooper, mate of the Royall
      Charles, of whom I intend to learn mathematiques, and do begin with him
      to-day, he being a very able man, and no great matter, I suppose, will
      content him. After an hour's being with him at arithmetique (my first
      attempt being to learn the multiplication-table); then we parted till
      to-morrow. And so to my business at my office again till noon, about which
      time Sir W. Warren did come to me about business, and did begin to
      instruct me in the nature of fine timber and deals, telling me the nature
      of every sort; and from that we fell to discourse of Sir W. Batten's
      corruption and the people that he employs, and from one discourse to
      another of the kind. I was much pleased with his company, and so staid
      talking with him all alone at my office till 4 in the afternoon, without
      eating or drinking all day, and then parted, and I home to eat a bit, and
      so back again to my office; and toward the evening came Mr. Sheply, who is
      to go out of town to-morrow, and so he and I with much ado settled his
      accounts with my Lord, which, though they be true and honest, yet so
      obscure, that it vexes me to see in what manner they are kept. He being
      gone, and leave taken of him as of a man likely not to come to London
      again a great while, I eat a bit of bread and butter, and so to bed. This
      day I sent my brother Tom, at his request, my father's old Bass Viall
      which he and I have kept so long, but I fear Tom will do little good at
      it.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. To my office all the morning, to get things ready against our
      sitting, and by and by we sat and did business all the morning, and at
      noon had Sir W. Pen, who I hate with all my heart for his base treacherous
      tricks, but yet I think it not policy to declare it yet, and his son
      William, to my house to dinner, where was also Mr. Creed and my cozen
      Harry Alcocke. I having some venison given me a day or two ago, and so I
      had a shoulder roasted, another baked, and the umbles
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     [The umbles are the liver, kidneys, and other portions of the inside
     of the deer.  They were usually made into pies, and old cookery
     books contain directions for the making of 'umble pies.']
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    <p>
      baked in a pie, and all very well done. We were merry as I could be in
      that company, and the more because I would not seem otherwise to Sir W.
      Pen, he being within a day or two to go for Ireland. After dinner he and
      his son went away, and Mr. Creed would, with all his rhetoric, have
      persuaded me to have gone to a play; and in good earnest I find my nature
      desirous to have gone, notwithstanding my promise and my business, to
      which I have lately kept myself so close, but I did refuse it, and I hope
      shall ever do so, and above all things it is considerable that my mind was
      never in my life in so good a condition of quiet as it has been since I
      have followed my business and seen myself to get greater and greater
      fitness in my employment, and honour every day more than other. So at my
      office all the afternoon, and then my mathematiques at night with Mr.
      Cooper, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed to-day with my wife merry and pleasant,
      and then rose and settled my accounts with my wife for housekeeping, and
      do see that my kitchen, besides wine, fire, candle, sope, and many other
      things, comes to about 30s. a week, or a little over. To church, where Mr.
      Mills made a lazy sermon. So home to dinner, where my brother Tom dined
      with me, and so my wife and I to church again in the afternoon, and that
      done I walked to the Wardrobe and spent my time with Mr. Creed and Mr.
      Moore talking about business; so up to supper with my Lady [Sandwich], who
      tells me, with much trouble, that my Lady Castlemaine is still as great
      with the King, and that the King comes as often to her as ever he did, at
      which, God forgive me, I am well pleased. It began to rain, and so I
      borrowed a hat and cloak of Mr. Moore and walked home, where I found
      Captain Ferrer with my wife, and after speaking a matter of an hour with
      him he went home and we all to bed. Jack Cole, my old friend, found me out
      at the Wardrobe; and, among other things, he told me that certainly most
      of the chief ministers of London would fling up their livings; and that,
      soon or late, the issue thereof would be sad to the King and Court.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up and to my office early, and there all the morning alone till
      dinner, and after dinner to my office again, and about 3 o'clock with my
      wife by water to Westminster, where I staid in the Hall while my wife went
      to see her father and mother, and she returning we by water home again,
      and by and by comes Mr. Cooper, so he and I to our mathematiques, and so
      supper and to bed. My morning's work at the office was to put the new
      books of my office into order, and writing on the backsides what books
      they be, and transcribing out of some old books some things into them.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. At the office all the morning and dined at home, and after dinner in
      all haste to make up my accounts with my Lord, which I did with some
      trouble, because I had some hopes to have made a profit to myself in this
      account and above what was due to me (which God forgive me in), but I
      could not, but carried them to my Lord, with whom they passed well. So to
      the Wardrobe, where alone with my Lord above an hour; and he do seem still
      to have his old confidence in me; and tells me to boot, that Mr. Coventry
      hath spoke of me to him to great advantage; wherein I am much pleased. By
      and by comes in Mr. Coventry to visit my Lord; and so my Lord and he and I
      walked together in the great chamber a good while; and I found him a most
      ingenuous man and good company. He being gone I also went home by water,
      Mr. Moore with me for discourse sake, and then parted from me, Cooper
      being there ready to attend me, so he and I to work till it was dark, and
      then eat a bit and by daylight to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up by four o'clock, and at my multiplicacion-table hard, which is all
      the trouble I meet withal in my arithmetique. So made me ready and to the
      office, where all the morning busy, and Sir W. Pen came to my office to
      take his leave of me, and desiring a turn in the garden, did commit the
      care of his building to me, and offered all his services to me in all
      matters of mine. I did, God forgive me! promise him all my service and
      love, though the rogue knows he deserves none from me, nor do I intend to
      show him any; but as he dissembles with me, so must I with him. Dined at
      home, and so to the office again, my wife with me, and while I was for an
      hour making a hole behind my seat in my closet to look into the office,
      she was talking to me about her going to Brampton, which I would willingly
      have her to do but for the cost of it, and to stay here will be very
      inconvenient because of the dirt that I must have when my house is pulled
      down. Then to my business till night, then Mr. Cooper and I to our
      business, and then came Mr. Mills, the minister, to see me, which he hath
      but rarely done to me, though every day almost to others of us; but he is
      a cunning fellow, and knows where the good victuals is, and the good
      drink, at Sir W. Batten's. However, I used him civilly, though I love him
      as I do the rest of his coat. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up by four o'clock, and before I went to the office I practised my
      arithmetique, and then, when my wife was up, did call her and Sarah, and
      did make up a difference between them, for she is so good a servant as I
      am loth to part with her. So to the office all the morning, where very
      much business, but it vexes me to see so much disorder at our table, that,
      every man minding a several business, we dispatch nothing. Dined at home
      with my wife, then to the office again, and being called by Sir W. Batten,
      walked to the Victualler's office, there to view all the several offices
      and houses to see that they were employed in order to give the Council an
      account thereof. So after having taken an oath or two of Mr. Lewes and
      Captain Brown and others I returned to the office, and there sat
      despatching several businesses alone till night, and so home and by
      daylight to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up by four o'clock, and hard at my multiplicacion-table, which I am
      now almost master of, and so made me ready and to my office, where by and
      by comes Mr. Pett, and then a messenger from Mr. Coventry, who stays in
      his boat at the Tower for us. So we to him, and down to Deptford first,
      and there viewed some deals lately served in at a low price, which our
      officers, like knaves, would untruly value in their worth, but we found
      them good. Then to Woolwich, and viewed well all the houses and stores
      there, which lie in very great confusion for want of storehouses, and then
      to Mr. Ackworth's and Sheldon's to view their books, which we found not to
      answer the King's service and security at all as to the stores. Then to
      the Ropeyard, and there viewed the hemp, wherein we found great
      corruption, and then saw a trial between Sir R. Ford's yarn and our own,
      and found great odds. So by water back again. About five in the afternoon
      to Whitehall, and so to St. James's; and at Mr. Coventry's chamber, which
      is very neat and fine, we had a pretty neat dinner, and after dinner fell
      to discourse of business and regulation, and do think of many things that
      will put matters into better order, and upon the whole my heart rejoices
      to see Mr. Coventry so ingenious, and able, and studious to do good, and
      with much frankness and respect to Mr. Pett and myself particularly. About
      9 o'clock we broke up after much discourse and many things agreed on in
      order to our business of regulation, and so by water (landing Mr. Pett at
      the Temple) I went home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up by five o'clock, and put things in my house in order to be laid
      up, against my workmen come on Monday to take down the top of my house,
      which trouble I must go through now, but it troubles me much to think of
      it. So to my office, where till noon we sat, and then I to dinner and to
      the office all the afternoon with much business. At night with Cooper at
      arithmetique, and then came Mr. Creed about my Lord's accounts to even
      them, and he gone I to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day).... I had my old pain all yesterday and this morning,
      and so kept my bed all this morning. So up and after dinner and some of my
      people to church, I set about taking down my books and papers and making
      my chamber fit against to-morrow to have the people come to work in
      pulling down the top of my house. In the evening I walked to the garden
      and sent for Mr. Turner (who yesterday did give me occasion of speaking to
      him about the difference between him and me), and I told him my whole
      mind, and how it was in my power to do him a discourtesy about his place
      of petty purveyance, and at last did make him see (I think) that it was
      his concernment to be friendly to me and what belongs to me. After
      speaking my mind to him and he to me, we walked down and took boat at the
      Tower and to Deptford, on purpose to sign and seal a couple of warrants,
      as justice of peace in Kent, against one Annis, who is to be tried next
      Tuesday, at Maidstone assizes, for stealing some lead out of Woolwich
      Yard. Going and coming I did discourse with Mr. Turner about the faults of
      our management of the business of our office, of which he is sensible, but
      I believe is a very knave. Come home I found a rabbit at the fire, and so
      supped well, and so to my journall and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up by 4 o'clock and to my arithmetique, and so to my office till 8,
      then to Thames Street along with old Mr. Green, among the tarr-men, and
      did instruct myself in the nature and prices of tarr, but could not get
      Stockholm for the use of the office under L10 15s. per last, which is a
      great price. So home, and at noon Dr. T. Pepys came to me, and he and I to
      the Exchequer, and so back to dinner, where by chance comes Mr. Pierce,
      the chyrurgeon, and then Mr. Battersby, the minister, and then Mr. Dun,
      and it happened that I had a haunch of venison boiled, and so they were
      very wellcome and merry; but my simple Dr. do talk so like a fool that I
      am weary of him. They being gone, to my office again, and there all the
      afternoon, and at night home and took a few turns with my wife in the
      garden and so to bed. My house being this day almost quite untiled in
      order to its rising higher. This night I began to put on my waistcoat
      also. I found the pageant in Cornhill taken down, which was pretty
      strange.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up by 4 o'clock, and after doing some business as to settling my
      papers at home, I went to my office, and there busy till sitting time. So
      at the office all the morning, where J. Southern, Mr. Coventry's clerk,
      did offer me a warrant for an officer to sign which I desired, claiming it
      for my clerk's duty, which however did trouble me a little to be put upon
      it, but I did it. We broke up late, and I to dinner at home, where my
      brother Tom and Mr. Cooke came and dined with me, but I could not be merry
      for my business, but to my office again after dinner, and they two and my
      wife abroad. In the evening comes Mr. Cooper, and I took him by water on
      purpose to tell me things belonging to ships, which was time well spent,
      and so home again, and my wife came home and tells me she has been very
      merry and well pleased with her walk with them. About bedtime it fell
      a-raining, and the house being all open at top, it vexed me; but there was
      no help for it.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. In the morning I found all my ceilings, spoiled with rain last
      night, so that I fear they must be all new whited when the work is done.
      Made me ready and to my office, and by and by came Mr. Moore to me, and so
      I went home and consulted about drawing up a fair state of all my Lord's
      accounts, which being settled, he went away, and I fell to writing of it
      very neatly, and it was very handsome and concisely done. At noon to my
      Lord's with it, but found him at dinner, and some great company with him,
      Mr. Edward Montagu and his brother, and Mr. Coventry, and after dinner he
      went out with them, and so I lost my labour; but dined with Mr. Moore and
      the people below, who after dinner fell to talk of Portugall rings, and
      Captain Ferrers offered five or six to sell, and I seeming to like a ring
      made of a coco-nutt with a stone done in it, he did offer and would give
      it me. By and by we went to Mr. Creed's lodging, and there got a dish or
      two of sweetmeats, and I seeing a very neat leaden standish to carry
      papers, pen, and ink in when one travels I also got that of him, and that
      done I went home by water and to finish some of my Lord's business, and so
      early to bed. This day I was told that my Lady Castlemaine (being quite
      fallen out with her husband) did yesterday go away from him, with all her
      plate, jewels, and other best things; and is gone to Richmond to a brother
      of her's; which, I am apt to think, was a design to get out of town, that
      the King might come at her the better. But strange it is how for her
      beauty I am willing to construe all this to the best and to pity her
      wherein it is to her hurt, though I know well enough she is a whore.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. To my office, and by and by to our sitting; where much business. Mr.
      Coventry took his leave, being to go with the Duke over for the
      Queen-Mother. I dined at home, and so to my Lord's, where I presented him
      with a true state of all his accounts to last Monday, being the 14th of
      July, which did please him, and to my great joy I continue in his great
      esteem and opinion. I this day took a general acquittance from my Lord to
      the same day. So that now I have but very few persons to deal withall for
      money in the world. Home and found much business to be upon my hands, and
      was late at the office writing letters by candle light, which is rare at
      this time of the year, but I do it with much content and joy, and then I
      do please me to see that I begin to have people direct themselves to me in
      all businesses. Very late I was forced to send for Mr. Turner, Smith,
      Young, about things to be sent down early to-morrow on board the King's
      pleasure boat, and so to bed with my head full of business, but well
      contented in mind as ever in my life.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up very early, and got a-top of my house, seeing the design of my
      work, and like it very well, and it comes into my head to have my
      dining-room wainscoated, which will be very pretty. By-and-by by water to
      Deptford, to put several things in order, being myself now only left in
      town, and so back again to the office, and there doing business all the
      morning and the afternoon also till night, and then comes Cooper for my
      mathematiques, but, in good earnest, my head is so full of business that I
      cannot understand it as otherwise I should do. At night to bed, being much
      troubled at the rain coming into my house, the top being open.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up early and to some business, and my wife coming to me I staid long
      with her discoursing about her going into the country, and as she is not
      very forward so am I at a great loss whether to have her go or no because
      of the charge, and yet in some considerations I would be glad she was
      there, because of the dirtiness of my house and the trouble of having of a
      family there. So to my office, and there all the morning, and then to
      dinner and my brother Tom dined with me only to see me. In the afternoon I
      went upon the river to look after some tarr I am sending down and some
      coles, and so home again; it raining hard upon the water, I put ashore and
      sheltered myself, while the King came by in his barge, going down towards
      the Downs to meet the Queen: the Duke being gone yesterday. But methought
      it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the
      rain. Home, and Cooper coming (after I had dispatched several letters) to
      my mathematiques, and so at night to bed to a chamber at Sir W. Pen's, my
      own house being so foul that I cannot lie there any longer, and there the
      chamber lies so as that I come into it over my leads without going about,
      but yet I am not fully content with it, for there will be much trouble to
      have servants running over the leads to and fro.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). My wife and I lay talking long in bed, and at last she
      is come to be willing to stay two months in the country, for it is her
      unwillingness to stay till the house is quite done that makes me at a loss
      how to have her go or stay. But that which troubles me most is that it has
      rained all this morning so furiously that I fear my house is all over
      water, and with that expectation I rose and went into my house and find
      that it is as wet as the open street, and that there is not one
      dry-footing above nor below in my house. So I fitted myself for dirt, and
      removed all my books to the office and all day putting up and restoring
      things, it raining all day long as hard within doors as without. At last
      to dinner, we had a calf's head and bacon at my chamber at Sir W. Pen's,
      and there I and my wife concluded to have her go and her two maids and the
      boy, and so there shall be none but Will and I left at home, and so the
      house will be freer, for it is impossible to have anybody come into my
      house while it is in this condition, and with this resolution all the
      afternoon we were putting up things in the further cellar against next
      week for them to be gone, and my wife and I into the office and there
      measured a soiled flag that I had found there, and hope to get it to
      myself, for it has not been demanded since I came to the office. But my
      wife is not hasty to have it, but rather to stay a while longer and see
      the event whether it will be missed or no. At night to my office, and
      there put down this day's passages in my journall, and read my oaths, as I
      am obliged every Lord's day. And so to Sir W. Pen's to my chamber again,
      being all in dirt and foul, and in fear of having catched cold today with
      dabbling in the water. But what has vexed me to-day was that by carrying
      the key to Sir W. Pen's last night, it could not in the midst of all my
      hurry to carry away my books and things, be found, and at last they found
      it in the fire that we made last night. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up early, and though I found myself out of order and cold, and the
      weather cold and likely to rain, yet upon my promise and desire to do what
      I intended, I did take boat and down to Greenwich, to Captain Cocke's, who
      hath a most pleasant seat, and neat. Here I drank wine, and eat some fruit
      off the trees; and he showed a great rarity, which was two or three of a
      great number of silver dishes and plates, which he bought of an embassador
      that did lack money, in the edge or rim of which was placed silver and
      gold medalls, very ancient, and I believe wrought, by which, if they be,
      they are the greatest rarity that ever I saw in my life, and I will show
      Mr. Crumlum them. Thence to Woolwich to the Rope-yard; and there looked
      over several sorts of hemp, and did fall upon my great survey of seeing
      the working and experiments of the strength and the charge in the dressing
      of every sort; and I do think have brought it to so great a certainty, as
      I have done the King great service in it: and do purpose to get it ready
      against the Duke's coming to town to present to him. I breakfasted at Mr.
      Falconer's well, and much pleased with my inquiries. Thence to the dock,
      where we walked in Mr. Shelden's garden, eating more fruit, and drinking,
      and eating figs, which were very good, and talking while the Royal James
      was bringing towards the dock, and then we went out and saw the manner and
      trouble of docking such a ship, which yet they could not do, but only
      brought her head into the Dock, and so shored her up till next tide. But,
      good God! what a deal of company was there from both yards to help to do
      it, when half the company would have done it as well. But I see it is
      impossible for the King to have things done as cheap as other men. Thence
      by water, and by and by landing at the riverside somewhere among the
      reeds, we walked to Greenwich, where to Cocke's house again and walked in
      the garden, and then in to his lady, who I find is still pretty, but was
      now vexed and did speak very discontented and angry to the Captain for
      disappointing a gentleman that he had invited to dinner, which he took
      like a wise man and said little, but she was very angry, which put me
      clear out of countenance that I was sorry I went in. So after I had eat
      still some more fruit I took leave of her in the garden plucking apricots
      for preserving, and went away and so by water home, and there Mr. Moore
      coming and telling me that my Lady goes into the country to-morrow, I
      carried my wife by coach to take her leave of her father, I staying in
      Westminster Hall, she going away also this week, and thence to my Lady's,
      where we staid and supped with her, but found that my Lady was truly angry
      and discontented with us for our neglecting to see her as we used to do,
      but after a little she was pleased as she was used to be, at which we were
      glad. So after supper home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22d. Among my workmen early: then to the office, and there I had letters
      from the Downs from Mr. Coventry; who tells me of the foul weather they
      had last Sunday, that drove them back from near Boulogne, whither they
      were going for the Queen, back again to the Downs, with the loss of their
      cables, sayles, and masts; but are all safe, only my Lord Sandwich, who
      went before with the yachts; they know not what is become of him, which do
      trouble me much; but I hope he got ashore before the storm begun; which
      God grant! All day at the office, only at home at dinner, where I was
      highly angry with my wife for her keys being out of the way, but they were
      found at last, and so friends again. All the afternoon answering letters
      and writing letters, and at night to Mr. Coventry an ample letter in
      answer to all his and the Duke's business. Late at night at the office,
      where my business is great, being now all alone in town, but I shall go
      through it with pleasure. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. This morning angry a little in the morning, and my house being so
      much out of order makes me a little pettish. I went to the office, and
      there dispatched business by myself, and so again in the afternoon; being
      a little vexed that my brother Tom, by his neglect, do fail to get a coach
      for my wife and maid this week, by which she will not be at Brampton
      Feast, to meet my Lady at my father's. At night home, and late packing up
      things in order to their going to Brampton to-morrow, and so to bed, quite
      out of sorts in my mind by reason that the weather is so bad, and my house
      all full of wet, and the trouble of going from one house to another to Sir
      W. Pen's upon every occasion. Besides much disturbed by reason of the talk
      up and down the town, that my Lord Sandwich is lost; but I trust in God
      the contrary.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up early this morning sending the things to the carrier's, and my
      boy, who goes to-day, though his mistress do not till next Monday. All the
      morning at the office, Sir W. Batten being come to town last night. I
      hear, to my great content, that my Lord Sandwich is safe landed in France.
      Dined at our chamber, where W. Bowyer with us, and after much simple talk
      with him, I left him, and to my office, where all the afternoon busy till
      9 at night, among other things improving my late experiment at Woolwich
      about hemp. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. At the office all the morning, reading Mr. Holland's' discourse of
      the Navy, lent me by Mr. Turner, and am much pleased with them, they
      hitting the very diseases of the Navy, which we are troubled with
      now-a-days. I shall bestow writing of them over and much reading thereof.
      This morning Sir W. Batten came in to the office and desired to speak with
      me; he began by telling me that he observed a strangeness between him and
      me of late, and would know the reason of it, telling me he heard that I
      was offended with merchants coming to his house and making contracts
      there. I did tell him that as a friend I had spoke of it to Sir W. Pen and
      desired him to take a time to tell him of it, and not as a backbiter, with
      which he was satisfied, but I find that Sir W. Pen has played the knave
      with me, and not told it from me as a friend, but in a bad sense. He also
      told me that he heard that exceptions were taken at his carrying his wife
      down to Portsmouth, saying that the King should not pay for it, but I
      denied that I had spoke of it, nor did I. At last he desired the
      difference between our wives might not make a difference between us, which
      I was exceedingly glad to hear, and do see every day the fruit of looking
      after my business, which I pray God continue me in, for I do begin to be
      very happy. Dined at home, and so to the office all the afternoon again,
      and at night home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Sir W. Batten, Mr. Pett, and I at the office sitting all the
      morning. So dined at home, and then to my office again, causing the model
      hanging in my chamber to be taken down and hung up in my office, for fear
      of being spoilt by the workmen, and for my own convenience of studying it.
      This afternoon I had a letter from Mr. Creed, who hath escaped narrowly in
      the King's yacht, and got safe to the Downs after the late storm; and that
      there the King do tell him, that he is sure that my Lord is landed at
      Callis safe, of which being glad, I sent news thereof to my Lord Crew, and
      by the post to my Lady into the country. This afternoon I went to
      Westminster; and there hear that the King and Queen intend to come to
      White Hall from Hampton Court next week, for all winter. Thence to Mrs.
      Sarah, and there looked over my Lord's lodgings, which are very pretty;
      and White Hall garden and the Bowling-ally (where lords and ladies are now
      at bowles), in brave condition. Mrs. Sarah told me how the falling out
      between my Lady Castlemaine and her Lord was about christening of the
      child lately,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The boy was born in June at Lady Castlemaine's house in King
     Street.  By the direction of Lord Castlemaine, who had become a
     Roman Catholic, the child was baptized by a priest, and this led to
     a final separation between husband and wife.  Some days afterwards
     the child was again baptized by the rector of St. Margaret's,
     Westminster, in presence of the godparents, the King, Aubrey De
     Vere, Earl of Oxford, and Barbara, Countess of Suffolk, first Lady
     of the Bedchamber to the Queen and Lady Castlemaine's aunt.  The
     entry in the register of St. Margaret's is as follows: "1662 June
     18 Charles Palmer Ld Limbricke, s. to ye right honorble Roger Earl
     of Castlemaine by Barbara" (Steinman's "Memoir of Barbara, Duchess
     of Cleveland," 1871, p.  33).  The child was afterwards called
     Charles Fitzroy, and was created Duke of Southampton in 1674.  He
     succeeded his mother in the dukedom of Cleveland in 1709, and died
     1730.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which he would have, and had done by a priest: and, some days after, she
      had it again christened by a minister; the King, and Lord of Oxford, and
      Duchesse of Suffolk, being witnesses: and christened with a proviso, that
      it had not already been christened. Since that she left her Lord, carrying
      away every thing in the house; so much as every dish, and cloth, and
      servant but the porter. He is gone discontented into France, they say, to
      enter a monastery; and now she is coming back again to her house in
      Kingstreet. But I hear that the Queen did prick her out of the list
      presented her by the King;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["By the King's command Lord Clarendon, much against his
     inclination, had twice visited his royal mistress with a view of
     inducing her, by persuasions which he could not justify, to give way
     to the King's determination to have Lady Castlemaine of her
     household....  Lord Clarendon has given a full account of all
     that transpired between himself, the King and the Queen, on this
     very unpleasant business ('Continuation of Life of Clarendon,' 1759,
     ff. 168-178)."&mdash;Steinman's Memoir of Duchess of Cleveland, p. 35.
     "The day at length arrived when Lady Castlemaine was to be formally
     admitted a Lady of the Bedchamber.  The royal warrant, addressed to
     the Lord Chamberlain, bears date June 1, 1663, and includes with
     that of her ladyship, the names of the Duchess of Buckingham, the
     Countesses of Chesterfield and Bath, and the Countess Mareshall.  A
     separate warrant of the same day directs his lordship to admit the
     Countess of Suffolk as Groom of the Stole and first Lady of the
     Bedchamber, to which undividable offices she had, with the
     additional ones of Mistress of the Robes and Keeper of the Privy
     Purse, been nominated by a warrant dated April 2, 1662, wherein the
     reception of her oath is expressly deferred until the Queen's
     household shall be established.  We here are furnished with the
     evidence that Charles would not sign the warrants for the five until
     Catherine had withdrawn her objection to his favourite one."&mdash;
     Addenda to Steinman's Memoir of Duchess of Cleveland (privately
     printed), 1874, p. i.]
</pre>
    <p>
      desiring that she might have that favour done her, or that he would send
      her from whence she come: and that the King was angry and the Queen
      discontented a whole day and night upon it; but that the King hath
      promised to have nothing to do with her hereafter. But I cannot believe
      that the King can fling her off so, he loving her too well: and so I writ
      this night to my Lady to be my opinion; she calling her my lady, and the
      lady I admire. Here I find that my Lord hath lost the garden to his
      lodgings, and that it is turning into a tennis-court. Hence by water to
      the Wardrobe to see how all do there, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Lord's day). At church alone in the pew in the morning. In the
      afternoon by water I carried my wife to Westminster, where she went to
      take leave of her father,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Mrs. Pepys's father was Alexander Marchant, Sieur de St. Michel, a
     scion of a good family in Anjou.  Having turned Huguenot at the age
     of twenty-one, his father disinherited him, and he was left
     penniless.  He came over in the retinue of Henrietta Maria, on her
     marriage with Charles I., as one of her Majesty's gentlemen carvers,
     but the Queen dismissed him on finding out he was a Protestant and
     did not go to mass.  He described himself as being captain and major
     of English troops in Italy and Flanders.&mdash;Wheatley's Pepys and the
     World he lived in, pp. 6, 250.  He was full of schemes; see
     September 22nd, 1663, for account of his patent for curing smoky
     chimneys.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and I to walk in the Park, which is now every day more and more pleasant,
      by the new works upon it. Here meeting with Laud Crispe, I took him to the
      farther end, and sat under a tree in a corner, and there sung some songs,
      he singing well, but no skill, and so would sing false sometimes. Then
      took leave of him, and found my wife at my Lord's lodging, and so took her
      home by water, and to supper in Sir W. Pen's balcony, and Mrs. Keene with
      us, and then came my wife's brother, and then broke up, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up early, and by six o'clock, after my wife was ready, I walked with
      her to the George, at Holborn Conduit, where the coach stood ready to
      carry her and her maid to Bugden, but that not being ready, my brother Tom
      staid with them to see them gone, and so I took a troubled though willing
      goodbye, because of the bad condition of my house to have a family in it.
      So I took leave of her and walked to the waterside, and there took boat
      for the Tower; hearing that the Queen-Mother is come this morning already
      as high as Woolwich: and that my Lord Sandwich was with her; at which my
      heart was glad, and I sent the waterman, though yet not very certain of
      it, to my wife to carry news thereof to my Lady. So to my office all the
      morning abstracting the Duke's instructions in the margin thereof. So home
      all alone to dinner, and then to the office again, and in the evening
      Cooper comes, and he being gone, to my chamber a little troubled and
      melancholy, to my lute late, and so to bed, Will lying there at my feet,
      and the wench in my house in Will's bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Early up, and brought all my money, which is near L300, out of my
      house into this chamber; and so to the office, and there we sat all the
      morning, Sir George Carteret and Mr. Coventry being come from sea. This
      morning among other things I broached the business of our being abused
      about flags, which I know doth trouble Sir W. Batten, but I care not. At
      noon being invited I went with Sir George and Mr. Coventry to Sir W.
      Batten's to dinner, and there merry, and very friendly to Sir Wm. and he
      to me, and complies much with me, but I know he envies me, and I do not
      value him. To the office again, and in the evening walked to Deptford
      (Cooper with me talking of mathematiques), to send a fellow to prison for
      cutting of buoy ropes, and to see the difference between the flags sent in
      now-a-days, and I find the old ones, which were much cheaper, to be wholly
      as good. So I took one of a sort with me, and Mr. Wayth accompanying of me
      a good way, talking of the faults of the Navy, I walked to Redriffe back,
      and so home by water, and after having done, late, at the office, I went
      to my chamber and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up early, and to my office, where Cooper came to me and begun his
      lecture upon the body of a ship, which my having of a modell in the office
      is of great use to me, and very pleasant and useful it is. Then by water
      to White Hall, and there waited upon my Lord Sandwich; and joyed him, at
      his lodgings, of his safe coming home after all his danger, which he
      confesses to be very great. And his people do tell me how bravely my Lord
      did carry himself, while my Lord Crofts did cry; and I perceive it is all
      the town talk how poorly he carried himself. But the best was of one Mr.
      Rawlins, a courtier, that was with my Lord; and in the greatest danger
      cried, "God damn me, my Lord, I won't give you three-pence for your place
      now." But all ends in the honour of the pleasure-boats; which, had they
      not been very good boats, they could never have endured the sea as they
      did. Thence with Captain Fletcher, of the Gage, in his ship's boat with 8
      oars (but every ordinary oars outrowed us) to Woolwich, expecting to find
      Sir W. Batten there upon his survey, but he is not come, and so we got a
      dish of steaks at the White Hart, while his clarkes and others were
      feasting of it in the best room of the house, and after dinner playing at
      shuffleboard,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The game of shovelboard was played by two players (each provided
     with five coins) on a smooth heavy table.  On the table were marked
     with chalk a series of lines, and the play was to strike the coin on
     the edge of the table with the hand so that it rested between these
     lines.  Shakespeare uses the expression "shove-groat shilling," as
     does Ben Jonson.  These shillings were usually smooth and worn for
     the convenience of playing.  Strutt says ("Sports and Pastimes"), "I
     have seen a shovel-board table at a low public house in Benjamin
     Street, near Clerkenwell Green, which is about three feet in breadth
     and thirty-nine feet two inches in length, and said to be the
     longest at this time in London."]
</pre>
    <p>
      and when at last they heard I was there, they went about their survey. But
      God help the King! what surveys, shall be taken after this manner! I after
      dinner about my business to the Rope-yard, and there staid till night,
      repeating several trialls of the strength, wayte, waste, and other things
      of hemp, by which I have furnished myself enough to finish my intended
      business of stating the goodness of all sorts of hemp. At night home by
      boat with Sir W. Warren, who I landed by the way, and so being come home
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up early and among my workmen, I ordering my rooms above, which will
      please me very well. So to my office, and there we sat all the morning,
      where I begin more and more to grow considerable there. At noon Mr.
      Coventry and I by his coach to the Exchange together; and in
      Lumbard-street met Captain Browne of the Rosebush: at which he was cruel
      angry: and did threaten to go to-day to the Duke at Hampton Court, and get
      him turned out because he was not sailed. But at the Exchange we resolved
      of eating a bit together, which we did at the Ship behind the Exchange,
      and so took boat to Billingsgate, and went down on board the Rosebush at
      Woolwich, and found all things out of order, but after frightening the
      officers there, we left them to make more haste, and so on shore to the
      yard, and did the same to the officers of the yard, that the ship was not
      dispatched. Here we found Sir W. Batten going about his survey, but so
      poorly and unlike a survey of the Navy, that I am ashamed of it, and so is
      Mr. Coventry. We found fault with many things, and among others the
      measure of some timber now serving in which Mr. Day the assistant told us
      of, and so by water home again, all the way talking of the office business
      and other very pleasant discourse, and much proud I am of getting thus far
      into his books, which I think I am very much in. So home late, and it
      being the last day of the month, I did make up my accounts before I went
      to bed, and found myself worth about L650, for which the Lord God be
      praised, and so to bed. I drank but two glasses of wine this day, and yet
      it makes my head ake all night, and indisposed me all the next day, of
      which I am glad. I am now in town only with my man Will and Jane, and
      because my house is in building, I do lie at Sir W. Pen's house, he being
      gone to Ireland. My wife, her maid and boy gone to Brampton. I am very
      well entered into the business and esteem of the office, and do ply it
      close, and find benefit by it.
    </p>
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      AUGUST 1662
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    <p>
      August 1st. Up, my head aching, and to my office, where Cooper read me
      another lecture upon my modell very pleasant. So to my business all the
      morning, which increases by people coming now to me to the office. At noon
      to the Exchange, where meeting Mr. Creed and Moore we three to a house
      hard by (which I was not pleased with) to dinner, and after dinner and
      some discourse ordinary by coach home, it raining hard, and so at the
      office all the afternoon till evening to my chamber, where, God forgive
      me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W. Pen's maid Betty was gone away
      yesterday, for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had
      gone, she being very pretty. I had also a mind to my own wench, but I dare
      not for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife. I
      staid up late, putting things in order for my going to Chatham to-morrow,
      and so to bed, being in pain... with the little riding in a coach to-day
      from the Exchange, which do trouble me.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up early, and got me ready in my riding clothes, and so to the
      office, and there wrote letters to my father and wife against night, and
      then to the business of my office, which being done, I took boat with
      Will, and down to Greenwich, where Captain Cocke not being at home I was
      vexed, and went to walk in the Park till he come thither to me: and Will's
      forgetting to bring my boots in the boat did also vex me, for I was forced
      to send the boat back again for them. I to Captain Cocke's along with him
      to dinner, where I find his lady still pretty, but not so good a humour as
      I thought she was. We had a plain, good dinner, and I see they do live
      very frugally. I eat among other fruit much mulberrys, a thing I have not
      eat of these many years, since I used to be at Ashted, at my cozen
      Pepys's. After dinner we to boat, and had a pleasant passage down to
      Gravesend, but it was nine o'clock before we got thither, so that we were
      in great doubt what to do, whether to stay there or no; and the rather
      because I was afeard to ride, because of my pain...; but at the Swan,
      finding Mr. Hemson and Lieutenant Carteret of the Foresight come to meet
      me, I borrowed Mr. Hemson's horse, and he took another, and so we rode to
      Rochester in the dark, and there at the Crown Mr. Gregory, Barrow, and
      others staid to meet me. So after a glass of wine, we to our barge, that
      was ready for me, to the Hill-house, where we soon went to bed, before we
      slept I telling upon discourse Captain Cocke the manner of my being cut of
      the stone, which pleased him much. So to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Lord's day). Up early, and with Captain Cocke to the dock-yard, a
      fine walk, and fine weather. Where we walked till Commissioner Pett come
      to us, and took us to his house, and showed us his garden and fine things,
      and did give us a fine breakfast of bread and butter, and sweetmeats and
      other things with great choice, and strong drinks, with which I could not
      avoyde making my head ake, though I drank but little. Thither came Captain
      Allen of the Foresight, and the officers of the yard to see me. Thence by
      and by to church, by coach, with the Commissioner, and had a dull sermon.
      A full church, and some pretty women in it; among others, Beck Allen, who
      was a bride-maid to a new married couple that came to church to-day, and,
      which was pretty strange, sat in a pew hung with mourning for a mother of
      the bride's, which methinks should have been taken down. After dinner
      going out of the church saluted Mrs. Pett, who came after us in the coach
      to church, and other officers' wives. The Commissioner staid at dinner
      with me, and we had a good dinner, better than I would have had, but I saw
      there was no helping of it. After dinner the Commissioner and I left the
      company and walked in the garden at the Hill-house, which is very
      pleasant, and there talked of our businesses and matters of the navy. So
      to church again, where quite weary, and so after sermon walked with him to
      the yard up and down and the fields, and saw the place designed for the
      wet dock. And so to his house, and had a syllabub, and saw his closet,
      which come short of what I expected, but there was fine modells of ships
      in it indeed, whose worth I could not judge of. At night walked home to
      the Hill-house, Mr. Barrow with me, talking of the faults of the yard,
      walking in the fields an hour or two, and so home to supper, and so
      Captain Cocke and I to bed. This day among other stories he told me how
      despicable a thing it is to be a hangman in Poland, although it be a place
      of credit. And that, in his time, there was some repairs to be made of the
      gallows there, which was very fine of stone; but nobody could be got to
      mend it till the Burgomaster, or Mayor of the town, with all the companies
      of those trades which were necessary to be used about those repairs, did
      go in their habits with flags, in solemn procession to the place, and
      there the Burgomaster did give the first blow with the hammer upon the
      wooden work; and the rest of the Masters of the Companys upon the works
      belonging to their trades; that so workmen might not be ashamed to be
      employed upon doing of the gallows' works.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up by four o'clock in the morning and walked to the Dock, where
      Commissioner Pett and I took barge and went to the guardships and mustered
      them, finding them but badly manned; thence to the Sovereign, which we
      found kept in good order and very clean, which pleased us well, but few of
      the officers on board. Thence to the Charles, and were troubled to see her
      kept so neglectedly by the boatswain Clements, who I always took for a
      very good officer; it is a very brave ship. Thence to Upnor Castle, and
      there went up to the top, where there is a fine prospect, but of very
      small force; so to the yard, and there mustered the whole ordinary, where
      great disorder by multitude of servants and old decrepid men, which must
      be remedied. So to all the storehouses and viewed the stores of all sorts
      and the hemp, where we found Captain Cocke's (which he came down to see
      along with me) very bad, and some others, and with much content (God
      forgive me) I did hear by the Clerk of the Ropeyard how it was by Sir W.
      Batten's private letter that one parcel of Alderman Barker's' was
      received. At two o'clock to dinner to the Hill-house, and after dinner
      dispatched many people's business, and then to the yard again, and looked
      over Mr. Gregory's and Barrow's houses to see the matter of difference
      between them concerning an alteration that Barrow would make, which I
      shall report to the board, but both their houses very pretty, and deserve
      to be so, being well kept. Then to a trial of several sorts of hemp, but
      could not perform it here so well as at Woolwich, but we did do it pretty
      well. So took barge at the dock and to Rochester, and there Captain Cocke
      and I and our two men took coach about 8 at night and to Gravesend, where
      it was very dark before we got thither to the Swan; and there, meeting
      with Doncaster, an old waterman of mine above bridge, we eat a short
      supper, being very merry with the drolling, drunken coachman that brought
      us, and so took water. It being very dark, and the wind rising, and our
      waterman unacquainted with this part of the river, so that we presently
      cast upon the Essex shore, but got off again, and so, as well as we could,
      went on, but I in such fear that I could not sleep till we came to Erith,
      and there it begun to be calm, and the stars to shine, and so I began to
      take heart again, and the rest too, and so made shift to slumber a little.
      Above Woolwich we lost our way, and went back to Blackwall, and up and
      down, being guided by nothing but the barking of a dog, which we had
      observed in passing by Blackwall, and so,
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Got right again with much ado, after two or three circles and so on,
      and at Greenwich set in Captain Cocke, and I set forward, hailing to all
      the King's ships at Deptford, but could not wake any man: so that we could
      have done what we would with their ships. At last waked one man; but it
      was a merchant ship, the Royall Catharine: so to the Towerdock and home,
      where the girl sat up for me. It was about three o'clock, and putting Mr.
      Boddam out of my bed, went to bed, and lay till nine o'clock, and so to
      the office, where we sat all the morning, and I did give some accounts of
      my service. Dined alone at home, and was glad my house is begun tiling.
      And to the office again all the afternoon, till it was so dark that I
      could not see hardly what it is that I now set down when I write this
      word, and so went to my chamber and to bed, being sleepy.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up early, and, going to my office, met Sir G. Carteret in coming
      through the yard, and so walked a good while talking with him about Sir W.
      Batten, and find that he is going down the wind in every body's esteem,
      and in that of his honesty by this letter that he wrote to Captn. Allen
      concerning Alderman Barker's hemp. Thence by water to White Hall; and so
      to St. James's; but there found Mr. Coventry gone to Hampton Court. So to
      my Lord's; and he is also gone: this being a great day at the Council
      about some business at the Council before the King. Here I met with Mr.
      Pierce, the chyrurgeon, who told me how Mr. Edward Montagu hath lately had
      a duell with Mr. Cholmely, that is first gentleman-usher to the Queen, and
      was a messenger from the King to her in Portugall, and is a fine
      gentleman; but had received many affronts from Mr. Montagu, and some
      unkindness from my Lord, upon his score (for which I am sorry). He proved
      too hard for Montagu, and drove him so far backward that he fell into a
      ditch, and dropt his sword, but with honour would take no advantage over
      him; but did give him his life: and the world says Mr. Montagu did carry
      himself very poorly in the business, and hath lost his honour for ever
      with all people in it, of which I am very glad, in hopes that it will
      humble him. I hear also that he hath sent to my Lord to borrow L400,
      giving his brother Harvey's' security for it, and that my Lord will lend
      it him, for which I am sorry. Thence home, and at my office all the
      morning, and dined at home, and can hardly keep myself from having a mind
      to my wench, but I hope I shall not fall to such a shame to myself. All
      the afternoon also at my office, and did business. In the evening came Mr.
      Bland the merchant to me, who has lived long in Spain, and is concerned in
      the business of Tangier, who did discourse with me largely of it, and
      after he was gone did send me three or four printed things that he hath
      wrote of trade in general and of Tangier particularly, but I do not find
      much in them. This afternoon Mr. Waith was with me, and did tell me much
      concerning the Chest, which I am resolved to look into; and I perceive he
      is sensible of Sir W. Batten's carriage; and is pleased to see any thing
      work against him. Who, poor man, is, I perceive, much troubled, and did
      yesterday morning walk in the garden with me, did tell me he did see there
      was a design of bringing another man in his room, and took notice of my
      sorting myself with others, and that we did business by ourselves without
      him. Part of which is true, but I denied, and truly, any design of doing
      him any such wrong as that. He told me he did not say it particularly of
      me, but he was confident there was somebody intended to be brought in,
      nay, that the trayne was laid before Sir W. Pen went, which I was glad to
      hear him say. Upon the whole I see he perceives himself tottering, and
      that he is suspected, and would be kind to me, but I do my business in the
      office and neglect him. At night writing in my study a mouse ran over my
      table, which I shut up fast under my shelf's upon my table till to-morrow,
      and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up by four o'clock and to my office, and by and by Mr. Cooper comes
      and to our modell, which pleases me more and more. At this till 8 o'clock,
      and so we sat in the office and staid all the morning, my interest still
      growing, for which God be praised. This morning I got unexpectedly the
      Reserve for Mr. Cooper to be maister of, which was only by taking an
      opportune time to motion [it], which is one good effect of my being
      constant at the office, that nothing passes without me; and I have the
      choice of my own time to propose anything I would have. Dined at home, and
      to the office again at my business all the afternoon till night, and so to
      supper and to bed. It being become a pleasure to me now-a-days to follow
      my business, and the greatest part may be imputed to my drinking no wine,
      and going to no plays.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up by four o'clock in the morning, and at five by water to Woolwich,
      there to see the manner of tarring, and all the morning looking to see the
      several proceedings in making of cordage, and other things relating to
      that sort of works, much to my satisfaction. At noon came Mr. Coventry on
      purpose from Hampton Court to see the same, and dined with Mr. Falconer,
      and after dinner to several experiments of Hemp, and particularly some
      Milan hemp that is brought over ready dressed. Thence we walked talking,
      very good discourse all the way to Greenwich, and I do find most excellent
      discourse from him. Among other things, his rule of suspecting every man
      that proposes any thing to him to be a knave; or, at least, to have some
      ends of his own in it. Being led thereto by the story of Sir John
      Millicent, that would have had a patent from King James for every man to
      have had leave to have given him a shilling; and that he might take it of
      every man that had a mind to give it, and being answered that that was a
      fair thing, but what needed he a patent for it, and what he would do to
      them that would not give him. He answered, he would not force them; but
      that they should come to the Council of State, to give a reason why they
      would not. Another rule is a proverb that he hath been taught, which is
      that a man that cannot sit still in his chamber (the reason of which I did
      not understand him), and he that cannot say no (that is, that is of so
      good a nature that he cannot deny any thing, or cross another in doing any
      thing), is not fit for business. The last of which is a very great fault
      of mine, which I must amend in. Thence by boat; I being hot, he put the
      skirt of his cloak about me; and it being rough, he told me the passage of
      a Frenchman through London Bridge, where, when he saw the great fall, he
      begun to cross himself and say his prayers in the greatest fear in the
      world, and soon as he was over, he swore "Morbleu! c'est le plus grand
      plaisir du monde," being the most like a French humour in the world.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [When the first editions of this Diary were printed no note was
     required here.  Before the erection of the present London Bridge the
     fall of water at the ebb tide was great, and to pass at that time
     was called "Shooting the bridge".  It was very hazardous for small
     boats.  The ancient mode, even in Henry VIII.'s time, of going to
     the Tower and Greenwich, was to land at the Three Cranes, in Upper
     Thames Street, suffer the barges to shoot the bridge, and to enter
     them again at Billingsgate.  See Cavendish's "Wolsey," p. 40, ed.
     1852]
</pre>
    <p>
      To Deptford, and there surprised the Yard, and called them to a muster,
      and discovered many abuses, which we shall be able to understand hereafter
      and amend. Thence walked to Redriffe, and so to London Bridge, where I
      parted with him, and walked home and did a little business, and to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up by four o'clock or a little after, and to my office, whither by
      and by comes Cooper, to whom I told my getting for him the Reserve, for
      which he was very thankful, and fell to work upon our modell, and did a
      good morning's work upon the rigging, and am very sorry that I must lose
      him so soon. By and by comes Mr. Coventry, and he and I alone sat at the
      office all the morning upon business. And so to dinner to Trinity House,
      and thence by his coach towards White Hall; but there being a stop at the
      Savoy, we 'light and took water, and my Lord Sandwich being out of town,
      we parted there, all the way having good discourse, and in short I find
      him the most ingenuous person I ever found in my life, and am happy in his
      acquaintance and my interest in him. Home by water, and did business at my
      office. Writing a letter to my brother John to dissuade him from being
      Moderator of his year, which I hear is proffered him, of which I am very
      glad. By and by comes Cooper, and he and I by candlelight at my modell,
      being willing to learn as much of him as is possible before he goes. So
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Being to dine at my brother's, I walked to St.
      Dunstan's, the church being now finished; and here I heard Dr. Bates,' who
      made a most eloquent sermon; and I am sorry I have hitherto had so low an
      opinion of the man, for I have not heard a neater sermon a great while,
      and more to my content. So to Tom's, where Dr. Fairebrother, newly come
      from Cambridge, met me, and Dr. Thomas Pepys. I framed myself as pleasant
      as I could, but my mind was another way. Hither came my uncle Fenner,
      hearing that I was here, and spoke to me about Pegg Kite's business of her
      portion, which her husband demands, but I will have nothing to do with it.
      I believe he has no mind to part with the money out of his hands, but let
      him do what he will with it. He told me the new service-book&mdash;[The
      Common Prayer Book of 1662, now in use.]&mdash;(which is now lately come
      forth) was laid upon their deske at St. Sepulchre's for Mr. Gouge to read;
      but he laid it aside, and would not meddle with it: and I perceive the
      Presbyters do all prepare to give over all against Bartholomew-tide.
    </p>
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     [Thomas Gouge (1609-1681), an eminent Presbyterian minister, son of
     William Gouge, D.D. (lecturer at and afterwards Rector of St.
     Anne's, Blackfriars).  He was vicar of the parish of St. Sepulchre
     from 1638 until the Act of Uniformity, in 1662, forced him to resign
     his living.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Mr. Herring, being lately turned out at St. Bride's, did read the psalm to
      the people while they sung at Dr. Bates's, which methought is a strange
      turn. After dinner to St. Bride's, and there heard one Carpenter, an old
      man, who, they say, hath been a Jesuit priest, and is come over to us; but
      he preaches very well. So home with Mrs. Turner, and there hear that Mr.
      Calamy hath taken his farewell this day of his people, and that others
      will do so the next Sunday. Mr. Turner, the draper, I hear, is knighted,
      made Alderman, and pricked for Sheriffe, with Sir Thomas Bluddel, for the
      next year, by the King, and so are called with great honour the King's
      Sheriffes. Thence walked home, meeting Mr. Moore by the way, and he home
      with me and walked till it was dark in the garden, and so good night, and
      I to my closet in my office to perfect my Journall and to read my solemn
      vows, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. All the morning at the office. Dined at home all alone, and so to my
      office again, whither Dean Fuller came to see me, and having business
      about a ship to carry his goods to Dublin, whither he is shortly to
      return, I went with him to the Hermitage, and the ship happening to be
      Captn. Holland's I did give orders for them to be well looked after, and
      thence with him to the Custom House about getting a pass for them, and so
      to the Dolphin tavern, where I spent 6d. on him, but drank but one glass
      of wine, and so parted. He tells me that his niece, that sings so well,
      whom I have long longed to see, is married to one Mr. Boys, a wholesale
      man at the Three Crowns in Cheapside. I to the office again, whither
      Cooper came and read his last lecture to me upon my modell, and so bid me
      good bye, he being to go to-morrow to Chatham to take charge of the ship I
      have got him. So to my business till 9 at night, and so to supper and to
      bed, my mind a little at ease because my house is now quite tiled.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up early at my office, and I find all people beginning to come to
      me. Among others Mr. Deane, the Assistant of Woolwich, who I find will
      discover to me the whole abuse that his Majesty suffers in the measuring
      of timber, of which I shall be glad. He promises me also a modell of a
      ship, which will please me exceedingly, for I do want one of my own. By
      and by we sat, and among other things Sir W. Batten and I had a difference
      about his clerk's making a warrant for a Maister, which I would not
      suffer, but got another signed, which he desires may be referred to a full
      board, and I am willing to it. But though I did get another signed of my
      own clerk's, yet I will give it to his clerk, because I would not be
      judged unkind, and though I will stand upon my privilege. At noon home and
      to dinner alone, and so to the office again, where busy all the afternoon
      till to o'clock at night, and so to supper and to bed, my mind being a
      little disquieted about Sir W. Batten's dispute to-day, though this
      afternoon I did speak with his man Norman at last, and told him the reason
      of my claim.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up early, and to my office, where people come to me about business,
      and by and by we met on purpose to enquire into the business of the
      flag-makers, where I am the person that do chiefly manage the business
      against them on the King's part; and I do find it the greatest cheat that
      I have yet found; they having eightpence per yard allowed them by pretence
      of a contract, where no such thing appears; and it is threepence more than
      was formerly paid, and than I now offer the Board to have them done. We
      did not fully end it, but refer it to another time. At noon Commr. Pett
      and I by water to Greenwich, and on board the pleasure-boats to see what
      they wanted, they being ordered to sea, and very pretty things I still
      find them, and so on shore and at the Shipp had a bit of meat and dined,
      there waiting upon us a barber of Mr. Pett's acquaintance that plays very
      well upon the viollin. Thence to Lambeth; and there saw the little
      pleasure-boat in building by the King, my Lord Brunkard, and the
      virtuosoes of the town, according to new lines, which Mr. Pett cries up
      mightily, but how it will prove we shall soon see. So by water home, and
      busy at my study late, drawing a letter to the yards of reprehension and
      direction for the board to sign, in which I took great pains. So home and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up early and to look on my works, and find my house to go on apace.
      So to my office to prepare business, and then we met and sat till noon,
      and then Commissioner Pett and I being invited, went by Sir John Winter's
      coach sent for us, to the Mitre, in Fenchurch street, to a venison-pasty;
      where I found him a very worthy man; and good discourse. Most of which was
      concerning the Forest of Dean, and the timber there, and iron-workes with
      their great antiquity, and the vast heaps of cinders which they find, and
      are now of great value, being necessary for the making of iron at this
      day; and without which they cannot work: with the age of many trees there
      left at a great fall in Edward the Third's time, by the name of
      forbid-trees, which at this day are called vorbid trees. Thence to my
      office about business till late, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up very early, and up about seeing how my work proceeds, and am
      pretty well pleased therewith; especially my wife's closet will be very
      pretty. So to the office and there very busy, and many people coming to
      me. At noon to the Change, and there hear of some Quakers that are seized
      on, that would have blown up the prison in Southwark where they are put.
      So to the Swan, in Old Fish Street, where Mr. Brigden and his
      father-in-law, Blackbury, of whom we had bought timber in the office, but
      have not dealt well with us, did make me a fine dinner only to myself; and
      after dinner comes in a jugler, which shewed us very pretty tricks. I
      seemed very pleasant, but am no friend to the man's dealings with us in
      the office. After an hour or two sitting after dinner talking about office
      business, where I had not spent any time a great while, I went to Paul's
      Church Yard to my bookseller's; and there I hear that next Sunday will be
      the last of a great many Presbyterian ministers in town, who, I hear, will
      give up all. I pray God the issue may be good, for the discontent is
      great. Home and to my office till 9 at night doing business, and so to
      bed. My mind well pleased with a letter I found at home from Mr. Coventry,
      expressing his satisfaction in a letter I writ last night, and sent him
      this morning, to be corrected by him in order to its sending down to all
      the Yards as a charge to them.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). Up very early, this being the last Sunday that the
      Presbyterians are to preach, unless they read the new Common Prayer and
      renounce the Covenant,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [On St. Bartholomew's day, August 24th, 1662, the Act of Uniformity
     took effect, and about two hundred Presbyterian and Independent
     ministers lost their preferments.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and so I had a mind to hear Dr. Bates's farewell sermon, and walked
      thither, calling first at my brother's, where I found that he is come home
      after being a week abroad with Dr. Pepys, nobody knows where, nor I but by
      chance, that he was gone, which troubles me. So I called only at the door,
      but did not ask for him, but went to Madam Turner's to know whether she
      went to church, and to tell her that I would dine with her; and so walked
      to St. Dunstan's, where, it not being seven o'clock yet, the doors were
      not open; and so I went and walked an hour in the Temple-garden, reading
      my vows, which it is a great content to me to see how I am a changed man
      in all respects for the better, since I took them, which the God of Heaven
      continue to me, and make me thankful for. At eight o'clock I went, and
      crowded in at a back door among others, the church being half-full almost
      before any doors were open publicly; which is the first time that I have
      done so these many years since I used to go with my father and mother, and
      so got into the gallery, beside the pulpit, and heard very well. His text
      was, "Now the God of Peace&mdash;;" the last Hebrews, and the 20th verse:
      he making a very good sermon, and very little reflections in it to any
      thing of the times. Besides the sermon, I was very well pleased with the
      sight of a fine lady that I have often seen walk in Graye's Inn Walks, and
      it was my chance to meet her again at the door going out, and very pretty
      and sprightly she is, and I believe the same that my wife and I some years
      since did meet at Temple Bar gate and have sometimes spoke of. So to Madam
      Turner's, and dined with her. She had heard Parson Herring take his leave;
      tho' he, by reading so much of the Common Prayer as he did, hath cast
      himself out of the good opinion of both sides. After dinner to St.
      Dunstan's again; and the church quite crowded before I came, which was
      just at one o'clock; but I got into the gallery again, but stood in a
      crowd and did exceedingly sweat all the time. He pursued his text again
      very well; and only at the conclusion told us, after this manner: "I do
      believe that many of you do expect that I should say something to you in
      reference to the time, this being the last time that possibly I may appear
      here. You know it is not my manner to speak any thing in the pulpit that
      is extraneous to my text and business; yet this I shall say, that it is
      not my opinion, fashion, or humour that keeps me from complying with what
      is required of us; but something which, after much prayer, discourse, and
      study yet remains unsatisfied, and commands me herein. Wherefore, if it is
      my unhappiness not to receive such an illumination as should direct me to
      do otherwise, I know no reason why men should not pardon me in this world,
      and am confident that God will pardon me for it in the next." And so he
      concluded. Parson Herring read a psalm and chapters before sermon; and one
      was the chapter in the Acts, where the story of Ananias and Sapphira is.
      And after he had done, says he, "This is just the case of England at
      present. God he bids us to preach, and men bid us not to preach; and if we
      do, we are to be imprisoned and further punished. All that I can say to it
      is, that I beg your prayers, and the prayers of all good Christians, for
      us." This was all the exposition he made of the chapter in these very
      words, and no more. I was much pleased with Dr. Bates's manner of bringing
      in the Lord's Prayer after his own; thus, "In whose comprehensive words we
      sum up all our imperfect desires; saying, 'Our Father,'" &amp;c. Church
      being done and it raining I took a hackney coach and so home, being all in
      a sweat and fearful of getting cold. To my study at my office, and thither
      came Mr. Moore to me and walked till it was quite dark. Then I wrote a
      letter to my Lord Privy Seale as from my Lord for Mr.&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;-to
      be sworn directly by deputy to my Lord, he denying to swear him as deputy
      together with me. So that I am now clear of it, and the profit is now come
      to be so little that I am not displeased at my getting off so well. He
      being gone I to my study and read, and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese
      and so to bed. I hear most of the Presbyters took their leaves to-day, and
      that the City is much dissatisfied with it. I pray God keep peace among
      us, and make the Bishops careful of bringing in good men in their rooms,
      or else all will fly a-pieces; for bad ones will not [go] down with the
      City.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up very early, and up upon my house to see how work goes on, which
      do please me very well. So about seven o'clock took horse and rode to
      Bowe, and there staid at the King's Head, and eat a breakfast of eggs till
      Mr. Deane of Woolwich came to me, and he and I rid into Waltham Forest,
      and there we saw many trees of the King's a-hewing; and he showed me the
      whole mystery of off square,
    </p>
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     [Off-square is evidently a mistake, in the shorthand MS., for half
     square.]
</pre>
    <p>
      wherein the King is abused in the timber that he buys, which I shall with
      much pleasure be able to correct. After we had been a good while in the
      wood, we rode to Illford, and there, while dinner was getting ready, he
      and I practised measuring of the tables and other things till I did
      understand measuring of timber and board very well. So to dinner and by
      and by, being sent for, comes Mr. Cooper, our officer in the Forest, and
      did give me an account of things there, and how the country is backward to
      come in with their carts. By and by comes one Mr. Marshall, of whom the
      King has many carriages for his timber, and they staid and drank with me,
      and while I am here, Sir W. Batten passed by in his coach, homewards from
      Colchester, where he had been seeing his son-in-law, Lemon, that lies
      a-dying, but I would take no notice of him, but let him go. By and by I
      got a horseback again and rode to Barking, and there saw the place where
      they ship this timber for Woolwich; and so Deane and I home again, and
      parted at Bowe, and I home just before a great showre of rayne, as God
      would have it. I find Deane a pretty able man, and able to do the King
      service; but, I think, more out of envy to the rest of the officers of the
      yard, of whom he complains much, than true love, more than others, to the
      service. He would fain seem a modest man, and yet will commend his own
      work and skill, and vie with other persons, especially the Petts, but I
      let him alone to hear all he will say. Whiled away the evening at my
      office trying to repeat the rules of measuring learnt this day, and so to
      bed with my mind very well pleased with this day's work.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up betimes and to see how my work goes on. Then Mr. Creed came to
      me, and he and I walked an hour or two till 8 o'clock in the garden,
      speaking of our accounts one with another and then things public. Among
      other things he tells me that my Lord has put me into Commission with
      himself and many noblemen and others for Tangier, which, if it be, is not
      only great honour, but may be of profit too, and I am very glad of it. By
      and by to sit at the office; and Mr. Coventry did tell us of the duell
      between Mr. Jermyn, nephew to my Lord St. Albans, and Colonel Giles
      Rawlins, the latter of whom is killed, and the first mortally wounded, as
      it is thought. They fought against Captain Thomas Howard, my Lord
      Carlisle's brother, and another unknown; who, they say, had armour on that
      they could not be hurt, so that one of their swords went up to the hilt
      against it. They had horses ready, and are fled. But what is most strange,
      Howard sent one challenge, but they could not meet, and then another, and
      did meet yesterday at the old Pall Mall at St. James's, and would not to
      the last tell Jermyn what the quarrel was; nor do any body know. The Court
      is much concerned in this fray, and I am glad of it; hoping that it will
      cause some good laws against it. After sitting, Sir G. Carteret and I
      walked a good while in the garden, who told me that Sir W. Batten had made
      his complaint to him that some of us had a mind to do him a bad turn, but
      I do not see that Sir George is concerned for him at all, but rather
      against him. He professes all love to me, and did tell me how he had spoke
      of me to my Lord Chancellor, and that if my Lord Sandwich would ask my
      Lord Chancellor, he should know what he had said of me to him to my
      advantage, of which I am very glad, and do not doubt that all things will
      grow better and better every day for me. Dined at home alone, then to my
      office, and there till late at night doing business, and so home, eat a
      bit, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up early, and to my office, and thence to my Lord Sandwich, whom I
      found in bed, and he sent for me in. Among other talk, he do tell me that
      he hath put me into commission with a great many great persons in the
      business of Tangier, which is a very great honour to me, and may be of
      good concernment to me. By and by comes in Mr. Coventry to us, whom my
      Lord tells that he is also put into the commission, and that I am there,
      of which he said he was glad; and did tell my Lord that I was indeed the
      life of this office, and much more to my commendation beyond measure. And
      that, whereas before he did bear me respect for his sake, he do do it now
      much more for my own; which is a great blessing to me. Sir G. Carteret
      having told me what he did yesterday concerning his speaking to my Lord
      Chancellor about me. So that on all hands, by God's blessing, I find
      myself a very rising man. By and by comes my Lord Peterborough in, with
      whom we talked a good while, and he is going tomorrow towards Tangier
      again. I perceive there is yet good hopes of peace with Guyland,&mdash;[A
      Moorish usurper, who had put himself at the head of an army for the
      purpose of attacking Tangier.&mdash;B.]&mdash;which is of great
      concernment to Tangier. And many other things I heard which yet I
      understand not, and so cannot remember. My Lord and Lord Peterborough
      going out to the Solicitor General about the drawing up of this
      Commission, I went to Westminster Hall with Mr. Moore, and there meeting
      Mr. Townsend, he would needs take me to Fleet Street, to one Mr. Barwell,
      squire sadler to the King, and there we and several other Wardrobe-men
      dined. We had a venison pasty, and other good plain and handsome dishes;
      the mistress of the house a pretty, well-carriaged woman, and a fine hand
      she hath; and her maid a pretty brown lass. But I do find my nature ready
      to run back to my old course of drinking wine and staying from my
      business, and yet, thank God, I was not fully contented with it, but did
      stay at little ease, and after dinner hastened home by water, and so to my
      office till late at night. In the evening Mr. Hayward came to me to advise
      with me about the business of the Chest, which I have now a mind to put in
      practice, though I know it will vex Sir W. Batten, which is one of the
      ends (God forgive me) that I have in it. So home, and eat a bit, and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up early, and to my office, and by and by we sat all the morning. At
      noon, though I was invited to my uncle Fenner's to dinner to a haunch of
      venison I sent him yesterday, yet I did not go, but chose to go to Mr.
      Rawlinson's, where my uncle Wight and my aunt, and some neighbour couples
      were at a very good venison pasty. Hither came, after we were set down, a
      most pretty young lady (only her hands were not white nor handsome), which
      pleased me well, and I found her to be sister to Mrs. Anne Wight that
      comes to my uncle Wight's. We were good company, and had a very pretty
      dinner. And after dinner some talk, I with my aunt and this young lady
      about their being [at] Epsom, from whence they came to-day, and so home
      and to my office, and there doing business till past 9 at night, and so
      home and to bed. But though I drank no wine to-day, yet how easily was I
      of my own accord stirred up to desire my aunt and this pretty lady (for it
      was for her that I did it) to carry them to Greenwich and see the pleasure
      boats. But my aunt would not go, of which since I am much glad.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. About three o'clock this morning I waked with the noise of the
      rayne, having never in my life heard a more violent shower; and then the
      catt was lockt in the chamber, and kept a great mewing, and leapt upon the
      bed, which made me I could not sleep a great while. Then to sleep, and
      about five o'clock rose, and up to my office, and about 8 o'clock went
      down to Deptford, and there with Mr. Davis did look over most of his
      stores; by the same token in the great storehouse, while Captain Badily
      was talking to us, one from a trap-door above let fall unawares a coyle of
      cable, that it was 10,000 to one it had not broke Captain Badily's neck,
      it came so near him, but did him no hurt. I went on with looking and
      informing myself of the stores with great delight, and having done there,
      I took boat home again and dined, and after dinner sent for some of my
      workmen and did scold at them so as I hope my work will be hastened. Then
      by water to Westminster Hall, and there I hear that old Mr. Hales did
      lately die suddenly in an hour's time. Here I met with Will Bowyer, and
      had a promise from him of a place to stand to-morrow at his house to see
      the show. Thence to my Lord's, and thither sent for Mr. Creed, who came,
      and walked together talking about business, and then to his lodgings at
      Clerke's, the confectioner's, where he did give me a little banquet, and I
      had liked to have begged a parrot for my wife, but he hath put me in a way
      to get a better from Steventon; at Portsmouth. But I did get of him a
      draught of Tangier to take a copy by, which pleases me very well. So home
      by water and to my office, where late, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23d. Up early, and about my works in my house, to see what is done and
      design more. Then to my office, and by and by we sat till noon at the
      office. After sitting, Mr. Coventry and I did walk together a great while
      in the Garden, where he did tell me his mind about Sir G. Carteret's
      having so much the command of the money, which must be removed. And indeed
      it is the bane of all our business. He observed to me also how Sir W.
      Batten begins to struggle and to look after his business, which he do
      indeed a little, but it will come to nothing. I also put him upon getting
      an order from the Duke for our inquiries into the Chest, which he will see
      done. So we parted, and Mr. Creed by appointment being come, he and I went
      out together, and at an ordinary in Lumbard Streete dined together, and so
      walked down to the Styllyard, and so all along Thames-street, but could
      not get a boat: I offered eight shillings for a boat to attend me this
      afternoon, and they would not, it being the day of the Queen's coming to
      town from Hampton Court. So we fairly walked it to White Hall, and through
      my Lord's lodgings we got into White Hall garden, and so to the
      Bowling-green, and up to the top of the new Banqueting House there, over
      the Thames, which was a most pleasant place as any I could have got; and
      all the show consisted chiefly in the number of boats and barges; and two
      pageants, one of a King, and another of a Queen, with her Maydes of Honour
      sitting at her feet very prettily; and they tell me the Queen is Sir.
      Richard Ford's daughter. Anon come the King and Queen in a barge under a
      canopy with 10,000 barges and boats, I think, for we could see no water
      for them, nor discern the King nor Queen. And so they landed at White Hall
      Bridge, and the great guns on the other side went off: But that which
      pleased me best was, that my Lady Castlemaine stood over against us upon a
      piece of White Hall, where I glutted myself with looking on her. But
      methought it was strange to see her Lord and her upon the same place
      walking up and down without taking notice one of another, only at first
      entry he put off his hat, and she made him a very civil salute, but
      afterwards took no notice one of another; but both of them now and then
      would take their child, which the nurse held in her armes, and dandle it.
      One thing more; there happened a scaffold below to fall, and we feared
      some hurt, but there was none, but she of all the great ladies only run
      down among the common rabble to see what hurt was done, and did take care
      of a child that received some little hurt, which methought was so noble.
      Anon there came one there booted and spurred that she talked long with.
      And by and by, she being in her hair, she put on his hat, which was but an
      ordinary one, to keep the wind off. But methinks it became her mightily,
      as every thing else do. The show being over, I went away, not weary with
      looking on her, and to my Lord's lodgings, where my brother Tom and Dr.
      Thomas Pepys were to speak with me. So I walked with them in the garden,
      and was very angry with them both for their going out of town without my
      knowledge; but they told me the business, which was to see a gentlewoman
      for a wife for Tom, of Mr. Cooke's providing, worth L500, of good
      education, her name Hobell, and lives near Banbury, demands L40 per annum
      joynter. Tom likes her, and, they say, had a very good reception, and that
      Cooke hath been very serviceable therein, and that she is committed to old
      Mr. Young, of the Wardrobe's, tuition. After I had told them my mind about
      their folly in going so unadvisedly, I then begun to inquire after the
      business, and so did give no answer as to my opinion till I have looked
      farther into it by Mr. Young. By and by, as we were walking in my Lord's
      walk, comes my Lord, and so we broke our discourse and went in with him,
      and after I had put them away I went in to my Lord, and he and I had half
      an hour's private discourse about the discontents of the times, which we
      concluded would not come to anything of difference, though the Presbyters
      would be glad enough of it; but we do not think religion will so soon
      cause another war. Then to his own business. He asked my advice there,
      whether he should go on to purchase more land and to borrow money to pay
      for it, which he is willing to do, because such a bargain as that of Mr.
      Buggins's, of Stukely, will not be every day to be had, and Brampton is
      now perfectly granted him by the King&mdash;I mean the reversion of it&mdash;after
      the Queen's death; and, in the meantime, he buys it of Sir Peter Ball his
      present right. Then we fell to talk of Navy business, and he concludes, as
      I do, that he needs not put himself upon any more voyages abroad to spend
      money, unless a war comes; and that by keeping his family awhile in the
      country, he shall be able to gather money. He is glad of a friendship with
      Mr. Coventry, and I put him upon increasing it, which he will do, but he
      (as Mr. Coventry do) do much cry against the course of our payments and
      the Treasurer to have the whole power in his own hands of doing what he
      will, but I think will not meddle in himself. He told me also that in the
      Commission for Tangier Mr. Coventry had advised him that Mr. Povy, who
      intended to be Treasurer,
    </p>
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     [Thomas Povy, who had held, under Cromwell, a high situation in the
     Office of Plantations, was appointed in July, 1660, Treasurer and
     Receiver-General of the Rents and Revenues of James, Duke of York;
     but his royal master's affairs falling into confusion, he
     surrendered his patent on the 27th July, 1668, for a consideration
     of L2,000.  He was also First Treasurer for Tangier, which office he
     resigned to Pepys.  Povy, had apartments at Whitehall, besides his
     lodgings in Lincoln's Inn, and a villa near Hounslow, called the
     Priory, which he had inherited from Justinian Povy, who purchased it
     in 1625.  He was one of the sons of Justinian Povy, Auditor-General
     to Queen Anne of Denmark in 1614, whose father was John Povy,
     citizen and embroiderer of London.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and it is intended him, may not be of the Commission itself, and my Lord I
      think will endeavour to get him to be contented to be left out of the
      Commission, and it is a very good rule indeed that the Treasurer in no
      office ought to be of the Commission. Here we broke off, and I bid him
      good night, and so with much ado, the streets being at nine o'clock at
      night crammed with people going home to the city, for all the borders of
      the river had been full of people, as the King had come, to a miracle got
      to the Palace Yard, and there took boat, and so to the Old Swan, and so
      walked home, and to bed very weary.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). Slept till 7 o'clock, which I have not done a very
      great while, but it was my weariness last night that caused it. So rose
      and to my office till church time, writing down my yesterday's
      observations, and so to church, where I all alone, and found Will Griffin
      and Thomas Hewett got into the pew next to our backs, where our maids sit,
      but when I come, they went out; so forward some people are to outrun
      themselves. Here we had a lazy, dull sermon. So home to dinner, where my
      brother Tom came to me, and both before and after dinner he and I walked
      all alone in the garden, talking about his late journey and his mistress,
      and for what he tells me it is like to do well. He being gone, I to church
      again, where Mr. Mills, making a sermon upon confession, he did endeavour
      to pull down auricular confession, but did set it up by his bad arguments
      against it, and advising people to come to him to confess their sins when
      they had any weight upon their consciences, as much as is possible, which
      did vex me to hear. So home, and after an hour's being in my office alone,
      looking over the plates and globes, I walked to my uncle Wight's, the
      truth is, in hopes to have seen and been acquainted with the pretty lady
      that came along with them to dinner the other day to Mr. Rawlinson, but
      she is gone away. But here I staid supper, and much company there was;
      among others, Dr. Burnett, Mr. Cole the lawyer, Mr. Rawlinson, and Mr.
      Sutton, a brother of my aunt's, that I never saw before. Among other
      things they tell me that there hath been a disturbance in a church in
      Friday Street; a great many young people knotting together and crying out
      "Porridge"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A nickname given by the Dissenters to the Prayer-Book.  In Mrs.
     Behn's "City Heiress" (1682), Sir Anthony says to Sir Timothy, "You
     come from Church, too."  Sir Timothy replies, "Ay, needs must when
     the Devil drives&mdash;I go to save my bacon, as they say, once a month,
     and that too after the Porridge is served up."  Scott quotes, in his
     notes to "Woodstock," a pamphlet entitled, "Vindication of the Book
     of Common Prayer, against the contumelious Slanders of the Fanatic
     party terming it Porridge."]
</pre>
    <p>
      often and seditiously in the church, and took the Common Prayer Book, they
      say, away; and, some say, did tear it; but it is a thing which appears to
      me very ominous. I pray God avert it. After supper home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up early, and among my workmen when they came, and set them in good
      order at work on all hands, which, though it at first began angrily, yet I
      pleased myself afterwards in seeing it put into a good posture, and so I
      left them, and away by water to Woolwich (calling in my way in Hamcreek,
      where I have never been before, and there found two of the King's ships
      lie there without any living creature aboard, which troubled me, every
      thing being stole away that can be), where I staid seeing a cable of 14
      inches laid, in which there was good variety. Then to Mr. Falconer's, and
      there eat a bit of roast meat off of the spit, and so away to the yard,
      and there among other things mustered the yard, and did things that I
      perceive people do begin to value me, and that I shall be able to be of
      command in all matters, which God be praised for. Then to Mr. Pett's, and
      there eat some fruit and drank, and so to boat again, and to Deptford,
      calling there about the business of my house only, and so home, where by
      appointment I found Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Batten, and Mr. Waith met at Sir
      W. Batten's, and thither I met, and so agreed upon a way of answering my
      Lord Treasurer's letter. Here I found Mr. Coventry had got a letter from
      the Duke, sent us for looking into the business of the Chest, of which I
      am glad. After we had done here I went home, and up among my workmen, and
      found they had done a good day's work, and so to my office till late
      ordering of several businesses, and so home and to bed, my mind, God be
      praised, full of business, but great quiet.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up betimes and among my works and workmen, and with great pleasure
      seeing them go on merrily, and a good many hands, which I perceive makes
      good riddance, and so to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at
      noon dined alone with Sir W. Batten, which I have not done a great while,
      but his lady being out of the way I was the willinger to do it, and after
      dinner he and I by water to Deptford, and there found Sir G. Carteret and
      my Lady at dinner, and so we sat down and eat another dinner of venison
      with them, and so we went to the payhouse, and there staid till to o'clock
      at night paying off the Martin and Kinsale, being small but troublesome
      ships to pay, and so in the dark by water home to the Custom House, and so
      got a lanthorn to light us home, there being Mr. Morrice the wine cooper
      with us, he having been at Deptford to view some of the King's casks we
      have to sell. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up and among my workmen, my work going on still very well. So to my
      office all the morning, and dined again with Sir W. Batten, his Lady being
      in the country. Among other stories, he told us of the Mayor of Bristoll's
      reading a pass with the bottom upwards; and a barber that could not read,
      that flung a letter in the kennel when one came to desire him to read the
      superscription, saying, "Do you think I stand here to read letters?" Among
      my workmen again, pleasing myself all the afternoon there, and so to the
      office doing business till past 9 at night, and so home and to bed. This
      afternoon Mrs. Hunt came to see me, and I did give her a Muske Millon.
      To-day my hogshead of sherry I have sold to Sir W. Batten, and am glad of
      my money instead of wine. After I had wrote this at my office (as I have
      of late altogether done since my wife has been in the country) I went into
      my house, and Will having been making up books at Deptford with other
      clerks all day, I did not think he was come home, but was in fear for him,
      it being very late, what was become of him. But when I came home I found
      him there at his ease in his study, which vexed me cruelly, that he should
      no more mind me, but to let me be all alone at the office waiting for him.
      Whereupon I struck him, and did stay up till 12 o'clock at night chiding
      him for it, and did in plain terms tell him that I would not be served so,
      and that I am resolved to look out some boy that I may have the bringing
      up of after my own mind, and which I do intend to do, for I do find that
      he has got a taste of liberty since he came to me that he will not leave.
      Having discharged my mind, I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. I observe that Will, whom I used to call two or three times in a
      morning, would now wake of himself and rise without calling. Which though
      angry I was glad to see. So I rose and among my workmen, in my gown,
      without a doublet, an hour or two or more, till I was afraid of getting an
      ague, and so to the office, and there we sat all the morning, and at noon
      Mr. Coventry and I dined at Sir W. Batten's, where I have now dined three
      days together, and so in the afternoon again we sat, which we intend to do
      two afternoons in a week besides our other sitting. In the evening we
      rose, and I to see how my work goes on, and so to my office, writing by
      the post and doing other matters, and so home and to bed late.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up betimes and among my workmen, where I did stay with them the
      greatest part of the morning, only a little at the office, and so to
      dinner alone at home, and so to my workmen again, finding my presence to
      carry on the work both to my mind and with more haste, and I thank God I
      am pleased with it. At night, the workmen being gone, I went to my office,
      and among other businesses did begin to-night with Mr. Lewes to look into
      the nature of a purser's account, and the business of victualling, in
      which there is great variety; but I find I shall understand it, and be
      able to do service there also. So being weary and chill, being in some
      fear of an ague, I went home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up betimes among my workmen, and so to the office, where we sat all
      the morning, and at noon rose and had news that Sir W. Pen would be in
      town from Ireland, which I much wonder at, he giving so little notice of
      it, and it troubled me exceedingly what to do for a lodging, and more what
      to do with my goods, that are all in his house; but at last I resolved to
      let them lie there till Monday, and so got Griffin to get a lodging as
      near as he could, which is without a door of our back door upon Tower
      Hill, a chamber where John Pavis, one of our clerks, do lie in, but he do
      provide himself elsewhere, and I am to have his chamber. So at the office
      all the afternoon and the evening till past to at night expecting Sir W.
      Pen's coming, but he not coming to-night I went thither and there lay very
      well, and like my lodging well enough. My man Will after he had got me to
      bed did go home and lay there, and my maid Jane lay among my goods at Sir
      W. Pen's.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st (Lord's day). Waked early, but being in a strange house, did not rise
      till 7 o'clock almost, and so rose and read over my oaths, and whiled away
      an hour thinking upon businesses till Will came to get me ready, and so
      got ready and to my office, and thence to church. After sermon home and
      dined alone. News is brought me that Sir W. Pen is come. But I would take
      no notice thereof till after dinner, and then sent him word that I would
      wait on him, but he is gone to bed. So to my office, and there made my
      monthly accounts, and find myself worth in money about L686 19s. 2 1/2d.,
      for which God be praised; and indeed greatly I hope to thank Almighty God,
      who do most manifestly bless me in my endeavours to do the duties of my
      office, I now saving money, and my expenses being little. My wife is still
      in the country; my house all in dirt; but my work in a good forwardness,
      and will be much to my mind at last. In the afternoon to church, and there
      heard a simple sermon of a stranger upon David's words, "Blessed is the
      man that walketh not in the way of the ungodly," &amp;c., and the best of
      his sermon was the degrees of walking, standing, and sitting, showing how
      by steps and degrees sinners do grow in wickedness. After sermon to my
      brother Tom's, who I found has taken physic to-day, and I talked with him
      about his country mistress, and read Cook's letter, wherein I am well
      satisfied, and will appear in promoting it; so back and to Mr.
      Rawlinson's, and there supped with him, and in came my uncle Wight and my
      aunt. Our discourse of the discontents that are abroad, among, and by
      reason of the Presbyters. Some were clapped up to-day, and strict watch is
      kept in the City by the train-bands, and letters of a plot are taken. God
      preserve us! for all these things bode very ill. So home, and after going
      to welcome home Sir W. Pen, who was unready, going to bed, I staid with
      him a little while, and so to my lodging and to bed.
    </p>
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      SEPTEMBER 1662
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    <p>
      September 1st. Up betimes at my lodging and to my office and among my
      workmen, and then with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen by coach to St.
      James's, this being the first day of our meeting there by the Duke's
      order; but when we come, we found him going out by coach with his Duchess,
      and he told us he was to go abroad with the Queen to-day (to Durdans, it
      seems, to dine with my Lord Barkeley, where I have been very merry when I
      was a little boy); so we went and staid a little at Mr. Coventry's
      chamber, and I to my Lord Sandwich's, who is gone to wait upon the King
      and Queen today. And so Mr. Paget being there, Will Howe and I and he
      played over some things of Locke's that we used to play at sea, that
      pleased us three well, it being the first music I have heard a great
      while, so much has my business of late taken me off from all my former
      delights. By and by by water home, and there dined alone, and after dinner
      with my brother Tom's two men I removed all my goods out of Sir W. Pen's
      house into one room that I have with much ado got ready at my house, and
      so I am to be quit of any further obligation to him. So to my office, but
      missing my key, which I had in my hand just now, makes me very angry and
      out of order, it being a thing that I hate in others, and more in myself,
      to be careless of keys, I thinking another not fit to be trusted that
      leaves a key behind their hole. One thing more vexes me: my wife writes me
      from the country that her boy plays the rogue there, and she is weary of
      him, and complains also of her maid Sarah, of which I am also very sorry.
      Being thus out of temper, I could do little at my office, but went home
      and eat a bit, and so to my lodging to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up betimes and got myself ready alone, and so to my office, my mind
      much troubled for my key that I lost yesterday, and so to my workmen and
      put them in order, and so to my office, and we met all the morning, and
      then dined at Sir W. Batten's with Sir W. Pen, and so to my office again
      all the afternoon, and in the evening wrote a letter to Mr. Cooke, in the
      country, in behalf of my brother Tom, to his mistress, it being the first
      of my appearing in it, and if she be as Tom sets her out, it may be very
      well for him. So home and eat a bit, and so to my lodging to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up betimes, but now the days begin to shorten, and so whereas I used
      to rise by four o'clock, it is not broad daylight now till after five
      o'clock, so that it is after five before I do rise. To my office, and
      about 8 o'clock I went over to Redriffe, and walked to Deptford, where I
      found Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Pen beginning the pay, it being my desire to
      be there to-day because it is the first pay that Mr. Coventry has been at,
      and I would be thought to be as much with Mr. Coventry as I can. Here we
      staid till noon, and by that time paid off the Breda, and then to dinner
      at the tavern, where I have obtained that our commons is not so large as
      they used to be, which I am glad to see. After dinner by water to the
      office, and there we met and sold the Weymouth, Successe, and Fellowship
      hulkes, where pleasant to see how backward men are at first to bid; and
      yet when the candle is going out, how they bawl and dispute afterwards who
      bid the most first. And here I observed one man cunninger than the rest
      that was sure to bid the last man, and to carry it; and inquiring the
      reason, he told me that just as the flame goes out the smoke descends,
      which is a thing I never observed before, and by that he do know the
      instant when to bid last, which is very pretty. In our discourse in the
      boat Mr. Coventry told us how the Fanatiques and the Presbyters, that did
      intend to rise about this time, did choose this day as the most auspicious
      to them in their endeavours against monarchy: it being fatal twice to the
      King, and the day of Oliver's death.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Cromwell had considered the 3rd of September as the most fortunate
     day of his life, on account of his victories at Dunbar and
     Worcester.  It was also remarkable for the great storm that occurred
     at the time of his death; and as being the day on which the Fire of
     London, in 1666, burnt with the greatest fury.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      But, blessed be God! all is likely to be quiet, I hope. After the sale I
      walked to my brother's, in my way meeting with Dr. Fairbrother, of whom I
      enquired what news in Church matters. He tells me, what I heard confirmed
      since, that it was fully resolved by the King's new Council that an
      indulgence should be granted the Presbyters; but upon the Bishop of
      London's speech
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Gilbert Sheldon, born July 19th, 1598; Fellow of All Souls, Oxford,
     1622; Warden, 1635; Bishop of London, 1660-63; Archbishop of
     Canterbury, 1663.  Died November 9th, 1677.]
</pre>
    <p>
      (who is now one of the most powerful men in England with the King), their
      minds were wholly turned. And it is said that my Lord Albemarle did oppose
      him most; but that I do believe is only in appearance. He told me also
      that most of the Presbyters now begin to wish they had complied, now they
      see that no Indulgence will be granted them, which they hoped for; and
      that the Bishop of London hath taken good care that places are supplied
      with very good and able men, which is the only thing that will keep all
      quiet. I took him in the tavern at Puddle dock, but neither he nor I drank
      any of the wine we called for, but left it, and so after discourse parted,
      and Mr. Townsend not being at home I went to my brother's, and there heard
      how his love matter proceeded, which do not displease me, and so by water
      to White Hall to my Lord's lodgings, where he being to go to Hinchingbroke
      to-morrow morning, I staid and fiddled with Will. Howe some new tunes very
      pleasant, and then my Lord came in and had much kind talk with him, and
      then to bed with Mr. Moore there alone. So having taken my leave of my
      Lord before I went to bed, I resolved to rise early and be gone without
      more speaking to him&mdash;
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Which I did, and by water betimes to the Tower and so home, where I
      shifted myself, being to dine abroad, and so being also trimmed, which is
      a thing I have very seldom done of late, I gat to my office and then met
      and sit all the morning, and at noon we all to the Trinity House, where we
      treated, very dearly, I believe, the officers of the Ordnance; where was
      Sir W. Compton and the rest and the Lieutenant of the Tower. We had much
      and good music, which was my best entertainment. Sir Wm. Compton I heard
      talk with great pleasure of the difference between the fleet now and in
      Queen Elisabeth's days; where, in 88, she had but 36 sail great and small,
      in the world; and ten rounds of powder was their allowance at that time
      against the Spaniard. After Sir W. Compton and Mr. Coventry, and some of
      the best of the rest were gone, I grew weary of staying with Sir Williams
      both, and the more for that my Lady Batten and her crew, at least half a
      score, come into the room, and I believe we shall pay size for it; but
      'tis very pleasant to see her in her hair under her hood, and how by
      little and little she would fain be a gallant; but, Lord! the company she
      keeps about her are like herself, that she may be known by them what she
      is. Being quite weary I stole from them and to my office, where I did
      business till 9 at night, and so to my lodgings to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up by break of day at 5 o'clock, and down by water to Woolwich: in my
      way saw the yacht lately built by our virtuosoes (my Lord Brunkard and
      others, with the help of Commissioner Pett also) set out from Greenwich
      with the little Dutch bezan, to try for mastery; and before they got to
      Woolwich the Dutch beat them half-a-mile (and I hear this afternoon, that,
      in coming home, it got above three miles); which all our people are glad
      of. Here I staid and mustered the yard and looked into the storehouses;
      and so walked all alone to Greenwich, and thence by water to Deptford, and
      there examined some stores, and did some of my own business in hastening
      my work there, and so walked to Redriffe, being by this time pretty weary
      and all in a sweat; took boat there for the Tower, which made me a little
      fearful, it being a cold, windy morning. So to my lodgings and there
      rubbed myself clean, and so to Mr. Bland's, the merchant, by invitation, I
      alone of all our company of this office; where I found all the officers of
      the Customs, very grave fine gentlemen, and I am very glad to know them;
      viz.&mdash;Sir Job Harvy, Sir John Wolstenholme, Sir John Jacob, Sir
      Nicholas Crisp, Sir John Harrison, and Sir John Shaw: very good company.
      And among other pretty discourse, some was of Sir Jerom Bowes, Embassador
      from Queene Elizabeth to the Emperor of Russia;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In 1583; the object of his mission being to persuade the Muscovite
     (Ivan IV. the Terrible) to a peace with John, King of Sweden.  He
     was also employed to confirm the trade of the English with Russia,
     and having incurred some personal danger, was received with favour
     on his return by the Queen.  He died in 1616.]
</pre>
    <p>
      who, because some of the noblemen there would go up the stairs to the
      Emperor before him, he would not go up till the Emperor had ordered those
      two men to be dragged down stairs, with their heads knocking upon every
      stair till they were killed. And when he was come up, they demanded his
      sword of him before he entered the room. He told them, if they would have
      his sword, they should have his boots too. And so caused his boots to be
      pulled off, and his night-gown and night-cap and slippers to be sent for;
      and made the Emperor stay till he could go in his night-dress, since he
      might not go as a soldier. And lastly, when the Emperor in contempt, to
      show his command of his subjects, did command one to leap from the window
      down and broke his neck in the sight of our Embassador, he replied that
      his mistress did set more by, and did make better use of the necks of her
      subjects but said that, to show what her subjects would do for her, he
      would, and did, fling down his gantlett before the Emperor; and challenged
      all the nobility there to take it up, in defence of the Emperor against
      his Queen: for which, at this very day, the name of Sir Jerom Bowes is
      famous and honoured there. After dinner I came home and found Sir John
      Minnes come this day, and I went to him to Sir W. Batten's, where it
      pleased me to see how jealous Sir Williams both are of my going down to
      Woolwich, &amp;c., and doing my duty as I nowadays do, and of my dining
      with the Commission of the Customs. So to my office, and there till 9 at
      night, and so to my lodgings to bed. I this day heard that Mr. Martin
      Noell is knighted by the King, which I much wonder at; but yet he is
      certainly a very useful man.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Lay long, that is, till 6 and past before I rose, in order to sweat a
      little away the cold which I was afraid I might have got yesterday, but I
      bless God I am well. So up and to my office, and then we met and sat till
      noon, very full of business. Then Sir John Minnes, both Sir Williams and I
      to the Trinity House, where we had at dinner a couple of venison pasties,
      of which I eat but little, being almost cloyed, having been at five
      pasties in three days, namely, two at our own feast, and one yesterday,
      and two to-day. So home and at the office all the afternoon, busy till
      nine at night, and so to my lodging and to bed. This afternoon I had my
      new key and the lock of my office door altered, having lost my key the
      other day, which vexed me.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). Up betimes and round about by the streets to my office,
      and walked in the garden and in my office till my man Will rose, and then
      sent to tell Sir J. Minnes that I would go with him to Whitehall, which
      anon we did, in his coach, and to the Chapell, where I heard a good sermon
      of the Dean of Ely's, upon returning to the old ways, and a most excellent
      anthem, with symphonys between, sung by Captain Cooke. Then home with Mr.
      Fox and his lady; and there dined with them, where much company come to
      them. Most of our discourse was what ministers are flung out that will not
      conform: and the care of the Bishop of London that we are here supplied
      with very good men. Thence to my Lord's, where nobody at home but a woman
      that let me in, and Sarah above, whither I went up to her and played and
      talked with her... After I had talked an hour or two with her I went and
      gave Mr. Hunt a short visit, he being at home alone, and thence walked
      homewards, and meeting Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, he took me into
      Somersett House; and there carried me into the Queen-Mother's
      presence-chamber, where she was with our own Queen sitting on her left
      hand (whom I did never see before); and though she be not very charming,
      yet she hath a good, modest, and innocent look, which is pleasing. Here I
      also saw Madam Castlemaine, and, which pleased me most, Mr. Crofts, the
      King's bastard, a most pretty spark of about 15 years old, who, I
      perceive, do hang much upon my Lady Castlemaine, and is always with her;
      and, I hear, the Queens both of them are mighty kind to him.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [James, the son of Charles II. by Lucy Walter, daughter of William
     Walter, of Roch Castle, co.  Pembroke.  He was born April 9th, 1649,
     and landed in England with the Queen-Mother, July 28th, 1662, when
     he bore the name of Crofts, after Lord Crofts, his governor.  He was
     created Duke of Monmouth, February 14th, 1663, and married Lady Anne
     Scott, daughter and heiress of Francis, second Earl of Buccleuch, on
     April 20th following.  In 1673 he took the name of Scott, and was
     created Duke of Buccleuch.]
</pre>
    <p>
      By and by in comes the King, and anon the Duke and his Duchess; so that,
      they being all together, was such a sight as I never could almost have
      happened to see with so much ease and leisure. They staid till it was
      dark, and then went away; the King and his Queen, and my Lady Castlemaine
      and young Crofts, in one coach and the rest in other, coaches. Here were
      great store of great ladies, but very few handsome. The King and Queen
      were very merry; and he would have made the Queen-Mother believe that his
      Queen was with child, and said that she said so. And the young Queen
      answered, "You lye;" which was the first English word that I ever heard
      her say which made the King good sport; and he would have taught her to
      say in English, "Confess and be hanged." The company being gone I walked
      home with great content as I can be in for seeing the greatest rarity, and
      yet a little troubled that I should see them before my wife's coming home,
      I having made a promise that I would not, nor did I do it industriously
      and by design, but by chance only. To my office, to fit myself for waiting
      on the Duke to-morrow morning with the rest of our company, and so to my
      lodgings and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up betimes and to my office preparing an account to give the Duke
      this morning of what we have of late done at the office. About 7 o'clock I
      went forth thinking to go along with Sir John Minnes and the rest, and I
      found them gone, which did vex me, so I went directly to the old Swan and
      took boat before them to Sir G. Carteret's lodgings at Whitehall, and
      there staying till he was dressed talking with him, he and I to St.
      James's, where Sir Williams both and Sir John were come, and so up with
      Mr. Coventry to the Duke; who, after he was out of his bed, did send for
      us in; and, when he was quite ready, took us into his closet, and there
      told us that he do intend to renew the old custom for the Admirals to have
      their principal officers to meet them once a-week, to give them an account
      what they have done that week; which I am glad of: and so the rest did
      tell his Royal Highness that I could do it best for the time past. And so
      I produced my short notes, and did give him an account of all that we have
      of late done; and proposed to him several things for his commands, which
      he did give us, and so dismissed us. The rest to Deptford, I to the
      Exchequer to meet Mr. Townsend, where I hear he is gone to the Sun tavern,
      and there found him with some friends at breakfast, which I eat with him,
      and so we crossed the water together, and in walking I told him my brother
      Tom's intentions for a wife, which he would do me all favour in to Mr.
      Young, whose kinswoman he do look after. We took boat again at the Falcon,
      and there parted, and I to the old Swan, and so to the Change, and there
      meeting Sir W. Warren did step to a tavern, and there sat and talked about
      price of masts and other things, and so broke up and to my office to see
      what business, and so we took water again, and at the Tower I over to
      Redriffe, and there left him in the boat and walked to Deptford, and there
      up and down the yard speaking with people, and so Sir W. Pen coming out of
      the payhouse did single me out to tell me Sir J. Minnes' dislike of my
      blinding his lights over his stairs (which indeed is very bad) and
      blocking up the house of office on the leads. Which did trouble me. So I
      went into the payhouse and took an occasion of speaking with him alone,
      and did give him good satisfaction therein, so as that I am well pleased
      and do hope now to have my closet on the leads without any more trouble,
      for he do not object against my having a door upon the leads, but that all
      my family should not make it a thoroughfare, which I am contented with. So
      to the pay, and in the evening home in the barge, and so to my office, and
      after doing some business there to my lodgings, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. At my office betimes, and by and by we sat, and at noon Mr. Coventry,
      Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Pett, and myself by water to Deptford, where we met Sir
      G. C., Sir W. B., and Sir W. P. At the pay of a ship, and we dined
      together on a haunch of good venison boiled, and after dinner returned
      again to the office, and there met several tradesmen by our appointment to
      know of them their lowest rates that they will take for their several
      provisions that they sell to us, for I do resolve to know that, and to buy
      no dearer, that so when we know the lowest rate, it shall be the
      Treasurer's fault, and not ours, that we pay dearer. This afternoon Sir
      John Minnes, Mr. Coventry, and I went into Sir John's lodgings, where he
      showed us how I have blinded all his lights, and stopped up his garden
      door, and other things he takes notice of that he resolves to abridge me
      of, which do vex me so much that for all this evening and all night in my
      bed, so great a fool I am, and little master of my passion, that I could
      not sleep for the thoughts of my losing the privilege of the leads, and
      other things which in themselves are small and not worth half the trouble.
      The more fool am I, and must labour against it for shame, especially I
      that used to preach up Epictetus's rule:
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Some things are in our power, others are not" Pepys means,
     "I ought not to vex myself about what I cannot control."]
</pre>
    <p>
      Late at my office, troubled in mind, and then to bed, but could hardly
      sleep at night.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and to my house, and there contrived a way how Sir John Minnes
      shall come into the leads, and yet I save part of the closet I hoped for,
      which, if it will not please him, I am a madman to be troubled at it. To
      my office, and then at my house among my lazy workmen all day. In the
      afternoon to the Wardrobe to speak with Mr. Townsend, who tells me that he
      has spoke with Mr. Young about my brother Tom's business, and finds that
      he has made enquiry of him, and do hear him so well spoken of that he
      doubts not that the business will take with ordinary endeavours. So to my
      brother's, and there finding both door and hatch open, I went in and
      knocked 3 or 4 times, and nobody came to me, which troubled me mightily;
      at last came Margaret, who complained of Peter, who by and by came in, and
      I did rattle him soundly for it. I did afterwards take occasion to talk
      seriously alone with Margaret, who I find a very discreet, good woman, and
      tells me, upon my demand, that her master is a very good husband, and
      minds his business well, but his fault is that he has not command over his
      two men, but they do what they list, and care not for his commands, and
      especially on Sundays they go whither they please, and not to church,
      which vexes me mightily, and I am resolved to school [him] soundly for it,
      it being so much unlike my father, that I cannot endure it in myself or
      him. So walked home and in my way at the Exchange found my uncle Wight,
      and he and I to an alehouse to drink a cup of beer, and so away, and I
      home and at the office till 9 o'clock and past, and so to my lodgings. I
      forgot that last night Mr. Cooke came to me to make his peace for inviting
      my brother lately out of town without my leave, but he do give me such a
      character of the lady that he has found out for him that I do much rejoice
      at, and did this night write a letter to her, which he enclosed in one of
      his, and by the report that I hear of her I confess I am much pleased with
      the match.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, but not so soon as I have of late practised, my little trouble
      of mind and the shortness of the days making me to lie a little longer
      than I used to do, but I must make it up by sitting up longer of nights.
      To my office, whither my brother Tom, whom I chide sufficiently for
      yesterday's work. So we sat at the office all the morning, some of us at
      Deptford paying the ordinary there; at noon Sir W. Pen took me to his
      lodgings to dinner, and after dinner I to my office again, and now and
      then to see how my work goes on, and so to my office late, and so to my
      lodgings, and after staying up till past 12 at night, at my musique upon
      my lute, to bed. This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him
      from his mistress. I am pleased well enough with the business.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up betimes and to my office, and up to my workmen, which goes on
      slowly and troubles me much. Besides, my mind is troubled till I see how
      Sir John Minnes will carry himself to me about my lodgings, for all my
      fear is that he will get my best chamber from me, for as for the leads I
      care not a farthing for them. At my office all the morning, Mr. Lewes
      teaching me to understand the method of making up Purser's accounts, which
      is very needful for me and very hard. Dined at home all in dirt, and my
      mind weary of being thus out of order, but I hope in God it will away, but
      for the present I am very melancholy, as I have been a great while. All
      the afternoon till 9 at night at my office, and then home and eat an egg
      or two, and so to my lodgings and to bed. This day, by letters from my
      father, I hear that Captain Ferrers, who is with my Lord in the country,
      was at Brampton (with Mr. Creed) to see him; and that a day or two ago,
      being provoked to strike one of my Lord's footmen, the footman drew his
      sword, and hath almost cut the fingers of one of his hands off; which I am
      sorry for: but this is the vanity of being apt to command and strike.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up betimes and to my office, and we sat all the morning, and then at
      noon dined alone at home, and so among my work folks studying how to get
      my way sure to me to go upon the leads, which I fear at last I must be
      contented to go without, but, however, my mind is troubled still about it.
      We met again in the afternoon to set accounts even between the King and
      the masters of ships hired to carry provisions to Lisbon, and in the
      evening Mr. Moore came to me and did lie with me at my lodgings. It is
      great pleasure to me his company and discourse, and did talk also about my
      law business, which I must now fall upon minding again, the term coming on
      apace. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). Up very early, and Mr. Moore taking leave of me the
      barber came and trimmed me (I having him now to come to me again after I
      have used a pumice-stone a good while, not but what I like this where I
      cannot conveniently have a barber, but here I cannot keep my hair dry
      without one), and so by water to White Hall, by the way hearing that the
      Bishop of London had given a very strict order against boats going on
      Sundays, and as I come back again, we were examined by the masters of the
      company in another boat; but I told them who I was. But the door not being
      open to Westminster stairs there, called in at the Legg and drank a cup of
      ale and a toast, which I have not done many a month before, but it served
      me for my two glasses of wine to-day. Thence to St. James's to Mr.
      Coventry, and there staid talking privately with him an hour in his
      chamber of the business of our office, and found him to admiration good
      and industrious, and I think my most true friend in all things that are
      fair. He tells me freely his mind of every man and in every thing. Thence
      to White Hall chapel, where sermon almost done, and I heard Captain
      Cooke's new musique. This the first day of having vialls and other
      instruments to play a symphony between every verse of the anthem; but the
      musique more full than it was the last Sunday, and very fine it is.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Charles II. determined to form his own chapel on the model of that
     at Versailles.  Twenty-four instrumentalists were engaged, and this
     was the first day upon which they were brought into requisition.
     Evelyn alludes to the change in his Diary, but he puts the date down
     as the 21st instead of the 14th.  "Instead of the antient, grave and
     solemn wind musiq accompanying the organ, was introduc'd a concert
     of 24 violins between every pause after the French fantastical light
     way, better suiting a tavern or playhouse than a church.  This was
     the first time of change, and now we no more heard the cornet which
     gave life to the organ, that instrument quite left off in which the
     English were so skilful."  A list of the twenty-four fiddlers in
     1674, taken from an Exchequer document, "The names of the Gents of
     his Majesties Private Musick paid out of the Exchequer," is printed
     in North's "Memoires of Musick," ed.  Rimbault, 1846, p. 98 (note).]
</pre>
    <p>
      But yet I could discern Captain Cooke to overdo his part at singing, which
      I never did before. Thence up into the Queen's presence, and there saw the
      Queen again as I did last Sunday, and some fine ladies with her; but, my
      troth, not many. Thence to Sir G. Carteret's, and find him to have
      sprained his foot and is lame, but yet hath been at chappell, and my Lady
      much troubled for one of her daughters that is sick. I dined with them,
      and a very pretty lady, their kinswoman, with them. My joy is, that I do
      think I have good hold on Sir George and Mr. Coventry. Sir George told me
      of a chest of drawers that were given Sir W. B. by Hughes the rope-maker,
      whom he has since put out of his employment, and now the fellow do cry out
      upon Sir W. for his cabinet. So home again by water and to church, and
      from church Sir Williams both and Sir John Minnes into the garden, and
      anon Sir W. Pen and I did discourse about my lodgings and Sir J. Minnes,
      and I did open all my mind to him, and he told me what he had heard, and I
      do see that I shall hardly keep my best lodging chamber, which troubles
      me, but I did send for Goodenough the plasterer, who tells me that it did
      ever belong to my lodgings, but lent by Mr. Payles to Mr. Smith, and so I
      will strive hard for it before I lose it. So to supper with them at Sir W.
      Batten's, and do counterfeit myself well pleased, but my heart is troubled
      and offended at the whole company. So to my office to prepare notes to
      read to the Duke to-morrow morning, and so to my lodgings and to bed, my
      mind a little eased because I am resolved to know the worst concerning my
      lodgings tomorrow. Among other things Sir W. Pen did tell me of one of my
      servants looking into Sir J. Minnes' window when my Lady Batten lay there,
      which do much trouble them, and me also, and I fear will wholly occasion
      my loosing the leads. One thing more he told me of my Jane's cutting off a
      carpenter's long mustacho, and how the fellow cried, and his wife would
      not come near him a great while, believing that he had been among some of
      his wenches. At which I was merry, though I perceive they discourse of it
      as a crime of hers, which I understand not.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up betimes to meet with the plasterer and bricklayer that did first
      divide our lodgings, and they do both tell me that my chamber now in
      dispute did ever belong to my lodgings, which do put me into good quiet of
      mind. So by water with Sir Wm. Pen to White Hall; and, with much ado, was
      fain to walk over the piles through the bridge, while Sir W. Batten and
      Sir J. Minnes were aground against the bridge, and could not in a great
      while get through. At White Hall we hear that the Duke of York is gone
      a-hunting to-day; and so we returned: they going to the Duke of
      Albemarle's, where I left them (after I had observed a very good picture
      or two there), and so home, and there did resolve to give up my endeavours
      for access to the leads, and to shut up my doors lest the being open might
      give them occasion of longing for my chamber, which I am in most fear
      about. So to Deptford, and took my Lady Batten and her daughter and Mrs.
      Turner along with me, they being going through the garden thither, they to
      Mr. Unthwayte's and I to the Pay, and then about 3 o'clock went to dinner
      (Sir W. Pen and I), and after dinner to the Pay again, and at night by
      barge home all together, and so to my lodgings and to bed, my mind full of
      trouble about my house.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up and to my workmen, and then to the office, and there we sat till
      noon; then to the Exchange, and in my way met with the housekeeper of this
      office, and he did give me so good an account of my chamber in my house
      about which I am so much troubled that I am well at ease in my mind. At my
      office all the afternoon alone. In the evening Sir J. M. and I walked
      together a good while in the garden, very pleasant, and takes no notice
      that he do design any further trouble to me about my house. At night eat a
      bit of bread and cheese, and so to my lodgings and to bed, my mind ill at
      ease for these particulars: my house in dirt, and like to lose my best
      chamber. My wife writes me from the country that she is not pleased there
      with my father nor mother, nor any of her servants, and that my boy is
      turned a very rogue. I have L30 to pay to the cavaliers: then a doubt
      about my being forced to leave all my business here, when I am called to
      the court at Brampton; and lastly, my law businesses, which vex me to my
      heart what I shall be able to do next term, which is near at hand.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. At my office all the morning, and at noon to the Exchange, where
      meeting Mr. Moore and Mr. Stucky, of the Wardrobe, we to an ordinary to
      dinner, and after dinner Mr. Moore and I about 3 o'clock to Paul's school,
      to wait upon Mr. Crumlum (Mr. Moore having a hopeful lad, a kinsman of
      his, there at school), who we take very luckily, and went up to his
      chamber with him, where there was also an old fellow student of Mr.
      Crumlum's, one Mr. Newell, come to see him, of whom he made so much, and
      of me, that the truth is he with kindness did drink more than I believe he
      used to do, and did begin to be a little impertinent, the more when after
      all he would in the evening go forth with us and give us a bottle of wine
      abroad, and at the tavern met with an acquaintance of his that did
      occasion impertinent discourse, that though I honour the man, and he do
      declare abundance of learning and worth, yet I confess my opinion is much
      lessened of him, and therefore let it be a caution to myself not to love
      drink, since it has such an effect upon others of greater worth in my own
      esteem. I could not avoid drinking of 5 glasses this afternoon with him,
      and after I had parted with him Mr. Moore and I to my house, and after we
      had eaten something to my lodgings, where the master of the house, a very
      ordinary fellow, was ready to entertain me and took me into his
      dining-room where his wife was, a pretty and notable lady, too fine surely
      for him, and too much wit too. Here I was forced to stay with them a good
      while and did drink again, there being friends of theirs with them. At
      last being weary of his idle company, I bid good-night and so to my
      chamber and Mr. [Moore] and I to bed, neither of us well pleased with our
      afternoon's work, merely from our being witnesses of Mr. Crumlum's
      weakness. This day my boy is come from Brampton, and my wife I think the
      next week.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. At the office all the morning, and at noon Sir G. Carteret, Mr.
      Coventry, and I by invitation to dinner to Sheriff Maynell's, the great
      money-man; he, Alderman Backwell, and much noble and brave company, with
      the privilege of their rare discourse, which is great content to me above
      all other things in the world. And after a great dinner and much
      discourse, we arose and took leave, and home to the business of my office,
      where I thank God I take delight, and in the evening to my lodging and to
      bed. Among other discourse, speaking concerning the great charity used in
      Catholic countrys, Mr. Ashburnham did tell us, that this last year, there
      being great want of corn in Paris, and so a collection made for the poor,
      there was two pearls brought in, nobody knew from whom (till the Queen,
      seeing them, knew whose they were, but did not discover it), which were
      sold for 200,000 crownes.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up betimes and to my office, and at 9 o'clock, none of the rest
      going, I went alone to Deptford, and there went on where they left last
      night to pay Woolwich yard, and so at noon dined well, being chief at the
      table, and do not see but every body begins to give me as much respect and
      honour as any of the rest. After dinner to Pay again, and so till 9 at
      night, my great trouble being that I was forced to begin an ill practice
      of bringing down the wages of servants, for which people did curse me,
      which I do not love. At night, after I had eaten a cold pullet, I walked
      by brave moonshine, with three or four armed men to guard me, to Redriffe,
      it being a joy to my heart to think of the condition that I am now in,
      that people should of themselves provide this for me, unspoke to. I hear
      this walk is dangerous to walk alone by night, and much robbery committed
      here. So from thence by water home, and so to my lodgings to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up betimes and to my office, where I found my brother Tom, who tells
      me that his mistress's mother has wrote a letter to Mr. Lull of her full
      satisfaction about Tom, of which I was glad, and do think the business
      will take. All this morning we sat at the office, Sir J. Minnes and I. And
      so dined at home, and among my workmen all the afternoon, and in the
      evening Tom brought Mr. Lull to me, a friend of his mistress, a serious
      man, with whom I spoke, and he gives me a good account of her and of their
      satisfaction in Tom, all which pleases me well. We walked a good while in
      the garden together, and did give him a glass of wine at my office, and so
      parted. So to write letters by the post and news of this to my father
      concerning Tom, and so home to supper and to my lodgings and to bed.
      To-night my barber sent me his man to trim me, who did live in King Street
      in Westminster lately, and tells me that three or four that I knew in that
      street, tradesmen, are lately fallen mad, and some of them dead, and the
      others continue mad. They live all within a door or two one of another.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). Got up betimes and walked to St. James's, and there to
      Mr. Coventry, and sat an hour with him, talking of business of the office
      with great pleasure, and I do perceive he do speak his whole mind to me.
      Thence to the Park, where by appointment I met my brother Tom and Mr.
      Cooke, and there spoke about Tom's business, and to good satisfaction. The
      Queen coming by in her coach, going to her chappell at St. James's' (the
      first time it hath been ready for her), I crowded after her, and I got up
      to the room where her closet is; and there stood and saw the fine altar,
      ornaments, and the fryers in their habits, and the priests come in with
      their fine copes and many other very fine things. I heard their musique
      too; which may be good, but it did not appear so to me, neither as to
      their manner of singing, nor was it good concord to my ears, whatever the
      matter was. The Queene very devout: but what pleased me best was to see my
      dear Lady Castlemaine, who, tho' a Protestant, did wait upon the Queen to
      chappell. By and by, after mass was done, a fryer with his cowl did rise
      up and preach a sermon in Portuguese; which I not understanding, did go
      away, and to the King's chappell, but that was done; and so up to the
      Queen's presence-chamber, where she and the King was expected to dine: but
      she staying at St. James's, they were forced to remove the things to the
      King's presence [chamber]; and there he dined alone, and I with Mr. Fox
      very finely; but I see I must not make too much of that liberty for my
      honour sake only, not but that I am very well received. After dinner to
      Tom's, and so home, and after walking a good while in the garden I went to
      my uncle Wight's, where I found my aunt in mourning and making sad stories
      for the loss of her dear sister Nicholls, of which I should have been very
      weary but that pretty Mrs. Margaret Wight came in and I was much pleased
      with her company, and so all supper did vex my aunt talking in
      commendation of the mass which I had been at to-day, but excused it
      afterwards that it was only to make mirth. And so after supper broke up
      and home, and after putting my notes in order against to-morrow I went to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up betimes among my workmen, hastening to get things ready against
      my wife's coming, and so with Sir J. M., Sir W. B., and Sir W. P., by
      coach to St. James's, and there with the Duke. I did give him an account
      of all things past of late; but I stood in great pain, having a great fit
      of the colic, having catched cold yesterday by putting off my stockings to
      wipe my toes, but at last it lessened, and then I was pretty well again,
      but in pain all day more or less. Thence I parted from them and walked to
      Greatorex's, and there with him did overlook many pretty things, new
      inventions, and have bespoke a weather glass of him. Thence to my Lord
      Crew's, and dined with the servants, he having dined; and so, after
      dinner, up to him, and sat an hour talking with him of publique, and my
      Lord's private businesses, with much content. So to my brother Tom's,
      where Mr. Cooke expected me, and did go with me to see Mr. Young and Mr.
      Lull in Blackfryers, kindred of Tom's mistress, where I was very well
      used, and do find things to go in the business to my good content. Thence
      to Mr. Townsend, and did there talk with Mr. Young himself also, and then
      home and to my study, and so to my lodgings and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up betimes and with my workmen, taking some pleasure to see my work
      come towards an end, though I am vexed every day enough with their delay.
      We met and sat all the morning, dined at home alone, and with my workmen
      all the afternoon, and in the evening by water and land to Deptford to
      give order for things about my house, and came back again by coach with
      Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten (who has been at a Pay to-day), and to
      my office and did some business, and so to supper and to my lodgings, and
      so to bed. In our coming home Sir G. Carteret told me how in most
      cabaretts in France they have writ upon the walls in fair letters to be
      read, "Dieu te regarde," as a good lesson to be in every man's mind, and
      have also, as in Holland, their poor's box; in both which places at the
      making all contracts and bargains they give so much, which they call God's
      penny.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up betimes and among my workmen, and among them all the morning till
      noon, and then to my Lord Crew's, and there dined alone with him, and
      among other things he do advise me by all means to keep my Lord Sandwich
      from proceeding too far in the business of Tangier. First, for that he is
      confident the King will not be able to find money for the building the
      Mole; and next, for that it is to be done as we propose it by the reducing
      of the garrison; and then either my Lord must oppose the Duke of York, who
      will have the Irish regiment under the command of Fitzgerald continued, or
      else my Lord Peterborough, who is concerned to have the English continued,
      and he, it seems, is gone back again merely upon my Lord Sandwich's
      encouragement. Thence to Mr. Wotton, the shoemaker's, and there bought a
      pair of boots, cost me 30s., and he told me how Bird hath lately broke his
      leg, while he was fencing in "Aglaura," upon the stage, and that the new
      theatre of all will be ready against term. So to my brother's, and there
      discoursed with him and Mr. Cooke about their journey to Tom's mistress
      again, and I did speak with Mr. Croxton about measuring of silk flags. So
      by water home and to my workmen, and so at night till late at my office,
      inditing a letter from Tom to his mistress upon his sending her a watch
      for a token, and so home and to supper, and to my lodgings and to bed. It
      is my content that by several hands to-day I hear that I have the name of
      good-natured man among the poor people that come to the office.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up betimes and to my workmen, and then to the office, where we sat
      all the morning. So home to dinner alone and then to my workmen till
      night, and so to my office till bedtime, and so after supper to my
      lodgings and to bed. This evening I sat awhile at Sir W. Batten's with Sir
      J. Minnes, &amp;c., where he told us among many other things how in
      Portugal they scorn to make a seat for a house of office, but they do ....
      all in pots and so empty them in the river. I did also hear how the woman,
      formerly nurse to Mrs. Lemon (Sir W. Batten's daughter), her child was
      torn to pieces by two doggs at Walthamstow this week, and is dead, which
      is very strange.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up betimes and among my workmen. By and by to Sir W. Batten, who
      with Sir J. M. are going to Chatham this morning, and I was in great pain
      till they were gone that I might see whether Sir John do speak any thing
      of my chamber that I am afraid of losing or no. But he did not, and so my
      mind is a little at more ease. So all day long till night among my
      workmen, and in the afternoon did cause the partition between the entry
      and the boy's room to be pulled down to lay it all into one, which I hope
      will please me and make my coming in more pleasant. Late at my office at
      night writing a letter of excuse to Sir G. Carteret that I cannot wait
      upon him to-morrow morning to Chatham as I promised, which I am loth to do
      because of my workmen and my wife's coming to town to-morrow. So to my
      lodgings and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up betimes and among my workmen, and with great pleasure see the
      posts in the entry taken down beyond expectation, so that now the boy's
      room being laid into the entry do make my coming in very handsome, which
      was the only fault remaining almost in my house. We sat all the morning,
      and in the afternoon I got many jobbs done to my mind, and my wife's
      chamber put into a good readiness against her coming, which she did at
      night, for Will did, by my leave to go, meet her upon the road, and at
      night did bring me word she was come to my brother's, by my order. So I
      made myself ready and put things at home in order, and so went thither to
      her. Being come, I found her and her maid and dogg very well, and herself
      grown a little fatter than she was. I was very well pleased to see her,
      and after supper to bed, and had her company with great content and much
      mutual love, only I do perceive that there has been falling out between my
      mother and she, and a little between my father and she; but I hope all is
      well again, and I perceive she likes Brampton House and seat better than
      ever I did myself, and tells me how my Lord hath drawn a plot of some
      alteracions to be made there, and hath brought it up, which I saw and like
      well. I perceive my Lord and Lady have been very kind to her, and Captn.
      Ferrers so kind that I perceive I have some jealousy of him, but I know
      what is the Captain's manner of carriage, and therefore it is nothing to
      me. She tells me of a Court like to be in a little time, which troubles
      me, for I would not willingly go out of town.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). Waked early, and fell talking one with another with
      great pleasure of my house at Brampton and that here, and other matters.
      She tells me what a rogue my boy is, and strange things he has been found
      guilty of, not fit to name, which vexes [me], but most of all the unquiett
      life that my mother makes my father and herself lead through her want of
      reason. At last I rose, and with Tom to the French Church at the Savoy,
      where I never was before&mdash;a pretty place it is&mdash;and there they
      have the Common Prayer Book read in French, and, which I never saw before,
      the minister do preach with his hat off, I suppose in further conformity
      with our Church. So to Tom's to dinner with my wife, and there came Mr.
      Cooke, and Joyce Norton do also dine there, and after dinner Cooke and I
      did talk about his journey and Tom's within a day or two about his
      mistress. And I did tell him my mind and give him my opinion in it. So I
      walked home and found my house made a little clean, and pleases me better
      and better, and so to church in the afternoon, and after sermon to my
      study, and there did some things against to-morrow that I go to the
      Duke's, and so walked to Tom's again, and there supped and to bed with
      good content of mind.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Michaelmas day). This day my oaths for drinking of wine and going to
      plays are out, and so I do resolve to take a liberty to-day, and then to
      fall to them again. Up and by coach to White Hall, in my way taking up Mr.
      Moore, and walked with him, talking a good while about business, in St.
      James's Park, and there left him, and to Mr. Coventry's, and so with him
      and Sir W. Pen up to the Duke, where the King came also and staid till the
      Duke was ready. It being Collarday, we had no time to talk with him about
      any business. They went out together. So we parted, and in the park Mr.
      Cooke by appointment met me, to whom I did give my thoughts concerning
      Tom's match and their journey tomorrow, and did carry him by water to
      Tom's, and there taking up my wife, maid, dog, and him, did carry them
      home, where my wife is much pleased with my house, and so am I fully. I
      sent for some dinner and there dined, Mrs. Margaret Pen being by, to whom
      I had spoke to go along with us to a play this afternoon, and then to the
      King's Theatre, where we saw "Midsummer's Night's Dream," which I had
      never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid
      ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. I saw, I confess, some good
      dancing and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure. Thence set my
      wife down at Madam Turner's, and so by coach home, and having delivered
      Pegg Pen to her father safe, went home, where I find Mr. Deane, of
      Woolwich, hath sent me the modell he had promised me; but it so far
      exceeds my expectations, that I am sorry almost he should make such a
      present to no greater a person; but I am exceeding glad of it, and shall
      study to do him a courtesy for it. So to my office and wrote a letter to
      Tom's mistress's mother to send by Cooke to-morrow. Then came Mr. Moore
      thinking to have looked over the business of my Brampton papers against
      the Court, but my mind was so full of other matters (as it is my nature
      when I have been a good while from a business, that I have almost forgot
      it, I am loth to come to it again) that I could not set upon it, and so he
      and I past the evening away in discourse, and to my lodgings and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. We rose, and he about his business, and I to my house to look over
      my workmen; but good God! how I do find myself by yesterday's liberty hard
      to be brought to follow business again, but however, I must do it,
      considering the great sweet and pleasure and content of mind that I have
      had since I did leave drink and plays, and other pleasures, and followed
      my business. So to my office, where we sat till noon, and then I to dinner
      with Sir W. Pen, and while we were at it coming my wife to the office, and
      so I sent for her up, and after dinner we took coach and to the Duke's
      playhouse, where we saw "The Duchess of Malfy" well performed, but
      Betterton and Ianthe to admiration. That being done, home again, by coach,
      and my wife's chamber got ready for her to lie in to-night, but my
      business did call me to my office, so that staying late I did not lie with
      her at home, but at my lodgings. Strange to see how easily my mind do
      revert to its former practice of loving plays and wine, having given
      myself a liberty to them but these two days; but this night I have again
      bound myself to Christmas next, in which I desire God to bless me and
      preserve me, for under God I find it to be the best course that ever I
      could take to bring myself to mind my business. I have also made up this
      evening my monthly ballance, and find that, notwithstanding the loss of
      L30 to be paid to the loyall and necessitous cavaliers by act of
      Parliament,
    </p>
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     [Two acts were passed in 1662 for this purpose, viz., 13 and 14 Car.
     II. cap. 8: "An act for distribution of threescore thousand pounds
     amongst the truly loyal and indigent commission officers, and for
     assessing of offices and distributing the monies thereby raised for
     their further supply;" and cap.  9, "An act for the relief of poor
     and maimed officers and soldiers who have faithfully served his
     Majesty and his royal father in the late wars."]
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    <p>
      yet I am worth about L680, for which the Lord God be praised. My condition
      at present is this:&mdash;I have long been building, and my house to my
      great content is now almost done. But yet not so but that I shall have
      dirt, which troubles me too, for my wife has been in the country at
      Brampton these two months, and is now come home a week or two before the
      house is ready for her. My mind is somewhat troubled about my best
      chamber, which I question whether I shall be able to keep or no. I am also
      troubled for the journey which I must needs take suddenly to the Court at
      Brampton, but most of all for that I am not provided to understand my
      business, having not minded it a great while, and at the best shall be
      able but to make a bad matter of it, but God, I hope, will guide all to
      the best, and I am resolved to-morrow to fall hard to it. I pray God help
      me therein, for my father and mother and all our well-doings do depend
      upon my care therein. My Lord Sandwich has lately been in the country, and
      very civil to my wife, and hath himself spent some pains in drawing a plot
      of some alterations in our house there, which I shall follow as I get
      money. As for the office, my late industry hath been such, as I am become
      as high in reputation as any man there, and good hold I have of Mr.
      Coventry and Sir G. Carteret, which I am resolved, and it is necessary for
      me, to maintain by all fair means. Things are all quiett, but the King
      poor, and no hopes almost of his being otherwise, by which things will go
      to rack, especially in the Navy. The late outing of the Presbyterian
      clergy by their not renouncing the Covenant as the Act of Parliament
      commands, is the greatest piece of state now in discourse. But for ought I
      see they are gone out very peaceably, and the people not so much concerned
      therein as was expected. My brother Tom is gone out of town this day, to
      make a second journey to his mistress at Banbury, of which I have good
      expectations, and pray God to bless him therein. My mind, I hope, is
      settled to follow my business again, for I find that two days' neglect of
      business do give more discontent in mind than ten times the pleasure
      thereof can repair again, be it what it will.
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      OCTOBER 1662
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    <p>
      October 1st. Up with my mind pretty well at rest about my accounts and
      other business, and so to my house and there put my work to business, and
      then down to Deptford to do the same there, and so back and with my
      workmen all the afternoon, and my wife putting a chamber in order for us
      to lie in. At night to look over some Brampton papers against the Court
      which I expect every day to hear of, and that done home and with my wife
      to bed, the first time I have lain there these two months and more, which
      I am now glad to do again, and do so like the chamber as it is now ordered
      that all my fear is my not keeping it. But I hope the best, for it would
      vex me to the heart to lose it.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up and to the office, where we sat till noon, and then to dinner, and
      Mr. Moore came and dined with me, and after dinner to look over my
      Brampton papers, which was a most necessary work, though it is not so much
      to my content as I could wish. I fear that it must be as it can, and not
      as I would. He being gone I to my workmen again, and at night by coach
      towards Whitehall took up Mr. Moore and set him at my Lord's, and myself,
      hearing that there was a play at the Cockpit (and my Lord Sandwich, who
      came to town last night, at it), I do go thither, and by very great
      fortune did follow four or five gentlemen who were carried to a little
      private door in a wall, and so crept through a narrow place and come into
      one of the boxes next the King's, but so as I could not see the King or
      Queene, but many of the fine ladies, who yet are really not so handsome
      generally as I used to take them to be, but that they are finely dressed.
      Here we saw "The Cardinall," a tragedy I had never seen before, nor is
      there any great matter in it. The company that came in with me into the
      box, were all Frenchmen that could speak no English, but Lord! what sport
      they made to ask a pretty lady that they got among them that understood
      both French and English to make her tell them what the actors said. Thence
      to my Lord's, and saw him, and staid with him half an hour in his chamber
      talking about some of mine and his own business, and so up to bed with Mr.
      Moore in the chamber over my Lord's.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Rose, and without taking leave or speaking to my Lord went out early
      and walked home, calling at my brother's and Paul's Churchyard, but bought
      nothing because of my oath, though I had a great mind to it. At my office,
      and with my workmen till noon, and then dined with my wife upon herrings,
      the first I have eat this year, and so to my workmen again. By and by
      comes a gentleman to speak with my wife, and I found him to be a gentleman
      that had used her very civilly in her coming up out of the country, on
      which score I showed him great respect, and found him a very ingenious
      gentleman, and sat and talked with him a great while. He gone, to my
      workmen again, and in the evening comes Captain Ferrers, and sat and
      talked a great while, and told me the story of his receiving his cut in
      the hand by falling out with one of my Lord's footmen. He told me also of
      the impertinence and mischief that Ned Pickering has made in the country
      between my Lord and all his servants almost by his finding of faults,
      which I am vexed to hear, it being a great disgrace to my Lord to have the
      fellow seen to be so great still with him. He brought me a letter from my
      father, that appoints the day for the Court at Brampton to be the 13th of
      this month; but I perceive he has kept the letter in his pocket these
      three days, so that if the day had been sooner, I might have been spilt.
      So that it is a great folly to send letters of business by any friend that
      require haste. He being gone I to my office all the evening, doing
      business there till bedtime, it being now my manner since my wife is come
      to spend too much of my daytime with her and the workmen and do my office
      business at night, which must not be after the work of the house is done.
      This night late I had notice that Dekins, the merchant, is dead this
      afternoon suddenly, for grief that his daughter, my Morena, who has long
      been ill, is given over by the Doctors. For both which I am very sorry. So
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. To my office all the morning, after I was up (my wife beginning to
      make me lie long a mornings), where we sat till noon, and then dined at
      home, and after a little with my workmen to my office till 9 at night,
      among other things examining the particulars of the miscarriage of the
      Satisfaction, sunk the other day on the Dutch coast through the negligence
      of the pilott.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and among other
      things fell out about my maid Sarah, whom my wife would fain put away,
      when I think her as good a servant as ever came into a house, but it seems
      my wife would have one that would dress a head well, but we were friends
      at last. I to church; and this day the parson has got one to read with a
      surplice on. I suppose himself will take it up hereafter, for a cunning
      fellow he is as any of his coat. Dined with my wife, and then to talk
      again above, chiefly about her learning to dance against her going next
      year into the country, which I am willing she shall do. Then to church to
      a tedious sermon, and thence walked to Tom's to see how things are in his
      absence in the country, and so home and in my wife's chamber till bedtime
      talking, and then to my office to put things in order to wait on the Duke
      to-morrow morning, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Sir W. Pen and I early to St. James's by water, where Mr. Coventry,
      finding the Duke in bed, and not very well, we did not stay to speak with
      him, but to White Hall, and there took boat and down to Woolwich we went.
      In our way Mr. Coventry telling us how of late upon enquiry into the
      miscarriages of the Duke's family, Mr. Biggs, his steward, is found very
      faulty, and is turned out of his employment. Then we fell to reading of a
      book which I saw the other day at my Lord Sandwich's, intended for the
      late King, finely bound up, a treatise concerning the benefit the
      Hollanders make of our fishing, but whereas I expected great matters from
      it, I find it a very impertinent [book], and though some things good, yet
      so full of tautologies, that we were weary of it. At Woolwich we mustered
      the yard, and then to the Hart to dinner, and then to the Rope-yard, where
      I did vex Sir W. Pen I know to appear so well acquainted, I thought better
      than he, in the business of hemp; thence to Deptford, and there looked
      over several businesses, and wakened the officers there; so walked to
      Redriffe, and thence, landing Sir W. Pen at the Tower, I to White Hall
      with Mr. Coventry, and so to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, but my Lord was
      not within, being at a ball this night with the King at my Lady
      Castlemaine's at next door. But here to my trouble I hear that Mr. Moore
      is gone very sick to the Wardrobe this afternoon, which troubles me much
      both for his own sake and for mine, because of my law business that he
      does for me and also for my Lord's matters. So hence by water, late as it
      was, to the Wardrobe, and there found him in a high fever, in bed, and
      much cast down by his being ill. So thought it not convenient to stay, but
      left him and walked home, and there weary went to supper, and then the
      barber came to me, and after he had done, to my office to set down my
      journall of this day, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. At the office all the morning, dined at home with my wife. After
      dinner with her by coach to see Mr. Moore, who continues ill. I took his
      books of accounts, and did discourse with him about my Lord's and my own
      businesses, and there being Mr. Battersby by, did take notice of my having
      paid him the L100 borrowed of him, which they both did confess and promise
      to return me my bond. Thence by water with Will. Howe to Westminster, and
      there staying a little while in the Hall (my wife's father and mother
      being abroad, and so she returning presently) thence by coach to my
      Lord's, and there I left money for Captain Ferrers to buy me two bands. So
      towards the New Exchange, and there while my wife was buying things I
      walked up and down with Dr. Williams, talking about my law businesses, and
      thence took him to my brother's, and there gave him a glass of wine, and
      so parted, and then by coach with my wife home, and Sir J. M. and Sir W.
      B. being come from Chatham Pay I did go see them for complaisance, and so
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and by water to my Lord Sandwich's, and was with him a good while
      in his chamber, and among other things to my extraordinary joy, he did
      tell me how much I was beholding to the Duke of York, who did yesterday of
      his own accord tell him that he did thank him for one person brought into
      the Navy, naming myself, and much more to my commendation, which is the
      greatest comfort and encouragement that ever I had in my life, and do owe
      it all to Mr. Coventry's goodness and ingenuity. I was glad above measure
      of this. Thence to Mr. Moore, who, I hope, is better than he was, and so
      home and dined at home, and all the afternoon busy at my office, and at
      night by coach to my Lord's again, thinking to speak with him, but he is
      at White Hall with the King, before whom the puppet plays I saw this
      summer in Covent-garden are acted this night. Hither this night my
      scallop,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A lace band, the edges of which were indented with segments of
     circles, so as to resemble a scallop shell.  The word "scallop" was
     used till recently for a part of a lady's dress embroidered and cut
     to resemble a scallop shell.]
</pre>
    <p>
      bought and got made by Captain Ferrers' lady, is sent, and I brought it
      home, a very neat one. It cost me about L3, and L3 more I have given him
      to buy me another. I do find myself much bound to go handsome, which I
      shall do in linen, and so the other things may be all the plainer. Here I
      staid playing some new tunes to parts with Wm. Howe, and, my Lord not
      coming home, I came home late on foot, my boy carrying a link, and so eat
      a bit and to bed, my head full of ordering of businesses against my
      journey to-morrow, that there may be nothing done to my wrong in my
      absence. This day Sir W. Pen did speak to me from Sir J. Minnes to desire
      my best chamber of me, and my great joy is that I perceive he do not stand
      upon his right, which I was much afraid of, and so I hope I shall do well
      enough with him for it, for I will not part with it by fair means, though
      I contrive to let him have another room for it.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up early about my business to get me ready for my journey. But first
      to the office; where we sat all the morning till noon, and then broke up;
      and I bid them adieu for a week, having the Duke's leave got me by Mr.
      Coventry. To whom I did give thanks for my newes yesterday of the Duke's
      words to my Lord Sandwich concerning me, which he took well; and do tell
      me so freely his love and value of me, that my mind is now in as great a
      state of quiett as to my interest in the office, as I could ever wish to
      be. I should this day have dined at Sir W. Pen's at a venison pasty with
      the rest of our fellows, but I could not get time, but sent for a bit
      home, and so between one and two o'clock got on horseback at our back
      gate, with my man Will with me, both well-mounted on two grey horses. We
      rode and got to Ware before night; and so resolved to ride on to
      Puckeridge, which we did, though the way was bad, and the evening dark
      before we got thither, by help of company riding before us; and among
      others, a gentleman that took up at the same inn, the Falcon, with me, his
      name Mr. Brian, with whom I supped, and was very good company, and a
      scholar. He tells me, that it is believed the Queen is with child, for
      that the coaches are ordered to ride very easily through the streets.
      After supper we paid the reckoning together, and so he to his chamber and
      I to bed, very well, but my feet being much cramped by my new hard boots
      that I bought the other day of Wotton were in much pain. Will lay in
      another bed in the chamber with me.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and between eight and nine mounted again; but my feet so swelled
      with yesterday's pain, that I could not get on my boots, which vexed me to
      the blood, but was forced to pay 4s. for a pair of old shoes of my
      landlord's, and so rid in shoes to Cambridge; but the way so good that but
      for a little rain I had got very well thither, and set up at the Beare:
      and there being spied in the street passing through the town my cozen
      Angier came to me, and I must needs to his house, which I did; and there
      found Dr. Fairbrother, with a good dinner, a barrel of good oysters, a
      couple of lobsters, and wine. But, above all, telling me that this day
      there is a Congregation for the choice of some officers in the University,
      he after dinner gets me a gown, cap, and hood, and carries me to the
      Schooles, where Mr. Pepper, my brother's tutor, and this day chosen
      Proctor, did appoint a M.A. to lead me into the Regent House, where I sat
      with them, and did [vote] by subscribing papers thus: "Ego Samuel Pepys
      eligo Magistrum Bernardum Skelton, (and which was more strange, my old
      schoolfellow and acquaintance, and who afterwards did take notice of me,
      and we spoke together), alterum e taxatoribus hujus Academiae in annum
      sequentem." The like I did for one Biggs, for the other Taxor, and for
      other officers, as the Vice-Proctor (Mr. Covell), for Mr. Pepper, and
      which was the gentleman that did carry me into the Regent House. This
      being done, and the Congregation dissolved by the Vice-Chancellor, I did
      with much content return to my Cozen Angier's, being much pleased of doing
      this jobb of work, which I had long wished for and could never have had
      such a time as now to do it with so much ease. Thence to Trinity Hall, and
      there staid a good while with Dr. John Pepys, who tells me that [his]
      brother Roger has gone out of town to keep a Court; and so I was forced to
      go to Impington, to take such advice as my old uncle and his son Claxton
      could give me. Which I did, and there supped and talked with them, but not
      of my business till by and by after supper comes in, unlooked for, my
      cozen Roger, with whom by and by I discoursed largely, and in short he
      gives me good counsel, but tells me plainly that it is my best way to
      study a composition with my uncle Thomas, for that law will not help us,
      and that it is but a folly to flatter ourselves, with which, though much
      to my trouble, yet I was well satisfied, because it told me what I am to
      trust to, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up betimes, and after a little breakfast, and a very poor one, like
      our supper, and such as I cannot feed on, because of my she-cozen
      Claxton's gouty hands; and after Roger had carried me up and down his
      house and orchards, to show me them, I mounted, and rode to Huntingdon,
      and so to Brampton; where I found my father and two brothers, and Mr.
      Cooke, my mother and sister. So we are now all together, God knows when we
      shall be so again. I walked up and down the house and garden, and find my
      father's alteracions very handsome. But not so but that there will be
      cause enough of doing more if ever I should come to live there, but it is,
      however, very well for a country being as any little thing in the country.
      So to dinner, where there being nothing but a poor breast of mutton, and
      that ill-dressed, I was much displeased, there being Mr. Cooke there, who
      I invited to come over with my brother thither, and for whom I was
      concerned to make much of. I told my father and mother of it, and so had
      it very well mended for the time after, as long as I staid, though I am
      very glad to see them live so frugally. But now to my business. I found my
      uncle Thomas come into the country, and do give out great words, and
      forwarns all our people of paying us rent, and gives out that he will
      invalidate the Will, it being but conditional, we paying debts and
      legacies, which we have not done, but I hope we shall yet go through well
      enough. I settled to look over papers, and discourse of business against
      the Court till the evening; and then rode to Hinchingbroke (Will with me),
      and there to my Lady's chamber and saw her, but, it being night, and my
      head full of business, staid not long, but drank a cup of ale below, and
      so home again, and to supper, and to bed, being not quiet in mind till I
      speak with Piggott, to see how his business goes, whose land lies
      mortgaged to my late uncle, but never taken up by him, and so I fear the
      heire at law will do it and that we cannot, but my design is to supplant
      him by pretending bonds as well as a mortgage for the same money, and so
      as executor have the benefit of the bonds.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Lord's day). Made myself fine with Captain Ferrers's lace band,
      being lothe to wear my own new scallop, it is so fine; and, after the
      barber had done with us, to church, where I saw most of the gentry of the
      parish; among others, Mrs. Hanbury, a proper lady, and Mr. Bernard and his
      Lady, with her father, my late Lord St. John, who looks now like a very
      plain grave man. Mr. Wells preached a pretty good sermon, and they say he
      is pretty well in his witts again. So home to dinner, and so to walk in
      the garden, and then to Church again, and so home, there coming several
      people about business, and among others Mr. Piggott, who gives me good
      assurance of his truth to me and our business, in which I am very much
      pleased, and tells me what my uncle Thomas said to him and what he
      designs, which (in fine) is to be admitted to the estate as well as we,
      which I must endeavour to oppose as well as I can. So to supper, but my
      mind is so full of our business that I am no company at all, and then
      their drink do not please me, till I did send to Goody Stanks for some of
      her's which is very small and fresh, with a little taste of wormewood,
      which ever after did please me very well. So after supper to bed, thinking
      of business, but every night getting my brother John to go up with me for
      discourse sake, while I was making unready.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [That is, "undressing."  So of the French lords leaping over the
     walls in their shirts

         "Alenc.  How now, my lords!  what all unready so?
          Bast.  Unready!  ay, and glad we 'scaped so well."
                         Henry VI., act ii., sc. i.&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      13th. Up to Hinchingbroke, and there with Mr. Sheply did look all over the
      house, and I do, I confess, like well of the alteracions, and do like the
      staircase, but there being nothing to make the outside more regular and
      modern, I am not satisfied with it, but do think it to be too much to be
      laid out upon it. Thence with Sheply to Huntingdon to the Crown, and there
      did sit and talk, and eat a breakfast of cold roast beef, and so he to St.
      Ives Market, and I to Sir Robert Bernard's for council, having a letter
      from my Lord Sandwich to that end. He do give it me with much kindness in
      appearance, and upon my desire do promise to put off my uncle's
      admittance, if he can fairly, and upon the whole do make my case appear
      better to me than my cozen Roger did, but not so but that we are liable to
      much trouble, and that it will be best to come to an agreement if
      possible. With my mind here also pretty well to see things proceed so well
      I returned to Brampton, and spent the morning in looking over papers and
      getting my copies ready against to-morrow. So to dinner, and then to walk
      with my father and other business, when by and by comes in my uncle Thomas
      and his son Thomas to see us, and very calm they were and we to them. And
      after a short How do you, and drinking a cup of beer, they went away
      again, and so by and by my father and I to Mr. Phillips, and there
      discoursed with him in order to to-morrow's business of the Court and
      getting several papers ready, when presently comes in my uncle Thomas and
      his son thither also, but finding us there I believe they were
      disappointed and so went forth again, and went to the house that Prior has
      lately bought of us (which was Barton's) and there did make entry and
      forbade paying rent to us, as now I hear they have done everywhere else,
      and that that was their intent in coming to see us this day. I perceive
      most of the people that do deal with us begin to be afraid that their
      title to what they buy will not be good. Which troubled me also I confess
      a little, but I endeavoured to remove all as well as I could. Among other
      things they make me afraid that Barton was never admitted to that that my
      uncle bought of him, but I hope the contrary. Thence home, and with my
      father took a melancholy walk to Portholme, seeing the country-maids
      milking their cows there, they being there now at grass, and to see with
      what mirth they come all home together in pomp with their milk, and
      sometimes they have musique go before them. So back home again, and to
      supper, and in comes Piggott with a counterfeit bond which by agreement
      between us (though it be very just in itself) he has made, by which I
      shall lay claim to the interest of the mortgage money, and so waiting with
      much impatience and doubt the issue of to-morrow's Court, I to bed, but
      hardly slept half an hour the whole night, my mind did so run with fears
      of to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and did digest into a method all I could say in our defence, in
      case there should be occasion, for I hear he will have counsel to plead
      for him in the Court, and so about nine o'clock to the court at the
      Lordshipp where the jury was called; and there being vacancies, they would
      have had my father, in respect to him, [to] have been one of the Homage,
      but he thought fit to refuse it, he not knowing enough the customs of the
      town. They being sworn and the charge given them, they fell to our
      business, finding the heir-at-law to be my uncle Thomas; but Sir Robert
      [Bernard] did tell them that he had seen how the estate was devised to my
      father by my uncle's will, according to the custom of the manour, which
      they would have denied, first, that it was not according to the custom of
      the manour, proposing some difficulty about the half-acre of land which is
      given the heir-at-law according to custom, which did put me into great
      fear lest it might not be in my uncle's possession at his death, but
      mortgaged with other to T. Trice (who was there, and was with my good will
      admitted to Taylor's house mortgaged to him if not being worth the money
      for which it was mortgaged, which I perceive he now, although he lately
      bragged the contrary, yet is now sensible of, and would have us to redeem
      it with money, and he would now resurrender it to us rather than the
      heir-at-law) or else that it was part of Goody Gorum's in which she has a
      life, and so might not be capable of being according to the custom given
      to the heir-at-law, but Will Stanks tells me we are sure enough against
      all that. Then they fell to talk of Piggott's land mortgaged to my uncle,
      but he never admitted to it, which they now as heir would have admitted
      to. But the steward, as he promised me, did find pretensions very kindly
      and readily to put off their admittance, by which I find they are much
      defeated, and if ever, I hope, will now listen to a treaty and agreement
      with us, at our meeting at London. So they took their leaves of the
      steward and Court, and went away, and by and by, after other business many
      brought in, they broke up to dinner. So my father and I home with great
      content to dinner; my mind now as full against the afternoon business,
      which we sat upon after dinner at the Court, and did sue out a recovery,
      and cut off the intayle; and my brothers there, to join therein. And my
      father and I admitted to all the lands; he for life, and I for myself and
      my heirs in reversion, and then did surrender according to bargain to
      Prior, Greene, and Shepheard the three cottages with their appurtenances
      that they have bought of us, and that being done and taken leave of the
      steward, I did with most compleat joy of mind go from the Court with my
      father home, and in a quarter of an hour did get on horseback, with my
      brother Tom, Cooke, and Will, all mounted, and without eating or drinking,
      take leave of father, mother, Pall, to whom I did give 10s., but have
      shown no kindness since I come, for I find her so very ill-natured that I
      cannot love her, and she so cruel a hypocrite that she can cry when she
      pleases, and John and I away, calling in at Hinchingbroke, and taking
      leave in three words of my Lady, and the young ladies; and so by moonlight
      most bravely all the way to Cambridge, with great pleasure, whither we
      come at about nine o'clock, and took up at the Bear, but the house being
      full of guests we had very ill lodging, which troubled me, but had a
      supper, and my mind at good ease, and so to bed. Will in another bed in my
      chamber.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. My mind, though out of trouble, yet intent upon my journey home,
      being desirous to know how all my matters go there, I could hardly sleep,
      but waked very early; and, when it was time, did call up Will, and we
      rose, and musique (with a bandore
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A musical instrument with wire strings, and sounded with a
     plectrum; used as a bass to the cittern.  The banjo is a
     modification of the bandore, as the name is a negro corruption of
     that word.]
</pre>
    <p>
      for the base) did give me a levett;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A blast of trumpets, intended as a 'reveillee', from French lever.

                   "First he that led the Cavalcade
                    Wore a Sow-gelder's Flagellet,
                    On which he blew as strong a Levet
                    As well-feed Lawyer on his breviate."

                                   Hudibras, II. ii. v. 609.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and so we got ready; and while breakfast was providing, I went forth (by
      the way finding Mr. George Mountagu and his Lady, whom I saluted, going to
      take their coach thus early to proceed on their journey, they having
      lodged in the chamber just under me all this night) and showed Mr. Cooke
      King's College Chapel, Trinity College, and St. John's College Library;
      and that being done, to our inn again: where I met Dr. Fairbrother brought
      thither by my brother Tom, and he did breakfast with us, a very
      good-natured man he is, and told us how the room we were in was the room
      where Cromwell and his associated officers did begin to plot and act their
      mischiefs in these counties. Having eat well, only our oysters proving
      bad, we mounted, having a pair of boots that I borrowed and carried with
      me from Impington, my own to be sent from Cambridge to London, and took
      leave of all, and begun our journey about nine o'clock. After we had rode
      about 10 miles we got out of our way into Royston road, which did vex me
      cruelly, and the worst for that my brother's horse, which was lame
      yesterday, grows worse to-day, that he could not keep pace with us. At
      last with much ado we got into the road again, having misguided also a
      gentleman's man who had lost his master and thought us to be going the
      same way did follow us, but coming into the road again we met with his
      master, by his coat a divine, but I perceiving Tom's horse not able to
      keep with us, I desired Mr. Cooke and him to take their own time, and Will
      and I we rode before them keeping a good pace, and came to Ware about
      three o'clock in the afternoon, the ways being every where but bad. Here I
      fell into acquaintance and eat and drank with the divine, but know not who
      he is, and after an hour's bait to myself and horses he, though resolved
      to have lodged there, yet for company would out again, and so we remounted
      at four o'clock, and he went with me as far almost as Tibbald's and there
      parted with us, taking up there for all night, but finding our horses in
      good case and the night being pretty light, though by reason of clouds the
      moon did not shine out, we even made shift from one place to another to
      reach London, though both of us very weary. And having left our horses at
      their masters, walked home, found all things well, and with full joy,
      though very weary, came home and went to bed, there happening nothing
      since our going to my discontent in the least degree; which do so please
      me, that I cannot but bless God for my journey, observing a whole course
      of success from the beginning to the end of it, and I do find it to be the
      reward of my diligence, which all along in this has been extraordinary,
      for I have not had the least kind of divertisement imaginable since my
      going forth, but merely carrying on my business which God has been pleased
      to bless. So to bed very hot and feverish by being weary, but early
      morning the fever was over.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. And so I rose in good temper, finding a good chimneypiece made in my
      upper dining-room chamber, and the diningroom wainscoat in a good
      forwardness, at which I am glad, and then to the office, where by T. Hater
      I found all things to my mind, and so we sat at the office till noon, and
      then at home to dinner with my wife. Then coming Mr. Creede in order to
      some business with Sir J. Minnes about his accounts, this afternoon I took
      him to the Treasury office, where Sir John and I did stay late paying some
      money to the men that are saved out of the Satisfaction that was lost the
      other day. The King gives them half-pay, which is more than is used in
      such cases, for they never used to have any thing, and yet the men were
      most outrageously discontented, and did rail and curse us till I was
      troubled to hear it, and wished myself unconcerned therein. Mr. Creede
      seeing us engaged took leave of us. Here late, and so home, and at the
      office set down my journey-journall to this hour, and so shut up my book,
      giving God thanks for my good success therein, and so home, and to supper,
      and to bed. I hear Mr. Moore is in a way of recovery. Sir H. Bennet made
      Secretary of State in Sir Edward Nicholas's stead; not known whether by
      consent or not. My brother Tom and Cooke are come to town I hear this
      morning, and he sends me word that his mistress's mother is also come to
      treat with us about her daughter's portion and her jointure, which I am
      willing should be out of Sturtlow lands.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. This morning Tom comes to me, and I advise him how to deal with his
      mistress's mother about his giving her a joynture, but I intend to speak
      with her shortly, and tell her my mind. Then to my Lord Sandwich by water,
      and told him how well things do go in the country with me, of which he was
      very glad, and seems to concern himself much for me. Thence with Mr. Creed
      to Westminster Hall, and by and by thither comes Captn. Ferrers, upon my
      sending for him, and we three to Creed's chamber, and there sat a good
      while and drank chocolate. Here I am told how things go at Court; that the
      young men get uppermost, and the old serious lords are out of favour; that
      Sir H. Bennet, being brought into Sir Edward Nicholas's place, Sir Charles
      Barkeley is made Privy Purse; a most vicious person, and one whom Mr.
      Pierce, the surgeon, to-day (at which I laugh to myself), did tell me that
      he offered his wife L300 per annum to be his mistress. He also told me
      that none in Court hath more the King's ear now than Sir Charles Barkeley,
      and Sir H. Bennet, and my Lady Castlemaine, whose interest is now as great
      as ever and that Mrs. Haslerigge, the great beauty, is got with child, and
      now brought to bed, and lays it to the King or the Duke of York.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The child was owned by neither of the royal brothers.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      He tells me too that my Lord St. Albans' is like to be Lord Treasurer: all
      which things do trouble me much. Here I staid talking a good while, and so
      by water to see Mr. Moore, who is out of bed and in a way to be well, and
      thence home, and with Commr. Pett by water to view Wood's masts that he
      proffers to sell, which we found bad, and so to Deptford to look over some
      businesses, and so home and I to my office, all our talk being upon Sir J.
      M. and Sir W. B.'s base carriage against him at their late being at
      Chatham, which I am sorry to hear, but I doubt not but we shall fling Sir
      W. B. upon his back ere long. At my office, I hearing Sir W. Pen was not
      well, I went to him to see, and sat with him, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. This morning, having resolved of my brother's entertaining his
      mistress's mother to-morrow, I sent my wife thither to-day to lie there
      to-night and to direct him in the business, and I all the morning at the
      office, and the afternoon intent upon my workmen, especially my joyners,
      who will make my dining room very pretty. At night to my office to
      dispatch business, and then to see Sir W. Pen, who continues in great
      pain, and so home and alone to bed, but my head being full of my own and
      my brother Tom's business I could hardly sleep, though not in much
      trouble, but only multitude of thoughts.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Lord's day). Got me ready in the morning and put on my first new
      laceband; and so neat it is, that I am resolved my great expense shall be
      lacebands, and it will set off any thing else the more. So walked to my
      brother's, where I met Mr. Cooke, and discoursing with him do find that he
      and Tom have promised a joynture of L50 to his mistress, and say that I
      did give my consent that she should be joyntured in L30 per ann. for
      Sturtlow, and the rest to be made up out of her portion. At which I was
      stark mad, and very angry the business should be carried with so much
      folly and against my mind and all reason. But I was willing to forbear
      discovering of it, and did receive Mrs. Butler, her mother, Mr. Lull and
      his wife, very civil people, very kindly, and without the least
      discontent, and Tom had a good and neat dinner for us. We had little
      discourse of any business, but leave it to one Mr. Smith on her part and
      myself on ours. So we staid till sermon was done, and I took leave, and to
      see Mr. Moore, who recovers well; and his doctor coming to him, one Dr.
      Merrit, we had some of his very good discourse of anatomy, and other
      things, very pleasant. By and by, I with Mr. Townsend walked in the
      garden, talking and advising with him about Tom's business, and he tells
      me he will speak with Smith, and says I offer fair to give her L30
      joynture and no more. Thence Tom waiting for me homewards towards my
      house, talking and scolding him for his folly, and telling him my mind
      plainly what he has to trust to if he goes this way to work, for he shall
      never have her upon the terms they demand of L50. He left me, and I to my
      uncle Wight, and there supped, and there was pretty Mistress Margt. Wight,
      whom I esteem very pretty, and love dearly to look upon her. We were very
      pleasant, I droning with my aunt and them, but I am sorry to hear that the
      news of the selling of Dunkirk
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A treaty was signed on the 27th October by which Dunkirk was sold
     to France for five million livres, two of which were to be paid
     immediately, and the remaining three by eight bills at dates varying
     from three months to two years; during which time the King of
     England was to contribute the aid of a naval force, if necessary,
     for defence against Spain.  Subsequently the remaining three
     millions were reduced to 2,500,000 to be paid at Paris, and 254,000
     in London.  It is not known that Clarendon suggested the sale of
     Dunkirk, but it is certain that he adopted the measure with zeal.
     There is also no doubt that he got as much as France could be
     induced to give.&mdash;Lister's Life of Clarendon, ii. 173-4.]
</pre>
    <p>
      is taken so generally ill, as I find it is among the merchants; and other
      things, as removal of officers at Court, good for worse; and all things
      else made much worse in their report among people than they are. And this
      night, I know not upon what ground, the gates of the City ordered to be
      kept shut, and double guards every where. So home, and after preparing
      things against to-morrow for the Duke, to bed. Indeed I do find every
      body's spirit very full of trouble; and the things of the Court and
      Council very ill taken; so as to be apt to appear in bad colours, if there
      should ever be a beginning of trouble, which God forbid!
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and in Sir J. Minnes's coach with him and Sir W. Batten to White
      Hall, where now the Duke is come again to lodge: and to Mr. Coventry's
      little new chamber there. And by and by up to the Duke, who was making
      himself ready; and there among other discourse young Killigrew did so
      commend "The Villaine," a new play made by Tom Porter; and acted only on
      Saturday at the Duke's house, as if there never had been any such play
      come upon the stage. The same yesterday was told me by Captain Ferrers;
      and this morning afterwards by Dr. Clerke, who saw it. Insomuch that after
      I had done with the Duke, and thence gone with Commissioner Pett to Mr.
      Lilly's, the great painter, who came forth to us; but believing that I
      come to bespeak a picture, he prevented us by telling us, that he should
      not be at leisure these three weeks; which methinks is a rare thing. And
      then to see in what pomp his table was laid for himself to go to dinner;
      and here, among other pictures, saw the so much desired by me picture of
      my Lady Castlemaine, which is a most blessed picture; and that that I must
      have a copy of. And having thence gone to my brother's, where my wife
      lodged last night, and eat something there, I took her by coach to the
      Duke's house, and there was the house full of company: but whether it was
      in over-expecting or what, I know not, but I was never less pleased with a
      play in my life. Though there was good singing and dancing, yet no fancy
      in the play, but something that made it less contenting was my conscience
      that I ought not to have gone by my vow, and, besides, my business
      commanded me elsewhere. But, however, as soon as I came home I did pay my
      crown to the poor's box, according to my vow, and so no harm as to that is
      done, but only business lost and money lost, and my old habit of pleasure
      wakened, which I will keep down the more hereafter, for I thank God these
      pleasures are not sweet to me now in the very enjoying of them. So by
      coach home, and after a little business at my office, and seeing Sir W.
      Pen, who continues ill, I went to bed. Dunkirk, I am confirmed, is
      absolutely sold; for which I am very sorry.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and while I was dressing myself, my brother Tom being there I
      did chide him for his folly in abusing himself about the match, for I
      perceive he do endeavour all he can to get her, and she and her friends to
      have more than her portion deserves, which now from 6 or L700 is come to
      L450. I did by several steps shew Tom how he would not be L100 the better
      for her according to the ways he took to joynture her. After having done
      with him to the office, and there all the morning, and in the middle of
      our sitting my workmen setting about the putting up of my rails upon my
      leads, Sir J. Minnes did spy them and fell a-swearing, which I took no
      notice of, but was vexed, and am still to the very heart for it, for fear
      it should put him upon taking the closett and my chamber from me, which I
      protest I am now afraid of. But it is my very great folly to be so much
      troubled at these trifles, more than at the loss of L100, or things of
      greater concernment; but I forget the lesson I use to preach to others.
      After dinner to my office with my head and heart full of troublesome
      business, and thence by water with Mr. Smith, to Mr. Lechmore, the
      Counsellor at the Temple, about Field's business; and he tells me plainly
      that, there being a verdict against me, there is no help for it, but it
      must proceed to judgment. It is L30 damage to me for my joining with
      others in committing Field to prison, we being not justices of the Peace
      in the City, though in Middlesex; this troubled me, but I hope the King
      will make it good to us. Thence to Mr. Smith, the scrivener, upon Ludgate
      Hill, to whom Mrs. Butler do committ her business concerning her daughter
      and my brother. He tells me her daughter's portion is but L400, at which I
      am more troubled than before; and they find fault that his house is too
      little. So after I had told him my full mind, I went away to meet again
      to-morrow, but I believe the business will be broke off, which for Tom's
      sake I am much grieved for, but it cannot be helped without his ruin.
      Thence to see Mr. Moore, who is pretty well again, and we read over and
      discoursed about Mrs. Goldsborough's business, and her son coming by my
      appointment thither, I did tell him our resolution as to her having her
      estate reconveyed to her. Hither also came my brother, and before Mr.
      Moore I did advise and counsel him about his match, and how we had all
      been abused by Mr. Cooke's folly. So home and to my office, and there
      settled many businesses, and so home and to supper, and so to bed, Sir W.
      Pen being still in great pain.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and carrying my wife and her brother to Covent Garden, near
      their father's new lodging, by coach, I to my Lord Sandwich's, who
      receives me now more and more kindly, now he sees that I am respected in
      the world; and is my most noble patron. Here I staid and talked about many
      things, with my Lord and Mr. Povy, being there about Tangier business, for
      which the Commission is a taking out. Hence (after talking with Mr. Cooke,
      whom I met here about Mrs. Butler's portion, he do persist to say that it
      will be worth L600 certain, when he knows as well as I do now that it is
      but L400, and so I told him, but he is a fool, and has made fools of us).
      So I by water to my brother's, and thence to Mr. Smith's, where I was,
      last night, and there by appointment met Mrs. Butler, with whom I plainly
      discoursed and she with me. I find she will give but L400, and no more,
      and is not willing to do that without a joynture, which she expects and I
      will not grant for that portion, and upon the whole I find that Cooke has
      made great brags on both sides, and so has abused us both, but know not
      how to help it, for I perceive she had much greater expectations of Tom's
      house and being than she finds. But however we did break off the business
      wholly, but with great love and kindness between her and me, and would
      have been glad we had known one another's minds sooner, without being
      misguided by this fellow to both our shames and trouble. For I find her a
      very discreet, sober woman, and her daughter, I understand and believe, is
      a good lady; and if portions did agree, though she finds fault with Tom's
      house, and his bad imperfection in his speech, I believe we should well
      agree in other matters. After taking a kind farewell, I to Tom's, and
      there did give him a full account of this sad news, with which I find he
      is much troubled, but do appear to me to be willing to be guided herein,
      and apprehends that it is not for his good to do otherwise, and so I do
      persuade [him] to follow his business again, and I hope he will, but for
      Cooke's part and Dr. Pepys, I shall know them for two fools another time.
      Hence, it raining hard, by coach home, being first trimmed here by Benier,
      who being acquainted with all the players, do tell me that Betterton is
      not married to Ianthe, as they say; but also that he is a very sober,
      serious man, and studious and humble, following of his studies, and is
      rich already with what he gets and saves, and then to my office till late,
      doing great deal of business, and settling my mind in pretty good order as
      to my business, though at present they are very many. So home and to bed.
      This night was buried, as I hear by the bells at Barking Church, my poor
      Morena,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The burial of Elizabeth, daughter of John Dekins or Dickens, is
     recorded in the parish register of All Hallows, Barking, as having
     taken place on October 22nd.  See ante, October 3rd]
</pre>
    <p>
      whose sickness being desperate, did kill her poor father; and he being
      dead for sorrow, she could not recover, nor desire to live, but from that
      time do languish more and more, and so is now dead and buried.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up and among my workmen, and so to the office, and there sitting all
      the morning we stept all out to visit Sir W. Batten, who it seems has not
      been well all yesterday, but being let blood is now pretty well, and Sir
      W. Pen after office I went to see, but he continues in great pain of the
      gout and in bed, cannot stir hand nor foot but with great pain. So to my
      office all the evening putting things public and private in order, and so
      at night home and to supper and to bed, finding great content since I am
      come to follow my business again, which God preserve in me.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. After with great pleasure lying a great while talking and sporting
      in bed with my wife (for we have been for some years now, and at present
      more and more, a very happy couple, blessed be God), I got up and to my
      office, and having done there some business, I by water, and then walked
      to Deptford to discourse with Mr. Lowly and Davis about my late
      conceptions about keeping books of the distinct works done in the yards,
      against which I find no objection but their ignorance and unwillingness to
      do anything of pains and what is out of their ordinary dull road, but I
      like it well, and will proceed in it. So home and dined there with my wife
      upon a most excellent dish of tripes of my own directing, covered with,
      mustard, as I have heretofore seen them done at my Lord Crew's, of which I
      made a very great meal, and sent for a glass of wine for myself, and so to
      see Sir W. Pen, who continues bed-rid in great pain, and hence to the
      Treasury to Sir J. Minnes paying off of tickets, and at night home, and in
      my study (after seeing Sir W. Batten, who also continues ill) I fell to
      draw out my conceptions about books for the clerk that cheques in the yard
      to keep according to the distinct works there, which pleases me very well,
      and I am confident it will be of great use. At 9 at night home, and to
      supper, and to bed. This noon came to see me and sat with me a little
      after dinner Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, who tells me how ill things go at
      Court: that the King do show no countenance to any that belong to the
      Queen; nor, above all, to such English as she brought over with her, or
      hath here since, for fear they should tell her how he carries himself to
      Mrs. Palmer;&mdash;[Lady Castlemaine.]&mdash;insomuch that though he has a
      promise, and is sure of being made her chyrurgeon, he is at a loss what to
      do in it, whether to take it or no, since the King's mind is so altered in
      favour to all her dependants, whom she is fain to let go back into
      Portugall (though she brought them from their friends against their wills
      with promise of preferment), without doing any thing for them. But he
      tells me that her own physician did tell him within these three days that
      the Queen do know how the King orders things, and how he carries himself
      to my Lady Castlemaine and others, as well as any body; but though she
      hath spirit enough, yet seeing that she do no good by taking notice of it,
      for the present she forbears it in policy; of which I am very glad. But I
      pray God keep us in peace; for this, with other things, do give great
      discontent to all people.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up and to the office, and there with Mr. Coventry sat all the
      morning, only we two, the rest being absent or sick. Dined at home with my
      wife upon a good dish of neats' feet and mustard, of which I made a good
      meal. All the afternoon alone at my office and among my workmen, who (I
      mean the joyners) have even ended my dining room, and will be very
      handsome and to my full content. In the evening at my office about one
      business or another, and so home and to bed, with my mind every day more
      and more quiet since I come to follow my business, and shall be very happy
      indeed when the trouble of my house is over.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's day).Up and put on my new Scallop, and is very fine. To
      church, and there saw the first time Mr. Mills in a surplice; but it
      seemed absurd for him to pull it over his ears in the reading-pew, after
      he had done, before all the church, to go up to the pulpitt, to preach
      without it. Home and dined, and Mr. Sympson, my joyner that do my
      diningroom, and my brother Tom with me to a delicate fat pig. Tom takes
      his disappointment of his mistress to heart; but all will be well again in
      a little time. Then to church again, and heard a simple Scot preach most
      tediously. So home, and to see Sir W. Batten, who is pretty well again,
      and then to my uncle Wight's to show my fine band and to see Mrs. Margaret
      Wight, but she was not there. All this day soldiers going up and down the
      town, there being an alarm and many Quakers and others clapped up; but I
      believe without any reason: only they say in Dorsetshire there hath been
      some rising discovered. So after supper home, and then to my study, and
      making up my monthly account to myself. I find myself, by my expense in
      bands and clothes this month, abated a little of my last, and that I am
      worth L679 still; for which God be praised. So home and to bed with quiett
      mind, blessed be God, but afeard of my candle's going out, which makes me
      write thus slubberingly.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and after giving order to the plasterer now to set upon the
      finishing of my house, then by water to wait upon the Duke, and walking in
      the matted Gallery, by and by comes Mr. Coventry and Sir John Minnes, and
      then to the Duke, and after he was ready, to his closet, where I did give
      him my usual account of matters, and afterwards, upon Sir J. Minnes'
      desire to have one to assist him in his employment, Sir W. Pen is
      appointed to be his, and Mr. Pett to be the Surveyor's assistant. Mr.
      Coventry did desire to be excused, and so I hope (at least it is my
      present opinion) to have none joined with me, but only Mr. Coventry do
      desire that I would find work for one of his clerks, which I did not deny,
      but however I will think of it, whether without prejudice to mine I can do
      it. Thence to my Lord Sandwich, who now-a-days calls me into his chamber,
      and alone did discourse with me about the jealousy that the Court have of
      people's rising; wherein he do much dislike my Lord Monk's being so eager
      against a company of poor wretches, dragging them up and down the street;
      but would have him rather to take some of the greatest ringleaders of
      them, and punish them; whereas this do but tell the world the King's fears
      and doubts. For Dunkirk; he wonders any wise people should be so troubled
      thereat, and scorns all their talk against it, for that he says it was not
      Dunkirk, but the other places, that did and would annoy us, though we had
      that, as much as if we had it not. He also took notice of the new
      Ministers of State, Sir H. Bennet and Sir Charles Barkeley, their bringing
      in, and the high game that my Lady Castlemaine plays at Court (which I
      took occasion to mention as that that the people do take great notice of),
      all which he confessed. Afterwards he told me of poor Mr. Spong, that
      being with other people examined before the King and Council (they being
      laid up as suspected persons; and it seems Spong is so far thought guilty
      as that they intend to pitch upon him to put to the wracke or some other
      torture), he do take knowledge of my Lord Sandwich, and said that he was
      well known to Mr. Pepys. But my Lord knows, and I told him, that it was
      only in matter of musique and pipes, but that I thought him to be a very
      innocent fellow; and indeed I am very sorry for him. After my Lord and I
      had done in private, we went out, and with Captain Cuttance and Bunn did
      look over their draught of a bridge for Tangier, which will be brought by
      my desire to our office by them to-morrow. Thence to Westminster Hall, and
      there walked long with Mr. Creed, and then to the great half-a-crown
      ordinary, at the King's Head, near Charing Cross, where we had a most
      excellent neat dinner and very high company, and in a noble manner. After
      dinner he and I into another room over a pot of ale and talked. He showed
      me our commission, wherein the Duke of York, Prince Rupert, Duke of
      Albemarle, Lord Peterborough, Lord Sandwich, Sir G. Carteret, Sir William
      Compton, Mr. Coventry, Sir R. Ford, Sir William Rider, Mr. Cholmley, Mr.
      Povy, myself, and Captain Cuttance, in this order are joyned for the
      carrying on the service of Tangier, which I take for a great honour to me.
      He told me what great faction there is at Court; and above all, what is
      whispered, that young Crofts is lawful son to the King, the King being
      married to his mother.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [There has been much confusion as to the name and parentage of
     Charles's mistress.  Lucy Walter was the daughter of William Walter
     of Roch Castle, co. Pembroke, and Mr. S. Steinman, in his "Althorp
     Memoirs" (privately printed, 1869), sets out her pedigree, which is
     a good one.  Roch Castle was taken and burnt by the Parliamentary
     forces in 1644, and Lucy was in London in 1648, where she made the
     acquaintance of Colonel Algernon Sidney.  She then fell into the
     possession of his brother, Colonel Robert Sidney.  In September of
     this same year she was taken up by Charles, Prince of Wales.
     Charles terminated his connection with her on October 30th, 1651,
     and she died in 1658, as appears by a document (administration entry
     in the Register of the Prerogative Court) met with by the late
     Colonel Chester.  William Erskine, who had served Charles as
     cupbearer in his wanderings, and was appointed Master of the
     Charterhouse in December, 1677, had the care of Lucy Walter, and
     buried her in Paris.  He declared that the king never had any
     intention of marrying her, and she did not deserve it.  Thomas Ross,
     the tutor of her son, put the idea of this claim into his head, and
     asked Dr. Cosin to certify to a marriage.  In consequence of this he
     was removed from his office, and Lord Crofts took his place
     (Steinman's "Althorp Memoirs").  Lucy Walter took the name of Barlow
     during her wanderings.]
</pre>
    <p>
      How true this is, God knows; but I believe the Duke of York will not be
      fooled in this of three crowns. Thence to White Hall, and walked long in
      the galleries till (as they are commanded to all strange persons), one
      come to tell us, we not being known, and being observed to walk there four
      or five hours (which was not true, unless they count my walking there in
      the morning), he was commanded to ask who we were; which being told, he
      excused his question, and was satisfied. These things speak great fear and
      jealousys. Here we staid some time, thinking to stay out the play before
      the King to-night, but it being "The Villaine," and my wife not being
      there, I had no mind. So walk to the Exchange, and there took many turns
      with him; among other things, observing one very pretty Exchange lass,
      with her face full of black patches, which was a strange sight. So bid him
      good-night and away by coach to Mr. Moore, with whom I staid an hour, and
      found him pretty well and intends to go abroad tomorrow, and so it raining
      hard by coach home, and having visited both Sir Williams, who are both
      sick, but like to be well again, I to my office, and there did some
      business, and so home and to bed. At Sir W. Batten's I met with Mr. Mills,
      who tells me that he could get nothing out of the maid hard by (that did
      poyson herself) before she died, but that she did it because she did not
      like herself, nor had not liked herself, nor anything she did a great
      while. It seems she was well-favoured enough, but crooked, and this was
      all she could be got to say, which is very strange.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. At the office sitting all the morning, and then home to dinner with
      my wife, and after dinner she and I passing an hour or two in ridiculous
      talk, and then to my office, doing business there till 9 at night, and so
      home and to supper and to bed. My house is now in its last dirt, I hope,
      the plasterer and painter now being upon winding up all my trouble, which
      I expect will now in a fortnight's time, or a little more, be quite over.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord Mayor's day). Intended to have made me fine, and by invitation
      to have dined with the Lord Mayor to-day, but going to see Sir W. Batten
      this morning, I found Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes going with Sir W.
      Batten and myself to examine Sir G. Carteret's accounts for the last year,
      whereupon I settled to it with them all the day long, only dinner time
      (which Sir G. Carteret gave us), and by night did as good as finish them,
      and so parted, and thence to my office, and there set papers in order and
      business against to-morrow. I received a letter this day from my father,
      speaking more trouble about my uncle Thomas his business, and of
      proceeding to lay claim to Brampton and all my uncle left, because it is
      given conditional that we should pay legacys, which to him we have not yet
      done, but I hope that will do us no hurt; God help us if it should, but it
      disquiets my mind. I have also a letter from my Lord Sandwich desiring me
      upon matters of concernment to be with him early tomorrow morning, which I
      wonder what it should be. So my mind full of thoughts, and some trouble at
      night, home and to bed. Sir G. Carteret, who had been at the examining
      most of the late people that are clapped up, do say that he do not think
      that there hath been any great plotting among them, though they have a
      good will to it; but their condition is so poor, and silly, and low, that
      they do not fear them at all.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Could sleep but little to-night for thoughts of my business. So up
      by candlelight and by water to Whitehall, and so to my Lord Sandwich, who
      was up in his chamber and all alone, did acquaint me with his business;
      which was, that our old acquaintance Mr. Wade (in Axe Yard) hath
      discovered to him L7,000 hid in the Tower, of which he was to have two for
      discovery; my Lord himself two, and the King the other three, when it was
      found; and that the King's warrant runs for me on my Lord's part, and one
      Mr. Lee for Sir Harry Bennet, to demand leave of the Lieutenant of the
      Tower for to make search. After he had told me the whole business, I took
      leave and hastened to my office, expecting to be called by a letter from
      my Lord to set upon the business, and so there I sat with the officers all
      the morning. At noon when we were up comes Mr. Wade with my Lord's letter,
      and tells me the whole business. So we consulted for me to go first to Sir
      H. Bennet, who is now with many of the Privy Counsellors at the Tower,
      examining of their late prisoners, to advise with him when to begin. So I
      went; and the guard at the Tower Gate, making me leave my sword at the
      gate, I was forced to stay so long in the ale-house hard by, till my boy
      run home for my cloak, that my Lord Mayor that now is, Sir John Robinson,
      Lieutenant of the Tower, with all his company, was gone with their coaches
      to his house in Minchen Lane. So my cloak being come, I walked thither;
      and there, by Sir G. Carteret's means, did presently speak with Sir H.
      Bennet, who did show and give me the King's warrant to me and Mr. Leigh,
      and another to himself, for the paying of L2,000 to my Lord, and other two
      to the discoverers. After a little discourse, dinner come in; and I dined
      with them. There was my Lord Mayor, my Lord Lauderdale, Mr. Secretary
      Morris, to whom Sir H. Bennet would give the upper hand; Sir Wm. Compton,
      Sir G. Carteret, and myself, and some other company, and a brave dinner.
      After dinner, Sir H. Bennet did call aside the Lord Mayor and me, and did
      break the business to him, who did not, nor durst appear the least averse
      to it, but did promise all assistance forthwith to set upon it. So Mr. Lee
      and I to our office, and there walked till Mr. Wade and one Evett his
      guide did come, and W. Griffin, and a porter with his picke-axes, &amp;c.;
      and so they walked along with us to the Tower, and Sir H. Bennet and my
      Lord Mayor did give us full power to fall to work. So our guide demands, a
      candle, and down into the cellars he goes, inquiring whether they were the
      same that Baxter
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Intended for John Barkstead, Lieutenant of the Tower under
     Cromwell.  Committed to the Tower (see March 17th, 1661-62).]
</pre>
    <p>
      always had. We went into several little cellars, and then went out a-doors
      to view, and to the Cole Harbour; but none did answer so well to the marks
      which was given him to find it by, as one arched vault. Where, after a
      great deal of council whether to set upon it now, or delay for better and
      more full advice, we set to it, to digging we went to almost eight o'clock
      at night, but could find nothing. But, however, our guides did not at all
      seem discouraged; for that they being confident that the money is there
      they look for, but having never been in the cellars, they could not be
      positive to the place, and therefore will inform themselves more fully now
      they have been there, of the party that do advise them. So locking the
      door after us, we left work to-night, and up to the Deputy Governor (my
      Lord Mayor, and Sir H. Bennet, with the rest of the company being gone an
      hour before); and he do undertake to keep the key of the cellars, that
      none shall go down without his privity. But, Lord! to see what a young
      simple fantastique coxcombe is made Deputy Governor, would make one mad;
      and how he called out for his night-gown of silk, only to make a show to
      us; and yet for half an hour I did not think he was the Deputy Governor,
      and so spoke not to him about the business, but waited for another man; at
      last I broke our business to him; and he promising his care, we parted.
      And Mr. Leigh and I by coach to White Hall, where I did give my Lord
      Sandwich an account of our proceedings, and some encouragement to hope for
      something hereafter, and so bade him good-night, and so by coach home
      again, where to my trouble I found that the painter had not been here
      to-day to do any thing, which vexes me mightily. So to my office to put
      down my journal, and so home and to bed. This morning, walking with Mr.
      Coventry in the garden, he did tell me how Sir G. Carteret had carried the
      business of the Victuallers' money to be paid by himself, contrary to old
      practice; at which he is angry I perceive, but I believe means no hurt,
      but that things maybe done as they ought. He expects Sir George should not
      bespatter him privately, in revenge, but openly. Against which he prepares
      to bedaub him, and swears he will do it from the beginning, from Jersey to
      this day. And as to his own taking of too large fees or rewards for places
      that he had sold, he will prove that he was directed to it by Sir George
      himself among others. And yet he did not deny Sir G. Carteret his due, in
      saying that he is a man that do take the most pains, and gives himself the
      most to do business of any man about the Court, without any desire of
      pleasure or divertisements; which is very true. But which pleased me
      mightily, he said in these words, that he was resolved, whatever it cost
      him, to make an experiment, and see whether it was possible for a man to
      keep himself up in Court by dealing plainly and walking uprightly, with
      any private game a playing: in the doing whereof, if his ground do slip
      from under him, he will be contented; but he is resolved to try, and never
      to baulke taking notice of any thing that is to the King's prejudice, let
      it fall where it will; which is a most brave resolucion. He was very free
      with me; and by my troth, I do see more reall worth in him than in most
      men that I do know. I would not forget two passages of Sir J. Minnes's at
      yesterday's dinner. The one, that to the question how it comes to pass
      that there are no boars seen in London, but many sows and pigs; it was
      answered, that the constable gets them a-nights. The other, Thos.
      Killigrew's way of getting to see plays when he was a boy. He would go to
      the Red Bull, and when the man cried to the boys, "Who will go and be a
      devil, and he shall see the play for nothing?" then would he go in, and be
      a devil upon the stage, and so get to see plays.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Lay pretty long in bed, and then up and among my workmen, the
      carpenters being this day laying of my floor of my dining room, with whom
      I staid a good while, and so to my office, and did a little business, and
      so home to dinner, and after dinner all the afternoon with my carpenters,
      making them lay all my boards but one in my dining room this day, which I
      am confident they would have made two good days work of if I had not been
      there, and it will be very pleasant. At night to my office, and there late
      doing of my office business, and so home to supper and bed. Thus ends this
      month, I and my family in good health, but weary heartily of dirt, but now
      in hopes within two or three weeks to be out of it. My head troubled with
      much business, but especially my fear of Sir J. Minnes claiming my
      bed-chamber of me, but I hope now that it is almost over, for I perceive
      he is fitting his house to go into it the next week. Then my law
      businesses for Brampton makes me mad almost, for that I want time to
      follow them, but I must by no means neglect them. I thank God I do save
      money, though it be but a little, but I hope to find out some job or other
      that I may get a sum by to set me up. I am now also busy in a discovery
      for my Lord Sandwich and Sir H. Bennett by Mr. Wade's means of some of
      Baxter's [Barkstead] money hid in one of his cellars in the Tower. If we
      get it it may be I may be 10 or L20 the better for it. I thank God I have
      no crosses, but only much business to trouble my mind with. In all other
      things as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to
      smile upon me, and if my house were done that I could diligently follow my
      business, I would not doubt to do God, and the King, and myself good
      service. And all I do impute almost wholly to my late temperance, since my
      making of my vowes against wine and plays, which keeps me most happily and
      contentfully to my business; which God continue! Public matters are full
      of discontent, what with the sale of Dunkirk, and my Lady Castlemaine, and
      her faction at Court; though I know not what they would have more than to
      debauch the king, whom God preserve from it! And then great plots are
      talked to be discovered, and all the prisons in town full of ordinary
      people, taken from their meeting-places last Sunday. But for certain some
      plots there hath been, though not brought to a head.
    </p>
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      NOVEMBER 1662
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    <p>
      November 1st. Up and after a little while with my workmen I went to my
      office, and then to our sitting all the morning. At noon with Mr. Creede,
      whom I found at my house, to the Trinity House, to a great dinner there,
      by invitacion, and much company. It seems one Captain Evans makes his
      Elder Brother's dinner to-day. Among other discourses one Mr. Oudant,
      secretary to the late Princesse of Orange, did discourse of the
      convenience as to keeping the highways from being deep, by their horses,
      in Holland (and Flanders where the ground is as miry as ours is), going in
      their carts and, waggons as ours in coaches, wishing the same here as an
      expedient to make the ways better, and I think there is something in it,
      where there is breadth enough. Thence to my office, sent for to meet Mr.
      Leigh again; from Sir H. Bennet. And he and I, with Wade and his
      intelligencer and labourers, to the Tower cellars, to make one tryall
      more; where we staid two or three hours digging, and dug a great deal all
      under the arches, as it was now most confidently directed, and so
      seriously, and upon pretended good grounds, that I myself did truly expect
      to speed; but we missed of all: and so we went away the second time like
      fools. And to our office, whither, a coach being come, Mr. Leigh goes home
      to Whitehall; and I by appointment to the Dolphin Tavern, to meet Wade and
      the other, Captn. Evett, who now do tell me plainly, that he that do put
      him upon this is one that had it from Barkestead's own mouth, and was
      advised with by him, just before the King's coming in, how to get it out,
      and had all the signs told him how and where it lay, and had always been
      the great confident of Barkestead even to the trusting him with his life
      and all he had. So that he did much convince me that there is good ground
      for what we go about. But I fear it may be that he did find some
      conveyance of it away, without the help of this man, before he died. But
      he is resolved to go to the party once more, and then to determine what we
      shall do further. So we parted, and I to my office, where after sending
      away my letters to the post I do hear that Sir J. Minnes is resolved to
      turn part of our entry into a room and to divide the back yard between Sir
      W. Pen and him, which though I do not see how it will annoy me much
      particularly, yet it do trouble me a little for fear it should, but I do
      not see how it can well unless in his desiring my coming to my back
      stairs, but for that I shall do as well as himself or Sir W. Pen, who is
      most concerned to look after it.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd (Lord's day). Lay long with pleasure talking with my wife, in whom I
      never had greater content, blessed be God! than now, she continuing with
      the same care and thrift and innocence, so long as I keep her from
      occasions of being otherwise, as ever she was in her life, and keeps the
      house as well. To church, where Mr. Mills, after he had read the service,
      and shifted himself as he did the last day, preached a very ordinary
      sermon. So home to dinner with my wife. Then up into my new rooms which
      are, almost finished, and there walked with great content talking with my
      wife till church time, and then to church, and there being a lazy preacher
      I slept out the sermon, and so home, and after visiting the two Sir
      Williams, who are both of them mending apace, I to my office preparing
      things against to-morrow for the Duke, and so home and to bed, with some
      pain,... having taken cold this morning in sitting too long bare-legged to
      pare my corns. My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading
      "Du Bartas' Imposture" and other parts which my wife of late has taken up
      to read, and is very fine as anything I meet with.
    </p>
    <p>
      3d. Up and with Sir J. Minnes in his coach to White Hall, to the Duke's;
      but found him gone out a-hunting. Thence to my Lord Sandwich, from whom I
      receive every day more and more signs of his confidence and esteem of me.
      Here I met with Pierce the chyrurgeon, who tells me that my Lady
      Castlemaine is with child; but though it be the King's, yet her Lord being
      still in town, and sometimes seeing of her, though never to eat or lie
      together, it will be laid to him. He tells me also how the Duke of York is
      smitten in love with my Lady Chesterfield
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Lady Elizabeth Butler, daughter of James Butler, first Duke of
     Ormond, second wife of Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield.
     She died July, 1665 (see "Memoires de Grammont," chap. viii.).
     Peter Cunningham thinks that this banishment was only temporary,
     for, according to the Grammont Memoirs, she was in town when the
     Russian ambassador was in London, December, 1662, and January, 1662-
     63.  "It appears from the books of the Lord Steward's office...
     that Lord Chesterfield set out for the country on the 12th May,
     1663, and, from his 'Short Notes' referred to in the Memoirs before
     his Correspondence, that he remained at Bretby, in Derbyshire, with
     his wife, throughout the summer of that year" ("Story of Nell Gwyn,"
     1852, p. 189).]
</pre>
    <p>
      (a virtuous lady, daughter to my Lord of Ormond); and so much, that the
      duchess of York hath complained to the King and her father about it, and
      my Lady Chesterfield is gone into the country for it. At all which I am
      sorry; but it is the effect of idleness, and having nothing else to employ
      their great spirits upon. Thence with Mr. Creede and Mr. Moore (who is got
      upon his legs and come to see my Lord) to Wilkinson's, and there I did
      give them and Mr. Howe their dinner of roast beef, cost me 5s., and after
      dinner carried Mr. Moore as far as Paul's in a coach, giving him direction
      about my law business, and there set him down, and I home and among my
      workmen, who happened of all sorts to meet to their making an end of a
      great many jobbs, so that after to-morrow I shall have but a little
      plastering and all the painting almost to do, which was good content to
      me. At night to my office, and did business; and there came to me Mr. Wade
      and Evett, who have been again with their prime intelligencer, a woman, I
      perceive: and though we have missed twice, yet they bring such an account
      of the probability of the truth of the thing, though we are not certain of
      the place, that we shall set upon it once more; and I am willing and
      hopefull in it. So we resolved to set upon it again on Wednesday morning;
      and the woman herself will be there in a disguise, and confirm us in the
      place. So they took leave for the night, and I to my business, and then
      home to my wife and to supper and bed, my pain being going away. So by
      God's great blessing my mind is in good condition of quiet.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Lay long talking pleasantly with my wife in bed, it having rained,
      and do still, very much all night long. Up and to the office, where we sat
      till noon. This morning we had news by letters that Sir Richard Stayner is
      dead at sea in the Mary, which is now come into Portsmouth from Lisbon;
      which we are sorry for, he being a very stout seaman. But there will be no
      great miss of him for all that. Dined at home with my wife, and all the
      afternoon among my workmen, and at night to my office to do business
      there, and then to see Sir W. Pen, who is still sick, but his pain less
      than it was. He took occasion to talk with me about Sir J. Minnes's
      intention to divide the entry and the yard, and so to keep him out of the
      yard, and forcing him to go through the garden to his house. Which he is
      vexed at, and I am glad to see that Sir J. Minnes do use him just as he do
      me, and so I perceive it is not anything extraordinary his carriage to me
      in the matter of our houses, for this is worse than anything he has done
      to me, that he should give order for the stopping up of his way to his
      house without so much as advising with him or letting of him know it, and
      I confess that it is very highly and basely done of him. So to my office
      again, and after doing business there, then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up and with my painters painting my dining room all day long till
      night, not stirring out at all. Only in the morning my Lady Batten did
      send to speak with me, and told me very civilly that she did not desire,
      nor hoped I did, that anything should pass between us but what was civill,
      though there was not the neighbourliness between her and my wife that was
      fit to be, and so complained of my maid's mocking of her; when she called
      "Nan" to her maid within her own house, my maid Jane in the garden
      overheard her, and mocked her, and some other such like things she told
      me, and of my wife's speaking unhandsomely of her; to all which I did give
      her a very respectfull answer, such as did please her, and am sorry indeed
      that this should be, though I do not desire there should be any
      acquaintance between my wife and her. But I promised to avoid such words
      and passages for the future. So home, and by and by Sir W. Pen did send
      for me to his bedside; and tell me how really Sir J. Minnes did resolve to
      have one of my rooms, and that he was very angry and hot, and said he
      would speak to the Duke. To which, knowing that all this was but to scare
      me, and to get him to put off his resolution of making up the entry, I did
      tell him plainly how I did not value his anger more, than he did mine, and
      that I should be willing to do what the Duke commanded, and I was sure to
      have justice of him, and that was all I did say to him about it, though I
      was much vexed, and after a little stay went home; and there telling my
      wife she did put me into heart, and resolve to offer him to change
      lodgings, and believe that that will one way or other bring us to some end
      in this dispute. At night I called up my maids, and schooled Jane, who did
      answer me so humbly and drolly about it, that though I seemed angry, I was
      much pleased with her and [my] wife also. So at night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. At the office forenoon and afternoon till late at night, very busy
      answering my Lord Treasurer's letter, and my mind troubled till we come to
      some end with Sir J. Minnes about our lodgings, and so home. And after
      some pleasant discourse and supper to bed, and in my dream much troubled
      by being with Will. Swan, a great fanatic, my old acquaintance, and,
      methought, taken and led up with him for a plotter, all our discourse
      being at present about the late plots.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up and being by appointment called upon by Mr. Lee, he and I to the
      Tower, to make our third attempt upon the cellar. And now privately the
      woman, Barkestead's great confident, is brought, who do positively say
      that this is the place which he did say the money was hid in, and where he
      and she did put up the L50,000
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thus in the MS., although the amount was first stated as L7,000
     (see October 30th, 1662)]
</pre>
    <p>
      in butter firkins; and the very day that he went out of England did say
      that neither he nor his would be the better for that money, and therefore
      wishing that she and hers might. And so left us, and we full of hope did
      resolve to dig all over the cellar, which by seven o'clock at night we
      performed. At noon we sent for a dinner, and upon the head of a barrel
      dined very merrily, and to work again. Between times, Mr. Lee, who had
      been much in Spain, did tell me pretty stories of the customs and other
      things, as I asked him, of the country, to my great content. But at last
      we saw we were mistaken; and after digging the cellar quite through, and
      removing the barrels from one side to the other, we were forced to pay our
      porters, and give over our expectations, though I do believe there must be
      money hid somewhere by him, or else he did delude this woman in hopes to
      oblige her to further serving him, which I am apt to believe. Thence by
      coach to White Hall, and at my Lord's lodgings did write a letter, he not
      being within, to tell him how things went, and so away again, only hearing
      that Mrs. Sarah is married, I did go up stairs again and joy her and kiss
      her, she owning of it; and it seems it is to a cook. I am glad she is
      disposed of, for she grows old, and is very painfull,&mdash;[painstaking]&mdash;and
      one I have reason to wish well for her old service to me. Then to my
      brother's, where my wife, by my order, is tonight to stay a night or two
      while my house is made clean, and thence home, where I am angry to see,
      instead of the house made in part clean, all the pewter goods and other
      things are brought up to scouring, which makes the house ten times worse,
      at which I was very much displeased, but cannot help it. So to my office
      to set down my journal, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. All the morning sitting at the office, and after that dined alone at
      home, and so to the office again till 9 o'clock, being loth to go home,
      the house is so dirty, and my wife at my brother's. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). Lay alone a good while, my mind busy about pleading
      to-morrow to the Duke if there shall be occasion for this chamber that I
      lie in against Sir J., Minnes. Then up, and after being ready walked to my
      brother's, where my wife is, calling at many churches, and then to the
      Temple, hearing a bit there too, and observing that in the streets and
      churches the Sunday is kept in appearance as well as I have known it at
      any time. Then to dinner to my brother's, only he and my wife, and after
      dinner to see Mr. Moore, who is pretty well, and he and I to St.
      Gregory's, where I escaped a great fall down the staires of the gallery:
      so into a pew there and heard Dr. Ball make a very good sermon, though
      short of what I expected, as for the most part it do fall out. So home
      with Mr. Moore to his chamber, and after a little talk I walked home to my
      house and staid at Sir W. Batten's. Till late at night with him and Sir J.
      Minnes, with whom we did abundance of most excellent discourse of former
      passages of sea commanders and officers of the navy, and so home and to
      bed, with my mind well at ease but only as to my chamber, which I fear to
      lose.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up betimes and to set my workmen to work, and then a little to the
      office, and so with Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and myself by coach to
      White Hall, to the Duke, who, after he was ready, did take us into his
      closett. Thither come my Lord General Monk, and did privately talk with
      the Duke about having the life-guards pass through the City today only for
      show and to fright people, for I perceive there are great fears abroad;
      for all which I am troubled and full of doubt that things will not go
      well. He being gone, we fell to business of the Navy. Among other things,
      how to pay off this fleet that is now come from Portugall; the King of
      Portugall sending them home, he having no more use for them, which we
      wonder at, that his condition should be so soon altered. And our landmen
      also are coming back, being almost starved in that poor country. Having
      done here I went by my Lord Sandwich's, who was not at home, and so to
      Westminster Hall, where full of term, and here met with many about
      business, among others my cozen Roger Pepys, who is all for a composition
      with my uncle Thomas, which upon any fair terms I am for also and desire
      it. Thence by water, and so by land to my Lord Crew's, and dined with him
      and his brother, I know not his name; where very good discourse; among
      others, of France's intention to make a patriarch of his own, independent
      from the Pope, by which he will be able to cope with the Spaniard in all
      councils, which hitherto he has never done. My Lord Crew told us how he
      heard my Lord of Holland say that, being Embassador about the match with
      the Queene-Mother that now is, the King of France&mdash;[Louis XIII., in
      1624.]&mdash;insisted upon a dispensation from the Pope, which my Lord
      Holland making a question of, and that he was commanded to yield to
      nothing to the prejudice of our religion, says the King of France, "You
      need not fear that, for if the Pope will not dispense with the match, my
      Bishopp of Paris shall." By and by come in great Mr. Swinfen, the
      Parliament-man, who, among other discourse of the rise and fall of
      familys, told us of Bishopp Bridgeman (brother of Sir Orlando) who lately
      hath bought a seat anciently of the Levers, and then the Ashtons; and so
      he hath in his great hall window (having repaired and beautified the
      house) caused four great places to be left for coates of armes. In one, he
      hath put the Levers, with this motto, "Olim." In another the Ashtons, with
      this, "Heri." In the next his own, with this, "Hodie." In the fourth
      nothing but this motto, "Cras nescio cujus." Thence towards my brother's;
      met with Jack Cole in Fleet Street, and he and I went into his cozen Mary
      Cole's (whom I never saw since she was married), and drank a pint of wine
      and much good discourse. I found him a little conceited, but he had good
      things in him, and a man may know the temper of the City by him, he being
      of a general conversation, and can tell how matters go; and upon that
      score I will encourage his acquaintance. Thence to my brother's, and
      taking my wife up, carried her to Charing Cross, and there showed her the
      Italian motion, much after the nature of what I showed her a while since
      in Covent Garden. Their puppets here are somewhat better, but their
      motions not at all. Thence by coach to my Lady's, and, hiding my wife with
      Sarah below, I went up and heard some musique with my Lord, and afterwards
      discoursed with him alone, and so good night to him and below, having sent
      for Mr. Creed, had thought to have shown my wife a play before the King,
      but it is so late that we could not, and so we took coach, and taking up
      Sarah at my brother's with their night geare we went home, and I to my
      office to settle matters, and so home and to bed. This morning in the
      Duke's chamber Sir J. Minnes did break to me his desire about my chamber,
      which I did put off to another time to discourse of, he speaking to me
      very kindly to make me the less trouble myself, hoping to save myself and
      to contrive something or other to pleasure him as well, though I know not
      well what. The town, I hear, is full of discontents, and all know of the
      King's new bastard by Mrs. Haslerigge, and as far as I can hear will never
      be contented with Episcopacy, they are so cruelly set for Presbytery, and
      the Bishopps carry themselves so high, that they are never likely to gain
      anything upon them.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. All the morning sitting at the office, and then to dinner with my
      wife, and so to the office again (where a good while Mr. Bland was with
      me, telling me very fine things in merchandize, which, but that the
      trouble of my office do so cruelly hinder me, I would take some pains in)
      till late at night. Towards the evening I, as I have done for three or
      four nights, studying something of Arithmetique, which do please me well
      to see myself come forward. So home, to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. At my office most of the morning, after I had done among my
      painters, and sent away Mr. Shaw and Hawly, who came to give me a visit
      this morning. Shaw it seems is newly re-married to a rich widow. At noon
      dined at home with my wife, and by and by, by my wife's appointment came
      two young ladies, sisters, acquaintances of my wife's brother's, who are
      desirous to wait upon some ladies, and proffer their service to my wife.
      The youngest, indeed, hath a good voice, and sings very well, besides
      other good qualitys; but I fear hath been bred up with too great liberty
      for my family, and I fear greater inconveniences of expenses, and my
      wife's liberty will follow, which I must study to avoid till I have a
      better purse; though, I confess, the gentlewoman, being pretty handsome,
      and singing, makes me have a good mind to her. Anon I took them by coach
      and carried them to a friend's of theirs, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and
      there I left them and I to the Temple by appointment to my cousin Roger's
      chamber, where my uncle Thomas and his son Thomas met us, I having hoped
      that they would have agreed with me to have had [it] ended by my cozen
      Roger, but they will have two strangers to be for them against two others
      of mine, and so we parted without doing any thing till the two send me the
      names of their arbiters. Thence I walked home, calling a little in Paul's
      Churchyard, and, I thank God, can read and never buy a book, though I have
      a great mind to it. So to the Dolphin Tavern near home, by appointment,
      and there met with Wade and Evett, and have resolved to make a new attempt
      upon another discovery, in which God give us better fortune than in the
      other, but I have great confidence that there is no cheat in these people,
      but that they go upon good grounds, though they have been mistaken in the
      place of the first. From thence, without drinking a drop of wine, home to
      my office and there made an end, though late, of my collection of the
      prices of masts for these twelve years to this day, in order to the buying
      of some of Wood, and I bound it up in painted paper to lie by as a book
      for future use. So home and to supper and to bed, and a little before and
      after we were in bed we had much talk and difference between us about my
      wife's having a woman, which I seemed much angry at, that she should go so
      far in it without consideration and my being consulted with. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up and began our discontent again and sorely angered my wife, who
      indeed do live very lonely, but I do perceive that it is want of work that
      do make her and all other people think of ways of spending their time
      worse, and this I owe to my building, that do not admit of her undertaking
      any thing of work, because the house has been and is still so dirty. I to
      my office, and there sat all the morning and dined with discontent with my
      wife at noon, and so to my office, and there this afternoon we had our
      first meeting upon our commission of inspecting the Chest, and there met
      Sir J. Minnes, Sir Francis Clerke, Mr. Heath, Atturney of the Dutchy, Mr.
      Prinn, Sir W. Rider, Captn. Cocke, and myself. Our first work to read over
      the Institution, which is a decree in Chancery in the year 1617, upon an
      inquisition made at Rochester about that time into the revenues of the
      Chest, which had then, from the year 1588 or 1590, by the advice of the
      Lord High Admiral and principal officers then being, by consent of the
      seamen, been settled, paying sixpence per month, according to their wages
      then, which was then but 10s. which is now 24s. We adjourned to a
      fortnight hence. So broke up, and I to see Sir W. Pen, who is now pretty
      well, but lies in bed still; he cannot rise to stand. Then to my office
      late, and this afternoon my wife in her discontent sent me a letter, which
      I am in a quandary what to do, whether to read it or not, but I purpose
      not, but to burn it before her face, that I may put a stop to more of this
      nature. But I must think of some way, either to find her some body to keep
      her company, or to set her to work, and by employment to take up her
      thoughts and time. After doing what I had to do I went home to supper, and
      there was very sullen to my wife, and so went to bed and to sleep (though
      with much ado, my mind being troubled) without speaking one word to her.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. She begun to talk in the morning and to be friends, believing all
      this while that. I had read her letter, which I perceive by her discourse
      was full of good counsel, and relating the reason of her desiring a woman,
      and how little charge she did intend it to be to me, so I begun and argued
      it as full and plain to her, and she to reason it highly to me, to put her
      away, and take one of the Bowyers if I did dislike her, that I did resolve
      when the house is ready she shall try her for a while; the truth is, I
      having a mind to have her come for her musique and dancing. So up and
      about my papers all the morning, and her brother coming I did tell him my
      mind plain, who did assure me that they were both of the sisters very
      humble and very poor, and that she that we are to have would carry herself
      so. So I was well contented and spent part of the morning at my office,
      and so home and to dinner, and after dinner, finding Sarah to be
      discontented at the news of this woman, I did begin in my wife's chamber
      to talk to her and tell her that it was not out of unkindness to her, but
      my wife came up, and I perceive she is not too reconciled to her whatever
      the matter is, that I perceive I shall not be able to keep her, though she
      is as good a servant (only a little pettish) that ever I desire to have,
      and a creditable servant. So she desired leave to go out to look [for] a
      service, and did, for which I am troubled, and fell out highly afterwards
      with my wife about it. So to my office, where we met this afternoon about
      answering a great letter of my Lord Treasurer's, and that done to my
      office drawing up a letter to him, and so home to supper.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. All the morning at the office sitting, dined with my wife pleasantly
      at home, then among my painters, and by and by went to my Civil Lawyers
      about my uncle's suit, and so home again and saw my painters make an end
      of my house this night, which is my great joy, and so to my office and did
      business till ten at night, and so home and to supper, and after reading
      part of Bussy d'Ambois, a good play I bought to-day, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). About 3 o'clock in the morning waked with a rude noise
      among Sir J. Minnes his servants (he not being yet come to his lodgings),
      who are the rudest people but they that lived before, one Mrs. Davis, that
      ever I knew in my life. To sleep again, and after long talking pleasantly
      with my wife, up and to church, where Mrs. Goodyer, now Mrs. Buckworth,
      was churched. I love the woman for her gravity above any in the parish. So
      home and to dinner with my wife with great content, and after dinner
      walked up and down my house, which is now almost finished, there being
      nothing to do but the glazier and furniture to put up. By and by comes
      Tom, and after a little talk I with him towards his end, but seeing many
      strangers and coaches coming to our church, and finding that it was a
      sermon to be preached by a probationer for the Turkey Company,&mdash;[The
      Turkey or Levant Company was established in 1581.]&mdash;to be sent to
      Smyrna, I returned thither. And several Turkey merchants filled all the
      best pews (and some in ours) in the Church, but a most pitiful sermon it
      was upon a text in Zachariah, and a great time he spent to show whose son
      Zachary was, and to prove Malachi to be the last prophet before John the
      Baptist. Home and to see Sir W. Pen, who gets strength, but still keeps
      his bed. Then home and to my office to do some business there, and so home
      to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. To the Duke's to-day, but he is gone a-hunting, and therefore I to
      my Lord Sandwich's, and having spoke a little with him about his
      businesses, I to Westminster Hall and there staid long doing many
      businesses, and so home by the Temple and other places doing the like, and
      at home I found my wife dressing by appointment by her woman&mdash;[Mrs.
      Gosnell.]&mdash;that I think is to be, and her other sister being here
      to-day with her and my wife's brother, I took Mr. Creed, that came to
      dine, to an ordinary behind the Change, and there dined together, and
      after dinner home and there spent an hour or two till almost dark, talking
      with my wife, and making Mrs. Gosnell sing; and then, there being no coach
      to be got, by water to White Hall; but Gosnell not being willing to go
      through bridge, we were forced to land and take water, again, and put her
      and her sister ashore at the Temple. I am mightily pleased with her humour
      and singing. At White Hall by appointment, Mr. Creed carried my wife and I
      to the Cockpitt, and we had excellent places, and saw the King, Queen,
      Duke of Monmouth, his son, and my Lady Castlemaine, and all the fine
      ladies; and "The Scornfull Lady," well performed. They had done by eleven
      o'clock, and it being fine moonshine, we took coach and home, but could
      wake nobody at my house, and so were fain to have my boy get through one
      of the windows, and so opened the door and called up the maids, and went
      to supper and to bed, my mind being troubled at what my wife tells me,
      that her woman will not come till she hears from her mother, for I am so
      fond of her that I am loth now not to have her, though I know it will be a
      great charge to me which I ought to avoid, and so will make it up in other
      things. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and to the office, where Mr. Phillip the lawyer came to me, but I
      put him off to the afternoon. At noon I dined at Sir W. Batten's, Sir John
      Minnes being here, and he and I very kind, but I every day expect to pull
      a crow with him about our lodgings. My mind troubled about Gosnell and my
      law businesses. So after dinner to Mr. Phillips his chamber, where he
      demands an abatement for Piggott's money, which vexes me also, but I will
      not give it him without my father's consent, which I will write to him
      to-night about, and have done it. Here meeting my uncle Thomas, he and I
      to my cozen Roger's chamber, and there I did give my uncle him and Mr.
      Philips to be my two arbiters against Mr. Cole and Punt, but I expect no
      great good of the matter. Thence walked home, and my wife came home,
      having been abroad to-day, laying out above L12 in linen, and a copper,
      and a pot, and bedstead, and other household stuff, which troubles me
      also, so that my mind to-night is very heavy and divided. Late at my
      office, drawing up a letter to my Lord Treasurer, which we have been long
      about, and so home, and, my mind troubled, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. All the morning sitting at the office, at noon with Mr. Coventry to
      the Temple to advise about Field's, but our lawyers not being in the way
      we went to St. James's, and there at his chamber dined, and I am still in
      love more and more with him for his real worth. I broke to him my desire
      for my wife's brother to send him to sea as a midshipman, which he is
      willing to agree to, and will do it when I desire it. After dinner to the
      Temple, to Mr. Thurland; and thence to my Lord Chief Baron, Sir Edward
      Hale's, and back with Mr. Thurland to his chamber, where he told us that
      Field will have the better of us; and that we must study to make up the
      business as well as we can, which do much vex and trouble us: but I am
      glad the Duke is concerned in it. Thence by coach homewards, calling at a
      tavern in the way (being guided by the messenger in whose custody Field
      lies), and spoke with Mr. Smith our messenger about the business, and so
      home, where I found that my wife had finished very neatly my study with
      the former hangings of the diningroom, which will upon occasion serve for
      a fine withdrawing room. So a little to my office and so home, and spent
      the evening upon my house, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21St. Within all day long, helping to put up my hangings in my house in my
      wife's chamber, to my great content. In the afternoon I went to speak to
      Sir J. Minnes at his lodgings, where I found many great ladies, and his
      lodgings made very fine indeed. At night to supper and to bed: this night
      having first put up a spitting sheet, which I find very convenient. This
      day come the King's pleasure-boats from Calais, with the Dunkirk money,
      being 400,000 pistolles.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. This morning, from some difference between my wife and Sarah, her
      maid, my wife and I fell out cruelly, to my great discontent. But I do see
      her set so against the wench, whom I take to be a most extraordinary good
      servant, that I was forced for the wench's sake to bid her get her another
      place, which shall cost some trouble to my wife, however, before I suffer
      to be. Thence to the office, where I sat all the morning, then dined; Mr.
      Moore with me, at home, my wife busy putting her furniture in order. Then
      he and I out, and he home and I to my cozen Roger Pepys to advise about
      treating with my uncle Thomas, and thence called at the Wardrobe on Mr.
      Moore again, and so home, and after doing much business at my office I
      went home and caused a new fashion knocker to be put on my door, and did
      other things to the putting my house in order, and getting my outward door
      painted, and the arch. This day I bought the book of country dances
      against my wife's woman Gosnell comes, who dances finely; and there
      meeting Mr. Playford he did give me his Latin songs of Mr. Deering's,
      which he lately printed. This day Mr. Moore told me that for certain the
      Queen-Mother is married to my Lord St. Albans, and he is like to be made
      Lord Treasurer. Newes that Sir J. Lawson hath made up a peace now with
      Tunis and Tripoli, as well as Argiers, by which he will come home very
      highly honoured.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). Up, after some talk with my wife, soberly, upon
      yesterday's difference, and made good friends, and to church to hear Mr.
      Mills, and so home, and Mr. Moore and my brother Tom dined with me. My
      wife not being well to-day did not rise. In the afternoon to church again,
      and heard drowsy Mr. Graves, and so to see Sir W. Pen, who continues ill
      in bed, but grows better and better every day. Thence to Sir W. Batten's,
      and there staid awhile and heard how Sir R. Ford's daughter is married to
      a fellow without friends' consent, and the match carried on and made up at
      Will Griffin's, our doorkeeper's. So to my office and did a little
      business, and so home and to bed. I talked to my brother to-day, who
      desires me to give him leave to look after his mistress still; and he will
      not have me put to any trouble or obligation in it, which I did give him
      leave to do. I hear to-day how old rich Audley is lately dead, and left a
      very great estate, and made a great many poor familys rich, not all to
      one. Among others, one Davis, my old schoolfellow at Paul's, and since a
      bookseller in Paul's Church Yard: and it seems do forgive one man L60,000
      which he had wronged him of, but names not his name; but it is well known
      to be the scrivener in Fleet Street, at whose house he lodged. There is
      also this week dead a poulterer, in Gracious Street, which was thought
      rich, but not so rich, that hath left L800 per annum, taken in other men's
      names, and 40,000 Jacobs in gold.
    </p>
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     [A jacobus was a gold coin of the value of twenty-five shillings,
     called after James I, in whose reign it was first coined.]
</pre>
    <p>
      24th. Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and I, going forth toward White Hall,
      we hear that the King and Duke are come this morning to the Tower to see
      the Dunkirk money! So we by coach to them, and there went up and down all
      the magazines with them; but methought it was but poor discourse and
      frothy that the King's companions (young Killigrew among the rest) about
      the codpieces of some of the men in armour there to be seen, had with him.
      We saw none of the money, but Mr. Slingsby did show the King, and I did
      see, the stamps of the new money that is now to be made by Blondeau's
      fashion,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Peter Blondeau was employed by the Commonwealth to coin their
     money.  After the Restoration, November 3rd, 1662, he received
     letters of denization, and a grant for being engineer of the Mint in
     the Tower of London, and for using his new invention for coining
     gold and silver with the mill and press, with the fee of L100 per
     annum (Walpole's "Anecdotes of Painting").]
</pre>
    <p>
      which are very neat, and like the King. Thence the King to Woolwich,
      though a very cold day; and the Duke to White Hall, commanding us to come
      after him, which we did by coach; and in his closett, my Lord Sandwich
      being there, did discourse with us about getting some of this money to pay
      off the Fleets, and other matters; and then away hence, and, it being
      almost dinner time, I to my Lord Crew's, and dined with him, and had very
      good discourse, and he seemed to be much pleased with my visits. Thence to
      Mr. Phillips, and so to the Temple, where met my cozen Roger Pepys and his
      brother, Dr. John, as my arbitrators against Mr. Cole and Mr. John Bernard
      for my uncle Thomas, and we two with them by appointment. They began very
      high in their demands, and my friends, partly being not so well acquainted
      with the will, and partly, I doubt, not being so good wits as they, for
      which I blame my choosing of relations (who besides that are equally
      engaged to stand for them as me), I was much troubled thereat, and taking
      occasion to deny without my father's consent to bind myself in a bond of
      L2000 to stand to their award, I broke off the business for the present
      till I hear and consider further, and so thence by coach (my cozen, Thomas
      Pepys, being in another chamber busy all the while, going along with me)
      homeward, and I set him down by the way; but, Lord! how he did endeavour
      to find out a ninepence to clubb with me for the coach, and for want was
      forced to give me a shilling, and how he still cries "Gad!" and talks of
      Popery coming in, as all the Fanatiques do, of which I was ashamed. So
      home, finding my poor wife very busy putting things in order, and so to
      bed, my mind being very much troubled, and could hardly sleep all night,
      thinking how things are like to go with us about Brampton, and blaming
      myself for living so high as I do when for ought I know my father and
      mother may come to live upon my hands when all is done.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up and to the office all the morning, and at noon with the rest, by
      Mr. Holy, the ironmonger's invitation, to the Dolphin, to a venison pasty,
      very good, and rare at this time of the year, and thence by coach with Mr.
      Coventry as far as the Temple, and thence to Greatorex's, where I staid
      and talked with him, and got him to mend my pocket ruler for me, and so by
      coach to my Lord's lodging, where I sat with Mr. Moore by appointment,
      making up accounts for my Lord Sandwich, which done he and I and Capt.
      Ferrers and W. Howe very merry a good while in the great dining room, and
      so it being late and my Lord not coming in, I by coach to the Temple, and
      thence walked home, and so to my study to do some business, and then home
      and to bed. Great talk among people how some of the Fanatiques do say that
      the end of the world is at hand, and that next Tuesday is to be the day.
      Against which, whenever it shall be, good God fit us all.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. In the morning to the Temple to my cozen Roger, who now desires that
      I would excuse him from arbitrating, he not being able to stand for me as
      he would do, without appearing too high against my uncle Thomas, which
      will raise his clamour. With this I am very well pleased, for I did desire
      it, and so I shall choose other counsel. Thence home, he being busy that I
      could not speak more with him. All day long till twelve o'clock at night
      getting my house in order, my wife putting up the red hangings and bed in
      her woman's chamber, and I my books and all other matters in my chamber
      and study, which is now very pretty. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. At my waking, I found the tops of the houses covered with snow,
      which is a rare sight, that I have not seen these three years. Up, and put
      my people to perfect the cleaning of my house, and so to the office, where
      we sat till noon; and then we all went to the next house upon Tower Hill,
      to see the coming by of the Russia Embassador; for whose reception all the
      City trained-bands do attend in the streets, and the King's life-guards,
      and most of the wealthy citizens in their black velvet coats, and gold
      chains (which remain of their gallantry at the King's coming in), but they
      staid so long that we went down again home to dinner. And after I had
      dined, I heard they were coming, and so I walked to the Conduit in the
      Quarrefowr,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In two ordinances of the reign of Edward III., printed in Riley's
     "Memorials of London" (pp. 300, 389), this is called the "Carfukes,"
     which nearly approaches the name of the "Carfax," at Oxford, where
     four ways also met.  Pepys's form of the word is nearer quatre
     voies, the French equivalent of quadrivium.]
</pre>
    <p>
      at the end of Gracious-street and Cornhill; and there (the spouts thereof
      running very near me upon all the people that were under it) I saw them
      pretty well go by. I could not see the Embassador in his coach; but his
      attendants in their habits and fur caps very handsome, comely men, and
      most of them with hawkes upon their fists to present to the King. But
      Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing
      and jeering at every thing that looks strange. So back and to the office,
      and there we met and sat till seven o'clock, making a bargain with Mr.
      Wood for his masts of New England; and then in Mr. Coventry's coach to the
      Temple, but my cozen Roger Pepys not being at leisure to speak to me about
      my business, I presently walked home, and to my office till very late
      doing business, and so home, where I found my house more and more clear
      and in order, and hope in a day or two now to be in very good condition
      there and to my full content. Which God grant! So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. A very hard frost; which is news to us after having none almost
      these three years. Up and to Ironmongers' Hall by ten o'clock to the
      funeral of Sir Richard Stayner. Here we were, all the officers of the
      Navy, and my Lord Sandwich, who did discourse with us about the fishery,
      telling us of his Majesty's resolution to give L200 to every man that will
      set out a Busse;
    </p>
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     [A small sea-vessel used in the Dutch herring-fishery.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and advising about the effects of this encouragement, which will be a very
      great matter certainly. Here we had good rings, and by and by were to take
      coach; and I being got in with Mr. Creed into a four-horse coach, which
      they come and told us were only for the mourners, I went out, and so took
      this occasion to go home. Where I staid all day expecting Gosnell's
      coming, but there came an excuse from her that she had not heard yet from
      her mother, but that she will come next week, which I wish she may, since
      I must keep one that I may have some pleasure therein. So to my office
      till late writing out a copy of my uncle's will, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Before I went to the office my wife's brother did come to us, and we
      did instruct him to go to Gosnell's and to see what the true matter is of
      her not coming, and whether she do intend to come or no, and so I to the
      office; and this morning come Sir G. Carteret to us (being the first time
      we have seen him since his coming from France): he tells us, that the
      silver which he received for Dunkirk did weigh 120,000 weight. Here all
      the morning upon business, and at noon (not going home to dinner, though
      word was brought me that Will. Joyce was there, whom I had not seen at my
      house nor any where else these three or four months) with Mr. Coventry by
      his coach as far as Fleet Street, and there stepped into Madam Turner's,
      where was told I should find my cozen Roger Pepys, and with him to the
      Temple, but not having time to do anything I went towards my Lord
      Sandwich's. (In my way went into Captn. Cuttance's coach, and with him to
      my Lord's.) But the company not being ready I did slip down to
      Wilkinson's, and having not eat any thing to-day did eat a mutton pie and
      drank, and so to my Lord's, where my Lord and Mr. Coventry, Sir Wm. Darcy,
      one Mr. Parham (a very knowing and well-spoken man in this business), with
      several others, did meet about stating the business of the fishery, and
      the manner of the King's giving of this L200 to every man that shall set
      out a new-made English Busse by the middle of June next. In which business
      we had many fine pretty discourses; and I did here see the great pleasure
      to be had in discoursing of publique matters with men that are
      particularly acquainted with this or that business. Having come to some
      issue, wherein a motion of mine was well received, about sending these
      invitations from the King to all the fishing-ports in general, with
      limiting so many Busses to this, and that port, before we know the
      readiness of subscribers, we parted, and I walked home all the way, and
      having wrote a letter full of business to my father, in my way calling
      upon my cozen Turner and Mr. Calthrop at the Temple, for their consent to
      be my arbitrators, which they are willing to. My wife and I to bed pretty
      pleasant, for that her brother brings word that Gosnell, which my wife and
      I in discourse do pleasantly call our Marmotte, will certainly come next
      week without fail, which God grant may be for the best.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Lord's day). To church in the morning, and Mr. Mills made a pretty
      good sermon. It is a bitter cold frost to-day. Dined alone with my wife
      to-day with great content, my house being quite clean from top to bottom.
      In the afternoon I to the French church here
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The French Protestant Church was founded by Edward VI. in the
     church of St. Anthony's Hospital in Threadneedle Street.  This was
     destroyed in the Great Fire, and rebuilt, but demolished for the
     approaches of the new Royal Exchange.  The church was then removed
     to St. Martin's-le-Grand, but this was also removed in 1888 to make
     room for the new Post Office buildings.]
</pre>
    <p>
      in the city, and stood in the aisle all the sermon, with great delight
      hearing a very admirable sermon, from a very young man, upon the article
      in our creed, in order of catechism, upon the Resurrection. Thence home,
      and to visit Sir W. Pen, who continues still bed-rid. Here was Sir W.
      Batten and his Lady, and Mrs. Turner, and I very merry, talking of the
      confidence of Sir R. Ford's new-married daughter, though she married so
      strangely lately, yet appears at church as brisk as can be, and takes
      place of her elder sister, a maid. Thence home and to supper, and then,
      cold as it is, to my office, to make up my monthly accounts, and I do find
      that, through the fitting of my house this month, I have spent in that and
      kitchen L50 this month; so that now I am worth but L660, or thereabouts.
      This being done and fitted myself for the Duke to-morrow, I went home, and
      to prayers and to bed. This day I first did wear a muffe, being my wife's
      last year's muffe,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The fashion of men wearing muffs appears to have been introduced
     from France in this reign.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and now I have bought her a new one, this serves me very well. Thus ends
      this month; in great frost; myself and family all well, but my mind much
      disordered about my uncle's law business, being now in an order of being
      arbitrated between us, which I wish to God it were done. I am also
      somewhat uncertain what to think of my going about to take a woman-servant
      into my house, in the quality of a woman for my wife. My wife promises it
      shall cost me nothing but her meat and wages, and that it shall not be
      attended with any other expenses, upon which termes I admit of it; for
      that it will, I hope, save me money in having my wife go abroad on visits
      and other delights; so that I hope the best, but am resolved to alter it,
      if matters prove otherwise than I would have them. Publique matters in an
      ill condition of discontent against the height and vanity of the Court,
      and their bad payments: but that which troubles most, is the Clergy, which
      will never content the City, which is not to be reconciled to Bishopps:
      the more the pity that differences must still be. Dunkirk newly sold, and
      the money brought over; of which we hope to get some to pay the Navy:
      which by Sir J. Lawson's having dispatched the business in the Straights,
      by making peace with Argier,&mdash;[The ancient name for Algiers.]&mdash;Tunis,
      and Tripoli (and so his fleet will also shortly come home), will now every
      day grow less, and so the King's charge be abated; which God send!
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    <p>
      December 1st. Up and by coach with Sir John Minnes and Sir W. Batten to
      White Hall to the Duke's chamber, where, as is usual, my Lord Sandwich and
      all of us, after his being ready, to his closett, and there discoursed of
      matters of the Navy, and here Mr. Coventry did do me the great kindness to
      take notice to the Duke of my pains in making a collection of all
      contracts about masts, which have been of great use to us. Thence I to my
      Lord Sandwich's, to Mr. Moore, to talk a little about business; and then
      over the Parke (where I first in my life, it being a great frost, did see
      people sliding with their skeates,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Iron skates appear to have been introduced by the Dutch, as the
     name certainly was; but we learn from Fitzstephen that bone skates
     (although not so called) were used in London in the twelfth
     century.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which is a very pretty art), to Mr. Coventry's chamber to St. James's,
      where we all met to a venison pasty, and were very merry, Major Norwood
      being with us, whom they did play upon for his surrendering of Dunkirk.
      Here we staid till three or four o'clock; and so to the Council Chamber,
      where there met the Duke of York, Prince Rupert, Duke of Albemarle, my
      Lord Sandwich, Sir Win. Compton, Mr. Coventry, Sir J. Minnes, Sir R. Ford,
      Sir W. Rider, myself, and Captain Cuttance, as Commissioners for Tangier.
      And after our Commission was read by Mr. Creed, who I perceive is to be
      our Secretary, we did fall to discourse of matters: as, first, the
      supplying them forthwith with victualls; then the reducing it to make way
      for the money, which upon their reduction is to go to the building of the
      Mole; and so to other matters, ordered as against next meeting. This done
      we broke up, and I to the Cockpitt, with much crowding and waiting, where
      I saw "The Valiant Cidd"&mdash;[Translated from the "Cid" of Corneille]&mdash;acted,
      a play I have read with great delight, but is a most dull thing acted,
      which I never understood before, there being no pleasure in it, though
      done by Betterton and by Ianthe, And another fine wench that is come in
      the room of Roxalana nor did the King or queen once smile all the whole
      play, nor any of the company seem to take any pleasure but what was in the
      greatness and gallantry of the company. Thence to my Lord's, and Mr. Moore
      being in bed I staid not, but with a link walked home and got thither by
      12 o'clock, knocked up my boy, and put myself to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Before I went to the office my wife and I had another falling out
      about Sarah, against whom she has a deadly hate, I know not for what, nor
      can I see but she is a very good servant. Then to my office, and there sat
      all the morning, and then to dinner with my wife at home, and after dinner
      did give Jane a very serious lesson, against we take her to be our
      chamber-maid, which I spoke so to her that the poor girl cried and did
      promise to be very dutifull and carefull. So to the office, where we sat
      as Commissioners for the Chest, and so examined most of the old
      accountants to the Chest about it, and so we broke up, and I to my office
      till late preparing business, and so home, being cold, and this night
      first put on a wastecoate. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Called up by Commissioner Pett, and with him by water, much against
      my will, to Deptford, and after drinking a warm morning draft, with Mr.
      Wood and our officers measuring all the morning his New England masts,
      with which sight I was much pleased for my information, though I perceive
      great neglect and indifference in all the King's officers in what they do
      for the King. That done, to the Globe, and there dined with Mr. Wood, and
      so by water with Mr. Pett home again, all the way reading his Chest
      accounts, in which I did see things did not please me; as his allowing
      himself 1300 for one year's looking to the business of the Chest, and L150
      per annum for the rest of the years. But I found no fault to him himself,
      but shall when they come to be read at the Board. We did also call at
      Limehouse to view two Busses that are building, that being a thing we are
      now very hot upon. Our call was to see what dimensions they are of, being
      50 feet by the keel and about 60 tons. Home and did a little business, and
      so taking Mr. Pett by the way, we walked to the Temple, in our way seeing
      one of the Russia Embassador's coaches go along, with his footmen not in
      liverys, but their country habits; one of one colour and another of
      another, which was very strange. At the Temple spoke with Mr. Turner and
      Calthrop, and so walked home again, being in some pain through the cold
      which I have got to-day by water, which troubles me. At the office doing
      business a good while, and so home and had a posset, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. At the office all the morning setting about business, and after
      dinner to it again, and so till night, and then home looking over my
      Brampton papers against to-morrow that we are to meet with our counsel on
      both sides toward an arbitration, upon which I was very late, and so to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, it being a snow and hard frost, and being up I did call up Sarah,
      who do go away to-day or to-morrow. I paid her her wages, and gave her
      10s. myself, and my wife 5s. to give her. For my part I think never
      servant and mistress parted upon such foolish terms in the world as they
      do, only for an opinion in my wife that she is ill-natured, in all other
      things being a good servant. The wench cried, and I was ready to cry too,
      but to keep peace I am content she should go, and the rather, though I say
      nothing of that, that Jane may come into her place. This being done, I
      walked towards Guildhall, thither being summoned by the Commissioners for
      the Lieutenancy; but they sat not this morning. So meeting in my way W.
      Swan, I took him to a house thereabouts, and gave him a morning draft of
      buttered ale;
    </p>
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     [Buttered ale must have been a horrible concoction, as it is
     described as ale boiled with lump sugar and spice.]
</pre>
    <p>
      he telling me still much of his Fanatique stories, as if he were a great
      zealot, when I know him to be a very rogue. But I do it for discourse, and
      to see how things stand with him and his party; who I perceive have great
      expectation that God will not bless the Court nor Church, as it is now
      settled, but they must be purified. The worst news he tells me, is that
      Mr. Chetwind is dead, my old and most ingenious acquaintance. He is dead,
      worth L3,000, which I did not expect, he living so high as he did always
      and neatly. He hath given W. Symons his wife L300, and made Will one of
      his executors. Thence to the Temple to my counsel, and thence to Gray's
      Inn to meet with Mr. Cole but could not, and so took a turn or two in the
      garden, being very pleasant with the snow and frost. Thence to my
      brother's, and there I eat something at dinner and transcribed a copy or
      two of the state of my uncle's estate, which I prepared last night, and so
      to the Temple Church, and there walked alone till 4 or 5 o'clock, and then
      to my cozen Turner's chamber and staid there, up and down from his to
      Calthrop's and Bernard's chambers, till so late, that Mr. Cole not coming,
      we broke up for meeting this night, and so taking my uncle Thomas
      homewards with me by coach, talking of our desire to have a peace, and set
      him down at Gracious-street end, and so home, and there I find Gosnell
      come, who, my wife tells me, is like to prove a pretty companion, of which
      I am glad. So to my office for a little business and then home, my mind
      having been all this day in most extraordinary trouble and care for my
      father, there being so great an appearance of my uncle's going away with
      the greatest part of the estate, but in the evening by Gosnell's coming I
      do put off these thoughts to entertain myself with my wife and her, who
      sings exceeding well, and I shall take great delight in her, and so
      merrily to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up and to the office, and there sat all the morning, Mr. Coventry and
      I alone, the rest being paying off of ships. Dined at home with my wife
      and Gosnell, my mind much pleased with her, and after dinner sat with them
      a good while, till my wife seemed to take notice of my being at home now
      more than at other times. I went to the office, and there I sat till late,
      doing of business, and at 9 o'clock walked to Mr. Rawlinson's, thinking to
      meet my uncle Wight there, where he was, but a great deal of his wife's
      kindred-women and I knew not whom (which Mr. Rawlinson did seem to me to
      take much notice of his being led by the nose by his wife), I went away to
      my office again, and doing my business there, I went home, and after a
      song by Gosnell we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). A great snow, and so to church this morning with my
      wife, which is the first time she hath been at church since her going to
      Brampton, and Gosnell attending her, which was very gracefull. So home,
      and we dined above in our dining room, the first time since it was new
      done, and in the afternoon I thought to go to the French church; but
      finding the Dutch congregation there, and then finding the French
      congregation's sermon begun in the Dutch, I returned home, and up to our
      gallery, where I found my wife and Gosnell, and after a drowsy sermon, we
      all three to my aunt Wight's, where great store of her usuall company, and
      here we staid a pretty while talking, I differing from my aunt, as I
      commonly do, in our opinion of the handsomeness of the Queen, which I
      oppose mightily, saying that if my nose be handsome, then is her's, and
      such like. After much discourse, seeing the room full, and being unwilling
      to stay all three, I took leave, and so with my wife only to see Sir W.
      Pen, who is now got out of his bed, and sits by the fireside. And after
      some talk, home and to supper, and after prayers to bed. This night came
      in my wife's brother and talked to my wife and Gosnell about his wife,
      which they told me afterwards of, and I do smell that he I doubt is
      overreached in thinking that he has got a rich wife,' and I fear she will
      prove otherwise. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and carrying Gosnell by coach, set her down at Temple Barr, she
      going about business of hers today. By the way she was telling me how
      Balty did tell her that my wife did go every day in the week to Court and
      plays, and that she should have liberty of going abroad as often as she
      pleased, and many other lies, which I am vexed at, and I doubt the wench
      did come in some expectation of, which troubles me. So to the Duke and Mr.
      Coventry, and alone, the rest being at a Pay and elsewhere, and alone with
      Mr. Coventry I did read over our letter to my Lord Treasurer, which I
      think now is done as well as it can be. Then to my Lord Sandwich's, and
      there spent the rest of the morning in making up my Lord's accounts with
      Mr. Moore, and then dined with Mr. Moore and Battersby his friend, very
      well and merry, and good discourse. Then into the Park, to see them slide
      with their skeates, which is very pretty. And so to the Duke's, where the
      Committee for Tangier met: and here we sat down all with him at a table,
      and had much good discourse about the business, and is to my great
      content. That done, I hearing what play it was that is to be acted before
      the King to-night, I would not stay, but home by coach, where I find my
      wife troubled about Gosnell, who brings word that her uncle, justice
      Jiggins, requires her to come three times a week to him, to follow some
      business that her mother intrusts her withall, and that, unless she may
      have that leisure given her, he will not have her take any place; for
      which we are both troubled, but there is no help for it, and believing it
      to be a good providence of God to prevent my running behindhand in the
      world, I am somewhat contented therewith, and shall make my wife so, who,
      poor wretch, I know will consider of things, though in good earnest the
      privacy of her life must needs be irksome to her. So I made Gosnell and we
      sit up looking over the book of Dances till 12 at night, not observing how
      the time went, and so to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Lay long with my wife, contenting her about the business of Gosnell's
      going, and I perceive she will be contented as well as myself, and so to
      the office, and after sitting all the morning in hopes to have Mr.
      Coventry dine with me, he was forced to go to White Hall, and so I dined
      with my own company only, taking Mr. Hater home with me, but he, poor man,
      was not very well, and so could not eat any thing. After dinner staid
      within all the afternoon, being vexed in my mind about the going away of
      Sarah this afternoon, who cried mightily, and so was I ready to do, and
      Jane did also, and then anon went Gosnell away, which did trouble me too;
      though upon many considerations, it is better that I am rid of the charge.
      All together makes my house appear to me very lonely, which troubles me
      much, and in a melancholy humour I went to the office, and there about
      business sat till I was called to Sir G. Carteret at the Treasury office
      about my Lord Treasurer's letter, wherein he puts me to a new trouble to
      write it over again. So home and late with Sir John Minnes at the office
      looking over Mr. Creed's accounts, and then home and to supper, and my
      wife and I melancholy to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. This morning rose, receiving a messenger from Sir G. Carteret and a
      letter from Mr. Coventry, one contrary to another, about our letter to my
      Lord Treasurer, at which I am troubled, but I went to Sir George, and
      being desirous to please both, I think I have found out a way to do it. So
      back to the office with Sir J. Minnes, in his coach, but so great a snow
      that we could hardly pass the streets. So we and Sir W. Batten to the
      office, and there did discourse of Mr. Creed's accounts, and I fear it
      will be a good while before we shall go through them, and many things we
      meet with, all of difficulty. Then to the Dolphin, where Sir J. Minnes,
      Sir W. Batten, and I, did treat the Auditors of the Exchequer, Auditors
      Wood and Beale, and hither come Sir G. Carteret to us. We had a good
      dinner, cost us L5 and 6s., whereof my share 26s., and after dinner did
      discourse of our salarys and other matters, which I think now they will
      allow. Thence home, and there I found our new cook-mayde Susan come, who
      is recommended to us by my wife's brother, for which I like her never the
      better, but being a good well-looked lass, I am willing to try, and Jane
      begins to take upon her as a chamber-mayde. So to the office, where late
      putting papers and my books and businesses in order, it being very cold,
      and so home to supper.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, it being a great frost upon the snow, and we sat all the morning
      upon Mr. Creed's accounts, wherein I did him some service and some
      disservice. At noon he dined with me, and we sat all the afternoon
      together, discoursing of ways to get money, which I am now giving myself
      wholly up to, and in the evening he went away and I to my office,
      concluding all matters concerning our great letter so long in doing to my
      Lord Treasurer, till almost one in the morning, and then home with my mind
      much eased, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. From a very hard frost, when I wake, I find a very great thaw, and
      my house overflown with it, which vexed me. At the office and home, doing
      business all the morning. Then dined with my wife and sat talking with her
      all the afternoon, and then to the office, and there examining my copy of
      Mr. Holland's book till 10 at night, and so home to supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Slept long to-day till Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten were set out
      towards Portsmouth before I rose, and Sir G. Carteret came to the office
      to speak with me before I was up. So I started up and down to him. By and
      by we sat, Mr. Coventry and I (Sir G. Carteret being gone), and among
      other things, Field and Stint did come, and received the L41 given him by
      the judgement against me and Harry Kem;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Fine for the imprisonment of Field (see February 4th, 1661-62, and
     October 21st, 1662).]
</pre>
    <p>
      and we did also sign bonds in L500 to stand to the award of Mr. Porter and
      Smith for the rest: which, however, I did not sign to till I got Mr.
      Coventry to go up with me to Sir W. Pen; and he did promise me before him
      to bear his share in what should be awarded, and both concluded that Sir
      W. Batten would do no less. At noon broke up and dined with my wife, and
      then to the office again, and there made an end of last night's
      examination, and got my study there made very clean and put in order, and
      then to write by the post, among other letters one to Sir W. Batten about
      this day's work with Field, desiring his promise also. The letter I have
      caused to be entered in our public book of letters. So home to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). Lay with great content talking with my wife in bed, and
      so up and to church and then home, and had a neat dinner by ourselves, and
      after dinner walked to White Hall and my Lord's, and up and down till
      chappell time, and then to the King's chappell, where I heard the service,
      and so to my Lord's, and there Mr. Howe and Pagett, the counsellor, an old
      lover of musique. We sang some Psalms of Mr. Lawes, and played some
      symphonys between till night, that I was sent for to Mr. Creed's lodging,
      and there was Captain Ferrers and his lady and W. Howe and I; we supped
      very well and good sport in discourse. After supper I was sent for to my
      Lord, with whom I staid talking about his, and my owne, and the publique
      affairs, with great content, he advising me as to my owne choosing of Sir
      R. Bernard for umpire in the businesses between my uncle and us, that I
      would not trust to him upon his direction, for he did not think him a man
      to be trusted at all; and so bid him good night, and to Mr. Creed's again;
      Mr. Moore, with whom I intended to have lain, lying physically without
      sheets; and there, after some discourse, to bed, and lay ill, though the
      bed good, my stomach being sicke all night with my too heavy supper.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and to my Lord's and thence to the Duke, and followed him into
      the Park, where, though the ice was broken and dangerous, yet he would go
      slide upon his scates, which I did not like, but he slides very well. So
      back and to his closett, whither my Lord Sandwich comes, and there Mr.
      Coventry and we three had long discourse together about the matters of the
      Navy; and, indeed, I find myself more and more obliged to Mr. Coventry,
      who studies to do me all the right he can in every thing to the Duke.
      Thence walked a good while up and down the gallerys; and among others, met
      with Dr. Clerke, who in discourse tells me, that Sir Charles Barkeley's
      greatness is only his being pimp to the King, and to my Lady Castlemaine.
      And yet for all this, that the King is very kind to the Queen; who, he
      says, is one of the best women in the world. Strange how the King is
      bewitched to this pretty Castlemaine. Thence to my Lord's, and there with
      Mr. Creed, Moore, and Howe to the Crown and dined, and thence to
      Whitehall, where I walked up and down the gallerys, spending my time upon
      the pictures, till the Duke and the Committee for Tangier met (the Duke
      not staying with us), where the only matter was to discourse with my Lord
      Rutherford, who is this day made Governor of Tangier, for I know not what
      reasons; and my Lord of Peterborough to be called home; which, though it
      is said it is done with kindness, yet all the world may see it is done
      otherwise, and I am sorry to see a Catholick Governor sent to command
      there, where all the rest of the officers almost are such already. But God
      knows what the reason is! and all may see how slippery places all
      courtiers stand in. Thence by coach home, in my way calling upon Sir John
      Berkenheade, to speak about my assessment of L42 to the Loyal Sufferers;
      which, I perceive, I cannot help; but he tells me I have been abused by
      Sir R. Ford, which I shall hereafter make use of when it shall be fit.
      Thence called at the Major-General's, Sir R. Browne, about my being
      assessed armes to the militia; but he was abroad; and so driving through
      the backside of the Shambles in Newgate Market, my coach plucked down two
      pieces of beef into the dirt, upon which the butchers stopped the horses,
      and a great rout of people in the street, crying that he had done him 40s
      and L5 worth of hurt; but going down, I saw that he had done little or
      none; and so I give them a shilling for it and they were well contented,
      and so home, and there to my Lady Batten's to see her, who tells me she
      hath just now a letter from Sir William, how that he and Sir J. Minnes did
      very narrowly escape drowning on the road, the waters are so high; but is
      well. But, Lord! what a hypocrite-like face she made to tell it me. Thence
      to Sir W. Pen and sat long with him in discourse, I making myself appear
      one of greater action and resolution as to publique business than I have
      hitherto done, at which he listens, but I know is a rogue in his heart and
      likes not, but I perceive I may hold up my head, and the more the better,
      I minding of my business as I have done, in which God do and will bless
      me. So home and with great content to bed, and talk and chat with my wife
      while I was at supper, to our great pleasure.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up and to the office, and thither came Mr. Coventry and Sir G.
      Carteret, and among other business was Strutt's the purser, against Captn.
      Browne, Sir W. Batten's brother-in-law, but, Lord! though I believe the
      Captain has played the knave, though I seem to have a good opinion of him
      and to mean him well, what a most troublesome fellow that Strutt is, such
      as I never did meet with his fellow in my life. His talking and ours to
      make him hold his peace set my head off akeing all the afternoon with
      great pain. So to dinner, thinking to have had Mr. Coventry, but he could
      not go with me; and so I took Captn. Murford. Of whom I do hear what the
      world says of me; that all do conclude Mr. Coventry, and Pett, and me, to
      be of a knot; and that we do now carry all things before us; and much more
      in particular of me, and my studiousnesse, &amp;c., to my great content.
      After dinner came Mrs. Browne, the Captain's wife, to see me and my wife,
      and I showed her a good countenance, and indeed her husband has been civil
      to us, but though I speak them fair, yet I doubt I shall not be able to do
      her husband much favour in this business of Strutt's, whom without doubt
      he has abused. So to the office, and hence, having done some business, by
      coach to White Hall to Secretary Bennet's, and agreed with Mr. Lee to set
      upon our new adventure at the Tower to-morrow. Hence to Col. Lovelace in
      Cannon Row about seeing how Sir R. Ford did report all the officers of the
      navy to be rated for the Loyal Sufferers, but finding him at the Rhenish
      wine-house I could not have any answer, but must take another time. Thence
      to my Lord's, and having sat talking with Mr. Moore bewailing the vanity
      and disorders of the age, I went by coach to my brother's, where I met
      Sarah, my late mayde, who had a desire to speak with me, and I with her to
      know what it was, who told me out of good will to me, for she loves me
      dearly, that I would beware of my wife's brother, for he is begging or
      borrowing of her and often, and told me of her Scallop whisk, and her
      borrowing of 50s. for Will, which she believes was for him and her father.
      I do observe so much goodness and seriousness in the mayde, that I am
      again and again sorry that I have parted with her, though it was full
      against my will then, and if she had anything in the world I would commend
      her for a wife for my brother Tom. After much discourse and her
      professions of love to me and all my relations, I bade her good night and
      did kiss her, and indeed she seemed very well-favoured to me to-night, as
      she is always. So by coach home and to my office, did some business, and
      so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. This morning come Mr. Lee, Wade, and Evett, intending to have gone
      upon our new design to the Tower today; but it raining, and the work being
      to be done in the open garden, we put it off to Friday next. And so I to
      the office doing business, and then dined at home with my poor wife with
      great content, and so to the office again and made an end of examining the
      other of Mr. Holland's books about the Navy, with which I am much
      contented, and so to other businesses till night at my office, and so home
      to supper, and after much dear company and talk with my wife, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and to the office, Mr. Coventry and I alone sat till two o'clock,
      and then he inviting himself to my house to dinner, of which I was proud;
      but my dinner being a legg of mutton and two capons, they were not done
      enough, which did vex me; but we made shift to please him, I think; but I
      was, when he was gone, very angry with my wife and people. This afternoon
      came my wife's brother and his wife, and Mrs. Lodum his landlady (my old
      friend Mr. Ashwell's sister), Balty's wife is a most little and yet, I
      believe, pretty old girl, not handsome, nor has anything in the world
      pleasing, but, they say, she plays mighty well on the Base Violl. They
      dined at her father's today, but for ought I hear he is a wise man, and
      will not give any thing to his daughter till he sees what her husband do
      put himself to, so that I doubt he has made but a bad matter of it, but I
      am resolved not to meddle with it. They gone I to the office, and to see
      Sir W. Pen, with my wife, and thence I to Mr. Cade the stationer, to
      direct him what to do with my two copies of Mr. Holland's books which he
      is to bind, and after supplying myself with several things of him, I
      returned to my office, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up and by appointment with Mr. Lee, Wade, Evett, and workmen to the
      Tower, and with the Lieutenant's leave set them to work in the garden, in
      the corner against the mayne-guard, a most unlikely place. It being cold,
      Mr. Lee and I did sit all the day till three o'clock by the fire in the
      Governor's house; I reading a play of Fletcher's, being "A Wife for a
      Month," wherein no great wit or language. Having done we went to them at
      work, and having wrought below the bottom of the foundation of the wall, I
      bid them give over, and so all our hopes ended; and so went home, taking
      Mr. Leigh with me, and after drunk a cup of wine he went away, and I to my
      office, there reading in Sir W. Petty's book, and so home and to bed, a
      little displeased with my wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her
      lonely life, which I know not how without great charge to help as yet, but
      I will study how to do it.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and had L100 brought me by Prior of Brampton in full of his
      purchase money for Barton's house and some land. So to the office, and
      thence with Mr. Coventry in his coach to St. James's, with great content
      and pride to see him treat me so friendly; and dined with him, and so to
      White Hall together; where we met upon the Tangier Commission, and
      discoursed many things thereon; but little will be done before my Lord
      Rutherford comes there, as to the fortification or Mole. That done, my
      Lord Sandwich and I walked together a good while in the Matted Gallery, he
      acquainting me with his late enquiries into the Wardrobe business to his
      content; and tells me how things stand. And that the first year was worth
      about L3000 to him, and the next about as much; so that at this day, if he
      were paid, it will be worth about L7000 to him. But it contents me above
      all things to see him trust me as his confidant: so I bid him good night,
      he being to go into the country, to keep his Christmas, on Monday next. So
      by coach home and to my office, being post night, and then home and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, so up to Church, and so home to dinner
      alone with my wife very pleasant. After dinner I walked to my brother's,
      where he told me some hopes he had of bringing his business to pass still
      of his mistress, but I do find they do stand upon terms that will not be
      either fit or in his power to grant, and therefore I did dislike his talk
      and advised him to give it quite over. Thence walked to White Hall, and
      there to chappell, and from thence up stairs, and up and down the house
      and gallerys on the King's and Queen's side, and so through the garden to
      my Lord's lodgings, where there was Mr. Gibbons, Madge, and Mallard, and
      Pagett; and by and by comes in my Lord Sandwich, and so we had great store
      of good musique. By and by comes in my simple Lord Chandois, who (my Lord
      Sandwich being gone out to Court) began to sing psalms, but so dully that
      I was weary of it. At last we broke up; and by and by comes in my Lord
      Sandwich again, and he and I to talk together about his businesses, and so
      he to bed and I and Mr. Creed and Captain Ferrers fell to a cold goose pye
      of Mrs. Sarah's, heartily, and so spent our time till past twelve o'clock,
      and then with Creed to his lodgings, and so with him to bed, and slept
      till
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Six or seven o'clock and so up, and by the fireside read a good part
      of "The Advice to a Daughter," which a simple coxcomb has wrote against
      Osborne, but in all my life I never did nor can expect to see so much
      nonsense in print Thence to my Lord's, who is getting himself ready for
      his journey to Hinchingbroke. And by and by, after eating something, and
      talking with me about many things, and telling me his mind, upon my asking
      about Sarah (who, it seems, only married of late, but is also said to be
      turned a great drunkard, which I am ashamed of), that he likes her service
      well, and do not love a strange face, but will not endure the fault, but
      hath bade me speak to her and advise her if she hath a mind to stay with
      him, which I will do. My Lord and his people being gone, I walked to Mr.
      Coventry's chamber, where I found him gone out into the Park with the
      Duke, so the boy being there ready with my things, I shifted myself into a
      riding-habitt, and followed him through White Hall, and in the Park Mr.
      Coventry's people having a horse ready for me (so fine a one that I was
      almost afeard to get upon him, but I did, and found myself more feared
      than hurt) and I got up and followed the Duke, who, with some of his
      people (among others Mr. Coventry) was riding out. And with them to Hide
      Park. Where Mr. Coventry asking leave of the Duke, he bid us go to
      Woolwich. So he and I to the waterside, and our horses coming by the
      ferry, we by oars over to Lambeth, and from thence, with brave discourse
      by the way, rode to Woolwich, where we eat and drank at Mr. Peat's, and
      discoursed of many businesses, and put in practice my new way of the
      Call-book, which will be of great use. Here, having staid a good while, we
      got up again and brought night home with us and foul weather. So over to
      Whitehall to his chamber, whither my boy came, who had staid in St.
      James's Park by my mistake all day, looking for me. Thence took my things
      that I put off to-day, and by coach, being very wet and cold, on my feet
      home, and presently shifted myself, and so had the barber come; and my
      wife and I to read "Ovid's Metamorphoses," which I brought her home from
      Paul's Churchyard to-night, having called for it by the way, and so to
      bed,
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. And slept hard till 8 o'clock this morning, and so up and to the
      office, where I found Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten come unexpectedly
      home last night from Portsmouth, having done the Pay there before we could
      have, thought it. Sat all the morning, and at noon home to dinner with my
      wife alone, and after dinner sat by the fire, and then up to make up my
      accounts with her, and find that my ordinary housekeeping comes to L7 a
      month, which is a great deal. By and by comes Dr. Pierce, who among other
      things tells me that my Lady Castlemaine's interest at Court increases,
      and is more and greater than the Queen's; that she hath brought in Sir H.
      Bennet, and Sir Charles Barkeley; but that the queen is a most good lady,
      and takes all with the greatest meekness that may be. He tells me too that
      Mr. Edward Montagu is quite broke at Court with his repute and purse; and
      that he lately was engaged in a quarrell against my Lord Chesterfield: but
      that the King did cause it to be taken up. He tells me, too, that the King
      is much concerned in the Chancellor's sickness, and that the Chancellor is
      as great, he thinks, as ever he was with the King. He also tells me what
      the world says of me, "that Mr. Coventry and I do all the business of the
      office almost:" at which I am highly proud. He being gone I fell to
      business, which was very great, but got it well over by nine at night, and
      so home, and after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Lay pleasantly, talking to my wife, till 8 o'clock, then up and to
      Sir W. Batten's to see him and Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes take
      coach towards the Pay at Chatham, which they did and I home, and took
      money in my pocket to pay many reckonings to-day in the town, as my
      bookseller's, and paid at another shop L4 10s. for "Stephens's Thesaurus
      Graecae Linguae," given to Paul's School: So to my brother's and
      shoemaker, and so to my Lord Crew's, and dined alone with him, and after
      dinner much discourse about matters. Upon the whole, I understand there
      are great factions at Court, and something he said that did imply a
      difference like to be between the King and the Duke, in case the Queen
      should not be with child. I understand, about this bastard.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [James Crofts, son of Charles II. by Lucy Walter, created Duke of
     Monmouth in 1663, Duke of Buccleuch in 1673, when he took the name
     of Scott.]
</pre>
    <p>
      He says, also, that some great man will be aimed at when Parliament comes
      to sit again; I understand, the Chancellor: and that there is a bill will
      be brought in, that none that have been in arms for the Parliament shall
      be capable of office. And that the Court are weary of my Lord Albemarle
      and Chamberlin. He wishes that my Lord Sandwich had some good occasion to
      be abroad this summer which is coming on, and that my Lord Hinchingbroke
      were well married, and Sydney had some place at Court. He pities the poor
      ministers that are put out, to whom, he says, the King is beholden for his
      coming in, and that if any such thing had been foreseen he had never come
      in. After this, and much other discourse of the sea, and breeding young
      gentlemen to the sea, I went away, and homeward, met Mr. Creed at my
      bookseller's in Paul's Church-yard, who takes it ill my letter last night
      to Mr. Povy, wherein I accuse him of the neglect of the Tangier boats, in
      which I must confess I did not do altogether like a friend; but however it
      was truth, and I must own it to be so, though I fall wholly out with him
      for it. Thence home and to my office alone to do business, and read over
      half of Mr. Bland's discourse concerning Trade, which (he being no
      scholler and so knows not the rules of writing orderly) is very good. So
      home to supper and to bed, my wife not being well.... This evening Mr.
      Gauden sent me, against Christmas, a great chine of beef and three dozen
      of tongues. I did give 5s. to the man that brought it, and half-a-crown to
      the porters. This day also the parish-clerk brought the general bill of
      mortality, which cost me half-a-crown more.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Bills of Mortality for London were first compiled by order of
     Thomas Cromwell about 1538, and the keeping of them was commenced by
     the Company of Parish Clerks in the great plague year of 1593.  The
     bills were issued weekly from 1603.  The charter of the Parish
     Clerks' Company (1611) directs that "each parish clerk shall bring
     to the Clerks' Hall weekly a note of all christenings and burials."
     Charles I. in 1636 granted permission to the Parish Clerks to have a
     printing press and employ a printer in their hall for the purpose of
     printing their weekly bills.]
</pre>
    <p>
      25th (Christmas Day). Up pretty early, leaving my wife not well in bed,
      and with my boy walked, it being a most brave cold and dry frosty morning,
      and had a pleasant walk to White Hall, where I intended to have received
      the Communion with the family, but I came a little too late. So I walked
      up into the house and spent my time looking over pictures, particularly
      the ships in King Henry the VIIIth's Voyage to Bullen;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Boulogne.  These pictures were given by George III. to the Society
     of Antiquaries, who in return presented to the king a set of Thomas
     Hearne's works, on large paper.  The pictures were reclaimed by
     George IV., and are now at Hampton Court.  They were exhibited in
     the Tudor Exhibition, 1890.]
</pre>
    <p>
      marking the great difference between their build then and now. By and by
      down to the chappell again where Bishopp Morley preached upon the song of
      the Angels, "Glory to God on high, on earth peace, and good will towards
      men." Methought he made but a poor sermon, but long, and reprehending the
      mistaken jollity of the Court for the true joy that shall and ought to be
      on these days, he particularized concerning their excess in plays and
      gaming, saying that he whose office it is to keep the gamesters in order
      and within bounds, serves but for a second rather in a duell, meaning the
      groom-porter. Upon which it was worth observing how far they are come from
      taking the reprehensions of a bishopp seriously, that they all laugh in
      the chappell when he reflected on their ill actions and courses. He did
      much press us to joy in these publique days of joy, and to hospitality.
      But one that stood by whispered in my ear that the Bishopp himself do not
      spend one groat to the poor himself. The sermon done, a good anthem
      followed, with vialls, and then the King came down to receive the
      Sacrament. But I staid not, but calling my boy from my Lord's lodgings,
      and giving Sarah some good advice, by my Lord's order, to be sober and
      look after the house, I walked home again with great pleasure, and there
      dined by my wife's bed-side with great content, having a mess of brave
      plum-porridge
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The national Christmas dish of plum pudding is a modern evolution
     from plum porridge, which was probably similar to the dish still
     produced at Windsor Castle.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and a roasted pullet for dinner, and I sent for a mince-pie abroad, my
      wife not being well to make any herself yet. After dinner sat talking a
      good while with her, her [pain] being become less, and then to see Sir W.
      Pen a little, and so to my office, practising arithmetique alone and
      making an end of last night's book with great content till eleven at
      night, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, my wife to the making of Christmas pies all day, being now
      pretty well again, and I abroad to several places about some businesses,
      among others bought a bake-pan in Newgate Market, and sent it home, it
      cost me 16s. So to Dr. Williams, but he is out of town, then to the
      Wardrobe. Hither come Mr. Battersby; and we falling into a discourse of a
      new book of drollery in verse called Hudebras,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The first edition of Butler's "Hudibras" is dated 1663, and it
     probably had only been published a few days when Pepys bought it and
     sold it at a loss.  He subsequently endeavoured to appreciate the
     work, but was not successful.  The edition in the Pepysian Library
     is dated 1689.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I would needs go find it out, and met with it at the Temple: cost me 2s.
      6d. But when I came to read it, it is so silly an abuse of the Presbyter
      Knight going to the warrs, that I am ashamed of it; and by and by meeting
      at Mr. Townsend's at dinner, I sold it to him for 18d. Here we dined with
      many tradesmen that belong to the Wardrobe, but I was weary soon of their
      company, and broke up dinner as soon as I could, and away, with the
      greatest reluctancy and dispute (two or three times my reason stopping my
      sense and I would go back again) within myself, to the Duke's house and
      saw "The Villaine," which I ought not to do without my wife, but that my
      time is now out that I did undertake it for. But, Lord! to consider how my
      natural desire is to pleasure, which God be praised that he has given me
      the power by my late oaths to curb so well as I have done, and will do
      again after two or three plays more. Here I was better pleased with the
      play than I was at first, understanding the design better than I did. Here
      I saw Gosnell and her sister at a distance, and could have found it in my
      heart to have accosted them, but thought not prudent. But I watched their
      going out and found that they came, she, her sister and another woman,
      alone, without any man, and did go over the fields a foot. I find that I
      have an inclination to have her come again, though it is most against my
      interest either of profit or content of mind, other than for their
      singing. Home on foot, in my way calling at Mr. Rawlinson's and drinking
      only a cup of ale there. He tells me my uncle has ended his purchase,
      which cost him L4,500, and how my uncle do express his trouble that he has
      with his wife's relations, but I understand his great intentions are for
      the Wights that hang upon him and by whose advice this estate is bought.
      Thence home, and found my wife busy among her pies, but angry for some
      saucy words that her mayde Jane has given her, which I will not allow of,
      and therefore will give her warning to be gone. As also we are both
      displeased for some slight words that Sarah, now at Sir W. Pen's, hath
      spoke of us, but it is no matter. We shall endeavour to joyne the lion's
      skin to the fox's tail. So to my office alone a while, and then home to my
      study and supper and bed. Being also vexed at my boy for his staying
      playing abroad when he is sent of errands, so that I have sent him
      to-night to see whether their country carrier be in town or no, for I am
      resolved to keep him no more.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and while I am dressing I sent for my boy's brother, William,
      that lives in town here as a groom, to whom and their sister Jane I told
      my resolution to keep the boy no longer. So upon the whole they desire to
      have him stay a week longer, and then he shall go. So to the office, and
      there Mr. Coventry and I sat till noon, and then I stept to the Exchange,
      and so home to dinner, and after dinner with my wife to the Duke's
      Theatre, and saw the second part of "Rhodes," done with the new Roxalana;
      which do it rather better in all respects for person, voice, and judgment,
      then the first Roxalana. Home with great content with my wife, not so well
      pleased with the company at the house to-day, which was full of citizens,
      there hardly being a gentleman or woman in the house; a couple of pretty
      ladies by us that made sport in it, being jostled and crowded by
      prentices. So home, and I to my study making up my monthly accounts, which
      is now fallen again to L630 or thereabouts, which not long since was L680,
      at which I am sorry, but I trust in God I shall get it up again, and in
      the meantime will live sparingly. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). Up and, with my wife to church, and coming out, went
      out both before my Lady Batten, he not being there, which I believe will
      vex her. After dinner my wife to church again, and I to the French church,
      where I heard an old man make a tedious, long sermon, till they were fain
      to light candles to baptize the children by. So homewards, meeting my
      brother Tom, but spoke but little with him, and calling also at my uncle
      Wight's, but met him and her going forth, and so I went directly home, and
      there fell to the renewing my last year's oaths, whereby it has pleased
      God so much to better myself and practise, and so down to supper, and then
      prayers and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up and walked to Whitehall, where the Duke and Mr. Coventry being
      gone forth I went to Westminster Hall, where I staid reading at Mrs.
      Mitchell's shop, and sent for half a pint of sack for her. Here she told
      me what I heard not of before, the strange burning of Mr. De Laun, a
      merchant's house in Loathbury, and his lady (Sir Thomas Allen's daughter)
      and her whole family; not one thing, dog nor cat, escaping; nor any of the
      neighbours almost hearing of it till the house was quite down and burnt.
      How this should come to pass, God knows, but a most strange thing it is!
      Hither came Jack Spicer to me, and I took him to the Swan, where Mr.
      Herbert did give me my breakfast of cold chine of pork; and here Spicer
      and I talked of Exchequer matters, and how the Lord Treasurer' hath now
      ordered all monies to be brought into the Exchequer, and hath settled the
      King's revenue, and given to every general expence proper assignments; to
      the Navy L200,000 and odd. He also told me of the great vast trade of the
      goldsmiths in supplying the King with money at dear rates. Thence to White
      Hall, and got up to the top gallerys in the Banquetting House, to see the
      audience of the Russia Embassadors; which [took place] after long waiting
      and fear of the falling of the gallery (it being so full, and part of it
      being parted from the rest, for nobody to come up merely from the weakness
      thereof): and very handsome it was. After they were come in, I went down
      and got through the croude almost as high as the King and the Embassadors,
      where I saw all the presents, being rich furs, hawks, carpets, cloths of
      tissue, and sea-horse teeth. The King took two or three hawks upon his
      fist, having a glove on, wrought with gold, given him for the purpose. The
      son of one of the Embassadors was in the richest suit for pearl and
      tissue, that ever I did see, or shall, I believe. After they and all the
      company had kissed the King's hand, then the three Embassadors and the
      son, and no more, did kiss the Queen's. One thing more I did observe, that
      the chief Embassador did carry up his master's letters in state before him
      on high; and as soon as he had delivered them, he did fall down to the
      ground and lay there a great while. After all was done, the company broke
      up; and I spent a little while walking up and down the gallery seeing the
      ladies, the two Queens, and the Duke of Monmouth with his little mistress,
      which is very little, and like my brother-in-law's wife. So with Mr. Creed
      to the Harp and Ball, and there meeting with Mr. How, Goodgroom, and young
      Coleman, did drink and talk with them, and I have almost found out a young
      gentlewoman for my turn, to wait on my wife, of good family and that can
      sing. Thence I went away, and getting a coach went home and sat late
      talking with my wife about our entertaining Dr. Clerke's lady and Mrs.
      Pierce shortly, being in great pain that my wife hath never a winter gown,
      being almost ashamed of it, that she should be seen in a taffeta one; when
      all the world wears moyre;&mdash;[By moyre is meant mohair.-B.]&mdash;so
      to prayers and to bed, but we could not come to any resolution what to do
      therein, other than to appear as she is.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up and to the office, whither Sir W. Pen came, the first time that
      he has come downstairs since his late great sickness of the gout. We with
      Mr. Coventry sat till noon, then I to the Change ward, to see what play
      was there, but I liked none of them, and so homeward, and calling in at
      Mr. Rawlinson's, where he stopped me to dine with him and two East India
      officers of ships and Howell our turner. With the officers I had good
      discourse, particularly of the people at the Cape of Good Hope, of whom
      they of their own knowledge do tell me these one or two things: viz ....
      that they never sleep lying, but always sitting upon the ground, that
      their speech is not so articulate as ours, but yet [they] understand one
      another well, that they paint themselves all over with the grease the
      Dutch sell them (who have a fort there) and soot. After dinner drinking
      five or six glasses of wine, which liberty I now take till I begin my oath
      again, I went home and took my wife into coach, and carried her to
      Westminster; there visited Mrs. Ferrer, and staid talking with her a good
      while, there being a little, proud, ugly, talking lady there, that was
      much crying up the Queen-Mother's Court at Somerset House above our own
      Queen's; there being before no allowance of laughing and the mirth that is
      at the other's; and indeed it is observed that the greatest Court
      now-a-days is there. Thence to White Hall, where I carried my wife to see
      the Queen in her presence-chamber; and the maydes of honour and the young
      Duke of Monmouth playing at cards. Some of them, and but a few, were very
      pretty; though all well dressed in velvet gowns. Thence to my Lord's
      lodgings, where Mrs. Sarah did make us my Lord's bed, and Mr. Creed I
      being sent for, sat playing at cards till it was late, and so good night,
      and with great pleasure to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Lay pretty long in bed, and then I up and to Westminster Hall, and
      so to the Swan, sending for Mr. W. Bowyer, and there drank my morning
      draft, and had some of his simple discourse. Among other things he tells
      me how the difference comes between his fair cozen Butler and Collonell
      Dillon, upon his opening letters of her brother's from Ireland,
      complaining of his knavery, and forging others to the contrary; and so
      they are long ago quite broke off. Thence to a barber's and so to my wife,
      and at noon took her to Mrs. Pierces by invitacion to dinner, where there
      came Dr. Clerke and his wife and sister and Mr. Knight, chief chyrurgeon
      to the King and his wife. We were pretty merry, the two men being
      excellent company, but I confess I am wedded from the opinion either of
      Mrs. Pierces beauty upon discovery of her naked neck to-day, being undrest
      when we came in, or of Mrs. Clerke's genius, which I so much admired, I
      finding her to be so conceited and fantastique in her dress this day and
      carriage, though the truth is, witty enough. After dinner with much ado
      the doctor and I got away to follow our business for a while, he to his
      patients and I to the Tangier Committee, where the Duke of York was, and
      we staid at it a good while, and thence in order to the despatch of the
      boats and provisions for Tangier away, Mr. Povy, in his coach, carried Mr.
      Gauden and I into London to Mr. Bland's, the merchant, where we staid
      discoursing upon the reason of the delay of the going away of these things
      a great while. Then to eat a dish of anchovies, and drink wine and syder,
      and very merry, but above all things pleased to hear Mrs. Bland talk like
      a merchant in her husband's business very well, and it seems she do
      understand it and perform a great deal. Thence merry back, Mr. Povy and, I
      to White Hall; he carrying me thither on purpose to carry me into the ball
      this night before the King. All the way he talking very ingenuously, and I
      find him a fine gentleman, and one that loves to live nobly and neatly, as
      I perceive by his discourse of his house, pictures, and horses. He brought
      me first to the Duke's chamber, where I saw him and the Duchess at supper;
      and thence into the room where the ball was to be, crammed with fine
      ladies, the greatest of the Court. By and by comes the King and Queen, the
      Duke and Duchess, and all the great ones: and after seating themselves,
      the King takes out the Duchess of York; and the Duke, the Duchess of
      Buckingham; the Duke of Monmouth, my Lady Castlemaine; and so other lords
      other ladies: and they danced the Bransle.
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<pre xml:space="preserve">
     "Branle.  Espece de danse de plusieurs personnes, qui se tiennent
     par la main, et qui se menent tour-a-tour. "Dictionnaire de
     l'Academie.  A country dance mentioned by Shakespeare and other
     dramatists under the form of brawl, which word continued to be used
     in the eighteenth century.

                    "My grave Lord Keeper led the brawls;
                    The seals and maces danced before him."
                                             Gray, 'A Long Story.'
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    <p>
      After that, the King led a lady a single Coranto&mdash;[swift and lively]&mdash;and
      then the rest of the lords, one after another, other ladies very noble it
      was, and great pleasure to see. Then to country dances; the King leading
      the first, which he called for; which was, says he, "Cuckolds all awry,"
      the old dance of England. Of the ladies that danced, the Duke of
      Monmouth's mistress, and my Lady Castlemaine, and a daughter of Sir Harry
      de Vicke's, were the best. The manner was, when the King dances, all the
      ladies in the room, and the Queen herself, stand up: and indeed he dances
      rarely, and much better that the Duke of York. Having staid here as long
      as I thought fit, to my infinite content, it being the greatest pleasure I
      could wish now to see at Court, I went out, leaving them dancing, and to
      Mrs. Pierces, where I found the company had staid very long for my coming,
      but all gone but my wife, and so I took her home by coach and so to my
      Lord's again, where after some supper to bed, very weary and in a little
      pain from my riding a little uneasily to-night in the coach.
    </p>
    <p>
      Thus ends this year with great mirth to me and my wife: Our condition
      being thus:&mdash;we are at present spending a night or two at my Lord's
      lodgings at White Hall. Our home at the Navy-office, which is and hath a
      pretty while been in good condition, finished and made very convenient. My
      purse is worth about L650, besides my goods of all sorts, which yet might
      have been more but for my late layings out upon my house and public
      assessment, and yet would not have been so much if I had not lived a very
      orderly life all this year by virtue of the oaths that God put into my
      heart to take against wine, plays, and other expenses, and to observe for
      these last twelve months, and which I am now going to renew, I under God
      owing my present content thereunto. My family is myself and wife, William,
      my clerk; Jane, my wife's upper mayde, but, I think, growing proud and
      negligent upon it: we must part, which troubles me; Susan, our cook-mayde,
      a pretty willing wench, but no good cook; and Wayneman, my boy, who I am
      now turning away for his naughty tricks. We have had from the beginning
      our healths to this day very well, blessed be God! Our late mayde Sarah
      going from us (though put away by us) to live with Sir W. Pen do trouble
      me, though I love the wench, so that we do make ourselves a little strange
      to him and his family for it, and resolve to do so. The same we are for
      other reasons to my Lady Batten and hers. We have lately had it in our
      thoughts, and I can hardly bring myself off of it, since Mrs. Gosnell
      cannot be with us, to find out another to be in the quality of a woman to
      my wife that can sing or dance, and yet finding it hard to save anything
      at the year's end as I now live, I think I shall not be such a fool till I
      am more warm in my purse, besides my oath of entering into no such
      expenses till I am worth L1000. By my last year's diligence in my office,
      blessed be God! I am come to a good degree of knowledge therein; and am
      acknowledged so by all&mdash;the world, even the Duke himself, to whom I
      have a good access and by that, and my being Commissioner with him for
      Tangier, he takes much notice of me; and I doubt not but, by the
      continuance of the same endeavours, I shall in a little time come to be a
      man much taken notice of in the world, specially being come to so great an
      esteem with Mr. Coventry. The only weight that lies heavy upon my mind is
      the ending the business with my uncle Thomas about my-dead uncle's estate,
      which is very ill on our side, and I fear when all is done I must be
      forced to maintain my father myself, or spare a good deal towards it out
      of my own purse, which will be a very great pull back to me in my fortune.
      But I must be contented and bring it to an issue one way or other.
      Publique matters stand thus: The King is bringing, as is said, his family,
      and Navy, and all other his charges, to a less expence. In the mean time,
      himself following his pleasures more than with good advice he would do; at
      least, to be seen to all the world to do so. His dalliance with my Lady
      Castlemaine being publique, every day, to his great reproach; and his
      favouring of none at Court so much as those that are the confidants of his
      pleasure, as Sir H. Bennet and Sir Charles Barkeley; which, good God! put
      it into his heart to mend, before he makes himself too much contemned by
      his people for it! The Duke of Monmouth is in so great splendour at Court,
      and so dandled by the King, that some doubt, if the King should have no
      child by the Queen (which there is yet no appearance of), whether he would
      not be acknowledged for a lawful son; and that there will be a difference
      follow upon it between the Duke of York and him; which God prevent! My
      Lord Chancellor is threatened by people to be questioned, the next sitting
      of the Parliament, by some spirits that do not love to see him so great:
      but certainly he is a good servant to the King. The Queen-Mother is said
      to keep too great a Court now; and her being married to my Lord St. Albans
      is commonly talked of; and that they had a daughter between them in
      France, how true, God knows. The Bishopps are high, and go on without any
      diffidence in pressing uniformity; and the Presbyters seem silent in it,
      and either conform or lay down, though without doubt they expect a turn,
      and would be glad these endeavours of the other Fanatiques would take
      effect; there having been a plot lately found, for which four have been
      publickly tried at the Old Bayley and hanged. My Lord Sandwich is still in
      good esteem, and now keeping his Christmas in the country; and I in good
      esteem, I think, as any man can be, with him. Mr. Moore is very sickly,
      and I doubt will hardly get over his late fit of sickness, that still
      hangs on him. In fine, for the good condition of myself, wife, family, and
      estate, in the great degree that it is, and for the public state of the
      nation, so quiett as it is, the Lord God be praised!
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     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS FOR DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1962 N.S.:

     Afeard of being louzy
     Afeard that my Lady Castlemaine will keep still with the King
     Afraid now to bring in any accounts for journeys
     After taking leave of my wife, which we could hardly do kindly
     Agreed at L3 a year (she would not serve under)
     All may see how slippery places all courtiers stand in
     All made much worse in their report among people than they are
     All the fleas came to him and not to me
     Aptness I have to be troubled at any thing that crosses me
     As much his friend as his interest will let him
     Badge of slavery upon the whole people (taxes)
     Bewailing the vanity and disorders of the age
     Bowling-ally (where lords and ladies are now at bowles)
     Cannot but be with the workmen to see things done to my mind
     Care not for his commands, and especially on Sundays
     Catched cold yesterday by putting off my stockings
     Charles Barkeley's greatness is only his being pimp to the King
     Comb my head clean, which I found so foul with powdering
     Command of an army is not beholden to any body to make him King
     Deliver her from the hereditary curse of child-bearing
     Did much insist upon the sin of adultery
     Discontented at the pride and luxury of the Court
     Discoursed much against a man's lying with his wife in Lent
     Enjoy some degree of pleasure now that we have health, money
     Fanatiques do say that the end of the world is at hand
     Fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife
     Fearing that Sarah would continue ill, wife and I removed
     God forgive me! what a mind I had to her
     Goldsmiths in supplying the King with money at dear rates
     Hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure
     Hate in others, and more in myself, to be careless of keys
     He made but a poor sermon, but long
     Holes for me to see from my closet into the great office
     Hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone
     I fear that it must be as it can, and not as I would
     I know not yet what that is, and am ashamed to ask
     Joyne the lion's skin to the fox's tail
     King dined at my Lady Castlemaine's, and supped, every day
     Lady Castlemaine do speak of going to lie in at Hampton Court
     Lady Castlemaine is still as great with the King
     Lady Castlemaine's interest at Court increases
     Last of a great many Presbyterian ministers
     Laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange
     Let me blood, about sixteen ounces, I being exceedingly full
     Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen
     Lust and wicked lives of the nuns heretofore in England
     Lying a great while talking and sporting in bed with my wife
     Muske Millon
     My Jane's cutting off a carpenter's long mustacho
     My first attempt being to learn the multiplication-table
     No good by taking notice of it, for the present she forbears
     Only wind do now and then torment me...  extremely
     Parliament hath voted 2s. per annum for every chimney in England
     Parson is a cunning fellow he is as any of his coat
     Peruques of hair, as the fashion now is for ladies to wear
     Pleasures are not sweet to me now in the very enjoying of them
     Raising of our roofs higher to enlarge our houses
     See her look dejectedly and slighted by people already
     See a dead man lie floating upon the waters
     Sermon; but, it being a Presbyterian one, it was so long
     She so cruel a hypocrite that she can cry when she pleases
     She also washed my feet in a bath of herbs, and so to bed
     Short of what I expected, as for the most part it do fall out
     Sir W. Pen did it like a base raskall, and so I shall remember
     Slight answer, at which I did give him two boxes on the ears
     So good a nature that he cannot deny any thing
     Sorry to hear that Sir W. Pen's maid Betty was gone away
     Strange things he has been found guilty of, not fit to name
     Then to church to a tedious sermon
     They were not occupiers, but occupied (women)
     To Mr. Holliard's in the morning, thinking to be let blood
     Trumpets were brought under the scaffold that he not be heard
     Up and took physique, but such as to go abroad with
     Up early and took my physique; it wrought all the morning well
     When the candle is going out, how they bawl and dispute
     Whether she suspected anything or no I know not
     Whether he would have me go to law or arbitracon with him
     Will upon occasion serve for a fine withdrawing room
     Will put Madam Castlemaine's nose out of joynt
     With my whip did whip him till I was not able to stir
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    <p>
      January 1st, Lay with my wife at my Lord's lodgings, where I have been
      these two nights, till 10 o'clock with great pleasure talking, then I rose
      and to White Hall, where I spent a little time walking among the
      courtiers, which I perceive I shall be able to do with great confidence,
      being now beginning to be pretty well known among them. Then to my wife
      again, and found Mrs. Sarah with us in the chamber we lay in. Among other
      discourse, Mrs. Sarah tells us how the King sups at least four or [five]
      times every week with my Lady Castlemaine; and most often stays till the
      morning with her, and goes home through the garden all alone privately,
      and that so as the very centrys take notice of it and speak of it. She
      tells me, that about a month ago she [Lady Castlemaine] quickened at my
      Lord Gerard's at dinner, and cried out that she was undone; and all the
      lords and men were fain to quit the room, and women called to help her. In
      fine, I find that there is nothing almost but bawdry at Court from top to
      bottom, as, if it were fit, I could instance, but it is not necessary;
      only they say my Lord Chesterfield, groom of the stole to the Queen, is
      either gone or put away from the Court upon the score of his lady's having
      smitten the Duke of York, so as that he is watched by the Duchess of York,
      and his lady is retired into the country upon it. How much of this is
      true, God knows, but it is common talk. After dinner I did reckon with
      Mrs. Sarah for what we have eat and drank here, and gave her a crown, and
      so took coach, and to the Duke's House, where we saw "The Villaine" again;
      and the more I see it, the more I am offended at my first undervaluing the
      play, it being very good and pleasant, and yet a true and allowable
      tragedy. The house was full of citizens, and so the less pleasant, but
      that I was willing to make an end of my gaddings, and to set to my
      business for all the year again tomorrow. Here we saw the old Roxalana in
      the chief box, in a velvet gown, as the fashion is, and very handsome, at
      which I was glad. Hence by coach home, where I find all well, only Sir W.
      Pen they say ill again. So to my office to set down these two or three
      days' journall, and to close the last year therein, and so that being
      done, home to supper, and to bed, with great pleasure talking and
      discoursing with my wife of our late observations abroad.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Lay long in bed, and so up and to the office, where all the morning
      alone doing something or another. So dined at home with my wife, and in
      the afternoon to the Treasury office, where Sir W. Batten was paying off
      tickets, but so simply and arbitrarily, upon a dull pretence of doing
      right to the King, though to the wrong of poor people (when I know there
      is no man that means the King less right than he, or would trouble himself
      less about it, but only that he sees me stir, and so he would appear doing
      something, though to little purpose), that I was weary of it. At last we
      broke up, and walk home together, and I to see Sir W. Pen, who is fallen
      sick again. I staid a while talking with him, and so to my office,
      practising some arithmetique, and so home to supper and bed, having sat up
      late talking to my poor wife with great content.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up and to the office all the morning, and dined alone with my wife at
      noon, and then to my office all the afternoon till night, putting business
      in order with great content in my mind. Having nothing now in my mind of
      trouble in the world, but quite the contrary, much joy, except only the
      ending of our difference with my uncle Thomas, and the getting of the
      bills well over for my building of my house here, which however are as
      small and less than any of the others. Sir W. Pen it seems is fallen very
      ill again. So to my arithmetique again to-night, and so home to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th (Lord's day). Up and to church, where a lazy sermon, and so home to
      dinner to a good piece of powdered beef, but a little too salt. At dinner
      my wife did propound my having of my sister Pall at my house again to be
      her woman, since one we must have, hoping that in that quality possibly
      she may prove better than she did before, which I take very well of her,
      and will consider of it, it being a very great trouble to me that I should
      have a sister of so ill a nature, that I must be forced to spend money
      upon a stranger when it might better be upon her, if she were good for
      anything. After dinner I and she walked, though it was dirty, to White
      Hall (in the way calling at the Wardrobe to see how Mr. Moore do, who is
      pretty well, but not cured yet), being much afeard of being seen by
      anybody, and was, I think, of Mr. Coventry, which so troubled me that I
      made her go before, and I ever after loitered behind. She to Mr. Hunt's,
      and I to White Hall Chappell, and then up to walk up and down the house,
      which now I am well known there, I shall forbear to do, because I would
      not be thought a lazy body by Mr. Coventry and others by being seen, as I
      have lately been, to walk up and down doing nothing. So to Mr. Hunt's, and
      there was most prettily and kindly entertained by him and her, who are two
      as good people as I hardly know any, and so neat and kind one to another.
      Here we staid late, and so to my Lord's to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up and to the Duke, who himself told me that Sir J. Lawson was come
      home to Portsmouth from the Streights, who is now come with great renown
      among all men, and, I perceive, mightily esteemed at Court by all. The
      Duke did not stay long in his chamber; but to the King's chamber, whither
      by and by the Russia Embassadors come; who, it seems, have a custom that
      they will not come to have any treaty with our or any King's
      Commissioners, but they will themselves see at the time the face of the
      King himself, be it forty days one after another; and so they did to-day
      only go in and see the King; and so out again to the Council-chamber. The
      Duke returned to his chamber, and so to his closett, where Sir G.
      Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, Mr. Coventry, and myself attended
      him about the business of the Navy; and after much discourse and pleasant
      talk he went away. And I took Sir W. Batten and Captain Allen into the
      wine cellar to my tenant (as I call him, Serjeant Dalton), and there drank
      a great deal of variety of wines, more than I have drunk at one time, or
      shall again a great while, when I come to return to my oaths, which I
      intend in a day or two. Thence to my Lord's lodging, where Mr. Hunt and
      Mr. Creed dined with us, and were very merry. And after dinner he and I to
      White Hall, where the Duke and the Commissioners for Tangier met, but did
      not do much: my Lord Sandwich not being in town, nobody making it their
      business. So up, and Creed and I to my wife again, and after a game or two
      at cards, to the Cockpitt, where we saw "Claracilla," a poor play, done by
      the King's house (but neither the King nor Queen were there, but only the
      Duke and Duchess, who did show some impertinent and, methought, unnatural
      dalliances there, before the whole world, such as kissing, and leaning
      upon one another); but to my very little content, they not acting in any
      degree like the Duke's people. So home (there being here this night Mrs.
      Turner and Mrs. Martha Batten of our office) to my Lord's lodgings again,
      and to a game at cards, we three and Sarah, and so to supper and some
      apples and ale, and to bed with great pleasure, blessed be God!
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Twelfth Day). Up and Mr. Creed brought a pot of chocolate ready made
      for our morning draft, and then he and I to the Duke's, but I was not very
      willing to be seen at this end of the town, and so returned to our
      lodgings, and took my wife by coach to my brother's, where I set her down,
      and Creed and I to St. Paul's Church-yard, to my bookseller's, and looked
      over several books with good discourse, and then into St. Paul's Church,
      and there finding Elborough, my old schoolfellow at Paul's, now a parson,
      whom I know to be a silly fellow, I took him out and walked with him,
      making Creed and myself sport with talking with him, and so sent him away,
      and we to my office and house to see all well, and thence to the Exchange,
      where we met with Major Thomson, formerly of our office, who do talk very
      highly of liberty of conscience, which now he hopes for by the King's
      declaration, and that he doubts not that if he will give him, he will find
      more and better friends than the Bishopps can be to him, and that if he do
      not, there will many thousands in a little time go out of England, where
      they may have it. But he says that they are well contented that if the
      King thinks it good, the Papists may have the same liberty with them. He
      tells me, and so do others, that Dr. Calamy is this day sent to Newgate
      for preaching, Sunday was se'nnight, without leave, though he did it only
      to supply the place; when otherwise the people must have gone away without
      ever a sermon, they being disappointed of a minister but the Bishop of
      London will not take that as an excuse. Thence into Wood Street, and there
      bought a fine table for my dining-room, cost me 50s.; and while we were
      buying it, there was a scare-fire
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Scar-fire or scarefire.  An alarm of fire.  One of the little
     pieces in Herrick's "Hesperides" is entitled "The Scar-fire," but
     the word sometimes was used, as in the text, for the fire itself.
     Fuller, in his "Worthies," speaks of quenching scare-fires.]
</pre>
    <p>
      in an ally over against us, but they quenched it. So to my brother's,
      where Creed and I and my wife dined with Tom, and after dinner to the
      Duke's house, and there saw "Twelfth Night"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys saw "Twelfth Night" for the first time on September 11th,
     1661, when he supposed it was a new play, and "took no pleasure at
     all in it."]
</pre>
    <p>
      acted well, though it be but a silly play, and not related at all to the
      name or day. Thence Mr. Battersby the apothecary, his wife, and I and mine
      by coach together, and setting him down at his house, he paying his share,
      my wife and I home, and found all well, only myself somewhat vexed at my
      wife's neglect in leaving of her scarf, waistcoat, and night-dressings in
      the coach today that brought us from Westminster, though, I confess, she
      did give them to me to look after, yet it was her fault not to see that I
      did take them out of the coach. I believe it might be as good as 25s. loss
      or thereabouts. So to my office, however, to set down my last three days'
      journall, and writing to my Lord Sandwich to give him an account of Sir J.
      Lawson's being come home, and to my father about my sending him some wine
      and things this week, for his making an entertainment of some friends in
      the country, and so home. This night making an end wholly of Christmas,
      with a mind fully satisfied with the great pleasures we have had by being
      abroad from home, and I do find my mind so apt to run to its old want of
      pleasures, that it is high time to betake myself to my late vows, which I
      will to-morrow, God willing, perfect and bind myself to, that so I may,
      for a great while, do my duty, as I have well begun, and increase my good
      name and esteem in the world, and get money, which sweetens all things,
      and whereof I have much need. So home to supper and to bed, blessing God
      for his mercy to bring me home, after much pleasure, to my house and
      business with health and resolution to fall hard to work again.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up pretty early, that is by seven o'clock, it being not yet light
      before or then. So to my office all the morning, signing the Treasurer's
      ledger, part of it where I have not put my hand, and then eat a mouthful
      of pye at home to stay my stomach, and so with Mr. Waith by water to
      Deptford, and there among other things viewed old pay-books, and found
      that the Commanders did never heretofore receive any pay for the rigging
      time, but only for seatime, contrary to what Sir J. Minnes and Sir W.
      Batten told the Duke the other day. I also searched all the ships in the
      Wett Dock for fire, and found all in good order, it being very dangerous
      for the King that so many of his ships lie together there. I was among the
      canvass in stores also, with Mr. Harris, the saylemaker, and learnt the
      difference between one sort and another, to my great content, and so by
      water home again, where my wife tells me stories how she hears that by
      Sarah's going to live at Sir W. Pen's, all our affairs of my family are
      made known and discoursed of there and theirs by my people, which do
      trouble me much, and I shall take a time to let Sir W. Pen know how he has
      dealt in taking her without our full consent. So to my office, and by and
      by home to supper, and so to prayers and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up pretty early, and sent my boy to the carrier's with some wine for
      my father, for to make his feast among his Brampton friends this
      Christmas, and my muff to my mother, sent as from my wife. But before I
      sent my boy out with them, I beat him for a lie he told me, at which his
      sister, with whom we have of late been highly displeased, and warned her
      to be gone, was angry, which vexed me, to see the girl I loved so well,
      and my wife, should at last turn so much a fool and unthankful to us. So
      to the office, and there all the morning, and though without and a little
      against the advice of the officers did, to gratify him, send Thomas Hater
      to-day towards Portsmouth a day or two before the rest of the clerks,
      against the Pay next week. Dined at home; and there being the famous new
      play acted the first time to-day, which is called "The Adventures of Five
      Hours," at the Duke's house, being, they say, made or translated by
      Colonel Tuke, I did long to see it; and so made my wife to get her ready,
      though we were forced to send for a smith, to break open her trunk, her
      mayde Jane being gone forth with the keys, and so we went; and though
      early, were forced to sit almost out of sight, at the end of one of the
      lower forms, so full was the house. And the play, in one word, is the
      best, for the variety and the most excellent continuance of the plot to
      the very end, that ever I saw, or think ever shall, and all possible, not
      only to be done in the time, but in most other respects very admittable,
      and without one word of ribaldry; and the house, by its frequent plaudits,
      did show their sufficient approbation. So home; with much ado in an hour
      getting a coach home, and, after writing letters at my office, I went home
      to supper and to bed, now resolving to set up my rest as to plays till
      Easter, if not Whitsuntide next, excepting plays at Court.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Waking in the morning, my wife I found also awake, and begun to speak
      to me with great trouble and tears, and by degrees from one discourse to
      another at last it appears that Sarah has told somebody that has told my
      wife of my meeting her at my brother's and making her sit down by me while
      she told me stories of my wife, about her giving her scallop to her
      brother, and other things, which I am much vexed at, for I am sure I never
      spoke any thing of it, nor could any body tell her but by Sarah's own
      words. I endeavoured to excuse my silence herein hitherto by not believing
      any thing she told me, only that of the scallop which she herself told me
      of. At last we pretty good friends, and my wife begun to speak again of
      the necessity of her keeping somebody to bear her company; for her
      familiarity with her other servants is it that spoils them all, and other
      company she hath none, which is too true, and called for Jane to reach her
      out of her trunk, giving her the keys to that purpose, a bundle of papers,
      and pulls out a paper, a copy of what, a pretty while since, she had wrote
      in a discontent to me, which I would not read, but burnt. She now read it,
      and it was so piquant, and wrote in English, and most of it true, of the
      retiredness of her life, and how unpleasant it was; that being wrote in
      English, and so in danger of being met with and read by others, I was
      vexed at it, and desired her and then commanded her to tear it. When she
      desired to be excused it, I forced it from her, and tore it, and withal
      took her other bundle of papers from her, and leapt out of the bed and in
      my shirt clapped them into the pocket of my breeches, that she might not
      get them from me, and having got on my stockings and breeches and gown, I
      pulled them out one by one and tore them all before her face, though it
      went against my heart to do it, she crying and desiring me not to do it,
      but such was my passion and trouble to see the letters of my love to her,
      and my Will wherein I had given her all I have in the world, when I went
      to sea with my Lord Sandwich, to be joyned with a paper of so much
      disgrace to me and dishonour, if it should have been found by any body.
      Having torn them all, saving a bond of my uncle Robert's, which she hath
      long had in her hands, and our marriage license, and the first letter that
      ever I sent her when I was her servant,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The usual word at this time for a lover.  We have continued the
     correlative term "mistress," but rejected that of "servant."]
</pre>
    <p>
      I took up the pieces and carried them into my chamber, and there, after
      many disputes with myself whether I should burn them or no, and having
      picked up, the pieces of the paper she read to-day, and of my Will which I
      tore, I burnt all the rest, and so went out to my office troubled in mind.
      Hither comes Major Tolhurst, one of my old acquaintance in Cromwell's
      time, and sometimes of our clubb, to see me, and I could do no less than
      carry him to the Mitre, and having sent for Mr. Beane, a merchant, a
      neighbour of mine, we sat and talked, Tolhurst telling me the manner of
      their collierys in the north. We broke up, and I home to dinner. And to
      see my folly, as discontented as I am, when my wife came I could not
      forbear smiling all dinner till she began to speak bad words again, and
      then I began to be angry again, and so to my office. Mr. Bland came in the
      evening to me hither, and sat talking to me about many things of
      merchandise, and I should be very happy in his discourse, durst I confess
      my ignorance to him, which is not so fit for me to do. There coming a
      letter to me from Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, by my desire appointing his and
      Dr. Clerke's coming to dine with me next Monday, I went to my wife and
      agreed upon matters, and at last for my honour am forced to make her
      presently a new Moyre gown to be seen by Mrs. Clerke, which troubles me to
      part with so much money, but, however, it sets my wife and I to friends
      again, though I and she never were so heartily angry in our lives as
      to-day almost, and I doubt the heartburning will not [be] soon over, and
      the truth is I am sorry for the tearing of so many poor loving letters of
      mine from sea and elsewhere to her. So to my office again, and there the
      Scrivener brought me the end of the manuscript which I am going to get
      together of things of the Navy, which pleases me much. So home, and mighty
      friends with my wife again, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and to the office. From thence, before we sat, Sir W. Pen sent
      for me to his bedside to talk (indeed to reproach me with my not owning to
      Sir J. Minnes that he had my advice in the blocking up of the garden door
      the other day, which is now by him out of fear to Sir J. Minnes opened
      again), to which I answered him so indifferently that I think he and I
      shall be at a distance, at least to one another, better than ever we did
      and love one another less, which for my part I think I need not care for.
      So to the office, and sat till noon, then rose and to dinner, and then to
      the office again, where Mr. Creed sat with me till late talking very good
      discourse, as he is full of it, though a cunning knave in his heart, at
      least not to be too much trusted, till Sir J. Minnes came in, which at
      last he did, and so beyond my expectation he was willing to sign his
      accounts, notwithstanding all his objections, which really were very
      material, and yet how like a doting coxcomb he signs the accounts without
      the least satisfaction, for which we both sufficiently laughed at him and
      Sir W. Batten after they had signed them and were gone, and so sat talking
      together till 11 o'clock at night, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day). Lay long talking pleasant with my wife, then up and to
      church, the pew being quite full with strangers come along with Sir W.
      Batten and Sir J. Minnes, so after a pitifull sermon of the young Scott,
      home to dinner. After dinner comes a footman of my Lord Sandwich's (my
      Lord being come to town last night) with a letter from my father, in which
      he presses me to carry on the business for Tom with his late mistress,
      which I am sorry to see my father do, it being so much out of our power or
      for his advantage, as it is clear to me it is, which I shall think of and
      answer in my next. So to my office all the afternoon writing orders myself
      to have ready against to-morrow, that I might not appear negligent to Mr.
      Coventry. In the evening to Sir W. Pen's, where Sir J. Minnes and Sir W.
      Batten, and afterwards came Sir G. Carteret. There talked about business,
      and afterwards to Sir W. Batten's, where we staid talking and drinking
      Syder, and so I went away to my office a little, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to Sir W. Batten's to bid him and Sir J. Minnes adieu, they
      going this day towards Portsmouth, and then to Sir W. Pen's to see Sir J.
      Lawson, who I heard was there, where I found him the same plain man that
      he was, after all his success in the Straights, with which he is come
      loaded home. Thence to Sir G. Carteret, and with him in his coach to White
      Hall, and first I to see my Lord Sandwich (being come now from
      Hinchingbrooke), and after talking a little with him, he and I to the
      Duke's chamber, where Mr. Coventry and he and I into the Duke's closett
      and Sir J. Lawson discoursing upon business of the Navy, and particularly
      got his consent to the ending some difficulties in Mr. Creed's accounts.
      Thence to my Lord's lodgings, and with Mr. Creed to the King's Head
      ordinary, but people being set down, we went to two or three places; at
      last found some meat at a Welch cook's at Charing Cross, and here dined
      and our boys. After dinner to the 'Change to buy some linen for my wife,
      and going back met our two boys. Mine had struck down Creed's boy in the
      dirt, with his new suit on, and the boy taken by a gentlewoman into a
      house to make clean, but the poor boy was in a pitifull taking and pickle;
      but I basted my rogue soundly. Thence to my Lord's lodging, and Creed to
      his, for his papers against the Committee. I found my Lord within, and he
      and I went out through the garden towards the Duke's chamber, to sit upon
      the Tangier matters; but a lady called to my Lord out of my Lady
      Castlemaine's lodging, telling him that the King was there and would speak
      with him. My Lord could not tell what to bid me say at the Committee to
      excuse his absence, but that he was with the King; nor would suffer me to
      go into the Privy Garden (which is now a through-passage, and common), but
      bid me to go through some other way, which I did; so that I see he is a
      servant of the King's pleasures too, as well as business. So I went to the
      Committee, where we spent all this night attending to Sir J. Lawson's
      description of Tangier and the place for the Mole,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The construction of this Mole or breakwater turned out a very
     costly undertaking.  In April, 1663, it was found that the charge
     for one year's work was L13,000.  In March, 1665, L36,000 had been
     spent upon it.  The wind and sea exerted a very destructive
     influence over this structure, although it was very strongly built,
     and Colonel Norwood reported in 1668 that a breach had been made in
     the Mole, which cost a considerable sum to repair.]
</pre>
    <p>
      of which he brought a very pretty draught. Concerning the making of the
      Mole, Mr. Cholmely did also discourse very well, having had some
      experience in it. Being broke up, I home by coach to Mr. Bland's, and
      there discoursed about sending away of the merchant ship which hangs so
      long on hand for Tangier. So to my Lady Batten's, and sat with her awhile,
      Sir W. Batten being gone out of town; but I did it out of design to get
      some oranges for my feast to-morrow of her, which I did. So home, and
      found my wife's new gown come home, and she mightily pleased with it. But
      I appeared very angry that there were no more things got ready against
      to-morrow's feast, and in that passion sat up long, and went discontented
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. So my poor wife rose by five o'clock in the morning, before day, and
      went to market and bought fowls and many other things for dinner, with
      which I was highly pleased, and the chine of beef was down also before six
      o'clock, and my own jack, of which I was doubtfull, do carry it very well.
      Things being put in order, and the cook come, I went to the office, where
      we sat till noon and then broke up, and I home, whither by and by comes
      Dr. Clerke and his lady, his sister, and a she-cozen, and Mr. Pierce and
      his wife, which was all my guests. I had for them, after oysters, at first
      course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef. Next a great
      dish of roasted fowl, cost me about 30s., and a tart, and then fruit and
      cheese. My dinner was noble and enough. I had my house mighty clean and
      neat; my room below with a good fire in it; my dining-room above, and my
      chamber being made a withdrawing-chamber; and my wife's a good fire also.
      I find my new table very proper, and will hold nine or ten people well,
      but eight with great room. After dinner the women to cards in my wife's
      chamber, and the Dr. and Mr. Pierce in mine, because the dining-room
      smokes unless I keep a good charcoal fire, which I was not then provided
      with. At night to supper, had a good sack posset and cold meat, and sent
      my guests away about ten o'clock at night, both them and myself highly
      pleased with our management of this day; and indeed their company was very
      fine, and Mrs. Clerke a very witty, fine lady, though a little conceited
      and proud. So weary, so to bed. I believe this day's feast will cost me
      near L5.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Lay very long in bed, till with shame forced to rise, being called
      up by Mr. Bland about business. He being gone I went and staid upon
      business at the office and then home to dinner, and after dinner staid a
      little talking pleasant with my wife, who tells me of another woman
      offered by her brother that is pretty and can sing, to which I do listen
      but will not appear over forward, but I see I must keep somebody for
      company sake to my wife, for I am ashamed she should live as she do. So to
      the office till 10 at night upon business, and numbering and examining
      part of my sea-manuscript with great pleasure, my wife sitting working by
      me. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and to my office preparing things, by and by we met and sat Mr.
      Coventry and I till noon, and then I took him to dine with me, I having a
      wild goose roasted, and a cold chine of beef and a barrel of oysters. We
      dined alone in my chamber, and then he and I to fit ourselves for
      horseback, he having brought me a horse; and so to Deptford, the ways
      being very dirty. There we walked up and down the Yard and Wett Dock, and
      did our main business, which was to examine the proof of our new way of
      the call-books, which we think will be of great use. And so to horse
      again, and I home with his horse, leaving him to go over the fields to
      Lambeth, his boy at my house taking home his horse. I vexed, having left
      my keys in my other pocket in my chamber, and my door is shut, so that I
      was forced to set my boy in at the window, which done I shifted myself,
      and so to my office till late, and then home to supper, my mind being
      troubled about Field's business and my uncle's, which the term coming on I
      must think to follow again. So to prayers and to bed, and much troubled in
      mind this night in my dreams about my uncle Thomas and his son going to
      law with us.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Lay long talking in bed with my wife. Up, and Mr. Battersby, the
      apothecary, coming to see me, I called for the cold chine of beef and made
      him eat, and drink wine, and talked, there being with us Captain Brewer,
      the paynter, who tells me how highly the Presbyters do talk in the
      coffeehouses still, which I wonder at. They being gone I walked two or
      three hours with my brother Tom, telling him my mind how it is troubled
      about my father's concernments, and how things would be with them all if
      it should please God that I should die, and therefore desire him to be a
      good husband and follow his business, which I hope he do. At noon to
      dinner, and after dinner my wife began to talk of a woman again, which I
      have a mind to have, and would be glad Pall might please us, but she is
      quite against having her, nor have I any great mind to it, but only for
      her good and to save money flung away upon a stranger. So to my office
      till 9 o'clock about my navy manuscripts, and there troubled in my mind
      more and more about my uncle's business from a letter come this day from
      my father that tells me that all his tenants are sued by my uncle, which
      will cost me some new trouble, I went home to supper and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Waked early with my mind troubled about our law matters, but it came
      into my mind that [sayings] of Epictetus, which did put me to a great deal
      of ease, it being a saying of great reason. Up to the office, and there
      sat Mr. Coventry, Mr. Pett, new come to town, and I. I was sorry for
      signing a bill and guiding Mr. Coventry to sign a bill to Mr. Creed for
      his pay as Deputy Treasurer to this day, though the service ended 5 or 6
      months ago, which he perceiving did blot out his name afterwards, but I
      will clear myself to him from design in it. Sat till two o'clock and then
      home to dinner, and Creed with me, and after dinner, to put off my mind's
      trouble, I took Creed by coach and to the Duke's playhouse, where we did
      see "The Five Hours" entertainment again, which indeed is a very fine
      play, though, through my being out of order, it did not seem so good as at
      first; but I could discern it was not any fault in the play. Thence with
      him to the China alehouse, and there drank a bottle or two, and so home,
      where I found my wife and her brother discoursing about Mr. Ashwell's
      daughter, whom we are like to have for my wife's woman, and I hope it may
      do very well, seeing there is a necessity of having one. So to the office
      to write letters, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Lord's day). Up, and after the barber had done, and I had spoke with
      Mr. Smith (whom I sent for on purpose to speak of Field's business, who
      stands upon L250 before he will release us, which do trouble me highly),
      and also Major Allen of the Victualling Office about his ship to be hired
      for Tangier, I went to church, and thence home to dinner alone with my
      wife, very pleasant, and after dinner to church again, and heard a dull,
      drowsy sermon, and so home and to my office, perfecting my vows again for
      the next year, which I have now done, and sworn to in the presence of
      Almighty God to observe upon the respective penalties thereto annexed, and
      then to Sir W. Pen's (though much against my will, for I cannot bear him,
      but only to keep him from complaint to others that I do not see him) to
      see how he do, and find him pretty well, and ready to go abroad again.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up and to White Hall, and while the Duke is dressing himself I went
      to wait on my Lord Sandwich, whom I found not very well, and Dr. Clerke
      with him. He is feverish, and hath sent for Mr. Pierce to let him blood,
      but not being in the way he puts it off till night, but he stirs not
      abroad to-day. Then to the Duke, and in his closett discoursed as we use
      to do, and then broke up. That done, I singled out Mr. Coventry into the
      Matted Gallery, and there I told him the complaints I meet every day about
      our Treasurer's or his people's paying no money, but at the goldsmith's
      shops, where they are forced to pay fifteen or twenty sometimes per cent.
      for their money, which is a most horrid shame, and that which must not be
      suffered. Nor is it likely that the Treasurer (at least his people) will
      suffer Maynell the Goldsmith to go away with L10,000 per annum, as he do
      now get, by making people pay after this manner for their money. We were
      interrupted by the Duke, who called Mr. Coventry aside for half an hour,
      walking with him in the gallery, and then in the garden, and then going
      away I ended my discourse with Mr. Coventry. But by the way Mr. Coventry
      was saying that there remained nothing now in our office to be amended but
      what would do of itself every day better and better, for as much as he
      that was slowest, Sir W. Batten, do now begin to look about him and to
      mind business. At which, God forgive me! I was a little moved with envy,
      but yet I am glad, and ought to be, though it do lessen a little my care
      to see that the King's service is like to be better attended than it was
      heretofore. Thence by coach to Mr. Povy's, being invited thither by [him]
      came a messenger this morning from him, where really he made a most
      excellent and large dinner, of their variety, even to admiration, he
      bidding us, in a frolique, to call for what we had a mind, and he would
      undertake to give it us: and we did for prawns, swan, venison, after I had
      thought the dinner was quite done, and he did immediately produce it,
      which I thought great plenty, and he seems to set off his rest in this
      plenty and the neatness of his house, which he after dinner showed me,
      from room to room, so beset with delicate pictures, and above all, a piece
      of perspective in his closett in the low parler; his stable, where was
      some most delicate horses, and the very-racks painted, and mangers, with a
      neat leaden painted cistern, and the walls done with Dutch tiles, like my
      chimnies. But still, above all things, he bid me go down into his
      wine-cellar, where upon several shelves there stood bottles of all sorts
      of wine, new and old, with labells pasted upon each bottle, and in the
      order and plenty as I never saw books in a bookseller's shop; and herein,
      I observe, he puts his highest content, and will accordingly commend all
      that he hath, but still they deserve to be so. Here dined with me Dr.
      Whore and Mr. Scawen. Therewith him and Mr. Bland, whom we met by the way,
      to my Lord Chancellor's, where the King was to meet my Lord Treasurer,
      &amp;c., many great men, to settle the revenue of Tangier. I staid talking
      awhile there, but the King not coming I walked to my brother's, where I
      met my cozen Scotts (Tom not being at home) and sent for a glass of wine
      for them, and having drunk we parted, and I to the Wardrobe talking with
      Mr. Moore about my law businesses, which I doubt will go ill for want of
      time for me to attend them. So home, where I found Mrs. Lodum speaking
      with my wife about her kinswoman which is offered my wife to come as a
      woman to her. So to the office and put things in order, and then home and
      to bed, it being my great comfort that every day I understand more and
      more the pleasure of following of business and the credit that a man gets
      by it, which I hope at last too will end in profit. This day, by Dr.
      Clerke, I was told the occasion of my Lord Chesterfield's going and taking
      his lady (my Lord Ormond's daughter) from Court. It seems he not only hath
      been long jealous of the Duke of York, but did find them two talking
      together, though there were others in the room, and the lady by all
      opinions a most good, virtuous woman. He, the next day (of which the Duke
      was warned by somebody that saw the passion my Lord Chesterfield was in
      the night before), went and told the Duke how much he did apprehend
      himself wronged, in his picking out his lady of the whole Court to be the
      subject of his dishonour; which the Duke did answer with great calmness,
      not seeming to understand the reason of complaint, and that was all that
      passed but my Lord did presently pack his lady into the country in
      Derbyshire, near the Peake; which is become a proverb at Court, to send a
      man's wife to the Devil's arse a' Peake, when she vexes him. This noon I
      did find out Mr. Dixon at Whitehall, and discoursed with him about Mrs.
      Wheatly's daughter for a wife for my brother Tom, and have committed it to
      him to enquire the pleasure of her father and mother concerning it. I
      demanded L300.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up betimes and to the office, where all the morning. Dined at home,
      and Mr. Deane of Woolwich with me, talking about the abuses of the yard.
      Then to the office about business all the afternoon with great pleasure,
      seeing myself observed by every body to be the only man of business of us
      all, but Mr. Coventry. So till late at night, and then home to supper and
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up early leaving my wife very ill in bed... and to my office till
      eight o'clock, there coming Ch. Pepys
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Charles Pepys was second son of Thomas Pepys, elder brother of
     Samuel's father.  Samuel paid part of the legacy to Charles and his
     elder brother Thomas on May 25th, 1664.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to demand his legacy of me, which I denied him upon good reason of his
      father and brother's suing us, and so he went away. Then came Commissioner
      Pett, and he and I by agreement went to Deptford, and after a turn or two
      in the yard, to Greenwich, and thence walked to Woolwich. Here we did
      business, and I on board the Tangier-merchant, a ship freighted by us,
      that has long lain on hand in her despatch to Tangier, but is now ready
      for sailing. Back, and dined at Mr. Ackworth's, where a pretty dinner, and
      she a pretty, modest woman; but above all things we saw her Rocke, which
      is one of the finest things done by a woman that ever I saw. I must have
      my wife to see it. After dinner on board the Elias, and found the timber
      brought by her from the forest of Deane to be exceeding good. The Captain
      gave each of us two barrels of pickled oysters put up for the Queen
      mother. So to the Dock again, and took in Mrs. Ackworth and another
      gentlewoman, and carried them to London, and at the Globe tavern, in
      Eastcheap, did give them a glass of wine, and so parted. I home, where I
      found my wife ill in bed all day, and her face swelled with pain. My Will
      has received my last two quarters salary, of which I am glad. So to my
      office till late and then home, and after the barber had done, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. To the office, where Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes are come from
      Portsmouth. We sat till dinner time. Then home, and Mr. Dixon by agreement
      came to dine, to give me an account of his success with Mr. Wheatly for
      his daughter for my brother; and in short it is, that his daughter cannot
      fancy my brother because of his imperfection in his speech, which I am
      sorry for, but there the business must die, and we must look out for
      another. There came in also Mrs. Lodum, with an answer from her brother
      Ashwell's daughter, who is likely to come to me, and with her my wife's
      brother, and I carried Commissioner Pett in with me, so I feared want of
      victuals, but I had a good dinner, and mirth, and so rose and broke up,
      and with the rest of the officers to Mr. Russell's buriall, where we had
      wine and rings, and a great and good company of aldermen and the livery of
      the Skinners' Company. We went to St. Dunstan's in the East church, where
      a sermon, but I staid not, but went home, and, after writing letters, I
      took coach to Mr. Povy's, but he not within I left a letter there of
      Tangier business, and so to my Lord's, and there find him not sick, but
      expecting his fit to-night of an ague. Here was Sir W. Compton, Mr. Povy,
      Mr. Bland, Mr. Gawden and myself; we were very busy about getting
      provisions sent forthwith to Tangier, fearing that by Mr. Gawden's neglect
      they might want bread. So among other ways thought of to supply them I was
      empowered by the Commissioners of Tangier that were present to write to
      Plymouth and direct Mr. Lanyon to take up vessels great or small to the
      quantity of 150 tons, and fill them with bread of Mr. Gawden's lying ready
      there for Tangier, which they undertake to bear me out in, and to see the
      freight paid. This I did. About 10 o'clock we broke up, and my Lord's fit
      was coming upon him, and so we parted, and I with Mr. Creed, Mr. Pierce,
      Win. Howe and Captn. Ferrers, who was got almost drunk this afternoon, and
      was mighty capricious and ready to fall out with any body, supped together
      in the little chamber that was mine heretofore upon some fowls sent by Mr.
      Shepley, so we were very merry till 12 at night, and so away, and I lay
      with Mr. Creed at his lodgings, and slept well.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up and hastened him in despatching some business relating to
      Tangier, and I away homewards, hearing that my Lord had a bad fit
      to-night, called at my brother's, and found him sick in bed, of a pain in
      the sole of one of his feet, without swelling, knowing not how it came,
      but it will not suffer him to stand these two days. So to Mr. Moore, and
      Mr. Lovell, our proctor, being there, discoursed of my law business.
      Thence to Mr. Grant, to bid him come for money for Mr. Barlow, and he and
      I to a coffee-house, where Sir J. Cutler was;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Citizen and grocer of London; most severely handled by Pope.  Two
     statues were erected to his memory&mdash;one in the College of
     Physicians, and the other in the Grocers' Hall.  They were erected
     and one removed (that in the College of Physicians) before Pope
     stigmatized "sage Cutler."  Pope says that Sir John Cutler had an
     only daughter; in fact, he had two: one married to Lord Radnor; the
     other, mentioned afterwards by Pepys, the wife of Sir William
     Portman.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and in discourse, among other things, he did fully make it out that the
      trade of England is as great as ever it was, only in more hands; and that
      of all trades there is a greater number than ever there was, by reason of
      men taking more 'prentices, because of their having more money than
      heretofore. His discourse was well worth hearing. Coming by Temple Bar I
      bought "Audley's Way to be Rich," a serious pamphlett and some good things
      worth my minding. Thence homewards, and meeting Sir W. Batten, turned back
      again to a coffee-house, and there drunk more till I was almost sick, and
      here much discourse, but little to be learned, but of a design in the
      north of a rising, which is discovered, among some men of condition, and
      they sent for up. Thence to the 'Change, and so home with him by coach,
      and I to see how my wife do, who is pretty well again, and so to dinner to
      Sir W. Batten's to a cod's head, and so to my office, and after stopping
      to see Sir W. Pen, where was Sir J. Lawson and his lady and daughter,
      which is pretty enough, I came back to my office, and there set to
      business pretty late, finishing the margenting my Navy-Manuscript. So home
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Lay pretty long, and by lying with my sheet upon my lip, as I have
      of old observed it, my upper lip was blistered in the morning. To the
      office all the morning, sat till noon, then to the Exchange to look out
      for a ship for Tangier, and delivered my manuscript to be bound at the
      stationer's. So to dinner at home, and then down to Redriffe, to see a
      ship hired for Tangier, what readiness she was in, and found her ready to
      sail. Then home, and so by coach to Mr. Povy's, where Sir W. Compton, Mr.
      Bland, Gawden, Sir J. Lawson and myself met to settle the victualling of
      Tangier for the time past, which with much ado we did, and for a six
      months' supply more. So home in Mr. Gawden's coach, and to my office till
      late about business, and find that it is business that must and do every
      day bring me to something.&mdash;[In earlier days Pepys noted for us each
      few pounds or shillings of graft which he annexed at each transaction in
      his office.]&mdash;So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lord's day). Lay till 9 a-bed, then up, and being trimmed by the
      barber, I walked towards White Hall, calling upon Mr. Moore, whom I found
      still very ill of his ague. I discoursed with him about my Lord's estate
      against I speak with my Lord this day. Thence to the King's Head ordinary
      at Charing Cross, and sent for Mr. Creed, where we dined very finely and
      good company, good discourse. I understand the King of France is upon
      consulting his divines upon the old question, what the power of the Pope
      is? and do intend to make war against him, unless he do right him for the
      wrong his Embassador received;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [On the 20th of August, the Duc de Crequi, then French ambassador at
     Rome, was insulted by the Corsican armed police, a force whose
     ignoble duty it was to assist the Sbirri; and the pope, Alexander
     VII., at first refused reparation for the affront offered to the
     French.  Louis, as in the case of D'Estrades, took prompt measures.
     He ordered the papal nuncio forthwith to quit France; he seized upon
     Avignon, and his army prepared to enter Italy.  Alexander found it
     necessary to submit.  In fulfilment of a treaty signed at Pisa in
     1664, Cardinal Chigi, the pope's nephew, came to Paris, to tender
     the pope's apology to Louis.  The guilty individuals were punished;
     the Corsicans banished for ever from the Roman States; and in front
     of the guard-house which they had occupied a pyramid was erected,
     bearing an inscription which embodied the pope's apology.  This
     pyramid Louis permitted Clement IX. to destroy on his accession.-B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and banish the Cardinall Imperiall,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Lorenzo Imperiali, of Genoa.  He had been appointed Governor of
     Rome by Innocent X., and he had acted in that capacity at
     the time of the tumult.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which I understand this day is not meant the Cardinall belonging or chosen
      by the Emperor, but the name of his family is Imperiali. Thence to walk in
      the Park, which we did two hours, it being a pleasant sunshine day though
      cold. Our discourse upon the rise of most men that we know, and observing
      them to be the results of chance, not policy, in any of them, particularly
      Sir J. Lawson's, from his declaring against Charles Stuart in the river of
      Thames, and for the Rump. Thence to my Lord, who had his ague fit last
      night, but is now pretty well, and I staid talking with him an hour alone
      in his chamber, about sundry publique and private matters. Among others,
      he wonders what the project should be of the Duke's going down to
      Portsmouth just now with his Lady, at this time of the year: it being no
      way, we think, to increase his popularity, which is not great; nor yet
      safe to do it, for that reason, if it would have any such effect. By and
      by comes in my Lady Wright, and so I went away, end after talking with
      Captn. Ferrers, who tells me of my Lady Castlemaine's and Sir Charles
      Barkeley being the great favourites at Court, and growing every day more
      and more; and that upon a late dispute between my Lord Chesterfield, that
      is the Queen's Lord Chamberlain, and Mr. Edward Montagu, her Master of the
      Horse, who should have the precedence in taking the Queen's upperhand
      abroad out of the house, which Mr. Montagu challenges, it was given to my
      Lord Chesterfield. So that I perceive he goes down the wind in honour as
      well as every thing else, every day. So walk to my brother's and talked
      with him, who tells me that this day a messenger is come, that tells us
      how Collonel Honiwood, who was well yesterday at Canterbury, was flung by
      his horse in getting up, and broke his scull, and so is dead. So home and
      to the office, despatching some business, and so home to supper, and then
      to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up and by water with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, drinking a glass
      of wormewood wine at the Stillyard, and so up to the Duke, and with the
      rest of the officers did our common service; thence to my Lord Sandwich's,
      but he was in bed, and had a bad fit last night, and so I went to,
      Westminster Hall, it being Term time, it troubling me to think that I
      should have any business there to trouble myself and thoughts with. Here I
      met with Monsieur Raby, who is lately come from France. [He] tells me that
      my Lord Hinchingbroke and his brother do little improve there, and are
      much neglected in their habits and other things; but I do believe he hath
      a mind to go over as their tutour, and so I am not apt to believe what he
      says therein. But I had a great deal of very good discourse with him,
      concerning the difference between the French and the Pope, and the
      occasion, which he told me very particularly, and to my great content; and
      of most of the chief affairs of France, which I did enquire: and that the
      King is a most excellent Prince, doing all business himself; and that it
      is true he hath a mistress, Mademoiselle La Valiere, one of the Princess
      Henriette's women, that he courts for his pleasure every other day, but
      not so as to make him neglect his publique affairs. He tells me how the
      King do carry himself nobly to the relations of the dead Cardinall,&mdash;[Cardinal
      Mazarin died March 9th, 1661.]&mdash;and will not suffer one pasquill to
      come forth against him; and that he acts by what directions he received
      from him before his death. Having discoursed long with him, I took him by
      coach and set him down at my Lord Crew's, and myself went and dined at Mr.
      Povy's, where Orlando Massam, Mr. Wilks, a Wardrobe man, myself and Mr.
      Gawden, and had just such another dinner as I had the other day there. But
      above all things I do the most admire his piece of perspective especially,
      he opening me the closett door, and there I saw that there is nothing but
      only a plain picture hung upon the wall. After dinner Mr. Gauden and I to
      settle the business of the Tangier victualling, which I perceive none of
      them yet have hitherto understood but myself. Thence by coach to White
      Hall, and met upon the Tangier Commission, our greatest business the
      discoursing of getting things ready for my Lord Rutherford to go about the
      middle of March next, and a proposal of Sir J. Lawson's and Mr. Cholmely's
      concerning undertaking the Mole, which is referred to another time. So by
      coach home, being melancholy, overcharged with business, and methinks I
      fear that I have some ill offices done to Mr. Coventry, or else he
      observes that of late I have not despatched business so as I did use to
      do, which I confess I do acknowledge. But it may be it is but my fear
      only, he is not so fond as he used to be of me. But I do believe that Sir
      W. Batten has made him believe that I do too much crow upon having his
      kindness, and so he may on purpose to countenance him seem a little more
      strange to me, but I will study hard to bring him back again to the same
      degree of kindness. So home, and after a little talk with my wife, to the
      office, and did a great deal of business there till very late, and then
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up and to the office, where sat till two o'clock, and then home to
      dinner, whither by and by comes Mr. Creed, and he and I talked of our
      Tangier business, and do find that there is nothing in the world done with
      true integrity, but there is design along with it, as in my Lord
      Rutherford, who designs to have the profit of victualling of the garrison
      himself, and others to have the benefit of making the Mole, so that I am
      almost discouraged from coming any more to the Committee, were it not that
      it will possibly hereafter bring me to some acquaintance of great men.
      Then to the office again, where very busy till past ten at night, and so
      home to supper and to bed. I have news this day from Cambridge that my
      brother hath had his bachelor's cap put on; but that which troubles me is,
      that he hath the pain of the stone, and makes bloody water with great
      pain, it beginning just as mine did. I pray God help him.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up and all the morning at my office doing business, and at home
      seeing my painters' work measured. So to dinner and abroad with my wife,
      carrying her to Unthank's, where she alights, and I to my Lord Sandwich's,
      whom I find missing his ague fit to-day, and is pretty well, playing at
      dice (and by this I see how time and example may alter a man; he being now
      acquainted with all sorts of pleasures and vanities, which heretofore he
      never thought of nor loved, nor, it may be, hath allowed) with Ned
      Pickering and his page Laud. Thence to the Temple to my cozen Roger Pepys,
      and thence to Serjt. Bernard to advise with him and retain him against my
      uncle, my heart and head being very heavy with the business. Thence to
      Wotton's, the shoemaker, and there bought another pair of new boots, for
      the other I bought my last would not fit me, and here I drank with him and
      his wife, a pretty woman, they broaching a vessel of syder a-purpose for
      me. So home, and there found my wife come home, and seeming to cry; for
      bringing home in a coach her new ferrandin
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Ferrandin, which was sometimes spelt farendon, was a stuff made of
     silk mixed with some other material, like what is now called poplin.
     Both mohair and farendon are generally cheap materials; for in the
     case of Manby v. Scott, decided in the Exchequer Chamber in 1663,
     and reported in the first volume of "Modern Reports," the question
     being as to the liability of a husband to pay for goods supplied
     against his consent to his wife, who had separated from him, Mr.
     Justice Hyde (whose judgment is most amusing) observes, in putting
     various supposed cases, that "The wife will have a velvet gown and a
     satin petticoat, and the husband thinks a mohair or farendon for a
     gown, and watered tabby for a petticoat, is as fashionable, and
     fitter for her quality."&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      waistecoate, in Cheapside, a man asked her whether that was the way to the
      Tower; and while she was answering him, another, on the other side,
      snatched away her bundle out of her lap, and could not be recovered, but
      ran away with it, which vexes me cruelly, but it cannot be helped. So to
      my office, and there till almost 12 at night with Mr. Lewes, learning to
      understand the manner of a purser's account, which is very hard and little
      understood by my fellow officers, and yet mighty necessary. So at last
      with great content broke up and home to supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Lay chiding, and then pleased with my wife in bed, and did consent
      to her having a new waistcoate made her for that which she lost yesterday.
      So to the office, and sat all the morning. At noon dined with Mr. Coventry
      at Sir J. Minnes his lodgings, the first time that ever I did yet, and am
      sorry for doing it now, because of obliging me to do the like to him
      again. Here dined old Captn. Marsh of the Tower with us. So to visit Sir
      W. Pen, and then to the office, and there late upon business by myself, my
      wife being sick to-day. So home and to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. A solemn fast for the King's murther, and we were forced to keep it
      more than we would have done, having forgot to take any victuals into the
      house. I to church in the forenoon, and Mr. Mills made a good sermon upon
      David's heart smiting him for cutting off the garment of Saul.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Samuel, chap.  xxiv.  v. 5, "And it came to pass afterward, that
     David's heart smote him, because he had cut off Saul's skirt."]
</pre>
    <p>
      Home, and whiled away some of the afternoon at home talking with my wife.
      So to my office, and all alone making up my month's accounts, which to my
      great trouble I find that I am got no further than L640. But I have had
      great expenses this month. I pray God the next may be a little better, as
      I hope it will. In the evening my manuscript is brought home handsomely
      bound, to my full content; and now I think I have a better collection in
      reference to the Navy, and shall have by the time I have filled it, than
      any of my predecessors. So home and eat something such as we have, bread
      and butter and milk, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up and to my office, and there we sat till noon. I home to dinner,
      and there found my plate of the Soverayne with the table to it come from
      Mr. Christopher Pett, of which I am very glad. So to dinner late, and not
      very good, only a rabbit not half roasted, which made me angry with my
      wife. So to the office, and there till late, busy all the while. In the
      evening examining my wife's letter intended to my Lady, and another to
      Mademoiselle; they were so false spelt that I was ashamed of them, and
      took occasion to fall out about them with my wife, and so she wrote none,
      at which, however, I was, sorry, because it was in answer to a letter of
      Madam about business. Late home to supper and to bed.
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      FEBRUARY 1662-1663
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    <p>
      February 1st (Lord's day). Up and to church, where Mr. Mills, a good
      sermon, and so home and had a good dinner with my wife, with which I was
      pleased to see it neatly done, and this troubled me to think of parting
      with Jane, that is come to be a very good cook. After dinner walked to my
      Lord Sandwich, and staid with him in the chamber talking almost all the
      afternoon, he being not yet got abroad since his sickness. Many discourses
      we had; but, among others, how Sir R. Bernard is turned out of his
      Recordership of Huntingdon by the Commissioners for Regulation, &amp;c.,
      at which I am troubled, because he, thinking it is done by my Lord
      Sandwich, will act some of his revenge, it is likely, upon me in my
      business, so that I must cast about me to get some other counsel to rely
      upon. In the evening came Mr. Povey and others to see my Lord, and they
      gone, my Lord and I and Povey fell to the business of Tangier, as to the
      victualling, and so broke up, and I, it being a fine frost, my boy
      lighting me I walked home, and after supper up to prayers, and then alone
      with my wife and Jane did fall to tell her what I did expect would become
      of her since, after so long being my servant, she had carried herself so
      as to make us be willing to put her away, and desired God to bless [her],
      but bid her never to let me hear what became of her, for that I could
      never pardon ingratitude. So I to bed, my mind much troubled for the poor
      girl that she leaves us, and yet she not submitting herself, for some
      words she spoke boldly and yet I believe innocently and out of familiarity
      to her mistress about us weeks ago, I could not recall my words that she
      should stay with me. This day Creed and I walking in White Hall garden did
      see the King coming privately from my Lady Castlemaine's; which is a poor
      thing for a Prince to do; and I expressed my sense of it to Creed in terms
      which I should not have done, but that I believe he is trusty in that
      point.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and after paying Jane her wages, I went away, because I could
      hardly forbear weeping, and she cried, saying it was not her fault that
      she went away, and indeed it is hard to say what it is, but only her not
      desiring to stay that she do now go. By coach with Sir J. Minnes and Sir
      W. Batten to the Duke; and after discourse as usual with him in his
      closett, I went to my Lord's: the King and Duke being gone to chappell, it
      being collar-day, it being Candlemas-day; where I staid with him a while
      until towards noon, there being Jonas Moore talking about some
      mathematical businesses, and thence I walked at noon to Mr. Povey's, where
      Mr. Gawden met me, and after a neat and plenteous dinner as is usual, we
      fell to our victualling business, till Mr. Gawden and I did almost fall
      out, he defending himself in the readiness of his provision, when I know
      that the ships everywhere stay for them. Thence Mr. Povey and I walked to
      White Hall, it being a great frost still, and after a turn in the Park
      seeing them slide, we met at the Committee for Tangier, a good full
      Committee, and agreed how to proceed in the dispatching of my Lord
      Rutherford, and treating about this business of Mr. Cholmely and Sir J.
      Lawson's proposal for the Mole. Thence with Mr. Coventry down to his
      chamber, where among other discourse he did tell me how he did make it not
      only his desire, but as his greatest pleasure, to make himself an interest
      by doing business truly and justly, though he thwarts others greater than
      himself, not striving to make himself friends by addresses; and by this he
      thinks and observes he do live as contentedly (now he finds himself
      secured from fear of want), and, take one time with another, as void of
      fear or cares, or more, than they that (as his own termes were) have
      quicker pleasures and sharper agonies than he. Thence walking with Mr.
      Creed homewards we turned into a house and drank a cup of Cock ale and so
      parted, and I to the Temple, where at my cozen Roger's chamber I met Madam
      Turner, and after a little stay led her home and there left her, she and
      her daughter having been at the play to-day at the Temple, it being a
      revelling time with them.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The revels were held in the Inner Temple Hall.  The last revel in
     any of the Inns of Court was held in the Inner Temple in 1733.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence called at my brother's, who is at church, at the buriall of young
      Cumberland, a lusty young man. So home and there found Jane gone, for
      which my wife and I are very much troubled, and myself could hardly
      forbear shedding tears for fear the poor wench should come to any ill
      condition after her being so long with me. So to my office and setting
      papers to rights, and then home to supper and to bed. This day at my
      Lord's I sent for Mr. Ashwell, and his wife came to me, and by discourse I
      perceive their daughter is very fit for my turn if my family may be as
      much for hers, but I doubt it will be to her loss to come to me for so
      small wages, but that will be considered of.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. To the office all the morning, at noon to dinner, where Mr. Creed
      dined with me, and Mr. Ashwell, with whom after dinner I discoursed
      concerning his daughter coming to live with us. I find that his daughter
      will be very fit, I think, as any for our turn, but the conditions I know
      not what they will be, he leaving it wholly to her, which will be agreed
      on a while hence when my wife sees her. After an hour's discourse after
      dinner with them, I to my office again, and there about business of the
      office till late, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up early and to Mr. Moore, and thence to Mr. Lovell about my law
    </p>
    <p>
      business, and from him to Paul's School, it being Apposition-day there. I
      heard some of their speeches, and they were just as schoolboys' used to
      be, of the seven liberal sciences; but I think not so good as ours were in
      our time. Away thence and to Bow Church, to the Court of Arches, where a
      judge sits, and his proctors about him in their habits, and their
      pleadings all in Latin. Here I was sworn to give a true answer to my
      uncle's libells, and so paid my fee for swearing, and back again to Paul's
      School, and went up to see the head forms posed in Latin, Greek, and
      Hebrew, but I think they did not answer in any so well as we did, only in
      geography they did pretty well: Dr. Wilkins and Outram were examiners. So
      down to the school, where Dr. Crumlum did me much honour by telling many
      what a present I had made to the school, shewing my Stephanus, in four
      volumes, cost me L4 10s. He also shewed us, upon my desire, an old edition
      of the grammar of Colett's, where his epistle to the children is very
      pretty; and in rehearsing the creed it is said "borne of the cleane Virgin
      Mary." Thence with Mr. Elborough (he being all of my old acquaintance that
      I could meet with here) to a cook's shop to dinner, but I found him a
      fool, as he ever was, or worse. Thence to my cozen Roger Pepys and Mr.
      Phillips about my law businesses, which stand very bad, and so home to the
      office, where after doing some business I went home, where I found our new
      mayde Mary, that is come in Jane's place.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and then home to
      dinner, and found it so well done, above what I did expect from my mayde
      Susan, now Jane is gone, that I did call her in and give her sixpence.
      Thence walked to the Temple, and there at my cozen Roger Pepys's chamber
      met by appointment with my uncle Thomas and his son Thomas, and there I
      shewing them a true state of my uncle's estate as he has left it with the
      debts, &amp;c., lying upon it, we did come to some quiett talk and fair
      offers against an agreement on both sides, though I do offer quite to the
      losing of the profit of the whole estate for 8 or 10 years together, yet
      if we can gain peace, and set my mind at a little liberty, I shall be glad
      of it. I did give them a copy of this state, and we are to meet tomorrow
      with their answer. So walked home, it being a very great frost still, and
      to my office, there late writing letters of office business, and so home
      to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up and to my office about business, examining people what they could
      swear against Field, and the whole is, that he has called us cheating
      rogues and cheating knaves, for which we hope to be even with him. Thence
      to Lincoln's Inn Fields; and it being too soon to go to dinner, I walked
      up and down, and looked upon the outside of the new theatre, now
      a-building in Covent Garden, which will be very fine. And so to a
      bookseller's in the Strand, and there bought Hudibras again, it being
      certainly some ill humour to be so against that which all the world cries
      up to be the example of wit; for which I am resolved once again to read
      him, and see whether I can find it or no. So to Mr. Povy's, and there
      found them at dinner, and dined there, there being, among others, Mr.
      Williamson, Latin Secretary, who, I perceive, is a pretty knowing man and
      a scholler, but, it may be, thinks himself to be too much so. Thence,
      after dinner, to the Temple, to my cozen Roger Pepys, where met us my
      uncle Thomas and his son; and, after many high demands, we at last came to
      a kind of agreement upon very hard terms, which are to be prepared in
      writing against Tuesday next. But by the way promising them to pay my
      cozen Mary's' legacys at the time of her marriage, they afterwards told me
      that she was already married, and married very well, so that I must be
      forced to pay it in some time. My cozen Roger was so sensible of our
      coming to agreement that he could not forbear weeping, and, indeed, though
      it is very hard, yet I am glad to my heart that we are like to end our
      trouble. So we parted for to-night, and I to my Lord Sandwich and there
      staid, there being a Committee to sit upon the contract for the Mole,
      which I dare say none of us that were there understood, but yet they
      agreed of things as Mr. Cholmely and Sir J. Lawson demanded, who are the
      undertakers, and so I left them to go on to agree, for I understood it
      not. So home, and being called by a coachman who had a fare in him, he
      carried me beyond the Old Exchange, and there set down his fare, who would
      not pay him what was his due, because he carried a stranger with him, and
      so after wrangling he was fain to be content with 6d., and being vexed the
      coachman would not carry me home a great while, but set me down there for
      the other 6d., but with fair words he was willing to it, and so I came
      home and to my office, setting business in order, and so to supper and to
      bed, my mind being in disorder as to the greatness of this day's business
      that I have done, but yet glad that my trouble therein is like to be over.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up and to my office, whither by agreement Mr. Coventry came before
      the time of sitting to confer about preparing an account of the
      extraordinary charge of the Navy since the King's coming, more than is
      properly to be applied and called the Navy charge. So by and by we sat,
      and so till noon. Then home to dinner, and in the afternoon some of us met
      again upon something relating to the victualling, and thence to my writing
      of letters late, and making my Alphabet to my new Navy book very pretty.
      And so after writing to my father by the post about the endeavour to come
      to a composition with my uncle, though a very bad one, desiring him to be
      contented therewith, I went home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). Up, and it being a very great frost, I walked to White
      Hall, and to my Lord Sandwich's by the fireside till chapel time, and so
      to chappell, where there preached little Dr. Duport, of Cambridge, upon
      Josiah's words,&mdash;"But I and my house, we will serve the Lord." But
      though a great scholler, he made the most flat dead sermon, both for
      matter and manner of delivery, that ever I heard, and very long beyond his
      hour, which made it worse. Thence with Mr. Creed to the King's Head
      ordinary, where we dined well, and after dinner Sir Thomas Willis and
      another stranger, and Creed and I, fell a-talking; they of the errours and
      corruption of the Navy, and great expence thereof, not knowing who I was,
      which at last I did undertake to confute, and disabuse them: and they took
      it very well, and I hope it was to good purpose, they being
      Parliament-men. By and by to my Lord's, and with him a good while talking
      upon his want of money, and ways of his borrowing some, &amp;c., and then
      by other visitants, I withdrew and away, Creed and I and Captn. Ferrers to
      the Park, and there walked finely, seeing people slide, we talking all the
      while; and Captn. Ferrers telling me, among other Court passages, how
      about a month ago, at a ball at Court, a child was dropped by one of the
      ladies in dancing, but nobody knew who, it being taken up by somebody in
      their handkercher. The next morning all the Ladies of Honour appeared
      early at Court for their vindication, so that nobody could tell whose this
      mischance should be. But it seems Mrs. Wells
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Winifred Wells, maid of honour to the Queen, who figures in the
     "Grammont Memoirs."  The king is supposed to have been father of the
     child.  A similar adventure is told of Mary Kirke (afterwards
     married to Sir Thomas Vernon), who figures in the "Grammont Memoirs"
     as Miss Warmestre.]
</pre>
    <p>
      fell sick that afternoon, and hath disappeared ever since, so that it is
      concluded that it was her. Another story was how my Lady Castlemaine, a
      few days since, had Mrs. Stuart to an entertainment, and at night began a
      frolique that they two must be married, and married they were, with ring
      and all other ceremonies of church service, and ribbands and a sack posset
      in bed, and flinging the stocking; but in the close, it is said that my
      Lady Castlemaine, who was the bridegroom, rose, and the King came and took
      her place with pretty Mrs. Stuart. This is said to be very true. Another
      story was how Captain Ferrers and W. Howe both have often, through my Lady
      Castlemaine's window, seen her go to bed and Sir Charles Barkeley in the
      chamber all the while with her. But the other day Captn. Ferrers going to
      Sir Charles to excuse his not being so timely at his arms the other day,
      Sir Charles swearing and cursing told him before a great many other
      gentlemen that he would not suffer any man of the King's Guards to be
      absent from his lodging a night without leave. Not but that, says he, once
      a week or so I know a gentleman must go..., and I am not for denying it to
      any man, but however he shall be bound to ask leave to lie abroad, and to
      give account of his absence, that we may know what guard the King has to
      depend upon. The little Duke of Monmouth, it seems, is ordered to take
      place of all Dukes, and so to follow Prince Rupert now, before the Duke of
      Buckingham, or any else. Whether the wind and the cold did cause it or no
      I know not, but having been this day or two mightily troubled with an
      itching all over my body' which I took to be a louse or two that might
      bite me, I found this afternoon that all my body is inflamed, and my face
      in a sad redness and swelling and pimpled, so that I was before we had
      done walking not only sick but ashamed of myself to see myself so changed
      in my countenance, so that after we had thus talked we parted and I walked
      home with much ado (Captn. Ferrers with me as far as Ludgate Hill towards
      Mr. Moore at the Wardrobe), the ways being so full of ice and water by
      peoples' trampling. At last got home and to bed presently, and had a very
      bad night of it, in great pain in my stomach, and in great fever.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Could not rise and go to the Duke, as I should have done with the
      rest, but keep my bed and by the Apothecary's advice, Mr. Battersby, I am
      to sweat soundly, and that will carry all this matter away which nature
      would of itself eject, but they will assist nature, it being some disorder
      given the blood, but by what I know not, unless it be by my late quantitys
      of Dantzic-girkins that I have eaten. In the evening came Sir J. Minnes
      and Sir W. Batten to see me, and Sir J. Minnes advises me to the same
      thing, but would not have me take anything from the apothecary, but from
      him, his Venice treacle being better than the others, which I did consent
      to and did anon take and fell into a great sweat, and about 10 or 11
      o'clock came out of it and shifted myself, and slept pretty well alone, my
      wife lying in the red chamber above.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. In the morning most of my disease, that is, itching and pimples,
      were gone. In the morning visited by Mr. Coventry and others, and very
      glad I am to see that I am so much inquired after and my sickness taken
      notice of as I did. I keep my bed all day and sweat again at night, by
      which I expect to be very well to-morrow. This evening Sir W. Warren came
      himself to the door and left a letter and box for me, and went his way.
      His letter mentions his giving me and my wife a pair of gloves; but,
      opening the box, we found a pair of plain white gloves for my hand, and a
      fair state dish of silver, and cup, with my arms, ready cut upon them,
      worth, I believe, about L18, which is a very noble present, and the best I
      ever had yet. So after some contentful talk with my wife, she to bed and I
      to rest.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Took a clyster in the morning and rose in the afternoon. My wife and
      I dined on a pullet and I eat heartily, having eat nothing since Sunday
      but water gruel and posset drink, but must needs say that our new maid
      Mary has played her part very well in her readiness and discretion in
      attending me, of which I am very glad. In the afternoon several people
      came to see me, my uncle Thomas, Mr. Creed, Sir J. Minnes (who has been,
      God knows to what end, mighty kind to me and careful of me in my
      sickness). At night my wife read Sir H. Vane's tryall to me, which she
      began last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, worth reading, and
      him to have been a very wise man. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up and find myself pretty well, and so to the office, and there all
      the morning. Rose at noon and home to dinner in my green chamber, having a
      good fire. Thither there came my wife's brother and brought Mary Ashwell
      with him, whom we find a very likely person to please us, both for person,
      discourse, and other qualitys. She dined with us, and after dinner went
      away again, being agreed to come to us about three weeks or a month hence.
      My wife and I well pleased with our choice, only I pray God I may be able
      to maintain it. Then came an old man from Mr. Povy, to give me some advice
      about his experience in the stone, which I [am] beholden to him for, and
      was well pleased with it, his chief remedy being Castle soap in a posset.
      Then in the evening to the office, late writing letters and my Journall
      since Saturday, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Lay very long with my wife in bed talking with great pleasure, and
      then rose. This morning Mr. Cole, our timber merchant, sent me five couple
      of ducks. Our maid Susan is very ill, and so the whole trouble of the
      house lies upon our maid Mary, who do it very contentedly and mighty well,
      but I am sorry she is forced to it. Dined upon one couple of ducks to-day,
      and after dinner my wife and I by coach to Tom's, and I to the Temple to
      discourse with my cozen Roger Pepys about my law business, and so back
      again, it being a monstrous thaw after the long great frost, so that there
      is no passing but by coach in the streets, and hardly that. Took my wife
      home, and I to my office. Find myself pretty well but fearful of cold, and
      so to my office, where late upon business; Mr. Bland sitting with me,
      talking of my Lord Windsor's being come home from Jamaica, unlooked-for;
      which makes us think that these young Lords are not fit to do any service
      abroad, though it is said that he could not have his health there, but
      hath razed a fort of the King of Spain upon Cuba, which is considerable,
      or said to be so, for his honour. So home to supper and to bed. This day I
      bought the second part of Dr. Bates's Elenchus, which reaches to the fall
      of Richard, and no further, for which I am sorry. This evening my wife had
      a great mind to choose Valentines against to-morrow, I Mrs. Clerke, or
      Pierce, she Mr. Hunt or Captain Ferrers, but I would not because of
      getting charge both to me for mine and to them for her, which did not
      please her.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up and to my office, where we met and sate all the morning, only Mr.
      Coventry, which I think is the first or second time he has missed since he
      came to the office, was forced to be absent. So home to dinner, my wife
      and I upon a couple of ducks, and then by coach to the Temple, where my
      uncle Thomas, and his sons both, and I, did meet at my cozen Roger's and
      there sign and seal to an agreement. Wherein I was displeased at nothing
      but my cozen Roger's insisting upon my being obliged to settle upon them
      as the will do all my uncle's estate that he has left, without power of
      selling any for the payment of debts, but I would not yield to it without
      leave of selling, my Lord Sandwich himself and my cozen Thos. Pepys being
      judges of the necessity thereof, which was done. One thing more that
      troubles me was my being forced to promise to give half of what personal
      estate could be found more than L372, which I reported to them, which
      though I do not know it to be less than what we really have found, yet he
      would have been glad to have been at liberty for that, but at last I did
      agree to it under my own handwriting on the backside of the report I did
      make and did give them of the estate, and have taken a copy of it upon the
      backside of one that I have. All being done I took the father and his son
      Thos. home by coach, and did pay them L30, the arrears of the father's
      annuity, and with great seeming love parted, and I presently to bed, my
      head akeing mightily with the hot dispute I did hold with my cozen Roger
      and them in the business.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). This morning my wife did wake me being frighted with
      the noise I made in my sleep, being a dream that one of our sea maisters
      did desire to see the St. John's Isle of my drawing, which methought I
      showed him, but methought he did handle it so hard that it put me to very
      horrid pain.... Which what a strange extravagant dream it was. So to sleep
      again and lay long in bed, and then trimmed by the barber, and so sending
      Will to church, myself staid at home, hanging up in my green chamber my
      picture of the Soveraigne, and putting some things in order there. So to
      dinner, to three more ducks and two teals, my wife and I. Then to Church,
      where a dull sermon, and so home, and after walking about the house awhile
      discoursing with my wife, I to my office there to set down something and
      to prepare businesses for tomorrow, having in the morning read over my
      vows, which through sicknesse I could not do the last Lord's day, and not
      through forgetfulness or negligence, so that I hope it is no breach of my
      vow not to pay my forfeiture. So home, and after prayers to bed, talking
      long with my wife and teaching her things in astronomy.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up and by coach with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes to White Hall,
      and, after we had done our usual business with the Duke, to my Lord
      Sandwich and by his desire to Sir W. Wheeler, who was brought down in a
      sedan chair from his chamber, being lame of the gout, to borrow L1000 of
      him for my Lord's occasions, but he gave me a very kind denial that he
      could not, but if any body else would, he would be bond with my Lord for
      it. So to Westminster Hall, and there find great expectation what the
      Parliament will do, when they come two days hence to sit again, in matters
      of religion. The great question is, whether the Presbyters will be
      contented to have the Papists have the same liberty of conscience with
      them, or no, or rather be denied it themselves: and the Papists, I hear,
      are very busy designing how to make the Presbyters consent to take their
      liberty, and to let them have the same with them, which some are apt to
      think they will. It seems a priest was taken in his vests officiating
      somewhere in Holborn the other day, and was committed by Secretary Morris,
      according to law; and they say the Bishop of London did give him thanks
      for it. Thence to my Lord Crew's and dined there, there being much
      company, and the above-said matter is now the present publique discourse.
      Thence about several businesses to Mr. Phillips my attorney, to stop all
      proceedings at law, and so to the Temple, where at the Solicitor General's
      I found Mr. Cholmely and Creed reading to him the agreement for him to put
      into form about the contract for the Mole at Tangier, which is done at
      13s. the Cubical yard, though upon my conscience not one of the Committee,
      besides the parties concerned, do understand what they do therein, whether
      they give too much or too little. Thence with Mr. Creed to see Mr. Moore,
      who continues sick still, within doors, and here I staid a good while
      after him talking of all the things either business or no that came into
      my mind, and so home and to see Sir W. Pen, and sat and played at cards
      with him, his daughter, and Mrs. Rooth, and so to my office a while, and
      then home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and to my office, and there we sat all the morning, and at noon
      my wife being gone to Chelsey with her brother and sister and Mrs. Lodum,
      to see the wassell at the school, where Mary Ashwell is, I took home Mr.
      Pett and he dined with me all alone, and much discourse we had upon the
      business of the office, and so after dinner broke up and with much ado, it
      raining hard, which it has not done a great while now, but only frost a
      great while, I got a coach and so to the Temple, where discoursed with Mr.
      W. Montagu about borrowing some money for my Lord, and so by water (where
      I have not been a good while through cold) to Westminster to Sir W.
      Wheeler's, whom I found busy at his own house with the Commissioners of
      Sewers, but I spoke to him about my Lord's business of borrowing money,
      and so to my Lord of Sandwich, to give him an account of all, whom I found
      at cards with Pickering; but he made an end soon: and so all alone, he and
      I, after I had given him an account, he told me he had a great secret to
      tell me, such as no flesh knew but himself, nor ought; which was this:
      that yesterday morning Eschar, Mr. Edward Montagu's man, did come to him
      from his master with some of the Clerks of the Exchequer, for my Lord to
      sign to their books for the Embassy money; which my Lord very civilly
      desired not to do till he had spoke with his master himself. In the
      afternoon, my Lord and my Lady Wright being at cards in his chamber, in
      comes Mr. Montagu; and desiring to speak with my Lord at the window in his
      chamber, he begun to charge my Lord with the greatest ingratitude in the
      world: that he that had received his earldom, garter, L4000 per annum, and
      whatever he is in the world, from him, should now study him all the
      dishonour that he could; and so fell to tell my Lord, that if he should
      speak all that he knew of him, he could do so and so. In a word, he did
      rip up all that could be said that was unworthy, and in the basest terms
      they could be spoken in. To which my Lord answered with great temper,
      justifying himself, but endeavouring to lessen his heat, which was a
      strange temper in him, knowing that he did owe all he hath in the world to
      my Lord, and that he is now all that he is by his means and favour. But my
      Lord did forbear to increase the quarrel, knowing that it would be to no
      good purpose for the world to see a difference in the family; but did
      allay him so as that he fell to weeping. And after much talk (among other
      things Mr. Montagu telling him that there was a fellow in the town, naming
      me, that had done ill offices, and that if he knew it to be so, he would
      have him cudgelled) my Lord did promise him that, if upon account he saw
      that there was not many tradesmen unpaid, he would sign the books; but if
      there was, he could not bear with taking too great a debt upon him. So
      this day he sent him an account, and a letter assuring him there was not
      above L200 unpaid; and so my Lord did sign to the Exchequer books. Upon
      the whole, I understand fully what a rogue he is, and how my Lord do think
      and will think of him for the future; telling me that thus he has served
      his father my Lord Manchester, and his whole family, and now himself: and
      which is worst, that he hath abused, and in speeches every day do abuse,
      my Lord Chancellor, whose favour he hath lost; and hath no friend but Sir
      H. Bennet, and that (I knowing the rise of the friendship) only from the
      likeness of their pleasures, and acquaintance, and concernments, they have
      in the same matters of lust and baseness; for which, God forgive them! But
      he do flatter himself, from promises of Sir H. Bennet, that he shall have
      a pension of L2000 per annum, and be made an Earl. My Lord told me he
      expected a challenge from him, but told me there was no great fear of him,
      for there was no man lies under such an imputation as he do in the
      business of Mr. Cholmely, who, though a simple sorry fellow, do brave him
      and struts before him with the Queen, to the sport and observation of the
      whole Court. He did keep my Lord at the window, thus reviling and braving
      him above an hour, my Lady Wright being by; but my Lord tells me she could
      not hear every word, but did well know what their discourse was; she could
      hear enough to know that. So that he commands me to keep it as the
      greatest secret in the world, and bids me beware of speaking words against
      Mr. Montagu, for fear I should suffer by his passion thereby. After he had
      told me this I took coach and home, where I found my wife come home and in
      bed with her sister in law in the chamber with her, she not being able to
      stay to see the wassel, being so ill..., which I was sorry for. Hither we
      sent for her sister's viall, upon which she plays pretty well for a girl,
      but my expectation is much deceived in her, not only for that, but in her
      spirit, she being I perceive a very subtle witty jade, and one that will
      give her husband trouble enough as little as she is, whereas I took her
      heretofore for a very child and a simple fool. I played also, which I have
      not done this long time before upon any instrument, and at last broke up
      and I to my office a little while, being fearful of being too much taken
      with musique, for fear of returning to my old dotage thereon, and so
      neglect my business as I used to do. Then home and to bed. Coming home I
      brought Mr. Pickering as far as the Temple, who tells me the story is very
      true of a child being dropped at the ball at Court; and that the King had
      it in his closett a week after, and did dissect it; and making great sport
      of it, said that in his opinion it must have been a month and three hours
      old; and that, whatever others think, he hath the greatest loss (it being
      a boy, as he says), that hath lost a subject by the business. He tells me,
      too, that the other story, of my Lady Castlemaine's and Stuart's marriage,
      is certain, and that it was in order to the King's coming to Stuart, as is
      believed generally. He tells me that Sir H. Bennet is a Catholique, and
      how all the Court almost is changed to the worse since his coming in, they
      being afeard of him. And that the Queen-Mother's Court is now the greatest
      of all; and that our own Queen hath little or no company come to her,
      which I know also to be very true, and am sorry to see it.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, leaving my wife sick as last night in bed. I to my office all
      the morning, casting up with Captain Cocke their accounts of 500 tons of
      hemp brought from Riga, and bought by him and partners upon account,
      wherein are many things worth my knowledge. So at noon to dinner, taking
      Mr. Hater with me because of losing them, and in the afternoon he and I
      alone at the office, finishing our account of the extra charge of the
      Navy, not properly belonging to the Navy, since the King's coming in to
      Christmas last; and all extra things being abated, I find that the true
      charge of the Navy to that time hath been after the rate of L374,743
      a-year. I made an end by eleven o'clock at night, and so home to bed
      almost weary. This day the Parliament met again, after their long
      prorogation; but I know not any thing what they have done, being within
      doors all day.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up and to my office, where abundance of business all the morning.
      Dined by my wife's bedside, she not being yet well. We fell out almost
      upon my discourse of delaying the having of Ashwell, where my wife
      believing that I have a mind to have Pall, which I have not, though I
      could wish she did deserve to be had. So to my office, where by and by we
      sat, this afternoon being the first we have met upon a great while, our
      times being changed because of the parliament sitting. Being rose, I to my
      office till twelve at night, drawing out copies of the overcharge of the
      Navy, one to send to Mr. Coventry early to-morrow. So home and to bed,
      being weary, sleepy, and my eyes begin to fail me, looking so long by
      candlelight upon white paper. This day I read the King's speech to the
      Parliament yesterday; which is very short, and not very obliging; but only
      telling them his desire to have a power of indulging tender consciences,
      not that he will yield to have any mixture in the uniformity of the
      Church's discipline; and says the same for the Papists, but declares
      against their ever being admitted to have any offices or places of trust
      in the kingdom; but, God knows, too many have.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and by water with Commissioner Pett to Deptford, and there looked
      over the yard, and had a call, wherein I am very highly pleased with our
      new manner of call-books, being my invention. Thence thinking to have gone
      down to Woolwich in the Charles pleasure boat, but she run aground, it
      being almost low water, and so by oars to the town, and there dined, and
      then to the yard at Mr. Ackworth's, discoursing with the officers of the
      yard about their stores of masts, which was our chief business, and having
      done something therein, took boat and to the pleasure boat, which was come
      down to fetch us back, and I could have been sick if I would in going, the
      wind being very fresh, but very pleasant it was, and the first time I have
      sailed in any one of them. It carried us to Cuckold's Point, and so by
      oars to the Temple, it raining hard, where missed speaking with my cosen
      Roger, and so walked home and to my office; there spent the night till bed
      time, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up and to the office, where Sir J. Minnes (most of the rest being at
      the Parliament-house), all the morning answering petitions and other
      business. Towards noon there comes a man in as if upon ordinary business,
      and shows me a writ from the Exchequer, called a Commission of Rebellion,
      and tells me that I am his prisoner in Field's business; which methought
      did strike me to the heart, to think that we could not sit in the middle
      of the King's business. I told him how and where we were employed, and bid
      him have a care; and perceiving that we were busy, he said he would, and
      did withdraw for an hour: in which time Sir J. Minnes took coach and to
      Court, to see what he could do from thence; and our solicitor against
      Field came by chance and told me that he would go and satisfy the fees of
      the Court, and would end the business. So he went away about that, and I
      staid in my closett, till by and by the man and four more of his fellows
      came to know what I would do; I told them stay till I heard from the King
      or my Lord Chief Baron, to both whom I had now sent. With that they
      consulted, and told me that if I would promise to stay in the house they
      would go and refresh themselves, and come again, and know what answer I
      had: so they away, and I home to dinner, whither by chance comes Mr.
      Hawley and dined with me. Before I had dined, the bayleys come back again
      with the constable, and at the office knock for me, but found me not
      there; and I hearing in what manner they were come, did forbear letting
      them know where I was; so they stood knocking and enquiring for me. By and
      by at my parler-window comes Sir W. Batten's Mungo, to tell me that his
      master and lady would have me come to their house through Sir J. Minnes's
      lodgings, which I could not do; but, however, by ladders, did get over the
      pale between our yards, and so to their house, where I found them (as they
      have reason) to be much concerned for me, my lady especially. The fellows
      staid in the yard swearing with one or two constables, and some time we
      locked them into the yard, and by and by let them out again, and so kept
      them all the afternoon, not letting them see me, or know where I was. One
      time I went up to the top of Sir W. Batten's house, and out of one of
      their windows spoke to my wife out of one of ours; which methought, though
      I did it in mirth, yet I was sad to think what a sad thing it would be for
      me to be really in that condition. By and by comes Sir J. Minnes, who
      (like himself and all that he do) tells us that he can do no good, but
      that my Lord Chancellor wonders that we did not cause the seamen to fall
      about their ears: which we wished we could have done without our being
      seen in it; and Captain Grove being there, he did give them some affront,
      and would have got some seamen to have drubbed them, but he had not time,
      nor did we think it fit to have done it, they having executed their
      commission; but there was occasion given that he did draw upon one of them
      and he did complain that Grove had pricked him in the breast, but no hurt
      done; but I see that Grove would have done our business to them if we had
      bid him. By and by comes Mr. Clerke, our solicitor, who brings us a
      release from our adverse atturney, we paying the fees of the commission,
      which comes to five marks, and pay the charges of these fellows, which are
      called the commissioners, but are the most rake-shamed rogues that ever I
      saw in my life; so he showed them this release, and they seemed satisfied,
      and went away with him to their atturney to be paid by him. But before
      they went, Sir W. Batten and my lady did begin to taunt them, but the
      rogues answered them as high as themselves, and swore they would come
      again, and called me rogue and rebel, and they would bring the sheriff and
      untile his house, before he should harbour a rebel in his house, and that
      they would be here again shortly. Well, at last they went away, and I by
      advice took occasion to go abroad, and walked through the street to show
      myself among the neighbours, that they might not think worse than the
      business is. Being met by Captn. Taylor and Bowry, whose ship we have
      hired for Tangier, they walked along with me to Cornhill talking about
      their business, and after some difference about their prices we agreed,
      and so they would have me to a tavern, and there I drank one glass of wine
      and discoursed of something about freight of a ship that may bring me a
      little money, and so broke up, and I home to Sir W. Batten's again, where
      Sir J. Lawson, Captain Allen, Spragg, and several others, and all our
      discourse about the disgrace done to our office to be liable to this
      trouble, which we must get removed. Hither comes Mr. Clerke by and by, and
      tells me that he hath paid the fees of the Court for the commission; but
      the men are not contented with under; L5 for their charges, which he will
      not give them, and therefore advises me not to stir abroad till Monday
      that he comes or sends to me again, whereby I shall not be able to go to
      White Hall to the Duke of York, as I ought. Here I staid vexing, and yet
      pleased to see every body, man and woman, my Lady and Mr. Turner
      especially, for me, till 10 at night; and so home, where my people are
      mightily surprized to see this business, but it troubles me not very much,
      it being nothing touching my particular person or estate. Being in talk
      to-day with Sir W. Batten he tells me that little is done yet in the
      Parliament-house, but only this day it was moved and ordered that all the
      members of the House do subscribe to the renouncing of the Covenant, which
      is thought will try some of them. There is also a bill brought in for the
      wearing of nothing but cloth or stuffs of our own manufacture, and is
      likely to be passed. Among other talk this evening, my lady did speak
      concerning Commissioner Pett's calling the present King bastard, and other
      high words heretofore; and Sir W. Batten did tell us, that he did give the
      Duke or Mr. Coventry an account of that and other like matters in writing
      under oath, of which I was ashamed, and for which I was sorry, but I see
      there is an absolute hatred never to be altered there, and Sir J. Minnes,
      the old coxcomb, has got it by the end, which troubles me for the sake of
      the King's service, though I do truly hate the expressions laid to him. To
      my office and set down this day's journall, and so home with my mind out
      of order, though not very sad with it, but ashamed for myself something,
      and for the honour of the office much more. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22d (Lord's day). Lay long in bed and went not out all day; but after
      dinner to Sir W. Batten's and Sir W. Pen's, where discoursing much of
      yesterday's trouble and scandal; but that which troubled me most was Sir
      J. Minnes coming from Court at night, and instead of bringing great
      comfort from thence (but I expected no better from him), he tells me that
      the Duke and Mr. Coventry make no great matter of it. So at night
      discontented to prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23d. Up by times; and not daring to go by land, did (Griffin going along
      with me for fear), slip to White Hall by water; where to Mr. Coventry,
      and, as we used to do, to the Duke; the other of my fellows being come.
      But we said nothing of our business, the Duke being sent for to the King,
      that he could not stay to speak with us. This morning came my Lord Windsor
      to kiss the Duke's hand, being returned from Jamaica. He tells the Duke,
      that from such a degree of latitude going thither he begun to be sick, and
      was never well till his coming so far back again, and then presently begun
      to be well. He told the Duke of their taking the fort of St. Jago, upon
      Cuba, by his men; but, upon the whole, I believe that he did matters like
      a young lord, and was weary of being upon service out of his own country,
      where he might have pleasure. For methought it was a shame to see him this
      very afternoon, being the first day of his coming to town, to be at a
      playhouse. Thence to my Lord Sandwich, who though he has been abroad again
      two or three days is falling ill again, and is let blood this morning,
      though I hope it is only a great cold that he has got. It was a great
      trouble to me (and I had great apprehensions of it) that my Lord desired
      me to go to Westminster Hall, to the Parliament-house door, about
      business; and to Sir Wm. Wheeler, which I told him I would do, but durst
      not go for fear of being taken by these rogues; but was forced to go to
      White Hall and take boat, and so land below the Tower at the Iron-gate;
      and so the back way over Little Tower Hill; and with my cloak over my
      face, took one of the watermen along with me, and staid behind a wall in
      the New-buildings behind our garden, while he went to see whether any body
      stood within the Merchants' Gate, under which we pass to go into our
      garden, and there standing but a little dirty boy before the gate, did
      make me quake and sweat to think he might be a Trepan. But there was
      nobody, and so I got safe into the garden, and coming to open my office
      door, something behind it fell in the opening, which made me start. So
      that God knows in what a sad condition I should be in if I were truly in
      the condition that many a poor man is for debt: and therefore ought to
      bless God that I have no such reall reason, and to endeavour to keep
      myself, by my good deportment and good husbandry, out of any such
      condition. At home I found Mr. Creed with my wife, and so he dined with
      us, I finding by a note that Mr. Clerke in my absence hath left here, that
      I am free; and that he hath stopped all matters in Court; I was very glad
      of it, and immediately had a light thought of taking pleasure to rejoice
      my heart, and so resolved to take my wife to a play at Court to-night, and
      the rather because it is my birthday, being this day thirty years old, for
      which let me praise God. While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked
      out to see what play was acted to-day, and we find it "The Slighted
      Mayde." But, Lord! to see that though I did know myself to be out of
      danger, yet I durst not go through the street, but round by the garden
      into Tower Street. By and by took coach, and to the Duke's house, where we
      saw it well acted, though the play hath little good in it, being most
      pleased to see the little girl dance in boy's apparel, she having very
      fine legs, only bends in the hams, as I perceive all women do. The play
      being done, we took coach and to Court, and there got good places, and saw
      "The Wilde Gallant," performed by the King's house, but it was ill acted,
      and the play so poor a thing as I never saw in my life almost, and so
      little answering the name, that from beginning to end, I could not, nor
      can at this time, tell certainly which was the Wild Gallant. The King did
      not seem pleased at all, all the whole play, nor any body else, though Mr.
      Clerke whom we met here did commend it to us. My Lady Castlemaine was all
      worth seeing tonight, and little Steward.&mdash;[Mrs. Stuart]&mdash;Mrs.
      Wells do appear at Court again, and looks well; so that, it may be, the
      late report of laying the dropped child to her was not true. It being
      done, we got a coach and got well home about 12 at night. Now as my mind
      was but very ill satisfied with these two plays themselves, so was I in
      the midst of them sad to think of the spending so much money and venturing
      upon the breach of my vow, which I found myself sorry for, I bless God,
      though my nature would well be contented to follow the pleasure still. But
      I did make payment of my forfeiture presently, though I hope to save it
      back again by forbearing two plays at Court for this one at the Theatre,
      or else to forbear that to the Theatre which I am to have at Easter. But
      it being my birthday and my day of liberty regained to me, and lastly, the
      last play that is likely to be acted at Court before Easter, because of
      the Lent coming in, I was the easier content to fling away so much money.
      So to bed. This day I was told that my Lady Castlemaine hath all the
      King's Christmas presents, made him by the peers, given to her, which is a
      most abominable thing; and that at the great ball she was much richer in
      jewells than the Queen and Duchess put both together.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Slept hard till 8 o'clock, then waked by Mr. Clerke's being come to
      consult me about Field's business, which we did by calling him up to my
      bedside, and he says we shall trounce him. Then up, and to the office, and
      at 11 o'clock by water to Westminster, and to Sir W. Wheeler's about my
      Lord's borrowing of money that I was lately upon with him, and then to my
      Lord, who continues ill, but will do well I doubt not. Among other things,
      he tells me that he hears the Commons will not agree to the King's late
      declaration, nor will yield that the Papists have any ground given them to
      raise themselves up again in England, which I perceive by my Lord was
      expected at Court. Thence home again by water presently, and with a bad
      dinner, being not looked for, to the office, and there we sat, and then
      Captn. Cocke and I upon his hemp accounts till 9 at night, and then, I not
      very well, home to supper and to bed. My late distemper of heat and
      itching being come upon me again, so that I must think of sweating again
      as I did before.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up and to my office, where with Captain Cocke making an end of his
      last night's accounts till noon, and so home to dinner, my wife being come
      in from laying out about L4 in provision of several things against Lent.
      In the afternoon to the Temple, my brother's, the Wardrobe, to Mr. Moore,
      and other places, called at about small businesses, and so at night home
      to my office and then to supper and to bed. The Commons in Parliament, I
      hear, are very high to stand to the Act of Uniformity, and will not
      indulge the Papists (which is endeavoured by the Court Party) nor the
      Presbyters.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up and drinking a draft of wormewood wine with Sir W. Batten at the
      Steelyard, he and I by water to the Parliament-house: he went in, and I
      walked up and down the Hall. All the news is the great odds yesterday in
      the votes between them that are for the Indulgence to the Papists and
      Presbyters, and those that are against it, which did carry it by 200
      against 30. And pretty it is to consider how the King would appear to be a
      stiff Protestant and son of the Church; and yet would appear willing to
      give a liberty to these people, because of his promise at Breda. And yet
      all the world do believe that the King would not have this liberty given
      them at all. Thence to my Lord's, who, I hear, has his ague again, for
      which I am sorry, and Creed and I to the King's Head ordinary, where much
      good company. Among the rest a young gallant lately come from France, who
      was full of his French, but methought not very good, but he had enough to
      make him think himself a wise man a great while. Thence by water from the
      New Exchange home to the Tower, and so sat at the office, and then writing
      letters till 11 at night. Troubled this evening that my wife is not come
      home from Chelsey, whither she is gone to see the play at the school where
      Ashwell is, but she came at last, it seems, by water, and tells me she is
      much pleased with Ashwell's acting and carriage, which I am glad of. So
      home and to supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up and to my office, whither several persons came to me about office
      business. About 11 o'clock, Commissioner Pett and I walked to Chyrurgeon's
      Hall (we being all invited thither, and promised to dine there); where we
      were led into the Theatre; and by and by comes the reader, Dr. Tearne,
      with the Master and Company, in a very handsome manner: and all being
      settled, he begun his lecture, this being the second upon the kidneys,
      ureters, &amp;c., which was very fine; and his discourse being ended, we
      walked into the Hall, and there being great store of company, we had a
      fine dinner and good learned company, many Doctors of Phisique, and we
      used with extraordinary great respect. Among other observables we drank
      the King's health out of a gilt cup given by King Henry VIII. to this
      Company, with bells hanging at it, which every man is to ring by shaking
      after he hath drunk up the whole cup. There is also a very excellent piece
      of the King, done by Holbein, stands up in the Hall, with the officers of
      the Company kneeling to him to receive their Charter. After dinner Dr.
      Scarborough took some of his friends, and I went along with them, to see
      the body alone, which we did, which was a lusty fellow, a seaman, that was
      hanged for a robbery. I did touch the dead body with my bare hand: it felt
      cold, but methought it was a very unpleasant sight. It seems one Dillon,
      of a great family, was, after much endeavours to have saved him, hanged
      with a silken halter this Sessions (of his own preparing), not for honour
      only, but it seems, it being soft and sleek, it do slip close and kills,
      that is, strangles presently: whereas, a stiff one do not come so close
      together, and so the party may live the longer before killed. But all the
      Doctors at table conclude, that there is no pain at all in hanging, for
      that it do stop the circulation of the blood; and so stops all sense and
      motion in an instant. Thence we went into a private room, where I perceive
      they prepare the bodies, and there were the kidneys, ureters [&amp;c.],
      upon which he read to-day, and Dr. Scarborough upon my desire and the
      company's did show very clearly the manner of the disease of the stone and
      the cutting and all other questions that I could think of... how the water
      [comes] into the bladder through the three skins or coats just as poor Dr.
      Jolly has heretofore told me. Thence with great satisfaction to me back to
      the Company, where I heard good discourse, and so to the afternoon Lecture
      upon the heart and lungs, &amp;c., and that being done we broke up, took
      leave, and back to the office, we two, Sir W. Batten, who dined here also,
      being gone before. Here late, and to Sir W. Batten's to speak upon some
      business, where I found Sir J. Minnes pretty well fuddled I thought: he
      took me aside to tell me how being at my Lord Chancellor's to-day, my Lord
      told him that there was a Great Seal passing for Sir W. Pen, through the
      impossibility of the Comptroller's duty to be performed by one man; to be
      as it were joynt-comptroller with him, at which he is stark mad; and
      swears he will give up his place, and do rail at Sir W. Pen the cruellest;
      he I made shift to encourage as much as I could, but it pleased me
      heartily to hear him rail against him, so that I do see thoroughly that
      they are not like to be great friends, for he cries out against him for
      his house and yard and God knows what. For my part, I do hope, when all is
      done, that my following my business will keep me secure against all their
      envys. But to see how the old man do strut, and swear that he understands
      all his duty as easily as crack a nut, and easier, he told my Lord
      Chancellor, for his teeth are gone; and that he understands it as well as
      any man in England; and that he will never leave to record that he should
      be said to be unable to do his duty alone; though, God knows, he cannot do
      it more than a child. All this I am glad to see fall out between them and
      myself safe, and yet I hope the King's service well done for all this, for
      I would not that should be hindered by any of our private differences. So
      to my office, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Waked with great pain in my right ear (which I find myself much
      subject to) having taken cold. Up and to my office, where we sat all the
      morning, and I dined with Sir W. Batten by chance, being in business
      together about a bargain of New England masts. Then to the Temple to meet
      my uncle Thomas, who I found there, but my cozen Roger not being come home
      I took boat and to Westminster, where I found him in Parliament this
      afternoon. The House have this noon been with the King to give him their
      reasons for refusing to grant any indulgence to Presbyters or Papists;
      which he, with great content and seeming pleasure, took, saying, that he
      doubted not but he and they should agree in all things, though there may
      seem a difference in judgement, he having writ and declared for an
      indulgence: and that he did believe never prince was happier in a House of
      Commons, than he was in them. Thence he and I to my Lord Sandwich, who
      continues troubled with his cold. Our discourse most upon the outing of
      Sir R. Bernard, and my Lord's being made Recorder of Huntingdon in his
      stead, which he seems well contented with, saying, that it may be for his
      convenience to have the chief officer of the town dependent upon him,
      which is very true. Thence he and I to the Temple, but my uncle being gone
      we parted, and I walked home, and to my office, and at nine o'clock had a
      good supper of an oxe's cheek, of my wife's dressing and baking, and so to
      my office again till past eleven at night, making up my month's account,
      and find that I am at a stay with what I was last, that is L640. So home
      and to bed. Coming by, I put in at White Hall, and at the Privy Seal I did
      see the docquet by which Sir W. Pen is made the Comptroller's assistant,
      as Sir J. Minnes told me last night, which I must endeavour to prevent.
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    <p>
      March 1st (Lord's day). Up and walked to White Hall, to the Chappell,
      where preached one Dr. Lewes, said heretofore to have been a great witt;
      but he read his sermon every word, and that so brokenly and so low, that
      nobody could hear at any distance, nor I anything worth hearing that sat
      near. But, which was strange, he forgot to make any prayer before sermon,
      which all wonder at, but they impute it to his forgetfulness. After sermon
      a very fine anthem; so I up into the house among the courtiers, seeing the
      fine ladies, and, above all, my Lady Castlemaine, who is above all, that
      only she I can observe for true beauty. The King and Queen being set to
      dinner I went to Mr. Fox's, and there dined with him. Much genteel
      company, and, among other things, I hear for certain that peace is
      concluded between the King of France and the Pope; and also I heard the
      reasons given by our Parliament yesterday to the King why they dissent
      from him in matter of Indulgence, which are very good quite through, and
      which I was glad to hear. Thence to my Lord Sandwich, who continues with a
      great cold, locked up; and, being alone, we fell into discourse of my
      uncle the Captain's death and estate, and I took the opportunity of
      telling my Lord how matters stand, and read his will, and told him all,
      what a poor estate he hath left, at all which he wonders strangely, which
      he may well do. Thence after singing some new tunes with W. Howe I walked
      home, whither came Will. Joyce, whom I have not seen here a great while,
      nor desire it a great while again, he is so impertinent a coxcomb, and yet
      good natured, and mightily concerned for my brother's late folly in his
      late wooing at the charge to no purpose, nor could in any probability
      expect it. He gone, we all to bed, without prayers, it being washing day
      to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up early and by water with Commissioner Pett to Deptford, and there
      took the Jemmy yacht (that the King and the Lords virtuosos built the
      other day) down to Woolwich, where we discoursed of several matters both
      there and at the Ropeyard, and so to the yacht again, and went down four
      or five miles with extraordinary pleasure, it being a fine day, and a
      brave gale of wind, and had some oysters brought us aboard newly taken,
      which were excellent, and ate with great pleasure. There also coming into
      the river two Dutchmen, we sent a couple of men on board and bought three
      Hollands cheeses, cost 4d. a piece, excellent cheeses, whereof I had two
      and Commissioner Pett one. So back again to Woolwich, and going aboard the
      Hulke to see the manner of the iron bridles, which we are making of for to
      save cordage to put to the chain, I did fall from the shipside into the
      ship (Kent), and had like to have broke my left hand, but I only sprained
      some of my fingers, which, when I came ashore I sent to Mrs. Ackworth for
      some balsam, and put to my hand, and was pretty well within a little while
      after. We dined at the White Hart with several officers with us, and after
      dinner went and saw the Royal James brought down to the stern of the Docke
      (the main business we came for), and then to the Ropeyard, and saw a trial
      between Riga hemp and a sort of Indian grass, which is pretty strong, but
      no comparison between it and the other for strength, and it is doubtful
      whether it will take tarre or no. So to the yacht again, and carried us
      almost to London, so by our oars home to the office, and thence Mr. Pett
      and I to Mr. Grant's coffee-house, whither he and Sir J. Cutler came to us
      and had much discourse, mixed discourse, and so broke up, and so home
      where I found my poor wife all alone at work, and the house foul, it being
      washing day, which troubled me, because that tomorrow I must be forced to
      have friends at dinner. So to my office, and then home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Shrove Tuesday). Up and walked to the Temple, and by promise calling
      Commissioner Pett, he and I to White Hall to give Mr. Coventry an account
      of what we did yesterday. Thence I to the Privy Seal Office, and there got
      a copy of Sir W. Pen's grant to be assistant to Sir J. Minnes,
      Comptroller, which, though there be not much in it, yet I intend to stir
      up Sir J. Minnes to oppose, only to vex Sir W. Pen. Thence by water home,
      and at noon, by promise, Mrs. Turner and her daughter, and Mrs. Morrice,
      came along with Roger Pepys to dinner. We were as merry as I could be,
      having but a bad dinner for them; but so much the better, because of the
      dinner which I must have at the end of this month. And here Mrs. The.
      shewed me my name upon her breast as her Valentine, which will cost me
      20s. After dinner I took them down into the wine-cellar, and broached my
      tierce of claret for them. Towards the evening we parted, and I to the
      office awhile, and then home to supper and to bed, the sooner having taken
      some cold yesterday upon the water, which brings me my usual pain. This
      afternoon Roger Pepys tells me, that for certain the King is for all this
      very highly incensed at the Parliament's late opposing the Indulgence;
      which I am sorry for, and fear it will breed great discontent.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Lay long talking with my wife about ordering things in our family,
      and then rose and to my office, there collecting an alphabet for my Navy
      Manuscript, which, after a short dinner, I returned to and by night
      perfected to my great content. So to other business till 9 at night, and
      so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Rose this morning early, only to try with intention to begin my last
      summer's course in rising betimes. So to my office a little, and then to
      Westminster by coach with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, in our way
      talking of Sir W. Pen's business of his patent, which I think I have put a
      stop to wholly, for Sir J. Minnes swears he will never consent to it. Here
      to the Lobby, and spoke with my cozen Roger, who is going to Cambridge
      to-morrow. In the Hall I do hear that the Catholiques are in great hopes
      for all this, and do set hard upon the King to get Indulgence. Matters, I
      hear, are all naught in Ireland, and that the Parliament has voted, and
      the people, that is, the Papists, do cry out against the Commissioners
      sent by the King; so that they say the English interest will be lost
      there. Thence I went to see my Lord Sandwich, who I found very ill, and by
      his cold being several nights hindered from sleep, he is hardly able to
      open his eyes, and is very weak and sad upon it, which troubled me much.
      So after talking with Mr. Cooke, whom I found there, about his folly for
      looking and troubling me and other friends in getting him a place (that
      is, storekeeper of the Navy at Tangier) before there is any such thing, I
      returned to the Hall, and thence back with the two knights home again by
      coach, where I found Mr. Moore got abroad, and dined with me, which I was
      glad to see, he having not been able to go abroad a great while. Then came
      in Mr. Hawley and dined with us, and after dinner I left them, and to the
      office, where we sat late, and I do find that I shall meet with nothing to
      oppose my growing great in the office but Sir W. Pen, who is now well
      again, and comes into the office very brisk, and, I think, to get up his
      time that he has been out of the way by being mighty diligent at the
      office, which, I pray God, he may be, but I hope by mine to weary him out,
      for I am resolved to fall to business as hard as I can drive, God giving
      me health. At my office late, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up betimes, and about eight o'clock by coach with four horses, with
      Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, to Woolwich, a pleasant day. There at the
      yard we consulted and ordered several matters, and thence to the rope yard
      and did the like, and so into Mr. Falconer's, where we had some fish,
      which we brought with us, dressed; and there dined with us his new wife,
      which had been his mayde, but seems to be a genteel woman, well enough
      bred and discreet. Thence after dinner back to Deptford, where we did as
      before, and so home, good discourse in our way, Sir J. Minnes being good
      company, though a simple man enough as to the business of his office, but
      we did discourse at large again about Sir W. Pen's patent to be his
      assistant, and I perceive he is resolved never to let it pass. To my
      office, and thence to Sir W. Batten's, where Major Holmes was lately come
      from the Streights, but do tell me strange stories of the faults of Cooper
      his master, put in by me, which I do not believe, but am sorry to hear and
      must take some course to have him removed, though I believe that the
      Captain is proud, and the fellow is not supple enough to him. So to my
      office again to set down my Journall, and so home and to bed. This evening
      my boy Waynman's brother was with me, and I did tell him again that I must
      part with the boy, for I will not keep him. He desires my keeping him a
      little longer till he can provide for him, which I am willing for a while
      to do. This day it seems the House of Commons have been very high against
      the Papists, being incensed by the stir which they make for their having
      an Indulgence; which, without doubt, is a great folly in them to be so hot
      upon at this time, when they see how averse already the House have showed
      themselves from it. This evening Mr. Povy was with me at my office, and
      tells me that my Lord Sandwich is this day so ill that he is much afeard
      of him, which puts me to great pain, not more for my own sake than for his
      poor family's.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up betimes, and to the office, where some of us sat all the morning.
      At noon Sir W. Pen began to talk with me like a counterfeit rogue very
      kindly about his house and getting bills signed for all our works, but he
      is a cheating fellow, and so I let him talk and answered nothing. So we
      parted. I to dinner, and there met The. Turner, who is come on foot in a
      frolique to beg me to get a place at sea for John, their man, which is a
      rogue; but, however, it may be, the sea may do him good in reclaiming him,
      and therefore I will see what I can do. She dined with me; and after
      dinner I took coach, and carried her home; in our way, in Cheapside,
      lighting and giving her a dozen pair of white gloves as my Valentine.
      Thence to my Lord Sandwich, who is gone to Sir W. Wheeler's for his more
      quiet being, where he slept well last night, and I took him very merry,
      playing at cards, and much company with him. So I left him, and Creed and
      I to Westminster Hall, and there walked a good while. He told me how for
      some words of my Lady Gerard's
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Jane, wife of Lord Gerard (see ante, January 1st, 1662-63).  The
     king had previously put a slight upon Lady Gerard, probably at the
     instigation of Lady Castlemaine, as the two ladies were not friends.
     On the 4th of January of this same year Lady Gerard had given a
     supper to the king and queen, when the king withdrew from the party
     and proceeded to the house of Lady Castlemaine, and remained there
     throughout the evening (see Steinman's "Memoir of Barbara, Duchess
     of Cleveland," 1871, p. 47).]
</pre>
    <p>
      against my Lady Castlemaine to the Queen, the King did the other day
      affront her in going out to dance with her at a ball, when she desired it
      as the ladies do, and is since forbid attending the Queen by the King;
      which is much talked of, my Lord her husband being a great favourite.
      Thence by water home and to my office, wrote by the post and so home to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). Being sent to by Sir J. Minnes to know whether I would
      go with him to White Hall to-day, I rose but could not get ready before he
      was gone, but however I walked thither and heard Dr. King, Bishop of
      Chichester, make a good and eloquent sermon upon these words, "They that
      sow in tears, shall reap in joy." Thence (the chappell in Lent being hung
      with black, and no anthem sung after sermon, as at other times), to my
      Lord Sandwich at Sir W. Wheeler's. I found him out of order, thinking
      himself to be in a fit of an ague, but in the afternoon he was very
      cheery. I dined with Sir William, where a good but short dinner, not
      better than one of mine commonly of a Sunday. After dinner up to my Lord,
      there being Mr. Kumball. My Lord, among other discourse, did tell us of
      his great difficultys passed in the business of the Sound, and of his
      receiving letters from the King there, but his sending them by Whetstone
      was a great folly; and the story how my Lord being at dinner with Sydney,
      one of his fellow plenipotentiarys and his mortal enemy, did see
      Whetstone, and put off his hat three times to him, but the fellow would
      not be known, which my Lord imputed to his coxcombly humour (of which he
      was full), and bid Sydney take notice of him too, when at the very time he
      had letters in his pocket from the King, as it proved afterwards. And
      Sydney afterwards did find it out at Copenhagen, the Dutch Commissioners
      telling him how my Lord Sandwich had hired one of their ships to carry
      back Whetstone to Lubeck, he being come from Flanders from the King. But I
      cannot but remember my Lord's aequanimity in all these affairs with
      admiration. Thence walked home, in my way meeting Mr. Moore, with whom I
      took a turn or two in the street among the drapers in Paul's Churchyard,
      talking of business, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up betimes, to my office, where all the morning. About noon Sir J.
      Robinson, Lord Mayor, desiring way through the garden from the Tower,
      called in at the office and there invited me (and Sir W. Pen, who happened
      to be in the way) to dinner, which we did; and there had a great Lent
      dinner of fish, little flesh. And thence he and I in his coach, against my
      will (for I am resolved to shun too great fellowship with him) to White
      Hall, but came too late, the Duke having been with our fellow officers
      before we came, for which I was sorry. Thence he and I to walk one turn in
      the Park, and so home by coach, and I to my office, where late, and so
      home to supper and bed. There dined with us to-day Mr. Slingsby, of the
      Mint, who showed us all the new pieces both gold and silver (examples of
      them all), that are made for the King, by Blondeau's' way; and compared
      them with those made for Oliver. The pictures of the latter made by
      Symons, and of the King by one Rotyr, a German, I think, that dined with
      us also. He extolls those of Rotyr's above the others; and, indeed, I
      think they are the better, because the sweeter of the two; but, upon my
      word, those of the Protector are more like in my mind, than the King's,
      but both very well worth seeing. The crowns of Cromwell are now sold, it
      seems, for 25s. and 30s. apiece.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and to my office all the morning, and great pleasure it is to be
      doing my business betimes. About noon Sir J. Minnes came to me and staid
      half an hour with me in my office talking about his business with Sir W.
      Pen, and (though with me an old doter) yet he told me freely how sensible
      he is of Sir W. Pen's treachery in this business, and what poor ways he
      has taken all along to ingratiate himself by making Mr. Turner write out
      things for him and then he gives them to the Duke, and how he directed him
      to give Mr. Coventry L100 for his place, but that Mr. Coventry did give
      him L20 back again. All this I am pleased to hear that his knavery is
      found out. Dined upon a poor Lenten dinner at home, my wife being vexed at
      a fray this morning with my Lady Batten about my boy's going thither to
      turn the watercock with their maydes' leave, but my Lady was mighty high
      upon it and she would teach his mistress better manners, which my wife
      answered aloud that she might hear, that she could learn little manners of
      her. After dinner to my office, and there we sat all the afternoon till 8
      at night, and so wrote my letters by the post and so before 9 home, which
      is rare with me of late, I staying longer, but with multitude of business
      my head akes, and so I can stay no longer, but home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up betimes, and to my office, walked a little in the garden with Sir
      W. Batten, talking about the difference between his Lady and my wife
      yesterday, and I doubt my wife is to blame. About noon had news by Mr.
      Wood that Butler, our chief witness against Field, was sent by him to New
      England contrary to our desire, which made me mad almost; and so Sir J.
      Minnes, Sir W. Pen, and I dined together at Trinity House, and thither
      sent for him to us and told him our minds, which he seemed not to value
      much, but went away. I wrote and sent an express to Walthamstow to Sir W.
      Pen, who is gone thither this morning, to tell him of it. However, in the
      afternoon Wood sends us word that he has appointed another to go, who
      shall overtake the ship in the Downes. So I was late at the office, among
      other things writing to the Downes, to the Commander-in-Chief, and putting
      things into the surest course I could to help the business. So home and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up betimes and to my office all the morning with Captain Cocke
      ending their account of their Riga contract for hemp. So home to dinner,
      my head full of business against the office. After dinner comes my uncle
      Thomas with a letter to my father, wherein, as we desire, he and his son
      do order their tenants to pay their rents to us, which pleases me well. In
      discourse he tells me my uncle Wight thinks much that I do never see them,
      and they have reason, but I do apprehend that they have been too far
      concerned with my uncle Thomas against us, so that I have had no mind
      hitherto, but now I shall go see them. He being gone, I to the office,
      where at the choice of maisters and chyrurgeons for the fleet now going
      out, I did my business as I could wish, both for the persons I had a mind
      to serve, and in getting the warrants signed drawn by my clerks, which I
      was afeard of. Sat late, and having done I went home, where I found Mary
      Ashwell come to live with us, of whom I hope well, and pray God she may
      please us, which, though it cost me something, yet will give me much
      content. So to supper and to bed, and find by her discourse and carriage
      to-night that she is not proud, but will do what she is bid, but for want
      of being abroad knows not how to give the respect to her mistress, as she
      will do when she is told it, she having been used only to little children,
      and there was a kind of a mistress over them. Troubled all night with my
      cold, I being quite hoarse with it that I could not speak to be heard at
      all almost.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up pretty early and to my office all the morning busy. At noon home
      to dinner expecting Ashwell's father, who was here in the morning and
      promised to come but he did not, but there came in Captain Grove, and I
      found him to be a very stout man, at least in his discourse he would be
      thought so, and I do think that he is, and one that bears me great respect
      and deserves to be encouraged for his care in all business. Abroad by
      water with my wife and Ashwell, and left them at Mr. Pierce's, and I to
      Whitehall and St. James's Park (there being no Commission for Tangier
      sitting to-day as I looked for) where I walked an hour or two with great
      pleasure, it being a most pleasant day. So to Mrs. Hunt's, and there found
      my wife, and so took them up by coach, and carried them to Hide Park,
      where store of coaches and good faces. Here till night, and so home and to
      my office to write by the post, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up betimes and to my office, where we sat all the morning, and a
      great rant I did give to Mr. Davis, of Deptford, and others about their
      usage of Michell, in his Bewpers,&mdash;[Bewpers is the old name for
      bunting.]&mdash;which he serves in for flaggs, which did trouble me, but
      yet it was in defence of what was truth. So home to dinner, where Creed
      dined with me, and walked a good while in the garden with me after dinner,
      talking, among other things, of the poor service which Sir J. Lawson did
      really do in the Streights, for which all this great fame and honour done
      him is risen. So to my office, where all the afternoon giving maisters
      their warrants for this voyage, for which I hope hereafter to get
      something at their coming home. In the evening my wife and I and Ashwell
      walked in the garden, and I find she is a pretty ingenuous
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [For ingenious.  The distinction of the two words ingenious and
     ingenuous by which the former indicates mental, and the second moral
     qualities, was not made in Pepys's day.]
</pre>
    <p>
      girl at all sorts of fine work, which pleases me very well, and I hope
      will be very good entertainment for my wife without much cost. So to write
      by the post, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). Up and with my wife and her woman Ashwell the first
      time to church, where our pew was so full with Sir J. Minnes's sister and
      her daughter, that I perceive, when we come all together, some of us must
      be shut out, but I suppose we shall come to some order what to do therein.
      Dined at home, and to church again in the afternoon, and so home, and I to
      my office till the evening doing one thing or other and reading my vows as
      I am bound every Lord's day, and so home to supper and talk, and Ashwell
      is such good company that I think we shall be very lucky in her. So to
      prayers and to bed. This day the weather, which of late has been very hot
      and fair, turns very wet and cold, and all the church time this afternoon
      it thundered mightily, which I have not heard a great while.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up very betimes and to my office, where, with several Masters of the
      King's ships, Sir J. Minnes and I advising upon the business of Slopps,
      wherein the seaman is so much abused by the Pursers, and that being done,
      then I home to dinner, and so carried my wife to her mother's, set her
      down and Ashwell to my Lord's lodging, there left her, and I to the Duke,
      where we met of course, and talked of our Navy matters. Then to the
      Commission of Tangier, and there, among other things, had my Lord
      Peterborough's Commission read over; and Mr. Secretary Bennet did make his
      querys upon it, in order to the drawing one for my Lord Rutherford more
      regularly, that being a very extravagant thing. Here long discoursing upon
      my Lord Rutherford's despatch, and so broke up, and so going out of the
      Court I met with Mr. Coventry, and so he and I walked half an hour in the
      long Stone Gallery, where we discoursed of many things, among others how
      the Treasurer doth intend to come to pay in course, which is the thing of
      the world that will do the King the greatest service in the Navy, and
      which joys my heart to hear of. He tells me of the business of Sir J.
      Minnes and Sir W. Pen, which I knew before, but took no notice or little
      that I did know it. But he told me it was chiefly to make Mr. Pett's being
      joyned with Sir W. Batten to go down the better, and do tell me how he
      well sees that neither one nor the other can do their duties without help.
      But however will let it fall at present without doing more in it to see
      whether they will do their duties themselves, which he will see, and saith
      they do not. We discoursed of many other things to my great content and so
      parted, and I to my wife at my Lord's lodgings, where I heard Ashwell play
      first upon the harpsicon, and I find she do play pretty well, which
      pleaseth me very well. Thence home by coach, buying at the Temple the
      printed virginal-book for her, and so home and to my office a while, and
      so home and to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up betimes and to my office a while, and then home and to Sir W.
      Batten, with whom by coach to St. Margaret's Hill in Southwark, where the
      judge of the Admiralty came, and the rest of the Doctors of the Civill
      law, and some other Commissioners, whose Commission of Oyer and Terminer
      was read, and then the charge, given by Dr. Exton, which methought was
      somewhat dull, though he would seem to intend it to be very rhetoricall,
      saying that justice had two wings, one of which spread itself over the
      land, and the other over the water, which was this Admiralty Court. That
      being done, and the jury called, they broke up, and to dinner to a tavern
      hard by, where a great dinner, and I with them; but I perceive that this
      Court is yet but in its infancy (as to its rising again), and their design
      and consultation was, I could overhear them, how to proceed with the most
      solemnity, and spend time, there being only two businesses to do, which of
      themselves could not spend much time. In the afternoon to the court again,
      where, first, Abraham, the boatswain of the King's pleasure boat, was
      tried for drowning a man; and next, Turpin, accused by our wicked rogue
      Field, for stealing the King's timber; but after full examination, they
      were both acquitted, and as I was glad of the first, for the saving the
      man's life, so I did take the other as a very good fortune to us; for if
      Turpin had been found guilty, it would have sounded very ill in the ears
      of all the world, in the business between Field and us. So home with my
      mind at very great ease, over the water to the Tower, and thence, there
      being nobody at the office, we being absent, and so no office could be
      kept. Sir W. Batten and I to my Lord Mayor's, where we found my Lord with
      Colonel Strangways and Sir Richard Floyd, Parliament-men, in the cellar
      drinking, where we sat with them, and then up; and by and by comes in Sir
      Richard Ford. In our drinking, which was always going, we had many
      discourses, but from all of them I do find Sir R. Ford a very able man of
      his brains and tongue, and a scholler. But my Lord Mayor I find to be a
      talking, bragging Bufflehead, a fellow that would be thought to have led
      all the City in the great business of bringing in the King, and that
      nobody understood his plots, and the dark lanthorn he walked by; but led
      them and plowed with them as oxen and asses (his own words) to do what he
      had a mind when in every discourse I observe him to be as very a coxcomb
      as I could have thought had been in the City. But he is resolved to do
      great matters in pulling down the shops quite through the City, as he hath
      done in many places, and will make a thorough passage quite through the
      City, through Canning-street, which indeed will be very fine. And then his
      precept, which he, in vain-glory, said he had drawn up himself, and hath
      printed it, against coachmen and carrmen affronting of the gentry in the
      street; it is drawn so like a fool, and some faults were openly found in
      it, that I believe he will have so much wit as not to proceed upon it
      though it be printed. Here we staid talking till eleven at night, Sir R.
      Ford breaking to my Lord our business of our patent to be justices of the
      Peace in the City, which he stuck at mightily; but, however, Sir R. Ford
      knows him to be a fool, and so in his discourse he made him appear, and
      cajoled him into a consent to it: but so as I believe when he comes to his
      right mind tomorrow he will be of another opinion; and though Sir R. Ford
      moved it very weightily and neatly, yet I had rather it had been spared
      now. But to see how he do rant, and pretend to sway all the City in the
      Court of Aldermen, and says plainly that they cannot do, nor will he
      suffer them to do, any thing but what he pleases; nor is there any officer
      of the City but of his putting in; nor any man that could have kept the
      City for the King thus well and long but him. And if the country can be
      preserved, he will undertake that the City shall not dare to stir again.
      When I am confident there is no man almost in the City cares a turd for
      him, nor hath he brains to outwit any ordinary tradesman. So home and
      wrote a letter to Commissioner Pett to Chatham by all means to compose the
      business between Major Holmes and Cooper his master, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Wake betimes and talk a while with my wife about a wench that she
      has hired yesterday, which I would have enquired of before she comes, she
      having lived in great families, and so up and to my office, where all the
      morning, and at noon home to dinner. After dinner by water to Redriffe, my
      wife and Ashwell with me, and so walked and left them at Halfway house; I
      to Deptford, where up and down the store-houses, and on board two or three
      ships now getting ready to go to sea, and so back, and find my wife
      walking in the way. So home again, merry with our Ashwell, who is a merry
      jade, and so awhile to my office, and then home to supper, and to bed.
      This day my tryangle, which was put in tune yesterday, did please me very
      well, Ashwell playing upon it pretty well.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up betimes and to Woolwich all alone by water, where took the
      officers most abed. I walked and enquired how all matters and businesses
      go, and by and by to the Clerk of the Cheque's house, and there eat some
      of his good Jamaica brawne, and so walked to Greenwich. Part of the way
      Deane walking with me; talking of the pride and corruption of most of his
      fellow officers of the yard, and which I believe to be true. So to
      Deptford, where I did the same to great content, and see the people begin
      to value me as they do the rest. At noon Mr. Wayth took me to his house,
      where I dined, and saw his wife, a pretty woman, and had a good fish
      dinner, and after dinner he and I walked to Redriffe talking of several
      errors in the Navy, by which I learned a great deal, and was glad of his
      company. So by water home, and by and by to the office, where we sat till
      almost 9 at night. So after doing my own business in my office, writing
      letters, &amp;c., home to supper, and to bed, being weary and vexed that I
      do not find other people so willing to do business as myself, when I have
      taken pains to find out what in the yards is wanting and fitting to be
      done.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up betimes and over the water, and walked to Deptford, where up and
      down the yarde, and met the two clerks of the Cheques to conclude by our
      method their callbooks, which we have done to great perfection, and so
      walked home again, where I found my wife in great pain abed.... I staid
      and dined by her, and after dinner walked forth, and by water to the
      Temple, and in Fleet Street bought me a little sword, with gilt handle,
      cost 23s., and silk stockings to the colour of my riding cloth suit, cost
      I 5s., and bought me a belt there too, cost 15s., and so calling at my
      brother's I find he has got a new maid, very likely girl, I wish he do not
      play the fool with her. Thence homewards, and meeting with Mr. Kirton's
      kinsman in Paul's Church Yard, he and I to a coffee-house; where I hear
      how there had like to have been a surprizall of Dublin by some
      discontented protestants, and other things of like nature; and it seems
      the Commissioners have carried themselves so high for the Papists that the
      others will not endure it. Hewlett and some others are taken and clapped
      up; and they say the King hath sent over to dissolve the Parliament there,
      who went very high against the Commissioners. Pray God send all well!
      Hence home and in comes Captain Ferrers and by and by Mr. Bland to see me
      and sat talking with me till 9 or 10 at night, and so good night. The
      Captain to bid my wife to his child's christening. So my wife being pretty
      well again and Ashwell there we spent the evening pleasantly, and so to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up betimes and to my office, where busy all the morning, and at
      noon, after a very little dinner, to it again, and by and by, by
      appointment, our full board met, and Sir Philip Warwick and Sir Robert
      Long came from my Lord Treasurer to speak with us about the state of the
      debts of the Navy; and how to settle it, so as to begin upon the new
      foundation of L200,000 per annum, which the King is now resolved not to
      exceed. This discourse done, and things put in a way of doing, they went
      away, and Captain Holmes being called in he began his high complaint
      against his Master Cooper, and would have him forthwith discharged. Which
      I opposed, not in his defence but for the justice of proceeding not to
      condemn a man unheard, upon [which] we fell from one word to another that
      we came to very high terms, such as troubled me, though all and the worst
      that I ever said was that that was insolently or ill mannerdly spoken.
      When he told me that it was well it was here that I said it. But all the
      officers, Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen
      cried shame of it. At last he parted and we resolved to bring the dispute
      between him and his Master to a trial next week, wherein I shall not at
      all concern myself in defence of any thing that is unhandsome on the
      Master's part nor willingly suffer him to have any wrong. So we rose and I
      to my office, troubled though sensible that all the officers are of
      opinion that he has carried himself very much unbecoming him. So wrote
      letters by the post, and home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22d (Lord's day). Up betimes and in my office wrote out our bill for the
      Parliament about our being made justices of Peace in the City. So home and
      to church, where a dull formall fellow that prayed for the Right Hon. John
      Lord Barkeley, Lord President of Connaught, &amp;c. So home to dinner, and
      after dinner my wife and I and her woman by coach to Westminster, where
      being come too soon for the Christening we took up Mr. Creed and went out
      to take some ayre, as far as Chelsey and further, I lighting there and
      letting them go on with the coach while I went to the church expecting to
      see the young ladies of the school, Ashwell desiring me, but I could not
      get in far enough, and so came out and at the coach's coming back went in
      again and so back to Westminster, and led my wife and her to Captain
      Ferrers, and I to my Lord Sandwich, and with him talking a good while; I
      find the Court would have this Indulgence go on, but the Parliament are
      against it. Matters in Ireland are full of discontent. Thence with Mr.
      Creed to Captain Ferrers, where many fine ladies; the house well and
      prettily furnished. She [Mrs. Ferrers] lies in, in great state, Mr. G.
      Montagu, Collonel Williams, Cromwell that was,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Colonel Williams&mdash;"Cromwell that was"&mdash;appears to have been Henry
     Cromwell, grandson of Sir Oliver Cromwell, and first cousin, once
     removed, to the Protector.  He was seated at Bodsey House, in the
     parish of Ramsey, which had been his father's residence, and held
     the commission of a colonel.  He served in several Parliaments for
     Huntingdonshire, voting, in 1660, for the restoration of the
     monarchy; and as he knew the name of Cromwell would not be grateful
     to the Court, he disused it, and assumed that of Williams, which had
     belonged to his ancestors; and he is so styled in a list of knights
     of the proposed Order of the Royal Oak.  He died at Huntingdon, 3rd
     August, 1673.  (Abridged from Noble's "Memoirs of the Cromwells,"
     vol. i., p. 70.)&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and Mrs. Wright as proxy for my Lady Jemimah, were witnesses. Very pretty
      and plentiful entertainment, could not get away till nine at night, and so
      home. My coach cost me 7s. So to prayers, and to bed. This day though I
      was merry enough yet I could not get yesterday's quarrel out of my mind,
      and a natural fear of being challenged by Holmes for the words I did give
      him, though nothing but what did become me as a principal officer.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up betimes and to my office, before noon my wife and I eat
      something, thinking to have gone abroad together, but in comes Mr. Hunt,
      who we were forced to stay to dinner, and so while that was got ready he
      and I abroad about 2 or 3 small businesses of mine, and so back to dinner,
      and after dinner he went away, and my wife and I and Ashwell by coach, set
      my wife down at her mother's and Ashwell at my Lord's, she going to see
      her father and mother, and I to Whitehall, being fearful almost, so poor a
      spirit I have, of meeting Major Holmes. By and by the Duke comes, and we
      with him about our usual business, and then the Committee for Tangier,
      where, after reading my Lord Rutherford's commission and consented to, Sir
      R. Ford, Sir W. Rider, and I were chosen to bring in some laws for the
      Civill government of it, which I am little able to do, but am glad to be
      joyned with them, for I shall learn something of them. Thence to see my
      Lord Sandwich, and who should I meet at the door but Major Holmes. He
      would have gone away, but I told him I would not spoil his visitt, and
      would have gone, but however we fell to discourse and he did as good as
      desire excuse for the high words that did pass in his heat the other day,
      which I was willing enough to close with, and after telling him my mind we
      parted, and I left him to speak with my Lord, and I by coach home, where I
      found Will. Howe come home to-day with my wife, and staid with us all
      night, staying late up singing songs, and then he and I to bed together in
      Ashwell's bed and she with my wife. This the first time that I ever lay in
      the room. This day Greatorex brought me a very pretty weather-glass for
      heat and cold.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The thermometer was invented in the sixteenth century, but it is
     disputed who the inventor was.  The claims of Santorio are supported
     by Borelli and Malpighi, while the title of Cornelius Drebbel is
     considered undoubted by Boerhaave.  Galileo's air thermometer, made
     before 1597, was the foundation of accurate thermometry.  Galileo
     also invented the alcohol thermometer about 1611 or 1612.  Spirit
     thermometers were made for the Accademia del Cimento, and described
     in the Memoirs of that academy.  When the academy was dissolved by
     order of the Pope, some of these thermometers were packed away in a
     box, and were not discovered until early in the nineteenth century.
     Robert Hooke describes the manufacture and graduation of
     thermometers in his "Micrographia" (1665).]
</pre>
    <p>
      24th. Lay pretty long, that is, till past six o'clock, and them up and W.
      Howe and I very merry together, till having eat our breakfast, he went
      away, and I to my office. By and by Sir J. Minnes and I to the Victualling
      Office by appointment to meet several persons upon stating the demands of
      some people of money from the King. Here we went into their Bakehouse, and
      saw all the ovens at work, and good bread too, as ever I would desire to
      eat. Thence Sir J. Minnes and I homewards calling at Browne's, the
      mathematician in the Minnerys, with a design of buying White's ruler to
      measure timber with, but could not agree on the price. So home, and to
      dinner, and so to my office, where we sat anon, and among other things had
      Cooper's business tried against Captain Holmes, but I find Cooper a
      fuddling, troublesome fellow, though a good artist, and so am contented to
      have him turned out of his place, nor did I see reason to say one word
      against it, though I know what they did against him was with great envy
      and pride. So anon broke up, and after writing letters, &amp;c., home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lady-day). Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning, at
      noon dined and to the Exchange, and thence to the Sun Tavern, to my Lord
      Rutherford, and dined with him, and some others, his officers, and Scotch
      gentlemen, of fine discourse and education. My Lord used me with great
      respect, and discoursed upon his business as with one that he did esteem
      of, and indeed I do believe that this garrison is likely to come to
      something under him. By and by he went away, forgetting to take leave of
      me, my back being turned, looking upon the aviary, which is there very
      pretty, and the birds begin to sing well this spring. Thence home and to
      my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler
      that I bought this morning of Browne concerning the lyne of numbers, in
      which I find much pleasure. This evening came Captain Grove about hiring
      ships for Tangier. I did hint to him my desire that I could make some
      lawfull profit thereof, which he promises that he will tell me of all that
      he gets and that I shall have a share, which I did not demand, but did
      silently consent to it, and money I perceive something will be got
      thereby. At night Mr. Bland came and sat with me at my office till late,
      and so I home and to bed. This day being washing day and my maid Susan
      ill, or would be thought so, put my house so out of order that we had no
      pleasure almost in anything, my wife being troubled thereat for want of a
      good cook-maid, and moreover I cannot have my dinner as I ought in memory
      of my being cut for the stone, but I must have it a day or two hence.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up betimes and to my office, leaving my wife in bed to take her
      physique, myself also not being out of some pain to-day by some cold that
      I have got by the sudden change of the weather from hot to cold. This day
      is five years since it pleased God to preserve me at my being cut of the
      stone, of which I bless God I am in all respects well. Only now and then
      upon taking cold I have some pain, but otherwise in very good health
      always. But I could not get my feast to be kept to-day as it used to be,
      because of my wife's being ill and other disorders by my servants being
      out of order. This morning came a new cook-maid at L4 per annum, the first
      time I ever did give so much, but we hope it will be nothing lost by
      keeping a good cook. She did live last at my Lord Monk's house, and indeed
      at dinner did get what there was very prettily ready and neat for me,
      which did please me much. This morning my uncle Thomas was with me
      according to agreement, and I paid him the L50, which was against my heart
      to part with, and yet I must be contented; I used him very kindly, and I
      desire to continue so voyd of any discontent as to my estate, that I may
      follow my business the better. At the Change I met him again, with intent
      to have met with my uncle Wight to have made peace with him, with whom by
      my long absence I fear I shall have a difference, but he was not there, so
      we missed. All the afternoon sat at the office about business till 9 or 10
      at night, and so dispatch business and home to supper and to bed. My maid
      Susan went away to-day, I giving her something for her lodging and diet
      somewhere else a while that I might have room for my new maid.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up betimes and at my office all the morning, at noon to the
      Exchange, and there by appointment met my uncles Thomas and Wight, and
      from thence with them to a tavern, and there paid my uncle Wight three
      pieces of gold for himself, my aunt, and their son that is dead, left by
      my uncle Robert, and read over our agreement with my uncle Thomas and the
      state of our debts and legacies, and so good friendship I think is made up
      between us all, only we have the worst of it in having so much money to
      pay. Thence I to the Exchequer again, and thence with Creed into Fleet
      Street, and calling at several places about business; in passing, at the
      Hercules pillars he and I dined though late, and thence with one that we
      found there, a friend of Captain Ferrers I used to meet at the playhouse,
      they would have gone to some gameing house, but I would not but parted,
      and staying a little in Paul's Churchyard, at the foreign Bookseller's
      looking over some Spanish books, and with much ado keeping myself from
      laying out money there, as also with them, being willing enough to have
      gone to some idle house with them, I got home, and after a while at my
      office, to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning. Dined at home
      and Creed with me, and though a very cold day and high wind, yet I took
      him by land to Deptford, my common walk, where I did some little
      businesses, and so home again walking both forwards and backwards, as much
      along the street as we could to save going by water. So home, and after
      being a little while hearing Ashwell play on the tryangle, to my office,
      and there late, writing a chiding letter&mdash;to my poor father about his
      being so unwilling to come to an account with me, which I desire he might
      do, that I may know what he spends, and how to order the estate so as to
      pay debts and legacys as far as may be. So late home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). Waked as I used to do betimes, but being Sunday and
      very cold I lay long, it raining and snowing very hard, which I did never
      think it would have done any more this year. Up and to church, home to
      dinner. After dinner in comes Mr. Moore, and sat and talked with us a good
      while; among other things telling me, that [neither] my Lord nor he are
      under apprehensions of the late discourse in the House of Commons,
      concerning resumption of Crowne lands, which I am very glad of. He being
      gone, up to my chamber, where my wife and Ashwell and I all the afternoon
      talking and laughing, and by and by I a while to my office, reading over
      some papers which I found in my man William's chest of drawers, among
      others some old precedents concerning the practice of this office
      heretofore, which I am glad to find and shall make use of, among others an
      oath, which the Principal Officers were bound to swear at their entrance
      into their offices, which I would be glad were in use still. So home and
      fell hard to make up my monthly accounts, letting my family go to bed
      after prayers. I staid up long, and find myself, as I think, fully worth
      L670. So with good comfort to bed, finding that though it be but little,
      yet I do get ground every month. I pray God it may continue so with me.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up betimes and found my weather-glass sunk again just to the same
      position which it was last night before I had any fire made in my chamber,
      which had made it rise in two hours time above half a degree. So to my
      office where all the morning and at the Glass-house, and after dinner by
      coach with Sir W. Pen I carried my wife and her woman to Westminster, they
      to visit Mrs. Ferrers and Clerke, we to the Duke, where we did our usual
      business, and afterwards to the Tangier Committee, where among other
      things we all of us sealed and signed the Contract for building the Mole
      with my Lord Tiviott, Sir J. Lawson, and Mr. Cholmeley. A thing I did with
      a very ill will, because a thing which I did not at all understand, nor
      any or few of the whole board. We did also read over the propositions for
      the Civill government and Law Merchant of the town, as they were agreed on
      this morning at the Glasshouse by Sir R. Ford and Sir W. Rider, who drew
      them, Mr. Povy and myself as a Committee appointed to prepare them, which
      were in substance but not in the manner of executing them independent
      wholly upon the Governor consenting to. Thence to see my Lord Sandwich,
      who I found very merry and every day better and better. So to my wife, who
      waited my coming at my Lord's lodgings, and took her up and by coach home,
      where no sooner come but to bed, finding myself just in the same condition
      I was lately by the extreme cold weather, my pores stopt and so my body
      all inflamed and itching. So keeping myself warm and provoking myself to a
      moderate sweat, and so somewhat better in the morning,
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. And to that purpose I lay long talking with my wife about my
      father's coming, which I expect to-day, coming up with the horses brought
      up for my Lord. Up and to my office, where doing business all the morning,
      and at Sir W. Batten's, whither Mr. Gauden and many others came to us
      about business. Then home to dinner, where W. Joyce came, and he still a
      talking impertinent fellow. So to the office again, and hearing by and by
      that Madam Clerke, Pierce, and others were come to see my wife I stepped
      in and staid a little with them, and so to the office again, where late,
      and so home to supper and to bed.
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    <p>
      April 1st. Up betimes and abroad to my brother's, but he being gone out I
      went to the Temple to my Cozen Roger Pepys, to see and talk with him a
      little; who tells me that, with much ado, the Parliament do agree to throw
      down Popery; but he says it is with so much spite and passion, and an
      endeavour of bringing all Non-conformists into the same condition, that he
      is afeard matters will not yet go so well as he could wish. Thence back to
      my brother's, in my way meeting Mr. Moore and talking with him about
      getting me some money, and calling at my brother's they tell me that my
      brother is still abroad, and that my father is not yet up. At which I
      wondered, not thinking that he was come, though I expected him, because I
      looked for him at my house. So I up to his bedside and staid an hour or
      two talking with him. Among other things he tells me how unquiett my
      mother is grown, that he is not able to live almost with her, if it were
      not for Pall. All other matters are as well as upon so hard conditions
      with my uncle Thomas we can expect them. I left him in bed, being very
      weary, to come to my house to-night or tomorrow, when he pleases, and so I
      home, calling on the virginall maker, buying a rest for myself to tune my
      tryangle, and taking one of his people along with me to put it in tune
      once more, by which I learned how to go about it myself for the time to
      come. So to dinner, my wife being lazily in bed all this morning. Ashwell
      and I dined below together, and a pretty girl she is, and I hope will give
      my wife and myself good content, being very humble and active, my cook
      maid do also dress my meat very well and neatly. So to my office all the
      afternoon till night, and then home, calling at Sir W. Batten's, where was
      Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen, I telling them how by my letter this day
      from Commissioner Pett I hear that his Stempeese
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Stemples, cross pieces which are put into a frame of woodwork to
     cure and strengthen a shaft.]
</pre>
    <p>
      he undertook for the new ship at Woolwich, which we have been so long, to
      our shame, in looking for, do prove knotty and not fit for service. Lord!
      how Sir J. Minnes, like a mad coxcomb, did swear and stamp, swearing that
      Commissioner Pett hath still the old heart against the King that ever he
      had, and that this was his envy against his brother that was to build the
      ship, and all the damnable reproaches in the world, at which I was
      ashamed, but said little; but, upon the whole, I find him still a fool,
      led by the nose with stories told by Sir W. Batten, whether with or
      without reason. So, vexed in my mind to see things ordered so unlike
      gentlemen, or men of reason, I went home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up by very betimes and to my office, where all the morning till
      towards noon, and then by coach to Westminster Hall with Sir W. Pen, and
      while he went up to the House I walked in the Hall with Mr. Pierce, the
      surgeon, that I met there, talking about my business the other day with
      Holmes, whom I told my mind, and did freely tell how I do depend upon my
      care and diligence in my employment to bear me out against the pride of
      Holmes or any man else in things that are honest, and much to that purpose
      which I know he will make good use of. But he did advise me to take as few
      occasions as I can of disobliging Commanders, though this is one that
      every body is glad to hear that he do receive a check. By and by the House
      rises and I home again with Sir W. Pen, and all the way talking of the
      same business, to whom I did on purpose tell him my mind freely, and let
      him see that it must be a wiser man than Holmes (in these very words) that
      shall do me any hurt while I do my duty. I to remember him of Holmes's
      words against Sir J. Minnes, that he was a knave, rogue, coward, and that
      he will kick him and pull him by the ears, which he remembered all of them
      and may have occasion to do it hereafter to his owne shame to suffer them
      to be spoke in his presence without any reply but what I did give him,
      which, has caused all this feud. But I am glad of it, for I would now and
      then take occasion to let the world know that I will not be made a novice.
      Sir W. Pen took occasion to speak about my wife's strangeness to him and
      his daughter, and that believing at last that it was from his taking of
      Sarah to be his maid, he hath now put her away, at which I am glad. He
      told me, that this day the King hath sent to the House his concurrence
      wholly with them against the Popish priests, Jesuits, &amp;c., which gives
      great content, and I am glad of it. So home, whither my father comes and
      dines with us, and being willing to be merry with him I made myself so as
      much as I could, and so to the office, where we sat all the afternoon, and
      at night having done all my business I went home to my wife and father,
      and supped, and so to bed, my father lying with me in Ashwell's bed in the
      red chamber.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Waked betimes and talked half an hour with my father, and so I rose
      and to my office, and about 9 o'clock by water from the Old Swan to White
      Hall and to chappell, which being most monstrous full, I could not go into
      my pew, but sat among the quire. Dr. Creeton, the Scotchman, preached a
      most admirable, good, learned, honest and most severe sermon, yet
      comicall, upon the words of the woman concerning the Virgin, "Blessed is
      the womb that bare thee (meaning Christ) and the paps that gave thee suck;
      and he answered, Nay; rather is he blessed that heareth the word of God,
      and keepeth it." He railed bitterly ever and anon against John Calvin, and
      his brood, the Presbyterians, and against the present term, now in use, of
      "tender consciences." He ripped up Hugh Peters (calling him the execrable
      skellum&mdash;[A villain or scoundrel; the cant term for a thief.]&mdash;),
      his preaching and stirring up the maids of the city to bring in their
      bodkins and thimbles. Thence going out of White Hall, I met Captain Grove,
      who did give me a letter directed to myself from himself. I discerned
      money to be in it, and took it, knowing, as I found it to be, the proceed
      of the place I have got him to be, the taking up of vessels for Tangier.
      But I did not open it till I came home to my office, and there I broke it
      open, not looking into it till all the money was out, that I might say I
      saw no money in the paper, if ever I should be questioned about it. There
      was a piece in gold and L4 in silver. So home to dinner with my father and
      wife, and after dinner up to my tryangle, where I found that above my
      expectation Ashwell has very good principles of musique and can take out a
      lesson herself with very little pains, at which I am very glad. Thence
      away back again by water to Whitehall, and there to the Tangier Committee,
      where we find ourselves at a great stand; the establishment being but
      L70,000 per annum, and the forces to be kept in the town at the least
      estimate that my Lord Rutherford can be got to bring it is L53,000. The
      charge of this year's work of the Mole will be L13,000; besides L1000
      a-year to my Lord Peterborough as a pension, and the fortifications and
      contingencys, which puts us to a great stand, and so unsettled what to do
      therein we rose, and I to see my Lord Sandwich, whom I found merry at
      cards, and so by coach home, and after supper a little to my office and so
      home and to bed. I find at Court that there is some bad news from Ireland
      of an insurrection of the Catholiques there, which puts them into an
      alarm. I hear also in the City that for certain there is an embargo upon
      all our ships in Spayne, upon this action of my Lord Windsor's at Cuba,
      which signifies little or nothing, but only he hath a mind to say that he
      hath done something before he comes back again. Late tonight I sent to
      invite my uncle Wight and aunt with Mrs. Turner to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up betimes and to my office. By and by to Lombard street by
      appointment to meet Mr. Moore, but the business not being ready I returned
      to the office, where we sat a while, and, being sent for, I returned to
      him and there signed to some papers in the conveying of some lands
      mortgaged by Sir Rob. Parkhurst in my name to my Lord Sandwich, which I
      having done I returned home to dinner, whither by and by comes Roger
      Pepys, Mrs. Turner her daughter, Joyce Norton, and a young lady, a
      daughter of Coll. Cockes, my uncle Wight, his wife and Mrs. Anne Wight.
      This being my feast, in lieu of what I should have had a few days ago for
      my cutting of the stone, for which the Lord make me truly thankful. Very
      merry at, before, and after dinner, and the more for that my dinner was
      great, and most neatly dressed by our own only maid. We had a fricasee of
      rabbits and chickens, a leg of mutton boiled, three carps in a dish, a
      great dish of a side of lamb, a dish of roasted pigeons, a dish of four
      lobsters, three tarts, a lamprey pie (a most rare pie), a dish of
      anchovies, good wine of several sorts, and all things mighty noble and to
      my great content. After dinner to Hide Park; my aunt, Mrs. Wight and I in
      one coach, and all the rest of the women in Mrs. Turner's; Roger being
      gone in haste to the Parliament about the carrying this business of the
      Papists, in which it seems there is great contest on both sides, and my
      uncle and father staying together behind. At the Park was the King, and in
      another coach my Lady Castlemaine, they greeting one another at every
      tour.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The company drove round and round the Ring in Hyde Park.  The
     following two extracts illustrate this, and the second one shows
     how the circuit was called the Tour: "Here (1697) the people of
     fashion take the diversion of the Ring.  In a pretty high place,
     which lies very open, they have surrounded a circumference of two or
     three hundred paces diameter with a sorry kind of balustrade, or
     rather with postes placed upon stakes but three feet from the
     ground; and the coaches drive round this.  When they have turned for
     some time round one way they face about and turn t'other: so rowls
     the world!"&mdash;Wilson's Memoirs, 1719, p. 126.]

     ["It is in this Park where the Grand Tour or Ring is kept for the
     Ladies to take the air in their coaches, and in fine weather I have
     seen above three hundred at a time."&mdash;[Macky's] Journey through
     England, 1724, vol. i., p. 75.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Here about an hour, and so leaving all by the way we home and found the
      house as clean as if nothing had been done there to-day from top to
      bottom, which made us give the cook 12d. a piece, each of us. So to my
      office about writing letters by the post, one to my brother John at
      Brampton telling him (hoping to work a good effect by it upon my mother)
      how melancholy my father is, and bidding him use all means to get my
      mother to live peaceably and quietly, which I am sure she neither do nor I
      fear can ever do, but frightening her with his coming down no more, and
      the danger of her condition if he should die I trust may do good. So home
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). Up and spent the morning, till the Barber came, in
      reading in my chamber part of Osborne's Advice to his Son (which I shall
      not never enough admire for sense and language), and being by and by
      trimmed, to Church, myself, wife, Ashwell, &amp;c. Home to dinner, it
      raining, while that was prepared to my office to read over my vows with
      great affection and to very good purpose. So to dinner, and very well
      pleased with it. Then to church again, where a simple bawling young Scot
      preached. So home to my office alone till dark, reading some papers of my
      old navy precedents, and so home to supper, and, after some pleasant talk,
      my wife, Ashwell, and I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up very betimes and to my office, and there made an end of reading my
      book that I have of Mr. Barlow's of the Journal of the Commissioners of
      the Navy, who begun to act in the year 1628 and continued six years,
      wherein is fine observations and precedents out of which I do purpose to
      make a good collection. By and by, much against my will, being twice sent
      for, to Sir G. Carteret's to pass his accounts there, upon which Sir J.
      Minnes, Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, and myself all the morning, and again
      after dinner to it, being vexed at my heart to see a thing of that
      importance done so slightly and with that neglect for which God pardon us,
      and I would I could mend it. Thence leaving them I made an excuse and away
      home, and took my wife by coach and left her at Madam Clerk's, to make a
      visit there, and I to the Committee of Tangier, where I found, to my great
      joy, my Lord Sandwich, the first time I have seen him abroad these some
      months, and by and by he rose and took leave, being, it seems, this night
      to go to Kensington or Chelsey, where he hath taken a lodging for a while
      to take the ayre. We staid, and after business done I got Mr. Coventry
      into the Matted Gallery and told him my whole mind concerning matters of
      our office, all my discontent to see things of so great trust carried so
      neglectfully, and what pitiful service the Controller and Surveyor make of
      their duties, and I disburdened my mind wholly to him and he to me his
      own, many things, telling me that he is much discouraged by seeing things
      not to grow better and better as he did well hope they would have done.
      Upon the whole, after a full hour's private discourse, telling one another
      our minds, we with great content parted, and with very great satisfaction
      for my [having] thus cleared my conscience, went to Dr. Clerk's and thence
      fetched my wife, and by coach home. To my office a little to set things in
      order, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up very betimes, and angry with Will that he made no more haste to
      rise after I called him. So to my office, and all the morning there. At
      noon to the Exchange, and so home to dinner, where I found my wife had
      been with Ashwell to La Roche's to have her tooth drawn, which it seems
      aches much, but my wife could not get her to be contented to have it drawn
      after the first twich, but would let it alone, and so they came home with
      it undone, which made my wife and me good sport. After dinner to the
      office, where Sir J. Minnes did make a great complaint to me alone, how my
      clerk Mr. Hater had entered in one of the Sea books a ticket to have been
      signed by him before it had been examined, which makes the old fool mad
      almost, though there was upon enquiry the greatest reason in the world for
      it. Which though it vexes me, yet it is most to see from day to day what a
      coxcomb he is, and that so great a trust should lie in the hands of such a
      fool. We sat all the afternoon, and I late at my office, it being post
      night, and so home to supper, my father being come again to my house, and
      after supper to bed, and after some talk to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up betimes and to my office, and by and by, about 8 o'clock, to the
      Temple to Commissioner Pett lately come to town and discoursed about the
      affairs of our office, how ill they go through the corruption and folly of
      Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes. Thence by water to White Hall, to
      chappell; where preached Dr. Pierce, the famous man that preached the
      sermon so much cried up, before the King against the Papists. His matter
      was the Devil tempting our Saviour, being carried into the Wilderness by
      the spirit. And he hath as much of natural eloquence as most men that ever
      I heard in my life, mixed with so much learning. After sermon I went up
      and saw the ceremony of the Bishop of Peterborough's paying homage upon
      the knee to the King, while Sir H. Bennet, Secretary, read the King's
      grant of the Bishopric of Lincoln, to which he is translated. His name is
      Dr. Lany. Here I also saw the Duke of Monmouth, with his Order of the
      Garter, the first time I ever saw it. I am told that the University of
      Cambridge did treat him a little while since with all the honour possible,
      with a comedy at Trinity College, and banquet; and made him Master of Arts
      there. All which, they say, the King took very well. Dr. Raynbow, Master
      of Magdalen, being now Vice-Chancellor. Home by water to dinner, and with
      my father, wife, and Ashwell, after dinner, by water towards Woolwich, and
      in our way I bethought myself that we had left our poor little dog that
      followed us out of doors at the waterside, and God knows whether he be not
      lost, which did not only strike my wife into a great passion but I must
      confess myself also; more than was becoming me. We immediately returned, I
      taking another boat and with my father went to Woolwich, while they went
      back to find the dog. I took my father on board the King's pleasure boat
      and down to Woolwich, and walked to Greenwich thence and turning into the
      park to show my father the steps up the hill, we found my wife, her woman,
      and dog attending us, which made us all merry again, and so took boats,
      they to Deptford and so by land to Half-way house, I into the King's yard
      and overlook them there, and eat and drank with them, and saw a company of
      seamen play drolly at our pence, and so home by water. I a little at the
      office, and so home to supper and to bed, after having Ashwell play my
      father and me a lesson upon her Tryangle.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up betimes and to my office, and anon we met upon finishing the
      Treasurer's accounts. At noon dined at home and am vexed to hear my wife
      tell me how our maid Mary do endeavour to corrupt our cook maid, which did
      please me very well, but I am resolved to rid the house of her as soon as
      I can. To the office and sat all the afternoon till 9 at night, and an
      hour after home to supper and bed. My father lying at Tom's to-night, he
      dining with my uncle Fenner and his sons and a great many more of the gang
      at his own cost to-day. To bed vexed also to think of Sir J. Minnes
      finding fault with Mr. Hater for what he had done the other day, though
      there be no hurt in the thing at all but only the old fool's jealousy,
      made worse by Sir W. Batten.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up very betimes and to my office, where most hard at business alone
      all the morning. At noon to the Exchange, where I hear that after great
      expectation from Ireland, and long stop of letters, there is good news
      come, that all is quiett after our great noise of troubles there, though
      some stir hath been as was reported. Off the Exchange with Sir J. Cutler
      and Mr. Grant to the Royall Oak Tavern, in Lumbard Street, where Alexander
      Broome the poet was, a merry and witty man, I believe, if he be not a
      little conceited, and here drank a sort of French wine, called Ho Bryan,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Haut Brion, a claret; one of the first growths of the red wines of
     Medoc.]
</pre>
    <p>
      that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with. Home to
      dinner, and then by water abroad to Whitehall, my wife to see Mrs.
      Ferrers, I to Whitehall and the Park, doing no business. Then to my Lord's
      lodgings, met my wife, and walked to the New Exchange. There laid out 10s.
      upon pendents and painted leather gloves, very pretty and all the mode. So
      by coach home and to my office till late, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up betimes and to my office, where we sat also all the morning till
      noon, and then home to dinner, my father being there but not very well.
      After dinner in comes Captain Lambert of the Norwich, this day come from
      Tangier, whom I am glad to see. There came also with him Captain Wager,
      and afterwards in came Captain Allen to see me, of the Resolution. All
      staid a pretty while, and so away, and I a while to my office, then abroad
      into the street with my father, and left him to go to see my aunt Wight
      and uncle, intending to lie at Tom's to-night, or my cozen Scott's, where
      it seems he has hitherto lain and is most kindly used there. So I home and
      to my office very late making up my Lord's navy accounts, wherein I find
      him to stand debtor L1200. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Lord's day). Lay till 8 o'clock, which I have not done a great
      while, then up and to church, where I found our pew altered by taking some
      of the hind pew to make ours bigger, because of the number of women, more
      by Sir J. Minnes company than we used to have. Home to dinner, and after
      dinner, intending to go to Chelsey to my Lord Sandwich, my wife would
      needs go with me, though she walked on foot to Whitehall. Which she did
      and staid at my Lord's lodgings while Creed and I took a turn at
      Whitehall, but no coach to be had, and so I returned to them and sat
      talking till evening, and then got a coach and to Gray's Inn walks, where
      some handsome faces, and so home and there to supper, and a little after 8
      o'clock to bed, a thing I have not done God knows when. Coming home
      to-night, a drunken boy was carrying by our constable to our new pair of
      stocks to handsel them, being a new pair and very handsome.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up by five o'clock and to my office, where hard at work till towards
      noon, and home and eat a bit, and so going out met with Mr. Mount my old
      acquaintance, and took him in and drank a glass or two of wine to him and
      so parted, having not time to talk together, and I with Sir W. Batten to
      the Stillyard, and there eat a lobster together, and Wyse the King's
      fishmonger coming in we were very merry half an hour, and so by water to
      Whitehall, and by and by being all met we went in to the Duke and there
      did our business and so away, and anon to the Tangier Committee, where we
      had very fine discourse from Dr. Walker and Wiseman, civilians, against
      our erecting a court-merchant at Tangier, and well answered in many things
      by my Lord Sandwich (whose speaking I never till now observed so much to
      be very good) and Sir R. Ford. By and by the discourse being ended, we
      fell to my Lord Rutherford's dispatch, which do not please him, he being a
      Scott, and one resolved to scrape every penny that he can get by any way,
      which the Committee will not agree to. He took offence at something and
      rose away, without taking leave of the board, which all took ill, though
      nothing said but only by the Duke of Albemarle, who said that we ought to
      settle things as they ought to be, and if he will not go upon these terms
      another man will, no doubt. Here late, quite finishing things against his
      going, and so rose, and I walked home, being accompanied by Creed to
      Temple Bar, talking of this afternoon's passage, and so I called at the
      Wardrobe in my way home, and there spoke at the Horn tavern with Mr. Moore
      a word or two, but my business was with Mr. Townsend, who is gone this day
      to his country house, about sparing Charles Pepys some money of his bills
      due to him when he can, but missing him lost my labour. So walked home,
      finding my wife abroad, at my aunt, Wight's, who coming home by and by, I
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up betimes to my office, where busy till 8 o'clock that Sir W.
      Batten, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Pen and I down by barge to Woolwich, to see
      "The Royal James" launched, where she has been under repair a great while.
      We staid in the yard till almost noon, and then to Mr. Falconer's to a
      dinner of fish of our own sending, and when it was just ready to come upon
      the table, word is brought that the King and Duke are come, so they all
      went away to shew themselves, while I staid and had a little dish or two
      by myself, resolving to go home, and by the time I had dined they came
      again, having gone to little purpose, the King, I believe, taking little
      notice of them. So they to dinner, and I staid a little with them, and so
      good bye. I walked to Greenwich, studying the slide rule for measuring of
      timber, which is very fine. Thence to Deptford by water, and walked
      through the yard, and so walked to Redriffe, and so home pretty weary, to
      my office, where anon they all came home, the ship well launched, and so
      sat at the office till 9 at night, and I longer doing business at my
      office, and so home to supper, my father being come, and to bed. Sir G.
      Carteret tells me to-night that he perceives the Parliament is likely to
      make a great bustle before they will give the King any money; will call
      all things into question; and, above all, the expences of the Navy; and do
      enquire into the King's expences everywhere, and into the truth of the
      report of people being forced to sell their bills at 15 per cent. loss in
      the Navy; and, lastly, that they are in a very angry pettish mood at
      present, and not likely to be better.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up betimes, and after talking with my father awhile, I to my office,
      and there hard at it till almost noon, and then went down the river with
      Maynes, the purveyor, to show a ship's lading of Norway goods, and called
      at Sir W. Warren's yard, and so home to dinner. After dinner up with my
      wife and Ashwell a little to the Tryangle, and so I down to Deptford by
      land about looking out a couple of catches fitted to be speedily set forth
      in answer to a letter of Mr. Coventry's to me. Which done, I walked back
      again, all the way reading of my book of Timber measure, comparing it with
      my new Sliding Rule brought home this morning with great pleasure. Taking
      boat again I went to Shishe's yard, but he being newly gone out towards
      Deptford I followed him thither again, and there seeing him I went with
      him and pitched upon a couple, and so by water home, it being late, past 8
      at night, the wind cold, and I a little weary. So home to my office, then
      to supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up betimes and to my office, met to pass Mr. Pitt's (anon Sir J.
      Lawson's Secretary and Deputy Treasurer) accounts for the voyage last to
      the Streights, wherein the demands are strangely irregular, and I dare not
      oppose it alone for making an enemy and do no good, but only bring a
      review upon my Lord Sandwich, but God knows it troubles my heart to see
      it, and to see the Comptroller, whose duty it is, to make no more matter
      of it. At noon home for an hour to dinner, and so to the office public and
      private till late at night, so home to supper and bed with my father.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up by five o'clock as I have long done and to my office all the
      morning, at noon home to dinner with my father with us. Our dinner, it
      being Good Friday, was only sugarsopps and fish; the only time that we
      have had a Lenten dinner all this Lent. This morning Mr. Hunt, the
      instrument maker, brought me home a Basse Viall to see whether I like it,
      which I do not very well, besides I am under a doubt whether I had best
      buy one yet or no, because of spoiling my present mind and love to
      business. After dinner my father and I walked into the city a little, and
      parted and to Paul's Church Yard, to cause the title of my English "Mare
      Clausum"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Selden's work was highly esteemed, and Charles I. made an order in
     council that a copy should be kept in the Council chest, another in
     the Court of Exchequer, and a third in the Court of Admiralty.  The
     book Pepys refers to is Nedham's translation, which was entitled,
     "Of the Dominion or Ownership of the Sea.  Two Books...,
     written at first in Latin and entituled Mare Clausum, by John
     Selden.  Translated into English by Marchamont Nedham.  London,
     1652."  This has the Commonwealth arms on the title-page and a
     dedication "To the Supreme Autoritie of the Nation-The Parliament of
     the Commonwealth of England."  The dedication to Charles I. in
     Selden's original work was left out.  Apparently a new title-page
     and dedication was prepared in 1663, but the copy in the British
     Museum, which formerly belonged to Charles Killigrew, does not
     contain these additions.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to be changed, and the new title, dedicated to the King, to be put to it,
      because I am ashamed to have the other seen dedicated to the Commonwealth.
      So home and to my office till night, and so home to talk with my father,
      and supper and to bed, I have not had yet one quarter of an hour's leisure
      to sit down and talk with him since he came to town, nor do I know till
      the holidays when I shall.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning. At noon to
      dinner. With us Mr. Creed, who has been deeply engaged at the office this
      day about the ending of his accounts, wherein he is most unhappy to have
      to do with a company of fools who after they have signed his accounts and
      made bills upon them yet dare not boldly assert to the Treasurer that they
      are satisfied with his accounts. Hereupon all dinner, and walking in the
      garden the afternoon, he and I talking of the ill management of our
      office, which God knows is very ill for the King's advantage. I would I
      could make it better. In the evening to my office, and at night home to
      supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Easter day). Up and this day put on my close-kneed coloured suit,
      which, with new stockings of the colour, with belt, and new gilt-handled
      sword, is very handsome. To church alone, and so to dinner, where my
      father and brother Tom dined with us, and after dinner to church again, my
      father sitting below in the chancel. After church done, where the young
      Scotchman preaching I slept all the while, my father and I to see my uncle
      and aunt Wight, and after a stay of an hour there my father to my
      brother's and I home to supper, and after supper fell in discourse of
      dancing, and I find that Ashwell hath a very fine carriage, which makes my
      wife almost ashamed of herself to see herself so outdone, but to-morrow
      she begins to learn to dance for a month or two. So to prayers and to bed.
      Will being gone, with my leave, to his father's this day for a day or two,
      to take physique these holydays.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up betimes as I use to do, and in my chamber begun to look over my
      father's accounts, which he brought out of the country with him by my
      desire, whereby I may see what he has received and spent, and I find that
      he is not anything extravagant, and yet it do so far outdo his estate that
      he must either think of lessening his charge, or I must be forced to spare
      money out of my purse to help him through, which I would willing do as far
      as L20 goes. So to my office the remaining part of the morning till
      towards noon, and then to Mr. Grant's. There saw his prints, which he
      shewed me, and indeed are the best collection of any things almost that
      ever I saw, there being the prints of most of the greatest houses,
      churches, and antiquitys in Italy and France and brave cutts. I had not
      time to look them over as I ought, and which I will take time hereafter to
      do, and therefore left them and home to dinner. After dinner, it raining
      very hard, by coach to Whitehall, where, after Sir G. Carteret, Sir J.
      Minnes, Mr. Coventry and I had been with the Duke, we to the Committee of
      Tangier and did matters there dispatching wholly my Lord Teviott, and so
      broke up. With Sir G. Carteret and Sir John Minnes by coach to my Lord
      Treasurer's, thinking to have spoken about getting money for paying the
      Yards; but we found him with some ladies at cards: and so, it being a bad
      time to speak, we parted, and Sir J. Minnes and I home, and after walking
      with my wife in the garden late, to supper and to bed, being somewhat
      troubled at Ashwell's desiring and insisting over eagerly upon her going
      to a ball to meet some of her old companions at a dancing school here in
      town next Friday, but I am resolved she shall not go. So to bed. This day
      the little Duke of Monmouth was marryed at White Hall, in the King's
      chamber; and tonight is a great supper and dancing at his lodgings, near
      Charing-Cross. I observed his coat at the tail of his coach he gives the
      arms of England, Scotland, and France, quartered upon some other fields,
      but what it is that speaks his being a bastard I know not.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up betimes and to my office, where first I ruled with red ink my
      English "Mare Clausum," which, with the new orthodox title, makes it now
      very handsome. So to business, and then home to dinner, and after dinner
      to sit at the office in the afternoon, and thence to my study late, and so
      home to supper to play a game at cards with my wife, and so to bed.
      Ashwell plays well at cards, and will teach us to play; I wish it do not
      lose too much of my time, and put my wife too much upon it.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up betimes and to my office very busy all the morning there,
      entering things into my Book Manuscript, which pleases me very much. So to
      the Change, and so to my uncle Wight's, by invitation, whither my father,
      wife, and Ashwell came, where we had but a poor dinner, and not well
      dressed; besides, the very sight of my aunt's hands and greasy manner of
      carving, did almost turn my stomach. After dinner by coach to the King's
      Playhouse, where we saw but part of "Witt without mony," which I do not
      like much, but coming late put me out of tune, and it costing me four
      half-crowns for myself and company. So, the play done, home, and I to my
      office a while and so home, where my father (who is so very melancholy)
      and we played at cards, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. St. George's day and Coronacion, the King and Court being at
      Windsor, at the installing of the King of Denmark by proxy and the Duke of
      Monmouth. I up betimes, and with my father, having a fire made in my
      wife's new closet above, it being a wet and cold day, we sat there all the
      morning looking over his country accounts ever since his going into the
      country. I find his spending hitherto has been (without extraordinary
      charges) at full L100 per annum, which troubles me, and I did let him
      apprehend it, so as that the poor man wept, though he did make it well
      appear to me that he could not have saved a farthing of it. I did tell him
      how things stand with us, and did shew my distrust of Pall, both for her
      good nature and housewifery, which he was sorry for, telling me that
      indeed she carries herself very well and carefully, which I am glad to
      hear, though I doubt it was but his doting and not being able to find her
      miscarriages so well nowadays as he could heretofore have done. We resolve
      upon sending for Will Stankes up to town to give us a right understanding
      in all that we have in Brampton, and before my father goes to settle every
      thing so as to resolve how to find a living for my father and to pay debts
      and legacies, and also to understand truly how Tom's condition is in the
      world, that we may know what we are like to expect of his doing ill or
      well. So to dinner, and after dinner to the office, where some of us met
      and did a little business, and so to Sir W. Batten's to see a little
      picture drawing of his by a Dutchman which is very well done. So to my
      office and put a few things in order, and so home to spend the evening
      with my father. At cards till late, and being at supper, my boy being sent
      for some mustard to a neat's tongue, the rogue staid half an hour in the
      streets, it seems at a bonfire, at which I was very angry, and resolve to
      beat him to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up betimes, and with my salt eel
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A salt eel is a rope's end cut from the piece to be used on the
     back of a culprit.  "Yeow shall have salt eel for supper" is an
     emphatic threat.]
</pre>
    <p>
      went down in the parler and there got my boy and did beat him till I was
      fain to take breath two or three times, yet for all I am afeard it will
      make the boy never the better, he is grown so hardened in his tricks,
      which I am sorry for, he being capable of making a brave man, and is a boy
      that I and my wife love very well. So made me ready, and to my office,
      where all the morning, and at noon home, whither came Captain Holland, who
      is lately come home from sea, and has been much harassed in law about the
      ship which he has bought, so that it seems in a despair he endeavoured to
      cut his own throat, but is recovered it; and it seems whether by that or
      any other persuasion (his wife's mother being a great zealot) he is turned
      almost a Quaker, his discourse being nothing but holy, and that
      impertinent, that I was weary of him. At last pretending to go to the
      Change we walked thither together, and there I left him and home to
      dinner, sending my boy by the way to enquire after two dancing masters at
      our end of the town for my wife to learn, of whose names the boy brought
      word. After dinner all the afternoon fiddling upon my viallin (which I
      have not done many a day) while Ashwell danced above in my upper best
      chamber, which is a rare room for musique, expecting this afternoon my
      wife to bring my cozen Scott and Stradwick, but they came not, and so in
      the evening we by ourselves to Half-way house to walk, but did not go in
      there, but only a walk and so home again and to supper, my father with us,
      and had a good lobster intended for part of our entertainment to these
      people to-day, and so to cards, and then to bed, being the first day that
      I have spent so much to my pleasure a great while.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up betimes and to my vyall and song book a pretty while, and so to
      my office, and there we sat all the morning. Among other things Sir W.
      Batten had a mind to cause Butler (our chief witness in the business of
      Field, whom we did force back from an employment going to sea to come back
      to attend our law sute) to be borne as a mate on the Rainbow in the Downes
      in compensation for his loss for our sakes. This he orders an order to be
      drawn by Mr. Turner for, and after Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and Sir
      W. Pen had signed it, it came to me and I was going to put it up into my
      book, thinking to consider of it and give them my opinion upon it before I
      parted with it, but Sir W. Pen told me I must sign it or give it him
      again, for it should not go without my hand. I told him what I meant to
      do, whereupon Sir W. Batten was very angry, and in a great heat (which
      will bring out any thing which he has in his mind, and I am glad of it,
      though it is base in him to have a thing so long in his mind without
      speaking of it, though I am glad this is the worst, for if he had worse it
      would out as well as this some time or other) told me that I should not
      think as I have heretofore done, make them sign orders and not sign them
      myself. Which what ignorance or worse it implies is easy to judge, when he
      shall sign to things (and the rest of the board too as appears in this
      business) for company and not out of their judgment for. After some
      discourse I did convince them that it was not fit to have it go, and Sir
      W. Batten first, and then the rest, did willingly cancel all their hands
      and tear the order, for I told them, Butler being such a rogue as I know
      him, and we have all signed him to be to the Duke, it will be in his power
      to publish this to our great reproach, that we should take such a course
      as this to serve ourselves in wronging the King by putting him into a
      place he is no wise capable of, and that in an Admiral ship. At noon we
      rose, Sir W. Batten ashamed and vexed, and so home to dinner, and after
      dinner walked to the old Exchange and so all along to Westminster Hall,
      White Hall, my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, and going by water back to the
      Temple did pay my debts in several places in order to my examining my
      accounts tomorrow to my great content. So in the evening home, and after
      supper (my father at my brother's) and merrily practising to dance, which
      my wife hath begun to learn this day of Mr. Pembleton,
    </p>
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     are many allusions to him in the following pages.  His lessons
     ceased on May 27th.]
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    <p>
      but I fear will hardly do any great good at it, because she is conceited
      that she do well already, though I think no such thing. So to bed. At
      Westminster Hall, this day, I buy a book lately printed and licensed by
      Dr. Stradling, the Bishop of London's chaplin, being a book discovering
      the practices and designs of the papists, and the fears of some of our own
      fathers of the Protestant church heretofore of the return to Popery as it
      were prefacing it.
    </p>
    <p>
      The book is a very good book; but forasmuch as it touches one of the
      Queenmother's fathers confessors, the Bishop, which troubles many good men
      and members of Parliament, hath called it in, which I am sorry for.
      Another book I bought, being a collection of many expressions of the great
      Presbyterian Preachers upon publique occasions, in the late times, against
      the King and his party, as some of Mr. Marshall, Case, Calamy, Baxter,
      &amp;c., which is good reading now, to see what they then did teach, and
      the people believe, and what they would seem to believe now. Lastly, I did
      hear that the Queen is much grieved of late at the King's neglecting her,
      he having not supped once with her this quarter of a year, and almost
      every night with my Lady Castlemaine; who hath been with him this St.
      George's feast at Windsor, and came home with him last night; and, which
      is more, they say is removed as to her bed from her own home to a chamber
      in White Hall, next to the King's own; which I am sorry to hear, though I
      love her much.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's-day). Lay pretty long in bed talking with my wife, and then
      up and set to the making up of my monthly accounts, but Tom coming, with
      whom I was angry for botching my camlott coat, to tell me that my father
      and he would dine with me, and that my father was at our church, I got me
      ready and had a very good sermon of a country minister upon "How blessed a
      thing it is for brethren to live together in unity!" So home and all to
      dinner, and then would have gone by coach to have seen my Lord Sandwich at
      Chelsey if the man would have taken us, but he denying it we staid at
      home, and I all the afternoon upon my accounts, and find myself worth full
      L700, for which I bless God, it being the most I was ever yet worth in
      money. In the evening (my father being gone to my brother's to lie
      to-night) my wife, Ashwell, and the boy and I, and the dogg, over the
      water and walked to Half-way house, and beyond into the fields, gathering
      of cowslipps, and so to Half-way house, with some cold lamb we carried
      with us, and there supped, and had a most pleasant walk back again,
      Ashwell all along telling us some parts of their mask at Chelsey School,
      which was very pretty, and I find she hath a most prodigious memory,
      remembering so much of things acted six or seven years ago. So home, and
      after reading my vows, being sleepy, without prayers to bed, for which God
      forgive me!
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up betimes and to my office, where doing business alone a good while
      till people came about business to me. Will Griffin tells me this morning
      that Captain Browne, Sir W. Batten's brother-in-law, is dead of a blow
      given him two days ago by a seaman, a servant of his, being drunk, with a
      stone striking him on the forehead, for which I am sorry, he having a good
      woman and several small children. At the office all the morning, at noon
      dined at home with my wife, merry, and after dinner by water to White
      Hall; but found the Duke of York gone to St. James's for this summer; and
      thence with Mr. Coventry, to whose chamber I went, and Sir W. Pen up to
      the Duke's closett. And a good while with him about our Navy business; and
      so I to White Hall, and there alone a while with my Lord Sandwich
      discoursing about his debt to the Navy, wherein he hath given me some
      things to resolve him in. Thence to my Lord's lodging, and thither came
      Creed to me, and he and I walked a great while in the garden, and thence
      to an alehouse in the market place to drink fine Lambeth ale, and so to
      Westminster Hall, and after walking there a great while, home by coach,
      where I found Mary gone from my wife, she being too high for her, though a
      very good servant, and my boy too will be going in a few days, for he is
      not for my family, he is grown so out of order and not to be ruled, and do
      himself, against his brother's counsel, desire to be gone, which I am
      sorry for, because I love the boy and would be glad to bring him to good.
      At home with my wife and Ashwell talking of her going into the country
      this year, wherein we had like to have fallen out, she thinking that I
      have a design to have her go, which I have not, and to let her stay here I
      perceive will not be convenient, for she expects more pleasure than I can
      give her here, and I fear I have done very ill in letting her begin to
      learn to dance. The Queen (which I did not know) it seems was at Windsor,
      at the late St. George's feast there; and the Duke of Monmouth dancing
      with her with his hat in his hand, the King came in and kissed him, and
      made him put on his hat, which every body took notice of. After being a
      while at my office home to supper and to bed, my Will being come home
      again after being at his father's all the last week taking physique.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up betimes and to my office, and there all the morning, only stepped
      up to see my wife and her dancing master at it, and I think after all she
      will do pretty well at it. So to dinner, Mr. Hunt dining with us, and so
      to the office, where we sat late, and then I to my office casting up my
      Lord's sea accounts over again, and putting them in order for payment, and
      so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up betimes, and after having at my office settled some accounts for
      my Lord Sandwich, I went forth, and taking up my father at my brother's,
      took coach and towards Chelsey, 'lighting at an alehouse near the
      Gatehouse at Westminster to drink our morning draught, and so up again and
      to Chelsey, where we found my Lord all alone at a little table with one
      joynt of meat at dinner; we sat down and very merry talking, and mightily
      extolling the manner of his retirement, and the goodness of his diet,
      which indeed is so finely dressed: the mistress of the house, Mrs. Becke,
      having been a woman of good condition heretofore, a merchant's wife, and
      hath all things most excellently dressed; among others, her cakes
      admirable, and so good that my Lord's words were, they were fit to present
      to my Lady Castlemaine. From ordinary discourse my Lord fell to talk of
      other matters to me, of which chiefly the second part of the fray, which
      he told me a little while since of, between Mr. Edward Montagu and
      himself, which is that after that he had since been with him three times
      and no notice taken at all of any difference between them, and yet since
      that he hath forborn coming to him almost two months, and do speak not
      only slightly of my Lord every where, but hath complained to my Lord
      Chancellor of him, and arrogated all that ever my Lord hath done to be
      only by his direction and persuasion. Whether he hath done the like to the
      King or no, my Lord knows not; but my Lord hath been with the King since,
      and finds all things fair; and my Lord Chancellor hath told him of it, but
      with so much contempt of Mr. Montagu, as my Lord knows himself very secure
      against any thing the fool can do; and notwithstanding all this, so noble
      is his nature, that he professes himself ready to show kindness and pity
      to Mr. Montagu on any occasion. My Lord told me of his presenting Sir H.
      Bennet with a gold cupp of L100, which he refuses, with a compliment; but
      my Lord would have been glad he had taken it, that he might have had some
      obligations upon him which he thinks possible the other may refuse to
      prevent it; not that he hath any reason to doubt his kindness. But I
      perceive great differences there are at Court; and Sir H. Bennet and my
      Lord Bristol, and their faction, are likely to carry all things before
      them (which my Lord's judgment is, will not be for the best), and
      particularly against the Chancellor, who, he tells me, is irrecoverably
      lost: but, however, that he will not actually joyne in anything against
      the Chancellor, whom he do own to be his most sure friend, and to have
      been his greatest; and therefore will not openly act in either, but
      passively carry himself even. The Queen, my Lord tells me, he thinks he
      hath incurred some displeasure with, for his kindness to his neighbour, my
      Lady Castlemaine. My Lord tells me he hath no reason to fall for her sake,
      whose wit, management, nor interest, is not likely to hold up any man, and
      therefore he thinks it not his obligation to stand for her against his own
      interest. The Duke and Mr. Coventry my Lord says he is very well with, and
      fears not but they will show themselves his very good friends, specially
      at this time, he being able to serve them, and they needing him, which he
      did not tell me wherein. Talking of the business of Tangier, he tells me
      that my Lord Tiviott is gone away without the least respect paid to him,
      nor indeed to any man, but without his commission; and (if it be true what
      he says) having laid out seven or eight thousand pounds in commodities for
      the place; and besides having not only disobliged all the Commissioners
      for Tangier, but also Sir Charles Barkeley the other day, who, speaking in
      behalf of Colonel Fitz-Gerald, that having been deputy-governor there
      already, he ought to have expected and had the governorship upon the death
      or removal of the former governor. And whereas it is said that he and his
      men are Irish, which is indeed the main thing that hath moved the King and
      Council to put in Tiviott to prevent the Irish having too great and the
      whole command there under Fitz-Gerald; he further said that there was
      never an Englishman fit to command Tangier; my Lord Tiviott answered yes,
      that there were many more fit than himself or Fitz-Gerald either. So that
      Fitz-Gerald being so great with the Duke of York, and being already made
      deputy-governor, independent of my Lord Tiviott, and he being also left
      here behind him for a while, my Lord Sandwich do think that, putting all
      these things together, the few friends he hath left, and the ill posture
      of his affairs, my Lord Tiviott is not a man of the conduct and management
      that either people take him to be, or is fit for the command of the place.
      And here, speaking of the Duke of York and Sir Charles Barkeley, my Lord
      tells me that he do very much admire the good management, and discretion,
      and nobleness of the Duke, that whatever he may be led by him or Mr.
      Coventry singly in private, yet he did not observe that in publique
      matters, but he did give as ready hearing and as good acceptance to any
      reasons offered by any other man against the opinions of them, as he did
      to them, and would concur in the prosecution of it. Then we came to
      discourse upon his own sea accompts, and came to a resolution what and how
      to proceed in them; wherein he resolved, though I offered him a way of
      evading the greatest part of his debt honestly, by making himself debtor
      to the Parliament, before the King's time, which he might justly do, yet
      he resolved to go openly and nakedly in it, and put himself to the
      kindness of the King and Duke, which humour, I must confess, and so did
      tell him (with which he was not a little pleased) had thriven very well
      with him, being known to be a man of candid and open dealing, without any
      private tricks or hidden designs as other men commonly have in what they
      do. From that we had discourse of Sir G. Carteret, who he finds kind to
      him, but it may be a little envious, and most other men are, and of many
      others; and upon the whole do find that it is a troublesome thing for a
      man of any condition at Court to carry himself even, and without
      contracting enemys or envyers; and that much discretion and dissimulation
      is necessary to do it. My father staid a good while at the window and then
      sat down by himself while my Lord and I were thus an hour together or two
      after dinner discoursing, and by and by he took his leave, and told me he
      would stay below for me. Anon I took leave, and coming down found my
      father unexpectedly in great pain and desiring for God's sake to get him a
      bed to lie upon, which I did, and W. Howe and I staid by him, in so great
      pain as I never saw, poor wretch, and with that patience, crying only:
      Terrible, terrible pain, God help me, God help me, with the mournful
      voice, that made my heart ake. He desired to rest a little alone to see
      whether it would abate, and W. Howe and I went down and walked in the
      gardens, which are very fine, and a pretty fountayne, with which I was
      finely wetted, and up to a banquetting house, with a very fine prospect,
      and so back to my father, who I found in such pain that I could not bear
      the sight of it without weeping, never thinking that I should be able to
      get him from thence, but at last, finding it like to continue, I got him
      to go to the coach, with great pain, and driving hard, he all the while in
      a most unsufferable torment (meeting in the way with Captain Ferrers going
      to my Lord, to tell him that my Lady Jemimah is come to town, and that
      Will Stankes is come with my father's horses), not staying the coach to
      speak with any body, but once, in St. Paul's Churchyard, we were forced to
      stay, the jogging and pain making my father vomit, which it never had done
      before. At last we got home, and all helping him we got him to bed
      presently, and after half an hour's lying in his naked bed (it being a
      rupture [with] which he is troubled, and has been this 20 years, but never
      in half the pain and with so great swelling as now, and how this came but
      by drinking of cold small beer and sitting long upon a low stool and then
      standing long after it he cannot tell).... After which he was at good
      ease, and so continued, and so fell to sleep, and we went down whither W.
      Stankes was come with his horses. But it is very pleasant to hear how he
      rails at the rumbling and ado that is in London over it is in the country,
      that he cannot endure it. He supped with us, and very merry, and then he
      to his lodgings at the Inne with the horses, and so we to bed, I to my
      father who is very well again, and both slept very well.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and after drinking my morning draft with my father and W.
      Stankes, I went forth to Sir W. Batten, who is going (to no purpose as he
      uses to do) to Chatham upon a survey. So to my office, where till towards
      noon, and then to the Exchange, and back home to dinner, where Mrs. Hunt,
      my father, and W. Stankes; but, Lord! what a stir Stankes makes with his
      being crowded in the streets and wearied in walking in London, and would
      not be wooed by my wife and Ashwell to go to a play, nor to White Hall, or
      to see the lyons,
    </p>
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     chief sights of London, and gave rise to a new English word, was not
     abolished until the early part of the present century.]
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    <p>
      though he was carried in a coach. I never could have thought there had
      been upon earth a man so little curious in the world as he is. At the
      office all the afternoon till 9 at night, so home to cards with my father,
      wife, and Ashwell, and so to bed.
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    <p>
      May 1st. Up betimes and my father with me, and he and I all the morning
      and Will Stankes private, in my wife's closet above, settling our matters
      concerning our Brampton estate, &amp;c., and I find that there will be,
      after all debts paid within L100, L50 per annum clear coming towards my
      father's maintenance, besides L25 per annum annuities to my Uncle Thomas
      and Aunt Perkins. Of which, though I was in my mind glad, yet thought it
      not fit to let my father know it thoroughly, but after he had gone out to
      visit my uncle Thomas and brought him to dinner with him, and after dinner
      I got my father, brother Tom, and myself together, I did make the business
      worse to them, and did promise L20 out of my own purse to make it L50 a
      year to my father, propounding that Stortlow may be sold to pay L200 for
      his satisfaction therein and the rest to go towards payment of debts and
      legacies. The truth is I am fearful lest my father should die before debts
      are paid, and then the land goes to Tom and the burden of paying all debts
      will fall upon the rest of the land. Not that I would do my brother any
      real hurt. I advised my father to good husbandry and to living within the
      compass of L50 a year, and all in such kind words, as not only made, them
      but myself to weep, and I hope it will have a good effect. That being
      done, and all things agreed on, we went down, and after a glass of wine we
      all took horse, and I, upon a horse hired of Mr. Game, saw him out of
      London, at the end of Bishopsgate Street, and so I turned and rode, with
      some trouble, through the fields, and then Holborn, &amp;c., towards Hide
      Park, whither all the world, I think, are going, and in my going, almost
      thither, met W. Howe coming galloping upon a little crop black nag; it
      seems one that was taken in some ground of my Lord's, by some mischance
      being left by his master, a thief; this horse being found with black cloth
      ears on, and a false mayne, having none of his own; and I back again with
      him to the Chequer, at Charing Cross, and there put up my own dull jade,
      and by his advice saddled a delicate stone-horse of Captain Ferrers's, and
      with that rid in state to the Park, where none better mounted than I
      almost, but being in a throng of horses, seeing the King's riders showing
      tricks with their managed horses, which were very strange, my stone-horse
      was very troublesome, and begun to, fight with other horses, to the
      dangering him and myself, and with much ado I got out, and kept myself out
      of harm's way.. Here I saw nothing good, neither the King, nor my Lady
      Castlemaine, nor any great ladies or beauties being there, there being
      more pleasure a great deal at an ordinary day; or else those few good
      faces that there were choked up with the many bad ones, there being people
      of all sorts in coaches there, to some thousands, I think. Going thither
      in the highway, just by the Park gate, I met a boy in a sculler boat,
      carried by a dozen people at least, rowing as hard as he could drive, it
      seems upon some wager. By and by, about seven or eight o'clock, homeward;
      and changing my horse again, I rode home, coaches going in great crowds to
      the further end of the town almost. In my way, in Leadenhall Street, there
      was morris-dancing which I have not seen a great while. So set my horse up
      at Game's, paying 5s. for him. And so home to see Sir J. Minnes, who is
      well again, and after staying talking with him awhile, I took leave and
      went to hear Mrs. Turner's daughter, at whose house Sir J. Minnes lies,
      play on the harpsicon; but, Lord! it was enough to make any man sick to
      hear her; yet I was forced to commend her highly. So home to supper and to
      bed, Ashwell playing upon the tryangle very well before I went to bed.
      This day Captain Grove sent me a side of pork, which was the oddest
      present, sure, that was ever made any man; and the next, I remember I told
      my wife, I believe would be a pound of candles, or a shoulder of mutton;
      but the fellow do it in kindness, and is one I am beholden to. So to bed
      very weary, and a little galled for lack of riding, praying to God for a
      good journey to my father, of whom I am afeard, he being so lately ill of
      his pain.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Being weary last night, I slept till almost seven o'clock, a thing I
      have not done many a day. So up and to my office (being come to some angry
      words with my wife about neglecting the keeping of the house clean, I
      calling her beggar, and she me pricklouse, which vexed me) and there all
      the morning. So to the Exchange and then home to dinner, and very merry
      and well pleased with my wife, and so to the office again, where we met
      extraordinary upon drawing up the debts of the Navy to my Lord Treasurer.
      So rose and up to Sir W. Pen to drink a glass of bad syder in his new far
      low dining room, which is very noble, and so home, where Captain Ferrers
      and his lady are come to see my wife, he being to go the beginning of next
      week to France to sea and I think to fetch over my young Lord
      Hinchinbroke. They being gone I to my office to write letters by the post,
      and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Lord's day). Up before 5 o'clock and alone at setting my Brampton
      papers to rights according to my father's and my computation and
      resolution the other day to my good content, I finding that there will be
      clear saved to us L50 per annum, only a debt of it may be L100. So made
      myself ready and to church, where Sir W. Pen showed me the young lady
      which young Dawes, that sits in the new corner-pew in the church, hath
      stole away from Sir Andrew Rickard, her guardian, worth L1000 per annum
      present, good land, and some money, and a very well-bred and handsome
      lady: he, I doubt, but a simple fellow. However, he got this good luck to
      get her, which methinks I could envy him with all my heart. Home to dinner
      with my wife, who not being very well did not dress herself but staid at
      home all day, and so I to church in the afternoon and so home again, and
      up to teach Ashwell the grounds of time and other things on the tryangle,
      and made her take out a Psalm very well, she having a good ear and hand.
      And so a while to my office, and then home to supper and prayers, to bed,
      my wife and I having a little falling out because I would not leave my
      discourse below with her and Ashwell to go up and talk with her alone upon
      something she has to say. She reproached me but I had rather talk with any
      body than her, by which I find I think she is jealous of my freedom with
      Ashwell, which I must avoid giving occasion of.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up betimes and to setting my Brampton papers in order and looking
      over my wardrobe against summer, and laying things in order to send to my
      brother to alter. By and by took boat intending to have gone down to
      Woolwich, but seeing I could not get back time enough to dinner, I
      returned and home. Whither by and by the dancing-master' came, whom
      standing by, seeing him instructing my wife, when he had done with her, he
      would needs have me try the steps of a coranto, and what with his desire
      and my wife's importunity, I did begin, and then was obliged to give him
      entry-money 10s., and am become his scholler. The truth is, I think it a
      thing very useful for a gentleman, and sometimes I may have occasion of
      using it, and though it cost me what I am heartily sorry it should,
      besides that I must by my oath give half as much more to the poor, yet I
      am resolved to get it up some other way, and then it will not be above a
      month or two in a year. So though it be against my stomach yet I will try
      it a little while; if I see it comes to any great inconvenience or charge
      I will fling it off. After I had begun with the steps of half a coranto,
      which I think I shall learn well enough, he went away, and we to dinner,
      and by and by out by coach, and set my wife down at my Lord Crew's, going
      to see my Lady Jem. Montagu, who is lately come to town, and I to St.
      James's; where Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Pen and I staid a good while for the
      Duke's coming in, but not coming, we walked to White Hall; and meeting the
      King, we followed him into the Park, where Mr. Coventry and he talked of
      building a new yacht, which the King is resolved to have built out of his
      privy purse, he having some contrivance of his own. The talk being done,
      we fell off to White Hall, leaving the King in the Park, and going back,
      met the Duke going towards St. James's to meet us. So he turned back
      again, and to his closett at White Hall; and there, my Lord Sandwich
      present, we did our weekly errand, and so broke up; and I down into the
      garden with my Lord Sandwich (after we had sat an hour at the Tangier
      Committee); and after talking largely of his own businesses, we begun to
      talk how matters are at Court: and though he did not flatly tell me any
      such thing, yet I do suspect that all is not kind between the King and the
      Duke, and that the King's fondness to the little Duke do occasion it; and
      it may be that there is some fear of his being made heir to the Crown. But
      this my Lord did not tell me, but is my guess only; and that my Lord
      Chancellor is without doubt falling past hopes. He being gone to Chelsey
      by coach I to his lodgings, where my wife staid for me, and she from
      thence to see Mrs. Pierce and called me at Whitehall stairs (where I went
      before by land to know whether there was any play at Court to-night) and
      there being none she and I to Mr. Creed to the Exchange, where she bought
      something, and from thence by water to White Fryars, and wife to see Mrs.
      Turner, and then came to me at my brother's, where I did give him order
      about my summer clothes, and so home by coach, and after supper to bed to
      my wife, with whom I have not lain since I used to lie with my father till
      to-night.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up betimes and to my office, and there busy all the morning, among
      other things walked a good while up and down with Sir J. Minnes, he
      telling many old stories of the Navy, and of the state of the Navy at the
      beginning of the late troubles, and I am troubled at my heart to think,
      and shall hereafter cease to wonder, at the bad success of the King's
      cause, when such a knave as he (if it be true what he says) had the whole
      management of the fleet, and the design of putting out of my Lord Warwick,
      and carrying the fleet to the King, wherein he failed most fatally to the
      King's ruin. Dined at home, and after dinner up to try my dance, and so to
      the office again, where we sat all the afternoon. In the evening Deane of
      Woolwich went home with me and showed me the use of a little sliding
      ruler, less than that I bought the other day, which is the same with that,
      but more portable; however I did not seem to understand or even to have
      seen anything of it before, but I find him an ingenious fellow, and a good
      servant in his place to the King. Thence to my office busy writing
      letters, and then came Sir W. Warren, staying for a letter in his business
      by the post, and while that was writing he and I talked about merchandise,
      trade, and getting of money. I made it my business to enquire what way
      there is for a man bred like me to come to understand anything of trade.
      He did most discretely answer me in all things, shewing me the danger for
      me to meddle either in ships or merchandise of any sort or common stocks,
      but what I have to keep at interest, which is a good, quiett, and easy
      profit, and once in a little while something offers that with ready money
      you may make use of money to good profit. Wherein I concur much with him,
      and parted late with great pleasure and content in his discourse, and so
      home to supper and to bed. It has been this afternoon very hot and this
      evening also, and about 11 at night going to bed it fell a-thundering and
      lightening, the greatest flashes enlightening the whole body of the yard,
      that ever I saw in my life.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up betimes and to my office a good while at my new rulers, then to
      business, and towards noon to the Exchange with Creed, where we met with
      Sir J. Minnes coming in his coach from Westminster, who tells us, in great
      heat, that, by God, the Parliament will make mad work; that they will
      render all men incapable of any military or civil employment that have
      borne arms in the late troubles against the King, excepting some persons;
      which, if it be so, as I hope it is not, will give great cause of
      discontent, and I doubt will have but bad effects. I left them at the
      Exchange and walked to Paul's Churchyard to look upon a book or two, and
      so back, and thence to the Trinity House, and there dined, where, among
      other discourse worth hearing among the old seamen, they tell us that they
      have catched often in Greenland in fishing whales with the iron grapnells
      that had formerly been struck into their bodies covered over with fat;
      that they have had eleven hogsheads of oyle out of the tongue of a whale.
      Thence after dinner home to my office, and there busy till the evening.
      Then home and to supper, and while at supper comes Mr. Pembleton, and
      after supper we up to our dancing room and there danced three or four
      country dances, and after that a practice of my coranto I began with him
      the other day, and I begin to think that I shall be able to do something
      at it in time. Late and merry at it, and so weary to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up betimes and to my office awhile, and then by water with my wife,
      leaving her at the new Exchange, and I to see Dr. Williams, and spoke with
      him about my business with Tom Trice, and so to my brother's, who I find
      very careful now-a-days, more than ordinary in his business and like to do
      well. From thence to Westminster, and there up and down from the Hall to
      the Lobby, the Parliament sitting. Sir Thomas Crew this day tells me that
      the Queen, hearing that there was L40,000 per annum brought into her
      account among the other expences of the Crown to the Committee of
      Parliament, she took order to let them know that she hath yet for the
      payment of her whole family received but L4,000, which is a notable act of
      spirit, and I believe is true. So by coach to my Lord Crew's, and there
      dined with him. He tells me of the order the House of Commons have made
      for the drawing an Act for the rendering none capable of preferment or
      employment in the State, but who have been loyall and constant to the King
      and Church; which will be fatal to a great many, and makes me doubt lest I
      myself, with all my innocence during the late times, should be brought in,
      being employed in the Exchequer; but, I hope, God will provide for me.
      This day the new Theatre Royal begins to act with scenes the Humourous
      Lieutenant, but I have not time to see it, nor could stay to see my Lady
      Jemimah lately come to town, and who was here in the house, but dined
      above with her grandmother. But taking my wife at my brother's home by
      coach, and the officers being at Deptford at a Pay we had no office, but I
      took my wife by water and so spent the evening, and so home with great
      pleasure to supper, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up very early and to my office, there preparing letters to my father
      of great import in the settling of our affairs, and putting him upon a way
      [of] good husbandry, I promising to make out of my own purse him up to L50
      per annum, till either by my uncle Thomas's death or the fall of the
      Wardrobe place he be otherwise provided. That done I by water to the
      Strand, and there viewed the Queen-Mother's works at Somersett House, and
      thence to the new playhouse, but could not get in to see it. So to visit
      my Lady Jemimah, who is grown much since I saw her; but lacks mightily to
      be brought into the fashion of the court to set her off: Thence to the
      Temple, and there sat till one o'clock reading at Playford's in Dr.
      Usher's 'Body of Divinity' his discourse of the Scripture, which is as
      much, I believe, as is anywhere said by any man, but yet there is room to
      cavill, if a man would use no faith to the tradition of the Church in
      which he is born, which I think to be as good an argument as most is
      brought for many things, and it may be for that among others. Thence to my
      brother's, and there took up my wife and Ashwell to the Theatre Royall,
      being the second day of its being opened. The house is made with
      extraordinary good contrivance, and yet hath some faults, as the
      narrowness of the passages in and out of the Pitt, and the distance from
      the stage to the boxes, which I am confident cannot hear; but for all
      other things it is well, only, above all, the musique being below, and
      most of it sounding under the very stage, there is no hearing of the bases
      at all, nor very well of the trebles, which sure must be mended. The play
      was "The Humerous Lieutenant," a play that hath little good in it, nor
      much in the very part which, by the King's command, Lacy now acts instead
      of Clun. In the dance, the tall devil's actions was very pretty. The play
      being done, we home by water, having been a little shamed that my wife and
      woman were in such a pickle, all the ladies being finer and better dressed
      in the pitt than they used, I think, to be. To my office to set down this
      day's passage, and, though my oath against going to plays do not oblige me
      against this house, because it was not then in being, yet believing that
      at the time my meaning was against all publique houses, I am resolved to
      deny myself the liberty of two plays at Court, which are in arreare to me
      for the months of March and April, which will more than countervail this
      excess, so that this month of May is the first that I must claim a liberty
      of going to a Court play according to my oath. So home to supper, and at
      supper comes Pembleton, and afterwards we all up to dancing till late, and
      so broke up and to bed, and they say that I am like to make a dancer.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up betimes and to my office, whither sooner than ordinary comes Mr.
      Hater desiring to speak a word to me alone, which I was from the disorder
      of his countenance amused at, and so the poor man began telling me that by
      Providence being the last Lord's day at a meeting of some Friends upon
      doing of their duties, they were surprised, and he carried to the Counter,
      but afterwards released; however, hearing that Sir W. Batten do hear of
      [it,] he thought it good to give me an account of it, lest it might tend
      to any prejudice to me. I was extraordinary surprised with it, and
      troubled for him, knowing that now it is out it is impossible for me to
      conceal it, or keep him in employment under me without danger to myself. I
      cast about all I could, and did give him the best advice I could, desiring
      to know if I should promise that he would not for the time to come commit
      the same, he told me he desired that I would rather forbear to promise
      that, for he durst not do it, whatever God in His providence shall do with
      him, and that for my part he did bless God and thank me for all the love
      and kindness I have shewed him hitherto. I could not without tears in my
      eyes discourse with him further, but at last did pitch upon telling the
      truth of the whole to Mr. Coventry as soon as I could, and to that end did
      use means to prevent Sir W. Batten (who came to town last night) from
      going to that end to-day, lest he might doe it to Sir G. Carteret or Mr.
      Coventry before me; which I did prevail and kept him at the office all the
      morning. At noon dined at home with a heavy heart for the poor man, and
      after dinner went out to my brother's, and thence to Westminster, where at
      Mr. Jervas's, my old barber, I did try two or three borders and
      perriwiggs, meaning to wear one; and yet I have no stomach [for it,] but
      that the pains of keeping my hair clean is so great. He trimmed me, and at
      last I parted, but my mind was almost altered from my first purpose, from
      the trouble that I foresee will be in wearing them also. Thence by water
      home and to the office, where busy late, and so home to supper and bed,
      with my mind much troubled about T. Hater.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Up betimes, and put on a black cloth suit, with white
      lynings under all, as the fashion is to wear, to appear under the
      breeches. So being ready walked to St. James's, where I sat talking with
      Mr. Coventry, while he made himself ready, about several businesses of the
      Navy, and afterwards, the Duke being gone out, he and I walked to White
      Hall together over the Park, I telling him what had happened to Tom Hater,
      at which he seems very sorry, but tells me that if it is not made very
      publique, it will not be necessary to put him away at present, but give
      him good caution for the time to come. However, he will speak to the Duke
      about it and know his pleasure. Parted with him there, and I walked back
      to St. James's, and was there at mass, and was forced in the crowd to
      kneel down; and mass being done, to the King's Head ordinary, whither I
      sent for Mr. Creed and there we dined, where many Parliament-men; and most
      of their talk was about the news from Scotland, that the Bishop of
      Galloway was besieged in his house by some woman, and had like to have
      been outraged, but I know not how he was secured; which is bad news, and
      looks just as it did in the beginning of the late troubles. From thence
      they talked of rebellion; and I perceive they make it their great maxime
      to be sure to master the City of London, whatever comes of it or from it.
      After that to some other discourse, and, among other things, talking of
      the way of ordinaries, that it is very convenient, because a man knows
      what he hath to pay: one did wish that, among many bad, we could learn two
      good things of France, which were that we would not think it below the
      gentleman, or person of honour at a tavern, to bargain for his meat before
      he eats it; and next, to take no servant without certificate from some
      friend or gentleman of his good behaviour and abilities. Hence with Creed
      into St. James's Park, and there walked all the afternoon, and thence on
      foot home, and after a little while at my office walked in the garden with
      my wife, and so home to supper, and after prayers to bed. My brother Tom
      supped with me, and should have brought my aunt Ellen with him; she was
      not free to go abroad.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up betimes, and by water to Woolwich on board the Royall James, to
      see in what dispatch she is to be carried about to Chatham. So to the yard
      a little, and thence on foot to Greenwich, where going I was set upon by a
      great dogg, who got hold of my garters, and might have done me hurt; but,
      Lord, to see in what a maze I was, that, having a sword about me, I never
      thought of it, or had the heart to make use of it, but might, for want of
      that courage, have been worried. Took water there and home, and both
      coming and going did con my lesson on my Ruler to measure timber, which I
      think I can well undertake now to do. At home there being Pembleton I
      danced, and I think shall come on to do something in a little time, and
      after dinner by coach with Sir W. Pen (setting down his daughter at
      Clerkenwell), to St. James's, where we attended the Duke of York: and,
      among other things, Sir G. Carteret and I had a great dispute about the
      different value of the pieces of eight rated by Mr. Creed at 4s. and 5d.,
      and by Pitts at 4s. and 9d., which was the greatest husbandry to the King?
      he persisting that the greatest sum was; which is as ridiculous a piece of
      ignorance as could be imagined. However, it is to be argued at the Board,
      and reported to the Duke next week; which I shall do with advantage, I
      hope. Thence to the Tangier Committee, where we should have concluded in
      sending Captain Cuttance and the rest to Tangier to deliberate upon the
      design of the Mole before they begin to work upon it, but there being not
      a committee (my Lord intending to be there but was taken up at my Lady
      Castlemayne's) I parted and went homeward, after a little discourse with
      Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who tells me that my Lady Castlemaine hath now got
      lodgings near the King's chamber at Court; and that the other day Dr.
      Clerke and he did dissect two bodies, a man and a woman; before the King,
      with which the King was highly pleased. By water and called upon Tom Trice
      by appointment with Dr. Williams, but the Dr. did not come, it seems by T.
      Trice's desire, not thinking he should be at leisure. However, in general
      we talked of our business, and I do not find that he will come to any
      lower terms than L150, which I think I shall not give him but by law, and
      so we parted, and I called upon Mr. Crumlum, and did give him the 10s.
      remaining, not laid out of the L5 I promised him for the school, with
      which he will buy strings, and golden letters upon the books I did give
      them. I sat with him and his wife a great while talking, and she is [a]
      pretty woman, never yet with child, and methinks looks as if her mouth
      watered now and then upon some of her boys. Then upon Tom Pepys, the
      Turner, desiring his father and his letter to Piggott signifying his
      consent to the selling of his land for the paying of us his money, and so
      home, and finding Pembleton there we did dance till it was late, and so to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up between four and five, and after dressing myself then to my
      office to prepare business against the afternoon, where all the morning,
      and dined at noon at home, where a little angry with my wife for minding
      nothing now but the dancing-master, having him come twice a day, which is
      a folly. Again, to my office. We sat till late, our chief business being
      the reconciling the business of the pieces of eight mentioned yesterday
      before the Duke of York, wherein I have got the day, and they are all
      brought over to what I said, of which I am proud. Late writing letters,
      and so home to supper and to bed. Here I found Creed staying for me, and
      so after supper I staid him all night and lay with me, our great discourse
      being the folly of our two doting knights, of which I am ashamed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Lay till 6 o'clock and then up, and after a little talk and mirth,
      he went away, and I to my office, where busy all the morning, and at noon
      home to dinner, and after dinner Pembleton came and I practised. But,
      Lord! to see how my wife will not be thought to need telling by me or
      Ashwell, and yet will plead that she has learnt but a month, which causes
      many short fallings out between us. So to my office, whither one-eyed
      Cooper came to see me, and I made him to show me the use of platts, and to
      understand the lines, and how to find how lands bear, &amp;c., to my great
      content. Then came Mr. Barrow, storekeeper of Chatham, who tells me many
      things, how basely Sir W. Batten has carried himself to him, and in all
      things else like a passionate dotard, to the King's great wrong. God mend
      all, for I am sure we are but in an ill condition in the Navy, however the
      King is served in other places. Home to supper, to cards, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up betimes and put up some things to send to Brampton. Then abroad
      to the Temple, and up and down about business, and met Mr. Moore; and with
      him to an alehouse in Holborn; where in discourse he told me that he fears
      the King will be tempted to endeavour the setting the Crown upon the
      little Duke, which may cause troubles; which God forbid, unless it be his
      due! He told me my Lord do begin to settle to business again, which I am
      glad of, for he must not sit out, now he has done his own business by
      getting his estate settled, and that the King did send for him the other
      day to my Lady Castlemaine's, to play at cards, where he lost L50; for
      which I am sorry, though he says my Lord was pleased at it, and said he
      would be glad at any time to lose L50 for the King to send for him to
      play, which I do not so well like. Thence home, and after dinner to the
      office, where we sat till night, and then made up my papers and letters by
      the post, and so home to dance with Pembleton. This day we received a
      baskett from my sister Pall, made by her of paper, which hath a great deal
      of labour in it for country innocent work. After supper to bed, and going
      to bed received a letter from Mr. Coventry desiring my coming to him
      to-morrow morning, which troubled me to think what the business should be,
      fearing it must be some bad news in Tom Hater's business.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up betimes and walked to St. James's, where Mr. Coventry being in
      bed I walked in the Park, discoursing with the keeper of the Pell Mell,
      who was sweeping of it; who told me of what the earth is mixed that do
      floor the Mall, and that over all there is cockle-shells powdered, and
      spread to keep it fast; which, however, in dry weather, turns to dust and
      deads the ball. Thence to Mr. Coventry; and sitting by his bedside, he did
      tell me that he sent for me to discourse upon my Lord Sandwich's
      allowances for his several pays, and what his thoughts are concerning his
      demands; which he could not take the freedom to do face to face, it being
      not so proper as by me: and did give me a most friendly and ingenuous
      account of all; telling me how unsafe, at this juncture, while every
      man's, and his actions particularly, are descanted upon, it is either for
      him to put the Duke upon doing, or my Lord himself to desire anything
      extraordinary, 'specially the King having been so bountifull already;
      which the world takes notice of even to some repinings. All which he did
      desire me to discourse with my Lord of; which I have undertook to do. We
      talked also of our office in general, with which he told me that he was
      now-a-days nothing so satisfied as he was wont to be. I confess I told him
      things are ordered in that way that we must of necessity break in a little
      time a pieces. After done with him about these things, he told me that for
      Mr. Hater the Duke's word was in short that he found he had a good
      servant, an Anabaptist, and unless he did carry himself more to the
      scandal of the office, he would bear with his opinion till he heard
      further, which do please me very much. Thence walked to Westminster, and
      there up and down in the Hall and the Parliament House all the morning; at
      noon by coach to my Lord Crew's, hearing that Lord Sandwich did dine
      there; where I told him what had passed between Mr. Coventry and myself;
      with which he was contented, though I could perceive not very well
      pleased. And I do believe that my Lord do find some other things go
      against his mind in the House; for in the motion made the other day in the
      House by my Lord Bruce, that none be capable of employment but such as
      have been loyal and constant to the King and Church, the General [Monk]
      and my Lord were mentioned to be excepted; and my Lord Bruce did come
      since to my Lord, to clear himself that he meant nothing to his prejudice,
      nor could it have any such effect if he did mean it. After discourse with
      my Lord; to dinner with him; there dining there my Lord Montagu of
      Boughton, Mr. William Montagu his brother, the Queen's Sollicitor, &amp;c.,
      and a fine dinner. Their talk about a ridiculous falling-out two days ago
      at my Lord of Oxford's house, at an entertainment of his, there being
      there my Lord of Albemarle, Lynsey, two of the Porters, my Lord Bellasses,
      and others, where there were high words and some blows, and pulling off of
      perriwiggs; till my Lord Monk took away some of their swords, and sent for
      some soldiers to guard the house till the fray was ended. To such a degree
      of madness the nobility of this age is come! After dinner I went up to Sir
      Thomas Crew, who lies there not very well in his head, being troubled with
      vapours and fits of dizziness: and there I sat talking with him all the
      afternoon from one discourse to another, the most was upon the unhappy
      posture of things at this time; that the King do mind nothing but
      pleasures, and hates the very sight or thoughts of business; that my Lady
      Castlemaine rules him, who, he says, hath all the tricks of Aretin
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [An allusion to Aretin's infamous letters and sonnets accompanying
     the as infamous "Postures" engraved by Marc Antonio from the designs
     of Julio Romano (Steinman's "Memoir of Barbara, Duchess of
     Cleveland," privately printed, 1871).]
</pre>
    <p>
      that are to be practised to give pleasure. In which he is too able ....
      but what is the unhappiness in that, as the Italian proverb says, "lazzo
      dritto non vuolt consiglio." If any of the sober counsellors give him good
      advice, and move him in anything that is to his good and honour, the other
      part, which are his counsellers of pleasure, take him when he is with my
      Lady Castlemaine, and in a humour of delight, and then persuade him that
      he ought not to hear nor listen to the advice of those old dotards or
      counsellors that were heretofore his enemies: when, God knows! it is they
      that now-a-days do most study his honour. It seems the present favourites
      now are my Lord Bristol, Duke of Buckingham, Sir H. Bennet, my Lord
      Ashley, and Sir Charles Barkeley; who, among them, have cast my Lord
      Chancellor upon his back, past ever getting up again; there being now
      little for him to do, and he waits at Court attending to speak to the King
      as others do: which I pray God may prove of good effects, for it is feared
      it will be the same with my Lord Treasurer shortly. But strange to hear
      how my Lord Ashley, by my Lord Bristol's means (he being brought over to
      the Catholique party against the Bishopps, whom he hates to the death, and
      publicly rails against them; not that he is become a Catholique, but
      merely opposes the Bishopps; and yet, for aught I hear, the Bishopp of
      London keeps as great with the King as ever) is got into favour, so much
      that, being a man of great business and yet of pleasure, and drolling too,
      he, it is thought, will be made Lord Treasurer upon the death or removal
      of the good old man. My Lord Albemarle, I hear, do bear through and bustle
      among them, and will not be removed from the King's good opinion and
      favour, though none of the Cabinett; but yet he is envied enough. It is
      made very doubtful whether the King do not intend the making of the Duke
      of Monmouth legitimate;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thomas Ross, Monmouth's tutor, put the idea into his head that
     Charles II. had married his mother.  The report was sedulously
     spread abroad, and obtained some kind of credence, until, in June,
     1678, the king set the matter at rest by publishing a declaration,
     which was entered in the Council book and registered in Chancery.
     The words of the declaration are: "That to avoid any dispute which
     might happen in time to come concerning the succession of the Crown,
     he (Charles) did declare, in the presence of Almighty God, that he
     never gave, nor made any contract of marriage, nor was married to
     Mrs. Barlow, alias Waters, the Duke of Monmouth's mother, nor to any
     other woman whatsoever, but to his present wife, Queen Catherine,
     then living."]
</pre>
    <p>
      but surely the Commons of England will never do it, nor the Duke of York
      suffer it, whose lady, I am told, is very troublesome to him by her
      jealousy. But it is wonderful that Sir Charles Barkeley should be so great
      still, not [only] with the King, but Duke also; who did so stiffly swear
      that he had lain with her.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The conspiracy of Sir Charles Berkeley, Lord Arran, Jermyn, Talbot,
     and Killigrew to traduce Anne Hyde was peculiarly disgraceful, and
     the conduct of all the actors in the affair of the marriage, from
     Lord Clarendon downwards, was far from creditable (see Lister's
     "Life of Clarendon," ii. 68-79)]
</pre>
    <p>
      And another one Armour that he rode before her on horseback in Holland I
      think.... No care is observed to be taken of the main chance, either for
      maintaining of trade or opposing of factions, which, God knows, are ready
      to break out, if any of them (which God forbid!) should dare to begin; the
      King and every man about him minding so much their pleasures or profits.
      My Lord Hinchingbroke, I am told, hath had a mischance to kill his boy by
      his birding-piece going off as he was a-fowling. The gun was charged with
      small shot, and hit the boy in the face and about the temples, and he
      lived four days. In Scotland, it seems, for all the newes-books tell us
      every week that they are all so quiett, and everything in the Church
      settled, the old woman had like to have killed, the other day, the Bishop
      of Galloway, and not half the Churches of the whole kingdom conform.
      Strange were the effects of the late thunder and lightning about a week
      since at Northampton, coming with great rain, which caused extraordinary
      floods in a few hours, bearing away bridges, drowning horses, men, and
      cattle. Two men passing over a bridge on horseback, the arches before and
      behind them were borne away, and that left which they were upon: but,
      however, one of the horses fell over, and was drowned. Stacks of faggots
      carried as high as a steeple, and other dreadful things; which Sir Thomas
      Crew showed me letters to him about from Mr. Freemantle and others, that
      it is very true. The Portugalls have choused us,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language
     at the beginning of the seventeenth century.  In 1609, a Chiaus sent
     by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople to London, had chiaused
     (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of L4,000, before
     the arrival of his employer, and had decamped.  The affair was quite
     recent in 1610, when Jonson's "Alchemist" appeared, in which it is
     alluded to.]
</pre>
    <p>
      it seems, in the Island of Bombay, in the East Indys; for after a great
      charge of our fleets being sent thither with full commission from the King
      of Portugall to receive it, the Governour by some pretence or other will
      not deliver it to Sir Abraham Shipman, sent from the King, nor to my Lord
      of Marlborough; which the King takes highly ill, and I fear our Queen will
      fare the worse for it. The Dutch decay there exceedingly, it being
      believed that their people will revolt from them there, and they forced to
      give over their trade. This is talked of among us, but how true I
      understand not. Sir Thomas showed me his picture and Sir Anthony
      Vandike's, in crayon in little, done exceedingly well. Having thus freely
      talked with him, and of many more things, I took leave, and by coach to
      St. James's, and there told Mr. Coventry what I had done with my Lord with
      great satisfaction, and so well pleased home, where I found it almost
      night, and my wife and the dancing-master alone above, not dancing but
      talking. Now so deadly full of jealousy I am that my heart and head did so
      cast about and fret that I could not do any business possibly, but went
      out to my office, and anon late home again and ready to chide at every
      thing, and then suddenly to bed and could hardly sleep, yet durst not say
      any thing, but was forced to say that I had bad news from the Duke
      concerning Tom Hater as an excuse to my wife, who by my folly has too much
      opportunity given her with the man, who is a pretty neat black man, but
      married. But it is a deadly folly and plague that I bring upon myself to
      be so jealous and by giving myself such an occasion more than my wife
      desired of giving her another month's dancing. Which however shall be
      ended as soon as I can possibly. But I am ashamed to think what a course I
      did take by lying to see whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she
      used to do, and other things to raise my suspicion of her, but I found no
      true cause of doing it.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up with my mind disturbed and with my last night's doubts upon me,
      for which I deserve to be beaten if not really served as I am fearful of
      being, especially since God knows that I do not find honesty enough in my
      own mind but that upon a small temptation I could be false to her, and
      therefore ought not to expect more justice from her, but God pardon both
      my sin and my folly herein. To my office and there sitting all the
      morning, and at noon dined at home. After dinner comes Pembleton, and I
      being out of humour would not see him, pretending business, but, Lord!
      with what jealousy did I walk up and down my chamber listening to hear
      whether they danced or no, which they did, notwithstanding I afterwards
      knew and did then believe that Ashwell was with them. So to my office
      awhile, and, my jealousy still reigning, I went in and, not out of any
      pleasure but from that only reason, did go up to them to practise, and did
      make an end of "La Duchesse," which I think I should, with a little pains,
      do very well. So broke up and saw him gone. Then Captain Cocke coming to
      me to speak about my seeming discourtesy to him in the business of his
      hemp, I went to the office with him, and there discoursed it largely and I
      think to his satisfaction. Then to my business, writing letters and other
      things till late at night, and so home to supper and bed. My mind in some
      better ease resolving to prevent matters for the time to come as much as I
      can, it being to no purpose to trouble myself for what is past, being
      occasioned too by my own folly.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). Up and in my chamber all the morning, preparing my
      great letters to my father, stating to him the perfect condition of our
      estate. My wife and Ashwell to church, and after dinner they to church
      again, and I all the afternoon making an end of my morning's work, which I
      did about the evening, and then to talk with my wife till after supper,
      and so to bed having another small falling out and myself vexed with my
      old fit of jealousy about her dancing-master. But I am a fool for doing
      it. So to bed by daylight, I having a very great cold, so as I doubt
      whether I shall be able to speak to-morrow at our attending the Duke,
      being now so hoarse.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and after taking leave of Sir W. Batten, who is gone this day
      towards Portsmouth (to little purpose, God knows) upon his survey, I home
      and spent the morning at dancing; at noon Creed dined with us and Mr.
      Deane Woolwich, and so after dinner came Mr. Howe, who however had enough
      for his dinner, and so, having done, by coach to Westminster, she to Mrs.
      Clerke and I to St. James's, where the Duke being gone down by water
      to-day with the King I went thence to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, where
      Mr. Howe and I walked a while, and going towards Whitehall through the
      garden Dr. Clerk and Creed called me across the bowling green, and so I
      went thither and after a stay went up to Mrs. Clerke who was dressing
      herself to go abroad with my wife. But, Lord! in what a poor condition her
      best chamber is, and things about her, for all the outside and show that
      she makes, but I found her just such a one as Mrs. Pierce, contrary to my
      expectation, so much that I am sick and sorry to see it. Thence for an
      hour Creed and I walked to White Hall, and into the Park, seeing the Queen
      and Maids of Honour passing through the house going to the Park. But above
      all, Mrs. Stuart is a fine woman, and they say now a common mistress to
      the King,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The king said to 'la belle' Stuart, who resisted all his
     importunities, that he hoped he should live to see her "ugly and
     willing" (Lord Dartmouth's note to Burnet's "Own Time," vol. i.,
     p. 436, ed.  1823).]
</pre>
    <p>
      as my Lady Castlemaine is; which is a great pity. Thence taking a coach to
      Mrs. Clerke's, took her, and my wife, and Ashwell, and a Frenchman, a
      kinsman of hers, to the Park, where we saw many fine faces, and one
      exceeding handsome, in a white dress over her head, with many others very
      beautiful. Staying there till past eight at night, I carried Mrs. Clerke
      and her Frenchman, who sings well, home, and thence home ourselves,
      talking much of what we had observed to-day of the poor household stuff of
      Mrs. Clerke and mere show and flutter that she makes in the world; and
      pleasing myself in my own house and manner of living more than ever I did
      by seeing how much better and more substantially I live than others do. So
      to supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up pretty betimes, but yet I observe how my dancing and lying a
      morning or two longer than ordinary for my cold do make me hard to rise as
      I used to do, or look after my business as I am wont. To my chamber to
      make an end of my papers to my father to be sent by the post to-night, and
      taking copies of them, which was a great work, but I did it this morning,
      and so to my office, and thence with Sir John Minnes to the Tower; and by
      Mr. Slingsby, and Mr. Howard, Controller of the Mint, we were shown the
      method of making this new money, from the beginning to the end, which is
      so pretty that I did take a note of every part of it and set them down by
      themselves for my remembrance hereafter. That being done it was dinner
      time, and so the Controller would have us dine with him and his company,
      the King giving them a dinner every day. And very merry and good discourse
      about the business we have been upon, and after dinner went to the Assay
      Office and there saw the manner of assaying of gold and silver, and how
      silver melted down with gold do part, just being put into aqua-fortis, the
      silver turning into water, and the gold lying whole in the very form it
      was put in, mixed of gold and silver, which is a miracle; and to see no
      silver at all but turned into water, which they can bring again into
      itself out of the water. And here I was made thoroughly to understand the
      business of the fineness and coarseness of metals, and have put down my
      lessons with my other observations therein. At table among other discourse
      they told us of two cheats, the best I ever heard. One, of a labourer
      discovered to convey away the bits of silver cut out pence by swallowing
      them down into his belly, and so they could not find him out, though, of
      course, they searched all the labourers; but, having reason to doubt him,
      they did, by threats and promises, get him to confess, and did find L7 of
      it in his house at one time. The other of one that got a way of coyning
      money as good and passable and large as the true money is, and yet saved
      fifty per cent. to himself, which was by getting moulds made to stamp
      groats like old groats, which is done so well, and I did beg two of them
      which I keep for rarities, that there is not better in the world, and is
      as good, nay, better than those that commonly go, which was the only thing
      that they could find out to doubt them by, besides the number that the
      party do go to put off, and then coming to the Comptroller of the Mint, he
      could not, I say, find out any other thing to raise any doubt upon, but
      only their being so truly round or near it, though I should never have
      doubted the thing neither. He was neither hanged nor burned, the cheat was
      thought so ingenious, and being the first time they could ever trap him in
      it, and so little hurt to any man in it, the money being as good as
      commonly goes. Thence to the office till the evening, we sat, and then by
      water (taking Pembleton with us), over the water to the Halfway House,
      where we played at nine-pins, and there my damned jealousy took fire, he
      and my wife being of a side and I seeing of him take her by the hand in
      play, though I now believe he did [it] only in passing and sport. Thence
      home and being 10 o'clock was forced to land beyond the Custom House, and
      so walked home and to my office, and having dispatched my great letters by
      the post to my father, of which I keep copies to show by me and for my
      future understanding, I went home to supper and bed, being late. The most
      observables in the making of money which I observed to-day, is the steps
      of their doing it.
    </p>
    <p>
      1. Before they do anything they assay the bullion, which is done, if it be
      gold, by taking an equal weight of that and of silver, of each a small
      weight, which they reckon to be six ounces or half a pound troy; this they
      wrap up in within lead. If it be silver, they put such a quantity of that
      alone and wrap it up in lead, and then putting them into little earthen
      cupps made of stuff like tobacco pipes, and put them into a burning hot
      furnace, where, after a while, the whole body is melted, and at last the
      lead in both is sunk into the body of the cupp, which carries away all the
      copper or dross with it, and left the pure gold and silver embodyed
      together, of that which hath both been put into the cupp together, and the
      silver alone in these where it was put alone in the leaden case. And to
      part the silver and the gold in the first experiment, they put the mixed
      body into a glass of aqua-fortis, which separates them by spitting out the
      silver into such small parts that you cannot tell what it becomes, but
      turns into the very water and leaves the gold at the bottom clear of
      itself, with the silver wholly spit out, and yet the gold in the form that
      it was doubled together in when it was a mixed body of gold and silver,
      which is a great mystery; and after all this is done to get the silver
      together out of the water is as strange. But the nature of the assay is
      thus: the piece of gold that goes into the furnace twelve ounces, if it
      comes out again eleven ounces, and the piece of silver which goes in
      twelve and comes out again eleven and two pennyweight, are just of the
      alloy of the standard of England. If it comes out, either of them, either
      the gold above eleven, as very fine will sometimes within very little of
      what it went in, or the silver above eleven and two pennyweight, as that
      also will sometimes come out eleven and ten penny weight or more, they are
      so much above the goodness of the standard, and so they know what
      proportion of worse gold and silver to put to such a quantity of the
      bullion to bring it to the exact standard. And on the contrary, [if] it
      comes out lighter, then such a weight is beneath the standard, and so
      requires such a proportion of fine metal to be put to the bullion to bring
      it to the standard, and this is the difference of good and bad, better and
      worse than the standard, and also the difference of standards, that of
      Seville being the best and that of Mexico worst, and I think they said
      none but Seville is better than ours.
    </p>
    <p>
      2. They melt it into long plates, which, if the mould do take ayre, then
      the plate is not of an equal heaviness in every part of it, as it often
      falls out.
    </p>
    <p>
      3. They draw these plates between rollers to bring them to an even
      thickness all along and every plate of the same thickness, and it is very
      strange how the drawing it twice easily between the rollers will make it
      as hot as fire, yet cannot touch it.
    </p>
    <p>
      4. They bring it to another pair of rollers, which they call adjusting it,
      which bring it to a greater exactness in its thickness than the first
      could be.
    </p>
    <p>
      5. They cut them into round pieces, which they do with the greatest ease,
      speed, and exactness in the world.
    </p>
    <p>
      6. They weigh these, and where they find any to be too heavy they file
      them, which they call sizeing them; or light, they lay them by, which is
      very seldom, but they are of a most exact weight, but however, in the
      melting, all parts by some accident not being close alike, now and then a
      difference will be, and, this filing being done, there shall not be any
      imaginable difference almost between the weight of forty of these against
      another forty chosen by chance out of all their heaps.
    </p>
    <p>
      7. These round pieces having been cut out of the plates, which in passing
      the rollers are bent, they are sometimes a little crooked or swelling out
      or sinking in, and therefore they have a way of clapping 100 or 2 together
      into an engine, which with a screw presses them so hard that they come out
      as flat as is possible.
    </p>
    <p>
      8. They blanch them.
    </p>
    <p>
      9. They mark the letters on the edges, which is kept as the great secret
      by Blondeau, who was not in the way, and so I did not speak with him
      to-day.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Professor W. C. Roberts-Austen, C.B., F.R.S., chemist to the Royal
     Mint, refers to Pepys's Diary and to Blondeau's machine in his
     Cantor Lectures on "Alloys used for Coinage," printed in the
     "journal of the Society of Arts" (vol. xxxii.).  He writes, "The
     hammer was still retained for coining in the Mint in the Tower of
     London, but the question of the adoption of the screw-press by the
     Moneyers appears to have been revived in 1649, when the Council of
     State had it represented to them that the coins of the Government
     might be more perfectly and beautifully done, and made equal to any
     coins in Europe.  It was proposed to send to France for Peter
     Blondeau, who had invented and improved a machine and method for
     making all coins 'with the most beautiful polish and equality on the
     edge, or with any proper inscription or graining.'  He came on the
     3rd of September, and although a Committee of the Mint reported in
     favour of his method of coining, the Company of Moneyers, who appear
     to have boasted of the success of their predecessors in opposing the
     introduction of the mill and screw-press in Queen Elizabeth's reign,
     prevented the introduction of the machinery, and consequently he did
     not produce pattern pieces until 1653....  It is certain that
     Blondeau did not invent, but only improved the method of coining by
     the screw-press, and I believe his improvements related chiefly to a
     method for 'rounding the pieces before they are sized, and in making
     the edges of the moneys with letters and graining,' which he
     undertook to reveal to the king.  Special stress is laid on the
     engines wherewith the rims were marked, 'which might be kept secret
     among few men.'  I cannot find that there is any record in the Paris
     mint of Blondeau's employment there, and the only reference to his
     invention in the Mint records of this country refers to the
     'collars,' or perforated discs of metal surrounding the 'blank'
     while it was struck into a coin.  There is, however, in the British
     Museum a MS. believed to be in Blondeau's hand, in which he claims
     his process, 'as a new invention, to make a handsome coyne, than can
     be found in all the world besides, viz., that shall not only be
     stamped on both flat sides, but shall even be marked with letters on
     the thickness of the brim.'  The letters were raised.  The press
     Blondeau used was, I believe, the ordinary screw-press, and I
     suppose that the presses drawn in Akerman's well-known plate of the
     coining-room of the Mint in the Tower, published in 1803 ['Microcosm
     of London,' vol.  ii., p. 202], if not actually the same machines,
     were similar to those erected in 1661-62 by Sir William Parkhurst
     and Sir Anthony St. Leger, wardens of the Mint, at a cost of L1400,
     Professor Roberts-Austen shows that Benvenuto Cellini used a similar
     press to that attributed to Blondeau, and he gives an illustration
     of this in his lecture (p. 810).  In a letter to the editor the
     professor writes: "Pepys's account of the operations of coining, and
     especially of assaying gold and silver, is very interesting and
     singularly accurate considering that he could not have had technical
     knowledge of the subject."]
</pre>
    <p>
      10. They mill them, that is, put on the marks on both sides at once with
      great exactness and speed, and then the money is perfect. The mill is
      after this manner: one of the dyes, which has one side of the piece cut,
      is fastened to a thing fixed below, and the other dye (and they tell me a
      payre of dyes will last the marking of L10,000 before it be worn out, they
      and all other their tools being made of hardened steel, and the Dutchman
      who makes them is an admirable artist, and has so much by the pound for
      every pound that is coyned to find a constant supply of dyes) to an engine
      above, which is moveable by a screw, which is pulled by men; and then a
      piece being clapped by one sitting below between the two dyes, when they
      meet the impression is set, and then the man with his finger strikes off
      the piece and claps another in, and then the other men they pull again and
      that is marked, and then another and another with great speed. They say
      that this way is more charge to the King than the old way, but it is
      neater, freer from clipping or counterfeiting, the putting of the words
      upon the edges being not to be done (though counterfeited) without an
      engine of the charge and noise that no counterfeit will be at or venture
      upon, and it employs as many men as the old and speedier. They now coyne
      between L16 and L24,000 in a week. At dinner they did discourse very
      finely to us of the probability that there is a vast deal of money hid in
      the land, from this:&mdash;that in King Charles's time there was near ten
      millions of money coyned, besides what was then in being of King James's
      and Queene Elizabeth's, of which there is a good deal at this day in
      being. Next, that there was but L750,000 coyned of the Harp and Crosse
      money,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Commonwealth coins (stamped with the cross and harp, and the
     inscription, "The Commonwealth of England") were called in by
     proclamation, September, 1660, and when brought to the Mint an equal
     amount of lawful money was allowed for them, weight for weight,
     deducting only for the coinage (Ruding's "Annals of the Coinage," 18
     19, vol. iii., p. 293).  The harp was taken out of the naval flags
     in May, 1660.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and of this there was L500,000 brought in upon its being called in. And
      from very good arguments they find that there cannot be less of it in
      Ireland and Scotland than L100,000; so that there is but L150,000 missing;
      and of that, suppose that there should be not above 650,000 still
      remaining, either melted down, hid, or lost, or hoarded up in England,
      there will then be but L100,000 left to be thought to have been
      transported. Now, if L750,000 in twelve years' time lost but a L100,000 in
      danger of being transported, then within thirty-five years' time will have
      lost but L3,888,880 and odd pounds; and as there is L650,000 remaining
      after twelve years' time in England, so after thirty-five years' time,
      which was within this two years, there ought in proportion to have been
      resting L6,111,120 or thereabouts, beside King James's and Queen
      Elizabeth's money. Now that most of this must be hid is evident, as they
      reckon, because of the dearth of money immediately upon the calling-in of
      the State's money, which was L500,000 that came in; and yet there was not
      any money to be had in this City, which they say to their own observation
      and knowledge was so. And therefore, though I can say nothing in it
      myself, I do not dispute it.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to my office, and anon home and to see my wife dancing with
      Pembleton about noon, and I to the Trinity House to dinner and after
      dinner home, and there met Pembleton, who I perceive has dined with my
      wife, which she takes no notice of, but whether that proceeds out of
      design, or fear to displease me I know not, but it put me into a great
      disorder again, that I could mind nothing but vexing, but however I
      continued my resolution of going down by water to Woolwich, took my wife
      and Ashwell; and going out met Mr. Howe come to see me, whose horse we
      caused to be set up, and took him with us. The tide against us, so I went
      ashore at Greenwich before, and did my business at the yard about putting
      things in order as to their proceeding to build the new yacht ordered to
      be built by Christopher Pett,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In the minutes of the Royal Society is the following entry: "June
     11, 1662.  Dr. Pett's brother shewed a draught of the pleasure boat
     which he intended to make for the king" (Birch's "History of the
     Royal Society," vol. i., p. 85).  Peter Pett had already built a
     yacht for the king at Deptford.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and so to Woolwich town, where at an alehouse I found them ready to attend
      my coming, and so took boat again, it being cold, and I sweating, with my
      walk, which was very pleasant along the green come and pease, and most of
      the way sang, he and I, and eat some cold meat we had, and with great
      pleasure home, and so he took horse again, and Pembleton coming, we danced
      a country dance or two and so broke up and to bed, my mind restless and
      like to be so while she learns to dance. God forgive my folly.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, but cannot get up so early as I was wont, nor my mind to
      business as it should be and used to be before this dancing. However, to
      my office, where most of the morning talking of Captain Cox of Chatham
      about his and the whole yard's difference against Mr. Barrow the
      storekeeper, wherein I told him my mind clearly, that he would be upheld
      against the design of any to ruin him, he being we all believed, but Sir
      W. Batten his mortal enemy, as good a servant as any the King has in the
      yard. After much good advice and other talk I home and danced with
      Pembleton, and then the barber trimmed me, and so to dinner, my wife and I
      having high words about her dancing to that degree that I did enter and
      make a vow to myself not to oppose her or say anything to dispraise or
      correct her therein as long as her month lasts, in pain of 2s. 6d. for
      every time, which, if God pleases, I will observe, for this roguish
      business has brought us more disquiett than anything [that] has happened a
      great while. After dinner to my office, where late, and then home; and
      Pembleton being there again, we fell to dance a country dance or two, and
      so to supper and bed. But being at supper my wife did say something that
      caused me to oppose her in, she used the word devil, which vexed me, and
      among other things I said I would not have her to use that word, upon
      which she took me up most scornfully, which, before Ashwell and the rest
      of the world, I know not now-a-days how to check, as I would heretofore,
      for less than that would have made me strike her. So that I fear without
      great discretion I shall go near to lose too my command over her, and
      nothing do it more than giving her this occasion of dancing and other
      pleasures, whereby her mind is taken up from her business and finds other
      sweets besides pleasing of me, and so makes her that she begins not at all
      to take pleasure in me or study to please me as heretofore. But if this
      month of her dancing were but out (as my first was this night, and I paid
      off Pembleton for myself) I shall hope with a little pains to bring her to
      her old wont. This day Susan that lived with me lately being out of
      service, and I doubt a simple wench, my wife do take her for a little time
      to try her at least till she goes into the country, which I am yet
      doubtful whether it will be best for me to send her or no, for fear of her
      running off in her liberty before I have brought her to her right temper
      again.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up pretty betimes, and shall, I hope, come to myself and business
      again, after a small playing the truant, for I find that my interest and
      profit do grow daily, for which God be praised and keep me to my duty. To
      my office, and anon one tells me that Rundall, the house-carpenter of
      Deptford, hath sent me a fine blackbird, which I went to see. He tells me
      he was offered 20s. for him as he came along, he do so whistle. So to my
      office, and busy all the morning, among other things, learning to
      understand the course of the tides, and I think I do now do it. At noon
      Mr. Creed comes to me, and he and I to the Exchange, where I had much
      discourse with several merchants, and so home with him to dinner, and then
      by water to Greenwich, and calling at the little alehouse at the end of
      the town to wrap a rag about my little left toe, being new sore with
      walking, we walked pleasantly to Woolwich, in our way hearing the
      nightingales sing. So to Woolwich yard, and after doing many things there,
      among others preparing myself for a dispute against Sir W. Pen in the
      business of Bowyer's, wherein he is guilty of some corruption to the
      King's wrong, we walked back again without drinking, which I never do
      because I would not make my coming troublesome to any, nor would become
      obliged too much to any. In our going back we were overtook by Mr.
      Steventon, a purser, and uncle to my clerk Will, who told me how he was
      abused in the passing of his accounts by Sir J. Minnes to the degree that
      I am ashamed to hear it, and resolve to retrieve the matter if I can
      though the poor man has given it over. And however am pleased enough to
      see that others do see his folly and dotage as well as myself, though I
      believe in my mind the man in general means well.
    </p>
    <p>
      Took boat at Greenwich and to Deptford, where I did the same thing, and
      found Davis, the storekeeper, a knave, and shuffling in the business of
      Bewpers, being of the party with Young and Whistler to abuse the King, but
      I hope I shall be even with them. So walked to Redriffe, drinking at the
      Half-way house, and so walked and by water to White Hall, all our way by
      water coming and going reading a little book said to be writ by a person
      of Quality concerning English gentry to be preferred before titular
      honours, but the most silly nonsense, no sense nor grammar, yet in as good
      words that ever I saw in all my life, but from beginning to end you met
      not with one entire and regular sentence. At White Hall Sir G. Carteret
      was out of the way, and so returned back presently, and home by water and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Waked this morning between four and five by my blackbird, which
      whistles as well as ever I heard any; only it is the beginning of many
      tunes very well, but there leaves them, and goes no further. So up and to
      my office, where we sat, and among other things I had a fray with Sir J.
      Minnes in defence of my Will in a business where the old coxcomb would
      have put a foot upon him, which was only in Jack Davis and in him a
      downright piece of knavery in procuring a double ticket and getting the
      wrong one paid as well as the second was to the true party. But it
      appeared clear enough to the board that Will was true in it. Home to
      dinner, and after dinner by water to the Temple, and there took my Lyra
      Viall book bound up with blank paper for new lessons. Thence to
      Greatorex's, and there seeing Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen go by coach I
      went in to them and to White Hall; where, in the Matted Gallery, Mr.
      Coventry was, who told us how the Parliament have required of Sir G.
      Carteret and him an account what money shall be necessary to be settled
      upon the Navy for the ordinary charge, which they intend to report
      L200,000 per annum. And how to allott this we met this afternoon, and took
      their papers for our perusal, and so we parted. Only there was walking in
      the gallery some of the Barbary company, and there we saw a draught of the
      arms of the company, which the King is of, and so is called the Royall
      Company, which is, in a field argent an elephant proper, with a canton on
      which England and France is quartered, supported by two Moors. The crest
      an anchor winged, I think it is, and the motto too tedious: "Regio floret,
      patrocinio commercium, commercioque Regnum." Thence back by water to
      Greatorex's, and there he showed me his varnish which he had invented,
      which appears every whit as good, upon a stick which he hath done, as the
      Indian, though it did not do very well upon my paper ruled with musique
      lines, for it sunk and did not shine. Thence home by water, and after a
      dance with Pembleton to my office and wrote by the post to Sir W. Batten
      at Portsmouth to send for him up against next Wednesday, being our triall
      day against Field at Guildhall, in which God give us good end. So home: to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). Having taken one of Mr. Holliard's pills last night it
      brought a stool or two this morning, and so forebore going to church this
      morning, but staid at home looking over my papers about Tom Trice's
      business, and so at noon dined, and my wife telling me that there was a
      pretty lady come to church with Peg Pen to-day, I against my intention had
      a mind to go to church to see her, and did so, and she is pretty handsome.
      But over against our gallery I espied Pembleton, and saw him leer upon my
      wife all the sermon, I taking no notice of him, and my wife upon him, and
      I observed she made a curtsey to him at coming out without taking notice
      to me at all of it, which with the consideration of her being desirous
      these two last Lord's days to go to church both forenoon and afternoon do
      really make me suspect something more than ordinary, though I am loth to
      think the worst, but yet it put and do still keep me at a great loss in my
      mind, and makes me curse the time that I consented to her dancing, and
      more my continuing it a second month, which was more than she desired,
      even after I had seen too much of her carriage with him. But I must have
      patience and get her into the country, or at least to make an end of her
      learning to dance as soon as I can. After sermon to Sir W. Pen's, with Sir
      J. Minnes to do a little business to answer Mr. Coventry to-night. And so
      home and with my wife and Ashwell into the garden walking a great while,
      discoursing what this pretty wench should be by her garb and deportment;
      with respect to Mrs. Pen she may be her woman, but only that she sat in
      the pew with her, which I believe he would not let her do. So home, and
      read to my wife a fable or two in Ogleby's AEsop, and so to supper, and
      then to prayers and to bed. My wife this evening discoursing of making
      clothes for the country, which I seem against, pleading lack of money, but
      I am glad of it in some respects because of getting her out of the way
      from this fellow, and my own liberty to look after my business more than
      of late I have done. So to prayers and to bed. This morning it seems
      Susan, who I think is distracted, or however is since she went from me
      taught to drink, and so gets out of doors 2 or 3 times a day without leave
      to the alehouse, did go before 5 o'clock to-day, making Griffin rise in
      his shirt to let her out to the alehouse, she said to warm herself, but
      her mistress, falling out with her about it, turned her out of doors this
      morning, and so she is gone like an idle slut. I took a pill also this
      night.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and my pill working a little I staid within most of the morning,
      and by and by the barber came and Sarah Kite my cozen, poor woman, came to
      see me and borrow 40s. of me, telling me she will pay it at Michaelmas
      again to me. I was glad it was no more, being indifferent whether she pays
      it me or no, but it will be a good excuse to lend her nor give her any
      more. So I did freely at first word do it, and give her a crown more
      freely to buy her child something, she being a good-natured and painful
      wretch, and one that I would do good for as far as I can that I might not
      be burdened. My wife was not ready, and she coming early did not see her,
      and I was glad of it. She gone, I up and then hear that my wife and her
      maid Ashwell had between them spilled the pot.... upon the floor and stool
      and God knows what, and were mighty merry making of it clean. I took no
      great notice, but merrily. Ashwell did by and by come to me with an errand
      from her mistress to desire money to buy a country suit for her against
      she goes as we talked last night, and so I did give her L4, and believe it
      will cost me the best part of 4 more to fit her out, but with peace and
      honour I am willing to spare anything so as to be able to keep all ends
      together, and my power over her undisturbed. So to my office and by and by
      home, where my wife and her master were dancing, and so I staid in my
      chamber till they had done, and sat down myself to try a little upon the
      Lyra viall, my hand being almost out, but easily brought to again. So by
      and by to dinner, and then carried my wife and Ashwell to St. James's, and
      there they sat in the coach while I went in, and finding nobody there
      likely to meet with the Duke, but only Sir J. Minnes with my Lord Barkely
      (who speaks very kindly, and invites me with great compliments to come now
      and then and eat with him, which I am glad to hear, though I value not the
      thing, but it implies that my esteem do increase rather than fall), and so
      I staid not, but into the coach again, and taking up my wife's taylor, it
      raining hard, they set me down, and who should our coachman be but
      Carleton the Vintner, that should have had Mrs. Sarah, at Westminster, my
      Lord Chancellor's, and then to Paternoster Row. I staid there to speak
      with my Lord Sandwich, and in my staying, meeting Mr. Lewis Phillips of
      Brampton, he and afterwards others tell me that news came last night to
      Court, that the King of France is sick of the spotted fever, and that they
      are struck in again; and this afternoon my Lord Mandeville is gone from
      the King to make him a visit; which will be great news, and of great
      import through Europe. By and by, out comes my Lord Sandwich, and he and I
      talked a great while about his business, of his accounts for his pay, and
      among other things he told me that this day a vote hath passed that the
      King's grants of land to my Lord Monk and him should be made good; which
      pleases him very well. He also tells me that things don't go right in the
      House with Mr. Coventry; I suppose he means in the business of selling of
      places; but I am sorry for it. Thence by coach home, where I found
      Pembleton, and so I up to dance with them till the evening, when there
      came Mr. Alsopp, the King's brewer, and Lanyon of Plymouth to see me. Mr.
      Alsopp tells me of a horse of his that lately, after four days' pain,
      voided at his fundament four stones, bigger than that I was cut of, very
      heavy, and in the middle of each of them either a piece of iron or wood.
      The King has two of them in his closett, and a third the College of
      Physicians to keep for rarity, and by the King's command he causes the
      turd of the horse to be every day searched to find more. At night to see
      Sir W. Batten come home this day from Portsmouth. I met with some that say
      that the King of France is poisoned, but how true that is is not known. So
      home to supper and to bed pleasant.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Lay long in bed talking and pleasing myself with my wife. So up and
      to my office a while and then home, where I found Pembleton, and by many
      circumstances I am led to conclude that there is something more than
      ordinary between my wife and him, which do so trouble me that I know not
      at this very minute that I now write this almost what either I write or am
      doing, nor how to carry myself to my wife in it, being unwilling to speak
      of it to her for making of any breach and other inconveniences, nor let it
      pass for fear of her continuing to offend me and the matter grow worse
      thereby. So that I am grieved at the very heart, but I am very unwise in
      being so. There dined with me Mr. Creed and Captain Grove, and before
      dinner I had much discourse in my chamber with Mr. Deane, the builder of
      Woolwich, about building of ships. But nothing could get the business out
      of my head, I fearing that this afternoon by my wife's sending every [one]
      abroad and knowing that I must be at the office she has appointed him to
      come. This is my devilish jealousy, which I pray God may be false, but it
      makes a very hell in my mind, which the God of heaven remove, or I shall
      be very unhappy. So to the office, where we sat awhile. By and by my mind
      being in great trouble I went home to see how things were, and there I
      found as I doubted Mr. Pembleton with my wife, and nobody else in the
      house, which made me almost mad, and going up to my chamber after a turn
      or two I went out again and called somebody on pretence of business and
      left him in my little room at the door (it was the Dutchman, commander of
      the King's pleasure boats, who having been beat by one of his men sadly,
      was come to the office to-day to complain) telling him I would come again
      to him to speak with him about his business. So in great trouble and doubt
      to the office, and Mr. Coventry nor Sir G. Carteret being there I made a
      quick end of our business and desired leave to be gone, pretending to go
      to the Temple, but it was home, and so up to my chamber, and as I think if
      they had any intention of hurt I did prevent doing anything at that time,
      but I continued in my chamber vexed and angry till he went away,
      pretending aloud, that I might hear, that he could not stay, and Mrs.
      Ashwell not being within they could not dance. And, Lord! to see how my
      jealousy wrought so far that I went softly up to see whether any of the
      beds were out of order or no, which I found not, but that did not content
      me, but I staid all the evening walking, and though anon my wife came up
      to me and would have spoke of business to me, yet I construed it to be but
      impudence, and though my heart full yet I did say nothing, being in a
      great doubt what to do. So at night, suffered them to go all to bed, and
      late put myself to bed in great discontent, and so to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. So I waked by 3 o'clock, my mind being troubled, and so took
      occasion by making water to wake my wife, and after having lain till past
      4 o'clock seemed going to rise, though I did it only to see what she would
      do, and so going out of the bed she took hold of me and would know what
      ailed me, and after many kind and some cross words I began to tax her
      discretion in yesterday's business, but she quickly told me my own,
      knowing well enough that it was my old disease of jealousy, which I
      denied, but to no purpose. After an hour's discourse, sometimes high and
      sometimes kind, I found very good reason to think that her freedom with
      him is very great and more than was convenient, but with no evil intent,
      and so after awhile I caressed her and parted seeming friends, but she
      crying in a great discontent. So I up and by water to the Temple, and
      thence with Commissioner Pett to St. James's, where an hour with Mr.
      Coventry talking of Mr. Pett's proceedings lately in the forest of
      Sherwood, and thence with Pett to my Lord Ashley, Chancellor of the
      Exchequer; where we met the auditors about settling the business of the
      accounts of persons to whom money is due before the King's time in the
      Navy, and the clearing of their imprests for what little of their debts
      they have received. I find my Lord, as he is reported, a very ready,
      quick, and diligent person. Thence I to Westminster Hall, where Term and
      Parliament make the Hall full of people; no further news yet of the King
      of France, whether he be dead or not. Here I met with my cozen Roger
      Pepys, and walked a good while with him, and among other discourse as a
      secret he hath committed to nobody but myself, and he tells me that his
      sister Claxton now resolving to give over the keeping of his house at
      Impington, he thinks it fit to marry again, and would have me, by the help
      of my uncle Wight or others, to look him out a widow between thirty and
      forty years old, without children, and with a fortune, which he will
      answer in any degree with a joynture fit for her fortune. A woman sober,
      and no high-flyer, as he calls it. I demanded his estate. He tells me,
      which he says also he hath not done to any, that his estate is not full
      L800 per annum, but it is L780 per annum, of which L200 is by the death of
      his last wife, which he will allot for a joynture for a wife, but the
      rest, which lies in Cambridgeshire, he is resolved to leave entire for his
      eldest son. I undertook to do what I can in it, and so I shall. He tells
      me that the King hath sent to them to hasten to make an end by midsummer,
      because of his going into the country; so they have set upon four bills to
      dispatch: the first of which is, he says, too devilish a severe act
      against conventicles; so beyond all moderation, that he is afeard it will
      ruin all: telling me that it is matter of the greatest grief to him in the
      world, that he should be put upon this trust of being a Parliament-man,
      because he says nothing is done, that he can see, out of any truth and
      sincerity, but mere envy and design. Thence by water to Chelsey, all the
      way reading a little book I bought of "Improvement of Trade," a pretty
      book and many things useful in it. So walked to Little Chelsey, where I
      found my Lord Sandwich with Mr. Becke, the master of the house, and Mr.
      Creed at dinner, and I sat down with them, and very merry. After dinner
      (Mr. Gibbons being come in also before dinner done) to musique, they
      played a good Fancy, to which my Lord is fallen again, and says he cannot
      endure a merry tune, which is a strange turn of his humour, after he has
      for two or three years flung off the practice of Fancies and played only
      fidlers' tunes. Then into the Great Garden up to the Banqueting House; and
      there by his glass we drew in the species very pretty. Afterwards to
      ninepins, where I won a shilling, Creed and I playing against my Lord and
      Cooke. This day there was great thronging to Banstead Downs, upon a great
      horse-race and foot-race. I am sorry I could not go thither. So home back
      as I came, to London Bridge, and so home, where I find my wife in a musty
      humour, and tells me before Ashwell that Pembleton had been there, and she
      would not have him come in unless I was there, which I was ashamed of; but
      however, I had rather it should be so than the other way. So to my office,
      to put things in order there, and by and by comes Pembleton, and word is
      brought me from my wife thereof that I might come home. So I sent word
      that I would have her go dance, and I would come presently. So being at a
      great loss whether I should appear to Pembleton or no, and what would most
      proclaim my jealousy to him, I at last resolved to go home, and took Tom
      Hater with me, and staid a good while in my chamber, and there took
      occasion to tell him how I hear that Parliament is putting an act out
      against all sorts of conventicles,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [16 Car. II., cap. 4, "An Act to prevent and suppresse seditious
     Conventicles."  It was enacted that anyone of the age of sixteen or
     upwards present at an unlawful assembly or conventicle was to incur
     fine or imprisonment.  A conventicle was defined as an assembly of
     more than five persons besides the members of a family met together
     for holding worship not according to the rites of the Church of
     England.  The act was amended 22 Car. II., cap. i (1670), and
     practically repealed by the Toleration Act of 1689, but the act 22
     Car. II., cap. i, was specially repealed 52 Geo. III., cap. 155, s.
     1.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and did give him good counsel, not only in his own behalf, but my own,
      that if he did hear or know anything that could be said to my prejudice,
      that he would tell me, for in this wicked age (specially Sir W. Batten
      being so open to my reproaches, and Sir J. Minnes, for the neglect of
      their duty, and so will think themselves obliged to scandalize me all they
      can to right themselves if there shall be any inquiry into the matters of
      the Navy, as I doubt there will) a man ought to be prepared to answer for
      himself in all things that can be inquired concerning him. After much
      discourse of this nature to him I sent him away, and then went up, and
      there we danced country dances, and single, my wife and I; and my wife
      paid him off for this month also, and so he is cleared. After dancing we
      took him down to supper, and were very merry, and I made myself so, and
      kind to him as much as I could, to prevent his discourse, though I
      perceive to my trouble that he knows all, and may do me the disgrace to
      publish it as much as he can. Which I take very ill, and if too much
      provoked shall witness it to her. After supper and he gone we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up this morning, and my wife, I know not for what cause, being
      against going to Chelsey to-day, it being a holy day (Ascension Day) and I
      at leisure, it being the first holy day almost that we have observed ever
      since we came to the office, we did give Ashwell leave to go by herself,
      and I out to several places about business. Among others to Dr. Williams,
      to reckon with him for physique that my wife has had for a year or two,
      coming to almost L4. Then to the Exchange, where I hear that the King had
      letters yesterday from France that the King there is in a [way] of living
      again, which I am glad to hear. At the coffee-house in Exchange Alley I
      bought a little book, "Counsell to Builders," by Sir Balth. Gerbier. It is
      dedicated almost to all the men of any great condition in England, so that
      the Epistles are more than the book itself, and both it and them not worth
      a turd, that I am ashamed that I bought it. Home and there found Creed,
      who dined with us, and after dinner by water to the Royall Theatre; but
      that was so full they told us we could have no room. And so to the Duke's
      House; and there saw "Hamlett" done, giving us fresh reason never to think
      enough of Betterton. Who should we see come upon the stage but Gosnell, my
      wife's maid? but neither spoke, danced, nor sung; which I was sorry for.
      But she becomes the stage very well. Thence by water home, after we had
      walked to and fro, backwards and forwards, six or seven times in the
      Temple walks, disputing whether to go by land or water. By land home, and
      thence by water to Halfway House, and there eat some supper we carried
      with us, and so walked home again, it being late we were forced to land at
      the dock, my wife and they, but I in a humour not willing to daub my shoes
      went round by the Custom House. So home, and by and by to bed, Creed lying
      with me in the red chamber all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. This day is kept strictly as a holy-day, being the King's
      Coronation. We lay long in bed, and it rained very hard, rain and hail,
      almost all the morning. By and by Creed and I abroad, and called at
      several churches; and it is a wonder to see, and by that to guess the ill
      temper of the City at this time, either to religion in general, or to the
      King, that in some churches there was hardly ten people in the whole
      church, and those poor people. So to a coffee-house, and there in
      discourse hear the King of France is likely to be well again. So home to
      dinner, and out by water to the Royall Theatre, but they not acting
      to-day, then to the Duke's house, and there saw "The Slighted Mayde,"
      wherein Gosnell acted Pyramena, a great part, and did it very well, and I
      believe will do it better and better, and prove a good actor. The play is
      not very excellent, but is well acted, and in general the actors, in all
      particulars, are better than at the other house. Thence to the Cocke
      alehouse, and there having drunk, sent them with Creed to see the German
      Princess,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Mary Moders, alias Stedman, a notorious impostor, who pretended to
     be a German princess.  Her arrival as the German princess "at the
     Exchange Tavern, right against the Stocks betwixt the Poultry and
     Cornhill, at 5 in the morning...., with her marriage to
     Carleton the taverner's wife's brother," are incidents fully
     narrated in Francis Kirkman's "Counterfeit Lady Unveiled," 1673
     ("Boyne's Tokens," ed.  Williamson, vol. i., p. 703).  Her
     adventures formed the plot of a tragi-comedy by T. P., entitled "A
     Witty Combat, or the Female Victor," 1663, which was acted with
     great applause by persons of quality in Whitsun week.  Mary Carleton
     was tried at the Old Bailey for bigamy and acquitted, after which
     she appeared on the stage in her own character as the heroine of a
     play entitled "The German Princess."  Pepys went to the Duke's House
     to see her on April 15th, 1664.  The rest of her life was one
     continued course of robbery and fraud, and in 1678 she was executed
     at Tyburn for stealing a piece of plate in Chancery Lane.]
</pre>
    <p>
      at the Gatehouse, at Westminster, and I to my brother's, and thence to my
      uncle Fenner's to have seen my aunt James (who has been long in town and
      goes away to-morrow and I not seen her), but did find none of them within,
      which I was glad of, and so back to my brother's to speak with him, and so
      home, and in my way did take two turns forwards and backwards through the
      Fleete Ally to see a couple of pretty [strumpets] that stood off the doors
      there, and God forgive me I could scarce stay myself from going into their
      houses with them, so apt is my nature to evil after once, as I have these
      two days, set upon pleasure again. So home and to my office to put down
      these two days' journalls, then home again and to supper, and then Creed
      and I to bed with good discourse, only my mind troubled about my spending
      my time so badly for these seven or eight days; but I must impute it to
      the disquiet that my mind has been in of late about my wife, and for my
      going these two days to plays, for which I have paid the due forfeit by
      money and abating the times of going to plays at Court, which I am now to
      remember that I have cleared all my times that I am to go to Court plays
      to the end of this month, and so June is the first time that I am to begin
      to reckon.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up betimes, and Creed and I by water to Fleet Street, and my brother
      not being ready, he and I walked to the New Exchange, and there drank our
      morning draught of whay, the first I have done this year; but I perceive
      the lawyers come all in as they go to the Hall, and I believe it is very
      good. So to my brother's, and there I found my aunt James, a poor,
      religious, well-meaning, good soul, talking of nothing but God Almighty,
      and that with so much innocence that mightily pleased me. Here was a
      fellow that said grace so long like a prayer; I believe the fellow is a
      cunning fellow, and yet I by my brother's desire did give him a crown, he
      being in great want, and, it seems, a parson among the fanatiques, and a
      cozen of my poor aunt's, whose prayers she told me did do me good among
      the many good souls that did by my father's desires pray for me when I was
      cut of the stone, and which God did hear, which I also in complaisance did
      own; but, God forgive me, my mind was otherwise. I had a couple of
      lobsters and some wine for her, and so, she going out of town to-day, and
      being not willing to come home with me to dinner, I parted and home, where
      we sat at the office all the morning, and after dinner all the afternoon
      till night, there at my office getting up the time that I have of late
      lost by not following my business, but I hope now to settle my mind again
      very well to my business. So home, and after supper did wash my feet, and
      so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st (Lord's day). Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and do plainly
      see that her distaste (which is beginning now in her again) against
      Ashwell arises from her jealousy of me and her, and my neglect of herself,
      which indeed is true, and I to blame; but for the time to come I will take
      care to remedy all. So up and to church, where I think I did see
      Pembleton, whatever the reason is I did not perceive him to look up
      towards my wife, nor she much towards him; however, I could hardly keep
      myself from being troubled that he was there, which is a madness not to be
      excused now that his coming to my house is past, and I hope all likelyhood
      of her having occasion to converse with him again. Home to dinner, and
      after dinner up and read part of the new play of "The Five Houres'
      Adventures," which though I have seen it twice; yet I never did admire or
      understand it enough, it being a play of the greatest plot that ever I
      expect to see, and of great vigour quite through the whole play, from
      beginning to the end. To church again after dinner (my wife finding
      herself ill.... did not go), and there the Scot preaching I slept most of
      the sermon. This day Sir W. Batten's son's child is christened in the
      country, whither Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W, Batten, and Sir W. Pen are all
      gone. I wonder, and take it highly ill that I am not invited by the
      father, though I know his father and mother, with whom I am never likely
      to have much kindness, but rather I study the contrary, are the cause of
      it, and in that respect I am glad of it. Being come from church, I to make
      up my month's accounts, and find myself clear worth L726, for which God be
      praised, but yet I might have been better by L20 almost had I forborne
      some layings out in dancing and other things upon my wife, and going to
      plays and other things merely to ease my mind as to the business of the
      dancing-master, which I bless God is now over and I falling to my quiet of
      mind and business again, which I have for a fortnight neglected too much.
      This month the greatest news is, the height and heat that the Parliament
      is in, in enquiring into the revenue, which displeases the Court, and
      their backwardness to give the King any money. Their enquiring into the
      selling of places do trouble a great many among the chief, my Lord
      Chancellor (against whom particularly it is carried), and Mr. Coventry;
      for which I am sorry. The King of France was given out to be poisoned and
      dead; but it proves to be the measles: and he is well, or likely to be
      soon well again. I find myself growing in the esteem and credit that I
      have in the office, and I hope falling to my business again will confirm
      me in it, and the saving of money which God grant! So to supper, prayers,
      and bed. My whole family lying longer this morning than was fit, and
      besides Will having neglected to brush my clothes, as he ought to do, till
      I was ready to go to church, and not then till I bade him, I was very
      angry, and seeing him make little matter of it, but seeming to make it a
      matter indifferent whether he did it or no, I did give him a box on the
      ear, and had it been another day should have done more. This is the second
      time I ever struck him.
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    <p>
      June 1st. Begun again to rise betimes by 4 o'clock, and made an end of
      "The Adventures of Five Houres," and it is a most excellent play. So to my
      office, where a while and then about several businesses, in my way to my
      brother's, where I dined (being invited) with Mr. Peter and Dean Honiwood,
      where Tom did give us a very pretty dinner, and we very pleasant, but not
      very merry, the Dean being but a weak man, though very good. I was forced
      to rise, being in haste to St. James's to attend the Duke, and left them
      to end their dinner; but the Duke having been a-hunting to-day, and so
      lately come home and gone to bed, we could not see him, and Mr. Coventry
      being out of the house too, we walked away to White Hall and there took
      coach, and I with Sir J. Minnes to the Strand May-pole; and there 'light
      out of his coach, and walked to the New Theatre, which, since the King's
      players are gone to the Royal one, is this day begun to be employed by the
      fencers to play prizes at. And here I came and saw the first prize I ever
      saw in my life: and it was between one Mathews, who did beat at all
      weapons, and one Westwicke, who was soundly cut several times both in the
      head and legs, that he was all over blood: and other deadly blows they did
      give and take in very good earnest, till Westwicke was in a most sad
      pickle. They fought at eight weapons, three bouts at each weapon. It was
      very well worth seeing, because I did till this day think that it has only
      been a cheat; but this being upon a private quarrel, they did it in good
      earnest; and I felt one of their swords, and found it to be very little,
      if at all blunter on the edge, than the common swords are. Strange to see
      what a deal of money is flung to them both upon the stage between every
      bout. But a woful rude rabble there was, and such noises, made my head ake
      all this evening. So, well pleased for once with this sight, I walked
      home, doing several businesses by the way. In my way calling to see
      Commissioner Pett, who lies sick at his daughter, a pretty woman, in
      Gracious Street, but is likely to be abroad again in a day or two. At home
      I found my wife in bed all this day .... I went to see Sir Wm. Pen, who
      has a little pain of his gout again, but will do well. So home to supper
      and to bed. This day I hear at Court of the great plot which was lately
      discovered in Ireland, made among the Presbyters and others, designing to
      cry up the Covenant, and to secure Dublin Castle and other places; and
      they have debauched a good part of the army there, promising them ready
      money.
    </p>
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     [This  was known as "Blood's Plot," and was named after Colonel
     Thomas Blood, afterwards notorious for his desperate attack upon the
     Duke of Ormond in St. James's Street (1670) and for his robbery of
     the crown jewels in the Tower (1671).  He died August 24th, 1680.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Some of the Parliament there, they say, are guilty, and some withdrawn
      upon it; several persons taken, and among others a son of Scott's, that
      was executed here for the King's murder. What reason the King hath, I know
      not; but it seems he is doubtfull of Scotland: and this afternoon, when I
      was there, the Council was called extraordinary; and they were opening the
      letters this last post's coming and going between Scotland and us and
      other places. Blessed be God, my head and hands are clear, and therefore
      my sleep safe. The King of France is well again.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. Up and by water to White Hall and so to St. James's, to Mr. Coventry;
      where I had an hour's private talk with him. Most of it was discourse
      concerning his own condition, at present being under the censure of the
      House, being concerned with others in the Bill for selling of offices. He
      tells me, that though he thinks himself to suffer much in his fame hereby,
      yet he values nothing more of evil to hang over him for that it is against
      no statute, as is pretended, nor more than what his predecessors time out
      of mind have taken; and that so soon as he found himself to be in an
      errour, he did desire to have his fees set, which was done; and since that
      he hath not taken a token more. He undertakes to prove, that he did never
      take a token of any captain to get him employed in his life beforehand, or
      demanded any thing: and for the other accusation, that the Cavaliers are
      not employed, he looked over the list of them now in the service, and of
      the twenty-seven that are employed, thirteen have been heretofore always
      under the King; two neutralls, and the other twelve men of great courage,
      and such as had either the King's particular commands, or great
      recommendation to put them in, and none by himself. Besides that, he says
      it is not the King's nor Duke's opinion that the whole party of the late
      officers should be rendered desperate. And lastly, he confesses that the
      more of the Cavaliers are put in, the less of discipline hath followed in
      the fleet; and that, whenever there comes occasion, it must be the old
      ones that must do any good, there being only, he says, but Captain Allen
      good for anything of them all. He tells me, that he cannot guess whom all
      this should come from; but he suspects Sir G. Carteret, as I also do, at
      least that he is pleased with it. But he tells me that he will bring Sir
      G. Carteret to be the first adviser and instructor of him what to make his
      place of benefit to him; telling him that Smith did make his place worth
      L5000 and he believed L7000 to him the first year; besides something else
      greater than all this, which he forbore to tell me. It seems one Sir
      Thomas Tomkins of the House, that makes many mad motions, did bring it
      into the House, saying that a letter was left at his lodgings, subscribed
      by one Benson (which is a feigned name, for there is no such man in the
      Navy), telling him how many places in the Navy have been sold. And by
      another letter, left in the same manner since, nobody appearing, he writes
      him that there is one Hughes and another Butler (both rogues, that have
      for their roguery been turned out of their places), that will swear that
      Mr. Coventry did sell their places and other things. I offered him my
      service, and will with all my heart serve him; but he tells me he do not
      think it convenient to meddle, or to any purpose, but is sensible of my
      love therein. So I bade him good morrow, he being out of order to speak
      anything of our office business, and so away to Westminster Hall, where I
      hear more of the plot from Ireland; which it seems hath been hatching, and
      known to the Lord Lieutenant a great while, and kept close till within
      three days that it should have taken effect. The term ended yesterday, and
      it seems the Courts rose sooner, for want of causes, than it is remembered
      to have done in the memory of man. Thence up and down about business in
      several places, as to speak with Mr. Phillips, but missed him, and so to
      Mr. Beacham, the goldsmith, he being one of the jury to-morrow in Sir W.
      Batten's case against Field. I have been telling him our case, and I
      believe he will do us good service there. So home, and seeing my wife had
      dined I went, being invited, and dined with Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes,
      and others, at Sir W. Batten's, Captain Allen giving them a Foy' dinner,
      he being to go down to lie Admiral in the Downs this summer. I cannot but
      think it a little strange that having been so civil to him as I have been
      he should not invite me to dinner, but I believe it was but a sudden
      motion, and so I heard not of it. After dinner to the office, where all
      the afternoon till late, and so to see Sir W. Pen, and so home to supper
      and to bed. To-night I took occasion with the vintner's man, who came by
      my direction to taste again my tierce of claret, to go down to the cellar
      with him to consult about the drawing of it; and there, to my great
      vexation, I find that the cellar door hath long been kept unlocked, and
      above half the wine drunk. I was deadly mad at it, and examined my people
      round, but nobody would confess it; but I did examine the boy, and
      afterwards Will, and told him of his sitting up after we were in bed with
      the maids, but as to that business he denies it, which I can [not] remedy,
      but I shall endeavour to know how it went. My wife did also this evening
      tell me a story of Ashwell stealing some new ribbon from her, a yard or
      two, which I am sorry to hear, and I fear my wife do take a displeasure
      against her, that they will hardly stay together, which I should be sorry
      for, because I know not where to pick such another out anywhere.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up betimes, and studying of my double horizontal diall against Dean
      Honiwood comes to me, who dotes mightily upon it, and I think I must give
      it him. So after talking with Sir W. Batten, who is this morning gone to
      Guildhall to his trial with Field, I to my office, and there read all the
      morning in my statute-book, consulting among others the statute against
      selling of offices, wherein Mr. Coventry is so much concerned; and though
      he tells me that the statute do not reach him, yet I much fear that it
      will. At noon, hearing that the trial is done, and Sir W. Batten come to
      the Sun behind the Exchange I went thither, where he tells me that he had
      much ado to carry it on his side, but that at last he did, but the jury,
      by the judge's favour, did give us but; L10 damages and the charges of the
      suit, which troubles me; but it is well it went not against us, which
      would have been much worse. So to the Exchange, and thence home to dinner,
      taking Deane of Woolwich along with me, and he dined alone with my wife
      being undressed, and he and I spent all the afternoon finely, learning of
      him the method of drawing the lines of a ship, to my great satisfaction,
      and which is well worth my spending some time in, as I shall do when my
      wife is gone into the country. In the evening to the office and did some
      business, then home, and, God forgive me, did from my wife's unwillingness
      to tell me whither she had sent the boy, presently suspect that he was
      gone to Pembleton's, and from that occasion grew so discontented that I
      could hardly speak or sleep all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up betimes, and my wife and Ashwell and I whiled away the morning up
      and down while they got themselves ready, and I did so watch to see my
      wife put on drawers, which poor soul she did, and yet I could not get off
      my suspicions, she having a mind to go into Fenchurch Street before she
      went out for good and all with me, which I must needs construe to be to
      meet Pembleton, when she afterwards told me it was to buy a fan that she
      had not a mind that I should know of, and I believe it is so. Specially I
      did by a wile get out of my boy that he did not yesterday go to
      Pembleton's or thereabouts, but only was sent all that time for some
      starch, and I did see him bringing home some, and yet all this cannot make
      my mind quiet. At last by coach I carried her to Westminster Hall, and
      they two to Mrs. Bowyer to go from thence to my wife's father's and
      Ashwell to hers, and by and by seeing my wife's father in the Hall, and
      being loth that my wife should put me to another trouble and charge by
      missing him to-day, I did employ a porter to go from a person unknown to
      tell him his daughter was come to his lodgings, and I at a distance did
      observe him, but, Lord! what a company of questions he did ask him, what
      kind of man I was, and God knows what. So he went home, and after I had
      staid in the Hall a good while, where I heard that this day the Archbishop
      of Canterbury, Juxon, a man well spoken of by all for a good man, is dead;
      and the Bishop of London is to have his seat. Home by water, where by and
      by comes Dean Honiwood, and I showed him my double horizontal diall, and
      promise to give him one, and that shall be it. So, without eating or
      drinking, he went away to Mr. Turner's, where Sir J. Minnes do treat my
      Lord Chancellor and a great deal of guests to-day with a great dinner,
      which I thank God I do not pay for; and besides, I doubt it is too late
      for any man to expect any great service from my Lord Chancellor, for which
      I am sorry, and pray God a worse do not come in his room. So I to dinner
      alone, and so to my chamber, and then to the office alone, my head aching
      and my mind in trouble for my wife, being jealous of her spending the day,
      though God knows I have no great reason. Yet my mind is troubled. By and
      by comes Will Howe to see us, and walked with me an hour in the garden,
      talking of my Lord's falling to business again, which I am glad of, and
      his coming to lie at his lodgings at White Hall again. The match between
      Sir J. Cutts and my Lady Jemimah, he says, is likely to go on; for which I
      am glad. In the Hall to-day Dr. Pierce tells me that the Queen begins to
      be brisk, and play like other ladies, and is quite another woman from what
      she was, of which I am glad. It may be, it may make the King like her the
      better, and forsake his two mistresses, my Lady Castlemaine and Stewart.
      He gone we sat at the office till night, and then home, where my wife is
      come, and has been with her father all the afternoon, and so home, and she
      and I to walk in the garden, giving ear to her discourse of her father's
      affairs, and I found all well, so after putting things in order at my
      office, home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up and to read a little, and by and by the carver coming, I directed
      him how to make me a neat head for my viall that is making. About 10
      o'clock my wife and I, not without some discontent, abroad by coach, and I
      set her at her father's; but their condition is such that she will not let
      me see where they live, but goes by herself when I am out of sight. Thence
      to my brother's, taking care for a passage for my wife the next week in a
      coach to my father's, and thence to Paul's Churchyard, where I found
      several books ready bound for me; among others, the new Concordance of the
      Bible, which pleases me much, and is a book I hope to make good use of.
      Thence, taking the little History of England with me, I went by water to
      Deptford, where Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten attending the Pay; I dined
      with them, and there Dr. Britton, parson of the town, a fine man and good
      company, dined with us, and good discourse. After dinner I left them and
      walked to Redriffe, and thence to White Hall, and at my Lord's lodgings
      found my wife, and thence carried her to see my Lady Jemimah, but she was
      not within. So to Mr. Turner's, and there saw Mr. Edward Pepys's lady, who
      my wife concurs with me to be very pretty, as most women we ever saw. So
      home, and after a walk in the garden a little troubled to see my wife take
      no more pleasure with Ashwell, but neglect her and leave her at home. Home
      to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Lay in bed till 7 o'clock, yet rose with an opinion that it was not
      5, and so continued though I heard the clock strike, till noon, and would
      not believe that it was so late as it truly was. I was hardly ever so
      mistaken in my life before. Up and to Sir G. Carteret at his house, and
      spoke to him about business, but he being in a bad humour I had no mind to
      stay with him, but walked, drinking my morning draft of whay, by the way,
      to York House, where the Russia Embassador do lie; and there I saw his
      people go up and down louseing themselves: they are all in a great hurry,
      being to be gone the beginning of next week. But that that pleased me
      best, was the remains of the noble soul of the late Duke of Buckingham
      appearing in his house, in every place, in the doorcases and the windows.
      By and by comes Sir John Hebden, the Russia Resident, to me, and he and I
      in his coach to White Hall, to Secretary Morrice's, to see the orders
      about the Russia hemp that is to be fetched from Archangel for our King,
      and that being done, to coach again, and he brought me into the City and
      so I home; and after dinner abroad by water, and met by appointment Mr.
      Deane in the Temple Church, and he and I over to Mr. Blackbury's yard, and
      thence to other places, and after that to a drinking house, in all which
      places I did so practise and improve my measuring of timber, that I can
      now do it with great ease and perfection, which do please me mightily.
      This fellow Deane is a conceited fellow, and one that means the King a
      great deal of service, more of disservice to other people that go away
      with the profits which he cannot make; but, however, I learn much of him,
      and he is, I perceive, of great use to the King in his place, and so I
      shall give him all the encouragement I can. Home by water, and having
      wrote a letter for my wife to my Lady Sandwich to copy out to send this
      night's post, I to the office, and wrote there myself several things, and
      so home to supper and bed. My mind being troubled to think into what a
      temper of neglect I have myself flung my wife into by my letting her learn
      to dance, that it will require time to cure her of, and I fear her going
      into the country will but make her worse; but only I do hope in the
      meantime to spend my time well in my office, with more leisure than while
      she is here. Hebden, to-day in the coach, did tell me how he is vexed to
      see things at Court ordered as they are by nobody that attends to
      business, but every man himself or his pleasures. He cries up my Lord
      Ashley to be almost the only man that he sees to look after business; and
      with that ease and mastery, that he wonders at him. He cries out against
      the King's dealing so much with goldsmiths, and suffering himself to have
      his purse kept and commanded by them. He tells me also with what exact
      care and order the States of Holland's stores are kept in their Yards, and
      every thing managed there by their builders with such husbandry as is not
      imaginable; which I will endeavour to understand further, if I can by any
      means learn.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). Whit Sunday. Lay long talking with my wife, sometimes
      angry and ended pleased and hope to bring our matters to a better posture
      in a little time, which God send. So up and to church, where Mr. Mills
      preached, but, I know not how, I slept most of the sermon. Thence home,
      and dined with my wife and Ashwell and after dinner discoursed very
      pleasantly, and so I to church again in the afternoon, and, the Scot
      preaching, again slept all the afternoon, and so home, and by and by to
      Sir W. Batten's, to talk about business, where my Lady Batten inveighed
      mightily against the German Princess, and I as high in the defence of her
      wit and spirit, and glad that she is cleared at the sessions. Thence to
      Sir W. Pen, who I found ill again of the gout, he tells me that now Mr.
      Castle and Mrs. Martha Batten do own themselves to be married, and have
      been this fortnight. Much good may it do him, for I do not envy him his
      wife. So home, and there my wife and I had an angry word or two upon
      discourse of our boy, compared with Sir W. Pen's boy that he has now, whom
      I say is much prettier than ours and she the contrary. It troubles me to
      see that every small thing is enough now-a-days to bring a difference
      between us. So to my office and there did a little business, and then home
      to supper and to bed. Mrs. Turner, who is often at Court, do tell me
      to-day that for certain the Queen hath much changed her humour, and is
      become very pleasant and sociable as any; and they say is with child, or
      believed to be so.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and to my office a while, and thence by coach with Sir J. Minnes
      to St. James's to the Duke, where Mr. Coventry and us two did discourse
      with the Duke a little about our office business, which saved our coming
      in the afternoon, and so to rights home again and to dinner. After dinner
      my wife and I had a little jangling, in which she did give me the lie,
      which vexed me, so that finding my talking did but make her worse, and
      that her spirit is lately come to be other than it used to be, and now
      depends upon her having Ashwell by her, before whom she thinks I shall not
      say nor do anything of force to her, which vexes me and makes me wish that
      I had better considered all that I have of late done concerning my
      bringing my wife to this condition of heat, I went up vexed to my chamber
      and there fell examining my new concordance, that I have bought, with
      Newman's, the best that ever was out before, and I find mine altogether as
      copious as that and something larger, though the order in some respects
      not so good, that a man may think a place is missing, when it is only put
      in another place. Up by and by my wife comes and good friends again, and
      to walk in the garden and so anon to supper and to bed. My cozen John
      Angier the son, of Cambridge coming to me late to see me, and I find his
      business is that he would be sent to sea, but I dissuaded him from it, for
      I will not have to do with it without his friends' consent.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and after ordering some things towards my wife's going into the
      country, to the office, where I spent the morning upon my measuring rules
      very pleasantly till noon, and then comes Creed and he and I talked about
      mathematiques, and he tells me of a way found out by Mr. Jonas Moore which
      he calls duodecimal arithmetique, which is properly applied to measuring,
      where all is ordered by inches, which are 12 in a foot, which I have a
      mind to learn. So he with me home to dinner and after dinner walk in the
      garden, and then we met at the office, where Coventry, Sir J. Minnes, and
      I, and so in the evening, business done, I went home and spent my time
      till night with my wife. Presently after my coming home comes Pembleton,
      whether by appointment or no I know not, or whether by a former promise
      that he would come once before my wife's going into the country, but I
      took no notice of, let them go up and Ashwell with them to dance, which
      they did, and I staid below in my chamber, but, Lord! how I listened and
      laid my ear to the door, and how I was troubled when I heard them stand
      still and not dance. Anon they made an end and had done, and so I suffered
      him to go away, and spoke not to him, though troubled in my mind, but
      showed no discontent to my wife, believing that this is the last time I
      shall be troubled with him. So my wife and I to walk in the garden, home
      and to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and all the morning helping my wife to put up her things towards
      her going into the country and drawing the wine out of my vessel to send.
      This morning came my cozen Thomas Pepys to desire me to furnish him with
      some money, which I could not do till his father has wrote to Piggott his
      consent to the sale of his lands, so by and by we parted and I to the
      Exchange a while and so home and to dinner, and thence to the Royal
      Theatre by water, and landing, met with Captain Ferrers his friend, the
      little man that used to be with him, and he with us, and sat by us while
      we saw "Love in a Maze." The play is pretty good, but the life of the play
      is Lacy's part, the clown, which is most admirable; but for the rest,
      which are counted such old and excellent actors, in my life I never heard
      both men and women so ill pronounce their parts, even to my making myself
      sick therewith. Thence, Creed happening to be with us, we four to the
      Half-Moon Tavern, I buying some sugar and carrying it with me, which we
      drank with wine and thence to the whay-house, and drank a great deal of
      whay, and so by water home, and thence to see Sir W. Pen, who is not in
      much pain, but his legs swell and so immoveable that he cannot stir them,
      but as they are lifted by other people and I doubt will have another fit
      of his late pain. Played a little at cards with him and his daughter, who
      is grown every day a finer and finer lady, and so home to supper and to
      bed. When my wife and I came first home we took Ashwell and all the rest
      below in the cellar with the vintner drawing out my wine, which I blamed
      Ashwell much for and told her my mind that I would not endure it, nor was
      it fit for her to make herself equal with the ordinary servants of the
      house.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and spent most of the morning upon my measuring Ruler and with
      great pleasure I have found out some things myself of great dispatch, more
      than my book teaches me, which pleases me mightily. Sent my wife's things
      and the wine to-day by the carrier to my father's, but staid my boy from a
      letter of my father's, wherein he desires that he may not come to trouble
      his family as he did the last year. Dined at home and then to the office,
      where we sat all the afternoon, and at night home and spent the evening
      with my wife, and she and I did jangle mightily about her cushions that
      she wrought with worsteds the last year, which are too little for any use,
      but were good friends by and by again. But one thing I must confess I do
      observe, which I did not before, which is, that I cannot blame my wife to
      be now in a worse humour than she used to be, for I am taken up in my talk
      with Ashwell, who is a very witty girl, that I am not so fond of her as I
      used and ought to be, which now I do perceive I will remedy, but I would
      to the Lord I had never taken any, though I cannot have a better than her.
      To supper and to bed. The consideration that this is the longest day in
      the year is very unpleasant to me.&mdash;[It is necessary to note that
      this was according to the old style.]&mdash;This afternoon my wife had a
      visit from my Lady Jeminah and Mr. Ferrers.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up and my office, there conning my measuring Ruler, which I shall
      grow a master of in a very little time. At noon to the Exchange and so
      home to dinner, and abroad with my wife by water to the Royall Theatre;
      and there saw "The Committee," a merry but indifferent play, only Lacey's
      part, an Irish footman, is beyond imagination. Here I saw my Lord
      Falconbridge, and his Lady, my Lady Mary Cromwell, who looks as well as I
      have known her, and well clad; but when the House began to fill she put on
      her vizard,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Masks were commonly used by ladies in the reign of Elizabeth, and
     when their use was revived at the Restoration for respectable women
     attending the theatre, they became general.  They soon, however,
     became the mark of loose women, and their use was discontinued by
     women of repute.  On June 1st, 1704, a song was sung at the theatre
     in Lincoln's Inn Fields called "The Misses' Lamentation for want of
     their Vizard Masques at the Theatre."  Mr. R. W. Lowe gives several
     references to the use of vizard masks at the theatre in his
     interesting biography, "Thomas Betterton."]
</pre>
    <p>
      and so kept it on all the play; which of late is become a great fashion
      among the ladies, which hides their whole face. So to the Exchange, to buy
      things with my wife; among others, a vizard for herself. And so by water
      home and to my office to do a little business, and so to see Sir W. Pen,
      but being going to bed and not well I could not see him. So home and to
      supper and bed, being mightily troubled all night and next morning with
      the palate of my mouth being down from some cold I took to-day sitting
      sweating in the playhouse, and the wind blowing through the windows upon
      my head.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up and betimes to Thames Street among the tarr men, to look the
      price of tarr and so by water to Whitehall thinking to speak with Sir G.
      Carteret, but he lying in the city all night, and meeting with Mr. Cutler
      the merchant, I with him in his coach into the city to Sir G. Carteret,
      but missing him there, he and I walked to find him at Sir Tho. Allen's in
      Bread Street, where not finding him he and I walked towards our office, he
      discoursing well of the business of the Navy, and particularly of the
      victualling, in which he was once I perceive concerned, and he and I
      parted and I to the office and there had a difference with Sir W. Batten
      about Mr. Bowyer's tarr, which I am resolved to cross, though he sent me
      last night, as a bribe, a barrel of sturgeon, which, it may be, I shall
      send back, for I will not have the King abused so abominably in the price
      of what we buy, by Sir W. Batten's corruption and underhand dealing. So
      from the office, Mr. Wayth with me, to the Parliament House, and there I
      spoke and told Sir G. Carteret all, with which he is well pleased, and do
      recall his willingness yesterday, it seems, to Sir W. Batten, that we
      should buy a great quantity of tarr, being abused by him. Thence with Mr.
      Wayth after drinking a cupp of ale at the Swan, talking of the corruption
      of the Navy, by water. I landed him at Whitefriars, and I to the Exchange,
      and so home to dinner, where I found my wife's brother, and thence after
      dinner by water to the Royall Theatre, where I resolved to bid farewell,
      as shall appear by my oaths tomorrow against all plays either at publique
      houses or Court till Christmas be over. Here we saw "The Faithfull
      Sheepheardesse," a most simple thing, and yet much thronged after, and
      often shown, but it is only for the scenes' sake, which is very fine
      indeed and worth seeing; but I am quite out of opinion with any of their
      actings, but Lacy's, compared with the other house. Thence to see Mrs.
      Hunt, which we did and were much made of; and in our way saw my Lady
      Castlemaine, who, I fear, is not so handsome as I have taken her for, and
      now she begins to decay something. This is my wife's opinion also, for
      which I am sorry. Thence by coach, with a mad coachman, that drove like
      mad, and down byeways, through Bucklersbury home, everybody through the
      street cursing him, being ready to run over them. So home, and after
      writing letters by the post, home to supper and bed. Yesterday, upon
      conference with the King in the Banqueting House, the Parliament did agree
      with much ado, it being carried but by forty-two voices, that they would
      supply him with a sum of money; but what and how is not yet known, but
      expected to be done with great disputes the next week. But if done at all,
      it is well.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed. So up and to church. Then to dinner,
      and Tom dined with me, who I think grows a very thriving man, as he
      himself tells me. He tells me that his man John has got a wife, and for
      that he intends to part with him, which I am sorry for, and then that Mr.
      Armiger comes to be a constant lodger at his house, and he says has money
      in his purse and will be a good paymaster, but I do much doubt it. He
      being gone, I up and sending my people to church, my wife and I did even
      our reckonings, and had a great deal of serious talk, wherein I took
      occasion to give her hints of the necessity of our saving all we can. I do
      see great cause every day to curse the time that ever I did give way to
      the taking of a woman for her, though I could never have had a better, and
      also the letting of her learn to dance, by both which her mind is so
      devilishly taken off her business and minding her occasions, and besides
      has got such an opinion in her of my being jealous, that it is never to be
      removed, I fear, nor hardly my trouble that attends it; but I must have
      patience. I did give her 40s. to carry into the country tomorrow with her,
      whereof 15s. is to go for the coach-hire for her and Ashwell, there being
      20s. paid here already in earnest. In the evening our discourse turned to
      great content and love, and I hope that after a little forgetting our late
      differences, and being a while absent one from another, we shall come to
      agree as well as ever. So to Sir W. Pen's to visit him, and finding him
      alone, sent for my wife, who is in her riding-suit, to see him, which she
      hath not done these many months I think. By and by in comes Sir J. Minnes
      and Sir W. Batten, and so we sat talking. Among other things, Sir J.
      Minnes brought many fine expressions of Chaucer, which he doats on
      mightily, and without doubt he is a very fine poet.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys continued through life an admirer of Chaucer, and we have the
     authority of Dryden himself for saying that we owe his character of
     the Good Parson to Pepys's recommendation.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Sir W. Pen continues lame of the gout, that he cannot rise from his chair.
      So after staying an hour with him, we went home and to supper, and so to
      prayers and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up betimes, and anon my wife rose and did give me her keys, and put
      other things in order and herself against going this morning into the
      country. I was forced to go to Thames Street and strike up a bargain for
      some tarr, to prevent being abused therein by Hill, who was with me this
      morning, and is mightily surprised that I should tell him what I can have
      the same tarr with his for. Thence home, but finding my wife gone, I took
      coach and after her to her inn, where I am troubled to see her forced to
      sit in the back of the coach, though pleased to see her company none but
      women and one parson; she I find is troubled at all, and I seemed to make
      a promise to get a horse and ride after them; and so, kissing her often,
      and Ashwell once, I bid them adieu. So home by coach, and thence by water
      to Deptford to the Trinity House, where I came a little late; but I found
      them reading their charter, which they did like fools, only reading here
      and there a bit, whereas they ought to do it all, every word, and then
      proceeded to the election of a maister, which was Sir W. Batten, without
      any control, who made a heavy, short speech to them, moving them to give
      thanks to the late Maister for his pains, which he said was very great,
      and giving them thanks for their choice of him, wherein he would serve
      them to the best of his power. Then to the choice of their assistants and
      wardens, and so rose. I might have received 2s. 6d. as a younger Brother,
      but I directed one of the servants of the House to receive it and keep it.
      Thence to church, where Dr. Britton preached a sermon full of words
      against the Nonconformists, but no great matter in it, nor proper for the
      day at all. His text was, "With one mind and one mouth give glory to God,
      the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ." That done, by water, I in the barge
      with the Maister, to the Trinity House at London; where, among others, I
      found my Lords Sandwich and Craven, and my cousin Roger Pepys, and Sir Wm.
      Wheeler. Anon we sat down to dinner, which was very great, as they always
      have. Great variety of talk. Mr. Prin, among many, had a pretty tale of
      one that brought in a bill in parliament for the empowering him to dispose
      his land to such children as he should have that should bear the name of
      his wife. It was in Queen Elizabeth's time. One replied that there are
      many species of creatures where the male gives the denomination to both
      sexes, as swan and woodcock, but not above one where the female do, and
      that is a goose. Both at and after dinner we had great discourses of the
      nature and power of spirits, and whether they can animate dead bodies; in
      all which, as of the general appearance of spirits, my Lord Sandwich is
      very scepticall. He says the greatest warrants that ever he had to believe
      any, is the present appearing of the Devil
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In 1664, there being a generall report all over the kingdom of Mr.
     Monpesson his house being haunted, which hee himself affirming to
     the King and Queene to be true, the King sent the Lord Falmouth, and
     the Queene sent mee, to examine the truth of; but wee could neither
     see nor heare anything that was extraordinary; and about a year
     after, his Majesty told me that hee had discovered the cheat, and
     that Mr. Monpesson, upon his Majesty sending for him, confessed it
     to him.  And yet Mr. Monpesson, in a printed letter, had afterwards
     the confidence to deny that hee had ever made any such confession"
     ("Letters of the Second Earl of Chesterfield," p. 24, 1829, 8vo.).
     Joseph Glanville published a relation of the famous disturbance at
     the house of Mr. Monpesson, at Tedworth, Wilts, occasioned by the
     beating of an invisible drum every night for a year.  This story,
     which was believed at the time, furnished the plot for Addison's
     play of "The Drummer," or the "Haunted House."  In the "Mercurius
     Publicus," April 16-23, 1663, there is a curious examination on this
     subject, by which it appears that one William Drury, of Uscut,
     Wilts, was the invisible drummer.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      in Wiltshire, much of late talked of, who beats a drum up and down. There
      are books of it, and, they say, very true; but my Lord observes, that
      though he do answer to any tune that you will play to him upon another
      drum, yet one tune he tried to play and could not; which makes him suspect
      the whole; and I think it is a good argument. Sometimes they talked of
      handsome women, and Sir J. Minnes saying that there was no beauty like
      what he sees in the country-markets, and specially at Bury, in which I
      will agree with him that there is a prettiest women I ever saw. My Lord
      replied thus: "Sir John, what do you think of your neighbour's wife?"
      looking upon me. "Do you not think that he hath a great beauty to his
      wife? Upon my word he hath." Which I was not a little proud of. Thence by
      barge with my Lord to Blackfriars, where we landed and I thence walked
      home, where vexed to find my boy (whom I boxed at his coming for it) and
      Will abroad, though he was but upon Tower Hill a very little while. My
      head akeing with the healths I was forced to drink to-day I sent for the
      barber, and he having done, I up to my wife's closett, and there played on
      my viallin a good while, and without supper anon to bed, sad for want of
      my wife, whom I love with all my heart, though of late she has given me
      some troubled thoughts.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, but not so early as I intend now, and to my office, where doing
      business all the morning. At noon by desire I dined with Sir W. Batten,
      who tells me that the House have voted the supply, intended for the King,
      shall be by subsidy. After dinner with Sir J. Minnes to see some pictures
      at Brewer's, said to be of good hands, but I do not like them. So I to the
      office and thence to Stacy's, his Tar merchant, whose servant with whom I
      agreed yesterday for some tar do by combination with Bowyer and Hill fall
      from our agreement, which vexes us all at the office, even Sir W. Batten,
      who was so earnest for it. So to the office, where we sat all the
      afternoon till night, and then to Sir W. Pen, who continues ill, and so to
      bed about 10 o'clock.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up before 4 o'clock, which is the hour I intend now to rise at, and
      to my office a while, and with great pleasure I fell to my business again.
      Anon went with money to my tar merchant to pay for the tar, which he
      refuses to sell me; but now the master is come home, and so he speaks very
      civilly, and I believe we shall have it with peace. I brought back my
      money to my office, and thence to White Hall, and in the garden spoke to
      my Lord Sandwich, who is in his gold-buttoned suit, as the mode is, and
      looks nobly. Captain Ferrers, I see, is come home from France. I only
      spoke one word to him, my Lord being there. He tells me the young
      gentlemen are well there; so my Lord went to my Lord Albemarle's to
      dinner, and I by water home and dined alone, and at the office (after half
      an hour's viallin practice after dinner) till late at night, and so home
      and to bed. This day I sent my cozen Edward Pepys his Lady, at my cozen
      Turner's, a piece of venison given me yesterday, and Madam Turner I sent
      for a dozen bottles of her's, to fill with wine for her. This day I met
      with Pierce the surgeon, who tells me that the King has made peace between
      Mr. Edward Montagu and his father Lord Montagu, and that all is well
      again; at which; for the family's sake, I am very glad, but do not think
      it will hold long.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up by four o'clock and to my office, where all the morning writing
      out in my Navy collections the ordinary estimate of the Navy, and did it
      neatly. Then dined at home alone, my mind pleased with business, but sad
      for the absence of my wife. After dinner half an hour at my viallin, and
      then all the afternoon sitting at the office late, and so home and to bed.
      This morning Mr. Cutler came and sat in my closet half an hour with me,
      his discourse very excellent, being a wise man, and I do perceive by him
      as well as many others that my diligence is taken notice of in the world,
      for which I bless God and hope to continue doing so. Before I went into my
      house this night I called at Sir W. Batten's, where finding some great
      ladies at table at supper with him and his lady, I retreated and went
      home, though they called to me again and again, and afterwards sent for
      me. So I went, and who should it be but Sir Fr. Clerke and his lady and
      another proper lady at supper there, and great cheer, where I staid till
      11 o'clock at night, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Lay till 6 o'clock, and then up and to my office, where all the
      morning, and at noon to the Exchange, and coming home met Mr. Creed, and
      took him back, and he dined with me, and by and by came Mr. Moore, whom I
      supplied with L30, and then abroad with them by water to Lambeth,
      expecting to have seen the Archbishop lie in state; but it seems he is not
      laid out yet. And so over to White Hall, and at the Privy Seal Office
      examined the books, and found the grant of increase of salary to the
      principall officers in the year 1639, L300 among the Controller, Surveyor,
      and Clerk of the Shippes. Thence to Wilkinson's after a good walk in the
      Park, where we met on horseback Captain Ferrers; who tells us that the
      King of France is well again, and that he saw him train his Guards, all
      brave men, at Paris; and that when he goes to his mistress, Madame la
      Valiere, a pretty little woman, now with child by him, he goes with his
      guards with him publiquely, and his trumpets and kettle-drums with him,
      who stay before the house while he is with her; and yet he says that, for
      all this, the Queen do not know of it, for that nobody dares to tell her;
      but that I dare not believe. Thence I to Wilkinson's, where we had bespoke
      a dish of pease, where we eat them very merrily, and there being with us
      the little gentleman, a friend of Captain Ferrers, that was with my wife
      and I at a play a little while ago, we went thence to the Rhenish
      wine-house, where we called for a red Rhenish wine called Bleahard, a
      pretty wine, and not mixed, as they say. Here Mr. Moore showed us the
      French manner, when a health is drunk, to bow to him that drunk to you,
      and then apply yourself to him, whose lady's health is drunk, and then to
      the person that you drink to, which I never knew before; but it seems it
      is now the fashion. Thence by water home and to bed, having played out of
      my chamber window on my pipe before I went to bed, and making Will read a
      part of a Latin chapter, in which I perceive in a little while he will be
      pretty ready, if he spends but a little pains in it.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and dined at home, Mr.
      Deane, of Woolwich, with me, and he and I all the afternoon down by water,
      and in a timber yard, measuring of timber, which I now understand
      thoroughly, and shall be able in a little time to do the King great
      service. Home in the evening, and after Will's reading a little in the
      Latin Testament, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). Up betimes, and fell to reading my Latin grammar, which
      I perceive I have great need of, having lately found it by my calling Will
      to the reading of a chapter in Latin, and I am resolved to go through it.
      After being trimmed, I by water to White Hall, and so over the Park, it
      raining hard, to Mr. Coventry's chamber, where I spent two hours with him
      about business of the Navy, and how by his absence things are like to go
      with us, and with good content from my being with him he carried me by
      coach and set me down at Whitehall, and thence to right home by water. He
      shewed me a list, which he hath prepared for the Parliament's view, if the
      business of his selling of offices should be brought to further hearing,
      wherein he reckons up, as I remember, 236 offices of ships which have been
      disposed of without his taking one farthing. This, of his own accord, he
      opened his cabinet on purpose to shew me, meaning, I suppose, that I
      should discourse abroad of it, and vindicate him therein, which I shall
      with all my power do. At home, being wet, shifted my band and things, and
      then to dinner, and after dinner went up and tried a little upon my
      tryangle, which I understand fully, and with a little use I believe could
      bring myself to do something. So to church, and slept all the sermon, the
      Scot, to whose voice I am not to be reconciled, preaching. Thence with Sir
      J. Minnes (who poor man had forgot that he carried me the other day to the
      painter's to see some pictures which he has since bought and are brought
      home) to his Jodgings to see some base things he calls them of great
      masters of painting. So I said nothing that he had shown me them already,
      but commended them, and I think they are indeed good enough. Thence to see
      Sir W. Pen, who continues ill of the gout still. Here we staid a good
      while, and then I to my office, and read my vows seriously and with
      content, and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up betimes and to my office, reading over all our letters of the
      office that we have wrote since I came into the Navy, whereby to bring the
      whole series of matters into my memory, and to enter in my manuscript some
      of them that are needful and of great influence. By and by with Sir W.
      Batten by coach to Westminster, where all along I find the shops evening
      with the sides of the houses, even in the broadest streets; which will
      make the City very much better than it was. I walked in the Hall from one
      man to another. Hear that the House is still divided about the manner of
      levying the subsidys which they intend to give the King, both as to the
      manner, the time, and the number. It seems the House do consent to send to
      the King to desire that he would be graciously pleased to let them know
      who it was that did inform him of what words Sir Richard Temple should
      say, which were to this purpose: "That if the King would side with him, or
      be guided by him and his party, that he should not lack money:" but
      without knowing who told it, they do not think fit to call him to any
      account for it. Thence with Creed and bought a lobster, and then to an
      alehouse, where the maid of the house is a confident merry lass, and if
      modest is very pleasant to the customers that come thither. Here we eat
      it, and thence to walk in the Park a good while. The Duke being gone
      a-hunting, and by and by came in and shifted himself; he having in his
      hunting, rather than go about, 'light and led his horse through a river up
      to his breast, and came so home: and when we were come, which was by and
      by, we went on to him, and being ready he retired with us, and we had a
      long discourse with him. But Mr. Creed's accounts stick still through the
      perverse ignorance of Sir G. Carteret, which I cannot safely control as I
      would. Thence to the Park again, and there walked up and down an hour or
      two till night with Creed, talking, who is so knowing, and a man of that
      reason, that I cannot but love his company, though I do not love the man,
      because he is too wise to be made a friend of, and acts all by interest
      and policy, but is a man fit to learn of. So to White Hall, and by water
      to the Temple, and calling at my brother's and several places, but to no
      purpose, I came home, and meeting Strutt, the purser, he tells me for a
      secret that he was told by Field that he had a judgment against me in the
      Exchequer for L400. So I went to Sir W. Batten, and taking Mr. Batten, his
      son the counsellor, with me, by coach, I went to Clerke, our Solicitor,
      who tells me there can be no such thing, and after conferring with them
      two together, who are resolved to look well after the business, I returned
      home and to my office, setting down this day's passages, and having a
      letter that all is well in the country I went home to supper, and then a
      Latin chapter of Will and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up by four o'clock, and so to my office; but before I went out,
      calling, as I have of late done, for my boy's copybook, I found that he
      had not done his task; so I beat him, and then went up to fetch my rope's
      end, but before I got down the boy was gone. I searched the cellar with a
      candle, and from top to bottom could not find him high nor low. So to the
      office; and after an hour or two, by water to the Temple, to my cozen
      Roger; who, I perceive, is a deadly high man in the Parliament business,
      and against the Court, showing me how they have computed that the King
      hath spent, at least hath received, about four millions of money since he
      came in: and in Sir J. Winter's case, in which I spoke to him, he is so
      high that he says he deserves to be hanged, and all the high words he
      could give, which I was sorry to see, though I am confident he means well.
      Thence by water home, and to the 'Change; and by and by comes the King and
      the Queen by in great state, and the streets full of people. I stood in
      Mr.&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;'s balcone. They dine all at my Lord
      Mayor's; but what he do for victuals, or room for them, I know not. So
      home to dinner alone, and there I found that my boy had got out of doors,
      and came in for his hat and band, and so is gone away to his brother; but
      I do resolve even to let him go away for good and all. So I by and by to
      the office, and there had a great fray with Sir W. Batten and Sir J.
      Minnes, who, like an old dotard, is led by the nose by him. It was in
      Captain Cocke's business of hemp, wherein the King is absolutely abused;
      but I was for peace sake contented to be quiet and to sign to his bill,
      but in my manner so as to justify myself, and so all was well; but to see
      what a knave Sir W. Batten is makes my heart ake. So late at my office,
      and then home to supper and to bed, my man Will not being well.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up before 4 o'clock, and so to my lute an hour or more, and then by
      water, drinking my morning draft alone at an alehouse in Thames Street, to
      the Temple, and thence after a little discourse with my cozen Roger about
      some business, away by water to St. James's, and there an hour's private
      discourse with Mr. Coventry, where he told me one thing to my great joy,
      that in the business of Captain Cocke's hemp, disputed before him the
      other day, Mr. Coventry absent, the Duke did himself tell him since, that
      Mr. Pepys and he did stand up and carry it against the rest that were
      there, Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten, which do please me much to see
      that the Duke do take notice of me. We did talk highly of Sir W. Batten's
      corruption, which Mr. Coventry did very kindly say that it might be only
      his heaviness and unaptness for business, that he do things without advice
      and rashly, and to gratify people that do eat and drink and play with him,
      and that now and then he observes that he signs bills only in anger and
      fury to be rid of men. Speaking of Sir G. Carteret, of whom I perceive he
      speaks but slightly, and diminishing of him in his services for the King
      in Jersey; that he was well rewarded, and had good lands and rents, and
      other profits from the King, all the time he was there; and that it was
      always his humour to have things done his way. He brought an example how
      he would not let the Castle there be victualled for more than a month,
      that so he might keep it at his beck, though the people of the town did
      offer to supply it more often themselves, which, when one did propose to
      the King, Sir George Carteret being by, says Sir George, "Let me know who
      they are that would do it, I would with all my heart pay them." "Ah, by
      God," says the Commander that spoke of it, "that is it that they are
      afeard of, that you would hug them," meaning that he would not endure
      them. Another thing he told me, how the Duke of York did give Sir G.
      Carteret and the Island his profits as Admirall, and other things, toward
      the building of a pier there. But it was never laid out, nor like to be.
      So it falling out that a lady being brought to bed, the Duke was to be
      desired to be one of the godfathers; and it being objected that that would
      not be proper, there being no peer of the land to be joyned with him, the
      lady replied, "Why, let him choose; and if he will not be a godfather
      without a peer, then let him even stay till he hath made a pier of his
      own."
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In the same spirit, long after this, some question arising as to
     the best material to be used in building Westminster Bridge, Lord
     Chesterfield remarked, that there were too many wooden piers (peers)
     at Westminster already.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      He tells me, too, that he hath lately been observed to tack about at
      Court, and to endeavour to strike in with the persons that are against the
      Chancellor; but this he says of him, that he do not say nor do anything to
      the prejudice of the Chancellor. But he told me that the Chancellor was
      rising again, and that of late Sir G. Carteret's business and employment
      hath not been so full as it used to be while the Chancellor stood up. From
      that we discoursed of the evil of putting out men of experience in
      business as the Chancellor, and from that to speak of the condition of the
      King's party at present, who, as the Papists, though otherwise fine
      persons, yet being by law kept for these fourscore years out of
      employment, they are now wholly uncapable of business; and so the
      Cavaliers for twenty years, who, says he, for the most part have either
      given themselves over to look after country and family business, and those
      the best of them, and the rest to debauchery, &amp;c.; and that was it
      that hath made him high against the late Bill brought into the House for
      the making all men incapable of employment that had served against the
      King. Why, says he, in the sea-service, it is impossible to do any thing
      without them, there being not more than three men of the whole King's side
      that are fit to command almost; and these were Captain Allen, Smith, and
      Beech; and it may be Holmes, and Utber, and Batts might do something. I
      desired him to tell me if he thought that I did speak anything that I do
      against Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes out of ill will or design. He told
      me quite the contrary, and that there was reason enough. After a good deal
      of good and fine discourse, I took leave, and so to my Lord Sandwich's
      house, where I met my Lord, and there did discourse of our office
      businesses, and how the Duke do show me kindness, though I have
      endeavoured to displease more or less of my fellow officers, all but Mr.
      Coventry and Pett; but it matters not. Yes, says my Lord, Sir J. Minnes,
      who is great with the Chancellor; I told him the Chancellor I have thought
      was declining, and however that the esteem he has among them is nothing
      but for a jester or a ballad maker; at which my Lord laughs, and asks me
      whether I believe he ever could do that well. Thence with Mr. Creed up and
      down to an ordinary, and, the King's Head being full, went to the other
      over against it, a pretty man that keeps it, and good and much meat,
      better than the other, but the company and room so small that he must
      break, and there wants the pleasure that the other house has in its
      company. Here however dined an old courtier that is now so, who did bring
      many examples and arguments to prove that seldom any man that brings any
      thing to Court gets any thing, but rather the contrary; for knowing that
      they have wherewith to live, will not enslave themselves to the
      attendance, and flattery, and fawning condition of a courtier, whereas
      another that brings nothing, and will be contented to cog, and lie, and
      flatter every man and woman that has any interest with the persons that
      are great in favour, and can cheat the King, as nothing is to be got
      without offending God and the King, there he for the most part, and he
      alone, saves any thing. Thence to St. James Park, and there walked two or
      three hours talking of the difference between Sir G. Carteret and Mr.
      Creed about his accounts, and how to obviate him, but I find Creed a
      deadly cunning fellow and one that never do any thing openly, but has
      intrigues in all he do or says. Thence by water home to see all well, and
      thence down to Greenwich, and there walked into a pretty common garden and
      there played with him at nine pins for some drink, and to make the fellows
      drink that set up the pins, and so home again being very cold, and taking
      a very great cold, being to-day the first time in my tabby doublet this
      year. Home, and after a small supper Creed and I to bed. This day I
      observed the house, which I took to be the new tennis-court, newly built
      next my Lord's lodgings, to be fallen down by the badness of the
      foundation or slight working, which my cozen Roger and his discontented
      party cry out upon, as an example how the King's work is done, which I am
      sorry to see him and others so apt to think ill of things. It hath beaten
      down a good deal of my Lord's lodgings, and had like to have killed Mrs.
      Sarah, she having but newly gone out of it.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up both of us pretty early and to my chamber, where he and I did
      draw up a letter to Sir G. Carteret in excuse and preparation for Creed
      against we meet before the Duke upon his accounts, which I drew up and it
      proved very well, but I am pleased to see with what secret cunning and
      variety of artifice this Creed has carried on his business even unknown to
      me, which he is now forced by an accident to communicate to me. So that
      taking up all the papers of moment which lead to the clearing of his
      accounts unobserved out of the Controller's hand, which he now makes great
      use of; knowing that the Controller has not wherewith to betray him. About
      this all the morning, only Mr. Bland came to me about some business of
      his, and told me the news, which holds to be true, that the Portuguese did
      let in the Spaniard by a plot, and they being in the midst of the country
      and we believing that they would have taken the whole country, they did
      all rise and kill the whole body, near 8,000 men, and Don John of Austria
      having two horses killed under him, was forced with one man to flee away.
      Sir George Carteret at the office (after dinner, and Creed being gone, for
      both now and yesterday I was afraid to have him seen by Sir G. Carteret
      with me, for fear that he should increase his doubt that I am of a plot
      with Creed in the business of his accounts) did tell us that upon Tuesday
      last, being with my Lord Treasurer, he showed him a letter from Portugall
      speaking of the advance of the Spaniards into their country, and yet that
      the Portuguese were never more courageous than now; for by an old
      prophecy, from France, sent thither some years, though not many since,
      from the French King, it is foretold that the Spaniards should come into
      their country, and in such a valley they should be all killed, and then
      their country should be wholly delivered from the Spaniards. This was on
      Tuesday last, and yesterday came the very first news that in this very
      valley they had thus routed and killed the Spaniards, which is very
      strange but true. So late at the office, and then home to supper and to
      bed. This noon I received a letter from the country from my wife, wherein
      she seems much pleased with the country; God continue that she may have
      pleasure while she is there. She, by my Lady's advice, desires a new
      petticoat of the new silk striped stuff, very pretty. So I went to
      Paternoster Row' presently, and bought her one, with Mr. Creed's help, a
      very fine rich one, the best I did see there, and much better than she
      desires or expects, and sent it by Creed to Unthanke to be made against
      tomorrow to send by the carrier, thinking it had been but Wednesday
      to-day, but I found myself mistaken, and also the taylor being out of the
      way, it could not be done, but the stuff was sent me back at night by
      Creed to dispose of some other way to make, but now I shall keep it to
      next week.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up betimes, and Mr. Moore coming to see me, he and
    </p>
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     [Paternoster Row, now famous as the headquarters of the publishing
     houses, was at this time chiefly inhabited by mercers.  "This
     street, before the Fire of London, was taken up by eminent Mercers,
     Silkmen and Lacemen; and their shops were so resorted to by the
     nobility and gentry in their coaches, that oft times the street was
     so stop'd up that there was no passage for foot passengers"
     (Strype's "Stow," book iii., p. 195)].
</pre>
    <p>
      I discoursed of going to Oxford this Commencement, Mr. Nathaniel Crew
      being Proctor and Mr. Childe commencing Doctor of Musique this year, which
      I have a great mind to do, and, if I can, will order my matters so that I
      may do it. By and by, he and I to the Temple, it raining hard, my cozen
      Roger being got out, he and I walked a good while among the Temple trees
      discoursing of my getting my Lord to let me have security upon his estate
      for L100 per ann. for two lives, my own and my wife, for my money. But
      upon second thoughts Mr. Moore tells me it is very likely my Lord will
      think that I beg something, and may take it ill, and so we resolved not to
      move it there, but to look for it somewhere else. Here it raining hard he
      and I walked into the King's Bench Court, where I never was before, and
      there staid an hour almost, till it had done raining, which is a sad
      season, that it is said there hath not been one fair day these three
      months, and I think it is true, and then by water to Westminster, and at
      the Parliament House I spoke with Roger Pepys. The House is upon the
      King's answer to their message about Temple, which is, that my Lord of
      Bristoll did tell him that Temple did say those words; so the House are
      resolved upon sending some of their members to him to know the truth, and
      to demand satisfaction if it be not true. So by water home, and after a
      little while getting me ready, Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes, my Lady
      Batten, and I by coach to Bednall Green, to Sir W. Rider's to dinner,
      where a fine place, good lady mother, and their daughter, Mrs. Middleton,
      a fine woman. A noble dinner, and a fine merry walk with the ladies alone
      after dinner in the garden, which is very pleasant; the greatest quantity
      of strawberrys I ever saw, and good, and a collation of great mirth, Sir
      J. Minnes reading a book of scolding very prettily. This very house
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir William Rider's house was known as Kirby Castle, and was
     supposed to have been built in 1570 by John Thorpe for John Kirby.
     It was associated in rhyme with other follies of the time in bricks
     and mortar, as recorded by Stow

                   "Kirkebyes Castell, and Fisher's Follie,
                    Spinila's pleasure, and Megse's glorie."

     The place was known in Strype's time as the "Blind Beggar's House,"
     but he knew nothing of the ballad, "The Beggar's Daughter of Bednall
     Green," for he remarks, "perhaps Kirby beggared himself by it."  Sr.
     William Rider died at this house in 1669.]
</pre>
    <p>
      was built by the Blind Beggar of Bednall Green, so much talked of and sang
      in ballads; but they say it was only some of the outhouses of it. We drank
      great store of wine, and a beer glass at last which made me almost sick.
      At table, discoursing of thunder and lightning, they told many stories of
      their own knowledge at table of their masts being shivered from top to
      bottom, and sometimes only within and the outside whole, but among the
      rest Sir W. Rider did tell a story of his own knowledge, that a Genoese
      gaily in Leghorn Roads was struck by thunder, so as the mast was broke
      a-pieces, and the shackle upon one of the slaves was melted clear off of
      his leg without hurting his leg. Sir William went on board the vessel, and
      would have contributed towards the release of the slave whom Heaven had
      thus set free, but he could not compass it, and so he was brought to his
      fetters again. In the evening home, and a little to my Tryangle, and so to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up by 4 o'clock and a little to my office. Then comes by agreement
      Sir W. Warren, and he and I from ship to ship to see deals of all sorts,
      whereby I have encreased my knowledge and with great pleasure. Then to his
      yard and house, where I staid two hours or more discoursing of the expense
      of the navy and the corruption of Sir W. Batten and his man Wood that he
      brings or would bring to sell all that is to be sold by the Navy. Then
      home to the office, where we sat a little, and at noon home to dinner,
      alone, and thence, it raining hard, by water to the Temple, and so to
      Lincoln's Inn, and there walked up and down to see the new garden which
      they are making, and will be very pretty, and so to walk under the
      Chappell by agreement, whither Mr. Clerke our Solicitor came to me, and he
      fetched Mr. Long, our Attorney in the Exchequer in the business against
      Field, and I directed him to come to the best and speediest composition he
      could, which he will do. So home on foot, calling upon my brother's and
      elsewhere upon business, and so home to my office, and there wrote letters
      to my father and wife, and so home to bed, taking three pills overnight.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). Early in the morning my last night's physic worked and
      did give me a good stool, and then I rose and had three or four stools,
      and walked up and down my chamber. Then up, my maid rose and made me a
      posset, and by and by comes Mr. Creed, and he and I spent all the morning
      discoursing against to-morrow before the Duke the business of his pieces
      of eight, in which the Treasurer makes so many queries. At noon, my physic
      having done working, I went down to dinner, and then he and I up again and
      spent most of the afternoon reading in Cicero and other books of good
      discourse, and then he went away, and then came my brother Tom to see me,
      telling me how the Joyces do make themselves fine clothes against Mary is
      brought to bed. He being gone I went to cast up my monthly accounts, and
      to my great trouble I find myself L7 worse than I was the last month, but
      I confess it is by my reckoning beforehand a great many things, yet
      however I am troubled to see that I can hardly promise myself to lay up
      much from month's end to month's end, about L4 or L5 at most, one month
      with another, without some extraordinary gettings, but I must and I hope I
      shall continue to have a care of my own expenses. So to the reading my
      vows seriously and then to supper. This evening there came my boy's
      brother to see for him, and tells me he knows not where he is, himself
      being out of town this week and is very sorry that he is gone, and so am
      I, but he shall come no more. So to prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up betimes and to my office, and by and by to the Temple, and there
      appointed to meet in the evening about my business, and thence I walked
      home, and up and down the streets is cried mightily the great victory got
      by the Portugalls against the Spaniards, where 10,000 slain, 3 or 4,000
      taken prisoners, with all the artillery, baggage, money, &amp;c., and Don
      John of Austria
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [He was natural son of Philip IV., King of Spain, who, after his
     father's death in 1665, exerted his whole influence to overthrow the
     Regency appointed during the young king's minority.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      forced to flee with a man or two with him, which is very great news.
      Thence home and at my office all the morning, and then by water to St.
      James's, but no meeting to-day being holy day, but met Mr. Creed in the
      Park, and after a walk or two, discoursing his business, took leave of him
      in Westminster Hall, whither we walked, and then came again to the Hall
      and fell to talk with Mrs. Lane, and after great talk that she never went
      abroad with any man as she used heretofore to do, I with one word got her
      to go with me and to meet me at the further Rhenish wine-house, where I
      did give her a Lobster and do so touse her and feel her all over, making
      her believe how fair and good a skin she has, and indeed she has a very
      white thigh and leg, but monstrous fat. When weary I did give over and
      somebody, having seen some of our dalliance, called aloud in the street,
      "Sir! why do you kiss the gentlewoman so?" and flung a stone at the
      window, which vexed me, but I believe they could not see my touzing her,
      and so we broke up and I went out the back way, without being observed I
      think, and so she towards the Hall and I to White Hall, where taking water
      I to the Temple with my cozen Roger and Mr. Goldsborough to Gray's Inn to
      his counsel, one Mr. Rawworth, a very fine man, where it being the
      question whether I as executor should give a warrant to Goldsborough in my
      reconveying her estate back again, the mortgage being performed against
      all acts of the testator, but only my own, my cozen said he never heard it
      asked before; and the other that it was always asked, and he never heard
      it denied, or scrupled before, so great a distance was there in their
      opinions, enough to make a man forswear ever having to do with the law; so
      they agreed to refer it to Serjeant Maynard. So we broke up, and I by
      water home from the Temple, and there to Sir W. Batten and eat with him,
      he and his lady and Sir J. Minnes having been below to-day upon the East
      India men that are come in, but never tell me so, but that they have been
      at Woolwich and Deptford, and done great deal of business. God help them.
      So home and up to my lute long, and then, after a little Latin chapter
      with Will, to bed. But I have used of late, since my wife went, to make a
      bad use of my fancy with whatever woman I have a mind to, which I am
      ashamed of, and shall endeavour to do so no more. So to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up betimes yesterday and to-day, the sun rising very bright and
      glorious; and yet yesterday, as it hath been these two months and more,
      was a foul day the most part of the day. By and by by water to White Hall,
      and there to my Lord's lodgings by appointment, whither Mr. Creed comes to
      me, having been at Chelsey this morning to fetch my Lord to St. James's.
      So he and I to the Park, where we understand that the King and Duke are
      gone out betimes this morning on board the East India ships lately come
      in, and so our meeting appointed is lost. But he and I walked at the
      further end of the Park, not to be observed, whither by and by comes my
      Lord Sandwich, and he and we walked two hours and more in the Park and
      then in White Hall Gallery, and lastly in White Hall garden, discoursing
      of Mr. Creed's accounts, and how to answer the Treasurer's objections. I
      find that the business is L500 deep, the advantage of Creed, and why my
      Lord and I should be concerned to promote his profit with so much
      dishonour and trouble to us I know not, but however we shall do what we
      can, though he deserves it not, for there is nothing even to his own
      advantage that can be got out of him, but by mere force. So full of policy
      he is in the smallest matters, that I perceive him to be made up of
      nothing but design. I left him here, being in my mind vexed at the trouble
      that this business gets me, and the distance that it makes between Sir G.
      Carteret and myself, which I ought to avoyd. Thence by water home and to
      dinner, and afterwards to the office, and there sat till evening, and then
      I by water to Deptford to see Sir W. Pen, who lies ill at Captain Rooth's,
      but in a way to be well again this weather, this day being the only fair
      day we have had these two or three months. Among other discourse I did
      tell him plainly some of my thoughts concerning Sir W. Batten. and the
      office in general, upon design for him to understand that I do mind things
      and will not balk to take notice of them, that when he comes to be well
      again he may know how to look upon me. Thence homeward walked, and in my
      way met Creed coming to meet me, and then turned back and walk a while,
      and so to boat and home by water, I being not very forward to talk of his
      business, and he by design the same, to see how I would speak of it, but I
      did not, but in general terms, and so after supper with general discourse
      to bed and sleep. Thus, by God's blessing, ends this book of two years; I
      being in all points in good health and a good way to thrive and do well.
      Some money I do and can lay up, but not much, being worth now above L700,
      besides goods of all sorts. My wife in the country with Ashwell, her
      woman, with my father; myself at home with W. Hewer and my cooke-maid
      Hannah, my boy Wayneman being lately run away from me. In my office, my
      repute and understanding good, especially with the Duke and Mr. Coventry;
      only the rest of the officers do rather envy than love me, I standing in
      most of their lights, specially Sir W. Batten, whose cheats I do daily
      oppose to his great trouble, though he appears mighty kind and willing to
      keep friendship with me, while Sir J. Minnes, like a dotard, is led by the
      nose by him. My wife and I, by my late jealousy, for which I am truly to
      be blamed, have not the kindness between us which we used and ought to
      have, and I fear will be lost hereafter if I do not take course to oblige
      her and yet preserve my authority. Publique matters are in an ill
      condition; Parliament sitting and raising four subsidys for the King,
      which is but a little, considering his wants; and yet that parted withal
      with great hardness. They being offended to see so much money go, and no
      debts of the publique's paid, but all swallowed by a luxurious Court:
      which the King it is believed and hoped will retrench in a little time,
      when he comes to see the utmost of the revenue which shall be settled on
      him: he expecting to have his L1,200,000 made good to him, which is not
      yet done by above L150,000, as he himself reports to the House. My
      differences with my uncle Thomas at a good quiett, blessed be God! and
      other matters. The town full of the great overthrow lately given to the
      Spaniards by the Portugalls, they being advanced into the very middle of
      Portugall. The weather wet for two or three months together beyond belief,
      almost not one fair day coming between till this day, which has been a
      very pleasant [day] and the first pleasant [day] this summer. The charge
      of the Navy intended to be limited to L200,000 per annum, the ordinary
      charge of it, and that to be settled upon the Customs. The King yet
      greatly taken up with Madam Castlemaine and Mrs. Stewart, which God of
      Heaven put an end to! Myself very studious to learn what I can of all
      things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy, reading lately
      what concerns measuring of timber and knowledge of the tides. I have of
      late spent much time with Creed, being led to it by his business of his
      accounts, but I find him a fellow of those designs and tricks, that there
      is no degree of true friendship to be made with him, and therefore I must
      cast him off, though he be a very understanding man, and one that much may
      be learned of as to cunning and judging of other men. Besides, too, I do
      perceive more and more that my time of pleasure and idleness of any sort
      must be flung off to attend to getting of some money and the keeping of my
      family in order, which I fear by my wife's liberty may be otherwise lost.
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    <p>
      July 1st. This morning it rained so hard (though it was fair yesterday,
      and we thereupon in hopes of having some fair weather, which we have
      wanted these three months) that it wakened Creed, who lay with me last
      night, and me, and so we up and fell to discourse of the business of his
      accounts now under dispute, in which I have taken much trouble upon myself
      and raised a distance between Sir G. Carteret and myself, which troubles
      me, but I hope we have this morning light on an expedient that will right
      all, that will answer their queries, and yet save Creed the L500 which he
      did propose to make of the exchange abroad of the pieces of eight which he
      disbursed. Being ready, he and I by water to White Hall, where I left him
      before we came into the Court, for fear I should be seen by Sir G.
      Carteret with him, which of late I have been forced to avoid to remove
      suspicion. I to St. James's, and there discoursed a while with Mr.
      Coventry, between whom and myself there is very good understanding and
      friendship, and so to Westminster Hall, and being in the Parliament lobby,
      I there saw my Lord of Bristoll come to the Commons House to give his
      answer to their question, about some words he should tell the King that
      were spoke by Sir Richard Temple, a member of their House. A chair was set
      at the bar of the House for him, which he used but little, but made an
      harangue of half an hour bareheaded, the House covered. His speech being
      done, he came out and withdrew into a little room till the House had
      concluded of an answer to his speech; which they staying long upon, I went
      away. And by and by out comes Sir W. Batten; and he told me that his
      Lordship had made a long and a comedian-like speech, and delivered with
      such action as was not becoming his Lordship. He confesses he did tell the
      King such a thing of Sir Richard Temple, but that upon his honour they
      were not spoke by Sir Richard, he having taken a liberty of enlarging to
      the King upon the discourse which had been between Sir Richard and himself
      lately; and so took upon himself the whole blame, and desired their
      pardon, it being not to do any wrong to their fellow-member, but out of
      zeal to the King. He told them, among many other things, that as to his
      religion he was a Roman Catholique, but such a one as thought no man to
      have right to the Crown of England but the Prince that hath it; and such a
      one as, if the King should desire his counsel as to his own, he would not
      advise him to another religion than the old true reformed religion of this
      country, it being the properest of this kingdom as it now stands; and
      concluded with a submission to what the House shall do with him, saying,
      that whatever they shall do, says he, "thanks be to God, this head, this
      heart, and this sword (pointing to them all), will find me a being in any
      place in Europe." The House hath hereupon voted clearly Sir Richard Temple
      to be free from the imputation of saying those words; but when Sir William
      Batten came out, had not concluded what to say to my Lord, it being argued
      that to own any satisfaction as to my Lord from his speech, would be to
      lay some fault upon the King for the message he should upon no better
      accounts send to the impeaching of one of their members. Walking out, I
      hear that the House of Lords are offended that my Lord Digby should come
      to this House and make a speech there without leave first asked of the
      House of Lords. I hear also of another difficulty now upon him; that my
      Lord of Sunderland (whom I do not know) was so near to the marriage of his
      daughter as that the wedding-clothes were made, and portion and every
      thing agreed on and ready; and the other day he goes away nobody yet knows
      whither, sending her the next morning a release of his right or claim to
      her, and advice to his friends not to enquire into the reason of this
      doing, for he hath enough for it; but that he gives them liberty to say
      and think what they will of him, so they do not demand the reason of his
      leaving her, being resolved never to have her, but the reason desires and
      resolves not to give. Thence by water with Sir W. Batten to Trinity House,
      there to dine with him, which we did; and after dinner we fell talking,
      Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Batten and I; Mr. Batten telling us of a late triall of
      Sir Charles Sydly the other day, before my Lord Chief Justice Foster and
      the whole bench, for his debauchery a little while since at Oxford Kate's,
    </p>
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     [The details in the original are very gross.  Dr. Johnson relates
     the story in the "Lives of the Poets," in his life of Sackville,
     Lord Dorset "Sackville, who was then Lord Buckhurst, with Sir
     Charles Sedley and Sir Thomas Ogle, got drunk at the Cock, in Bow
     Street, by Covent Garden, and going into the balcony exposed
     themselves to the populace in very indecent postures.  At last, as
     they grew warmer, Sedley stood forth naked, and harangued the
     populace in such profane language, that the publick indignation was
     awakened; the crowd attempted to force the door, and being repulsed,
     drove in the performers with stones, and broke the windows of the
     house.  For this misdemeanour they were indicted, and Sedley was
     fined five hundred pounds; what was the sentence of the others is
     not known.  Sedley employed [Henry] Killigrew and another to procure
     a remission from the King, but (mark the friendship of the
     dissolute!) they begged the fine for themselves, and exacted it to
     the last groat."  The woman known as Oxford Kate appears to have
     kept the notorious Cock Tavern in Bow Street at this date.]
</pre>
    <p>
      coming in open day into the Balcone and showed his nakedness,.... and
      abusing of scripture and as it were from thence preaching a mountebank
      sermon from the pulpit, saying that there he had to sell such a powder as
      should make all the [women] in town run after him, 1000 people standing
      underneath to see and hear him, and that being done he took a glass of
      wine.... and then drank it off, and then took another and drank the King's
      health. It seems my Lord and the rest of the judges did all of them round
      give him a most high reproof; my Lord Chief justice saying, that it was
      for him, and such wicked wretches as he was, that God's anger and
      judgments hung over us, calling him sirrah many times. It's said they have
      bound him to his good behaviour (there being no law against him for it) in
      L5000. It being told that my Lord Buckhurst was there, my Lord asked
      whether it was that Buckhurst that was lately tried for robbery; and when
      answered Yes, he asked whether he had so soon forgot his deliverance at
      that time, and that it would have more become him to have been at his
      prayers begging God's forgiveness, than now running into such courses
      again.... Thence home, and my clerks being gone by my leave to see the
      East India ships that are lately come home, I staid all alone within my
      office all the afternoon. This day I hear at dinner that Don John of
      Austria, since his flight out of Portugall, is dead of his wounds:&mdash;[not
      true]&mdash;so there is a great man gone, and a great dispute like to be
      ended for the crown of Spayne, if the King should have died before him. I
      received this morning a letter from my wife, brought by John Gower to
      town, wherein I find a sad falling out between my wife and my father and
      sister and Ashwell upon my writing to my father to advise Pall not to keep
      Ashwell from her mistress, or making any difference between them. Which
      Pall telling to Ashwell, and she speaking some words that her mistress
      heard, caused great difference among them; all which I am sorry from my
      heart to hear of, and I fear will breed ill blood not to be laid again. So
      that I fear my wife and I may have some falling out about it, or at least
      my father and I, but I shall endeavour to salve up all as well as I can,
      or send for her out of the country before the time intended, which I would
      be loth to do. In the evening by water to my coz. Roger Pepys' chamber,
      where he was not come, but I found Dr. John newly come to town, and is
      well again after his sickness; but, Lord! what a simple man he is as to
      any public matter of state, and talks so sillily to his brother Dr. Tom.
      What the matter is I know not, but he has taken (as my father told me a
      good while since) such displeasure that he hardly would touch his hat to
      me, and I as little to him. By and by comes Roger, and he told us the
      whole passage of my Lord Digby to-day, much as I have said here above;
      only that he did say that he would draw his sword against the Pope
      himself, if he should offer any thing against his Majesty, and the good of
      these nations; and that he never was the man that did either look for a
      Cardinal's cap for himself, or any body else, meaning Abbot Montagu; and
      the House upon the whole did vote Sir Richard Temple innocent; and that my
      Lord Digby hath cleared the honour of his Majesty, and Sir Richard
      Temple's, and given perfect satisfaction of his own respects to the House.
      Thence to my brother's, and being vexed with his not minding my father's
      business here in getting his Landscape done, I went away in an anger, and
      walked home, and so up to my lute and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. Up betimes to my office, and there all the morning doing business, at
      noon to the Change, and there met with several people, among others
      Captain Cox, and with him to a Coffee [House], and drank with him and some
      other merchants. Good discourse. Thence home and to dinner, and, after a
      little alone at my viol, to the office, where we sat all the afternoon,
      and so rose at the evening, and then home to supper and to bed, after a
      little musique. My mind troubled me with the thoughts of the difference
      between my wife and my father in the country. Walking in the garden this
      evening with Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes, Sir G. Carteret told us
      with great contempt how like a stage-player my Lord Digby spoke yesterday,
      pointing to his head as my Lord did, and saying, "First, for his head,"
      says Sir G. Carteret, "I know what a calf's head would have done better by
      half for his heart and his sword, I have nothing to say to them." He told
      us that for certain his head cost the late King his, for it was he that
      broke off the treaty at Uxbridge. He told us also how great a man he was
      raised from a private gentleman in France by Monsieur Grandmont,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Antoine, Duc de Gramont, marshal of France, who died July 12th,
     1678, aged seventy-four.  His memoirs have been published.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and afterwards by the Cardinall,&mdash;[Mazarin]&mdash;who raised him to
      be a Lieutenant-generall, and then higher; and entrusted by the Cardinall,
      when he was banished out of France, with great matters, and recommended by
      him to the Queen as a man to be trusted and ruled by: yet when he came to
      have some power over the Queen, he begun to dissuade her from her opinion
      of the Cardinal; which she said nothing to till the Cardinal was returned,
      and then she told him of it; who told my Lord Digby, "Eh bien, Monsieur,
      vous estes un fort bon amy donc:" but presently put him out of all; and
      then he was, from a certainty of coming in two or three years' time to be
      Mareschall of France (to which all strangers, even Protestants, and those
      as often as French themselves, are capable of coming, though it be one of
      the greatest places in France), he was driven to go out of France into
      Flanders; but there was not trusted, nor received any kindness from the
      Prince of Conde, as one to whom also he had been false, as he had been to
      the Cardinal and Grandmont. In fine, he told us how he is a man of
      excellent parts, but of no great faith nor judgment, and one very easy to
      get up to great height of preferment, but never able to hold it. So home
      and to my musique; and then comes Mr. Creed to me giving me an account of
      his accounts, how he has now settled them fit for perusal the most strict,
      at which I am glad. So he and I to bed together.
    </p>
    <p>
      3d. Up and he home, and I with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten by coach to
      Westminster, to St. James's, thinking to meet Sir G. Carteret, and to
      attend the Duke, but he not coming we broke up, and so to Westminster
      Hall, and there meeting with Mr. Moore he tells me great news that my Lady
      Castlemaine is fallen from Court, and this morning retired. He gives me no
      account of the reason of it, but that it is so: for which I am sorry: and
      yet if the King do it to leave off not only her but all other mistresses,
      I should be heartily glad of it, that he may fall to look after business.
      I hear my Lord Digby is condemned at Court for his speech, and that my
      Lord Chancellor grows great again. Thence with Mr. Creed, whom I called at
      his chamber, over the water to Lambeth; but could not, it being morning,
      get to see the Archbishop's hearse: so he and I walked over the fields to
      Southwark, and there parted, and I spent half an hour in Mary Overy's
      Church, where are fine monuments of great antiquity, I believe, and has
      been a fine church. Thence to the Change, and meeting Sir J. Minnes there,
      he and I walked to look upon Backwell's design of making another alley
      from his shop through over against the Exchange door, which will be very
      noble and quite put down the other two.
    </p>
    <p>
      So home to dinner and then to the office, and entered in my manuscript
      book the Victualler's contract, and then over the water and walked to see
      Sir W. Pen, and sat with him a while, and so home late, and to my viall.
      So up comes Creed again to me and stays all night, to-morrow morning being
      a hearing before the Duke. So to bed full of discourse of his business.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up by 4 o'clock and sent him to get matters ready, and I to my office
      looking over papers and mending my manuscript by scraping out the blots
      and other things, which is now a very fine book. So to St. James's by
      water with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, I giving occasion to a wager
      about the tide, that it did flow through bridge, by which Sir W. Batten
      won 5s. of Sir J. Minnes. At St. James's we staid while the Duke made
      himself ready. Among other things Sir Allen Apsley showed the Duke the
      Lisbon Gazette in Spanish, where the late victory is set down
      particularly, and to the great honour of the English beyond measure. They
      have since taken back Evora, which was lost to the Spaniards, the English
      making the assault, and lost not more than three men. Here I learnt that
      the English foot are highly esteemed all over the world, but the horse not
      so much, which yet we count among ourselves the best; but they abroad have
      had no great knowledge of our horse, it seems. The Duke being ready, we
      retired with him, and there fell upon Mr. Creed's business, where the
      Treasurer did, like a mad coxcomb, without reason or method run over a
      great many things against the account, and so did Sir J. Minnes and Sir W.
      Batten, which the Duke himself and Mr. Coventry and my Lord Barkely and
      myself did remove, and Creed being called in did answer all with great
      method and excellently to the purpose (myself I am a little conscious did
      not speak so well as I purposed and do think I used to do, that is, not so
      intelligibly and persuasively, as I well hoped I should), not that what I
      said was not well taken, and did carry the business with what was urged
      and answered by Creed and Mr. Coventry, till the Duke himself did declare
      that he was satisfied, and my Lord Barkely offered to lay L100 that the
      King would receive no wrong in the account, and the two last knights held
      their tongues, or at least by not understanding it did say what made for
      Mr. Creed, and so Sir G. Carteret was left alone, but yet persisted to say
      that the account was not good, but full of corruption and foul dealing.
      And so we broke up to his shame, but I do fear to the loss of his
      friendship to me a good while, which I am heartily troubled for. Thence
      with Creed to the King's Head ordinary; but, coming late, dined at the
      second table very well for 12d.; and a pretty gentleman in our company,
      who confirms my Lady Castlemaine's being gone from Court, but knows not
      the reason; he told us of one wipe the Queen a little while ago did give
      her, when she came in and found the Queen under the dresser's hands, and
      had been so long:
    </p>
    <p>
      "I wonder your Majesty," says she, "can have the patience to sit so long
      a-dressing?"&mdash;"I have so much reason to use patience," says the
      Queen, "that I can very well bear with it." He thinks that it may be the
      Queen hath commanded her to retire, though that is not likely. Thence with
      Creed to hire a coach to carry us to Hide Park, to-day there being a
      general muster of the King's Guards, horse and foot: but they demand so
      high, that I, spying Mr. Cutler the merchant, did take notice of him, and
      he going into his coach, and telling me that he was going to shew a couple
      of Swedish strangers the muster, I asked and went along with him; where a
      goodly sight to see so many fine horses and officers, and the King, Duke,
      and others come by a-horseback, and the two Queens in the Queen-Mother's
      coach, my Lady Castlemaine not being there. And after long being there, I
      'light, and walked to the place where the King, Duke, &amp;c., did stand
      to see the horse and foot march by and discharge their guns, to show a
      French Marquisse (for whom this muster was caused) the goodness of our
      firemen; which indeed was very good, though not without a slip now and
      then; and one broadside close to our coach we had going out of the Park,
      even to the nearness as to be ready to burn our hairs. Yet methought all
      these gay men are not the soldiers that must do the King's business, it
      being such as these that lost the old King all he had, and were beat by
      the most ordinary fellows that could be. Thence with much ado out of the
      Park, and I 'lighted and through St. James's down the waterside over, to
      Lambeth, to see the Archbishop's corps (who is to be carried away to
      Oxford on Monday), but came too late, and so walked over the fields and
      bridge home (calling by the way at old George's), but find that he is
      dead, and there wrote several letters, and so home to supper and to bed.
      This day in the Duke's chamber there being a Roman story in the hangings,
      and upon the standards written these four letters&mdash;S. P. Q. R., Sir
      G. Carteret came to me to know what the meaning of those four letters
      were; which ignorance is not to be borne in a Privy Counsellor, methinks,
      that a schoolboy should be whipt for not knowing.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). Lady Batten had sent twice to invite me to go with them
      to Walthamstow to-day, Mrs. Martha' being married already this morning to
      Mr. Castle, at this parish church. I could not rise soon enough to go with
      them, but got myself ready, and so to Games's, where I got a horse and
      rode thither very pleasantly, only coming to make water I found a
      stopping, which makes me fearful of my old pain. Being come thither, I was
      well received, and had two pair of gloves, as the rest, and walked up and
      down with my Lady in the garden, she mighty kind to me, and I have the way
      to please her. A good dinner and merry, but methinks none of the kindness
      nor bridall respect between the bridegroom and bride, that was between my
      wife and I, but as persons that marry purely for convenience. After dinner
      to church by coach, and there my Lady, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Lemon, and I
      only, we, in spite to one another, kept one another awake; and sometimes I
      read in my book of Latin plays, which I took in my pocket, thinking to
      have walked it. An old doting parson preached. So home again, and by and
      by up and homewards, calling in our way (Sir J. Minnes and I only) at Mr.
      Batten's (who with his lady and child went in another coach by us), which
      is a very pretty house, and himself in all things within and without very
      ingenious, and I find a very fine study and good books. So set out, Sir J.
      Minnes and I in his coach together, talking all the way of chymistry,
      wherein he do know something, at least, seems so to me, that cannot
      correct him, Mr. Batten's man riding my horse, and so home and to my
      office a while to read my vows, then home to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up pretty early and to my office all the morning, writing out a list
      of the King's ships in my Navy collections with great pleasure. At noon
      Creed comes to me, who tells me how well he has sped with Sir G. Carteret
      after all our trouble, that he had his tallys up and all the kind words
      possible from him, which I believe is out of an apprehension what a fool
      he has made of himself hitherto in making so great a stop therein. But I
      find, and so my Lord Sandwich may, that Sir G. Carteret had a design to do
      him a disgrace, if he could possibly, otherwise he would never have
      carried the business so far after that manner, but would first have
      consulted my Lord and given him advice what to do therein for his own
      honour, which he thought endangered. Creed dined with me and then walked a
      while, and so away, and I to my office at my morning's work till dark
      night, and so with good content home. To supper, a little musique, and
      then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up by 4 o'clock and to my office, and there continued all the morning
      upon my Navy book to my great content. At noon down by barge with Sir J.
      Minnes (who is going to Chatham) to Woolwich, in our way eating of some
      venison pasty in the barge, I having neither eat nor drank to-day, which
      fills me full of wind. Here also in Mr. Pett's garden I eat some and the
      first cherries I have eat this year, off the tree where the King himself
      had been gathering some this morning. Thence walked alone, only part of
      the way Deane walked with me, complaining of many abuses in the Yard, to
      Greenwich, and so by water to Deptford, where I found Mr. Coventry, and
      with him up and down all the stores, to the great trouble of the officers,
      and by his help I am resolved to fall hard to work again, as I used to do.
      So thence he and I by water talking of many things, and I see he puts his
      trust most upon me in the Navy, and talks, as there is reason, slightly of
      the two old knights, and I should be glad by any drudgery to see the
      King's stores and service looked to as they ought, but I fear I shall
      never understand half the miscarriages and tricks that the King suffers
      by. He tells me what Mr. Pett did to-day, that my Lord Bristoll told the
      King that he will impeach the Chancellor of High Treason: but I find that
      my Lord Bristoll hath undone himself already in every body's opinion, and
      now he endeavours to raise dust to put out other men's eyes, as well as
      his own; but I hope it will not take, in consideration merely that it is
      hard for a Prince to spare an experienced old officer, be he never so
      corrupt; though I hope this man is not so, as some report him to be. He
      tells me that Don John is yet alive, and not killed, as was said, in the
      great victory against the Spaniards in Portugall of late. So home, and
      late at my office. Thence home and to my musique. This night Mr. Turner's
      house being to be emptied out of my cellar, and therefore I think to sit
      up a little longer than ordinary. This afternoon, coming from the
      waterside with Mr. Coventry, I spied my boy upon Tower Hill playing with
      the rest of the boys; so I sent W. Griffin to take him, and he did bring
      him to me, and so I said nothing to him, but caused him to be stripped
      (for he was run away with his best suit), and so putting on his other, I
      sent him going, without saying one word hard to him, though I am troubled
      for the rogue, though he do not deserve it. Being come home I find my
      stomach not well for want of eating to-day my dinner as I should do, and
      so am become full of wind. I called late for some victuals, and so to bed,
      leaving the men below in the cellar emptying the vats up through Mr.
      Turner's own house, and so with more content to bed late.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Being weary, and going to bed late last night, I slept till 7
      o'clock, it raining mighty hard, and so did every minute of the day after
      sadly. But I know not what will become of the corn this year, we having
      had but two fair days these many months. Up and to my office, where all
      the morning busy, and then at noon home to dinner alone upon a good dish
      of eeles, given me by Michell, the Bewpers' man, and then to my viall a
      little, and then down into the cellar and up and down with Mr. Turner to
      see where his vault may be made bigger, or another made him, which I think
      may well be. And so to my office, where very busy all day setting things
      in order my contract books and preparing things against the next sitting.
      In the evening I received letters out of the country, among others from my
      wife, who methinks writes so coldly that I am much troubled at it, and I
      fear shall have much ado to bring her to her old good temper. So home to
      supper and musique, which is all the pleasure I have of late given myself,
      or is fit I should, others spending too much time and money. Going in I
      stepped to Sir W. Batten, and there staid and talked with him (my Lady
      being in the country), and sent for some lobsters, and Mrs. Turner came
      in, and did bring us an umble pie hot out of her oven, extraordinary good,
      and afterwards some spirits of her making, in which she has great
      judgment, very good, and so home, merry with this night's refreshment.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up. Making water this morning, which I do every morning as soon as I
      am awake, with greater plenty and freedom than I used to do, which I think
      I may impute to last night's drinking of elder spirits. Abroad, it
      raining, to Blackfriars, and there went into a little alehouse and staid
      while I sent to the Wardrobe, but Mr. Moore was gone out. Here I kissed
      three or four times the maid of the house, who is a pretty girl, but very
      modest, and, God forgive me, had a mind to something more. Thence to my
      lawyer's; up and down to the Six Clerks' Office, where I found my bill
      against Tom Trice dismissed, which troubles me, it being through my
      neglect, and will put me to charges. So to Mr. Phillips, and discoursed
      with him about finding me out somebody that will let me have for money an
      annuity of about L100 per annum for two lives. So home, and there put up
      my riding things against the evening, in case Mr. Moore should continue
      his mind to go to Oxford, which I have little mind to do, the weather
      continuing so bad and the waters high. Dined at home, and Mr. Moore in the
      afternoon comes to me and concluded not to go. Sir W. Batten and I sat a
      little this afternoon at the office, and thence I by water to Deptford,
      and there mustered the Yard, purposely, God forgive me, to find out
      Bagwell, a carpenter, whose wife is a pretty woman, that I might have some
      occasion of knowing him and forcing her to come to the office again, which
      I did so luckily that going thence he and his wife did of themselves meet
      me in the way to thank me for my old kindness, but I spoke little to her,
      but shall give occasion for her coming to me. Her husband went along with
      me to show me Sir W. Pen's lodging, which I knew before, but only to have
      a time of speaking to him and sounding him. So left and I went in to Sir
      W. Pen, who continues ill, and worse, I think, than before. He tells me my
      Lady Castlemaine was at Court, for all this talk this week, which I am
      glad to hear; but it seems the King is stranger than ordinary to her.
      Thence walked home as I used to do, and to bed presently, having taken
      great cold in my feet by walking in the dirt this day in thin shoes or
      some other way, so that I begun to be in pain, and with warm clothes made
      myself better by morning, but yet in pain.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up late and by water to Westminster Hall, where I met Pierce the
      chirurgeon, who tells me that for certain the King is grown colder to my
      Lady Castlemaine than ordinary, and that he believes he begins to love the
      Queen, and do make much of her, more than he used to do. Up to the Lobby,
      and there sent out for Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Batten, and told them if
      they thought convenient I would go to Chatham today, Sir John Minnes being
      already there at a Pay, and I would do such and such business there, which
      they thought well of, and so I went home and prepared myself to go after,
      dinner with Sir W. Batten. Sir W. Batten and Mr. Coventry tell me that my
      Lord Bristoll hath this day impeached my Lord Chancellor in the House of
      Lords of High Treason. The chief of the articles are these: 1st. That he
      should be the occasion of the peace made with Holland lately upon such
      disadvantageous terms, and that he was bribed to it. 2d. That Dunkirke was
      also sold by his advice chiefly, so much to the damage of England. 3d.
      That he had L6000 given him for the drawing-up or promoting of the Irish
      declaration lately, concerning the division of the lands there. 4th. He
      did carry on the design of the Portugall match, so much to the prejudice
      of the Crown of England, notwithstanding that he knew the Queen is not
      capable of bearing children. 5th. That the Duke's marrying of his daughter
      was a practice of his, thereby to raise his family; and that it was done
      by indirect courses. 6th. That the breaking-off of the match with Parma,
      in which he was employed at the very time when the match with Portugall
      was made up here, which he took as a great slur to him, and so it was; and
      that, indeed, is the chief occasion of all this fewde. 7th. That he hath
      endeavoured to bring in Popery, and wrote to the Pope for a cap for a
      subject of the King of England's (my Lord Aubigny ); and some say that he
      lays it to the Chancellor, that a good Protestant Secretary (Sir Edward
      Nicholas) was laid aside, and a Papist, Sir H. Bennet, put in his room:
      which is very strange, when the last of these two is his own creature, and
      such an enemy accounted to the Chancellor, that they never did nor do
      agree; and all the world did judge the Chancellor to be falling from the
      time that Sir H. Bennet was brought in. Besides my Lord Bristoll being a
      Catholique himself, all this is very strange. These are the main of the
      Articles. Upon which my Lord Chancellor desired that the noble Lord that
      brought in these Articles, would sign to them with his hand; which my Lord
      Bristoll did presently. Then the House did order that the judges should,
      against Monday next, bring in their opinion, Whether these articles are
      treason, or no? and next, they would know, Whether they were brought in
      regularly or no, without leave of the Lords' House? After dinner I took
      boat (H. Russell) and down to Gravesend in good time, and thence with a
      guide post to Chatham, where I found Sir J. Minnes and Mr. Wayth walking
      in the garden, whom I told all this day's news, which I left the town full
      of, and it is great news, and will certainly be in the consequence of it.
      By and by to supper, and after long discourse, Sir J. Minnes and I, he saw
      me to my chamber, which not pleasing me, I sent word so to Mrs. Bradford,
      that I should be crowded into such a hole, while the clerks and boarders
      of her own take up the best rooms. However I lay there and slept well.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up early and to the Dock, and with the Storekeeper and other
      officers all the morning from one office to another. At noon to the
      Hill-house in Commissioner Pett's coach, and after seeing the guard-ships,
      to dinner, and after dining done to the Dock by coach, it raining hard, to
      see "The Prince" launched, which hath lain in the Dock in repairing these
      three years. I went into her and was launched in her. Thence by boat
      ashore, it raining, and I went to Mr. Barrow's, where Sir J. Minnes and
      Commissioner Pett; we staid long eating sweetmeats and drinking, and
      looking over some antiquities of Mr. Barrow's, among others an old
      manuscript Almanac, that I believe was made for some monastery, in
      parchment, which I could spend much time upon to understand. Here was a
      pretty young lady, a niece of Barrow's, which I took much pleasure to look
      on. Thence by barge to St. Mary Creek; where Commissioner Pett (doubtful
      of the growing greatness of Portsmouth by the finding of those creeks
      there), do design a wett dock at no great charge, and yet no little one;
      he thinks towards L10,000. And the place, indeed, is likely to be a very
      fit place, when the King hath money to do it with. Thence, it raining as
      hard as it could pour down, home to the Hillhouse, and anon to supper, and
      after supper, Sir J. Minnes and I had great discourse with Captain Cox and
      Mr. Hempson about business of the yard, and particularly of pursers'
      accounts with Hempson, who is a cunning knave in that point. So late to
      bed and, Mr. Wayth being gone, I lay above in the Treasurer's bed and
      slept well. About one or two in the morning the curtains of my bed being
      drawn waked me, and I saw a man stand there by the inside of my bed
      calling me French dogg 20 times, one after another, and I starting, as if
      I would get out of the bed, he fell a-laughing as hard as he could drive,
      still calling me French dogg, and laid his hand on my shoulder. At last,
      whether I said anything or no I cannot tell, but I perceived the man,
      after he had looked wistly upon me, and found that I did not answer him to
      the names that he called me by, which was Salmon, Sir Carteret's clerk,
      and Robt. Maddox, another of the clerks, he put off his hat on a suddaine,
      and forebore laughing, and asked who I was, saying, "Are you Mr. Pepys?" I
      told him yes, and now being come a little better to myself, I found him to
      be Tom Willson, Sir W. Batten's clerk, and fearing he might be in some
      melancholy fit, I was at a loss what to do or say. At last I asked him
      what he meant. He desired my pardon for that he was mistaken, for he
      thought verily, not knowing of my coming to lie there, that it had been
      Salmon, the Frenchman, with whom he intended to have made some sport. So I
      made nothing of it, but bade him good night, and I, after a little pause,
      to sleep again, being well pleased that it ended no worse, and being a
      little the better pleased with it, because it was the Surveyor's clerk,
      which will make sport when I come to tell Sir W. Batten of it, it being a
      report that old Edgeborough, the former Surveyor, who died here, do now
      and then walk.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Lord's day). Up, and meeting Tom Willson he asked my pardon again,
      which I easily did give him, telling him only that it was well I was not a
      woman with child, for it might have made me miscarry. With Sir J. Minnes
      to church, where an indifferent good sermon. Here I saw Mrs. Becky Allen,
      who hath been married, and is this day churched, after her bearing a
      child. She is grown tall, but looks very white and thin, and I can find no
      occasion while I am here to come to have her company, which I desire and
      expected in my coming, but only coming out of the church I kissed her and
      her sister and mother-in-law. So to dinner, Sir J. Minnes, Commissioner
      Pett, and I, &amp;c., and after dinner walked in the garden, it being a
      very fine day, the best we have had this great while, if not this whole
      summer. To church again, and after that walked through the Rope-ground to
      the Dock, and there over and over the Dock and grounds about it, and
      storehouses, &amp;c., with the officers of the Yard, and then to
      Commissioner Pett's and had a good sullybub and other good things, and
      merry. Commissioner Pett showed me alone his bodys as a secrett, which I
      found afterwards by discourse with Sir J. Minnes that he had shown them
      him, wherein he seems to suppose great mystery in the nature of Lynes to
      be hid, but I do not understand it at all. Thence walked to the
      Hill-house, being myself much dissatisfied, and more than I thought I
      should have been with Commissioner Pett, being, by what I saw since I came
      hither, convinced that he is not able to exercise the command in the Yard
      over the officers that he ought to do, or somebody else, if ever the
      service be well looked after there. Sat up and with Sir J. Minnes talking,
      and he speaking his mind in slighting of the Commissioner, for which I
      wish there was not so much reason. For I do see he is but a man of words,
      though indeed he is the ablest man that we have to do service if he would
      or durst. Sir J. Minnes being gone to bed, I took Mr. Whitfield, one of
      the clerks, and walked to the Dock about eleven at night, and there got a
      boat and a crew, and rowed down to the guard-ships, it being a most
      pleasant moonshine evening that ever I saw almost. The guard-ships were
      very ready to hail us, being no doubt commanded thereto by their Captain,
      who remembers how I surprised them the last time I was here. However, I
      found him ashore, but the ship in pretty good order, and the arms well
      fixed, charged, and primed. Thence to the Soveraign, where I found no
      officers aboard, no arms fixed, nor any powder to prime their few guns,
      which were charged, without bullet though. So to the London, where neither
      officers nor any body awake; I boarded her, and might have done what I
      would, and at last could find but three little boys; and so spent the
      whole night in visiting all the ships, in which I found, for the most
      part, neither an officer aboard, nor any men so much as awake, which I was
      grieved to find, specially so soon after a great Larum, as Commissioner
      Pett brought us word that he [had] provided against, and put all in a
      posture of defence but a week ago, all which I am resolved to represent to
      the Duke.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. So, it being high day, I put in to shore and to bed for two hours
      just, and so up again, and with the Storekeeper and Clerk of the Rope-yard
      up and down the Dock and Rope-house, and by and by mustered the Yard, and
      instructed the Clerks of the Cheque in my new way of Callbook, and that
      and other things done, to the Hill-house, and there we eat something, and
      so by barge to Rochester, and there took coach hired for our passage to
      London, and Mrs. Allen, the clerk of the Rope-yard's wife with us,
      desiring her passage, and it being a most pleasant and warm day, we got by
      four o'clock home. In our way she telling us in what condition Becky Allen
      is married against all expectation a fellow that proves to be a coxcomb
      and worth little if any thing at all, and yet are entered into a way of
      living above their condition that will ruin them presently, for which, for
      the lady's sake, I am much troubled. Home I found all well there, and
      after dressing myself, I walked to the Temple; and there, from my cozen
      Roger, hear that the judges have this day brought in their answer to the
      Lords, That the articles against my Lord Chancellor are not Treason; and
      to-morrow they are to bring in their arguments to the House for the same.
      This day also the King did send by my Lord Chamberlain to the Lords, to
      tell them from him, that the most of the articles against my Lord
      Chancellor he himself knows to be false. Thence by water to Whitehall, and
      so walked to St. James's, but missed Mr. Coventry. I met the Queen-Mother
      walking in the Pell Mell, led by my Lord St. Alban's. And finding many
      coaches at the Gate, I found upon enquiry that the Duchess is brought to
      bed of a boy; and hearing that the King and Queen are rode abroad with the
      Ladies of Honour to the Park, and seeing a great crowd of gallants staying
      here to see their return, I also staid walking up and down, and among
      others spying a man like Mr. Pembleton (though I have little reason to
      think it should be he, speaking and discoursing long with my Lord
      D'Aubigne), yet how my blood did rise in my face, and I fell into a sweat
      from my old jealousy and hate, which I pray God remove from me. By and by
      the King and Queen, who looked in this dress (a white laced waistcoat and
      a crimson short pettycoat, and her hair dressed ci la negligence) mighty
      pretty; and the King rode hand in hand with her. Here was also my Lady
      Castlemaine rode among the rest of the ladies; but the King took,
      methought, no notice of her; nor when they 'light did any body press (as
      she seemed to expect, and staid for it) to take her down, but was taken
      down by her own gentleman. She looked mighty out of humour, and had a
      yellow plume in her hat (which all took notice of), and yet is very
      handsome, but very melancholy: nor did any body speak to her, or she so
      much as smile or speak to any body. I followed them up into White Hall,
      and into the Queen's presence, where all the ladies walked, talking and
      fiddling with their hats and feathers, and changing and trying one
      another's by one another's heads, and laughing. But it was the finest
      sight to me, considering their great beautys and dress, that ever I did
      see in all my life. But, above all, Mrs. Stewart in this dress, with her
      hat cocked and a red plume, with her sweet eye, little Roman nose, and
      excellent taille, is now the greatest beauty I ever saw, I think, in my
      life; and, if ever woman can, do exceed my Lady Castlemaine, at least in
      this dress nor do I wonder if the King changes, which I verily believe is
      the reason of his coldness to my Lady Castlemaine. Here late, with much
      ado I left to look upon them, and went away, and by water, in a boat with
      other strange company, there being no other to be had, and out of him into
      a sculler half to the bridge, and so home and to Sir W. Batten, where I
      staid telling him and Sir J. Minnes and Mrs. Turner, with great mirth, my
      being frighted at Chatham by young Edgeborough, and so home to supper and
      to bed, before I sleep fancying myself to sport with Mrs. Stewart with
      great pleasure.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up a little late, last night recovering my sleepiness for the night
      before, which was lost, and so to my office to put papers and things to
      right, and making up my journal from Wednesday last to this day. All the
      morning at my office doing of business; at noon Mr. Hunt came to me, and
      he and I to the Exchange, and a Coffee House, and drank there, and thence
      to my house to dinner, whither my uncle Thomas came, and he tells me that
      he is going down to Wisbech, there to try what he can recover of my uncle
      Day's estate, and seems to have good arguments for what he do go about, in
      which I wish him good speed. I made him almost foxed, the poor man having
      but a bad head, and not used I believe nowadays to drink much wine. So
      after dinner, they being gone, I to my office, and so home to bed. This
      day I hear the judges, according to order yesterday, did bring into the
      Lords' House their reasons of their judgment in the business between my
      Lord Bristoll and the Chancellor; and the Lords do concur with the Judges
      that the articles are not treason, nor regularly brought into the House,
      and so voted that a Committee should be chosen to examine them; but
      nothing to be done therein till the next sitting of this Parliament (which
      is like to be adjourned in a day or two), and in the mean time the two
      Lords to, remain without prejudice done to either of them.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and all the morning at the office, among other things with Cooper
      the Purveyor, whose dullness in his proceeding in his work I was vexed at,
      and find that though he understands it may be as much as other men that
      profess skill in timber, yet I perceive that many things, they do by rote,
      and very dully. Thence home to dinner, whither Captain Grove came and
      dined with me, he going into the country to-day; among other discourse he
      told me of discourse very much to my honour, both as to my care and
      ability, happening at the Duke of Albemarle's table the other day, both
      from the Duke, and the Duchess themselves; and how I paid so much a year
      to him whose place it was of right, and that Mr. Coventry did report thus
      of me; which was greatly to my content, knowing how against their minds I
      was brought into the Navy. Thence by water to Westminster, and there spent
      a good deal of time walking in the Hall, which is going to be repaired,
      and, God forgive me, had a mind to have got Mrs. Lane abroad, or fallen in
      with any woman else (in that hot humour). But it so happened she could not
      go out, nor I meet with any body else, and so I walked homeward, and in my
      way did many and great businesses of my own at the Temple among my lawyers
      and others to my great content, thanking God that I did not fall into any
      company to occasion spending time and money. To supper, and then to a
      little viall and to bed, sporting in my fancy with the Queen.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up and dispatched things into the country and to my father's, and
      two keggs of Sturgeon and a dozen bottles of wine to Cambridge for my
      cozen Roger Pepys, which I give him. By and by down by water on several
      Deall ships, and stood upon a stage in one place seeing calkers sheathing
      of a ship. Then at Wapping to my carver's about my Viall head. So home,
      and thence to my Viall maker's in Bishops, gate Street; his name is Wise,
      who is a pretty fellow at it. Thence to the Exchange, and so home to
      dinner, and then to my office, where a full board, and busy all the
      afternoon, and among other things made a great contract with Sir W. Warren
      for 40,000 deals Swinsound, at L3 17s. od. per hundred. In the morning
      before I went on the water I was at Thames Street about some pitch, and
      there meeting Anthony Joyce, I took him and Mr. Stacy, the Tarr merchant,
      to the tavern, where Stacy told me many old stories of my Lady Batten's
      former poor condition, and how her former husband broke, and how she came
      to her state. At night, after office done, I went to Sir W. Batten's,
      where my Lady and I [had] some high words about emptying our house of
      office, where I did tell her my mind, and at last agreed that it should be
      done through my office, and so all well. So home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and after doing some business at my office, Creed came to me,
      and I took him to my viall maker's, and there I heard the famous Mr.
      Stefkins play admirably well, and yet I found it as it is always, I over
      expected. I took him to the tavern and found him a temperate sober man, at
      least he seems so to me. I commit the direction of my viall to him. Thence
      to the Change, and so home, Creed and I to dinner, and after dinner Sir W.
      Warren came to me, and he and I in my closet about his last night's
      contract, and from thence to discourse of measuring of timber, wherein I
      made him see that I could understand the matter well, and did both learn
      of and teach him something. Creed being gone through my staying talking to
      him so long, I went alone by water down to Redriffe, and so to sit and
      talk with Sir W. Pen, where I did speak very plainly concerning my
      thoughts of Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes. So as it may cost me some
      trouble if he should tell them again, but he said as much or more to me
      concerning them both, which I may remember if ever it should come forth,
      and nothing but what is true and my real opinion of them, that they
      neither do understand to this day Creed's accounts, nor do deserve to be
      employed in their places without better care, but that the King had better
      give them greater salaries to stand still and do nothing. Thence coming
      home I was saluted by Bagwell and his wife (the woman I have a kindness
      for), and they would have me into their little house, which I was willing
      enough to, and did salute his wife. They had got wine for me, and I
      perceive live prettily, and I believe the woman a virtuous modest woman.
      Her husband walked through to Redriffe with me, telling me things that I
      asked of in the yard, and so by water home, it being likely to rain again
      to-night, which God forbid. To supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and Sir J. Minnes and I
      did a little, and but a little business at the office. So I eat a bit of
      victuals at home, and so abroad to several places, as my bookseller's, and
      then to Thomson the instrument maker's to bespeak a ruler for my pocket
      for timber, &amp;c., which I believe he will do to my mind. So to the
      Temple, Wardrobe, and lastly to Westminster Hall, where I expected some
      bands made me by Mrs. Lane, and while she went to the starchers for them,
      I staid at Mrs. Howlett's, who with her husband were abroad, and only
      their daughter (which I call my wife) was in the shop, and I took occasion
      to buy a pair of gloves to talk to her, and I find her a pretty spoken
      girl, and will prove a mighty handsome wench. I could love her very well.
      By and by Mrs. Lane comes, and my bands not being done she and I posted
      and met at the Crown in the Palace Yard, where we eat a chicken I sent
      for, and drank, and were mighty merry, and I had my full liberty of
      towzing her and doing what I would, but the last thing of all.... Of which
      I am heartily ashamed, but I do resolve never to do more so. But, Lord! to
      see what a mind she has to a husband, and how she showed me her hands to
      tell her her fortune, and every thing that she asked ended always whom and
      when she was to marry. And I pleased her so well, saying as. I know she
      would have me, and then she would say that she had been with all the
      artists in town, and they always told her the same things, as that she
      should live long, and rich, and have a good husband, but few children, and
      a great fit of sickness, and 20 other things, which she says she has
      always been told by others. Here I staid late before my bands were done,
      and then they came, and so I by water to the Temple, and thence walked
      home, all in a sweat with my tumbling of her and walking, and so a little
      supper and to bed, fearful of having taken cold.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Lord's day). Lay very long in pleasant dreams till Church time, and
      so up, and it being foul weather so that I cannot walk as I intended to
      meet my Cozen Roger at Thomas Pepys's house (whither he rode last night),
      to Hatcham, I went to church, where a sober Doctor made a good sermon. So
      home to dinner alone, and then to read a little, and so to church again,
      where the Scot made an ordinary sermon, and so home to my office, and
      there read over my vows and increased them by a vow against all strong
      drink till November next of any sort or quantity, by which I shall try how
      I can forbear it. God send it may not prejudice my health, and then I care
      not. Then I fell to read over a silly play writ by a person of honour
      (which is, I find, as much as to say a coxcomb), called "Love a la Mode,"'
      and that being ended, home, and played on my lute and sung psalms till
      bedtime, then to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to my office, and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's
      "Faber fortunae,"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys may here refer either to Essay XLI. (of Fortune) or to a
     chapter' in the "Advancement of Learning."  The sentence, "Faber
     quisque fortunae propria," said to be by Appius Claudian, is quoted
     more than once in the "De Augmentis Scientiarum," lib. viii., cap.
     2.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which the oftener I read the more I admire. There found Captain Cocke, and
      up and down to many places to look after matters, and so walked back again
      with him to his house, and there dined very finely. With much ado obtained
      an excuse from drinking of wine, and did only taste a drop of Sack which
      he had for his lady, who is, he fears, a little consumptive, and her
      beauty begins to want its colour. It was Malago Sack, which, he says, is
      certainly 30 years old, and I tasted a drop of it, and it was excellent
      wine, like a spirit rather than wine. Thence by water to the office, and
      taking some papers by water to White Hall and St. James's, but there being
      no meeting with the Duke to-day, I returned by water and down to
      Greenwich, to look after some blocks that I saw a load carried off by a
      cart from Woolwich, the King's Yard. But I could not find them, and so
      returned, and being heartily weary I made haste to bed, and being in bed
      made Will read and construe three or four Latin verses in the Bible, and
      chide him for forgetting his grammar. So to sleep, and sleep ill all the
      night, being so weary, and feverish with it.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. And so lay long in the morning, till I heard people knock at my
      door, and I took it to be about 8 o'clock (but afterwards found myself a
      little mistaken), and so I rose and ranted at Will and the maid, and swore
      I could find my heart to kick them down stairs, which the maid mumbled at
      mightily. It was my brother, who staid and talked with me, his chief
      business being about his going about to build his house new at the top,
      which will be a great charge for him, and above his judgment. By and by
      comes Mr. Deane, of Woolwich, with his draught of a ship, and the bend and
      main lines in the body of a ship very finely, and which do please me
      mightily, and so am resolved to study hard, and learn of him to understand
      a body, and I find him a very pretty fellow in it, and rational, but a
      little conceited, but that's no matter to me. At noon, by my Lady Batten's
      desire, I went over the water to Mr. Castle's, who brings his wife home to
      his own house to-day, where I found a great many good old women, and my
      Lady, Sir W. Batten, and Sir J. Minnes. A good, handsome, plain dinner,
      and then walked in the garden; which is pleasant enough, more than I
      expected there, and so Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and I by water to the
      office, and there sat, and then I by water to the Temple about my law
      business, and back again home and wrote letters to my father and wife
      about my desire that they should observe the feast at Brampton, and have
      my Lady and the family, and so home to supper and bed, my head aching all
      the day from my last night's bad rest, and yesterday's distempering myself
      with over walking, and to-day knocking my head against a low door in Mr.
      Castle's house. This day the Parliament kept a fast for the present
      unseasonable weather.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and by and by comes my uncle Thomas, to whom I paid L10 for his
      last half year's annuity, and did get his and his son's hand and seal for
      the confirming to us Piggott's mortgage, which was forgot to be expressed
      in our late agreement with him, though intended, and therefore they might
      have cavilled at it, if they would. Thence abroad calling at several
      places upon some errands, among others to my brother Tom's barber and had
      my hair cut, while his boy played on the viallin, a plain boy, but has a
      very good genius, and understands the book very well, but to see what a
      shift he made for a string of red silk was very pleasant. Thence to my
      Lord Crew's. My Lord not being come home, I met and staid below with
      Captain Ferrers, who was come to wait upon my Lady Jemimah to St. James's,
      she being one of the four ladies that hold up the mantle at the
      christening this afternoon of the Duke's child (a boy). In discourse of
      the ladies at Court, Captain Ferrers tells me that my Lady Castlemaine is
      now as great again as ever she was; and that her going away was only a fit
      of her own upon some slighting words of the King, so that she called for
      her coach at a quarter of an hour's warning, and went to Richmond; and the
      King the next morning, under pretence of going a-hunting, went to see her
      and make friends, and never was a-hunting at all. After which she came
      back to Court, and commands the King as much as ever, and hath and doth
      what she will. No longer ago than last night, there was a private
      entertainment made for the King and Queen at the Duke of Buckingham's, and
      she: was not invited: but being at my Lady Suffolk's, her aunt's (where my
      Lady Jemimah and Lord Sandwich dined) yesterday, she was heard to say,
      "Well; much good may it do them, and for all that I will be as merry as
      they:" and so she went home and caused a great supper to be prepared. And
      after the King had been with the Queen at Wallingford House, he came to my
      Lady Castlemaine's, and was there all night, and my Lord Sandwich with
      him, which was the reason my Lord lay in town all night, which he has not
      done a great while before. He tells me he believes that, as soon as the
      King can get a husband for Mrs. Stewart however, my Lady Castlemaine's
      nose will be out of joynt; for that she comes to be in great esteem, and
      is more handsome than she. I found by his words that my Lord Sandwich
      finds some pleasure in the country where he now is, whether he means one
      of the daughters of the house or no I know not, but hope the contrary,
      that he thinks he is very well pleased with staying there, but yet upon
      breaking up of the Parliament, which the King by a message to-day says
      shall be on Monday next, he resolves to go. Ned Pickering, the coxcomb,
      notwithstanding all his hopes of my Lord's assistance, wherein I am sorry
      to hear my Lord has much concerned himself, is defeated of the place he
      expected under the Queen. He came hither by and by and brought some
      jewells for my Lady Jem. to put on, with which and her other clothes she
      looks passing well. I staid and dined with my Lord Crew, who whether he
      was not so well pleased with me as he used to be, or that his head was
      full of business, as I believe it was, he hardly spoke one word to me all
      dinner time, we dining alone, only young Jack Crew, Sir Thomas's son, with
      us. After dinner I bade him farewell. Sir Thomas I hear has gone this
      morning ill to bed, so I had no mind to see him. Thence homewards, and in
      the way first called at Wotton's, the shoemaker's, who tells me the reason
      of Harris's' going from Sir Wm. Davenant's house, that he grew very proud
      and demanded L20 for himself extraordinary, more than Betterton or any
      body else, upon every new play, and L10 upon every revive; which with
      other things Sir W. Davenant would not give him, and so he swore he would
      never act there more, in expectation of being received in the other House;
      but the King will not suffer it, upon Sir W. Davenant's desire that he
      would not, for then he might shut up house, and that is true. He tells me
      that his going is at present a great loss to the House, and that he fears
      he hath a stipend from the other House privately. He tells the that the
      fellow grew very proud of late, the King and every body else crying him up
      so high, and that above Betterton, he being a more ayery man, as he is
      indeed. But yet Betterton, he says, they all say do act: some parts that
      none but himself can do. Thence to my bookseller's, and found my Waggoners
      done. The very binding cost me 14s., but they are well done, and so with a
      porter home with them, and so by water to Ratcliffe, and there went to
      speak with Cumberford the platt-maker, and there saw his manner of
      working, which is very fine and laborious. So down to Deptford, reading
      Ben Jonson's "Devil is an asse," and so to see Sir W. Pen, who I find
      walking out of doors a little, but could not stand long; but in doors and
      I with him, and staid a great while talking, I taking a liberty to tell
      him my thoughts in things of the office; that when he comes abroad again,
      he may know what to think of me, and to value me as he ought. Walked home
      as I used to do, and being weary, and after some discourse with Mr.
      Barrow, who came to see and take his leave of me, he being to-morrow to
      set out toward the Isle of Man, I went to bed. This day I hear that the
      Moores have made some attaques upon the outworks of Tangier; but my Lord
      Tiviott; with the loss of about 200 men, did beat them off, and killed
      many of them. To-morrow the King and Queen for certain go down to
      Tunbridge. But the King comes hack again against Monday to raise the
      Parliament.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up and to my office, and thence by information from, Mr. Ackworth I
      went down to Woolwich, and mustered the three East India ships that lie
      there, believing that there is great-juggling between the Pursers and
      Clerks of the Cheque in cheating the King of the wages and victuals of men
      that do not give attendance, and I found very few on board. So to the
      yard, and there mustered the yard, and found many faults, and discharged
      several fellows that were absent from their business. I staid also at Mr.
      Ackworth's desire at dinner with him and his wife, and there was a simple
      fellow, a gentleman I believe of the Court, their kinsmen, that threatened
      me I could have little discourse or begin, acquaintance with Ackworth's
      wife, and so after dinner away, with all haste home, and there found Sir
      J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten at the office, and by Sir W. Batten's
      testimony and Sir G. Carteret's concurrence was forced to consent to a
      business of Captain Cocke's timber, as bad as anything we have lately
      disputed about, and all through Mr. Coventry's not being with us. So up
      and to supper with Sir W. Batten upon a soused mullett, very good meat,
      and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up pretty early (though of late I have been faulty by an hour or two
      every morning of what I should do) and by water to the Temple, and there
      took leave of my cozen Roger Pepys, who goes out of town to-day. So to
      Westminster Hall, and there at Mrs. Michell's shop sent for beer and sugar
      and drink, and made great cheer with it among her and Mrs. Howlett, her
      neighbour, and their daughters, especially Mrs. Howlett's daughter, Betty,
      which is a pretty girl, and one I have long called wife, being, I formerly
      thought, like my own wife. After this good neighbourhood, which I do to
      give them occasion of speaking well and commending me in some company that
      now and then I know comes to their shop, I went to the Six clerks' office,
      and there had a writ for Tom Trice, and paid 20s. for it to Wilkinson, and
      so up and down to many places, among others to the viall maker's, and
      there saw the head, which now pleases me mightily, and so home, and being
      sent for presently to Mr. Bland's, where Mr. Povy and Gauden and I were
      invited to dinner, which we had very finely and great plenty, but for
      drink, though many and good, I drank nothing but small beer and water,
      which I drank so much that I wish it may not do me hurt. They had a
      kinswoman, they call daughter, in the house, a short, ugly, red-haired
      slut, that plays upon the virginalls, and sings, but after such a country
      manner I was weary of it, but yet could not but commend it. So by and by
      after dinner comes Monsr. Gotier, who is beginning to teach her, but,
      Lord! what a droll fellow it is to make her hold open her mouth, and
      telling this and that so drolly would make a man burst, but himself I
      perceive sings very well. Anon we sat dawn again to a collacon of
      cheesecakes, tarts, custards, and such like, very handsome, and so up and
      away home, where I at the office a while, till disturbed by, Mr. Hill, of
      Cambridge, with whom I walked in the garden a while, and thence home and
      then in my dining room walked, talking of several matters of state till 11
      at night, giving him a glass of wine. I was not unwilling to hear him
      talk, though he is full of words, yet a man of large conversation,
      especially among the Presbyters and Independents; he tells me that
      certainly, let the Bishops alone, and they will ruin themselves, and he is
      confident that the King's declaration about two years since will be the
      foundation of the settlement of the Church some time or other, for the
      King will find it hard to banish all those that will appear Nonconformists
      upon this Act that is coming out against them. He being gone, I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up and to my office setting papers in order for these two or three
      days, in which I have been hindered a little, and then having intended
      this day to go to Banstead Downs to see a famous race, I sent Will to get
      himself ready to go with me, and I also by and by home and put on my
      riding suit, and being ready came to the office to Sir J. Minnes and Sir
      W. Batten, and did a little of course at the office this morning, and so
      by boat to White Hall, where I hear that the race is put off, because the
      Lords do sit in Parliament to-day. However, having appointed Mr. Creed to
      come to me to Fox Hall, I went over thither, and after some debate, Creed
      and I resolved to go to Clapham, to Mr. Gauden's, who had sent his coach
      to their place for me because I was to have my horse of him to go to the
      race. So I went thither by coach and my Will by horse with me; Mr. Creed
      he went over back again to Westminster to fetch his horse. When I came to
      Mr. Gauden's one first thing was to show me his house, which is almost
      built, wherein he and his family live. I find it very regular and finely
      contrived, and the gardens and offices about it as convenient and as full
      of good variety as ever I saw in my life. It is true he hath been censured
      for laying out so much money; but he tells me that he built it for his
      brother, who is since dead (the Bishop), who when he should come to be
      Bishop of Winchester, which he was promised (to which bishoprick at
      present there is no house), he did intend to dwell here. Besides, with the
      good husbandry in making his bricks and other things I do not think it
      costs him so much money as people think and discourse. By and by to
      dinner, and in comes Mr. Creed. I saluted Mr. Gauden's lady, and the young
      ladies, he having many pretty children, and his sister, the Bishop's
      widow; who was, it seems, Sir W. Russel's daughter, the Treasurer of the
      Navy; who by her discourse at dinner I find to be very well-bred, and a
      woman of excellent discourse, even so much as to have my attention all
      dinner with much more pleasure than I did give to Mr. Creed, whose
      discourse was mighty merry in inveighing at Mr. Gauden's victuals that
      they had at sea the last voyage that he prosecuted, till methought the
      woman began to take it seriously. After dinner by Mr. Gauden's motion we
      got Mrs. Gauden and her sister to sing to a viall, on which Mr. Gauden's
      eldest son (a pretty man, but a simple one methinks) played but very
      poorly, and the musique bad, but yet I commended it. Only I do find that
      the ladies have been taught to sing and do sing well now, but that the
      viall puts them out. I took the viall and played some things from one of
      their books, Lyra lessons, which they seemed to like well. Thus we pass an
      hour or two after dinner and towards the evening we bade them Adieu! and
      took horse; being resolved that, instead of the race which fails us, we
      would go to Epsum. So we set out, and being gone a little way I sent home
      Will to look to the house, and Creed and I rode forward; the road being
      full of citizens going and coming toward Epsum, where, when we came, we
      could hear of no lodging, the town so full; but which was better, I went
      towards Ashted, my old place of pleasure; and there by direction of one
      goodman Arthur, whom we met on the way, we went to Farmer Page's, at which
      direction he and I made good sport, and there we got a lodging in a little
      hole we could not stand upright in, but rather than go further to look we
      staid there, and while supper was getting ready I took him to walk up and
      down behind my cozen Pepys's house that was, which I find comes little
      short of what I took it to be when I was a little boy, as things use
      commonly to appear greater than then when one comes to be a man and knows
      more, and so up and down in the closes, which I know so well methinks, and
      account it good fortune that I lie here that I may have opportunity to
      renew my old walks. It seems there is one Mr. Rouse, they call him the
      Queen's Tailor, that lives there now. So to our lodging to supper, and
      among other meats had a brave dish of cream, the best I ever eat in my
      life, and with which we pleased ourselves much, and by and by to bed,
      where, with much ado yet good sport, we made shift to lie, but with little
      ease, and a little spaniel by us, which has followed us all the way, a
      pretty dogg, and we believe that follows my horse, and do belong to Mrs.
      Gauden, which we, therefore, are very careful of.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's-day). Up and to the Wells,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Epsom medicinal wells were discovered about 1618, but they did not
     become fashionable until the Restoration.  John Toland, in his
     "Description of Epsom," says that he often counted seventy coaches in
     the Ring (the present racecourse on the Downs) on a Sunday evening;
     but by the end of the eighteenth century Epsom had entirely lost its
     vogue.]
</pre>
    <p>
      where great store of citizens, which was the greatest part of the company,
      though there were some others of better quality. I met many that I knew,
      and we drank each of us two pots and so walked away, it being very
      pleasant to see how everybody turns up his tail, here one and there
      another, in a bush, and the women in their quarters the like. Thence I
      walked with Creed to Mr. Minnes's house, which has now a very good way
      made to it, and thence to Durdans and walked round it and within the Court
      Yard and to the Bowling-green, where I have seen so much mirth in my time;
      but now no family in it (my Lord Barkeley, whose it is, being with his
      family at London), and so up and down by Minnes's wood, with great
      pleasure viewing my old walks, and where Mrs. Hely and I did use to walk
      and talk, with whom I had the first sentiments of love and pleasure in
      woman's company, discourse, and taking her by the hand, she being a pretty
      woman. So I led him to Ashted Church (by the place where Peter, my cozen's
      man, went blindfold and found a certain place we chose for him upon a
      wager), where we had a dull Doctor, one Downe, worse than I think even
      parson King was, of whom we made so much scorn, and after sermon home, and
      staid while our dinner, a couple of large chickens, were dressed, and a
      good mess of cream, which anon we had with good content, and after dinner
      (we taking no notice of other lodgers in the house, though there was one
      that I knew, and knew and spoke to me, one Mr. Rider, a merchant), he and
      I to walk, and I led him to the pretty little wood behind my cozens house,
      into which we got at last by clambering, and our little dog with us, but
      when we were among the hazel trees and bushes, Lord! what a course did we
      run for an hour together, losing ourselves, and indeed I despaired I
      should ever come to any path, but still from thicket to thicket, a thing I
      could hardly have believed a man could have been lost so long in so small
      a room. At last I found out a delicate walk in the middle that goes quite
      through the wood, and then went out of the wood, and holloed Mr. Creed,
      and made him hunt me from place to place, and at last went in and called
      him into my fine walk, the little dog still hunting with us through the
      wood. In this walk being all bewildered and weary and sweating, Creed he
      lay down upon the ground, which I did a little, but I durst not long, but
      walked from him in the fine green walk, which is half a mile long, there
      reading my vows as I used to on Sundays. And after that was done, and
      going and lying by Creed an hour, he and I rose and went to our lodging
      and paid our reckoning, and so mounted, whether to go toward London home
      or to find a new lodging, and so rode through Epsum, the whole town over,
      seeing the various companys that were there walking; which was very
      pleasant to see how they are there without knowing almost what to do, but
      only in the morning to drink waters. But, Lord! to see how many I met
      there of citizens, that I could not have thought to have seen there, or
      that they had ever had it in their heads or purses to go down thither. We
      rode out of the town through Yowell beyond Nonesuch House a mile, and
      there our little dogg, as he used to do, fell a-running after a flock of
      sheep feeding on the common, till he was out of sight, and then
      endeavoured to come back again, and went to the last gate that he parted
      with us at, and there the poor thing mistakes our scent, instead of coming
      forward he hunts us backward, and runs as hard as he could drive back
      towards Nonesuch, Creed and I after him, and being by many told of his
      going that way and the haste he made, we rode still and passed him through
      Yowell, and there we lost any further information of him. However, we went
      as far as Epsum almost, hearing nothing of him, we went back to Yowell,
      and there was told that he did pass through the town. We rode back to
      Nonesuch to see whether he might be gone back again, but hearing nothing
      we with great trouble and discontent for the loss of our dogg came back
      once more to Yowell, and there set up our horses and selves for all night,
      employing people to look for the dogg in the town, but can hear nothing of
      him. However, we gave order for supper, and while that was dressing walked
      out through Nonesuch Park to the house, and there viewed as much as we
      could of the outside, and looked through the great gates, and found a
      noble court; and altogether believe it to have been a very noble house,
      and a delicate park about it, where just now there was a doe killed, for
      the King to carry up to Court. So walked back again, and by and by our
      supper being ready, a good leg of mutton boiled, we supped and to bed,
      upon two beds in the same room, wherein we slept most excellently all
      night.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up in the morning about 7 o'clock, and after a little study,
      resolved of riding to the Wells to look for our dogg, which we did, but
      could hear nothing; but it being much a warmer day than yesterday there
      was great store of gallant company, more than then, to my greater
      pleasure. There was at a distance, under one of the trees on the common, a
      company got together that sung. I, at the distance, and so all the rest
      being a quarter of a mile off, took them for the Waytes, so I rode up to
      them, and found them only voices, some citizens met by chance, that sung
      four or five parts excellently. I have not been more pleased with a snapp
      of musique, considering the circumstances of the time and place, in all my
      life anything so pleasant. We drank each of us, three cupps, and so, after
      riding up to the horsemen upon the hill, where they were making of matches
      to run, we went away and to Yowell, where we found our breakfast, the
      remains of our supper last night hashed, and by and by, after the smith
      had set on two new shoes to Creed's horse, we mounted, and with little
      discourse, I being intent upon getting home in time, we rode hard home,
      observing Mr. Gauden's house, but not calling there (it being too late for
      me to stay, and wanting their dog too). The house stands very finely, and
      has a graceful view to the highway. Set up our horses at Fox Hall, and I
      by water (observing the King's barge attending his going to the House this
      day) home, it being about one o'clock. So got myself ready and shifting
      myself, and so by water to Westminster, and there came most luckily to the
      Lords' House as the House of Commons were going into the Lord's House, and
      there I crowded in along with the Speaker, and got to stand close behind
      him, where he made his speech to the King (who sat with his crown on and
      robes, and so all the Lords in their robes, a fine sight); wherein he told
      his Majesty what they have done this Parliament, and now offered for his
      royall consent. The greatest matters were a bill for the Lord's day (which
      it seems the Lords have lost, and so cannot be passed, at which the
      Commons are displeased); the bills against Conventicles and Papists (but
      it seems the Lords have not passed them), and giving his Majesty four
      entire subsidys; which last, with about twenty smaller Acts, were passed
      with this form: The Clerk of the House reads the title of the bill, and
      then looks at the end and there finds (writ by the King I suppose) "Le Roy
      le veult," and that he reads. And to others he reads, "Soit fait comme
      vous desirez." And to the Subsidys, as well that for the Commons, I mean
      the layety, as for the Clergy, the King writes, "Le Roy remerciant les
      Seigneurs, &amp;c., Prelats, &amp;c., accepte leur benevolences." The
      Speaker's speech was far from any oratory, but was as plain (though good
      matter) as any thing could be, and void of elocution. After the bills
      passed, the King, sitting on his throne, with his speech writ in a paper
      which he held in his lap, and scarce looked off of it, I thought, all the
      time he made his speech to them, giving them thanks for their subsidys, of
      which, had he not need, he would not have asked or received them; and that
      need, not from any extravagancys of his, he was sure, in any thing, but
      the disorders of the times compelling him to be at greater charge than he
      hoped for the future, by their care in their country, he should be: and
      that for his family expenses and others, he would labour however to
      retrench in many things convenient, and would have all others to do so
      too. He desired that nothing of old faults should be remembered, or
      severity for the same used to any in the country, it being his desire to
      have all forgot as well as forgiven. But, however, to use all care in
      suppressing any tumults, &amp;c.; assuring them that the restless spirits
      of his and their adversaries have great expectations of something to be
      done this summer. And promised that though the Acts about Conventicles and
      Papists were not ripe for passing this Session, yet he would take care
      himself that neither of them should in this intervall be encouraged to the
      endangering of the peace; and that at their next meeting he would himself
      prepare two bills for them concerning them. So he concluded, that for the
      better proceeding of justice he did think fit to make this a Session, and
      to prorogue them to the 16th of March next. His speech was very plain,
      nothing at all of spirit in it, nor spoke with any; but rather on the
      contrary imperfectly, repeating many times his words though he read all
      which I was sorry to see, it having not been hard for him to have got all
      the speech without book. So they all went away, the King out of the House
      at the upper end, he being by and by to go to Tunbridge to the Queen; and
      I in the Painted Chamber spoke with my Lord Sandwich while he was putting
      off his robes, who tells me he will now hasten down into the country, as
      soon as he can get some money settled on the Wardrobe. Here meeting Creed,
      he and I down to the Hall, and I having at Michell's shop wrote a little
      letter to Mr. Gauden, to go with his horse, and excusing my not taking
      leave or so much as asking after the old lady the widow when we came away
      the other day from them, he and I over the water to Fox Hall, and there
      sent away the horse with my letter, and then to the new Spring Garden,
      walking up and down, but things being dear and little attendance to be had
      we went away, leaving much brave company there, and so to a less house
      hard by, where we liked very well their Codlin tarts, having not time, as
      we intended, to stay the getting ready of a dish of pease. And there came
      to us an idle boy to show us some tumbling tricks, which he did very well,
      and the greatest bending of his body that ever I observed in my life.
      Thence by water to White Hall, and walked over the Park to St. James's;
      but missed Mr. Coventry, he not being within; and so out again, and there
      the Duke was coming along the Pell-Mell. It being a little darkish, I
      staid not to take notice of him, but we went directly back again. And in
      our walk over the Park, one of the Duke's footmen came running behind us,
      and came looking just in our faces to see who we were, and went back
      again. What his meaning is I know not, but was fearful that I might not go
      far enough with my hat off, though methinks that should not be it,
      besides, there were others covered nearer than myself was, but only it was
      my fear. So to White Hall and by water to the Bridge, and so home to bed,
      weary and well pleased with my journey in all respects. Only it cost me
      about 20s., but it was for my health, and I hope will prove so, only I do
      find by my riding a little swelling to rise just by my anus. I had the
      same the last time I rode, and then it fell again, and now it is up again
      about the bigness of the bag of a silkworm, makes me fearful of a rupture.
      But I will speak to Mr. Hollyard about it, and I am glad to find it now,
      that I may prevent it before it goes too far.
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    <p>
      28th. Up after sleeping very well, and so to my office setting down the
      Journall of this last three days, and so settled to business again, I hope
      with greater cheerfulness and success by this refreshment. At the office
      all the morning, and at noon to Wise's about my viall that is a-doing, and
      so home to dinner and then to the office, where we sat all the afternoon
      till night, and I late at it till after the office was risen. Late came my
      Jane and her brother Will: to entreat for my taking of the boy again, but
      I will not hear her, though I would yet be glad to do anything for her
      sake to the boy, but receive him again I will not, nor give him anything.
      She would have me send him to sea; which if I could I would do, but there
      is no ship going out. The poor girl cried all the time she was with me,
      and would not go from me, staying about two hours with me till 10 or 11
      o'clock, expecting that she might obtain something of me, but receive him
      I will not. So the poor girl was fain to go away crying and saying little.
      So from thence home, where my house of office was emptying, and I find
      they will do, it with much more cleanness than I expected. I went up and
      down among them a good while, but knowing that Mr. Coventry was to call me
      in the morning, I went to bed and left them to look after the people. So
      to bed.
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    <p>
      29th. Up about 6 o'clock, and found the people to have just done, and
      Hannah not gone to bed yet, but was making clean of the yard and kitchen.
      Will newly gone to bed. So I to my office, and having given some order to
      Tom Hater, to whom I gave leave for his recreation to go down to
      Portsmouth this Pay, I went down to Wapping to Sir W. Warren, and there
      staid an hour or two discoursing of some of his goods and then things in
      general relating to this office, &amp;c., and so home, and there going to
      Sir William Batten (having no stomach to dine at home, it being yet hardly
      clean of last night's [mess])and there I dined with my Lady and her
      daughter and son Castle, and mighty kind she is and I kind to her, but,
      Lord! how freely and plainly she rails against Commissioner Pett, calling
      him rogue, and wondering that the King keeps such a fellow in the Navy.
      Thence by and by walked to see Sir W. Pen at Deptford, reading by the way
      a most ridiculous play, a new one, called "The Politician Cheated." After
      a little sitting with him I walked to the yard a little and so home again,
      my Will with me, whom I bade to stay in the yard for me, and so to bed.
      This morning my brother Tom was with me, and we had some discourse again
      concerning his country mistress, but I believe the most that is fit for us
      to condescend to, will not content her friends.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up and to the office to get business ready for our sitting, this
      being the first day of altering it from afternoon during the Parliament
      sitting to the fore-noon again. By and by Mr. Coventry only came (Sir John
      Minnes and Sir William Batten being gone this morning to Portsmouth to pay
      some ships and the yard there), and after doing a little business he and I
      down to Woolwich, and there up and down the yard, and by and by came Sir
      G. Carteret and we all looked into matters, and then by water back to
      Deptford, where we dined with him at his house, a very good dinner and
      mightily tempted with wines of all sorts and brave French Syder, but I
      drunk none. But that which is a great wonder I find his little daughter
      Betty, that was in hanging sleeves but a month or two ago, and is a very
      little young child; married, and to whom, but to young Scott, son to Madam
      Catharine Scott, that was so long in law, and at whose triall I was with
      her husband; he pleading that it was unlawfully got and would not own it,
      she, it seems, being brought to bed of it, if not got by somebody else at
      Oxford, but it seems a little before his death he did own the child, and
      hath left him his estate, not long since. So Sir G. Carteret hath struck
      up of a sudden a match with him for his little daughter. He hath about
      L2000 per annum; and it seems Sir G. Carteret hath by this means
      over-reached Sir H. Bennet, who did endeavour to get this gentleman for a
      sister of his, but Sir G. Carteret I say has over-reached him. By this
      means Sir G. Carteret hath married two daughters this year both very well.
      After dinner into Deptford yard, but our bellies being full we could do no
      great business, and so parted, and Mr. Coventry and I to White Hall by
      water, where we also parted, and I to several places about business, and
      so calling for my five books of the Variorum print bound according to my
      common binding instead of the other which is more gaudy I went home. The
      town talk this day is of nothing but the great foot-race run this day on
      Banstead Downes, between Lee, the Duke of Richmond's footman, and a tyler,
      a famous runner. And Lee hath beat him; though the King and Duke of York
      and all men almost did bet three or four to one upon the tyler's head.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up early to my accounts this month, and I find myself worth clear
      L730, the most I ever had yet, which contents me though I encrease but
      very little. Thence to my office doing business, and at noon to my viall
      maker's, who has begun it and has a good appearance, and so to the
      Exchange, where I met Dr. Pierce, who tells me of his good luck to get to
      be groom of the Privy-Chamber to the Queen, and without my Lord Sandwich's
      help; but only by his good fortune, meeting a man that hath let him have
      his right for a small matter, about L60, for which he can every day have
      L400. But he tells me my Lord hath lost much honour in standing so long
      and so much for that coxcomb Pickering, and at last not carrying it for
      him; but hath his name struck out by the King and Queen themselves after
      he had been in ever since the Queen's coming. But he tells me he believes
      that either Sir H. Bennet, my Lady Castlemaine, or Sir Charles Barkeley
      had received some money for the place, and so the King could not
      disappoint them, but was forced to put out this fool rather than a better
      man. And I am sorry to hear what he tells me that Sir Charles Barkeley
      hath still such power over the King, as to be able to fetch him from the
      Council-table to my Lady Castlemaine when he pleases. He tells me also, as
      a friend, the great injury that he thinks I do myself by being so severe
      in the Yards, and contracting the ill-will of the whole Navy for those
      offices, singly upon myself. Now I discharge a good conscience therein,
      and I tell him that no man can (nor do he say any say it) charge me with
      doing wrong; but rather do as many good offices as any man. They think, he
      says, that I have a mind to get a good name with the King and Duke, who he
      tells me do not consider any such thing; but I shall have as good thanks
      to let all alone, and do as the rest. But I believe the contrary; and yet
      I told him I never go to the Duke alone, as others do, to talk of my own
      services. However, I will make use of his council, and take some course to
      prevent having the single ill-will of the office. Before I went to the
      office I went to the Coffee House, where Sir J. Cutler and Mr. Grant were,
      and there Mr. Grant showed me letters of Sir William Petty's, wherein he
      says, that his vessel which he hath built upon two keeles (a modell
      whereof, built for the King, he showed me) hath this month won a wager of
      L50 in sailing between Dublin and Holyhead with the pacquett-boat, the
      best ship or vessel the King hath there; and he offers to lay with any
      vessel in the world. It is about thirty ton in burden, and carries thirty
      men, with good accommodation, (as much more as any ship of her burden,)
      and so any vessel of this figure shall carry more men, with better
      accommodation by half, than any other ship. This carries also ten guns, of
      about five tons weight. In their coming back from Holyhead they started
      together, and this vessel came to Dublin by five at night, and the
      pacquett-boat not before eight the next morning; and when they came they
      did believe that, this vessel had been drowned, or at least behind, not
      thinking she could have lived in that sea. Strange things are told of this
      vessel, and he concludes his letter with this position, "I only affirm
      that the perfection of sayling lies in my principle, finde it out who
      can." Thence home, in my way meeting Mr. Rawlinson, who tells me that my
      uncle Wight is off of his Hampshire purchase and likes less of the Wights,
      and would have me to be kind and study to please him, which I am resolved
      to do. Being at home he sent for me to dinner to meet Mr. Moore, so I went
      thither and dined well, but it was strange for me to refuse, and yet I did
      without any reluctancy to drink wine in a tavern, where nothing else
      almost was drunk, and that excellent good. Thence with Mr. Moore to the
      Wardrobe, and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr. Townsend about
      his accounts an hour or two, we reading of a merry book against the
      Presbyters called Cabbala, extraordinary witty. Thence walked home and to
      my office, setting papers of all sorts and writing letters and putting
      myself into a condition to go to Chatham with Mr. Coventry to-morrow. So,
      at almost 12 o'clock, and my eyes tired with seeing to write, I went home
      and to bed. Ending the month with pretty good content of mind, my wife in
      the country and myself in good esteem, and likely by pains to become
      considerable, I think, with God's blessing upon my diligence.
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      Aug. 1st. Up betimes and got me ready, and so to the office and put things
      in order for my going. By and by comes Sir G. Carteret, and he and I did
      some business, and then Mr. Coventry sending for me, he staying in the
      boat, I got myself presently ready and down to him, he and I by water to
      Gravesend (his man Lambert with us), and there eat a bit and so mounted, I
      upon one of his horses which met him there, a brave proud horse, all the
      way talking of businesses of the office and other matters to good purpose.
      Being come to Chatham, we put on our boots and so walked to the yard,
      where we met Commissioner Pett, and there walked up and down looking and
      inquiring into many businesses, and in the evening went to the
      Commissioner's and there in his upper Arbor sat and talked, and there
      pressed upon the Commissioner to take upon him a power to correct and
      suspend officers that do not their duty and other things, which he
      unwillingly answered he would if we would own him in it. Being gone thence
      Mr. Coventry and I did discourse about him, and conclude that he is not
      able to do the same in that yard that he might and can and it maybe will
      do in another, what with his old faults and the relations that he has to
      most people that act there. After an hour or two's discourse at the
      Hill-house before going to bed, I see him to his and he me to my chamber,
      he lying in the Treasurer's and I in the Controller's chambers.
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    <p>
      2nd (Lord's day). Up and after the barber had done he and I walked to the
      Docke, and so on board the Mathias, where Commissioner Pett and he and I
      and a good many of the officers and others of the yard did hear an
      excellent sermon of Mr. Hudson's upon "All is yours and you are God's," a
      most ready, learned, and good sermon, such as I have not heard a good
      while, nor ever thought he could have preached. We took him with us to the
      Hill-house, and there we dined, and an officer or two with us. So after
      dinner the company withdrew, and we three to private discourse and laid
      the matters of the yard home again to the Commissioner, and discoursed
      largely of several matters. Then to the parish church, and there heard a
      poor sermon with a great deal of false Greek in it, upon these words, "Ye
      are my friends, if ye do these things which I command you." Thence to the
      Docke and by water to view St. Mary Creeke, but do not find it so proper
      for a wet docks as we would have it, it being uneven ground and hard in
      the bottom and no, great depth of water in many places. Returned and
      walked from the Docke home, Mr. Coventry and I very much troubled to see
      how backward Commissioner Pett is to tell any of the faults of the
      officers, and to see nothing in better condition here for his being here
      than they are in other yards where there is none. After some discourse to
      bed. But I sat up an hour after Mr. Coventry was gone to read my vows, it
      raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night for an hour together. So
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up both of us very betimes and to the Yard, and see the men called
      over and choose some to be discharged. Then to the Ropehouses and viewed
      them all and made an experiment which was the stronger, English or Riga
      hemp, the latter proved the stronger, but the other is very good, and much
      better we believe than any but Riga. We did many other things this
      morning, and I caused the Timber measurer to measure some timber, where I
      found much fault and with reason, which we took public notice of, and did
      give them admonition for the time to come. At noon Mr. Pett did give us a
      very great dinner, too big in all conscience, so that most of it was left
      untouched. Here was Collonell Newman and several other gentlemen of the
      country and officers of the yard. After dinner they withdrew and
      Commissioner Pett, Mr. Coventry and I sat close to our business all the
      noon in his parler, and there run through much business and answered
      several people. And then in the evening walked in the garden, where we
      conjured him to look after the yard, and for the time to come that he
      would take the whole faults and ill management of the yard upon himself,
      he having full power and our concurrence to suspend or do anything else
      that he thinks fit to keep people and officers to their duty. He having
      made good promises, though I fear his performance, we parted (though I
      spoke so freely that he could have been angry) good friends, and in some
      hopes that matters will be better for the time to come. So walked to the
      Hillhouse (which we did view and the yard about it, and do think to put it
      off as soon as we can conveniently) and there made ourselves ready and
      mounted and rode to Gravesend (my riding Coate not being to be found I
      fear it is stole) on our way being overtaken by Captain Browne that serves
      the office of the Ordnance at Chatham. All the way, though he was a rogue
      and served the late times all along, yet he kept us in discourse of the
      many services that he did for many of the King's party, lords and Dukes,
      and among others he recovered a dog that was stolne from Mr. Cary
      (head-keeper of the buck-hounds to the King) and preserved several horses
      of the Duke of Richmond's, and his best horse he was forst to put out his
      eyes and keep him for a stallion to preserve him from being carried away.
      But he gone at last upon my enquiry to tell us how (he having been here
      too for survey of the Ropeyard) the day's work of the Rope-makers become
      settled, which pleased me very well. Being come to our Inn Mr. Coventry
      and I sat, and talked till 9 or 10 a-clock and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. We were called up about four a-clock, and being ready went and took a
      Gravesend boat, and to London by nine a-clock. By the way talking of
      several businesses of the navy. So to the office, where Sir Wm. Pen (the
      first time that he has been with us a great while, he having been long
      sick) met us, and there we sat all the morning. My brother John I find
      come to town to my house, as I sent for him, on Saturday last; so at noon
      home and dined with him, and after dinner and the barber been with me I
      walked out with him to my viall maker's and other places and then left
      him, and I by water to Blackbury's, and there talked with him about some
      masts (and by the way he tells me that Paul's is now going to be repaired
      in good earnest), and so with him to his garden close by his house, where
      I eat some peaches and apricots; a very pretty place. So over the water to
      Westminster hall, and not finding Mrs. Lane, with whom I purposed to be
      merry, I went to Jervas's and took him and his wife over the water to
      their mother Palmer's (the woman that speaks in the belly, and with whom I
      have two or three years ago made good sport with Mr. Mallard), thinking
      because I had heard that she is a woman of that sort that I might there
      have lit upon some lady of pleasure (for which God forgive me), but blest
      be God there was none, nor anything that pleased me, but a poor little
      house that she has set out as fine as she can, and for her singing which
      she pretends to is only some old body songs and those sung abominably,
      only she pretends to be able to sing both bass and treble, which she do
      something like, but not what I thought formerly and expected now; nor do
      her speaking in her belly take me now as it did then, but it may be that
      is because I know it and see her mouth when she speaks, which should not
      be. After I had spent a shilling there in wine I took boat with Jervas and
      his wife and set them at Westminster, and it being late forbore Mrs. Lane
      and went by water to the Old Swan by a boat, where I had good sport with
      one of the young men about his travells as far as Voxhall, in mockery,
      which yet the fellow answered me most prettily and traveller-like unto my
      very good mirth. So home, and with my brother eat a bit of bread and
      cheese, and so to bed, he with me. This day I received a letter from my
      wife, which troubles me mightily, wherein she tells me how Ashwell did
      give her the lie to her teeth, and that thereupon my wife giving her a box
      on the eare, the other struck her again, and a deal of stir which troubles
      me, and that my Lady has been told by my father or mother something of my
      wife's carriage, which altogether vexes me, and I fear I shall find a
      trouble of my wife when she comes home to get down her head again, but if
      Ashwell goes I am resolved to have no more, but to live poorly and low
      again for a good while, and save money and keep my wife within bounds if I
      can, or else I shall bid Adieu to all content in the world. So to bed, my
      mind somewhat disturbed at this, but yet I shall take care, by prudence,
      to avoid the ill consequences which I fear, things not being gone too far
      yet, and this height that my wife is come to being occasioned from my own
      folly in giving her too much head heretofore for the year past.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. All the morning at the office, whither Deane of Woolwich came to me
      and discoursed of the body of ships, which I am now going about to
      understand, and then I took him to the coffee-house, where he was very
      earnest against Mr. Grant's report in favour of Sir W. Petty's vessel,
      even to some passion on both sides almost. So to the Exchange, and thence
      home to dinner with my brother, and in the afternoon to Westminster hall,
      and there found Mrs. Lane, and by and by by agreement we met at the
      Parliament stairs (in my way down to the boat who should meet us but my
      lady Jemimah, who saw me lead her but said nothing to me of her, though I
      ought to speak to her to see whether she would take notice of it or no)
      and off to Stangate and so to the King's Head at Lambeth marsh, and had
      variety of meats and drinks, but I did so towse her and handled her, but
      could get nothing more from her though I was very near it; but as wanton
      and bucksome as she is she dares not adventure upon the business, in which
      I very much commend and like her. Staid pretty late, and so over with her
      by water, and being in a great sweat with my towsing of her durst not go
      home by water, but took coach, and at home my brother and I fell upon Des
      Cartes, and I perceive he has studied him well, and I cannot find but he
      has minded his book, and do love it. This evening came a letter about
      business from Mr. Coventry, and with it a silver pen he promised me to
      carry inke in, which is very necessary. So to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up and was angry with my maid Hannah for keeping the house no better,
      it being more dirty now-a-days than ever it was while my whole family was
      together. So to my office, whither Mr. Coventry came and Sir William Pen,
      and we sat all the morning. This day Mr. Coventry borrowed of me my
      manuscript of the Navy. At noon I to the 'Change, and meeting with Sir W.
      Warren, to a coffee-house, and there finished a contract with him for the
      office, and so parted, and I to my cozen Mary Joyce's at a gossiping,
      where much company and good cheer. There was the King's Falconer, that
      lives by Paul's, and his wife, an ugly pusse, but brought him money. He
      speaking of the strength of hawkes, which will strike a fowle to the
      ground with that force that shall make the fowle rebound a great way from
      ground, which no force of man or art can do, but it was very pleasant to
      hear what reasons he and another, one Ballard, a rich man of the same
      Company of Leathersellers of which the Joyces are, did give for this.
      Ballard's wife, a pretty and a very well-bred woman, I took occasion to
      kiss several times, and she to carve, drink, and show me great respect.
      After dinner to talk and laugh. I drank no wine, but sent for some water;
      the beer not being good. A fiddler was sent for, and there one Mrs.
      Lurkin, a neighbour, a good, and merry poor woman, but a very tall woman,
      did dance and show such tricks that made us all merry, but above all a
      daughter of Mr. Brumfield's, black, but well-shaped and modest, did dance
      very well, which pleased me mightily. I begun the Duchess with her, but
      could not do it; but, however, I came off well enough, and made mighty
      much of her, kissing and leading her home, with her cozen Anthony and Kate
      Joyce (Kate being very handsome and well, that is, handsomely dressed
      to-day, and I grew mighty kind and familiar with her, and kissed her
      soundly, which she takes very well) to their house, and there I left them,
      having in our way, though nine o'clock at night, carried them into a
      puppet play in Lincolnes Inn Fields, where there was the story of
      Holofernes, and other clockwork, well done. There was at this house today
      Mr. Lawrence, who did give the name, it seems, to my cozen Joyce's child,
      Samuel, who is a very civil gentleman, and his wife a pretty woman, who,
      with Kate Joyce, were stewards of the feast to-day, and a double share
      cost for a man and a woman came to 16s., which I also would pay, though
      they would not by any means have had me do so. I walked home very well
      contented with this afternoon's work, I thinking it convenient to keep in
      with the Joyces against a bad day, if I should have occasion to make use
      of them. So I walked home, and after a letter to my wife by the post and
      my father, I home to supper, and after a little talk with my brother to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up and to my office a little, and then to Brown's for my measuring
      rule, which is made, and is certainly the best and the most commodious for
      carrying in one's pocket, and most useful that ever was made, and myself
      have the honour of being as it were the inventor of this form of it. Here
      I staid discoursing an hour with him and then home, and thither came Sir
      Fairbrother to me, and we walked a while together in the garden and then
      abroad into the cittie, and then we parted for a while and I to my Viall,
      which I find done and once varnished, and it will please me very well when
      it is quite varnished. Thence home and to study my new rule till my head
      aked cruelly. So by and by to dinner and the Doctor and Mr. Creed came to
      me. The Doctor's discourse, which (though he be a very good-natured man)
      is but simple, was some sport to me and Creed, though my head akeing I
      took no great pleasure in it. We parted after dinner, and I walked to
      Deptford and there found Sir W. Pen, and I fell to measuring of some
      planks that was serving into the yard, which the people took notice of,
      and the measurer himself was amused at, for I did it much more ready than
      he, and I believe Sir W. Pen would be glad I could have done less or he
      more. By and by he went away and I staid walking up and down, discoursing
      with the officers of the yard of several things, and so walked back again,
      and on my way young Bagwell and his wife waylayd me to desire my favour
      about getting him a better ship, which I shall pretend to be willing to do
      for them, but my mind is to know his wife a little better. They being
      parted I went with Cadbury the mast maker to view a parcel of good masts
      which I think it were good to buy, and resolve to speak to the board about
      it. So home, and my brother John and I up and I to my musique, and then to
      discourse with him, and I find him not so thorough a philosopher, at least
      in Aristotle, as I took him for, he not being able to tell me the
      definition of final nor which of the 4 Qualitys belonged to each of the 4
      Elements. So to prayers, and to bed, among other things being much
      satisfied with my new rule.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and to my office, whither I search for Brown the mathematical
      instrument maker, who now brought me a ruler for measuring timber and
      other things so well done and in all things to my mind that I do set up my
      trust upon it that I cannot have a better, nor any man else have so good
      for this purpose, this being of my own ordering. By and by we sat all the
      morning dispatching of business, and then at noon rose, and I with Mr.
      Coventry down to the water-side, talking, wherein I see so much goodness
      and endeavours of doing the King service, that I do more and more admire
      him. It being the greatest trouble to me, he says, in the world to see not
      only in the Navy, but in the greatest matters of State, where he can lay
      his finger upon the soare (meaning this man's faults, and this man's
      office the fault lies in), and yet dare or can not remedy matters. Thence
      to the Exchange about several businesses, and so home to dinner, and in
      the afternoon took my brother John and Will down to Woolwich by water, and
      after being there a good while, and eating of fruit in Sheldon's garden,
      we began our walk back again, I asking many things in physiques of my
      brother John, to which he gives me so bad or no answer at all, as in the
      regions of the ayre he told me that he knew of no such thing, for he never
      read Aristotle's philosophy and Des Cartes ownes no such thing, which
      vexed me to hear him say. But I shall call him to task, and see what it is
      that he has studied since his going to the University. It was late before
      we could get from Greenwich to London by water, the tide being against us
      and almost past, so that to save time and to be clear of anchors I landed
      at Wapping, and so walked home weary enough, walking over the stones. This
      night Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes returned [from] Portsmouth, but I
      did not go see them.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). Up, and leaving my brother John to go somewhere else, I
      to church, and heard Mr. Mills (who is lately returned out of the country,
      and it seems was fetched in by many of the parishioners, with great
      state,) preach upon the authority of the ministers, upon these words, "We
      are therefore embassadors of Christ." Wherein, among other high
      expressions, he said, that such a learned man used to say, that if a
      minister of the word and an angell should meet him together, he would
      salute the minister first; which methought was a little too high. This day
      I begun to make use of the silver pen (Mr. Coventry did give me) in
      writing of this sermon, taking only the heads of it in Latin, which I
      shall, I think, continue to do. So home and at my office reading my vowes,
      and so to Sir W. Batten to dinner, being invited and sent for, and being
      willing to hear how they left things at Portsmouth, which I found but ill
      enough, and are mightily for a Commissioner to be at seat there to keep
      the yard in order. Thence in the afternoon with my Lady Batten, leading
      her through the streets by the hand to St. Dunstan's Church, hard by us
      (where by Mrs. Russell's means we were set well), and heard an excellent
      sermon of one Mr. Gifford, the parson there, upon "Remember Lot's wife."
      So from thence walked back to Mrs. Russell's, and there drank and sat
      talking a great while. Among other things talked of young Dawes that
      married the great fortune, who it seems has a Baronet's patent given him,
      and is now Sir Thos. Dawes, and a very fine bred man they say he is.
      Thence home, and my brother being abroad I walked to my uncle Wight's and
      there staid, though with little pleasure, and supped, there being the
      husband of Mrs. Anne Wight, who it seems is lately married to one Mr.
      Bentley, a Norwich factor. Home, and staid up a good while examining Will
      in his Latin below, and my brother along with him in his Greeke, and so to
      prayers and to bed. This afternoon I was amused at the tune set to the
      Psalm by the Clerke of the parish, and thought at first that he was out,
      but I find him to be a good songster, and the parish could sing it very
      well, and was a good tune. But I wonder that there should be a tune in the
      Psalms that I never heard of.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, though not so early this summer as I did all the last, for which
      I am sorry, and though late am resolved to get up betimes before the
      season of rising be quite past. To my office to fit myself to wait on the
      Duke this day. By and by by water to White Hall, and so to St. James's,
      and anon called into the Duke's chamber, and being dressed we were all as
      usual taken in with him and discoursed of our matters, and that being
      done, he walked, and I in the company with him, to White Hall, and there
      he took barge for Woolwich, and, I up to the Committee of Tangier, where
      my Lord Sandwich, pay Lord Peterborough, (whom I have not seen before
      since his coming back,) Sir W. Compton, and Mr. Povy. Our discourse about
      supplying my Lord Teviott with money, wherein I am sorry to see, though
      they do not care for him, yet they are willing to let him for civility and
      compliment only have money almost without expecting any account of it; but
      by this means, he being such a cunning fellow as he is, the King is like
      to pay dear for our courtiers' ceremony. Thence by coach with my Lords
      Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there,
      after an hour's looking over some fine books of the Italian buildings,
      with fine cuts; and also my Lord Peterborough's bowes and arrows, of which
      he is a great lover, we sat down to dinner, my Lady coming down to dinner
      also, and there being Mr. Williamson, that belongs to Sir H. Bennet, whom
      I find a pretty understanding and accomplished man, but a little
      conceited. After dinner I took leave and went to Greatorex's, whom I found
      in his garden, and set him to work upon my ruler, to engrave an almanac
      and other things upon the brasses of it, which a little before night he
      did, but the latter part he slubbered over, that I must get him to do it
      over better, or else I shall not fancy my rule, which is such a folly that
      I am come to now, that whereas before my delight was in multitude of
      books, and spending money in that and buying alway of other things, now
      that I am become a better husband, and have left off buying, now my
      delight is in the neatness of everything, and so cannot be pleased with
      anything unless it be very neat, which is a strange folly. Hither came W.
      Howe about business, and he and I had a great deal of discourse about my
      Lord Sandwich, and I find by him that my Lord do dote upon one of the
      daughters of Mrs. [Becke] where he lies, so that he spends his time and
      money upon her. He tells me she is a woman of a very bad fame and very
      impudent, and has told my Lord so, yet for all that my Lord do spend all
      his evenings with her, though he be at court in the day time, and that the
      world do take notice of it, and that Pickering is only there as a blind,
      that the world may think that my Lord spends his time with him when he do
      worse, and that hence it is that my Lord has no more mind to go into the
      country than he has. In fine, I perceive my Lord is dabbling with this
      wench, for which I am sorry, though I do not wonder at it, being a man
      amorous enough, and now begins to allow himself the liberty that he says
      every body else at Court takes. Here I am told that my Lord Bristoll is
      either fled or concealed himself; having been sent for to the King, it is
      believed to be sent to the Tower, but he is gone out of the way.
      Yesterday, I am told also, that Sir J. Lenthall, in Southwarke, did
      apprehend about one hundred Quakers, and other such people, and hath sent
      some of them to the gaole at Kingston, it being now the time of the
      Assizes. Hence home and examined a piece of, Latin of Will's with my
      brother, and so to prayers and to bed. This evening I had a letter from my
      father that says that my wife will come to town this week, at which I
      wonder that she should come to town without my knowing more of it. But I
      find they have lived very ill together since she went, and I must use all
      the brains I have to bring her to any good when she do come home, which I
      fear will be hard to do, and do much disgust me the thoughts of it.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and to my office, whither, by and by, my brother Tom came, and I
      did soundly rattle him for his neglecting to see and please the Joyces as
      he has of late done. I confess I do fear that he do not understand his
      business, nor will do any good in his trade, though he tells me that he do
      please every body and that he gets money, but I shall not believe it till
      I see a state of his accounts, which I have ordered him to bring me before
      he sees me any more. We met and sat at the office all the morning, and at
      noon I to the 'Change, where I met Dr. Pierce, who tells me that the King
      comes to towne this day, from Tunbridge, to stay a day or two, and then
      fetch the Queen from thence, who he says is grown a very debonnaire lady,
      and now hugs him, and meets him gallopping upon the road, and all the
      actions of a fond and pleasant lady that can be, that he believes has a
      chat now and then of Mrs. Stewart, but that there is no great danger of
      her, she being only an innocent, young, raw girl; but my Lady Castlemaine,
      who rules the King in matters of state, and do what she list with him, he
      believes is now falling quite out of favour. After the Queen is come back
      she goes to the Bath; and so to Oxford, where great entertainments are
      making for her. This day I am told that my Lord Bristoll hath warrants
      issued out against him, to have carried him to the Tower; but he is fled
      away, or hid himself. So much the Chancellor hath got the better of him.
      Upon the 'Change my brother, and Will bring me word that Madam Turner
      would come and dine with me to-day, so I hasted home and found her and
      Mrs. Morrice there (The. Joyce being gone into the country), which is the
      reason of the mother rambling. I got a dinner for them, and after dinner
      my uncle Thomas and aunt Bell came and saw me, and I made them almost
      foxed with wine till they were very kind (but I did not carry them up to
      my ladies). So they went away, and so my two ladies and I in Mrs. Turner's
      coach to Mr. Povy's, who being not within, we went in and there shewed
      Mrs. Turner his perspective and volary,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A large birdcage, in which the birds can fly about; French
     'voliere'.  Ben Jonson uses the word volary.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and the fine things that he is building of now, which is a most neat
      thing. Thence to the Temple and by water to Westminster; and there Morrice
      and I went to Sir R. Ling's to have fetched a niece of his, but she was
      not within, and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge, and
      there tried to find a sister of Mrs. Morrice's, but she was not within
      neither, and so we went through bridge, and I carried them on board the
      King's pleasure-boat, all the way reading in a book of Receipts of making
      fine meats and sweetmeats, among others to make my own sweet water, which
      made us good sport. So I landed them at Greenwich, and there to a garden,
      and gave them fruit and wine, and so to boat again, and finally, in the
      cool of the evening, to Lyon Kee,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Lion Key, Lower Thames Street, where the famous Duchess of Suffolk
     in the time of Bishop Gardiner's persecution took boat for the
     continent.  James, Duke of York, also left the country from this
     same place on the night of April 20th, 1648, when he escaped from
     St. James's Palace.]
</pre>
    <p>
      the tide against us, and so landed and walked to the Bridge, and there
      took a coach by chance passing by, and so I saw them home, and there eat
      some cold venison with them, and drunk and bade them good night, having
      been mighty merry with them, and I think it is not amiss to preserve,
      though it cost me a little, such a friend as Mrs. Turner. So home and to
      bed, my head running upon what to do to-morrow to fit things against my
      wife's coming, as to buy a bedstead, because my brother John is here, and
      I have now no more beds than are used.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. A little to my office, to put down my yesterday's journall, and so
      abroad to buy a bedstead and do other things. So home again, and having
      put up the bedstead and done other things in order to my wife's coming, I
      went out to several places and to Mrs. Turner's, she inviting me last
      night, and there dined; with her and Madam Morrice and a stranger we were
      very merry and had a fine dinner, and thence I took leave and to White
      Hall, where my Lords Sandwich, Peterborough, and others made a Tangier
      Committee; spent the afternoon in reading and ordering with a great deal
      of alteration, and yet methinks never a whit the better, of a letter drawn
      by Creed to my Lord Rutherford. The Lords being against anything that
      looked to be rough, though it was in matter of money and accounts, wherein
      their courtship may cost the King dear. Only I do see by them, that
      speaking in matters distasteful to him that we write to, it is best to do
      it in the plainest way and without ambages or reasoning, but only say
      matters of fact, and leave the party to collect your meaning. Thence by
      water to my brother's, and there I hear my wife is come and gone home, and
      my father is come to town also, at which I wondered. But I discern it is
      to give my brother advice about his business, and it may be to pacify me
      about the differences that have been between my wife and him and my mother
      at her late being with them. Though by and by he coming to Mr. Holden's
      (where I was buying a hat) he took no notice to me of anything. I talked
      to him a little while and left him to lie at the end of the town, and I
      home, where methought I found my wife strange, not knowing, I believe, in
      what temper she could expect me to be in, but I fell to kind words, and so
      we were very kind, only she could not forbear telling me how she had been
      used by them and her mayde, Ashwell, in the country, but I find it will be
      best not to examine it, for I doubt she's in fault too, and therefore I
      seek to put it off from my hearing, and so to bed and there entertained
      her with great content, and so to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Lay long in bed with my wife talking of family matters, and so up
      and to the office, where we sat all the' morning, and then home to dinner,
      and after dinner my wife and I to talk again about getting of a couple of
      good mayds and to part with Ashwell, which troubles me for her father's
      sake, though I shall be glad to have the charge taken away of keeping a
      woman. Thence a little to the office, and so abroad with my wife by water
      to White Hall, and there at my Lord's lodgings met my Lady Jemimah, with
      whom we staid a good while. Thence to Mrs. Hunt's, where I left my wife,
      and I to walk a little in St. James's Park, while Mrs. Harper might come
      home, with whom we came to speak about her kinswoman Jane Gentleman to
      come and live with us as a chamber mayde, and there met with Mr. Hoole my
      old acquaintance of Magdalen, and walked with him an hour in the Parke,
      discoursing chiefly of Sir Samuel Morland, whose lady is gone into France.
      It seems he buys ground and a farm in the country, and lays out money upon
      building, and God knows what! so that most of the money he sold his
      pension of L500 per annum for, to Sir Arthur Slingsby, is believed is
      gone. It seems he hath very great promises from the King, and Hoole hath
      seen some of the King's letters, under his own hand, to Morland, promising
      him great things (and among others, the order of the Garter, as Sir Samuel
      says); but his lady thought it below her to ask any thing at the King's
      first coming, believing the King would do it of himself, when as Hoole do
      really think if he had asked to be Secretary of State at the King's first
      coming, he might have had it. And the other day at her going into France,
      she did speak largely to the King herself, how her husband hath failed of
      what his Majesty had promised, and she was sure intended him; and the King
      did promise still, as he is a King and a gentleman, to be as good as his
      word in a little time, to a tittle: but I never believe it. Here in the
      Park I met with Mr. Coventry, where he sent for a letter he had newly writ
      to me, wherein he had enclosed one from Commissioner Pett complaining of
      his being defeated in his attempt to suspend two pursers, wherein the
      manner of his doing it, and complaint of our seeing him (contrary to our
      promises the other day), deserted, did make us laugh mightily, and was
      good sport to think how awkwardly he goes about a thing that he has no
      courage of his own nor mind to do. Mr. Coventry answered it very
      handsomely, but I perceive Pett has left off his corresponding with me any
      more. Thence to fetch my wife from Mrs. Hunt's, where now he was come in,
      and we eat and drunk, and so away (their child being at home, a very
      lively, but not pretty at all), by water to Mrs. Turner's, and there made
      a short visit, and so home by coach, and after supper to prayers and to
      bed, and before going to bed Ashwell began to make her complaint, and by
      her I do perceive that she has received most base usage from my wife,
      which my wife sillily denies, but it is impossible the wench could invent
      words and matter so particularly, against which my wife has nothing to say
      but flatly to deny, which I am sorry to see, and blows to have past, and
      high words even at Hinchinbrooke House among my Lady's people, of which I
      am mightily ashamed. I said nothing to either of them, but let them talk
      till she was gone and left us abed, and then I told my wife my mind with
      great sobriety of grief, and so to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Awake, and to chide my wife again, and I find that my wife has got
      too great head to be brought down soon, nor is it possible with any
      convenience to keep Ashwell longer, my wife is so set and convinced, as
      she was in Sarah, to make her appear a Lyer in every small thing that we
      shall have no peace while she stays. So I up and to my office doing
      several businesses in my study, and so home to dinner. The time having
      outslipt me and my stomach, it being past, two a-clock, and yet before we
      could sit down to dinner Mrs. Harper and her cousin Jane came, and we
      treated and discoursed long about her coming to my wife for a chamber
      mayd, and I think she will do well. So they went away expecting notice
      when she shall come, and so we sat down to dinner at four a-clock almost,
      and then I walked forth to my brother's, where I found my father very
      discontented, and has no mind to come to my house, and would have begun
      some of the differences between my wife and him, but I desired to hear
      none of them, and am sorry at my folly in forcing it and theirs in not
      telling me of it at the beginning, and therefore am resolved to make the
      best of a bad market, and to bring my wife to herself again as soon and as
      well as I can. So we parted very kindly, and he will dine with me
      to-morrow or next day. Thence walked home, doing several errands by the
      way, and at home took my wife to visit Sir W. Pen, who is still lame, and
      after an hour with him went home and supped, and with great content to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Lay pretty long in bed, being a little troubled with some pain got
      by wind and cold, and so up with good peace of mind, hoping that my wife
      will mind her house and servants, and so to the office, and being too soon
      to sit walked to my viail, which is well nigh done, and I believe I may
      have it home to my mind next week. So back to my office, and there we sat
      all the morning, I till 2 o'clock before I could go to dinner again. After
      dinner walked forth to my instrument maker, and there had my rule he made
      me lay now so perfected, that I think in all points I have never need or
      desire a better, or think that any man yet had one so good in all the
      several points of it for my use. So by water down to Deptford, taking into
      my boat with me Mr. Palmer, one whom I knew and his wife when I was first
      married, being an acquaintance of my wife's and her friends lodging at
      Charing Cross during our differences. He joyed me in my condition, and
      himself it seems is forced to follow the law in a common ordinary way, but
      seems to do well, and is a sober man, enough by his discourse. He landed
      with me at Deptford, where he saw by the officers' respect to me a piece
      of my command, and took notice of it, though God knows I hope I shall not
      be elated with that, but rather desire to be known for serving the King
      well, and doing my duty. He gone I walked up and down the yard a while
      discoursing with the officers, and so by water home meditating on my new
      Rule with great pleasure. So to my office, and there by candle light doing
      business, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). Up and with my wife to church, and finding her desirous
      to go to church, I did suspect her meeting of Pembleton, but he was not
      there, and so I thought my jealousy in vain, and treat the sermon with
      great quiet. And home to dinner very pleasant, only some angry,
      notwithstanding my wife could not forbear to give Ashwell, and after
      dinner to church again, and there, looking up and down, I found Pembleton
      to stand in the isle against us, he coming too late to get a pew. Which,
      Lord! into what a sweat did it put me! I do not think my wife did see him,
      which did a little satisfy me. But it makes me mad to see of what a
      jealous temper I am and cannot helpe it, though let him do what he can I
      do not see, as I am going to reduce my family, what hurt he can do me,
      there being no more occasion now for my wife to learn of him. Here
      preached a confident young coxcomb. So home, and I staid a while with Sir
      J. Minnes, at Mrs. Turner's, hearing his parrat talk, laugh, and crow,
      which it do to admiration. So home and with my wife to see Sir W. Pen, and
      thence to my uncle Wight, and took him at supper and sat down, where
      methinks my uncle is more kind than he used to be both to me now, and my
      father tell me to him also, which I am glad at. After supper home, it
      being extraordinary dark, and by chance a lanthorn came by, and so we
      hired it to light us home, otherwise were we no sooner within doors but a
      great showre fell that had doused us cruelly if we had not been within, it
      being as dark as pitch. So to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and then fell into discourse, my wife and I to Ashwell, and much
      against my will I am fain to express a willingness to Ashwell that she
      should go from us, and yet in my mind I am glad of it, to ease me of the
      charge. So she is to go to her father this day. And leaving my wife and
      her talking highly, I went away by coach with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W.
      Batten to St. James's, and there attended of course the Duke. And so to
      White Hall, where I met Mr. Moore, and he tells me with great sorrow of my
      lord's being debauched he fears by this woman at Chelsey, which I am
      troubled at, and resolve to speak to him of it if I can seasonably. Thence
      home, where I dined, and after dinner comes our old mayde Susan to look
      for a gorgett that she says she has lost by leaving it here, and by many
      circumstances it being clear to me that Hannah, our present cook-mayde,
      not only has it, but had it on upon her necke when Susan came in, and
      shifted it off presently upon her coming in, I did charge her so home with
      it (having a mind to have her gone from us), that in a huff she told us
      she would be gone to-night if I would pay her her wages, which I was glad
      and my wife of, and so fetched her her wages, and though I am doubtful
      that she may convey some things away with her clothes, my wife searching
      them, yet we are glad of her being so gone, and so she went away in a
      quarter of an hour's time. Being much amused at this to have never a maid
      but Ashwell, that we do not intend to keep, nor a boy, and my wife and I
      being left for an hour, till my brother came in, alone in the house, I
      grew very melancholy, and so my brother being come in I went forth to Mrs.
      Holden's, to whom I formerly spoke about a girle to come to me instead of
      a boy, and the like I did to Mrs. Standing and also to my brother Tom,
      whom I found at an alehouse in Popinjay ally drinking, and I standing with
      him at the gate of the ally, Ashwell came by, and so I left Tom and went
      almost home with her, talking of her going away. I find that she is
      willing to go, and told her (though behind my back my wife has told her
      that it was more my desire than hers that she should go, which was not
      well), that seeing my wife and she could not agree I did choose rather
      (was she my sister) have her gone, it would be better for us and for her
      too. To which she willing agreed, and will not tell me anything but that
      she do believe that my wife would have some body there that might not be
      so liable to give me information of things as she takes her to be. But,
      however, I must later to prevent all that. I parted with her near home,
      agreeing to take no notice of my coming along with her, and so by and by
      came home after her. Where I find a sad distracted house, which troubles
      me. However, to supper and prayers and to bed. And while we were getting
      to bed my wife began to discourse to her, and plainly asked whether she
      had got a place or no. And the other answered that she could go if we
      would to one of our own office, to which we agreed if she would. She
      thereupon said no; she would not go to any but where she might teach
      children, because of keeping herself in use of what things she had earnt,
      which she do not here nor will there, but only dressing. By which I
      perceive the wench is cunning, but one very fit for such a place, and
      accomplished to be woman to any lady in the land. So quietly to sleep, it
      being a cold night. But till my house is settled, I do not see that I can
      mind my business of the office, which grieves me to the heart. But I hope
      all will over in a little time, and I hope to the best. This day at Mrs.
      Holden's I found my new low crowned beaver according to the present
      fashion made, and will be sent home to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and to my office, where we sat all the morning. And at noon home,
      and my father came and dined with me, Susan being come and helped my wife
      to dress dinner. After dinner my father and I talked about our
      country-matters, and in fine I find that he thinks L50 per ann. will go
      near to keep them all, which I am glad of. He having taken his leave of me
      and my wife without any mention of the differences between them and my
      wife in the country, I went forth to several places about businesses, and
      so home again, and after prayers to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up betimes, and my wife up and about the house, Susan beginning to
      have her drunken tricks, and put us in mind of her old faults and folly
      and distractednesse, which we had forgot, so that I became mightily
      troubled with her. This morning came my joyners to new lay the floors, and
      begun with the dining room. I out and see my viall again, and it is very
      well, and to Mr. Hollyard, and took some pills of him and a note under his
      hand to drink wine with my beere, without which I was obliged, by my
      private vowe, to drink none a good while, and have strictly observed it,
      and by my drinking of small beere and not eating, I am so mightily
      troubled with wind, that I know not what to do almost. Thence to White
      Hall, and there met Mr. Moore, and fell a-talking about my Lord's folly at
      Chelsey, and it was our discourse by water to London and to the great
      coffee house against the Exchange, where we sat a good while talking; and
      I find that my lord is wholly given up to this wench, who it seems has
      been reputed a common strumpett. I have little encouragement from Mr.
      Moore to meddle with it to tell my Lord, for fear it may do him no good,
      but me hurt. Thence homewards, taking leave of him, and met Tom Marsh, my
      old acquaintance at Westminster, who talks mightily of the honour of his
      place, being Clerke Assistant to the Clerke of the House of Commons, and I
      take him to be a coxcombe, and so did give him half a pint of wine, but
      drink none myself, and so got shut of him. So home, and there found my
      wife almost mad with Susan's tricks, so as she is forced to let her go and
      leave the house all in dirt and the clothes all wet, and gets Goody
      Taylour to do the business for her till another comes. Here came Will
      Howe, and he and I alone in my chamber talking of my Lord, who drives me
      out of love to my Lord to tell my Lord of the matter we discoursed of,
      which tend so much to the ruin of his state, and so I resolved to take a
      good heart and do whatever comes of it. He gone, we sat down and eat a bit
      of dinner fetched from the cooke's, and so up again and to my joyners, who
      will make my floors very handsome. By and by comes in Pembleton, which
      begun to make me sweat, but I did give him so little countenance, and
      declared at one word against dancing any more, and bid him a short (God be
      with you) myself, and so he took as short a leave of my wife and so went
      away, and I think without any time of receiving any great satisfaction
      from my wife or invitation to come again. To my office till it was dark
      doing business, and so home by candle light to make up my accounts for my
      Lord and Mr. Moore. By and by comes Mr. Moore to me, and staid a good
      while with me making up his accounts and mine, and we did not come to any
      end therein for want of his papers, and so put it off to another time. He
      supped with me in all my dirt and disorder, and so went away and we to
      bed. I discoursed with him a great while about my speaking to my Lord of
      his business, and I apprehend from him that it is likely to prove perhaps
      of bad effect to me and no good to him, and therefore I shall even let it
      alone and let God do his will, at least till my Lord is in the country,
      and then we shall see whether he resolves to come to Chelsey again or no,
      and so order the stopping of him therein if we can.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up betimes and to my office (having first been angry with my brother
      John, and in the heat of my sudden passion called him Asse and coxcomb,
      for which I am sorry, it being but for leaving the key of his chamber with
      a spring lock within side of his door), and there we sat all the morning,
      and at noon dined at home, and there found a little girl, which she told
      my wife her name was Jinny, by which name we shall call her. I think a
      good likely girl, and a parish child of St. Bride's, of honest parentage,
      and recommended by the churchwarden. After dinner among my joyners laying
      my floors, which please me well, and so to my office, and we sat this
      afternoon upon an extraordinary business of victualling. In the evening
      came Commissioner Pett, who fell foule on mee for my carriage to him at
      Chatham, wherein, after protestation of my love and good meaning to him,
      he was quiet; but I doubt he will not be able to do the service there that
      any other man of his ability would. Home in the evening my viall (and lute
      new strung being brought home too), and I would have paid Mr. Hunt for it,
      but he did not come along with it himself, which I expected and was angry
      for it, so much is it against my nature to owe anything to any body. This
      evening the girle that was brought to me to-day for so good a one, being
      cleansed of lice this day by my wife, and good, new clothes put on her
      back, she run away from Goody Taylour that was shewing her the way to the
      bakehouse, and we heard no more of her. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up betimes and among my joyners, and to my office, where the joyners
      are also laying mouldings in the inside of my closet. Then abroad and by
      water to White Hall, and there got Sir G. Carteret to sign me my last
      quarter's bills for my wages, and meeting with Mr. Creed he told me how my
      Lord Teviott hath received another attaque from Guyland at Tangier with
      10,000 men, and at last, as is said, is come, after a personal treaty with
      him, to a good understanding and peace with him. Thence to my brother's,
      and there told him how my girl has served us which he sent me, and
      directed him to get my clothes again, and get the girl whipped. So to
      other places by the way about small businesses, and so home, and after
      looking over all my workmen, I went by water and land to Deptford, and
      there found by appointment Sir W. Batten, but he was got to Mr. Waith's to
      dinner, where I dined with him, a good dinner and good discourse, and his
      wife, I believe, a good woman. We fell in discourse of Captain Cocke, and
      how his lady has lost all her fine linen almost, but besides that they say
      she gives out she had L3000 worth of linen, which we all laugh at, and Sir
      W. Batten (who I perceive is not so fond of the Captain as he used to be,
      and less of her, from her slight receiving of him and his lady it seems
      once) told me how he should say that he see he must spend L700 per ann.
      get it how he could, which was a high speech, and by all men's discover,
      his estate not good enough to spend so much. After dinner altered our
      design to go to Woolwich, and put it off to to-morrow morning, and so went
      all to Greenwich (Mrs. Waith excepted, who went thither, but not to the
      same house with us, but to her father's, that lives there), to the
      musique-house, where we had paltry musique, till the master organist came,
      whom by discourse I afterwards knew, having employed him for my Lord
      Sandwich, to prick out something (his name Arundell), and he did give me a
      fine voluntary or two, and so home by water, and at home I find my girl
      that run away brought by a bedel of St. Bride's Parish, and stripped her
      and sent her away, and a newe one come, of Griffin's helping to, which I
      think will prove a pretty girl. Her name, Susan, and so to supper after
      having this evening paid Mr. Hunt L3 for my viall (besides the carving
      which I paid this day 10s. for to the carver), and he tells me that I may,
      without flattery, say, I have as good a Theorbo viall and viallin as is in
      England. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up by four o'clock to go with Sir W. Batten to Woolwich and Sir J.
      Minnes, which we did, though not before 6 or 7 by their laying a-bed. Our
      business was to survey the new wharf building there, in order to the
      giving more to him that do it (Mr. Randall) than contracted for, but I see
      no reason for it, though it be well done, yet no better than contracted to
      be. Here we eat and drank at the Clerke of the Cheques, and in taking
      water at the Tower gate, we drank a cup of strong water, which I did out
      of pure conscience to my health, and I think is not excepted by my oaths,
      but it is a thing I shall not do again, hoping to have no such occasion.
      After breakfast Mr. Castle and I walked to Greenwich, and in our way met
      some gypsys, who would needs tell me my fortune, and I suffered one of
      them, who told me many things common as others do, but bade me beware of a
      John and a Thomas, for they did seek to do me hurt, and that somebody
      should be with me this day se'nnight to borrow money of me, but I should
      lend him none. She got ninepence of me. And so I left them and to
      Greenwich and so to Deptford, where the two knights were come, and thence
      home by water, where I find my closet done at my office to my mind and
      work gone well on at home; and Ashwell gone abroad to her father, my wife
      having spoken plainly to her. After dinner to my office, getting my closet
      made clean and setting some papers in order, and so in the evening home
      and to bed. This day Sir W. Batten tells me that Mr. Newburne (of whom the
      nickname came up among us forarse Tom Newburne) is dead of eating
      cowcumbers, of which, the other day, I heard another, I think Sir Nicholas
      Crisp's son.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). Up and to church without my wife, she being all dirty,
      as my house is. God forgive me, I looked about to see if I could spy
      Pembleton, but I could not, which did please me not a little. Home to
      dinner, and then to walk up and down in my house with my wife, discoursing
      of our family matters, and I hope, after all my troubles of mind and
      jealousy, we shall live happily still. To church again, and so home to my
      wife; and with her read "Iter Boreale," a poem, made just at the King's
      coming home; but I never read it before, and now like it pretty well, but
      not so as it was cried up. So to supper. No pleasure or discourse with
      Ashwell, with whom for her neglect and unconcernment to do any thing in
      this time of dirt and trouble in the house, but gadding abroad as she has
      been all this afternoon, I know not whither. After supper to prayers and
      to bed, having been, by a sudden letter coming to me from Mr. Coventry,
      been with Sir W. Pen, to discourse with him about sending 500 soldiers
      into Ireland. I doubt matters do not go very right there.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up very early, and my joyners came to work. I to Mr. Moore; from him
      came back home again, and drew up an account to my Lord, and that being
      done met him at my Lord Sandwich's, where I was a good while alone with my
      Lord; and I perceive he confides in me and loves me as he uses to do, and
      tells me his condition, which is now very well all I fear is that he will
      not live within compass, for I am told this morning of strange dotages of
      his upon the slut at Chelsea, even in the presence of his daughter, my
      Lady Jem, and Mrs. Ferrets, who took notice of it. There come to him this
      morning his prints of the river Tagus and the City of Lisbon, which he
      measured with his own hand, and printed by command of the King. My Lord
      pleases himself with it, but methinks it ought to have been better done
      than by jobing. Besides I put him upon having some took off upon white
      sattin, which he ordered presently. I offered my Lord my accounts, and did
      give him up his old bond for L500 and took a new one of him for L700,
      which I am by lending him more money to make up: and I am glad of it. My
      Lord would have had me dine with him, but I had a mind to go home to my
      workmen, and so took a kind good bye of him, and so with Creed to St.
      James's, and, missing Mr. Coventry, walked to the New Exchange, and there
      drank some whey, and so I by water home, and found my closett at my office
      made very clean and neat to my mind mightily, and home to dinner, and then
      to my office to brush my books, and put them and my papers in order again,
      and all the afternoon till late at night doing business there, and so home
      to supper, and then to work in my chamber, making matters of this day's
      accounts clear in my books, they being a little extraordinary, and so
      being very late I put myself to bed, the rest being long ago gone.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up very early and removed the things out of my chamber into the
      dining room, it being to be new floored this day. So the workmen being
      come and falling to work there, I to the office, and thence down to
      Lymehouse to Phin. Pett's about masts, and so back to the office, where we
      sat; and being rose, and Mr. Coventry being gone, taking his leave, for
      that he is to go to the Bath with the Duke to-morrow, I to the 'Change and
      there spoke with several persons, and lastly with Sir W. Warren, and with
      him to a Coffee House, and there sat two hours talking of office business
      and Mr. Wood's knavery, which I verily believe, and lastly he tells me
      that he hears that Captain Cocke is like to become a principal officer,
      either a Controller or a Surveyor, at which I am not sorry so either of
      the other may be gone, and I think it probable enough that it may be so.
      So home at 2 o'clock, and there I found Ashwell gone, and her wages come
      to 50s., and my wife, by a mistake from me, did give her 20s. more; but I
      am glad that she is gone and the charge saved. After dinner among my
      joyners, and with them till dark night, and this night they made an end of
      all; and so having paid them 40s. for their six days' work, I am glad they
      have ended and are gone, for I am weary and my wife too of this dirt. My
      wife growing peevish at night, being weary, and I a little vexed to see
      that she do not retain things in her memory that belong to the house as
      she ought and I myself do, I went out in a little seeming discontent to
      the office, and after being there a while, home to supper and to bed.
      To-morrow they say the King and the Duke set out for the Bath. This noon
      going to the Exchange, I met a fine fellow with trumpets before him in
      Leadenhall-street, and upon enquiry I find that he is the clerk of the
      City Market; and three or four men carried each of them an arrow of a
      pound weight in their hands. It seems this Lord Mayor begins again an old
      custome, that upon the three first days of Bartholomew Fayre, the first,
      there is a match of wrestling, which was done, and the Lord Mayor there
      and Aldermen in Moorefields yesterday: to-day, shooting: and to-morrow,
      hunting. And this officer of course is to perform this ceremony of riding
      through the city, I think to proclaim or challenge any to shoot. It seems
      that the people of the fayre cry out upon it as a great hindrance to them.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and after doing something in order to the putting of my house in
      order now the joynery is done, I went by water to White Hall, where the
      Court full of waggons and horses, the King and Court going this day out
      towards the Bath, and I to St. James's, where I spent an hour or more
      talking of many things to my great content with Mr. Coventry in his
      chamber, he being ready to set forth too with the Duke to-day, and so left
      him, and I meeting Mr. Gauden, with him to our offices and in Sir W. Pen's
      chamber did discourse by a meeting on purpose with Mr. Waith about the
      victualling business and came to some issue in it. So home to dinner, and
      Mr. Moore came and dined with me, and after dinner I paid him some money
      which evened all reckonings between him and me to this day, and for my
      Lord also I paid him some money, so that now my Lord owes me, for which I
      have his bond, just L700. After long discourse with him of the fitness of
      his giving me a receipt for this money, which I for my security think
      necessary and he otherwise do not think so, at last, after being a little
      angry, and I resolving not to let go my money without it, he did give me
      one. Thence I took him, and he and I took a pleasant walk to Deptford and
      back again, I doing much business there. He went home and I home also,
      indoors to supper, being very glad to see my house begin to look like
      itself again, hoping after this is over not to be in any dirt a great
      while again, but it is very handsome, and will be more when the floors
      come to be of one colour. So weary to bed. Pleased this day to see Captain
      Hickes come to me with a list of all the officers of Deptford Yard,
      wherein he, being a high old Cavalier, do give me an account of every one
      of them to their reproach in all respects, and discovers many of their
      knaverys; and tells me, and so I thank God I hear every where, that my
      name is up for a good husband for the King, and a good man, for which I
      bless God; and that he did this by particular direction of Mr. Coventry.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, after much pleasant talke with my wife and a little that vexes
      me, for I see that she is confirmed in it that all that I do is by design,
      and that my very keeping of the house in dirt, and the doing of this and
      any thing else in the house, is but to find her employment to keep her
      within and from minding of her pleasure, in which, though I am sorry to
      see she minds it, is true enough in a great degree. To my office, and
      there we sat and despatched much business. Home and dined with my wife
      well, and then up and made clean my closet of books, and had my chamber a
      third time made very clean, so that it is now in a very fine condition.
      Thence down to see some good plank in the river with Sir W. Batten and
      back again, it being a very cold day and a cold wind. Home again, and
      after seeing Sir W. Pen, to my office, and there till late doing of
      business, being mightily encouraged by every body that I meet withal upon
      the 'Change and every where else, that I am taken notice of for a man that
      do the King's business wholly and well. For which the Lord be praised, for
      I know no honour I desire more. Home to supper, where I find my house very
      clean from top to bottom again to my great content. I found a feacho (as
      he calls it) of fine sugar and a case of orange-flower water come from Mr.
      Cocke, of Lisbon, the fruits of my last year's service to him, which I did
      in great justice to the man, a perfect stranger. He sends it me desiring
      that I would not let Sir J. Minnes know it, from whom he expected to have
      found the service done that he had from me, from whom he could expect
      nothing, and the other failed him, and would have done I am sure to this
      day had not I brought it to some end. After supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. At the office betimes (it being cold all night and this morning, and
      a very great frost they say abroad, which is much, having had no summer at
      all almost), where we sat, and in the afternoon also about settling the
      establishment of the number of men borne on ships, &amp;c., till the
      evening, and after that in my closet till late, and quite tired with
      business, home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Abroad with my wife by water to Westminster, and there left her at
      my Lord's lodgings, and I to Jervas the barber's, and there was trimmed,
      and did deliver back a periwigg, which he brought by my desire the other
      day to show me, having some thoughts, though no great desire or resolution
      yet to wear one, and so I put it off for a while. Thence to my wife, and
      calling at both the Exchanges, buying stockings for her and myself, and
      also at Leadenhall, where she and I, it being candlelight, bought meat for
      to-morrow, having never a mayde to do it, and I myself bought, while my
      wife was gone to another shop, a leg of beef, a good one, for six pense,
      and my wife says is worth my money. So walked home with a woman carrying
      our things. I am mightily displeased at a letter Tom sent me last night,
      to borrow L20 more of me, and yet gives me no account, as I have long
      desired, how matters stand with him in the world. I am troubled also to
      see how, contrary to my expectation, my brother John neither is the
      scholler nor minds his studies as I thought would have done, but loiters
      away his time, so that I must send him soon to Cambridge again.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up and to my office all the morning, where Sir W. Batten and Sir J.
      Minnes did pay the short allowance money to the East India companies, and
      by the assistance of the City Marshall and his men, did lay hold of two or
      three of the chief of the companies that were in the mutiny the other day,
      and sent them to prison. This noon came Jane Gentleman to serve my wife as
      her chamber mayde. I wish she may prove well. So ends this month, with my
      mind pretty well in quiett, and in good disposition of health since my
      drinking at home of a little wine with my beer; but no where else do I
      drink any wine at all. The King and Queen and the Court at the Bath, my
      Lord Sandwich in the country newly gone.
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      SEPTEMBER 1663
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    <p>
      Sept. 1st. Up pretty betimes, and after a little at my viall to my office,
      where we sat all the morning, and I got my bill among others for my carved
      work (which I expected to have paid for myself) signed at the table, and
      hope to get the money back again, though if the rest had not got it paid
      by the King, I never intended nor did desire to have him pay for my
      vanity. In the evening my brother John coming to me to complain that my
      wife seems to be discontented at his being here, and shows him great
      disrespect; so I took and walked with him in the garden, and discoursed
      long with him about my affairs, and how imprudent it is for my father and
      mother and him to take exceptions without great cause at my wife,
      considering how much it concerns them to keep her their friend and for my
      peace; not that I would ever be led by her to forget or desert them in the
      main, but yet she deserves to be pleased and complied with a little,
      considering the manner of life that I keep her to, and how convenient it
      were for me to have Brampton for her to be sent to when I have a mind or
      occasion to go abroad to Portsmouth or elsewhere. So directed him how to
      behave himself to her, and gave him other counsel; and so to my office,
      where late.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up betimes and to my office, and thence with Sir J. Minnes by coach
      to White Hall, where met us Sir W. Batten, and there staid by the Council
      Chamber till the Lords called us in, being appointed four days ago to
      attend them with an account of the riott among the seamen the other day,
      when Sir J. Minnes did as like a coxcomb as ever I saw any man speak in my
      life, and so we were dismissed, they making nothing almost of the matter.
      We staid long without, till by and by my Lord Mayor comes, who also was
      commanded to be there, and he having, we not being within with him, an
      admonition from the Lords to take better care of preserving the peace, we
      joyned with him, and the Lords having commanded Sir J. Minnes to prosecute
      the fellows for the riott, we rode along with my Lord Mayor in his coach
      to the Sessions House in the Old Bayley, where the Sessions are now
      sitting. Here I heard two or three ordinary tryalls, among others one
      (which, they say, is very common now-a-days, and therefore in my now
      taking of mayds I resolve to look to have some body to answer for them) a
      woman that went and was indicted by four names for entering herself a
      cookemayde to a gentleman that prosecuted her there, and after 3 days run
      away with a silver tankard, a porringer of silver, and a couple of spoons,
      and being now found is found guilty, and likely will be hanged. By and by
      up to dinner with my Lord Mayor and the Aldermen, and a very great dinner
      and most excellent venison, but it almost made me sick by not daring to
      drink wine. After dinner into a withdrawing room; and there we talked,
      among other things, of the Lord Mayor's sword. They tell me this sword,
      they believe, is at least a hundred or two hundred years old; and another
      that he hath, which is called the Black Sword, which the Lord Mayor wears
      when he mournes, but properly is their Lenten sword to wear upon Good
      Friday and other Lent days, is older than that. Thence I, leaving Sir J.
      Minnes to look after his indictment drawing up, I home by water, and there
      found my wife mightily pleased with a present of shells, fine shells given
      her by Captain Hickes, and so she and I up and look them over, and indeed
      they are very pleasant ones. By and by in comes Mr. Lewellin, lately come
      from Ireland, to see me, and he tells me how the English interest falls
      mightily there, the Irish party being too great, so that most of the old
      rebells are found innocent, and their lands, which were forfeited and
      bought or given to the English, are restored to them; which gives great
      discontent there among the English. He being gone, I to my office, where
      late, putting things in order, and so home to supper and to bed. Going
      through the City, my Lord Mayor told me how the piller set up by Exeter
      House is only to show where the pipes of water run to the City; and
      observed that this City is as well watered as any city in the world, and
      that the bringing the water to the City hath cost it first and last above
      L300,000; but by the new building, and the building of St. James's by my
      Lord St. Albans,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [It was at this time that the Earl of St. Albans planned St. James's
     Square, which was first styled "The Piazza."  The "Warrant for a
     grant to Baptist May and Abraham Cowley on nomination of the Earl of
     St. Albans of several parcels of ground in Pall Mall described, on
     rental of L80, for building thereon a square of 13 or 14 great and
     good houses," was dated September 24th, 1664.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which is now about (and which the City stomach I perceive highly, but dare
      not oppose it), were it now to be done, it would not be done for a million
      of money.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up betimes, and for an hour at my viall before my people rise. Then
      up and to the office a while, and then to Sir W. Batten, who is going this
      day for pleasure down to the Downes. I eat a breakfast with them, and at
      my Lady's desire with them by coach to Greenwich, where I went aboard with
      them on the Charlotte yacht. The wind very fresh, and I believe they will
      be all sicke enough, besides that she is mighty troublesome on the water.
      Methinks she makes over much of her husband's ward, young Mr. Griffin, as
      if she expected some service from him when he comes to it, being a pretty
      young boy. I left them under sayle, and I to Deptford, and, after a word
      or two with Sir J. Minnes, walked to Redriffe and so home. In my way, it
      coming into my head, overtaking of a beggar or two on the way that looked
      like Gypsys, what the Gypsys 8 or 9 days ago had foretold, that somebody
      that day se'nnight should be with me to borrow money, but I should lend
      none; and looking, when I came to my office, upon my journall, that my
      brother John had brought a letter that day from my brother Tom to borrow
      L20 more of me, which had vexed me so that I had sent the letter to my
      father into the country, to acquaint him of it, and how little he is
      beforehand that he is still forced to borrow. But it pleased me mightily
      to see how, contrary to my expectations, having so lately lent him L20,
      and belief that he had money by him to spare, and that after some days not
      thinking of it, I should look back and find what the Gypsy had told me to
      be so true. After dinner at home to my office, and there till late doing
      business, being very well pleased with Mr. Cutler's coming to me about
      some business, and among other things tells me that they value me as a man
      of business, which he accounts the best virtuoso, and I know his thinking
      me so, and speaking where he comes, may be of good use to me. Home to
      supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up betimes, and an hour at my viall, and then abroad by water to
      White Hall and Westminster Hall, and there bought the first newes-books of
      L'Estrange's writing;
    </p>
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     [Roger L'Estrange, a voluminous writer of pamphlets and periodical
     papers, and translator of classics, &amp;c.  Born 1616.  He was Licenser
     of the Press to Charles II. and James II.; and M.P. for Winchester
     in James II.'s parliament.  L'Estrange was knighted in the reign of
     James II., and died 1704.  In 1663 L'Estrange set up a paper called
     "The Public Intelligencer," which came out on August 31st, and
     continued to be published twice a week till January 19th, 1665, when
     it was superseded by the scheme of publishing the "London Gazette,"
     the first number of which appeared on February 4th following.]
</pre>
    <p>
      he beginning this week; and makes, methinks, but a simple beginning. Then
      to speak to Mrs. Lane, who seems desirous to have me come to see her and
      to have her company as I had a little while ago, which methinks if she
      were very modest, considering how I tumbled her and tost her, she should
      not. Thence to Mrs. Harper, and sent for Creed, and there Mrs. Harper sent
      for a maid for me to come to live with my wife. I like the maid's looks
      well enough, and I believe may do well, she looking very modestly and
      speaking so too. I directed her to speak with my wife, and so Creed and I
      away to Mr. Povy's, and he not being at home, walked to Lincoln's Inn
      walks, which they are making very fine, and about one o'clock went back to
      Povy's; and by and by in comes he, and so we sat and down to dinner, and
      his lady, whom I never saw before (a handsome old woman that brought him
      money that makes him do as he does), and so we had plenty of meat and
      drink, though I drunk no wine, though mightily urged to it, and in the
      exact manner that I never saw in my life any where, and he the most full
      and satisfied in it that man can be in this world with any thing. After
      dinner done, to see his new cellars, which he has made so fine with so
      noble an arch and such contrivances for his barrels and bottles, and in a
      room next to it such a grotto and fountayne, which in summer will be so
      pleasant as nothing in the world can be almost. But to see how he himself
      do pride himself too much in it, and command and expect to have all
      admiration, though indeed everything do highly deserve it, is a little
      troublesome. Thence Creed and I away, and by his importunity away by coach
      to Bartholomew Fayre, where I have no mind to go without my wife, and
      therefore rode through the fayre without 'lighting, and away home, leaving
      him there; and at home made my wife get herself presently ready, and so
      carried her by coach to the fayre, and showed her the monkeys dancing on
      the ropes, which was strange, but such dirty sport that I was not pleased
      with it. There was also a horse with hoofs like rams hornes, a goose with
      four feet, and a cock with three. Thence to another place, and saw some
      German Clocke works, the Salutation of the Virgin Mary, and several
      Scriptural stories; but above all there was at last represented the sea,
      with Neptune, Venus, mermaids, and Ayrid on a dolphin, the sea rocking, so
      well done, that had it been in a gaudy manner and place, and at a little
      distance, it had been admirable. Thence home by coach with my wife, and I
      awhile to the office, and so to supper and to bed. This day I read a
      Proclamation for calling in and commanding every body to apprehend my Lord
      Bristoll.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up betimes and to my viall awhile, and so to the office, and there
      sat, and busy all the morning. So at noon to the Exchange, and so home to
      dinner, where I met Creed, who dined with me, and after dinner mightily
      importuned by Captain Hicks, who came to tell my wife the names and story
      of all the shells, which was a pretty present he made her the other day.
      He being gone, Creed, my wife, and I to Cornhill, and after many tryalls
      bought my wife a chintz, that is, a painted Indian callico, for to line
      her new study, which is very pretty. So home with her, and then I away
      (Creed being gone) to Captain Minors upon Tower Hill, and there, abating
      only some impertinence of his, I did inform myself well in things relating
      to the East Indys; both of the country and the disappointment the King met
      with the last voyage, by the knavery of the Portugall Viceroy, and the
      inconsiderablenesse of the place of Bombaim,
    </p>
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     [Bombay, which was transferred to the East India Company in 1669.
     The seat of the Western Presidency of India was removed from Surat
     to Bombay in 1685-87.]
</pre>
    <p>
      if we had had it. But, above all things, it seems strange to me that
      matters should not be understood before they went out; and also that such
      a thing as this, which was expected to be one of the best parts of the
      Queen's portion, should not be better understood; it being, if we had it,
      but a poor place, and not really so as was described to our King in the
      draught of it, but a poor little island; whereas they made the King and
      Lord Chancellor, and other learned men about the King, believe that that,
      and other islands which are near it, were all one piece; and so the
      draught was drawn and presented to the King, and believed by the King and
      expected to prove so when our men came thither; but it is quite otherwise.
      Thence to my office, and after several letters writ, home to supper and to
      bed, and took a pill. I hear this day that Sir W. Batten was fain to put
      ashore at Queenborough with my Lady, who has been so sick she swears never
      to go to sea again. But it happens well that Holmes is come home into the
      Downes, where he will meet my Lady, and it may be do her more good than
      she looked for. He brings news of the peace between Tangier and the Moors,
      but the particulars I know not. He is come but yesterday.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). My pill I took last night worked very well, and I lay
      long in bed and sweat to get away the itching all about my body from head
      to foot, which is beginning again as it did the last winter, and I find
      after I am up that it is abated. I staid at home all day and my wife also,
      whom, God forgive me, I staid along with me for fear of her seeing of
      Pembleton. But she and I entertained one another all day long with great
      pleasure, contriving about my wife's closet and the bedchamber, whither we
      intend to go up she and I to-day. We dined alone and supped also at night,
      my brother John with us, and so to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up pretty betimes, and awhile to my vyall, and then abroad to several
      places, to buy things for the furnishing my house and my wife's closet,
      and then met my uncle Thomas, by appointment, and he and I to the
      Prerogative Office in Paternoster Row, and there searched and found my
      uncle Day's will, end read it over and advised upon it, and his wife's
      after him, and though my aunt Perkins testimony is very good, yet I fear
      the estate being great, and the rest that are able to inform us in the
      matter are all possessed of more or less of the estate, it will be hard
      for us ever to do anything, nor will I adventure anything till I see what
      part will be given to us by my uncle Thomas of all that is gained. But I
      had another end of putting my uncle into some doubt, that so I might keep
      him: yet from going into the country that he may be there against the
      Court at his own charge, and so I left him and his son at a loss what to
      do till I see them again. And so I to my Lord Crew's, thinking to have
      dined there, but it was too late, and so back and called at my brother's
      and Mr. Holden's about several businesses, and went all alone to the Black
      Spread Eagle in Bride Lane, and there had a chopp of veale and some bread,
      cheese, and beer, cost me a shilling to my dinner, and so through Fleet
      Ally, God forgive me, out of an itch to look upon the sluts there, against
      which when I saw them my stomach turned, and so to Bartholomew Fayre,
      where I met with Mr. Pickering, and he and I to see the monkeys at the
      Dutch house, which is far beyond the other that my wife and I saw the
      other day; and thence to see the dancing on the ropes, which was very poor
      and tedious. But he and I fell in discourse about my Lord Sandwich. He
      tells me how he is sorry for my Lord at his being at Chelsey, and that his
      but seeming so to my Lord without speaking one word, had put him clear out
      of my Lord's favour, so as that he was fain to leave him before he went
      into the country, for that he was put to eat with his servants; but I
      could not fish from him, though I knew it, what was the matter; but am
      very sorry to see that my Lord hath thus much forgot his honour, but am
      resolved not to meddle with it. The play being done, I stole from him and
      hied home, buying several things at the ironmonger's&mdash;dogs, tongs,
      and shovels&mdash;for my wife's closett and the rest of my house, and so
      home, and thence to my office awhile, and so home to supper and to bed. By
      my letters from Tangier today I hear that it grows very strong by land,
      and the Mole goes on. They have lately killed two hundred of the Moores,
      and lost about forty or fifty. I am mightily afeard of laying out too much
      money in goods upon my house, but it is not money flung away, though I
      reckon nothing money but when it is in the bank, till I have a good sum
      beforehand in the world.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and to my viall a while, and then to my office on Phillips having
      brought me a draught of the Katherine yacht, prettily well done for the
      common way of doing it. At the office all the morning making up our last
      half year's account to my Lord Treasurer, which comes to L160,000 or there
      abouts, the proper expense of this half year, only with an addition of
      L13,000 for the third due of the last account to the Treasurer for his
      disbursements, and L1100 for this half year's; so that in three years and
      a half his thirds come to L14,100. Dined at home with my wife. It being
      washing day, we had a good pie baked of a leg of mutton; and then to my
      office, and then abroad, and among other places to Moxon's, and there
      bought a payre of globes cost me L3 10s., with which I am well pleased, I
      buying them principally for my wife, who has a mind to understand them,
      and I shall take pleasure to teach her. But here I saw his great window in
      his dining room, where there is the two Terrestrial Hemispheres, so
      painted as I never saw in my life, and nobly done and to good purpose,
      done by his own hand. Thence home to my office, and there at business
      late, and then to supper home and to bed, my people sitting up longer than
      ordinary before they had done their washing.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up by break of day, and then to my vials a while, and so to Sir W.
      Warren's by agreement, and after talking and eating something with him, he
      and I down by water to Woolwich, and there I did several businesses, and
      had good discourse, and thence walked to Greenwich; in my way a little boy
      overtook us with a fine cupp turned out of Lignum Vitae, which the poor
      child confessed was made in the King's yard by his father, a turner there,
      and that he do often do it, and that I might have one, and God knows what,
      which I shall examine. Thence to Sir W. Warren's again, and there drew up
      a contract for masts which he is to sell us, and so home to dinner,
      finding my poor wife busy. I, after dinner, to the office, and then to
      White Hall, to Sir G. Carteret's, but did not speak with him, and so to
      Westminster Hall, God forgive me, thinking to meet Mrs. Lane, but she was
      not there, but here I met with Ned Pickering, with whom I walked 3 or 4
      hours till evening, he telling me the whole business of my Lord's folly
      with this Mrs. Becke, at Chelsey, of all which I am ashamed to see my Lord
      so grossly play the beast and fool, to the flinging off of all honour,
      friends, servants, and every thing and person that is good, and only will
      have his private lust undisturbed with this common.... his sitting up
      night after night alone, suffering nobody to come to them, and all the day
      too, casting off Pickering, basely reproaching him with his small estate,
      which yet is a good one, and other poor courses to obtain privacy beneath
      his honour, and with his carrying her abroad and playing on his lute under
      her window, and forty other poor sordid things, which I am grieved to
      hear; but believe it to no purpose for me to meddle with it, but let him
      go on till God Almighty and his own conscience and thoughts of his lady
      and family do it. So after long discourse, to my full satisfaction but
      great trouble, I home by water and at my office late, and so to supper to
      my poor wife, and so to bed, being troubled to think that I shall be
      forced to go to Brampton the next Court, next week.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up betimes and to my office, and there sat all the morning making a
      great contract with Sir W. Warren for L3,000 worth of masts; but, good
      God! to see what a man might do, were I a knave, the whole business from
      beginning to end being done by me out of the office, and signed to by them
      upon the once reading of it to them, without the least care or
      consultation either of quality, price, number, or need of them, only in
      general that it was good to have a store. But I hope my pains was such, as
      the King has the best bargain of masts has been bought these 27 years in
      this office. Dined at home and then to my office again, many people about
      business with me, and then stepped a little abroad about business to the
      Wardrobe, but missed Mr. Moore, and elswhere, and in my way met Mr. Moore,
      who tells me of the good peace that is made at Tangier with the Moores,
      but to continue but from six months to six months, and that the Mole is
      laid out, and likely to be done with great ease and successe, we to have a
      quantity of ground for our cattle about the town to our use. To my office
      late, and then home to supper, after writing letters, and to bed. This day
      our cook maid (we having no luck in maids now-adays), which was likely to
      prove a good servant, though none of the best cooks, fell sick and is gone
      to her friends, having been with us but 4 days.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. This morning, about two or three o'clock, knocked up in our back
      yard, and rising to the window, being moonshine, I found it was the
      constable and his watch, who had found our back yard door open, and so
      came in to see what the matter was. So I desired them to shut the door,
      and bid them good night, and so to bed again, and at 6 o'clock up and a
      while to my vyall, and then to the office, where all the morning upon the
      victualler's accounts, and then with him to dinner at the Dolphin, where I
      eat well but drank no wine neither; which keeps me in such good order that
      I am mightily pleased with myself for it. Hither Mr. Moore came to me, and
      he and I home and advised about business, and so after an hour's examining
      the state of the Navy debts lately cast up, I took coach to Sir Philip
      Warwick's, but finding Sir G. Carteret there I did not go in, but directly
      home, again, it raining hard, having first of all been with Creed and Mrs.
      Harper about a cook maid, and am like to have one from Creed's lodging. In
      my way home visited my Lord Crew and Sir Thomas, thinking they might have
      enquired by the by of me touching my Lord's matters at Chelsey, but they
      said nothing, and so after some slight common talk I bid them good night.
      At home to my office, and after a while doing business home to supper and
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up betimes, and by water to White Hall; and thence to Sir Philip
      Warwick, and there had half an hour's private discourse with him; and did
      give him some good satisfaction in our Navy matters, and he also me, as to
      the money paid and due to the Navy; so as he makes me assured by
      particulars, that Sir G. Carteret is paid within L80,000 every farthing
      that we to this day, nay to Michaelmas day next have demanded; and that, I
      am sure, is above L50,000 snore than truly our expenses have been,
      whatever is become of the money. Home with great content that I have thus
      begun an acquaintance with him, who is a great man, and a man of as much
      business as any man in England; which I will endeavour to deserve and
      keep. Thence by water to my office, in here all the morning, and so to the
      'Change at noon, and there by appointment met and bring home my uncle
      Thomas, who resolves to go with me to Brampton on Monday next. I wish he
      may hold his mind. I do not tell him, and yet he believes that there is a
      Court to be that he is to do some business for us there. The truth is I do
      find him a much more cunning fellow than I ever took him for, nay in his
      very drink he has his wits about him. I took him home to dinner, and after
      dinner he began, after a glass of wine or two, to exclaim against Sir G.
      Carteret and his family in Jersey, bidding me to have a care of him, and
      how high, proud, false, and politique a fellow he is, and how low he has
      been under his command in the island. After dinner, and long discourse, he
      went away to meet on Monday morning, and I to my office, and thence by
      water to White Hall and Westminster Hall about several businesses, and so
      home, and to my office writing a laborious letter about our last account
      to my Lord Treasurer, which took me to one o'clock in the morning,
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day). So that Griffin was fain to carry it to Westminster to
      go by express, and my other letters of import to my father and elsewhere
      could not go at all. To bed between one and two and slept till 8, and lay
      talking till 9 with great pleasure with my wife. So up and put my clothes
      in order against tomorrow's journey, and then at noon at dinner, and all
      the afternoon almost playing and discoursing with my wife with great
      content, and then to my office there to put papers in order against my
      going. And by and by comes my uncle Wight to bid us to dinner to-morrow to
      a haunch of venison I sent them yesterday, given me by Mr. Povy, but I
      cannot go, but my wife will. Then into the garden to read my weekly vows,
      and then home, where at supper saying to my wife, in ordinary fondness,
      "Well! shall you and I never travel together again?" she took me up and
      offered and desired to go along with me. I thinking by that means to have
      her safe from harm's way at home here, was willing enough to feign, and
      after some difficulties made did send about for a horse and other things,
      and so I think she will go. So, in a hurry getting myself and her things
      ready, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up betimes, and my wife's mind and mine holding for her going, so
      she to get her ready, and I abroad to do the like for myself, and so home,
      and after setting every thing at my office and at home in order, by coach
      to Bishop's Gate, it being a very promising fair day. There at the Dolphin
      we met my uncle Thomas and his son-in-law, which seems a very sober man,
      and Mr. Moore. So Mr. Moore and my wife set out before, and my uncle and I
      staid for his son Thomas, who, by a sudden resolution, is preparing to go
      with us, which makes me fear something of mischief which they design to do
      us. He staying a great while, the old man and I before, and about eight
      miles off, his son comes after us, and about six miles further we overtake
      Mr. Moore and my wife, which makes me mightily consider what a great deal
      of ground is lost in a little time, when it is to be got up again by
      another, that is to go his own ground and the other's too; and so after a
      little bayte (I paying all the reckonings the whole journey) at Ware, to
      Buntingford, where my wife, by drinking some cold beer, being hot herself,
      presently after 'lighting, begins to be sick, and became so pale, and I
      alone with her in a great chamber there, that I thought she would have
      died, and so in great horror, and having a great tryall of my true love
      and passion for her, called the mayds and mistresse of the house, and so
      with some strong water, and after a little vomit, she came to be pretty
      well again; and so to bed, and I having put her to bed with great content,
      I called in my company, and supped in the chamber by her, and being very
      merry in talk, supped and then parted, and I to bed and lay very well.
      This day my cozen Thomas dropped his hanger, and it was lost.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up pretty betimes and rode as far as Godmanehester, Mr. Moore having
      two falls, once in water and another in dirt, and there 'light and eat and
      drunk, being all of us very weary, but especially my uncle and wife.
      Thence to Brampton to my father's, and there found all well, but not
      sensible how they ought to treat my uncle and his son, at least till the
      Court be over, which vexed me, but on my counsel they carried it fair to
      them; and so my father, cozen Thomas, and I up to Hinchingbroke, where I
      find my Lord and his company gone to Boughton, which vexed me; but there I
      find my Lady and the young ladies, and there I alone with my Lady two
      hours, she carrying me through every part of the house and gardens, which
      are, and will be, mighty noble indeed. Here I saw Mrs. Betty Pickering,
      who is a very well-bred and comely lady, but very fat. Thence, without so
      much as drinking, home with my father and cozen, who staid for me, and to
      a good supper; after I had had an hour's talk with my father abroad in the
      fields, wherein he begun to talk very highly of my promises to him of
      giving him the profits of Sturtlow, as if it were nothing that I give him
      out of my purse, and that he would have me to give this also from myself
      to my brothers and sister; I mean Brampton and all, I think: I confess I
      was angry to hear him talk in that manner, and took him up roundly in it,
      and advised him if he could not live upon L50 per ann., which was another
      part of his discourse, that he would think to come and live at Tom's
      again, where L50 per ann. will be a good addition to Tom's trade, and I
      think that must be done when all is done. But my father spoke nothing more
      of it all the time I was in the country, though at the time he seemed to
      like it well enough. I also spoke with Piggott too this evening before I
      went in to supper, and doubt that I shall meet with some knots in my
      business to-morrow before I can do it at the Court, but I shall do my
      best. After supper my uncle and his son to Stankes's to bed, which
      troubles me, all our father's beds being lent to Hinchingbroke, and so my
      wife and I to bed, she very weary.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up betimes, and with my wife to Hinchingbroke to see my Lady, she
      being to go to my Lord this morning, and there I left her, and so back to
      the Court, and heard Sir R. Bernard's charges to the Courts Baron and
      Leete, which took up till noon, and were worth hearing, and after putting
      my business into some way, went home to my father's to dinner, and after
      dinner to the Court, where Sir Robert and his son came again by and by,
      and then to our business, and my father and I having given bond to him for
      the L21 Piggott owed him, my uncle Thomas did quietly admit himself and
      surrender to us the lands first mortgaged for our whole debt, and Sir
      Robert added to it what makes it up L209, to be paid in six months. But
      when I came to give him an account of more lands to be surrendered to us,
      wherein Piggott's wife was concerned, and she there to give her consent,
      Sir Robert would not hear of it, but began to talk very high that we were
      very cruel, and we had caution enough for our money, and he could not in
      conscience let the woman do it, and reproached my uncle, both he and his
      son, with taking use upon use for this money. To all which I did give him
      such answers and spoke so well, and kept him so to it, that all the Court
      was silent to hear us, and by report since do confess they did never hear
      the like in the place. But he by a wile had got our bond, and I was
      content to have as much as I could though I could not get all, and so took
      Piggott's surrender of them without his wife, and by Sir Robert's own
      consent did tell the Court that if the money were not paid in the time,
      and the security prove not sufficient, I would conclude myself wronged by
      Sir Robert, which he granted I should do. This kept us till night, but am
      heartily glad it ended so well on my uncle's part, he doing that and
      Prior's little house very willingly. So the Court broke up, and my father
      and Mr. Shepley and I to Gorrum's to drink, and then I left them, and to
      the Bull, where my uncle was to hear what he and the people said of our
      business, and here nothing but what liked me very well. So by and by home
      and to supper, and with my mind in pretty good quiett, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and my father being gone to bed ill last night and continuing so
      this morning, I was forced to come to a new consideration, whether it was
      fit for to let my uncle and his son go to Wisbeach about my uncle Day's
      estate alone or no, and concluded it unfit; and so resolved to go with
      them myself, leaving my wife there, I begun a journey with them, and with
      much ado, through the fens, along dikes, where sometimes we were ready to
      have our horses sink to the belly, we got by night, with great deal of
      stir and hard riding, to Parson's Drove, a heathen place, where I found my
      uncle and aunt Perkins, and their daughters, poor wretches! in a sad, poor
      thatched cottage, like a poor barn, or stable, peeling of hemp, in which I
      did give myself good content to see their manner of preparing of hemp; and
      in a poor condition of habitt took them to our miserable inn, and there,
      after long stay, and hearing of Frank, their son, the miller, play, upon
      his treble, as he calls it, with which he earns part of his living, and
      singing of a country bawdy song, we sat down to supper; the whole crew,
      and Frank's wife and child, a sad company, of which I was ashamed, supped
      with us. And after supper I, talking with my aunt about her report
      concerning my uncle Day's will and surrender, I found her in such
      different reports from what she writes and says to the people, and short
      of what I expected, that I fear little will be done of good in it. By and
      by newes is brought to us that one of our horses is stole out of the
      stable, which proves my uncle's, at which I am inwardly glad&mdash;I mean,
      that it was not mine; and at this we were at a great loss; and they
      doubting a person that lay at next door, a Londoner, some lawyer's clerk,
      we caused him to be secured in his bed, and other care to be taken to
      seize the horse; and so about twelve at night or more, to bed in a sad,
      cold, nasty chamber, only the mayde was indifferent handsome, and so I had
      a kiss or two of her, and I to bed, and a little after I was asleep they
      waked me to tell me that the horse was found, which was good newes, and so
      to sleep till the morning, but was bit cruelly, and nobody else of our
      company, which I wonder at, by the gnatts.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and got our people together as soon as we could; and after
      eating a dish of cold cream, which was my supper last night too, we took
      leave of our beggarly company, though they seem good people, too; and over
      most sad Fenns, all the way observing the sad life which the people of the
      place which if they be born there, they do call the Breedlings' of the
      place, do live, sometimes rowing from one spot to another, and then
      wadeing, to Wisbeach, a pretty town, and a fine church and library, where
      sundry very old abbey manuscripts; and a fine house, built on the church
      ground by Secretary Thurlow, and a fine gallery built for him in the
      church, but now all in the Bishop of Ely's hands. After visiting the
      church, &amp;c., we went out of the towne, by the help of a stranger, to
      find out one Blinkhorne, a miller, of whom we might inquire something of
      old Day's disposal of his estate, and in whose hands it now is; and by
      great chance we met him, and brought him to our inn to dinner; and instead
      of being informed in his estate by this fellow, we find that he is the
      next heir to the estate, which was matter, of great sport to my cozen
      Thomas and me, to see such a fellow prevent us in our hopes, he being
      Day's brother's, daughter's son, whereas we are but his sister's sons and
      grandsons; so that, after all, we were fain to propose our matter to him,
      and to get him to give us leave to look after the business, and so he to
      have one-third part, and we two to have the other two-third parts, of what
      should be recovered of the estate, which he consented to; and after some
      discourse and paying the reckoning, we mounted again, and rode, being very
      merry at our defeat, to Chatteris, my uncle very weary, and after supper,
      and my telling of three stories, to their good liking, of spirits, we all
      three in a chamber went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up pretty betimes, and after eating something, we set out and I
      (being willing thereto) went by a mistake with them to St. Ives, and
      there, it being known that it was their nearer way to London, I took leave
      of them there, they going straight to London and I to Brampton, where I
      find my father ill in bed still, and Madam Norbery (whom and her fair
      daughter and sister I was ashamed to kiss, but did, my lip being sore with
      riding in the wind and bit with the gnatts), lately come to town, come to
      see my father and mother, and they after a little stay being gone, I told
      my father my success. And after dinner my wife and I took horse, and rode
      with marvellous, and the first and only hour of, pleasure, that ever I had
      in this estate since I had to do with it, to Brampton woods; and through
      the wood rode, and gathered nuts in my way, and then at Graffam to an old
      woman's house to drink, where my wife used to go; and being in all
      circumstances highly pleased, and in my wife's riding and good company at
      this time, I rode, and she showed me the river behind my father's house,
      which is very pleasant, and so saw her home, and I straight to Huntingdon,
      and there met Mr. Shepley and to the Crown (having sent home my horse by
      Stankes), and there a barber came and trimmed me, and thence walked to
      Hinchingbroke, where my Lord and ladies all are just alighted. And so I in
      among them, and my Lord glad to see me, and the whole company. Here I
      staid and supped with them, and after a good stay talking, but yet
      observing my Lord not to be so mightily ingulphed in his pleasure in the
      country as I expected and hoped, I took leave of them, and after a walk in
      the courtyard in the dark with Mr. Howe, who tells me that my Lord do not
      enjoy himself and please himself as he used to do, but will hasten up to
      London, and that he is resolved to go to Chelsey again, which we are
      heartily grieved for and studious how to prevent if it be possible, I took
      horse, there being one appointed for me, and a groom to attend me, and so
      home, where my wife: staid up and sister for me, and so to bed, troubled
      for what I hear of my Lord.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). Up, and finding my father somewhat better, walked to
      Huntingdon church, where in my Lord's pew, with the young ladies, by my
      Lord's own showing me the place, I stayed the sermon, and so to
      Hinchingbroke, walking with Mr. Shepley and Dr. King, whom they account a
      witty man here, as well as a good physician, and there my Lord took me
      with the rest of the company, and singly demanded my opinion in the walks
      in his garden, about the bringing of the crooked wall on the mount to a
      shape; and so to dinner, there being Collonel Williams and much other
      company, and a noble dinner. But having before got my Lord's warrant for
      travelling to-day, there being a proclamation read yesterday against it at
      Huntingdon, at which I am very glad, I took leave, leaving them at dinner,
      and walked alone to my father's, and there, after a word or two to my
      father and mother, my wife and I mounted, and, with my father's boy, upon
      a horse I borrowed of Captain Ferrers, we rode to Bigglesworth by the help
      of a couple of countrymen, that led us through the very long and dangerous
      waters, because of the ditches on each side, though it begun to be very
      dark, and there we had a good breast of mutton roasted for us, and supped,
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up very betimes by break of day, and got my wife up, whom the
      thought of this day's long journey do discourage; and after eating
      something, and changing of a piece of gold to pay the reckoning, we
      mounted, and through Baldwicke, where a fayre is kept to-day, and a great
      one for cheese and other such commodities, and so to Hatfield, it being
      most curious weather from the time we set out to our getting home, and
      here we dined, and my wife being very weary, and believing that it would
      be hard to get her home to-night, and a great charge to keep her longer
      abroad, I took the opportunity of an empty coach that was to go to London,
      and left her to come in it to London, for half-a-crown, and so I and the
      boy home as fast as we could drive, and it was even night before we got
      home. So that I account it very good fortune that we took this course,
      being myself very weary, much more would my wife have been. At home found
      all very well and my house in good order. To see Sir W. Pen, who is pretty
      well, and Sir J. Minnes, who is a little lame on one foot, and the rest
      gone to Chatham, viz.: Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten, who has in my
      absence inveighed against my contract the other day for Warren's masts, in
      which he is a knave, and I shall find matter of tryumph, but it vexes me a
      little. So home, and by and by comes my wife by coach well home, and
      having got a good fowl ready for supper against her coming, we eat
      heartily, and so with great content and ease to our own bed, there nothing
      appearing so to our content as to be at our own home, after being abroad
      awhile.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. I up, well refreshed after my journey, and to my office and there
      set some things in order, and then Sir W. Pen and I met and held an
      office, and at noon to dinner, and so by water with my wife to
      Westminster, she to see her father and mother, and we met again at my
      Lord's lodgings, and thence by water home again, where at the door we met
      Sir W. Pen and his daughter coming to visit us, and after their visit I to
      my office, and after some discourse to my great satisfaction with Sir W.
      Warren about our bargain of masts, I wrote my letters by the post, and so
      home to supper and to bed. This day my wife showed me bills printed,
      wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edward Ford, have got a
      patent for curing of smoky chimneys.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Patent numbered 138 is printed in the appendix to Wheatley's
     "Samuel Pepys and the World he lived in" (p. 241).  It is drawn in
     favour of John Colladon, Doctor in Physicke, and of Alexander
     Marchant, of St. Michall, and describes "a way to prevent and cure
     the smoakeing of Chimneys, either by stopping the tunnell towards
     the top, and altering the former course of the smoake, or by setting
     tunnells with checke within the chimneyes."  Sir Edward Ford's name
     does not appear in the patent.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I wish they may do good thereof, but fear it will prove but a poor
      project. This day the King and Queen are to come to Oxford. I hear my Lady
      Castlemaine is for certain gone to Oxford to meet him, having lain within
      here at home this week or two, supposed to have miscarried; but for
      certain is as great in favour as heretofore;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [According to Collins, Henry Fitzroy, Lady Castlemaine's second son
     by Charles II., was born on September 20th, 1663.  He was the first
     Duke of Grafton.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      at least Mrs. Sarah at my Lord's, who hears all from their own family, do
      say so. Every day brings newes of the Turke's advance into Germany, to the
      awakeing of all the Christian Princes thereabouts, and possessing himself
      of Hungary. My present care is fitting my wife's closett and my house, and
      making her a velvet coate, and me a new black cloth suit, and coate and
      cloake, and evening my reckoning as well as I can against Michaelmas Day,
      hoping for all that to have my balance as great or greater than ever I had
      yet.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up betimes and to my office, where setting down my journall while I
      was in the country to this day, and at noon by water to my Lord Crew's,
      and there dined with him and Sir Thomas, thinking to have them inquire
      something about my Lord's lodgings at Chelsey, or any thing of that sort,
      but they did not, nor seem to take the least notice of it, which is their
      discretion, though it might be better for my Lord and them too if they
      did, that so we might advise together for the best, which cannot be while
      we seem ignorant one to another, and it is not fit for me to begin the
      discourse. Thence walked to several places about business and to
      Westminster Hall, thinking to meet Mrs. Lane, which is my great vanity
      upon me at present, but I must correct it. She was not in the way. So by
      water home and to my office, whither by and by came my brother John, who
      is to go to Cambridge to-morrow, and I did give him a most severe
      reprimand for his bad account he gives me of his studies. This I did with
      great passion and sharp words, which I was sorry to be forced to say, but
      that I think it for his good, forswearing doing anything for him, and that
      which I have yet, and now do give him, is against my heart, and will also
      be hereafter, till I do see him give me a better account of his studies. I
      was sorry to see him give me no answer, but, for aught I see, to hear me
      without great resentment, and such as I should have had: in his condition.
      But I have done my duty, let him do his, for I am resolved to be as good
      as my word. After two hours walking in the garden, till after it was dark,
      I ended with him and to my office, and there set some papers in order, and
      so to supper, and my poor wife, who is mighty busy at home; fitting her
      closet. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up betimes, and after taking leave of my brother, John, who went
      from me to my father's this day, I went forth by water to Sir Philip
      Warwick's, where I was with him a pretty while; and in discourse he tells
      me, and made it; appear to me, that the King cannot be in debt to the Navy
      at this time L5,000; and it is my opinion that Sir G. Carteret do owe the
      King money, and yet the whole Navy debt paid. Thence I parted, being
      doubtful of myself that I have not, spoke with the gravity and weight that
      I ought to do in so great a business. But I rather hope it is my
      doubtfulness of myself, and the haste which he was in, some very great
      personages waiting for him without, while he was with me, that made him
      willing to be gone. To the office by water, where we sat doing little, now
      Mr. Coventry is not here, but only vex myself to see what a sort of
      coxcombs we are when he is not here to undertake such a business as we do.
      In the afternoon telling my wife that I go to Deptford, I went, by water
      to Westminster Hall, and there finding Mrs. Lane, took her over to
      Lambeth, where we were lately, and there, did what I would with her, but
      only the main thing, which she; would not consent to, for which God be
      praised..... But, trust in the Lord, I shall never do so again while I
      live. After being tired with her company I landed her at White; Hall, and
      so home and at my office writing letters till 12 at night almost, and then
      home to supper and bed, and there found my poor wife hard at work, which
      grieved my heart to see that I should abuse so good a wretch, and that is
      just with God to make her bad with me for my wrongin of her, but I do
      resolve never to do the like again. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Lay pretty long in bed, and so to my office all the morning till by
      and by called out by Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, with them by water
      to Deptford, where it of a sudden did lighten, thunder, and rain so as we
      could do nothing but stay in Davis's house, and by and by Sir J. Minnes
      and I home again by water, and I home to dinner, and after dinner to the
      office, and there till night all alone, even of my clerks being there,
      doing of business, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up and to my office, and there we sat till noon, and then I to the
      Exchange, but did little there, but meeting Mr. Rawlinson he would needs
      have me home to dinner, and Mr. Deane of Woolwich being with me I took him
      with me, and there we dined very well at his own dinner, only no
      invitation, but here I sat with little pleasure, considering my wife at
      home alone, and so I made what haste home I could, and was forced to sit
      down again at dinner with her, being unwilling to neglect her by being
      known to dine abroad. My doing so being only to keep Deane from dining at
      home with me, being doubtful what I have to eat. So to the office, and
      there till late at night, and so home to supper and bed, being mightily
      pleased to find my wife so mindful of her house.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Lord's day). Lay chatting with my wife a good while, then up and got
      me ready and to church, without my man William, whom I have not seen
      to-day, nor care, but would be glad to have him put himself far enough out
      of my favour that he may not wonder to have me put him away. So home to
      dinner, being a little troubled to see Pembleton out again, but I do not
      discern in my wife the least memory of him. Dined, and so to my office a
      little, and then to church again, where a drowsy sermon, and so home to
      spend the evening with my poor wife, consulting about her closett,
      clothes, and other things. At night to supper, though with little comfort,
      I finding myself both head and breast in great pain, and what troubles me
      most my right ear is almost deaf. It is a cold, which God Almighty in
      justice did give me while I sat lewdly sporting with Mrs. Lane the other
      day with the broken window in my neck. I went to bed with a posset, being
      very melancholy in consideration of the loss of my hearing.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, though with pain in my head, stomach, and ear, and that deaf so
      as in my way by coach to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes I called at Mr.
      Holliard's, who did give me some pills, and tells me I shall have my
      hearing again and be well. So to White Hall, where Sir J. Minnes and I did
      spend an hour in the Gallery, looking upon the pictures, in which he hath
      some judgment. And by and by the Commissioners for Tangier met: and there
      my Lord Teviott, together with Captain Cuttance, Captain Evans, and Jonas
      Moore, sent to that purpose, did bring us a brave draught of the Mole to
      be built there; and report that it is likely to be the most considerable
      place the King of England hath in the world; and so I am apt to think it
      will. After discourse of this, and of supplying the garrison with some
      more horse, we rose; and Sir J. Minnes and I home again, finding the
      street about our house full, Sir R. Ford beginning his shrievalty to-day
      and, what with his and our houses being new painted, the street begins to
      look a great deal better than it did, and more gracefull. Home and eat one
      bit of meat, and then by water with him and Sir W. Batten to a sale of old
      provisions at Deptford, which we did at Captain Boddily's house, to the
      value of L600 or L700, but I am not satisfied with the method used in this
      thing. Then home again by water, and after a little at my office, and
      visit Sir W. Pen, who is not very well again, with his late pain, home to
      supper, being hungry, and my ear and cold not so bad I think as it was. So
      to bed, taking one of my pills. Newes that the King comes to town for
      certain on Thursday next from his progresse.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Took two pills more in the morning and they worked all day, and I
      kept the house. About noon dined, and then to carry several heavy things
      with my wife up and down stairs, in order to our going to lie above, and
      Will to come down to the Wardrobe, and that put me into a violent sweat,
      so I had a fire made, and then, being dry again, she and I to put up some
      paper pictures in the red chamber, where we go to lie very pretty, and the
      map of Paris. Then in the evening, towards night, it fell to thunder,
      lighten, and rain so violently that my house was all afloat, and I in all
      the rain up to the gutters, and there dabbled in the rain and wet half an
      hour, enough to have killed a man. That done downstairs to dry myself
      again, and by and by come Mr. Sympson to set up my wife's chimney-piece in
      her closett, which pleases me, and so that being done, I to supper and to
      bed, shifting myself from top to toe, and doubtful of my doing myself
      hurt.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Rose very well, and my hearing pretty well again, and so to my
      office, by and by Mr. Holliard come, and at my house he searched my ear,
      and I hope all will be well, though I do not yet hear so well as I used to
      do with my right ear. So to my office till noon, and then home to dinner,
      and in the afternoon by water to White Hall, to the Tangier Committee;
      where my Lord Tiviott about his accounts; which grieves me to see that his
      accounts being to be examined by us, there are none of the great men at
      the Board that in compliment will except against any thing in his
      accounts, and so none of the little persons dare do it: so the King is
      abused. Thence home again by water with Sir W. Rider, and so to my office,
      and there I sat late making up my month's accounts, and, blessed be God,
      do find myself L760 creditor, notwithstanding that for clothes for myself
      and wife, and layings out on her closett, I have spent this month L47. So
      home, where I found our new cooke-mayde Elizabeth, whom my wife never saw
      at all, nor I but once at a distance before, but recommended well by Mr.
      Creed, and I hope will prove well. So to supper, prayers, and bed. This
      evening Mr. Coventry is come to St. James's, but I did not go see him, and
      tomorrow the King, Queen, Duke and his Lady, and the whole Court comes to
      towne from their progresse. Myself and family well, only my father sicke
      in the country. All the common talke for newes is the Turke's advance in
      Hungary, &amp;c.
    </p>
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      OCTOBER 1663
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    <p>
      October 1st. Up and betimes to my office, and then to sit, where Sir G.
      Carteret, Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, Sir J. Minnes, Mr. Coventry and
      myself, a fuller board than by the King's progresse and the late pays and
      my absence has been a great while. Sat late, and then home to dinner.
      After dinner I by water to Deptford about a little business, and so back
      again, buying a couple of good eeles by the way, and after writing by the
      post, home to see the painter at work, late, in my wife's closet, and so
      to supper and to bed, having been very merry with the painter, late, while
      he was doing his work. This day the King and Court returned from their
      progress.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up betimes and by water to St. James's, and there visited Mr.
      Coventry as a compliment after his new coming to town, but had no great
      talk with him, he being full of business. So back by foot through London,
      doing several errands, and at the 'Change met with Mr. Cutler, and he and
      I to a coffee-house, and there discoursed, and he do assure me that there
      is great likelyhood of a war with Holland, but I hope we shall be in good
      condition before it comes to break out. I like his company, and will make
      much of his acquaintance. So home to dinner with my wife, who is over head
      and eares in getting her house up, and so to the office, and with Mr.
      Lewes, late, upon some of the old victuallers' accounts, and so home to
      supper and to bed, up to our red chamber, where we purpose always to lie.
      This day I received a letter from Mr. Barlow, with a Terella,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, F.R.S., has kindly supplied me with
     the following interesting note on the terrella (or terella): The
     name given by Dr. William Gilbert, author of the famous treatise,
     "De Magnete" (Lond.  1600), to a spherical loadstone, on account of
     its acting as a model, magnetically, of the earth; compass-needles
     pointing to its poles, as mariners' compasses do to the poles of
     the earth.  The term was adopted by other writers who followed
     Gilbert, as the following passage from Wm.  Barlowe's "Magneticall
     Advertisements" (Lond.  1616) shows: "Wherefore the round Loadstone
     is significantly termed by Doct. Gilbert Terrella, that is, a
     little, or rather a very little Earth: For it representeth in an
     exceeding small model (as it were) the admirable properties
     magneticall of the huge Globe of the earth" (op. cit, p. 55).
     Gilbert set great store by his invention of the terrella, since it
     led him to propound the true theory of the mariners' compass.  In
     his portrait of himself which he had painted for the University of
     Oxford he was represented as holding in his hand a globe inscribed
     terella.  In the Galileo Museum in Florence there is a terrella
     twenty-seven inches in diameter, of loadstone from Elba, constructed
     for Cosmo de' Medici.  A smaller one contrived by Sir Christopher
     Wren was long preserved in the museum of the Royal Society (Grew's
     "Rarities belonging to the Royal Society," p.  364).  Evelyn was
     shown "a pretty terrella described with all ye circles and skewing
     all y magnetic deviations" (Diary, July 3rd, 1655).]
</pre>
    <p>
      which I had hoped he had sent me, but to my trouble I find it is to
      present from him to my Lord Sandwich, but I will make a little use of it
      first, and then give it him.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, being well pleased with my new lodging and the convenience of
      having our mayds and none else about us, Will lying below. So to the
      office, and there we sat full of business all the morning. At noon I home
      to dinner, and then abroad to buy a bell to hang by our chamber door to
      call the mayds. Then to the office, and met Mr. Blackburne, who came to
      know the reason of his kinsman (my Will) his being observed by his friends
      of late to droop much. I told him my great displeasure against him and the
      reasons of it, to his great trouble yet satisfaction, for my care over
      him, and how every thing I said was for the good of the fellow, and he
      will take time to examine the fellow about all, and to desire my pleasure
      concerning him, which I told him was either that he should became a better
      servant or that we would not have him under my roof to be a trouble. He
      tells me in a few days he will come to me again and we shall agree what to
      do therein. I home and told my wife all, and am troubled to see that my
      servants and others should be the greatest trouble I have in the world,
      more than for myself. We then to set up our bell with a smith very well,
      and then I late at the office. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th (Lord's day). Up and to church, my house being miserably overflooded
      with rayne last night, which makes me almost mad. At home to dinner with
      my wife, and so to talk, and to church again, and so home, and all the
      evening most pleasantly passed the time in good discourse of our fortune
      and family till supper, and so to bed, in some pain below, through cold
      got.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up with pain, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to the Temple, and then
      I to my brother's, and up and down on business, and so to the New
      Exchange, and there met Creed, and he and I walked two or three hours,
      talking of many businesses, especially about Tangier, and my Lord Tiviot's
      bringing in of high accounts, and yet if they were higher are like to pass
      without exception, and then of my Lord Sandwich sending a messenger to
      know whether the King intends to come to Newmarket, as is talked, that he
      may be ready to entertain him at Hinchingbroke. Thence home and dined, and
      my wife all day putting up her hangings in her closett, which she do very
      prettily herself with her own hand, to my great content. So I to the
      office till night, about several businesses, and then went and sat an hour
      or two with Sir W. Pen, talking very largely of Sir J. Minnes's simplicity
      and unsteadiness, and of Sir W. Batten's suspicious dealings, wherein I
      was open, and he sufficiently, so that I do not care for his telling of
      tales, for he said as much, but whether that were so or no I said nothing
      but what is my certain knowledge and belief concerning him. Thence home to
      bed in great pain.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Slept pretty well, and my wife waked to ring the bell to call up our
      mayds to the washing about 4 o'clock, and I was and she angry that our
      bell did not wake them sooner, but I will get a bigger bell. So we to
      sleep again till 8 o'clock, and then I up in some ease to the office,
      where we had a full board, where we examined Cocke's second account, when
      Mr. Turner had drawn a bill directly to be paid the balance thereof, as
      Mr. Cocke demanded, and Sir J. Minnes did boldly assert the truth of it,
      and that he had examined it, when there is no such thing, but many
      vouchers, upon examination, missing, and we saw reason to strike off
      several of his demands, and to bring down his 5 per cent. commission to 3
      per cent. So we shall save the King some money, which both the Comptroller
      and his clerke had absolutely given away. There was also two occasions
      more of difference at the table; the one being to make out a bill to
      Captain Smith for his salary abroad as commander-in-chief in the
      Streights. Sir J. Minnes did demand an increase of salary for his being
      Vice-Admiral in the Downes, he having received but 40s. without an
      increase, when Sir J. Lawson, in the same voyage, had L3, and others have
      also had increase, only he, because he was an officer of the board, was
      worse used than any body else, and particularly told Sir W. Batten that he
      was the opposer formerly of his having an increase, which I did wonder to
      hear him so boldly lay it to him. So we hushed up the dispute, and
      offered, if he would, to examine precedents, and report them, if there was
      any thing to his advantage to be found, to the Duke. The next was, Mr.
      Chr. Pett and Deane were summoned to give an account of some knees
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Naturally grown timber or bars of iron bent to a right angle or to
     fit the surfaces and to secure bodies firmly together as hanging
     knees secure the deck beams to the sides."&mdash;Smyth's Sailor's Word-
     Book.  There are several kinds of knees.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which Pett reported bad, that were to be served in by Sir W. Warren, we
      having contracted that none should be served but such as were to be
      approved of by our officers. So that if they were bad they were to be
      blamed for receiving them. Thence we fell to talk of Warren's other goods,
      which Pett had said were generally bad, and falling to this contract
      again, I did say it was the most cautious and as good a contract as had
      been made here, and the only [one] that had been in such terms. Sir J.
      Minnes told me angrily that Winter's timber, bought for 33s. per load, was
      as good and in the same terms. I told him that it was not so, but that he
      and Sir W. Batten were both abused, and I would prove it was as dear a
      bargain as had been made this half year, which occasioned high words
      between them and me, but I am able to prove it and will. That also was so
      ended, and so to other business. At noon Lewellin coming to me I took him
      and Deane, and there met my uncle Thomas, and we dined together, but was
      vexed that, it being washing-day, we had no meat dressed, but sent to the
      Cook's, and my people had so little witt to send in our meat from abroad
      in that Cook's dishes, which were marked with the name of the Cook upon
      them, by which, if they observed anything, they might know it was not my
      own dinner. After dinner we broke up, and I by coach, setting down Luellin
      in Cheapside. So to White Hall, where at the Committee of Tangier, but,
      Lord! how I was troubled to see my Lord Tiviott's accounts of L10,000 paid
      in that manner, and wish 1000 times I had not been there. Thence rose with
      Sir G. Carteret and to his lodgings, and there discoursed of our frays at
      the table to-day, and particularly of that of the contract, and the
      contract of masts the other day, declaring my fair dealing, and so needing
      not any man's good report of it, or word for it, and that I would make it
      so appear to him, if he desired it, which he did, and I will do it. Thence
      home by water in great pain, and at my office a while, and thence a little
      to Sir W. Pen, and so home to bed, and finding myself beginning to be
      troubled with wind as I used to be, and in pain in making water, I took a
      couple of pills that I had by me of Mr. Hollyard's.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. They wrought in the morning, and I did keep my bed, and my pain
      continued on me mightily that I kept within all day in great pain, and
      could break no wind nor have any stool after my physic had done working.
      So in the evening I took coach and to Mr. Holliard's, but he was not at
      home, and so home again, and whether the coach did me good or no I know
      not.... So to bed and lay in good ease all night, and.... pretty well to
      the morning.....
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys's prescription for the colic:

     "Balsom of Sulphur, 3 or 4 drops in a spoonfull of Syrrup of Colts
     foote, not eating or drinking two hours before or after.

     "The making of this Balsom:

     "2/3ds of fine Oyle, and 1/3d of fine Brimstone, sett 13 or 14
     houres upon yt fire, simpring till a thicke Stufte lyes at ye
     Bottome, and ye Balsom at ye topp.  Take this off &amp;c.

     "Sir Rob. Parkhurst for ye Collique."&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      8th. So, keeping myself warm, to the office, and at noon home to dinner,
      my pain coming again by breaking no wind nor having any stool. So to Mr.
      Holliard, and by his direction, he assuring me that it is nothing of the
      stone, but only my constitution being costive, and that, and cold from
      without, breeding and keeping the wind, I took some powder that he did
      give me in white wine, and sat late up, till past eleven at night, with my
      wife in my chamber till it had done working, which was so weakly that I
      could hardly tell whether it did work or no. My mayds being at this time
      in great dirt towards getting of all my house clean, and weary and having
      a great deal of work to do therein to-morrow and next day, were gone to
      bed before my wife and I, who also do lie in our room more like beasts
      than Christians, but that is only in order to having of the house shortly
      in a cleaner, or rather very clean condition. Some ease I had so long as
      this did keep my body loose, and I slept well.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. And did keep my bed most of this morning, my body I find being still
      bound and little wind, and so my pain returned again, though not so bad,
      but keeping my body with warm clothes very hot I made shift to endure it,
      and at noon sent word to Mr. Hollyard of my condition, that I could
      neither have a natural stool nor break wind, and by that means still in
      pain and frequent offering to make water. So he sent me two bottles of
      drink and some syrup, one bottle to take now and the other to-morrow
      morning. So in the evening, after Commissioner Pett, who came to visit me,
      and was going to Chatham, but methinks do talk to me in quite another
      manner, doubtfully and shyly, and like a stranger, to what he did
      heretofore. After I saw he was gone I did drink one of them, but it was a
      most loathsome draught, and did keep myself warm after it, and had that
      afternoon still a stool or two, but in no plenty, nor any wind almost
      carried away, and so to bed. In no great pain, but do not think myself
      likely to be well till I have a freedom of stool and wind. Most of this
      day and afternoon my wife and I did spend together in setting things now
      up and in order in her closet, which indeed is, and will be, when I can
      get her some more things to put in it, a very pleasant place, and is at
      present very pretty, and such as she, I hope, will find great content in.
      So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and not in any good ease yet, but had pain in making water, and
      some course. I see I must take besides keeping myself warm to make myself
      break wind and go freely to stool before I can be well, neither of which I
      can do yet, though I have drank the other bottle of Mr. Hollyard's against
      my stomach this morning. I did, however, make shift to go to the office,
      where we sat, and there Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten did advise me to
      take some juniper water, and Sir W. Batten sent to his Lady for some for
      me, strong water made of juniper. Whether that or anything else of my
      draught this morning did it I cannot tell, but I had a couple of stools
      forced after it.... but whether I shall grow better upon it I cannot tell.
      Dined at home at noon, my wife and house in the dirtiest pickle that ever
      she and it was in almost, but in order, I hope, this night to be very
      clean. To the office all the afternoon upon victualling business, and late
      at it, so after I wrote by the post to my father, I home. This evening Mr.
      Hollyard sends me an electuary to take (a walnut quantity of it) going to
      bed, which I did. 'Tis true I slept well, and rose in a little ease in the
      morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day). And was mightily pleased to see my house clean and in
      good condition, but something coming into my wife's head, and mine, to be
      done more about bringing the green bed into our chamber, which is
      handsomer than the red one, though not of the colour of our hangings, my
      wife forebore to make herself clean to-day, but continued in a sluttish
      condition till to-morrow. I after the old passe, all the day within
      doors,.... the effect of my electuary last night, and the greatest of my
      pain I find to come by my straining.... For all this I eat with a very
      good stomach, and as much as I use to do, and so I did this noon, and
      staid at home discoursing and doing things in my chamber, altering chairs
      in my chamber, and set them above in the red room, they being Turkey work,
      and so put their green covers upon those that were above, not so handsome.
      At night fell to reading in the Church History of Fuller's, and
      particularly Cranmer's letter to Queen Elizabeth, which pleases me
      mightily for his zeal, obedience, and boldness in a cause of religion.
      After supper to bed as I use to be, in pain.....
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up (though slept well) and made some water in the morning [as] I
      used to do, and a little pain returned to me, and some fears, but being
      forced to go to the Duke at St. James's, I took coach and in my way called
      upon Mr. Hollyard and had his advice to take a glyster. At St. James's we
      attended the Duke all of us. And there, after my discourse, Mr. Coventry
      of his own accord begun to tell the Duke how he found that discourse
      abroad did run to his prejudice about the fees that he took, and how he
      sold places and other things; wherein he desired to appeal to his
      Highness, whether he did any thing more than what his predecessors did,
      and appealed to us all. So Sir G. Carteret did answer that some fees were
      heretofore taken, but what he knows not; only that selling of places never
      was nor ought to be countenanced. So Mr. Coventry very hotly answered to
      Sir G. Carteret, and appealed to himself whether he was not one of the
      first that put him upon looking after this taking of fees, and that he
      told him that Mr. Smith should say that he made L5000 the first year, and
      he believed he made L7000. This Sir G. Carteret denied, and said, that if
      he did say so he told a lie, for he could not, nor did know, that ever he
      did make that profit of his place; but that he believes he might say L2500
      the first year. Mr. Coventry instanced in another thing, particularly
      wherein Sir G. Carteret did advise with him about the selling of the
      Auditor's place of the stores, when in the beginning there was an
      intention of creating such an office. This he confessed, but with some
      lessening of the tale Mr. Coventry told, it being only for a respect to my
      Lord Fitz-Harding. In fine, Mr. Coventry did put into the Duke's hand a
      list of above 250 places that he did give without receiving one farthing,
      so much as his ordinary fees for them, upon his life and oath; and that
      since the Duke's establishment of fees he had never received one token
      more of any man; and that in his whole life he never conditioned or
      discoursed of any consideration from any commanders since he came to the
      Navy. And afterwards, my Lord Barkeley merrily discoursing that he wished
      his profit greater than it was, and that he did believe that he had got
      L50,000 since he came in, Mr. Coventry did openly declare that his
      Lordship, or any of us, should have not only all he had got, but all that
      he had in the world (and yet he did not come a beggar into the Navy, nor
      would yet be thought to speak in any contempt of his Royall Highness's
      bounty), and should have a year to consider of it too, for L25,000. The
      Duke's answer was, that he wished we all had made more profit than he had
      of our places, and that we had all of us got as much as one man below
      stayres in the Court, which he presently named, and it was Sir George
      Lane! This being ended, and the list left in the Duke's hand, we parted,
      and I with Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten by coach to
      the Exchange, and there a while, and so home, and whether it be the
      jogging, or by having my mind more employed (which I believe is a great
      matter) I know not, but.... I begin to be suddenly well, at least better
      than I was. So home and to dinner, and thence by coach to the Old
      Exchange, and there cheapened some laces for my wife, and then to Mr.&mdash;&mdash;-the
      great laceman in Cheapside, and bought one cost me L4. more by 20s. than I
      intended, but when I came to see them I was resolved to buy one worth
      wearing with credit, and so to the New Exchange, and there put it to
      making, and so to my Lord's lodgings and left my wife, and so I to the
      Committee of Tangier, and then late home with my wife again by coach,
      beginning to be very well, and yet when I came home.... the little
      straining which I thought was no strain at all at the present did by and
      by bring me some pain for a good while. Anon, about 8 o'clock, my wife did
      give me a clyster which Mr. Hollyard directed, viz., a pint of strong ale,
      4 oz. of sugar, and 2 oz. of butter. It lay while I lay upon the bed above
      an hour, if not two, and then thinking it quite lost I rose, and by and by
      it began with my walking to work, and gave me three or four most excellent
      stools and carried away wind, put me in excellent ease, and taking my
      usual walnut quantity of electuary at my going into bed I had about two
      stools in the night.....
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. And so rose in the morning in perfect good ease.... continued all
      the morning well, and in the afternoon had a natural easily and dry
      stoole, the first I have had these five days or six, for which God be
      praised, and so am likely to continue well, observing for the time to come
      when any of this pain comes again
    </p>
    <p>
      (1) To begin to keep myself as warm as I can.
    </p>
    <p>
      (2) Strain as little as ever I can backwards, remembering that my pain
      will come by and by, though in the very straining I do not feel it.
    </p>
    <p>
      (3) Either by physic forward or by clyster backward or both ways to get an
      easy and plentiful going to stool and breaking of wind.
    </p>
    <p>
      (4) To begin to suspect my health immediately when I begin to become
      costive and bound, and by all means to keep my body loose, and that to
      obtain presently after I find myself going the contrary.
    </p>
    <p>
      This morning at the office, and at noon with Creed to the Exchange, where
      much business, but, Lord! how my heart, though I know not reason for it,
      began to doubt myself, after I saw Stint, Field's one-eyed solicitor,
      though I know not any thing that they are doing, or that they endeavour
      any thing further against us in the business till the terme. Home, and
      Creed with me to dinner, and after dinner John Cole, my old friend, came
      to see and speak with me about a friend. I find him ingenious, but more
      and more discern his city pedantry; but however, I will endeavour to have
      his company now and then, for that he knows much of the temper of the
      City, and is able to acquaint therein as much as most young men, being of
      large acquaintance, and himself, I think, somewhat unsatisfied with the
      present state of things at Court and in the Church. Then to the office,
      and there busy till late, and so home to my wife, with some ease and
      pleasure that I hope to be able to follow my business again, which by
      God's leave I am resolved to return to with more and more eagerness. I
      find at Court, that either the King is doubtfull of some disturbance, or
      else would seem so (and I have reason to hope it is no worse), by his
      commanding all commanders of castles, &amp;c., to repair to their charges;
      and mustering the Guards the other day himself, where he found reason to
      dislike their condition to my Lord Gerard, finding so many absent men, or
      dead pays.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This is probably an allusion to the practice of not reporting the
     deaths of soldiers, that the officers might continue to draw their
     pay.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      My Lady Castlemaine, I hear, is in as great favour as ever, and the King
      supped with her the very first night he came from Bath: and last night and
      the night before supped with her; when there being a chine of beef to
      roast, and the tide rising into their kitchen that it could not be roasted
      there, and the cook telling her of it, she answered, "Zounds! she must set
      the house on fire but it should be roasted!" So it was carried to Mrs.
      Sarah's husband's, and there it was roasted. So home to supper and to bed,
      being mightily pleased with all my house and my red chamber, where my wife
      and I intend constantly to lie, and the having of our dressing room and
      mayds close by us without any interfering or trouble.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and part of it Sir J.
      Minnes spent, as he do every thing else, like a fool, reading the Anatomy
      of the body to me, but so sillily as to the making of me understand any
      thing that I was weary of him, and so I toward the 'Change and met with
      Mr. Grant, and he and I to the Coffee-house, where I understand by him
      that Sir W. Petty and his vessel are coming, and the King intends to go to
      Portsmouth to meet it. Thence home and after dinner my wife and I, by Mr.
      Rawlinson's conduct, to the Jewish Synagogue: where the men and boys in
      their vayles, and the women behind a lattice out of sight; and some things
      stand up, which I believe is their Law, in a press to which all coming in
      do bow; and at the putting on their vayles do say something, to which
      others that hear him do cry Amen, and the party do kiss his vayle. Their
      service all in a singing way, and in Hebrew. And anon their Laws that they
      take out of the press are carried by several men, four or five several
      burthens in all, and they do relieve one another; and whether it is that
      every one desires to have the carrying of it, I cannot tell, thus they
      carried it round about the room while such a service is singing. And in
      the end they had a prayer for the King, which they pronounced his name in
      Portugall; but the prayer, like the rest, in Hebrew. But, Lord! to see the
      disorder, laughing, sporting, and no attention, but confusion in all their
      service, more like brutes than people knowing the true God, would make a
      man forswear ever seeing them more and indeed I never did see so much, or
      could have imagined there had been any religion in the whole world so
      absurdly performed as this. Away thence with my mind strongly disturbed
      with them, by coach and set down my wife in Westminster Hall, and I to
      White Hall, and there the Tangier Committee met, but the Duke and the
      Africa Committee meeting in our room, Sir G. Carteret; Sir W. Compton, Mr.
      Coventry, Sir W. Rider, Cuttance and myself met in another room, with
      chairs set in form but no table, and there we had very fine discourses of
      the business of the fitness to keep Sally, and also of the terms of our
      King's paying the Portugees that deserted their house at Tangier, which
      did much please me, and so to fetch my wife, and so to the New Exchange
      about her things, and called at Thomas Pepys the turner's and bought
      something there, an so home to supper and to bed, after I had been a good
      while with Sir W. Pen, railing and speaking freely our minds against Sir
      W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, but no more than the folly of one and the
      knavery of the other do deserve.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, I bless God being now in pretty good condition, but cannot come
      to make natural stools yet..... So up and to the office, where we sat all
      the morning, and at noon dined at home, my head full of business, and
      after stepping abroad to buy a thing or two, compasses and snuffers for my
      wife, I returned to my office and there mighty busy till it was late, and
      so home well contented with the business that I had done this afternoon,
      and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up and to my office, where all the morning doing business, and at
      noon home to dinner, and then up to remove my chest and clothes up stairs
      to my new wardrobe, that I may have all my things above where I lie, and
      so by coach abroad with my wife, leaving her at my Lord's till I went to
      the Tangier Committee, where very good discourse concerning the Articles
      of peace to be continued with Guyland, and thence took up my wife, and
      with her to her tailor's, and then to the Exchange and to several places,
      and so home and to my office, where doing some business, and then home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and to my office, and there we sat a very full board all the
      morning upon some accounts of Mr. Gauden's. Here happened something
      concerning my Will which Sir W. Batten would fain charge upon him, and I
      heard him mutter something against him of complaint for his often
      receiving people's money to Sir G. Carteret, which displeased me much, but
      I will be even with him. Thence to the Dolphin Tavern, and there Mr.
      Gauden did give us a great dinner. Here we had some discourse of the
      Queen's being very sick, if not dead, the Duke and Duchess of York being
      sent for betimes this morning to come to White Hall to her. So to my
      office and there late doing business, and so home to supper, my house
      being got mighty clean to my great content from top to toe, and so to bed,
      myself beginning to be in good condition of health also, but only my
      laying out so much money upon clothes for myself and wife and her closet
      troubles me.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Lord's day). Up, and troubled at a distaste my wife took at a small
      thing that Jane did, and to see that she should be so vexed that I took
      part with Jane, wherein I had reason; but by and by well again, and so my
      wife in her best gown and new poynt that I bought her the other day, to
      church with me, where she has not been these many weeks, and her mayde
      Jane with her. I was troubled to see Pembleton there, but I thought it
      prudence to take notice myself first of it and show my wife him, and so by
      little and little considering that it mattered not much his being there I
      grew less concerned and so mattered it not much, and the less when, anon,
      my wife showed me his wife, a pretty little woman, and well dressed, with
      a good jewel at her breast. The parson, Mr. Mills, I perceive, did not
      know whether to pray for the Queen or no, and so said nothing about her;
      which makes me fear she is dead. But enquiring of Sir J. Minnes, he told
      me that he heard she was better last night. So home to dinner, and Tom
      came and dined with me, and so, anon, to church again, and there a simple
      coxcomb preached worse than the Scot, and no Pembleton nor his wife there,
      which pleased me not a little, and then home and spent most of the evening
      at Sir W. Pen's in complaisance, seeing him though he deserves no respect
      from me. This evening came my uncle Wight to speak with me about my uncle
      Thomas's business, and Mr. Moore came, 4 or 5 days out of the country and
      not come to see me before, though I desired by two or three messengers
      that he would come to me as soon as he came to town. Which do trouble me
      to think he should so soon forget my kindness to him, which I am afraid he
      do. After walking a good while in the garden with these, I went up again
      to Sir W. Pen, and took my wife home, and after supper to prayers, and
      read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late
      great expenses, but I hope in God I do not, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Waked with a very high wind, and said to my wife, "I pray God I hear
      not of the death of any great person, this wind is so high!" fearing that
      the Queen might be dead. So up; and going by coach with Sir W. Batten and
      Sir J. Minnes to St. James's, they tell me that Sir W. Compton, who it is
      true had been a little sickly for a week or fortnight, but was very well
      upon Friday at night last at the Tangier Committee with us, was dead&mdash;died
      yesterday: at which I was most exceedingly surprised, he being, and so all
      the world saying that he was, one of the worthyest men and best officers
      of State now in England; and so in my conscience he was: of the best
      temper, valour, abilities of mind, integrity, birth, fine person, and
      diligence of any one man he hath left behind him in the three kingdoms;
      and yet not forty years old, or if so, that is all.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir William Compton (1625-1663) was knighted at Oxford, December
     12th, 1643.  He was called by Cromwell "the sober young man and the
     godly cavalier."  After the Restoration he was M.P. for Cambridge
     (1661), and appointed Master of the Ordnance.  He died in Drury
     Lane, suddenly, as stated in the text, and was buried at Compton
     Wynyates, Warwickshire.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I find the sober men of the Court troubled for him; and yet not so as to
      hinder or lessen their mirth, talking, laughing, and eating, drinking, and
      doing every thing else, just as if there was no such thing, which is as
      good an instance for me hereafter to judge of death, both as to the
      unavoidableness, suddenness, and little effect of it upon the spirits of
      others, let a man be never so high, or rich, or good; but that all die
      alike, no more matter being made of the death of one than another, and
      that even to die well, the praise of it is not considerable in the world,
      compared to the many in the world that know not nor make anything of it,
      nor perhaps to them (unless to one that like this poor gentleman, who is
      one of a thousand, there nobody speaking ill of him) that will speak ill
      of a man. Coming to St. James's, I hear that the Queen did sleep five
      hours pretty well to-night, and that she waked and gargled her mouth, and
      to sleep again; but that her pulse beats fast, beating twenty to the
      King's or my Lady Suffolk's eleven; but not so strong as it was. It seems
      she was so ill as to be shaved and pidgeons put to her feet, and to have
      the extreme unction given her by the priests, who were so long about it
      that the doctors were angry. The King, they all say; is most fondly
      disconsolate for her, and weeps by her, which makes her weep;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The queen was given over by her physicians,..., and the
     good nature of the king was much affected with the situation in
     which he saw!  a princess whom, though he did not love her, yet he
     greatly esteemed.  She loved him tenderly, and thinking that it was
     the last time she should ever speak to him, she told him 'That the
     concern he showed for her death was enough to make her quit life
     with regret; but that not possessing charms sufficient to merit his
     tenderness, she had at least the consolation in dying to give place
     to a consort who might be more worthy, of it and to whom heaven,
     perhaps, might grant a blessing that had been refused to her.'  At
     these words she bathed his hands with some tears which he thought
     would be her last; he mingled his own with hers, and without
     supposing she would take him at his word, he conjured her to live
     for his sake."&mdash;Grammont Memoirs, chap.  vii.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which one this day told me he reckons a good sign, for that it carries
      away some rheume from the head. This morning Captain Allen tells me how
      the famous Ned Mullins, by a slight fall, broke his leg at the ancle,
      which festered; and he had his leg cut off on Saturday, but so ill done,
      notwithstanding all the great chyrurgeons about the town at the doing of
      it, that they fear he will not live with it, which is very strange,
      besides the torment he was put to with it. After being a little with the
      Duke, and being invited to dinner to my Lord Barkeley's, and so, not
      knowing how to spend our time till noon, Sir W. Batten and I took coach,
      and to the Coffee-house in Cornhill;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This may be the Coffee House in Exchange Alley, which had for a
     sign, Morat the Great, or The Great Turk, where coffee was sold in
     berry, in powder, and pounded in a mortar.  There is a token of the
     house, see "Boyne's Tokens," ed.  Williamson, vol.  i., p.  592.]
</pre>
    <p>
      where much talk about the Turk's proceedings, and that the plague is got
      to Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier; and it is also carried to
      Hambrough. The Duke says the King purposes to forbid any of their ships
      coming into the river. The Duke also told us of several Christian
      commanders (French) gone over to the Turks to serve them; and upon inquiry
      I find that the King of France do by this aspire to the Empire, and so to
      get the Crown of Spayne also upon the death of the King, which is very
      probable, it seems. Back to St. James's, and there dined with my Lord
      Barkeley and his lady, where Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Batten, and myself,
      with two gentlemen more; my Lady, and one of the ladies of honour to the
      Duchesse (no handsome woman, but a most excellent hand). A fine French
      dinner, and so we after dinner broke up and to Creed's new lodgings in
      Axe-yard, which I like very well and so with him to White Hall and walked
      up and down in the galleries with good discourse, and anon Mr. Coventry
      and Povy, sad for the loss of one of our number we sat down as a Committee
      for Tangier and did some business and so broke up, and I down with Mr.
      Coventry and in his chamber discoursing of business of the office and Sir
      J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten's carriage, when he most ingeniously tells me
      how they have carried themselves to him in forbearing to speak the other
      day to the Duke what they know they have so largely at other times said to
      him, and I told him what I am put to about the bargain for masts. I
      perceive he thinks of it all and will remember it. Thence took up my wife
      at Mrs. Harper's where she and Jane were, and so called at the New
      Exchange for some things for her, and then at Tom's went up and saw his
      house now it is finished, and indeed it is very handsome, but he not
      within and so home and to my office; and then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to the office, where we sat; and at noon Sir G. Carteret, Sir
      J. Minnes, and I to dinner to my Lord Mayor's, being invited, where was
      the Farmers of the Customes, my Lord Chancellor's three sons, and other
      great and much company, and a very great noble dinner, as this Mayor&mdash;[Sir
      John Robinson.]&mdash;is good for nothing else. No extraordinary discourse
      of any thing, every man being intent upon his dinner, and myself willing
      to have drunk some wine to have warmed my belly, but I did for my oath's
      sake willingly refrain it, but am so well pleased and satisfied afterwards
      thereby, for it do keep me always in so good a frame of mind that I hope I
      shall not ever leave this practice. Thence home, and took my wife by coach
      to White Hall, and she set down at my Lord's lodgings, I to a Committee of
      Tangier, and thence with her homeward, calling at several places by the
      way. Among others at Paul's Churchyard, and while I was in Kirton's shop,
      a fellow came to offer kindness or force to my wife in the coach, but she
      refusing, he went away, after the coachman had struck him, and he the
      coachman. So I being called, went thither, and the fellow coming out again
      of a shop, I did give him a good cuff or two on the chops, and seeing him
      not oppose me, I did give him another; at last found him drunk, of which I
      was glad, and so left him, and home, and so to my office awhile, and so
      home to supper and to bed. This evening, at my Lord's lodgings, Mrs. Sarah
      talking with my wife and I how the Queen do, and how the King tends her
      being so ill. She tells us that the Queen's sickness is the spotted fever;
      that she was as full of the spots as a leopard which is very strange that
      it should be no more known; but perhaps it is not so. And that the King do
      seem to take it much to heart, for that he hath wept before her; but, for
      all that; that he hath not missed one night since she was sick, of supping
      with my Lady Castlemaine; which I believe is true, for she [Sarah] says
      that her husband hath dressed the suppers every night; and I confess I saw
      him myself coming through the street dressing of a great supper to-night,
      which Sarah says is also for the King and her; which is a very strange
      thing.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and by and by comes my brother Tom to me, though late (which do
      vex me to the blood that I could never get him to come time enough to me,
      though I have spoke a hundred times; but he is very sluggish, and too
      negligent ever to do well at his trade I doubt), and having lately
      considered with my wife very much of the inconvenience of my going in no
      better plight, we did resolve of putting me into a better garb, and, among
      other things, to have a good velvet cloake; that is, of cloth lined with
      velvet and other things modish, and a perruque, and so I sent him and her
      out to buy me velvet, and I to the Exchange, and so to Trinity House, and
      there dined with Sir W. Batten, having some business to speak with him,
      and Sir W. Rider. Thence, having my belly full, away on foot to my
      brother's, all along Thames Streete, and my belly being full of small
      beer, I did all alone, for health's sake, drink half a pint of Rhenish
      wine at the Still-yard, mixed with beer. From my brother's with my wife to
      the Exchange, to buy things for her and myself, I being in a humour of
      laying out money, but not prodigally, but only in clothes, which I every
      day see that I suffer for want of, I so home, and after a little at my
      office, home to supper and to bed. Memorandum: This morning one Mr.
      Commander, a scrivener, came to me from Mr. Moore with a deed of which.
      Mr. Moore had told me, that my Lord had made use of my name, and that I
      was desired by my Lord to sign it. Remembering this very well, though
      understanding little of the particulars, I read it over, and found it
      concern Sir Robt. Bernard and Duckinford, their interest in the manor of
      Brampton. So I did sign it, declaring to Mr. Commander that I am only
      concerned in having my name at my Lord Sandwich's desire used therein, and
      so I sealed it up after I had signed and sealed the deed, and desired him
      to give it so sealed to Mr. Moore. I did also call at the Wardrobe this
      afternoon to have told Mr. Moore of it, but he was not within, but knowing
      Mr. Commander to have the esteem of a good and honest man with my Lord
      Crew, I did not doubt to intrust him with the deed after I had signed it.
      This evening after I came home I begun to enter my wife in arithmetique,
      in order to her studying of the globes, and she takes it very well, and, I
      hope, with great pleasure, I shall bring her to understand many fine
      things.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up to the office, where we sat till noon and then I home to dinner,
      and after dinner with my wife to her study and there read some more
      arithmetique, which she takes with great ease and pleasure. This morning,
      hearing that the Queen grows worse again, I sent to stop the making of my
      velvet cloake, till I see whether she lives or dies. So a little abroad
      about several businesses, and then home and to my office till night, and
      then home to supper, teach my wife, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and this morning comes Mr. Clerke, and tells me that the
      Injunction against Trice is dismissed again, which troubles me much. So I
      am to look after it in the afternoon. There comes also by appointment my
      uncle Thomas, to receive the first payment of his daughter's money. But
      showing of me the original of the deed by which his daughter gives her
      right to her legacy to him, and the copy of it attested by the Scrivener,
      for me to keep by me, I did find some difference, and thereupon did look
      more into it, and at last did find the whole thing a forgery; yet he
      maintained it again and again, upon oath, that it had been signed and
      sealed by my cozen Mary ever since before her marriage. So I told him to
      his teeth he did like a knave, and so he did, and went with him to the
      Scrivener at Bedlam, and there found how it came to pass, viz., that he
      had lost, or pretends to have lost, the true original, and that so he was
      forced to take this course; but a knave, at least a man that values not
      what he swears to, I perceive he is. But however I am now better able to
      see myself fully secured before I part with the money, for I find that his
      son Charles has right to this legacy till the first L100 of his daughter's
      portion be paid, he being bond for it. So I put him upon getting both his
      sons to be bound for my security, and so left him and so home, and then
      abroad to my brother's, but found him abroad at the young couple that was
      married yesterday, and he one of the Br[ide's] men, a kinswoman
      (Brumfield) of the Joyces married to an upholster. Thence walked to the
      King's Head at Charing Cross and there dined, and hear that the Queen
      slept pretty well last night, but her fever continues upon her still. It
      seems she hath never a Portuguese doctor here. Thence by appointment to
      the Six Clerks' office to meet Mr. Clerke, which I did and there waited
      all the afternoon for Wilkinson my attorney, but he came not, and so vexed
      and weary we parted, and I endeavoured but in vain to have found Dr.
      Williams, of whom I shall have use in Trice's business, but I could not
      find him. So weary walked home; in my way bought a large kitchen knife and
      half dozen oyster knives. Thence to Mr. Holliard, who tells me that
      Mullins is dead of his leg cut off the other day, but most basely done. He
      tells me that there is no doubt but that all my slyme do come away in my
      water, and therefore no fear of the stone; but that my water being so
      slymy is a good sign. He would have me now and then to take a clyster, the
      same I did the other day, though I feel no pain, only to keep me loose,
      and instead of butter, which he would have to be salt butter, he would
      have me sometimes use two or three ounces of honey, at other times two or
      three ounces of Linseed oil. Thence to Mr. Rawlinson's and saw some of my
      new bottles made, with my crest upon them, filled with wine, about five or
      six dozen. So home and to my office a little, and thence home to prepare
      myself against T. Trice, and also to draw a bond fit for my uncle and his
      sons to enter into before I pay them the money. That done to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning about Mr. Gauden's
      account, and at noon to dinner with him at the Dolphin, where mighty merry
      by pleasant stories of Mr. Coventry's and Sir J. Minnes's, which I have
      put down some of in my book of tales. Just as I was going out my uncle
      Thomas came to the with a draught of a bond for him and his sons to sign
      to me about the payment of the L20 legacy, which I agreed to, but he would
      fain have had from me the copy of the deed, which he had forged and did
      bring me yesterday, but I would not give him it. Says [he] I perceive then
      you will keep it to defame me with, and desired me not to speak of it, for
      he did it innocently. Now I confess I do not find any great hurt in the
      thing, but only to keep from me a sight of the true original deed, wherein
      perhaps there was something else that may touch this business of the
      legacy which he would keep from me, or it may be, it is really lost as he
      says it is. But then he need not have used such a slight, but confess it
      without danger. Thence by coach with Mr. Coventry to the Temple, and
      thence I to the Six Clerks' office, and discoursed with my Attorney and
      Solicitor, and he and I to Mr. Turner, who puts me in great fear that I
      shall not get retayned again against Tom Trice; which troubles me. Thence,
      it being night, homewards, and called at Wotton's and tried some shoes,
      but he had none to fit me. He tells me that by the Duke of York's
      persuasion Harris is come again to Sir W. Davenant upon his terms that he
      demanded, which will make him very high and proud. Thence to another shop,
      and there bought me a pair of shoes, and so walked home and to my office,
      and dispatch letters by the post, and so home to supper and to bed, where
      to my trouble I find my wife begin to talk of her being alone all day,
      which is nothing but her lack of something to do, for while she was busy
      she never, or seldom, complained..... The Queen is in a good way of
      recovery; and Sir Francis Pridgeon hath got great honour by it, it being
      all imputed to his cordiall, which in her dispaire did give her rest and
      brought her to some hopes of recovery. It seems that, after the much talk
      of troubles and a plot, something is found in the North that a party was
      to rise, and some persons that were to command it are found, as I find in
      a letter that Mr. Coventry read to-day about it from those parts.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This refers to a rising in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which took
     place on October 12th, and was known as the Farneley Wood Plot.  The
     rising was easily put down, and several prisoners were taken.  A
     special commission of oyer and terminer was sent down to York to try
     the prisoners in January, 1663-64, when twenty-one were convicted
     and executed.  (See Whitaker's "Loidis and Elmete," 1816.)]
</pre>
    <p>
      25th (Lord's day). Up, and my wife and I to church, where it is strange to
      see how the use and seeing Pembleton come with his wife thither to church,
      I begin now to make too great matter of it, which before was so terrible
      to me. Dined at home, my wife and I alone, a good dinner, and so in the
      afternoon to church again, where the Scot preached, and I slept most of
      the afternoon. So home, and my wife and I together all the evening
      discoursing, and then after reading my vowes to myself, and my wife with
      her mayds (who are mighty busy to get it dispatched because of their
      mistress's promise, that when it is done they shall have leave all to go
      see their friends at Westminster, whither my wife will carry them)
      preparing for their washing to-morrow, we hastened to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Waked about one o'clock in the morning.... My wife being waked rung
      her bell, and the mayds rose and went to washing, we to sleep again till 7
      o'clock, and then up, and I abroad to look out Dr. Williams, but being
      gone out I went to Westminster, and there seeing my Lord Sandwich's
      footman knew he was come to town, and so I went in and saw him, and
      received a kind salute from him, but hear that my father is very ill
      still. Thence to Westminster Hall with Creed, and spent the morning
      walking there, where, it being Terme time, I met several persons, and
      talked with them, among others Dr. Pierce, who tells me that the Queen is
      in a way to be pretty well again, but that her delirium in her head
      continues still; that she talks idle, not by fits, but always, which in
      some lasts a week after so high a fever, in some more, and in some for
      ever; that this morning she talked mightily that she was brought to bed,
      and that she wondered that she should be delivered without pain and
      without spueing or being sicke, and that she was troubled that her boy was
      but an ugly boy. But the King being by, said, "No, it is a very pretty
      boy."&mdash;"Nay," says she, "if it be like you it is a fine boy indeed,
      and I would be very well pleased with it." The other day she talked
      mightily of Sir H. Wood's lady's great belly, and said if she should
      miscarry he would never get another, and that she never saw such a man as
      this Sir H. Wood in her life, and seeing of Dr. Pridgeon, she said, "Nay,
      Doctor, you need not scratch your head, there is hair little enough
      already in the place." But methinks it was not handsome for the weaknesses
      of Princes to be talked of thus. Thence Creed and I to the King's Head
      ordinary, where much and very good company, among others one very talking
      man, but a scholler, that would needs put in his discourse and philosophy
      upon every occasion, and though he did well enough, yet his readiness to
      speak spoilt all. Here they say that the Turkes go on apace, and that my
      Lord Castlehaven is going to raise 10,000 men here for to go against him;
      that the King of France do offer to assist the Empire upon condition that
      he may be their Generalissimo, and the Dolphin chosen King of the Romans:
      and it is said that the King of France do occasion this difference among
      the Christian Princes of the Empire, which gives the Turke such
      advantages. They say also that the King of Spayne is making all imaginable
      force against Portugall again. Thence Creed and I to one or two periwigg
      shops about the Temple, having been very much displeased with one that we
      saw, a head of greasy and old woman's haire, at Jervas's in the morning;
      and there I think I shall fit myself of one very handsomely made. Thence
      by coach, my mind being troubled for not meeting with Dr. Williams, to St.
      Catharine's to look at a Dutch ship or two for some good handsome maps,
      but met none, and so back to Cornhill to Moxon's, but it being dark we
      staid not to see any, then to coach again, and presently spying Sir W.
      Batten; I 'light and took him in and to the Globe in Fleete Streete, by
      appointment, where by and by he and I with our solicitor to Sir F. Turner
      about Field's business, and back to the Globe, and thither I sent for Dr.
      Williams, and he is willing to swear in my behalf against T. Trice, viz.,
      that at T. Trice's desire we have met to treat about our business. Thence
      (I drinking no wine) after an hour's stay Sir W. Batten and another, and
      he drinking, we home by coach, and so to my office and set down my
      Journall, and then home to supper and to bed, my washing being in a good
      condition over. I did give Dr. Williams 20s. tonight, but it was after he
      had answered me well to what I had to ask him about this business, and it
      was only what I had long ago in my petty bag book allotted for him besides
      the bill of near L4 which I paid him a good while since by my brother Tom
      for physique for my wife, without any consideration to this business that
      he is to do for me, as God shall save me. Among the rest, talking of the
      Emperor at table to-day one young gentleman, a pretty man, and it seems a
      Parliament man, did say that he was a sot;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Leopold I, the Holy Roman Emperor, was born June 9th, 1640.  He
     became King of Hungary in 1655, and King of Bohemia in 1658, in
     which year he received the imperial crown.  The Princes of the
     German Empire watched for some time the progress of his struggle
     with the Turks with indifference, but in 1663 they were induced to
     grant aid to Leopold after he had made a personal appeal to them in
     the diet at Ratisbon.]
</pre>
    <p>
      for he minded nothing of the Government, but was led by the Jesuites.
      Several at table took him up, some for saying that he was a sot in being
      led by the Jesuites, [who] are the best counsel he can take. Another
      commander, a Scott[ish] Collonell, who I believe had several under him,
      that he was a man that had thus long kept out the Turke till now, and did
      many other great things, and lastly Mr. Progers, one of our courtiers, who
      told him that it was not a thing to be said of any Soveraigne Prince, be
      his weaknesses what they will, to be called a sot, which methinks was very
      prettily said.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and my uncle Thomas and his scrivener bringing me a bond and
      affidavit to my mind, I paid him his L20 for his daughter's legacy, and L5
      more for a Quarter's annuity, in the manner expressed in each acquittance,
      to which I must be referred on any future occasion, and to the bond and
      affidavit. Thence to the office and there sat till noon, and then home to
      dinner, and after dinner (it being a foul house to-day among my maids,
      making up their clothes) abroad with my Will with me by coach to Dr,
      Williams, and with him to the Six Clerks's office, and there, by advice of
      his acquaintance, I find that my case, through my neglect and the neglect
      of my lawyers, is come to be very bad, so as that it will be very hard to
      get my bill retayned again. However, I got him to sign and swear an
      affidavit that there was treaties between T. Trice and me with as much
      advantage as I could for me, but I will say that for him he was most exact
      as ever I saw man in my life, word by word what it was that he swore to,
      and though, God forgive me, I could have been almost naturally willing to
      have let him ignorantly have sworn to something that was not of itself
      very certain, either or no, yet out of his own conscience and care he
      altered the words himself so as to make them very safe for him to swear.
      This I carrying to my clerk Wilkinson, and telling him how I heard matters
      to stand, he, like a conceited fellow, made nothing of it but advised me
      to offer Trice's clerks the cost of the dismission, viz., 46s. 8d., which
      I did, but they would not take it without his client. Immediately
      thereupon we parted, and met T. Trice coming into the room, and he came to
      me and served me with a subpoena for these very costs, so I paid it him,
      but Lord! to see his resolution, and indeed discretion, in the wording of
      his receipt, he would have it most express to my greatest disadvantage
      that could be, yet so as I could not deny to give it him. That being paid,
      my clerke, and then his began to ask why we could not think, being
      friends, of referring it, or stating it, first ourselves, and then put it
      to some good lawyer to judge in it. From one word to more we were resolved
      to try, and to that end to step to the Pope's Head Taverne, and there he
      and his Clerke and Attorney and I and my Clerke, and sent for Mr.
      Smallwood, and by and by comes Mr. Clerke, my Solicitor, and after I had
      privately discoursed with my men and seen how doubtfully they talked, and
      what future certain charge and trouble it would be, with a doubtful
      victory, I resolved to condescend very low, and after some talke all
      together Trice and I retired, and he came to L150 the lowest, and I bid
      him L80. So broke off and then went to our company, and they putting us to
      a second private discourse, at last I was contented to give him L100, he
      to spend 40s. of it among this good company that was with us. So we went
      to our company, both seeming well pleased that we were come to an end, and
      indeed I am in the respects above said, though it be a great sum for us to
      part with. I am to pay him by giving him leave to buy about L40 worth of
      Piggott's land and to strike off so much of Piggott's debt, and the other
      to give him bond to pay him in 12 months after without interest, only
      giving him a power to buy more land of Piggott and paying him that way as
      he did for the other, which I am well enough contented with, or at least
      to take the land at that price and give him the money. This last I did not
      tell him, but I shall order it so. Having agreed upon to-morrow come
      se'nnight for the spending of the 40s. at Mr. Rawlinson's, we parted, and
      I set T. Trice down in Paul's Churchyard and I by coach home and to my
      office, and there set down this day's passages, and so home to supper and
      to bed. Mr. Coventry tells me to-day that the Queen had a very good night
      last night; but yet it is strange that still she raves and talks of little
      more than of her having of children, and fancys now that she hath three
      children, and that the girle is very like the King. And this morning about
      five o'clock waked (the physician feeling her pulse, thinking to be better
      able to judge, she being still and asleep, waked her) and the first word
      she said was, "How do the children?"
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up and at my office all the morning, and at noon Mr. Creed came to
      me and dined with me, and after dinner Murford came to me and he and I
      discoursed wholly upon his breach of contract with us. After that Mr.
      Creed and I abroad, I doing several errands, and with him at last to the
      great coffee-house, and there after some common discourse we parted and I
      home, paying what I owed at the Mitre in my way, and at home Sympson the
      joyner coming he set up my press for my cloaks and other small things, and
      so to my office a little, and to supper, and to bed. This morning Mr.
      Blackburne came to me, and telling me what complaints Will made of the
      usage he had from my wife and other discouragements, and, I seeing him,
      instead of advising, rather favouring his kinsman, I told him freely my
      mind, but friendlily, and so we have concluded to have him have a lodging
      elsewhere, and that I will spare him L15 of his salary, and if I do not
      need to keep another L20.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, it being my Lord Mayor's day, Sir Anthony Bateman. This morning
      was brought home my new velvet cloake, that is, lined with velvet, a good
      cloth the outside, the first that ever I had in my life, and I pray God it
      may not be too soon now that I begin to wear it. I had it this day
      brought, thinking to have worn it to dinner, but I thought it would be
      better to go without it because of the crowde, and so I did not wear it.
      We met a little at the office, and then home again and got me ready to go
      forth, my wife being gone forth by my consent before to see her father and
      mother, and taken her cooke mayde and little girle to Westminster with her
      for them to see their friends. This morning in dressing myself and wanting
      a band,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The band succeeded the ruff as the ordinary civil costume.  The
     lawyers, who now retain bands, and the clergy, who have only lately
     left them off, formerly wore ruffs.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I found all my bands that were newly made clean so ill smoothed that I
      crumpled them, and flung them all on the ground, and was angry with Jane,
      which made the poor girle mighty sad, so that I were troubled for it
      afterwards. At noon I went forth, and by coach to Guild Hall (by the way
      calling at Mr. Rawlinson's), and there was admitted, and meeting with Mr.
      Proby (Sir R. Ford's son), and Lieutenant-Colonel Baron, a City commander,
      we went up and down to see the tables; where under every salt there was a
      bill of fare, and at the end of the table the persons proper for the
      table. Many were the tables, but none in the Hall but the Mayor's and the
      Lords of the Privy Council that had napkins
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [As the practice of eating with forks gradually was introduced from
     Italy into England, napkins were not so generally used, but
     considered more as an ornament than a necessary.

                    "The laudable use of forks,
          Brought into custom here, as they are in Italy,
          To the sparing of napkins."

                         Ben Jonson, The Devil is an Ass, act v., sc.  3.

     The guests probably brought their own knife and fork with them in a
     case.&mdash;M.B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      or knives, which was very strange. We went into the Buttry, and there
      stayed and talked, and then into the Hall again: and there wine was
      offered and they drunk, I only drinking some hypocras, which do not break
      my vowe, it being, to the best of my present judgement, only a mixed
      compound drink, and not any wine.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A drink, composed usually of red wine, but sometimes of white, with
     the addition of sugar and spices.  Sir Walter Scott ("Quarterly
     Review," vol.  xxxiii.) says, after quoting this passage of Pepys,
     "Assuredly his pieces of bacchanalian casuistry can only be matched
     by that of Fielding's chaplain of Newgate, who preferred punch to
     wine, because the former was a liquor nowhere spoken against in
     Scripture."]
</pre>
    <p>
      If I am mistaken, God forgive me! but I hope and do think I am not. By and
      by met with Creed; and we, with the others, went within the several
      Courts, and there saw the tables prepared for the Ladies and Judges and
      Bishopps: all great sign of a great dinner to come. By and by about one
      o'clock, before the Lord Mayor came, come into the Hall, from the room
      where they were first led into, the Lord Chancellor (Archbishopp before
      him), with the Lords of the Council, and other Bishopps, and they to
      dinner. Anon comes the Lord Mayor, who went up to the lords, and then to
      the other tables to bid wellcome; and so all to dinner. I sat near Proby,
      Baron, and Creed at the Merchant Strangers' table; where ten good dishes
      to a messe, with plenty of wine of all sorts, of which I drunk none; but
      it was very unpleasing that we had no napkins nor change of trenchers, and
      drunk out of earthen pitchers and wooden dishes.&mdash;[The City plate was
      probably melted during the Civil War.-M.B.]&mdash;It happened that after
      the lords had half dined, came the French Embassador, up to the lords'
      table, where he was to have sat; but finding the table set, he would not
      sit down nor dine with the Lord Mayor, who was not yet come, nor have a
      table to himself, which was offered; but in a discontent went away again.
      After I had dined, I and Creed rose and went up and down the house, and up
      to the lady's room, and there stayed gazing upon them. But though there
      were many and fine, both young and old, yet I could not discern one
      handsome face there; which was very strange, nor did I find the lady that
      young Dawes married so pretty as I took her for, I having here an
      opportunity of looking much upon her very near. I expected musique, but
      there was none but only trumpets and drums, which displeased me. The
      dinner, it seems, is made by the Mayor and two Sheriffs for the time
      being, the Lord Mayor paying one half, and they the other. And the whole,
      Proby says, is reckoned to come to about 7 or L800 at most. Being wearied
      with looking upon a company of ugly women, Creed and I went away, and took
      coach and through Cheapside, and there saw the pageants, which were very
      silly, and thence to the Temple, where meeting Greatorex, he and we to
      Hercules Pillars, there to show me the manner of his going about of
      draining of fenns, which I desired much to know, but it did not appear
      very satisfactory to me, as he discoursed it, and I doubt he will faile in
      it. Thence I by coach home, and there found my wife come home, and by and
      by came my brother Tom, with whom I was very angry for not sending me a
      bill with my things, so as that I think never to have more work done by
      him if ever he serves me so again, and so I told him. The consideration of
      laying out L32 12s. this very month in his very work troubles me also, and
      one thing more, that is to say, that Will having been at home all the day,
      I doubt is the occasion that Jane has spoken to her mistress tonight that
      she sees she cannot please us and will look out to provide herself
      elsewhere, which do trouble both of us, and we wonder also at her, but yet
      when the rogue is gone I do not fear but the wench will do well. To the
      office a little, to set down my Journall, and so home late to supper and
      to bed. The Queen mends apace, they say; but yet talks idle still.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Lay long in bed with my wife, and then up and a while at my office,
      and so to the Change, and so [home] again, and there I found my wife in a
      great passion with her mayds. I upstairs to set some things in order in
      our chamber and wardrobe, and so to dinner upon a good dish of stewed
      beef, then up again about my business. Then by coach with my wife to the
      New Exchange, and there bought and paid for several things, and then back,
      calling at my periwigg-makers, and there showed my wife the periwigg made
      for me, and she likes it very well, and so to my brother's, and to buy a
      pair of boddice for her, and so home, and to my office late, and then home
      to my wife, purposing to go on to a new lesson in arithmetique with her.
      So to supper and to bed. The Queen mends apace, but her head still light.
      My mind very heavy thinking of my great layings out lately, and what they
      must still be for clothes, but I hope it is in order to getting of
      something the more by it, for I perceive how I have hitherto suffered for
      lack of going as becomes my place. After a little discourse with my wife
      upon arithmetique, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon home
      to dinner, where Creed came and dined with me, and after dinner he and I
      upstairs, and I showed him my velvet cloake and other things of clothes,
      that I have lately bought, which he likes very well, and I took his
      opinion as to some things of clothes, which I purpose to wear, being
      resolved to go a little handsomer than I have hitherto. Thence to the
      office; where busy till night, and then to prepare my monthly account,
      about which I staid till 10 or 11 o'clock at night, and to my great sorrow
      find myself L43 worse than I was the last month, which was then L760, and
      now it is but L717. But it hath chiefly arisen from my layings-out in
      clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her about L12, and for myself L55,
      or thereabouts; having made myself a velvet cloake, two new cloth suits,
      black, plain both; a new shagg
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Shag was a stuff similar to plush.  In 1703 a youth who was missing
     is described in an advertisement as wearing "red shag breeches,
     striped with black stripes." (Planche's "Cyclopxdia of Costume ").]
</pre>
    <p>
      gowne, trimmed with gold buttons and twist, with a new hat, and, silk tops
      for my legs, and many other things, being resolved henceforward to go like
      myself. And also two perriwiggs, one whereof costs me L3, and the other
      40s.&mdash;I have worn neither yet, but will begin next week, God willing.
      So that I hope I shall not need now to lay out more money a great while, I
      having laid out in clothes for myself and wife, and for her closett and
      other things without, these two months, this and the last, besides
      household expenses of victuals, &amp;c., above L110. But I hope I shall
      with more comfort labour to get more, and with better successe than when,
      for want of clothes, I was forced to sneake like a beggar. Having done
      this I went home, and after supper to bed, my mind being eased in knowing
      my condition, though troubled to think that I have been forced to spend so
      much.
    </p>
    <p>
      Thus I end this month worth L717, or thereabouts, with a good deal of good
      goods more than I had, and a great deal of new and good clothes. My
      greatest trouble and my wife's is our family, mighty out of order by this
      fellow Will's corrupting the mayds by his idle talke and carriage, which
      we are going to remove by hastening him out of the house, which his uncle
      Blackburne is upon doing, and I am to give him L20 per annum toward his
      maintenance. The Queene continues lightheaded, but in hopes to recover.
      The plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in fears of it here, which God
      defend.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Defend is used in the sense of forbid.  It is a Gallicism from the
     French "defendre."]
</pre>
    <p>
      The Turke goes on mightily in the Emperor's dominions, and the Princes
      cannot agree among themselves how to go against him. Myself in pretty good
      health now, after being ill this month for a week together, but cannot yet
      come to.... well, being so costive, but for this month almost I have not
      had a good natural stool, but to this hour am forced to take physic every
      night, which brings me neither but one stool, and that in the morning as
      soon as I am up, all the rest of the day very costive. My father has been
      very ill in the country, but I hope better again now. I am lately come to
      a conclusion with Tom Trice to pay him L100, which is a great deale of
      money, but I hope it will save a great deale more. But thus everything
      lessens, which I have and am like to have, and therefore I must look about
      me to get something more than just my salary, or else I may resolve to
      live well and die a beggar.
    </p>
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      NOVEMBER 1663
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    <p>
      November 1st (Lord's day). This morning my brother's man brought me a new
      black baize waistecoate, faced with silke, which I put on from this day,
      laying by half-shirts for this winter. He brought me also my new gowne of
      purple shagg, trimmed with gold, very handsome; he also brought me as a
      gift from my brother, a velvet hat, very fine to ride in, and the fashion,
      which pleases me very well, to which end, I believe, he sent it me, for he
      knows I had lately been angry with him. Up and to church with my wife, and
      at noon dined at home alone, a good calves head boiled and dumplings, an
      excellent dinner methought it was. Then to church again, whither Sir W.
      Pen came, the first time he has been at church these several months, he
      having been sicke all the while. Home and to my office, where I taught my
      wife some part of subtraction, and then fell myself to set some papers of
      my last night's accounts in order, and so to supper home, and after supper
      another bout at arithmetique with my wife, and then to my office again and
      made an end of my papers, and so home to prayers, and then to read my
      vowes, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2d. Up, and by coach to White Hall, and there in the long Matted Gallery I
      find Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten&mdash;and by and by
      comes the King to walk there with three or four with him; and soon as he
      saw us, says he, "Here is the Navy Office," and there walked twenty turns
      the length of the gallery, talking, methought, but ordinary talke. By and
      by came the Duke, and he walked, and at last they went into the Duke's
      lodgings. The King staid so long that we could not discourse with the
      Duke, and so we parted. I heard the Duke say that he was going to wear a
      perriwigg; and they say the King also will. I never till this day observed
      that the King is mighty gray. Thence, meeting with Creed, walked with him
      to Westminster Hall, and thence by coach took up Mrs. Hunt, and carried
      her towards my house, and we light at the 'Change, and sent her to my
      house, Creed and I to the Coffeehouse, and then to the 'Change, and so
      home, and carried a barrel of oysters with us, and so to dinner, and after
      a good dinner left Mrs. Hunt and my wife making marmalett of quinces, and
      Creed and I to the perriwigg makers, but it being dark concluded of
      nothing, and so Creed went away, and I with Sir W. Pen, who spied me in
      the street, in his coach home. There found them busy still, and I up to my
      vyall. Anon, the comfiture being well done, my wife and I took Mrs. Hunt
      at almost 9 at night by coach and carried Mrs. Hunt home, and did give her
      a box of sugar and a haunch of venison given me by my Lady the other day.
      We did not 'light, but saw her within doors, and straight home, where
      after supper there happening some discourse where my wife thought she had
      taken Jane in a lie, she told me of it mighty triumphantly, but I, not
      seeing reason to conclude it a lie, was vexed, and my wife and I to very
      high words, wherein I up to my chamber, and she by and by followed me up,
      and to very bad words from her to me, calling me perfidious and man of no
      conscience, whatever I pretend to, and I know not what, which troubled me
      mightily, and though I would allow something to her passion, yet I see
      again and again that she spoke but somewhat of what she had in her heart.
      But I tempered myself very well, so as that though we went to bed with
      discontent she yielded to me and began to be fond, so that being willing
      myself to peace, we did before we sleep become very good friends, it being
      past 12 o'clock, and so with good hearts and joy to rest.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, and at noon to the
      Coffee-house, and there heard a long and most passionate discourse between
      two doctors of physique, of which one was Dr. Allen, whom I knew at
      Cambridge, and a couple of apothecarys; these maintaining chymistry
      against them Galenicall physique; and the truth is, one of the apothecarys
      whom they charged most, did speak very prettily, that is, his language and
      sense good, though perhaps he might not be so knowing a physician as to
      offer to contest with them. At last they came to some cooler terms, and
      broke up. I home, and there Mr. Moore coming by my appointment dined with
      me, and after dinner came Mr. Goldsborough, and we discoursed about the
      business of his mother, but could come to no agreement in it but parted
      dissatisfied. By and by comes Chapman, the periwigg-maker, and upon my
      liking it, without more ado I went up, and there he cut off my haire,
      which went a little to my heart at present to part with it; but, it being
      over, and my periwigg on, I paid him L3 for it; and away went he with my
      owne haire to make up another of, and I by and by, after I had caused all
      my mayds to look upon it; and they conclude it do become me; though Jane
      was mightily troubled for my parting of my own haire, and so was Besse, I
      went abroad to the Coffeehouse, and coming back went to Sir W. Pen and
      there sat with him and Captain Cocke till late at night, Cocke talking of
      some of the Roman history very well, he having a good memory. Sir W. Pen
      observed mightily, and discoursed much upon my cutting off my haire, as he
      do of every thing that concerns me, but it is over, and so I perceive
      after a day or two it will be no great matter.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up and to my office, shewing myself to Sir W. Batten, and Sir J.
      Minnes, and no great matter made of my periwigg, as I was afeard there
      would be. Among other things there came to me Shales of Portsmouth, by my
      order, and I began to discourse with him about the arrears of stores
      belonging to the Victualling Office there, and by his discourse I am in
      some hopes that if I can get a grant from the King of such a part of all I
      discover I may chance to find a way to get something by the by, which do
      greatly please me the very thoughts of. Home to dinner, and very pleasant
      with my wife, who is this day also herself making of marmalett of quince,
      which she now do very well herself. I left her at it and by coach I to the
      New Exchange and several places to buy and bring home things, among others
      a case I bought of the trunk maker's for my periwigg, and so home and to
      my office late, and among other things wrote a letter to Will's uncle to
      hasten his removal from me, and so home to supper and to bed. This morning
      Captain Cocke did give me a good account of the Guinny trade. The Queene
      is in a great way to recovery. This noon came John Angier to me in a
      pickle, I was sad to see him, desiring my good word for him to go a
      trooper to Tangier, but I did schoole him and sent him away with good
      advice, but no present encouragement. Presently after I had a letter from
      his poor father at Cambridge, who is broke, it seems, and desires me to
      get him a protection, or a place of employment; but, poor man, I doubt I
      can helpe him, but will endeavour it.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Lay long in bed, then up, called by Captain Cocke about business of a
      contract of his for some Tarre, and so to the office, and then to Sir W.
      Pen and there talked, and he being gone came Sir W. Warren and discoursed
      about our business with Field, and at noon by agreement to the Miter to
      dinner upon T. Trice's 40s., to be spent upon our late agreement. Here was
      a very poor dinner and great company. All our lawyers on both sides, and
      several friends of his and some of mine brought by him, viz., Mr. Moore,
      uncle Wight, Dr. Williams, and my cozen Angier, that lives here in town,
      who t Captain John Shales after dinner carried me aside and showed me a
      letter from his poor brother at Cambridge to me of the same contents with
      that yesterday to me desiring help from me. Here I was among a sorry
      company without any content or pleasure, and at the last the reckoning
      coming to above 40s. by 15s., he would have me pay the 10s. and he would
      pay the 5s., which was so poor that I was ashamed of it, and did it only
      to save contending with him. There, after agreeing a day for him and I to
      meet and seal our agreement, I parted and home, and at the office by
      agreement came Mr. Shales, and there he and I discourse till late the
      business of his helping me in the discovery of some arrears of provisions
      and stores due to the stores at Portsmouth, out of which I may chance to
      get some money, and save the King some too, and therefore I shall
      endeavour to do the fellow some right in other things here to his
      advantage between Mr. Gauden and him. He gone my wife and I to her
      arithmetique, in which she pleases me well, and so to the office, there
      set down my Journall, and so home to supper and to bed. A little troubled
      to see how my family is out of order by Will's being there, and also to
      hear that Jane do not please my wife as I expected and would have wished.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. This morning waking, my wife was mighty-earnest with me to persuade
      me that she should prove with child since last night, which, if it be, let
      it come, and welcome. Up to my office, whither Commissioner Pett came,
      newly come out of the country, and he and I walked together in the garden
      talking of business a great while, and I perceive that by our
      countenancing of him he do begin to pluck up his head, and will do good
      things I hope in the yard. Thence, he being gone, to my office and there
      dispatched many people, and at noon to the 'Change to the coffee-house,
      and among other things heard Sir John Cutler say, that of his owne
      experience in time of thunder, so many barrels of beer as have a piece of
      iron laid upon them will not be soured, and the others will. Thence to the
      'Change, and there discoursed with many people, and I hope to settle again
      to my business and revive my report of following of business, which by my
      being taken off for a while by sickness and, laying out of money has
      slackened for a little while. Home, and there found Mrs. Hunt, who dined
      very merry, good woman; with us. After dinner came in Captain Grove, and
      he and I alone to talk of many things, and among many others of the
      Fishery, in which he gives the such hopes that being at this time full of
      projects how to get a little honestly, of which some of them I trust in
      God will take, I resolved this afternoon to go and consult my Lord
      Sandwich about it, and so, being to carry home Mrs. Hunt, I took her and
      my wife by coach and set them at Axe Yard, and I to my Lord's and thither
      sent for Creed and discoursed with him about it, and he and I to White
      Hall, where Sir G. Carteret and my Lord met me very fortunately, and
      wondered first to see me in my perruque, and I am glad it is over, and
      then, Sir G. Carteret being gone, I took my Lord aside, who do give me the
      best advice he can, and telling me how there are some projectors, by name
      Sir Edward Ford, who would have the making of farthings,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir Edward Ford, son of Sir William Ford of Harting, born at Up
     Park in 1605.  "After the Restoration he invented a mode of coining
     farthings.  Each piece was to differ minutely from another to
     prevent forgery.  He failed in procuring a patent for these in
     England, but obtained one for Ireland.  He died in Ireland before he
     could carry his design into execution, on September 3rd, 1670"
     ("Dictionary of National Biography ").]
</pre>
    <p>
      and out of that give so much to the King for the maintenance of the
      Fishery; but my Lord do not like that, but would have it go as they
      offered the last year, and so upon my desire he promises me when it is
      seasonable to bring me into the commission with others, if any of them
      take, and I perceive he and Mr. Coventry are resolved to follow it hard.
      Thence, after walking a good while in the Long gallery, home to my Lord's
      lodging, my Lord telling me how my father did desire him to speak to me
      about my giving of my sister something, which do vex me to see that he
      should trouble my Lord in it, but however it is a good occasion for me to
      tell my Lord my condition, and so I was glad of it. After that we begun to
      talk of the Court, and he tells me how Mr. Edward Montagu begins to show
      respect to him again after his endeavouring to bespatter him all was,
      possible; but he is resolved never to admit him into his friendship again.
      He tells me how he and Sir H. Bennet, the Duke of Buckingham and his
      Duchesse, was of a committee with somebody else for the getting of Mrs.
      Stewart for the King; but that she proves a cunning slut, and is advised
      at Somerset House by the Queene-Mother, and by her mother, and so all the
      plot is spoiled and the whole committee broke. Mr. Montagu and the Duke of
      Buckingham fallen a-pieces, the Duchesse going to a nunnery; and so
      Montagu begins to enter friendship with my Lord, and to attend the
      Chancellor whom he had deserted. My Lord tells me that Mr. Montagu, among
      other things, did endeavour to represent him to the Chancellor's sons as
      one that did desert their father in the business of my Lord of Bristoll;
      which is most false, being the only man that hath several times dined with
      him when no soul hath come to him, and went with him that very day home
      when the Earl impeached him in the Parliament House, and hath refused ever
      to pay a visit to my Lord of Bristoll, not so much as in return to a visit
      of his. So that the Chancellor and my Lord are well known and trusted one
      by another. But yet my Lord blames the Chancellor for desiring to have it
      put off to the next Session of Parliament, contrary to my Lord Treasurer's
      advice, to whom he swore he would not do it: and, perhaps, my Lord
      Chancellor, for aught I see by my Lord's discourse, may suffer by it when
      the Parliament comes to sit. My Lord tells me that he observes the Duke of
      York do follow and understand business very well, and is mightily improved
      thereby. Here Mr. Pagett coming in I left my Lord and him, and thence I
      called my wife and her maid Jane and by coach home and to my office, where
      late writing some things against tomorrow, and so home to supper and to
      bed. This morning Mr. Blackburne came to me to let me know that he had got
      a lodging very commodious for his kinsman, and so he is ready at my
      pleasure to go when I would bid him, and so I told him that I would in a
      day or two send to speak with him and he and I would talk and advise Will
      what to do, of which I am very glad.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and Sir W. Pen
      and I had a word or two, where by opposing him in not being willing to
      excuse a mulct put upon the purser of the James, absent from duty, he
      says, by his business and order, he was mighty angry, and went out of the
      office like an asse discontented: At which I am never a whit sorry; I
      would not have [him] think that I dare not oppose him, where I see reason
      and cause for it. Home to dinner, and then by coach abroad about several
      businesses to several places, among others to Westminster Hall, where,
      seeing Howlett's daughter going out of the other end of the Hall, I
      followed her if I would to have offered talk to her and dallied with her a
      little, but I could not overtake her. Then calling at Unthank's for
      something of my wife's not done, a pretty little gentlewoman, a lodger
      there, came out to tell me that it was not yet done, which though it vexed
      me yet I took opportunity of taking her by the hand with the boot, and so
      found matter to talk a little the longer to her, but I was ready to laugh
      at myself to see how my anger would not operate, my disappointment coming
      to me by such a messenger. Thence to Doctors' Commons and there consulted
      Dr. Turner about some differences we have with the officers of the East
      India ships about goods brought by them without paying freight, which we
      demand of them. So home to my office, and there late writing letters, and
      so home to supper and to bed, having got a scurvy cold by lying cold in my
      head the last night. This day Captain Taylor brought me a piece of plate,
      a little small state dish, he expecting that I should get him some
      allowance for demorage
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["'Demurrage' is the compensation due to a shipowner from a
     freighter for unduly decaying his vessel in port beyond the time
     specified in the charter-party or bill of lading.  It is in fact an
     extended freight.  A ship, unjustly detained as a prize is entitled
     to 'demurrage.'"&mdash;Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book, 1867.]
</pre>
    <p>
      of his ship "William," kept long at Tangier, which I shall and may justly
      do.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). Up, and it being late, to church without my wife, and
      there I saw Pembleton come into the church and bring his wife with him, a
      good comely plain woman, and by and by my wife came after me all alone,
      which I was a little vexed at. I found that my coming in a perriwigg did
      not prove so strange to the world as I was afear'd it would, for I thought
      that all the church would presently have cast their eyes all upon me, but
      I found no such thing. Here an ordinary lazy sermon of Mr. Mill's, and
      then home to dinner, and there Tom came and dined with us; and after
      dinner to talk about a new black cloth suit that I have a making, and so
      at church time to church again, where the Scott preached, and I slept most
      of the time. Thence home, and I spent most of the evening upon Fuller's
      "Church History" and Barckly's "Argeny," and so after supper to prayers
      and to bed, a little fearing my pain coming back again, myself continuing
      as costive as ever, and my physic ended, but I had sent a porter to-day
      for more and it was brought me before I went to bed, and so with pretty
      good content to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and found myself very well, and so by coach to White Hall and
      there met all my fellow officers, and so to the Duke, where, when we came
      into his closett, he told us that Mr. Pepys was so altered with his new
      perriwigg that he did not know him. So to our discourse, and among and
      above other things we were taken up in talking upon Sir J. Lawson's coming
      home, he being come to Portsmouth; and Captain Berkely is come to towne
      with a letter from the Duana of Algier to the King, wherein they do demand
      again the searching of our ships and taking out of strangers, and their
      goods; and that what English ships are taken without the Duke's pass they
      will detain (though it be flat contrary to the words of the peace) as
      prizes, till they do hear from our King, which they advise him may be
      speedy. And this they did the very next day after they had received with
      great joy the Grand Seignor's confirmation of the Peace from
      Constantinople by Captain Berkely; so that there is no command nor
      certainty to be had of these people. The King is resolved to send his will
      by a fleete of ships; and it is thought best and speediest to send these
      very ships that are now come home, five sail of good ships, back again
      after cleaning, victualling, and paying them. But it is a pleasant thing
      to think how their Basha, Shavan Aga, did tear his hair to see the
      soldiers order things thus; for (just like his late predecessor) when they
      see the evil of war with England, then for certain they complain to the
      Grand Seignor of him, and cut his head off: this he is sure of, and knows
      as certain. Thence to Westminster Hall, where I met with Mr. Pierce,
      chyrurgeon; and among other things he asked me seriously whether I knew
      anything of my Lord's being out of favour with the King; and told me, that
      for certain the King do take mighty notice of my Lord's living obscurely
      in a corner not like himself, and becoming the honour that he is come to.
      I was sorry to hear, and the truth is, from my Lord's discourse among his
      people (which I am told) of the uncertainty of princes' favours, and his
      melancholy keeping from Court, I am doubtful of some such thing; but I
      seemed wholly strange to him in it, but will make my use of it. He told me
      also how loose the Court is, nobody looking after business, but every man
      his lust and gain; and how the King is now become besotted upon Mrs.
      Stewart, that he gets into corners, and will be with her half an houre
      together kissing her to the observation of all the world; and she now
      stays by herself and expects it, as my Lady Castlemaine did use to do; to
      whom the King, he says, is still kind, so as now and then he goes to have
      a chat with her as he believes; but with no such fondness as he used to
      do. But yet it is thought that this new wench is so subtle, that she lets
      him not do any thing than is safe to her, but yet his doting is so great
      that, Pierce tells me, it is verily thought if the Queene had died, he
      would have married her. The Duke of Monmouth is to have part of the
      Cockpitt new built for lodgings for him, and they say to be made Captain
      of the Guards in the room of my Lord Gerard. Having thus talked with him,
      there comes into the Hall Creed and Ned Pickering, and after a turne or
      two with them, it being noon, I walked with them two to the King's Head
      ordinary, and there we dined; little discourse but what was common, only
      that the Duke of Yorke is a very, desperate huntsman, but I was ashamed of
      Pickering, who could not forbear having up my Lord Sandwich now and then
      in the most paltry matters abominable. Thence I took leave of them, and so
      having taken up something at my wife's tailor's, I home by coach and there
      to my office, whither Shales came and I had much discourse with him about
      the business of the victualling, and thence in the evening to the
      Coffee-house, and there sat till by and by, by appointment Will brought me
      word that his uncle Blackburne was ready to speak with me. So I went down
      to him, and he and I to a taverne hard by, and there I begun to speak to
      Will friendlily, advising him how to carry himself now he is going from
      under my roof, without any reflections upon the occasion from whence his
      removal arose. This his uncle seconded, and after laying down to him his
      duty to me, and what I expect of him, in a discourse of about a quarter of
      an houre or more, we agreed upon his going this week, towards the latter
      (end) of the week, and so dismissed him, and Mr. Blackburne and I fell to
      talk of many things, wherein I did speak so freely to him in many things
      agreeing with his sense that he was very open to me: first, in that of
      religion, he makes it great matter of prudence for the King and Council to
      suffer liberty of conscience; and imputes the losse of Hungary to the
      Turke from the Emperor's denying them this liberty of their religion. He
      says that many pious ministers of the word of God, some thousands of them,
      do now beg their bread: and told me how highly the present clergy carry
      themselves every where, so as that they are hated and laughed at by
      everybody; among other things, for their excommunications, which they send
      upon the least occasions almost that can be. And I am convinced in my
      judgement, not only from his discourse, but my thoughts in general, that
      the present clergy will never heartily go down with the generality of the
      commons of England; they have been so used to liberty and freedom, and
      they are so acquainted with the pride and debauchery of the present
      clergy. He did give me many stories of the affronts which the clergy
      receive in all places of England from the gentry and ordinary persons of
      the parish. He do tell me what the City thinks of General Monk, as of a
      most perfidious man that hath betrayed every body, and the King also; who,
      as he thinks, and his party, and so I have heard other good friends of the
      King say, it might have been better for the King to have had his hands a
      little bound for the present, than be forced to bring such a crew of poor
      people about him, and be liable to satisfy the demands of every one of
      them. He told me that to his knowledge (being present at every meeting at
      the Treaty at the Isle of Wight), that the old King did confess himself
      overruled and convinced in his judgement against the Bishopps, and would
      have suffered and did agree to exclude the service out of the churches,
      nay his own chappell; and that he did always say, that this he did not by
      force, for that he would never abate one inch by any vyolence; but what he
      did was out of his reason and judgement. He tells me that the King by
      name, with all his dignities, is prayed for by them that they call
      Fanatiques, as heartily and powerfully as in any of the other churches
      that are thought better: and that, let the King think what he will, it is
      them that must helpe him in the day of warr. For as they are the most, so
      generally they are the most substantial sort of people, and the soberest;
      and did desire me to observe it to my Lord Sandwich, among other things,
      that of all the old army now you cannot see a man begging about the
      street; but what? You shall have this captain turned a shoemaker; the
      lieutenant, a baker; this a brewer; that a haberdasher; this common
      soldier, a porter; and every man in his apron and frock, &amp;c., as if
      they never had done anything else: whereas the others go with their belts
      and swords, swearing and cursing, and stealing; running into people's
      houses, by force oftentimes, to carry away something; and this is the
      difference between the temper of one and the other; and concludes (and I
      think with some reason,) that the spirits of the old parliament soldiers
      are so quiett and contented with God's providences, that the King is safer
      from any evil meant him by them one thousand times more than from his own
      discontented Cavalier. And then to the publique management of business: it
      is done, as he observes, so loosely and so carelessly, that the kingdom
      can never be happy with it, every man looking after himself, and his owne
      lust and luxury; among other things he instanced in the business of money,
      he do believe that half of what money the Parliament gives the King is not
      so much as gathered. And to the purpose he told me how the Bellamys (who
      had some of the Northern counties assigned them for their debt for the
      petty warrant victualling) have often complained to him that they cannot
      get it collected, for that nobody minds, or, if they do, they won't pay it
      in. Whereas (which is a very remarkable thing,) he hath been told by some
      of the Treasurers at Warr here of late, to whom the most of the L120,000
      monthly was paid, that for most months the payments were gathered so duly,
      that they seldom had so much or more than 40s., or the like, short in the
      whole collection; whereas now the very Commissioners for Assessments and
      other publique payments are such persons, and those that they choose in
      the country so like themselves, that from top to bottom there is not a man
      carefull of any thing, or if he be, he is not solvent; that what between
      the beggar and the knave, the King is abused the best part of all his
      revenue. From thence we began to talk of the Navy, and particularly of Sir
      W. Pen, of whose rise to be a general I had a mind to be informed. He told
      me he was always a conceited man, and one that would put the best side
      outward, but that it was his pretence of sanctity that brought him into
      play. Lawson, and Portman, and the Fifth-monarchy men, among whom he was a
      great brother, importuned that he might be general; and it was pleasant to
      see how Blackburne himself did act it, how when the Commissioners of the
      Admiralty would enquire of the captains and admirals of such and such men,
      how they would with a sigh and casting up the eyes say, "Such a man fears
      the Lord," or, "I hope such a man hath the Spirit of God," and such things
      as that. But he tells me that there was a cruel articling against Pen
      after one fight, for cowardice, in putting himself within a coyle of
      cables, of which he had much ado to acquit himself: and by great friends
      did it, not without remains of guilt, but that his brethren had a mind to
      pass it by, and Sir H. Vane did advise him to search his heart, and see
      whether this fault or a greater sin was not the occasion of this so great
      tryall. And he tells me, that what Pen gives out about Cromwell's sending
      and entreating him to go to Jamaica, is very false; he knows the contrary:
      besides, the Protector never was a man that needed to send for any man,
      specially such a one as he, twice. He tells me that the business of
      Jamaica did miscarry absolutely by his pride, and that when he was in the
      Tower he would cry like a child. This he says of his own personal
      knowledge, and lastly tells me that just upon the turne, when Monk was
      come from the North to the City, and did begin to think of bringing in the
      King, Pen was then turned Quaker. This he is most certain of. He tells me
      that Lawson was never counted any thing but only a seaman, and a stout
      man, but a false man, and that now he appears the greatest hypocrite in
      the world. And Pen the same. He tells me that it is much talked of, that
      the King intends to legitimate the Duke of Monmouth; and that he has not,
      nor his friends of his persuasion, have any hopes of getting their
      consciences at liberty but by God Almighty's turning of the King's heart,
      which they expect, and are resolved to live and die in quiett hopes of it;
      but never to repine, or act any thing more than by prayers towards it. And
      that not only himself but all of them have, and are willing at any time to
      take the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy. Thus far, and upon many more
      things, we had discoursed when some persons in a room hard by began to
      sing in three parts very finely and to play upon a flagilette so
      pleasantly that my discourse afterwards was but troublesome, and I could
      not attend it, and so, anon, considering of a sudden the time of night, we
      found it 11 o'clock, which I thought it had not been by two hours, but we
      were close in talk, and so we rose, he having drunk some wine and I some
      beer and sugar, and so by a fair moonshine home and to bed, my wife
      troubled with tooth ache. Mr. Blackburne observed further to me, some
      certain notice that he had of the present plot so much talked of; that he
      was told by Mr. Rushworth, how one Captain Oates, a great discoverer, did
      employ several to bring and seduce others into a plot, and that one of his
      agents met with one that would not listen to him, nor conceal what he had
      offered him, but so detected the trapan. This, he says, is most true. He
      also, among other instances how the King is served, did much insist upon
      the cowardice and corruption of the King's guards and militia, which to be
      sure will fail the King, as they have done already, when there will be
      occasion for them.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and to the office, where we sat till noon, and then to the
      Exchange, where spoke with several and had my head casting about how to
      get a penny and I hope I shall, and then hone, and there Mr. Moore by
      appointment dined with me, and after dinner all the afternoon till night
      drawing a bond and release against to-morrow for T. Trice, and I to come
      to a conclusion in which I proceed with great fear and jealousy, knowing
      him to be a rogue and one that I fear has at this time got too great a
      hank&mdash;[hold]&mdash;over me by the neglect of my lawyers. But among
      other things I am come to an end with Mr. Moore for a L32, a good while
      lying in my hand of my Lord Privy Seal's which he for the odd L7 do give
      me a bond to secure me against, and so I got L25 clear. Then, he being
      gone, to the office and there late setting down yesterday's remarkable
      discourses, and so home and to supper, late, and to bed. The Queene, I
      hear, is now very well again, and that she hath bespoke herself a new
      gowne.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and to my office all the morning, and at noon to the
      Coffee-house, where with Dr. Allen some good discourse about physique and
      chymistry. And among other things, I telling him what Dribble the German
      Doctor do offer of an instrument to sink ships; he tells me that which is
      more strange, that something made of gold, which they call in chymistry
      Aurum fulminans, a grain, I think he said, of it put into a silver spoon
      and fired, will give a blow like a musquett, and strike a hole through the
      spoon downward, without the least force upward; and this he can make a
      cheaper experiment of, he says, with iron prepared. Thence to the 'Change,
      and being put off a meeting with T. Trice, he not coming, I home to
      dinner, and after dinner by coach with my wife to my periwigg maker's for
      my second periwigg, but it is not done, and so, calling at a place or two,
      home, and there to my office, and there taught my wife a new lesson in
      arithmetique and so sent her home, and I to several businesses; and so
      home to supper and to bed, being mightily troubled with a cold in my
      stomach and head, with a great pain by coughing.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Lay long in bed, indeed too long, divers people and the officers
      staying for me. My cozen Thomas Pepys the executor being below, and I went
      to him and stated reckonings about our debt, for his payments of money to
      my uncle Thomas heretofore by the Captain's orders. I did not pay him but
      will soon do it if I can. To the office and there all the morning, where
      Sir W. Pen, like a coxcomb, was so ready to cross me in a motion I made
      unawares for the entering a man at Chatham into the works, wherein I was
      vexed to see his spleene, but glad to understand it, and that it was in no
      greater a matter, I being not at all concerned here. To the 'Change and
      did several businesses there and so home with Mr. Moore to dinner, my wife
      having dined, with Mr. Hollyard with her to-day, he being come to advise
      her about her hollow sore place. After dinner Mr. Moore and I discoursing
      of my Lord's negligence in attendance at Court, and the discourse the
      world makes of it, with the too great reason that I believe there is for
      it; I resolved and took coach to his lodgings, thinking to speak with my
      Lord about it without more ado. Here I met Mr. Howe, and he and I largely
      about it, and he very soberly acquainted me how things are with my Lord,
      that my Lord do not do anything like himself, but follows his folly, and
      spends his time either at cards at Court with the ladies, when he is there
      at all, or else at Chelsy with the slut to his great disgrace, and indeed
      I do see and believe that my Lord do apprehend that he do grow less too at
      Court. Anon my Lord do come in, and I begun to fall in discourse with him,
      but my heart did misgive me that my Lord would not take it well, and then
      found him not in a humour to talk, and so after a few ordinary words, my
      Lord not talking in the manner as he uses to do; I took leave, and spent
      some time with W. Howe again, and told him how I could not do what I had
      so great a mind and resolution to do, but that I thought it would be as
      well to do it in writing, which he approves of, and so I took leave of
      him, and by coach home, my mind being full of it, and in pain concerning
      it. So to my office busy very late, the nights running on faster than one
      thinks, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up and to my office, busy all the morning with Commissioner Pett; at
      noon I to the Exchange, and meeting Shales, he and I to the Coffee-house
      and there talked of our victualling matters, which I fear will come to
      little. However I will go on and carry it as far as I can. So home to
      dinner where I expected Commissioner Pett, and had a good dinner, but he
      came not. After dinner came my perriwigg-maker, and brings me a second
      periwigg, made of my own haire, which comes to 21s. 6d. more than the
      worth of my own haire, so that they both come to L4 1s. 6d., which he
      sayth will serve me two years, but I fear it. He being gone, I to my
      office, and put on my new shagg purple gowne, with gold buttons and loop
      lace, I being a little fearful of taking cold and of pain coming upon me.
      Here I staid making an end of a troublesome letter, but to my advantage,
      against Sir W. Batten, giving Sir G. Carteret an account of our late great
      contract with Sir W. Warren for masts, wherein I am sure I did the King
      L600 service. That done home to my wife to take a clyster, which I did,
      and it wrought very well and brought a great deal of wind, which I
      perceive is all that do trouble me. After that, about 9 or 10 o'clock, to
      supper in my wife's chamber, and then about 12 to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up and to the office, where we sat, and after we had almost done,
      Sir W. Batten desired to have the room cleared, and there he did acquaint
      the board how he was obliged to answer to something lately said which did
      reflect upon the Comptroller and him, and to that purpose told how the
      bargain for Winter's timber did not prove so bad as I had reported to the
      board it would. After he had done I cleared the matter that I did not
      mention the business as a thing designed by me against them, but was led
      to it by Sir J. Minnes, and that I said nothing but what I was told by
      Mayers the surveyor as much as by Deane upon whom they laid all the fault,
      which I must confess did and do still trouble me, for they report him to
      be a fellow not fit to be employed, when in my conscience he deserves
      better than any officer in the yard. I thought it not convenient to
      vindicate him much now, but time will serve when I will do it, and I am
      bound to do it. I offered to proceed to examine and prove what I said if
      they please, but Mr. Coventry most discreetly advised not, it being to no
      purpose, and that he did believe that what I said did not by my manner of
      speaking it proceed from any design of reproaching them, and so it ended.
      But my great trouble is for poor Deane. At noon home and dined with my
      wife, and after dinner Will told me if I pleased he was ready to remove
      his things, and so before my wife I did give him good counsel, and that
      his going should not abate my kindnesse for him, if he carried himself
      well, and so bid "God bless him," and left him to remove his things, the
      poor lad weeping, but I am apt to think matters will be the better both
      for him and us. So to the office and there late busy. In the evening Mr.
      Moore came to tell me that he had no opportunity of speaking his mind to
      my Lord yesterday, and so I am resolved to write to him very suddenly. So
      after my business done I home, I having staid till 12 o'clock at night
      almost, making an end of a letter to Sir G. Carteret about the late
      contract for masts, wherein I have done myself right, and no wrong to Sir
      W. Batten. This night I think is the first that I have lain without ever a
      man in my house besides myself, since I came to keep any. Will being this
      night gone to his lodging, and by the way I hear to-day that my boy
      Waynman has behaved himself so with Mr. Davis that they have got him put
      into a Barbadoes ship to be sent away, and though he sends to me to get a
      release for him I will not out of love to the boy, for I doubt to keep him
      here were to bring him to the gallows.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). Lay very long in bed with my wife and then up and to my
      office there to copy fair my letter to Sir G. Carteret, which I did, and
      by and by most opportunely a footman of his came to me about other
      business, and so I sent it him by his own servant. I wish good luck with
      it. At noon home to dinner, my wife not being up, she lying to expect Mr.
      Holyard the surgeon. So I dined by myself, and in the afternoon to my
      office again, and there drew up a letter to my Lord, stating to him what
      the world talks concerning him, and leaving it to him and myself to be
      thought of by him as he pleases, but I have done but my duty in it. I wait
      Mr. Moore's coming for his advice about sending it. So home to supper to
      my wife, myself finding myself by cold got last night beginning to have
      some pain, which grieves me much in my mind to see to what a weakness I am
      come. This day being our Queene's birthday, the guns of the Tower went all
      off; and in the evening the Lord Mayor sent from church to church to order
      the constables to cause bonfires to be made in every streete, which
      methinks is a poor thing to be forced to be commanded. After a good supper
      with my wife, and hearing of the mayds read in the Bible, we to prayers,
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and being ready then abroad by coach to White Hall, and there
      with the Duke, where Mr. Coventry did a second time go to vindicate
      himself against reports and prove by many testimonies that he brought,
      that he did nothing but what had been done by the Lord Admiral's
      secretaries heretofore, though he do not approve of it, nor since he had
      any rule from the Duke hath he exceeded what he is there directed to take,
      and the thing I think is very clear that they always did take and that now
      he do take less than ever they did heretofore. Thence away, and Sir G.
      Carteret did call me to him and discourse with me about my letter
      yesterday, and did seem to take it unkindly that I should doubt of his
      satisfaction in the bargain of masts, and did promise me that hereafter
      whatever he do hear to my prejudice he would tell me before he would
      believe it, and that this was only Sir W. Batten's report in this
      business, which he says he did ever approve of, in which I know he lies.
      Thence to my Lord's lodgings thinking to find Mr. Moore, in order to the
      sending away my letter of reproof to my Lord, but I do not find him, but
      contrary do find my Lord come to Court, which I am glad to hear and should
      be more glad to hear that he do follow his business that I may not have
      occasion to venture upon his good nature by such a provocation as my
      letter will be to him. So by coach home, to the Exchange, where I talked
      about several businesses with several people, and so home to dinner with
      my wife, and then in the afternoon to my office, and there late, and in
      the evening Mr. Hollyard came, and he and I about our great work to look
      upon my wife's malady, which he did, and it seems her great conflux of
      humours, heretofore that did use to swell there, did in breaking leave a
      hollow which has since gone in further and further; till now it is near
      three inches deep, but as God will have it do not run into the bodyward,
      but keeps to the outside of the skin, and so he must be forced to cut it
      open all along, and which my heart I doubt will not serve for me to see
      done, and yet she will not have any body else to see it done, no, not her
      own mayds, and so I must do it, poor wretch, for her. To-morrow night he
      is to do it. He being gone, I to my office again a little while, and so
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and while I am dressing myself, Mr. Deane of Woolwich came to
      me, and I did tell him what had happened to him last Saturday in the
      office, but did encourage him to make no matter of it, for that I did not
      fear but he would in a little time be master of his enemies as much as
      they think to master him, and so he did tell me many instances of the
      abominable dealings of Mr. Pett of Woolwich towards him. So we broke up,
      and I to the office, where we sat all the forenoon doing several
      businesses, and at noon I to the 'Change where Mr. Moore came to me, and
      by and by Tom Trice and my uncle Wight, and so we out to a taverne (the
      New Exchange taverne over against the 'Change where I never was before,
      and I found my old playfellow Ben Stanley master of it), and thence to a
      scrivener to draw up a bond, and to another tavern (the King's Head) we
      went, and calling on my cozen Angier at the India House there we eat a bit
      of pork from a cookes together, and after dinner did seal the bond, and I
      did take up the old bond of my uncle's to my aunt, and here T. Trice
      before them do own all matters in difference between us is clear as to
      this business, and that he will in six days give me it under the hand of
      his attorney that there is no judgment against the bond that may give me
      any future trouble, and also a copy of their letters of his Administration
      to Godfrey, as much of it as concerns me to have. All this being done
      towards night we broke up, and so I home and with Mr. Moore to my office,
      and there I read to him the letter I have wrote to send to my Lord to give
      him an account how the world, both city and court, do talk of him and his
      living as he do there in such a poor and bad house so much to his
      disgrace. Which Mr. Moore do conclude so well drawn: that he would not
      have me by any means to neglect sending it, assuring me in the best of his
      judgment that it cannot but endear me to my Lord instead of what I fear of
      getting his offence, and did offer to take the same words and send them as
      from, him with his hand to him, which I am not unwilling should come (if
      they are at all fit to go) from any body but myself, and so, he being
      gone, I did take a copy of it to keep by me in shorthand, and sealed them
      up to send to-morrow by my Will. So home, Mr. Hollyard being come to my
      wife, and there she being in bed, he and I alone to look again upon her
      .... and there he do find that, though it would not be much pain, yet she
      is so fearful, and the thing will be somewhat painful in the tending,
      which I shall not be able to look after, but must require a nurse and
      people about her; so that upon second thoughts he believes that a
      fomentation will do as well, and though it will be troublesome yet no
      pain, and what her mayd will be able to do without knowing directly what
      it is for, but only that it may be for the piles. For though it be nothing
      but what is fiery honest, yet my wife is loth to give occasion of
      discourse concerning it. By this my mind and my wife's is much eased, for
      I confess I should have been troubled to have had my wife cut before my
      face, I could not have borne to have seen it. I had great discourse with
      him about my disease. He tells me again that I must eat in a morning some
      loosening gruel, and at night roasted apples, that I must drink now and
      then ale with my wine, and eat bread and butter and honey, and rye bread
      if I can endure it, it being loosening. I must also take once a week a
      clyster of his last prescription, only honey now and then instead of
      butter, which things I am now resolved to apply myself to. He being gone I
      to my office again to a little business, and then home to supper and to
      bed, being in, a little pain by drinking of cold small beer to-day and
      being in a cold room at the Taverne I believe.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and after being ready, and done a little business at the office,
      I and Mr. Hater by water to Redriffe, and so walked to Deptford, where I
      have not been a very great, while, and there paid off the Milford in very
      good order, and all respect showed me in the office as much as there used
      to be to any of the rest or the whole board. That done at noon I took
      Captain Terne, and there coming in by chance Captain Berkeley, him also to
      dinner with me to the Globe. Captain Berkeley, who was lately come from
      Algier, did give us a good account of the place, and how the Basha there
      do live like a prisoner, being at the mercy of the soldiers and officers,
      so that there is nothing but a great confusion there. After dinner came
      Sir W. Batten, and I left him to pay off another ship, and I walked home
      again reading of a little book of new poems of Cowley's, given me by his
      brother. Abraham do lie, it seems, very sicke, still, but like to recover.
      At my office till late, and then came Mr. Hollyard so full of discourse
      and Latin that I think he hath got a cupp, but I do not know; but full of
      talke he is in defence of Calvin and Luther. He begun this night the
      fomentation to my wife, and I hope it will do well with her. He gone, I to
      the office again a little, and so to bed. This morning I sent Will with my
      great letter of reproof to my Lord Sandwich, who did give it into his owne
      hand. I pray God give a blessing to it, but confess I am afeard what the
      consequence may be to me of good or bad, which is according to the
      ingenuity that he do receive it with. However, I am satisfied that it will
      do him good, and that he needs it:
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     MY LORD,

     I do verily hope that neither the manner nor matter of this advice
     will be condemned by your Lordship, when for my defence in the first
     I shall alledge my double attempt, since your return from
     Hinchinbroke, of doing it personally, in both of which your
     Lordship's occasions, no doubtfulnesse of mine, prevented me, and
     that being now fearful of a sudden summons to Portsmouth, for the
     discharge of some ships there, I judge it very unbecoming the duty
     which every bit of bread I eat tells me I owe to your Lordship to
     expose the safety of your honour to the uncertainty of my return.
     For the matter, my Lord, it is such as could I in any measure think
     safe to conceal from, or likely to be discovered to you by any other
     hand, I should not have dared so far to owne what from my heart I
     believe is false, as to make myself but the relater of other's
     discourse; but, sir, your Lordship's honour being such as I ought to
     value it to be, and finding both in city and court that discourses
     pass to your prejudice, too generally for mine or any man's
     controllings but your Lordship's, I shall, my Lord, without the
     least greatening or lessening the matter, do my duty in laying it
     shortly before you.

     People of all conditions, my Lord, raise matter of wonder from your
     Lordship's so little appearance at Court: some concluding thence
     their disfavour thereby, to which purpose I have had questions asked
     me, and endeavouring to put off such insinuations by asserting the
     contrary, they have replied, that your Lordship's living so beneath
     your quality, out of the way, and declining of Court attendance,
     hath been more than once discoursed about the King.  Others, my
     Lord, when the chief ministers of State, and those most active of
     the Council have been reckoned up, wherein your Lordship never used
     to want an eminent place, have said, touching your Lordship, that
     now your turn was served, and the King had given you a good estate,
     you left him to stand or fall as he would, and, particularly in that
     of the Navy, have enlarged upon your letting fall all service there.

     Another sort, and those the most, insist upon the bad report of the
     house wherein your Lordship, now observed in perfect health again,
     continues to sojourne, and by name have charged one of the daughters
     for a common courtizan, alledging both places and persons where and
     with whom she hath been too well known, and how much her wantonnesse
     occasions, though unjustly, scandal to your Lordship, and that as
     well to gratifying of some enemies as to the wounding of more
     friends I am not able to tell.

     Lastly, my Lord, I find a general coldness in all persons towards
     your Lordship, such as, from my first dependance on you, I never yet
     knew, wherein I shall not offer to interpose any thoughts or advice
     of mine, well knowing your Lordship needs not any.  But with a most
     faithful assurance that no person nor papers under Heaven is privy
     to what I here write, besides myself and this, which I shall be
     careful to have put into your owne hands, I rest confident of your
     Lordship's just construction of my dutifull intents herein, and in
     all humility take leave, may it please your Lordship,

     Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, S. P.
</pre>
    <p>
      The foregoing letter was sealed up, and enclosed in this that follows
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     MY LORD,

     If this finds your Lordship either not alone, or not at leisure, I
     beg the suspending your opening of the enclosed till you shall have
     both, the matter very well bearing such a delay, and in all humility
     remain, may it please your Lordship,

     Your Lordship's most obedient Servant, S. P.

     November 17, 1663.

     My servant hath my directions to put this into your Lordship's owne
     hand, but not to stay for any answer.
</pre>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to the office, where (Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten being
      gone this morning to Portsmouth) the rest of us met, and rode at noon. So
      I to the 'Change, where little business, and so home to dinner, and being
      at dinner Mr. Creed in and dined with us, and after dinner Mr. Gentleman,
      my Jane's father, to see us and her. And after a little stay with them, I
      was sent for by Sir G. Carteret by agreement, and so left them, and to him
      and with him by coach to my Lord Treasurer, to discourse with him about
      Mr. Gauden's having of money, and to offer to him whether it would not be
      necessary, Mr. Gauden's credit being so low as it is, to take security of
      him if he demands any great sum, such as L20,000, which now ought to be
      paid him upon his next year's declaration. Which is a sad thing, that
      being reduced to this by us, we should be the first to doubt his credit;
      but so it is. However, it will be managed with great tenderness to him. My
      Lord Treasurer we found in his bed-chamber, being laid up of the goute. I
      find him a very ready man, and certainly a brave servant to the King: he
      spoke so quick and sensibly of the King's charge. Nothing displeased me in
      him but his long nails, which he lets grow upon a pretty thick white short
      hand, that it troubled me to see them. Thence with Sir G. Carteret by
      coach, and he set me down at the New Exchange. In our way he told me there
      is no such thing likely yet as a Dutch war, neither they nor we being in
      condition for it, though it will come certainly to that in some time, our
      interests lying the same way, that is to say, in trade. But not yet.
      Thence to the Temple, and there visited my cozen Roger Pepys and his
      brother Dr. John, a couple, methinks, of very ordinary men, and thence to
      speak [with] Mr. Moore, and met him by the way, who tells me, to my great
      content, that he believes my letter to my Lord Sandwich hath wrought well
      upon him, and that he will look after himself and his business upon it,
      for he begins already to do so. But I dare not conclude anything till I
      see him, which shall be to-morrow morning, that I may be out of my pain to
      know how he takes it of me. He and I to the Coffee-house, and there drank
      and talked a little, and so I home, and after a little at my office home
      to supper and to bed, not knowing how to avoid hopes from Mr. Moore's
      words to-night, and yet I am fearful of the worst.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and as soon as I could to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, but he
      was gone out before, and so I am defeated of my expectation of being eased
      one way or other in the business of my Lord. But I went up to Mr. Howe,
      who I saw this day the first time in a periwigg, which becomes him very
      well, and discoursed with him. He tells me that my Lord is of a sudden
      much changed, and he do believe that he do take my letter well. However,
      we do both bless God that it hath so good an effect upon him. Thence I
      home again, calling at the Wardrobe, where I found my Lord, but so busy
      with Mr. Townsend making up accounts there that I was unwilling to trouble
      him, and so went away. By and by to the Exchange, and there met by
      agreement Mr. Howe, and took him with a barrel of oysters home to dinner,
      where we were very merry, and indeed I observe him to be a very hopeful
      young man, but only a little conceited. After dinner I took him and my
      wife, and setting her in Covent Garden at her mother's, he and I to my
      Lord's, and thence I with Mr. Moore to White Hall, there the King and
      Council being close, and I thinking it an improper place to meet my Lord
      first upon the business; I took coach, and calling my wife went home,
      setting Mr. Moore down by the way, and having been late at the office
      alone looking over some plates of the Northern seas, the White seas, and
      Archangell river, I went home, and, after supper, to bed. My wife tells me
      that she and her brother have had a great falling out to-night, he taking
      upon him to challenge great obligation upon her, and taxing her for not
      being so as she ought to be to her friends, and that she can do more with
      me than she pretends, and I know not what, but God be thanked she cannot.
      A great talke there is today of a crush between some of the Fanatiques up
      in arms, and the King's men in the North; but whether true I know not yet.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. At the office all the morning and at noon I receive a letter from
      Mr. Creed, with a token, viz., a very noble parti-coloured Indian gowne
      for my wife. The letter is oddly writ, over-prizing his present, and
      little owning any past service of mine, but that this was his genuine
      respects, and I know not what: I confess I had expectations of a better
      account from him of my service about his accounts, and so give his boy
      12d., and sent it back again, and after having been at the pay of a ship
      this afternoon at the Treasury, I went by coach to Ludgate, and, by
      pricing several there, I guess this gowne may be worth about L12 or L15.
      But, however, I expect at least L50 of him. So in the evening I wrote him
      a letter telling him clearly my mind, a copy of which I keep and of his
      letter and so I resolve to have no more such correspondence as I used to
      have but will have satisfaction of him as I do expect. So to write my
      letters, and after all done I went home to supper and to bed, my mind
      being pretty well at ease from my letter to Creed, and more for my receipt
      this afternoon of L17 at the Treasury, for the L17 paid a year since to
      the carver for his work at my house, which I did intend to have paid
      myself, but, finding others to do it, I thought it not amisse to get it
      too, but I am afeard that we may hear of it to our greater prejudices
      hereafter.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd (Lord's day). Up pretty early, and having last night bespoke a coach,
      which failed me this morning, I walked as far as the Temple, and there
      took coach, and to my Lord's lodgings, whom I found ready to go to
      chappell; but I coming, he begun, with a very serious countenance, to tell
      me that he had received my late letter, wherein first he took notice of my
      care of him and his honour, and did give me thanks for that part of it
      where I say that from my heart I believe the contrary of what I do there
      relate to be the discourse of others; but since I intended it not a
      reproach, but matter of information, and for him to make a judgment of it
      for his practice, it was necessary for me to tell him the persons of whom
      I have gathered the several particulars which I there insist on. I would
      have made excuses in it; but, seeing him so earnest in it, I found myself
      forced to it, and so did tell him Mr. Pierce; the chyrurgeon, in that of
      his Lordship's living being discoursed of at Court; a mayd servant that-I
      kept, that lived at Chelsy school; and also Mr. Pickering, about the
      report touching the young woman; and also Mr. Hunt, in Axe Yard, near whom
      she lodged. I told him the whole city do discourse concerning his neglect
      of business; and so I many times asserting my dutifull intention in all
      this, and he owning his accepting of it as such. That that troubled me
      most in particular is, that he did there assert the civility of the people
      of the house, and the young gentlewoman, for whose reproach he was sorry.
      His saying that he was resolved how to live, and that though he was taking
      a house, meaning to live in another manner, yet it was not to please any
      people, or to stop report, but to please himself, though this I do believe
      he might say that he might not seem to me to be so much wrought upon by
      what I have writ; and lastly, and most of all, when I spoke of the
      tenderness that I have used in declaring this to him, there being nobody
      privy to it, he told me that I must give him leave to except one. I told
      him that possibly somebody might know of some thoughts of mine, I having
      borrowed some intelligence in this matter from them, but nobody could say
      they knew of the thing itself what I writ. This, I confess, however, do
      trouble me, for that he seemed to speak it as a quick retort, and it must
      sure be Will. Howe, who did not see anything of what I writ, though I told
      him indeed that I would write; but in this, I think, there is no great
      hurt. I find him, though he cannot but owne his opinion of my good
      intentions, and so, he did again and again profess it, that he is troubled
      in his mind at it; and I confess, I think I may have done myself an injury
      for his good, which, were it to do again, and that I believed he would
      take it no better, I think I should sit quietly without taking any notice
      of it, for I doubt there is no medium between his taking it very well or
      very ill. I could not forbear weeping before him at the latter end, which,
      since, I am ashamed of, though I cannot see what he can take it to proceed
      from but my tenderness and good will to him. After this discourse was
      ended, he began to talk very, cheerfully of other things, and I walked
      with him to White Hall, and we discoursed of the pictures in the gallery,
      which, it may be, he might do out of policy, that the boy might not see
      any, strangeness in him; but I rather think that his mind was somewhat
      eased, and hope that he will be to me as he was before. But, however, I
      doubt not when he sees that I follow my business, and become an honour to
      him, and not to be like to need him, or to be a burden to him, and rather
      able to serve him than to need him, and if he do continue to follow
      business, and so come to his right witts again, I do not doubt but he will
      then consider my faithfulnesse to him, and esteem me as he ought. At
      chappell I had room in the Privy Seale pew with other gentlemen, and there
      heard Dr. Killigrew, preach, but my mind was so, I know not whether
      troubled, or only full of thoughts of what had passed between my Lord and
      me that I could not mind it, nor can at this hour remember three words.
      The anthem was good after sermon, being the fifty-first psalme, made for
      five voices by one of Captain Cooke's boys, a pretty boy. And they say
      there are four or five of them that can do as much. And here I first
      perceived that the King is a little musicall, and kept good time with his
      hand all along the anthem. Up into the gallery after sermon and there I
      met Creed. We saluted one another and spoke but not one word of what had
      passed yesterday between us, but told me he was forced to such a place to
      dinner and so we parted. Here I met Mr. Povy, who tells me how Tangier had
      like to have been betrayed, and that one of the King's officers is come,
      to whom 8,000 pieces of eight were offered for his part. Hence I to the
      King's Head ordinary, and there dined, good and much company, and a good
      dinner: most of their discourse was about hunting, in a dialect I
      understand very little. Thence by coach to our own church, and there my
      mind being yet unsettled I could mind nothing, and after sermon home and
      there told my wife what had passed, and thence to my office, where doing
      business only to keep my mind employed till late; and so home to supper,
      to prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd: Up and to Alderman Backwell's, where Sir W. Rider, by appointment,
      met us to consult about the insuring of our hempe ship from Archangell, in
      which we are all much concerned, by my Lord Treasurer's command. That
      being put in a way I went to Mr. Beacham, one of our jury, to confer with
      him about our business with Field at our trial to-morrow, and thence to
      St. Paul's Churchyarde, and there bespoke "Rushworth's Collections," and
      "Scobell's Acts of the Long Parliament,"' &amp;c., which I will make the
      King pay for as to the office; and so I do not break my vow at all. Back
      to the Coffee-house, and then to the 'Change, where Sir W. Rider and I did
      bid 15 per cent., and nobody will take it under 20 per cent., and the
      lowest was 15 per cent. premium, and 15 more to be abated in case of
      losse, which we did not think fit without order to give, and so we parted,
      and I home to a speedy, though too good a dinner to eat alone, viz., a
      good goose and a rare piece of roast beef. Thence to the Temple, but being
      there too soon and meeting Mr. Moore I took him up and to my Lord
      Treasurer's, and thence to Sir Ph. Warwick's, where I found him and did
      desire his advice, who left me to do what I thought fit in this business
      of the insurance, and so back again to the Temple all the way telling Mr.
      Moore what had passed between my Lord and me yesterday, and indeed my
      fears do grow that my Lord will not reform as I hoped he would nor have
      the ingenuity to take my advice as he ought kindly. But however I am
      satisfied that the one person whom he said he would take leave to except
      is not Mr. Moore, and so W. Howe I am sure could tell him nothing of my
      letter that ever he saw it. Here Mr. Moore and I parted, and I up to the
      Speaker's chamber, and there met Mr. Coventry by appointment to discourse
      about Field's business, and thence we parting I homewards and called at
      the Coffeehouse, and there by great accident hear that a letter is come
      that our ship is safe come to Newcastle. With this news I went like an
      asse presently to Alderman Backewell and, told him of it, and he and I
      went to the African House in Broad Street to have spoke with Sir W. Rider
      to tell him of it, but missed him. Now what an opportunity had I to have
      concealed this and seemed to have made an insurance and got L100 with the
      least trouble and danger in the whole world. This troubles me to think I
      should be so oversoon. So back again with Alderman Backewell talking of
      the new money, which he says will never be counterfeited, he believes; but
      it is deadly inconvenient for telling, it is so thick, and the edges are
      made to turn up. I found him as full of business, and, to speak the truth,
      he is a very painfull man, and ever was, and now-a-days is well paid for
      it. So home and to my office, doing business late in order to the getting
      a little money, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon to
      the 'Change, where everybody joyed me in our hemp ship's coming safe, and
      it seems one man, Middleburgh, did give 20 per cent. in gold last night,
      three or four minutes before the newes came of her being safe. Thence with
      Mr. Deane home and dined, and after dinner and a good deal of discourse of
      the business of Woolwich Yard, we opened his draught of a ship which he
      has made for me, and indeed it is a most excellent one and that that I
      hope will be of good use to me as soon as I get a little time, and much
      indebted I am to the poor man. Toward night I by coach to Whitehall to the
      Tangier committee, and there spoke with my Lord and he seems mighty kind
      to me, but I will try him to-morrow by a visit to see whether he holds it
      or no. Then home by coach again and to my office, where late with Captain
      Miners about the East India business. So home to supper and to bed, being
      troubled to find myself so bound as I am, notwithstanding all the physic
      that I take. This day our tryall was with Field, and I hear that they have
      given him L29 damage more, which is a strange thing, but yet not so much
      as formerly, nor as I was afeard of.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up and to Sir G. Carteret's house, and with him by coach to
      Whitehall. He uses me mighty well to my great joy, and in our discourse
      took occasion to tell me that as I did desire of him the other day so he
      desires of me the same favour that we may tell one another at any time any
      thing that passes among us at the office or elsewhere wherein we are
      either dissatisfied one with another, and that I should find him in all
      things as kind and ready to serve me as my own brother. This methinks-was
      very sudden and extraordinary and do please me mightily, and I am resolved
      by no means ever to lose him again if I can. He told me that he did still
      observe my care for the King's service in my office. He set me down in
      Fleet Street and thence I by another coach to my Lord Sandwich's, and
      there I did present him Mr. Barlow's "Terella," with which he was very
      much pleased, and he did show me great kindnesse, and by other discourse I
      have reason to think that he is not at all, as I feared he would be,
      discontented against me more than the trouble of the thing will work upon
      him. I left him in good humour, and I to White Hall, to the Duke of York
      and Mr. Coventry, and there advised about insuring the hempe ship at 12
      per cent., notwithstanding her being come to Newcastle, and I do hope that
      in all my three places which are now my hopes and supports I may not now
      fear any thing, but with care, which through the Lord's blessing I will
      never more neglect, I don't doubt but to keep myself up with them all. For
      in the Duke, and Mr. Coventry, my Lord Sandwich and Sir G. Carteret I
      place my greatest hopes, and it pleased me yesterday that Mr. Coventry in
      the coach (he carrying me to the Exchange at noon from the office) did,
      speaking of Sir W. Batten, say that though there was a difference between
      them, yet he would embrace any good motion of Sir W. Batten to the King's
      advantage as well as of Mr. Pepys' or any friend he had. And when I talked
      that I would go about doing something of the Controller's work when I had
      time, and that I thought the Controller would not take it ill, he wittily
      replied that there was nothing in the world so hateful as a dog in the
      manger. Back by coach to the Exchange, there spoke with Sir W. Rider about
      insuring, and spoke with several other persons about business, and shall
      become pretty well known quickly. Thence home to dinner with my poor wife,
      and with great joy to my office, and there all the afternoon about
      business, and among others Mr. Bland came to me and had good discourse,
      and he has chose me a referee for him in a business, and anon in the
      evening comes Sir W. Warren, and he and I had admirable discourse. He
      advised me in things I desired about, bummary,&mdash;[bottomry]&mdash;and
      other ways of putting out money as in parts of ships, how dangerous they
      are, and lastly fell to talk of the Dutch management of the Navy, and I
      think will helpe me to some accounts of things of the Dutch Admiralty,
      which I am mighty desirous to know. He seemed to have been mighty privy
      with my Lord Albemarle in things before this great turn, and to the King's
      dallying with him and others for some years before, but I doubt all was
      not very true. However, his discourse is very useful in general, though he
      would seem a little more than ordinary in this. Late at night home to
      supper and to bed, my mind in good ease all but my health, of which I am
      not a little doubtful.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon I to
      the 'Change, and there met with Mr. Cutler the merchant, who would needs
      have me home to his house by the Dutch Church, and there in an old but
      good house, with his wife and mother, a couple of plain old women, I dined
      a good plain dinner, and his discourse after dinner with me upon matters
      of the navy victualling very good and worth my hearing, and so home to my
      office in the afternoon with my mind full of business, and there at it
      late, and so home to supper to my poor wife, and to bed, myself being in a
      little pain..... by a stroke.... in pulling up my breeches yesterday over
      eagerly, but I will lay nothing to it till I see whether it will cease of
      itself or no. The plague, it seems, grows more and more at Amsterdam; and
      we are going upon making of all ships coming from thence and Hambrough, or
      any other infected places, to perform their Quarantine (for thirty days as
      Sir Rd. Browne expressed it in the order of the Council, contrary to the
      import of the word, though in the general acceptation it signifies now the
      thing, not the time spent in doing it) in Holehaven, a thing never done by
      us before.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up and to my office, where busy with great delight all the morning,
      and at noon to the 'Change, and so home to dinner with my poor wife, and
      with great content to my office again, and there hard at work upon stating
      the account of the freights due to the King from the East India Company
      till late at night, and so home to supper and to bed. My wife mightily
      pleased with my late discourse of getting a trip over to Calais, or some
      other port of France, the next summer, in one of the yachts, and I believe
      I shall do it, and it makes good sport that my mayde Jane dares not go,
      and Besse is wild to go, and is mad for joy, but yet will be willing to
      stay if Jane hath a mind, which is the best temper in this and all other
      things that ever I knew in my life.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up and at the office sat all the morning, and at noon by Mr.
      Coventry's coach to the 'Change, and after a little while there where I
      met with Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, who tells me for good newes that my
      Lord Sandwich is resolved to go no more to Chelsy, and told me he believed
      that I had been giving my Lord some counsel, which I neither denied nor
      affirmed, but seemed glad with him that he went thither no more, and so I
      home to dinner, and thence abroad to Paul's Church Yard, and there looked
      upon the second part of Hudibras, which I buy not, but borrow to read, to
      see if it be as good as the first, which the world cry so mightily up,
      though it hath not a good liking in me, though I had tried by twice or
      three times reading to bring myself to think it witty. Back again home and
      to my office, and there late doing business and so home to supper and to
      bed. I have been told two or three times, but to-day for certain I am told
      how in Holland publickly they have pictured our King with reproach. One
      way is with his pockets turned the wrong side outward, hanging out empty;
      another with two courtiers picking of his pockets; and a third, leading of
      two ladies, while others abuse him; which amounts to great contempt.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). This morning I put on my best black cloth suit, trimmed
      with scarlett ribbon, very neat, with my cloake lined with velvett, and a
      new beaver, which altogether is very noble, with my black silk knit canons
      I bought a month ago. I to church alone, my wife not going, and there I
      found my Lady Batten in a velvet gown, which vexed me that she should be
      in it before my wife, or that I am able to put her into one, but what
      cannot be, cannot be. However, when I came home I told my wife of it, and
      to see my weaknesse, I could on the sudden have found my heart to have
      offered her one, but second thoughts put it by, and indeed it would undo
      me to think of doing as Sir W. Batten and his Lady do, who has a good
      estate besides his office. A good dinner we had of boeuf a la mode, but
      not roasted so well as my wife used to do it. So after dinner I to the
      French Church, but that being too far begun I came back to St. Dunstan's
      by six and heard a good sermon, and so home and to my office all, the
      evening making up my accounts of this month, and blessed be God I have got
      up my crumb again to L770, the most that ever I had yet, and good clothes
      a great many besides, which is a great mercy of God to me. So home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Was called up by a messenger from Sir W. Pen to go with him by coach
      to White Hall. So I got up and went with him, and by the way he began to
      observe to me some unkind dealing of mine to him a weeke or two since at
      the table, like a coxcomb, when I answered him pretty freely that I would
      not think myself to owe any man the service to do this or that because
      they would have it so (it was about taking of a mulct upon a purser for
      not keeping guard at Chatham when I was there), so he talked and I talked
      and let fall the discourse without giving or receiving any great
      satisfaction, and so to other discourse, but I shall know him still for a
      false knave. At White Hall we met the Duke in the Matted Gallery, and
      there he discoursed with us; and by and by my Lord Sandwich came and stood
      by, and talked; but it being St. Andrew's, and a collar-day, he went to
      the Chappell, and we parted. From him and Sir W. Pen and I back again and
      'light at the 'Change, and to the Coffee-house, where I heard the best
      story of a cheate intended by a Master of a ship, who had borrowed twice
      his money upon the bottomary, and as much more insured upon his ship and
      goods as they were worth, and then would have cast her away upon the coast
      of France, and there left her, refusing any pilott which was offered him;
      and so the Governor of the place took her and sent her over hither to find
      an owner, and so the ship is come safe, and goods and all; they all worth
      L500, and he had one way or other taken L3000. The cause is to be tried
      to-morrow at Guildhall, where I intend to be. Thence home to dinner, and
      then with my wife to her arithmetique. In the evening came W. Howe to see
      me, who tells me that my Lord hath been angry three or four days with him,
      would not speak to him; at last did, and charged him with having spoken to
      me about what he had observed concerning his Lordship, which W. Howe
      denying stoutly, he was well at ease; and continues very quiett, and is
      removing from Chelsy as fast as he can, but, methinks, both by my Lord's
      looks upon me to-day, or it may be it is only my doubtfulness, and by W.
      Howe's discourse, my Lord is not very well pleased, nor, it may be, will
      be a good while, which vexes me; but I hope all will over in time, or else
      I am but ill rewarded for my good service. Anon he and I to the Temple and
      there parted, and I to my cozen Roger Pepys, whom I met going to his
      chamber; he was in haste, and to go out of town tomorrow. He tells me of a
      letter from my father which he will keep to read to me at his coming to
      town again. I perceive it is about my father's jealousys concerning my
      wife's doing ill offices with me against him only from the differences
      they had when she was there, which he very unwisely continues to have and
      troubles himself and friends about to speak to me in, as my Lord Sandwich,
      Mr. Moore, and my cozen Roger, which vexes me, but I must impute it to his
      age and care for my mother and Pall and so let it go. After little
      discourse with him I took coach and home, calling upon my bookseller's for
      two books, Rushworth's and Scobell's Collections. I shall make the King
      pay for them. The first I spent some time at the office to read and it is
      an excellent book. So home and spent the evening with my wife in
      arithmetique, and so to supper and to bed. I end this month with my mind
      in good condition for any thing else, but my unhappy adventuring to
      disoblige my Lord by doing him service in representing to him the
      discourse of the world concerning him and his affairs.
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    <p>
      December 1st. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon
      I home to dinner with my poor wife, with whom now-a-days I enjoy great
      pleasure in her company and learning of Arithmetique. After dinner I to
      Guild Hall to hear a tryall at King's Bench, before Lord Chief Justice
      Hide, about the insurance of a ship, the same I mention in my yesterday's
      journall, where everything was proved how money was so taken up upon
      bottomary and insurance, and the ship left by the master and seamen upon
      rocks, where, when the sea fell at the ebb, she must perish. The master
      was offered helpe, and he did give the pilotts 20 sols to drink to bid
      them go about their business, saying that the rocks were old, but his ship
      was new, and that she was repaired for L6 and less all the damage that she
      received, and is now brought by one, sent for on purpose by the insurers,
      into the Thames, with her cargo, vessels of tallow daubed over with
      butter, instead of all butter, the whole not worth above L500, ship and
      all, and they had took up, as appeared, above L2,400. He had given his men
      money to content them; and yet, for all this, he did bring some of them to
      swear that it was very stormy weather, and [they] did all they could to
      save her, and that she was seven feete deep water in hold, and were fain
      to cut her main and foremast, that the master was the last man that went
      out, and they were fain to force [him] out when she was ready to sink; and
      her rudder broke off, and she was drawn into the harbour after they were
      gone, as wrecke all broken, and goods lost: that she could not be carried
      out again without new building, and many other things so contrary as is
      not imaginable more. There was all the great counsel in the kingdom in the
      cause; but after one witnesse or two for the plaintiff, it was cried down
      as a most notorious cheate; and so the jury, without going out, found it
      for the plaintiff. But it was pleasant to see what mad sort of testimonys
      the seamen did give, and could not be got to speak in order: and then
      their terms such as the judge could not understand; and to hear how
      sillily the Counsel and judge would speak as to the terms necessary in the
      matter, would make one laugh: and above all, a Frenchman that was forced
      to speak in French, and took an English oathe he did not understand, and
      had an interpreter sworn to tell us what he said, which was the best
      testimony of all. So home well satisfied with this afternoon's work,
      purposing to spend an afternoon or two every term so, and so to my office
      a while and then home to supper, arithmetique with my wife, and to bed. I
      heard other causes, and saw the course of pleading by being at this trial,
      and heard and learnt two things: one is that every man has a right of
      passage in, but not a title to, any highway. The next, that the judge
      would not suffer Mr. Crow, who hath fined for Alderman, to be called so,
      but only Mister, and did eight or nine times fret at it, and stop every
      man that called him so.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. My wife troubled all last night with the toothache and this morning.
      I up and to my office, where busy, and so home to dinner with my wife, who
      is better of her tooth than she was, and in the afternoon by agreement
      called on by Mr. Bland, and with him to the Ship a neighbour tavern and
      there met his antagonist Mr. Custos and his referee Mr. Clarke a merchant
      also, and begun the dispute about the freight of a ship hired by Mr. Bland
      to carry provisions to Tangier, and the freight is now demanded, whereas
      he says that the goods were some spoiled, some not delivered, and upon the
      whole demands L1300 of the other, and their minds are both so high, their
      demands so distant, and their words so many and hot against one another
      that I fear we shall bring it to nothing. But however I am glad to see
      myself so capable of understanding the business as I find I do, and shall
      endeavour to do Mr. Bland all the just service I can therein. Here we were
      in a bad room, which vexed me most, but we meet at another house next. So
      at noon I home and to my office till 9 o'clock, and so home to my wife to
      keep her company, arithmetique, then to supper, and to bed, she being well
      of her tooth again.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up and to the office, where all the forenoon, and then (by Mr.
      Coventry's coach) to the 'Change, and so home to dinner, very pleasant
      with my poor wife. Somebody from Portsmouth, I know not who, has this day
      sent me a Runlett of Tent. So to my office all the afternoon, where much
      business till late at night, and so home to my wife, and then to supper
      and to bed. This day Sir G. Carteret did tell us at the table, that the
      Navy (excepting what is due to the Yards upon the quarter now going on,
      and what few bills he hath not heard of) is quite out of debt; which is
      extraordinary good newes, and upon the 'Change to hear how our creditt
      goes as good as any merchant's upon the 'Change is a joyfull thing to
      consider, which God continue! I am sure the King will have the benefit of
      it, as well as we some peace and creditt.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up pretty betimes, that is about 7 o'clock, it being now dark then,
      and so got me ready, with my clothes, breeches and warm stockings, and by
      water with Henry Russell, cold and wet and windy to Woolwich, to a hempe
      ship there, and staid looking upon it and giving direction as to the
      getting it ashore, and so back again very cold, and at home without going
      on shore anywhere about 12 o'clock, being fearful of taking cold, and so
      dined at home and shifted myself, and so all the afternoon at my office
      till night, and then home to keep my poor wife company, and so to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and then with the
      whole board, viz., Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and myself along with
      Captain Allen home to dinner, where he lives hard by in Mark Lane, where
      we had a very good plain dinner and good welcome, in a pretty little house
      but so smoky that it was troublesome to us all till they put out the fire,
      and made one of charcoale. I was much pleased with this dinner for the
      many excellent stories told by Mr. Coventry, which I have put down in my
      book of tales and so shall not mention them here. We staid till night, and
      then Mr. Coventry away, and by and by I home to my office till 9 or 10 at
      night, and so home to supper and to bed after some talke and Arithmetique
      with my poor wife, with whom now-a-days I live with great content, out of
      all trouble of mind by jealousy (for which God forgive me), or any other
      distraction more than my fear of my Lord Sandwich's displeasure.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and then up and to church alone, which
      is the greatest trouble that I have by not having a man or, boy to wait on
      me, and so home to dinner, my wife, it being a cold day, and it begun to
      snow (the first snow we have seen this year) kept her bed till after
      dinner, and I below by myself looking over my arithmetique books and
      timber rule. So my wife rose anon, and she and I all the afternoon at
      arithmetique, and she is come to do Addition, Subtraction, and
      Multiplicacion very well, and so I purpose not to trouble her yet with
      Division, but to begin with the Globes to her now. At night came Captain
      Grove to discourse with me about Field's business and of other matters,
      and so, he being gone, I to my office, and spent an houre or two reading
      Rushworth, and so to supper home, and to prayers and bed, finding myself
      by cold to have some pain begin with me, which God defend should increase.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up betimes, and, it being a frosty morning, walked on foot to White
      Hall, but not without some fear of my pain coming. At White Hall I hear
      and find that there was the last night the greatest tide that ever was
      remembered in England to have been in this river: all White Hall having
      been drowned, of which there was great discourse. Anon we all met, and up
      with the Duke and did our business, and by and by my Lord of Sandwich came
      in, but whether it be my doubt or no I cannot tell, but I do not find that
      he made any sign of kindnesse or respect to me, which troubles me more
      than any thing in the world. After done there Sir W. Batten and Captain
      Allen and I by coach to the Temple, where I 'light, they going home, and
      indeed it being my trouble of mind to try whether I could meet with my
      Lord Sandwich and try him to see how he will receive me. I took coach and
      back again to Whitehall, but there could not find him. But here I met Dr.
      Clerke, and did tell him my story of my health; how my pain comes to me
      now-a-days. He did write something for me which I shall take when there is
      occasion. I then fell to other discourse of Dr. Knapp, who tells me he is
      the King's physician, and is become a solicitor for places for people, and
      I am mightily troubled with him. He tells me he is the most impudent
      fellow in the world, that gives himself out to be the King's physician,
      but it is not so, but is cast out of the Court. From thence I may learn
      what impudence there is in the world, and how a man may be deceived in
      persons: Anon the King and Duke and Duchesse came to dinner in the
      Vane-roome, where I never saw them before; but it seems since the tables
      are done, he dines there all together. The Queene is pretty well, and goes
      out of her chamber to her little chappell in the house. The King of
      France, they say, is hiring of sixty sail of ships of the Dutch, but it is
      not said for what design. By and by, not hoping to see my Lord, I went to
      the King's Head ordinary, where a good dinner but no discourse almost, and
      after dinner by coach, home, and found my wife this cold day not yet out
      of bed, and after a little good talk with her to my office, and there
      spent my time till late. Sir W. Warren two or three hours with me talking
      of trade, and other very good discourse, which did please me very, well,
      and so, after reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Lay long in bed, and then up and to the office, where we sat all the
      morning, and among other things my Lord Barkely called in question his
      clerk Mr. Davy for something which Sir W. Batten and I did tell him
      yesterday, but I endeavoured to make the least of it, and so all was put
      up. At noon to the 'Change, and among other businesses did discourse with
      Captain Taylor, and I think I shall safely get L20 by his ship's freight
      at present, besides what it may be I may get hereafter. So home to dinner,
      and thence by coach to White Hall, where a great while walked with my Lord
      Tiviott, whom I find a most carefull, thoughtfull, and cunning man, as I
      also ever took him to be. He is this day bringing in an account where he
      makes the King debtor to him L10,000 already on the garrison of Tangier
      account; but yet demands not ready money to pay it, but offers such ways
      of paying it out of the sale of old decayed provisions as will enrich him
      finely. Anon came my Lord Sandwich, and then we fell to our business at
      the Committee about my Lord Tiviott's accounts, wherein I took occasion to
      speak now and then, so as my Lord Sandwich did well seem to like of it,
      and after we were up did bid me good night in a tone that, methinks, he is
      not so displeased with me as I did doubt he is; however, I will take a
      course to know whether he be or no. The Committee done, I took coach and
      home to my office, and there late, and so to supper at home, and to bed,
      being doubtful of my pain through the very cold weather which we have, but
      I will take all the care I can to prevent it.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Lay very long in bed for fear of my pain, and then rose and went to
      stool (after my wife's way, who by all means would have me sit long and
      upright) very well, and being ready to the office. From thence I was
      called by and by to my wife, she not being well. So to her, and found her
      in great pain...... So by and by to my office again, and then abroad to
      look out a cradle to burn charcoal in at my office, and I found one to my
      mind in Newgate Market, and so meeting Hoby's man in the street, I spoke
      to him to serve it in to the office for the King. So home to dinner, and
      after talk with my wife, she in bed and pain all day, I to my office most
      of the evening, and then home to my wife. This day Mrs. Russell did give
      my wife a very fine St. George, in alabaster, which will set out my wife's
      closett mightily. This evening at the office, after I had wrote my day's
      passages, there came to me my cozen Angier of Cambridge, poor man, making
      his moan, and obtained of me that I would send his son to sea as a
      Reformado, which I will take care to do. But to see how apt every man is
      to forget friendship in time of adversity. How glad was I when he was
      gone, for fear he should ask me to be bond for him, or to borrow money of
      me.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, pretty well, the weather being become pretty warm again, and to
      the office, where we sat all the morning, and I confess having received so
      lately a token from Mrs. Russell, I did find myself concerned for our not
      buying some tallow of her (which she bought on purpose yesterday most
      unadvisedly to her great losse upon confidence of putting it off to us).
      So hard it is for a man not to be warped against his duty and master's
      interest that receives any bribe or present, though not as a bribe, from
      any body else. But she must be contented, and I to do her a good turn when
      I can without wrong to the King's service. Then home to dinner (and did
      drink a glass of wine and beer, the more for joy that this is the shortest
      day in the year,&mdash;[Old Style]&mdash;which is a pleasant
      consideration) with my wife. She in bed but pretty well, and having a
      messenger from my brother, that he is not well nor stirs out of doors, I
      went forth to see him, and found him below, he has not been well, but is
      not ill. I found him taking order for the distribution of Mrs. Ramsey's
      coals, a thing my father for many years did, and now he after him, which I
      was glad to see, as also to hear that Mr. Wheatly begins to look after
      him. I hope it is about his daughter. Thence to St. Paul's Church Yard, to
      my bookseller's, and having gained this day in the office by my
      stationer's bill to the King about 40s. or L3, I did here sit two or three
      hours calling for twenty books to lay this money out upon, and found
      myself at a great losse where to choose, and do see how my nature would
      gladly return to laying out money in this trade. I could not tell whether
      to lay out my money for books of pleasure, as plays, which my nature was
      most earnest in; but at last, after seeing Chaucer, Dugdale's History of
      Paul's, Stows London, Gesner, History of Trent, besides Shakespeare,
      Jonson, and Beaumont's plays, I at last chose Dr. Fuller's Worthys, the
      Cabbala or Collections of Letters of State, and a little book, Delices de
      Hollande, with another little book or two, all of good use or serious
      pleasure: and Hudibras, both parts, the book now in greatest fashion for
      drollery, though I cannot, I confess, see enough where the wit lies. My
      mind being thus settled, I went by linke home, and so to my office, and to
      read in Rushworth; and so home to supper and to bed. Calling at Wotton's,
      my shoemaker's, today, he tells me that Sir H. Wright is dying; and that
      Harris is come to the Duke's house again; and of a rare play to be acted
      this week of Sir William Davenant's: the story of Henry the Eighth with
      all his wives.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and abroad toward the Wardrobe, and going out Mr. Clerke met me
      to tell me that Field has a writ against me in this last business of L30
      10s., and that he believes he will get an execution against me this
      morning, and though he told me it could not be well before noon, and that
      he would stop it at the Sheriff's, yet it is hard to believe with what
      fear I did walk and how I did doubt at every man I saw and do start at the
      hearing of one man cough behind my neck. I to, the Wardrobe and there
      missed Mr. Moore. So to Mr. Holden's and evened all reckonings there for
      hats, and then walked to Paul's Churchyard and after a little at my
      bookseller's and bought at a shop Cardinall Mazarin's Will in French. I to
      the Coffeehouse and there among others had good discourse with an Iron
      Merchant, who tells me the great evil of discouraging our natural
      manufacture of England in that commodity by suffering the Swede to bring
      in three times more than ever they did and our owne Ironworks be lost, as
      almost half of them, he says, are already. Then I went and sat by Mr.
      Harrington, and some East country merchants, and talking of the country
      about Quinsborough, and thereabouts, he told us himself that for fish,
      none there, the poorest body, will buy a dead fish, but must be alive,
      unless it be in winter; and then they told us the manner of putting their
      nets into the water. Through holes made in the thick ice, they will spread
      a net of half a mile long; and he hath known a hundred and thirty and a
      hundred and seventy barrels of fish taken at one draught. And then the
      people come with sledges upon the ice, with snow at the bottome, and lay
      the fish in and cover them with snow, and so carry them to market. And he
      hath seen when the said fish have been frozen in the sledge, so as that he
      hath taken a fish and broke a-pieces, so hard it hath been; and yet the
      same fishes taken out of the snow, and brought into a hot room, will be
      alive and leap up and down. Swallows are often brought up in their nets
      out of the mudd from under water, hanging together to some twigg or other,
      dead in ropes, and brought to the fire will come to life. Fowl killed in
      December. (Alderman Barker said) he did buy, and putting into the box
      under his sledge, did forget to take them out to eate till Aprill next,
      and they then were found there, and were through the frost as sweet and
      fresh and eat as well as at first killed. Young beares are there; their
      flesh sold in market as ordinarily as beef here, and is excellent sweet
      meat. They tell us that beares there do never hurt any body, but fly away
      from you, unless you pursue and set upon them; but wolves do much
      mischief. Mr. Harrington told us how they do to get so much honey as they
      send abroad. They make hollow a great fir-tree, leaving only a small slitt
      down straight in one place, and this they close up again, only leave a
      little hole, and there the bees go in and fill the bodys of those trees as
      full of wax and honey as they can hold; and the inhabitants at times go
      and open the slit, and take what they please without killing the bees, and
      so let them live there still and make more. Fir trees are always planted
      close together, because of keeping one another from the violence of the
      windes; and when a fell is made, they leave here and there a grown tree to
      preserve the young ones coming up. The great entertainment and sport of
      the Duke of Corland, and the princes thereabouts, is hunting; which is not
      with dogs as we, but he appoints such a day, and summons all the
      country-people as to a campagnia; and by several companies gives every one
      their circuit, and they agree upon a place where the toyle is to be set;
      and so making fires every company as they go, they drive all the wild
      beasts, whether bears, wolves, foxes, swine, and stags, and roes, into the
      toyle; and there the great men have their stands in such and such places,
      and shoot at what they have a mind to, and that is their hunting. They are
      not very populous there, by reason that people marry women seldom till
      they are towards or above thirty; and men thirty or forty years old, or
      more oftentimes. Against a publique hunting the Duke sends that no wolves
      be killed by the people; and whatever harm they do, the Duke makes it good
      to the person that suffers it: as Mr. Harrington instanced in a house
      where he lodged, where a wolfe broke into a hog-stye, and bit three or
      four great pieces off the back of the hog, before the house could come to
      helpe it (it calling, and that did give notice to the people of the
      house); and the man of the house told him that there were three or four
      wolves thereabouts that did them great hurt; but it was no matter, for the
      Duke was to make it good to him, otherwise he would kill them. Hence home
      and upstairs, my wife keeping her bed, and had a very good dinner, and
      after dinner to my office, and there till late busy. Among other things
      Captain Taylor came to me about his bill for freight, and besides that I
      found him contented that I have the L30 I got, he do offer me to give me
      L6 to take the getting of the bill paid upon me, which I am ready to do,
      but I am loath to have it said that I ever did it. However, I will do him
      the service to get it paid if I can and stand to his courtesy what he will
      give me. Late to supper home, and to my great joy I have by my wife's good
      advice almost brought myself by going often and leisurely to the stool
      that I am come almost to have my natural course of stool as well as ever,
      which I pray God continue to me.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up and to the office where all the morning, and among other things
      got Sir G. Carteret to put his letters to Captain Taylor's bill by which I
      am in hopes to get L5, which joys my heart. We had this morning a great
      dispute between Mr. Gauden, Victualler of the Navy, and Sir J. Lawson, and
      the rest of the Commanders going against Argier, about their fish and
      keeping of Lent; which Mr. Gauden so much insists upon to have it
      observed, as being the only thing that makes up the loss of his dear
      bargain all the rest of the year. At noon went home and there I found that
      one Abrahall, who strikes in for the serving of the King with Ship
      chandlery ware, has sent my wife a Japan gowne, which pleases her very
      well and me also, it coming very opportune, but I know not how to carry
      myself to him, I being already obliged so far to Mrs. Russell, so that I
      am in both their pays. To the Exchange, where I had sent Luellin word I
      would come to him, and thence brought him home to dinner with me. He tells
      me that W. Symon's wife is dead, for which I am sorry, she being a good
      woman, and tells me an odde story of her saying before her death, being in
      good sense, that there stood her uncle Scobell. Then he began to tell me
      that Mr. Deering had been with him to desire him to speak to me that if I
      would get him off with these goods upon his hands, he would give me 50
      pieces, and further that if I would stand his friend to helpe him to the
      benefit of his patent as the King's merchant, he could spare me L200 per
      annum out of his profits. I was glad to hear both of these, but answered
      him no further than that as I would not by any thing be bribed to be
      unjust in my dealings,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Edward Dering was granted, August, 1660, "the office of King's
     merchant in the East, for buying and providing necessaries for
     apparelling the Navy" ("Calendar," Domestic, 1660-61, p.  212).
     There is evidence among the State Papers of some dissatisfaction
     with the timber, &amp;c., which he supplied to the Navy, and at this
     time he appears to have had some stores left on his hands.]
</pre>
    <p>
      so I was not so squeamish as not to take people's acknowledgment where I
      had the good fortune by my pains to do them good and just offices, and so
      I would not come to be at any agreement with him, but I would labour to do
      him this service and to expect his consideration thereof afterwards as he
      thought fit. So I expect to hear more of it. I did make very much of
      Luellin in hopes to have some good by this business, and in the evening
      received some money from Mr. Moore, and so went and settled accounts in my
      books between him and me, and I do hope at Christmas not only to find
      myself as rich or more than ever I was yet, but also my accounts in less
      compass, fewer reckonings either of debts or moneys due to me, than ever I
      have been for some years, and indeed do so, the goodness of God bringing
      me from better to a better expectation and hopes of doing well. This day I
      heard my Lord Barkeley tell Sir G. Carteret that he hath letters from
      France that the King hath unduked twelve Dukes, only to show his power and
      to crush his nobility, who he said he did see had heretofore laboured to
      cross him. And this my Lord Barkeley did mightily magnify, as a sign of a
      brave and vigorous mind, that what he saw fit to be done he dares do. At
      night, after business done at my office, home to supper and to bed. I have
      forgot to set down a very remarkable passage that, Lewellen being gone,
      and I going into the office, and it begun to be dark, I found nobody
      there, my clerks being at the burial of a child of W. Griffin's, and so I
      spent a little time till they came, walking in the garden, and in the mean
      time, while I was walking Mrs. Pen's pretty maid came by my side, and went
      into the office, but finding nobody there I went in to her, being glad of
      the occasion. She told me as she was going out again that there was nobody
      there, and that she came for a sheet of paper. So I told her I would
      supply her, and left her in the office and went into my office and opened
      my garden door, thinking to have got her in, and there to have caressed
      her, and seeming looking for paper, I told her this way was as near a way
      for her, but she told me she had left the door open and so did not come to
      me. So I carried her some paper and kissed her, leading her by the hand to
      the garden door and there let her go. But, Lord! to see how much I was put
      out of order by this surprisal, and how much I could have subjected my
      mind to have treated and been found with this wench, and how afterwards I
      was troubled to think what if she should tell this and whether I had spoke
      or done any thing that might be unfit for her to tell. But I think there
      was nothing more passed than just what I here write.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day). Up and made me ready for Church, but my wife and I had
      a difference about her old folly that she would fasten lies upon her
      mayds, and now upon Jane, which I did not see enough to confirm me in it,
      and so would not consent to her. To church, where after sermon home, and
      to my office, before dinner, reading my vowes, and so home to dinner,
      where Tom came to me and he and I dined together, my wife not rising all
      day, and after dinner I made even accounts with him, and spent all the
      afternoon in my chamber talking of many things with him, and about
      Wheately's daughter for a wife for him, and then about the Joyces and
      their father Fenner, how they are sometimes all honey one with another and
      then all turd, and a strange rude life there is among them. In the
      evening, he gone, I to my office to read Rushworth upon the charge and
      answer of the Duke of Buckingham, which is very fine, and then to do a
      little business against to-morrow, and so home to supper to my wife, and
      then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up by candlelight, which I do not use to do, though it be very late,
      that is to say almost 8 o'clock, and out by coach to White Hall, where we
      all met and to the Duke, where I heard a large discourse between one that
      goes over an agent from the King to Legorne and thereabouts, to remove the
      inconveniences his ships are put to by denial of pratique; which is a
      thing that is now-a-days made use of only as a cheat, for a man may buy a
      bill of health for a piece of eight, and my enemy may agree with the
      Intendent of the Sante for ten pieces of eight or so; that he shall not
      give me a bill of health, and so spoil me in my design, whatever it be.
      This the King will not endure, and so resolves either to have it removed,
      or to keep all ships from coming in, or going out there, so long as his
      ships are stayed for want hereof. Then, my Lord Sandwich being there, we
      all went into the Duke's closet and did our business. But among other
      things, Lord! what an account did Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten make of
      the pulling down and burning of the head of the Charles, where Cromwell
      was placed with people under his horse, and Peter, as the Duke called him,
      is praying to him; and Sir J. Minnes would needs infer the temper of the
      people from their joy at the doing of this and their building a gibbet for
      the hanging of his head up, when God knows, it is even the flinging away
      of L100 out of the King's purse, to the building of another, which it
      seems must be a Neptune. Thence I through White Hall only to see what was
      doing, but meeting none that I knew I went through the garden to my Lord
      Sandwich's lodging, where I found my Lord got before me (which I did not
      intend or expect) and was there trying some musique, which he intends for
      an anthem of three parts, I know not whether for the King's chapel or no,
      but he seems mighty intent upon it. But it did trouble me to hear him
      swear before God and other oathes, as he did now and then without any
      occasion, which methinks did so ill become him, and I hope will be a
      caution for me, it being so ill a thing in him. The musique being done,
      without showing me any good or ill countenance, he did give me his hat and
      so adieu, and went down to his coach without saying anything to me. He
      being gone I and Mr. Howe talked a good while. He tells me that my Lord,
      it is true, for a while after my letter, was displeased, and did shew many
      slightings of me when he had occasion of mentioning me to his Lordship,
      but that now my Lord is in good temper and he do believe will shew me as
      much respect as ever, and would have me not to refrain to come to him.
      This news I confess did much trouble me, but when I did hear how he is
      come to himself, and hath wholly left Chelsy, and the slut, and that I see
      he do follow his business, and becomes in better repute than before, I am
      rejoiced to see it, though it do cost me some disfavour for a time, for if
      not his good nature and ingenuity, yet I believe his memory will not bear
      it always in his mind. But it is my comfort that this is the thing that
      after so many years good service that has made him my enemy. Thence to the
      King's Head ordinary, and there dined among a company of fine gentlemen;
      some of them discoursed of the King of France's greatness, and how he is
      come to make the Princes of the Blood to take place of all foreign
      Embassadors, which it seems is granted by them of Venice and other States,
      and expected from my Lord. Hollis, our King's Embassador there; and that
      either upon that score or something else he hath not had his entry yet in
      Paris, but hath received several affronts, and among others his harnesse
      cut, and his gentlemen of his horse killed, which will breed bad blood if
      true. They say also that the King of France hath hired threescore ships of
      Holland, and forty of the Swede, but nobody knows what to do; but some
      great designs he hath on foot against the next year. Thence by coach home
      and to my office, where I spent all the evening till night with Captain
      Taylor discoursing about keeping of masts, and when he was gone, with Sir
      W. Warren, who did give me excellent discourse about the same thing, which
      I have committed to paper, and then fell to other talk of his being at
      Chatham lately and there discoursing of his masts. Commissioner Pett did
      let fall several scurvy words concerning my pretending to know masts as
      well as any body, which I know proceeds ever since I told him I could
      measure a piece of timber as well as anybody employed by the King. But,
      however, I shall remember him for a black sheep again a good while, with
      all his fair words to me, and perhaps may let him know that my ignorance
      does the King as much good as all his knowledge, which would do more it is
      true if it were well used. Then we fell to talk of Sir J. Minnes's and Sir
      W. Batten's burning of Oliver's head, while he was there; which was done
      with so much insulting and folly as I never heard of, and had the Trayned
      Band of Rochester to come to the solemnity, which when all comes to all,
      Commissioner Pett says it never was made for him; but it troubles me the
      King should suffer L100 losse in his purse, to make a new one after it was
      forgot whose it was, or any words spoke of it. He being gone I mightily
      pleased with his discourse, by which I always learn something, I to read a
      little in Rushworth, and so home to supper to my wife, it having been
      washing day, and so to bed, my mind I confess a little troubled for my
      Lord Sandwich's displeasure. But God will give me patience to bear since
      it rises from so good an occasion.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Before I was up, my brother's man came to tell me that my cozen,
      Edward Pepys, was dead, died at Mrs. Turner's, for which my wife and I are
      very sorry, and the more for that his wife was the only handsome woman of
      our name. So up and to the office, where the greatest business was Sir J.
      Minnes and Sir W. Batten against me for Sir W. Warren's contract for
      masts, to which I may go to my memorandum book to see what past, but came
      off with conquest, and my Lord Barkely and Mr. Coventry well convinced
      that we are well used. So home to dinner, and thither came to me Mr. Mount
      and Mr. Luellin, I think almost foxed, and there dined with me and very
      merry as I could be, my mind being troubled to see things so ordered at
      the Board, though with no disparagement to me at all. At dinner comes a
      messenger from the Counter with an execution against me for the L30 10s.,
      given the last verdict to Field. The man's name is Thomas, of the Poultry
      Counter. I sent Griffin with him to the Dolphin, where Sir W. Batten was
      at dinner, and he being satisfied that I should pay the money, I did cause
      the money to be paid him, and Griffin to tell it out to him in the office.
      He offered to go along with me to Sir R. Ford, but I thought it not
      necessary, but let him go with it, he also telling me that there is never
      any receipt for it given, but I have good witness of the payment of it.
      They being gone, Luellin having again told me by myself that Deering is
      content to give me L50 if I can sell his deals for him to the King, not
      that I did ever offer to take it, or bid Luellin bargain for me with him,
      but did tacitly seem to be willing to do him what service I could in it,
      and expect his thanks, what he thought good. Thence to White Hall by
      coach, by the way overtaking Mr. Moore, and took him into the coach to me,
      and there he could tell me nothing of my Lord, how he stands as to his
      thoughts or respect to me, but concludes that though at present he may be
      angry yet he will come to be pleased again with me no doubt, and says that
      he do mind his business well, and keeps at Court. So to White Hall, and
      there by order found some of the Commissioners of Tangier met, and my Lord
      Sandwich among the rest, to whom I bowed, but he shewed me very little if
      any countenance at all, which troubles me mightily. Having soon done
      there, I took up Mr. Moore again and set him down at Pauls, by the way he
      proposed to me of a way of profit which perhaps may shortly be made by
      money by fines upon houses at the Wardrobe, but how I did not understand
      but left it to another discourse. So homeward, calling upon Mr. Fen, by
      Sir G. Carteret's desire, and did there shew him the bill of Captain
      Taylor's whereby I hope to get something justly. Home and to my office,
      and there very late with Sir W. Warren upon very serious discourse,
      telling him how matters passed to-day, and in the close he and I did fall
      to talk very openly of the business of this office, and (if I was not a
      little too open to tell him my interest, which is my fault) he did give me
      most admirable advice, and such as do speak him a most able and worthy
      man, and understanding seven times more than ever I thought to be in him.
      He did particularly run over every one of the officers and commanders, and
      shewed me how I had reason to mistrust every one of them, either for their
      falsenesse or their over-great power, being too high to fasten a real
      friendship in, and did give me a common but a most excellent saying to
      observe in all my life. He did give it in rhyme, but the sense was this,
      that a man should treat every friend in his discourse and opening his mind
      to him as of one that may hereafter be his foe. He did also advise me how
      I should take occasion to make known to the world my case, and the pains
      that I take in my business, and above all to be sure to get a thorough
      knowledge in my employment, and to that add all the interest at Court that
      I can, which I hope I shall do. He staid talking with me till almost 12 at
      night, and so good night, being sorry to part with him, and more sorry
      that he should have as far as Wapping to walk to-night. So I to my
      Journall and so home, to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and with my head and heart full of my business, I to my office,
      and there all the morning, where among other things to my great content
      Captain Taylor brought me L40, the greater part of which I shall gain to
      myself after much care and pains out of his bill of freight, as I have at
      large set down in my book of Memorandums. At noon to the 'Change and there
      met with Mr. Wood by design, and got out of him to my advantage a
      condition which I shall make good use of against Sir W. Batten (vide my
      book of Memorandums touching the contract of masts of Sir W. Warren about
      which I have had so much trouble). So home to dinner and then to the Star
      Tavern hard by to our arbitration of Mr. Bland's business, and at it a
      great while, but I found no order like to be kept in our inquiry, and Mr.
      Clerke, the other arbitrator, one so far from being fit (though able as to
      his trade of a merchant) to inquire and to take pains in searching out the
      truth on both sides, that we parted without doing anything, nor do I
      believe we shall at all ever attain to anything in it. Then home and till
      12 at night making up my accounts with great account of this day's receipt
      of Captain Taylor's money and some money reimbursed me which I have laid
      out on Field's business. So home with my mind in pretty good quiet, and to
      Supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home to
      my poor wife and dined, and then by coach abroad to Mrs. Turner's where I
      have not been for many a day, and there I found her and her sister Dike
      very sad for the death of their brother. After a little common expression
      of sorrow, Mrs. Turner told me that the trouble she would put me to was,
      to consult about getting an achievement prepared, scutcheons were done
      already, to set over the door. So I did go out to Mr. Smith's, where my
      brother tells me the scutcheons are made, but he not being within, I went
      to the Temple, and there spent my time in a Bookseller's shop, reading in
      a book of some Embassages into Moscovia, &amp;c., where was very good
      reading, and then to Mrs. Turner's, and thither came Smith to me, with
      whom I did agree for L4 to make a handsome one, ell square within the
      frame. After he was gone I sat an houre talking of the suddennesse of his
      death within 7 days, and how by little and little death came upon him,
      neither he nor they thinking it would come to that. He died after a day's
      raveing, through lightness in his head for want of sleep. His lady did not
      know of his sickness, nor do they hear yet how she takes it. Hence home,
      taking some books by the way in Paul's Churchyard by coach to my office,
      where late doing business, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and after being ready and done several businesses with people, I
      took water (taking a dram of the bottle at the waterside) with a gaily,
      the first that ever I had yet, and down to Woolwich, calling at Ham
      Creeke, where I met Mr. Deane, and had a great deal of talke with him
      about business, and so to the Ropeyarde and Docke, discoursing several
      things, and so back again and did the like at Deptford, and I find that it
      is absolutely necessary for me to do thus once a weeke at least all the
      yeare round, which will do me great good, and so home with great ease and
      content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I bought
      yesterday, being a discourse of the state of Rome under the present Pope,
      Alexander the 7th, it being a very excellent piece. After eating something
      at home, then to my office, where till night about business to dispatch.
      Among other people came Mr. Primate, the leather seller, in Fleete
      Streete, to see me, he says, coming this way; and he tells me that he is
      upon a proposal to the King, whereby, by a law already in being, he will
      supply the King, without wrong to any man, or charge to the people in
      general, so much as it is now, above L200,000 per annum, and God knows
      what, and that the King do like the proposal, and hath directed that the
      Duke of Monmouth, with their consent, be made privy, and go along with him
      and his fellow proposer in the business, God knows what it is; for I
      neither can guess nor believe there is any such thing in his head. At
      night made an end of the discourse I read this morning, and so home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and I laboured
      hard at Deering's business of his deals more than I would if I did not
      think to get something, though I do really believe that I did what is to
      the King's advantage in it, and yet, God knows, the expectation of profit
      will have its force and make a man the more earnest. Dined at home, and
      then with Mr. Bland to another meeting upon his arbitration, and seeing we
      were likely to do no good I even put them upon it, and they chose Sir W.
      Rider alone to end the matter, and so I am rid of it. Thence by coach to
      my shoemaker's and paid all there, and gave something to the boys' box
      against Christmas. To Mrs. Turner's, whom I find busy with Sir W. Turner,
      about advising upon going down to Norfolke with the corps, and I find him
      in talke a sober, considering man. So home to my office late, and then
      home to supper and to bed. My head full of business, but pretty good
      content.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). Up and alone to church, where a common sermon of Mr.
      Mills, and so home to dinner in our parler, my wife being clean, and the
      first time we have dined here a great while together, and in the afternoon
      went to church with me also, and there begun to take her place above Mrs.
      Pen, which heretofore out of a humour she was wont to give her as an
      affront to my Lady Batten. After a dull sermon of the Scotchman, home, and
      there I found my brother Tom and my two cozens Scotts, he and she, the
      first time they were ever here. And by and by in comes my uncle. Wight and
      Mr. Norbury, and they sat with us a while drinking, of wine, of which I
      did give them plenty. But the two would not stay supper, but the other two
      did. And we were as merry as I could be with people that I do wish well
      to, but know not what discourse either to give them or find from them. We
      showed them our house from top to bottom, and had a good Turkey roasted
      for our supper, and store of wine, and after supper sent them home on
      foot, and so we to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up betimes, my wife having a mind to have gone abroad with me, but I
      had not because of troubling me, and so left her, though against my will,
      to go and see her father and mother by herself, and I straight to my Lord
      Sandwich's, and there I had a pretty kind salute from my Lord, and went on
      to the Duke's, where my fellow officers by and by came, and so in with him
      to his closet, and did our business, and so broke up, and I with Sir W.
      Batten by coach to Salisbury Court, and there spoke with Clerk our
      Solicitor about Field's business, and so parted, and I to Mrs. Turner's,
      and there saw the achievement pretty well set up, and it is well done.
      Thence I on foot to Charing Crosse to the ordinary, and there, dined,
      meeting Mr. Gauden and Creed. Here variety of talk but to no great
      purpose. After dinner won a wager of a payre of gloves of a crowne of Mr.
      Gauden upon some words in his contract for victualling. There parted in
      the street with them, and I to my Lord's, but he not being within, took
      coach, and, being directed by sight of bills upon the walls, I did go to
      Shoe Lane to see a cocke-fighting at a new pit there, a sport I was never
      at in my life; but, Lord! to see the strange variety of people, from
      Parliament-man (by name Wildes, that was Deputy Governor of the Tower when
      Robinson was Lord Mayor) to the poorest 'prentices, bakers, brewers,
      butchers, draymen, and what not; and all these fellows one with another in
      swearing, cursing, and betting. I soon had enough of it, and yet I would
      not but have seen it once, it being strange to observe the nature of these
      poor creatures, how they will fight till they drop down dead upon the
      table, and strike after they are ready to give up the ghost, not offering
      to run away when they are weary or wounded past doing further, whereas
      where a dunghill brood comes he will, after a sharp stroke that pricks
      him, run off the stage, and then they wring off his neck without more ado,
      whereas the other they preserve, though their eyes be both out, for breed
      only of a true cock of the game. Sometimes a cock that has had ten to one
      against him will by chance give an unlucky blow, will strike the other
      starke dead in a moment, that he never stirs more; but the common rule is,
      that though a cock neither runs nor dies, yet if any man will bet L10 to a
      crowne, and nobody take the bet, the game is given over, and not sooner.
      One thing more it is strange to see how people of this poor rank, that
      look as if they had not bread to put in their mouths, shall bet three or
      four pounds at one bet, and lose it, and yet bet as much the next battle
      (so they call every match of two cocks), so that one of them will lose L10
      or L20 at a meeting. Thence, having enough of it, by coach to my Lord
      Sandwich's, where I find him within with Captain Cooke and his boys, Dr.
      Childe, Mr. Madge, and Mallard, playing and singing over my Lord's anthem
      which he hath made to sing in the King's Chappell: my Lord saluted me
      kindly and took me into the withdrawing-room, to hear it at a distance,
      and indeed it sounds very finely, and is a good thing, I believe, to be
      made by him, and they all commend it. And after that was done Captain
      Cooke and his two boys did sing some Italian songs, which I must in a word
      say I think was fully the best musique that I ever yet heard in all my
      life, and it was to me a very great pleasure to hear them. After all
      musique ended, my Lord going to White Hall, I went along with him, and
      made a desire for to have his coach to go along with my cozen Edward
      Pepys's hearse through the City on Wednesday next, which he granted me
      presently, though he cannot yet come to speak to me in the familiar stile
      that he did use to do, nor can I expect it. But I was the willinger of
      this occasion to see whether he would deny me or no, which he would I
      believe had he been at open defyance against me. Being not a little
      pleased with all this, though I yet see my Lord is not right yet, I
      thanked his Lordship and parted with him in White Hall. I back to my
      Lord's, and there took up W. Howe in a coach, and carried him as far as
      the Half Moone, and there set him down. By the way, talking of my Lord,
      who is come another and a better man than he was lately, and God be
      praised for it, and he says that I shall find my Lord as he used to be to
      me, of which I have good hopes, but I shall beware of him, I mean W. Howe,
      how I trust him, for I perceive he is not so discreet as I took him for,
      for he has told Captain Ferrers (as Mr. Moore tells me) of my letter to my
      Lord, which troubles me, for fear my Lord should think that I might have
      told him. So called with my coach at my wife's brother's lodging, but she
      was gone newly in a coach homewards, and so I drove hard and overtook her
      at Temple Bar, and there paid off mine, and went home with her in her
      coach. She tells me how there is a sad house among her friends. Her
      brother's wife proves very unquiet, and so her mother is, gone back to be
      with her husband and leave the young couple to themselves, and great
      trouble, and I fear great want, will be among them, I pray keep me from
      being troubled with them. At home to put on my gowne and to my office, and
      there set down this day's Journall, and by and by comes Mrs. Owen, Captain
      Allen's daughter, and causes me to stay while the papers relating to her
      husband's place, bought of his father, be copied out because of her going
      by this morning's tide home to Chatham. Which vexes me, but there is no
      help for it. I home to supper while a young [man] that she brought with
      her did copy out the things, and then I to the office again and dispatched
      her, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up and there comes my she cozen Angier, of Cambridge, to me to speak
      about her son. But though I love them, and have reason so to do, yet,
      Lord! to consider how cold I am to speak to her, for fear of giving her
      too much hopes of expecting either money or anything else from me besides
      my care of her son. I let her go without drinking, though that was against
      my will, being forced to hasten to the office, where we sat all the
      morning, and at noon I to Sir R. Ford's, where Sir R. Browne (a dull but
      it seems upon action a hot man), and he and I met upon setting a price
      upon the freight of a barge sent to France to the Duchess of Orleans. And
      here by discourse I find them greatly crying out against the choice of Sir
      J. Cutler to be Treasurer for Paul's upon condition that he give L1500
      towards it, and it seems he did give it upon condition that he might be
      Treasurer for the work, which they say will be worth three times as much
      money, and talk as if his being chosen to the office will make people
      backward to give, but I think him as likely a man as either of them, or
      better. The business being done we parted, Sir R. Ford never inviting me
      to dine with him at all, and I was not sorry for it. Home and dined. I had
      a letter from W. Howe that my Lord hath ordered his coach and six horses
      for me to-morrow, which pleases me mightily to think that my Lord should
      do so much, hoping thereby that his anger is a little over. After dinner
      abroad with my wife by coach to Westminster, and set her at Mrs. Hunt's
      while I about my business, having in our way met with Captain Ferrers
      luckily to speak to him about my coach, who was going in all haste
      thither, and I perceive the King and Duke and all the Court was going to
      the Duke's playhouse to see "Henry VIII." acted, which is said to be an
      admirable play. But, Lord! to see how near I was to have broken my oathe,
      or run the hazard of 20s. losse, so much my nature was hot to have gone
      thither; but I did not go, but having spoke with W. Howe and known how my
      Lord did do this kindly as I would have it, I did go to Westminster Hall,
      and there met Hawley, and walked a great while with him. Among other
      discourse encouraging him to pursue his love to Mrs. Lane, while God knows
      I had a roguish meaning in it. Thence calling my wife home by coach,
      calling at several places, and to my office, where late, and so home to
      supper and to bed. This day I hear for certain that my Lady Castlemaine is
      turned Papist, which the Queene for all do not much like, thinking that
      she do it not for conscience sake. I heard to-day of a great fray lately
      between Sir H. Finch's coachman, who struck with his whip a coachman of
      the King's to the losse of one of his eyes; at which the people of the
      Exchange seeming to laugh and make sport with some words of contempt to
      him, my Lord Chamberlin did come from the King to shut up the 'Change, and
      by the help of a justice, did it; but upon petition to the King it was
      opened again.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up betimes and my wife; and being in as mourning a dress as we
      could, at present, without cost, put ourselves into, we by Sir W. Pen's
      coach to Mrs. Turner's, at Salisbury Court, where I find my Lord's coach
      and six horses. We staid till almost eleven o'clock, and much company
      came, and anon, the corps being put into the hearse, and the scutcheons
      set upon it, we all took coach, and I and my wife and Auditor Beale in my
      Lord Sandwich's coach, and went next to Mrs. Turner's mourning coach, and
      so through all the City and Shoreditch, I believe about twenty coaches,
      and four or five with six and four horses. Being come thither, I made up
      to the mourners, and bidding them a good journey, I took leave and back
      again, and setting my wife into a hackney out of Bishopsgate Street, I
      sent her home, and I to the 'Change and Auditor Beale about his business.
      Did much business at the 'Change, and so home to dinner, and then to my
      office, and there late doing business also to my great content to see God
      bless me in my place and opening honest ways, I hope to get a little money
      to lay up and yet to live handsomely. So to supper and to bed. My wife
      having strange fits of the toothache, some times on this, and by and by on
      that side of her tooth, which is not common.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up betimes; and though it was a most foggy morning, and cold, yet
      with a gally down to Eriffe, several times being at a loss whither we
      went. There I mustered two ships of the King's, lent by him to the Guiny
      Company, which are manned better than ours at far less wages. Thence on
      board two of the King's, one of them the "Leopard," Captain Beech, who I
      find an able and serious man. He received me civilly, and his wife was
      there, a very well bred and knowing woman, born at Antwerp, but speaks as
      good English as myself, and an ingenious woman. Here was also Sir G.
      Carteret's son, who I find a pretty, but very talking man, but good
      humour. Thence back again, entertaining myself upon my sliding rule with
      great content, and called at Woolwich, where Mr. Chr. Pett having an
      opportunity of being alone did tell me his mind about several things he
      thought I was offended with him in, and told me of my kindness to his
      assistant. I did give him such an answer as I thought was fit and left him
      well satisfied, he offering to do me all the service, either by draughts
      or modells that I should desire. Thence straight home, being very cold,
      but yet well, I thank God, and at home found my wife making mince pies,
      and by and by comes in Captain Ferrers to see us, and, among other talke,
      tells us of the goodness of the new play of "Henry VIII.," which makes me
      think [it] long till my time is out; but I hope before I go I shall set
      myself such a stint as I may not forget myself as I have hitherto done
      till I was forced for these months last past wholly to forbid myself the
      seeing of one. He gone I to my office and there late writing and reading,
      and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Christmas day). Lay long talking pleasantly with my wife, but among
      other things she begun, I know not whether by design or chance, to enquire
      what she should do if I should by any accident die, to which I did give
      her some slight answer; but shall make good use of it to bring myself to
      some settlement for her sake, by making a will as soon as I can. Up and to
      church, where Mr. Mills made an ordinary sermon, and so home and dined
      with great pleasure with my wife, and all the afternoon first looking out
      at window and seeing the boys playing at many several sports in our back
      yard by Sir W. Pen's, which reminded me of my own former times, and then I
      began to read to my wife upon the globes with great pleasure and to good
      purpose, for it will be pleasant to her and to me to have her understand
      these things. In the evening at the office, where I staid late reading
      Rushworth, which is a most excellent collection of the beginning of the
      late quarrels in this kingdom, and so home to supper and to bed, with good
      content of mind.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up and walked forth first to the Minerys to Brown's, and there with
      great pleasure saw and bespoke several instruments, and so to Cornhill to
      Mr. Cades, and there went up into his warehouse to look for a map or two,
      and there finding great plenty of good pictures, God forgive me! how my
      mind run upon them, and bought a little one for my wife's closett
      presently, and concluded presently of buying L10 worth, upon condition he
      would give me the buying of them. Now it is true I did still within me
      resolve to make the King one way or other pay for them, though I saved it
      to him another way, yet I find myself too forward to fix upon the expense,
      and came away with a resolution of buying them, but do hope that I shall
      not upon second thoughts do it without a way made out before I buy them to
      myself how to do [it] without charge to my main stock. Thence to the
      Coffee-house, and sat long in good discourse with some gentlemen
      concerning the Roman Empire. So home and found Mr. Hollyard there, and he
      stayed and dined with us, we having a pheasant to dinner. He gone, I all
      the afternoon with my wife to cards, and, God forgive me! to see how the
      very discourse of plays, which I shall be at liberty to see after New
      Year's Day next, do set my mind upon them, but I must be forced to stint
      myself very strictly before I begin, or else I fear I shall spoil all. In
      the evening came my aunt Wight's kinswoman to see how my wife do, with a
      compliment from my aunt, which I take kindly as it is unusual for her to
      do it, but I do perceive my uncle is very kind to me of late. So to my
      office writing letters, and then to read and make an end of Rushworth,
      which I did, and do say that it is a book the most worth reading for a man
      of my condition or any man that hopes to come to any publique condition in
      the world that I do know. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up and to church alone and so home to dinner with my wife very
      pleasant and pleased with one another's company, and in our general
      enjoyment one of another, better we think than most other couples do. So
      after dinner to the French church, but came too late, and so back to our
      owne church, where I slept all the sermon the Scott preaching, and so
      home, and in the evening Sir J. Minnes and I met at Sir W. Pen's about
      ordering some business of the Navy, and so I home to supper, discourse,
      prayers, and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up and by coach to my Lord's lodgings, but he was gone abroad, so I
      lost my pains, but, however, walking through White Hall I heard the King
      was gone to play at Tennis, so I down to the new Tennis Court; and saw him
      and Sir Arthur Slingsby play against my Lord of Suffolke and my Lord
      Chesterfield. The King beat three, and lost two sets, they all, and he
      particularly playing well, I thought. Thence went and spoke with the Duke
      of Albemarle about his wound at Newhall, but I find him a heavy dull man,
      methinks, by his answers to me. Thence to the King's Head ordinary and
      there dined, and found Creed there, but we met and dined and parted
      without any thing more than "How do you?" After dinner straight on foot to
      Mr. Hollyard's, and there paid him L3 in full for his physic and work to
      my wife.... but whether it is cured for ever or no I cannot tell, but he
      says it will never come to anything, though it may be it may ooze now and
      then a little. So home and found my wife gone out with Will (whom she sent
      for as she do now a days upon occasion) to have a tooth drawn, she having
      it seems been in great pain all day, and at night came home with it drawn,
      and pretty well. This evening I had a stove brought me to the office to
      try, but it being an old one it smokes as much as if there was nothing but
      a hearth as I had before, but it may be great new ones do not, and
      therefore I must enquire further. So at night home to supper and to bed.
      The Duchesse of York is fallen sicke of the meazles.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up and to the office, where all the morning sitting, at noon to the
      'change, and there I found and brought home Mr. Pierse the surgeon to
      dinner. Where I found also Mr. Luellin and Mount, and merry at dinner, but
      their discourse so free.... that I was weary of them. But after dinner
      Luellin took me up to my chamber to give me L50 for the service I did him,
      though not so great as he expected and I intended. But I told him that I
      would not sell my liberty to any man. If he would give me any thing by
      another's hand I would endeavour to deserve it, but I will never give him
      himself thanks for it, not acknowledging the receiving of any, which he
      told me was reasonable. I did also tell him that neither this nor any
      thing should make me to do any thing that should not be for the King's
      service besides. So we parted and left them three at home with my wife
      going to cards, and I to my office and there staid late. Sir W. Pen came
      like a cunning rogue to sit and talk with me about office business and
      freely about the Comptroller's business of the office, to which I did give
      him free answers and let him make the best of them. But I know him to be a
      knave, and do say nothing that I fear to have said again. Anon came Sir W.
      Warren, and after talking of his business of the masts and helping me to
      understand some foul dealing in the business of Woods we fell to other
      talk, and particularly to speak of some means how to part this great
      familiarity between Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, and it is easy to do
      by any good friend of Sir J. Minnes to whom it will be a good service, and
      he thinks that Sir J. Denham will be a proper man for it, and so do I. So
      after other discourse we parted, and I home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up betimes and by coach to my Lord Sandwich, who I met going out,
      and he did aske me how his cozen, my wife; did, the first time he hath
      done so since his being offended, and, in my conscience, he would be glad
      to be free with me again, but he knows not how to begin. So he went out,
      and I through the garden to Mr. Coventry, where I saw Mr. Ch. Pett
      bringing him a modell, and indeed it is a pretty one, for a New Year's
      gift; but I think the work not better done than mine. With him by coach to
      London, with good and friendly discourse of business and against Sir W.
      Batten and his foul dealings. So leaving him at the Guiny House I to the
      Coffee House, whither came Mr. Grant and Sir W. Petty, with whom I talked,
      and so did many, almost all the house there, about his new vessel, wherein
      he did give me such satisfaction in every point that I am almost confident
      she will prove an admirable invention. So home to dinner, and after being
      upon the 'Change awhile I dined with my wife, who took physique to-day,
      and so to my office, and there all the afternoon till late at night about
      office business, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and among other
      things Sir W. Warren came about some contract, and there did at the open
      table, Sir W. Batten not being there; openly defy him, and insisted how
      Sir W. Batten did endeavour to oppose him in everything that he offered.
      Sir W. Pen took him up for it, like a counterfeit rogue, though I know he
      was as much pleased to hear him talk so as any man there. But upon his
      speaking no more was said but to the business. At noon we broke up and I
      to the 'Change awhile, and so home again to dinner, my head aching
      mightily with being overcharged with business. We had to dinner, my wife
      and I, a fine turkey and a mince pie, and dined in state, poor wretch, she
      and I, and have thus kept our Christmas together all alone almost, having
      not once been out, but to-morrow my vowes are all out as to plays and
      wine, but I hope I shall not be long before I come to new ones, so much
      good, and God's blessing, I find to have attended them. Thence to the
      office and did several businesses and answered several people, but my head
      aching and it being my great night of accounts, I went forth, took coach,
      and to my brother's, but he was not within, and so I back again and sat an
      hour or two at the Coffee [house], hearing some simple discourse about
      Quakers being charmed by a string about their wrists, and so home, and
      after a little while at my office, I home and supped, and so had a good
      fire in my chamber and there sat till 4 o'clock in the morning making up
      my accounts and writing this last Journall of the year. And first I bless
      God I do, after a large expense, even this month, by reason of Christmas,
      and some payments to my father, and other things extraordinary, find that
      I am worth in money, besides all my household stuff, or any thing of
      Brampton, above L800, whereof in my Lord Sandwich's hand, L700, and the
      rest in my hand. So that there is not above L5 of all my estate in money
      at this minute out of my hands and my Lord's. For which the good God be
      pleased to give me a thankful heart and a mind careful to preserve this
      and increase it. I do live at my lodgings in the Navy Office, my family
      being, besides my wife and I, Jane Gentleman, Besse, our excellent,
      good-natured cookmayde, and Susan, a little girle, having neither man nor
      boy, nor like to have again a good while, living now in most perfect
      content and quiett, and very frugally also; my health pretty good, but
      only that I have been much troubled with a costiveness which I am
      labouring to get away, and have hopes of doing it. At the office I am
      well, though envied to the devil by Sir William Batten, who hates me to
      death, but cannot hurt me. The rest either love me, or at least do not
      show otherwise, though I know Sir W. Pen to be a false knave touching me,
      though he seems fair. My father and mother well in the country; and at
      this time the young ladies of Hinchingbroke with them, their house having
      the small-pox in it. The Queene after a long and sore sicknesse is become
      well again; and the King minds his mistresse a little too much, if it
      pleased God! but I hope all things will go well, and in the Navy
      particularly, wherein I shall do my duty whatever comes of it. The great
      talke is the designs of the King of France, whether against the Pope or
      King of Spayne nobody knows; but a great and a most promising Prince he
      is, and all the Princes of Europe have their eye upon him. My wife's
      brother come to great unhappiness by the ill-disposition, my wife says, of
      his wife, and her poverty, which she now professes, after all her
      husband's pretence of a great fortune, but I see none of them, at least
      they come not to trouble me. At present I am concerned for my cozen
      Angier, of Cambridge, lately broke in his trade, and this day am sending
      his son John, a very rogue, to sea. My brother Tom I know not what to
      think of, for I cannot hear whether he minds his business or not; and my
      brother John at Cambridge, with as little hopes of doing good there, for
      when he was here he did give me great cause of dissatisfaction with his
      manner of life. Pall with my father, and God knows what she do there, or
      what will become of her, for I have not anything yet to spare her, and she
      grows now old, and must be disposed of one way or other. The Duchesse of
      York, at this time, sicke of the meazles, but is growing well again. The
      Turke very far entered into Germany, and all that part of the world at a
      losse what to expect from his proceedings. Myself, blessed be God! in a
      good way, and design and resolution of sticking to my business to get a
      little money with doing the best service I can to the King also; which God
      continue! So ends the old year.
    </p>
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     A woman sober, and no high-flyer, as he calls it
     Academy was dissolved by order of the Pope
     After oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb
     After some pleasant talk, my wife, Ashwell, and I to bed
     After awhile I caressed her and parted seeming friends
     Again that she spoke but somewhat of what she had in her heart
     And there, did what I would with her
     And so to sleep till the morning, but was bit cruelly
     And so to bed and there entertained her with great content
     And so to bed, my father lying with me in Ashwell's bed
     Apprehend about one hundred Quakers
     At last we pretty good friends
     Before I sent my boy out with them, I beat him for a lie
     Being cleansed of lice this day by my wife
     Better we think than most other couples do
     Book itself, and both it and them not worth a turd
     But a woful rude rabble there was, and such noises
     Compliment from my aunt, which I take kindly as it is unusual
     Conceited, but that's no matter to me
     Content as to be at our own home, after being abroad awhile
     Dare not oppose it alone for making an enemy and do no good
     Did so watch to see my wife put on drawers, which (she did)
     Did go to Shoe Lane to see a cocke-fighting at a new pit there
     Did find none of them within, which I was glad of
     Dined at home alone, a good calves head boiled and dumplings
     Dinner was great, and most neatly dressed
     Dog attending us, which made us all merry again
     Dr. Calamy is this day sent to Newgate for preaching
     Duodecimal arithmetique
     Eat a mouthful of pye at home to stay my stomach
     Employed by the fencers to play prizes at
     Enquiring into the selling of places do trouble a great many
     Every man looking after himself, and his owne lust and luxury
     Every small thing is enough now-a-days to bring a difference
     Excommunications, which they send upon the least occasions
     Expectation of profit will have its force
     Familiarity with her other servants is it that spoils them all
     Fear it may do him no good, but me hurt
     Fearful that I might not go far enough with my hat off
     Feverish, and hath sent for Mr. Pierce to let him blood
     Found guilty, and likely will be hanged (for stealing spoons)
     Found him a fool, as he ever was, or worse
     Galileo's air thermometer, made before 1597
     Give her a Lobster and do so touse her and feel her all over
     God knows that I do not find honesty enough in my own mind
     Goes with his guards with him publiquely, and his trumpets
     Goes down the wind in honour as well as every thing else
     Great plot which was lately discovered in Ireland
     Had a good supper of an oxe's cheek
     Half a pint of Rhenish wine at the Still-yard, mixed with beer
     Hanged with a silken halter
     He is too wise to be made a friend of
     He hoped he should live to see her "ugly and willing"
     He having made good promises, though I fear his performance
     His readiness to speak spoilt all
     How highly the Presbyters do talk in the coffeehouses still
     I calling her beggar, and she me pricklouse, which vexed me
     I and she never were so heartily angry in our lives as to-day
     I do not find other people so willing to do business as myself
     I slept most of the sermon
     I was very angry, and resolve to beat him to-morrow
     Ill humour to be so against that which all the world cries up
     In some churches there was hardly ten people in the whole church
     Insurrection of the Catholiques there
     It must be the old ones that must do any good
     Jealous, though God knows I have no great reason
     John has got a wife, and for that he intends to part with him
     Justice of proceeding not to condemn a man unheard
     Keep at interest, which is a good, quiett, and easy profit
     King was gone to play at Tennis
     Lady Castlemaine hath all the King's Christmas presents
     Lay long in bed talking and pleasing myself with my wife
     Lay very long with my wife in bed talking with great pleasure
     Lay chiding, and then pleased with my wife in bed
     Liability of a husband to pay for goods supplied his wife
     Many thousands in a little time go out of England
     Matters in Ireland are full of discontent
     Money, which sweetens all things
     Most flat dead sermon, both for matter and manner of delivery
     Much discourse, but little to be learned
     My maid Susan ill, or would be thought so
     My wife has got too great head to be brought down soon
     My wife and her maid Ashwell had between them spilled the pot....
     No more matter being made of the death of one than another
     No sense nor grammar, yet in as good words that ever I saw
     Nor will yield that the Papists have any ground given them
     Nor would become obliged too much to any
     Nothing in the world done with true integrity
     Nothing of any truth and sincerity, but mere envy and design
     Nothing is to be got without offending God and the King
     Once a week or so I know a gentleman must go....
     Opening his mind to him as of one that may hereafter be his foe
     Out of an itch to look upon the sluts there
     Pain of the stone, and makes bloody water with great pain
     Parliament do agree to throw down Popery
     Pen was then turned Quaker
     Persuade me that she should prove with child since last night
     Plague is much in Amsterdam, and we in fears of it here
     Pride and debauchery of the present clergy
     Pride himself too much in it
     Quakers being charmed by a string about their wrists
     Rabbit not half roasted, which made me angry with my wife
     Railed bitterly ever and anon against John Calvin
     Reading my Latin grammar, which I perceive I have great need
     Reckon nothing money but when it is in the bank
     Resolve to live well and die a beggar
     Sad for want of my wife, whom I love with all my heart
     Saw his people go up and down louseing themselves
     Scholler, that would needs put in his discourse (every occasion)
     Scholler, but, it may be, thinks himself to be too much so
     See how time and example may alter a man
     See whether my wife did wear drawers to-day as she used to do
     Sent me last night, as a bribe, a barrel of sturgeon
     Servant of the King's pleasures too, as well as business
     She was so ill as to be shaved and pidgeons put to her feet
     She is conceited that she do well already
     She used the word devil, which vexed me
     She begins not at all to take pleasure in me or study to please
     So home, and mighty friends with my wife again
     So much is it against my nature to owe anything to any body
     So home to supper and bed with my father
     So home, and after supper did wash my feet, and so to bed
     So neat and kind one to another
     Softly up to see whether any of the beds were out of order or no
     Sorry for doing it now, because of obliging me to do the like
     Sporting in my fancy with the Queen
     Statute against selling of offices
     Talk very highly of liberty of conscience
     Taught my wife some part of subtraction
     That I might say I saw no money in the paper
     That he is not able to live almost with her
     The plague is got to Amsterdam, brought by a ship from Argier
     The goldsmith, he being one of the jury to-morrow
     The house was full of citizens, and so the less pleasant
     Thence by coach, with a mad coachman, that drove like mad
     There is no passing but by coach in the streets, and hardly that
     There is no man almost in the City cares a turd for him
     Therefore ought not to expect more justice from her
     These young Lords are not fit to do any service abroad
     They were so false spelt that I was ashamed of them
     They say now a common mistress to the King
     Things being dear and little attendance to be had we went away
     Though it be but little, yet I do get ground every month
     Through the Fleete Ally to see a couple of pretty [strumpets]
     To bed with discontent she yielded to me and began to be fond
     Towzing her and doing what I would, but the last thing of all
     Upon a small temptation I could be false to her
     Vexed at my wife's neglect in leaving of her scarf
     Waked this morning between four and five by my blackbird
     We having no luck in maids now-a-days
     Who is over head and eares in getting her house up
     Whose voice I am not to be reconciled
     Wife and the dancing-master alone above, not dancing but talking
     Wine, new and old, with labells pasted upon each bottle
     With much ado in an hour getting a coach home
     Would not make my coming troublesome to any
     Yet it was her fault not to see that I did take them
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      JANUARY 1663-1664
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    <p>
      January 1st, Went to bed between 4 and 5 in the morning with my mind in
      good temper of satisfaction and slept till about 8, that many people came
      to speak with me. Among others one came with the best New Year's gift that
      ever I had, namely from Mr. Deering, with a bill of exchange drawn upon
      himself for the payment of L50 to Mr. Luellin. It being for my use with a
      letter of compliment. I am not resolved what or how to do in this
      business, but I conclude it is an extraordinary good new year's gift,
      though I do not take the whole, or if I do then give some of it to
      Luellin. By and by comes Captain Allen and his son Jowles and his wife,
      who continues pretty still. They would have had me set my hand to a
      certificate for his loyalty, and I know not what his ability for any
      employment. But I did not think it fit, but did give them a pleasing
      denial, and after sitting with me an hour they went away. Several others
      came to me about business, and then being to dine at my uncle Wight's I
      went to the Coffee-house, sending my wife by Will, and there staid talking
      an hour with Coll. Middleton, and others, and among other things about a
      very rich widow, young and handsome, of one Sir Nicholas Gold's, a
      merchant, lately fallen, and of great courtiers that already look after
      her: her husband not dead a week yet. She is reckoned worth L80,000.
      Thence to my uncle Wight's, where Dr. of&mdash;&mdash;-, among others,
      dined, and his wife, a seeming proud conceited woman, I know not what to
      make of her, but the Dr's. discourse did please me very well about the
      disease of the stone, above all things extolling Turpentine, which he told
      me how it may be taken in pills with great ease. There was brought to
      table a hot pie made of a swan I sent them yesterday, given me by Mr.
      Howe, but we did not eat any of it. But my wife and I rose from table,
      pretending business, and went to the Duke's house, the first play I have
      been at these six months, according to my last vowe, and here saw the so
      much cried-up play of "Henry the Eighth;" which, though I went with
      resolution to like it, is so simple a thing made up of a great many
      patches, that, besides the shows and processions in it, there is nothing
      in the world good or well done. Thence mightily dissatisfied back at night
      to my uncle Wight's, and supped with them, but against my stomach out of
      the offence the sight of my aunt's hands gives me, and ending supper with
      a mighty laugh, the greatest I have had these many months, at my uncle's
      being out in his grace after meat, we rose and broke up, and my wife and I
      home and to bed, being sleepy since last night.
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    <p>
      2nd. Up and to the office, and there sitting all the morning, and at noon
      to the 'Change, in my going met with Luellin and told him how I had
      received a letter and bill for L50 from Mr. Deering, and delivered it to
      him, which he told me he would receive for me. To which I consented,
      though professed not to desire it if he do not consider himself
      sufficiently able by the service I have done, and that it is rather my
      desire to have nothing till he be further sensible of my service. From the
      'Change I brought him home and dined with us, and after dinner I took my
      wife out, for I do find that I am not able to conquer myself as to going
      to plays till I come to some new vowe concerning it, and that I am now
      come, that is to say, that I will not see above one in a month at any of
      the publique theatres till the sum of 50s. be spent, and then none before
      New Year's Day next, unless that I do become worth L1000 sooner than then,
      and then am free to come to some other terms, and so leaving him in
      Lombard Street I took her to the King's house, and there met Mr.
      Nicholson, my old colleague, and saw "The Usurper," which is no good play,
      though better than what I saw yesterday. However, we rose unsatisfied, and
      took coach and home, and I to the office late writing letters, and so to
      supper and to bed.
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    <p>
      3rd (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and then rose and with a fire in my
      chamber staid within all day, looking over and settling my accounts in
      good order, by examining all my books, and the kitchen books, and I find
      that though the proper profit of my last year was but L305, yet I did by
      other gain make it up L444., which in every part of it was unforeseen of
      me, and therefore it was a strange oversight for lack of examining my
      expenses that I should spend L690 this year, but for the time to come I
      have so distinctly settled all my accounts in writing and the particulars
      of all my several layings out, that I do hope I shall hereafter make a
      better judgment of my spendings than ever. I dined with my wife in her
      chamber, she in bed, and then down again and till 11 at night, and broke
      up and to bed with great content, but could not make an end of writing
      over my vows as I purposed, but I am agreed in every thing how to order
      myself for the year to come, which I trust in God will be much for my
      good. So up to prayers and to bed. This evening Sir W. Pen came to invite
      me against next Wednesday, being Twelfth day, to his usual feast, his
      wedding day.
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    <p>
      4th. Up betimes, and my wife being ready, and her mayd Besse and the girl,
      I carried them by coach and set them all down in Covent Garden and there
      left them, and I to my Lord Sandwich's lodgings, but he not being up, I to
      the Duke's chamber, and there by and by to his closett, where since his
      lady was ill, a little red bed of velvet is brought for him to lie alone,
      which is a very pretty one. After doing business here, I to my Lord's
      again, and there spoke with him, and he seems now almost friends again as
      he used to be. Here meeting Mr. Pierce, the chyrurgeon, he told me among
      other Court newes, how the Queene is very well again, and the King lay
      with her on Saturday night last; and that she speaks now very pretty
      English, and makes her sense out now and then with pretty phrazes: as
      among others this is mightily cried up; that, meaning to say that she did
      not like such a horse so well as the rest, he being too prancing and full
      of tricks, she said he did make too much vanity. Thence to the Tennis
      Court, after I had spent a little time in Westminster Hall, thinking to
      have met with Mrs. Lane, but I could not and am glad of it, and there saw
      the King play at Tennis and others: but to see how the King's play was
      extolled without any cause at all, was a loathsome sight, though
      sometimes, indeed, he did play very well and deserved to be commended; but
      such open flattery is beastly. Afterwards to St. James's Parke, being
      unwilling to go to spend money at the ordinary, and there spent an hour or
      two, it being a pleasant day, seeing people play at Pell Mell; where it
      pleased me mightily to hear a gallant, lately come from France, swear at
      one of his companions for suffering his man (a spruce blade) to be so
      saucy as to strike a ball while his master was playing on the Mall.
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     [When Egerton was Bishop of Durham, he often played at bowls with
     his guests on the public days.  On an occasion of this sort, a
     visitor happening to cross the lawn, one of the chaplains exclaimed,
     "You must not shake the green, for the bishop is going to bowl."-B.]
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      Thence took coach at White Hall and took up my wife, who is mighty sad to
      think of her father, who is going into Germany against the Turkes; but
      what will become of her brother I know not. He is so idle, and out of all
      capacity, I think, to earn his bread. Home and at my office till is at
      night making my solemn vowes for the next year, which I trust in the Lord
      I shall keep, but I fear I have a little too severely bound myself in some
      things and in too many, for I fear I may forget some. But however, I know
      the worst, and shall by the blessing of God observe to perform or pay my
      forfeits punctually. So home and to bed with my mind at rest.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up and to our office, where we sat all the morning, where my head
      being willing to take in all business whatever, I am afraid I shall over
      clogg myself with it. But however, it is my desire to do my duty and shall
      the willinger bear it. At noon home and to the 'Change, where I met with
      Luellin, who went off with me and parted to meet again at the Coffeehouse,
      but missed. So home and found him there, and Mr. Barrow came to speak with
      me, so they both dined with me alone, my wife not being ready, and after
      dinner I up in my chamber with Barrow to discourse about matters of the
      yard with him, and his design of leaving the place, which I am sorry for,
      and will prevent if I can. He being gone then Luellin did give me the L50
      from Mr. Deering, which he do give me for my pains in his business and
      what I may hereafter take for him, though there is not the least word or
      deed I have yet been guilty of in his behalf but what I am sure has been
      to the King's advantage and the profit of the service, nor ever will. And
      for this money I never did condition with him or expected a farthing at
      the time when I did do him the service, nor have given any receipt for it,
      it being brought me by Luellin, nor do purpose to give him any thanks for
      it, but will wherein I can faithfully endeavour to see him have the
      privilege of his Patent as the King's merchant. I did give Luellin two
      pieces in gold for a pair of gloves for his kindness herein. Then he being
      gone, I to my office, where busy till late at night, that through my room
      being over confounded in business I could stay there no longer, but went
      home, and after a little supper to bed.
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    <p>
      6th (Twelfth day). Up and to my office, where very busy all the morning,
      being indeed over loaded with it through my own desire of doing all I can.
      At noon to the 'Change, but did little, and so home to dinner with my poor
      wife, and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes
      very prettily and with great pleasure to her and me to teach her, and so
      to the office again, where as busy as ever in my life, one thing after
      another, and answering people's business, particularly drawing up things
      about Mr. Wood's masts, which I expect to have a quarrel about with Sir W.
      Batten before it be ended, but I care not. At night home to my wife, to
      supper, discourse, prayers, and to bed. This morning I began a practice
      which I find by the ease I do it with that I shall continue, it saving me
      money and time; that is, to trimme myself with a razer: which pleases me
      mightily.
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    <p>
      7th. Up, putting on my best clothes and to the office, where all the
      morning we sat busy, among other things upon Mr. Wood's performance of his
      contract for masts, wherein I was mightily concerned, but I think was
      found all along in the right, and shall have my desire in it to the King's
      advantage. At noon, all of us to dinner to Sir W. Pen's, where a very
      handsome dinner, Sir J. Lawson among others, and his lady and his
      daughter, a very pretty lady and of good deportment, with looking upon
      whom I was greatly pleased, the rest of the company of the women were all
      of our own house, of no satisfaction or pleasure at all. My wife was not
      there, being not well enough, nor had any great mind. But to see how Sir
      W. Pen imitates me in everything, even in his having his chimney piece in
      his dining room the same with that in my wife's closett, and in every
      thing else I perceive wherein he can. But to see again how he was out in
      one compliment: he lets alone drinking any of the ladies' healths that
      were there, my Lady Batten and Lawson, till he had begun with my Lady
      Carteret, who was absent, and that was well enough, and then Mr.
      Coventry's mistresse, at which he was ashamed, and would not have had him
      have drunk it, at least before the ladies present, but his policy, as he
      thought, was such that he would do it. After dinner by coach with Sir G.
      Carteret and Sir J. Minnes by appointment to Auditor Beale's in Salisbury
      Court, and there we did with great content look over some old ledgers to
      see in what manner they were kept, and indeed it was in an extraordinary
      good method, and such as (at least out of design to keep them employed) I
      do persuade Sir J. Minnes to go upon, which will at least do as much good
      it may be to keep them for want of something to do from envying those that
      do something. Thence calling to see whether Mrs. Turner was returned,
      which she is, and I spoke one word only to her, and away again by coach
      home and to my office, where late, and then home to supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and all the morning at my office and with Sir J. Minnes, directing
      him and Mr. Turner about keeping of their books according to yesterday's
      work, wherein I shall make them work enough. At noon to the 'Change, and
      there long, and from thence by appointment took Luellin, Mount, and W.
      Symons, and Mr. Pierce, the chirurgeon, home to dinner with me and were
      merry. But, Lord! to hear how W. Symons do commend and look sadly and then
      talk bawdily and merrily, though his wife was dead but the other day,
      would make a dogg laugh. After dinner I did go in further part of kindness
      to Luellin for his kindness about Deering's L50 which he procured me the
      other day of him. We spent all the afternoon together and then they to
      cards with my wife, who this day put on her Indian blue gowne which is
      very pretty, where I left them for an hour, and to my office, and then to
      them again, and by and by they went away at night, and so I again to my
      office to perfect a letter to Mr. Coventry about Department Treasurers,
      wherein I please myself and hope to give him content and do the King
      service therein. So having done, I home and to teach my wife a new lesson
      in the globes, and to supper, and to bed. We had great pleasure this
      afternoon; among other things, to talk of our old passages together in
      Cromwell's time; and how W. Symons did make me laugh and wonder to-day
      when he told me how he had made shift to keep in, in good esteem and
      employment, through eight governments in one year (the dear 1659, which
      were indeed, and he did name them all), and then failed unhappy in the
      ninth, viz. that of the King's coming in. He made good to me the story
      which Luellin did tell me the other day, of his wife upon her death-bed;
      how she dreamt of her uncle Scobell, and did foretell, from some discourse
      she had with him, that she should die four days thence, and not sooner,
      and did all along say so, and did so. Upon the 'Change a great talke there
      was of one Mr. Tryan, an old man, a merchant in Lyme-Streete, robbed last
      night (his man and mayde being gone out after he was a-bed), and gagged
      and robbed of L1050 in money and about L4000 in jewells, which he had in
      his house as security for money. It is believed by many circumstances that
      his man is guilty of confederacy, by their ready going to his secret till
      in his desk, wherein the key of his cash-chest lay.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up (my underlip being mightily swelled, I know not how but by
      overrubbing it, it itching) and to the office, where we sat all the
      morning, and at noon I home to dinner, and by discourse with my wife
      thought upon inviting my Lord Sandwich to a dinner shortly. It will cost
      me at least ten or twelve pounds; but, however, some arguments of prudence
      I have, which however I shall think again upon before I proceed to that
      expence. After dinner by coach I carried my wife and Jane to Westminster,
      leaving her at Mr. Hunt's, and I to Westminster Hall, and there visited
      Mrs. Lane, and by appointment went out and met her at the Trumpet, Mrs.
      Hare's, but the room being damp we went to the Bell tavern, and there I
      had her company, but could not do as I used to do (yet nothing but what
      was honest)..... So I to talk about her having Hawley, she told me flatly
      no, she could not love him. I took occasion to enquire of Howlett's
      daughter, with whom I have a mind to meet a little to see what mettle the
      young wench is made of, being very pretty, but she tells me she is already
      betrothed to Mrs. Michell's son, and she in discourse tells me more, that
      Mrs. Michell herself had a daughter before marriage, which is now near
      thirty years old, a thing I could not have believed. Thence leading her to
      the Hall, I took coach and called my wife and her mayd, and so to the New
      Exchange, where we bought several things of our pretty Mrs. Dorothy Stacy,
      a pretty woman, and has the modestest look that ever I saw in my life and
      manner of speech. Thence called at Tom's and saw him pretty well again,
      but has not been currant. So homeward, and called at Ludgate, at Ashwell's
      uncle's, but she was not within, to have spoke to her to have come to
      dress my wife at the time my Lord dines here. So straight home, calling
      for Walsingham's Manuals at my bookseller's to read but not to buy,
      recommended for a pretty book by Sir W. Warren, whose warrant however I do
      not much take till I do read it. So home to supper and to bed, my wife not
      being very well since she came home, being troubled with a fainting fit,
      which she never yet had before since she was my wife.
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    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Lay in bed with my wife till 10 or 11 o'clock, having
      been very sleepy all night. So up, and my brother Tom being come to see
      me, we to dinner, he telling me how Mrs. Turner found herself discontented
      with her late bad journey, and not well taken by them in the country, they
      not desiring her coming down, nor the burials of Mr. Edward Pepys's corps
      there. After dinner I to the office, where all the afternoon, and at night
      my wife and I to my uncle Wight's, and there eat some of their swan pie,
      which was good, and I invited them to my house to eat a roasted swan on
      Tuesday next, which after I was come home did make a quarrels between my
      wife and I, because she had appointed a wish to-morrow. But, however, we
      were friends again quickly. So to bed. All our discourse to-night was Mr.
      Tryan's late being robbed; and that Collonell Turner (a mad, swearing,
      confident fellow, well known by all, and by me), one much indebted to this
      man for his very livelihood, was the man that either did or plotted it;
      and the money and things are found in his hand, and he and his wife now in
      Newgate for it; of which we are all glad, so very a known rogue he was.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Waked this morning by 4 o'clock by my wife to call the mayds to
      their wash, and what through my sleeping so long last night and vexation
      for the lazy sluts lying so long again and their great wash, neither my
      wife nor I could sleep one winke after that time till day, and then I rose
      and by coach (taking Captain Grove with me and three bottles of Tent,
      which I sent to Mrs. Lane by my promise on Saturday night last) to White
      Hall, and there with the rest of our company to the Duke and did our
      business, and thence to the Tennis Court till noon, and there saw several
      great matches played, and so by invitation to St. James's; where, at Mr.
      Coventry's chamber, I dined with my Lord Barkeley, Sir G. Carteret, Sir
      Edward Turner, Sir Ellis Layton, and one Mr. Seymour, a fine gentleman;
      were admirable good discourse of all sorts, pleasant and serious. Thence
      after dinner to White Hall, where the Duke being busy at the Guinny
      business, the Duke of Albemarle, Sir W. Rider, Povy, Sir J. Lawson and I
      to the Duke of Albemarle's lodgings, and there did some business, and so
      to the Court again, and I to the Duke of York's lodgings, where the Guinny
      company are choosing their assistants for the next year by ballotting.
      Thence by coach with Sir J. Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, he set me
      down at Cornhill, but, Lord! the simple discourse that all the way we had,
      he magnifying his great undertakings and cares that have been upon him for
      these last two years, and how he commanded the city to the content of all
      parties, when the loggerhead knows nothing almost that is sense. Thence to
      the Coffee-house, whither comes Sir W. Petty and Captain Grant, and we
      fell in talke (besides a young gentleman, I suppose a merchant, his name
      Mr. Hill, that has travelled and I perceive is a master in most sorts of
      musique and other things) of musique; the universal character; art of
      memory; Granger's counterfeiting of hands and other most excellent
      discourses to my great content, having not been in so good company a great
      while, and had I time I should covet the acquaintance of that Mr. Hill.
      This morning I stood by the King arguing with a pretty Quaker woman, that
      delivered to him a desire of hers in writing. The King showed her Sir J.
      Minnes, as a man the fittest for her quaking religion, saying that his
      beard was the stiffest thing about him, and again merrily said, looking
      upon the length of her paper, that if all she desired was of that length
      she might lose her desires; she modestly saying nothing till he begun
      seriously to discourse with her, arguing the truth of his spirit against
      hers; she replying still with these words, "O King!" and thou'd him all
      along. The general talke of the towne still is of Collonell Turner, about
      the robbery; who, it is thought, will be hanged. I heard the Duke of York
      tell to-night, how letters are come that fifteen are condemned for the
      late plot by the judges at York; and, among others, Captain Oates, against
      whom it was proved that he drew his sword at his going out, and flinging
      away the scabbard, said that he would either return victor or be hanged.
      So home, where I found the house full of the washing and my wife mighty
      angry about Will's being here to-day talking with her mayds, which she
      overheard, idling of their time, and he telling what a good mayd my old
      Jane was, and that she would never have her like again. At which I was
      angry, and after directing her to beat at least the little girl, I went to
      the office and there reproved Will, who told me that he went thither by my
      wife's order, she having commanded him to come thither on Monday morning.
      Now God forgive me! how apt I am to be jealous of her as to this fellow,
      and that she must needs take this time, when she knows I must be gone out
      to the Duke, though methinks had she that mind she would never think it
      discretion to tell me this story of him, to let me know that he was there,
      much less to make me offended with him, to forbid him coming again. But
      this cursed humour I cannot cool in myself by all the reason I have, which
      God forgive me for, and convince me of the folly of it, and the disquiet
      it brings me. So home, where, God be thanked, when I came to speak to my
      wife my trouble of mind soon vanished, and to bed. The house foul with the
      washing and quite out of order against to-morrow's dinner.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon to
      the 'Change awhile, and so home, getting things against dinner ready, and
      anon comes my uncle Wight and my aunt, with their cozens Mary and Robert,
      and by chance my uncle Thomas Pepys. We had a good dinner, the chief dish
      a swan roasted, and that excellent meate. At, dinner and all day very
      merry. After dinner to cards, where till evening, then to the office a
      little, and to cards again with them, and lost half-a-crowne. They being
      gone, my wife did tell me how my uncle did this day accost her alone, and
      spoke of his hoping she was with child, and kissing her earnestly told her
      he should be very glad of it, and from all circumstances methinks he do
      seem to have some intention of good to us, which I shall endeavour to
      continue more than ever I did yet. So to my office till late, and then
      home to bed, after being at prayers, which is the first time after my late
      vowe to say prayers in my family twice in every week.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up and to my office a little, and then abroad to many several places
      about business, among others to the geometrical instrument makers, and
      through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's and there fell
      into looking over Spanish books and pitched upon some, till I thought of
      my oathe when I was going to agree for them, and so with much ado got
      myself out of the shop glad at my heart and so away) to the African House
      to look upon their book of contracts for several commodities for my
      information in the prices we give in the Navy. So to the Coffee [house]
      where extraordinary good discourse of Dr. Whistler's' upon my question
      concerning the keeping of masts, he arguing against keeping them dry, by
      showing the nature of corruption in bodies and the several ways thereof.
      So to the 'Change, and thence with Sir W. Rider to the Trinity House to
      dinner, and then home and to my office till night, and then with Mr. Bland
      to Sir T. Viner's about pieces of eight for Sir J. Lawson, and so back to
      my office, and there late upon business, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon all of us,
      viz., Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Batten at one end, and Mr. Coventry, Sir
      J. Minnes and I (in the middle at the other end, being taught how to sit
      there all three by my sitting so much the backwarder) at the other end, to
      Sir G. Carteret's, and there dined well. Here I saw Mr. Scott, the bastard
      that married his youngest daughter. Much pleasant talk at table, and then
      up and to the office, where we sat long upon our design of dividing the
      Controller's work into some of the rest of our hands for the better doing
      of it, but he would not yield to it, though the simple man knows in his
      heart that he do not do one part of it. So he taking upon him to do it all
      we rose, I vexed at the heart to see the King's service run after this
      manner, but it cannot be helped. Thence to the Old James to the reference
      about Mr. Bland's business. Sir W. Rider being now added to us, and I
      believe we shall soon come to some determination in it. So home and to my
      office, did business, and then up to Sir W. Pen and did express my trouble
      about this day's business, he not being there, and plainly told him what I
      thought of it, and though I know him a false fellow yet I adventured, as I
      have done often, to tell him clearly my opinion of Sir W. Batten and his
      design in this business, which is very bad. Hence home, and after a
      lecture to my wife in her globes, to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and among other things
      Mr. Turner with me, and I did tell him my mind about the Controller his
      master and all the office, and my mind touching himself too, as he did
      carry himself either well or ill to me and my clerks, which I doubt not
      but it will operate well. Thence to the 'Change, and there met my uncle
      Wight, who was very kind to me, and would have had me home with him, and
      so kind that I begin to wonder and think something of it of good to me.
      Thence home to dinner, and after dinner with Mr. Hater by water, and
      walked thither and back again from Deptford, where I did do something
      checking the iron business, but my chief business was my discourse with
      Mr. Hater about what had passed last night and to-day about the office
      business, and my resolution to do him all the good I can therein. So home,
      and my wife tells me that my uncle Wight hath been with her, and played at
      cards with her, and is mighty inquisitive to know whether she is with
      child or no, which makes me wonder what his meaning is, and after all my
      thoughts, I cannot think, unless it be in order to the making his will,
      that he might know how to do by me, and I would to God my wife had told
      him that she was.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and having paid some money in the morning to my uncle Thomas on
      his yearly annuity, to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon I
      to the 'Change about some pieces of eight for Sir J. Lawson. There I hear
      that Collonell Turner is found guilty of felony at the Sessions in Mr.
      Tryan's business, which will save his life. So home and met there J.
      Hasper come to see his kinswoman our Jane. I made much of him and made him
      dine with us, he talking after the old simple manner that he used to do.
      He being gone, I by water to Westminster Hall, and there did see Mrs.
      Lane..... So by coach home and to my office, where Browne of the Minerys
      brought me an Instrument made of a Spyral line very pretty for all
      questions in Arithmetique almost, but it must be some use that must make
      me perfect in it. So home to supper and to bed, with my mind 'un peu
      troubled pour ce que fait' to-day, but I hope it will be 'la dernier de
      toute ma vie.'
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). Up, and I and my wife to church, where Pembleton
      appeared, which, God forgive me, did vex me, but I made nothing of it. So
      home to dinner, and betimes my wife and I to the French church and there
      heard a good sermon, the first time my wife and I were there ever
      together. We sat by three sisters, all pretty women. It was pleasant to
      hear the reader give notice to them, that the children to be catechized
      next Sunday were them of Hounsditch and Blanche Chapiton. Thence home, and
      there found Ashwell come to see my wife (we having called at her lodging
      the other, day to speak with her about dressing my wife when my Lord
      Sandwich dines here), and is as merry as ever, and speaks as disconcerned
      for any difference between us on her going away as ever. She being gone,
      my wife and I to see Sir W. Pen and there supped with him much against my
      stomach, for the dishes were so deadly foule that I could not endure to
      look upon them. So after supper home to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, being troubled to find my wife so ready to have me go out of
      doors. God forgive me for my jealousy! but I cannot forbear, though God
      knows I have no reason to do so, or to expect her being so true to me as I
      would have her. I abroad to White Hall, where the Court all in mourning
      for the Duchesse of Savoy. We did our business with the Duke, and so I to
      W. Howe at my Lord's lodgings, not seeing my Lord, he being abroad, and
      there I advised with W. Howe about my having my Lord to dinner at my
      house, who likes it well, though it troubles me that I should come to need
      the advice of such a boy, but for the present it is necessary. Here I
      found Mr. Mallard, and had from him a common tune set by my desire to the
      Lyra Vyall, which goes most admirably. Thence home by coach to the
      'Change, after having been at the Coffee-house, where I hear Turner is
      found guilty of felony and burglary; and strange stories of his confidence
      at the barr, but yet great indiscretion in his argueing. All desirous of
      his being hanged. So home and found that Will had been with my wife. But,
      Lord! why should I think any evil of that; and yet I cannot forbear it.
      But upon enquiry, though I found no reason of doubtfulness, yet I could
      not bring my nature to any quiet or content in my wife all day and night,
      nor though I went with her to divert myself at my uncle Wight's, and there
      we played at cards till 12 at night and went home in a great shower of
      rain, it having not rained a great while before. Here was one Mr. Benson,
      a Dutchman, played and supped with us, that pretends to sing well, and I
      expected great matters but found nothing to be pleased with at all. So
      home and to bed, yet troubled in my mind.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, without any kindness to my wife, and so to the office, where we
      sat all the morning, and at noon I to the 'Change, and thence to Mr.
      Cutler's with Sir W. Rider to dinner, and after dinner with him to the Old
      James upon our reference of Mr. Bland's, and, having sat there upon the
      business half an hour, broke up, and I home and there found Madame Turner
      and her sister Dike come to see us, and staid chatting till night, and so
      away, and I to my office till very late, and my eyes began to fail me, and
      be in pain which I never felt to now-a-days, which I impute to sitting up
      late writing and reading by candle-light. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, and after long staying till
      his coming down (he not sending for me up, but it may be he did not know I
      was there), he came down, and I walked with him to the Tennis Court, and
      there left him, seeing the King play. At his lodgings this morning there
      came to him Mr. W. Montague's fine lady, which occasioned my Lord's
      calling me to her about some business for a friend of hers preferred to be
      a midshipman at sea. My Lord recommended the whole matter to me. She is a
      fine confident lady, I think, but not so pretty as I once thought her. My
      Lord did also seal a lease for the house he is now taking in Lincoln's Inn
      Fields, which stands him in 250 per annum rent. Thence by water to my
      brother's, whom I find not well in bed, sicke, they think, of a
      consumption, and I fear he is not well, but do not complain, nor desire to
      take anything. From him I visited Mr. Honiwood, who is lame, and to thank
      him for his visit to me the other day, but we were both abroad. So to Mr.
      Commander's in Warwicke Lane, to speak to him about drawing up my will,
      which he will meet me about in a day or two. So to the 'Change and walked
      home, thence with Sir Richard Ford, who told me that Turner is to be
      hanged to-morrow, and with what impudence he hath carried out his trial;
      but that last night, when he brought him newes of his death, he began to
      be sober and shed some tears, and he hopes will die a penitent; he having
      already confessed all the thing, but says it was partly done for a joke,
      and partly to get an occasion of obliging the old man by his care in
      getting him his things again, he having some hopes of being the better by
      him in his estate at his death. Home to dinner, and after dinner my wife
      and I by water, which we have not done together many a day, that is not
      since last summer, but the weather is now very warm, and left her at Axe
      Yard, and I to White Hall, and meeting Mr. Pierce walked with him an hour
      in the Matted Gallery; among other things he tells me that my Lady
      Castlemaine is not at all set by by the King, but that he do doat upon
      Mrs. Stewart only; and that to the leaving of all business in the world,
      and to the open slighting of the Queene; that he values not who sees him
      or stands by him while he dallies with her openly; and then privately in
      her chamber below, where the very sentrys observe his going in and out;
      and that so commonly, that the Duke or any of the nobles, when they would
      ask where the King is, they will ordinarily say, "Is the King above, or
      below?" meaning with Mrs. Stewart: that the King do not openly disown my
      Lady Castlemaine, but that she comes to Court; but that my Lord
      FitzHarding and the Hambletons,
    </p>
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     [The three brothers, George Hamilton, James Hamilton, and the Count
     Antoine Hamilton, author of the "Memoires de Grammont."]
</pre>
    <p>
      and sometimes my Lord Sandwich, they say, have their snaps at her. But he
      says my Lord Sandwich will lead her from her lodgings in the darkest and
      obscurest manner, and leave her at the entrance into the Queene's
      lodgings, that he might be the least observed; that the Duke of Monmouth
      the King do still doat on beyond measure, insomuch that the King only, the
      Duke of York, and Prince Rupert, and the Duke of Monmouth, do now wear
      deep mourning, that is, long cloaks, for the Duchesse of Savoy; so that he
      mourns as a Prince of the Blood, while the Duke of York do no more, and
      all the nobles of the land not so much; which gives great offence, and he
      says the Duke of York do consider. But that the Duke of York do give
      himself up to business, and is like to prove a noble Prince; and so indeed
      I do from my heart think he will. He says that it is believed, as well as
      hoped, that care is taken to lay up a hidden treasure of money by the King
      against a bad day, pray God it be so! but I should be more glad that the
      King himself would look after business, which it seems he do not in the
      least. By and by came by Mr. Coventry, and so we broke off; and he and I
      took a turn or two and so parted, and then my Lord Sandwich came upon me,
      to speak with whom my business of coming again to-night to this ende of
      the town chiefly was, in order to the seeing in what manner he received
      me, in order to my inviting him to dinner to my house, but as well in the
      morning as now, though I did wait upon him home and there offered occasion
      of talk with him, yet he treated me, though with respect, yet as a
      stranger, without any of the intimacy or friendship which he used to do,
      and which I fear he will never, through his consciousness of his faults,
      ever do again. Which I must confess do trouble me above anything in the
      world almost, though I neither do need at present nor fear to need to be
      so troubled, nay, and more, though I do not think that he would deny me
      any friendship now if I did need it, but only that he has not the face to
      be free with me, but do look upon me as a remembrancer of his former
      vanity, and an espy upon his present practices, for I perceive that
      Pickering to-day is great with him again, and that he has done a great
      courtesy for Mr. Pierce, the chirurgeon, to a good value, though both
      these and none but these did I mention by name to my Lord in the business
      which has caused all this difference between my Lord and me. However, I am
      resolved to forbear my laying out my money upon a dinner till I see him in
      a better posture, and by grave and humble, though high deportment, to make
      him think I do not want him, and that will make him the readier to admit
      me to his friendship again, I believe the soonest of anything but
      downright impudence, and thrusting myself, as others do, upon him, which
      yet I cannot do, not [nor] will not endeavour. So home, calling with my
      wife to see my brother again, who was up, and walks up and down the house
      pretty well, but I do think he is in a consumption. Home, troubled in mind
      for these passages with my Lord, but am resolved to better my case in my
      business to make my stand upon my owne legs the better and to lay up as
      well as to get money, and among other ways I will have a good fleece out
      of Creed's coat ere it be long, or I will have a fall. So to my office and
      did some business, and then home to supper and to bed, after I had by
      candlelight shaved myself and cut off all my beard clear, which will make
      my worke a great deal the less in shaving.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and after sending my wife to my aunt Wight's to get a place to
      see Turner hanged, I to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at
      noon going to the 'Change; and seeing people flock in the City, I
      enquired, and found that Turner was not yet hanged. And so I went among
      them to Leadenhall Street, at the end of Lyme Street, near where the
      robbery was done; and to St. Mary Axe, where he lived. And there I got for
      a shilling to stand upon the wheel of a cart, in great pain, above an
      houre before the execution was done; he delaying the time by long
      discourses and prayers one after another, in hopes of a reprieve; but none
      came, and at last was flung off the ladder in his cloake. A comely-looked
      man he was, and kept his countenance to the end: I was sorry to see him.
      It was believed there were at least 12 or 14,000 people in the street. So
      I home all in a sweat, and dined by myself, and after dinner to the Old
      James, and there found Sir W. Rider and Mr. Cutler at dinner, and made a
      second dinner with them, and anon came Mr. Bland and Custos, and Clerke,
      and so we fell to the business of reference, and upon a letter from Mr.
      Povy to Sir W. Rider and I telling us that the King is concerned in it, we
      took occasion to fling off the business from off our shoulders and would
      have nothing to do with it, unless we had power from the King or
      Commissioners of Tangier, and I think it will be best for us to continue
      of that mind, and to have no hand, it being likely to go against the King.
      Thence to the Coffee-house, and heard the full of Turner's discourse on
      the cart, which was chiefly to clear himself of all things laid to his
      charge but this fault, for which he now suffers, which he confesses. He
      deplored the condition of his family, but his chief design was to lengthen
      time, believing still a reprieve would come, though the sheriff advised
      him to expect no such thing, for the King was resolved to grant none.
      After that I had good discourse with a pretty young merchant with mighty
      content. So to my office and did a little business, and then to my aunt
      Wight's to fetch my wife home, where Dr. Burnett did tell me how poorly
      the sheriffs did endeavour to get one jewell returned by Turner, after he
      was convicted, as a due to them, and not to give it to Mr. Tryan, the true
      owner, but ruled against them, to their great dishonour. Though they plead
      it might be another jewell for ought they know and not Tryan's. After
      supper home, and my wife tells me mighty stories of my uncle's fond and
      kind discourses to her to-day, which makes me confident that he has
      thoughts of kindness for us, he repeating his desire for her to be with
      child, for it cannot enter into my head that he should have any unworthy
      thoughts concerning her. After doing some business at my office, I home to
      supper, prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and it being a brave morning, with a gaily to Woolwich, and
      there both at the Ropeyarde and the other yarde did much business, and
      thence to Greenwich to see Mr. Pett and others value the carved work of
      the "Henrietta" (God knows in an ill manner for the King), and so to
      Deptford, and there viewed Sir W. Petty's vessel; which hath an odd
      appearance, but not such as people do make of it, for I am of the opinion
      that he would never have discoursed so much of it, if it were not better
      than other vessels, and so I believe that he was abused the other day, as
      he is now, by tongues that I am sure speak before they know anything good
      or bad of her. I am sorry to find his ingenuity discouraged so. So home,
      reading all the way a good book, and so home to dinner, and after dinner a
      lesson on the globes to my wife, and so to my office till 10 or 11 o'clock
      at night, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, where Mr. Hawly came to see us and dined with us, and after we had
      dined came Mr. Mallard, and after he had eat something, I brought down my
      vyall which he played on, the first maister that ever touched her yet, and
      she proves very well and will be, I think, an admirable instrument. He
      played some very fine things of his owne, but I was afeard to enter too
      far in their commendation for fear he should offer to copy them for me
      out, and so I be forced to give or lend him something. So to the office in
      the evening, whither Mr. Commander came to me, and we discoursed about my
      will, which I am resolved to perfect the next week by the grace of God. He
      being gone, I to write letters and other business late, and so home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and then up, and being desirous to
      perform my vowes that I lately made, among others, to be performed this
      month, I did go to my office, and there fell on entering, out of a
      bye-book, part of my second journall-book, which hath lain these two years
      and more unentered. Upon this work till dinner, and after dinner to it
      again till night, and then home to supper, and after supper to read a
      lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed. This
      evening also I drew up a rough draught of my last will to my mind.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up and by coach to Whitehall to my Lord's lodgings, and seeing that
      knowing that I was in the house, my Lord did not nevertheless send for me
      up, I did go to the Duke's lodgings, and there staid while he was making
      ready, in which time my Lord Sandwich came, and so all into his closet and
      did our common business, and so broke up, and I homeward by coach with Sir
      W. Batten, and staid at Warwicke Lane and there called upon Mr. Commander
      and did give him my last will and testament to write over in form, and so
      to the 'Change, where I did several businesses. So home to dinner, and
      after I had dined Luellin came and we set him something to eat, and I left
      him there with my wife, and to the office upon a particular meeting of the
      East India Company, where I think I did the King good service against the
      Company in the business of their sending our ships home empty from the
      Indies contrary to their contract, and yet, God forgive me! I found that I
      could be willing to receive a bribe if it were offered me to conceal my
      arguments that I found against them, in consideration that none of my
      fellow officers, whose duty it is more than mine, had ever studied the
      case, or at this hour do understand it, and myself alone must do it. That
      being done Mr. Povy and Bland came to speak with me about their business
      of the reference, wherein I shall have some more trouble, but cannot help
      it, besides I hope to make some good use of Mr. Povy to my advantage. So
      home after business done at my office, to supper, and then to the globes
      with my wife, and so to bed. Troubled a little in mind that my Lord
      Sandwich should continue this strangeness to me that methinks he shows me
      now a days more than while the thing was fresh.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon to the
      'Change, after being at the Coffee-house, where I sat by Tom Killigrew,
      who told us of a fire last night in my Lady Castlemaine's lodging, where
      she bid L40 for one to adventure the fetching of a cabinet out, which at
      last was got to be done; and the fire at last quenched without doing much
      wrong. To 'Change and there did much business, so home to dinner, and then
      to the office all the afternoon. And so at night my aunt Wight and Mrs.
      Buggin came to sit with my wife, and I in to them all the evening, my
      uncle coming afterward, and after him Mr. Benson the Dutchman, a frank,
      merry man. We were very merry and played at cards till late and so broke
      up and to bed in good hopes that this my friendship with my uncle and aunt
      will end well.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up and to the office, and at noon to the Coffeehouse, where I sat
      with Sir G. Ascue
    </p>
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     [Sir George Ayscue or Askew.  After his return from his imprisonment
     he declined to go to sea again, although he was twice afterwards
     formally appointed.  He sat on the court-martial on the loss of the
     "Defiance" in 1668.]
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    <p>
      and Sir William Petty, who in discourse is, methinks, one of the most
      rational men that ever I heard speak with a tongue, having all his notions
      the most distinct and clear, and, among other things (saying, that in all
      his life these three books were the most esteemed and generally cried up
      for wit in the world "Religio Medici," "Osborne's Advice to a Son,"
    </p>
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     [Francis Osborne, an English writer of considerable abilities and
     popularity, was the author of "Advice to a Son," in two parts,
     Oxford, 1656-8, 8vo.  He died in 1659.  He is the same person
     mentioned as "My Father Osborne," October 19th, 1661.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and "Hudibras "), did say that in these&mdash;in the two first principally&mdash;the
      wit lies, and confirming some pretty sayings, which are generally like
      paradoxes, by some argument smartly and pleasantly urged, which takes with
      people who do not trouble themselves to examine the force of an argument,
      which pleases them in the delivery, upon a subject which they like;
      whereas, as by many particular instances of mine, and others, out of
      Osborne, he did really find fault and weaken the strength of many of
      Osborne's arguments, so as that in downright disputation they would not
      bear weight; at least, so far, but that they might be weakened, and better
      found in their rooms to confirm what is there said. He shewed finely
      whence it happens that good writers are not admired by the present age;
      because there are but few in any age that do mind anything that is
      abstruse and curious; and so longer before any body do put the true
      praise, and set it on foot in the world, the generality of mankind
      pleasing themselves in the easy delights of the world, as eating,
      drinking, dancing, hunting, fencing, which we see the meanest men do the
      best, those that profess it. A gentleman never dances so well as the
      dancing master, and an ordinary fiddler makes better musique for a
      shilling than a gentleman will do after spending forty, and so in all the
      delights of the world almost. Thence to the 'Change, and after doing much
      business, home, taking Commissioner Pett with me, and all alone dined
      together. He told me many stories of the yard, but I do know him so well,
      and had his character given me this morning by Hempson, as well as my own
      too of him before, that I shall know how to value any thing he says either
      of friendship or other business. He was mighty serious with me in
      discourse about the consequence of Sir W. Petty's boat, as the most
      dangerous thing in the world, if it should be practised by endangering our
      losse of the command of the seas and our trade, while the Turkes and
      others shall get the use of them, which, without doubt, by bearing more
      sayle will go faster than any other ships, and, not being of burden, our
      merchants cannot have the use of them and so will be at the mercy of their
      enemies. So that I perceive he is afeard that the honour of his trade will
      down, though (which is a truth) he pretends this consideration to hinder
      the growth of this invention. He being gone my wife and I took coach and
      to Covent Garden, to buy a maske at the French House, Madame Charett's,
      for my wife; in the way observing the streete full of coaches at the new
      play, "The Indian Queene;" which for show, they say, exceeds "Henry the
      Eighth." Thence back to Mrs. Turner's and sat a while with them talking of
      plays and I know not what, and so called to see Tom, but not at home,
      though they say he is in a deep consumption, and Mrs. Turner and Dike and
      they say he will not live two months to an end. So home and to the office,
      and then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up and to the office, where all the morning sitting, and at noon
      upon several things to the 'Change, and thence to Sir G. Carteret's to
      dinner of my own accord, and after dinner with Mr. Wayth down to Deptford
      doing several businesses, and by land back again, it being very cold, the
      boat meeting me after my staying a while for him at an alehouse by
      Redriffe stairs. So home, and took Will coming out of my doors, at which I
      was a little moved, and told my wife of her keeping him from the office
      (though God knows my base jealous head was the cause of it), which she
      seemed troubled at, and that it was only to discourse with her about
      finding a place for her brother. So I to my office late, Mr. Commander
      coming to read over my will in order to the engrossing it, and so he being
      gone I to other business, among others chiefly upon preparing matters
      against Creed for my profit, and so home to supper and bed, being mightily
      troubled with my left eye all this evening from some dirt that is got into
      it.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and after shaving myself (wherein twice now, one after another,
      I have cut myself much, but I think it is from the bluntness of the razor)
      there came Mr. Deane to me and staid with me a while talking about masts,
      wherein he prepared me in several things against Mr. Wood, and also about
      Sir W. Petty's boat, which he says must needs prove a folly, though I do
      not think so unless it be that the King will not have it encouraged. At
      noon, by appointment, comes Mr. Hartlibb and his wife, and a little before
      them Messrs. Langley and Bostocke (old acquaintances of mine at
      Westminster, clerks), and after shewing them my house and drinking they
      set out by water, my wife and I with them down to Wapping on board the
      "Crowne," a merchantman, Captain Floyd, a civil person. Here was
      Vice-Admiral Goodson, whom the more I know the more I value for a serious
      man and staunch. Here was Whistler the flagmaker, which vexed me, but it
      mattered not. Here was other sorry company and the discourse poor, so that
      we had no pleasure there at all, but only to see and bless God to find the
      difference that is now between our condition and that heretofore, when we
      were not only much below Hartlibb in all respects, but even these two
      fellows above named, of whom I am now quite ashamed that ever my education
      should lead me to such low company, but it is God's goodness only, for
      which let him be praised. After dinner I. broke up and with my wife home,
      and thence to the Fleece in Cornhill, by appointment, to meet my Lord
      Marlborough, a serious and worthy gentleman, who, after doing our
      business, about the company, he and they began to talk of the state of the
      Dutch in India, which is like to be in a little time without any controll;
      for we are lost there, and the Portuguese as bad. Thence to the
      Coffee-house, where good discourse, specially of Lt.-Coll. Baron touching
      the manners of the Turkes' Government, among whom he lived long. So to my
      uncle Wight's, where late playing at cards, and so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and a sorry sermon of a young fellow I knew at Cambridge; but
      the day kept solemnly for the King's murder, and all day within doors
      making up my Brampton papers, and in the evening Mr. Commander came and we
      made perfect and signed and sealed my last will and testament, which is so
      to my mind, and I hope to the liking of God Almighty, that I take great
      joy in myself that it is done, and by that means my mind in a good
      condition of quiett. At night to supper and to bed. This evening, being in
      a humour of making all things even and clear in the world, I tore some old
      papers; among others, a romance which (under the title of "Love a Cheate
      ") I begun ten years ago at Cambridge; and at this time reading it over
      to-night I liked it very well, and wondered a little at myself at my vein
      at that time when I wrote it, doubting that I cannot do so well now if I
      would try.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st (Lord's day). Up, and in my chamber all day long (but a little at
      dinner) settling all my Brampton accounts to this day in very good order,
      I having obliged myself by oathe to do that and some other things within
      this month, and did also perfectly prepare a state of my estate and
      annexed it to my last will and testament, which now is perfect, and,
      lastly, I did make up my monthly accounts, and find that I have gained
      above L50 this month clear, and so am worth L858 clear, which is the
      greatest sum I ever yet was master of, and also read over my usual vowes,
      as I do every Lord's day, but with greater seriousness than ordinary, and
      I do hope that every day I shall see more and more the pleasure of looking
      after my business and laying up of money, and blessed be God for what I
      have already been enabled by his grace to do. So to supper and to bed with
      my mind in mighty great ease and content, but my head very full of
      thoughts and business to dispatch this next month also, and among others
      to provide for answering to the Exchequer for my uncle's being
      Generall-Receiver in the year 1647, which I am at present wholly unable to
      do, but I must find time to look over all his papers.
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      FEBRUARY 1663-1664
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    <p>
      February 1st. Up (my maids rising early this morning to washing), and
      being ready I found Mr. Strutt the purser below with 12 bottles of sacke,
      and tells me (which from Sir W. Batten I had heard before) how young Jack
      Davis has railed against Sir W. Batten for his endeavouring to turn him
      out of his place, at which for the fellow's sake, because it will likely
      prove his ruin, I am sorry, though I do believe he is a very arch rogue. I
      took Strutt by coach with me to White Hall, where I set him down, and I to
      my Lord's, but found him gone out betimes to the Wardrobe, which I am glad
      to see that he so attends his business, though it troubles me that my
      counsel to my prejudice must be the cause of it. They tell me that he goes
      into the country next week, and that the young ladies come up this week
      before the old lady. Here I hear how two men last night, justling for the
      wall about the New Exchange, did kill one another, each thrusting the
      other through; one of them of the King's Chappell, one Cave, and the other
      a retayner of my Lord Generall Middleton's. Thence to White Hall; where,
      in the Duke's chamber, the King came and stayed an hour or two laughing at
      Sir W. Petty, who was there about his boat; and at Gresham College in
      general; at which poor Petty was, I perceive, at some loss; but did argue
      discreetly, and bear the unreasonable follies of the King's objections and
      other bystanders with great discretion; and offered to take oddes against
      the King's best boates; but the King would not lay, but cried him down
      with words only. Gresham College he mightily laughed at, for spending time
      only in weighing of ayre, and doing nothing else since they sat. Thence to
      Westminster Hall, and there met with diverse people, it being terme time.
      Among others I spoke with Mrs. Lane, of whom I doubted to hear something
      of the effects of our last meeting about a fortnight or three weeks ago,
      but to my content did not. Here I met with Mr. Pierce, who tells me of
      several passages at Court, among others how the King, coming the other day
      to his Theatre to see "The Indian Queene" (which he commends for a very
      fine thing), my Lady Castlemaine was in the next box before he came; and
      leaning over other ladies awhile to whisper to the King, she rose out of
      the box and went into the King's, and set herself on the King's right
      hand, between the King and the Duke of York; which, he swears, put the
      King himself, as well as every body else, out of countenance; and believes
      that she did it only to show the world that she is not out of favour yet,
      as was believed. Thence with Alderman Maynell by his coach to the 'Change,
      and there with several people busy, and so home to dinner, and took my
      wife out immediately to the King's Theatre, it being a new month, and once
      a month I may go, and there saw "The Indian Queene" acted; which indeed is
      a most pleasant show, and beyond my expectation; the play good, but
      spoiled with the ryme, which breaks the sense. But above my expectation
      most, the eldest Marshall did do her part most excellently well as I ever
      heard woman in my life; but her voice not so sweet as Ianthe's; but,
      however, we came home mightily contented. Here we met Mr. Pickering and
      his mistress, Mrs. Doll Wilde; he tells me that the business runs high
      between the Chancellor and my Lord Bristoll against the Parliament; and
      that my Lord Lauderdale and Cooper open high against the Chancellor; which
      I am sorry for. In my way home I 'light and to the Coffee-house, where I
      heard Lt. Coll. Baron tell very good stories of his travels over the high
      hills in Asia above the clouds, how clear the heaven is above them, how
      thicke like a mist the way is through the cloud that wets like a sponge
      one's clothes, the ground above the clouds all dry and parched, nothing in
      the world growing, it being only a dry earth, yet not so hot above as
      below the clouds. The stars at night most delicate bright and a fine clear
      blue sky, but cannot see the earth at any time through the clouds, but the
      clouds look like a world below you. Thence home and to supper, being
      hungry, and so to the office, did business, specially about Creed, for
      whom I am now pretty well fitted, and so home to bed. This day in
      Westminster Hall W. Bowyer told me that his father is dead lately, and
      died by being drowned in the river, coming over in the night; but he says
      he had not been drinking. He was taken with his stick in his hand and
      cloake over his shoulder, as ruddy as before he died. His horse was taken
      overnight in the water, hampered in the bridle, but they were so silly as
      not to look for his master till the next morning, that he was found
      drowned.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up and to the office, where, though Candlemas day, Mr. Coventry and
      Sir W. Pen and I all the morning, the others being at a survey at
      Deptford. At noon by coach to the 'Change with Mr. Coventry, thence to the
      Coffee-house with Captain Coeke, who discoursed well of the good effects
      in some kind of a Dutch warr and conquest (which I did not consider
      before, but the contrary) that is, that the trade of the world is too
      little for us two, therefore one must down: 2ndly, that though our
      merchants will not be the better husbands by all this, yet our wool will
      bear a better price by vaunting of our cloths, and by that our tenants
      will be better able to pay rents, and our lands will be more worth, and
      all our owne manufactures, which now the Dutch outvie us in; that he
      thinks the Dutch are not in so good a condition as heretofore because of
      want of men always, and now from the warrs against the Turke more than
      ever. Then to the 'Change again, and thence off to the Sun Taverne with
      Sir W. Warren, and with him discoursed long, and had good advice, and
      hints from him, and among other things he did give me a payre of gloves
      for my wife wrapt up in paper, which I would not open, feeling it hard;
      but did tell him that my wife should thank him, and so went on in
      discourse. When I came home, Lord! in what pain I was to get my wife out
      of the room without bidding her go, that I might see what these gloves
      were; and, by and by, she being gone, it proves a payre of white gloves
      for her and forty pieces in good gold, which did so cheer my heart, that I
      could eat no victuals almost for dinner for joy to think how God do bless
      us every day more and more, and more yet I hope he will upon the increase
      of my duty and endeavours. I was at great losse what to do, whether tell
      my wife of it or no, which I could hardly forbear, but yet I did and will
      think of it first before I do, for fear of making her think me to be in a
      better condition, or in a better way of getting money, than yet I am.
      After dinner to the office, where doing infinite of business till past to
      at night to the comfort of my mind, and so home with joy to supper and to
      bed. This evening Mr. Hempson came and told me how Sir W, Batten his
      master will not hear of continuing him in his employment as Clerk of the
      Survey at Chatham, from whence of a sudden he has removed him without any
      new or extraordinary cause, and I believe (as he himself do in part write,
      and J. Norman do confess) for nothing but for that he was twice with me
      the other day and did not wait upon him. So much he fears me and all that
      have to do with me. Of this more in the Mem. Book of my office upon this
      day, there I shall find it.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and after a long discourse with my cozen Thomas Pepys, the
      executor, I with my wife by coach to Holborn, where I 'light, and she to
      her father's, I to the Temple and several places, and so to the 'Change,
      where much business, and then home to dinner alone; and so to the Mitre
      Taverne by appointment (and there met by chance with W. Howe come to buy
      wine for my Lord against his going down to Hinchingbroke, and I private
      with him a great while discoursing of my Lord's strangeness to me; but he
      answers that I have no reason to think any such thing, but that my Lord is
      only in general a more reserved man than he was before) to meet Sir W.
      Rider and Mr. Clerke, and there after much ado made an end, giving Mr.
      Custos L202 against Mr. Bland, which I endeavoured to bring down but could
      not, and think it is well enough ended for Mr. Bland for all that. Thence
      by coach to fetch my wife from her brother's, and found her gone home.
      Called at Sir Robert Bernard's about surrendering my estate in reversion
      to the use of my life, which will be done, and at Roger Pepys, who was
      gone to bed in pain of a boyle that he could not sit or stand. So home,
      where my wife is full of sad stories of her good-natured father and
      roguish brother, who is going for Holland and his wife, to be a soldier.
      And so after a little at the office to bed. This night late coming in my
      coach, coming up Ludgate Hill, I saw two gallants and their footmen taking
      a pretty wench, which I have much eyed, lately set up shop upon the hill,
      a seller of riband and gloves. They seek to drag her by some force, but
      the wench went, and I believe had her turn served, but, God forgive me!
      what thoughts and wishes I had of being in their place. In Covent Garden
      to-night, going to fetch home my wife, I stopped at the great
      Coffee-house' there, where I never was before; where Dryden the poet (I
      knew at Cambridge), and all the wits of the town, and Harris the player,
      and Mr. Hoole of our College. And had I had time then, or could at ether
      times, it will be good coming thither, for there, I perceive, is very
      witty and pleasant discourse. But I could not tarry, and as it was late,
      they were all ready to go away.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up and to the office, where after a while sitting, I left the board
      upon pretence of serious business, and by coach to Paul's School, where I
      heard some good speeches of the boys that were to be elected this year.
      Thence by and by with Mr. Pullen and Barnes (a great Non-Conformist) with
      several others of my old acquaintance to the Nag's Head Taverne, and there
      did give them a bottle of sacke, and away again and I to the School, and
      up to hear the upper form examined; and there was kept by very many of the
      Mercers, Clutterbucke, a Barker, Harrington, and others; and with great
      respect used by them all, and had a noble dinner. Here they tell me, that
      in Dr. Colett's will he says that he would have a Master found for the
      School that hath good skill in Latin, and (if it could be) one that had
      some knowledge of the Greeke; so little was Greeke known here at that
      time. Dr. Wilkins and one Mr. Smallwood, Posers. After great pleasure
      there, and specially to Mr. Crumlum, so often to tell of my being a
      benefactor to the School, I to my bookseller's and there spent an hour
      looking over Theatrum Urbium and Flandria illustrata, with excellent cuts,
      with great content. So homeward, and called at my little milliner's, where
      I chatted with her, her husband out of the way, and a mad merry slut she
      is. So home to the office, and by and by comes my wife home from the
      burial of Captain Grove's wife at Wapping (she telling me a story how her
      mayd Jane going into the boat did fall down and show her arse in the
      boat), and alone comes my uncle Wight and Mr. Maes with the state of their
      case, which he told me very discreetly, and I believe is a very hard one,
      and so after drinking a bottle of ale or two they gone, and I a little
      more to the office, and so home to prayers and to bed. This evening I made
      an end of my letter to Creed about his pieces of eight, and sent it away
      to him. I pray God give good end to it to bring me some money, and that
      duly as from him.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and down by water, a brave morning, to Woolwich, and there spent
      an houre or two to good purpose, and so walked to Greenwich and thence to
      Deptford, where I found (with Sir W. Batten upon a survey) Sir J. Minnes,
      Sir W. Pen, and my Lady Batten come down and going to dinner. I dined with
      them, and so after dinner by water home, all the way going and coming
      reading "Faber Fortunae," which I can never read too often. At home a
      while with my wife, and so to my office, where till 8 o'clock, and then
      home to look over some Brampton papers, and my uncle's accounts as
      Generall-Receiver of the County for 1647 of our monthly assessment, which,
      contrary to my expectation, I found in such good order and so, thoroughly
      that I did not expect, nor could have thought, and that being done, having
      seen discharges for every farthing of money he received, I went to bed
      late with great quiett.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and so at noon
      to the 'Change, where I met Mr. Coventry, the first time I ever saw him
      there, and after a little talke with him and other merchants, I up and
      down about several businesses, and so home, whither came one Father
      Fogourdy, an Irish priest, of my wife's and her mother's acquaintance in
      France, a sober, discreet person, but one that I would not have converse
      with my wife for fear of meddling with her religion, but I like the man
      well. Thence with my wife abroad, and left her at Tom's, while I abroad
      about several businesses and so back to her, myself being vexed to find at
      my first coming Tom abroad, and all his books, papers, and bills loose
      upon the open table in the parlour, and he abroad, which I ranted at him
      for when he came in. Then by coach home, calling at my cozen Scott's, who
      (she) lies dying, they say, upon a miscarriage. My wife could not be
      admitted to see her, nor anybody. At home to the office late writing
      letters, and then home to supper and to bed. Father Fogourdy confirms to
      me the newes that for certain there is peace between the Pope and King of
      France.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). Up and to church, and thence home, my wife being ill ...
      kept her bed all day, and I up and dined by her bedside, and then all the
      afternoon till late at night writing some letters of business to my father
      stating of matters to him in general of great import, and other letters to
      ease my mind in the week days that I have not time to think of, and so up
      to my wife, and with great mirth read Sir W. Davenant's two speeches in
      dispraise of London and Paris, by way of reproach one to another, and so
      to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and by coach called upon Mr. Phillips, and after a little talk
      with him away to my Lord Sandwich's, but he being gone abroad, I staid a
      little and talked with Mr. Howe, and so to Westminster in term time, and
      there met Mr. Pierce, who told me largely how the King still do doat upon
      his women, even beyond all shame; and that the good Queen will of herself
      stop before she goes sometimes into her dressing-room, till she knows
      whether the King be there, for fear he should be, as she hath sometimes
      taken him, with Mrs. Stewart; and that some of the best parts of the
      Queen's joynture are, contrary to faith, and against the opinion of my
      Lord Treasurer and his Council, bestowed or rented, I know not how, to my
      Lord Fitz-Harding and Mrs. Stewart, and others of that crew that the King
      do doat infinitely upon the Duke of Monmouth, apparently as one that he
      intends to have succeed him. God knows what will be the end of it! After
      he was gone I went and talked with Mrs. Lane about persuading her to
      Hawly, and think she will come on, which I wish were done, and so to Mr.
      Howlett and his wife, and talked about the same, and they are mightily for
      it, and I bid them promote it, for I think it will be for both their goods
      and my content. But I was much pleased to look upon their pretty daughter,
      which is grown a pretty mayd, and will make a fine modest woman. Thence to
      the 'Change by coach, and after some business done, home to dinner, and
      thence to Guildhall, thinking to have heard some pleading, but there were
      no Courts, and so to Cade's, the stationer, and there did look upon some
      pictures which he promised to give me the buying of, but I found he would
      have played the Jacke with me, but at last he did proffer me what I
      expected, and I have laid aside L10 or L12 worth, and will think of it,
      but I am loth to lay out so much money upon them. So home a little vexed
      in my mind to think how to-day I was forced to compliment W. Howe and
      admit myself to an equality with Mr. Moore, which is come to challenge in
      his discourse with me, but I will admit it no more, but let me stand or
      fall, I will show myself as strange to them as my Lord do himself to me.
      After at the office till 9 o'clock, I home in fear of some pain by taking
      cold, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and to the office, where sat all the morning. At noon by coach
      with Mr. Coventry to the 'Change, where busy with several people. Great
      talke of the Dutch proclaiming themselves in India, Lords of the Southern
      Seas, and deny traffick there to all ships but their owne, upon pain of
      confiscation; which makes our merchants mad. Great doubt of two ships of
      ours, the "Greyhound" and another, very rich, coming from the Streights,
      for fear of the Turkes. Matters are made up between the Pope and the King
      of France; so that now all the doubt is, what the French will do with
      their armies. Thence home, and there found Captain Grove in mourning for
      his wife, and Hawly, and they dined with me. After dinner, and Grove gone,
      Hawly and I talked of his mistress, Mrs. Lane, and I seriously advising
      him and inquiring his condition, and do believe that I shall bring them
      together. By and by comes Mr. Moore, with whom much good discourse of my
      Lord, and among other things told me that my Lord is mightily altered,
      that is, grown very high and stately, and do not admit of any to come into
      his chamber to him, as heretofore, and that I must not think much of his
      strangeness to me, for it was the same he do to every body, and that he
      would not have me be solicitous in the matter, but keep off and give him
      now and then a visit and no more, for he says he himself do not go to him
      now a days but when he sends for him, nor then do not stay for him if he
      be not there at the hour appointed, for, says he, I do find that I can
      stand upon my own legs and I will not by any over submission make myself
      cheap to any body and contemptible, which was the doctrine of the world
      that I lacked most, and shall follow it. I discoursed with him about my
      money that my Lord hath, and the L1000 that I stand bound with him in, to
      my cozen Thomas Pepys, in both which I will get myself at liberty as soon
      as I can; for I do not like his being angry and in debt both together to
      me; and besides, I do not perceive he looks after paying his debts, but
      runs farther and farther in. He being gone, my wife and I did walk an
      houre or two above in our chamber, seriously talking of businesses. I told
      her my Lord owed me L700, and shewed her the bond, and how I intended to
      carry myself to my Lord. She and I did cast about how to get Captain Grove
      for my sister, in which we are mighty earnest at present, and I think it
      would be a good match, and will endeavour it. So to my office a while,
      then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and by coach to my Lord Sandwich, to his new house, a fine
      house, but deadly dear, in Lincoln's Inne Fields, where I found and spoke
      a little to him. He is high and strange still, but did ask me how my wife
      did, and at parting remembered him to his cozen, which I thought was
      pretty well, being willing to flatter myself that in time he will be well
      again. Thence home straight and busy all the forenoon, and at noon with
      Mr. Bland to Mr. Povy's, but he being at dinner and full of company we
      retreated and went into Fleet Street to a friend of his, and after a long
      stay, he telling me the long and most perplexed story of Coronell and
      Bushell's business of sugars, wherein Parke and Green and Mr. Bland and 40
      more have been so concerned about the King of Portugal's duties, wherein
      every party has laboured to cheat another, a most pleasant and profitable
      story to hear, and in the close made me understand Mr. Maes' business
      better than I did before. By and by dinner came, and after dinner and good
      discourse that and such as I was willing for improvement sake to hear, I
      went away too to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, where I took
      occasion to demand of Creed whether he had received my letter, and he told
      me yes, and that he would answer it, which makes me much wonder what he
      means to do with me, but I will be even with him before I have done, let
      him make as light of it as he will. Thence to the Temple, where my cozen
      Roger Pepys did show me a letter my Father wrote to him last Terme to shew
      me, proposing such things about Sturtlow and a portion for Pall, and I
      know not what, that vexes me to see him plotting how to put me to trouble
      and charge, and not thinking to pay our debts and legacys, but I will
      write him a letter will persuade him to be wiser. So home, and finding my
      wife abroad (after her coming home from being with my aunt Wight to-day to
      buy Lent provisions) gone with Will to my brother's, I followed them by
      coach, but found them not, for they were newly gone home from thence,
      which troubled me. I to Sir Robert Bernard's chamber, and there did
      surrender my reversion in Brampton lands to the use of my will, which I
      was glad to have done, my will being now good in all parts. Thence
      homewards, calling a little at the Coffee-house, where a little merry
      discourse, and so home, where I found my wife, who says she went to her
      father's to be satisfied about her brother, who I found at my house with
      her. He is going this next tide with his wife into Holland to seek his
      fortune. He had taken his leave of us this morning. I did give my wife
      10s. to give him, and a coat that I had by me, a close-bodied
      light-coloured cloth coat, with a gold edgeing in each seam, that was the
      lace of my wife's best pettycoat that she had when I married her. I staid
      not there, but to my office, where Stanes the glazier was with me till to
      at night making up his contract, and, poor man, I made him almost mad
      through a mistake of mine, but did afterwards reconcile all, for I would
      not have the man that labours to serve the King so cheap above others
      suffer too much. He gone I did a little business more, and so home to
      supper and to bed, being now pretty well again, the weather being warm. My
      pain do leave me without coming to any great excesse, but my cold that I
      had got I suppose was not very great, it being only the leaving of my
      wastecoat unbuttoned one morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, after much pleasant discourse with my wife, and to the office,
      where we sat all the morning, and did much business, and some much to my
      content by prevailing against Sir W. Batten for the King's profit. At noon
      home to dinner, my wife and I hand to fist to a very fine pig. This noon
      Mr. Falconer came and visited my wife, and brought her a present, a silver
      state-cup and cover, value about L3 or L4, for the courtesy I did him the
      other day. He did not stay dinner with me. I am almost sorry for this
      present, because I would have reserved him for a place to go in summer
      a-visiting at Woolwich with my wife.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and ready, did find below Mr. Creed's boy with a letter from his
      master for me. So I fell to reading it, and it is by way of stating the
      case between S. Pepys and J. Creed most excellently writ, both showing his
      stoutness and yet willingness to peace, reproaching me yet flattering me
      again, and in a word in as good a manner as I think the world could have
      wrote, and indeed put me to a greater stand than ever I thought I could
      have been in this matter. All the morning thinking how to behave myself in
      the business, and at noon to the Coffee-house; thence by his appointment
      met him upon the 'Change, and with him back to the Coffee-house, where
      with great seriousness and strangeness on both sides he said his part and
      I mine, he sometimes owning my favour and assistance, yet endeavouring to
      lessen it, as that the success of his business was not wholly or very much
      to be imputed to that assistance: I to alledge the contrary, and plainly
      to tell him that from the beginning I never had it in my mind to do him
      all that kindnesse for nothing, but he gaining 5 or L600, I did expect a
      share of it, at least a real and not a complimentary acknowledgment of it.
      In fine I said nothing all the while that I need fear he can do me more
      hurt with them than before I spoke them. The most I told him was after we
      were come to a peace, which he asked me whether he should answer the
      Board's letter or no. I told him he might forbear it a while and no more.
      Then he asked how the letter could be signed by them without their much
      enquiry. I told him it was as I worded it and nothing at all else of any
      moment, whether my words be ever hereafter spoken of again or no. So that
      I have the same neither better nor worse force over him that I had before,
      if he should not do his part. And the peace between us was this: Says he
      after all, well, says he, I know you will expect, since there must be some
      condescension, that it do become me to begin it, and therefore, says he, I
      do propose (just like the interstice between the death of the old and the
      coming in of the present king, all the time is swallowed up as if it had
      never been) so our breach of friendship may be as if it had never been,
      that I should lay aside all misapprehensions of him or his first letter,
      and that he would reckon himself obliged to show the same ingenuous
      acknowledgment of my love and service to him as at the beginning he ought
      to have done, before by my first letter I did (as he well observed) put
      him out of a capacity of doing it, without seeming to do it servilely, and
      so it rests, and I shall expect how he will deal with me. After that I
      began to be free, and both of us to discourse of other things, and he went
      home with me and dined with me and my wife and very pleasant, having a
      good dinner and the opening of my lampry (cutting a notch on one side),
      which proved very good. After dinner he and I to Deptford, walking all the
      way, where we met Sir W. Petty and I took him back, and I got him to go
      with me to his vessel and discourse it over to me, which he did very well,
      and then walked back together to the waterside at Redriffe, with good
      discourse all the way. So Creed and I by boat to my house, and thence to
      coach with my wife and called at Alderman Backewell's and there changed
      Mr. Falconer's state-cup, that he did give us the other day, for a fair
      tankard. The cup weighed with the fashion L5 16s., and another little cup
      that Joyce Norton did give us 17s., both L6 13s.; for which we had the
      tankard, which came to L6 10s., at 5s. 7d. per oz., and 3s. in money, and
      with great content away thence to my brother's, Creed going away there,
      and my brother bringing me the old silk standard that I lodged there long
      ago, and then back again home, and thence, hearing that my uncle Wight had
      been at my house, I went to him to the Miter, and there with him and Maes,
      Norbury, and Mr. Rawlinson till late eating some pot venison (where the
      Crowne earthen pot pleased me mightily), and then homewards and met Mr.
      Barrow, so back with him to the Miter and sat talking about his business
      of his discontent in the yard, wherein sometimes he was very foolish and
      pettish, till 12 at night, and so went away, and I home and up to my wife
      a-bed, with my mind ill at ease whether I should think that I had by this
      made myself a bad end by missing the certainty of L100 which I proposed to
      myself so much, or a good one by easing myself of the uncertain good
      effect but the certain trouble and reflection which must have fallen on me
      if we had proceeded to a public dispute, ended besides embarking myself
      against my Lord, who (which I had forgot) had given him his hand for the
      value of the pieces of eight at his rates which were all false, which by
      the way I shall take heed to the giving of my Lord notice of it hereafter
      whenever he goes out again.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and after I had told my wife in the morning in bed the passages
      yesterday with Creed my head and heart was mightily lighter than they were
      before, and so up and to the office, and thence, after sitting, at 11
      o'clock with Mr. Coventry to the African House, and there with Sir W.
      Ryder by agreement we looked over part of my Lord Peterborough's accounts,
      these being by Creed and Vernaty. Anon down to dinner to a table which Mr.
      Coventry keeps here, out of his L300 per annum as one of the Assistants to
      the Royall Company, a very pretty dinner, and good company, and excellent
      discourse, and so up again to our work for an hour till the Company came
      to having a meeting of their own, and so we broke up and Creed and I took
      coach and to Reeves, the perspective glass maker, and there did indeed see
      very excellent microscopes, which did discover a louse or mite or sand
      most perfectly and largely. Being sated with that we went away (yet with a
      good will were it not for my obligation to have bought one) and walked to
      the New Exchange, and after a turn or two and talked I took coach and
      home, and so to my office, after I had been with my wife and saw her day's
      work in ripping the silke standard, which we brought home last night, and
      it will serve to line a bed, or for twenty uses, to our great content. And
      there wrote fair my angry letter to my father upon that that he wrote to
      my cozen Roger Pepys, which I hope will make him the more carefull to
      trust to my advice for the time to come without so many needless
      complaints and jealousys, which are troublesome to me because without
      reason.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). Up and to church alone, where a lazy sermon of Mr.
      Mills, upon a text to introduce catechizing in his parish, which I
      perceive he intends to begin. So home and very pleasant with my wife at
      dinner. All the afternoon at my office alone doing business, and then in
      the evening after a walk with my wife in the garden, she and I to my uncle
      Wight's to supper, where Mr. Norbury, but my uncle out of tune, and after
      supper he seemed displeased mightily at my aunt's desiring [to] put off a
      copper kettle, which it seems with great study he had provided to boil
      meat in, and now she is put in the head that it is not wholesome, which
      vexed him, but we were very merry about it, and by and by home, and after
      prayers to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and carrying my wife to my Lord's lodgings left her, and I to
      White Hall, to the Duke; where he first put on a periwigg to-day; but
      methought his hair cut short in order thereto did look very prettily of
      itself, before he put on his periwigg.
    </p>
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     [Charles II. followed his brother in the use of the periwig in the
     following April.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence to his closet and there did our business, and thence Mr. Coventry
      and I down to his chamber and spent a little time, and so parted, and I
      took my wife homeward, I stopping at the Coffee-house, and thence a while
      to the 'Change, where great newes of the arrivall of two rich ships, the
      Greyhound and another, which they were mightily afeard of, and great
      insurance given, and so home to dinner, and after an houre with my wife at
      her globes, I to the office, where very busy till 11 at night, and so home
      to supper and to bed. This afternoon Sir Thomas Chamberlin came to the
      office to me, and showed me several letters from the East Indys, showing
      the height that the Dutch are come to there, showing scorn to all the
      English, even in our only Factory there of Surat, beating several men, and
      hanging the English Standard St. George under the Dutch flagg in scorn;
      saying, that whatever their masters do or say at home, they will do what
      they list, and will be masters of all the world there; and have so
      proclaimed themselves Soveraigne of all the South Seas; which certainly
      our King cannot endure, if the Parliament will give him money. But I doubt
      and yet do hope they will not yet, till we are more ready for it.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up and to the office, where very busy all the morning, and most with
      Mr. Wood, I vexing him about his masts. At noon to the 'Change a little
      and thence brought Mr. Barrow to dinner with me, where I had a haunch of
      venison roasted, given me yesterday, and so had a pretty dinner, full of
      discourse of his business, wherein the poor man is mightily troubled, and
      I pity him in it, but hope to get him some ease. He being gone I to the
      office, where very busy till night, that my uncle Wight and Mr. Maes came
      to me, and after discourse about Maes' business to supper very merry, but
      my mind upon my business, and so they being gone I to my Vyall a little,
      which I have not done some months, I think, before, and then a little to
      my office, at 11 at night, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and with my wife, setting her down by her father's in Long Acre,
      in so ill looked a place, among all the whore houses, that I was troubled
      at it, to see her go thither. Thence I to White Hall and there walked up
      and down talking with Mr. Pierce, who tells me of the King's giving of my
      Lord Fitz-Harding two leases which belong indeed to the Queene, worth
      L20,000 to him; and how people do talk of it, and other things of that
      nature which I am sorry to hear. He and I walked round the Park with great
      pleasure, and back again, and finding no time to speak with my Lord of
      Albemarle, I walked to the 'Change and there met my wife at our pretty
      Doll's, and so took her home, and Creed also whom I met there, and sent
      her hose, while Creed and I staid on the 'Change, and by and by home and
      dined, where I found an excellent mastiffe, his name Towser, sent me by a
      chyrurgeon. After dinner I took my wife again by coach (leaving Creed by
      the way going to Gresham College, of which he is now become one of the
      virtuosos) and to White Hall, where I delivered a paper about Tangier to
      my Lord Duke of Albemarle in the council chamber, and so to Mrs. Hunt's to
      call my wife, and so by coach straight home, and at my office till 3
      o'clock in the morning, having spent much time this evening in discourse
      with Mr. Cutler, who tells me how the Dutch deal with us abroad and do not
      value us any where, and how he and Sir W. Rider have found reason to lay
      aside Captain Cocke in their company, he having played some indiscreet and
      unfair tricks with them, and has lost himself every where by his imposing
      upon all the world with the conceit he has of his own wit, and so has, he
      tells me, Sir R. Ford also, both of whom are very witty men. He being gone
      Sir W. Rider came and staid with me till about 12 at night, having found
      ourselves work till that time, about understanding the measuring of Mr.
      Wood's masts, which though I did so well before as to be thought to deal
      very hardly against Wood, yet I am ashamed I understand it no better, and
      do hope yet, whatever be thought of me, to save the King some more money,
      and out of an impatience to breake up with my head full of confused
      confounded notions, but nothing brought to a clear comprehension, I was
      resolved to sit up and did till now it is ready to strike 4 o'clock, all
      alone, cold, and my candle not enough left to light me to my owne house,
      and so, with my business however brought to some good understanding, and
      set it down pretty clear, I went home to bed with my mind at good quiet,
      and the girl sitting up for me (the rest all a-bed). I eat and drank a
      little, and to bed, weary, sleepy, cold, and my head akeing.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Called up to the office and much against my will I rose, my head
      aching mightily, and to the office, where I did argue to good purpose for
      the King, which I have been fitting myself for the last night against Mr.
      Wood about his masts, but brought it to no issue. Very full of business
      till noon, and then with Mr. Coventry to the African House, and there fell
      to my Lord Peterborough's accounts, and by and by to dinner, where
      excellent discourse, Sir G. Carteret and others of the African Company
      with us, and then up to the accounts again, which were by and by done, and
      then I straight home, my head in great pain, and drowsy, so after doing a
      little business at the office I wrote to my father about sending him the
      mastiff was given me yesterday. I home and by daylight to bed about 6
      o'clock and fell to sleep, wakened about 12 when my wife came to bed, and
      then to sleep again and so till morning, and then:
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up in good order in my head again and shaved myself, and then to the
      office, whither Mr. Cutler came, and walked and talked with me a great
      while; and then to the 'Change together; and it being early, did tell me
      several excellent examples of men raised upon the 'Change by their great
      diligence and saving; as also his owne fortune, and how credit grew upon
      him; that when he was not really worth L1100, he had credit for L100,000
      of Sir W. Rider how he rose; and others. By and by joyned with us Sir John
      Bankes; who told us several passages of the East India Company; and how in
      his very case, when there was due to him and Alderman Mico L64,000 from
      the Dutch for injury done to them in the East Indys, Oliver presently
      after the peace, they delaying to pay them the money, sent them word, that
      if they did not pay them by such a day, he would grant letters of mark to
      those merchants against them; by which they were so fearful of him, they
      did presently pay the money every farthing. By and by, the 'Change
      filling, I did many businesses, and about 2 o'clock went off with my uncle
      Wight to his house, thence by appointment we took our wives (they by coach
      with Mr. Mawes) and we on foot to Mr. Jaggard, a salter, in Thames Street,
      for whom I did a courtesy among the poor victuallers, his wife, whom long
      ago I had seen, being daughter to old Day, my uncle Wight's master, is a
      very plain woman, but pretty children they have. They live methought at
      first in but a plain way, but afterward I saw their dinner, all fish,
      brought in very neatly, but the company being but bad I had no great
      pleasure in it. After dinner I to the office, where we should have met
      upon business extraordinary, but business not coming we broke up, and I
      thither again and took my wife; and taking a coach, went to visit my Ladys
      Jemimah and Paulina Montagu, and Mrs. Elizabeth Dickering, whom we find at
      their father's new house
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Earl of Sandwich had just moved to a house in Lincoln's Inn
     Fields.  Elizabeth Dickering, who afterwards married John Creed, was
     niece to Lord Sandwich.]
</pre>
    <p>
      in Lincolne's Inn Fields; but the house all in dirt. They received us well
      enough; but I did not endeavour to carry myself over familiarly with them;
      and so after a little stay, there coming in presently after us my Lady
      Aberguenny and other ladies, we back again by coach, and visited, my wife
      did, my she cozen Scott, who is very ill still, and thence to Jaggard's
      again, where a very good supper and great store of plate; and above all
      after supper Mrs. Jaggard did at my entreaty play on the Vyall, but so
      well as I did not think any woman in England could and but few Maisters, I
      must confess it did mightily surprise me, though I knew heretofore that
      she could play, but little thought so well. After her I set Maes to
      singing, but he did it so like a coxcomb that I was sick of him. About 11
      at night I carried my aunt home by coach, and then home myself, having set
      my wife down at home by the way. My aunt tells me they are counted very
      rich people, worth at least 10 or L12,000, and their country house all the
      yeare long and all things liveable, which mightily surprises me to think
      for how poore a man I took him when I did him the courtesy at our office.
      So after prayers to bed, pleased at nothing all the day but Mrs. Jaggard
      playing on the Vyall, and that was enough to make me bear with all the
      rest that did not content me.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon to
      the 'Change with Mr. Coventry and thence home to dinner, after dinner by a
      gaily down to Woolwich, where with Mr. Falconer, and then at the other
      yard doing some business to my content, and so walked to Greenwich, it
      being a very fine evening and brought right home with me by water, and so
      to my office, where late doing business, and then home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. (Lord's day). Up, and having many businesses at the office to-day I
      spent all the morning there drawing up a letter to Mr. Coventry about
      preserving of masts, being collections of my own, and at noon home to
      dinner, whither my brother Tom comes, and after dinner I took him up and
      read my letter lately of discontent to my father, and he is seemingly
      pleased at it, and cries out of my sister's ill nature and lazy life
      there. He being gone I to my office again, and there made an end of my
      morning's work, and then, after reading my vows of course, home and back
      again with Mr. Maes and walked with him talking of his business in the
      garden, and he being gone my wife and I walked a turn or two also, and
      then my uncle Wight fetching of us, she and I to his house to supper, and
      by the way calling on Sir G. Carteret to desire his consent to my bringing
      Maes to him, which he agreed to. So I to my uncle's, but staid a great
      while vexed both of us for Maes not coming in, and soon he came, and I
      with him from supper to Sir G. Carteret, and there did largely discourse
      of the business, and I believe he may expect as much favour as he can do
      him, though I fear that will not be much. So back, and after sitting there
      a good while, we home, and going my wife told me how my uncle when he had
      her alone did tell her that he did love her as well as ever he did, though
      he did not find it convenient to show it publicly for reasons on both
      sides, seeming to mean as well to prevent my jealousy as his wife's, but I
      am apt to think that he do mean us well, and to give us something if he
      should die without children. So home to prayers and to bed. My wife called
      up the people to washing by four o'clock in the morning; and our little
      girl Susan is a most admirable Slut and pleases us mightily, doing more
      service than both the others and deserves wages better.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up and shaved myself, and then my wife and I by coach out, and I set
      her down by her father's, being vexed in my mind and angry with her for
      the ill-favoured place, among or near the whore houses, that she is forced
      to come to him. So left her there, and I to Sir Th. Warwick's but did not
      speak with him. Thence to take a turn in St. James's Park, and meeting
      with Anth. Joyce walked with him a turn in the Pell Mell and so parted, he
      St. James's ward and I out to Whitehall ward, and so to a picture-sellers
      by the Half Moone in the street over against the Exchange, and there
      looked over the maps of several cities and did buy two books of cities
      stitched together cost me 9s. 6d., and when I came home thought of my
      vowe, and paid 5s. into my poor box for it, hoping in God that I shall
      forfeit no more in that kind. Thence, meeting Mr. Moore, and to the
      Exchange and there found my wife at pretty Doll's, and thence by coach set
      her at my uncle Wight's, to go with my aunt to market once more against
      Lent, and I to the Coffee-house, and thence to the 'Change, my chief
      business being to enquire about the manner of other countries keeping of
      their masts wet or dry, and got good advice about it, and so home, and
      alone ate a bad, cold dinner, my people being at their washing all day,
      and so to the office and all the afternoon upon my letter to Mr. Coventry
      about keeping of masts, and ended it very well at night and wrote it fair
      over. This evening came Mr. Alsopp the King's brewer, with whom I spent an
      houre talking and bewailing the posture of things at present; the King led
      away by half-a-dozen men, that none of his serious servants and friends
      can come at him. These are Lauderdale, Buckingham, Hamilton, Fitz-Harding
      (to whom he hath, it seems, given L2,000 per annum in the best part of the
      King's estate); and that that the old Duke of Buckingham could never get
      of the King. Progers is another, and Sir H. Bennett. He loves not the
      Queen at all, but is rather sullen to her; and she, by all reports,
      incapable of children. He is so fond of the Duke of Monmouth, that every
      body admires it; and he says the Duke hath said, that he would be the
      death of any man that says the King was not married to his mother: though
      Alsopp says, it is well known that she was a common whore before the King
      lay with her. But it seems, he says, that the King is mighty kind to these
      his bastard children; and at this day will go at midnight to my Lady
      Castlemaine's nurses, and take the child and dance it in his arms: that he
      is not likely to have his tables up again in his house,&mdash;[The tables
      at which the king dined in public.-B.]&mdash;for the crew that are about
      him will not have him come to common view again, but keep him obscurely
      among themselves. He hath this night, it seems, ordered that the Hall
      (which there is a ball to be in to-night before the King) be guarded, as
      the Queen-Mother's is, by his Horse Guards; whereas heretofore they were
      by the Lord Chamberlain or Steward, and their people. But it is feared
      they will reduce all to the soldiery, and all other places taken away; and
      what is worst of all, that he will alter the present militia, and bring
      all to a flying army. That my Lord Lauderdale, being Middleton's enemy,
      and one that scorns the Chancellor even to open affronts before the King,
      hath got the whole power of Scotland into his hand; whereas the other day
      he was in a fair way to have had his whole estate, and honour, and life,
      voted away from him. That the King hath done himself all imaginable wrong
      in the business of my Lord Antrim, in Ireland; who, though he was the head
      of rebels, yet he by his letter owns to have acted by his father's and
      mother's, and his commissions; but it seems the truth is, he hath obliged
      himself, upon the clearing of his estate, to settle it upon a daughter of
      the Queene-Mother's (by my Lord Germin, I suppose,) in marriage, be it to
      whom the Queene pleases; which is a sad story. It seems a daughter of the
      Duke of Lenox's was, by force, going to be married the other day at
      Somerset House, to Harry Germin; but she got away and run to the King, and
      he says he will protect her. She is, it seems, very near akin to the King:
      Such mad doings there are every day among them! The rape upon a woman at
      Turnstile the other day, her husband being bound in his shirt, they both
      being in bed together, it being night, by two Frenchmen, who did not only
      lye with her but abused her with a linke, is hushed up for L300, being the
      Queen Mother's servants. There was a French book in verse, the other day,
      translated and presented to the Duke of Monmouth in such a high stile,
      that the Duke of York, he tells me, was mightily offended at it. The Duke
      of Monmouth's mother's brother hath a place at Court; and being a Welchman
      (I think he told me) will talk very broad of the King's being married to
      his sister. The King did the other day, at the Council, commit my Lord
      Digby's' chaplin, and steward, and another servant, who went upon the
      process begun there against their lord, to swear that they saw him at
      church, end receive the Sacrament as a Protestant, (which, the judges
      said, was sufficient to prove him such in the eye of the law); the King, I
      say, did commit them all to the Gate-house, notwithstanding their pleading
      their dependance upon him, and the faith they owed him as their lord,
      whose bread they eat. And that the King should say, that he would soon see
      whether he was King, or Digby. That the Queene-Mother hath outrun herself
      in her expences, and is now come to pay very ill, or run in debt; the
      money being spent that she received for leases. He believes there is not
      any money laid up in bank, as I told him some did hope; but he says, from
      the best informers he can assure me there is no such thing, nor any body
      that should look after such a thing; and that there is not now above
      L80,000 of the Dunkirke money left in stock. That Oliver in the year when
      he spent L1,400,000 in the Navy, did spend in the whole expence of the
      kingdom L2,600,000. That all the Court are mad for a Dutch war; but both
      he and I did concur, that it was a thing rather to be dreaded than hoped
      for; unless by the French King's falling upon Flanders, they and the Dutch
      should be divided. That our Embassador had, it is true, an audience; but
      in the most dishonourable way that could be; for the Princes of the Blood
      (though invited by our Embassador, which was the greatest absurdity that
      ever Embassador committed these 400 years) were not there; and so were not
      said to give place to our King's Embassador. And that our King did openly
      say, the other day in the Privy Chamber, that he would not be hectored out
      of his right and preeminencys by the King of France, as great as he was.
      That the Pope is glad to yield to a peace with the French (as the
      newes-book says), upon the basest terms that ever was. That the talke
      which these people about our King, that I named before, have, is to tell
      him how neither privilege of Parliament nor City is any thing; but his
      will is all, and ought to be so: and their discourse, it seems, when they
      are alone, is so base and sordid, that it makes the eares of the very
      gentlemen of the back-stairs (I think he called them) to tingle to hear it
      spoke in the King's hearing; and that must be very bad indeed. That my
      Lord Digby did send to Lisbon a couple of priests, to search out what they
      could against the Chancellor concerning the match, as to the point of his
      knowing before-hand that the Queene was not capable of bearing children;
      and that something was given her to make her so. But as private as they
      were, when they came thither they were clapped up prisoners. That my Lord
      Digby endeavours what he can to bring the business into the House of
      Commons, hoping there to master the Chancellor, there being many enemies
      of his there; but I hope the contrary. That whereas the late King did
      mortgage 'Clarendon' to somebody for L20,000, and this to have given it to
      the Duke of Albemarle, and he sold it to my Lord Chancellor, whose title
      of Earldome is fetched from thence; the King hath this day sent his order
      to the Privy Seale for the payment of this L20,000 to my Lord Chancellor,
      to clear the mortgage! Ireland in a very distracted condition about the
      hard usage which the Protestants meet with, and the too good which the
      Catholiques. And from altogether, God knows my heart, I expect nothing but
      ruine can follow, unless things are better ordered in a little time. He
      being gone my wife came and told me how kind my uncle Wight had been to
      her to-day, and that though she says that all his kindness comes from
      respect to her she discovers nothing but great civility from him, yet but
      what she says he otherwise will tell me, but to-day he told her plainly
      that had she a child it should be his heir, and that should I or she want
      he would be a good friend to us, and did give my wife instructions to
      consent to all his wife says at any time, she being a pettish woman, which
      argues a design I think he has of keeping us in with his wife in order to
      our good sure, and he declaring her jealous of him that so he dares not
      come to see my wife as otherwise he would do and will endeavour to do. It
      looks strange putting all together, but yet I am in hopes he means well.
      My aunt also is mighty open to my wife and tells her mighty plain how her
      husband did intend to double her portion to her at his death as a
      jointure. That he will give presently L100 to her niece Mary and a good
      legacy at his death, and it seems did as much to the other sister, which
      vexed [me] to think that he should bestow so much upon his wife's friends
      daily as he do, but it cannot be helped for the time past, and I will
      endeavour to remedy it for the time to come. After all this discourse with
      my wife at my office alone, she home to see how the wash goes on and I to
      make an end of my work, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, it being Shrove Tuesday, and at the office sat all the morning,
      at noon to the 'Change and there met with Sir W. Rider, and of a sudden
      knowing what I had at home, brought him and Mr. Cutler and Mr. Cooke,
      clerk to Mr. Secretary Morrice, a sober and pleasant man, and one that I
      knew heretofore, when he was my Lord 's secretary at Dunkirke. I made much
      of them and had a pretty dinner for a sudden. We talked very pleasantly,
      and they many good discourses of their travels abroad. After dinner they
      gone, I to my office, where doing many businesses very late, but to my
      good content to see how I grow in estimation every day more and more, and
      have things given more oftener than I used to have formerly, as to have a
      case of very pretty knives with agate shafts by Mrs. Russell. So home and
      to bed. This day, by the blessing of God, I have lived thirty-one years in
      the world; and, by the grace of God, I find myself not only in good health
      in every thing, and particularly as to the stone, but only pain upon
      taking cold, and also in a fair way of coming to a better esteem and
      estate in the world, than ever I expected. But I pray God give me a heart
      to fear a fall, and to prepare for it!
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Ash-Wednesday). Up and by water, it being a very fine morning, to
      White Hall, and there to speak with Sir Ph. Warwicke, but he was gone out
      to chappell, so I spent much of the morning walking in the Park, and going
      to the Queene's chappell, where I staid and saw their masse, till a man
      came and bid me go out or kneel down: so I did go out. And thence to
      Somerset House; and there into the chappell, where Monsieur d'Espagne used
      to preach. But now it is made very fine, and was ten times more crouded
      than the Queene's chappell at St. James's; which I wonder at. Thence down
      to the garden of Somerset House, and up and down the new building, which
      in every respect will be mighty magnificent and costly. I staid a great
      while talking with a man in the garden that was sawing of a piece of
      marble, and did give him 6d. to drink. He told me much of the nature and
      labour of the worke, how he could not saw above 4 inches of the stone in a
      day, and of a greater not above one or two, and after it is sawed, then it
      is rubbed with coarse and then with finer and finer sand till they come to
      putty, and so polish it as smooth as glass. Their saws have no teeth, but
      it is the sand only which the saw rubs up and down that do the thing.
      Thence by water to the Coffee-house, and there sat with Alderman Barker
      talking of hempe and the trade, and thence to the 'Change a little, and so
      home and dined with my wife, and then to the office till the evening, and
      then walked a while merrily with my wife in the garden, and so she gone, I
      to work again till late, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up and to the office, where we sat, and thence with Mr. Coventry by
      coach to the glasshouse and there dined, and both before and after did my
      Lord Peterborough's accounts. Thence home to the office, and there did
      business till called by Creed, and with him by coach (setting my wife at
      my brother's) to my Lord's, and saw the young ladies, and talked a little
      with them, and thence to White Hall, a while talking but doing no
      business, but resolved of going to meet my Lord tomorrow, having got a
      horse of Mr. Coventry to-day. So home, taking up my wife, and after doing
      something at my office home, God forgive me, disturbed in my mind out of
      my jealousy of my wife tomorrow when I am out of town, which is a hell to
      my mind, and yet without all reason. God forgive me for it, and mend me.
      So home, and getting my things ready for me, weary to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and after dressing myself handsomely for riding, I out, and by
      water to Westminster, to Mr. Creed's chamber, and after drinking some
      chocolate, and playing on the vyall, Mr. Mallard being there, upon Creed's
      new vyall, which proves, methinks, much worse than mine, and, looking upon
      his new contrivance of a desk and shelves for books, we set out from an
      inne hard by, whither Mr. Coventry's horse was carried, and round about
      the bush through bad ways to Highgate. Good discourse in the way had
      between us, and it being all day a most admirable pleasant day, we, upon
      consultation, had stopped at the Cocke, a mile on this side Barnett, being
      unwilling to put ourselves to the charge or doubtful acceptance of any
      provision against my Lord's coming by, and there got something and dined,
      setting a boy to look towards Barnett Hill, against their coming; and
      after two or three false alarms, they come, and we met the coach very
      gracefully, and I had a kind receipt from both Lord and Lady as I could
      wish, and some kind discourse, and then rode by the coach a good way, and
      so fell to discoursing with several of the people, there being a dozen
      attending the coach, and another for the mayds and parson. Among others
      talking with W. Howe, he told me how my Lord in his hearing the other day
      did largely tell my Lord Peterborough and Povy (who went with them down to
      Hinchinbrooke) how and when he discarded Creed, and took me to him, and
      that since the Duke of York has several times thanked him for me, which
      did not a little please me, and anon I desiring Mr. Howe to tell me upon
      [what] occasion this discourse happened, he desired me to say nothing of
      it now, for he would not have my Lord to take notice of our being
      together, but he would tell me another time, which put me into some
      trouble to think what he meant by it. But when we came to my Lord's house,
      I went in; and whether it was my Lord's neglect, or general indifference,
      I know not, but he made me no kind of compliment there; and, methinks, the
      young ladies look somewhat highly upon me. So I went away without bidding
      adieu to anybody, being desirous not to be thought too servile. But I do
      hope and believe that my Lord do yet value me as high as ever, though he
      dare not admit me to the freedom he once did, and that my Lady is still
      the same woman. So rode home and there found my uncle Wight. 'Tis an odd
      thing as my wife tells me his caressing her and coming on purpose to give
      her visits, but I do not trouble myself for him at all, but hope the best
      and very good effects of it. He being gone I eat something and my wife. I
      told all this day's passages, and she to give me very good and rational
      advice how to behave myself to my Lord and his family, by slighting every
      body but my Lord and Lady, and not to seem to have the least society or
      fellowship with them, which I am resolved to do, knowing that it is my
      high carriage that must do me good there, and to appear in good clothes
      and garbe. To the office, and being weary, early home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, but weary, and to the office, where we sat all the morning.
      Before I went to the office there came Bagwell's wife to me to speak for
      her husband. I liked the woman very well and stroked her under the chin,
      but could not find in my heart to offer anything uncivil to her, she
      being, I believe, a very modest woman. At noon with Mr. Coventry to the
      African house, and to my Lord Peterborough's business again, and then to
      dinner, where, before dinner, we had the best oysters I have seen this
      year, and I think as good in all respects as ever I eat in my life. I eat
      a great many. Great, good company at dinner, among others Sir Martin
      Noell, who told us the dispute between him, as farmer of the Additional
      Duty, and the East India Company, whether callicos be linnen or no; which
      he says it is, having been ever esteemed so: they say it is made of cotton
      woole, and grows upon trees, not like flax or hempe. But it was carried
      against the Company, though they stand out against the verdict. Thence
      home and to the office, where late, and so home to supper and to bed, and
      had a very pleasing and condescending answer from my poor father to-day in
      answer to my angry discontentful letter to him the other day, which
      pleases me mightily.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). Up and walked to Paul's; and by chance it was an
      extraordinary day for the Readers of the Inns of Court and all the
      Students to come to church, it being an old ceremony not used these
      twenty-five years, upon the first Sunday in Lent. Abundance there was of
      Students, more than there was room to seat but upon forms, and the Church
      mighty full. One Hawkins preached, an Oxford man. A good sermon upon these
      words: "But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable." Both
      before and after sermon I was most impatiently troubled at the Quire, the
      worst that ever I heard. But what was extraordinary, the Bishop of London,
      who sat there in a pew, made a purpose for him by the pulpitt, do give the
      last blessing to the congregation; which was, he being a comely old man, a
      very decent thing, methought. The Lieutenant of the Tower, Sir J.
      Robinson, would needs have me by coach home with him, and sending word
      home to my house I did go and dine with him, his ordinary table being very
      good, and his lady a very high-carriaged but comely big woman; I was
      mightily pleased with her. His officers of his regiment dined with him. No
      discourse at table to any purpose, only after dinner my Lady would needs
      see a boy which was represented to her to be an innocent country boy
      brought up to towne a day or two ago, and left here to the wide world, and
      he losing his way fell into the Tower, which my Lady believes, and takes
      pity on him, and will keep him; but though a little boy and but young, yet
      he tells his tale so readily and answers all questions so wittily, that
      for certain he is an arch rogue, and bred in this towne; but my Lady will
      not believe it, but ordered victuals to be given him, and I think will
      keep him as a footboy for their eldest son. After dinner to chappell in
      the Tower with the Lieutenant, with the keyes carried before us, and the
      Warders and Gentleman-porter going before us. And I sat with the
      Lieutenant in his pew, in great state, but slept all the sermon. None, it
      seems, of the prisoners in the Tower that are there now, though they may,
      will come to prayers there. Church being done, I back to Sir John's house
      and there left him and home, and by and by to Sir W. Pen, and staid a
      while talking with him about Sir J. Minnes his folly in his office, of
      which I am sicke and weary to speak of it, and how the King is abused in
      it, though Pen, I know, offers the discourse only like a rogue to get it
      out of me, but I am very free to tell my mind to him, in that case being
      not unwilling he should tell him again if he will or any body else. Thence
      home, and walked in the garden by brave moonshine with my wife above two
      hours, till past 8 o'clock, then to supper, and after prayers to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up and by coach with Sir W. Pen to Charing Cross, and there I
      'light, and to Sir Phillip Warwick to visit him and discourse with him
      about navy business, which I did at large and he most largely with me, not
      only about the navy but about the general Revenue of England, above two
      hours, I think, many staying all the while without, but he seemed to take
      pains to let me either understand the affairs of the Revenue or else to be
      a witness of his pains and care in stating it. He showed me indeed many
      excellent collections of the State of the Revenue in former Kings and the
      late times, and the present. He showed me how the very Assessments between
      1643 and 1659, which were taxes (besides Excise, Customes, Sequestrations,
      Decimations, King and Queene's and Church Lands, or any thing else but
      just the Assessments), come to above fifteen millions. He showed me a
      discourse of his concerning the Revenues of this and foreign States. How
      that of Spayne was great, but divided with his kingdoms, and so came to
      little. How that of France did, and do much exceed ours before for
      quantity; and that it is at the will of the Prince to tax what he will
      upon his people; which is not here. That the Hollanders have the best
      manner of tax, which is only upon the expence of provisions, by an excise;
      and do conclude that no other tax is proper for England but a pound-rate,
      or excise upon the expence of provisions. He showed me every particular
      sort of payment away of money, since the King's coming in, to this day;
      and told me, from one to one, how little he hath received of profit from
      most of them; and I believe him truly. That the L1,200,000 which the
      Parliament with so much ado did first vote to give the King, and since
      hath been reexamined by several committees of the present Parliament, is
      yet above L300,000 short of making up really to the King the L1,200,000,
      as by particulars he showed me.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A committee was appointed in September, 1660, to consider the
     subject of the King's revenue, and they "reported to the Commons that
     the average revenue of Charles I., from 1637 to 1641 inclusive, had
     been L895,819, and the average expenditure about L1,110,000.  At
     that time prices were lower and the country less burthened with navy
     and garrisons, among which latter Dunkirk alone now cost more than
     L100,000 a year.  It appeared, therefore, that the least sum to
     which the King could be expected to 'conform his expense' was
     L1,200,000."  Burnet writes, "It was believed that if two millions
     had been asked he could have carried it.  But he (Clarendon) had no
     mind to put the King out of the necessity of having recourse to his
     Parliament."&mdash;Lister's Life of Clarendon, vol. ii., pp.  22, 23.]
</pre>
    <p>
      And in my Lord Treasurer's excellent letter to the King upon this subject,
      he tells the King how it was the spending more than the revenue that did
      give the first occasion of his father's ruine, and did since to the
      rebels; who, he says, just like Henry the Eighth, had great and sudden
      increase of wealth, but yet, by overspending, both died poor; and further
      tells the King how much of this L1,200,000 depends upon the life of the
      Prince, and so must be renewed by Parliament again to his successor; which
      is seldom done without parting with some of the prerogatives of the
      Crowne; or if denied and he persists to take it of the people, it gives
      occasion to a civill war, which may, as it did in the late business of
      tonnage and poundage, prove fatal to the Crowne. He showed me how many
      ways the Lord Treasurer did take before he moved the King to farme the
      Customes in the manner he do, and the reasons that moved him to do it. He
      showed the a very excellent argument to prove, that our importing lesse
      than we export, do not impoverish the kingdom, according to the received
      opinion: which, though it be a paradox, and that I do not remember the
      argument, yet methought there was a great deale in what he said. And upon
      the whole I find him a most exact and methodicall man, and of great
      industry: and very glad that he thought fit to show me all this; though I
      cannot easily guess the reason why he should do it to me, unless from the
      plainness that he sees I use to him in telling him how much the King may
      suffer for our want of understanding the case of our Treasury. Thence to
      White Hall (where my Lord Sandwich was, and gave me a good countenance, I
      thought), and before the Duke did our usual business, and so I about
      several businesses in the house, and then out to the Mewes with Sir W.
      Pen. But in my way first did meet with W. Howe, who did of himself advise
      me to appear more free with my Lord and to come to him, for my own
      strangeness he tells me he thinks do make my Lord the worse. At the Mewes
      Sir W. Pen and Mr. Baxter did shew me several good horses, but Pen, which
      Sir W. Pen did give the Duke of York, was given away by the Duke the other
      day to a Frenchman, which Baxter is cruelly vexed at, saying that he was
      the best horse that he expects a great while to have to do with. Thence I
      to the 'Change, and thence to a Coffee-house with Sir W. Warren, and did
      talk much about his and Wood's business, and thence homewards, and in my
      way did stay to look upon a fire in an Inneyard in Lumbard Streete. But,
      Lord! how the mercers and merchants who had warehouses there did carry
      away their cloths and silks. But at last it was quenched, and I home to
      dinner, and after dinner carried my wife and set her and her two mayds in
      Fleete Streete to buy things, and I to White Hall to little purpose, and
      so to Westminster Hall, and there talked with Mrs. Lane and Howlett, but
      the match with Hawly I perceive will not take, and so I am resolved wholly
      to avoid occasion of further ill with her. Thence by water to Salsbury
      Court, and found my wife, by agreement, at Mrs. Turner's, and after a
      little stay and chat set her and young Armiger down in Cheapside, and so
      my wife and I home. Got home before our mayds, who by and by came with a
      great cry and fright that they had like to have been killed by a coach;
      but, Lord! to see how Jane did tell the story like a foole and a
      dissembling fanatique, like her grandmother, but so like a changeling,
      would make a man laugh to death almost, and yet be vexed to hear her. By
      and by to the office to make up my monthly accounts, which I make up
      to-night, and to my great content find myself worth eight hundred and
      ninety and odd pounds, the greatest sum I ever yet knew, and so with a
      heart at great case to bed.
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      MARCH 1663-1664
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    <p>
      March 1st. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon
      to the 'Change, and after much business and meeting my uncle Wight, who
      told me how Mr. Maes had like to have been trapanned yesterday, but was
      forced to run for it; so with Creed and Mr. Hunt home to dinner, and after
      a good and pleasant dinner, Mr. Hunt parted, and I took Mr. Creed and my
      wife and down to Deptford, it being most pleasant weather, and there till
      night discoursing with the officers there about several things, and so
      walked home by moonshine, it being mighty pleasant, and so home, and I to
      my office, where late about getting myself a thorough understanding in the
      business of masts, and so home to bed, my left eye being mightily troubled
      with rheum.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, my eye mightily out of order with the rheum that is fallen down
      into it, however, I by coach endeavoured to have waited on my Lord
      Sandwich, but meeting him in Chancery Lane going towards the City I
      stopped and so fairly walked home again, calling at St. Paul's
      Churchyarde, and there looked upon a pretty burlesque poem, called
      "Scarronides, or Virgile Travesty;" extraordinary good. At home to the
      office till dinner, and after dinner my wife cut my hair short, which is
      growne pretty long again, and then to the office, and there till 9 at
      night doing business. This afternoon we had a good present of tongues and
      bacon from Mr. Shales, of Portsmouth. So at night home to supper, and,
      being troubled with my eye, to bed. This morning Mr. Burgby, one of the
      writing clerks belonging to the Council, was with me about business, a
      knowing man, he complains how most of the Lords of the Council do look
      after themselves and their own ends, and none the publique, unless Sir
      Edward Nicholas. Sir G. Carteret is diligent, but all for his own ends and
      profit. My Lord Privy Scale, a destroyer of every body's business, and do
      no good at all to the publique. The Archbishop of Canterbury speaks very
      little, nor do much, being now come to the highest pitch that he can
      expect. He tells me, he believes that things will go very high against the
      Chancellor by Digby, and that bad things will be proved. Talks much of his
      neglecting the King; and making the King to trot every day to him, when he
      is well enough to go to visit his cozen Chief-Justice Hide, but not to the
      Council or King. He commends my Lord of Ormond mightily in Ireland; but
      cries out cruelly of Sir G. Lane for his corruption; and that he hath done
      my Lord great dishonour by selling of places here, which are now all taken
      away, and the poor wretches ready to starve. That nobody almost
      understands or judges of business better than the King, if he would not be
      guilty of his father's fault to be doubtfull of himself, and easily be
      removed from his own opinion. That my Lord Lauderdale is never from the
      King's care nor council, and that he is a most cunning fellow. Upon the
      whole, that he finds things go very bad every where; and even in the
      Council nobody minds the publique.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up pretty early and so to the office, where we sat all the morning
      making a very great contract with Sir W. Warren for provisions for the
      yeare coming, and so home to dinner, and there was W. Howe come to dine
      with me, and before dinner he and I walked in the garden, and we did
      discourse together, he assuring me of what he told me the other day of my
      Lord's speaking so highly in my commendation to my Lord Peterborough and
      Povy, which speaks my Lord having yet a good opinion of me, and also how
      well my Lord and Lady both are pleased with their children's being at my
      father's, and when the bigger ladies were there a little while ago, at
      which I am very glad. After dinner he went away, I having discoursed with
      him about his own proceedings in his studies, and I observe him to be very
      considerate and to mind his book in order to preferring himself by my
      Lord's favour to something, and I hope to the outing of Creed in his
      Secretaryship. For he tells me that he is confident my Lord do not love
      him nor will trust him in any secret matter, he is so cunning and crafty
      in all he do. So my wife and I out of doors thinking to have gone to have
      seen a play, but when we came to take coach, they tell us there are none
      this week, being the first of Lent. But, Lord! to see how impatient I
      found myself within to see a play, I being at liberty once a month to see
      one, and I think it is the best method I could have taken. But to my
      office, did very much business with several people till night, and so
      home, being unwilling to stay late because of my eye which is not yet well
      of the rheum that is fallen down into it, but to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, my eye being pretty well, and then by coach to my Lord Sandwich,
      with whom I spoke, walking a good while with him in his garden, which and
      the house is very fine, talking of my Lord Peterborough's accounts,
      wherein he is concerned both for the foolery as also inconvenience which
      may happen upon my Lord Peterborough's ill-stating of his matters, so as
      to have his gaine discovered unnecessarily. We did talk long and freely
      that I hope the worst is past and all will be well. There were several
      people by trying a new-fashion gun
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Many attempts to produce a satisfactory revolver were made in
     former centuries, but it was not till the present one that Colt's
     revolver was invented.  On February 18th, 1661, Edward, Marquis of
     Worcester, obtained Letters Patent for "an invencon to make certeyne
     guns or pistolls which in the tenth parte of one minute of an houre
     may, with a flaske contrived to that purpose, be re-charged the
     fourth part of one turne of the barrell which remaines still fixt,
     fastening it as forceably and effectually as a dozen thrids of any
     scrue, which in the ordinary and usual way require as many turnes."
     On March 3rd, 1664, Abraham Hill obtained Letters Patent for a "gun
     or pistoll for small shott, carrying seaven or eight charges of the
     same in the stocke of the gun."]
</pre>
    <p>
      brought my Lord this morning, to shoot off often, one after another,
      without trouble or danger, very pretty. Thence to the Temple, and there
      taking White's boat down to Woolwich, taking Mr. Shish at Deptford in my
      way, with whom I had some good discourse of the Navy business. At Woolwich
      discoursed with him and Mr. Pett about iron worke and other businesses,
      and then walked home, and at Greenwich did observe the foundation laying
      of a very great house for the King, which will cost a great deale of
      money.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Building by John Webb; now a part of Greenwich Hospital.  Evelyn
     wrote in his Diary, October 19th, 1661: "I went to London to visite
     my Lord of Bristoll, having been with Sir John Denham (his Mates
     surveyor) to consult with him about the placing of his palace at
     Greenwich, which I would have had built between the river and the
     Queene's house, so as a large cutt should have let in ye Thames like
     a bay; but Sir John was for setting it in piles at the very brink of
     the water, which I did not assent to and so came away, knowing Sir
     John to be a better poet than architect, tho' he had Mr. Webb (Inigo
     Jones's man) to assist him."]
</pre>
    <p>
      So home to dinner, and my uncle Wight coming in he along with my wife and
      I by coach, and setting him down by the way going to Mr. Maes we two to my
      Lord Sandwich's to visit my Lady, with whom I left my wife discoursing,
      and I to White Hall, and there being met by the Duke of Yorke, he called
      me to him and discoursed a pretty while with me about the new ship's
      dispatch building at Woolwich, and talking of the charge did say that he
      finds always the best the most cheape, instancing in French guns, which in
      France you may buy for 4 pistoles, as good to look to as others of 16, but
      not the service. I never had so much discourse with the Duke before, and
      till now did ever fear to meet him. He found me and Mr. Prin together
      talking of the Chest money, which we are to blame not to look after.
      Thence to my Lord's, and took up my wife, whom my Lady hath received with
      her old good nature and kindnesse, and so homewards, and she home, I
      'lighting by the way, and upon the 'Change met my uncle Wight and told him
      my discourse this afternoon with Sir G. Carteret in Maes' business, but
      much to his discomfort, and after a dish of coffee home, and at my office
      a good while with Sir W. Warren talking with great pleasure of many
      businesses, and then home to supper, my wife and I had a good fowle to
      supper, and then I to the office again and so home, my mind in great ease
      to think of our coming to so good a respect with my Lord again, and my
      Lady, and that my Lady do so much cry up my father's usage of her
      children, and the goodness of the ayre there, found in the young ladies'
      faces at their return thence, as she says, as also my being put into the
      commission of the Fishery,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [There had been recently established, under the Great Seal of
     England, a Corporation for the Royal Fishing, of which the Duke of
     York was Governor, Lord Craven Deputy-Governor, and the Lord Mayor
     and Chamberlain of London, for the time being, Treasurers, in which
     body was vested the sole power of licensing lotteries ("The Newes,"
     October 6th, 1664).  The original charter (dated April 8th, 1664),
     incorporating James, Duke of York, and thirty-six assistants as
     Governor and Company of the Royal Fishing of Great Britain and
     Ireland, is among the State Papers.  The duke was to be Governor
     till February 26th, 1665]
</pre>
    <p>
      for which I must give my Lord thanks, and so home to bed, having a great
      cold in my head and throat tonight from my late cutting my hair so close
      to my head, but I hope it will be soon gone again.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up and to the office, where, though I had a great cold, I was forced
      to speak much upon a publique meeting of the East India Company, at our
      office; where our own company was full, and there was also my Lord George
      Barkeley, in behalfe of the company of merchants (I suppose he is on that
      company), who, hearing my name, took notice of me, and condoled my cozen
      Edward Pepys's death, not knowing whose son I was, nor did demand it of
      me. We broke up without coming to any conclusion, for want of my Lord
      Marlborough. We broke up and I to the 'Change, where with several people
      and my uncle Wight to drink a dish of coffee, and so home to dinner, and
      then to the office all the afternoon, my eye and my throat being very bad,
      and my cold increasing so as I could not speak almost at all at night. So
      at night home to supper, that is a posset, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). Up, and my cold continuing in great extremity I could
      not go out to church, but sat all day (a little time at dinner excepted)
      in my closet at the office till night drawing up a second letter to Mr.
      Coventry about the measure of masts to my great satisfaction, and so in
      the evening home, and my uncle and aunt Wight came to us and supped with
      us, where pretty merry, but that my cold put me out of humour. At night
      with my cold, and my eye also sore still, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up betimes, and the Duke being gone abroad to-day, as we heard by a
      messenger, I spent the morning at my office writing fair my yesterday's
      work till almost 2 o'clock (only Sir G. Carteret coming I went down a
      little way by water towards Deptford, but having more mind to have my
      business done I pretended business at the 'Change, and so went into
      another boat), and then, eating a bit, my wife and I by coach to the
      Duke's house, where we saw "The Unfortunate Lovers;" but I know not
      whether I am grown more curious than I was or no, but I was not much
      pleased with it, though I know not where to lay the fault, unless it was
      that the house was very empty, by reason of a new play at the other house.
      Yet here was my Lady Castlemayne in a box, and it was pleasant to hear an
      ordinary lady hard by us, that it seems did not know her before, say,
      being told who she was, that "she was well enough." Thence home, and I
      ended and sent away my letter to Mr. Coventry (having first read it and
      had the opinion of Sir W. Warren in the case), and so home to supper and
      to bed, my cold being pretty well gone, but my eye remaining still snare
      and rhumey, which I wonder at, my right eye ayling nothing.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up with some little discontent with my wife upon her saying that she
      had got and used some puppy-dog water, being put upon it by a desire of my
      aunt Wight to get some for her, who hath a mind, unknown to her husband,
      to get some for her ugly face. I to the office, where we sat all the
      morning, doing not much business through the multitude of counsellors, one
      hindering another. It was Mr. Coventry's own saying to me in his coach
      going to the 'Change, but I wonder that he did give me no thanks for my
      letter last night, but I believe he did only forget it. Thence home,
      whither Luellin came and dined with me, but we made no long stay at
      dinner; for "Heraclius" being acted, which my wife and I have a mighty
      mind to see, we do resolve, though not exactly agreeing with the letter of
      my vowe, yet altogether with the sense, to see another this month, by
      going hither instead of that at Court, there having been none conveniently
      since I made my vowe for us to see there, nor like to be this Lent, and
      besides we did walk home on purpose to make this going as cheap as that
      would have been, to have seen one at Court, and my conscience knows that
      it is only the saving of money and the time also that I intend by my
      oaths, and this has cost no more of either, so that my conscience before
      God do after good consultation and resolution of paying my forfeit, did my
      conscience accuse me of breaking my vowe, I do not find myself in the
      least apprehensive that I have done any violence to my oaths. The play
      hath one very good passage well managed in it, about two persons
      pretending, and yet denying themselves, to be son to the tyrant Phocas,
      and yet heire of Mauritius to the crowne. The garments like Romans very
      well. The little girle is come to act very prettily, and spoke the
      epilogue most admirably. But at the beginning, at the drawing up of the
      curtaine, there was the finest scene of the Emperor and his people about
      him, standing in their fixed and different pastures in their Roman
      habitts, above all that ever I yet saw at any of the theatres. Walked
      home, calling to see my brother Tom, who is in bed, and I doubt very ill
      of a consumption. To the office awhile, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up pretty betimes to my office, where all day long, but a little at
      home at dinner, at my office finishing all things about Mr. Wood's
      contract for masts, wherein I am sure I shall save the King L400 before I
      have done. At night home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and at
      noon to the 'Change and there very busy, and so home to dinner with my
      wife, to a good hog's harslet,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Harslet or haslet, the entrails of an animal, especially of a hog,
     as the heart, liver, &amp;c.]
</pre>
    <p>
      a piece of meat I love, but have not eat of I think these seven years, and
      after dinner abroad by coach set her at Mrs. Hunt's and I to White Hall,
      and at the Privy Seale I enquired, and found the Bill come for the
      Corporation of the Royall Fishery; whereof the Duke of Yorke is made
      present Governor, and several other very great persons, to the number of
      thirty-two, made his assistants for their lives: whereof, by my Lord
      Sandwich's favour, I am one; and take it not only as a matter of honour,
      but that, that may come to be of profit to me, and so with great content
      went and called my wife, and so home and to the office, where busy late,
      and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, who not being up I staid
      talking with Mr. Moore till my Lord was ready and come down, and went
      directly out without calling for me or seeing any body. I know not whether
      he knew I was there, but I am apt to think not, because if he would have
      given me that slighting yet he would not have done it to others that were
      there. So I went back again doing nothing but discoursing with Mr. Moore,
      who I find by discourse to be grown rich, and indeed not to use me at all
      with the respect he used to do, but as his equal. He made me known to
      their Chaplin, who is a worthy, able man. Thence home, and by and by to
      the Coffee-house, and thence to the 'Change, and so home to dinner, and
      after a little chat with my wife to the office, where all the afternoon
      till very late at the office busy, and so home to supper and to bed,
      hoping in God that my diligence, as it is really very useful for the King,
      so it will end in profit to myself. In the meantime I have good content in
      mind to see myself improve every day in knowledge and being known.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Lay long pleasantly entertaining myself with my wife, and then up
      and to the office, where busy till noon, vexed to see how Sir J. Minnes
      deserves rather to be pitied for his dotage and folly than employed at a
      great salary to ruin the King's business. At noon to the 'Change, and
      thence home to dinner, and then down to Deptford, where busy a while, and
      then walking home it fell hard a raining. So at Halfway house put in, and
      there meeting Mr. Stacy with some company of pretty women, I took him
      aside to a room by ourselves, and there talked with him about the several
      sorts of tarrs, and so by and by parted, and I walked home and there late
      at the office, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed talking with my wife, and then up in
      great doubt whether I should not go see Mr. Coventry or no, who hath not
      been well these two or three days, but it being foul weather I staid
      within, and so to my office, and there all the morning reading some Common
      Law, to which I will allot a little time now and then, for I much want it.
      At noon home to dinner, and then after some discourse with my wife, to the
      office again, and by and by Sir W. Pen came to me after sermon and walked
      with me in the garden and then one comes to tell me that Anthony and Will
      Joyce were come to see me, so I in to them and made mighty much of them,
      and very pleasant we were, and most of their business I find to be to
      advise about getting some woman to attend my brother Tom, whom they say is
      very ill and seems much to want one. To which I agreed, and desired them
      to get their wives to enquire out one. By and by they bid me good night,
      but immediately as they were gone out of doors comes Mrs. Turner's boy
      with a note to me to tell me that my brother Tom was so ill as they feared
      he would not long live, and that it would be fit I should come and see
      him. So I sent for them back, and they came, and Will Joyce desiring to
      speak with me alone I took him up, and there he did plainly tell me to my
      great astonishment that my brother is deadly ill, and that their chief
      business of coming was to tell me so, and what is worst that his disease
      is the pox, which he hath heretofore got, and hath not been cured, but is
      come to this, and that this is certain, though a secret told his father
      Fenner by the Doctor which he helped my brother to. This troubled me
      mightily, but however I thought fit to go see him for speech of people's
      sake, and so walked along with them, and in our way called on my uncle
      Fenner (where I have not been these 12 months and more) and advised with
      him, and then to my brother, who lies in bed talking idle. He could only
      say that he knew me, and then fell to other discourse, and his face like a
      dying man, which Mrs. Turner, who was here, and others conclude he is. The
      company being gone, I took the mayde, which seems a very grave and serious
      woman, and in W. Joyce's company' did inquire how things are with her
      master. She told me many things very discreetly, and said she had all his
      papers and books, and key of his cutting house, and showed me a bag which
      I and Wm. Joyce told, coming to L5 14s. 0d., which we left with her again,
      after giving her good counsel, and the boys, and seeing a nurse there of
      Mrs. Holden's choosing, I left them, and so walked home greatly troubled
      to think of my brother's condition, and the trouble that would arise to me
      by his death or continuing sick. So at home, my mind troubled, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and walked to my brother's, where I find he hath continued
      talking idly all night, and now knows me not; which troubles me mightily.
      So I walked down and discoursed a great while alone with the mayde, who
      tells me many passages of her master's practices, and how she concludes
      that he has run behind hand a great while and owes money, and has been
      dunned by several people, among others by one Cave, both husband and wife,
      but whether it was for&mdash;[See April 6th]&mdash;money or something
      worse she knows not, but there is one Cranburne, I think she called him,
      in Fleete Lane with whom he hath many times been mighty private, but what
      their dealings have been she knows not, but believes these were naught,
      and then his sitting up two Saturday nights one after another when all
      were abed doing something to himself, which she now suspects what it was,
      but did not before, but tells me that he hath been a very bad husband as
      to spending his time, and hath often told him of it, so that upon the
      whole I do find he is, whether he lives or dies, a ruined man, and what
      trouble will befall me by it I know not. Thence to White Hall; and in the
      Duke's chamber, while he was dressing, two persons of quality that were
      there did tell his Royal Highness how the other night, in Holborne, about
      midnight, being at cards, a link-boy come by and run into the house, and
      told the people the house was a-falling. Upon this the whole family was
      frighted, concluding that the boy had said that the house was a-fire: so
      they deft their cards above, and one would have got out of the balcone,
      but it was not open; the other went up to fetch down his children, that
      were in bed; so all got clear out of the house. And no sooner so, but the
      house fell down indeed, from top to bottom. It seems my Lord Southampton's
      canaille&mdash;[sewer]&mdash;did come too near their foundation, and so
      weakened the house, and down it came; which, in every respect, is a most
      extraordinary passage. By and by into his closet and did our business with
      him. But I did not speed as I expected in a business about the manner of
      buying hemp for this year, which troubled me, but it proceeds only from my
      pride, that I must needs expect every thing to be ordered just as I
      apprehend, though it was not I think from my errour, but their not being
      willing to hear and consider all that I had to propose. Being broke up I
      followed my Lord Sandwich and thanked him for his putting me into the
      Fishery, which I perceive he expected, and cried "Oh!" says he, "in the
      Fishery you mean. I told you I would remember you in it," but offered no
      other discourse. But demanding whether he had any commands for me,
      methought he cried "No!" as if he had no more mind to discourse with me,
      which still troubles me and hath done all the day, though I think I am a
      fool for it, in not pursuing my resolution of going handsome in clothes
      and looking high, for that must do it when all is done with my Lord.
      Thence by coach with Sir W. Batten to the city, and his son Castle, who
      talks mighty highly against Captain Tayler, calling him knave, and I find
      that the old Boating father is led and talks just as the son do, or the
      son as the father would have him. 'Light and to Mr. Moxon's, and there saw
      our office globes in doing, which will be very handsome but cost money. So
      to the Coffee-house, and there very fine discourse with Mr. Hill the
      merchant, a pretty, gentile, young, and sober man. So to the 'Change, and
      thence home, where my wife and I fell out about my not being willing to
      have her have her gowne laced, but would lay out the same money and more
      on a plain new one. At this she flounced away in a manner I never saw her,
      nor which I could ever endure. So I away to the office, though she had
      dressed herself to go see my Lady Sandwich. She by and by in a rage
      follows me, and coming to me tells me in spitefull manner like a vixen and
      with a look full of rancour that she would go buy a new one and lace it
      and make me pay for it, and then let me burn it if I would after she had
      done it, and so went away in a fury. This vexed me cruelly, but being very
      busy I had, not hand to give myself up to consult what to do in it, but
      anon, I suppose after she saw that I did not follow her, she came again to
      the office, where I made her stay, being busy with another, half an houre,
      and her stomach coming down we were presently friends, and so after my
      business being over at the office we out and by coach to my Lady
      Sandwich's, with whom I left my wife, and I to White Hall, where I met Mr.
      Delsety, and after an hour's discourse with him met with nobody to do
      other business with, but back again to my Lady, and after half an hour's
      discourse with her to my brother's, who I find in the same or worse
      condition. The doctors give him over and so do all that see him. He talks
      no sense two, words together now; and I confess it made me weepe to see
      that he should not be able, when I asked him, to say who I was. I went to
      Mrs. Turner's, and by her discourse with my brother's Doctor, Mr. Powell,
      I find that she is full now of the disease which my brother is troubled
      with, and talks of it mightily, which I am sorry for, there being other
      company, but methinks it should be for her honour to forbear talking of
      it, the shame of this very thing I confess troubles me as much as
      anything. Back to my brother's and took my wife, and carried her to my
      uncle Fenner's and there had much private discourse with him. He tells me
      of the Doctor's thoughts of my brother's little hopes of recovery, and
      from that to tell me his thoughts long of my brother's bad husbandry, and
      from that to say that he believes he owes a great deal of money, as to my
      cozen Scott I know not how much, and Dr. Thos. Pepys L30, but that the
      Doctor confesses that he is paid L20 of it, and what with that and what he
      owes my father and me I doubt he is in a very sad condition, that if he
      lives he will not be able to show his head, which will be a very great
      shame to me. After this I went in to my aunt and my wife and Anthony Joyce
      and his wife, who were by chance there, and drank and so home, my mind and
      head troubled, but I hope it will [be] over in a little time one way or
      other. After doing a little at my office of business I home to supper and
      to bed. From notice that my uncle Fenner did give my father the last week
      of my brother's condition, my mother is coming up to towne, which also do
      trouble me. The business between my Lords Chancellor and Bristoll, they
      say, is hushed up; and the latter gone or going, by the King's licence, to
      France.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon
      comes Madam Turner and her daughter The., her chief errand to tell me that
      she had got Dr. Wiverly, her Doctor, to search my brother's mouth, where
      Mr. Powell says there is an ulcer, from thence he concludes that he hath
      had the pox. But the Doctor swears that there is not, nor ever was any,
      and my brother being very sensible, which I was glad to hear, he did talk
      with him about it, and he did wholly disclaim that ever he had the
      disease, or that ever he said to Powell that he had it. All which did put
      me into great comfort as to the reproach which was spread against him. So
      I sent for a barrel of oysters, and they dined, and we were very merry, I
      being willing to be so upon this news. After dinner we took coach and to
      my brother's, where contrary to my expectation he continues as bad or
      worse, talking idle, and now not at all knowing any of us as before. Here
      we staid a great while, I going up and down the house looking after
      things. In the evening Dr. Wiverley came again, and I sent for Mr. Powell
      (the Doctor and I having first by ourselves searched my brother again at
      his privities, where he was as clear as ever he was born, and in the
      Doctor's opinion had been ever so), and we three alone discoursed the
      business, where the coxcomb did give us his simple reasons for what he had
      said, which the Doctor fully confuted, and left the fellow only saying
      that he should cease to report any such thing, and that what he had said
      was the best of his judgment from my brother's words and a ulcer, as he
      supposed, in his mouth. I threatened him that I would have satisfaction if
      I heard any more such discourse, and so good night to them two, giving the
      Doctor a piece for his fee, but the other nothing. I to my brother again,
      where Madam Turner and her company, and Mrs. Croxton, my wife, and Mrs.
      Holding. About 8 o'clock my brother began to fetch his spittle with more
      pain, and to speak as much but not so distinctly, till at last the phlegm
      getting the mastery of him, and he beginning as we thought to rattle, I
      had no mind to see him die, as we thought he presently would, and so
      withdrew and led Mrs. Turner home, but before I came back, which was in
      half a quarter of an hour, my brother was dead. I went up and found the
      nurse holding his eyes shut, and he poor wretch lying with his chops
      fallen, a most sad sight, and that which put me into a present very great
      transport of grief and cries, and indeed it was a most sad sight to see
      the poor wretch lie now still and dead, and pale like a stone. I staid
      till he was almost cold, while Mrs. Croxton, Holden, and the rest did
      strip and lay him out, they observing his corpse, as they told me
      afterwards, to be as clear as any they ever saw, and so this was the end
      of my poor brother, continuing talking idle and his lips working even to
      his last that his phlegm hindered his breathing, and at last his breath
      broke out bringing a flood of phlegm and stuff out with it, and so he
      died. This evening he talked among other talk a great deal of French very
      plain and good, as, among others: 'quand un homme boit quand il n'a poynt
      d'inclination a boire il ne luy fait jamais de bien.' I once begun to tell
      him something of his condition, and asked him whither he thought he should
      go. He in distracted manner answered me&mdash;"Why, whither should I go?
      there are but two ways: If I go, to the bad way I must give God thanks for
      it, and if I go the other way I must give God the more thanks for it; and
      I hope I have not been so undutifull and unthankfull in my life but I hope
      I shall go that way." This was all the sense, good or bad, that I could
      get of him this day. I left my wife to see him laid out, and I by coach
      home carrying my brother's papers, all I could find, with me, and having
      wrote a letter to, my father telling him what hath been said I returned by
      coach, it being very late, and dark, to my brother's, but all being gone,
      the corpse laid out, and my wife at Mrs. Turner's, I thither, and there
      after an hour's talk, we up to bed, my wife and I in the little blue
      chamber, and I lay close to my wife, being full of disorder and grief for
      my brother that I could not sleep nor wake with satisfaction, at last I
      slept till 5 or 6 o'clock.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. And then I rose and up, leaving my wife in bed, and to my brother's,
      where I set them on cleaning the house, and my wife coming anon to look
      after things, I up and down to my cozen Stradwicke's and uncle Fenner's
      about discoursing for the funeral, which I am resolved to put off till
      Friday next. Thence home and trimmed myself, and then to the 'Change, and
      told my uncle Wight of my brother's death, and so by coach to my cozen
      Turner's and there dined very well, but my wife.... in great pain we were
      forced to rise in some disorder, and in Mrs. Turner's coach carried her
      home and put her to bed. Then back again with my cozen Norton to Mrs.
      Turner's, and there staid a while talking with Dr. Pepys, the puppy, whom
      I had no patience to hear. So I left them and to my brother's to look
      after things, and saw the coffin brought; and by and by Mrs. Holden came
      and saw him nailed up. Then came W. Joyce to me half drunk, and much ado I
      had to tell him the story of my brother's being found clear of what was
      said, but he would interrupt me by some idle discourse or other, of his
      crying what a good man, and a good speaker my brother was, and God knows
      what. At last weary of him I got him away, and I to Mrs. Turner's, and
      there, though my heart is still heavy to think of my poor brother, yet I
      could give way to my fancy to hear Mrs. The. play upon the Harpsicon,
      though the musique did not please me neither. Thence to my brother's and
      found them with my mayd Elizabeth taking an inventory of the goods of the
      house, which I was well pleased at, and am much beholden to Mr.
      Honeywood's man in doing of it. His name is Herbert, one that says he knew
      me when he lived with Sir Samuel Morland, but I have forgot him. So I left
      them at it, and by coach home and to my office, there to do a little
      business, but God knows my heart and head is so full of my brother's
      death, and the consequences of it, that I can do very little or understand
      it. So home to supper, and after looking over some business in my chamber
      I to bed to my wife, who continues in bed in some pain still. This day I
      have a great barrel of oysters given me by Mr. Barrow, as big as 16 of
      others, and I took it in the coach with me to Mrs. Turner's, and give them
      to her. This day the Parliament met again, after a long prorogation, but
      what they have done I have not been in the way to hear.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and to my brother's, where all the morning doing business against
      to-morrow, and so to my cozen Stradwicke's about the same business, and to
      the 'Change, and thence home to dinner, where my wife in bed sick still,
      but not so bad as yesterday. I dined by her, and so to the office, where
      we sat this afternoon, having changed this day our sittings from morning
      to afternoons, because of the Parliament which returned yesterday; but was
      adjourned till Monday next; upon pretence that many of the members were
      said to be upon the road; and also the King had other affairs, and so
      desired them to adjourn till then. But the truth is, the King is offended
      at my Lord of Bristol, as they say, whom he hath found to have been all
      this while (pretending a desire of leave to go into France, and to have
      all the difference between him and the Chancellor made up,) endeavouring
      to make factions in both Houses to the Chancellor. So the King did this to
      keep the Houses from meeting; and in the meanwhile sent a guard and a
      herald last night to have taken him at Wimbleton, where he was in the
      morning, but could not find him: at which the King was and is still
      mightily concerned, and runs up and down to and from the Chancellor's like
      a boy: and it seems would make Digby's articles against the Chancellor to
      be treasonable reflections against his Majesty. So that the King is very
      high, as they say; and God knows what will follow upon it! After office I
      to my brother's again, and thence to Madam Turner's, in both places
      preparing things against to-morrow; and this night I have altered my
      resolution of burying him in the church yarde among my young brothers and
      sisters, and bury him in the church, in the middle isle, as near as I can
      to my mother's pew. This costs me 20s. more. This being all, home by
      coach, bringing my brother's silver tankard for safety along with me, and
      so to supper, after writing to my father, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up betimes, and walked to my brother's, where a great while putting
      things in order against anon; then to Madam Turner's and eat a breakfast
      there, and so to Wotton, my shoemaker, and there got a pair of shoes
      blacked on the soles against anon for me; so to my brother's and to
      church, and with the grave-maker chose a place for my brother to lie in,
      just under my mother's pew. But to see how a man's tombes are at the mercy
      of such a fellow, that for sixpence he would, (as his owne words were,) "I
      will justle them together but I will make room for him;" speaking of the
      fulness of the middle isle, where he was to lie; and that he would, for my
      father's sake, do my brother that is dead all the civility he can; which
      was to disturb other corps that are not quite rotten, to make room for
      him; and methought his manner of speaking it was very remarkable; as of a
      thing that now was in his power to do a man a courtesy or not. At noon my
      wife, though in pain, comes, but I being forced to go home, she went back
      with me, where I dressed myself, and so did Besse; and so to my brother's
      again: whither, though invited, as the custom is, at one or two o'clock,
      they came not till four or five. But at last one after another they come,
      many more than I bid: and my reckoning that I bid was one hundred and
      twenty; but I believe there was nearer one hundred and fifty. Their
      service was six biscuits apiece, and what they pleased of burnt claret. My
      cosen Joyce Norton kept the wine and cakes above; and did give out to them
      that served, who had white gloves given them. But above all, I am beholden
      to Mrs. Holden, who was most kind, and did take mighty pains not only in
      getting the house and every thing else ready, but this day in going up and
      down to see, the house filled and served, in order to mine, and their
      great content, I think; the men sitting by themselves in some rooms, and
      women by themselves in others, very close, but yet room enough. Anon to
      church, walking out into the streete to the Conduit, and so across the
      streete, and had a very good company along with the corps. And being come
      to the grave as above, Dr. Pierson, the minister of the parish, did read
      the service for buriall: and so I saw my poor brother laid into the grave;
      and so all broke up; and I and my wife and Madam Turner and her family to
      my brother's, and by and by fell to a barrell of oysters, cake, and
      cheese, of Mr. Honiwood's, with him, in his chamber and below, being too
      merry for so late a sad work. But, Lord! to see how the world makes
      nothing of the memory of a man, an houre after he is dead! And, indeed, I
      must blame myself; for though at the sight of him dead and dying, I had
      real grief for a while, while he was in my sight, yet presently after, and
      ever since, I have had very little grief indeed for him. By and by, it
      beginning to be late, I put things in some order in the house, and so took
      my wife and Besse (who hath done me very good service in cleaning and
      getting ready every thing and serving the wine and things to-day, and is
      indeed a most excellent good-natured and faithful wench, and I love her
      mightily), by coach home, and so after being at the office to set down the
      day's work home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon my wife and
      I alone, having a good hen, with eggs, to dinner, with great content. Then
      by coach to my brother's, where I spent the afternoon in paying some of
      the charges of the buriall, and in looking over his papers, among which I
      find several letters of my brother John's to him speaking very foale words
      of me and my deportment to him here, and very crafty designs about
      Sturtlow land and God knows what, which I am very glad to know, and shall
      make him repent them. Anon my father and my brother John came to towne by
      coach. I sat till night with him, giving him an account of things. He,
      poor man, very sad and sickly. I in great pain by a simple compressing of
      my cods to-day by putting one leg over another as I have formerly done,
      which made me hasten home, and after a little at the office in great
      disorder home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). Kept my bed all the morning, having laid a poultice to
      my cods last night to take down the tumour there which I got yesterday,
      which it did do, being applied pretty warm, and soon after the beginning
      of the swelling, and the pain was gone also. We lay talking all the while,
      among other things of religion, wherein I am sorry so often to hear my
      wife talk of her being and resolving to die a Catholique,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Mrs. Pepys's leaning towards Roman Catholicism was a constant
     trouble to her husband; but, in spite of his fears, she died a
     Protestant (Dr. Milles's certificate.)]
</pre>
    <p>
      and indeed a small matter, I believe, would absolutely turn her, which I
      am sorry for. Up at noon to dinner, and then to my chamber with a fire
      till late at night looking over my brother Thomas's papers, sorting of
      them, among which I find many base letters of my brother John's to him
      against me, and carrying on plots against me to promote Tom's having of
      his Banbury' Mistress, in base slighting terms, and in worse of my sister
      Pall, such as I shall take a convenient time to make my father know, and
      him also to his sorrow. So after supper to bed, our people rising to wash
      to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and it snowing this morning a little, which from the mildness of
      the winter and the weather beginning to be hot and the summer to come on
      apace, is a little strange to us. I did not go abroad for fear of my
      tumour, for fear it shall rise again, but staid within, and by and by my
      father came, poor man, to me, and my brother John. After much talke and
      taking them up to my chamber, I did there after some discourse bring in
      any business of anger&mdash;with John, and did before my father read all
      his roguish letters, which troubled my father mightily, especially to hear
      me say what I did, against my allowing any thing for the time to come to
      him out of my owne purse, and other words very severe, while he, like a
      simple rogue, made very silly and churlish answers to me, not like a man
      of any goodness or witt, at which I was as much disturbed as the other,
      and will be as good as my word in making him to his cost know that I will
      remember his carriage to me in this particular the longest day I live. It
      troubled me to see my poor father so troubled, whose good nature did make
      him, poor wretch, to yield, I believe, to comply with my brother Tom and
      him in part of their designs, but without any ill intent to me, or doubt
      of me or my good intentions to him or them, though it do trouble me a
      little that he should in any manner do it. They dined with me, and after
      dinner abroad with my wife to buy some things for her, and I to the
      office, where we sat till night, and then, after doing some business at my
      closet, I home and to supper and to bed. This day the Houses of Parliament
      met; and the King met them, with the Queene with him. And he made a speech
      to them:
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [March 16th, 1663-64.  This day both Houses met, and on the gist the
     king opened the session with a speech from the throne, in which
     occurs this Passage: "I pray, Mr. Speaker, and you, gentlemen of the
     House of Commons, give that Triennial Bill once a reading in your
     house, and then, in God's name, do what you think fit for me and
     yourselves and the whole kingdom.  I need not tell you how much I
     love parliaments.  Never king was so much beholden to parliaments as
     I have been, nor do I think the crown can ever be happy without
     frequent parliaments" (Cobbett's "Parliamentary History," vol. iv.,
     cc. 290, 291).]
</pre>
    <p>
      among other things, discoursing largely of the plots abroad against him
      and the peace of the kingdom; and, among other things, that the
      dissatisfied party had great hopes upon the effect of the Act for a
      Triennial Parliament granted by his father, which he desired them to
      peruse, and, I think, repeal. So the Houses did retire to their own House,
      and did order the Act to be read to-morrow before them; and I suppose it
      will be repealed, though I believe much against the will of a good many
      that sit there.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and spent the whole morning and afternoon at my office, only in
      the evening, my wife being at my aunt Wight's, I went thither, calling at
      my own house, going out found the parlour curtains drawn, and inquiring
      the reason of it, they told me that their mistress had got Mrs. Buggin's
      fine little dog and our little bitch, which is proud at this time, and I
      am apt to think that she was helping him to line her, for going afterwards
      to my uncle Wight's, and supping there with her, where very merry with Mr.
      Woolly's drollery, and going home I found the little dog so little that of
      himself he could not reach our bitch, which I am sorry for, for it is the
      finest dog that ever I saw in my life, as if he were painted the colours
      are so finely mixed and shaded. God forgive me, it went against me to have
      my wife and servants look upon them while they endeavoured to do
      something....
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and going out saw Mrs. Buggin's dog, which proves as I thought
      last night so pretty that I took him and the bitch into my closet below,
      and by holding down the bitch helped him to line her, which he did very
      stoutly, so as I hope it will take, for it is the prettiest dog that ever
      I saw. So to the office, where very busy all the morning, and so to the
      'Change, and off hence with Sir W. Rider to the Trinity House, and there
      dined very well: and good discourse among the old men of Islands now and
      then rising and falling again in the Sea, and that there is many dangers
      of grounds and rocks that come just up to the edge almost of the sea, that
      is never discovered and ships perish without the world's knowing the
      reason of it. Among other things, they observed, that there are but two
      seamen in the Parliament house, viz., Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen, and
      not above twenty or thirty merchants; which is a strange thing in an
      island, and no wonder that things of trade go no better nor are better
      understood. Thence home, and all the afternoon at the office, only for an
      hour in the evening my Lady Jemimah, Paulina, and Madam Pickering come to
      see us, but my wife would not be seen, being unready. Very merry with
      them; they mightily talking of their thrifty living for a fortnight before
      their mother came to town, and other such simple talk, and of their merry
      life at Brampton, at my father's, this winter. So they being gone, to the
      office again till late, and so home and to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Called up by my father, poor man, coming to advise with me about
      Tom's house and other matters, and he being gone I down by water to
      Greenwich, it being very-foggy, and I walked very finely to Woolwich, and
      there did very much business at both yards, and thence walked back,
      Captain Grove with me talking, and so to Deptford and did the like-there,
      and then walked to Redriffe (calling and eating a bit of collops and eggs
      at Half-way house), and so home to the office, where we sat late, and home
      weary to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lady-day). Up and by water to White Hall, and there to chappell;
      where it was most infinite full to hear Dr. Critton. Being not knowne,
      some great persons in the pew I pretended to, and went in, did question my
      coming in. I told them my pretence; so they turned to the orders of the
      chappell, which hung behind upon the wall, and read it; and were
      satisfied; but they did not demand whether I was in waiting or no; and so
      I was in some fear lest he that was in waiting might come and betray me.
      The Doctor preached upon the thirty-first of Jeremy, and the twenty-first
      and twenty-second verses, about a woman compassing a man; meaning the
      Virgin conceiving and bearing our Saviour. It was the worst sermon I ever
      heard him make, I must confess; and yet it was good, and in two places
      very bitter, advising the King to do as the Emperor Severus did, to hang
      up a Presbyter John (a short coat and a long gowne interchangeably) in all
      the Courts of England. But the story of Severus was pretty, that he hanged
      up forty senators before the Senate house, and then made a speech
      presently to the Senate in praise of his owne lenity; and then decreed
      that never any senator after that time should suffer in the same manner
      without consent of the Senate: which he compared to the proceeding of the
      Long Parliament against my Lord Strafford. He said the greatest part of
      the lay magistrates in England were Puritans, and would not do justice;
      and the Bishopps, their powers were so taken away and lessened, that they
      could not exercise the power they ought. He told the King and the ladies
      plainly, speaking of death and of the skulls and bones of dead men and
      women,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The preacher appears to have had the grave scene in "Hamlet" in
     his mind, as he gives the same illustration of Alexander as Hamlet
     does.]
</pre>
    <p>
      how there is no difference; that nobody could tell that of the great
      Marius or Alexander from a pyoneer; nor, for all the pains the ladies take
      with their faces, he that should look in a charnels-house could not
      distinguish which was Cleopatra's, or fair Rosamond's, or Jane Shoare's.
      Thence by water home. After dinner to the office, thence with my wife to
      see my father and discourse how he finds Tom's matters, which he do very
      ill, and that he finds him to have been so negligent, that he used to
      trust his servants with cutting out of clothes, never hardly cutting out
      anything himself; and, by the abstract of his accounts, we find him to owe
      above L290, and to be coming to him under L200. Thence home with my wife,
      it being very dirty on foot, and bought some fowl in Gracious. Streets and
      some oysters against our feast to-morrow. So home, and after at the office
      a while, home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up very betimes and to my office, and there read over some papers
      against a meeting by and by at this office of Mr. Povy, Sir W. Rider,
      Creed, and Vernaty, and Mr. Gauden about my Lord Peterborough's accounts
      for Tangier, wherein we proceeded a good way; but, Lord! to see how
      ridiculous Mr. Povy is in all he says or do; like a man not more fit for
      to be in such employments as he is, and particularly that of Treasurer
      (paying many and very great sums without the least written order) as he is
      to be King of England, and seems but this day, after much discourse of
      mine, to be sensible of that part of his folly, besides a great deal more
      in other things. This morning in discourse Sir W. Rider [said], that he
      hath kept a journals of his life for almost these forty years, even to
      this day and still do, which pleases me mightily. That being done Sir J.
      Minnes and I sat all the morning, and then I to the 'Change, and there got
      away by pretence of business with my uncle Wight to put off Creed, whom I
      had invited to dinner, and so home, and there found Madam Turner, her
      daughter The., Joyce Norton, my father and Mr. Honywood, and by and by
      come my uncle Wight and aunt. This being my solemn feast for my cutting of
      the stone, it being now, blessed be God! this day six years since the
      time; and I bless God I do in all respects find myself free from that
      disease or any signs of it, more than that upon the least cold I continue
      to have pain in making water, by gathering of wind and growing costive,
      till which be removed I am at no ease, but without that I am very well.
      One evil more I have, which is that upon the least squeeze almost my cods
      begin to swell and come to great pain, which is very strange and
      troublesome to me, though upon the speedy applying of a poultice it goes
      down again, and in two days I am well again. Dinner not being presently
      ready I spent some time myself and shewed them a map of Tangier left this
      morning at my house by Creed, cut by our order, the Commissioners, and
      drawn by Jonas Moore, which is very pleasant, and I purpose to have it
      finely set out and hung up. Mrs. Hunt coming to see my wife by chance
      dined here with us. After dinner Sir W. Batten sent to speak with me, and
      told me that he had proffered our bill today in the House, and that it was
      read without any dissenters, and he fears not but will pass very well,
      which I shall be glad of. He told me also how Sir [Richard] Temple hath
      spoke very discontentfull words in the House about the Tryennial Bill; but
      it hath been read the second time to-day, and committed; and, he believes,
      will go on without more ado, though there are many in the House are
      displeased at it, though they dare not say much. But above all
      expectation, Mr. Prin is the man against it, comparing it to the idoll
      whose head was of gold, and his body and legs and feet of different metal.
      So this Bill had several degrees of calling of Parliaments, in case the
      King, and then the Council, and then the Lord Chancellor, and then the
      Sheriffes, should fail to do it. He tells me also, how, upon occasion of
      some 'prentices being put in the pillory to-day for beating of their
      masters, or some such like thing, in Cheapside, a company of 'prentices
      came and rescued them, and pulled down the pillory; and they being set up
      again, did the like again. So that the Lord Mayor and Major Generall
      Browne was fain to come and stay there, to keep the peace; and drums, all
      up and down the city, was beat to raise the trained bands, for to quiett
      the towne, and by and by, going out with my uncle and aunt Wight by coach
      with my wife through Cheapside (the rest of the company after much content
      and mirth being broke up), we saw a trained band stand in Cheapside upon
      their guard. We went, much against my uncle's will, as far almost as Hyde
      Park, he and my aunt falling out all the way about it, which vexed me, but
      by this I understand my uncle more than ever I did, for he was mighty soon
      angry, and wished a pox take her, which I was sorry to hear. The weather I
      confess turning on a sudden to rain did make it very unpleasant, but yet
      there was no occasion in the world for his being so angry, but she bore
      herself very discreetly, and I must confess she proves to me much another
      woman than I thought her, but all was peace again presently, and so it
      raining very fast, we met many brave coaches coming from the Parke and so
      we turned and set them down at home, and so we home ourselves, and ended
      the day with great content to think how it hath pleased the Lord in six
      years time to raise me from a condition of constant and dangerous and most
      painfull sicknesse and low condition and poverty to a state of constant
      health almost, great honour and plenty, for which the Lord God of heaven
      make me truly thankfull. My wife found her gowne come home laced, which is
      indeed very handsome, but will cost me a great deal of money, more than
      ever I intended, but it is but for once. So to the office and did
      business, and then home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed wrangling with my wife about the charge
      she puts me to at this time for clothes more than I intended, and very
      angry we were, but quickly friends again. And so rising and ready I to my
      office, and there fell upon business, and then to dinner, and then to my
      office again to my business, and by and by in the afternoon walked forth
      towards my father's, but it being church time, walked to St. James's, to
      try if I could see the belle Butler, but could not; only saw her sister,
      who indeed is pretty, with a fine Roman nose. Thence walked through the
      ducking-pond fields; but they are so altered since my father used to carry
      us to Islington, to the old man's, at the King's Head, to eat cakes and
      ale (his name was Pitts) that I did not know which was the ducking-pond
      nor where I was. So through F[l]ee[t] lane to my father's, and there met
      Mr. Moore, and discoursed with him and my father about who should
      administer for my brother Tom, and I find we shall have trouble in it, but
      I will clear my hands of it, and what vexed me, my father seemed troubled
      that I should seem to rely so wholly upon the advice of Mr. Moore, and
      take nobody else, but I satisfied him, and so home; and in Cheapside, both
      coming and going, it was full of apprentices, who have been here all this
      day, and have done violence, I think, to the master of the boys that were
      put in the pillory yesterday. But, Lord! to see how the train-bands are
      raised upon this: the drums beating every where as if an enemy were upon
      them; so much is this city subject to be put into a disarray upon very
      small occasions. But it was pleasant to hear the boys, and particularly
      one little one, that I demanded the business. He told me that that had
      never been done in the city since it was a city, two prentices put in the
      pillory, and that it ought not to be so. So I walked home, and then it
      being fine moonshine with my wife an houre in the garden, talking of her
      clothes against Easter and about her mayds, Jane being to be gone, and the
      great dispute whether Besse, whom we both love, should be raised to be
      chamber-mayde or no. We have both a mind to it, but know not whether we
      should venture the making her proud and so make a bad chamber-mayde of a
      very good natured and sufficient cook-mayde. So to my office a little, and
      then to supper, prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. This is the first morning that I have begun, and I hope shall
      continue to rise betimes in the morning, and so up and to my office, and
      thence about 7 o'clock to T. Trice, and advised with him about our
      administering to my brother Tom, and I went to my father and told him what
      to do; which was to administer and to let my cozen Scott have a letter of
      Atturny to follow the business here in his absence for him, who by that
      means will have the power of paying himself (which we cannot however
      hinder) and do us a kindness we think too. But, Lord! what a shame,
      methinks, to me, that, in this condition, and at this age, I should know
      no better the laws of my owne country! Thence to Westminster Hall, and
      spent till noon, it being Parliament time, and at noon walked with Creed
      into St. James's Parke, talking of many things, particularly of the poor
      parts and great unfitness for business of Mr. Povy, and yet what a show he
      makes in the world. Mr. Coventry not being come to his chamber, I walked
      through the house with him for an hour in St. James's fields' talking of
      the same subject, and then parted, and back and with great impatience,
      sometimes reading, sometimes walking, sometimes thinking that Mr.
      Coventry, though he invited us to dinner with him, was gone with the rest
      of the office without a dinner. At last, at past 4 o'clock I heard that
      the Parliament was not up yet, and so walked to Westminster Hall, and
      there found it so, and meeting with Sir J. Minnes, and being very hungry,
      went over with him to the Leg, and before we had cut a bit, the House
      rises, however we eat a bit and away to St. James's and there eat a second
      part of our dinner with Mr. Coventry and his brother Harry, Sir W. Batten
      and Sir W. Pen. The great matter today in the House hath been, that Mr.
      Vaughan, the great speaker, is this day come to towne, and hath declared
      himself in a speech of an houre and a half, with great reason and
      eloquence, against the repealing of the Bill for Triennial Parliaments;
      but with no successe: but the House have carried it that there shall be
      such Parliaments, but without any coercive power upon the King, if he will
      bring this Act. But, Lord! to see how the best things are not done without
      some design; for I perceive all these gentlemen that I was with to-day
      were against it (though there was reason enough on their side); yet
      purely, I could perceive, because it was the King's mind to have it; and
      should he demand any thing else, I believe they would give it him. But
      this the discontented Presbyters, and the faction of the House will be
      highly displeased with; but it was carried clearly against them in the
      House. We had excellent good table-talke, some of which I have entered in
      my book of stories. So with them by coach home, and there find (bye my
      wife), that Father Fogourdy hath been with her to-day, and she is mightily
      for our going to hear a famous Reule preach at the French Embassador's
      house: I pray God he do not tempt her in any matters of religion, which
      troubles me; and also, she had messages from her mother to-day, who sent
      for her old morning-gown, which was almost past wearing; and I used to
      call it her kingdom, from the ease and content she used to have in the
      wearing of it. I am glad I do not hear of her begging any thing of more
      value, but I do not like that these messages should now come all upon
      Monday morning, when my wife expects of course I should be abroad at the
      Duke's. To the office, where Mr. Norman came and showed me a design of his
      for the storekeeper's books, for the keeping of them regular in order to a
      balance, which I am mightily satisfied to see, and shall love the fellow
      the better, as he is in all things sober, so particularly for his
      endeavour to do something in this thing so much wanted. So late home to
      supper and to bed, weary-with walking so long to no purpose in the Park
      to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Was called up this morning by a messenger from Sir G. Carteret to
      come to him to Sir W. Batten's, and so I rose and thither to him, and with
      him and Sir J. Minnes to, Sir G. Carteret's to examine his accounts, and
      there we sat at it all the morning. About noon Sir W. Batten came from the
      House of Parliament and told us our Bill for our office was read the
      second time to-day, with great applause, and is committed. By and by to
      dinner, where good cheere, and Sir G. Carteret in his humour a very good
      man, and the most kind father and pleased father in his children that ever
      I saw. Here is now hung up a picture of my Lady Carteret, drawn by Lilly,
      a very fine picture, but yet not so good as I have seen of his doing.
      After dinner to the business again without any intermission till almost
      night, and then home, and took coach to my father to see and discourse
      with him, and so home again and to my office, where late, and then home to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up very betimes to my office, and thence at 7 o'clock to Sir G.
      Carteret, and there with Sir J. Minnes made an end of his accounts, but
      staid not dinner, my Lady having made us drink our morning draft there of
      several wines, but I drank: nothing but some of her coffee, which was
      poorly made, with a little sugar in it. Thence to the 'Change a great
      while, and had good discourse with Captain Cocke at the Coffee-house about
      a Dutch warr, and it seems the King's design is by getting underhand the
      merchants to bring in their complaints to the Parliament, to make them in
      honour begin a warr, which he cannot in honour declare first, for fear
      they should not second him with money. Thence homewards, staying a pretty
      while with my little she milliner at the end of Birchin Lane, talking and
      buying gloves of her, and then home to dinner, and in the afternoon had a
      meeting upon the Chest business, but I fear unless I have time to look
      after it nothing will be done,, and that I fear I shall not. In the
      evening comes Sir W. Batten, who tells us that the Committee have approved
      of our bill with very few amendments in words, not in matter. So to my
      office, where late with Sir W. Warren, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up betimes, and to my office, where by and by comes Povy, Sir W.
      Rider, Mr. Bland, Creed, and Vernatty, about my Lord Peterborough's
      accounts, which we now went through, but with great difficulty, and many
      high words between Mr. Povy and I; for I could not endure to see so many
      things extraordinary put in, against truthe and reason. He was very angry,
      but I endeavoured all I could to profess my satisfaction in my Lord's part
      of the accounts, but not in those foolish idle things, they say I said,
      that others had put in. Anon we rose and parted, both of us angry, but I
      contented, because I knew all of them must know I was in the right. Then
      with Creed to Deptford, where I did a great deal of business enquiring
      into the business of canvas and other things with great content, and so
      walked back again, good discourse between Creed and I by the way, but most
      upon the folly of Povy, and at home found Luellin, and so we to dinner,
      and thence I to the office, where we sat all the afternoon late, and being
      up and my head mightily crowded with business, I took my wife by coach to
      see my father. I left her at his house and went to him to an alehouse hard
      by, where my cozen Scott was, and my father's new tenant, Langford, a
      tailor, to whom I have promised my custom, and he seems a very modest,
      carefull young man. Thence my wife coming with the coach to the alley end
      I home, and after supper to the making up my monthly accounts, and to my
      great content find myself worth above L900, the greatest sum I ever yet
      had. Having done my accounts, late to bed. My head of late mighty full of
      business, and with good content to myself in it, though sometimes it
      troubles me that nobody else but I should bend themselves to serve the
      King with that diligence, whereby much of my pains proves ineffectual.
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      April 1st. Up and to my office, where busy till noon, and then to the
      'Change, where I found all the merchants concerned with the presenting
      their complaints to the Committee of Parliament appointed to receive them
      this afternoon against the Dutch. So home to dinner, and thence by coach,
      setting my wife down at the New Exchange, I to White Hall; and coming too
      soon for the Tangier Committee walked to Mr. Blagrave for a song. I left
      long ago there, and here I spoke with his kinswoman, he not being within,
      but did not hear her sing, being not enough acquainted with her, but would
      be glad to have her, to come and be at my house a week now and then. Back
      to White Hall, and in the Gallery met the Duke of Yorke (I also saw the
      Queene going to the Parke, and her Mayds of Honour: she herself looks ill,
      and methinks Mrs. Stewart is grown fatter, and not so fair as she was);
      and he called me to him, and discoursed a good while with me; and after he
      was gone, twice or thrice staid and called me again to him, the whole
      length of the house: and at last talked of the Dutch; and I perceive do
      much wish that the Parliament will find reason to fall out with them. He
      gone, I by and by found that the Committee of Tangier met at the Duke of
      Albemarle's, and so I have lost my labour. So with Creed to the 'Change,
      and there took up my wife and left him, and we two home, and I to walk in
      the garden with W. Howe, whom we took up, he having been to see us, he
      tells me how Creed has been questioned before the Council about a letter
      that has been met with, wherein he is mentioned by some fanatiques as a
      serviceable friend to them, but he says he acquitted himself well in it,
      but, however, something sticks against him, he says, with my Lord, at
      which I am not very sorry, for I believe he is a false fellow. I walked
      with him to Paul's, he telling me how my Lord is little at home, minds his
      carding and little else, takes little notice of any body; but that he do
      not think he is displeased, as I fear, with me, but is strange to all,
      which makes me the less troubled. So walked back home, and late at the
      office. So home and to bed. This day Mrs. Turner did lend me, as a rarity,
      a manuscript of one Mr. Wells, writ long ago, teaching the method of
      building a ship, which pleases me mightily. I was at it to-night, but
      durst not stay long at it, I being come to have a great pain and water in
      my eyes after candle-light.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up and to my office, and afterwards sat, where great contest with Sir
      W. Batten and Mr. Wood, and that doating fool Sir J. Minnes, that says
      whatever Sir W. Batten says, though never minding whether to the King's
      profit or not. At noon to the Coffee-house, where excellent discourse with
      Sir W. Petty, who proposed it as a thing that is truly questionable,
      whether there really be any difference between waking and dreaming, that
      it is hard not only to tell how we know when we do a thing really or in a
      dream, but also to know what the difference [is] between one and the
      other. Thence to the 'Change, but having at this discourse long afterwards
      with Sir Thomas Chamberlin, who tells me what I heard from others, that
      the complaints of most Companies were yesterday presented to the Committee
      of Parliament against the Dutch, excepting that of the East India, which
      he tells me was because they would not be said to be the first and only
      cause of a warr with Holland, and that it is very probable, as well as
      most necessary, that we fall out with that people. I went to the 'Change,
      and there found most people gone, and so home to dinner, and thence to Sir
      W. Warren's, and with him past the whole afternoon, first looking over two
      ships' of Captain Taylor's and Phin. Pett's now in building, and am
      resolved to learn something of the art, for I find it is not hard and very
      usefull, and thence to Woolwich, and after seeing Mr. Falconer, who is
      very ill, I to the yard, and there heard Mr. Pett tell me several things
      of Sir W. Batten's ill managements, and so with Sir W. Warren walked to
      Greenwich, having good discourse, and thence by water, it being now
      moonshine and 9 or 10 o'clock at night, and landed at Wapping, and by him
      and his man safely brought to my door, and so he home, having spent the
      day with him very well. So home and eat something, and then to my office a
      while, and so home to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Lord's day). Being weary last night lay long, and called up by W.
      Joyce. So I rose, and his business was to ask advice of me, he being
      summonsed to the House of Lords to-morrow, for endeavouring to arrest my
      Lady Peters
    </p>
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     [Elizabeth, daughter of John Savage, second Earl Rivers, and first
     wife to William, fourth Lord Petre, who was, in 1678, impeached by
     the Commons of high treason, and died under confinement in the
     Tower, January 5th, 1683, s. p.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      for a debt. I did give him advice, and will assist him. He staid all the
      morning, but would not dine with me. So to my office and did business. At
      noon home to dinner, and being set with my wife in the kitchen my father
      comes and sat down there and dined with us. After dinner gives me an
      account of what he had done in his business of his house and goods, which
      is almost finished, and he the next week expects to be going down to
      Brampton again, which I am glad of because I fear the children of my Lord
      that are there for fear of any discontent. He being gone I to my office,
      and there very busy setting papers in order till late at night, only in
      the afternoon my wife sent for me home, to see her new laced gowne, that
      is her gown that is new laced; and indeed it becomes her very nobly, and
      is well made. I am much pleased with it. At night to supper, prayers, and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and walked to my Lord Sandwich's; and there spoke with him about
      W. Joyce, who told me he would do what was fit in so tender a point. I can
      yet discern a coldness in him to admit me to any discourse with him.
      Thence to Westminster, to the Painted Chamber, and there met the two
      Joyces. Will in a very melancholy taking. After a little discourse I to
      the Lords' House before they sat; and stood within it a good while, while
      the Duke of York came to me and spoke to me a good while about the new
      ship' at Woolwich. Afterwards I spoke with my Lord Barkeley and my Lord
      Peterborough about it. And so staid without a good while, and saw my Lady
      Peters, an impudent jade, soliciting all the Lords on her behalf. And at
      last W. Joyce was called in; and by the consequences, and what my Lord
      Peterborough told me, I find that he did speak all he said to his
      disadvantage, and so was committed to the Black Rod: which is very hard,
      he doing what he did by the advice of my Lord Peters' own steward. But the
      Sergeant of the Black Rod did direct one of his messengers to take him in
      custody, and so he was peaceably conducted to the Swan with two Necks, in
      Tuttle Street, to a handsome dining-room; and there was most civilly used,
      my uncle Fenner, and his brother Anthony, and some other friends being
      with him. But who would have thought that the fellow that I should have
      sworn could have spoken before all the world should in this be so daunted,
      as not to know what he said, and now to cry like a child. I protest, it is
      very strange to observe. I left them providing for his stay there to-night
      and getting a petition against tomorrow, and so away to Westminster Hall,
      and meeting Mr. Coventry, he took me to his chamber, with Sir William
      Hickeman, a member of their House, and a very civill gentleman. Here we
      dined very plentifully, and thence to White Hall to the Duke's, where we
      all met, and after some discourse of the condition of the Fleete, in order
      to a Dutch warr, for that, I perceive, the Duke hath a mind it should come
      to, we away to the office, where we sat, and I took care to rise betimes,
      and so by water to Halfway House, talking all the way good discourse with
      Mr. Wayth, and there found my wife, who was gone with her mayd Besse to
      have a walk. But, Lord! how my jealous mind did make me suspect that she
      might have some appointment to meet somebody. But I found the poor souls
      coming away thence, so I took them back, and eat and drank, and then home,
      and after at the office a while, I home to supper and to bed. It was a sad
      sight, me thought, to-day to see my Lord Peters coming out of the House
      fall out with his lady (from whom he is parted) about this business;
      saying that she disgraced him. But she hath been a handsome woman, and is,
      it seems, not only a lewd woman, but very high-spirited.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up very betimes, and walked to my cozen Anthony Joyce's, and thence
      with him to his brother Will, in Tuttle Street, where I find him pretty
      cheery over [what] he was yesterday (like a coxcomb), his wife being come
      to him, and having had his boy with him last night. Here I staid an hour
      or two and wrote over a fresh petition, that which was drawn by their
      solicitor not pleasing me, and thence to the Painted chamber, and by and
      by away by coach to my Lord Peterborough's, and there delivered the
      petition into his hand, which he promised most readily to deliver to the
      House today. Thence back, and there spoke to several Lords, and so did his
      solicitor (one that W. Joyce hath promised L5 to if he be released). Lord
      Peterborough presented a petition to the House from W. Joyce: and a great
      dispute, we hear, there was in the House for and against it. At last it
      was carried that he should be bayled till the House meets again after
      Easter, he giving bond for his appearance. This was not so good as we
      hoped, but as good as we could well expect. Anon comes the King and passed
      the Bill for repealing the Triennial Act, and another about Writs of
      Errour. I crowded in and heard the King's speech to them; but he speaks
      the worst that ever I heard man in my life worse than if he read it all,
      and he had it in writing in his hand. Thence, after the House was up, and
      I inquired what the order of the House was, I to W. Joyce,' with his
      brother, and told them all. Here was Kate come, and is a comely fat woman.
      I would not stay dinner, thinking to go home to dinner, and did go by
      water as far as the bridge, but thinking that they would take it kindly my
      being there, to be bayled for him if there was need, I returned, but
      finding them gone out to look after it, only Will and his wife and sister
      left and some friends that came to visit him, I to Westminster Hall, and
      by and by by agreement to Mrs. Lane's lodging, whither I sent for a
      lobster, and with Mr. Swayne and his wife eat it, and argued before them
      mightily for Hawly, but all would not do, although I made her angry by
      calling her old, and making her know what herself is. Her body was out of
      temper for any dalliance, and so after staying there 3 or 4 hours, but yet
      taking care to have my oath safe of not staying a quarter of an hour
      together with her, I went to W. Joyce, where I find the order come, and
      bayle (his father and brother) given; and he paying his fees, which come
      to above L2, besides L5 he is to give one man, and his charges of eating
      and drinking here, and 10s. a-day as many days as he stands under bayle:
      which, I hope, will teach him hereafter to hold his tongue better than he
      used to do. Thence with Anth. Joyce's wife alone home talking of Will's
      folly, and having set her down, home myself, where I find my wife dressed
      as if she had been abroad, but I think she was not, but she answering me
      some way that I did not like I pulled her by the nose, indeed to offend
      her, though afterwards to appease her I denied it, but only it was done in
      haste. The poor wretch took it mighty ill, and I believe besides wringing
      her nose she did feel pain, and so cried a great while, but by and by I
      made her friends, and so after supper to my office a while, and then home
      to bed. This day great numbers of merchants came to a Grand Committee of
      the House to bring in their claims against the Dutch. I pray God guide the
      issue to our good!
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up and to my office, whither by and by came John Noble, my father's
      old servant, to speake with me. I smelling the business, took him home;
      and there, all alone, he told me how he had been serviceable to my brother
      Tom, in the business of his getting his servant, an ugly jade, Margaret,
      with child. She was brought to bed in St. Sepulchre's parish of two
      children; one is dead, the other is alive; her name Elizabeth, and goes by
      the name of Taylor, daughter to John Taylor. It seems Tom did a great
      while trust one Crawly with the business, who daily got money of him; and
      at last, finding himself abused, he broke the matter to J. Noble, upon a
      vowe of secresy. Tom's first plott was to go on the other side the water
      and give a beggar woman something to take the child. They did once go, but
      did nothing, J. Noble saying that seven years hence the mother might come
      to demand the child and force him to produce it, or to be suspected of
      murder. Then I think it was that they consulted, and got one Cave, a poor
      pensioner in St. Bride's parish to take it, giving him L5, he thereby
      promising to keepe it for ever without more charge to them. The parish
      hereupon indite the man Cave for bringing this child upon the parish, and
      by Sir Richard Browne he is sent to the Counter. Cave thence writes to Tom
      to get him out. Tom answers him in a letter of his owne hand, which J.
      Noble shewed me, but not signed by him, wherein he speaks of freeing him
      and getting security for him, but nothing as to the business of the child,
      or anything like it: so that forasmuch as I could guess, there is nothing
      therein to my brother's prejudice as to the main point, and therefore I
      did not labour to tear or take away the paper. Cave being released,
      demands L5 more to secure my brother for ever against the child; and he
      was forced to give it him and took bond of Cave in L100, made at a
      scrivener's, one Hudson, I think, in the Old Bayly, to secure John Taylor,
      and his assigns, &amp;c. (in consideration of L10 paid him), from all
      trouble, or charge of meat, drink, clothes, and breeding of Elizabeth
      Taylor; and it seems, in the doing of it, J. Noble was looked upon as the
      assignee of this John Taylor. Noble says that he furnished Tom with this
      money, and is also bound by another bond to pay him 20s. more this next
      Easter Monday; but nothing for either sum appears under Tom's hand. I told
      him how I am like to lose a great sum by his death, and would not pay any
      more myself, but I would speake to my father about it against the
      afternoon. So away he went, and I all the morning in my office busy, and
      at noon home to dinner mightily oppressed with wind, and after dinner took
      coach and to Paternoster Row, and there bought a pretty silke for a
      petticoate for my wife, and thence set her down at the New Exchange, and I
      leaving the coat at Unthanke's, went to White Hall, but the Councell
      meeting at Worcester House I went thither, and there delivered to the Duke
      of Albemarle a paper touching some Tangier business, and thence to the
      'Change for my wife, and walked to my father's, who was packing up some
      things for the country. I took him up and told him this business of Tom,
      at which the poor wretch was much troubled, and desired me that I would
      speak with J. Noble, and do what I could and thought fit in it without
      concerning him in it. So I went to Noble, and saw the bond that Cave did
      give and also Tom's letter that I mentioned above, and upon the whole I
      think some shame may come, but that it will be hard from any thing I see
      there to prove the child to be his. Thence to my father and told what I
      had done, and how I had quieted Noble by telling him that, though we are
      resolved to part with no more money out of our own purses, yet if he can
      make it appear a true debt that it may be justifiable for us to pay it, we
      will do our part to get it paid, and said that I would have it paid before
      my own debt. So my father and I both a little satisfied, though vexed to
      think what a rogue my brother was in all respects. I took my wife by coach
      home, and to my office, where late with Sir W. Warren, and so home to
      supper and to bed. I heard to-day that the Dutch have begun with us by
      granting letters of marke against us; but I believe it not.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up and to my office, where busy, and by and by comes Sir W. Warren
      and old Mr. Bond in order to the resolving me some questions about masts
      and their proportions, but he could say little to me to my satisfaction,
      and so I held him not long but parted. So to my office busy till noon and
      then to the 'Change, where high talke of the Dutch's protest against our
      Royall Company in Guinny, and their granting letters of marke against us
      there, and every body expects a warr, but I hope it will not yet be so,
      nor that this is true. Thence to dinner, where my wife got me a pleasant
      French fricassee of veal for dinner, and thence to the office, where vexed
      to see how Sir W. Batten ordered things this afternoon (vide my office
      book, for about this time I have begun, my notions and informations
      encreasing now greatly every day, to enter all occurrences extraordinary
      in my office in a book by themselves), and so in the evening after long
      discourse and eased my mind by discourse with Sir W. Warren, I to my
      business late, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up betimes and to the office, and anon, it begunn to be fair after a
      great shower this morning, Sir W. Batten and I by water (calling his son
      Castle by the way, between whom and I no notice at all of his letter the
      other day to me) to Deptford, and after a turn in the yard, I went with
      him to the Almes'-house to see the new building which he, with some
      ambition, is building of there, during his being Master of Trinity House;
      and a good worke it is, but to see how simply he answered somebody
      concerning setting up the arms of the corporation upon the door, that and
      any thing else he did not deny it, but said he would leave that to the
      master that comes after him. There I left him and to the King's yard
      again, and there made good inquiry into the business of the poop lanterns,
      wherein I found occasion to correct myself mightily for what I have done
      in the contract with the platerer, and am resolved, though I know not how,
      to make them to alter it, though they signed it last night, and so I took
      Stanes
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<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Among the State Papers is a petition of Thomas Staine to the Navy
     Commissioners "for employment as plateworker in one or two
     dockyards.  Has incurred ill-will by discovering abuses in the great
     rates given by the king for several things in the said trade.  Begs
     the appointment, whereby it will be seen who does the work best and
     cheapest, otherwise he and all others will be discouraged from
     discovering abuses in future, with order thereon for a share of the
     work to be given to him"  ("Calendar," Domestic, 1663-64, p. 395)]
</pre>
    <p>
      home with me by boat and discoursed it, and he will come to reason when I
      can make him to understand it. No sooner landed but it fell a mighty storm
      of rain and hail, so I put into a cane shop and bought one to walk with,
      cost me 4s. 6d., all of one joint. So home to dinner, and had an excellent
      Good Friday dinner of peas porridge and apple pye. So to the office all
      the afternoon preparing a new book for my contracts, and this afternoon
      come home the office globes done to my great content. In the evening a
      little to visit Sir W. Pen, who hath a feeling this day or two of his old
      pain. Then to walk in the garden with my wife, and so to my office a
      while, and then home to the only Lenten supper I have had of wiggs&mdash;[Buns
      or teacakes.]&mdash;and ale, and so to bed. This morning betimes came to
      my office to me boatswain Smith of Woolwich, telling me a notable piece of
      knavery of the officers of the yard and Mr. Gold in behalf of a contract
      made for some old ropes by Mr. Wood, and I believe I shall find Sir W.
      Batten of the plot (vide my office daybook).
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [These note-books referred to in the Diary are not known to exist
     now.]
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    <p>
      9th. The last night, whether it was from cold I got to-day upon the water
      I know not, or whether it was from my mind being over concerned with
      Stanes's business of the platery of the navy, for my minds was mighty
      troubled with the business all night long, I did wake about one o'clock in
      the morning, a thing I most rarely do, and pissed a little with great
      pain, continued sleepy, but in a high fever all night, fiery hot, and in
      some pain. Towards morning I slept a little and waking found myself
      better, but.... with some pain, and rose I confess with my clothes
      sweating, and it was somewhat cold too, which I believe might do me more
      hurt, for I continued cold and apt to shake all the morning, but that some
      trouble with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten kept me warm. At noon home to
      dinner upon tripes, and so though not well abroad with my wife by coach to
      her Tailor's and the New Exchange, and thence to my father's and spoke one
      word with him, and thence home, where I found myself sick in my stomach
      and vomited, which I do not use to do. Then I drank a glass or two of
      Hypocras, and to the office to dispatch some business, necessary, and so
      home and to bed, and by the help of Mithrydate slept very well.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and then up and my wife dressed
      herself, it being Easter day, but I not being so well as to go out, she,
      though much against her will, staid at home with me; for she had put on
      her new best gowns, which indeed is very fine now with the lace; and this
      morning her taylor brought home her other new laced silks gowns with a
      smaller lace, and new petticoats, I bought the other day both very pretty.
      We spent the day in pleasant talks and company one with another, reading
      in Dr. Fuller's book what he says of the family of the Cliffords and
      Kingsmills, and at night being myself better than I was by taking a
      glyster, which did carry away a great deal of wind, I after supper at
      night went to bed and slept well.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Lay long talking with my wife, then up and to my chamber preparing
      papers against my father comes to lie here for discourse about country
      business. Dined well with my wife at home, being myself not yet thorough
      well, making water with some pain, but better than I was, and all my fear
      of an ague gone away. In the afternoon my father came to see us, and he
      gone I up to my morning's work again, and so in the evening a little to
      the office and to see Sir W. Batten, who is ill again, and so home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and after my wife had dressed herself very fine in her new laced
      gown, and very handsome indeed, W. Howe also coming to see us, I carried
      her by coach to my uncle Wight's and set her down there, and W. Howe and I
      to the Coffee-house, where we sat talking about getting of him some place
      under my Lord of advantage if he should go to sea, and I would be glad to
      get him secretary and to out Creed if I can, for he is a crafty and false
      rogue. Thence a little to the 'Change, and thence took him to my uncle
      Wight's, where dined my father, poor melancholy man, that used to be as
      full of life as anybody, and also my aunt's brother, Mr. Sutton, a
      merchant in Flanders, a very sober, fine man, and Mr. Cole and his lady;
      but, Lord! how I used to adore that man's talke, and now methinks he is
      but an ordinary man, his son a pretty boy indeed, but his nose unhappily
      awry. Other good company and an indifferent, and but indifferent dinner
      for so much company, and after dinner got a coach, very dear, it being
      Easter time and very foul weather, to my Lord's, and there visited my
      Lady, and leaving my wife there I and W. Howe to Mr. Pagett's, and there
      heard some musique not very good, but only one Dr. Walgrave, an Englishman
      bred at Rome, who plays the best upon the lute that I ever heard man. Here
      I also met Mr. Hill
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thomas Hill, a man whose taste for music caused him to be a very
     acceptable companion to Pepys.  In January, 1664-65, he became
     assistant to the secretary of the Prize Office.]
</pre>
    <p>
      the little merchant, and after all was done we sung. I did well enough a
      Psalm or two of Lawes; he I perceive has good skill and sings well, and a
      friend of his sings a good base. Thence late walked with them two as far
      as my Lord's, thinking to take up my wife and carry them home, but there
      being no coach to be got away they went, and I staid a great while, it
      being very late, about 10 o'clock, before a coach could be got. I found my
      Lord and ladies and my wife at supper. My Lord seems very kind. But I am
      apt to think still the worst, and that it is only in show, my wife and
      Lady being there. So home, and find my father come to lie at our house;
      and so supped, and saw him, poor man, to bed, my heart never being fuller
      of love to him, nor admiration of his prudence and pains heretofore in the
      world than now, to see how Tom hath carried himself in his trade; and how
      the poor man hath his thoughts going to provide for his younger children
      and my mother. But I hope they shall never want. So myself and wife to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Though late, past 12, before we went to bed, yet I heard my poor
      father up, and so I rang up my people, and I rose and got something to eat
      and drink for him, and so abroad, it being a mighty foul day, by coach,
      setting my father down in Fleet Streete and I to St. James's, where I
      found Mr. Coventry (the Duke being now come thither for the summer) with a
      goldsmith, sorting out his old plate to change for new; but, Lord! what a
      deale he hath! I staid and had two or three hours discourse with him,
      talking about the disorders of our office, and I largely to tell him how
      things are carried by Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes to my great grief.
      He seems much concerned also, and for all the King's matters that are done
      after the same rate every where else, and even the Duke's household
      matters too, generally with corruption, but most indeed with neglect and
      indifferency. I spoke very loud and clear to him my thoughts of Sir J.
      Minnes and the other, and trust him with the using of them. Then to talk
      of our business with the Dutch; he tells me fully that he believes it will
      not come to a warr; for first, he showed me a letter from Sir George
      Downing, his own hand, where he assures him that the Dutch themselves do
      not desire, but above all things fear it, and that they neither have given
      letters of marke against our shipps in Guinny, nor do De Ruyter
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Michael De Ruyter, the Dutch admiral, was born 1607.  He served
     under Tromp in the war against England in 1653, and was Lieutenant
     Admiral General of Holland in 1665.  He died April 26th, 1676, of
     wounds received in a battle with the French off Syracuse.  Among the
     State Papers is a news letter (dated July 14th, 1664) containing
     information as to the views of the Dutch respecting a war with
     England.  "They are preparing many ships, and raising 6,000 men, and
     have no doubt of conquering by sea."  "A wise man says the States
     know how to master England by sending moneys into Scotland for them
     to rebel, and also to the discontented in England, so as to place
     the King in the same straits as his father was, and bring him to
     agree with Holland" ("Calendar," 1663-64, p. 642).]
</pre>
    <p>
      stay at home with his fleet with an eye to any such thing, but for want of
      a wind, and is now come out and is going to the Streights. He tells me
      also that the most he expects is that upon the merchants' complaints, the
      Parliament will represent them to the King, desiring his securing of his
      subjects against them, and though perhaps they may not directly see fit,
      yet even this will be enough to let the Dutch know that the Parliament do
      not oppose the King, and by that means take away their hopes, which was
      that the King of England could not get money or do anything towards a warr
      with them, and so thought themselves free from making any restitution,
      which by this they will be deceived in. He tells me also that the Dutch
      states are in no good condition themselves, differing one with another,
      and that for certain none but the states of Holland and Zealand will
      contribute towards a warr, the others reckoning themselves, being inland,
      not concerned in the profits of warr or peace. But it is pretty to see
      what he says, that those here that are forward for a warr at Court, they
      are reported in the world to be only designers of getting money into the
      King's hands, they that elsewhere are for it have a design to trouble the
      kingdom and to give the Fanatiques an opportunity of doing hurt, and
      lastly those that are against it (as he himself for one is very cold
      therein) are said to be bribed by the Dutch. After all this discourse he
      carried me in his coach, it raining still, to, Charing Cross, and there
      put me into another, and I calling my father and brother carried them to
      my house to dinner, my wife keeping bed all day..... All the afternoon at
      the office with W. Boddam looking over his particulars about the Chest of
      Chatham, which shows enough what a knave Commissioner Pett hath been all
      along, and how Sir W. Batten hath gone on in getting good allowance to
      himself and others out of the poors' money. Time will show all. So in the
      evening to see Sir W. Pen, and then home to my father to keep him company,
      he being to go out of town, and up late with him and my brother John till
      past 12 at night to make up papers of Tom's accounts fit to leave with my
      cozen Scott. At last we did make an end of them, and so after supper all
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up betimes, and after my father's eating something, I walked out
      with him as far as Milk Streete, he turning down to Cripplegate to take
      coach; and at the end of the streete I took leave, being much afeard I
      shall not see him here any more, he do decay so much every day, and so I
      walked on, there being never a coach to be had till I came to Charing
      Cross, and there Col. Froud took me up and carried me to St. James's,
      where with Mr. Coventry and Povy, &amp;c., about my Lord Peterborough's
      accounts, but, Lord! to see still what a puppy that Povy is with all his
      show is very strange. Thence to Whitehall and W. C[oventry] and I and Sir
      W. Rider resolved upon a day to meet and make an end of all the business.
      Thence walked with Creed to the Coffee-house in Covent Garden, where no
      company, but he told me many fine experiments at Gresham College; and some
      demonstration that the heat and cold of the weather do rarify and condense
      the very body of glasse, as in a bolt head' with cold water in it put into
      hot water, shall first by rarifying the glasse make the water sink, and
      then when the heat comes to the water makes that rise again, and then put
      into cold water makes the water by condensing the glass to rise, and then
      when the cold comes to the water makes it sink, which is very pretty and
      true, he saw it tried. Thence by coach home, and dined above with my wife
      by her bedside, she keeping her bed..... So to the office, where a great
      conflict with Wood and Castle about their New England masts? So in the
      evening my mind a little vexed, but yet without reason, for I shall
      prevail, I hope, for the King's profit, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and all the morning with Captain Taylor at my house talking about
      things of the Navy, and among other things I showed him my letters to Mr.
      Coventry, wherein he acknowledges that nobody to this day did ever
      understand so much as I have done, and I believe him, for I perceive he
      did very much listen to every article as things new to him, and is
      contented to abide by my opinion therein in his great contest with us
      about his and Mr. Wood's masts. At noon to the 'Change, where I met with
      Mr. Hill, the little merchant, with whom, I perceive, I shall contract a
      musical acquaintance; but I will make it as little troublesome as I can.
      Home and dined, and then with my wife by coach to the Duke's house, and
      there saw "The German Princess" acted, by the woman herself; but never was
      any thing so well done in earnest, worse performed in jest upon the stage;
      and indeed the whole play, abating the drollery of him that acts her
      husband, is very simple, unless here and there a witty sprinkle or two. We
      met and sat by Dr. Clerke. Thence homewards, calling at Madam Turner's,
      and thence set my wife down at my aunt Wight's and I to my office till
      late, and then at to at night fetched her home, and so again to my office
      a little, and then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up and to the office, where all the morning upon the dispute of Mr.
      Wood's masts, and at noon with Mr. Coventry to the African House; and
      after a good and pleasant dinner, up with him, Sir W. Rider, the simple
      Povy, of all the most ridiculous foole that ever I knew to attend to
      business, and Creed and Vernatty, about my Lord Peterborough's accounts;
      but the more we look into them, the more we see of them that makes
      dispute, which made us break off, and so I home, and there found my wife
      and Besse gone over the water to Half-way house, and after them, thinking
      to have gone to Woolwich, but it was too late, so eat a cake and home, and
      thence by coach to have spoke with Tom Trice about a letter I met with
      this afternoon from my cozen Scott, wherein he seems to deny proceeding as
      my father's attorney in administering for him in my brother Tom's estate,
      but I find him gone out of town, and so returned vexed home and to the
      office, where late writing a letter to him, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). Up, and I put on my best cloth black suit and my velvet
      cloake, and with my wife in her best laced suit to church, where we have
      not been these nine or ten weeks. The truth is, my jealousy hath hindered
      it, for fear she should see Pembleton. He was here to-day, but I think sat
      so as he could not see her, which did please me, God help me! mightily,
      though I know well enough that in reason this is nothing but my ridiculous
      folly. Home to dinner, and in the afternoon, after long consulting whether
      to go to Woolwich or no to see Mr. Falconer, but indeed to prevent my wife
      going to church, I did however go to church with her, where a young simple
      fellow did preach: I slept soundly all the sermon, and thence to Sir W.
      Pen's, my wife and I, there she talking with him and his daughter, and
      thence with my wife walked to my uncle Wight's and there supped, where
      very merry, but I vexed to see what charges the vanity of my aunt puts her
      husband to among her friends and nothing at all among ours. Home and to
      bed. Our parson, Mr. Mills, his owne mistake in reading of the service was
      very remarkable, that instead of saying, "We beseech thee to preserve to
      our use the kindly fruits of the earth," he cries, "Preserve to our use
      our gracious Queen Katherine."
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and by coach to Westminster, and there solicited W. Joyce's
      business again; and did speake to the Duke of Yorke about it, who did
      understand it very well. I afterwards did without the House fall in
      company with my Lady Peters, and endeavoured to mollify her; but she told
      me she would not, to redeem her from hell, do any thing to release him;
      but would be revenged while she lived, if she lived the age of Methusalem.
      I made many friends, and so did others. At last it was ordered by the
      Lords that it should be referred to the Committee of Privileges to
      consider. So I, after discoursing with the Joyces, away by coach to the
      'Change; and there, among other things, do hear that a Jew hath put in a
      policy of four per cent. to any man, to insure him against a Dutch warr
      for four months; I could find in my heart to take him at this offer, but
      however will advise first, and to that end took coach to St. James's, but
      Mr. Coventry was gone forth, and I thence to Westminster Hall, where Mrs.
      Lane was gone forth, and so I missed of my intent to be with her this
      afternoon, and therefore meeting Mr. Blagrave, went home with him, and
      there he and his kinswoman sang, but I was not pleased with it, they
      singing methought very ill, or else I am grown worse to please than
      heretofore. Thence to the Hall again, and after meeting with several
      persons, and talking there, I to Mrs. Hunt's (where I knew my wife and my
      aunt Wight were about business), and they being gone to walk in the parke
      I went after them with Mrs. Hunt, who staid at home for me, and finding
      them did by coach, which I had agreed to wait for me, go with them all and
      Mrs. Hunt and a kinswoman of theirs, Mrs. Steward, to Hide Parke, where I
      have not been since last year; where I saw the King with his periwigg, but
      not altered at all; and my Lady Castlemayne in a coach by herself, in
      yellow satin and a pinner on; and many brave persons. And myself being in
      a hackney and full of people, was ashamed to be seen by the world, many of
      them knowing me. Thence in the evening home, setting my aunt at home, and
      thence we sent for a joynt of meat to supper, and thence to the office at
      11 o'clock at night, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up and to St. James's, where long with Mr. Coventry, Povy, &amp;c.,
      in their Tangier accounts, but such the folly of that coxcomb Povy that we
      could do little in it, and so parted for the time, and I to walk with
      Creed and Vernaty in the Physique Garden in St. James's Parke; where I
      first saw orange-trees, and other fine trees. So to Westminster Hall, and
      thence by water to the Temple, and so walked to the 'Change, and there
      find the 'Change full of news from Guinny, some say the Dutch have sunk
      our ships and taken our fort, and others say we have done the same to
      them. But I find by our merchants that something is done, but is yet a
      secret among them. So home to dinner, and then to the office, and at night
      with Captain Tayler consulting how to get a little money by letting him
      the Elias to fetch masts from New England. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and by coach to Westminster, and there solicited W. Joyce's
      business all the morning, and meeting in the Hall with Mr. Coventry, he
      told me how the Committee for Trade have received now all the complaints
      of the merchants against the Dutch, and were resolved to report very
      highly the wrongs they have done us (when, God knows! it is only our owne
      negligence and laziness that hath done us the wrong) and this to be made
      to the House to-morrow. I went also out of the Hall with Mrs. Lane to the
      Swan at Mrs. Herbert's in the Palace Yard to try a couple of bands, and
      did (though I had a mind to be playing the fool with her) purposely stay
      but a little while, and kept the door open, and called the master and
      mistress of the house one after another to drink and talk with me, and
      showed them both my old and new bands. So that as I did nothing so they
      are able to bear witness that I had no opportunity there to do anything.
      Thence by coach with Sir W. Pen home, calling at the Temple for Lawes's
      Psalms, which I did not so much (by being against my oath) buy as only lay
      down money till others be bound better for me, and by that time I hope to
      get money of the Treasurer of the Navy by bills, which, according to my
      oath, shall make me able to do it. At home dined, and all the afternoon at
      a Committee of the Chest, and at night comes my aunt and uncle Wight and
      Nan Ferrers and supped merrily with me, my uncle coming in an hour after
      them almost foxed. Great pleasure by discourse with them, and so, they
      gone, late to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up pretty betimes and to my office, and thither came by and by Mr.
      Vernaty and staid two hours with me, but Mr. Gauden did not come, and so
      he went away to meet again anon. Then comes Mr. Creed, and, after some
      discourse, he and I and my wife by coach to Westminster (leaving her at
      Unthanke's, her tailor's) Hall, and there at the Lords' House heard that
      it is ordered, that, upon submission upon the knee both to the House and
      my Lady Peters, W. Joyce shall be released. I forthwith made him submit,
      and aske pardon upon his knees; which he did before several Lords. But my
      Lady would not hear it; but swore she would post the Lords, that the world
      might know what pitifull Lords the King hath; and that revenge was sweeter
      to her than milk; and that she would never be satisfied unless he stood in
      a pillory, and demand pardon there. But I perceive the Lords are ashamed
      of her, and so I away calling with my wife at a place or two to inquire
      after a couple of mayds recommended to us, but we found both of them bad.
      So set my wife at my uncle Wight's and I home, and presently to the
      'Change, where I did some business, and thence to my uncle's and there
      dined very well, and so to the office, we sat all the afternoon, but no
      sooner sat but news comes my Lady Sandwich was come to see us, so I went
      out, and running up (her friend however before me) I perceive by my dear
      Lady blushing that in my dining-room she was doing something upon the
      pott, which I also was ashamed of, and so fell to some discourse, but
      without pleasure through very pity to my Lady. She tells me, and I find
      true since, that the House this day have voted that the King be desired to
      demand right for the wrong done us by the Dutch, and that they will stand
      by him with their lives fortunes: which is a very high vote, and more than
      I expected. What the issue will be, God knows! My Lady, my wife not being
      at home, did not stay, but, poor, good woman, went away, I being mightily
      taken with her dear visitt, and so to the office, where all the afternoon
      till late, and so to my office, and then to supper and to bed, thinking to
      rise betimes tomorrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Having directed it last night, I was called up this morning before
      four o'clock. It was full light enough to dress myself, and so by water
      against tide, it being a little coole, to Greenwich; and thence, only that
      it was somewhat foggy till the sun got to some height, walked with great
      pleasure to Woolwich, in my way staying several times to listen to the
      nightingales. I did much business both at the Ropeyarde and the other, and
      on floate I discovered a plain cheat which in time I shall publish of Mr.
      Ackworth's. Thence, having visited Mr. Falconer also, who lies still sick,
      but hopes to be better, I walked to Greenwich, Mr. Deane with me. Much
      good discourse, and I think him a very just man, only a little conceited,
      but yet very able in his way, and so he by water also with me also to
      towne. I home, and immediately dressing myself, by coach with my wife to
      my Lord Sandwich's, but they having dined we would not 'light but went to
      Mrs. Turner's, and there got something to eat, and thence after reading
      part of a good play, Mrs. The., my wife and I, in their coach to Hide
      Parke, where great plenty of gallants, and pleasant it was, only for the
      dust. Here I saw Mrs. Bendy, my Lady Spillman's faire daughter that was,
      who continues yet very handsome. Many others I saw with great content, and
      so back again to Mrs. Turner's, and then took a coach and home. I did also
      carry them into St. James's Park and shewed them the garden. To my office
      awhile while supper was making ready, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Coronation day). Up, and after doing something at my office, and, it
      being a holiday, no sitting likely to be, I down by water to Sir W.
      Warren's, who hath been ill, and there talked long with him good
      discourse, especially about Sir W. Batten's knavery and his son Castle's
      ill language of me behind my back, saying that I favour my fellow
      traytours, but I shall be even with him. So home and to the 'Change, where
      I met with Mr. Coventry, who himself is now full of talke of a Dutch warr;
      for it seems the Lords have concurred in the Commons' vote about it; and
      so the next week it will be presented to the King, insomuch that he do
      desire we would look about to see what stores we lack, and buy what we
      can. Home to dinner, where I and my wife much troubled about my money that
      is in my Lord Sandwich's hand, for fear of his going to sea and be killed;
      but I will get what of it out I can. All the afternoon, not being well, at
      my office, and there doing much business, my thoughts still running upon a
      warr and my money. At night home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). Up, and all the morning in my chamber setting some of
      my private papers in order, for I perceive that now publique business
      takes up so much of my time that I must get time a-Sundays or a-nights to
      look after my owne matters. Dined and spent all the afternoon talking with
      my wife, at night a little to the office, and so home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to St. James's and there up to the
      Duke, and after he was ready to his closet, where most of our talke about
      a Dutch warr, and discoursing of things indeed now for it. The Duke, which
      gives me great good hopes, do talk of setting up a good discipline in the
      fleete. In the Duke's chamber there is a bird, given him by Mr. Pierce,
      the surgeon, comes from the East Indys, black the greatest part, with the
      finest collar of white about the neck; but talks many things and neyes
      like the horse, and other things, the best almost that ever I heard bird
      in my life. Thence down with Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Rider, who was there
      (going along with us from the East Indya house to-day) to discourse of my
      Lord Peterborough's accounts, and then walked over the Parke, and in Mr.
      Cutler's coach with him and Rider as far as the Strand, and thence I
      walked to my Lord Sandwich's, where by agreement I met my wife, and there
      dined with the young ladies; my Lady, being not well, kept her chamber.
      Much simple discourse at table among the young ladies. After dinner walked
      in the garden, talking, with Mr. Moore about my Lord's business. He told
      me my Lord runs in debt every day more and more, and takes little care how
      to come out of it. He counted to me how my Lord pays use now for above
      L9000, which is a sad thing, especially considering the probability of his
      going to sea, in great danger of his life, and his children, many of them,
      to provide for. Thence, the young ladies going out to visit, I took my
      wife by coach out through the city, discoursing how to spend the
      afternoon; and conquered, with much ado, a desire of going to a play; but
      took her out at White Chapel, and to Bednal Green; so to Hackney, where I
      have not been many a year, since a little child I boarded there. Thence to
      Kingsland, by my nurse's house, Goody Lawrence, where my brother Tom and I
      was kept when young. Then to Newington Green, and saw the outside of Mrs.
      Herbert's house, where she lived, and my Aunt Ellen with her; but, Lord!
      how in every point I find myself to over-value things when a child. Thence
      to Islington, and so to St. John's to the Red Bull, and there: saw the
      latter part of a rude prize fought, but with good pleasure enough; and
      thence back to Islington, and at the King's Head, where Pitts lived, we
      'light and eat and drunk for remembrance of the old house sake, and so
      through Kingsland again, and so to Bishopsgate, and so home with great
      pleasure. The country mighty pleasant, and we with great content home, and
      after supper to bed, only a little troubled at the young ladies leaving my
      wife so to-day, and from some passages fearing my Lady might be offended.
      But I hope the best.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and to my Lord Sandwich's, and coming a little too early, I went
      and saw W. Joyce, and by and by comes in Anthony, they both owning a great
      deal of kindness received from me in their late business, and indeed I did
      what I could, and yet less I could not do. It has cost the poor man above
      L40; besides, he is likely to lose his debt. Thence to my Lord's, and by
      and by he comes down, and with him (Creed with us) I rode in his coach to
      St. James's, talking about W. Joyce's business mighty merry, and my Lady
      Peters, he says, is a drunken jade, he himself having seen her drunk in
      the lobby of their House. I went up with him to the Duke, where methought
      the Duke did not shew him any so great fondness as he was wont; and
      methought my Lord was not pleased that I should see the Duke made no more
      of him, not that I know any thing of any unkindnesse, but I think verily
      he is not as he was with him in his esteem. By and by the Duke went out
      and we with him through the Parke, and there I left him going into White
      Hall, and Creed and I walked round the Parke, a pleasant walk, observing
      the birds, which is very pleasant; and so walked to the New Exchange, and
      there had a most delicate dish of curds and creame, and discourse with the
      good woman of the house, a discreet well-bred woman, and a place with
      great delight I shall make it now and then to go thither. Thence up, and
      after a turn or two in the 'Change, home to the Old Exchange by coach,
      where great newes and true, I saw by written letters, of strange fires
      seen at Amsterdam in the ayre, and not only there, but in other places
      thereabout. The talke of a Dutch warr is not so hot, but yet I fear it
      will come to it at last. So home and to the office, where we sat late. My
      wife gone this afternoon to the buriall of my she-cozen Scott, a good
      woman; and it is a sad consideration how the Pepys's decay, and nobody
      almost that I know in a present way of encreasing them. At night late at
      my office, and so home to my wife to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and all the morning very busy with multitude of clients, till my
      head began to be overloaded. Towards noon I took coach and to the
      Parliament house door, and there staid the rising of the House, and with
      Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Coventry discoursed of some tarr that I have been
      endeavouring to buy, for the market begins apace to rise upon us, and I
      would be glad first to serve the King well, and next if I could I find
      myself now begin to cast how to get a penny myself. Home by coach with
      Alderman Backewell in his coach, whose opinion is that the Dutch will not
      give over the business without putting us to some trouble to set out a
      fleete; and then, if they see we go on well, will seek to salve up the
      matter. Upon the 'Change busy. Thence home to dinner, and thence to the
      office till my head was ready to burst with business, and so with my wife
      by coach, I sent her to my Lady Sandwich and myself to my cozen Roger
      Pepys's chamber, and there he did advise me about our Exchequer business,
      and also about my brother John, he is put by my father upon interceding
      for him, but I will not yet seem the least to pardon him nor can I in my
      heart. However, he and I did talk how to get him a mandamus for a
      fellowship, which I will endeavour. Thence to my Lady's, and in my way met
      Mr. Sanchy, of Cambridge, whom I have not met a great while. He seems a
      simple fellow, and tells me their master, Dr. Rainbow, is newly made
      Bishop of Carlisle. To my Lady's, and she not being well did not see her,
      but straight home with my wife, and late to my office, concluding in the
      business of Wood's masts, which I have now done and I believe taken more
      pains in it than ever any Principall officer in this world ever did in any
      thing to no profit to this day. So, weary, sleepy, and hungry, home and to
      bed. This day the Houses attended the King, and delivered their votes to
      him: upon the business of the Dutch; and he thanks them, and promises an
      answer in writing.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up and close at my office all the morning. To the 'Change busy at
      noon, and so home to dinner, and then in the afternoon at the office till
      night, and so late home quite tired with business, and without joy in
      myself otherwise than that I am by God's grace enabled to go through it
      and one day, hope to have benefit by it. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up betimes, and with Sir W. Rider and Cutler to White Hall. Rider
      and I to St. James's, and there with Mr. Coventry did proceed strictly
      upon some fooleries of Mr. Povy's in my Lord Peterborough's accounts,
      which will touch him home, and I am glad of it, for he is the most
      troublesome impertinent man that ever I met with. Thence to the 'Change,
      and there, after some business, home to dinner, where Luellin and Mount
      came to me and dined, and after dinner my wife and I by coach to see my
      Lady Sandwich, where we find all the children and my Lord removed, and the
      house so melancholy that I thought my Lady had been dead, knowing that she
      was not well; but it seems she hath the meazles, and I fear the small pox,
      poor lady. It grieves me mightily; for it will be a sad houre to the
      family should she miscarry. Thence straight home and to the office, and in
      the evening comes Mr. Hill the merchant and another with him that sings
      well, and we sung some things, and good musique it seemed to me, only my
      mind too full of business to have much pleasure in it. But I will have
      more of it. They gone, and I having paid Mr. Moxon for the work he has
      done for the office upon the King's globes, I to my office, where very
      late busy upon Captain Tayler's bills for his masts, which I think will
      never off my hand. Home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up and all the morning at the office. At noon to the 'Change, where,
      after business done, Sir W. Rider and Cutler took me to the Old James and
      there did give me a good dish of mackerell, the first I have seen this
      year, very good, and good discourse. After dinner we fell to business
      about their contract for tarr, in which and in another business of Sir W.
      Rider's, canvas, wherein I got him to contract with me, I held them to
      some terms against their wills, to the King's advantage, which I believe
      they will take notice of to my credit. Thence home, and by water by a
      gally down to Woolwich, and there a good while with Mr. Pett upon the new
      ship discoursing and learning of him. Thence with Mr. Deane to see Mr.
      Falconer, and there find him in a way to be well. So to the water (after
      much discourse with great content with Mr. Deane) and home late, and so to
      the office, wrote to, my father among other things my continued
      displeasure against my brother John, so that I will give him nothing more
      out of my own purse, which will trouble the poor man, but however it is
      fit that I should take notice of my brother's ill carriage to me. Then
      home and till 12 at night about my month's accounts, wherein I have just
      kept within compass, this having been a spending month. So my people being
      all abed I put myself to bed very sleepy. All the newes now is what will
      become of the Dutch business, whether warr or peace. We all seem to desire
      it, as thinking ourselves to have advantages at present over them; for my
      part I dread it. The Parliament promises to assist the King with lives and
      fortunes, and he receives it with thanks and promises to demand
      satisfaction of the Dutch. My poor Lady Sandwich is fallen sick three days
      since of the meazles. My Lord Digby's business is hushed up, and nothing
      made of it; he is gone, and the discourse quite ended. Never more quiet in
      my family all the days of my life than now, there being only my wife and I
      and Besse and the little girl Susan, the best wenches to our content that
      we can ever expect.
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    <p>
      May 1st (Lord's day). Lay long in bed. Went not to church, but staid at
      home to examine my last night's accounts, which I find right, and that I
      am L908 creditor in the world, the same I was last month. Dined, and after
      dinner down by water with my wife and Besse with great pleasure as low as
      Greenwich and so back, playing as it were leisurely upon the water to
      Deptford, where I landed and sent my wife up higher to land below Half-way
      house. I to the King's yard and there spoke about several businesses with
      the officers, and so with Mr. Wayth consulting about canvas, to Half-way
      house where my wife was, and after eating there we broke and walked home
      before quite dark. So to supper, prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Lay pretty long in bed. So up and by water to St. James's, and there
      attended the Duke with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, and having done
      our work with him walked to Westminster Hall, and after walking there and
      talking of business met Mr. Rawlinson and by coach to the 'Change, where I
      did some business, and home to dinner, and presently by coach to the
      King's Play-house to see "The Labyrinth," but, coming too soon, walked to
      my Lord's to hear how my Lady do, who is pretty well; at least past all
      fear. There by Captain Ferrers meeting with an opportunity of my Lord's
      coach, to carry us to the Parke anon, we directed it to come to the
      play-house door; and so we walked, my wife and I and Madamoiselle. I paid
      for her going in, and there saw "The Labyrinth," the poorest play,
      methinks, that ever I saw, there being nothing in it but the odd accidents
      that fell out, by a lady's being bred up in man's apparel, and a man in a
      woman's. Here was Mrs. Stewart, who is indeed very pretty, but not like my
      Lady Castlemayne, for all that. Thence in the coach to the Parke, where no
      pleasure; there being much dust, little company, and one of our horses
      almost spoiled by falling down, and getting his leg over the pole; but all
      mended presently, and after riding up and down, home. Set Madamoiselle at
      home; and we home, and to my office, whither comes Mr. Bland, and pays me
      the debt he acknowledged he owed me for my service in his business of the
      Tangier Merchant, twenty pieces of new gold, a pleasant sight. It cheered
      my heart; and he being gone, I home to supper, and shewed them my wife;
      and she, poor wretch, would fain have kept them to look on, without any
      other design but a simple love to them; but I thought it not convenient,
      and so took them into my own hand. So, after supper, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and being ready, went by agreement to Mr. Bland's and there drank
      my morning draft in good chocollatte, and slabbering my band sent home for
      another, and so he and I by water to White Hall, and walked to St.
      James's, where met Creed and Vernatty, and by and by Sir W. Rider, and so
      to Mr. Coventry's chamber, and there upon my Lord Peterborough's accounts,
      where I endeavoured to shew the folly and punish it as much as I could of
      Mr. Povy; for, of all the men in the world, I never knew any man of his
      degree so great a coxcomb in such imployments. I see I have lost him
      forever, but I value it not; for he is a coxcomb, and, I doubt, not over
      honest, by some things which I see; and yet, for all his folly, he hath
      the good lucke, now and then, to speak his follies in as good words, and
      with as good a show, as if it were reason, and to the purpose, which is
      really one of the wonders of my life. Thence walked to Westminster Hall;
      and there, in the Lords' House, did in a great crowd, from ten o'clock
      till almost three, hear the cause of Mr. Roberts, my Lord Privy Seal's
      son, against Win, who by false ways did get the father of Mr. Roberts's
      wife (Mr. Bodvill) to give him the estate and disinherit his daughter. The
      cause was managed for my Lord Privy Seal by Finch the Solicitor [General];
      but I do really think that he is truly a man of as great eloquence as ever
      I heard, or ever hope to hear in all my life. Thence, after long staying
      to speak with my Lord Sandwich, at last he coming out to me and speaking
      with me about business of my Lord Peterborough, I by coach home to the
      office, where all the afternoon, only stept home to eat one bit and to the
      office again, having eaten nothing before to-day. My wife abroad with my
      aunt Wight and Norbury. I in the evening to my uncle Wight's, and not
      finding them come home, they being gone to the Parke and the Mulberry
      garden, I went to the 'Change, and there meeting with Mr. Hempson, whom
      Sir W. Batten has lately turned out of his place, merely because of his
      coming to me when he came to town before he went to him, and there he told
      me many rogueries of Sir W. Batten, how he knows and is able to prove that
      Captain Cox of Chatham did give him L10 in gold to get him to certify for
      him at the King's coming in, and that Tom Newborne did make [the] poor men
      give him L3 to get Sir W. Batten to cause them to be entered in the yard,
      and that Sir W. Batten had oftentimes said: "by God, Tom, you shall get
      something and I will have some on't." His present clerk that is come in
      Norman's' room has given him something for his place; that they live high
      and (as Sir Francis Clerk's lady told his wife) do lack money as well as
      other people, and have bribes of a piece of sattin and cabinetts and other
      things from people that deal with him, and that hardly any body goes to
      see or hath anything done by Sir W. Batten but it comes with a bribe, and
      that this is publickly true that his wife was a whore, and that he had
      libells flung within his doors for a cuckold as soon as he was married;
      that he received L100 in money and in other things to the value of L50
      more of Hempson, and that he intends to give him back but L50; that he
      hath abused the Chest and hath now some L1000 by him of it. I met also
      upon the 'Change with Mr. Cutler, and he told me how for certain Lawson
      hath proclaimed warr again with Argier, though they had at his first
      coming given back the ships which they had taken, and all their men;
      though they refused afterwards to make him restitution for the goods which
      they had taken out of them. Thence to my uncle Wight's, and he not being
      at home I went with Mr. Norbury near hand to the Fleece, a mum house in
      Leadenhall, and there drunk mum and by and by broke up, it being about 11
      o'clock at night, and so leaving them also at home, went home myself and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and my new Taylor, Langford, comes and takes measure of me for a
      new black cloth suit and cloake, and I think he will prove a very carefull
      fellow and will please me well. Thence to attend my Lord Peterborough in
      bed and give him an account of yesterday's proceeding with Povy. I
      perceive I labour in a business will bring me little pleasure; but no
      matter, I shall do the King some service. To my Lord's lodgings, where
      during my Lady's sickness he is, there spoke with him about the same
      business. Back and by water to my cozen Scott's. There condoled with him
      the loss of my cozen, his wife, and talked about his matters, as atturney
      to my father, in his administering to my brother Tom. He tells me we are
      like to receive some shame about the business of his bastarde with Jack
      Noble; but no matter, so it cost us no money. Thence to the Coffee-house
      and to the 'Change a while. News uncertain how the Dutch proceed. Some say
      for, some against a war. The plague increases at Amsterdam. So home to
      dinner, and after dinner to my office, where very late, till my eyes
      (which begin to fail me nowadays by candlelight) begin to trouble me. Only
      in the afternoon comes Mr. Peter Honiwood to see me and gives me 20s., his
      and his friends' pence for my brother John, which, God forgive my pride,
      methinks I think myself too high to take of him; but it is an ungratefull
      pitch of pride in me, which God forgive. Home at night to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up betimes to my office, busy, and so abroad to change some plate for
      my father to send to-day by the carrier to Brampton, but I observe and do
      fear it may be to my wrong that I change spoons of my uncle Robert's into
      new and set a P upon them that thereby I cannot claim them hereafter, as
      it was my brother Tom's practice. However, the matter of this is not
      great, and so I did it. So to the 'Change, and meeting Sir W. Warren, with
      him to a taverne, and there talked, as we used to do, of the evils the
      King suffers in our ordering of business in the Navy, as Sir W. Batten now
      forces us by his knavery. So home to dinner, and to the office, where all
      the afternoon, and thence betimes home, my eyes beginning every day to
      grow less and less able to bear with long reading or writing, though it be
      by daylight; which I never observed till now. So home to my wife, and
      after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. This morning up and to my office, where Sympson my joyner came to
      work upon altering my closet, which I alter by setting the door in another
      place, and several other things to my great content. Busy at it all day,
      only in the afternoon home, and there, my books at the office being out of
      order, wrote letters and other businesses. So at night with my head full
      of the business of my closet home to bed, and strange it is to think how
      building do fill my mind and put out all other things out of my thoughts.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Betimes at my office with the joyners, and giving order for other
      things about it. By and by we sat all the morning. At noon to dinner, and
      after dinner comes Deane of Woolwich, and I spent, as I had appointed, all
      the afternoon with him about instructions which he gives me to understand
      the building of a ship, and I think I shall soon understand it. In the
      evening a little to my office to see how the work goes forward there, and
      then home and spent the evening also with Mr. Deane, and had a good
      supper, and then to bed, he lying at my house.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). This day my new tailor, Mr. Langford, brought me home a
      new black cloth suit and cloake lined with silk moyre, and he being gone,
      who pleases me very well with his work and I hope will use me pretty well,
      then Deane and I to my chamber, and there we repeated my yesterday's
      lesson about ships all the morning, and I hope I shall soon understand it.
      At noon to dinner, and strange how in discourse he cries up chymistry from
      some talk he has had with an acquaintance of his, a chymist, when, poor
      man, he understands not one word of it. But I discern very well that it is
      only his good nature, but in this of building ships he hath taken great
      pains, more than most builders I believe have. After dinner he went away,
      and my wife and I to church, and after church to Sir W. Pen, and there sat
      and talked with him, and the perfidious rogue seems, as he do always,
      mightily civil to us, though I know he hates and envies us. So home to
      supper, prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and to my office all the morning, and there saw several things
      done in my work to my great content, and at noon home to dinner, and after
      dinner in Sir W. Pen's coach he set my wife and I down at the New
      Exchange, and after buying some things we walked to my Lady Sandwich's,
      who, good lady, is now, thanks be to God! so well as to sit up, and sent
      to us, if we were not afeard, to come up to her. So we did; but she was
      mightily against my wife's coming so near her; though, poor wretch! she is
      as well as ever she was, as to the meazles, and nothing can I see upon her
      face. There we sat talking with her above three hours, till six o'clock,
      of several things with great pleasure and so away, and home by coach,
      buying several things for my wife in our way, and so after looking what
      had been done in my office to-day, with good content home to supper and to
      bed. But, strange, how I cannot get any thing to take place in my mind
      while my work lasts at my office. This day my wife and I in our way to
      Paternoster Row to buy things called upon Mr. Hollyard to advise upon her
      drying up her issue in her leg, which inclines of itself to dry up, and he
      admits of it that it should be dried up.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and at my office looking after my workmen all the morning, and
      after the office was done did the same at night, and so home to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and all day, both forenoon and afternoon, at my office to see it
      finished by the joyners and washed and every thing in order, and indeed
      now my closet is very convenient and pleasant for me. My uncle Wight came
      to me to my office this afternoon to speak with me about Mr. Maes's
      business again, and from me went to my house to see my wife, and strange
      to think that my wife should by and by send for me after he was gone to
      tell me that he should begin discourse of her want of children and his
      also, and how he thought it would be best for him and her to have one
      between them, and he would give her L500 either in money or jewells
      beforehand, and make the child his heir. He commended her body, and
      discoursed that for all he knew the thing was lawful. She says she did
      give him a very warm answer, such as he did not excuse himself by saying
      that he said this in jest, but told her that since he saw what her mind
      was he would say no more to her of it, and desired her to make no words of
      it. It seemed he did say all this in a kind of counterfeit laugh, but by
      all words that passed, which I cannot now so well set down, it is plain to
      me that he was in good earnest, and that I fear all his kindness is but
      only his lust to her. What to think of it of a sudden I know not, but I
      think not to take notice yet of it to him till I have thought better of
      it. So with my mind and head a little troubled I received a letter from
      Mr. Coventry about a mast for the Duke's yacht, which with other business
      makes me resolve to go betimes to Woolwich to-morrow. So to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up by 4 o'clock and by water to Woolwich, where did some business
      and walked to Greenwich, good discourse with Mr. Deane best part of the
      way; there met by appointment Commissioner Pett, and with him to Deptford,
      where did also some business, and so home to my office, and at noon Mrs.
      Hunt and her cozens child and mayd came and dined with me. My wife sick
      ... in bed. I was troubled with it, but, however, could not help it, but
      attended them till after dinner, and then to the office and there sat all
      the afternoon, and by a letter to me this afternoon from Mr. Coventry I
      saw the first appearance of a warr with Holland. So home; and betimes to
      bed because of rising to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up before three o'clock, and a little after upon the water, it being
      very light as at noon, and a bright sunrising; but by and by a rainbow
      appeared, the first that ever in a morning I saw, and then it fell
      a-raining a little, but held up again, and I to Woolwich, where before all
      the men came to work I with Mr. Deane spent two hours upon the new ship,
      informing myself in the names and natures of many parts of her to my great
      content, and so back again, without doing any thing else, and after
      shifting myself away to Westminster, looking after Mr. Maes's business and
      others. In the Painted Chamber I heard a fine conference between some of
      the two Houses upon the Bill for Conventicles. The Lords would be freed
      from having their houses searched by any but the Lord Lieutenant of the
      County; and upon being found guilty, to be tried only by their peers; and
      thirdly, would have it added, that whereas the Bill says, "That that,
      among other things, shall be a conventicle wherein any such meeting is
      found doing any thing contrary to the Liturgy of the Church of England,"
      they would have it added, "or practice." The Commons to the Lords said,
      that they knew not what might hereafter be found out which might be called
      the practice of the Church of England; for there are many things may be
      said to be the practice of the Church, which were never established by any
      law, either common, statute, or canon; as singing of psalms, binding up
      prayers at the end of the Bible, and praying extempore before and after
      sermon: and though these are things indifferent, yet things for aught they
      at present know may be started, which may be said to be the practice of
      the Church which would not be fit to allow. For the Lords' priviledges,
      Mr. Walter told them how tender their predecessors had been of the
      priviledges of the Lords; but, however, where the peace of the kingdom
      stands in competition with them, they apprehend those priviledges must
      give place. He told them that he thought, if they should owne all to be
      the priviledges of the Lords which might be demanded, they should be led
      like the man (who granted leave to his neighbour to pull off his horse's
      tail, meaning that he could not do it at once) that hair by hair had his
      horse's tail pulled off indeed: so the Commons, by granting one thing
      after another, might be so served by the Lords. Mr. Vaughan, whom I could
      not to my grief perfectly hear, did say, if that they should be obliged in
      this manner to, exempt the Lords from every thing, it would in time come
      to pass that whatever (be [it] never so great) should be voted by the
      Commons as a thing penall for a commoner, the contrary should be thought a
      priviledge to the Lords: that also in this business, the work of a
      conventicle being but the work of an hour, the cause of a search would be
      over before a Lord Lieutenant, who may be many miles off, can be sent for;
      and that all this dispute is but about L100; for it is said in the Act,
      that it shall be banishment or payment of L100. I thereupon heard the Duke
      of Lenox say, that there might be Lords who could not always be ready to
      lose L100, or some such thing: They broke up without coming to any end in
      it. There was also in the Commons' House a great quarrel about Mr. Prin,
      and it was believed that he should have been sent to the Towre, for adding
      something to a Bill (after it was ordered to be engrossed) of his own head&mdash;a
      Bill for measures for wine and other things of that sort, and a Bill of
      his owne bringing in; but it appeared he could not mean any hurt in it.
      But, however, the King was fain to write in his behalf, and all was passed
      over. But it is worth my remembrance, that I saw old Ryly the Herald, and
      his son; and spoke to his son, who told me in very bad words concerning
      Mr. Prin, that the King had given him an office of keeping the Records;
      but that he never comes thither, nor had been there these six months: so
      that I perceive they expect to get his imployment from him. Thus every
      body is liable to be envied and supplanted. At noon over to the Leg, where
      Sir G. Ascue, Sir Robt. Parkhurst and Sir W. Pen dined. A good dinner and
      merry. Thence to White Hall walking up and down a great while, but the
      Council not meeting soon enough I went homeward, calling upon my cozen
      Roger Pepys, with whom I talked and heard so much from him of his desire
      that I would see my brother's debts paid, and things still of that nature
      tending to my parting with what I get with pain to serve others' expenses
      that I was cruelly vexed. Thence to Sir R. Bernard, and there heard
      something of Pigott's delay of paying our money, that that also vexed me
      mightily. So home and there met with a letter from my cozen Scott, which
      tells me that he is resolved to meddle no more with our business, of
      administering for my father, which altogether makes me almost distracted
      to think of the trouble that I am like to meet with by other folks'
      business more than ever I hope to have by my owne. So with great trouble
      of mind to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, full of pain, I believe by cold got yesterday. So to the office,
      where we sat, and after office home to dinner, being in extraordinary
      pain. After dinner my pain increasing I was forced to go to bed, and by
      and by my pain rose to be as great for an hour or two as ever I remember
      it was in any fit of the stone, both in the lower part of my belly and in
      my back also. No wind could I break. I took a glyster, but it brought away
      but a little, and my height of pain followed it. At last after two hours
      lying thus in most extraordinary anguish, crying and roaring, I know not
      what, whether it was my great sweating that may do it, but upon getting by
      chance, among my other tumblings, upon my knees, in bed, my pain began to
      grow less and less, till in an hour after I was in very little pain, but
      could break no wind, nor make any water, and so continued, and slept well
      all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). Rose, and as I had intended without reference to this
      pain, took physique, and it wrought well with me, my wife lying from me
      to-night, the first time she did in the same house ever since we were
      married, I think (unless while my father was in town, that he lay with
      me). She took physique also to-day, and both of our physiques wrought
      well, so we passed our time to-day, our physique having done working, with
      some pleasure talking, but I was not well, for I could make no water yet,
      but a drop or two with great pain, nor break any wind. In the evening came
      Mr. Vernatty to see me and discourse about my Lord Peterborough's
      business, and also my uncle Wight and Norbury, but I took no notice nor
      showed any different countenance to my uncle Wight, or he to me, for all
      that he carried himself so basely to my wife the last week, but will take
      time to make my use of it. So, being exceeding hot, to bed, and slept
      well.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Forced to rise because of going to the Duke to St. James's, where we
      did our usual business, and thence by invitation to Mr. Pierces the
      chyrurgeon, where I saw his wife, whom I had not seen in many months
      before. She holds her complexion still, but in everything else, even in
      this her new house and the best rooms in it, and her closet which her
      husband with some vainglory took me to show me, she continues the eeriest
      slattern that ever I knew in my life. By and by we to see an experiment of
      killing a dogg by letting opium into his hind leg. He and Dr. Clerke did
      fail mightily in hitting the vein, and in effect did not do the business
      after many trials; but with the little they got in, the dogg did presently
      fall asleep, and so lay till we cut him up, and a little dogg also, which
      they put it down his throate; he also staggered first, and then fell
      asleep, and so continued. Whether he recovered or no, after I was gone, I
      know not, but it is a strange and sudden effect. Thence walked to
      Westminster Hall, where the King was expected to come to prorogue the
      House, but it seems, afterwards I hear, he did not come. I promised to go
      again to Mr. Pierce's, but my pain grew so great, besides a bruise I got
      to-day in my right testicle, which now vexes me as much as the other, that
      I was mighty melancholy, and so by coach home and there took another
      glyster, but find little good by it, but by sitting still my pain of my
      bruise went away, and so after supper to bed, my wife and I having talked
      and concluded upon sending my father an offer of having Pall come to us to
      be with us for her preferment, if by any means I can get her a husband
      here, which, though it be some trouble to us, yet it will be better than
      to have her stay there till nobody will have her and then be flung upon my
      hands.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Slept well all night and lay long, then rose and wrote my letter to
      my father about Pall, as we had resolved last night. So to dinner and then
      to the office, finding myself better than I was, and making a little
      water, but not yet breaking any great store of wind, which I wonder at,
      for I cannot be well till I do do it. After office home and to supper and
      with good ease to bed, and endeavoured to tie my hands that I might not
      lay them out of bed, by which I believe I have got cold, but I could not
      endure it.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and within all the morning, being willing to keep as much as I
      could within doors, but receiving a very wakening letter from Mr. Coventry
      about fitting of ships, which speaks something like to be done, I went
      forth to the office, there to take order in things, and after dinner to
      White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, but did little. So home again and to
      Sir W. Pen, who, among other things of haste in this new order for ships,
      is ordered to be gone presently to Portsmouth to look after the work
      there. I staid to discourse with him, and so home to supper, where upon a
      fine couple of pigeons, a good supper; and here I met a pretty cabinet
      sent me by Mr. Shales, which I give my wife, the first of that sort of
      goods I ever had yet, and very conveniently it comes for her closett. I
      staid up late finding out the private boxes, but could not do some of
      them, and so to bed, afraid that I have been too bold to-day in venturing
      in the cold. This day I begun to drink butter-milke and whey, and I hope
      to find great good by it.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and it being very rayny weather, which makes it cooler than it
      was, by coach to Charing Cross with Sir W. Pen, who is going to Portsmouth
      this day, and left him going to St. James's to take leave of the Duke, and
      I to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier; where God forgive how our
      Report of my Lord Peterborough's accounts was read over and agreed to by
      the Lords, without one of them understanding it! And had it been what it
      would, it had gone: and, besides, not one thing touching the King's profit
      in it minded or hit upon. Thence by coach home again, and all the morning
      at the office, sat, and all the afternoon till 9 at night, being fallen
      again to business, and I hope my health will give me leave to follow it.
      So home to supper and to bed, finding myself pretty well. A pretty good
      stool, which I impute to my whey to-day, and broke wind also.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to my office, whither by and by comes Mr. Cholmely, and
      staying till the rest of the company come he told me how Mr. Edward
      Montagu is turned out of the Court, not [to] return again. His fault, I
      perceive, was his pride, and most of all his affecting to seem great with
      the Queene and it seems indeed had more of her eare than any body else,
      and would be with her talking alone two or three hours together; insomuch
      that the Lords about the King, when he would be jesting with them about
      their wives, would tell the King that he must have a care of his wife too,
      for she hath now the gallant: and they say the King himself did once ask
      Montagu how his mistress (meaning the Queene) did. He grew so proud, and
      despised every body, besides suffering nobody, he or she, to get or do any
      thing about the Queene, that they all laboured to do him a good turn. They
      also say that he did give some affront to the Duke of Monmouth, which the
      King himself did speak to him of. But strange it is that this man should,
      from the greatest negligence in the world, come to be the miracle of
      attendance, so as to take all offices from everybody, either men or women,
      about the Queene. Insomuch that he was observed as a miracle, but that
      which is the worst, that which in a wise manner performed [would] turn to
      his greatest advantage, was by being so observed employed to his greatest
      wrong, the world concluding that there must be something more than
      ordinary to cause him to do this. So he is gone, nobody pitying but
      laughing at him; and he pretends only that he is gone to his father, that
      is sick in the country. By and by comes Povy, Creed, and Vernatty, and so
      to their accounts, wherein more trouble and vexation with Povy. That being
      done, I sent them going and myself fell to business till dinner. So home
      to dinner very pleasant. In the afternoon to my office, where busy again,
      and by and by came a letter from my father so full of trouble for
      discontents there between my mother and servants, and such troubles to my
      father from hence from Cave that hath my brother's bastard that I know not
      what in the world to do, but with great trouble, it growing night, spent
      some time walking, and putting care as much as I could out of my head,
      with my wife in the garden, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, called by Mr. Cholmely, and walked with him in the garden till
      others came to another Committee of Tangier, as we did meet as we did use
      to do, to see more of Povy's folly, and so broke up, and at the office sat
      all the morning, Mr. Coventry with us, and very hot we are getting out
      some ships. At noon to the 'Change, and there did some business, and
      thence home to dinner, and so abroad with my wife by coach to the New
      Exchange, and there laid out almost 40s. upon her, and so called to see my
      Lady Sandwich, whom we found in her dining-room, which joyed us mightily;
      but she looks very thin, poor woman, being mightily broke. She told us
      that Mr. Montagu is to return to Court, as she hears, which I wonder at,
      and do hardly believe. So home and to my office, where late, and so home
      to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd (Lord's day). Up and by water to White Hall to my Lord's lodgings,
      and with him walked to White Hall without any great discourse, nor do I
      find that he do mind business at all. Here the Duke of Yorke called me to
      him, to ask me whether I did intend to go with him to Chatham or no. I
      told him if he commanded, but I did believe there would be business here
      for me, and so he told me then it would be better to stay, which I suppose
      he will take better than if I had been forward to go. Thence, after
      staying and seeing the throng of people to attend the King to Chappell
      (but, Lord! what a company of sad, idle people they are) I walked to St.
      James's with Colonell Remes, where staid a good while and then walked to
      White Hall with Mr. Coventry, talking about business. So meeting Creed,
      took him with me home and to dinner, a good dinner, and thence by water to
      Woolwich, where mighty kindly received by Mrs. Falconer and her husband,
      who is now pretty well again, this being the first time I ever carried my
      wife thither. I walked to the Docke, where I met Mrs. Ackworth alone at
      home, and God forgive me! what thoughts I had, but I had not the courage
      to stay, but went to Mr. Pett's and walked up and down the yard with him
      and Deane talking about the dispatch of the ships now in haste, and by and
      by Creed and my wife and a friend of Mr. Falconer's came with the boat and
      called me, and so by water to Deptford, where I landed, and after talking
      with others walked to Half-way house with Mr. Wayth talking about the
      business of his supplying us with canvas, and he told me in discourse
      several instances of Sir W. Batten's cheats. So to Half-way house, whither
      my wife and them were gone before, and after drinking there we walked, and
      by water home, sending Creed and the other with the boat home. Then wrote
      a letter to Mr. Coventry, and so a good supper of pease, the first I eat
      this year, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up and to the office, where Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and myself
      met and did business, we being in a mighty hurry. The King is gone down
      with the Duke and a great crew this morning by break of day to Chatham.
      Towards noon I and my wife by water to Woolwich, leaving my wife at Mr.
      Falconer's, and Mr. Hater and I with some officers of the yard on board to
      see several ships how ready they are. Then to Mr. Falconer's to a good
      dinner, having myself carried them a vessel of sturgeon and a Lamprey pie,
      and then to the Yarde again, and among other things did at Mr. Ackworth's
      obtain a demonstration of his being a knave; but I did not discover it,
      till it be a little more seasonable. So back to the Ropeyard and took my
      wife and Mr. Hater back, it raining mighty hard of a sudden, but we with
      the tilt
    </p>
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     cloth covering for a cart or waggon, or for a canopy or awning over
     a portion of a boat.]
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    <p>
      kept ourselves dry. So to Deptford, did some business there; but, Lord! to
      see how in both places the King's business, if ever it should come to a
      warr, is likely to be done, there not being a man that looks or speaks
      like a man that will take pains, or use any forecast to serve the King, at
      which I am heartily troubled. So home, it raining terribly, but we still
      dry, and at the office late discoursing with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W.
      Batten, who like a couple of sots receive all I say but to little purpose.
      So late home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up and to the office, where Sir J. Minnes and I sat all the morning,
      and after dinner thither again, and all the afternoon hard at the office
      till night, and so tired home to supper and to bed. This day I heard that
      my uncle Fenner is dead, which makes me a little sad, to see with what
      speed a great many of my friends are gone, and more, I fear, for my
      father's sake, are going.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Took physique betimes and to sleep, then up, it working all the
      morning. At noon dined, and in the afternoon in my chamber spending two or
      three hours to look over some unpleasant letters and things of trouble to
      answer my father in, about Tom's business and others, that vexed me, but I
      did go through it and by that means eased my mind very much. This
      afternoon also came Tom and Charles Pepys by my sending for, and received
      of me L40 in part towards their L70 legacy of my uncle's. Spent the
      evening talking with my wife, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up to the office, where we sat, and I had some high words with Sir
      W. Batten about canvas, wherein I opposed him and all his experience,
      about seams in the middle, and the profit of having many breadths and
      narrow, which I opposed to good purpose, to the rejecting of the whole
      business. At noon home to dinner, and thence took my wife by coach, and
      she to my Lady Sandwich to see her. I to Tom Trice, to discourse about my
      father's giving over his administration to my brother, and thence to Sir
      R. Bernard, and there received L19 in money, and took up my father's bond
      of L21, that is L40, in part of Piggot's L209 due to us, which L40 he pays
      for 7 roods of meadow in Portholme. Thence to my wife, and carried her to
      the Old Bayly, and there we were led to the Quest House, by the church,
      where all the kindred were by themselves at the buriall of my uncle
      Fenner; but, Lord! what a pitiful rout of people there was of them, but
      very good service and great company the whole was. And so anon to church,
      and a good sermon, and so home, having for ease put my L19 into W. Joyce's
      hand, where I left it. So to supper and to bed, being in a little pain
      from some cold got last night lying without anything upon my feet.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, not without some pain by cold, which makes me mighty melancholy,
      to think of the ill state of my health. To the office, where busy till my
      brains ready to drop with variety of business, and vexed for all that to
      see the service like to suffer by other people's neglect. Vexed also at a
      letter from my father with two troublesome ones enclosed from Cave and
      Noble, so that I know not what to do therein. At home to dinner at noon.
      But to comfort my heart, Captain Taylor this day brought me L20 he
      promised me for my assistance to him about his masts. After dinner to the
      office again, and thence with Mr. Wayth to St. Catherine's to see some
      variety of canvas's, which indeed was worth my seeing, but only I was in
      some pain, and so took not the delight I should otherwise have done. So
      home to the office, and there busy till late at night, and so home to
      supper and to bed. This morning my taylor brought me a very tall mayde to
      be my cook-mayde; she asked L5, but my wife offered her but L3 10s.&mdash;whether
      she will take it or no I know not till to-morrow, but I am afeard she will
      be over high for us, she having last been a chamber mayde, and holds up
      her head, as my little girle Su observed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up pretty well as to pain and wind, and to the office, where we sat
      close and did much business. At noon I to the 'Change, and thence to Mr.
      Cutler's, where I heard Sir W. Rider was, where I found them at dinner and
      dined with them, he having yesterday and to-day a fit of a pain like the
      gout, the first time he ever had it. A good dinner. Good discourse, Sir W.
      Rider especially much fearing the issue of a Dutch warr, wherein I very
      highly commend him. Thence home, and at the office a while, and then with
      Mr. Deane to a second lesson upon my Shipwrightry, wherein I go on with
      great pleasure. He being gone I to the office late, and so home to supper
      and to bed. But, Lord! to see how my very going to the 'Change, and being
      without my gowne, presently brought me wind and pain, till I came home and
      was well again; but I am come to such a pass that I shall not know what to
      do with myself, but I am apt to think that it is only my legs that I take
      cold in from my having so long worn a gowne constantly.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Whitsunday. King's Birth and Restauration day). Up, and having
      received a letter last night desiring it from Mr. Coventry, I walked to
      St. James's, and there he and I did long discourse together of the
      business of the office, and the warr with the Dutch; and he seemed to
      argue mightily with the little reason that there is for all this. For
      first, as to the wrong we pretend they have done us: that of the East
      Indys, for their not delivering of Poleron, it is not yet known whether
      they have failed or no; that of their hindering the Leopard cannot amount
      to above L3,000 if true; that of the Guinny Company, all they had done us
      did not amount to above L200 or L300 he told me truly; and that now, from
      what Holmes, without any commission, hath done in taking an island and two
      forts, hath set us much in debt to them; and he believes that Holmes will
      have been so puffed up with this, that he by this time hath been enforced
      with more strength than he had then, hath, I say, done a great deale more
      wrong to them. He do, as to the effect of the warr, tell me clearly that
      it is not any skill of the Dutch that can hinder our trade if we will, we
      having so many advantages over them, of winds, good ports, and men; but it
      is our pride, and the laziness of the merchant. He seems to think that
      there may be some negotiation which may hinder a warr this year, but that
      he speaks doubtfully as unwilling I perceive to be thought to discourse
      any such thing. The main thing he desired to speake with me about was, to
      know whether I do understand my Lord Sandwich's intentions as to going to
      sea with this fleete; saying, that the Duke, if he desires it, is most
      willing to it; but thinking that twelve ships is not a fleete fit for my
      Lord to be troubled to go out with, he is not willing to offer it to him
      till he hath some intimations of his mind to go, or not. He spoke this
      with very great respect as to my Lord, though methinks it is strange they
      should not understand one another better at this time than to need
      another's mediation. Thence walked over the Parke to White Hall, Mr. Povy
      with me, and was taken in a very great showre in the middle of the Parke
      that we were very wet. So up into, the house and with him to the King's
      closett, whither by and by the King came, my Lord Sandwich carrying the
      sword. A Bishopp preached, but he speaking too low for me to hear behind
      the King's closett, I went forth and walked and discoursed with Colonell
      Reames, who seems a very willing man to be informed in his business of
      canvas, which he is undertaking to strike in with us to serve the Navy. By
      and by my Lord Sandwich came forth, and called me to him: and we fell into
      discourse a great while about his business, wherein he seems to be very
      open with me, and to receive my opinion as he used to do; and I hope I
      shall become necessary to him again. He desired me to think of the
      fitness, or not, for him to offer himself to go to sea; and to give him my
      thoughts in a day or two. Thence after sermon among the ladies on the
      Queene's side; where I saw Mrs. Stewart, very fine and pretty, but far
      beneath my Lady Castlemayne. Thence with Mr. Povy home to dinner; where
      extraordinary cheer. And after dinner up and down to see his house. And in
      a word, methinks, for his perspective upon his wall in his garden, and the
      springs rising up with the perspective in the little closett; his room
      floored above with woods of several colours, like but above the best
      cabinet-work I ever saw; his grotto and vault, with his bottles of wine,
      and a well therein to keep them cool; his furniture of all sorts; his bath
      at the top of his house, good pictures, and his manner of eating and
      drinking; do surpass all that ever I did see of one man in all my life.
      Thence walked home and found my uncle Wight and Mr. Rawlinson, who supped
      with me. They being gone, I to bed, being in some pain from my being so
      much abroad to-day, which is a most strange thing that in such warm
      weather the least ayre should get cold and wind in me. I confess it makes
      me mighty sad and out of all content in the world.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Lay long, the bells ringing, it being holiday, and then up and all
      the day long in my study at home studying of shipmaking with great content
      till the evening, and then came Mr. Howe and sat and then supped with me.
      He is a little conceited, but will make a discreet man. He being gone, a
      little to my office, and then home to bed, being in much pain from
      yesterday's being abroad, which is a consideration of mighty sorrow to me.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up, and called upon Mr. Hollyard, with whom I advised and shall fall
      upon some course of doing something for my disease of the wind, which
      grows upon me every day more and more. Thence to my Lord Sandwich's, and
      while he was dressing I below discoursed with Captain Cooke, and I think
      if I do find it fit to keep a boy at all I had as good be supplied from
      him with one as any body. By and by up to my Lord, and to discourse about
      his going to sea, and the message I had from Mr. Coventry to him. He
      wonders, as he well may, that this course should be taken, and he every
      day with the Duke, who, nevertheless, seems most friendly to him, who hath
      not yet spoke one word to my Lord of his desire to have him go to sea. My
      Lord do tell me clearly that were it not that he, as all other men that
      were of the Parliament side, are obnoxious to reproach, and so is forced
      to bear what otherwise he would not, he would never suffer every thing to
      be done in the Navy, and he never be consulted; and it seems, in the
      naming of all these commanders for this fleete, he hath never been asked
      one question. But we concluded it wholly inconsistent with his honour not
      to go with this fleete, nor with the reputation which the world hath of
      his interest at Court; and so he did give me commission to tell Mr.
      Coventry that he is most willing to receive any commands from the Duke in
      this fleete, were it less than it is, and that particularly in this
      service. With this message I parted, and by coach to the office, where I
      found Mr. Coventry, and told him this. Methinks, I confess, he did not
      seem so pleased with it as I expected, or at least could have wished, and
      asked me whether I had told my Lord that the Duke do not expect his going,
      which I told him I had. But now whether he means really that the Duke, as
      he told me the other day, do think the Fleete too small for him to take or
      that he would not have him go, I swear I cannot tell. But methinks other
      ways might have been used to put him by without going in this manner about
      it, and so I hope it is out of kindness indeed. Dined at home, and so to
      the office, where a great while alone in my office, nobody near, with
      Bagwell's wife of Deptford, but the woman seems so modest that I durst not
      offer any courtship to her, though I had it in my mind when I brought her
      in to me. But I am resolved to do her husband a courtesy, for I think he
      is a man that deserves very well. So abroad with my wife by coach to St.
      James's, to one Lady Poultny's, where I found my Lord, I doubt, at some
      vain pleasure or other. I did give him a short account of what I had done
      with Mr. Coventry, and so left him, and to my wife again in the coach, and
      with her to the Parke, but the Queene being gone by the Parke to
      Kensington, we staid not but straight home and to supper (the first time I
      have done so this summer), and so to my office doing business, and then to
      my monthly accounts, where to my great comfort I find myself better than I
      was still the last month, and now come to L930. I was told to-day, that
      upon Sunday night last, being the King's birth-day, the King was at my
      Lady Castlemayne's lodgings (over the hither-gates at Lambert's lodgings)
      dancing with fiddlers all night almost; and all the world coming by taking
      notice of it, which I am sorry to hear. The discourse of the town is only
      whether a warr with Holland or no, and we are preparing for it all we can,
      which is but little. Myself subject more than ordinary to pain by winde,
      which makes me very sad, together with the trouble which at present lies
      upon me in my father's behalf, rising from the death of my brother, which
      are many and great. Would to God they were over!
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    <p>
      June 1st. Up, having lain long, going to bed very late after the ending of
      my accounts. Being up Mr. Hollyard came to me, and to my great sorrow,
      after his great assuring me that I could not possibly have the stone
      again, he tells me that he do verily fear that I have it again, and has
      brought me something to dissolve it, which do make me very much troubled,
      and pray to God to ease me. He gone, I down by water to Woolwich and
      Deptford to look after the dispatch of the ships, all the way reading Mr.
      Spencer's Book of Prodigys, which is most ingeniously writ, both for
      matter and style. Home at noon, and my little girl got me my dinner, and I
      presently out by water and landed at Somerset stairs, and thence through
      Covent Garden, where I met with Mr. Southwell (Sir W. Pen's friend), who
      tells me the very sad newes of my Lord Tiviott's and nineteen more
      commission officers being killed at Tangier by the Moores, by an ambush of
      the enemy upon them, while they were surveying their lines; which is very
      sad, and, he says, afflicts the King much. Thence to W. Joyce's, where by
      appointment I met my wife (but neither of them at home), and she and I to
      the King's house, and saw "The Silent Woman;" but methought not so well
      done or so good a play as I formerly thought it to be, or else I am
      nowadays out of humour. Before the play was done, it fell such a storm of
      hayle, that we in the middle of the pit were fain to rise;
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     [The stage was covered in by a tiled roof, but the pit was open to
     the sky.  "The pit lay open to the weather for sake of light, but
     was subsequently covered in with a glazed cupola, which, however,
     only imperfectly protected the audience, so that in stormy weather
     the house was thrown into disorder, and the people in the pit were
     fain to rise" (Cunningham's "Story of Nell Gwyn," ed. 1893, p. 33).]
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    <p>
      and all the house in a disorder, and so my wife and I out and got into a
      little alehouse, and staid there an hour after the play was done before we
      could get a coach, which at last we did (and by chance took up Joyce
      Norton and Mrs. Bowles, and set them at home), and so home ourselves, and
      I, after a little to my office, so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and then to the
      'Change, where after some stay by coach with Sir J. Minnes and Mr.
      Coventry to St. James's, and there dined with Mr. Coventry very finely,
      and so over the Parke to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier about
      providing provisions, money, and men for Tangier. At it all the afternoon,
      but it is strange to see how poorly and brokenly things are done of the
      greatest consequence, and how soon the memory of this great man is gone,
      or, at least, out of mind by the thoughts of who goes next, which is not
      yet knowne. My Lord of Oxford, Muskerry, and several others are discoursed
      of. It seems my Lord Tiviott's design was to go a mile and half out of the
      towne, to cut down a wood in which the enemy did use to lie in ambush. He
      had sent several spyes; but all brought word that the way was clear, and
      so might be for any body's discovery of an enemy before you are upon them.
      There they were all snapt, he and all his officers, and about 200 men, as
      they say; there being left now in the garrison but four captains. This
      happened the 3d of May last, being not before that day twelvemonth of his
      entering into his government there: but at his going out in the morning he
      said to some of his officers, "Gentlemen, let us look to ourselves, for it
      was this day three years that so many brave Englishmen were knocked on the
      head by the Moores, when Fines made his sally out." Here till almost
      night, and then home with Sir J. Minnes by coach, and so to my office a
      while, and home to supper and bed, being now in constant pain in my back,
      but whether it be only wind or what it is the Lord knows, but I fear the
      worst.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, still in a constant pain in my back, which much afflicts me with
      fear of the consequence of it. All the morning at the office, we sat at
      the office extraordinary upon the business of our stores, but, Lord! what
      a pitiful account the Surveyor makes of it grieves my heart. This morning
      before I came out I made a bargain with Captain Taylor for a ship for the
      Commissioners for Tangier, wherein I hope to get L40 or L50. To the
      'Change, and thence home and dined, and then by coach to White Hall,
      sending my wife to Mrs. Hunt's. At the Committee for Tangier all the
      afternoon, where a sad consideration to see things of so great weight
      managed in so confused a manner as it is, so as I would not have the
      buying of an acre of land bought by the Duke of York and Mr. Coventry, for
      ought I see, being the only two that do anything like men; Prince Rupert
      do nothing but swear and laugh a little, with an oathe or two, and that's
      all he do. Thence called my wife and home, and I late at my office, and so
      home to supper and to bed, pleased at my hopes of gains by to-day's work,
      but very sad to think of the state of my health.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up and to St. James's by coach, after a good deal of talk before I
      went forth with J. Noble, who tells me that he will secure us against
      Cave, that though he knows, and can prove it, yet nobody else can prove
      it, to be Tom's child; that the bond was made by one Hudson, a scrivener,
      next to the Fountaine taverne, in the Old Bayly; that the children were
      born, and christened, and entered in the parish-book of St. Sepulchre's,
      by the name of Anne and Elizabeth Taylor and he will give us security
      against Cave if we pay him the money. And then up to the Duke, and was
      with him giving him an account how matters go, and of the necessity there
      is of a power to presse seamen, without which we cannot really raise men
      for this fleete of twelve sayle, besides that it will assert the King's
      power of pressing, which at present is somewhat doubted, and will make the
      Dutch believe that we are in earnest. Thence by water to the office, where
      we sat till almost two o'clock. This morning Captain Ferrer came to the
      office to tell me that my Lord hath given him a promise of Young's place
      in the Wardrobe, and hearing that I pretend a promise to it he comes to
      ask my consent, which I denied him, and told him my Lord may do what he
      pleases with his promise to me, but my father's condition is not so as
      that I should let it go if my Lord will stand to his word, and so I sent
      him going, myself being troubled a little at it. After office I with Mr.
      Coventry by water to St. James's and dined with him, and had excellent
      discourse from him. So to the Committee for Tangier all afternoon, where
      still the same confused doings, and my Lord Fitz-Harding now added to the
      Committee; which will signify much. It grieves me to see how brokenly
      things are ordered. So by coach home, and at my office late, and so to
      supper and to bed, my body by plenty of breaking of wind being just now
      pretty well again, having had a constant akeing in my back these 5 or 6
      days. Mr. Coventry discoursing this noon about Sir W. Batten (what a sad
      fellow he is!) told me how the King told him the other day how Sir W.
      Batten, being in the ship with him and Prince Rupert when they expected to
      fight with Warwick, did walk up and down sweating with a napkin under his
      throat to dry up his sweat; and that Prince Rupert being a most jealous
      man, and particularly of Batten, do walk up and down swearing bloodily to
      the King, that Batten had a mind to betray them to-day, and that the
      napkin was a signal; "but, by God," says he, "if things go ill, the first
      thing I will do is to shoot him." He discoursed largely and bravely to me
      concerning the different sort of valours, the active and passive valour.
      For the latter, he brought as an instance General Blake; who, in the
      defending of Taunton and Lime for the Parliament, did through his stubborn
      sort of valour defend it the most 'opiniastrement' that ever any man did
      any thing; and yet never was the man that ever made any attaque by land or
      sea, but rather avoyded it on all, even fair occasions. On the other side,
      Prince Rupert, the boldest attaquer in the world for personal courage; and
      yet, in the defending of Bristol, no man ever did anything worse, he
      wanting the patience and seasoned head to consult and advise for defence,
      and to bear with the evils of a siege. The like he says is said of my Lord
      Tiviott, who was the boldest adventurer of his person in the world, and
      from a mean man in few years was come to this greatness of command and
      repute only by the death of all his officers, he many times having the
      luck of being the only survivor of them all, by venturing upon services
      for the King of France that nobody else would; and yet no man upon a
      defence, he being all fury and no judgment in a fight. He tells me above
      all of the Duke of Yorke, that he is more himself and more of judgement is
      at hand in him in the middle of a desperate service, than at other times,
      as appeared in the business of Dunkirke, wherein no man ever did braver
      things, or was in hotter service in the close of that day, being
      surrounded with enemies; and then, contrary to the advice of all about
      him, his counsel carried himself and the rest through them safe, by
      advising that he might make his passage with but a dozen with him; "For,"
      says he, "the enemy cannot move after me so fast with a great body, and
      with a small one we shall be enough to deal with them;" and though he is a
      man naturally martiall to the highest degree, yet a man that never in his
      life talks one word of himself or service of his owne, but only that he
      saw such or such a thing, and lays it down for a maxime that a Hector can
      have no courage. He told me also, as a great instance of some men, that
      the Prince of Condo's excellence is, that there not being a more furious
      man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to
      make him civill, and to command in words of great obligation to his
      officers and men; but without any the least disturbance in his judgment or
      spirit.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). About one in the morning I was knocked up by my mayds to
      come to my wife who is very ill. I rose, and from some cold she got
      to-day, or from something else, she is taken with great gripings, a
      looseness, and vomiting. I lay a while by her upon the bed, she being in
      great pain, poor wretch, but that being a little over I to bed again, and
      lay, and then up and to my office all the morning, setting matters to
      rights in some accounts and papers, and then to dinner, whither Mr.
      Shepley, late come to town, came to me, and after dinner and some pleasant
      discourse he went his way, being to go out of town to Huntington again
      to-morrow. So all the afternoon with my wife discoursing and talking, and
      in the evening to my office doing business, and then home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up and found my wife very ill again, which troubles me, but I was
      forced to go forth. So by water with Mr. Gauden and others to see a ship
      hired by me for the Commissioners of Tangier, and to give order therein.
      So back to the office, and by coach with Mr. Gauden to White Hall, and
      there to my Lord Sandwich, and here I met Mr. Townsend very opportunely
      and Captain Ferrer, and after some discourse we did accommodate the
      business of the Wardrobe place, that he shall have the reversion if he
      will take it out by giving a covenant that if Mr. Young' dyes before my
      father my father shall have the benefit of it for his life. So home, and
      thence by water to Deptford, and there found our Trinity Brethren come
      from their election to church, where Dr. Britton made, methought, an
      indifferent sermon touching the decency that we ought to observe in God's
      house, the church, but yet to see how ridiculously some men will carry
      themselves. Sir W. Batten did at open table anon in the name of the whole
      Society desire him to print his sermon, as if the Doctor could think that
      they were fit judges of a good sermon. Then by barge with Sir W. Batten to
      Trinity House. It seems they have with much ado carried it for Sir G.
      Carteret against Captain Harrison, poor man, who by succession ought to
      have been it, and most hands were for him, but only they were forced to
      fright the younger Brethren by requiring them to set their hands (which is
      an ill course) and then Sir G. Carteret carryed it. Here was at dinner my
      Lord Sandwich, Mr. Coventry, my Lord Craven, and others. A great dinner,
      and good company. Mr. Prin also, who would not drink any health, no, not
      the King's, but sat down with his hat on all the while;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [William Prynne had published in 1628 a small book against the
     drinking of healths, entitled, "Healthes, Sicknesse; or a
     compendious and briefe Discourse, prouing, the Drinking and Pledging
     of Healthes to be sinfull and utterly unlawfull unto Christians
 ... wherein all those ordinary objections, excuses or pretences,
     which are made to justifie, extenuate, or excuse the drinking or
     pledging of Healthes are likewise cleared and answered."  The
     pamphlet was dedicated to Charles I. as "more interessed in the
     theame and subject of this compendious discourse then any other that
     I know," and "because your Majestie of all other persons within your
     owne dominions, are most dishonoured, prejudiced, and abused by
     these Healthes."]
</pre>
    <p>
      but nobody took notice of it to him at all; but in discourse with the
      Doctor he did declare himself that he ever was, and has expressed himself
      in all his books for mixt communion against the Presbyterian examination.
      Thence after dinner by water, my Lord Sandwich and all us Tangier men,
      where at the Committee busy till night with great confusion, and then by
      coach home, with this content, however, that I find myself every day
      become more and more known, and shall one day hope to have benefit by it.
      I found my wife a little better. A little to my office, then home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up and to the office (having by my going by water without any thing
      upon my legs yesterday got some pain upon me again), where all the
      morning. At noon a little to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner, my
      wife being ill still in bed. Thence to the office, where busy all the
      afternoon till 9 at night, and so home to my wife, to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. All day before dinner with Creed, talking of many things, among
      others, of my Lord's going so often to Chelsy, and he, without my speaking
      much, do tell me that his daughters do perceive all, and do hate the
      place, and the young woman there, Mrs. Betty Becke; for my Lord, who sent
      them thither only for a disguise for his going thither, will come under
      pretence to see them, and pack them out of doors to the Parke, and stay
      behind with her; but now the young ladies are gone to their mother to
      Kensington. To dinner, and after dinner till 10 at night in my study
      writing of my old broken office notes in shorthand all in one book, till
      my eyes did ake ready to drop out. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and at my office all the morning. At noon dined at home, Mr. Hunt
      and his kinswoman (wife in the country), after dinner I to the office,
      where we sat all the afternoon. Then at night by coach to attend the Duke
      of Albemarle about the Tangier ship. Coming back my wife spied me going
      home by coach from Mr. Hunt's, with whom she hath gained much in discourse
      to-day concerning W. Howe's discourse of me to him. That he was the man
      that got me to be secretary to my Lord; and all that I have thereby, and
      that for all this I never did give him 6d. in my life. Which makes me
      wonder that this rogue dare talk after this manner, and I think all the
      world is grown false. But I hope I shall make good use of it. So home to
      supper and to bed, my eyes aching mightily since last night.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and by water to White Hall, and there to a Committee of Tangier,
      and had occasion to see how my Lord Ashworth&mdash;[Lord Ashworth is
      probably a miswriting for Lord Ashley (afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury).]&mdash;deports
      himself, which is very fine indeed, and it joys my heart to see that there
      is any body looks so near into the King's business as I perceive he do in
      this business of my Lord Peterborough's accounts. Thence into the Parke,
      and met and walked with Captain Sylas Taylor, my old acquaintance while I
      was of the Exchequer, and Dr. Whore, talking of musique, and particularly
      of Mr. Berckenshaw's way, which Taylor magnifies mightily, and perhaps but
      what it deserves, but not so easily to be understood as he and others make
      of it. Thence home by water, and after dinner abroad to buy several
      things, as a map, and powder, and other small things, and so home to my
      office, and in the evening with Captain Taylor by water to our Tangier
      ship, and so home, well pleased, having received L26 profit to-day of my
      bargain for this ship, which comforts me mightily, though I confess my
      heart, what with my being out of order as to my health, and the fear I
      have of the money my Lord oweth me and I stand indebted to him in, is much
      cast down of late. In the evening home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, where some
      discourse arose from Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Coventry, which gives me
      occasion to think that something like a war is expected now indeed, though
      upon the 'Change afterwards I hear too that an Embassador is landed from
      Holland, and one from their East India Company, to treat with ours about
      the wrongs we pretend to. Mr. Creed dined with me, and thence after dinner
      by coach with my wife only to take the ayre, it being very warm and
      pleasant, to Bowe and Old Ford; and thence to Hackney. There 'light, and
      played at shuffle-board, eat cream and good churies; and so with good
      refreshment home. Then to my office vexed with Captain Taylor about the
      delay of carrying down the ship hired by me for Tangier, and late about
      that and other things at the office. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Lord's day). All the morning in my chamber consulting my lesson of
      ship building, and at noon Mr. Creed by appointment came and dined with
      us, and sat talking all the afternoon till, about church time, my wife and
      I began our great dispute about going to Griffin's child's christening,
      where I was to have been godfather, but Sir J. Minnes refusing, he wanted
      an equal for me and my Lady Batten, and so sought for other. Then the
      question was whether my wife should go, and she having dressed herself on
      purpose, was very angry, and began to talk openly of my keeping her within
      doors before Creed, which vexed me to the guts, but I had the discretion
      to keep myself without passion, and so resolved at last not to go, but to
      go down by water, which we did by H. Russell&mdash;[a waterman]&mdash;to
      the Half-way house, and there eat and drank, and upon a very small
      occasion had a difference again broke out, where without any the least
      cause she had the cunning to cry a great while, and talk and blubber,
      which made me mighty angry in mind, but said nothing to provoke her
      because Creed was there, but walked home, being troubled in my mind also
      about the knavery and neglect of Captain Fudge and Taylor, who were to
      have had their ship for Tangier ready by Thursday last, and now the men by
      a mistake are come on board, and not any master or man or boy of the
      ship's company on board with them when we came by her side this afternoon,
      and also received a letter from Mr. Coventry this day in complaint of it.
      We came home, and after supper Creed went home, and I to bed. My wife made
      great means to be friends, coming to my bedside and doing all things to
      please me, and at last I could not hold out, but seemed pleased, and so
      parted, and I with much ado to sleep, but was easily wakened by
      extraordinary great rain, and my mind troubled the more to think what the
      soldiers would do on board tonight in all this weather.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. So up at 5 o'clock, and with Captain Taylor on board her at
      Deptford, and found all out of order, only the soldiers civil, and Sir
      Arthur Bassett a civil person. I rated at Captain Taylor, whom, contrary
      to my expectation, I found a lying and a very stupid blundering fellow,
      good for nothing, and yet we talk of him in the Navy as if he had been an
      excellent officer, but I find him a lying knave, and of no judgment or
      dispatch at all. After finding the condition of the ship, no master, not
      above four men, and many ship's provisions, sayls, and other things
      wanting, I went back and called upon Fudge, whom I found like a lying
      rogue unready to go on board, but I did so jeer him that I made him get
      every thing ready, and left Taylor and H. Russell to quicken him, and so
      away and I by water on to White Hall, where I met his Royal Highnesse at a
      Tangier Committee about this very thing, and did there satisfy him how
      things are, at which all was pacified without any trouble, and I hope may
      end well, but I confess I am at a real trouble for fear the rogue should
      not do his work, and I come to shame and losse of the money I did hope
      justly to have got by it. Thence walked with Mr. Coventry to St. James's,
      and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy
      books given him of old Sir John Cooke's by the Archbishop of Canterbury
      that now is; wherein the order that was observed in the Navy then, above
      what it is now, is very observable, and fine things we did observe in our
      reading. Anon to dinner, after dinner to discourse of the business of the
      Dutch warr, wherein he tells me the Dutch do in every particular, which
      are but few and small things that we can demand of them, whatever cry we
      unjustly make, do seem to offer at an accommodation, for they do owne that
      it is not for their profit to have warr with England. We did also talk of
      a History of the Navy of England, how fit it were to be writ; and he did
      say that it hath been in his mind to propose to me the writing of the
      History of the late Dutch warr, which I am glad to hear, it being a thing
      I much desire, and sorts mightily with my genius; and, if well done, may
      recommend me much. So he says he will get me an order for making of
      searches to all records, &amp;c., in order thereto, and I shall take great
      delight in doing of it. Thence by water down to the Tower, and thither
      sent for Mr. Creed to my house, where he promised to be, and he and I down
      to the ship, and find all things in pretty good order, and I hope will end
      to my mind. Thence having a gaily down to Greenwich, and there saw the
      King's works, which are great, a-doing there, and so to the Cherry Garden,
      and so carried some cherries home, and after supper to bed, my wife lying
      with me, which from my not being thoroughly well, nor she, we have not
      done above once these two or three weeks.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and had great
      conflict about the flags again, and am vexed methought to see my Lord
      Berkely not satisfied with what I said, but however I stop the King's
      being abused by the flag makers for the present. I do not know how it may
      end, but I will do my best to preserve it. So home to dinner, and after
      dinner by coach to Kensington. In the way overtaking Mr. Laxton, the
      apothecary, with his wife and daughters, very fine young lasses, in a
      coach; and so both of us to my Lady Sandwich, who hath lain this fortnight
      here at Deane Hodges's. Much company came hither to-day, my Lady Carteret,
      &amp;c., Sir William Wheeler and his lady, and, above all, Mr. Becke, of
      Chelsy, and wife and daughter, my Lord's mistress, and one that hath not
      one good feature in her face, and yet is a fine lady, of a fine taille,
      and very well carriaged, and mighty discreet. I took all the occasion I
      could to discourse with the young ladies in her company to give occasion
      to her to talk, which now and then she did, and that mighty finely, and
      is, I perceive, a woman of such an ayre, as I wonder the less at my Lord's
      favour to her, and I dare warrant him she hath brains enough to entangle
      him. Two or three houres we were in her company, going into Sir H.
      Finche's garden, and seeing the fountayne, and singing there with the
      ladies, and a mighty fine cool place it is, with a great laver of water in
      the middle and the bravest place for musique I ever heard. After much
      mirthe, discoursing to the ladies in defence of the city against the
      country or court, and giving them occasion to invite themselves to-morrow
      to me to dinner, to my venison pasty, I got their mother's leave, and so
      good night, very well pleased with my day's work, and, above all, that I
      have seen my Lord's mistresse. So home to supper, and a little at my
      office, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and by appointment with Captain Witham (the Captain that brought
      the newes of the disaster at Tangier, where my Lord Tiviott was slain) and
      Mr. Tooker to Beares Quay, and there saw and more afterward at the several
      grannarys several parcels of oates, and strange it is to hear how it will
      heat itself if laid up green and not often turned. We came not to any
      agreement, but did cheapen several parcels, and thence away, promising to
      send again to them. So to the Victualling office, and then home. And in
      our garden I got Captain Witham to tell me the whole story of my Lord
      Tiviott's misfortune; for he was upon the guard with his horse neare the
      towne, when at a distance he saw the enemy appear upon a hill, a mile and
      a half off, and made up to them, and with much ado escaped himself; but
      what became of my Lord he neither knows nor thinks that any body but the
      enemy can tell. Our losse was about four hundred. But he tells me that the
      greater wonder is that my Lord Tiviott met no sooner with such a disaster;
      for every day he did commit himself to more probable danger than this, for
      now he had the assurance of all his scouts that there was no enemy
      thereabouts; whereas he used every day to go out with two or three with
      him, to make his discoveries, in greater danger, and yet the man that
      could not endure to have anybody else to go a step out of order to
      endanger himself. He concludes him to be the man of the hardest fate to
      lose so much honour at one blow that ever was. His relation being done he
      parted; and so I home to look after things for dinner. And anon at noon
      comes Mr. Creed by chance, and by and by the three young ladies:&mdash;[Lord
      Sandwich's daughters.]&mdash;and very merry we were with our pasty, very
      well baked; and a good dish of roasted chickens; pease, lobsters,
      strawberries. And after dinner to cards: and about five o'clock, by water
      down to Greenwich; and up to the top of the hill, and there played upon
      the ground at cards. And so to the Cherry Garden, and then by water
      singing finely to the Bridge, and there landed; and so took boat again,
      and to Somersett House. And by this time, the tide being against us, it
      was past ten of the clock; and such a troublesome passage, in regard of my
      Lady Paulina's fearfullness, that in all my life I never did see any poor
      wretch in that condition. Being come hither, there waited for them their
      coach; but it being so late, I doubted what to do how to get them home.
      After half an hour's stay in the street, I sent my wife home by coach with
      Mr. Creed's boy; and myself and Creed in the coach home with them. But,
      Lord! the fear that my Lady Paulina was in every step of the way; and
      indeed at this time of the night it was no safe thing to go that road; so
      that I was even afeard myself, though I appeared otherwise.&mdash;We came
      safe, however, to their house, where all were abed; we knocked them up, my
      Lady and all the family being in bed. So put them into doors; and leaving
      them with the mayds, bade them good night, and then into the towne, Creed
      and I, it being about twelve o'clock and past; and to several houses,
      inns, but could get no lodging, all being in bed. At the last house, at
      last, we found some people drinking and roaring; and there got in, and
      after drinking, got an ill bed, where
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. I lay in my drawers and stockings and wastecoate till five of the
      clock, and so up; and being well pleased with our frolique, walked to
      Knightsbridge, and there eat a messe of creame, and so to St. James's, and
      there walked a little, and so I to White Hall, and took coach, and found
      my wife well got home last night, and now in bed. So I to the office,
      where all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, so home and to my
      office, where Mr. Ackworth came to me (though he knows himself and I know
      him to be a very knave), yet he came to me to discover the knavery of
      other people like the most honest man in the world. However, good use I
      shall make of his discourse, for in this he is much in the right. He being
      gone I to the 'Change, Mr. Creed with me, after we had been by water to
      see a vessell we have hired to carry more soldiers to Tangier, and also
      visited a rope ground, wherein I learnt several useful things. The talk
      upon the 'Change is, that De Ruyter is dead, with fifty men of his own
      ship, of the plague, at Cales: that the Holland Embassador here do
      endeavour to sweeten us with fair words; and things likely to be
      peaceable. Home after I had spoke with my cozen Richard Pepys upon the
      'Change, about supplying us with bewpers from Norwich, which I should be
      glad of, if cheap. So home to supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to my office, where I dispatched much business, and then
      down by water to Woolwich to make a discovery of a cheate providing for us
      in the working of some of our own ground Tows into new cordage, to be sold
      to us for Riga cordage. Thence to Mr. Falconer's, where I met Sir W.
      Batten and Lady, and Captain Tinker, and there dined with them, and so to
      the Dockyarde and to Deptford by water, and there very long informing
      myself in the business of flags and bewpers and other things, and so home
      late, being weary, and full of good information to-day, but I perceive the
      corruptions of the Navy are of so many kinds that it is endless to look
      after them, especially while such a one as Sir W. Batten discourages every
      man that is honest. So home to my office, there very late, and then to
      supper and to bed mightily troubled in my mind to hear how Sir W. Batten
      and Sir J. Minnes do labour all they can to abuse or enable others to
      abuse the King.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. From morning till 11 at night (only a little at dinner at home) at
      my office very busy, setting many businesses in order to my great trouble,
      but great content in the end. So home to supper and to bed. Strange to see
      how pert Sir W. Pen is to-day newly come from Portsmouth with his head
      full of great reports of his service and the state of the ships there.
      When that is over he will be just as another man again or worse. But I
      wonder whence Mr. Coventry should take all this care for him, to send for
      him up only to look after his Irish business with my Lord Ormond and to
      get the Duke's leave for him to come with so much officiousness, when I am
      sure he knows him as well as I do as to his little service he do.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Lord's day). Up, and all the morning and afternoon (only at dinner
      at home) at my office doing many businesses for want of time on the week
      days. In the afternoon the greatest shower of rain of a sudden and the
      greatest and most continued thunder that ever I heard I think in my life.
      In the evening home to my wife, and there talked seriously of several of
      our family concernments, and among others of bringing Pall out of the
      country to us here to try to put her off, which I am very desirous, and my
      wife also of. So to supper, prayers, which I have of late too much
      omitted. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. It having been a very cold night last night I had got some cold, and
      so in pain by wind, and a sure precursor of pain is sudden letting off
      farts, and when that stops, then my passages stop and my pain begins. Up
      and did several businesses, and so with my wife by water to White Hall,
      she to her father's, I to the Duke, where we did our usual business. And
      among other discourse of the Dutch, he was merrily saying how they print
      that Prince Rupert, Duke of Albemarle, and my Lord Sandwich, are to be
      Generalls; and soon after is to follow them "Vieux Pen;" and so the Duke
      called him in mirth Old Pen. They have, it seems, lately wrote to the
      King, to assure him that their setting-out ships were only to defend their
      fishing-trade, and to stay near home, not to annoy the King's subjects;
      and to desire that he would do the like with his ships: which the King
      laughs at, but yet is troubled they should think him such a child, to
      suffer them to bring home their fish and East India Company's ships, and
      then they will not care a fart for us. Thence to Westminster Hall, it
      being term time, meeting Mr. Dickering, he tells me how my Lady last week
      went to see Mrs. Becke, the mother; and by and by the daughter came in,
      but that my Lady do say herself, as he says, that she knew not for what
      reason, for she never knew they had a daughter, which I do not believe.
      She was troubled, and her heart did rise as soon as she appeared, and
      seems the most ugly woman that ever she saw. This if true were strange,
      but I believe it is not. Thence to my Lord's lodgings; and were merry with
      the young ladies, who make a great story of their appearing before their
      mother the morning after we carried them, the last week, home so late; and
      that their mother took it very well, at least without any anger. Here I
      heard how the rich widow, my Lady Gold, is married to one Neale, after he
      had received a box on the eare by her brother (who was there a sentinel,
      in behalf of some courtier) at the door; but made him draw, and wounded
      him. She called Neale up to her, and sent for a priest, married presently,
      and went to bed. The brother sent to the Court, and had a serjeant sent
      for Neale; but Neale sent for him up to be seen in bed, and she owned him
      for her husband: and so all is past. It seems Sir H. Bennet did look after
      her. My Lady very pleasant. After dinner came in Sir Thomas Crew and Mr.
      Sidney, lately come from France, who is growne a little, and a pretty
      youth he is; but not so improved as they did give him out to be, but like
      a child still. But yet I can perceive he hath good parts and good
      inclinations. Thence with Creed, who dined here, to Westminster to find
      out Mr. Hawly, and did, but he did not accept of my offer of his being
      steward to my Lord at sea. Thence alone to several places about my law
      businesses, and with good success; at last I to Mr. Townsend at the
      Wardrobe, and received kind words from him to be true to me against
      Captain Ferrers his endeavours to get the place from my father as my Lord
      hath promised him. Here met Will. Howe, and he went forth with me; and by
      water back to White Hall to wait on my Lord, who is come back from
      Hinchinbroke; where he has been about 4 or 5 days. But I was never more
      vexed to see how an over-officious visitt is received, for he received me
      with as little concernment as in the middle of his discontent, and a fool
      I am to be of so servile a humour, and vexed with that consideration I
      took coach home, and could not get it off my mind all night. To supper and
      to bed, my wife finding fault with Besse for her calling upon Jane that
      lived with us, and there heard Mrs. Harper and her talk ill of us and not
      told us of it. With which I was also vexed, and told her soundly of it
      till she cried, poor wench, and I hope without dissimulation, and yet I
      cannot tell; however, I was glad to see in what manner she received it,
      and so to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Being weary yesterday with walking I sleep long, and at last up and
      to the office, where all the morning. At home to dinner, Mr. Deane with
      me. After dinner I to White Hall (setting down my wife by the way) to a
      Committee of Tangier, where the Duke of Yorke, I perceive, do attend the
      business very well, much better than any man there or most of them, and my
      [mind] eased of some trouble I lay under for fear of his thinking ill of
      me from the bad successe in the setting forth of these crew men to
      Tangier. Thence with Mr. Creed, and walked in the Parke, and so to the New
      Exchange, meeting Mr. Moore, and he with us. I shewed him no friendly
      look, but he took no notice to me of the Wardrobe business, which vexes
      me. I perceive by him my Lord's business of his family and estate goes
      very ill, and runs in debt mightily. I would to God I were clear of it,
      both as to my owne money and the bond of L1000, which I stand debtor for
      him in, to my cozen Thomas Pepys. Thence by coach home and to my office a
      little, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up and I found Mr. Creed below, who staid with me a while, and then
      I to business all the morning. At noon to the 'Change and Coffee-house,
      where great talke of the Dutch preparing of sixty sayle of ships. The
      plague grows mightily among them, both at sea and land. From the 'Change
      to dinner to Trinity House with Sir W. Rider and Cutler, where a very good
      dinner. Here Sir G. Ascue dined also, who I perceive desires to make
      himself known among the seamen. Thence home, there coming to me my Lord
      Peterborough's Sollicitor with a letter from him to desire present
      dispatch in his business of freight, and promises me L50, which is good
      newes, and I hope to do his business readily for him. This much rejoiced
      me. All the afternoon at his business, and late at night comes the
      Sollicitor again, and I with him at 9 o'clock to Mr. Povy's, and there
      acquainted him with the business. The money he won't pay without warrant,
      but that will be got done in a few days. So home by coach and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and to the office, and there we sat all the morning. So to the
      'Change, and then home to dinner and to my office, where till 10 at night
      very busy, and so home to supper and to bed. My cozen, Thomas Pepys, was
      with me yesterday and I took occasion to speak to him about the bond I
      stand bound for my Lord Sandwich to him in L1000. I did very plainly,
      obliging him to secrecy, tell him how the matter stands, yet with all duty
      to my Lord my resolution to be bound for whatever he desires me for him,
      yet that I would be glad he had any other security. I perceive by Mr.
      Moore today that he hath been with my Lord, and my Lord how he takes it I
      know not, but he is looking after other security and I am mighty glad of
      it. W. Howe was with me this afternoon, to desire some things to be got
      ready for my Lord against his going down to his ship, which will be soon;
      for it seems the King and both the Queenes intend to visit him. The Lord
      knows how my Lord will get out of this charge; for Mr. Moore tells me
      to-day that he is L10,000 in debt and this will, with many other things
      that daily will grow upon him (while he minds his pleasure as he do), set
      him further backward. But it was pretty this afternoon to hear W. Howe
      mince the matter, and say that he do believe that my Lord is in debt L2000
      or L3000, and then corrected himself and said, No, not so, but I am afraid
      he is in debt L1000. I pray God gets me well rid of his Lordship as to his
      debt, and I care not.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up and out with Captain Witham in several places again to look for
      oats for Tangier, and among other places to the City granarys, where it
      seems every company have their granary and obliged to keep such a quantity
      of corne always there or at a time of scarcity to issue so much at so much
      a bushell: and a fine thing it is to see their stores of all sorts, for
      piles for the bridge, and for pipes, a thing I never saw before.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [From the commencement of the reign of Henry VIII., or perhaps
     earlier, it was the custom of the City of London to provide against
     scarcity, by requiring each of the chartered Companies to keep in
     store a certain quantity of corn, which was to be renewed from time
     to time, and when required for that purpose, produced in the market
     for sale, at such times and prices, and in such quantities, as the
     Lord Mayor or Common Council should direct.  See the report of a
     case in the Court of Chancery, "Attorney-General v. Haberdashers'
     Company" (Mylne and Keens "Reports," vol. i., p. 420).&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence to the office, and there busy all the morning. At noon to my uncle
      Wight's, and there dined, my wife being there all the morning. After
      dinner to White Hall; and there met with Mr. Pierce, and he showed me the
      Queene's bed-chamber, and her closett, where she had nothing but some
      pretty pious pictures, and books of devotion; and her holy water at her
      head as she sleeps, with her clock by her bed-side, wherein a lamp burns
      that tells her the time of the night at any time. Thence with him to the
      Parke, and there met the Queene coming from Chappell, with her Mayds of
      Honour, all in silver-lace gowns again: which is new to me, and that which
      I did not think would have been brought up again. Thence he carried me to
      the King's closett: where such variety of pictures, and other things of
      value and rarity, that I was properly confounded and enjoyed no pleasure
      in the sight of them; which is the only time in my life that ever I was so
      at a loss for pleasure, in the greatest plenty of objects to give it me.
      Thence home, calling in many places and doing abundance of errands to my
      great content, and at night weary home, where Mr. Creed waited for me, and
      he and I walked in the garden, where he told me he is now in a hurry
      fitting himself for sea, and that it remains that he deals as an ingenuous
      man with me in the business I wot of, which he will do before he goes. But
      I perceive he will have me do many good turns for him first, both as to
      his bills coming to him in this office, and also in his absence at the
      Committee of Tangier, which I promise, and as he acquits himself to me I
      will willingly do. I would I knew the worst of it, what it is he intends,
      that so I may either quit my hands of him or continue my kindness still to
      him.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. We staid late, and he lay with me all night and rose very merry
      talking, and excellent company he is, that is the truth of it, and a most
      cunning man. He being gone I to the office, where we sat all the morning.
      At noon to dinner, and then to my office busy, and by and by home with Mr.
      Deane to a lesson upon raising a Bend of Timbers,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This seems to refer to knee timber, of which there was not a
     sufficient supply.  A proposal was made to produce this bent wood
     artificially: "June 22, 1664.  Sir William Petty intimated that it
     seemed by the scarcity and greater rate of knee timber that nature
     did not furnish crooked wood enough for building: wherefore he
     thought it would be fit to raise by art, so much of it in
     proportion, as to reduce it to an equal rate with strait timber"
     (Birch's "History of the Royal Society,")]
</pre>
    <p>
      and he being gone I to the office, and there came Captain Taylor, and he
      and I home, and I have done all very well with him as to the business of
      the last trouble, so that come what will come my name will be clear of any
      false dealing with him. So to my office again late, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's day). Up, and Sir J. Minnes set me down at my Lord
      Sandwich's, where I waited till his coming down, when he came, too, could
      find little to say to me but only a general question or two, and so
      good-bye. Here his little daughter, my Lady Katharine was brought, who is
      lately come from my father's at Brampton, to have her cheek looked after,
      which is and hath long been sore. But my Lord will rather have it be as it
      is, with a scarr in her face, than endanger it being worse by tampering.
      He being gone, I went home, a little troubled to see he minds me no more,
      and with Creed called at several churches, which, God knows, are supplied
      with very young men, and the churches very empty; so home and at our owne
      church looked in, and there heard one preach whom Sir W. Pen brought,
      which he desired us yesterday to hear, that had been his chaplin in
      Ireland, a very silly fellow. So home and to dinner, and after dinner a
      frolique took us, we would go this afternoon to the Hope; so my wife
      dressed herself, and, with good victuals and drink, we took boat presently
      and the tide with us got down, but it was night, and the tide spent by the
      time we got to Gravesend; so there we stopped, but went not on shore, only
      Creed, to get some cherries,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pliny tells us that cherries were introduced into Britain by the
     Romans, and Lydgate alludes to them as sold in the London streets.
     Richard Haines, fruiterer to Henry VI IL, imported a number of
     cherry trees from Flanders, and planted them at Tenham, in Kent.
     Hence the fame of the Kentish cherries.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and send a letter to the Hope, where the Fleete lies. And so, it being
      rainy, and thundering mightily, and lightning, we returned. By and by the
      evening turned mighty clear and moonshine; we got with great pleasure
      home, about twelve o'clock, which did much please us, Creed telling pretty
      stories in the boat. He lay with me all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and he and I walked to Paul's Church yard, and there saw Sir
      Harry Spillman's book, and I bespoke it and others, and thence we took
      coach, and he to my Lord's and I to St. James's, where we did our usual
      business, and thence I home and dined, and then by water to Woolwich, and
      there spent the afternoon till night under pretence of buying Captain
      Blackman's house and grounds, and viewing the ground took notice of
      Clothiers' cordage with which he, I believe, thinks to cheat the King.
      That being done I by water home, it being night first, and there I find
      our new mayd Jane come, a cook mayd. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and this day put on a half shirt first this summer, it being
      very hot; and yet so ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afeard I shall
      catch cold, while all the world is ready to melt away. To the office all
      the morning, at noon to dinner at home, then to my office till the
      evening, then out about several businesses and then by appointment to the
      'Change, and thence with my uncle Wight to the Mum house, and there
      drinking, he do complain of his wife most cruel as the most troublesome
      woman in the world, and how she will have her will, saying she brought him
      a portion and God knows what. By which, with many instances more, I
      perceive they do live a sad life together. Thence to the Mitre and there
      comes Dr. Burnett to us and Mr. Maes, but the meeting was chiefly to bring
      the Doctor and me together, and there I began to have his advice about my
      disease, and then invited him to my house: and I am resolved to put myself
      into his hands. Here very late, but I drank nothing, nor will, though he
      do advise me to take care of cold drinks. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and Mr. Shepley came to me, who is lately come to town; among
      other things I hear by him how the children are sent for away from my
      father's, but he says without any great discontent. I am troubled there
      should be this occasion of difference, and yet I am glad they are gone,
      lest it should have come to worse. He tells me how my brave dogg I did
      give him, going out betimes one morning to Huntington, was set upon by
      five other doggs, and worried to pieces, of which I am a little, and he
      the most sorry I ever saw man for such a thing. Forth with him and walked
      a good way talking, then parted and I to the Temple, and to my cozen Roger
      Pepys, and thence by water to Westminster to see Dean Honiwood, whom I had
      not visited a great while. He is a good-natured, but a very weak man, yet
      a Dean, and a man in great esteem. Thence walked to my Lord Sandwich's,
      and there dined, my Lord there. He was pleasant enough at table with me,
      but yet without any discourse of business, or any regard to me when dinner
      was over, but fell to cards, and my Lady and I sat two hours alone,
      talking of the condition of her family's being greatly in debt, and many
      children now coming up to provide for. I did give her my sense very plain
      of it, which she took well and carried further than myself, to the
      bemoaning their condition, and remembering how finely things were ordered
      about six years ago, when I lived there and my Lord at sea every year.
      Thence home, doing several errands by the way. So to my office, and there
      till late at night, Mr. Comander coming to me for me to sign and seal the
      new draft of my will, which I did do, I having altered something upon the
      death of my brother Tom. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, Mr. Wayth with me, and by and by comes in Mr. Falconer and his
      wife and dined with us, the first time she was ever here. We had a pretty
      good dinner, very merry in discourse, sat after dinner an hour or two,
      then down by water to Deptford and Woolwich about getting of some business
      done which I was bound to by my oath this month, and though in some things
      I have not come to the height of my vow of doing all my business in paying
      all my petty debts and receipt of all my petty monies due to me, yet I
      bless God I am not conscious of any neglect in me that they are not done,
      having not minded my pleasure at all, and so being resolved to take no
      manner of pleasure till it be done, I doubt not God will forgive me for
      not forfeiting the L10 promised. Walked back from Woolwich to Greenwich
      all alone, save a man that had a cudgell in his hand, and, though he told
      me he laboured in the King's yarde, and many other good arguments that he
      is an honest man, yet, God forgive me! I did doubt he might knock me on
      the head behind with his club. But I got safe home. Then to the making up
      my month's accounts, and find myself still a gainer and rose to L951, for
      which God be blessed. I end the month with my mind full of business and
      some sorrow that I have not exactly performed all my vowes, though my not
      doing is not my fault, and shall be made good out of my first leisure.
      Great doubts yet whether the Dutch wary go on or no. The Fleet ready in
      the Hope, of twelve sayle. The King and Queenes go on board, they say, on
      Saturday next. Young children of my Lord Sandwich gone with their mayds
      from my mother's, which troubles me, it being, I hear from Mr. Shepley,
      with great discontent, saying, that though they buy good meate, yet can
      never have it before it stinks, which I am ashamed of.
    </p>
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      JULY 1664
    </h2>
    <p>
      July 1st. Up and within all the morning, first bringing down my Tryangle
      to my chamber below, having a new frame made proper for it to stand on. By
      and by comes Dr. Burnett, who assures me that I have an ulcer either in
      the kidneys or bladder, for my water, which he saw yesterday, he is sure
      the sediment is not slime gathered by heat, but is a direct pusse. He did
      write me down some direction what to do for it, but not with the
      satisfaction I expected.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
                       Dr. Burnett's advice to mee.

                 The Originall is fyled among my letters.

     Take of ye Rootes of Marsh-Mallows foure ounces, of Cumfry, of
     Liquorish, of each two ounces, of ye Mowers of St. John's Wort two
     Handsfull, of ye Leaves of Plantan, of Alehoofe, of each three
     handfulls, of Selfeheale, of Red Roses, of each one Handfull, of
     Cynament, of Nutmegg, of each halfe an ounce.  Beate them well, then
     powre upon them one Quart of old Rhenish wine, and about Six houres
     after strayne it and clarify it with ye white of an Egge, and with a
     sufficient quantity of sugar, boyle it to ye consistence of a Syrrup
     and reserve it for use.

     Dissolve one spoonefull of this Syrrup in every draught of Ale or
     beere you drink.

     Morning and evening swallow ye quantity of an hazle-nutt of Cyprus
     Terebintine.

     If you are bound or have a fit of ye Stone eate an ounce of Cassia
     new drawne, from ye poynt of a knife.

     Old Canary or Malaga wine you may drinke to three or 4 glasses, but
     noe new wine, and what wine you drinke, lett it bee at meales.-[From
     a slip of paper inserted in the Diary at this place.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I did give him a piece, with good hopes, however, that his advice will be
      of use to me, though it is strange that Mr. Hollyard should never say one
      word of this ulcer in all his life to me. He being gone, I to the 'Change,
      and thence home to dinner, and so to my office, busy till the evening, and
      then by agreement came Mr. Hill and Andrews and one Cheswicke, a maister
      who plays very well upon the Spinette, and we sat singing Psalms till 9 at
      night, and so broke up with great pleasure, and very good company it is,
      and I hope I shall now and then have their company. They being gone, I to
      my office till towards twelve o'clock, and then home and to bed. Upon the
      'Change, this day, I saw how uncertain the temper of the people is, that,
      from our discharging of about 200 that lay idle, having nothing to do,
      upon some of our ships, which were ordered to be fitted for service, and
      their works are now done, the towne do talk that the King discharges all
      his men, 200 yesterday and 800 to-day, and that now he hath got L100,000
      in his hand, he values not a Dutch warr. But I undeceived a great many,
      telling them how it is.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the 'Change,
      and there, which is strange, I could meet with nobody that I could invite
      home to my venison pasty, but only Mr. Alsopp and Mr. Lanyon, whom I
      invited last night, and a friend they brought along with them. So home and
      with our venison pasty we had other good meat and good discourse. After
      dinner sat close to discourse about our business of the victualling of the
      garrison of Tangier, taking their prices of all provisions, and I do hope
      to order it so that they and I also may get something by it, which do much
      please me, for I hope I may get nobly and honestly with profit to the
      King. They being gone came Sir W. Warren, and he and I discoursed long
      about the business of masts, and then in the evening to my office, where
      late writing letters, and then home to look over some Brampton papers,
      which I am under an oathe to dispatch before I spend one half houre in any
      pleasure or go to bed before 12 o'clock, to which, by the grace of God, I
      will be true. Then to bed. When I came home I found that to-morrow being
      Sunday I should gain nothing by doing it to-night, and to-morrow I can do
      it very well and better than to-night. I went to bed before my time, but
      with a resolution of doing the thing to better purpose to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Lord's day). Up and ready, and all the morning in my chamber looking
      over and settling some Brampton businesses. At noon to dinner, where the
      remains of yesterday's venison and a couple of brave green geese, which we
      are fain to eat alone, because they will not keepe, which troubled us.
      After dinner I close to my business, and before the evening did end it
      with great content, and my mind eased by it. Then up and spent the evening
      walking with my wife talking, and it thundering and lightning all the
      evening, and this yeare have had the most of thunder and lightning they
      say of any in man's memory, and so it is, it seems, in France and
      everywhere else. So to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and many people with me about business, and then out to several
      places, and so at noon to my Lord Crew's, and there dined and very much
      made of there by him. He offered me the selling of some land of his in
      Cambridgeshire, a purchase of about L1000, and if I can compass it I will.
      After dinner I walked homeward, still doing business by the way, and at
      home find my wife this day of her owne accord to have lain out 25s. upon a
      pair of pendantes for her eares, which did vex me and brought both me and
      her to very high and very foule words from her to me, such as trouble me
      to think she should have in her mouth, and reflecting upon our old
      differences, which I hate to have remembered. I vowed to breake them, or
      that she should go and get what she could for them again. I went with that
      resolution out of doors; the poor wretch afterwards in a little while did
      send out to change them for her money again. I followed Besse her
      messenger at the 'Change, and there did consult and sent her back; I would
      not have them changed, being satisfied that she yielded. So went home, and
      friends again as to that business; but the words I could not get out of my
      mind, and so went to bed at night discontented, and she came to bed to me,
      but all would not make me friends, but sleep and rise in the morning
      angry. This day the King and the Queene went to visit my Lord Sandwich and
      the fleete, going forth in the Hope.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Their Majesties were treated at Tilbury Hope by the Earl of
     Sandwich, returning the same day, abundantly satisfied both with the
     dutiful respects of that honourable person and with the excellent
     condition of all matters committed to his charge" ("The Newes," July
     7th, 1664).&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      5th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the 'Change a
      little, then with W. Howe home and dined. So after dinner to my office,
      and there busy till late at night, having had among other things much
      discourse with young Gregory about the Chest business, wherein Sir W.
      Batten is so great a knave, and also with Alsop and Lanyon about the
      Tangier victualling, wherein I hope to get something for myself. Late home
      to supper and to bed, being full of thoughts of a sudden resolution this
      day taken upon the 'Change of going down to-morrow to the Hope.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up very betimes, and my wife also, and got us ready; and about eight
      o'clock, having got some bottles of wine and beer and neat's tongues, we
      went to our barge at the Towre, where Mr. Pierce and his wife, and a
      kinswoman and his sister, and Mrs. Clerke and her sister and cozen were to
      expect us; and so set out for the Hope, all the way down playing at cards
      and other sports, spending our time pretty merry. Come to the Hope about
      one and there showed them all the ships, and had a collacion of anchovies,
      gammon, &amp;c., and after an houre's stay or more, embarked again for
      home; and so to cards and other sports till we came to Greenwich, and
      there Mrs. Clerke and my wife and I on shore to an alehouse, for them to
      do their business, and so to the barge again, having shown them the King's
      pleasure boat; and so home to the Bridge, bringing night home with us; and
      it rained hard, but we got them on foot to the Beare, and there put them
      into a boat, and I back to my wife in the barge, and so to the Tower Wharf
      and home, being very well pleased today with the company, especially Mrs.
      Pierce, who continues her complexion as well as ever, and hath, at this
      day, I think, the best complexion that ever I saw on any woman, young or
      old, or child either, all days of my life. Also Mrs. Clerke's kinswoman
      sings very prettily, but is very confident in it; Mrs. Clerke herself
      witty, but spoils all in being so conceited and making so great a flutter
      with a few fine clothes and some bad tawdry things worne with them. But
      the charge of the barge lies heavy upon me, which troubles me, but it is
      but once, and I may make Pierce do me some courtesy as great. Being come
      home, I weary to bed with sitting. The reason of Dr. Clerke's not being
      here was the King's being sicke last night and let blood, and so he durst
      not come away to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and this day begun, the first day this year, to put off my linnen
      waistcoat, but it happening to be a cool day I was afraid of taking cold,
      which troubles me, and is the greatest pain I have in the world to think
      of my bad temper of my health. At the office all the morning. Dined at
      home, to my office to prepare some things against a Committee of Tangier
      this afternoon. So to White Hall, and there found the Duke and twenty more
      reading their commission (of which I am, and was also sent to, to come)
      for the Royall Fishery, which is very large, and a very serious charter it
      is; but the company generally so ill fitted for so serious a worke that I
      do much fear it will come to little. That being done, and not being able
      to do any thing for lacke of an oathe for the Governor and Assistants to
      take, we rose. Then our Committee for the Tangier victualling met and did
      a little, and so up, and I and Mr. Coventry walked in the garden half an
      hour, talking of the business of our masts, and thence away and with Creed
      walked half an hour or more in the Park, and thence to the New Exchange to
      drink some creame, but missed it and so parted, and I home, calling by the
      way for my new bookes, viz., Sir H. Spillman's "Whole Glossary,"
      "Scapula's Lexicon," and Shakespeare's plays, which I have got money out
      of my stationer's bills to pay for. So home and to my office a while, and
      then home and to bed, finding myself pretty well for all my waistecoate
      being put off to-day. The king is pretty well to-day, though let blood the
      night before yesterday.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and called out by my Lord Peterborough's gentleman to Mr. Povy's
      to discourse about getting of his money, wherein I am concerned in hopes
      of the L50 my Lord hath promised me, but I dare not reckon myself sure of
      it till I have it in my main,&mdash;[hand.]&mdash;for these Lords are hard
      to be trusted. Though I well deserve it. I staid at Povy's for his coming
      in, and there looked over his stables and every thing, but notwithstanding
      all the times I have been there I do yet find many fine things to look on.
      Thence to White Hall a little, to hear how the King do, he not having been
      well these three days. I find that he is pretty well again. So to Paul's
      Churchyarde about my books, and to the binder's and directed the doing of
      my Chaucer,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This was Speght's edition of 1602, which is still in the Pepysian
     Library.  The book is bound in calf, with brass clasps and bosses.
     It is not lettered.]
</pre>
    <p>
      though they were not full neate enough for me, but pretty well it is; and
      thence to the clasp-maker's to have it clasped and bossed. So to the
      'Change and home to dinner, and so to my office till 5 o'clock, and then
      came Mr. Hill and Andrews, and we sung an houre or two. Then broke up and
      Mr. Alsop and his company came and consulted about our Tangier victualling
      and brought it to a good head. So they parted, and I to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and at the office all the morning. In the afternoon by coach with
      Sir J. Minnes to White Hall, and there to a Committee for Fishing; but the
      first thing was swearing to be true to the Company, and we were all
      sworne; but a great dispute we had, which, methought, is very ominous to
      the Company; some, that we should swear to be true to the best of our
      power, and others to the best of our understanding; and carried in the
      last, though in that we are the least able to serve the Company, because
      we would not be obliged to attend the business when we can, but when we
      list. This consideration did displease me, but it was voted and so went.
      We did nothing else, but broke up till a Committee of Guinny was set and
      ended, and then met again for Tangier, and there I did my business about
      my Lord Peterborough's order and my own for my expenses for the garrison
      lately. So home, by the way calling for my Chaucer and other books, and
      that is well done to my mind, which pleased me well. So to my office till
      late writing letters, and so home to my wife to supper and bed, where we
      have not lain together because of the heat of the weather a good while,
      but now against her going into the country.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Up and by water, towards noon, to Somersett House, and
      walked to my Lord Sandwich's, and there dined with my Lady and the
      children. And after some ordinary discourse with my Lady, after dinner
      took our leaves and my wife hers, in order to her going to the country
      to-morrow. But my Lord took not occasion to speak one word of my father or
      mother about the children at all, which I wonder at, and begin I will not.
      Here my Lady showed us my Lady Castlemayne's picture, finely done; given
      my Lord; and a most beautiful picture it is. Thence with my Lady Jemimah
      and Mr. Sidney to St. Gyles's Church, and there heard a long, poore
      sermon. Thence set them down and in their coach to Kate Joyce's
      christening, where much company, good service of sweetmeates; and after an
      houre's stay, left them, and in my Lord's coach&mdash;his noble, rich
      coach&mdash;home, and there my wife fell to putting things in order
      against her going to-morrow, and I to read, and so to bed, where I not
      well, and so had no pleasure at all with my poor wife.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. But betimes up this morning, and, getting ready, we by coach to
      Holborne, where, at nine o'clock, they set out, and I and my man Will on
      horseback, by my wife, to Barnett; a very pleasant day; and there dined
      with her company, which was very good; a pretty gentlewoman with her, that
      goes but to Huntington, and a neighbour to us in towne. Here we staid two
      hours and then parted for all together, and my poor wife I shall soon want
      I am sure. Thence I and Will to see the Wells, half a mile off,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The mineral springs at Barnet Common, nearly a mile to the west of
     High Barnet.  The discovery of the wells was announced in the
     "Perfect Diurnall" of June 5th, 1652, and Fuller, writing in 1662,
     says that there are hopes that the waters may "save as many lives as
     were lost in the fatal battle at Barnet" ("Worthies," Herts).  A
     pamphlet on "The Barnet Well Water" was published by the Rev. W. M.
     Trinder, M.D., as late as the year 1800, but in 1840 the old well-
     house was pulled down.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and there I drank three glasses, and went and walked and came back and
      drunk two more; the woman would have had me drink three more; but I could
      not, my belly being full, but this wrought very well, and so we rode home,
      round by Kingsland, Hackney, and Mile End till we were quite weary, and my
      water working at least 7 or 8 times upon the road, which pleased me well,
      and so home weary, and not being very well, I betimes to bed, and there
      fell into a most mighty sweat in the night, about eleven o'clock, and
      there, knowing what money I have in the house and hearing a noyse, I begun
      to sweat worse and worse, till I melted almost to water. I rung, and could
      not in half an houre make either of the wenches hear me, and this made me
      fear the more, lest they might be gaga; and then I begun to think that
      there was some design in a stone being flung at the window over our
      stayres this evening, by which the thiefes meant to try what looking there
      would be after them and know our company. These thoughts and fears I had,
      and do hence apprehend the fears of all rich men that are covetous and
      have much money by them. At last Jane rose, and then I understand it was
      only the dogg wants a lodging and so made a noyse. So to bed, but hardly
      slept, at last did, and so till morning,
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. And so rose, called up by my Lord Peterborough's gentleman about
      getting his Lord's money to-day of Mr. Povy, wherein I took such order,
      that it was paid, and I had my L50 brought me, which comforts my heart. We
      sat at the office all the morning, then at home. Dined alone; sad for want
      of company and not being very well, and know not how to eat alone. After
      dinner down with Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir W. Batten to
      view, and did like a place by Deptford yard to lay masts in. By and by
      comes Mr. Coventry, and after a little stay he and I down to Blackwall, he
      having a mind to see the yarde, which we did, and fine storehouses there
      are and good docks, but of no great profit to him that oweth them for
      ought we see.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [For "owneth."  This sense is very common in Shakespeare.  In the
     original edition of the authorized version of the Bible we read: "So
     shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that oweth this girdle"
     (Acts xxi.  I i) Nares's Glossary.]
</pre>
    <p>
      So home by water with him, having good discourse by the way, and so I to
      the office a while, and late home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up and to my office, at noon (after having at an alehouse hard by
      discoursed with one Mr. Tyler, a neighbour, and one Captain Sanders about
      the discovery of some pursers that have sold their provisions) I to my
      Lord Sandwich, thinking to have dined there, but they not dining at home,
      I with Captain Ferrers to Mr. Barwell the King's Squire Sadler, where
      about this time twelvemonths I dined before at a good venison pasty. The
      like we had now, and very good company, Mr. Tresham and others. Thence to
      White Hall to the Fishery, and there did little. So by water home, and
      there met Lanyon, &amp;c., about Tangier matters, and so late to my
      office, and thence home and to bed. Mr. Moore was with me late to desire
      me to come to my Lord Sandwich tomorrow morning, which I shall, but I
      wonder what my business is.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. My mind being doubtful what the business should be, I rose a little
      after four o'clock, and abroad. Walked to my Lord's, and nobody up, but
      the porter rose out of bed to me so I back again to Fleete Streete, and
      there bought a little book of law; and thence, hearing a psalm sung, I
      went into St. Dunstan's, and there heard prayers read, which, it seems, is
      done there every morning at six o'clock; a thing I never did do at a
      chappell, but the College Chappell, in all my life. Thence to my Lord's
      again, and my Lord being up, was sent for up, and he and I alone. He did
      begin with a most solemn profession of the same confidence in and love for
      me that he ever had, and then told me what a misfortune was fallen upon me
      and him: in me, by a displeasure which my Lord Chancellor did show to him
      last night against me, in the highest and most passionate manner that ever
      any man did speak, even to the not hearing of any thing to be said to him:
      but he told me, that he did say all that could be said for a man as to my
      faithfullnesse and duty to his Lordship, and did me the greatest right
      imaginable. And what should the business be, but that I should be forward
      to have the trees in Clarendon Park marked and cut down, which he, it
      seems, hath bought of my Lord Albemarle; when, God knows! I am the most
      innocent man in the world in it, and did nothing of myself, nor knew of
      his concernment therein, but barely obeyed my Lord Treasurer's warrant for
      the doing thereof. And said that I did most ungentlemanlike with him, and
      had justified the rogues in cutting down a tree of his; and that I had
      sent the veriest Fanatique [Deane] that is in England to mark them, on
      purpose to nose&mdash;[provoke]&mdash;him. All which, I did assure my
      Lord, was most properly false, and nothing like it true; and told my Lord
      the whole passage. My Lord do seem most nearly affected; he is partly, I
      believe, for me, and partly for himself. So he advised me to wait
      presently upon my Lord, and clear myself in the most perfect manner I
      could, with all submission and assurance that I am his creature both in
      this and all other things; and that I do owne that all I have, is derived
      through my Lord Sandwich from his Lordship. So, full of horror, I went,
      and found him busy in tryals of law in his great room; and it being
      Sitting-day, durst not stay, but went to my Lord and told him so:
      whereupon he directed me to take him after dinner; and so away I home,
      leaving my Lord mightily concerned for me. I to the office, and there sat
      busy all the morning. At noon to the 'Change, and from the 'Change over
      with Alsopp and the others to the Pope's Head tavern, and there staid a
      quarter of an hour, and concluded upon this, that in case I got them no
      more than 3s. per week per man I should have of them but L150 per ann.,
      but to have it without any adventure or charge, but if I got them 3s. 2d.,
      then they would give me L300 in the like manner. So I directed them to
      draw up their tender in a line or two against the afternoon, and to meet
      me at White Hall. So I left them, and I to my Lord Chancellor's; and there
      coming out after dinner I accosted him, telling him that I was the unhappy
      Pepys that had fallen into his high displeasure, and come to desire him to
      give me leave to make myself better understood to his Lordship, assuring
      him of my duty and service. He answered me very pleasingly, that he was
      confident upon the score of my Lord Sandwich's character of me, but that
      he had reason to think what he did, and desired me to call upon him some
      evening: I named to-night, and he accepted of it. So with my heart light I
      to White Hall, and there after understanding by a stratagem, and yet
      appearing wholly desirous not to understand Mr. Gauden's price when he
      desired to show it me, I went down and ordered matters in our tender so
      well that at the meeting by and by I was ready with Mr. Gauden's and his,
      both directed him a letter to me to give the board their two tenders, but
      there being none but the Generall Monk and Mr. Coventry and Povy and I, I
      did not think fit to expose them to view now, but put it off till
      Saturday, and so with good content rose. Thence I to the Half Moone,
      against the 'Change, to acquaint Lanyon and his friends of our
      proceedings, and thence to my Lord Chancellor's, and there heard several
      tryals, wherein I perceive my Lord is a most able and ready man. After all
      done, he himself called, "Come, Mr. Pepys, you and I will take a turn in
      the garden." So he was led down stairs, having the goute, and there walked
      with me, I think, above an houre, talking most friendly, yet cunningly. I
      told him clearly how things were; how ignorant I was of his Lordship's
      concernment in it; how I did not do nor say one word singly, but what was
      done was the act of the whole Board. He told me by name that he was more
      angry with Sir G. Carteret than with me, and also with the whole body of
      the Board. But thinking who it was of the Board that knew him least, he
      did place his fear upon me; but he finds that he is indebted to none of
      his friends there. I think I did thoroughly appease him, till he thanked
      me for my desire and pains to satisfy him; and upon my desiring to be
      directed who I should of his servants advise with about this business, he
      told me nobody, but would be glad to hear from me himself. He told me he
      would not direct me in any thing, that it might not be said that the Lord
      Chancellor did labour to abuse the King; or (as I offered) direct the
      suspending the Report of the Purveyors but I see what he means, and I will
      make it my worke to do him service in it. But, Lord! to see how he is
      incensed against poor Deane, as a fanatique rogue, and I know not what:
      and what he did was done in spite to his Lordship, among all his friends
      and tenants. He did plainly say that he would not direct me in any thing,
      for he would not put himself into the power of any man to say that he did
      so and so; but plainly told me as if he would be glad I did something.
      Lord! to see how we poor wretches dare not do the King good service for
      fear of the greatness of these men. He named Sir G. Carteret, and Sir J.
      Minnes, and the rest; and that he was as angry with them all as me. But it
      was pleasant to think that, while he was talking to me, comes into the
      garden Sir G. Carteret; and my Lord avoided speaking with him, and made
      him and many others stay expecting him, while I walked up and down above
      an houre, I think; and would have me walk with my hat on. And yet, after
      all this, there has been so little ground for this his jealousy of me,
      that I am sometimes afeard that he do this only in policy to bring me to
      his side by scaring me; or else, which is worse, to try how faithfull I
      would be to the King; but I rather think the former of the two. I parted
      with great assurance how I acknowledged all I had to come from his
      Lordship; which he did not seem to refuse, but with great kindness and
      respect parted. So I by coach home, calling at my Lord's, but he not
      within. At my office late, and so home to eat something, being almost
      starved for want of eating my dinner to-day, and so to bed, my head being
      full of great and many businesses of import to me.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and to my Lord Sandwich's; where he sent for me up, and I did
      give my Lord an account of what had passed with my Lord Chancellor
      yesterday; with which he was well pleased, and advised me by all means to
      study in the best manner I could to serve him in this business. After this
      discourse ended, he begun to tell me that he had now pitched upon his day
      of going to sea upon Monday next, and that he would now give me an account
      how matters are with him. He told me that his work now in the world is
      only to keep up his interest at Court, having little hopes to get more
      considerably, he saying that he hath now about L8,000 per annum. It is
      true, he says, he oweth about L10,000; but he hath been at great charges
      in getting things to this pass in his estate; besides his building and
      good goods that he hath bought. He says he hath now evened his reckonings
      at the Wardrobe till Michaelmas last, and hopes to finish it to Ladyday
      before he goes. He says now there is due, too, L7,000 to him there, if he
      knew how to get it paid, besides L2000 that Mr. Montagu do owe him. As to
      his interest, he says that he hath had all the injury done him that ever
      man could have by another bosom friend that knows all his secrets, by Mr.
      Montagu; but he says that the worst of it all is past, and he gone out and
      hated, his very person by the King, and he believes the more upon the
      score of his carriage to him; nay, that the Duke of Yorke did say a little
      while since in his closett, that he did hate him because of his
      ungratefull carriage to my Lord of Sandwich. He says that he is as great
      with the Chancellor, or greater, than ever in his life. That with the King
      he is the like; and told me an instance, that whereas he formerly was of
      the private council to the King before he was last sicke, and that by the
      sickness an interruption was made in his attendance upon him; the King did
      not constantly call him, as he used to do, to his private council, only in
      businesses of the sea and the like; but of late the King did send a
      message to him by Sir Harry Bennet, to excuse the King to my Lord that he
      had not of late sent for him as he used to do to his private council, for
      it was not out of any distaste, but to avoid giving offence to some others
      whom he did not name; but my Lord supposes it might be Prince Rupert, or
      it may be only that the King would rather pass it by an excuse, than be
      thought unkind: but that now he did desire him to attend him constantly,
      which of late he hath done, and the King never more kind to him in his
      life than now. The Duke of Yorke, as much as is possible; and in the
      business of late, when I was to speak to my Lord about his going to sea,
      he says that he finds the Duke did it with the greatest ingenuity and love
      in the world; "and whereas," says my Lord, "here is a wise man hard by
      that thinks himself so, and would be thought so, and it may be is in a
      degree so (naming by and by my Lord Crew), would have had me condition
      with him that neither Prince Rupert nor any body should come over his
      head, and I know not what." The Duke himself hath caused in his
      commission, that he be made Admirall of this and what other ships or
      fleets shall hereafter be put out after these; which is very noble. He
      tells me in these cases, and that of Mr. Montagu's, and all others, he
      finds that bearing of them patiently is his best way, without noise or
      trouble, and things wear out of themselves and come fair again. But, says
      he, take it from me, never to trust too much to any man in the world, for
      you put yourself into his power; and the best seeming friend and real
      friend as to the present may have or take occasion to fall out with you,
      and then out comes all. Then he told me of Sir Harry Bennet, though they
      were always kind, yet now it is become to an acquaintance and familiarity
      above ordinary, that for these months he hath done no business but with my
      Lord's advice in his chamber, and promises all faithfull love to him and
      service upon all occasions. My Lord says, that he hath the advantage of
      being able by his experience to helpe and advise him; and he believes that
      that chiefly do invite Sir Harry to this manner of treating him. "Now,"
      says my Lord, "the only and the greatest embarras that I have in the world
      is, how to behave myself to Sir H. Bennet and my Lord Chancellor, in case
      that there do lie any thing under the embers about my Lord Bristoll, which
      nobody can tell; for then," says he, "I must appear for one or other, and
      I will lose all I have in the world rather than desert my Lord Chancellor:
      so that," says he, "I know not for my life what to do in that case." For
      Sir H. Bennet's love is come to the height, and his confidence, that he
      hath given my Lord a character, and will oblige my Lord to correspond with
      him. "This," says he, "is the whole condition of my estate and interest;
      which I tell you, because I know not whether I shall see you again or no."
      Then as to the voyage, he thinks it will be of charge to him, and no
      profit; but that he must not now look after nor think to encrease, but
      study to make good what he hath, that what is due to him from the Wardrobe
      or elsewhere may be paid, which otherwise would fail, and all a man hath
      be but small content to him. So we seemed to take leave one of another; my
      Lord of me, desiring me that I would write to him and give him information
      upon all occasions in matters that concern him; which, put together with
      what he preambled with yesterday, makes me think that my Lord do truly
      esteem me still, and desires to preserve my service to him; which I do
      bless God for. In the middle of our discourse my Lady Crew came in to
      bring my Lord word that he hath another son, my Lady being brought to bed
      just now, I did not think her time had been so nigh, but she's well
      brought to bed, for which God be praised! and send my Lord to study the
      laying up of something the more! Then with Creed to St. James's, and
      missing Mr. Coventry, to White Hall; where, staying for him in one of the
      galleries, there comes out of the chayre-room Mrs. Stewart, in a most
      lovely form, with her hair all about her eares, having her picture taking
      there. There was the King and twenty more, I think, standing by all the
      while, and a lovely creature she in this dress seemed to be. Thence to the
      'Change by coach, and so home to dinner and then to my office. In the
      evening Mr. Hill, Andrews and I to my chamber to sing, which we did very
      pleasantly, and then to my office again, where very late and so home, with
      my mind I bless God in good state of ease and body of health, only my head
      at this juncture very full of business, how to get something. Among others
      what this rogue Creed will do before he goes to sea, for I would fain be
      rid of him and see what he means to do, for I will then declare myself his
      firm friend or enemy.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up in the morning, my head mightily confounded with the great deale
      of business I have upon me to do. But to the office, and there dispatched
      Mr. Creed's business pretty well about his bill; but then there comes W.
      Howe for my Lord's bill of Imprest for L500 to carry with him this voyage,
      and so I was at a loss how to carry myself in it, Creed being there, but
      there being no help I delivered it to them both, and let them contend,
      when I perceive they did both endeavour to have it, but W. Howe took it,
      and the other had the discretion to suffer it. But I think I cleared
      myself to Creed that it past not from any practice of mine. At noon rose
      and did some necessary business at the 'Change. Thence to Trinity House to
      a dinner which Sir G. Carteret makes there as Maister this year. Thence to
      White Hall to the Tangier Committee, and there, above my expectation, got
      the business of our contract for the victualling carried for my people,
      viz., Alsopp, Lanyon, and Yeabsly; and by their promise I do thereby get
      L300 per annum to myself, which do overjoy me; and the matter is left to
      me to draw up. Mr. Lewes was in the gallery and is mightily amazed at it,
      and I believe Mr. Gauden will make some stir about it, for he wrote to Mr.
      Coventry to-day about it to argue why he should for the King's convenience
      have it, but Mr. Coventry most justly did argue freely for them that
      served cheapest. Thence walked a while with Mr. Coventry in the gallery,
      and first find that he is mighty cold in his present opinion of Mr. Peter
      Pett for his flagging and doing things so lazily there, and he did also
      surprise me with a question why Deane did not bring in their report of the
      timber of Clarendon. What he means thereby I know not, but at present put
      him off; nor do I know how to steer myself: but I must think of it, and
      advise with my Lord Sandwich. Thence with Creed by coach to my Lord
      Sandwich's, and there I got Mr. Moore to give me my Lord's hand for my
      receipt of L109 more of my money of Sir G. Carteret, so that then his debt
      to me will be under L500, I think. This do ease my mind also. Thence
      carried him and W. Howe into London, and set them down at Sir G.
      Carteret's to receive some money, and I home and there busy very late, and
      so home to supper and to bed, with my mind in pretty good ease, my
      business being in a pretty good condition every where.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). All the morning at my office doing business there, it
      raining hard. So dined at home alone. After dinner walked to my Lord's,
      and there found him and much other guests at table at dinner, and it seems
      they have christened his young son to-day-called him James. I got a piece
      of cake. I got my Lord to signe and seale my business about my selling of
      Brampton land, which though not so full as I would, yet is as full as I
      can at present. Walked home again, and there fell to read, and by and by
      comes my uncle Wight, Dr. Burnett, and another gentleman, and talked and
      drank, and the Doctor showed me the manner of eating, turpentine, which
      pleases me well, for it is with great ease. So they being gone, I to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and walked to my Lord's, and there took my leave of him, he
      seeming very friendly to me in as serious a manner as ever in his life,
      and I believe he is very confident of me. He sets out this morning for
      Deale. Thence to St. James's to the Duke, and there did our usual
      business. He discourses very freely of a warr with Holland, to begin about
      winter, so that I believe we shall come to it. Before we went up to the
      Duke, Sir G. Carteret and I did talk together in the Parke about my Lord
      Chancellor's business of the timber; he telling me freely that my Lord
      Chancellor was never so angry with him in all his life, as he was for this
      business, in great passion; and that when he saw me there, he knew what it
      was about. And plots now with me how we may serve my Lord, which I am
      mightily glad of; and I hope together we may do it. Thence to Westminster
      to my barber's, to have my Periwigg he lately made me cleansed of its
      nits, which vexed me cruelly that he should put such a thing into my
      hands. Here meeting his mayd Jane, that has lived with them so long, I
      talked with her, and sending her of an errand to Dr. Clerk's, did meet
      her, and took her into a little alehouse in Brewers Yard, and there did
      sport with her, without any knowledge of her though, and a very pretty
      innocent girl she is. Thence to my Lord Chancellor's, but he being busy I
      went away to the 'Change, and so home to dinner. By and by comes Creed,
      and I out with him to Fleet Street, and he to Mr. Povy's, I to my Lord
      Chancellor's, and missing him again walked to Povy's, and there saw his
      new perspective in his closet. Povy, to my great surprise and wonder, did
      here attacque me in his own and Mr. Bland's behalf that I should do for
      them both for the new contractors for the victualling of the garrison.
      Which I am ashamed that he should ask of me, nor did I believe that he was
      a man that did seek benefit in such poor things. Besides that he professed
      that he did not believe that I would have any hand myself in the contract,
      and yet here declares that he himself would have profit by it, and himself
      did move me that Sir W. Rider might join, and Ford with Gauden. I told him
      I had no interest in them, but I fear they must do something to him, for
      he told me that those of the Mole did promise to consider him. Thence home
      and Creed with me, and there he took occasion to owne his obligations to
      me, and did lay down twenty pieces in gold upon my shelf in my closett,
      which I did not refuse, but wish and expected should have been more. But,
      however, this is better than nothing, and now I am out of expectation, and
      shall henceforward know how to deal with him. After discourse of settling
      his matters here, we went out by coach, and he 'light at the Temple, and
      there took final leave of me, in order to his following my Lord to-morrow.
      I to my Lord Chancellor, and discoursed his business with him. I perceive,
      and he says plainly, that he will not have any man to have it in his power
      to say that my Lord Chancellor did contrive the wronging the King of his
      timber; but yet I perceive, he would be glad to have service done him
      therein; and told me Sir G. Carteret hath told him that he and I would
      look after his business to see it done in the best manner for him. Of this
      I was glad, and so away. Thence home, and late with my Tangier men about
      drawing up their agreement with us, wherein I find much trouble, and after
      doing as much as we could to-night, broke up and I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon dined
      alone at home. After dinner Sir W. Batten and I down by water to Woolwich,
      where coming to the ropeyarde we are told that Mr. Falconer, who hath been
      ill of a relapse these two days, is just now dead. We went up to his
      widow, who is sicke in bed also. The poor woman in great sorrow, and
      entreats our friendship, which we shall, I think, in every thing do for
      her. I am sure I will. Thence to the Docke, and there in Sheldon's garden
      eat some fruit; so to Deptford a little, and thence home, it raining
      mightily, and being cold I doubted my health after it. At the office till
      9 o'clock about Sir W. Warren's contract for masts, and then at home with
      Lanyon and Yeabsly till 12 and past about their contract for Tangier,
      wherein they and I differed, for I would have it drawn to the King's
      advantage, as much as might be, which they did not like, but parted good
      friends; however, when they were gone, I wished that I had forborne any
      disagreement till I had had their promise to me in writing. They being
      gone, I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and a while to my office, and then home with Mr. Deane till
      dinner, discoursing upon the business of my Lord Chancellor's timber in
      Clarendon Parke, and how to make a report therein without offending him;
      which at last I drew up, and hope it will please him. But I would to God
      neither I nor he ever had had any thing to have done with it! Dined
      together with a good pig, and then out by coach to White Hall, to the
      Committee for Fishing; but nothing done, it being a great day to-day there
      upon drawing at the Lottery of Sir Arthur Slingsby. I got in and stood by
      the two Queenes and the Duchesse of Yorke, and just behind my Lady
      Castlemayne, whom I do heartily adore; and good sport it was to see how
      most that did give their ten pounds did go away with a pair of globes only
      for their lot, and one gentlewoman, one Mrs. Fish, with the only blanke.
      And one I staid to see drew a suit of hangings valued at L430, and they
      say are well worth the money, or near it. One other suit there is better
      than that; but very many lots of three and fourscore pounds. I observed
      the King and Queenes did get but as poor lots as any else. But the wisest
      man I met with was Mr. Cholmley, who insured as many as would, from
      drawing of the one blank for 12d.; in which case there was the whole
      number of persons to one, which I think was three or four hundred. And so
      he insured about 200 for 200 shillings, so that he could not have lost if
      one of them had drawn it, for there was enough to pay the L10; but it
      happened another drew it, and so he got all the money he took. I left the
      lottery, and went to a play, only a piece of it, which was the Duke's
      house, "Worse and Worse;" just the same manner of play, and writ, I
      believe, by the same man as "The Adventures of Five Hours;" very pleasant
      it was, and I begin to admire Harris more than ever. Thence to Westminster
      to see Creed, and he and I took a walk in the Parke. He is ill, and not
      able yet to set out after my Lord, but will do to-morrow. So home, and
      late at my office, and so home to bed. This evening being moonshine I
      played a little late upon my flageolette in the garden. But being at
      Westminster Hall I met with great news that Mrs. Lane is married to one
      Martin, one that serves Captain Marsh. She is gone abroad with him to-day,
      very fine. I must have a bout with her very shortly to see how she finds
      marriage.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, among other
      things making a contract with Sir W. Warren for almost 1000 Gottenburg
      masts, the biggest that ever was made in the Navy, and wholly of my
      compassing and a good one I hope it is for the King. Dined at Sir W.
      Batten's, where I have not eat these many months. Sir G. Carteret, Mr.
      Coventry, Sir J. Minnes, and myself there only, and my Lady. A good
      venison pasty, and very merry, and pleasant I made myself with my Lady,
      and she as much to me. This morning to the office comes Nicholas Osborne,
      Mr. Gauden's clerke, to desire of me what piece of plate I would choose to
      have a L100, or thereabouts, bestowed upon me in, he having order to lay
      out so much; and, out of his freedom with me, do of himself come to make
      this question. I a great while urged my unwillingnesse to take any, not
      knowing how I could serve Mr. Gauden, but left it wholly to himself; so at
      noon I find brought home in fine leather cases, a pair of the noblest
      flaggons that ever I saw all the days of my life; whether I shall keepe
      them or no I cannot tell; for it is to oblige me to him in the business of
      the Tangier victualling, wherein I doubt I shall not; but glad I am to see
      that I shall be sure to get something on one side or other, have it which
      will: so, with a merry heart, I looked upon them, and locked them up.
      After dinner to [give] my Lord Chancellor a good account of his business,
      and he is very well pleased therewith, and carries himself with great
      discretion to me, without seeming over glad or beholding to me; and yet I
      know that he do think himself very well served by me. Thence to
      Westminster and to Mrs. Lane's lodgings, to give her joy, and there
      suffered me to deal with her as I hoped to do, and by and by her husband
      comes, a sorry, simple fellow, and his letter to her which she proudly
      showed me a simple, nonsensical thing. A man of no discourse, and I fear
      married her to make a prize of, which he is mistaken in, and a sad wife I
      believe she will prove to him, for she urged me to appoint a time as soon
      as he is gone out of town to give her a meeting next week. So by water
      with a couple of cozens of Mrs. Lane's, and set them down at Queenhive,
      and I through Bridge home, and there late at business, and so home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning. At noon to the
      'Change, and so home to dinner, and then down by water to Deptford, where
      coming too soon, I spent an houre in looking round the yarde, and putting
      Mr. Shish
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Jonas Shish, master-shipwright at Deptford.  There are several
     papers of his among the State Papers.  "I was at the funeral of old
     Mr. Shish, Master Shipwright of His Majesty's Yard here, an honest
     and remarkable man, and his death a public loss, for his excellent
     success in building ships (though altogether illiterate) and for
     bringing up so many of his children to be able artists.  I held up
     the pall with three knights who did him that honour, and he was
     worthy of it.  It was the custom of this good man to rise in the
     night and pray, kneeling in his own coffin, which he had lying by
     him for many years.  He was born that famous year, the Gunpowder-
     plot, 1605" (Evelyn's "Diary," May 13th, 1680).]
</pre>
    <p>
      to measure a piece or two of timber, which he did most cruelly wrong, and
      to the King's losse 12 or 13s. in a piece of 28 feet in contents. Thence
      to the Clerke of the Cheques, from whose house Mr. Falconer was buried
      to-day; Sir J. Minnes and I the only principal officers that were there.
      We walked to church with him, and then I left them without staying the
      sermon and straight home by water, and there find, as I expected, Mr.
      Hill, and Andrews, and one slovenly and ugly fellow, Seignor Pedro, who
      sings Italian songs to the theorbo most neatly, and they spent the whole
      evening in singing the best piece of musique counted of all hands in the
      world, made by Seignor Charissimi, the famous master in Rome. Fine it was,
      indeed, and too fine for me to judge of. They have spoke to Pedro to meet
      us every weeke, and I fear it will grow a trouble to me if we once come to
      bid judges to meet us, especially idle Masters, which do a little
      displease me to consider. They gone comes Mr. Lanyon, who tells me Mr.
      Alsopp is now become dangerously ill, and fears his recovery, covery,
      which shakes my expectation of L630 per annum by the business; and,
      therefore, bless God for what Mr. Gauden hath sent me, which, from some
      discourse to-day with Mr. Osborne, swearing that he knows not any thing of
      this business of the victualling; but, the contrary, that it is not that
      moves Mr. Gauden to send it me, for he hath had order for it any time
      these two months. Whether this be true or no, I know not; but I shall
      hence with the more confidence keepe it. To supper and to the office a
      little, and to walk in the garden, the moon shining bright, and fine warm
      fair weather, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon to the 'Change, where
      I took occasion to break the business of my Lord Chancellor's timber to
      Mr. Coventry in the best manner I could. He professed to me, that, till,
      Sir G. Carteret did speake of it at the table, after our officers were
      gone to survey it, he did not know that my Lord Chancellor had any thing
      to do with it; but now he says that he had been told by the Duke that Sir
      G. Carteret had spoke to him about it, and that he had told the Duke that,
      were he in my Lord Chancellor's case, if he were his father, he would
      rather fling away the gains of two or L3,000, than have it said that the
      timber, which should have been the King's, if it had continued the Duke of
      Albemarle's, was concealed by us in favour of my Lord Chancellor; for,
      says he, he is a great man, and all such as he, and he himself
      particularly, have a great many enemies that would be glad of such an
      advantage against him. When I told him it was strange that Sir J. Minnes
      and Sir G. Carteret, that knew my Lord Chancellor's concernment therein,
      should not at first inform us, he answered me that for Sir J. Minnes, he
      is looked upon to be an old good companion, but by nobody at the other end
      of the towne as any man of business, and that my Lord Chancellor, he dares
      say, never did tell him of it, only Sir G. Carteret, he do believe, must
      needs know it, for he and Sir J. Shaw are the greatest confidants he hath
      in the world. So for himself, he said, he would not mince the matter, but
      was resolved to do what was fit, and stand upon his owne legs therein, and
      that he would speak to the Duke, that he and Sir G. Carteret might be
      appointed to attend my Lord Chancellor in it. All this disturbs me
      mightily. I know not what to say to it, nor how to carry myself therein;
      for a compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance
      to my Lord Chancellor. But I think to let it alone, or at least meddle in
      it as little more as I can. From thence walked toward Westminster, and
      being in an idle and wanton humour, walked through Fleet Alley, and there
      stood a most pretty wench at one of the doors, so I took a turn or two,
      but what by sense of honour and conscience I would not go in, but much
      against my will took coach and away, and away to Westminster Hall, and
      there 'light of Mrs. Lane, and plotted with her to go over the water. So
      met at White's stairs in Chanel Row, and over to the old house at Lambeth
      Marsh, and there eat and drank, and had my pleasure of her twice, she
      being the strangest woman in talk of love to her husband sometimes, and
      sometimes again she do not care for him, and yet willing enough to allow
      me a liberty of doing what I would with her. So spending 5s. or 6s. upon
      her, I could do what I would, and after an hour's stay and more back again
      and set her ashore there again, and I forward to Fleet Street, and called
      at Fleet Alley, not knowing how to command myself, and went in and there
      saw what formerly I have been acquainted with, the wickedness of these
      houses, and the forcing a man to present expense. The woman indeed is a
      most lovely woman, but I had no courage to meddle with her for fear of her
      not being wholesome, and so counterfeiting that I had not money enough, it
      was pretty to see how cunning she was, would not suffer me to have to do
      in any manner with her after she saw I had no money, but told me then I
      would not come again, but she now was sure I would come again, but I hope
      in God I shall not, for though she be one of the prettiest women I ever
      saw, yet I fear her abusing me. So desiring God to forgive me for this
      vanity, I went home, taking some books from my bookseller, and taking his
      lad home with me, to whom I paid L10 for books I have laid up money for,
      and laid out within these three weeks, and shall do no more a great while
      I hope. So to my office writing letters, and then home and to bed, weary
      of the pleasure I have had to-day, and ashamed to think of it.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). Up, in some pain all day from yesterday's passages,
      having taken cold, I suppose. So staid within all day reading of two or
      three good plays. At night to my office a little, and so home, after
      supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten by coach to St.
      James's, but there the Duke being gone out we to my Lord Berkeley's
      chamber, Mr. Coventry being there, and among other things there met with a
      printed copy of the King's commission for the repair of Paul's, which is
      very large, and large power for collecting money, and recovering of all
      people that had bought or sold formerly any thing belonging to the Church.
      And here I find my Lord Mayor of the City set in order before the
      Archbishopp or any nobleman, though all the greatest officers of state are
      there. But yet I do not hear by my Lord Berkeley, who is one of them, that
      any thing is like to come of it. Thence back again homewards, and Sir W.
      Batten and I to the Coffee-house, but no newes, only the plague is very
      hot still, and encreases among the Dutch. Home to dinner, and after dinner
      walked forth, and do what I could I could not keep myself from going
      through Fleet Lane, but had the sense of safety and honour not to go in,
      and the rather being a holiday I feared I might meet with some people that
      might know me. Thence to Charing Cross, and there called at Unthanke's to
      see what I owed, but found nothing, and here being a couple of pretty
      ladies, lodgers in the kitchen, I staid a little there. Thence to my
      barber Gervas, who this day buries his child, which it seems was born
      without a passage behind, so that it never voided any thing in the week or
      fortnight that it has been born. Thence to Mr. Reeves, it coming just now
      in my head to buy a microscope, but he was not within, so I walked all
      round that end of the town among the loathsome people and houses, but, God
      be thanked! had no desire to visit any of them. So home, where I met Mr.
      Lanyon, who tells me Mr. Alsop is past hopes, which will mightily
      disappoint me in my hopes there, and yet it may be not. I shall think
      whether it will be safe for me to venture myself or no, and come in as an
      adventurer. He gone, Mr. Cole (my old Jack Cole) comes to see and speak
      with me, and his errand in short to tell me that he is giving over his
      trade; he can do no good in it, and will turn what he has into money and
      go to sea, his father being dead and leaving him little, if any thing.
      This I was sorry to hear, he being a man of good parts, but, I fear,
      debauched. I promised him all the friendship I can do him, which will end
      in little, though I truly mean it, and so I made him stay with me till 11
      at night, talking of old school stories, and very pleasing ones, and truly
      I find that we did spend our time and thoughts then otherwise than I think
      boys do now, and I think as well as methinks that the best are now. He
      supped with me, and so away, and I to bed. And strange to see how we are
      all divided that were bred so long at school together, and what various
      fortunes we have run, some good, some bad.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. All the morning at the office, at noon to Anthony Joyce's, to our
      gossip's dinner. I had sent a dozen and a half of bottles of wine thither,
      and paid my double share besides, which is 18s. Very merry we were, and
      when the women were merry and rose from table, I above with them, ne'er a
      man but I, I began discourse of my not getting of children, and prayed
      them to give me their opinions and advice, and they freely and merrily did
      give me these ten, among them (1) Do not hug my wife too hard nor too
      much; (2) eat no late suppers; (3) drink juyce of sage; (4) tent and
      toast; (5) wear cool holland drawers; (6) keep stomach warm and back cool;
      (7) upon query whether it was best to do at night or morn, they answered
      me neither one nor other, but when we had most mind to it; (8) wife not to
      go too straight laced; (9) myself to drink mum and sugar; (10) Mrs. Ward
      did give me, to change my place. The 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, and 10th they all
      did seriously declare, and lay much stress upon them as rules fit to be
      observed indeed, and especially the last, to lie with our heads where our
      heels do, or at least to make the bed high at feet and low at head. Very
      merry all, as much as I could be in such sorry company. Great discourse of
      the fray yesterday in Moorefields, how the butchers at first did beat the
      weavers (between whom there hath been ever an old competition for
      mastery), but at last the weavers rallied and beat them. At first the
      butchers knocked down all for weavers that had green or blue aprons, till
      they were fain to pull them off and put them in their breeches. At last
      the butchers were fain to pull off their sleeves, that they might not be
      known, and were soundly beaten out of the field, and some deeply wounded
      and bruised; till at last the weavers went out tryumphing, calling L100
      for a butcher. I to Mr. Reeves to see a microscope, he having been with me
      to-day morning, and there chose one which I will have. Thence back and
      took up young Mrs. Harman, a pretty bred and pretty humoured woman whom I
      could love well, though not handsome, yet for her person and carriage, and
      black. By the way met her husband going for her, and set them both down at
      home, and so home to my office a while, and so to supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and after some discourse with Mr. Duke, who is to be Secretary
      to the Fishery, and is now Secretary to the Committee for Trade, who I
      find a very ingenious man, I went to Mr. Povy's, and there heard a little
      of his empty discourse, and fain he would have Mr. Gauden been the
      victualler for Tangier, which none but a fool would say to me when he
      knows he hath made it his request to me to get him something of these men
      that now do it. Thence to St. James's, but Mr. Coventry being ill and in
      bed I did not stay, but to White Hall a little, walked up and down, and so
      home to fit papers against this afternoon, and after dinner to the 'Change
      a little, and then to White Hall, where anon the Duke of Yorke came, and a
      Committee we had of Tangier, where I read over my rough draught of the
      contract for Tangier victualling, and acquainted them with the death of
      Mr. Alsopp, which Mr. Lanyon had told me this morning, which is a sad
      consideration to see how uncertain a thing our lives are, and how little
      to be presumed of in our greatest undertakings. The words of the contract
      approved of, and I home and there came Mr. Lanyon to me and brought my
      neighbour, Mr. Andrews, to me, whom he proposes for his partner in the
      room of Mr. Alsopp, and I like well enough of it. We read over the
      contract together, and discoursed it well over and so parted, and I am
      glad to see it once over in this condition again, for Mr. Lanyon and I had
      some discourse to-day about my share in it, and I hope if it goes on to
      have my first hopes of L300 per ann. They gone, I to supper and to bed.
      This afternoon came my great store of Coles in, being to Chaldron, so that
      I may see how long they will last me.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. At the office all the morning, dined, after 'Change, at home, and
      then abroad, and seeing "The Bondman" upon the posts, I consulted my oaths
      and find I may go safely this time without breaking it; I went thither,
      notwithstanding my great desire to have gone to Fleet Alley, God forgive
      me, again. There I saw it acted. It is true, for want of practice, they
      had many of them forgot their parts a little; but Betterton and my poor
      Ianthe outdo all the world. There is nothing more taking in the world with
      me than that play. Thence to Westminster to my barber's, and strange to
      think how when I find that Jervas himself did intend to bring home my
      periwigg, and not Jane his maid, I did desire not to have it at all, for I
      had a mind to have her bring it home. I also went to Mr. Blagrave's about
      speaking to him for his kinswoman to come live with my wife, but they are
      not come to town, and so I home by coach and to my office, and then to
      supper and to bed. My present posture is thus: my wife in the country and
      my mayde Besse with her and all quiett there. I am endeavouring to find a
      woman for her to my mind, and above all one that understands musique,
      especially singing. I am the willinger to keepe one because I am in good
      hopes to get 2 or L300 per annum extraordinary by the business of the
      victualling of Tangier, and yet Mr. Alsopp, my chief hopes, is dead since
      my looking after it, and now Mr. Lanyon, I fear, is, falling sicke too. I
      am pretty well in health, only subject to wind upon any cold, and then
      immediate and great pains. All our discourse is of a Dutch warr and I find
      it is likely to come to it, for they are very high and desire not to
      compliment us at all, as far as I hear, but to send a good fleete to
      Guinny to oppose us there. My Lord Sandwich newly gone to sea, and I, I
      think, fallen into his very good opinion again, at least he did before his
      going, and by his letter since, show me all manner of respect and
      confidence. I am over-joyed in hopes that upon this month's account I
      shall find myself worth L1000, besides the rich present of two silver and
      gilt flaggons which Mr. Gauden did give me the other day. I do now live
      very prettily at home, being most seriously, quietly, and neatly served by
      my two mayds Jane and the girle Su, with both of whom I am mightily well
      pleased. My greatest trouble is the settling of Brampton Estate, that I
      may know what to expect, and how to be able to leave it when I die, so as
      to be just to my promise to my uncle Thomas and his son. The next thing is
      this cursed trouble my brother Tom is likely to put us to by his death,
      forcing us to law with his creditors, among others Dr. Tom Pepys, and that
      with some shame as trouble, and the last how to know in what manner as to
      saving or spending my father lives, lest they should run me in debt as one
      of my uncle's executors, and I never the wiser nor better for it. But in
      all this I hope shortly to be at leisure to consider and inform myself
      well.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. At the office all the morning dispatching of business, at noon to
      the 'Change after dinner, and thence to Tom Trice about Dr. Pepys's
      business, and thence it raining turned into Fleet Alley, and there was
      with Cocke an hour or so. The jade, whether I would not give her money or
      not enough; she would not offer to invite to do anything, but on the
      contrary saying she had no time, which I was glad of, for I had no mind to
      meddle with her, but had my end to see what a cunning jade she was, to see
      her impudent tricks and ways of getting money and raising the reckoning by
      still calling for things, that it come to 6 or 7 shillings presently. So
      away home, glad I escaped without any inconvenience, and there came Mr.
      Hill, Andrews and Seignor Pedro, and great store of musique we had, but I
      begin to be weary of having a master with us, for it spoils, methinks, the
      ingenuity of our practice. After they were gone comes Mr. Bland to me, sat
      till 11 at night with me, talking of the garrison of Tangier and serving
      them with pieces of eight. A mind he hath to be employed there, but dares
      not desire any courtesy of me, and yet would fain engage me to be for him,
      for I perceive they do all find that I am the busy man to see the King
      have right done him by inquiring out other bidders. Being quite tired with
      him, I got him gone, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. All the morning at the office; at noon to the 'Change, where great
      talke of a rich present brought by an East India ship from some of the
      Princes of India, worth to the King L70,000 in two precious stones. After
      dinner to the office, and there all the afternoon making an end of several
      things against the end of the month, that I may clear all my reckonings
      tomorrow; also this afternoon, with great content, I finished the
      contracts for victualling of Tangier with Mr. Lanyon and the rest, and to
      my comfort got him and Andrews to sign to the giving me L300 per annum, by
      which, at least, I hope to be a L100 or two the better. Wrote many letters
      by the post to ease my mind of business and to clear my paper of minutes,
      as I did lately oblige myself to clear every thing against the end of the
      month. So at night with my mind quiet and contented to bed. This day I
      sent a side of venison and six bottles of wine to Kate Joyce.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where I have not been these many
      weeks. So home, and thither, inviting him yesterday, comes Mr. Hill, at
      which I was a little troubled, but made up all very well, carrying him
      with me to Sir J. Minnes, where I was invited and all our families to a
      venison pasty. Here good cheer and good discourse. After dinner Mr. Hill
      and I to my house, and there to musique all the afternoon. He being gone,
      in the evening I to my accounts, and to my great joy and with great thanks
      to Almighty God, I do find myself most clearly worth L1014, the first time
      that ever I was worth L1000 before, which is the height of all that ever I
      have for a long time pretended to. But by the blessing of God upon my care
      I hope to lay up something more in a little time, if this business of the
      victualling of Tangier goes on as I hope it will. So with praise to God
      for this state of fortune that I am brought to as to wealth, and my
      condition being as I have at large set it down two days ago in this book,
      I home to supper and to bed, desiring God to give me the grace to make
      good use of what I have and continue my care and diligence to gain more.
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      AUGUST 1664
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    <p>
      August 1st. Up, my mind very light from my last night's accounts, and so
      up and with Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen to St. James's,
      where among other things having prepared with some industry every man a
      part this morning and no sooner (for fear they should either consider of
      it or discourse of it one to another) Mr. Coventry did move the Duke and
      obtain it that one of the clerkes of the Clerke of the Acts should have an
      addition of L30 a year, as Mr. Turner hath, which I am glad of, that I may
      give T. Hater L20 and keep L10 towards a boy's keeping. Thence Mr.
      Coventry and I to the Attorney's chamber at the Temple, but not being
      there we parted, and I home, and there with great joy told T. Hater what I
      had done, with which the poor wretch was very glad, though his modesty
      would not suffer him to say much. So to the Coffee-house, and there all
      the house full of the victory Generall Soushe
    </p>
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     [General Soushe was Louis Ratuit, Comte de Souches.  The battle was
     fought at Lewenz (or Leva), in Hungary.&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      (who is a Frenchman, a soldier of fortune, commanding part of the German
      army) hath had against the Turke; killing 4,000 men, and taking most
      extraordinary spoil. Thence taking up Harman and his wife, carried them to
      Anthony Joyce's, where we had my venison in a pasty well done; but, Lord!
      to see how much they made of, it, as if they had never eat any before, and
      very merry we were, but Will most troublesomely so, and I find he and his
      wife have a most wretched life one with another, but we took no notice,
      but were very merry as I could be in such company. But Mrs. Harman is a
      very pretty-humoured wretch, whom I could love with all my heart, being so
      good and innocent company. Thence to Westminster to Mr. Blagrave's, and
      there, after singing a thing or two over, I spoke to him about a woman for
      my wife, and he offered me his kinswoman, which I was glad of, but she is
      not at present well, but however I hope to have her. Thence to my Lord
      Chancellor's, and thence with Mr. Coventry, who appointed to meet me
      there, and with him to the Attorney General, and there with Sir Ph.
      Warwicke consulted of a new commission to be had through the Broad Seale
      to enable us to make this contract for Tangier victualling. So home, and
      there talked long with Will about the young woman of his family which he
      spoke of for to live with my wife, but though she hath very many good
      qualitys, yet being a neighbour's child and young and not very staid, I
      dare not venture of having her, because of her being able to spread any
      report of our family upon any discontent among the heart of our
      neighbours. So that my dependance is upon Mr. Blagrave, and so home to
      supper and to bed. Last night, at 12 o'clock, I was waked with knocking at
      Sir W. Pen's door; and what was it but people's running up and down to
      bring him word that his brother,
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     [George Penn, the elder brother of Sir W. Penn, was a wealthy
     merchant at San Lucar, the port of Seville.  He was seized as a
     heretic by the Holy Office, and cast into a dungeon eight feet
     square and dark as the grave.  There he remained three years, every
     month being scourged to make him confess his crimes.  At last, after
     being twice put to the rack, he offered to confess whatever they
     would suggest.  His property, L12,000, was then confiscated, his
     wife, a Catholic, taken from him, and he was banished from Spain for
     ever.&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      who hath been a good while, it seems, sicke, is dead.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. At the office all the morning. At noon dined, and then to, the
      'Change, and there walked two hours or more with Sir W. Warren, who after
      much discourse in general of Sir W. Batten's dealings, he fell to talk how
      every body must live by their places, and that he was willing, if I
      desired it, that I should go shares with him in anything that he deals in.
      He told me again and again, too, that he confesses himself my debtor too
      for my service and friendship to him in his present great contract of
      masts, and that between this and Christmas he shall be in stocke and will
      pay it me. This I like well, but do not desire to become a merchant, and,
      therefore, put it off, but desired time to think of it. Thence to the
      King's play-house, and there saw "Bartholomew Fayre," which do still
      please me; and is, as it is acted, the best comedy in the world, I
      believe. I chanced to sit by Tom Killigrew, who tells me that he is
      setting up a Nursery; that is, is going to build a house in Moorefields,
      wherein he will have common plays acted. But four operas it shall have in
      the year, to act six weeks at a time; where we shall have the best scenes
      and machines, the best musique, and every thing as magnificent as is in
      Christendome; and to that end hath sent for voices and painters and other
      persons from Italy. Thence homeward called upon my Lord Marlborough, and
      so home and to my office, and then to Sir W. Pen, and with him and our
      fellow officers and servants of the house and none else to Church to lay
      his brother in the ground, wherein nothing handsome at all, but that he
      lays him under the Communion table in the chancel, about nine at night? So
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up betimes and set some joyners on work to new lay my floor in our
      wardrobe, which I intend to make a room for musique. Thence abroad to
      Westminster, among other things to Mr. Blagrave's, and there had his
      consent for his kinswoman to come to be with my wife for her woman, at
      which I am well pleased and hope she may do well. Thence to White Hall to
      meet with Sir G. Carteret about hiring some ground to make our mast docke
      at Deptford, but being Council morning failed, but met with Mr. Coventry,
      and he and I discoursed of the likeliness of a Dutch warr, which I think
      is very likely now, for the Dutch do prepare a fleet to oppose us at
      Guinny, and he do think we shall, though neither of us have a mind to it,
      fall into it of a sudden, and yet the plague do increase among them, and
      is got into their fleet, and Opdam's own ship, which makes it strange they
      should be so high. Thence to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner, and
      down by water to Woolwich to the rope yard, and there visited Mrs.
      Falconer, who tells me odd stories of how Sir W. Pen was rewarded by her
      husband with a gold watch (but seems not certain of what Sir W. Batten
      told me, of his daughter having a life given her in L80 per ann.) for his
      helping him to his place, and yet cost him L150 to Mr. Coventry besides.
      He did much advise it seems Mr. Falconer not to marry again, expressing
      that he would have him make his daughter his heire, or words to that
      purpose, and that that makes him, she thinks, so cold in giving her any
      satisfaction, and that W. Boddam hath publickly said, since he came down
      thither to be clerke of the ropeyard, that it hath this week cost him
      L100, and would be glad that it would cost him but half as much more for
      the place, and that he was better before than now, and that if he had been
      to have bought it, he would not have given so much for it. Now I am sure
      that Mr. Coventry hath again and again said that he would take nothing,
      but would give all his part in it freely to him, that so the widow might
      have something. What the meaning of this is I know not, but that Sir W.
      Pen do get something by it. Thence to the Dockeyard, and there saw the new
      ship in great forwardness. So home and to supper, and then to the office,
      where late, Mr. Bland and I talking about Tangier business, and so home to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up betimes and to the office, fitting myself against a great dispute
      about the East India Company, which spent afterwards with us all the
      morning. At noon dined with Sir W. Pen, a piece of beef only, and I
      counterfeited a friendship and mirth which I cannot have with him, yet out
      with him by his coach, and he did carry me to a play and pay for me at the
      King's house, which is "The Rivall Ladys," a very innocent and most pretty
      witty play. I was much pleased with it, and it being given me, I look upon
      it as no breach to my oathe. Here we hear that Clun, one of their best
      actors, was, the last night, going out of towne (after he had acted the
      Alchymist, wherein was one of his best parts that he acts) to his
      country-house, set upon and murdered; one of the rogues taken, an Irish
      fellow. It seems most cruelly butchered and bound. The house will have a
      great miss of him. Thence visited my Lady Sandwich, who tells me my Lord
      FitzHarding is to be made a Marquis. Thence home to my office late, and so
      to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up very betimes and set my plaisterer to work about whiting and
      colouring my musique roome, which having with great pleasure seen done,
      about ten o'clock I dressed myself, and so mounted upon a very pretty
      mare, sent me by Sir W. Warren, according to his promise yesterday. And so
      through the City, not a little proud, God knows, to be seen upon so pretty
      a beast, and to my cozen W. Joyce's, who presently mounted too, and he and
      I out of towne toward Highgate; in the way, at Kentish-towne, showing me
      the place and manner of Clun's being killed and laid in a ditch, and yet
      was not killed by any wounds, having only one in his arm, but bled to
      death through his struggling. He told me, also, the manner of it, of his
      going home so late [from] drinking with his whore, and manner of having it
      found out. Thence forward to Barnett, and there drank, and so by night to
      Stevenage, it raining a little, but not much, and there to my great
      trouble, find that my wife was not come, nor any Stamford coach gone down
      this week, so that she cannot come. So vexed and weary, and not thoroughly
      out of pain neither in my old parts, I after supper to bed, and after a
      little sleep, W. Joyce comes in his shirt into my chamber, with a note and
      a messenger from my wife, that she was come by Yorke coach to
      Bigglesworth, and would be with us to-morrow morning. So, mightily pleased
      at her discreete action in this business, I with peace to sleep again till
      next morning. So up, and
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Here lay Deane Honiwood last night. I met and talked with him this
      morning, and a simple priest he is, though a good, well-meaning man. W.
      Joyce and I to a game at bowles on the green there till eight o'clock, and
      then comes my wife in the coach, and a coach full of women, only one man
      riding by, gone down last night to meet a sister of his coming to town. So
      very joyful drank there, not 'lighting, and we mounted and away with them
      to Welling, and there 'light, and dined very well and merry and glad to
      see my poor-wife. Here very merry as being weary I could be, and after
      dinner, out again, and to London. In our way all the way the mightiest
      merry, at a couple of young gentlemen, come down to meet the same
      gentlewoman, that ever I was in my life, and so W. Joyce too, to see how
      one of them was horsed upon a hard-trotting sorrell horse, and both of
      them soundly weary and galled. But it is not to be set down how merry we
      were all the way. We 'light in Holborne, and by another coach my wife and
      mayde home, and I by horseback, and found all things well and most mighty
      neate and clean. So, after welcoming my wife a little, to the office, and
      so home to supper, and then weary and not very well to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). Lay long caressing my wife and talking, she telling me
      sad stories of the ill, improvident, disquiett, and sluttish manner that
      my father and mother and Pall live in the country, which troubles me
      mightily, and I must seek to remedy it. So up and ready, and my wife also,
      and then down and I showed my wife, to her great admiration and joy, Mr.
      Gauden's present of plate, the two flaggons, which indeed are so noble
      that I hardly can think that they are yet mine. So blessing God for it, we
      down to dinner mighty pleasant, and so up after dinner for a while, and I
      then to White Hall, walked thither, having at home met with a letter of
      Captain Cooke's, with which he had sent a boy for me to see, whom he did
      intend to recommend to me. I therefore went and there met and spoke with
      him. He gives me great hopes of the boy, which pleases me, and at Chappell
      I there met Mr. Blagrave, who gives a report of the boy, and he showed me
      him, and I spoke to him, and the boy seems a good willing boy to come to
      me, and I hope will do well. I am to speak to Mr. Townsend to hasten his
      clothes for him, and then he is to come. So I walked homeward and met with
      Mr. Spong, and he with me as far as the Old Exchange talking of many
      ingenuous things, musique, and at last of glasses, and I find him still
      the same ingenuous man that ever he was, and do among other fine things
      tell me that by his microscope of his owne making he do discover that the
      wings of a moth is made just as the feathers of the wing of a bird, and
      that most plainly and certainly. While we were talking came by several
      poor creatures carried by, by constables, for being at a conventicle. They
      go like lambs, without any resistance. I would to God they would either
      conform, or be more wise, and not be catched! Thence parted with him,
      mightily pleased with his company, and away homeward, calling at Dan
      Rawlinson, and supped there with my uncle Wight, and then home and eat
      again for form sake with her, and then to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and abroad with Sir W. Batten, by coach to St. James's, where by
      the way he did tell me how Sir J. Minnes would many times arrogate to
      himself the doing of that that all the Board have equal share in, and more
      that to himself which he hath had nothing to do in, and particularly the
      late paper given in by him to the Duke, the translation of a Dutch print
      concerning the quarrel between us and them, which he did give as his own
      when it was Sir Richard Ford's wholly. Also he told me how Sir W. Pen (it
      falling in our discourse touching Mrs. Falconer) was at first very great
      for Mr. Coventry to bring him in guests, and that at high rates for
      places, and very open was he to me therein. After business done with the
      Duke, I home to the Coffee-house, and so home to dinner, and after dinner
      to hang up my fine pictures in my dining room, which makes it very pretty,
      and so my wife and I abroad to the King's play-house, she giving me her
      time of the last month, she having not seen any then; so my vowe is not
      broke at all, it costing me no more money than it would have done upon
      her, had she gone both her times that were due to her. Here we saw
      "Flora's Figarys." I never saw it before, and by the most ingenuous
      performance of the young jade Flora, it seemed as pretty a pleasant play
      as ever I saw in my life. So home to supper, and then to my office late,
      Mr. Andrews and I to talk about our victualling commission, and then he
      being gone I to set down my four days past journalls and expenses, and so
      home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and to my office, and there we sat all the morning, at noon home,
      and there by appointment Mr. Blagrave came and dined with me, and brought
      a friend of his of the Chappell with him. Very merry at dinner, and then
      up to my chamber and there we sung a Psalm or two of Lawes's, then he and
      I a little talke by ourselves of his kinswoman that is to come to live
      with my wife, who is to come about ten days hence, and I hope will do
      well. They gone I to my office, and there my head being a little troubled
      with the little wine I drank, though mixed with beer, but it may be a
      little more than I used to do, and yet I cannot say so, I went home and
      spent the afternoon with my wife talking, and then in the evening a little
      to my office, and so home to supper and to bed. This day comes the newes
      that the Emperour hath beat the Turke;
    </p>
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     [This was the battle of St. Gothard, in which the Turks were
     defeated with great slaughter by the imperial forces under
     Montecuculli, assisted by the confederates from the Rhine, and by
     forty troops of French cavalry under Coligni.  St. Gothard is in
     Hungary, on the river Raab, near the frontier of Styria; it is about
     one hundred and twenty miles south of Vienna, and thirty east of
     Gratz.  The battle took place on the 9th Moharrem, A.H. 1075, or
     23rd July, A.D. 1664 (old style), which is that used by Pepys.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      killed the Grand Vizier and several great Bassas, with an army of 80,000
      men killed and routed; with some considerable loss of his own side, having
      lost three generals, and the French forces all cut off almost. Which is
      thought as good a service to the Emperour as beating the Turke almost, for
      had they conquered they would have been as troublesome to him.
    </p>
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     [The fact is, the Germans were beaten by the Turks, and the French
     won the battle for them.&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      10th. Up, and, being ready, abroad to do several small businesses, among
      others to find out one to engrave my tables upon my new sliding rule with
      silver plates, it being so small that Browne that made it cannot get one
      to do it. So I find out Cocker, the famous writing-master, and get him to
      do it, and I set an hour by him to see him design it all; and strange it
      is to see him with his natural eyes to cut so small at his first designing
      it, and read it all over, without any missing, when for my life I could
      not, with my best skill, read one word or letter of it; but it is use. But
      he says that the best light for his life to do a very small thing by
      (contrary to Chaucer's words to the Sun, "that he should lend his light to
      them that small seals grave"), it should be by an artificial light of a
      candle, set to advantage, as he could do it. I find the fellow, by his
      discourse, very ingenuous; and among other things, a great admirer and
      well read in all our English poets, and undertakes to judge of them all,
      and that not impertinently. Well pleased with his company and better with
      his judgement upon my Rule, I left him and home, whither Mr. Deane by
      agreement came to me and dined with me, and by chance Gunner Batters's
      wife. After dinner Deane and I [had] great discourse again about my Lord
      Chancellor's timber, out of which I wish I may get well. Thence I to
      Cocker's again, and sat by him with good discourse again for an hour or
      two, and then left him, and by agreement with Captain Silas Taylor (my old
      acquaintance at the Exchequer) to the Post Officer to hear some instrument
      musique of Mr. Berchenshaw's before my Lord Brunkard and Sir Robert
      Murray. I must confess, whether it be that I hear it but seldom, or that
      really voice is better, but so it is that I found no pleasure at all in
      it, and methought two voyces were worth twenty of it. So home to my office
      a while, and then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and through pain, to my great grief forced to wear my gowne to
      keep my legs warm. At the office all the morning, and there a high dispute
      against Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen about the breadth of canvas again,
      they being for the making of it narrower, I and Mr. Coventry and Sir J.
      Minnes for the keeping it broader. So home to dinner, and by and by comes
      Mr. Creed, lately come from the Downes, and dined with me. I show him a
      good countenance, but love him not for his base ingratitude to me.
      However, abroad, carried my wife to buy things at the New Exchange, and so
      to my Lady Sandwich's, and there merry, talking with her a great while,
      and so home, whither comes Cocker with my rule, which he hath engraved to
      admiration, for goodness and smallness of work: it cost me 14s. the doing,
      and mightily pleased I am with it. By and by, he gone, comes Mr. Moore and
      staid talking with me a great while about my Lord's businesses, which I
      fear will be in a bad condition for his family if my Lord should miscarry
      at sea. He gone, I late to my office, and cannot forbear admiring and
      consulting my new rule, and so home to supper and to bed. This day, for a
      wager before the King, my Lords of Castlehaven and Arran (a son of my Lord
      of Ormond's), they two alone did run down and kill a stoute bucke in St.
      James's parke.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and all the morning busy at the office with Sir W. Warren about
      a great contract for New England masts, where I was very hard with him,
      even to the making him angry, but I thought it fit to do it as well as
      just for my owne [and] the King's behalf. At noon to the 'Change a little,
      and so to dinner and then out by coach, setting my wife and mayde down,
      going to Stevens the silversmith to change some old silver lace and to go
      buy new silke lace for a petticoat; I to White Hall and did much business
      at a Tangier Committee; where, among other things, speaking about
      propriety of the houses there, and how we ought to let the Portugeses I
      have right done them, as many of them as continue, or did sell the houses
      while they were in possession, and something further in their favour, the
      Duke in an anger I never observed in him before, did cry, says he, "All
      the world rides us, and I think we shall never ride anybody." Thence home,
      and, though late, yet Pedro being there, he sang a song and parted. I did
      give him 5s., but find it burdensome and so will break up the meeting. At
      night is brought home our poor Fancy, which to my great grief continues
      lame still, so that I wish she had not been brought ever home again, for
      it troubles me to see her.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and before I went to the office comes my Taylor with a coate I
      have made to wear within doors, purposely to come no lower than my knees,
      for by my wearing a gowne within doors comes all my tenderness about my
      legs. There comes also Mr. Reeve, with a microscope and scotoscope.
    </p>
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     [An optical instrument used to enable objects to be seen in the
     dark.  The name is derived from the Greek.]
</pre>
    <p>
      For the first I did give him L5 10s., a great price, but a most curious
      bauble it is, and he says, as good, nay, the best he knows in England, and
      he makes the best in the world. The other he gives me, and is of value;
      and a curious curiosity it is to look objects in a darke room with.
      Mightly pleased with this I to the office, where all the morning. There
      offered by Sir W. Pen his coach to go to Epsum and carry my wife, I stept
      out and bade my wife make her ready, but being not very well and other
      things advising me to the contrary, I did forbear going, and so Mr. Creed
      dining with me I got him to give my wife and me a play this afternoon,
      lending him money to do it, which is a fallacy that I have found now once,
      to avoyde my vowe with, but never to be more practised I swear, and to the
      new play, at the Duke's house, of "Henry the Fifth;" a most noble play,
      writ by my Lord Orrery; wherein Betterton, Harris, and Ianthe's parts are
      most incomparably wrote and done, and the whole play the most full of
      height and raptures of wit and sense, that ever I heard; having but one
      incongruity, or what did, not please me in it, that is, that King Harry
      promises to plead for Tudor to their Mistresse, Princesse Katherine of
      France, more than when it comes to it he seems to do; and Tudor refused by
      her with some kind of indignity, not with a difficulty and honour that it
      ought to have been done in to him. Thence home and to my office, wrote by
      the post, and then to read a little in Dr. Power's book of discovery by
      the Microscope to enable me a little how to use and what to expect from my
      glasse. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). After long lying discoursing with my wife, I up, and
      comes Mr. Holliard to see me, who concurs with me that my pain is nothing
      but cold in my legs breeding wind, and got only by my using to wear a
      gowne, and that I am not at all troubled with any ulcer, but my thickness
      of water comes from my overheat in my back. He gone, comes Mr. Herbert,
      Mr. Honiwood's man, and dined with me, a very honest, plain, well-meaning
      man, I think him to be; and by his discourse and manner of life, the true
      embleme of an old ordinary serving-man. After dinner up to my chamber and
      made an end of Dr. Power's booke of the Microscope, very fine and to my
      content, and then my wife and I with great pleasure, but with great
      difficulty before we could come to find the manner of seeing any thing by
      my microscope. At last did with good content, though not so much as I
      expect when I come to understand it better. By and by comes W. Joyce, in
      his silke suit, and cloake lined with velvett: staid talking with me, and
      I very merry at it. He supped with me; but a cunning, crafty fellow he is,
      and dangerous to displease, for his tongue spares nobody. After supper I
      up to read a little, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to St. James's, and there did
      our business with the Duke, who tells us more and more signs of a Dutch
      warr, and how we must presently set out a fleete for Guinny, for the Dutch
      are doing so, and there I believe the warr will begin. Thence home with
      him again, in our way he talking of his cures abroad, while he was with
      the King as a doctor, and above all men the pox. And among others, Sir J.
      Denham he told me he had cured, after it was come to an ulcer all over his
      face, to a miracle. To the Coffee-house I, and so to the 'Change a little,
      and then home to dinner with Creed, whom I met at the Coffee-house, and
      after dinner by coach set him down at the Temple, and I and my wife to Mr.
      Blagrave's. They being none of them at home; I to the Hall, leaving her
      there, and thence to the Trumpett, whither came Mrs. Lane, and there
      begins a sad story how her husband, as I feared, proves not worth a
      farthing, and that she is with child and undone, if I do not get him a
      place. I had my pleasure here of her, and she, like an impudent jade,
      depends upon my kindness to her husband, but I will have no more to do
      with her, let her brew as she has baked, seeing she would not take my
      counsel about Hawly. After drinking we parted, and I to Blagrave's, and
      there discoursed with Mrs. Blagrave about her kinswoman, who it seems is
      sickly even to frantiqueness sometimes, and among other things chiefly
      from love and melancholy upon the death of her servant,&mdash;[Servant =
      lover.]&mdash;insomuch that she telling us all most simply and innocently
      I fear she will not be able to come to us with any pleasure, which I am
      sorry for, for I think she would have pleased us very well. In comes he,
      and so to sing a song and his niece with us, but she sings very meanly. So
      through the Hall and thence by coach home, calling by the way at Charing
      Crosse, and there saw the great Dutchman that is come over, under whose
      arm I went with my hat on, and could not reach higher than his eye-browes
      with the tip of my fingers, reaching as high as I could. He is a comely
      and well-made man, and his wife a very little, but pretty comely Dutch
      woman. It is true, he wears pretty high-heeled shoes, but not very high,
      and do generally wear a turbant, which makes him show yet taller than
      really he is, though he is very tall, as I have said before. Home to my
      office, and then to supper, and then to my office again late, and so home
      to bed, my wife and I troubled that we do not speed better in this
      business of her woman.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Wakened about two o'clock this morning with the noise of thunder,
      which lasted for an houre, with such continued lightnings, not flashes,
      but flames, that all the sky and ayre was light; and that for a great
      while, not a minute's space between new flames all the time; such a thing
      as I never did see, nor could have believed had ever been in nature. And
      being put into a great sweat with it, could not sleep till all was over.
      And that accompanied with such a storm of rain as I never heard in my
      life. I expected to find my house in the morning overflowed with the rain
      breaking in, and that much hurt must needs have been done in the city with
      this lightning; but I find not one drop of rain in my house, nor any newes
      of hurt done. But it seems it has been here and all up and down the
      countrie hereabouts the like tempest, Sir W. Batten saying much of the
      greatness thereof at Epsum. Up and all the morning at the office. At noon
      busy at the 'Change about one business or other, and thence home to
      dinner, and so to my office all the afternoon very busy, and so to supper
      anon, and then to my office again a while, collecting observations out of
      Dr. Power's booke of Microscopes, and so home to bed, very stormy weather
      to-night for winde. This day we had newes that my Lady Pen is landed and
      coming hither, so that I hope the family will be in better order and more
      neate than it hath been.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and going to Sir W. Batten to speak to him about business, he
      did give me three, bottles of his Epsum water, which I drank and it
      wrought well with me, and did give me many good stools, and I found myself
      mightily cooled with them and refreshed. Thence I to Mr. Honiwood and my
      father's old house, but he was gone out, and there I staid talking with
      his man Herbert, who tells me how Langford and his wife are very
      foul-mouthed people, and will speak very ill of my father, calling him old
      rogue in reference to the hard penniworths he sold him of his goods when
      the rogue need not have bought any of them. So that I am resolved he shall
      get no more money by me, but it vexes me to think that my father should be
      said to go away in debt himself, but that I will cause to be remedied
      whatever comes of it. Thence to my Lord Crew, and there with him a little
      while. Before dinner talked of the Dutch war, and find that he do much
      doubt that we shall fall into it without the money or consent of
      Parliament, that is expected or the reason of it that is fit to have for
      every warr. Dined with him, and after dinner talked with Sir Thomas Crew,
      who told me how Mr. Edward Montagu is for ever blown up, and now quite out
      with his father again; to whom he pretended that his going down was, not
      that he was cast out of the Court, but that he had leave to be absent a
      month; but now he finds the truth. Thence to my Lady Sandwich, where by
      agreement my wife dined, and after talking with her I carried my wife to
      Mr. Pierce's and left her there, and so to Captain Cooke's, but he was not
      at home, but I there spoke with my boy Tom Edwards, and directed him to go
      to Mr. Townsend (with whom I was in the morning) to have measure taken of
      his clothes to be made him there out of the Wardrobe, which will be so
      done, and then I think he will come to me. Thence to White Hall, and after
      long staying there was no Committee of the Fishery as was expected. Here I
      walked long with Mr. Pierce, who tells me the King do still sup every
      night with my Lady Castlemayne, who he believes has lately slunk a great
      belly away, for from very big she is come to be down again. Thence to Mrs.
      Pierce's, and with her and my wife to see Mrs. Clarke, where with him and
      her very merry discoursing of the late play of Henry the 5th, which they
      conclude the best that ever was made, but confess with me that Tudor's
      being dismissed in the manner he is is a great blemish to the play. I am
      mightily pleased with the Doctor, for he is the only man I know that I
      could learn to pronounce by, which he do the best that ever I heard any
      man. Thence home and to the office late, and so to supper and to bed. My
      Lady Pen came hither first to-night to Sir W. Pen's lodgings.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Lay too long in bed, till 8 o'clock, then up and Mr. Reeve came and
      brought an anchor and a very fair loadstone. He would have had me bought
      it, and a good stone it is, but when he saw that I would not buy it he
      said he [would] leave it for me to sell for him. By and by he comes to
      tell me that he had present occasion for L6 to make up a sum, and that he
      would pay me in a day or two, but I had the unusual wit to deny him, and
      so by and by we parted, and I to the office, where busy all the morning
      sitting. Dined alone at home, my wife going to-day to dine with Mrs.
      Pierce, and thence with her and Mrs. Clerke to see a new play, "The Court
      Secret." I busy all the afternoon, toward evening to Westminster, and
      there in the Hall a while, and then to my barber, willing to have any
      opportunity to speak to Jane, but wanted it. So to Mrs. Pierces, who was
      come home, and she and Mrs. Clerke busy at cards, so my wife being gone
      home, I home, calling by the way at the Wardrobe and met Mr. Townsend, Mr.
      Moore and others at the Taverne thereby, and thither I to them and spoke
      with Mr. Townsend about my boy's clothes, which he says shall be soon
      done, and then I hope I shall be settled when I have one in the house that
      is musicall. So home and to supper, and then a little to my office, and
      then home to bed. My wife says the play she saw is the worst that ever she
      saw in her life.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up and to the office, where Mr. Coventry and Sir W. Pen and I sat
      all the morning hiring of ships to go to Guinny, where we believe the warr
      with Holland will first break out. At noon dined at home, and after dinner
      my wife and I to Sir W. Pen's, to see his Lady, the first time, who is a
      well-looked, fat, short, old Dutchwoman, but one that hath been heretofore
      pretty handsome, and is now very discreet, and, I believe, hath more wit
      than her husband. Here we staid talking a good while, and very well
      pleased I was with the old woman at first visit. So away home, and I to my
      office, my wife to go see my aunt Wight, newly come to town. Creed came to
      me, and he and I out, among other things, to look out a man to make a
      case, for to keep my stone, that I was cut of, in, and he to buy Daniel's
      history, which he did, but I missed of my end. So parted upon Ludgate
      Hill, and I home and to the office, where busy till supper, and home to
      supper to a good dish of fritters, which I bespoke, and were done much to
      my mind. Then to the office a while again, and so home to bed. The newes
      of the Emperour's victory over the Turkes is by some doubted, but by most
      confessed to be very small (though great) of what was talked, which was
      80,000 men to be killed and taken of the Turke's side.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to the office a while, but this day the Parliament meeting
      only to be adjourned to November (which was done, accordingly), we did not
      meet, and so I forth to bespeak a case to be made to keep my stone in,
      which will cost me 25s. Thence I walked to Cheapside, there to see the
      effect of a fire there this morning, since four o'clock; which I find in
      the house of Mr. Bois, that married Dr. Fuller's niece, who are both out
      of towne, leaving only a mayde and man in towne. It begun in their house,
      and hath burned much and many houses backward, though none forward; and
      that in the great uniform pile of buildings in the middle of Cheapside. I
      am very sorry for them, for the Doctor's sake. Thence to the 'Change, and
      so home to dinner. And thence to Sir W. Batten's, whither Sir Richard Ford
      came, the Sheriffe, who hath been at this fire all the while; and he tells
      me, upon my question, that he and the Mayor were there, as it is their
      dutys to be, not only to keep the peace, but they have power of commanding
      the pulling down of any house or houses, to defend the whole City. By and
      by comes in the Common Cryer of the City to speak with him; and when he
      was gone, says he, "You may see by this man the constitution of the
      Magistracy of this City; that this fellow's place, I dare give him (if he
      will be true to me) L1000 for his profits every year, and expect to get
      L500 more to myself thereby. When," says he, "I in myself am forced to
      spend many times as much." By and by came Mr. Coventry, and so we met at
      the office, to hire ships for Guinny, and that done broke up. I to Sir W.
      Batten's, there to discourse with Mrs. Falconer, who hath been with Sir W.
      Pen this evening, after Mr. Coventry had promised her half what W. Bodham
      had given him for his place, but Sir W. Pen, though he knows that, and
      that Mr. Bodham hath said that his place hath cost him L100 and would L100
      more, yet is he so high against the poor woman that he will not hear to
      give her a farthing, but it seems do listen after a lease where he expects
      Mr. Falconer hath put in his daughter's life, and he is afraid that that
      is not done, and did tell Mrs. Falconer that he would see it and know what
      is done therein in spite of her, when, poor wretch, she neither do nor can
      hinder him the knowing it. Mr. Coventry knows of this business of the
      lease, and I believe do think of it as well as I. But the poor woman is
      gone home without any hope, but only Mr. Coventry's own nobleness. So I to
      my office and wrote many letters, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). Waked about 4 o'clock with my wife, having a looseness,
      and peoples coming in the yard to the pump to draw water several times, so
      that fear of this day's fire made me fearful, and called Besse and sent
      her down to see, and it was Griffin's maid for water to wash her house. So
      to sleep again, and then lay talking till 9 o'clock. So up and drunk three
      bottles of Epsum water, which wrought well with me. I all the morning and
      most of the afternoon after dinner putting papers to rights in my chamber,
      and the like in the evening till night at my office, and renewing and
      writing fair over my vowes. So home to supper, prayers, and to bed. Mr.
      Coventry told us the Duke was gone ill of a fit of an ague to bed; so we
      sent this morning to see how he do.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Elizabeth Falkener, wife of John Falkener, announced to Pepys the
     death of "her dear and loving husband" in a letter dated July 19th,
     1664 "begs interest that she may be in something considered by the
     person succeeding her husband in his employment, which has
     occasioned great expenses." ("Calendar of State Papers," Domestic,
     1663-64, p. 646)]
</pre>
    <p>
      22nd. Up and abroad, doing very many errands to my great content which lay
      as burdens upon my mind and memory. Home to dinner, and so to White Hall,
      setting down my wife at her father's, and I to the Tangier Committee,
      where several businesses I did to my mind, and with hopes thereby to get
      something. So to Westminster Hall, where by appointment I had made I met
      with Dr. Tom Pepys, but avoided all discourse of difference with him,
      though much against my will, and he like a doating coxcomb as he is, said
      he could not but demand his money, and that he would have his right, and
      that let all anger be forgot, and such sorry stuff, nothing to my mind,
      but only I obtained this satisfaction, that he told me about Sturbridge
      last was 12 months or 2 years he was at Brampton, and there my father did
      tell him that what he had done for my brother in giving him his goods and
      setting him up as he had done was upon condition that he should give my
      brother John L20 per ann., which he charged upon my father, he tells me in
      answer, as a great deal of hard measure that he should expect that with
      him that had a brother so able as I am to do that for him. This is all
      that he says he can say as to my father's acknowledging that he had given
      Tom his goods. He says his brother Roger will take his oath that my father
      hath given him thanks for his counsel for his giving of Tom his goods and
      setting him up in the manner that he hath done, but the former part of
      this he did not speak fully so bad nor as certain what he could say. So we
      walked together to my cozen Joyce's, where my wife staid for me, and then
      I home and her by coach, and so to my office, then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Lay long talking with my wife, and angry awhile about her desiring
      to have a French mayde all of a sudden, which I took to arise from
      yesterday's being with her mother. But that went over and friends again,
      and so she be well qualitied, I care not much whether she be French or no,
      so a Protestant. Thence to the office, and at noon to the 'Change, where
      very busy getting ships for Guinny and for Tangier. So home to dinner, and
      then abroad all the afternoon doing several errands, to comply with my
      oath of ending many businesses before Bartholomew's day, which is two days
      hence. Among others I went into New Bridewell, in my way to Mr. Cole, and
      there I saw the new model, and it is very handsome. Several at work, among
      others, one pretty whore brought in last night, which works very lazily. I
      did give them 6d. to drink, and so away. To Graye's Inn, but missed Mr.
      Cole, and so homeward called at Harman's, and there bespoke some chairs
      for a room, and so home, and busy late, and then to supper and to bed. The
      Dutch East India Fleete are now come home safe, which we are sorry for.
      Our Fleets on both sides are hastening out to Guinny.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up by six o'clock, and to my office with Tom Hater dispatching
      business in haste. At nine o'clock to White Hall about Mr. Maes's business
      at the Council, which stands in an ill condition still. Thence to Graye's
      Inn, but missed of Mr. Cole the lawyer, and so walked home, calling among
      the joyners in Wood Streete to buy a table and bade in many places, but
      did not buy it till I come home to see the place where it is to stand, to
      judge how big it must be. So after 'Change home and a good dinner, and
      then to White Hall to a Committee of the Fishery, where my Lord Craven and
      Mr. Gray mightily against Mr. Creed's being joined in the warrant for
      Secretary with Mr. Duke. However I did get it put off till the Duke of
      Yorke was there, and so broke up doing nothing. So walked home, first to
      the Wardrobe, and there saw one suit of clothes made for my boy and linen
      set out, and I think to have him the latter end of this week, and so home,
      Mr. Creed walking the greatest part of the way with me advising what to do
      in his case about his being Secretary to us in conjunction with Duke,
      which I did give him the best I could, and so home and to my office, where
      very much business, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up and to the office after I had spoke to my taylor, Langford (who
      came to me about some work), desiring to know whether he knew of any debts
      that my father did owe of his own in the City. He tells me, "No, not any."
      I did on purpose try him because of what words he and his wife have said
      of him (as Herbert told me the other day), and further did desire him,
      that if he knew of any or could hear of any that he should bid them come
      to me, and I would pay them, for I would not that because he do not pay my
      brother's debts that therefore he should be thought to deny the payment of
      his owne. All the morning at the office busy. At noon to the 'Change,
      among other things busy to get a little by the hire of a ship for Tangier.
      So home to dinner, and after dinner comes Mr. Cooke to see me; it is true
      he was kind to me at sea in carrying messages to and fro to my wife from
      sea, but I did do him kindnesses too, and therefore I matter not much to
      compliment or make any regard of his thinking me to slight him as I do for
      his folly about my brother Tom's mistress. After dinner and some talk with
      him, I to my office; there busy, till by and by Jacke Noble came to me to
      tell me that he had Cave in prison, and that he would give me and my
      father good security that neither we nor any of our family should be
      troubled with the child; for he could prove that he was fully satisfied
      for him; and that if the worst came to the worst, the parish must keep it;
      that Cave did bring the child to his house, but they got it carried back
      again, and that thereupon he put him in prison. When he saw that I would
      not pay him the money, nor made anything of being secured against the
      child, he then said that then he must go to law, not himself, but come in
      as a witness for Cave against us. I could have told him that he could bear
      witness that Cave is satisfied, or else there is no money due to himself;
      but I let alone any such discourse, only getting as much out of him as I
      could. I perceive he is a rogue, and hath inquired into everything and
      consulted with Dr. Pepys, and that he thinks as Dr. Pepys told him that my
      father if he could would not pay a farthing of the debts, and yet I made
      him confess that in all his lifetime he never knew my father to be asked
      for money twice, nay, not once, all the time he lived with him, and that
      for his own debts he believed he would do so still, but he meant only for
      those of Tom. He said now that Randall and his wife and the midwife could
      prove from my brother's own mouth that the child was his, and that Tom had
      told them the circumstances of time, upon November 5th at night, that he
      got it on her. I offered him if he would secure my father against being
      forced to pay the money again I would pay him, which at first he would do,
      give his own security, and when I asked more than his own he told me yes
      he would, and those able men, subsidy men, but when we came by and by to
      discourse of it again he would not then do it, but said he would take his
      course, and joyne with Cave and release him, and so we parted. However,
      this vexed me so as I could not be quiet, but took coach to go speak with
      Mr. Cole, but met him not within, so back, buying a table by the way, and
      at my office late, and then home to supper and to bed, my mind disordered
      about this roguish business&mdash;in every thing else, I thank God, well
      at ease.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up by 5 o'clock, which I have not been many a day, and down by water
      to Deptford, and there took in Mr. Pumpfield the rope-maker, and down with
      him to Woolwich to view Clothier's cordage, which I found bad and stopped
      the receipt of it. Thence to the ropeyard, and there among other things
      discoursed with Mrs. Falconer, who tells me that she has found the
      writing, and Sir W. Pen's daughter is not put into the lease for her life
      as he expected, and I am glad of it. Thence to the Dockyarde, and there
      saw the new ship in very great forwardness, and so by water to Deptford a
      little, and so home and shifting myself, to the 'Change, and there did
      business, and thence down by water to White Hall, by the way, at the Three
      Cranes, putting into an alehouse and eat a bit of bread and cheese. There
      I could not get into the Parke, and so was fain to stay in the gallery
      over the gate to look to the passage into the Parke, into which the King
      hath forbid of late anybody's coming, to watch his coming that had
      appointed me to come, which he did by and by with his lady and went to
      Guardener's Lane, and there instead of meeting with one that was handsome
      and could play well, as they told me, she is the ugliest beast and plays
      so basely as I never heard anybody, so that I should loathe her being in
      my house. However, she took us by and by and showed us indeed some
      pictures at one Hiseman's, a picture drawer, a Dutchman, which is said to
      exceed Lilly, and indeed there is both of the Queenes and Mayds of Honour
      (particularly Mrs. Stewart's in a buff doublet like a soldier) as good
      pictures, I think, as ever I saw. The Queene is drawn in one like a
      shepherdess, in the other like St. Katharin, most like and most admirably.
      I was mightily pleased with this sight indeed, and so back again to their
      lodgings, where I left them, but before I went this mare that carried me,
      whose name I know not but that they call him Sir John, a pitiful fellow,
      whose face I have long known but upon what score I know not, but he could
      have the confidence to ask me to lay down money for him to renew the lease
      of his house, which I did give eare to there because I was there receiving
      a civility from him, but shall not part with my money. There I left them,
      and I by water home, where at my office busy late, then home to supper,
      and so to bed. This day my wife tells me Mr. Pen,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [William Penn, afterwards the famous Quaker.  P. Gibson, writing to
     him in March, 1711-12, says: "I remember your honour very well,
     when you newly came out of France and wore pantaloon breeches"]
</pre>
    <p>
      Sir William's son, is come back from France, and come to visit her. A most
      modish person, grown, she says, a fine gentleman.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the 'Change,
      and there almost made my bargain about a ship for Tangier, which will
      bring me in a little profit with Captain Taylor. Off the 'Change with Mr.
      Cutler and Sir W. Rider to Cutler's house, and there had a very good
      dinner, and two or three pretty young ladies of their relations there.
      Thence to my case-maker for my stone case, and had it to my mind, and cost
      me 24s., which is a great deale of money, but it is well done and pleases
      me. So doing some other small errands I home, and there find my boy, Tom
      Edwards, come, sent me by Captain Cooke, having been bred in the King's
      Chappell these four years. I propose to make a clerke of him, and if he
      deserves well, to do well by him. Spent much of the afternoon to set his
      chamber in order, and then to the office leaving him at home, and late at
      night after all business was done I called Will and told him my reason of
      taking a boy, and that it is of necessity, not out of any unkindness to
      him, nor should be to his injury, and then talked about his landlord's
      daughter to come to my wife, and I think it will be. So home and find my
      boy a very schoole boy, that talks innocently and impertinently, but at
      present it is a sport to us, and in a little time he will leave it. So
      sent him to bed, he saying that he used to go to bed at eight o'clock, and
      then all of us to bed, myself pretty well pleased with my choice of a boy.
      All the newes this day is, that the Dutch are, with twenty-two sayle of
      ships of warr, crewsing up and down about Ostend; at which we are alarmed.
      My Lord Sandwich is come back into the Downes with only eight sayle, which
      is or may be a prey to the Dutch, if they knew our weakness and inability
      to set out any more speedily.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). Up the first time I have had great while. Home to
      dined, and with my boy alone to church anybody to attend me to church a
      dinner, and there met Creed, who, and we merry together, as his learning
      is such and judgment that I cannot but be pleased with it. After dinner I
      took him to church, into our gallery, with me, but slept the best part of
      the sermon, which was a most silly one. So he and I to walk to the 'Change
      a while, talking from one pleasant discourse to another, and so home, and
      thither came my uncle Wight and aunt, and supped with us mighty merry. And
      Creed lay with us all night, and so to bed, very merry to think how Mr.
      Holliard (who came in this evening to see me) makes nothing, but proving
      as a most clear thing that Rome is Antichrist.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up betimes, intending to do business at my office, by 5 o'clock, but
      going out met at my door Mr. Hughes come to speak with me about office
      business, and told me that as he came this morning from Deptford he left
      the King's yarde a-fire. So I presently took a boat and down, and there
      found, by God's providence, the fire out; but if there had been any wind
      it must have burned all our stores, which is a most dreadfull
      consideration. But leaving all things well I home, and out abroad doing
      many errands, Mr. Creed also out, and my wife to her mother's, and Creed
      and I met at my Lady Sandwich's and there dined; but my Lady is become as
      handsome, I think, as ever she was; and so good and discreet a woman I
      know not in the world. After dinner I to Westminster to Jervas's a while,
      and so doing many errands by the way, and necessary ones, I home, and
      thither came the woman with her mother which our Will recommends to my
      wife. I like her well, and I think will please us. My wife and they
      agreed, and she is to come the next week. At which I am very well
      contented, for then I hope we shall be settled, but I must remember that,
      never since I was housekeeper, I ever lived so quietly, without any noise
      or one angry word almost, as I have done since my present mayds Besse,
      Jane, and Susan came and were together. Now I have taken a boy and am
      taking a woman, I pray God we may not be worse, but I will observe it.
      After being at my office a while, home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up and to the office, where sat long, and at noon to dinner at home;
      after dinner comes Mr. Pen to visit me, and staid an houre talking with
      me. I perceive something of learning he hath got, but a great deale, if
      not too much, of the vanity of the French garbe and affected manner of
      speech and gait. I fear all real profit he hath made of his travel will
      signify little. So, he gone, I to my office and there very busy till late
      at night, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up by five o'clock and to my office, where T. Hater and Will met me,
      and so we dispatched a great deal of my business as to the ordering my
      papers and books which were behindhand. All the morning very busy at my
      office. At noon home to dinner, and there my wife hath got me some pretty
      good oysters, which is very soon and the soonest, I think, I ever eat any.
      After dinner I up to hear my boy play upon a lute, which I have this day
      borrowed of Mr. Hunt; and indeed the boy would, with little practice, play
      very well upon the lute, which pleases me well. So by coach to the Tangier
      Committee, and there have another small business by which I may get a
      little small matter of money. Staid but little there, and so home and to
      my office, where late casting up my monthly accounts, and, blessed be God!
      find myself worth L1020, which is still the most I ever was worth. So home
      and to bed. Prince Rupert I hear this day is to go to command this fleete
      going to Guinny against the Dutch. I doubt few will be pleased with his
      going, being accounted an unhappy' man. My mind at good rest, only my
      father's troubles with Dr. Pepys and my brother Tom's creditors in general
      do trouble me. I have got a new boy that understands musique well, as
      coming to me from the King's Chappell, and I hope will prove a good boy,
      and my wife and I are upon having a woman, which for her content I am
      contented to venture upon the charge of again, and she is one that our'
      Will finds out for us, and understands a little musique, and I think will
      please us well, only her friends live too near us. Pretty well in health,
      since I left off wearing of a gowne within doors all day, and then go out
      with my legs into the cold, which brought me daily pain.
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      SEPTEMBER 1664
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    <p>
      Sept. 1st. A sad rainy night, up and to the office, where busy all the
      morning. At noon to the 'Change and thence brought Mr. Pierce, the
      Surgeon, and Creed, and dined very merry and handsomely; but my wife not
      being well of those she not with us; and we cut up the great cake
      Moorcocke lately sent us, which is very good. They gone I to my office,
      and there very busy till late at night, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up very betimes and walked (my boy with me) to Mr. Cole's, and after
      long waiting below, he being under the barber's hands, I spoke with him,
      and he did give me much hopes of getting my debt that my brother owed me,
      and also that things would go well with my father. But going to his
      attorney's, that he directed me to, they tell me both that though I could
      bring my father to a confession of a judgment, yet he knowing that there
      are specialties out against him he is bound to plead his knowledge of them
      to me before he pays me, or else he must do it in his own wrong. I took a
      great deal of pains this morning in the thorough understanding hereof, and
      hope that I know the truth of our case, though it be but bad, yet better
      than to run spending money and all to no purpose. However, I will inquire
      a little more. Walked home, doing very many errands by the way to my great
      content, and at the 'Change met and spoke with several persons about
      serving us with pieces of eight at Tangier. So home to dinner above
      stairs, my wife not being well of those in bed. I dined by her bedside,
      but I got her to rise and abroad with me by coach to Bartholomew Fayre,
      and our boy with us, and there shewed them and myself the dancing on the
      ropes, and several other the best shows; but pretty it is to see how our
      boy carries himself so innocently clownish as would make one laugh. Here
      till late and dark, then up and down, to buy combes for my wife to give
      her mayds, and then by coach home, and there at the office set down my
      day's work, and then home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. I have had a bad night's rest to-night, not sleeping well, as my wife
      observed, and once or twice she did wake me, and I thought myself to be
      mightily bit with fleas, and in the morning she chid her mayds for not
      looking the fleas a-days. But, when I rose, I found that it is only the
      change of the weather from hot to cold, which, as I was two winters ago,
      do stop my pores, and so my blood tingles and itches all day all over my
      body, and so continued to-day all the day long just as I was then, and if
      it continues to be so cold I fear I must come to the same pass, but
      sweating cured me then, and I hope, and am told, will this also. At the
      office sat all the morning, dined at home, and after dinner to White Hall,
      to the Fishing Committee, but not above four of us met, which could do
      nothing, and a sad thing it is to see so great a work so ill followed, for
      at this pace it can come to any thing at first sight. Mr. Hill came to
      tell me that he had got a gentlewoman for my wife, one Mrs. Ferrabosco,
      that sings most admirably. I seemed glad of it; but I hear she is too
      gallant for me, and I am not sorry that I misse her. Thence to the office,
      setting some papers right, and so home to supper and to bed, after
      prayers.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up and to St. James's, and there did our business with the Duke;
      where all our discourse of warr in the highest measure. Prince Rupert was
      with us; who is fitting himself to go to sea in the Heneretta. And
      afterwards in White Hall I met him and Mr. Gray, and he spoke to me, and
      in other discourse, says he, "God damn me, I can answer but for one ship,
      and in that I will do my part; for it is not in that as in an army, where
      a man can command every thing." By and by to a Committee for the Fishery,
      the Duke of Yorke there, where, after Duke was made Secretary, we fell to
      name a Committee, whereof I was willing to be one, because I would have my
      hand in the business, to understand it and be known in doing something in
      it; and so, after cutting out work for the Committee, we rose, and I to my
      wife to Unthanke's, and with her from shop to shop, laying out near L10
      this morning in clothes for her. And so I to the 'Change, where a while,
      and so home and to dinner, and thither came W. Bowyer and dined with us;
      but strange to see how he could not endure onyons in sauce to lamb, but
      was overcome with the sight of it, and so-was forced to make his dinner of
      an egg or two. He tells us how Mrs. Lane is undone, by her marrying so
      bad, and desires to speak with me, which I know is wholly to get me to do
      something for her to get her husband a place, which he is in no wise fit
      for. After dinner down to Woolwich with a gaily, and then to Deptford, and
      so home, all the way reading Sir J. Suck[l]ing's "Aglaura," which,
      methinks, is but a mean play; nothing of design in it. Coming home it is
      strange to see how I was troubled to find my wife, but in a necessary
      compliment, expecting Mr. Pen to see her, who had been there and was by
      her people denied, which, he having been three times, she thought not fit
      he should be any more. But yet even this did raise my jealousy presently
      and much vex me. However, he did not come, which pleased me, and I to
      supper, and to the office till 9 o'clock or thereabouts, and so home to
      bed. My aunt James had been here to-day with Kate Joyce twice to see us.
      The second time my wife was at home, and they it seems are going down to
      Brampton, which I am sorry for, for the charge that my father will be put
      to. But it must be borne with, and my mother has a mind to see them, but I
      do condemn myself mightily for my pride and contempt of my aunt and
      kindred that are not so high as myself, that I have not seen her all this
      while, nor invited her all this while.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, then to my office and there waited, thinking to have had Bagwell's
      wife come to me about business, that I might have talked with her, but she
      came not. So I to White Hall by coach with Mr. Andrews, and there I got
      his contract for the victualling of Tangier signed and sealed by us there,
      so that all the business is well over, and I hope to have made a good
      business of it and to receive L100 by it the next weeke, for which God be
      praised! Thence to W. Joyce's and Anthony's, to invite them to dinner to
      meet my aunt James at my house, and the rather because they are all to go
      down to my father the next weeke, and so I would be a little kind to them
      before they go. So home, having called upon Doll, our pretty 'Change
      woman, for a pair of gloves trimmed with yellow ribbon, to [match the]
      petticoate my wife bought yesterday, which cost me 20s.; but she is so
      pretty, that, God forgive me! I could not think it too much&mdash;which is
      a strange slavery that I stand in to beauty, that I value nothing near it.
      So going home, and my coach stopping in Newgate Market over against a
      poulterer's shop, I took occasion to buy a rabbit, but it proved a deadly
      old one when I came to eat it, as I did do after an hour being at my
      office, and after supper again there till past 11 at night. So home,, and
      to bed. This day Mr. Coventry did tell us how the Duke did receive the
      Dutch Embassador the other day; by telling him that, whereas they think us
      in jest, he believes that the Prince (Rupert) which goes in this fleete to
      Guinny will soon tell them that we are in earnest, and that he himself
      will do the like here, in the head of the fleete here at home, and that
      for the meschants, which he told the Duke there were in England, which did
      hope to do themselves good by the King's being at warr, says he, the
      English have ever united all this private difference to attend foraigne,
      and that Cromwell, notwithstanding the meschants in his time, which were
      the Cavaliers, did never find them interrupt him in his foraigne
      businesses, and that he did not doubt but to live to see the Dutch as
      fearfull of provoking the English, under the government of a King, as he
      remembers them to have been under that of a Coquin. I writ all this story
      to my Lord Sandwich tonight into the Downes, it being very good and true,
      word for word from Mr. Coventry to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Lay long to-day, pleasantly discoursing with my wife about the dinner
      we are to have for the Joyces, a day or two hence. Then up and with Mr.
      Margetts to Limehouse to see his ground and ropeyarde there, which is very
      fine, and I believe we shall employ it for the Navy, for the King's
      grounds are not sufficient to supply our defence if a warr comes. Thence
      back to the 'Change, where great talke of the forwardnesse of the Dutch,
      which puts us all to a stand, and particularly myself for my Lord
      Sandwich, to think him to lie where he is for a sacrifice, if they should
      begin with us. So home and Creed with me, and to dinner, and after dinner
      I out to my office, taking in Bagwell's wife, who I knew waited for me,
      but company came to me so soon that I could have no discourse with her, as
      I intended, of pleasure. So anon abroad with Creed walked to Bartholomew
      Fayre, this being the last day, and there saw the best dancing on the
      ropes that I think I ever saw in my life, and so all say, and so by coach
      home, where I find my wife hath had her head dressed by her woman, Mercer,
      which is to come to her to-morrow, but my wife being to go to a
      christening tomorrow, she came to do her head up to-night. So a while to
      my office, and then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon dined at
      home, and I by water down to Woolwich by a galley, and back again in the
      evening. All haste made in setting out this Guinny fleete, but yet not
      such as will ever do the King's business if we come to a warr. My wife
      this afternoon being very well dressed by her new woman, Mary Mercer, a
      decayed merchant's daughter that our Will helps us to, did go to the
      christening of Mrs. Mills, the parson's wife's child, where she never was
      before. After I was come home Mr. Povey came to me and took me out to
      supper to Mr. Bland's, who is making now all haste to be gone for Tangier.
      Here pretty merry, and good discourse, fain to admire the knowledge and
      experience of Mrs. Bland, who I think as good a merchant as her husband. I
      went home and there find Mercer, whose person I like well, and I think
      will do well, at least I hope so. So to my office a while and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and to put things in order against dinner. I out and bought
      several things, among others, a dozen of silver salts; home, and to the
      office, where some of us met a little, and then home, and at noon comes my
      company, namely, Anthony and Will Joyce and their wives, my aunt James
      newly come out of Wales, and my cozen Sarah Gyles. Her husband did not
      come, and by her I did understand afterwards, that it was because he was
      not yet able to pay me the 40s. she had borrowed a year ago of me.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys would have been more proud of his cousin had he anticipated
     her husband's becoming a knight, for she was probably the same
     person whose burial is recorded in the register of St. Helen's,
     Bishopsgate, September 4th, 1704: "Dame Sarah Gyles, widow, relict
     of Sir John Gyles."&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I was as merry as I could, giving them a good dinner; but W. Joyce did so
      talk, that he made every body else dumb, but only laugh at him. I forgot
      there was Mr. Harman and his wife, my aunt, a very good harmlesse woman.
      All their talke is of her and my two she-cozen Joyces and Will's little
      boy Will (who was also here to-day), down to Brampton to my father's next
      week, which will be trouble and charge to them, but however my father and
      mother desire to see them, and so let them. They eyed mightily my great
      cupboard of plate, I this day putting my two flaggons upon my table; and
      indeed it is a fine sight, and better than ever I did hope to see of my
      owne. Mercer dined with us at table, this being her first dinner in my
      house. After dinner left them and to White Hall, where a small Tangier
      Committee, and so back again home, and there my wife and Mercer and Tom
      and I sat till eleven at night, singing and fiddling, and a great joy it
      is to see me master of so much pleasure in my house, that it is and will
      be still, I hope, a constant pleasure to me to be at home. The girle plays
      pretty well upon the harpsicon, but only ordinary tunes, but hath a good
      hand; sings a little, but hath a good voyce and eare. My boy, a brave boy,
      sings finely, and is the most pleasant boy at present, while his ignorant
      boy's tricks last, that ever I saw. So to supper, and with great pleasure
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and to the office, where we sate all the morning, and I much
      troubled to think what the end of our great sluggishness will be, for we
      do nothing in this office like people able to carry on a warr. We must be
      put out, or other people put in. Dined at home, and then my wife and I and
      Mercer to the Duke's house, and there saw "The Rivalls," which is no
      excellent play, but good acting in it; especially Gosnell comes and sings
      and dances finely, but, for all that, fell out of the key, so that the
      musique could not play to her afterwards, and so did Harris also go out of
      the tune to agree with her. Thence home and late writing letters, and this
      night I received, by Will, L105, the first-fruits of my endeavours in the
      late contract for victualling of Tangier, for which God be praised! for I
      can with a safe conscience say that I have therein saved the King L5000
      per annum, and yet got myself a hope of L300 per annum without the least
      wrong to the King. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day). Up and to church in the best manner I have gone a good
      while, that is to say, with my wife, and her woman, Mercer, along with us,
      and Tom, my boy, waiting on us. A dull sermon. Home, dined, left my wife
      to go to church alone, and I walked in haste being late to the Abbey at
      Westminster, according to promise to meet Jane Welsh, and there wearily
      walked, expecting her till 6 o'clock from three, but no Jane came, which
      vexed me, only part of it I spent with Mr. Blagrave walking in the Abbey,
      he telling me the whole government and discipline of White Hall Chappell,
      and the caution now used against admitting any debauched persons, which I
      was glad to hear, though he tells me there are persons bad enough. Thence
      going home went by Jarvis's, and there stood Jane at the door, and so I
      took her in and drank with her, her master and mistress being out of
      doors. She told me how she could not come to me this afternoon, but
      promised another time. So I walked home contented with my speaking with
      her, and walked to my uncle Wight's, where they were all at supper, and
      among others comes fair Mrs. Margarett Wight, who indeed is very pretty.
      So after supper home to prayers and to bed. This afternoon, it seems, Sir
      J. Minnes fell sicke at church, and going down the gallery stairs fell
      down dead, but came to himself again and is pretty well.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to my cozen Anthony Joyce's, and there took leave of my aunt
      James, and both cozens, their wives, who are this day going down to my
      father's by coach. I did give my Aunt 20s., to carry as a token to my
      mother, and 10s. to Pall. Thence by coach to St. James's, and there did
      our business as usual with the Duke; and saw him with great pleasure play
      with his little girle,&mdash;[Afterwards Queen Mary II.]&mdash;like an
      ordinary private father of a child. Thence walked to Jervas's, where I
      took Jane in the shop alone, and there heard of her, her master and
      mistress were going out. So I went away and came again half an hour after.
      In the meantime went to the Abbey, and there went in to see the tombs with
      great pleasure. Back again to Jane, and there upstairs and drank with her,
      and staid two hours with her kissing her, but nothing more. Anon took boat
      and by water to the Neat Houses over against Fox Hall to have seen
      Greatorex dive, which Jervas and his wife were gone to see, and there I
      found them (and did it the rather for a pretence for my having been so
      long at their house), but being disappointed of some necessaries to do it
      I staid not, but back to Jane, but she would not go out with me. So I to
      Mr. Creed's lodgings, and with him walked up and down in the New Exchange,
      talking mightily of the convenience and necessity of a man's wearing good
      clothes, and so after eating a messe of creame I took leave of him, he
      walking with me as far as Fleete Conduit, he offering me upon my request
      to put out some money for me into Backewell's hands at 6 per cent.
      interest, which he seldom gives, which I will consider of, being doubtful
      of trusting any of these great dealers because of their mortality, but
      then the convenience of having one's money, at an houre's call is very
      great. Thence to my uncle Wight's, and there supped with my wife, having
      given them a brave barrel of oysters of Povy's giving me. So home and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up and, to the office, where sat busy all morning, dined at home and
      after dinner to Fishmonger's Hall, where we met the first time upon the
      Fishery Committee, and many good things discoursed of concerning making of
      farthings, which was proposed as a way of raising money for this business,
      and then that of lotterys,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Among the State Papers is a "Statement of Articles in the Covenant
     proposed by the Commissioners for the Royal Fishing to, Sir Ant.
     Desmarces &amp; Co.  in reference to the regulation of lotteries; which
     are very unreasonable, and of the objections thereto" ("Calendar of
     State Papers," Domestic, 1663-64, p.  576.)]
</pre>
    <p>
      but with great confusion; but I hope we shall fall into greater order. So
      home again and to my office, where after doing business home and to a
      little musique, after supper, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and wanting some things that should be laid ready for my
      dressing myself I was angry, and one thing after another made my wife give
      Besse warning to be gone, which the jade, whether out of fear or
      ill-nature or simplicity I know not, but she took it and asked leave to go
      forth to look a place, and did, which vexed me to the heart, she being as
      good a natured wench as ever we shall have, but only forgetful. At the
      office all the morning and at noon to the 'Change, and there went off with
      Sir W. Warren and took occasion to desire him to lend me L100, which he
      said he would let the have with all his heart presently, as he had
      promised me a little while ago to give me for my pains in his two great
      contracts for masts L100, and that this should be it. To which end I did
      move it to him, and by this means I hope to be, possessed of the L100
      presently within 2 or 3 days. So home to dinner, and then to the office,
      and down to Blackwall by water to view a place found out for laying of
      masts, and I think it will be most proper. So home and there find Mr. Pen
      come to visit my wife, and staid with them till sent for to Mr. Bland's,
      whither by appointment I was to go to supper, and against my will left
      them together, but, God knows, without any reason of fear in my conscience
      of any evil between them, but such is my natural folly. Being thither come
      they would needs have my wife, and so Mr. Bland and his wife (the first
      time she was ever at my house or my wife at hers) very civilly went forth
      and brought her and W. Pen, and there Mr. Povy and we supped nobly and
      very merry, it being to take leave of Mr. Bland, who is upon going soon to
      Tangier. So late home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. At the office all the morning, then to the 'Change, and so home to
      dinner, where Luellin dined with us, and after dinner many people came in
      and kept me all the afternoon, among other the Master and Wardens of
      Chyrurgeon's Hall, who staid arguing their cause with me; I did give them
      the best answer I could, and after their being two hours with me parted,
      and I to my office to do business, which is much on my hands, and so late
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning very busy putting
      papers to rights. And among other things Mr. Gauden coming to me, I had a
      good opportunity to speak to him about his present, which hitherto hath
      been a burden: to me, that I could not do it, because I was doubtfull that
      he meant it as a temptation to me to stand by him in the business of
      Tangier victualling; but he clears me it was not, and that he values me
      and my proceedings therein very highly, being but what became me, and that
      what he did was for my old kindnesses to him in dispatching of his
      business, which I was glad to hear, and with my heart in good rest and
      great joy parted, and to my business again. At noon to the 'Change, where
      by appointment I met Sir W. Warren, and afterwards to the Sun taverne,
      where he brought to me, being all alone; L100 in a bag, which I offered
      him to give him my receipt for, but he told me, no, it was my owne, which
      he had a little while since promised me and was glad that (as I had told
      him two days since) it would now do me courtesy; and so most kindly he did
      give it me, and I as joyfully, even out of myself, carried it home in a
      coach, he himself expressly taking care that nobody might see this
      business done, though I was willing enough to have carried a servant with
      me to have received it, but he advised me to do it myself. So home with it
      and to dinner; after dinner I forth with my boy to buy severall things,
      stools and andirons and candlesticks, &amp;c., household stuff, and walked
      to the mathematical instrument maker in Moorefields and bought a large
      pair of compasses, and there met Mr. Pargiter, and he would needs have me
      drink a cup of horse-radish ale, which he and a friend of his troubled
      with the stone have been drinking of, which we did and then walked into
      the fields as far almost as Sir G. Whitmore's, all the way talking of
      Russia, which, he says, is a sad place; and, though Moscow is a very great
      city, yet it is from the distance between house and house, and few people
      compared with this, and poor, sorry houses, the Emperor himself living in
      a wooden house, his exercise only flying a hawk at pigeons and carrying
      pigeons ten or twelve miles off and then laying wagers which pigeon shall
      come soonest home to her house. All the winter within doors, some few
      playing at chesse, but most drinking their time away. Women live very
      slavishly there, and it seems in the Emperor's court no room hath above
      two or three windows, and those the greatest not a yard wide or high, for
      warmth in winter time; and that the general cure for all diseases there is
      their sweating houses, or people that are poor they get into their ovens,
      being heated, and there lie. Little learning among things of any sort. Not
      a man that speaks Latin, unless the Secretary of State by chance. Mr.
      Pargiter and I walked to the 'Change together and there parted, and so I
      to buy more things and then home, and after a little at my office, home to
      supper and to bed. This day old Hardwicke came and redeemed a watch he had
      left with me in pawne for 40s. seven years ago, and I let him gave it.
      Great talk that the Dutch will certainly be out this week, and will sail
      directly to Guinny, being convoyed out of the Channel with 42 sail of
      ships.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and to the office, where Mr. Coventry very angry to see things go
      so coldly as they do, and I must needs say it makes me fearful every day
      of having some change of the office, and the truth is, I am of late a
      little guilty of being remiss myself of what I used to be, but I hope I
      shall come to my old pass again, my family being now settled again. Dined
      at home, and to the office, where late busy in setting all my businesses
      in order, and I did a very great and a very contenting afternoon's work.
      This day my aunt Wight sent my wife a new scarfe, with a compliment for
      the many favours she had received of her, which is the several things we
      have sent her. I am glad enough of it, for I see my uncle is so given up
      to the Wights that I hope for little more of them. So home to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Lord's day). Up and to church all of us. At noon comes Anthony and
      W. Joyce (their wives being in the country with my father) and dined with
      me very merry as I can be in such company. After dinner walked to
      Westminster (tiring them by the way, and so left them, Anthony in
      Cheapside and the other in the Strand), and there spent all the afternoon
      in the Cloysters as I had agreed with Jane Welsh, but she came not, which
      vexed me, staying till 5 o'clock, and then walked homeward, and by coach
      to the old Exchange, and thence to my aunt Wight's, and invited her and my
      uncle to supper, and so home, and by and by they came, and we eat a brave
      barrel of oysters Mr. Povy sent me this morning, and very merry at supper,
      and so to prayers and to bed. Last night it seems my aunt Wight did send
      my wife a new scarfe, laced, as a token for her many givings to her. It is
      true now and then we give them some toys, as oranges, &amp;c., but my aime
      is to get myself something more from my uncle's favour than this.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, my wife and I having a little anger about her woman already, she
      thinking that I take too much care of her at table to mind her (my wife)
      of cutting for her, but it soon over, and so up and with Sir W. Batten and
      Sir W. Pen to St. James's, and there did our business with the Duke, and
      thence homeward straight, calling at the Coffee-house, and there had very
      good discourse with Sir&mdash;&mdash;Blunt and Dr. Whistler about Egypt
      and other things. So home to dinner, my wife having put on to-day her
      winter new suit of moyre, which is handsome, and so after dinner I did
      give her L15 to lay out in linen and necessaries for the house and to buy
      a suit for Pall, and I myself to White Hall to a Tangier Committee, where
      Colonell Reames hath brought us so full and methodical an account of all
      matters there, that I never have nor hope to see the like of any publique
      business while I live again. The Committee up, I to Westminster to
      Jervas's, and spoke with Jane; who I find cold and not so desirous of a
      meeting as before, and it is no matter, I shall be the freer from the
      inconvenience that might follow thereof, besides offending God Almighty
      and neglecting my business. So by coach home and to my office, where late,
      and so to supper and to bed. I met with Dr. Pierce to-day, who, speaking
      of Dr. Frazier's being so earnest to have such a one (one Collins) go
      chyrurgeon to the Prince's person will have him go in his terms and with
      so much money put into his hands, he tells me (when I was wondering that
      Frazier should order things with the Prince in that confident manner) that
      Frazier is so great with my Lady Castlemayne, and Stewart, and all the
      ladies at Court, in helping to slip their calfes when there is occasion,
      and with the great men in curing of their claps that he can do what he
      please with the King, in spite of any man, and upon the same score with
      the Prince; they all having more or less occasion to make use of him. Sir
      G. Carteret tells me this afternoon that the Dutch are not yet ready to
      set out; and by that means do lose a good wind which would carry them out
      and keep us in, and moreover he says that they begin to boggle in the
      business, and he thinks may offer terms of peace for all this, and seems
      to argue that it will be well for the King too, and I pray God send it.
      Colonell Reames did, among other things, this day tell me how it is clear
      that, if my Lord Tiviott had lived, he would have quite undone Tangier, or
      designed himself to be master of it. He did put the King upon most great,
      chargeable, and unnecessary works there, and took the course industriously
      to deter, all other merchants but himself to deal there, and to make both
      King and all others pay what he pleased for all that was brought thither.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, at noon to the
      'Change, and there met by appointment with Captain Poyntz, who hath some
      place, or title to a place, belonging to gameing, and so I discoursed with
      him about the business of our improving of the Lotterys, to the King's
      benefit, and that of the Fishery, and had some light from him in the
      business, and shall, he says, have more in writing from him. So home to
      dinner and then abroad to the Fishing Committee at Fishmongers' Hall, and
      there sat and did some business considerable, and so up and home, and
      there late at my office doing much business, and I find with great delight
      that I am come to my good temper of business again. God continue me in it.
      So home to supper, it being washing day, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and by coach to Mr. Povy's, and there got him to signe the
      payment of Captain Tayler's bills for the remainder of freight for the
      Eagle, wherein I shall be gainer about L30, thence with him to Westminster
      by coach to Houseman's [Huysman] the great picture drawer, and saw again
      very fine pictures, and have his promise, for Mr. Povy's sake, to take
      pains in what picture I shall set him about, and I think to have my
      wife's. But it is a strange thing to observe and fit for me to remember
      that I am at no time so unwilling to part with money as when I am
      concerned in the getting of it most, as I thank God of late I have got
      more in this month, viz. near 0250, than ever I did in half a year before
      in my life, I think. Thence to White Hall with him, and so walked to the
      old Exchange and back to Povy's to dinner, where great and good company;
      among others Sir John Skeffington, whom I knew at Magdalen College, a
      fellow-commoner, my fellow-pupil, but one with whom I had no great
      acquaintance, he being then, God knows, much above me. Here I was afresh
      delighted with Mr. Povy's house and pictures of perspective, being strange
      things to think how they do delude one's eye, that methinks it would make
      a man doubtful of swearing that ever he saw any thing. Thence with him to
      St. James's, and so to White Hall to a Tangier Committee, and hope I have
      light of another opportunity of getting a little money if Sir W. Warren
      will use me kindly for deales to Tangier, and with the hopes went joyfully
      home, and there received Captain Tayler's money, received by Will to-day,
      out of which (as I said above) I shall get above L30. So with great
      comfort to bed, after supper. By discourse this day I have great hopes
      from Mr. Coventry that the Dutch and we shall not fall out.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up and at the office all the morning. To the 'Change at noon, and
      among other things discoursed with Sir William Warren what I might do to
      get a little money by carrying of deales to Tangier, and told him the
      opportunity I have there of doing it, and he did give me some advice,
      though not so good as he would have done at any other time of the year,
      but such as I hope to make good use of, and get a little money by. So to
      Sir G. Carteret's to dinner, and he and I and Captain Cocke all alone, and
      good discourse, and thence to a Committee of Tangier at White Hall, and so
      home, where I found my wife not well, and she tells me she thinks she is
      with child, but I neither believe nor desire it. But God's will be done!
      So to my office late, and home to supper and to bed; having got a strange
      cold in my head, by flinging off my hat at dinner, and sitting with the
      wind in my neck.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In Lord Clarendon's Essay, "On the decay of respect paid to Age,"
     he says that in his younger days he never kept his hat on before
     those older than himself, except at dinner.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      23rd. My cold and pain in my head increasing, and the palate of my mouth
      falling, I was in great pain all night. My wife also was not well, so that
      a mayd was fain to sit up by her all night. Lay long in the morning, at
      last up, and amongst others comes Mr. Fuller, that was the wit of
      Cambridge, and Praevaricator
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [At the Commencement (Comitia Majora) in July, the Praevaricator, or
     Varier, held a similar position to the Tripos at the Comitia Minora.
     He was so named from varying the question which he proposed, either
     by a play upon the words or by the transposition of the terms in
     which it was expressed.  Under the pretence of maintaining some
     philosophical question, he poured out a medley of absurd jokes and
     'personal ridicule, which gradually led to the abolition of the
     office.  In Thoresby's "Diary" we read, "Tuesday, July 6th.  The
     Praevaricator's speech was smart and ingenious, attended with
     vollies of hurras" (see Wordsworth's "University Life in the
     Eighteenth Century ").&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      in my time, and staid all the morning with me discoursing, and his
      business to get a man discharged, which I did do for him. Dined with
      little heart at noon, in the afternoon against my will to the office,
      where Sir G. Carteret and we met about an order of the Council for the
      hiring him a house, giving him L1000 fine, and L70 per annum for it. Here
      Sir J. Minnes took occasion, in the most childish and most unbeseeming
      manner, to reproach us all, but most himself, that he was not valued as
      Comptroller among us, nor did anything but only set his hand to paper,
      which is but too true; and every body had a palace, and he no house to lie
      in, and wished he had but as much to build him a house with, as we have
      laid out in carved worke. It was to no end to oppose, but all bore it, and
      after laughed at him for it. So home, and late reading "The Siege of
      Rhodes" to my wife, and then to bed, my head being in great pain and my
      palate still down.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up and to the office, where all the morning busy, then home to
      dinner, and so after dinner comes one Phillips, who is concerned in the
      Lottery, and from him I collected much concerning that business. I carried
      him in my way to White Hall and set him down at Somersett House. Among
      other things he told me that Monsieur Du Puy, that is so great a man at
      the Duke of Yorke's, and this man's great opponent, is a knave and by
      quality but a tailor. To the Tangier Committee, and there I opposed
      Colonell Legg's estimate of supplies of provisions to be sent to Tangier
      till all were ashamed of it, and he fain after all his good husbandry and
      seeming ignorance and joy to have the King's money saved, yet afterwards
      he discovered all his design to be to keep the furnishing of these things
      to the officers of the Ordnance, but Mr. Coventry seconded me, and between
      us we shall save the King some money in the year. In one business of
      deales in L520, I offer to save L172, and yet purpose getting money, to
      myself by it. So home and to my office, and business being done home to
      supper and so to bed, my head and throat being still out of order
      mightily. This night Prior of Brampton came and paid me L40, and I find
      this poor painful man is the only thriving and purchasing man in the town
      almost. We were told to-day of a Dutch ship of 3 or 400 tons, where all
      the men were dead of the plague, and the ship cast ashore at Gottenburgh.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lord's day). Up, and my throat being yet very sore, and, my head out
      of order, we went not to church, but I spent all the morning reading of
      "The Madd Lovers," a very good play, and at noon comes Harman and his
      wife, whom I sent for to meet the Joyces, but they came not. It seems Will
      has got a fall off his horse and broke his face. However, we were as merry
      as I could in their company, and we had a good chine of beef, but I had no
      taste nor stomach through my cold, and therefore little pleased with my
      dinner. It raining, they sat talking with us all the afternoon. So anon
      they went away; and then I to read another play, "The Custome of the
      Country," which is a very poor one, methinks. Then to supper, prayers, and
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up pretty well again, but my mouth very scabby, my cold being going
      away, so that I was forced to wear a great black patch, but that would not
      do much good, but it happens we did not go to the Duke to-day, and so I
      staid at home busy all the morning. At noon, after dinner, to the 'Change,
      and thence home to my office again, where busy, well employed till 10 at
      night, and so home to supper and to bed, my mind a little troubled that I
      have not of late kept up myself so briske in business; but mind my ease a
      little too much and my family upon the coming of Mercer and Tom. So that I
      have not kept company, nor appeared very active with Mr. Coventry, but now
      I resolve to settle to it again, not that I have idled all my time, but as
      to my ease something. So I have looked a little too much after Tangier and
      the Fishery, and that in the sight of Mr. Coventry, but I have good reason
      to love myself for serving Tangier, for it is one of the best flowers in
      my garden.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Lay long, sleeping, it raining and blowing very hard. Then up and to
      the office, my mouth still being scabby and a patch on it. At the office
      all the morning. At noon dined at home, and so after dinner (Lewellin
      dining with me and in my way talking about Deering) to the Fishing
      Committee, and had there very many fine things argued, and I hope some
      good will cone of it. So home, where my wife having (after all her merry
      discourse of being with child) her months upon her is gone to bed. I to my
      office very late doing business, then home to supper and to bed. To-night
      Mr. T. Trice and Piggot came to see me, and desire my going down to
      Brampton Court, where for Piggot's sake, for whom it is necessary, I
      should go, I would be glad to go, and will, contrary to my purpose,
      endeavour it, but having now almost L1000, if not above, in my house, I
      know not what to do with it, and that will trouble my mind to leave in the
      house, and I not at home.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up and by water with Mr. Tucker down to Woolwich, first to do
      several businesses of the King's, then on board Captain Fisher's ship,
      which we hire to carry goods to Tangier. All the way going and coming I
      reading and discoursing over some papers of his which he, poor man, having
      some experience, but greater conceit of it than is fit, did at the King's
      first coming over make proposals of, ordering in a new manner the whole
      revenue of the kingdom, but, God knows, a most weak thing; however, one
      paper I keep wherein he do state the main branches of the publick revenue
      fit to consider and remember. So home, very cold, and fearfull of having
      got some pain, but, thanks be to God! I was well after it. So to dinner,
      and after dinner by coach to White Hall, thinking to have met at a
      Committee of Tangier, but nobody being there but my Lord Rutherford, he
      would needs carry me and another Scotch Lord to a play, and so we saw,
      coming late, part of "The Generall," my Lord Orrery's (Broghill) second
      play; but, Lord! to see how no more either in words, sense, or design, it
      is to his "Harry the 5th" is not imaginable, and so poorly acted, though
      in finer clothes, is strange. And here I must confess breach of a vowe in
      appearance, but I not desiring it, but against my will, and my oathe being
      to go neither at my own charge nor at another's, as I had done by becoming
      liable to give them another, as I am to Sir W. Pen and Mr. Creed; but here
      I neither know which of them paid for me, nor, if I did, am I obliged ever
      to return the like, or did it by desire or with any willingness. So that
      with a safe conscience I do think my oathe is not broke and judge God
      Almighty will not think it other wise. Thence to W. Joyce's, and there
      found my aunt and cozen Mary come home from my father's with great
      pleasure and content, and thence to Kate's and found her also mighty
      pleased with her journey and their good usage of them, and so home,
      troubled in my conscience at my being at a play. But at home I found
      Mercer playing on her Vyall, which is a pretty instrument, and so I to the
      Vyall and singing till late, and so to bed. My mind at a great losse how
      to go down to Brampton this weeke, to satisfy Piggott; but what with the
      fears of my house, my money, my wife, and my office, I know not how in the
      world to think of it, Tom Hater being out of towne, and I having near
      L1000 in my house.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, dined at home and Creed
      with me; after dinner I to Sir G. Carteret, and with him to his new house
      he is taking in Broad Streete, and there surveyed all the rooms and
      bounds, in order to the drawing up a lease thereof; and that done, Mr.
      Cutler, his landlord, took me up and down, and showed me all his ground
      and house, which is extraordinary great, he having bought all the
      Augustine Fryers, and many, many a L1000 he hath and will bury there. So
      home to my business, clearing my papers and preparing my accounts against
      tomorrow for a monthly and a great auditt. So to supper and to bed. Fresh
      newes come of our beating the Dutch at Guinny quite out of all their
      castles almost, which will make them quite mad here at home sure. And Sir
      G. Carteret did tell me, that the King do joy mightily at it; but asked
      him laughing, "But," says he, "how shall I do to answer this to the
      Embassador when he comes?" Nay they say that we have beat them out of the
      New Netherlands too;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Captain (afterwards Sir Robert) Holmes' expedition to attack the
     Dutch settlements in Africa eventuated in an important exploit.
     Holmes suddenly left the coast of Africa, sailed across the
     Atlantic, and reduced the Dutch settlement of New Netherlands to
     English rule, under the title of New York.  "The short and true
     state of the matter is this: the country mentioned was part of the
     province of Virginia, and, as there is no settling an extensive
     country at once, a few Swedes crept in there, who surrendered the
     plantations they could not defend to the Dutch, who, having bought
     the charts and papers of one Hudson, a seaman, who, by the
     commission from the crown of England, discovered a river, to which
     he gave his name, conceited they had purchased a province.
     Sometimes, when we had strength in those parts, they were English
     subjects; at others, when that strength declined, they were subjects
     of the United Provinces.  However, upon King Charles's claim the
     States disowned the title, but resumed it during our confusions.  On
     March 12th, 1663-64, Charles II. granted it to the Duke of York
 ... The King sent Holmes, when he returned, to the Tower, and did
     not discharge him; till he made it evidently appear that he had not
     infringed the law of nations ".  (Campbell's "Naval History," vol.
     ii, p., 89).  How little did the King or Holmes himself foresee
     the effects of the capture,&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      so that we have been doing them mischief for a great while in several
      parts of the world; without publique knowledge or reason. Their fleete for
      Guinny is now, they say, ready, and abroad, and will be going this week.
      Coming home to-night, I did go to examine my wife's house accounts, and
      finding things that seemed somewhat doubtful, I was angry though she did
      make it pretty plain, but confessed that when she do misse a sum, she do
      add something to other things to make it, and, upon my being very angry,
      she do protest she will here lay up something for herself to buy her a
      necklace with, which madded me and do still trouble me, for I fear she
      will forget by degrees the way of living cheap and under a sense of want.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and all day, both morning and afternoon, at my accounts, it
      being a great month, both for profit and layings out, the last being L89
      for kitchen and clothes for myself and wife, and a few extraordinaries for
      the house; and my profits, besides salary, L239; so that I have this
      weeke, notwithstanding great layings out, and preparations for laying out,
      which I make as paid this month, my balance to come to L1203, for which
      the Lord's name be praised! Dined at home at noon, staying long looking
      for Kate Joyce and my aunt James and Mary, but they came not. So my wife
      abroad to see them, and took Mary Joyce to a play. Then in the evening
      came and sat working by me at the office, and late home to supper and to
      bed, with my heart in good rest for this day's work, though troubled to
      think that my last month's negligence besides the making me neglect
      business and spend money, and lessen myself both as to business and the
      world and myself, I am fain to preserve my vowe by paying 20s. dry&mdash;[
      Dry = hard, as "hard cash." ]&mdash;money into the poor's box, because I
      had not fulfilled all my memorandums and paid all my petty debts and
      received all my petty credits, of the last month, but I trust in God I
      shall do so no more.
    </p>
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    <p>
      October 1st. Up and at the office both forenoon and afternoon very busy,
      and with great pleasure in being so. This morning Mrs. Lane (now Martin)
      like a foolish woman, came to the Horseshoe hard by, and sent for me while
      I was: at the office; to come to speak with her by a note sealed up, I
      know to get me to do something for her husband, but I sent her an answer
      that I would see her at Westminster, and so I did not go, and she went
      away, poor soul. At night home to supper, weary, and my eyes sore with
      writing and reading, and to bed. We go now on with great vigour in
      preparing against the Dutch, who, they say, will now fall upon us without
      doubt upon this high newes come of our beating them so, wholly in Guinny.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd (Lord's day). My wife not being well to go to church I walked with my
      boy through the City, putting in at several churches, among others at
      Bishopsgate, and there saw the picture usually put before the King's book,
      put up in the church, but very ill painted, though it were a pretty piece
      to set up in a church. I intended to have seen the Quakers, who, they say,
      do meet every Lord's day at the Mouth at Bishopsgate; but I could see none
      stirring, nor was it fit to aske for the place, so I walked over
      Moorefields, and thence to Clerkenwell church, and there, as I wished, sat
      next pew to the fair Butler, who indeed is a most perfect beauty still;
      and one I do very much admire myself for my choice of her for a beauty,
      she having the best lower part of her face that ever I saw all days of my
      life. After church I walked to my Lady Sandwich's, through my Lord
      Southampton's new buildings in the fields behind Gray's Inn; and, indeed,
      they are a very great and a noble work. So I dined with my Lady, and the
      same innocent discourse that we used to have, only after dinner, being
      alone, she asked me my opinion about Creed, whether he would have a wife
      or no, and what he was worth, and proposed Mrs. Wright for him, which, she
      says, she heard he was once inquiring after. She desired I would take a
      good time and manner of proposing it, and I said I would, though I
      believed he would love nothing but money, and much was not to be expected
      there, she said. So away back to Clerkenwell Church, thinking to have got
      sight of la belle Boteler again, but failed, and so after church walked
      all over the fields home, and there my wife was angry with me for not
      coming home, and for gadding abroad to look after beauties, she told me
      plainly, so I made all peace, and to supper. This evening came Mrs. Lane
      (now Martin) with her husband to desire my helpe about a place for him. It
      seems poor Mr. Daniel is dead of the Victualling Office, a place too good
      for this puppy to follow him in. But I did give him the best words I
      could, and so after drinking a glasse of wine sent them going, but with
      great kindnesse. Go to supper, prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up with Sir J. Minnes, by coach, to St. James's; and there all the
      newes now of very hot preparations for the Dutch: and being with the Duke,
      he told us he was resolved to make a tripp himself, and that Sir W. Pen
      should go in the same ship with him. Which honour, God forgive me! I could
      grudge him, for his knavery and dissimulation, though I do not envy much
      the having the same place myself. Talke also of great haste in the getting
      out another fleete, and building some ships; and now it is likely we have
      put one another by each other's dalliance past a retreate. Thence with our
      heads full of business we broke up, and I to my barber's, and there only
      saw Jane and stroked her under the chin, and away to the Exchange, and
      there long about several businesses, hoping to get money by them, and
      thence home to dinner and there found Hawly. But meeting Bagwell's wife at
      the office before I went home I took her into the office and there kissed
      her only. She rebuked me for doing it, saying that did I do so much to
      many bodies else it would be a stain to me. But I do not see but she takes
      it well enough, though in the main I believe she is very honest. So after
      some kind discourse we parted, and I home to dinner, and after dinner down
      to Deptford, where I found Mr. Coventry, and there we made, an experiment
      of Holland's and our cordage, and ours outdid it a great deale, as my book
      of observations tells particularly. Here we were late, and so home
      together by water, and I to my office, where late, putting things in
      order. Mr. Bland came this night to me to take his leave of me, he going
      to Tangier, wherein I wish him good successe. So home to supper and to
      bed, my mind troubled at the businesses I have to do, that I cannot mind
      them as I ought to do and get money, and more that I have neglected my
      frequenting and seeming more busy publicly than I have done of late in
      this hurry of business, but there is time left to recover it, and I trust
      in God I shall.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and this morning
      Sir W. Pen went to Chatham to look: after the ships now going out thence,
      and particularly that wherein the Duke and himself go. He took Sir G.
      Ascue with: him, whom, I believe, he hath brought into play. At noon to
      the 'Change and thence home, where I found my aunt James and the two she
      joyces. They dined and were merry with us. Thence after dinner to a play,
      to see "The Generall;" which is so dull and so ill-acted, that I think it
      is the worst. I ever saw or heard in all my days. I happened to sit near;
      to Sir Charles Sidly; who I find a very witty man, and he did at every
      line take notice of the dullness of the poet and badness of the action,
      that most pertinently; which I was mightily taken with; and among others
      where by Altemire's command Clarimont, the Generall, is commanded to
      rescue his Rivall, whom she loved, Lucidor, he, after a great deal of
      demurre, broke out; "Well, I'le save my Rivall and make her confess, that
      I deserve, while he do but possesse." "Why, what, pox," says Sir Charles
      Sydly, "would he have him have more, or what is there more to be had of a
      woman than the possessing her?" Thence-setting all them at home, I home
      with my wife and Mercer, vexed at my losing my time and above 20s. in
      money, and neglecting my business to see so bad a play. To-morrow they
      told us should be acted, or the day after, a new play, called "The
      Parson's Dreame," acted all by women. So to my office, and there did
      business; and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up betimes and to my office, and thence by coach to New Bridewell to
      meet with Mr. Poyntz to discourse with him (being Master of the Workhouse
      there) about making of Bewpers for us. But he was not within; however his
      clerke did lead me up and down through all the house, and there I did with
      great pleasure see the many pretty works, and the little children
      employed, every one to do something, which was a very fine sight, and
      worthy encouragement. I cast away a crowne among them, and so to the
      'Change and among the Linnen Wholesale Drapers to enquire about Callicos,
      to see what can be done with them for the supplying our want of Bewpers
      for flaggs, and I think I shall do something therein to good purpose for
      the King. So to the Coffeehouse, and there fell in discourse with the
      Secretary of the Virtuosi of Gresham College, and had very fine discourse
      with him. He tells me of a new invented instrument to be tried before the
      College anon, and I intend to see it. So to Trinity House, and there I
      dined among the old dull fellows, and so home and to my office a while,
      and then comes Mr. Cocker to see me, and I discoursed with him about his
      writing and ability of sight, and how I shall do to get some glasse or
      other to helpe my eyes by candlelight; and he tells me he will bring me
      the helps he hath within a day or two, and shew me what he do. Thence to
      the Musique-meeting at the Postoffice, where I was once before. And
      thither anon come all the Gresham College, and a great deal of noble
      company: and the new instrument was brought called the Arched Viall,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["There seems to be a curious fate reigning over the instruments
     which have the word 'arch' prefixed to their name.  They have no
     vitality, and somehow or other come to grief.  Even the famous
     archlute, which was still a living thing in the time of Handel, has
     now disappeared from the concert room and joined Mr. Pepys's 'Arched
     Viall' in the limbo of things forgotten....  Mr. Pepys's
     verdict that it would never do...  has been fully confirmed by
     the event, as his predictions usually were, being indeed always
     founded on calm judgment and close observation."&mdash;B. (Hueffer's
     Italian and other Studies, 1883, p.  263).]
</pre>
    <p>
      where being tuned with lute-strings, and played on with kees like an
      organ, a piece of parchment is always kept moving; and the strings, which
      by the kees are pressed down upon it, are grated in imitation of a bow, by
      the parchment; and so it is intended to resemble several vyalls played on
      with one bow, but so basely and harshly, that it will never do. But after
      three hours' stay it could not be fixed in tune; and so they were fain to
      go to some other musique of instruments, which I am grown quite out of
      love with, and so I, after some good discourse with Mr. Spong, Hill,
      Grant, and Dr. Whistler, and others by turns, I home to my office and
      there late, and so home, where I understand my wife has spoke to Jane and
      ended matters of difference between her and her, and she stays with us,
      which I am glad of; for her fault is nothing but sleepiness and
      forgetfulness, otherwise a good-natured, quiet, well-meaning, honest
      servant, and one that will do as she is bid, so one called upon her and
      will see her do it. This morning, by three o'clock, the Prince&mdash;[Rupert]&mdash;and
      King, and Duke with him, went down the River, and the Prince under sail
      the next tide after, and so is gone from the Hope. God give him better
      successe than he used to have! This day Mr. Bland went away hence towards
      his voyage to Tangier. This day also I had a letter from an unknown hand
      that tells me that Jacke Angier, he believes, is dead at Lisbon, for he
      left him there ill.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, among other things
      about this of the flags and my bringing in of callicos to oppose Young and
      Whistler. At noon by promise Mr. Pierce and his wife and Madam Clerke and
      her niece came and dined with me to a rare chine of beefe and spent the
      afternoon very pleasantly all the afternoon, and then to my office in the
      evening, they being gone, and late at business, and then home to supper
      and to bed, my mind coming to itself in following of my business.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Lay pretty while with some discontent abed, even to the having bad
      words with my wife, and blows too, about the ill-serving up of our
      victuals yesterday; but all ended in love, and so I rose and to my office
      busy all the morning. At noon dined at home, and then to my office again,
      and then abroad to look after callicos for flags, and hope to get a small
      matter by my pains therein and yet save the King a great deal of money,
      and so home to my office, and there came Mr. Cocker, and brought me a
      globe of glasse, and a frame of oyled paper, as I desired, to show me the
      manner of his gaining light to grave by, and to lessen the glaringnesse of
      it at pleasure by an oyled paper. This I bought of him, giving him a
      crowne for it; and so, well satisfied, he went away, and I to my business
      again, and so home to supper, prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. All the morning at the office, and after dinner abroad, and among
      other things contracted with one Mr. Bridges, at the White Bear on
      Cornhill, for 100 pieces of Callico to make flaggs; and as I know I shall
      save the King money, so I hope to get a little for my pains and venture of
      my own money myself. Late in the evening doing business, and then comes
      Captain Tayler, and he and I till 12 o'clock at night arguing about the
      freight of his ship Eagle, hired formerly by me to Tangier, and at last we
      made an end, and I hope to get a little money, some small matter by it. So
      home to bed, being weary and cold, but contented that I have made an end
      of that business.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). Lay pretty long, but however up time enough with my wife
      to go to church. Then home to dinner, and Mr. Fuller, my Cambridge
      acquaintance, coming to me about what he was with me lately, to release a
      waterman, he told me he was to preach at Barking Church; and so I to heare
      him, and he preached well and neatly. Thence, it being time enough, to our
      owne church, and there staid wholly privately at the great doore to gaze
      upon a pretty lady, and from church dogged her home, whither she went to a
      house near Tower hill, and I think her to be one of the prettiest women I
      ever saw. So home, and at my office a while busy, then to my uncle
      Wight's, whither it seems my wife went after sermon and there supped, but
      my aunt and uncle in a very ill humour one with another, but I made shift
      with much ado to keep them from scolding, and so after supper home and to
      bed without prayers, it being cold, and to-morrow washing day.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and, it being rainy, in Sir W. Pen's coach to St. James's, and
      there did our usual business with the Duke, and more and more preparations
      every day appear against the Dutch, and (which I must confess do a little
      move my envy) Sir W. Pen do grow every day more and more regarded by the
      Duke,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The duke had decided that the English fleet should consist of
     three  squadrons to be commanded by himself, Prince Rupert, and Lord
     Sandwich, from which arrangement the two last, who were land
     admirals; had concluded that Penn would have no concern in this
     fleet.  Neither the duke, Rupert, nor Sandwich had ever been engaged
     in an encounter of fleets....  Penn alone of the four was
     familiar with all these things.  By the duke's unexpected
     announcement that he should take Penn with him into his own  ship,
     Rupert and Sandwich at once discovered that they would be really and
     practically under Penn's command in everything."]
</pre>
    <p>
      because of his service heretofore in the Dutch warr which I am confident
      is by some strong obligations he hath laid upon Mr. Coventry; for Mr.
      Coventry must needs know that he is a man of very mean parts, but only a
      bred seaman: Going home in coach with Sir W. Batten he told me how Sir J.
      Minnes by the means of Sir R. Ford was the last night brought to his house
      and did discover the reason of his so long discontent with him, and now
      they are friends again, which I am sorry for, but he told it me so plainly
      that I see there is no thorough understanding between them, nor love, and
      so I hope there will be no great combination in any thing, nor do I see
      Sir J. Minnes very fond as he used to be. But: Sir W. Batten do raffle
      still against Mr. Turner and his wife, telling me he is a false fellow,
      and his wife a false woman, and has rotten teeth and false, set in with
      wire, and as I know they are so, so I am glad he finds it so. To the
      Coffee-house, and thence to the 'Change, and therewith Sir W. Warren to
      the Coffee-house behind the 'Change, and sat alone with him till 4 o'clock
      talking of his businesses first and then of business in general, and
      discourse how I might get money and how to carry myself to advantage to
      contract no envy and yet make the world see my pains; which was with great
      content to me, and a good friend and helpe I am like to find him, for
      which God be thanked! So home to dinner at 4 o'clock, and then to the
      office, and there late, and so home to supper and to bed, having sat up
      till past twelve at night to look over the account of the collections for
      the Fishery, and the loose and base manner that monies so collected are
      disposed of in, would make a man never part with a penny in that manner,
      and, above all, the inconvenience of having a great man, though never so
      seeming pious as my Lord Pembroke is. He is too great to be called to an
      account, and is abused by his servants, and yet obliged to defend them for
      his owne sake. This day, by the blessing of God, my wife and I have been
      married nine years: but my head being full of business, I did not think of
      it to keep it in any extraordinary manner. But bless God for our long
      lives and loves and health together, which the same God long continue, I
      wish, from my very heart!
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. My wife this
      morning went, being invited, to my Lady Sandwich, and I alone at home at
      dinner, till by and by Luellin comes and dines with me. He tells me what a
      bawdy loose play this "Parson's Wedding" is, that is acted by nothing but
      women at the King's house, and I am glad of it. Thence to the Fishery in
      Thames Street, and there several good discourses about the letting of the
      Lotterys, and, among others, one Sir Thomas Clifford, whom yet I knew not,
      do speak very well and neatly. Thence I to my cozen Will Joyce to get him
      to go to Brampton with me this week, but I think he will not, and I am not
      a whit sorry for it, for his company both chargeable and troublesome. So
      home and to my office, and then to supper and then to my office again till
      late, and so home, with my head and heart full of business, and so to bed.
      My wife tells me the sad news of my Lady Castlemayne's being now become so
      decayed, that one would not know her; at least far from a beauty, which I
      am sorry for. This day with great joy Captain Titus told us the
      particulars of the French's expedition against Gigery upon the Barbary
      Coast, in the Straights, with 6,000 chosen men. They have taken the Fort
      of Gigery, wherein were five men and three guns, which makes the whole
      story of the King of France's policy and power to be laughed at.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. This morning all the morning at my office ordering things against my
      journey to-morrow. At noon to the Coffeehouse, where very good discourse.
      For newes, all say De Ruyter is gone to Guinny before us. Sir J. Lawson is
      come to Portsmouth; and our fleete is hastening all speed: I mean this new
      fleete. Prince Rupert with his is got into the Downes. At home dined with
      me W. Joyce and a friend of his. W. Joyce will go with me to Brampton.
      After dinner I out to Mr. Bridges, the linnen draper, and evened with
      (him) for 100 pieces of callico, and did give him L208 18s., which I now
      trust the King for, but hope both to save the King money and to get a
      little by it to boot. Thence by water up and down all the timber yards to
      look out some Dram timber, but can find none for our turne at the price I
      would have; and so I home, and there at my office late doing business
      against my journey to clear my hands of every thing for two days. So home
      and to supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. After being at the office all the morning, I home and dined, and
      taking leave of my wife with my mind not a little troubled how she would
      look after herself or house in my absence, especially, too, leaving a
      considerable sum of money in the office, I by coach to the Red Lyon in
      Aldersgate Street, and there, by agreement, met W. Joyce and Tom Trice,
      and mounted, I upon a very fine mare that Sir W. Warren helps me to, and
      so very merrily rode till it was very darke, I leading the way through the
      darke to Welling, and there, not being very weary, to supper and to bed.
      But very bad accommodation at the Swan. In this day's journey I met with
      Mr. White, Cromwell's chaplin that was, and had a great deale of discourse
      with him. Among others, he tells me that Richard is, and hath long been,
      in France, and is now going into Italy. He owns publiquely that he do
      correspond, and return him all his money. That Richard hath been in some
      straits at the beginning; but relieved by his friends. That he goes by
      another name, but do not disguise himself, nor deny himself to any man
      that challenges him. He tells me, for certain, that offers had been made
      to the old man, of marriage between the King and his daughter, to have
      obliged him, but he would not.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Protector wished the Duke of Buckingham to marry his daughter
     Frances.  She married, 1. Robert Rich, grandson and heir to Robert,
     Earl of Warwick, on November 11th, 1657, who died in the following
     February;  2. Sir John Russell, Bart.  She died January 27th,
     1721-22, aged eighty-four. In T. Morrice's life of Roger, Earl of
     Orrery, prefixed to Orrery's "State Letters" (Dublin, 1743, vol.
     i., p. 40), there is a circumstantial account of an interview
     between Orrery (then Lord Broghill) and Cromwell, in which the
     former suggested to the latter that Charles II. should marry Frances
     Cromwell.  Cromwell gave great attention to the reasons urged, "but
     walking two or three turns, and pondering with himself, he told Lord
     Broghill the king would never forgive him the death of his father.
     His lordship desired him to employ somebody to sound the king in
     this matter, to see how he would take it, and offered himself to
     mediate in it for him. But Cromwell would not consent, but again
     repeated, 'The king cannot and will not forgive the death of his
     father;' and so he left his lordship, who durst not tell him he had
     already dealt with his majesty in that affair.  Upon this my lord
     withdrew, and meeting Cromwell's wife and daughter, they inquired
     how he had succeeded; of which having given them an account, he
     added they must try their interest in him, but none could prevail."]
</pre>
    <p>
      He thinks (with me) that it never was in his power to bring in the King
      with the consent of any of his officers about him; and that he scorned to
      bring him in as Monk did, to secure himself and deliver every body else.
      When I told him of what I found writ in a French book of one Monsieur
      Sorbiere, that gives an account of his observations herein England; among
      other things he says, that it is reported that Cromwell did, in his
      life-time, transpose many of the bodies of the Kings of England from one
      grave to another, and that by that means it is not known certainly whether
      the head that is now set up upon a post be that of Cromwell, or of one of
      the Kings; Mr. White tells me that he believes he never had so poor a low
      thought in him to trouble himself about it. He says the hand of God is
      much to be seen; that all his children are in good condition enough as to
      estate, and that their relations that betrayed their family are all now
      either hanged or very miserable.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up by break of day, and got to Brampton by three o'clock, where my
      father and mother overjoyed to see me, my mother, ready to weepe every
      time she looked upon me. After dinner my father and I to the Court, and
      there did all our business to my mind, as I have set down in a paper
      particularly expressing our proceedings at this court. So home, where W.
      Joyce full of talk and pleased with his journey, and after supper I to bed
      and left my father, mother, and him laughing.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. My father and I up and walked alone to Hinchingbroke; and among the
      other late chargeable works that my Lord hath done there, we saw his
      water-works and the Oral which is very fine; and so is the house all over,
      but I am sorry to think of the money at this time spent therein. Back to
      my father's (Mr. Sheply being out of town) and there breakfasted, after
      making an end with Barton about his businesses, and then my mother called
      me into the garden, and there but all to no purpose desiring me to be
      friends with John, but I told her I cannot, nor indeed easily shall, which
      afflicted the poor woman, but I cannot help it. Then taking leave, W.
      Joyce and I set out, calling T. Trice at Bugden, and thence got by night
      to Stevenage, and there mighty merry, though I in bed more weary than the
      other two days, which, I think, proceeded from our galloping so much, my
      other weariness being almost all over; but I find that a coney skin in my
      breeches preserves me perfectly from galling, and that eating after I come
      to my Inne, without drinking, do keep me from being stomach sick, which
      drink do presently make me. We lay all in several beds in the same room,
      and W. Joyce full of his impertinent tricks and talk, which then made us
      merry, as any other fool would have done. So to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). It raining, we set out, and about nine o'clock got to
      Hatfield in church-time; and I 'light and saw my simple Lord Salsbury sit
      there in his gallery. Staid not in the Church, but thence mounted again
      and to Barnett by the end of sermon, and there dined at the Red Lyon very
      weary again, but all my weariness yesterday night and to-day in my thighs
      only, the rest of my weariness in my shoulders and arms being quite gone.
      Thence home, parting company at my cozen Anth. Joyce's, by four o'clock,
      weary, but very well, to bed at home, where I find all well. Anon my wife
      came to bed, but for my ease rose again and lay with her woman.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Rose very well and not weary, and with Sir W. Batten to St. James's;
      there did our business. I saw Sir J. Lawson since his return from sea
      first this morning, and hear that my Lord Sandwich is come from Portsmouth
      to town. Thence I to him, and finding him at my Lord Crew's, I went with
      him home to his house and much kind discourse. Thence my Lord to Court,
      and I with Creed to the 'Change, and thence with Sir W. Warren to a cook's
      shop and dined, discoursing and advising him about his great contract he
      is to make tomorrow, and do every day receive great satisfaction in his
      company, and a prospect of a just advantage by his friendship. Thence to
      my office doing some business, but it being very cold, I, for fear of
      getting cold, went early home to bed, my wife not being come home from my
      Lady Jemimah, with whom she hath been at a play and at Court to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and to the office, where among other things we made a very great
      contract with Sir W. Warren for 3,000 loade of timber. At noon dined at
      home. In the afternoon to the Fishery, where, very confused and very
      ridiculous, my Lord Craven's proceedings, especially his finding fault
      with Sir J. Collaton and Colonell Griffin's' report in the accounts of the
      lottery-men. Thence I with Mr. Gray in his coach to White Hall, but the
      King and Duke being abroad, we returned to Somersett House. In discourse I
      find him a very worthy and studious gentleman in the business of trade,
      and among-other things he observed well to me, how it is not the greatest
      wits, but the steady man, that is a good merchant: he instanced in Ford
      and Cocke, the last of whom he values above all men as his oracle, as Mr.
      Coventry do Mr. Jolliffe. He says that it is concluded among merchants,
      that where a trade hath once been and do decay, it never recovers again,
      and therefore that the manufacture of cloath of England will never come to
      esteem again; that, among other faults, Sir Richard Ford cannot keepe a
      secret, and that it is so much the part of a merchant to be guilty of that
      fault that the Duke of Yoke is resolved to commit no more secrets to the
      merchants of the Royall Company; that Sir Ellis Layton is, for a speech of
      forty words, the wittiest man that ever he knew in his life, but longer he
      is nothing, his judgment being nothing at all, but his wit most absolute.
      At Somersett House he carried me in, and there I saw the Queene's new
      rooms, which are most stately and nobly furnished; and there I saw her,
      and the Duke of Yorke and Duchesse were there. The Duke espied me, and
      came to me, and talked with me a very great while about our contract this
      day with Sir W. Warren, and among other things did with some contempt ask
      whether we did except Polliards, which Sir W. Batten did yesterday (in
      spite, as the Duke I believe by my Lord Barkely do well enough know) among
      other things in writing propose. Thence home by coach, it raining hard,
      and to my office, where late, then home to supper and to bed. This night
      the Dutch Embassador desired and had an audience of the King. What the
      issue of it was I know not. Both sides I believe desire peace, but neither
      will begin, and so I believe a warr will follow. The Prince is with his
      fleet at Portsmouth, and the Dutch are making all preparations for warr.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up and to my office all the morning. At noon dined at home; then
      abroad by coach to buy for the office "Herne upon the Statute of
      Charitable Uses," in order to the doing something better in the Chest than
      we have done, for I am ashamed to see Sir W. Batten possess himself so
      long of so much money as he hath done. Coming home, weighed, my two silver
      flaggons at Stevens's. They weigh 212 oz. 27 dwt., which is about L50, at
      5s. per oz., and then they judge the fashion to be worth above 5s. per oz.
      more&mdash;nay, some say 10s. an ounce the fashion. But I do not believe,
      but yet am sorry to see that the fashion is worth so much, and the silver
      come to no more. So home and to my office, where very busy late. My wife
      at Mercer's mother's, I believe, W. Hewer with them, which I do not like,
      that he should ask my leave to go about business, and then to go and spend
      his time in sport, and leave me here busy. To supper and to bed, my wife
      coming in by and by, which though I know there was no hurt in it; I do not
      like.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon my uncle Thomas
      came, dined with me, and received some money of me. Then I to my office,
      where I took in with me Bagwell's wife, and there I caressed her, and find
      her every day more and more coming with good words and promises of getting
      her husband a place, which I will do. So we parted, and I to my Lord
      Sandwich at his lodgings, and after a little stay away with Mr. Cholmely
      to Fleete Streete; in the way he telling me that Tangier is like to be in
      a bad condition with this same Fitzgerald, he being a man of no honour,
      nor presence, nor little honesty, and endeavours: to raise the Irish and
      suppress the English interest there; and offend every body, and do nothing
      that I hear of well, which I am sorry for. Thence home, by the way taking
      two silver tumblers home, which I have bought, and so home, and there late
      busy at my office, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up and by coach to Mr. Cole's, and there conferred with him about
      some law business, and so to Sir W. Turner's, and there bought my cloth,
      coloured, for a suit and cloake, to line with plush the cloak, which will
      cost me money, but I find that I must go handsomely, whatever it costs me,
      and the charge will be made up in the fruit it brings. Thence to the
      Coffee-house and 'Change, and so home to dinner, and then to the office
      all the afternoon, whither comes W. Howe to see me, being come from, and
      going presently back to sea with my Lord. Among other things he tells me
      Mr. Creed is much out of favour with my Lord from his freedom of talke and
      bold carriage, and other things with which my Lord is not pleased, but
      most I doubt his not lending my Lord money, and Mr. Moore's reporting what
      his answer was I doubt in the worst manner. But, however, a very unworthy
      rogue he is, and, therefore, let him go for one good for nothing, though
      wise to the height above most men I converse with. In the evening (W. Howe
      being gone) comes Mr. Martin, to trouble me again to get him a
      Lieutenant's place for which he is as fit as a foole can be. But I put him
      off like an arse, as he is, and so setting my papers and books in order: I
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon comes my
      uncle Thomas and his daughter Mary about getting me to pay them the L30
      due now, but payable in law to her husband. I did give them the best
      answer I could, and so parted, they not desiring to stay to dinner. After
      dinner I down to Deptford, and there did business, and so back to my
      office, where very late busy, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). Up and to church. At noon comes unexpected Mr. Fuller,
      the minister, and dines with me, and also I had invited Mr. Cooper with
      one I judge come from sea, and he and I spent the whole afternoon
      together, he teaching me some things in understanding of plates. At night
      to the office, doing business, and then home to supper. Then a psalm, to
      prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up and in Sir J. Minnes' coach (alone with Mrs. Turner as far as
      Paternoster Row, where I set her down) to St. James's, and there did our
      business, and I had the good lucke to speak what pleased the Duke about
      our great contract in hand with Sir W. Warren against Sir W. Batten,
      wherein the Duke is very earnest for our contracting. Thence home to the
      office till noon, and then dined and to the 'Change and off with Sir W.
      Warren for a while, consulting about managing his contract. Thence to a
      Committee at White Hall of Tangier, where I had the good lucke to speak
      something to very good purpose about the Mole at Tangier, which was well
      received even by Sir J. Lawson and Mr. Cholmely, the undertakers, against
      whose interest I spoke; that I believe I shall be valued for it. Thence
      into the galleries to talk with my Lord Sandwich; among other things,
      about the Prince's writing up to tell us of the danger he and his fleete
      lie in at Portsmouth, of receiving affronts from the Dutch; which, my Lord
      said, he would never have done, had he lain there with one ship alone: nor
      is there any great reason for it, because of the sands. However, the
      fleete will be ordered to go and lay themselves up at the Cowes. Much
      beneath the prowesse of the Prince, I think, and the honour of the nation,
      at the first to be found to secure themselves. My Lord is well pleased to
      think, that, if the Duke and the Prince go, all the blame of any
      miscarriage will not light on him; and that if any thing goes well, he
      hopes he shall have the share of the glory, for the Prince is by no means
      well esteemed of by any body. Thence home, and though not very well yet up
      late about the Fishery business, wherein I hope to give an account how I
      find the Collections to have been managed, which I did finish to my great
      content, and so home to supper and to bed. This day the great O'Neale
      died; I believe, to the content of all the Protestant pretenders in
      Ireland.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and finished Sir
      W. Warren's great contract for timber, with great content to me, because
      just in the terms I wrote last night to Sir W. Warren and against the
      terms proposed by Sir W. Batten. At noon home to dinner, and there found
      Creed and Hawley. After dinner comes in Mrs. Ingram, the first time to
      make a visit to my wife. After a little stay I left them and to the
      Committee of the Fishery, and there did make my report of the late public
      collections for the Fishery, much to the satisfaction of the Committee,
      and I think much to my reputation, for good notice was taken of it and
      much it was commended. So home, in my way taking care of a piece of plate
      for Mr. Christopher Pett, against the launching of his new great ship
      tomorrow at Woolwich, which I singly did move to His Royall Highness, and
      did obtain it for him, to the value of twenty pieces. And he, under his
      hand, do acknowledge to me that he did never receive so great a kindness
      from any man in the world as from me herein. So to my office, and then to
      supper, and then to my office again, where busy late, being very full now
      a days of business to my great content, I thank God, and so home to bed,
      my house being full of a design, to go to-morrow, my wife and all her
      servants, to see the new ship launched.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, my people rising mighty betimes, to fit themselves to go by
      water; and my boy, he could not sleep, but wakes about four o'clock, and
      in bed lay playing on his lute till daylight, and, it seems, did the like
      last night till twelve o'clock. About eight o'clock, my wife, she and her
      woman, and Besse and Jane, and W. Hewer and the boy, to the water-side,
      and there took boat, and by and by I out of doors, to look after the
      flaggon, to get it ready to carry to Woolwich. That being not ready, I
      stepped aside and found out Nellson, he that Whistler buys his bewpers of,
      and did there buy 5 pieces at their price, and am in hopes thereby to
      bring them down or buy ourselves all we spend of Nellson at the first
      hand. This jobb was greatly to my content, and by and by the flaggon being
      finished at the burnisher's, I home, and there fitted myself, and took a
      hackney-coach I hired, it being a very cold and foule day, to Woolwich,
      all the way reading in a good book touching the fishery, and that being
      done, in the book upon the statute of charitable uses, mightily to my
      satisfaction. At Woolwich; I there up to the King and Duke, and they liked
      the plate well. Here I staid above with them while the ship was launched,
      which was done with great success, and the King did very much like the
      ship, saying, she had the best bow that ever he saw. But, Lord! the sorry
      talke and discourse among the great courtiers round about him, without any
      reverence in the world, but with so much disorder. By and by the Queene
      comes and her Mayds of Honour; one whereof, Mrs. Boynton, and the Duchesse
      of Buckingham, had been very siclee coming by water in the barge (the
      water being very rough); but what silly sport they made with them in very
      common terms, methought, was very poor, and below what people think these
      great people say and do. The launching being done, the King and company
      went down to take barge; and I sent for Mr. Pett, and put the flaggon into
      the Duke's hand, and he, in the presence of the King, did give it, Mr.
      Pett taking it upon his knee. This Mr. Pett is wholly beholding to me for,
      and he do know and I believe will acknowledge it. Thence I to Mr.
      Ackworth, and there eat and drank with Commissioner Pett and his wife, and
      thence to Shelden's, where Sir W. Batten and his Lady were. By and by I
      took coach after I had enquired for my wife or her boat, but found none.
      Going out of the gate, an ordinary woman prayed me to give her room to
      London, which I did, but spoke not to her all the way, but read, as long
      as I could see, my book again. Dark when we came to London, and a stop of
      coaches in Southwarke. I staid above half an houre and then 'light, and
      finding Sir W. Batten's coach, heard they were gone into the Beare at the
      Bridge foot, and thither I to them. Presently the stop is removed, and
      then going out to find my coach, I could not find it, for it was gone with
      the rest; so I fair to go through the darke and dirt over the bridge, and
      my leg fell in a hole broke on the bridge, but, the constable standing
      there to keep people from it, I was catched up, otherwise I had broke my
      leg; for which mercy the Lord be praised! So at Fanchurch I found my coach
      staying for me, and so home, where the little girle hath looked to the
      house well, but no wife come home, which made me begin to fear [for] her,
      the water being very rough, and cold and darke. But by and by she and her
      company come in all well, at which I was glad, though angry. Thence I to
      Sir W. Batten's, and there sat late with him, Sir R. Ford, and Sir John
      Robinson; the last of whom continues still the same foole he was, crying
      up what power he has in the City, in knowing their temper, and being able
      to do what he will with them. It seems the City did last night very freely
      lend the King L100,000 without any security but the King's word, which was
      very noble. But this loggerhead and Sir R. Ford would make us believe that
      they did it. Now Sir R. Ford is a cunning man, and makes a foole of the
      other, and the other believes whatever the other tells him. But, Lord! to
      think that such a man should be Lieutenant of the Tower, and so great a
      man as he is, is a strange thing to me. With them late and then home and
      with my wife to bed, after supper.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up and to the office, where all the morning busy. At noon, Sir G.
      Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, and myself, were
      treated at the Dolphin by Mr. Foly, the ironmonger, where a good plain
      dinner, but I expected musique, the missing of which spoiled my dinner,
      only very good merry discourse at dinner. Thence with Sir G. Carteret by
      coach to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, and thence back to London,
      and 'light in Cheapside and I to Nellson's, and there met with a rub at
      first, but took him out to drink, and there discoursed to my great content
      so far with him that I think I shall agree with him for Bewpers to serve
      the Navy with. So with great content home and to my office, where late,
      and having got a great cold in my head yesterday home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Slept ill all night, having got a very great cold the other day at
      Woolwich in [my] head, which makes me full of snot. Up in the morning, and
      my tailor brings me home my fine, new, coloured cloth suit, my cloake
      lined with plush, as good a suit as ever I wore in my life, and mighty
      neat, to my great content. To my office, and there all the morning. At
      noon to Nellson's, and there bought 20 pieces more of Bewpers, and hope to
      go on with him to a contract. Thence to the 'Change a little, and thence
      home with Luellin to dinner, where Mr. Deane met me by appointment, and
      after dinner he and I up to my chamber, and there hard at discourse, and
      advising him what to do in his business at Harwich, and then to discourse
      of our old business of ships and taking new rules of him to my great
      pleasure, and he being gone I to my office a little, and then to see Sir
      W. Batten, who is sick of a greater cold than I, and thither comes to me
      Mr. Holliard, and into the chamber to me, and, poor man (beyond all I ever
      saw of him), was a little drunk, and there sat talking and finding
      acquaintance with Sir W. Batten and my Lady by relations on both sides,
      that there we staid very long. At last broke up, and he home much overcome
      with drink, but well enough to get well home. So I home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and it being my Lord Mayor's show, my boy and three mayds went
      out; but it being a very foule, rainy day, from morning till night, I was
      sorry my wife let them go out. All the morning at the office. At dinner at
      home. In the afternoon to the office again, and about 9 o'clock by
      appointment to the King's Head tavern upon Fish Street Hill, whither Mr.
      Wolfe (and Parham by his means) met me to discourse about the Fishery, and
      great light I had by Parham, who is a little conceited, but a very knowing
      man in his way, and in the general fishing trade of England. Here I staid
      three hours, and eat a barrel of very fine oysters of Wolfe's giving me,
      and so, it raining hard, home and to my office, and then home to bed. All
      the talke is that De Ruyter is come over-land home with six or eight of
      his captaines to command here at home, and their ships kept abroad in the
      Straights; which sounds as if they had a mind to do something with us.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Lord's day). Up, and this morning put on my new, fine, coloured
      cloth suit, with my cloake lined with plush, which is a dear and noble
      suit, costing me about L17. To church, and then home to dinner, and after
      dinner to a little musique with my boy, and so to church with my wife, and
      so home, and with her all the evening reading and at musique with my boy
      with great pleasure, and so to supper, prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Very busy all the morning, at noon Creed to me and dined with me,
      and then he and I to White Hall, there to a Committee of Tangier, where it
      is worth remembering when Mr. Coventry proposed the retrenching some of
      the charge of the horse, the first word asked by the Duke of Albemarle
      was, "Let us see who commands them," there being three troops. One of them
      he calls to mind was by Sir Toby Bridges. "Oh!" says he, "there is a very
      good man. If you must reform
    </p>
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     [Reform, i.e.  disband.  See "Memoirs of Sir John Reresby,"
     September 2nd, 1651.  "A great many younger brothers and reformed
     officers of the King's army depended upon him for their meat and
     drink."  So reformado, a discharged or disbanded officer.&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      two of them, be sure let him command the troop that is left." Thence home,
      and there came presently to me Mr. Young and Whistler, who find that I
      have quite overcome them in their business of flags, and now they come to
      intreat my favour, but I will be even with them. So late to my office and
      there till past one in the morning making up my month's accounts, and find
      that my expense this month in clothes has kept me from laying up anything;
      but I am no worse, but a little better than I was, which is L1205, a great
      sum, the Lord be praised for it! So home to bed, with my mind full of
      content therein, and vexed for my being so angry in bad words to my wife
      to-night, she not giving me a good account of her layings out to my mind
      to-night. This day I hear young Mr. Stanly, a brave young [gentleman],
      that went out with young Jermin, with Prince Rupert, is already dead of
      the small-pox, at Portsmouth. All preparations against the Dutch; and the
      Duke of Yorke fitting himself with all speed, to go to the fleete which is
      hastening for him; being now resolved to go in the Charles.
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      NOVEMBER 1664
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    <p>
      November 1st. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, at noon
      (my wife being invited to my Lady Sandwich's) all alone dined at home upon
      a good goose with Mr. Wayth, discussing of business. Thence I to the
      Committee of the Fishery, and there we sat with several good discourses
      and some bad and simple ones, and with great disorder, and yet by the men
      of businesse of the towne. But my report in the business of the
      collections is mightily commended and will get me some reputation, and
      indeed is the only thing looks like a thing well done since we sat. Then
      with Mr. Parham to the tavern, but I drank no wine, only he did give me
      another barrel of oysters, and he brought one Major Greene, an able
      fishmonger, and good discourse to my information. So home and late at
      business at my office. Then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up betimes, and down with Mr. Castle to Redriffe, and there walked to
      Deptford to view a parcel of brave knees&mdash;[Knees of timber]&mdash;of
      his, which indeed are very good, and so back again home, I seeming very
      friendly to him, though I know him to be a rogue, and one that hates me
      with his heart. Home and to dinner, and so to my office all the afternoon,
      where in some pain in my backe, which troubled me, but I think it comes
      only with stooping, and from no other matter. At night to Nellson's, and
      up and down about business, and so home to my office, then home to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up and to the office, where strange to see how Sir W. Pen is flocked
      to by people of all sorts against his going to sea. At the office did much
      business, among other an end of that that has troubled me long, the
      business of the bewpers and flags. At noon to the 'Change, and thence by
      appointment was met with Bagwell's wife, and she followed me into
      Moorfields, and there into a drinking house, and all alone eat and drank
      together. I did there caress her, but though I did make some offer did not
      receive any compliance from her in what was bad, but very modestly she
      denied me, which I was glad to see and shall value her the better for it,
      and I hope never tempt her to any evil more. Thence back to the town, and
      we parted and I home, and then at the office late, where Sir W. Pen came
      to take his leave of me, being to-morrow, which is very sudden to us, to
      go on board to lie on board, but I think will come ashore again before the
      ship, the Charles,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The Royal Charles" was the Duke of York's ship, and Sir William
     Penn, who hoisted his flag in the "Royal James" on November 8th,
     shifted to the "Royal Charles" on November 30th.  The duke gave Penn
     the command of the fleet immediately under himself.  On Penn's
     monument he is styled "Great Captain Commander under His Royal
     Highness" (Penn's "Memorials of Sir William Penn," vol. ii.,
     p. 296).]
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    <p>
      can go away. So home to supper and to bed. This night Sir W. Batten did,
      among other things, tell me strange newes, which troubles me, that my Lord
      Sandwich will be sent Governor to Tangier, which, in some respects,
      indeed, I should be glad of, for the good of the place and the safety of
      his person; but I think his honour will suffer, and, it may be, his
      interest fail by his distance.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Waked very betimes and lay long awake, my mind being so full of
      business. Then up and to St. James's, where I find Mr. Coventry full of
      business, packing up for his going to sea with the Duke. Walked with him,
      talking, to White Hall, where to the Duke's lodgings, who is gone thither
      to lodge lately. I appeared to the Duke, and thence Mr. Coventry and I an
      hour in the Long Gallery, talking about the management of our office, he
      tells me the weight of dispatch will lie chiefly on me, and told me freely
      his mind touching Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, the latter of whom, he
      most aptly said, was like a lapwing; that all he did was to keepe a
      flutter, to keepe others from the nest that they would find. He told me an
      old story of the former about the light-houses, how just before he had
      certified to the Duke against the use of them, and what a burden they are
      to trade, and presently after, at his being at Harwich, comes to desire
      that he might have the setting one up there, and gets the usefulness of it
      certified also by the Trinity House. After long discoursing and
      considering all our stores and other things, as how the King hath resolved
      upon Captain Taylor
    </p>
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     [Coventry, writing to Secretary Bennet (November 14th, 1664), refers
     to the objections made to Taylor, and adds: "Thinks the King will
     not easily consent to his rejection, as he is a man of great
     abilities and dispatch, and was formerly laid aside at Chatham on
     the Duchess of Albemarle's earnest interposition for another.  He is
     a fanatic, it is true, but all hands will be needed for the work cut
     out; there is less danger of them in harbour than at sea, and profit
     will convert most of them" ("Calendar of State Papers," Domestic,
     1664-65, p. 68).]
</pre>
    <p>
      and Colonell Middleton, the first to be Commissioner for Harwich and the
      latter for Portsmouth, I away to the 'Change, and there did very much
      business, so home to dinner, and Mr. Duke, our Secretary for the Fishery,
      dined with me. After dinner to discourse of our business, much to my
      content, and then he away, and I by water among the smiths on the other
      side, and to the alehouse with one and was near buying 4 or 5 anchors, and
      learned something worth my knowing of them, and so home and to my office,
      where late, with my head very full of business, and so away home to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, at noon to the 'Change,
      and thence home to dinner, and so with my wife to the Duke's house to a
      play, "Macbeth," a pretty good play, but admirably acted. Thence home; the
      coach being forced to go round by London Wall home, because of the
      bonefires; the day being mightily observed in the City. To my office late
      at business, and then home to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). Up and with my wife to church. Dined at home. And I all
      the afternoon close at my office drawing up some proposals to present to
      the Committee for the Fishery to-morrow, having a great good intention to
      be serviceable in the business if I can. At night, to supper with my uncle
      Wight, where very merry, and so home. To prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, where mighty thrusting about
      the Duke now upon his going. We were with him long. He advised us to
      follow our business close, and to be directed in his absence by the
      Committee of the Councell for the Navy. By and by a meeting of the
      Fishery, where the Duke was, but in such haste, and things looked so
      superficially over, that I had not a fit opportunity to propose my paper
      that I wrote yesterday, but I had chewed it to Mr. Gray and Wren before,
      who did like it most highly, as they said, and I think they would not
      dissemble in that manner in a business of this nature, but I see the
      greatest businesses are done so superficially that I wonder anything
      succeeds at all among us, that is publique. Thence somewhat vexed to see
      myself frustrated in the good I hoped to have done and a little reputation
      to have gained, and thence to my barber's, but Jane not being in the way I
      to my Lady Sandwich's, and there met my wife and dined, but I find that I
      dine as well myself, that is, as neatly, and my meat as good and
      well-dressed, as my good Lady do, in the absence of my Lord. Thence by
      water I to my barber's again, and did meet in the street my Jane, but
      could not talk with her, but only a word or two, and so by coach called my
      wife, and home, where at my office late, and then, it being washing day,
      to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and to the office, where by and by Mr. Coventry come, and after
      doing a little business, took his leave of us, being to go to sea with the
      Duke to-morrow. At noon, I and Sir J. Minnes and Lord Barkeley (who with
      Sir J. Duncum, and Mr. Chichly, are made Masters of the Ordnance), to the
      office of the Ordnance, to discourse about wadding for guns. Thence to
      dinner, all of us to the Lieutenant's of the Tower; where a good dinner,
      but disturbed in the middle of it by the King's coming into the Tower: and
      so we broke up, and to him, and went up and down the store-houses and
      magazines; which are, with the addition of the new great store-house, a
      noble sight. He gone, I to my office, where Bagwell's wife staid for me,
      and together with her a good while, to meet again shortly. So all the
      afternoon at my office till late, and then to bed, joyed in my love and
      ability to follow my business. This day, Mr. Lever sent my wife a pair of
      silver candlesticks, very pretty ones. The first man that ever presented
      me, to whom I have not only done little service, but apparently did him
      the greatest disservice in his business of accounts, as Purser-Generall,
      of any man at the board.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Called up, as I had appointed, by H. Russell, between two and three
      o'clock, and I and my boy Tom by water with a gally down to the Hope, it
      being a fine starry night. Got thither by eight o'clock, and there, as
      expected, found the Charles, her mainmast setting. Commissioner Pett
      aboard. I up and down to see the ship I was so well acquainted with, and a
      great worke it is, the setting so great a mast. Thence the Commissioner
      and I on board Sir G. Ascue, in the Henery, who lacks men mightily, which
      makes me think that there is more believed to be in a man that hath
      heretofore been employed than truly there is; for one would never have
      thought, a month ago, that he would have wanted 1000 men at his heels. Nor
      do I think he hath much of a seaman in him: for he told me, says he,
      "Heretofore, we used to find our ships clear and ready, everything to our
      hands in the Downes. Now I come, and must look to see things done like a
      slave, things that I never minded, nor cannot look after." And by his
      discourse I find that he hath not minded anything in her at all. Thence
      not staying, the wind blowing hard, I made use of the Jemmy yacht and
      returned to the Tower in her, my boy being a very droll boy and good
      company. Home and eat something, and then shifted myself, and to White
      Hall, and there the King being in his Cabinet Council (I desiring to speak
      with Sir G. Carteret), I was called in, and demanded by the King himself
      many questions, to which I did give him full answers. There were at this
      Council my Lord Chancellor, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Treasurer, the
      two Secretarys, and Sir G. Carteret. Not a little contented at this chance
      of being made known to these persons, and called often by my name by the
      King, I to Mr. Pierces to take leave of him, but he not within, but saw
      her and made very little stay, but straight home to my office, where I did
      business, and then to supper and to bed. The Duke of York is this day gone
      away to Portsmouth.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and not finding my things ready, I was so angry with Besse as to
      bid my wife for good and all to bid her provide herself a place, for
      though she be very good-natured, she hath no care nor memory of her
      business at all. So to the office, where vexed at the malice of Sir W.
      Batten and folly of Sir J. Minnes against Sir W. Warren, but I prevented,
      and shall do, though to my own disquiet and trouble. At noon dined with
      Sir W. Batten and the Auditors of the Exchequer at the Dolphin by Mr.
      Wayth's desire, and after dinner fell to business relating to Sir G.
      Carteret's account, and so home to the office, where Sir W. Batten begins,
      too fast, to shew his knavish tricks in giving what price he pleases for
      commodities. So abroad, intending to have spoke with my Lord Chancellor
      about the old business of his wood at Clarendon, but could not, and so
      home again, and late at my office, and then home to supper and bed. My
      little girle Susan is fallen sicke of the meazles, we fear, or, at least,
      of a scarlett feavour.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten to the Council Chamber
      at White Hall, to the Committee of the Lords for the Navy, where we were
      made to wait an houre or two before called in. In that time looking upon
      some books of heraldry of Sir Edward Walker's making, which are very fine,
      there I observed the Duke of Monmouth's armes are neatly done, and his
      title, "The most noble and high-born Prince, James Scott, Duke of
      Monmouth, &amp;c.;" nor could Sir J. Minnes, nor any body there, tell
      whence he should take the name of Scott? And then I found my Lord
      Sandwich, his title under his armes is, "The most noble and mighty Lord,
      Edward, Earl of Sandwich, &amp;c." Sir Edward Walker afterwards coming in,
      in discourse did say that there was none of the families of princes in
      Christendom that do derive themselves so high as Julius Caesar, nor so far
      by 1000 years, that can directly prove their rise; only some in Germany do
      derive themselves from the patrician familys of Rome, but that
      uncertainly; and, among other things, did much inveigh against the writing
      of romances, that 500 years hence being wrote of matters in general, true
      as the romance of Cleopatra, the world will not know which is the true and
      which the false. Here was a gentleman attending here that told us he saw
      the other day (and did bring the draught of it to Sir Francis Prigeon) of
      a monster born of an hostler's wife at Salisbury, two women children
      perfectly made, joyned at the lower part of their bellies, and every part
      perfect as two bodies, and only one payre of legs coming forth on one side
      from the middle where they were joined. It was alive 24 hours, and cried
      and did as all hopefull children do; but, being showed too much to people,
      was killed. By and by we were called in, where a great many lords: Annesly
      in the chair. But, Lord! to see what work they will make us, and what
      trouble we shall have to inform men in a business they are to begin to
      know, when the greatest of our hurry is, is a thing to be lamented; and I
      fear the consequence will be bad to us. Thence I by coach to the 'Change,
      and thence home to dinner, my head akeing mightily with much business. Our
      little girl better than she was yesterday. After dinner out again by coach
      to my Lord Chancellor's, but could not speak with him, then up and down to
      seek Sir Ph. Warwicke, Sir G. Carteret, and my Lord Berkely, but failed in
      all, and so home and there late at business. Among other things Mr. Turner
      making his complaint to me how my clerks do all the worke and get all the
      profit, and he hath no comfort, nor cannot subsist, I did make him
      apprehend how he is beholding to me more than to any body for my suffering
      him to act as Pourveyour of petty provisions, and told him so largely my
      little value of any body's favour, that I believe he will make no
      complaints again a good while. So home to supper and to bed, after
      prayers, and having my boy and Mercer give me some, each of them some,
      musique.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, being frighted that Mr. Coventry was come to towne and now at
      the office, so I run down without eating or drinking or washing to the
      office and it proved my Lord Berkeley. There all the morning, at noon to
      the 'Change, and so home to dinner, Mr. Wayth with me, and then to the
      office, where mighty busy till very late, but I bless God I go through
      with it very well and hope I shall.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day). This morning to church, where mighty sport, to hear our
      clerke sing out of tune, though his master sits by him that begins and
      keeps the tune aloud for the parish. Dined at home very well, and spent
      all the afternoon with my wife within doors, and getting a speech out of
      Hamlett, "To bee or not to bee,"' without book. In the evening to sing
      psalms, and in come Mr. Hill to see me, and then he and I and the boy
      finely to sing, and so anon broke up after much pleasure, he gone I to
      supper, and so prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, to the Lords of the
      Admiralty, and there did our business betimes. Thence to Sir Philip
      Warwicke about Navy business: and my Lord Ashly; and afterwards to my Lord
      Chancellor, who is very well pleased with me, and my carrying of his
      business. And so to the 'Change, where mighty busy; and so home to dinner,
      where Mr. Creed and Moore: and after dinner I to my Lord Treasurer's, to
      Sir Philip Warwicke there, and then to White Hall, to the Duke of
      Albemarle, about Tangier; and then homeward to the Coffee-house to hear
      newes. And it seems the Dutch, as I afterwards found by Mr. Coventry's
      letters, have stopped a ship of masts of Sir W. Warren's, coming for us in
      a Swede's ship, which they will not release upon Sir G. Downing's claiming
      her: which appears as the first act of hostility; and is looked upon as so
      by Mr. Coventry. The Elias,' coming from New England (Captain Hill,
      commander), is sunk; only the captain and a few men saved. She foundered
      in the sea. So home, where infinite busy till 12 at night, and so home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. That I might not be too fine for the business I intend this day, I
      did leave off my fine new cloth suit lined with plush and put on my poor
      black suit, and after office done (where much business, but little done),
      I to the 'Change, and thence Bagwell's wife with much ado followed me
      through Moorfields to a blind alehouse, and there I did caress her and eat
      and drink, and many hard looks and sooth the poor wretch did give me, and
      I think verily was troubled at what I did, but at last after many
      protestings by degrees I did arrive at what I would, with great pleasure,
      and then in the evening, it raining, walked into town to where she knew
      where she was, and then I took coach and to White Hall to a Committee of
      Tangier, where, and every where else, I thank God, I find myself growing
      in repute; and so home, and late, very late, at business, nobody minding
      it but myself, and so home to bed, weary and full of thoughts. Businesses
      grow high between the Dutch and us on every side.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. My wife not being well, waked in the night, and strange to see how
      dead sleep our people sleep that she was fain to ring an hour before any
      body would wake. At last one rose and helped my wife, and so to sleep
      again. Up and to my business, and then to White Hall, there to attend the
      Lords Commissioners, and so directly home and dined with Sir W. Batten and
      my Lady, and after dinner had much discourse tending to profit with Sir W.
      Batten, how to get ourselves into the prize office
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Calendars of State Papers are full of references to
     applications for Commissionerships of the Prize Office.  In
     December, 1664, the Navy Committee appointed themselves the
     Commissioners for Prize Goods, Sir Henry Bennet being appointed
     comptroller, and Lord Ashley treasurer.]
</pre>
    <p>
      or some other fair way of obliging the King to consider us in our
      extraordinary pains. Then to the office, and there all the afternoon very
      busy, and so till past 12 at night, and so home to bed. This day my wife
      went to the burial of a little boy of W. Joyce's.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and to my office, and there all the morning mighty busy, and
      taking upon me to tell the Comptroller how ill his matters were done, and
      I think indeed if I continue thus all the business of the office will come
      upon me whether I will or no. At noon to the 'Change, and then home with
      Creed to dinner, and thence I to the office, where close at it all the
      afternoon till 12 at night, and then home to supper and to bed. This day I
      received from Mr. Foley, but for me to pay for it, if I like it, an iron
      chest, having now received back some money I had laid out for the King,
      and I hope to have a good sum of money by me, thereby, in a few days, I
      think above L800. But when I come home at night, I could not find the way
      to open it; but, which is a strange thing, my little girle Susan could
      carry it alone from one table clear from the ground and set upon another,
      when neither I nor anyone in my house but Jane the cook-mayde could do it.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and to the office, and thence to the Committee of the Fishery at
      White Hall, where so poor simple doings about the business of the Lottery,
      that I was ashamed to see it, that a thing so low and base should have any
      thing to do with so noble an undertaking. But I had the advantage this day
      to hear Mr. Williamson discourse, who come to be a contractor with others
      for the Lotterys, and indeed I find he is a very logicall man and a good
      speaker. But it was so pleasant to see my Lord Craven, the chaireman,
      before many persons of worth and grave, use this comparison in saying that
      certainly these that would contract for all the lotteries would not suffer
      us to set up the Virginia lottery for plate before them, "For," says he,
      "if I occupy a wench first, you may occupy her again your heart out you
      can never have her maidenhead after I have once had it," which he did more
      loosely, and yet as if he had fetched a most grave and worthy instance.
      They made mirth, but I and others were ashamed of it. Thence to the
      'Change and thence home to dinner, and thence to the office a good while,
      and thence to the Council chamber at White Hall to speake with Sir G.
      Carteret, and here by accident heard a great and famous cause between Sir
      G. Lane and one Mr. Phill. Whore, an Irish business about Sir G. Lane's
      endeavouring to reverse a decree of the late Commissioners of Ireland in a
      Rebells case for his land, which the King had given as forfeited to Sir G.
      Lane, for whom the Sollicitor did argue most angell like, and one of the
      Commissioners, Baron, did argue for the other and for himself and his
      brethren who had decreed it. But the Sollicitor do so pay the
      Commissioners, how four all along did act for the Papists, and three only
      for the Protestants, by which they were overvoted, but at last one word
      (which was omitted in the Sollicitor's repeating of an Act of Parliament
      in the case) being insisted on by the other part, the Sollicitor was put
      to a great stop, and I could discern he could not tell what to say, but
      was quite out. Thence home well pleased with this accident, and so home to
      my office, where late, and then to supper and to bed. This day I had a
      letter from Mr. Coventry, that tells me that my Lord Brunkard is to be one
      of our Commissioners, of which I am very glad, if any more must be.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. All the morning at the office, and without dinner down by galley up
      and down the river to visit the yards and ships now ordered forth with
      great delight, and so home to supper, and then to office late to write
      letters, then home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, where Pegg Pen very
      fine in her new coloured silk suit laced with silver lace. Dined at home,
      and Mr. Sheply, lately come to town, with me. A great deal of ordinary
      discourse with him. Among other things praying him to speak to Stankes to
      look after our business. With him and in private with Mr. Bodham talking
      of our ropeyarde stores at Woolwich, which are mighty low, even to
      admiration. They gone, in the evening comes Mr. Andrews and sings with us,
      and he gone, I to Sir W. Batten's, where Sir J. Minnes and he and I to
      talk about our letter to my Lord Treasurer, where his folly and simple
      confidence so great in a report so ridiculous that he hath drawn up to
      present to my Lord, nothing of it being true, that I was ashamed, and did
      roundly and in many words for an houre together talk boldly to him, which
      pleased Sir W. Batten and my Lady, but I was in the right, and was the
      willinger to do so before them, that they might see that I am somebody,
      and shall serve him so in his way another time. So home vexed at this
      night's passage, for I had been very hot with him, so to supper and to
      bed, out of order with this night's vexation.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and with them to the Lords at White Hall, where they do single
      me out to speake to and to hear, much to my content, and received their
      commands, particularly in several businesses. Thence by their order to the
      Attorney General's about a new warrant for Captain Taylor which I shall
      carry for him to be Commissioner in spite of Sir W. Batten, and yet indeed
      it is not I, but the ability of the man, that makes the Duke and Mr.
      Coventry stand by their choice. I to the 'Change and there staid long
      doing business, and this day for certain newes is come that Teddiman hath
      brought in eighteen or twenty Dutchmen, merchants, their Bourdeaux fleete,
      and two men of wary to Portsmouth.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Captain Sir Thomas Teddiman (or Tyddiman) had been appointed
     Rear-Admiral of Lord Sandwich's squadron of the English fleet.  In a
     letter from Sir William Coventry to Secretary Bennet, dated November
     13th, 1664, we read, "Rear Admiral Teddeman with four or five ships
     has gone to course in the Channel, and if he meet any refractory
     Dutchmen will teach them their duty" ("Calendar of State Papers,"
     Domestic, 1664.-65, p. 66).]
</pre>
    <p>
      And I had letters this afternoon, that three are brought into the Downes
      and Dover; so that the warr is begun: God give a good end to it! After
      dinner at home all the afternoon busy, and at night with Sir W. Batten and
      Sir J. Minnes looking over the business of stating the accounts of the
      navy charge to my Lord Treasurer, where Sir J. Minnes's paper served us in
      no stead almost, but was all false, and after I had done it with great
      pains, he being by, I am confident he understands not one word in it. At
      it till 10 at night almost. Thence by coach to Sir Philip Warwicke's, by
      his desire to have conferred with him, but he being in bed, I to White
      Hall to the Secretaries, and there wrote to Mr. Coventry, and so home by
      coach again, a fine clear moonshine night, but very cold. Home to my
      office awhile, it being past 12 at night; and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. At the office all the morning. Sir G. Carteret, upon a motion of Sir
      W. Batten's, did promise, if we would write a letter to him, to shew it to
      the King on our behalf touching our desire of being Commissioners of the
      Prize office. I wrote a letter to my mind and, after eating a bit at home
      (Mr. Sheply dining and taking his leave of me), abroad and to Sir G.
      Carteret with the letter and thence to my Lord Treasurer's; wherewith Sir
      Philip Warwicke long studying all we could to make the last year swell as
      high as we could. And it is much to see how he do study for the King, to
      do it to get all the money from the Parliament all he can: and I shall be
      serviceable to him therein, to help him to heads upon which to enlarge the
      report of the expense. He did observe to me how obedient this Parliament
      was for awhile, and the last sitting how they begun to differ, and to carp
      at the King's officers; and what they will do now, he says, is to make
      agreement for the money, for there is no guess to be made of it. He told
      me he was prepared to convince the Parliament that the Subsidys are a most
      ridiculous tax (the four last not rising to L40,000), and unequall. He
      talks of a tax of Assessment of L70,000 for five years; the people to be
      secured that it shall continue no longer than there is really a warr; and
      the charges thereof to be paid. He told me, that one year of the late
      Dutch warr cost L1,623,000. Thence to my Lord Chancellor's, and there
      staid long with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, to speak with my lord
      about our Prize Office business; but, being sicke and full of visitants,
      we could not speak with him, and so away home. Where Sir Richard Ford did
      meet us with letters from Holland this day, that it is likely the Dutch
      fleete will not come out this year; they have not victuals to keep them
      out, and it is likely they will be frozen before they can get back.
      Captain Cocke is made Steward for sick and wounded seamen. So home to
      supper, where troubled to hear my poor boy Tom has a fit of the stone, or
      some other pain like it. I must consult Mr. Holliard for him. So at one in
      the morning home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up and to my office, where close all the morning about my Lord
      Treasurer's accounts, and at noon home to dinner, and then to the office
      all the afternoon very busy till very late at night, and then to supper
      and to bed. This evening Mr. Hollyard came to me and told me that he hath
      searched my boy, and he finds he hath a stone in his bladder, which
      grieves me to the heart, he being a good-natured and well-disposed boy,
      and more that it should be my misfortune to have him come to my house. Sir
      G. Carteret was here this afternoon; and strange to see how we plot to
      make the charge of this warr to appear greater than it is, because of
      getting money.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up and to the office, where all the morning busy answering of
      people. About noon out with Commissioner Pett, and he and I to a
      Coffee-house, to drink jocolatte, very good; and so by coach to
      Westminster, being the first day of the Parliament's meeting. After the
      House had received the King's speech, and what more he had to say,
      delivered in writing, the Chancellor being sicke, it rose, and I with Sir
      Philip Warwicke home and conferred our matters about the charge of the
      Navy, and have more to give him in the excessive charge of this year's
      expense. I dined with him, and Mr. Povy with us and Sir Edmund Pooly, a
      fine gentleman, and Mr. Chichly, and fine discourse we had and fine talke,
      being proud to see myself accepted in such company and thought better than
      I am. After dinner Sir Philip and I to talk again, and then away home to
      the office, where sat late; beginning our sittings now in the afternoon,
      because of the Parliament; and they being rose, I to my office, where late
      till almost one o'clock, and then home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up and at my office all the morning, to prepare an account of the
      charge we have been put to extraordinary by the Dutch already; and I have
      brought it to appear L852,700; but God knows this is only a scare to the
      Parliament, to make them give the more money. Thence to the Parliament
      House, and there did give it to Sir Philip Warwicke; the House being hot
      upon giving the King a supply of money, and I by coach to the 'Change and
      took up Mr. Jenings along with me (my old acquaintance), he telling me the
      mean manner that Sir Samuel Morland lives near him, in a house he hath
      bought and laid out money upon, in all to the value of L1200, but is
      believed to be a beggar; and so I ever thought he would be. From the
      'Change with Mr. Deering and Luellin to the White Horse tavern in Lombard
      Street, and there dined with them, he giving me a dish of meat to
      discourse in order to my serving Deering, which I am already obliged to
      do, and shall do it, and would be glad he were a man trusty that I might
      venture something along with him. Thence home, and by and by in the
      evening took my wife out by coach, leaving her at Unthanke's while I to
      White Hall and to Westminster Hall, where I have not been to talk a great
      while, and there hear that Mrs. Lane and her husband live a sad life
      together, and he is gone to be a paymaster to a company to Portsmouth to
      serve at sea. She big with child. Thence I home, calling my wife, and at
      Sir W. Batten's hear that the House have given the King L2,500,000 to be
      paid for this warr, only for the Navy, in three years' time; which is a
      joyfull thing to all the King's party I see, but was much opposed by Mr.
      Vaughan and others, that it should be so much. So home and to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning. Home a while to
      dinner and then to the office, where very late busy till quite weary, but
      contented well with my dispatch of business, and so home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Lord's day). To church in the morning, then dined at home, and to my
      office, and there all the afternoon setting right my business of flaggs,
      and after all my pains find reason not to be sorry, because I think it
      will bring me considerable profit. In the evening come Mr. Andrews and
      Hill, and we sung, with my boy, Ravenscroft's 4-part psalms, most
      admirable musique. Then (Andrews not staying) we to supper, and after
      supper fell into the rarest discourse with Mr. Hill about Rome and Italy;
      but most pleasant that I ever had in my life. At it very late and then to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and W. Batten to White Hall, but no
      Committee of Lords (which is like to do the King's business well). So to
      Westminster, and there to Jervas's and was a little while with Jane, and
      so to London by coach and to the Coffee-house, where certain news of our
      peace made by Captain Allen with Argier, which is good news; and that the
      Dutch have sent part of their fleete round by Scotland; and resolve to pay
      off the rest half-pay, promising the rest in the Spring, hereby keeping
      their men. But how true this, I know not. Home to dinner, then come Dr.
      Clerke to speak with me about sick and wounded men, wherein he is like to
      be concerned. After him Mr. Cutler, and much talk with him, and with him
      to White Hall, to have waited on the Lords by order, but no meeting,
      neither to-night, which will spoil all. I think I shall get something by
      my discourse with Cutler. So home, and after being at my office an hour
      with Mr. Povy talking about his business of Tangier, getting him some
      money allowed him for freight of ships, wherein I hope to get something
      too. He gone, home hungry and almost sick for want of eating, and so to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to the Committee of Lords at the Council
      Chamber, where Sir G. Carteret told us what he had said to the King, and
      how the King inclines to our request of making us Commissioners of the
      Prize office, but meeting him anon in the gallery, he tells me that my
      Lord Barkely is angry we should not acquaint him with it, so I found out
      my Lord and pacified him, but I know not whether he was so in earnest or
      no, for he looked very frowardly. Thence to the Parliament House, and with
      Sir W. Batten home and dined with him, my wife being gone to my Lady
      Sandwich's, and then to the office, where we sat all the afternoon, and I
      at my office till past 12 at night, and so home to bed. This day I hear
      that the King should say that the Dutch do begin to comply with him. Sir
      John Robinson told Sir W. Batten that he heard the King say so. I pray God
      it may be so.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes to the Committee of the
      Lords, and there did our business; but, Lord! what a sorry dispatch these
      great persons give to business. Thence to the 'Change, and there hear the
      certainty and circumstances of the Dutch having called in their fleete and
      paid their men half-pay, the other to be paid them upon their being ready
      upon beat of drum to come to serve them again, and in the meantime to have
      half-pay. This is said. Thence home to dinner, and so to my office all the
      afternoon. In the evening my wife and Sir W. Warren with me to White Hall,
      sending her with the coach to see her father and mother. He and I up to
      Sir G. Carteret, and first I alone and then both had discourse with him
      about things of the Navy, and so I and he calling my wife at Unthanke's,
      home again, and long together talking how to order things in a new
      contract for Norway goods, as well to the King's as to his advantage. He
      gone, I to my monthly accounts, and, bless God! I find I have increased my
      last balance, though but little; but I hope ere long to get more. In the
      meantime praise God for what I have, which is L1209. So, with my heart
      glad to see my accounts fall so right in this time of mixing of monies and
      confusion, I home to bed.
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    <p>
      December 1st. Up betimes and to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, and
      so straight home and hard to my business at my office till noon, then to
      dinner, and so to my office, and by and by we sat all the afternoon, then
      to my office again till past one in the morning, and so home to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Lay long in bed. Then up and to the office, where busy all the
      morning. At home dined. After dinner with my wife and Mercer to the Duke's
      House, and there saw "The Rivalls," which I had seen before; but the play
      not good, nor anything but the good actings of Betterton and his wife and
      Harris. Thence homeward, and the coach broke with us in Lincoln's Inn
      Fields, and so walked to Fleete Streete, and there took coach and home,
      and to my office, whither by and by comes Captain Cocke, and then Sir W.
      Batten, and we all to Sir J. Minnes, and I did give them a barrel of
      oysters I had given to me, and so there sat and talked, where good
      discourse of the late troubles, they knowing things, all of them, very
      well; and Cocke, from the King's own mouth, being then entrusted himself
      much, do know particularly that the King's credulity to Cromwell's
      promises, private to him, against the advice of his friends and the
      certain discovery of the practices and discourses of Cromwell in council
      (by Major Huntington)
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [According to Clarendon the officer here alluded to was a major in
     Cromwell's own regiment of horse, and employed by him to treat with
     Charles I. whilst at Hampton Court; but being convinced of the
     insincerity of the proceeding, communicated his suspicions to that
     monarch, and immediately gave up his commission.  We hear no more of
     Huntington till the Restoration, when his name occurs with those of
     many other officers, who tendered their services to the king.  His
     reasons for laying down his commission are printed in Thurloe's
     "State Papers" and Maseres's "Tracts."&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      did take away his life and nothing else. Then to some loose atheisticall
      discourse of Cocke's, when he was almost drunk, and then about 11 o'clock
      broke up, and I to my office, to fit up an account for Povy, wherein I
      hope to get something. At it till almost two o'clock, then to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and at the office all the morning, and at noon to Mr. Cutler's,
      and there dined with Sir W. Rider and him, and thence Sir W. Rider and I
      by coach to White Hall to a Committee of the Fishery; there only to hear
      Sir Edward Ford's proposal about farthings, wherein, O God! to see almost
      every body interested for him; only my Lord Annesly, who is a grave,
      serious man. My Lord Barkeley was there, but is the most hot, fiery man in
      discourse, without any cause, that ever I saw, even to breach of civility
      to my Lord Anglesey, in his discourse opposing to my Lord's. At last,
      though without much satisfaction to me, it was voted that it should be
      requested of the King, and that Sir Edward Ford's proposal is the best yet
      made. Thence by coach home. The Duke of Yorke being expected to-night with
      great joy from Portsmouth, after his having been abroad at sea three or
      four days with the fleete; and the Dutch are all drawn into their
      harbours. But it seems like a victory: and a matter of some reputation to
      us it is, and blemish to them; but in no degree like what it is esteemed
      at, the weather requiring them to do so. Home and at my office late, and
      then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, and then up and to my office, there to
      dispatch a business in order to the getting something out of the Tangier
      business, wherein I have an opportunity to get myself paid upon the score
      of freight. I hope a good sum. At noon home to dinner, and then in the
      afternoon to church. So home, and by and by comes Mr. Hill and Andrews,
      and sung together long and with great content. Then to supper and broke
      up. Pretty discourse, very pleasant and ingenious, and so to my office a
      little, and then home (after prayers) to bed. This day I hear the Duke of
      Yorke is come to towne, though expected last night, as I observed, but by
      what hindrance stopped I can't tell.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes; and there, among an
      infinite crowd of great persons, did kiss the Duke's hand; but had no time
      to discourse. Thence up and down the gallery, and got my Lord of
      Albemarle's hand to my bill for Povy, but afterwards was asked some scurvy
      questions by Povy about my demands, which troubled [me], but will do no
      great hurt I think. Thence vexed home, and there by appointment comes my
      cozen Roger Pepys and Mrs. Turner, and dined with me, and very merry we
      were. They staid all the afternoon till night, and then after I had
      discoursed an hour with Sir W. Warren plainly declaring my resolution to
      desert him if he goes on to join with Castle, who and his family I, for
      great provocation, love not, which he takes with some trouble, but will
      concur in everything with me, he says. Now I am loth, I confess, to lose
      him, he having been the best friend I have had ever in this office. So he
      being gone, we all, it being night, in Madam Turner's coach to her house,
      there to see, as she tells us, how fat Mrs. The. is grown, and so I find
      her, but not as I expected, but mightily pleased I am to hear the mother
      commend her daughter Betty that she is like to be a great beauty, and she
      sets much by her. Thence I to White Hall, and there saw Mr. Coventry come
      to towne, and, with all my heart, am glad to see him, but could have no
      talke with him, he being but just come. Thence back and took up my wife,
      and home, where a while, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and in Sir W. Batten's coach to White Hall, but the Duke being
      gone forth, I to Westminster Hall, and there spent much time till towards
      noon to and fro with people. So by and by Mrs. Lane comes and plucks me by
      the cloak to speak to me, and I was fain to go to her shop, and pretending
      to buy some bands made her go home, and by and by followed her, and there
      did what I would with her, and so after many discourses and her intreating
      me to do something for her husband, which I promised to do, and buying a
      little band of her, which I intend to keep to, I took leave, there coming
      a couple of footboys to her with a coach to fetch her abroad I know not to
      whom. She is great with child, and she says I must be godfather, but I do
      not intend it. Thence by coach to the Old Exchange, and there hear that
      the Dutch are fitting their ships out again, which puts us to new
      discourse, and to alter our thoughts of the Dutch, as to their want of
      courage or force. Thence by appointment to the White Horse Taverne in
      Lumbard Streete, and there dined with my Lord Rutherford, Povy, Mr.
      Gauden, Creed, and others, and very merry, and after dinner among other
      things Povy and I withdrew, and I plainly told him that I was concerned in
      profit, but very justly, in this business of the Bill that I have been
      these two or three days about, and he consents to it, and it shall be
      paid. He tells me how he believes, and in part knows, Creed to be worth
      L10,000; nay, that now and then he [Povy] hath three or L4,000 in his
      hands, for which he gives the interest that the King gives, which is ten
      per cent., and that Creed do come and demand it every three months the
      interest to be paid him, which Povy looks upon as a cunning and mean
      tricke of him; but for all that, he will do and is very rich. Thence to
      the office, where we sat and where Mr. Coventry came the first time after
      his return from sea, which I was glad of. So after office to my office,
      and then home to supper, and to my office again, and then late home to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Lay long, then up, and among others Bagwell's wife coming to speak
      with me put new thoughts of folly into me which I am troubled at. Thence
      after doing business at my office, I by coach to my Lady Sandwich's, and
      there dined with her, and found all well and merry. Thence to White Hall,
      and we waited on the Duke, who looks better than he did, methinks, before
      his voyage; and, I think, a little more stern than he used to do. Thence
      to the Temple to my cozen Roger Pepys, thinking to have met the Doctor to
      have discoursed our business, but he came not, so I home, and there by
      agreement came my Lord Rutherford, Povy, Gauden, Creed, Alderman
      Backewell, about Tangier business of accounts between Rutherford and
      Gauden. Here they were with me an hour or more, then after drinking away,
      and Povy and Creed staid and eat with me; but I was sorry I had no better
      cheer for Povy; for the foole may be useful, and is a cunning fellow in
      his way, which is a strange one, and that, that I meet not in any other
      man, nor can describe in him. They late with me, and when gone my boy and
      I to musique, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and to my office, where all the morning busy. At noon dined at
      home, and then to the office, where we sat all the afternoon. In the
      evening comes my aunt and uncle Wight, Mrs. Norbury, and her daughter, and
      after them Mr. Norbury, where no great pleasure, my aunt being out of
      humour in her fine clothes, and it raining hard. Besides, I was a little
      too bold with her about her doating on Dr. Venner. Anon they went away,
      and I till past 12 at night at my office, and then home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up betimes and walked to Mr. Povy's, and there, not without some few
      troublesome questions of his, I got a note, and went and received L117 5s.
      of Alderman Viner upon my pretended freight of the "William" for Tangier,
      which overbears me on one side with joy and on the other to think of my
      condition if I shall be called into examination about it, and (though in
      strictness it is due) not be able to give a good account of it. Home with
      it, and there comes Captain Taylor to me, and he and I did set even the
      business of the ship Union lately gone for Tangier, wherein I hope to get
      L50 more, for all which the Lord be praised. At noon home to dinner, Mr.
      Hunt and his wife with us, and very pleasant. Then in the afternoon I
      carried them home by coach, and I to Westminster Hall, and thence to
      Gervas's, and there find I cannot prevail with Jane to go forth with me,
      but though I took a good occasion of going to the Trumpet she declined
      coming, which vexed me. 'Je avait grande envie envers elle, avec vrai
      amour et passion'. Thence home and to my office till one in the morning,
      setting to rights in writing this day's two accounts of Povy and Taylor,
      and then quietly to bed. This day I had several letters from several
      places, of our bringing in great numbers of Dutch ships.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Lay long, at which I am ashamed, because of so many people observing
      it that know not how late I sit up, and for fear of Sir W. Batten's
      speaking of it to others, he having staid for me a good while. At the
      office all the morning, where comes my Lord Brunkard with his patent in
      his hand, and delivered it to Sir J. Minnes and myself, we alone being
      there all the day, and at noon I in his coach with him to the 'Change,
      where he set me down; a modest civil person he seems to be, but wholly
      ignorant in the business of the Navy as possible, but I hope to make a
      friend of him, being a worthy man. Thence after hearing the great newes of
      so many Dutchmen being brought in to Portsmouth and elsewhere, which it is
      expected will either put them upon present revenge or despair, I with Sir
      W. Rider and Cutler to dinner all alone to the Great James, where good
      discourse, and, I hope, occasion of getting something hereafter. After
      dinner to White Hall to the Fishery, where the Duke was with us. So home,
      and late at my office, writing many letters, then home to supper and to
      bed. Yesterday come home, and this night I visited Sir W. Pen, who
      dissembles great respect and love to me, but I understand him very well.
      Major Holmes is come from Guinny, and is now at Plymouth with great
      wealth, they say.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day). Up and to church alone in the morning. Dined at home,
      mighty pleasantly. In the afternoon I to the French church, where much
      pleased with the three sisters of the parson, very handsome, especially in
      their noses, and sing prettily. I heard a good sermon of the old man,
      touching duty to parents. Here was Sir Samuel Morland and his lady very
      fine, with two footmen in new liverys (the church taking much notice of
      them), and going into their coach after sermon with great gazeing. So I
      home, and my cozen, Mary Pepys's husband, comes after me, and told me that
      out of the money he received some months since he did receive 18d. too
      much, and did now come and give it me, which was very pretty. So home, and
      there found Mr. Andrews and his lady, a well-bred and a tolerable pretty
      woman, and by and by Mr. Hill and to singing, and then to supper, then to
      sing again, and so good night. To prayers and tonight [bed]. It is a
      little strange how these Psalms of Ravenscroft after 2 or 3 times singing
      prove but the same again, though good. No diversity appearing at all
      almost.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten by coach to White Hall, where all of us
      with the Duke; Mr. Coventry privately did tell me the reason of his advice
      against our pretences to the Prize Office (in his letter from Portsmouth),
      because he knew that the King and the Duke had resolved to put in some
      Parliament men that have deserved well, and that would needs be obliged,
      by putting them in. Thence homeward, called at my bookseller's and bespoke
      some books against the year's out, and then to the 'Change, and so home to
      dinner, and then to the office, where my Lord Brunkard comes and reads
      over part of our Instructions in the Navy&mdash;and I expounded it to him,
      so he is become my disciple. He gone, comes Cutler to tell us that the
      King of France hath forbid any canvass to be carried out of his kingdom,
      and I to examine went with him to the East India house to see a letter,
      but came too late. So home again, and there late till 12 at night at my
      office, and then home to supper and to bed. This day (to see how things
      are ordered in the world), I had a command from the Earle of Sandwich, at
      Portsmouth, not to be forward with Mr. Cholmly and Sir J. Lawson about the
      Mole at Tangier, because that what I do therein will (because of his
      friendship to me known) redound against him, as if I had done it upon his
      score. So I wrote to my Lord my mistake, and am contented to promise never
      to pursue it more, which goes against my mind with all my heart.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Lay long in bed, then up, and many people to speak with me. Then to
      my office, and dined at noon at home, then to the office again, where we
      sat all the afternoon, and then home at night to a little supper, and so
      after my office again at 12 at night home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and after a while at the office, I abroad in several places,
      among others to my bookseller's, and there spoke for several books against
      New Year's day, I resolving to lay out about L7 or L8, God having given me
      some profit extraordinary of late; and bespoke also some plate, spoons,
      and forks. I pray God keep me from too great expenses, though these will
      still be pretty good money. Then to the 'Change, and I home to dinner,
      where Creed and Mr. Caesar, my boy's lute master, who plays indeed mighty
      finely, and after dinner I abroad, parting from Creed, and away to and
      fro, laying out or preparing for laying out more money, but I hope and
      resolve not to exceed therein, and to-night spoke for some fruit for the
      country for my father against Christmas, and where should I do it, but at
      the pretty woman's, that used to stand at the doore in Fanchurch Streete,
      I having a mind to know her. So home, and late at my office, evening
      reckonings with Shergoll, hoping to get money by the business, and so away
      home to supper and to bed, not being very well through my taking cold of
      late, and so troubled with some wind.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Called up very betimes by Mr. Cholmly, and with him a good while
      about some of his Tangier accounts; and, discoursing of the condition of
      Tangier, he did give me the whole account of the differences between
      Fitzgerald and Norwood, which were very high on both sides, but most
      imperious and base on Fitzgerald's, and yet through my Lord FitzHarding's
      means, the Duke of York is led rather to blame Norwood and to speake that
      he should be called home, than be sensible of the other. He is a creature
      of FitzHarding's, as a fellow that may be done with what he will, and,
      himself certainly pretending to be Generall of the King's armies, when
      Monk dyeth, desires to have as few great or wise men in employment as he
      can now, but such as he can put in and keep under, which he do this
      coxcomb Fitzgerald. It seems, of all mankind there is no man so led by
      another as the Duke is by Lord Muskerry and this FitzHarding, insomuch, as
      when the King would have him to be Privy-Purse, the Duke wept, and said,
      "But, Sir, I must have your promise, if you will have my dear Charles from
      me, that if ever you have occasion for an army again, I may have him with
      me; believing him to be the best commander of an army in the world." But
      Mr. Cholmly thinks, as all other men I meet with do, that he is a very
      ordinary fellow. It is strange how the Duke also do love naturally, and
      affect the Irish above the English. He, of the company he carried with him
      to sea, took above two-thirds Irish and French. He tells me the King do
      hate my Lord Chancellor; and that they, that is the King and my Lord
      FitzHarding, do laugh at him for a dull fellow; and in all this business
      of the Dutch war do nothing by his advice, hardly consulting him. Only he
      is a good minister in other respects, and the King cannot be without him;
      but, above all, being the Duke's father-in-law, he is kept in; otherwise
      FitzHarding were able to fling down two of him. This, all the wise and
      grave lords see, and cannot help it; but yield to it. But he bemoans what
      the end of it may be, the King being ruled by these men, as he hath been
      all along since his coming; to the razing all the strong-holds in
      Scotland, and giving liberty to the Irish in Ireland, whom Cromwell had
      settled all in one corner; who are now able, and it is feared everyday a
      massacre again among them. He being gone I abroad to the carrier's, to see
      some things sent away to my father against Christmas, and thence to
      Moorfields, and there up and down to several houses to drink to look for a
      place 'pour rencontrer la femme de je sais quoi' against next Monday, but
      could meet none. So to the Coffeehouse, where great talke of the Comet
      seen in several places; and among our men at sea, and by my Lord Sandwich,
      to whom I intend to write about it to-night. Thence home to dinner, and
      then to the office, where all the afternoon, and in the evening home to
      supper, and then to the office late, and so to bed. This night I begun to
      burn wax candles in my closett at the office, to try the charge, and to
      see whether the smoke offends like that of tallow candles.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and by water to Deptford, thinking to have met 'la femme de'
      Bagwell, but failed, and having done some business at the yard, I back
      again, it being a fine fresh morning to walk. Back again, Mr. Wayth
      walking with me to Half-Way House talking about Mr. Castle's fine knees
      lately delivered in. In which I am well informed that they are not as they
      should be to make them knees, and I hope shall make good use of it to the
      King's service. Thence home, and having dressed myself, to the 'Change,
      and thence home to dinner, and so abroad by coach with my wife, and bought
      a looking glasse by the Old Exchange, which costs me L5 5s. and 6s. for
      the hooks. A very fair glasse. So toward my cozen Scott's, but meeting my
      Lady Sandwich's coach, my wife turned back to follow them, thinking they
      might, as they did, go to visit her, and I 'light and to Mrs. Harman, and
      there staid and talked in her shop with her, and much pleased I am with
      her. We talked about Anthony Joyce's giving over trade and that he intends
      to live in lodgings, which is a very mad, foolish thing. She tells me she
      hears and believes it is because he, being now begun to be called on
      offices, resolves not to take the new oathe, he having formerly taken the
      Covenant or Engagement, but I think he do very simply and will endeavour
      for his wife's sake to advise him therein. Thence to my cozen Scott's, and
      there met my cozen Roger Pepys, and Mrs. Turner, and The. and Joyce, and
      prated all the while, and so with the "corps" to church and heard a very
      fine sermon of the Parson of the parish, and so homeward with them in
      their coach, but finding it too late to go home with me, I took another
      coach and so home, and after a while at my office, home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon I to the
      'Change, and there, among others, had my first meeting with Mr.
      L'Estrange, who hath endeavoured several times to speak with me. It is to
      get, now and then, some newes of me, which I shall, as I see cause, give
      him. He is a man of fine conversation, I think, but I am sure most courtly
      and full of compliments. Thence home to dinner, and then come the
      looking-glass man to set up the looking-glass I bought yesterday, in my
      dining-room, and very handsome it is. So abroad by coach to White Hall,
      and there to the Committee of Tangier, and then the Fishing. Mr. Povy did
      in discourse give me a rub about my late bill for money that I did get of
      him, which vexed me and stuck in my mind all this evening, though I know
      very well how to cleare myself at the worst. So home and to my office,
      where late, and then home to bed. Mighty talke there is of this Comet that
      is seen a'nights; and the King and Queene did sit up last night to see it,
      and did, it seems. And to-night I thought to have done so too; but it is
      cloudy, and so no stars appear. But I will endeavour it. Mr. Gray did tell
      me to-night, for certain, that the Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin
      to buckle; and that one man in this Kingdom did tell the King that he is
      offered L40,000 to make a peace, and others have been offered money also.
      It seems the taking of their Bourdeaux fleete thus, arose from a printed
      Gazette of the Dutch's boasting of fighting, and having beaten the
      English: in confidence whereof (it coming to Bourdeaux), all the fleete
      comes out, and so falls into our hands.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Lord's day). To church, where, God forgive me! I spent most of my
      time in looking [on] my new Morena&mdash;[a brunette]&mdash;at the other
      side of the church, an acquaintance of Pegg Pen's. So home to dinner, and
      then to my chamber to read Ben Johnson's Cataline, a very excellent piece,
      and so to church again, and thence we met at the office to hire ships,
      being in great haste and having sent for several masters of ships to come
      to us. Then home, and there Mr. Andrews and Hill come and we sung finely,
      and by and by Mr. Fuller, the Parson, and supped with me, he and a friend
      of his, but my musique friends would not stay supper. At and after supper
      Mr. Fuller and I told many storys of apparitions and delusions thereby,
      and I out with my storys of Tom Mallard. He gone, I a little to my office,
      and then to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Going to bed betimes last night we waked betimes, and from our
      people's being forced to take the key to go out to light a candle, I was
      very angry and begun to find fault with my wife for not commanding her
      servants as she ought. Thereupon she giving me some cross answer I did
      strike her over her left eye such a blow as the poor wretch did cry out
      and was in great pain, but yet her spirit was such as to endeavour to bite
      and scratch me. But I coying&mdash;[stroking or caressing]&mdash;with her
      made her leave crying, and sent for butter and parsley, and friends
      presently one with another, and I up, vexed at my heart to think what I
      had done, for she was forced to lay a poultice or something to her eye all
      day, and is black, and the people of the house observed it. But I was
      forced to rise, and up and with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall, and there we
      waited on the Duke. And among other things Mr. Coventry took occasion to
      vindicate himself before the Duke and us, being all there, about the
      choosing of Taylor for Harwich. Upon which the Duke did clear him, and did
      tell us that he did expect, that, after he had named a man, none of us
      shall then oppose or find fault with the man; but if we had anything to
      say, we ought to say it before he had chose him. Sir G. Carteret thought
      himself concerned, and endeavoured to clear himself: and by and by Sir W.
      Batten did speak, knowing himself guilty, and did confess, that being
      pressed by the Council he did say what he did, that he was accounted a
      fanatique; but did not know that at that time he had been appointed by his
      Royal Highness. To which the Duke [replied] that it was impossible but he
      must know that he had appointed him; and so it did appear that the Duke
      did mean all this while Sir W. Batten. So by and by we parted, and Mr.
      Coventry did privately tell me that he did this day take this occasion to
      mention the business to give the Duke an opportunity of speaking his mind
      to Sir W. Batten in this business, of which I was heartily glad. Thence
      home, and not finding Bagwell's wife as I expected, I to the 'Change and
      there walked up and down, and then home, and she being come I bid her go
      and stay at Mooregate for me, and after going up to my wife (whose eye is
      very bad, but she is in very good temper to me), and after dinner I to the
      place and walked round the fields again and again, but not finding her I
      to the 'Change, and there found her waiting for me and took her away, and
      to an alehouse, and there I made much of her, and then away thence and to
      another and endeavoured to caress her, but 'elle ne voulait pas', which
      did vex me, but I think it was chiefly not having a good easy place to do
      it upon. So we broke up and parted and I to the office, where we sat
      hiring of ships an hour or two, and then to my office, and thence (with
      Captain Taylor home to my house) to give him instructions and some notice
      of what to his great satisfaction had happened to-day. Which I do because
      I hope his coming into this office will a little cross Sir W. Batten and
      may do me good. He gone, I to supper with my wife, very pleasant, and then
      a little to my office and to bed. My mind, God forgive me, too much
      running upon what I can 'ferais avec la femme de Bagwell demain', having
      promised to go to Deptford and 'a aller a sa maison avec son mari' when I
      come thither.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and walked to Deptford, where after doing something at the yard I
      walked, without being observed, with Bagwell home to his house, and there
      was very kindly used, and the poor people did get a dinner for me in their
      fashion, of which I also eat very well. After dinner I found occasion of
      sending him abroad, and then alone 'avec elle je tentais a faire ce que je
      voudrais et contre sa force je le faisais biens que passe a mon
      contentment'. By and by he coming back again I took leave and walked home,
      and then there to dinner, where Dr. Fayrebrother come to see me and
      Luellin. We dined, and I to the office, leaving them, where we sat all the
      afternoon, and I late at the office. To supper and to the office again
      very late, then home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and after evening reckonings to this day with Mr. Bridges, the
      linnen draper, for callicos, I out to Doctors' Commons, where by agreement
      my cozen Roger and I did meet my cozen Dr. Tom Pepys, and there a great
      many and some high words on both sides, but I must confess I was troubled;
      first, to find my cozen Roger such a simple but well-meaning man as he is;
      next to think that my father, out of folly and vain glory, should now and
      then (as by their words I gather) be speaking how he had set up his son
      Tom with his goods and house, and now these words are brought against him&mdash;I
      fear to the depriving him of all the profit the poor man intended to make
      of the lease of his house and sale of his owne goods. I intend to make a
      quiet end if I can with the Doctor, being a very foul-tounged fool and of
      great inconvenience to be at difference with such a one that will make the
      base noise about it that he will. Thence, very much vexed to find myself
      so much troubled about other men's matters, I to Mrs. Turner's, in
      Salsbury Court, and with her a little, and carried her, the porter staying
      for me, our eagle, which she desired the other day, and we were glad to be
      rid of her, she fouling our house of office mightily. They are much
      pleased with her. And thence I home and after dinner to the office, where
      Sir W. Rider and Cutler come, and in dispute I very high with them against
      their demands, I hope to no hurt to myself, for I was very plain with them
      to the best of my reason. So they gone I home to supper, then to the
      office again and so home to bed. My Lord Sandwich this day writes me word
      that he hath seen (at Portsmouth) the Comet, and says it is the most
      extraordinary thing that ever he saw.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up and betimes to my office, and then out to several places, among
      others to Holborne to have spoke with one Mr. Underwood about some English
      hemp, he lies against Gray's Inn. Thereabouts I to a barber's shop to have
      my hair cut, and there met with a copy of verses, mightily commended by
      some gentlemen there, of my Lord Mordaunt's, in excuse of his going to sea
      this late expedition, with the Duke of Yorke. But, Lord! they are but
      sorry things; only a Lord made them. Thence to the 'Change; and there,
      among the merchants, I hear fully the news of our being beaten to dirt at
      Guinny, by De Ruyter with his fleete. The particulars, as much as by Sir
      G. Carteret afterwards I heard, I have said in a letter to my Lord
      Sandwich this day at Portsmouth; it being most wholly to the utter ruine
      of our Royall Company, and reproach and shame to the whole nation, as well
      as justification to them in their doing wrong to no man as to his private
      [property], only takeing whatever is found to belong to the Company, and
      nothing else. Dined at the Dolphin, Sir G. Carteret, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W.
      Batten, and I, with Sir W. Boreman and Sir Theophilus Biddulph and others,
      Commissioners of the Sewers, about our place below to lay masts in. But
      coming a little too soon, I out again, and tooke boat down to Redriffe;
      and just in time within two minutes, and saw the new vessel of Sir William
      Petty's launched, the King and Duke being there.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys was wrong as to the name of Sir William Petty's new
     doublekeeled boat.  On February 13th, 1664-65, he gives the correct
     title, which was "The Experiment."]
</pre>
    <p>
      It swims and looks finely, and I believe will do well. The name I think is
      Twilight, but I do not know certainly. Coming away back immediately to
      dinner, where a great deal of good discourse, and Sir G. Carteret's
      discourse of this Guinny business, with great displeasure at the losse of
      our honour there, and do now confess that the trade brought all these
      troubles upon us between the Dutch and us. Thence to the office and there
      sat late, then I to my office and there till 12 at night, and so home to
      bed weary.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up and to my office, then come by appointment cozen Tom Trice to me,
      and I paid him the L20 remaining due to him upon the bond of L100 given
      him by agreement November, 1663, to end the difference between us about my
      aunt's, his mother's, money. And here, being willing to know the worst, I
      told him, "I hope now there is nothing remaining between you and I of
      future dispute." "No," says he, "nothing at all that I know of, but only a
      small matter of about 20 or 30s. that my father Pepys received for me of
      rent due to me in the country, which I will in a day or two bring you an
      account of," and so we parted. Dined at home upon a good turkey which Mr.
      Sheply sent us, then to the office all the afternoon, Mr. Cutler and
      others coming to me about business. I hear that the Dutch have prepared a
      fleete to go the backway to the Streights, where without doubt they will
      master our fleete. This put to that of Guinny makes me fear them mightily,
      and certainly they are a most wise people, and careful of their business.
      The King of France, they say, do declare himself obliged to defend them,
      and lays claim by his Embassador to the wines we have taken from the Dutch
      Bourdeaux men, and more, it is doubted whether the Swede will be our
      friend or no. Pray God deliver us out of these troubles! This day Sir W.
      Batten sent and afterwards spoke to me, to have me and my wife come and
      dine with them on Monday next: which is a mighty condescension in them,
      and for some great reason I am sure, or else it pleases God by my late
      care of business to make me more considerable even with them than I am
      sure they would willingly owne me to be. God make me thankfull and
      carefull to preserve myself so, for I am sure they hate me and it is hope
      or fear that makes them flatter me. It being a bright night, which it has
      not been a great while, I purpose to endeavour to be called in the morning
      to see the Comet, though I fear we shall not see it, because it rises in
      the east but 16 degrees, and then the houses will hinder us.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Having sat up all night to past two o'clock this morning, our
      porter, being appointed, comes and tells us that the bellman tells him
      that the star is seen upon Tower Hill; so I, that had been all night
      setting in order all my old papers in my chamber, did leave off all, and
      my boy and I to Tower Hill, it being a most fine, bright moonshine night,
      and a great frost; but no Comet to be seen. So after running once round
      the Hill, I and Tom, we home and then to bed. Rose about 9 o'clock and
      then to the office, where sitting all the morning. At noon to the 'Change,
      to the Coffee-house; and there heard Sir Richard Ford tell the whole story
      of our defeat at Guinny. Wherein our men are guilty of the most horrid
      cowardice and perfidiousness, as he says and tells it, that ever
      Englishmen were. Captain Raynolds, that was the only commander of any of
      the King's ships there, was shot at by De Ruyter, with a bloody flag
      flying. He, instead of opposing (which, indeed, had been to no purpose,
      but only to maintain honour), did poorly go on board himself, to ask what
      De Ruyter would have; and so yielded to whatever Ruyter would desire. The
      King and Duke are highly vexed at it, it seems, and the business deserves
      it. Thence home to dinner, and then abroad to buy some things, and among
      others to my bookseller's, and there saw several books I spoke for, which
      are finely bound and good books to my great content. So home and to my
      office, where late. This evening I being informed did look and saw the
      Comet, which is now, whether worn away or no I know not, but appears not
      with a tail, but only is larger and duller than any other star, and is
      come to rise betimes, and to make a great arch, and is gone quite to a new
      place in the heavens than it was before: but I hope in a clearer night
      something more will be seen. So home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lord's day and Christmas day). Up (my wife's eye being ill still of
      the blow I did in a passion give her on Monday last) to church alone,
      where Mr. Mills, a good sermon. To dinner at home, where very pleasant
      with my wife and family. After dinner I to Sir W. Batten's, and there
      received so much good usage (as I have of late done) from him and my Lady,
      obliging me and my wife, according to promise, to come and dine with them
      to-morrow with our neighbours, that I was in pain all the day, and night
      too after, to know how to order the business of my wife's not going, and
      by discourse receive fresh instances of Sir J. Minnes's folly in
      complaining to Sir G. Carteret of Sir W. Batten and me for some family
      offences, such as my having of a stopcock to keepe the water from them,
      which vexes me, but it would more but that Sir G. Carteret knows him very
      well. Thence to the French church, but coming too late I returned and to
      Mr. Rawlinson's church, where I heard a good sermon of one that I remember
      was at Paul's with me, his name Maggett; and very great store of fine
      women there is in this church, more than I know anywhere else about us. So
      home and to my chamber, looking over and setting in order my papers and
      books, and so to supper, and then to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there with the rest did
      our usual business before the Duke, and then with Sir W. Batten back and
      to his house, where I by sicknesse excused my wife's coming to them
      to-day. Thence I to the Coffeehouse, where much good discourse, and all
      the opinion now is that the Dutch will avoid fighting with us at home, but
      do all the hurte they can to us abroad; which it may be they may for a
      while, but that, I think, cannot support them long. Thence to Sir W.
      Batten's, where Mr. Coventry and all our families here, women and all, and
      Sir R. Ford and his, and a great feast and good discourse and merry, there
      all the afternoon and evening till late, only stepped in to see my wife,
      then to my office to enter my day's work, and so home to bed, where my
      people and wife innocently at cards very merry, and I to bed, leaving them
      to their sport and blindman's buff.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. My people came to bed, after their sporting, at four o'clock in the
      morning; I up at seven, and to Deptford and Woolwich in a gally; the Duke
      calling to me out of the barge in which the King was with him going down
      the river, to know whither I was going. I told him to Woolwich, but was
      troubled afterward I should say no farther, being in a gally, lest he
      think me too profuse in my journeys. Did several businesses, and then back
      again by two o'clock to Sir J. Minnes's to dinner by appointment, where
      all yesterday's company but Mr. Coventry, who could not come. Here merry,
      and after an hour's chat I down to the office, where busy late, and then
      home to supper and to bed. The Comet appeared again to-night, but
      duskishly. I went to bed, leaving my wife and all her folks, and Will
      also, too, come to make Christmas gambolls to-night.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. I waked in the morning about 6 o'clock and my wife not come to bed;
      I lacked a pot, but there was none, and bitter cold, so was forced to rise
      and piss in the chimney, and to bed again. Slept a little longer, and then
      hear my people coming up, and so I rose, and my wife to bed at eight
      o'clock in the morning, which vexed me a little, but I believe there was
      no hurt in it all, but only mirthe, therefore took no notice. I abroad
      with Sir W. Batten to the Council Chamber, where all of us to discourse
      about the way of measuring ships and the freight fit to give for them by
      the tun, where it was strange methought to hear so poor discourses among
      the Lords themselves, and most of all to see how a little empty matter
      delivered gravely by Sir W. Pen was taken mighty well, though nothing in
      the earth to the purpose. But clothes, I perceive more and more every day,
      is a great matter. Thence home with Sir W. Batten by coach, and I home to
      dinner, finding my wife still in bed. After dinner abroad, and among other
      things visited my Lady Sandwich, and was there, with her and the young
      ladies, playing at cards till night. Then home and to my office late, then
      home to bed, leaving my wife and people up to more sports, but without any
      great satisfaction to myself therein.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. Then whereas I
      should have gone and dined with Sir W. Pen (and the rest of the officers
      at his house), I pretended to dine with my Lady Sandwich and so home,
      where I dined well, and began to wipe and clean my books in my chamber in
      order to the settling of my papers and things there thoroughly, and then
      to the office, where all the afternoon sitting, and in the evening home to
      supper, and then to my work again.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Lay very long in bed with my wife, it being very cold, and my wife
      very full of a resolution to keepe within doors, not so much as to go to
      church or see my Lady Sandwich before Easter next, which I am willing
      enough to, though I seem the contrary. This and other talke kept me a-bed
      till almost 10 a'clock. Then up and made an end of looking over all my
      papers and books and taking everything out of my chamber to have all made
      clean. At noon dined, and after dinner forth to several places to pay away
      money, to clear myself in all the world, and, among others, paid my
      bookseller L6 for books I had from him this day, and the silversmith L22
      18s. for spoons, forks, and sugar box, and being well pleased with seeing
      my business done to my mind as to my meeting with people and having my
      books ready for me, I home and to my office, and there did business late,
      and then home to supper, prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. At the office all the morning, and after dinner there again,
      dispatched first my letters, and then to my accounts, not of the month but
      of the whole yeare also, and was at it till past twelve at night, it being
      bitter cold; but yet I was well satisfied with my worke, and, above all,
      to find myself, by the great blessing of God, worth L1349, by which, as I
      have spent very largely, so I have laid up above L500 this yeare above
      what I was worth this day twelvemonth. The Lord make me for ever thankful
      to his holy name for it! Thence home to eat a little and so to bed. Soon
      as ever the clock struck one, I kissed my wife in the kitchen by the
      fireside, wishing her a merry new yeare, observing that I believe I was
      the first proper wisher of it this year, for I did it as soon as ever the
      clock struck one.
    </p>
    <p>
      So ends the old yeare, I bless God, with great joy to me, not only from my
      having made so good a yeare of profit, as having spent L420 and laid up
      L540 and upwards; but I bless God I never have been in so good plight as
      to my health in so very cold weather as this is, nor indeed in any hot
      weather, these ten years, as I am at this day, and have been these four or
      five months. But I am at a great losse to know whether it be my hare's
      foote, or taking every morning of a pill of turpentine, or my having left
      off the wearing of a gowne. My family is, my wife, in good health, and
      happy with her; her woman Mercer, a pretty, modest, quiett mayde; her
      chambermayde Besse, her cook mayde Jane, the little girl Susan, and my
      boy, which I have had about half a yeare, Tom Edwards, which I took from
      the King's chappell, and a pretty and loving quiett family I have as any
      man in England. My credit in the world and my office grows daily, and I am
      in good esteeme with everybody, I think. My troubles of my uncle's estate
      pretty well over; but it comes to be but of little profit to us, my father
      being much supported by my purse. But great vexations remain upon my
      father and me from my brother Tom's death and ill condition, both to our
      disgrace and discontent, though no great reason for either. Publique
      matters are all in a hurry about a Dutch warr. Our preparations great; our
      provocations against them great; and, after all our presumption, we are
      now afeard as much of them, as we lately contemned them. Every thing else
      in the State quiett, blessed be God! My Lord Sandwich at sea with the
      fleete at Portsmouth; sending some about to cruise for taking of ships,
      which we have done to a great number. This Christmas I judged it fit to
      look over all my papers and books; and to tear all that I found either
      boyish or not to be worth keeping, or fit to be seen, if it should please
      God to take me away suddenly. Among others, I found these two or three
      notes, which I thought fit to keep.
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     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS, PEPY'S DIARY 1664, COMPLETE:

     A real and not a complimentary acknowledgment
     A mad merry slut she is
     About several businesses, hoping to get money by them
     After many protestings by degrees I did arrive at what I would
     All divided that were bred so long at school together
     All ended in love
     All the men were dead of the plague, and the ship cast ashore
     And with the great men in curing of their claps
     At least 12 or 14,000 people in the street (to see the hanging)
     Bath at the top of his house
     Bearing more sayle will go faster than any other ships (multihull)
     Began discourse of my not getting of children
     Below what people think these great people say and do
     But the wench went, and I believe had her turn served
     Came to bed to me, but all would not make me friends
     Chatted with her, her husband out of the way
     Could not saw above 4 inches of the stone in a day
     Do look upon me as a remembrancer of his former vanity
     Doubtfull of himself, and easily be removed from his own opinion
     Drink a dish of coffee
     Even to the having bad words with my wife, and blows too
     Expected musique, the missing of which spoiled my dinner
     Expressly taking care that nobody might see this business done
     Fear of making her think me to be in a better condition
     Fear all his kindness is but only his lust to her
     Feared I might meet with some people that might know me
     Fetch masts from New England
     Few in any age that do mind anything that is abstruse
     Find myself to over-value things when a child
     Gadding abroad to look after beauties
     Generally with corruption, but most indeed with neglect
     God forgive me! what thoughts and wishes I had
     Good writers are not admired by the present
     Greatest businesses are done so superficially
     Had no mind to meddle with her
     Having some experience, but greater conceit of it than is fit
     Hear something of the effects of our last meeting (pregnancy?)
     Helping to slip their calfes when there is occasion
     Her months upon her is gone to bed
     Her impudent tricks and ways of getting money
     How little to be presumed of in our greatest undertakings
     I had agreed with Jane Welsh, but she came not, which vexed me
     I do not like his being angry and in debt both together to me
     I will not by any over submission make myself cheap
     I slept soundly all the sermon
     Ill from my late cutting my hair so close to my head
     In my dining-room she was doing something upon the pott
     In a hackney and full of people, was ashamed to be seen
     Ireland in a very distracted condition
     Irish in Ireland, whom Cromwell had settled all in one corner
     Jane going into the boat did fall down and show her arse
     King is mighty kind to these his bastard children
     King still do doat upon his women, even beyond all shame
     Lay long caressing my wife and talking
     Let her brew as she has baked
     Little children employed, every one to do something
     Mankind pleasing themselves in the easy delights of the world
     Meazles, we fear, or, at least, of a scarlett feavour
     Methought very ill, or else I am grown worse to please
     Mind to have her bring it home
     Mrs. Lane was gone forth, and so I missed of my intent
     My wife was angry with me for not coming home, and for gadding
     My leg fell in a hole broke on the bridge
     My wife made great means to be friends, coming to my bedside
     Never to trust too much to any man in the world
     New Netherlands to English rule, under the title of New York
     Not well, and so had no pleasure at all with my poor wife
     Not when we can, but when we list
     Not the greatest wits, but the steady man
     Nothing of the memory of a man, an houre after he is dead!
     Now against her going into the country (lay together)
     Periwigg he lately made me cleansed of its nits
     Play good, but spoiled with the ryme, which breaks the sense
     Pleased to look upon their pretty daughter
     Pray God give me a heart to fear a fall, and to prepare for it!
     Presse seamen, without which we cannot really raise men
     Pretty sayings, which are generally like paradoxes
     Reduced the Dutch settlement of New Netherlands to English rule
     Rotten teeth and false, set in with wire
     Ryme, which breaks the sense
     Saw "The German Princess" acted, by the woman herself
     Sent my wife to get a place to see Turner hanged
     Shakespeare's plays
     She had the cunning to cry a great while, and talk and blubber
     She had got and used some puppy-dog water
     Sheriffs did endeavour to get one jewell
     Slabbering my band sent home for another
     So home to prayers and to bed
     Staid two hours with her kissing her, but nothing more
     Strange slavery that I stand in to beauty
     Subject to be put into a disarray upon very small occasions
     Such open flattery is beastly
     Talked with Mrs. Lane about persuading her to Hawly
     Tear all that I found either boyish or not to be worth keeping
     That hair by hair had his horse's tail pulled off indeed
     Their saws have no teeth, but it is the sand only
     There eat and drank, and had my pleasure of her twice
     There did see Mrs. Lane.....
     These Lords are hard to be trusted
     Things wear out of themselves and come fair again
     Thinks she is with child, but I neither believe nor desire it
     Till 12 at night, and then home to supper and to bed
     To my Lord Sandwich, thinking to have dined there
     Travels over the high hills in Asia above the clouds
     Up, my mind very light from my last night's accounts
     Upon a very small occasion had a difference again broke out
     Very angry we were, but quickly friends again
     Very high and very foule words from her to me
     We do nothing in this office like people able to carry on a warr
     Went against me to have my wife and servants look upon them
     What wine you drinke, lett it bee at meales
     What a sorry dispatch these great persons give to business
     What is there more to be had of a woman than the possessing her
     Where a trade hath once been and do decay, it never recovers
     Wherein every party has laboured to cheat another
     Willing to receive a bribe if it were offered me
     Would either conform, or be more wise, and not be catched!
     Would make a dogg laugh
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      JANUARY 1664-1665
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    <p>
      January 1st (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, having been busy late last
      night, then up and to my office, where upon ordering my accounts and
      papers with respect to my understanding my last year's gains and expense,
      which I find very great, as I have already set down yesterday. Now this
      day I am dividing my expense, to see what my clothes and every particular
      hath stood me in: I mean all the branches of my expense. At noon a good
      venison pasty and a turkey to ourselves without any body so much as
      invited by us, a thing unusuall for so small a family of my condition: but
      we did it and were very merry. After dinner to my office again, where very
      late alone upon my accounts, but have not brought them to order yet, and
      very intricate I find it, notwithstanding my care all the year to keep
      things in as good method as any man can do. Past 11 o'clock home to supper
      and to bed.
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    <p>
      2nd. Up, and it being a most fine, hard frost I walked a good way toward
      White Hall, and then being overtaken with Sir W. Pen's coach, went into
      it, and with him thither, and there did our usual business with the Duke.
      Thence, being forced to pay a great deale of money away in boxes (that is,
      basins at White Hall), I to my barber's, Gervas, and there had a little
      opportunity of speaking with my Jane alone, and did give her something,
      and of herself she did tell me a place where I might come to her on Sunday
      next, which I will not fail, but to see how modestly and harmlessly she
      brought it out was very pretty. Thence to the Swan, and there did sport a
      good while with Herbert's young kinswoman without hurt, though they being
      abroad, the old people. Then to the Hall, and there agreed with Mrs.
      Martin, and to her lodgings which she has now taken to lie in, in Bow
      Streete, pitiful poor things, yet she thinks them pretty, and so they are
      for her condition I believe good enough. Here I did 'ce que je voudrais
      avec' her most freely, and it having cost 2s. in wine and cake upon her, I
      away sick of her impudence, and by coach to my Lord Brunker's, by
      appointment, in the Piazza, in Covent-Guarding; where I occasioned much
      mirth with a ballet I brought with me, made from the seamen at sea to
      their ladies in town; saying Sir W. Pen, Sir G. Ascue, and Sir J. Lawson
      made them. Here a most noble French dinner and banquet, the best I have
      seen this many a day and good discourse. Thence to my bookseller's and at
      his binder's saw Hooke's book of the Microscope,
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     ["Micrographia: or some physiological descriptions of minute bodies
     made by Magnifying Glasses.  London, 1665," a very remarkable work
     with elaborate plates, some of which have been used for lecture
     illustrations almost to our own day.  On November 23rd, 1664, the
     President of the Royal Society was "desired to sign a licence for
     printing of Mr. Hooke's microscopical book."  At this time the book
     was mostly printed, but it was delayed, much to Hooke's disgust, by
     the examination of several Fellows of the Society.  In spite of this
     examination the council were anxious that the author should make it
     clear that he alone was responsible for any theory put forward, and
     they gave him notice to that effect.  Hooke made this clear in his
     dedication (see Birch's "History," vol. i., pp. 490-491)]
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    <p>
      which is so pretty that I presently bespoke it, and away home to the
      office, where we met to do something, and then though very late by coach
      to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, but having company with him could not speak with
      him. So back again home, where thinking to be merry was vexed with my
      wife's having looked out a letter in Sir Philip Sidney about jealousy for
      me to read, which she industriously and maliciously caused me to do, and
      the truth is my conscience told me it was most proper for me, and
      therefore was touched at it, but tooke no notice of it, but read it out
      most frankly, but it stucke in my stomach, and moreover I was vexed to
      have a dog brought to my house to line our little bitch, which they make
      him do in all their sights, which, God forgive me, do stir my jealousy
      again, though of itself the thing is a very immodest sight. However, to
      cards with my wife a good while, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, the streete being full of
      footballs, it being a great frost, and found him and Mr. Coventry walking
      in St. James's Parke. I did my errand to him about the felling of the
      King's timber in the forests, and then to my Lord of Oxford, Justice in
      Eyre, for his consent thereto, for want whereof my Lord Privy Seale stops
      the whole business. I found him in his lodgings, in but an ordinary
      furnished house and roome where he was, but I find him to be a man of good
      discreet replys. Thence to the Coffee-house, where certain newes that the
      Dutch have taken some of our colliers to the North; some say four, some
      say seven. Thence to the 'Change a while, and so home to dinner and to the
      office, where we sat late, and then I to write my letters, and then to Sir
      W. Batten's, who is going out of towne to Harwich to-morrow to set up a
      light-house there, which he hath lately got a patent from the King to set
      up, that will turne much to his profit. Here very merry, and so to my
      office again, where very late, and then home to supper and to bed, but sat
      up with my wife at cards till past two in the morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Lay long, and then up and to my Lord of Oxford's, but his Lordshipp
      was in bed at past ten o'clock: and, Lord helpe us! so rude a dirty family
      I never saw in my life. He sent me out word my business was not done, but
      should against the afternoon. I thence to the Coffee-house, there but
      little company, and so home to the 'Change, where I hear of some more of
      our ships lost to the Northward. So to Sir W. Batten's, but he was set out
      before I got thither. I sat long talking with my lady, and then home to
      dinner. Then come Mr. Moore to see me, and he and I to my Lord of
      Oxford's, but not finding him within Mr. Moore and I to "Love in a Tubb,"
      which is very merry, but only so by gesture, not wit at all, which
      methinks is beneath the House. So walked home, it being a very hard frost,
      and I find myself as heretofore in cold weather to begin to burn within
      and pimples and pricks all over my body, my pores with cold being shut up.
      So home to supper and to cards and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, it being very cold and a great snow and frost tonight. To the
      office, and there all the morning. At noon dined at home, troubled at my
      wife's being simply angry with Jane, our cook mayde (a good servant,
      though perhaps hath faults and is cunning), and given her warning to be
      gone. So to the office again, where we sat late, and then I to my office,
      and there very late doing business. Home to supper and to the office
      again, and then late home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Lay long in bed, but most of it angry and scolding with my wife about
      her warning Jane our cookemayde to be gone and upon that she desires to go
      abroad to-day to look a place. A very good mayde she is and fully to my
      mind, being neat, only they say a little apt to scold, but I hear her not.
      To my office all the morning busy. Dined at home. To my office again,
      being pretty well reconciled to my wife, which I did desire to be, because
      she had designed much mirthe to-day to end Christmas with among her
      servants. At night home, being twelfenight, and there chose my piece of
      cake, but went up to my viall, and then to bed, leaving my wife and people
      up at their sports, which they continue till morning, not coming to bed at
      all.
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    <p>
      7th. Up and to the office all the morning. At noon dined alone, my wife
      and family most of them a-bed. Then to see my Lady Batten and sit with her
      a while, Sir W. Batten being out of town, and then to my office doing very
      much business very late, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). Up betimes, and it being a very fine frosty day, I and
      my boy walked to White Hall, and there to the Chappell, where one Dr.
      Beaumont' preached a good sermon, and afterwards a brave anthem upon the
      150 Psalm, where upon the word "trumpet" very good musique was made. So
      walked to my Lady's and there dined with her (my boy going home), where
      much pretty discourse, and after dinner walked to Westminster, and there
      to the house where Jane Welsh had appointed me, but it being sermon time
      they would not let me in, and said nobody was there to speak with me. I
      spent the whole afternoon walking into the Church and Abbey, and up and
      down, but could not find her, and so in the evening took a coach and home,
      and there sat discoursing with my wife, and by and by at supper, drinking
      some cold drink I think it was, I was forced to go make water, and had
      very great pain after it, but was well by and by and continued so, it
      being only I think from the drink, or from my straining at stool to do
      more than my body would. So after prayers to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and walked to White Hall, it being still a brave frost, and I in
      perfect good health, blessed be God! In my way saw a woman that broke her
      thigh, in her heels slipping up upon the frosty streete. To the Duke, and
      there did our usual worke. Here I saw the Royal Society bring their new
      book, wherein is nobly writ their charter' and laws, and comes to be
      signed by the Duke as a Fellow; and all the Fellows' hands are to be
      entered there, and lie as a monument; and the King hath put his with the
      word Founder. Thence I to Westminster, to my barber's, and found occasion
      to see Jane, but in presence of her mistress, and so could not speak to
      her of her failing me yesterday, and then to the Swan to Herbert's girl,
      and lost time a little with her, and so took coach, and to my Lord Crew's
      and dined with him, who receives me with the greatest respect that could
      be, telling me that he do much doubt of the successe of this warr with
      Holland, we going about it, he doubts, by the instigation of persons that
      do not enough apprehend the consequences of the danger of it, and therein
      I do think with him. Holmes was this day sent to the Tower,&mdash;[For
      taking New York from the Dutch]&mdash;but I perceive it is made matter of
      jest only; but if the Dutch should be our masters, it may come to be of
      earnest to him, to be given over to them for a sacrifice, as Sir W. Rawly
      [Raleigh] was. Thence to White Hall to a Tangier Committee, where I was
      accosted and most highly complimented by my Lord Bellasses,
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     [John Belasyse, second son of Thomas, first Viscount Fauconberg,
     created Baron Belasyse of Worlaby, January 27th, 1644, Lord
     Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and Governor of Hull.
     He was appointed Governor of Tangier, and Captain of the Band of
     Gentlemen Pensioners.  He was a Roman Catholic, and therefore was
     deprived of all his appointments in 1672 by the provisions of the
     Test Act, but in 1684 James II. made him First Commissioner of the
     Treasury.  He died 1689.]
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      our new governor, beyond my expectation, or measure I could imagine he
      would have given any man, as if I were the only person of business that he
      intended to rely on, and desires my correspondence with him. This I was
      not only surprized at, but am well pleased with, and may make good use of
      it. Our patent is renewed, and he and my Lord Barkeley, and Sir Thomas
      Ingram put in as commissioners. Here some business happened which may
      bring me some profit. Thence took coach and calling my wife at her
      tailor's (she being come this afternoon to bring her mother some apples,
      neat's tongues, and wine); I home, and there at my office late with Sir W.
      Warren, and had a great deal of good discourse and counsel from him, which
      I hope I shall take, being all for my good in my deportment in my office,
      yet with all honesty. He gone I home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Lay long, it being still very cold, and then to the office, where
      till dinner, and then home, and by and by to the office, where we sat and
      were very late, and I writing letters till twelve at night, and then after
      supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and very angry with my boy for lying long a bed and forgetting
      his lute. To my office all the morning. At noon to the 'Change, and so
      home to dinner. After dinner to Gresham College to my Lord Brunker and
      Commissioner Pett, taking, Mr. Castle with me there to discourse over his
      draught of a ship he is to build for us. Where I first found reason to
      apprehend Commissioner Pett to be a man of an ability extraordinary in any
      thing, for I found he did turn and wind Castle like a chicken in his
      business, and that most pertinently and mister-like, and great pleasure it
      was to me to hear them discourse, I, of late having studied something
      thereof, and my Lord Brunker is a very able person also himself in this
      sort of business, as owning himself to be a master in the business of all
      lines and Conicall Sections: Thence home, where very late at my office
      doing business to my content, though [God] knows with what ado it was that
      when I was out I could get myself to come home to my business, or when I
      was there though late would stay there from going abroad again. To supper
      and to bed. This evening, by a letter from Plymouth, I hear that two of
      our ships, the Leopard and another, in the Straights, are lost by running
      aground; and that three more had like to have been so, but got off,
      whereof Captain Allen one: and that a Dutch fleete are gone thither; which
      if they should meet with our lame ships, God knows what would become of
      them. This I reckon most sad newes; God make us sensible of it! This
      night, when I come home, I was much troubled to hear my poor canary bird,
      that I have kept these three or four years, is dead.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to White Hall about getting a privy seal for felling of the
      King's timber for the navy, and to the Lords' House to speak with my Lord
      Privy Seale about it, and so to the 'Change, where to my last night's ill
      news I met more. Spoke with a Frenchman who was taken, but released, by a
      Dutch man-of-war of thirty-six guns (with seven more of the like or
      greater ships), off the North Foreland, by Margett. Which is a strange
      attempt, that they should come to our teeth; but the wind being easterly,
      the wind that should bring our force from Portsmouth, will carry them away
      home. God preserve us against them, and pardon our making them in our
      discourse so contemptible an enemy! So home and to dinner, where Mr.
      Hollyard with us dined. So to the office, and there late till 11 at night
      and more, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up betimes and walked to my Lord Bellasses's lodgings in Lincolne's
      Inne Fieldes, and there he received and discoursed with me in the most
      respectfull manner that could be, telling me what a character of my
      judgment, and care, and love to Tangier he had received of me, that he
      desired my advice and my constant correspondence, which he much valued,
      and in my courtship, in which, though I understand his designe very well,
      and that it is only a piece of courtship, yet it is a comfort to me that I
      am become so considerable as to have him need to say that to me, which, if
      I did not do something in the world, would never have been. Here well
      satisfied I to Sir Ph. Warwicke, and there did some business with him;
      thence to Jervas's and there spent a little idle time with him, his wife,
      Jane, and a sweetheart of hers. So to the Hall awhile and thence to the
      Exchange, where yesterday's newes confirmed, though in a little different
      manner; but a couple of ships in the Straights we have lost, and the Dutch
      have been in Margaret [Margate] Road. Thence home to dinner and so abroad
      and alone to the King's house, to a play, "The Traytor," where,
      unfortunately, I met with Sir W. Pen, so that I must be forced to confess
      it to my wife, which troubles me. Thence walked home, being ill-satisfied
      with the present actings of the House, and prefer the other House before
      this infinitely. To my Lady Batten's, where I find Pegg Pen, the first
      time that ever I saw her to wear spots. Here very merry, Sir W. Batten
      being looked for to-night, but is not yet come from Harwich. So home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up and to White Hall, where long waited in the Duke's chamber for a
      Committee intended for Tangier, but none met, and so I home and to the
      office, where we met a little, and then to the 'Change, where our late ill
      newes confirmed in loss of two ships in the Straights, but are now the
      Phoenix and Nonsuch! Home to dinner, thence with my wife to the King's
      house, there to see "Vulpone," a most excellent play; the best I think I
      ever saw, and well, acted. So with Sir W. Pen home in his coach, and then
      to the office. So home, to supper, and bed, resolving by the grace of God
      from this day to fall hard to my business again, after some weeke or
      fortnight's neglect.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). Up, and after a little at my office to prepare a fresh
      draught of my vowes for the next yeare, I to church, where a most insipid
      young coxcomb preached. Then home to dinner, and after dinner to read in
      "Rushworth's Collections" about the charge against the late Duke of
      Buckingham, in order to the fitting me to speak and understand the
      discourse anon before the King about the suffering the Turkey merchants to
      send out their fleete at this dangerous time, when we can neither spare
      them ships to go, nor men, nor King's ships to convoy them. At four
      o'clock with Sir W. Pen in his coach to my Lord Chancellor's, where by and
      by Mr. Coventry, Sir W. Pen, Sir J. Lawson, Sir G. Ascue, and myself were
      called in to the King, there being several of the Privy Council, and my
      Lord Chancellor lying at length upon a couch (of the goute I suppose); and
      there Sir W. Pen begun, and he had prepared heads in a paper, and spoke
      pretty well to purpose, but with so much leisure and gravity as was
      tiresome; besides, the things he said were but very poor to a man in his
      trade after a great consideration, but it was to purpose, indeed to
      dissuade the King from letting these Turkey ships to go out: saying (in
      short) the King having resolved to have 130 ships out by the spring, he
      must have above 20 of them merchantmen. Towards which, he in the whole
      River could find but 12 or 14, and of them the five ships taken up by
      these merchants were a part, and so could not be spared. That we should
      need 30,000 [sailors] to man these 130 ships, and of them in service we
      have not above 16,000; so we shall need 14,000 more. That these ships will
      with their convoys carry above 2,000 men, and those the best men that
      could be got; it being the men used to the Southward that are the best men
      for warr, though those bred in the North among the colliers are good for
      labour. That it will not be safe for the merchants, nor honourable for the
      King, to expose these rich ships with his convoy of six ships to go, it
      not being enough to secure them against the Dutch, who, without doubt,
      will have a great fleete in the Straights. This, Sir J. Lawson enlarged
      upon. Sir G. Ascue he chiefly spoke that the warr and trade could not be
      supported together, and, therefore, that trade must stand still to give
      way to them. This Mr. Coventry seconded, and showed how the medium of the
      men the King hath one year with another employed in his Navy since his
      coming, hath not been above 3,000 men, or at most 4,000 men; and now
      having occasion of 30,000, the remaining 26,000 must be found out of the
      trade of the nation. He showed how the cloaths, sending by these merchants
      to Turkey, are already bought and paid for to the workmen, and are as many
      as they would send these twelve months or more; so the poor do not suffer
      by their not going, but only the merchant, upon whose hands they lit dead;
      and so the inconvenience is the less. And yet for them he propounded,
      either the King should, if his Treasure would suffer it, buy them, and
      showed the losse would not be so great to him: or, dispense with the Act
      of Navigation, and let them be carried out by strangers; and ending that
      he doubted not but when the merchants saw there was no remedy, they would
      and could find ways of sending them abroad to their profit. All ended with
      a conviction (unless future discourse with the merchants should alter it)
      that it was not fit for them to go out, though the ships be loaded. The
      King in discourse did ask me two or three questions about my newes of
      Allen's loss in the Streights, but I said nothing as to the business, nor
      am not much sorry for it, unless the King had spoke to me as he did to
      them, and then I could have said something to the purpose I think. So we
      withdrew, and the merchants were called in. Staying without, my Lord Fitz
      Harding come thither, and fell to discourse of Prince Rupert, and made
      nothing to say that his disease was the pox and that he must be fluxed,
      telling the horrible degree of the disease upon him with its breaking out
      on his head. But above all I observed how he observed from the Prince,
      that courage is not what men take it to be, a contempt of death; for, says
      he, how chagrined the Prince was the other day when he thought he should
      die, having no more mind to it than another man. But, says he, some men
      are more apt to think they shall escape than another man in fight, while
      another is doubtfull he shall be hit. But when the first man is sure he
      shall die, as now the Prince is, he is as much troubled and apprehensive
      of it as any man else; for, says he, since we told [him] that we believe
      he would overcome his disease, he is as merry, and swears and laughs and
      curses, and do all the things of a [man] in health, as ever he did in his
      life; which, methought, was a most extraordinary saying before a great
      many persons there of quality. So by and by with Sir W. Pen home again,
      and after supper to the office to finish my vows, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall, where we did
      our business with the Duke. Thence I to Westminster Hall and walked up and
      down. Among others Ned Pickering met me and tells me how active my Lord is
      at sea, and that my Lord Hinchingbroke is now at Rome, and, by all report,
      a very noble and hopefull gentleman. Thence to Mr. Povy's, and there met
      Creed, and dined well after his old manner of plenty and curiosity. But I
      sat in pain to think whether he would begin with me again after dinner
      with his enquiry after my bill, but he did not, but fell into other
      discourse, at which I was glad, but was vexed this morning meeting of
      Creed at some bye questions that he demanded of me about some such thing,
      which made me fear he meant that very matter, but I perceive he did not.
      Thence to visit my Lady Sandwich and so to a Tangier Committee, where a
      great company of the new Commissioners, Lords, that in behalfe of my Lord
      Bellasses are very loud and busy and call for Povy's accounts, but it was
      a most sorrowful thing to see how he answered to questions so little to
      the purpose, but to his owne wrong. All the while I sensible how I am
      concerned in my bill of L100 and somewhat more. So great a trouble is
      fear, though in a case that at the worst will bear enquiry. My Lord
      Barkeley was very violent against Povy. But my Lord Ashly, I observe, is a
      most clear man in matters of accounts, and most ingeniously did discourse
      and explain all matters. We broke up, leaving the thing to a Committee of
      which I am one. Povy, Creed, and I staid discoursing, I much troubled in
      mind seemingly for the business, but indeed only on my own behalf, though
      I have no great reason for it, but so painfull a thing is fear. So after
      considering how to order business, Povy and I walked together as far as
      the New Exchange and so parted, and I by coach home. To the office a
      while, then to supper and to bed. This afternoon Secretary Bennet read to
      the Duke of Yorke his letters, which say that Allen
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Among the State Papers is a letter from Captain Thomas Allin to Sir
     Richard Fanshaw, dated from "The Plymouth, Cadiz Bay," December
     25th, 1664, in which he writes: "On the 19th attacked with his seven
     ships left, a Dutch fleet of fourteen, three of which were men-of-
     war; sunk two vessels and took two others, one a rich prize from
     Smyrna; the others retired much battered.  Has also taken a Dutch
     prize laden with iron and planks, coming from Lisbon ("Calendar,"
     Domestic, 1664-65, p. 122).]
</pre>
    <p>
      has met with the Dutch Smyrna fleet at Cales,&mdash;[The old form of the
      name Cadiz.]&mdash;and sunk one and taken three. How true or what these
      ships are time will show, but it is good newes and the newes of our ships
      being lost is doubted at dales and Malaga. God send it false!
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and walked to Mr. Povy's by appointment, where I found him and
      Creed busy about fitting things for the Committee, and thence we to my
      Lord Ashly's, where to see how simply, beyond all patience, Povy did
      again, by his many words and no understanding, confound himself and his
      business, to his disgrace, and rendering every body doubtfull of his being
      either a foole or knave, is very wonderfull. We broke up all dissatisfied,
      and referred the business to a meeting of Mr. Sherwin and others to
      settle, but here it was mighty strange methought to find myself sit herein
      Committee with my hat on, while Mr. Sherwin stood bare as a clerke, with
      his hat off to his Lord Ashlyand the rest, but I thank God I think myself
      never a whit the better man for all that. Thence with Creed to the 'Change
      and Coffee-house, and so home, where a brave dinner, by having a brace of
      pheasants and very merry about Povy's folly. So anon to the office, and
      there sitting very late, and then after a little time at Sir W. Batten's,
      where I am mighty great and could if I thought it fit continue so, I to
      the office again, and there very late, and so home to the sorting of some
      of my books, and so to bed, the weather becoming pretty warm, and I think
      and hope the frost will break.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and by and by to my bookseller's, and there did give thorough
      direction for the new binding of a great many of my old books, to make my
      whole study of the same binding, within very few. Thence to my Lady
      Sandwich's, who sent for me this morning. Dined with her, and it was to
      get a letter of hers conveyed by a safe hand to my Lord's owne hand at
      Portsmouth, which I did undertake. Here my Lady did begin to talk of what
      she had heard concerning Creed, of his being suspected to be a fanatique
      and a false fellow. I told her I thought he was as shrewd and cunning a
      man as any in England, and one that I would feare first should outwit me
      in any thing. To which she readily concurred. Thence to Mr. Povy's by
      agreement, and there with Mr. Sherwin, Auditor Beale, and Creed and I hard
      at it very late about Mr. Povy's accounts, but such accounts I never did
      see, or hope again to see in my days. At night, late, they gone, I did get
      him to put out of this account our sums that are in posse only yet, which
      he approved of when told, but would never have stayed it if I had been
      gone. Thence at 9 at night home, and so to supper vexed and my head akeing
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and it being yesterday and to-day a great thaw it is not for a
      man to walk the streets, but took coach and to Mr. Povy's, and there
      meeting all of us again agreed upon an answer to the Lords by and by, and
      thence we did come to Exeter House, and there was a witness of most [base]
      language against Mr. Povy, from my Lord Peterborough, who is most
      furiously angry with him, because the other, as a foole, would needs say
      that the L26,000 was my Lord Peterborough's account, and that he had
      nothing to do with it. The Lords did find fault also with our answer, but
      I think really my Lord Ashly would fain have the outside of an Exchequer,&mdash;[This
      word is blotted, and the whole sentence is confused.]&mdash;but when we
      come better to be examined. So home by coach, with my Lord Barkeley, who,
      by his discourse, I find do look upon Mr. Coventry as an enemy but yet
      professes great justice and pains. I at home after dinner to the office,
      and there sat all the afternoon and evening, and then home to supper and
      to bed. Memorandum. This day and yesterday, I think it is the change of
      the weather, I have a great deal of pain, but nothing like what I use to
      have. I can hardly keep myself loose, but on the contrary am forced to
      drive away my pain. Here I am so sleepy I cannot hold open my eyes, and
      therefore must be forced to break off this day's passages more shortly
      than I would and should have done. This day was buried (but I could not be
      there) my cozen Percivall Angier; and yesterday I received the newes that
      Dr. Tom Pepys is dead, at Impington, for which I am but little sorry, not
      only because he would have been troublesome to us, but a shame to his
      family and profession; he was such a coxcomb.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to Westminster, where having spoke with Sir Ph. Warwicke, I
      to Jervas, and there I find them all in great disorder about Jane, her
      mistress telling me secretly that she was sworn not to reveal anything,
      but she was undone. At last for all her oath she told me that she had made
      herself sure to a fellow that comes to their house that can only fiddle
      for his living, and did keep him company, and had plainly told her that
      she was sure to him never to leave him for any body else. Now they were
      this day contriving to get her presently to marry one Hayes that was
      there, and I did seem to persuade her to it. And at last got them to
      suffer me to advise privately, and by that means had her company and think
      I shall meet her next Sunday, but I do really doubt she will be undone in
      marrying this fellow. But I did give her my advice, and so let her do her
      pleasure, so I have now and then her company. Thence to the Swan at noon,
      and there sent for a bit of meat and dined, and had my baiser of the fille
      of the house there, but nothing plus. So took coach and to my Lady
      Sandwich's, and so to my bookseller's, and there took home Hooke's book of
      microscopy, a most excellent piece, and of which I am very proud. So home,
      and by and by again abroad with my wife about several businesses, and met
      at the New Exchange, and there to our trouble found our pretty Doll is
      gone away to live they say with her father in the country, but I doubt
      something worse. So homeward, in my way buying a hare and taking it home,
      which arose upon my discourse to-day with Mr. Batten, in Westminster Hall,
      who showed me my mistake that my hare's foote hath not the joynt to it;
      and assures me he never had his cholique since he carried it about him:
      and it is a strange thing how fancy works, for I no sooner almost handled
      his foote but my belly began to be loose and to break wind, and whereas I
      was in some pain yesterday and t'other day and in fear of more to-day, I
      became very well, and so continue. At home to my office a while, and so to
      supper, read, and to cards, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. At the office all the morning. Thence my Lord Brunker carried me as
      far as Mr. Povy's, and there I 'light and dined, meeting Mr. Sherwin,
      Creed, &amp;c., there upon his accounts. After dinner they parted and Mr.
      Povy carried me to Somersett House, and there showed me the
      Queene-Mother's chamber and closett, most beautiful places for furniture
      and pictures; and so down the great stone stairs to the garden, and tried
      the brave echo upon the stairs; which continues a voice so long as the
      singing three notes, concords, one after another, they all three shall
      sound in consort together a good while most pleasantly. Thence to a
      Tangier Committee at White Hall, where I saw nothing ordered by judgment,
      but great heat and passion and faction now in behalf of my Lord Bellasses,
      and to the reproach of my Lord Tiviott, and dislike as it were of former
      proceedings. So away with Mr. Povy, he carrying me homeward to Mark Lane
      in his coach, a simple fellow I now find him, to his utter shame in his
      business of accounts, as none but a sorry foole would have discovered
      himself; and yet, in little, light, sorry things very cunning; yet, in the
      principal, the most ignorant man I ever met with in so great trust as he
      is. To my office till past 12, and then home to supper and to bed, being
      now mighty well, and truly I cannot but impute it to my fresh hare's
      foote. Before I went to bed I sat up till two o'clock in my chamber
      reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopicall Observations, the most ingenious
      book that ever I read in my life.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd (Lord's day). Up, leaving my wife in bed, being sick of her months,
      and to church. Thence home, and in my wife's chamber dined very merry,
      discoursing, among other things, of a design I have come in my head this
      morning at church of making a match between Mrs. Betty Pickering and Mr.
      Hill, my friend the merchant, that loves musique and comes to me
      a'Sundays, a most ingenious and sweet-natured and highly accomplished
      person. I know not how their fortunes may agree, but their disposition and
      merits are much of a sort, and persons, though different, yet equally, I
      think, acceptable. After dinner walked to Westminster, and after being at
      the Abbey and heard a good anthem well sung there, I as I had appointed to
      the Trumpett, there expecting when Jane Welsh should come, but anon comes
      a maid of the house to tell me that her mistress and master would not let
      her go forth, not knowing of my being here, but to keep her from her
      sweetheart. So being defeated, away by coach home, and there spent the
      evening prettily in discourse with my wife and Mercer, and so to supper,
      prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall; but there
      finding the Duke gone to his lodgings at St. James's for all together, his
      Duchesse being ready to lie in, we to him, and there did our usual
      business. And here I met the great newes confirmed by the Duke's own
      relation, by a letter from Captain Allen. First, of our own loss of two
      ships, the Phoenix and Nonesuch, in the Bay of Gibraltar: then of his, and
      his seven ships with him, in the Bay of Cales, or thereabouts, fighting
      with the 34 Dutch Smyrna fleete; sinking the King Salamon, a ship worth a
      L150,000 or more, some say L200,000, and another; and taking of three
      merchant-ships. Two of our ships were disabled, by the Dutch unfortunately
      falling against their will against them; the Advice, Captain W. Poole, and
      Antelope, Captain Clerke: The Dutch men-of-war did little service. Captain
      Allen did receive many shots at distance before he would fire one gun,
      which he did not do till he come within pistol-shot of his enemy. The
      Spaniards on shore at Cales did stand laughing at the Dutch, to see them
      run away and flee to the shore, 34 or thereabouts, against eight
      Englishmen at most. I do purpose to get the whole relation, if I live, of
      Captain Allen himself. In our loss of the two ships in the Bay of
      Gibraltar, it is observable how the world do comment upon the misfortune
      of Captain Moone of the Nonesuch (who did lose, in the same manner, the
      Satisfaction), as a person that hath ill-luck attending him; without
      considering that the whole fleete was ashore. Captain Allen led the way,
      and Captain Allen himself writes that all the masters of the fleete, old
      and young, were mistaken, and did carry their ships aground. But I think I
      heard the Duke say that Moone, being put into the Oxford, had in this
      conflict regained his credit, by sinking one and taking another. Captain
      Seale of the Milford hath done his part very well, in boarding the King
      Salamon, which held out half an hour after she was boarded; and his men
      kept her an hour after they did master her, and then she sunk, and drowned
      about 17 of her men. Thence to Jervas's, my mind, God forgive me, running
      too much after some folly, but 'elle' not being within I away by coach to
      the 'Change, and thence home to dinner. And finding Mrs. Bagwell waiting
      at the office after dinner, away she and I to a cabaret where she and I
      have eat before, and there I had her company 'tout' and had 'mon plaisir'
      of 'elle'. But strange to see how a woman, notwithstanding her greatest
      pretences of love 'a son mari' and religion, may be 'vaincue'. Thence to
      the Court of the Turkey Company at Sir Andrew Rickard's to treat about
      carrying some men of ours to Tangier, and had there a very civil
      reception, though a denial of the thing as not practicable with them, and
      I think so too. So to my office a little and to Jervas's again, thinking
      'avoir rencontrais' Jane, 'mais elle n'etait pas dedans'. So I back again
      and to my office, where I did with great content 'ferais' a vow to mind my
      business, and 'laisser aller les femmes' for a month, and am with all my
      heart glad to find myself able to come to so good a resolution, that
      thereby I may follow my business, which and my honour thereby lies a
      bleeding. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up and by coach to Westminster Hall and the Parliament House, and
      there spoke with Mr. Coventry and others about business and so back to the
      'Change, where no news more than that the Dutch have, by consent of all
      the Provinces, voted no trade to be suffered for eighteen months, but that
      they apply themselves wholly to the warr.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This statement of a total prohibition of all trade, and for so long
     a period as eighteen months, by a government so essentially
     commercial as that of the United Provinces, seems extraordinary.
     The fact was, that when in the beginning of the year 1665 the States
     General saw that the war with England was become inevitable, they
     took several vigorous measures, and determined to equip a formidable
     fleet, and with a view to obtain a sufficient number of men to man
     it, prohibited all navigation, especially in the great and small
     fisheries as they were then called, and in the whale fishery.  This
     measure appears to have resembled the embargoes so commonly resorted
     to in this country on similar occasions, rather than a total
     prohibition of trade.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      And they say it is very true, but very strange, for we use to believe they
      cannot support themselves without trade. Thence home to dinner and then to
      the office, where all the afternoon, and at night till very late, and then
      home to supper and bed, having a great cold, got on Sunday last, by
      sitting too long with my head bare, for Mercer to comb my hair and wash my
      eares.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and busy all the morning, dined at home upon a hare pye, very
      good meat, and so to my office again, and in the afternoon by coach to
      attend the Council at White Hall, but come too late, so back with Mr.
      Gifford, a merchant, and he and I to the Coffee-house, where I met Mr.
      Hill, and there he tells me that he is to be Assistant to the Secretary of
      the Prize Office (Sir Ellis Layton), which is to be held at Sir Richard
      Ford's, which, methinks, is but something low, but perhaps may bring him
      something considerable; but it makes me alter my opinion of his being so
      rich as to make a fortune for Mrs. Pickering. Thence home and visited Sir
      J. Minnes, who continues ill, but is something better; there he told me
      what a mad freaking fellow Sir Ellis Layton hath been, and is, and once at
      Antwerp was really mad. Thence to my office late, my cold troubling me,
      and having by squeezing myself in a coach hurt my testicles, but I hope
      will cease its pain without swelling. So home out of order, to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Lay, being in some pain, but not much, with my last night's bruise,
      but up and to my office, where busy all the morning, the like after dinner
      till very late, then home to supper and to bed. My wife mightily troubled
      with the tooth ake, and my cold not being gone yet, but my bruise
      yesterday goes away again, and it chiefly occasioned I think now from the
      sudden change of the weather from a frost to a great rayne on a sudden.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Called up by Mr. Creed to discourse about some Tangier business, and
      he gone I made me ready and found Jane Welsh, Mr. Jervas his mayde, come
      to tell me that she was gone from her master, and is resolved to stick to
      this sweetheart of hers, one Harbing (a very sorry little fellow, and
      poor), which I did in a word or two endeavour to dissuade her from, but
      being unwilling to keep her long at my house, I sent her away and by and
      by followed her to the Exchange, and thence led her about down to the 3
      Cranes, and there took boat for the Falcon, and at a house looking into
      the fields there took up and sat an hour or two talking and discoursing
      .... Thence having endeavoured to make her think of making herself happy
      by staying out her time with her master and other counsels, but she told
      me she could not do it, for it was her fortune to have this man, though
      she did believe it would be to her ruine, which is a strange, stupid
      thing, to a fellow of no kind of worth in the world and a beggar to boot.
      Thence away to boat again and landed her at the Three Cranes again, and I
      to the Bridge, and so home, and after shifting myself, being dirty, I to
      the 'Change, and thence to Mr. Povy's and there dined, and thence with him
      and Creed to my Lord Bellasses', and there debated a great while how to
      put things in order against his going, and so with my Lord in his coach to
      White Hall, and with him to my Lord Duke of Albemarle, finding him at
      cards. After a few dull words or two, I away to White Hall again, and
      there delivered a letter to the Duke of Yorke about our Navy business, and
      thence walked up and down in the gallery, talking with Mr. Slingsby, who
      is a very ingenious person, about the Mint and coynage of money. Among
      other things, he argues that there being L700,000 coined in the Rump time,
      and by all the Treasurers of that time, it being their opinion that the
      Rump money was in all payments, one with another, about a tenth part of
      all their money. Then, says he, to my question, the nearest guess we can
      make is, that the money passing up and down in business is L7,000,000. To
      another question of mine he made me fully understand that the old law of
      prohibiting bullion to be exported, is, and ever was a folly and an
      injury, rather than good. Arguing thus, that if the exportations exceed
      importations, then the balance must be brought home in money, which, when
      our merchants know cannot be carried out again, they will forbear to bring
      home in money, but let it lie abroad for trade, or keepe in foreign banks:
      or if our importations exceed our exportations, then, to keepe credit, the
      merchants will and must find ways of carrying out money by stealth, which
      is a most easy thing to do, and is every where done; and therefore the law
      against it signifies nothing in the world. Besides, that it is seen, that
      where money is free, there is great plenty; where it is restrained, as
      here, there is a great want, as in Spayne. These and many other fine
      discourses I had from him. Thence by coach home (to see Sir J. Minnes
      first), who is still sick, and I doubt worse than he seems to be. Mrs.
      Turner here took me into her closet, and there did give me a glass of most
      pure water, and shewed me her Rocke, which indeed is a very noble thing
      but a very bawble. So away to my office, where late, busy, and then home
      to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up and to my office, where all the morning, and then home to dinner,
      and after dinner abroad, walked to Paul's Churchyard, but my books not
      bound, which vexed me. So home to my office again, where very late about
      business, and so home to supper and to bed, my cold continuing in a great
      degree upon me still. This day I received a good sum of money due to me
      upon one score or another from Sir G. Carteret, among others to clear all
      my matters about Colours,&mdash;[Flags]&mdash;wherein a month or two since
      I was so embarrassed and I thank God I find myself to have got clear, by
      that commodity, L50 and something more; and earned it with dear pains and
      care and issuing of my owne money, and saved the King near L100 in it.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). Up and to my office, where all the morning, putting
      papers to rights which now grow upon my hands. At noon dined at home. All
      the afternoon at my business again. In the evening come Mr. Andrews and
      Hill, and we up to my chamber and there good musique, though my great cold
      made it the less pleasing to me. Then Mr. Hill (the other going away) and
      I to supper alone, my wife not appearing, our discourse upon the
      particular vain humours of Mr. Povy, which are very extraordinary indeed.
      After supper I to Sir W. Batten's, where I found him, Sir W. Pen, Sir J.
      Robinson, Sir R. Ford and Captain Cocke and Mr. Pen, junior. Here a great
      deal of sorry disordered talk about the Trinity House men, their being
      exempted from land service. But, Lord! to see how void of method and sense
      their discourse was, and in what heat, insomuch as Sir R. Ford (who we
      judged, some of us, to be a little foxed) fell into very high terms with
      Sir W. Batten, and then with Captain Cocke. So that I see that no man is
      wise at all times. Thence home to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. This is solemnly kept as a Fast all over the City, but I kept my
      house, putting my closett to rights again, having lately put it out of
      order in removing my books and things in order to being made clean. At
      this all day, and at night to my office, there to do some business, and
      being late at it, comes Mercer to me, to tell me that my wife was in bed,
      and desired me to come home; for they hear, and have, night after night,
      lately heard noises over their head upon the leads. Now it is strange to
      think how, knowing that I have a great sum of money in my house, this puts
      me into a most mighty affright, that for more than two hours, I could not
      almost tell what to do or say, but feared this and that, and remembered
      that this evening I saw a woman and two men stand suspiciously in the
      entry, in the darke; I calling to them, they made me only this answer, the
      woman said that the men came to see her; but who she was I could not tell.
      The truth is, my house is mighty dangerous, having so many ways to be come
      to; and at my windows, over the stairs, to see who goes up and down; but,
      if I escape to-night, I will remedy it. God preserve us this night safe!
      So at almost two o'clock, I home to my house, and, in great fear, to bed,
      thinking every running of a mouse really a thiefe; and so to sleep, very
      brokenly, all night long, and found all safe in the morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up and with Sir W. Batten to Westminster, where to speak at the
      House with my Lord Bellasses, and am cruelly vexed to see myself put upon
      businesses so uncertainly about getting ships for Tangier being ordered, a
      servile thing, almost every day. So to the 'Change, back by coach with Sir
      W. Batten, and thence to the Crowne, a taverne hard by, with Sir W. Rider
      and Cutler, where we alone, a very good dinner. Thence home to the office,
      and there all the afternoon late. The office being up, my wife sent for
      me, and what was it but to tell me how Jane carries herself, and I must
      put her away presently. But I did hear both sides and find my wife much in
      fault, and the grounds of all the difference is my wife's fondness of Tom,
      to the being displeased with all the house beside to defend the boy, which
      vexes me, but I will cure it. Many high words between my wife and I, but
      the wench shall go, but I will take a course with the boy, for I fear I
      have spoiled him already. Thence to the office, to my accounts, and there
      at once to ease my mind I have made myself debtor to Mr. Povy for the L117
      5s. got with so much joy the last month, but seeing that it is not like to
      be kept without some trouble and question, I do even discharge my mind of
      it, and so if I come now to refund it, as I fear I shall, I shall now be
      ne'er a whit the poorer for it, though yet it is some trouble to me to be
      poorer by such a sum than I thought myself a month since. But, however, a
      quiet mind and to be sure of my owne is worth all. The Lord be praised for
      what I have, which is this month come down to L1257. I staid up about my
      accounts till almost two in the morning.
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      FEBRUARY 1664-1665
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    <p>
      February 1st. Lay long in bed, which made me, going by coach to St.
      James's by appointment to have attended the Duke of Yorke and my Lord
      Bellasses, lose the hopes of my getting something by the hire of a ship to
      carry men to Tangier. But, however, according to the order of the Duke
      this morning, I did go to the 'Change, and there after great pains did
      light of a business with Mr. Gifford and Hubland [Houblon] for bringing me
      as much as I hoped for, which I have at large expressed in my stating the
      case of the "King's Fisher," which is the ship that I have hired, and got
      the Duke of Yorke's agreement this afternoon after much pains and not
      eating a bit of bread till about 4 o'clock. Going home I put in to an
      ordinary by Temple Barr and there with my boy Tom eat a pullet, and thence
      home to the office, being still angry with my wife for yesterday's
      foolery. After a good while at the office, I with the boy to the Sun
      behind the Exchange, by agreement with Mr. Young the flag-maker, and there
      was met by Mr. Hill, Andrews, and Mr. Hubland, a pretty serious man. Here
      two very pretty savoury dishes and good discourse. After supper a song, or
      three or four (I having to that purpose carried Lawes's book), and staying
      here till 12 o'clock got the watch to light me home, and in a continued
      discontent to bed. After being in bed, my people come and say there is a
      great stinke of burning, but no smoake. We called up Sir J. Minnes's and
      Sir W. Batten's people, and Griffin, and the people at the madhouse, but
      nothing could be found to give occasion to it. At this trouble we were
      till past three o'clock, and then the stinke ceasing, I to sleep, and my
      people to bed, and lay very long in the morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Then up and to my office, where till noon and then to the 'Change,
      and at the Coffee-house with Gifford, Hubland, the Master of the ship, and
      I read over and approved a charter-party for carrying goods for Tangier,
      wherein I hope to get some money. Thence home, my head akeing for want of
      rest and too much business. So to the office. At night comes, Povy, and he
      and I to Mrs. Bland's to discourse about my serving her to helpe her to a
      good passage for Tangier. Here I heard her kinswoman sing 3 or 4 very fine
      songs and in good manner, and then home and to supper. My cook mayd Jane
      and her mistresse parted, and she went away this day. I vexed to myself,
      but was resolved to have no more trouble, and so after supper to my office
      and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and walked with my boy (whom, because of my wife's making him
      idle, I dare not leave at home) walked first to Salsbury court, there to
      excuse my not being at home at dinner to Mrs. Turner, who I perceive is
      vexed, because I do not serve her in something against the great feasting
      for her husband's Reading&mdash;[On his appointment as Reader in Law.]&mdash;in
      helping her to some good penn'eths, but I care not. She was dressing
      herself by the fire in her chamber, and there took occasion to show me her
      leg, which indeed is the finest I ever saw, and she not a little proud of
      it. Thence to my Lord Bellasses; thence to Mr. Povy's, and so up and down
      at that end of the town about several businesses, it being a brave frosty
      day and good walking. So back again on foot to the 'Change, in my way
      taking my books from binding from my bookseller's. My bill for the
      rebinding of some old books to make them suit with my study, cost me,
      besides other new books in the same bill, L3; but it will be very
      handsome. At the 'Change did several businesses, and here I hear that
      newes is come from Deale, that the same day my Lord Sandwich sailed thence
      with the fleete, that evening some Dutch men of warr were seen on the back
      side of the Goodwin, and, by all conjecture, must be seen by my Lord's
      fleete; which, if so, they must engage. Thence, being invited, to my uncle
      Wight's, where the Wights all dined; and, among the others, pretty Mrs.
      Margaret, who indeed is a very pretty lady; and though by my vowe it costs
      me 12d. a kiss after the first, yet I did adventure upon a couple. So
      home, and among other letters found one from Jane, that is newly gone,
      telling me how her mistresse won't pay her her Quarter's wages, and withal
      tells me how her mistress will have the boy sit 3 or 4 hours together in
      the dark telling of stories, but speaks of nothing but only her
      indiscretion in undervaluing herself to do it, but I will remedy that, but
      am vexed she should get some body to write so much because of making it
      publique. Then took coach and to visit my Lady Sandwich, where she
      discoursed largely to me her opinion of a match, if it could be thought
      fit by my Lord, for my Lady Jemimah, with Sir G. Carteret's eldest son;
      but I doubt he hath yet no settled estate in land. But I will inform
      myself, and give her my opinion. Then Mrs. Pickering (after private
      discourse ended, we going into the other room) did, at my Lady's command,
      tell me the manner of a masquerade
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The masquerade at Court took place on the 2nd, and is referred to
     by Evelyn, who was present, in his Diary.  Some amusing incidents
     connected with the entertainment are related in the "Grammont
     Memoirs" (chapter vii.).]
</pre>
    <p>
      before the King and Court the other day. Where six women (my Lady
      Castlemayne and Duchesse of Monmouth being two of them) and six men (the
      Duke of Monmouth and Lord Arran and Monsieur Blanfort, being three of
      them) in vizards, but most rich and antique dresses, did dance admirably
      and most gloriously. God give us cause to continue the mirthe! So home,
      and after awhile at my office to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Lay long in bed discoursing with my wife about her mayds, which by
      Jane's going away in discontent and against my opinion do make some
      trouble between my wife and me. But these are but foolish troubles and so
      not to be set to heart, yet it do disturb me mightily these things. To my
      office, and there all the morning. At noon being invited, I to the Sun
      behind the 'Change, to dinner to my Lord Belasses, where a great deal of
      discourse with him, and some good, among others at table he told us a very
      handsome passage of the King's sending him his message about holding out
      the town of Newarke, of which he was then governor for the King. This
      message he sent in a sluggbullet, being writ in cypher, and wrapped up in
      lead and swallowed. So the messenger come to my Lord and told him he had a
      message from the King, but it was yet in his belly; so they did give him
      some physique, and out it come. This was a month before the King's flying
      to the Scotts; and therein he told him that at such a day, being the 3d or
      6th of May, he should hear of his being come to the Scotts, being assured
      by the King of France that in coming to them he should be used with all
      the liberty, honour, and safety, that could be desired. And at the just
      day he did come to the Scotts. He told us another odd passage: how the
      King having newly put out Prince Rupert of his generallshipp, upon some
      miscarriage at Bristoll, and Sir Richard Willis
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir Richard Willis, the betrayer of the Royalists, was one of the
     "Sealed Knot."  When the Restoration had become a certainty, he
     wrote to Clarendon imploring him to intercede for him with the king
     (see Lister's "Life of Clarendon," vol. iii., p. 87).]
</pre>
    <p>
      of his governorship of Newarke, at the entreaty of the gentry of the
      County, and put in my Lord Bellasses, the great officers of the King's
      army mutinyed, and come in that manner with swords drawn, into the
      market-place of the towne where the King was; which the King hearing,
      says, "I must to horse." And there himself personally, when every body
      expected they should have been opposed, the King come, and cried to the
      head of the mutineers, which was Prince Rupert, "Nephew, I command you to
      be gone." So the Prince, in all his fury and discontent, withdrew, and his
      company scattered, which they say was the greatest piece of mutiny in the
      world. Thence after dinner home to my office, and in the evening was sent
      to by Jane that I would give her her wages. So I sent for my wife to my
      office, and told her that rather than be talked on I would give her all
      her wages for this Quarter coming on, though two months is behind, which
      vexed my wife, and we begun to be angry, but I took myself up and sent her
      away, but was cruelly vexed in my mind that all my trouble in this world
      almost should arise from my disorders in my family and the indiscretion of
      a wife that brings me nothing almost (besides a comely person) but only
      trouble and discontent. She gone I late at my business, and then home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). Lay in bed most of the morning, then up and down to my
      chamber, among my new books, which is now a pleasant sight to me to see my
      whole study almost of one binding. So to dinner, and all the afternoon
      with W. Hewer at my office endorsing of papers there, my business having
      got before me much of late. In the evening comes to see me Mr. Sheply,
      lately come out of the country, who goes away again to-morrow, a good and
      a very kind man to me. There come also Mr. Andrews and Hill, and we sang
      very pleasantly; and so, they being gone, I and my wife to supper, and to
      prayers and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up and with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen to St. James's, but the Duke
      is gone abroad. So to White Hall to him, and there I spoke with him, and
      so to Westminster, did a little business, and then home to the 'Change,
      where also I did some business, and went off and ended my contract with
      the "Kingfisher" I hired for Tangier, and I hope to get something by it.
      Thence home to dinner, and visited Sir W. Batten, who is sick again, worse
      than he was, and I am apt to think is very ill. So to my office, and among
      other things with Sir W. Warren 4 hours or more till very late, talking of
      one thing or another, and have concluded a firm league with him in all
      just ways to serve him and myself all I can, and I think he will be a most
      usefull and thankfull man to me. So home to supper and to bed. This being
      one of the coldest days, all say, they ever felt in England; and I this
      day, under great apprehensions of getting an ague from my putting a suit
      on that hath lain by without ayring a great while, and I pray God it do
      not do me hurte.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning, and at home to
      dinner. It being Shrove Tuesday, had some very good fritters. All the
      afternoon and evening at the office, and at night home to supper and to
      bed. This day, Sir W. Batten, who hath been sicke four or five days, is
      now very bad, so as people begin to fear his death; and I am at a loss
      whether it will be better for me to have him die, because he is a bad man,
      or live, for fear a worse should come.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and by coach to my Lord Peterborough's, where anon my Lord Ashly
      and Sir Thomas Ingram met, and Povy about his accounts, who is one of the
      most unhappy accountants that ever I knew in all my life, and one that if
      I were clear in reference to my bill of L117 he should be hanged before I
      would ever have to do with him, and as he understands nothing of his
      business himself, so he hath not one about him that do. Here late till I
      was weary, having business elsewhere, and thence home by coach, and after
      dinner did several businesses and very late at my office, and so home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and to my office, where all the morning very busy. At noon home to
      dinner, and then to my office again, where Sir William Petty come, among
      other things to tell me that Mr. Barlow
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thomas Barlow, Pepys's predecessor as Clerk of the Acts, to whom he
     paid part of the salary.  Barlow held the office jointly with Dennis
     Fleeting.]
</pre>
    <p>
      is dead; for which, God knows my heart, I could be as sorry as is possible
      for one to be for a stranger, by whose death he gets L100 per annum, he
      being a worthy, honest man; but after having considered that when I come
      to consider the providence of God by this means unexpectedly to give me
      L100 a year more in my estate, I have cause to bless God, and do it from
      the bottom of my heart. So home late at night, after twelve o'clock, and
      so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and abroad to Paul's Churchyard, there to see the last of my
      books new bound: among others, my "Court of King James,"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The Court and Character of King James, written and taken by Sir
     Anthony Weldon, being an eye and eare witnesse," was published in
     1650, and reprinted in 1651 under the title of "Truth brought to
     Light" Weldon's book was answered in a work entitled "Aulicus
     Coquinariae."  Both the original book and the answer were reprinted
     in "The Secret History of the Court of King James," Edinburgh, 1811,
     two vols.  (edited by Sir Walter Scott).]
</pre>
    <p>
      and "The Rise and Fall of the Family of the Stewarts;" and much pleased I
      am now with my study; it being, methinks, a beautifull sight. Thence (in
      Mr. Grey's coach, who took me up), to Westminster, where I heard that
      yesterday the King met the Houses to pass the great bill for the
      L2,500,000. After doing a little business I home, where Mr. Moore dined
      with me, and evened our reckonings on my Lord Sandwich's bond to me for
      principal and interest. So that now on both there is remaining due to me
      L257. 7s., and I bless God it is no more. So all the afternoon at my
      office, and late home to supper, prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and to my office, where all the morning. At noon to 'Change by
      coach with my Lord Brunkard, and thence after doing much business home to
      dinner, and so to my office all the afternoon till past 12 at night very
      busy. So home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Lord's day). Up and to church to St. Lawrence to hear Dr. Wilkins,
      the great scholar, for curiosity, I having never heard him: but was not
      satisfied with him at all, only a gentleman sat in the pew I by chance sat
      in, that sang most excellently, and afterward I found by his face that he
      had been a Paul's scholler, but know not his name, and I was also well
      pleased with the church, it being a very fine church. So home to dinner,
      and then to my office all the afternoon doing of business, and in the
      evening comes Mr. Hill (but no Andrews) and we spent the evening very
      finely, singing, supping and discoursing. Then to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up and to St. James's, did our usual business before the Duke.
      Thence I to Westminster and by water (taking Mr. Stapely the rope-maker by
      the way), to his rope-ground and to Limehouse, there to see the manner of
      stoves and did excellently inform myself therein, and coming home did go
      on board Sir W. Petty's "Experiment," which is a brave roomy vessel, and I
      hope may do well. So went on shore to a Dutch [house] to drink some mum,
      and there light upon some Dutchmen, with whom we had good discourse
      touching stoveing
    </p>
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     [Stoveing, in sail-making, is the heating of the bolt-ropes, so as
     to make them pliable.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and making of cables. But to see how despicably they speak of us for our
      using so many hands more to do anything than they do, they closing a cable
      with 20, that we use 60 men upon. Thence home and eat something, and then
      to my office, where very late, and then to supper and to bed. Captain
      Stokes, it seems, is at last dead at Portsmouth.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (St. Valentine). This morning comes betimes Dicke Pen, to be my
      wife's Valentine, and come to our bedside. By the same token, I had him
      brought to my side, thinking to have made him kiss me; but he perceived
      me, and would not; so went to his Valentine: a notable, stout, witty boy.
      I up about business, and, opening the door, there was Bagwell's wife, with
      whom I talked afterwards, and she had the confidence to say she came with
      a hope to be time enough to be my Valentine, and so indeed she did, but my
      oath preserved me from loosing any time with her, and so I and my boy
      abroad by coach to Westminster, where did two or three businesses, and
      then home to the 'Change, and did much business there. My Lord Sandwich
      is, it seems, with his fleete at Alborough Bay. So home to dinner and then
      to the office, where till 12 almost at night, and then home to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and to my office, where busy all the morning. At noon with Creed
      to dinner to Trinity-house, where a very good dinner among the old sokers,
      where an extraordinary discourse of the manner of the loss of the "Royall
      Oake" coming home from Bantam, upon the rocks of Scilly, many passages
      therein very extraordinary, and if I can I will get it in writing. Thence
      with Creed to Gresham College, where I had been by Mr. Povy the last week
      proposed to be admitted a member;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [According to the minutes of the Royal Society for February 15th,
     1664-65, "Mr. Pepys was unanimously elected and admitted."  Notes of
     the experiments shown by Hooke and Boyle are given in Birch's
     "History of the Royal Society," vol. ii., p. 15.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and was this day admitted, by signing a book and being taken by the hand
      by the President, my Lord Brunkard, and some words of admittance said to
      me. But it is a most acceptable thing to hear their discourse, and see
      their experiments; which were this day upon the nature of fire, and how it
      goes out in a place where the ayre is not free, and sooner out where the
      ayre is exhausted, which they showed by an engine on purpose. After this
      being done, they to the Crowne Taverne, behind the 'Change, and there my
      Lord and most of the company to a club supper; Sir P. Neale, Sir R.
      Murrey, Dr. Clerke, Dr. Whistler, Dr. Goddard, and others of most eminent
      worth. Above all, Mr. Boyle to-day was at the meeting, and above him Mr.
      Hooke, who is the most, and promises the least, of any man in the world
      that ever I saw. Here excellent discourse till ten at night, and then
      home, and to Sir W. Batten's, where I hear that Sir Thos. Harvy intends to
      put Mr. Turner out of his house and come in himself, which will be very
      hard to them, and though I love him not, yet for his family's sake I pity
      him. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and with Mr. Andrews to White Hall, where a Committee of
      Tangier, and there I did our victuallers' business for some more money,
      out of which I hope to get a little, of which I was glad; but, Lord! to
      see to what a degree of contempt, nay, scorn, Mr. Povy, through his
      prodigious folly, hath brought himself in his accounts, that if he be not
      a man of a great interest, he will be kicked out of his employment for a
      foole, is very strange, and that most deservedly that ever man was, for
      never any man, that understands accounts so little, ever went through so
      much, and yet goes through it with the greatest shame and yet with
      confidence that ever I saw man in my life. God deliver me in my owne
      business of my bill out of his hands, and if ever I foul my fingers with
      him again let me suffer for it! Back to the 'Change, and thence home to
      dinner, where Mrs. Hunt dined with me, and poor Mrs. Batters; who brought
      her little daughter with her, and a letter from her husband, wherein, as a
      token, the foole presents me very seriously with his daughter for me to
      take the charge of bringing up for him, and to make my owne. But I took no
      notice to her at all of the substance of the letter, but fell to
      discourse, and so went away to the office, where all the afternoon till
      almost one in the morning, and then home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and it being bitter cold, and frost and snow, which I had
      thought had quite left us, I by coach to Povy's, where he told me, as I
      knew already, how he was handled the other day, and is still, by my Lord
      Barkeley, and among other things tells me, what I did not know, how my
      Lord Barkeley will say openly, that he hath fought more set fields&mdash;[Battles
      or actions]&mdash;than any man in England hath done. I did my business
      with him, which was to get a little sum of money paid, and so home with
      Mr. Andrews, who met me there, and there to the office. At noon home and
      there found Lewellin, which vexed me out of my old jealous humour. So to
      my office, where till 12 at night, being only a little while at noon at
      Sir W. Batten's to see him, and had some high words with Sir J. Minnes
      about Sir W. Warren, he calling him cheating knave, but I cooled him, and
      at night at Sir W. Pen's, he being to go to Chatham to-morrow. So home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning; at noon to the
      'Change, and thence to the Royall Oake taverne in Lumbard Streete, where
      Sir William Petty and the owners of the double-bottomed boat (the
      Experiment) did entertain my Lord Brunkard, Sir R. Murrey, myself, and
      others, with marrow bones and a chine of beefe of the victuals they have
      made for this ship; and excellent company and good discourse: but, above
      all, I do value Sir William Petty. Thence home; and took my Lord
      Sandwich's draught of the harbour of Portsmouth down to Ratcliffe, to one
      Burston, to make a plate for the King, and another for the Duke, and
      another for himself; which will be very neat. So home, and till almost one
      o'clock in the morning at my office, and then home to supper and to bed.
      My Lord Sandwich, and his fleete of twenty-five ships in the Downes,
      returned from cruising, but could not meet with any Dutchmen.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Lay in bed, it being Lord's day, all the morning talking with my
      wife, sometimes pleased, sometimes displeased, and then up and to dinner.
      All the afternoon also at home, and Sir W. Batten's, and in the evening
      comes Mr. Andrews, and we sung together, and then to supper, he not
      staying, and at supper hearing by accident of my mayds their letting in a
      rogueing Scotch woman that haunts the office, to helpe them to washe and
      scoure in our house, and that very lately, I fell mightily out, and made
      my wife, to the disturbance of the house and neighbours, to beat our
      little girle, and then we shut her down into the cellar, and there she lay
      all night. So we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to attend the Duke, and then we back
      again and rode into the beginning of my Lord Chancellor's new house, near
      St. James's; which common people have already called Dunkirke-house, from
      their opinion of his having a good bribe for the selling of that towne.
      And very noble I believe it will be. Near that is my Lord Barkeley
      beginning another on one side, and Sir J. Denham on the other. Thence I to
      the House of Lords and spoke with my Lord Bellasses, and so to the
      'Change, and there did business, and so to the Sun taverne, haling in the
      morning had some high words with Sir J. Lawson about his sending of some
      bayled goods to Tangier, wherein the truth is I did not favour him, but
      being conscious that some of my profits may come out by some words that
      fell from him, and to be quiet, I have accommodated it. Here we dined
      merry; but my club and the rest come to 7s. 6d., which was too much.
      Thence to the office, and there found Bagwell's wife, whom I directed to
      go home, and I would do her business, which was to write a letter to my
      Lord Sandwich for her husband's advance into a better ship as there should
      be occasion. Which I did, and by and by did go down by water to Deptford,
      and then down further, and so landed at the lower end of the town, and it
      being dark 'entrer en la maison de la femme de Bagwell', and there had 'sa
      compagnie', though with a great deal of difficulty, 'neanmoins en fin
      j'avais ma volont d'elle', and being sated therewith, I walked home to
      Redriffe, it being now near nine o'clock, and there I did drink some
      strong waters and eat some bread and cheese, and so home. Where at my
      office my wife comes and tells me that she hath hired a chamber mayde, one
      of the prettiest maydes that ever she saw in her life, and that she is
      really jealous of me for her, but hath ventured to hire her from month to
      month, but I think she means merrily. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and to the office (having a mighty pain in my forefinger of my
      left hand, from a strain that it received last night) in struggling 'avec
      la femme que je' mentioned yesterday, where busy till noon, and then my
      wife being busy in going with her woman to a hot-house to bathe herself,
      after her long being within doors in the dirt, so that she now pretends to
      a resolution of being hereafter very clean. How long it will hold I can
      guess. I dined with Sir W. Batten and my Lady, they being now a'days very
      fond of me. So to the 'Change, and off of the 'Change with Mr. Wayth to a
      cook's shop, and there dined again for discourse with him about Hamaccos
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Or hammock-battens: cleats or battens nailed to the sides of a
     vessel's beams, from which to suspend the seamen's hammocks.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and the abuse now practised in tickets, and more like every day to be.
      Also of the great profit Mr. Fen makes of his place, he being, though he
      demands but 5 per cent. of all he pays, and that is easily computed, but
      very little pleased with any man that gives him no more. So to the office,
      and after office my Lord Brunkerd carried me to Lincolne's Inne Fields,
      and there I with my Lady Sandwich (good lady) talking of innocent
      discourse of good housewifery and husbands for her daughters, and the
      luxury and looseness of the times and other such things till past 10
      o'clock at night, and so by coach home, where a little at my office, and
      so to supper and to bed. My Lady tells me how my Lord Castlemayne is
      coming over from France, and is believed will be made friends with his
      Lady again. What mad freaks the Mayds of Honour at Court have: that Mrs.
      Jenings, one of the Duchesses mayds, the other day dressed herself like an
      orange wench, and went up and down and cried oranges; till falling down,
      or by such accident, though in the evening, her fine shoes were discerned,
      and she put to a great deale of shame; that such as these tricks being
      ordinary, and worse among them, thereby few will venture upon them for
      wives: my Lady Castlemayne will in merriment say that her daughter (not
      above a year old or two) will be the first mayde in the Court that will be
      married. This day my Lord Sandwich writ me word from the Downes, that he
      is like to be in towne this week.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Lay last night alone, my wife after her bathing lying alone in
      another bed. So cold all night. Up and to the office, where busy all the
      morning. At noon at the 'Change, busy; where great talk of a Dutch ship in
      the North put on shore, and taken by a troop of horse. Home to dinner and
      Creed with me. Thence to Gresham College, where very noble discourse, and
      thence home busy till past 12 at night, and then home to supper and to
      bed. Mrs. Bland come this night to take leave of me and my wife, going to
      Tangier.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. This day, by the blessing of Almighty God, I have lived thirty-two
      years in the world, and am in the best degree of health at this minute
      that I have been almost in my life time, and at this time in the best
      condition of estate that ever I was in-the Lord make me thankfull. Up, and
      to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon to the 'Change, where I
      hear the most horrid and astonishing newes that ever was yet told in my
      memory, that De Ruyter with his fleete in Guinny hath proceeded to the
      taking of whatever we have, forts, goods, ships, and men, and tied our men
      back to back, and thrown them all into the sea, even women and children
      also. This a Swede or Hamburgher is come into the River and tells that he
      saw the thing done.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Similar reports of the cruelty of the English to the Dutch in
     Guinea were credited in Holland, and were related by Downing in a
     letter to Clarendon from the Hague, dated April 14th, 1665 (Lister's
     "Life of Clarendon," vol. iii., p. 374).]
</pre>
    <p>
      But, Lord! to see the consternation all our merchants are in is
      observable, and with what fury and revenge they discourse of it. But I
      fear it will like other things in a few days cool among us. But that which
      I fear most is the reason why he that was so kind to our men at first
      should afterward, having let them go, be so cruel when he went further.
      What I fear is that there he was informed (which he was not before) of
      some of Holmes's dealings with his countrymen, and so was moved to this
      fury. God grant it be not so! But a more dishonourable thing was never
      suffered by Englishmen, nor a more barbarous done by man, as this by them
      to us. Home to dinner, and then to the office, where we sat all the
      afternoon, and then at night to take my finall leave of Mrs. Bland, who
      sets out to-morrow for Tangier, and then I back to my office till past 12,
      and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and to my office, where all the morning upon advising again with
      some fishermen and the water bayliffe of the City, by Mr. Coventry's
      direction, touching the protections which are desired for the fishermen
      upon the River, and I am glad of the occasion to make me understand
      something of it. At noon home to dinner, and all the afternoon till 9 at
      night in my chamber, and Mr. Hater with me (to prevent being disturbed at
      the office), to perfect my contract book, which, for want of time, hath a
      long time lain without being entered in as I used to do from month to
      month. Then to my office, where till almost 12, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the
      'Change; where just before I come, the Swede that had told the King and
      the Duke so boldly this great lie of the Dutch flinging our men back to
      back into the sea at Guinny, so particularly, and readily, and
      confidently, was whipt round the 'Change: he confessing it a lie, and that
      he did it in hopes to get something. It is said the judges, upon demand,
      did give it their opinion that the law would judge him to be whipt, to
      lose his eares, or to have his nose slit but I do not hear that anything
      more is to be done to him. They say he is delivered over to the Dutch
      Embassador to do what he pleased with him. But the world do think that
      there is some design on one side or other, either of the Dutch or French,
      for it is not likely a fellow would invent such a lie to get money whereas
      he might have hoped for a better reward by telling something in behalf of
      us to please us. Thence to the Sun taverne, and there dined with Sir W.
      Warren and Mr. Gifford, the merchant: and I hear how Nich. Colborne, that
      lately lived and got a great estate there, is gone to live like a prince
      in the country, and that this Wadlow, that did the like at the Devil by
      St. Dunstane's, did go into the country, and there spent almost all he had
      got, and hath now choused this Colborne out of his house, that he might
      come to his old trade again. But, Lord! to see how full the house is, no
      room for any company almost to come into it. Thence home to the office,
      where dispatched much business; at night late home, and to clean myself
      with warm water; my wife will have me, because she do herself, and so to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Sunday). Up and to church, and so home to dinner, and after dinner
      to my office, and there busy all the afternoon, till in the evening comes
      Mr. Andrews and Hill, and so home and to singing. Hill staid and supped
      with me, and very good discourse of Italy, where he was, which is always
      to me very agreeable. After supper, he gone, we to prayers and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up and to St. James's, where we attended the Duke as usual. This
      morning I was much surprized and troubled with a letter from Mrs. Bland,
      that she is left behind, and much trouble it cost me this day to find out
      some way to carry her after the ships to Plymouth, but at last I hope I
      have done it. At noon to the 'Change to inquire what wages the Dutch give
      in their men-of-warr at this day, and I hear for certain they give but
      twelve guilders at most, which is not full 24s., a thing I wonder at. At
      home to dinner, and then in Sir J. Minnes's coach, my wife and I with him,
      and also Mercer, abroad, he and I to White Hall, and he would have his
      coach to wait upon my wife on her visits, it being the first time my wife
      hath been out of doors (but the other day to bathe her) several weeks. We
      to a Committee of the Council to discourse concerning pressing of men;
      but, Lord! how they meet; never sit down: one comes, now another goes,
      then comes another; one complaining that nothing is done, another swearing
      that he hath been there these two hours and nobody come. At last it come
      to this, my Lord Annesly, says he, "I think we must be forced to get the
      King to come to every committee; for I do not see that we do any thing at
      any time but when he is here." And I believe he said the truth and very
      constant he is at the council table on council-days; which his
      predecessors, it seems, very rarely did; but thus I perceive the greatest
      affair in the world at this day is likely to be managed by us. But to hear
      how my Lord Barkeley and others of them do cry up the discipline of the
      late times here, and in the former Dutch warr is strange, wishing with all
      their hearts that the business of religion were not so severely carried on
      as to discourage the sober people to come among us, and wishing that the
      same law and severity were used against drunkennesse as there was then,
      saying that our evil living will call the hand of God upon us again.
      Thence to walk alone a good while in St. James's Parke with Mr. Coventry,
      who I perceive is grown a little melancholy and displeased to see things
      go as they do so carelessly. Thence I by coach to Ratcliffe highway, to
      the plate-maker's, and he has begun my Lord Sandwich's plate very neatly,
      and so back again. Coming back I met Colonell Atkins, who in other
      discourse did offer to give me a piece to receive of me 20 when he proves
      the late news of the Dutch, their drowning our men, at Guinny, and the
      truth is I find the generality of the world to fear that there is
      something of truth in it, and I do fear it too. Thence back by coach to
      Sir Philip Warwicke's; and there he did contract with me a kind of
      friendship and freedom of communication, wherein he assures me to make me
      understand the whole business of the Treasurer's business of the Navy,
      that I shall know as well as Sir G. Carteret what money he hath; and will
      needs have me come to him sometimes, or he meet me, to discourse of things
      tending to the serving the King: and I am mighty proud and happy in
      becoming so known to such a man. And I hope shall pursue it. Thence back
      home to the office a little tired and out of order, and then to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th: At the office all the morning. At noon dined at home. After dinner
      my wife and I to my Lady batten's, it being the first time my wife hath
      been there, I think, these two years, but I had a mind in part to take
      away the strangenesse, and so we did, and all very quiett and kind. Come
      home, I to the taking my wife's kitchen accounts at the latter end of the
      month, and there find 7s. wanting, which did occasion a very high falling
      out between us, I indeed too angrily insisting upon so poor a thing, and
      did give her very provoking high words, calling her beggar, and
      reproaching her friends, which she took very stomachfully and reproached
      me justly with mine; and I confess, being myself, I cannot see what she
      could have done less. I find she is very cunning, and when she least shews
      it hath her wit at work; but it is an ill one, though I think not so bad
      but with good usage I might well bear with it, and the truth is I do find
      that my being over-solicitous and jealous and froward and ready to
      reproach her do make her worse. However, I find that now and then a little
      difference do no hurte, but too much of it will make her know her force
      too much. We parted after many high words very angry, and I to my office
      to my month's accounts, and find myself worth L1270, for which the Lord
      God be praised! So at almost 2 o'clock in the morning I home to supper and
      to bed, and so ends this month, with great expectation of the Hollanders
      coming forth, who are, it seems, very high and rather more ready than we.
      God give a good issue to it!
    </p>
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    <p>
      March 1st. Up, and this day being the day than: by a promise, a great
      while ago, made to my wife, I was to give her L20 to lay out in clothes
      against Easter, she did, notwithstanding last night's falling out, come to
      peace with me and I with her, but did boggle mightily at the parting with
      my money, but at last did give it her, and then she abroad to buy her
      things, and I to my office, where busy all the morning. At noon I to
      dinner at Trinity House, and thence to Gresham College, where Mr. Hooke
      read a second very curious lecture about the late Comett; among other
      things proving very probably that this is the very same Comett that
      appeared before in the year 1618, and that in such a time probably it will
      appear again, which is a very new opinion; but all will be in print. Then
      to the meeting, where Sir G. Carteret's two sons, his owne, and Sir N.
      Slaning, were admitted of the society: and this day I did pay my admission
      money, 40s. to the society. Here was very fine discourses and experiments,
      but I do lacke philosophy enough to understand them, and so cannot
      remember them. Among others, a very particular account of the making of
      the several sorts of bread in France, which is accounted the best place
      for bread in the world. So home, where very busy getting an answer to some
      question of Sir Philip Warwicke touching the expense of the navy, and that
      being done I by coach at 8 at night with my wife and Mercer to Sir
      Philip's and discoursed with him (leaving them in the coach), and then
      back with them home and to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Begun this day to rise betimes before six o'clock, and, going down to
      call my people, found Besse and the girle with their clothes on, lying
      within their bedding upon the ground close by the fireside, and a candle
      burning all night, pretending they would rise to scoure. This vexed me,
      but Besse is going and so she will not trouble me long. Up, and by water
      to Burston about my Lord's plate, and then home to the office, so there
      all the morning sitting. At noon dined with Sir W. Batten (my wife being
      gone again to-day to buy things, having bought nothing yesterday for lack
      of Mrs. Pierces company), and thence to the office again, where very busy
      till 12 at night, and vexed at my wife's staying out so late, she not
      being at home at 9 o'clock, but at last she is come home, but the reason
      of her stay I know not yet. So shut up my books, and home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and abroad about several things, among others to see Mr. Peter
      Honiwood, who was at my house the other day, and I find it was for nothing
      but to pay me my brother John's Quarterage. Thence to see Mrs. Turner, who
      takes it mighty ill I did not come to dine with the Reader, her husband,
      which, she says, was the greatest feast that ever was yet kept by a
      Reader, and I believe it was well. But I am glad I did not go, which
      confirms her in an opinion that I am growne proud. Thence to the 'Change,
      and to several places, and so home to dinner and to my office, where till
      12 at night writing over a discourse of mine to Mr. Coventry touching the
      Fishermen of the Thames upon a reference of the business by him to me
      concerning their being protected from presse. Then home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up very betimes, and walked, it being bitter cold, to Ratcliffe, to
      the plate-maker's and back again. To the office, where we sat all the
      morning, I, with being empty and full of ayre and wind, had some pain
      to-day. Dined alone at home, my wife being gone abroad to buy some more
      things. All the afternoon at the office. William Howe come to see me,
      being come up with my Lord from sea: he is grown a discreet, but very
      conceited fellow. He tells me how little respectfully Sir W. Pen did carry
      it to my Lord onboard the Duke's ship at sea; and that Captain Minnes, a
      favourite of Prince Rupert's, do shew my Lord little respect; but that
      every body else esteems my Lord as they ought. I am sorry for the folly of
      the latter, and vexed at the dissimulation of the former. At night home to
      supper and to bed. This day was proclaimed at the 'Change the war with
      Holland.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). Up, and Mr. Burston bringing me by order my Lord's
      plates, which he has been making this week. I did take coach and to my
      Lord Sandwich's and dined with my Lord; it being the first time he hath
      dined at home since his coming from sea: and a pretty odd demand it was of
      my Lord to my Lady before me: "How do you, sweetheart? How have you done
      all this week?" himself taking notice of it to me, that he had hardly seen
      her the week before. At dinner he did use me with the greatest solemnity
      in the world, in carving for me, and nobody else, and calling often to my
      Lady to cut for me; and all the respect possible. After dinner looked over
      the plates, liked them mightily, and indeed I think he is the most exact
      man in what he do in the world of that kind. So home again, and there
      after a song or two in the evening with Mr. Hill, I to my office, and then
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach, being a most lamentable cold day
      as any this year, to St. James's, and there did our business with the
      Duke. Great preparations for his speedy return to sea. I saw him try on
      his buff coat and hatpiece covered with black velvet. It troubles me more
      to think of his venture, than of anything else in the whole warr. Thence
      home to dinner, where I saw Besse go away; she having of all wenches that
      ever lived with us received the greatest love and kindnesse and good
      clothes, besides wages, and gone away with the greatest ingratitude. I
      then abroad to look after my Hamaccoes, and so home, and there find our
      new chamber-mayde, Mary, come, which instead of handsome, as my wife spoke
      and still seems to reckon, is a very ordinary wench, I think, and therein
      was mightily disappointed. To my office, where busy late, and then home to
      supper and to bed, and was troubled all this night with a pain in my left
      testicle, that run up presently into my left kidney and there kept akeing
      all night. In great pain.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and was pretty well, but going to the office, and I think it was
      sitting with my back to the fire, it set me in a great rage again, that I
      could not continue till past noon at the office, but was forced to go
      home, nor could sit down to dinner, but betook myself to my bed, and being
      there a while my pain begun to abate and grow less and less. Anon I went
      to make water, not dreaming of any thing but my testicle that by some
      accident I might have bruised as I used to do, but in pissing there come
      from me two stones, I could feel them, and caused my water to be looked
      into; but without any pain to me in going out, which makes me think that
      it was not a fit of the stone at all; for my pain was asswaged upon my
      lying down a great while before I went to make water. Anon I made water
      again very freely and plentifully. I kept my bed in good ease all the
      evening, then rose and sat up an hour or two, and then to bed and lay till
      8 o'clock, and then,
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Though a bitter cold day, yet I rose, and though my pain and
      tenderness in my testicle remains a little, yet I do verily think that my
      pain yesterday was nothing else, and therefore I hope my disease of the
      stone may not return to me, but void itself in pissing, which God grant,
      but I will consult my physitian. This morning is brought me to the office
      the sad newes of "The London," in which Sir J. Lawson's men were all
      bringing her from Chatham to the Hope, and thence he was to go to sea in
      her; but a little a'this side the buoy of the Nower, she suddenly blew up.
      About 24 [men] and a woman that were in the round-house and coach saved;
      the rest, being above 300, drowned: the ship breaking all in pieces, with
      80 pieces of brass ordnance. She lies sunk, with her round-house above
      water. Sir J. Lawson hath a great loss in this of so many good chosen men,
      and many relations among them. I went to the 'Change, where the news taken
      very much to heart. So home to dinner, and Mr. Moore with me. Then I to
      Gresham College, and there saw several pretty experiments, and so home and
      to my office, and at night about I I home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the afternoon. At noon to
      dinner at home, and then abroad with my wife, left her at the New Exchange
      and I to Westminster, where I hear Mrs. Martin is brought to bed of a boy
      and christened Charles, which I am very glad of, for I was fearful of
      being called to be a godfather to it. But it seems it was to be done
      suddenly, and so I escaped. It is strange to see how a liberty and going
      abroad without purpose of doing anything do lead a man to what is bad, for
      I was just upon going to her, where I must of necessity [have] broken my
      oath or made a forfeit. But I did not, company being (I heard by my
      porter) with her, and so I home again, taking up my wife, and was set down
      by her at Paule's Schoole, where I visited Mr. Crumlum at his house; and,
      Lord! to see how ridiculous a conceited pedagogue he is, though a learned
      man, he being so dogmaticall in all he do and says. But among other
      discourse, we fell to the old discourse of Paule's Schoole; and he did,
      upon my declaring my value of it, give me one of Lilly's grammars of a
      very old impression, as it was in the Catholique times, which I shall much
      set by. And so, after some small discourse, away and called upon my wife
      at a linen draper's shop buying linen, and so home, and to my office,
      where late, and home to supper and to bed. This night my wife had a new
      suit of flowered ash-coloured silke, very noble.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and to the office all the morning. At noon to the 'Change, where
      very hot, people's proposal of the City giving the King' another ship for
      "The London," that is lately blown up, which would be very handsome, and
      if well managed, might be done; but I fear if it be put into ill hands, or
      that the courtiers do solicit it, it will never be done. Home to dinner,
      and thence to the Committee of Tangier at White Hall, where my Lord
      Barkely and Craven and others; but, Lord! to see how superficially things
      are done in the business of the Lottery, which will be the disgrace of the
      Fishery, and without profit. Home, vexed at my loss of time, and thereto
      my office. Late at night come the two Bellamys, formerly petty warrant
      Victuallers of the Navy, to take my advice about a navy debt of theirs for
      the compassing of which they offer a great deal of money, and the thing
      most just. Perhaps I may undertake it, and get something by it, which will
      be a good job. So home late to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and to the office, at noon home to dinner, and to the office
      again, where very late, and then home to supper and to bed. This day
      returned Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes from Lee Roade, where they have
      been to see the wrecke of "The London," out of which, they say, the guns
      may be got, but the hull of her will be wholly lost, as not being capable
      of being weighed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Lord's day). Up, and borrowing Sir J. Minnes's coach, to my Lord
      Sandwich's, but he was gone abroad. I sent the coach back for my wife, my
      Lord a second time dining at home on purpose to meet me, he having not
      dined once at home but those times since his coming from sea. I sat down
      and read over the Bishop of Chichester's' sermon upon the anniversary of
      the King's death, much cried up, but, methinks, but a mean sermon. By and
      by comes in my Lord, and he and I to talke of many things in the Navy, one
      from another, in general, to see how the greatest things are committed to
      very ordinary men, as to parts and experience, to do; among others, my
      Lord Barkeley. We talked also of getting W. Howe to be put into the
      Muster-Mastershipp in the roome of Creed, if Creed will give way, but my
      Lord do it without any great gusto, calling Howe a proud coxcomb in
      passion. Down to dinner, where my wife in her new lace whiske, which,
      indeed, is very noble, and I much pleased with it, and so my Lady also.
      Here very pleasant my Lord was at dinner, and after dinner did look over
      his plate, which Burston hath brought him to-day, and is the last of the
      three that he will have made. After satisfied with that, he abroad, and I
      after much discourse with my Lady about Sir G. Carteret's son, of whom she
      hath some thoughts for a husband for my Lady Jemimah, we away home by
      coach again, and there sang a good while very pleasantly with Mr. Andrews
      and Hill. They gone; we to supper, and betimes to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up betimes, this being the first morning of my promise upon a
      forfeite not to lie in bed a quarter of an hour after my first waking.
      Abroad to St. James's, and there much business, the King also being with
      us a great while. Thence to the 'Change, and thence with Captain Tayler
      and Sir W. Warren dined at a house hard by for discourse sake, and so I
      home, and there meeting a letter from Mrs. Martin desiring to speak with
      me, I (though against my promise of visiting her) did go, and there found
      her in her childbed dress desiring my favour to get her husband a place. I
      staid not long, but taking Sir W. Warren up at White Hall home, and among
      other discourse fell to a business which he says shall if accomplished
      bring me L100. He gone, I to supper and to bed. This day my wife begun to
      wear light-coloured locks, quite white almost, which, though it makes her
      look very pretty, yet not being natural, vexes me, that I will not have
      her wear them. This day I saw my Lord Castlemayne at St. James's, lately
      come from France.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up before six, to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon
      dined with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, at the Tower, with Sir J.
      Robinson, at a farewell dinner which he gives Major Holmes at his going
      out of the Tower, where he hath for some time, since his coming from
      Guinny, been a prisoner, and, it seems, had presented the Lieutenant with
      fifty pieces yesterday. Here a great deale of good victuals and company.
      Thence home to my office, where very late, and home to supper and to bed
      weary of business.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and by coach with Sir W. Batten to St. James's, where among other
      things before the Duke, Captain Taylor was called in, and, Sir J. Robinson
      his accuser not appearing, was acquitted quite from his charge, and
      declared that he should go to Harwich, which I was very well pleased at.
      Thence I to Mr. Coventry's chamber, and there privately an houre with him
      in discourse of the office, and did deliver to him many notes of things
      about which he is to get the Duke's command, before he goes, for the
      putting of business among us in better order. He did largely owne his
      dependance as to the office upon my care, and received very great
      expressions of love from him, and so parted with great satisfaction to
      myself. So home to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner, where my wife
      being gone down upon a sudden warning from my Lord Sandwich's daughters to
      the Hope with them to see "The Prince," I dined alone. After dinner to the
      office, and anon to Gresham College, where, among other good discourse,
      there was tried the great poyson of Maccassa upon a dogg,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The experiment of trying to poison a dog with some of the Macassar
     powder in which a needle had been dipped was made, but without
     success."&mdash;Pepys himself made a communication at this meeting of
     the information he had received from the master of the Jersey ship,
     who had been in company of Major Holmes in the Guinea voyage,
     concerning the pendulum watches (Birch's "History," vol. ii., p.
     23).]
</pre>
    <p>
      but it had no effect all the time we sat there. We anon broke up and I
      home, where late at my office, my wife not coming home. I to bed,
      troubled, about 12 or past.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, my wife coming
      home from the water this morning, having lain with them on board "The
      Prince" all night. At noon home to dinner, where my wife told me the
      unpleasant journey she had yesterday among the children, whose fear upon
      the water and folly made it very unpleasing to her. A good dinner, and
      then to the office again. This afternoon Mr. Harris, the sayle-maker, sent
      me a noble present of two large silver candlesticks and snuffers, and a
      slice to keep them upon, which indeed is very handsome. At night come Mr.
      Andrews with L36, the further fruits of my Tangier contract, and so to bed
      late and weary with business, but in good content of mind, blessing God
      for these his benefits.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and to my office, and then with Sir W. Batten to St. James's,
      where many come to take leave, as was expected, of the Duke, but he do not
      go till Monday. This night my Lady Wood died of the small-pox, and is much
      lamented among the great persons for a good-natured woman and a good wife,
      but for all that it was ever believed she was as others are. The Duke did
      give us some commands, and so broke up, not taking leave of him. But the
      best piece of newes is, that instead of a great many troublesome Lords,
      the whole business is to be left with the Duke of Albemarle to act as
      Admirall in his stead; which is a thing that do cheer my heart. For the
      other would have vexed us with attendance, and never done the business.
      Thence to the Committee of Tangier, where the Duke a little, and then left
      us and we staid. A very great Committee, the Lords Albemarle, Sandwich,
      Barkely, Fitzharding, Peterborough, Ashley, Sir Thos. Ingram, Sir G.
      Carteret and others. The whole business was the stating of Povy's
      accounts, of whom to say no more, never could man say worse himself nor
      have worse said of him than was by the company to his face; I mean, as to
      his folly and very reflecting words to his honesty. Broke up without
      anything but trouble and shame, only I got my businesses done to the
      signing of two bills for the Contractors and Captain Taylor, and so come
      away well pleased, and home, taking up my wife at the 'Change, to dinner.
      After dinner out again bringing my wife to her father's again at Charing
      Cross, and I to the Committee again, where a new meeting of trouble about
      Povy, who still makes his business worse and worse, and broke up with the
      most open shame again to him, and high words to him of disgrace that they
      would not trust him with any more money till he had given an account of
      this. So broke up. Then he took occasion to desire me to step aside, and
      he and I by water to London together. In the way, of his owne accord, he
      proposed to me that he would surrender his place of Treasurer' to me to
      have half the profit. The thing is new to me; but the more I think the
      more I like it, and do put him upon getting it done by the Duke. Whether
      it takes or no I care not, but I think at present it may have some
      convenience in it. Home, and there find my wife come home and gone to bed,
      of a cold got yesterday by water. At the office Bellamy come to me again,
      and I am in hopes something may be got by his business. So late home to
      supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon to the 'Change,
      and took Mr. Hill along with me to Mr. Povy's, where we dined, and shewed
      him the house to his good content, and I expect when we meet we shall
      laugh at it. But I having business to stay, he went away, and Povy and
      Creed and I to do some business upon Povy's accounts all the afternoon
      till late at night, where, God help him! never man was so confounded, and
      all his people about him in this world as he and his are. After we had
      done something [to the] purpose we broke up, and Povy acquainted me before
      Creed (having said something of it also this morning at our office to me)
      what he had done in speaking to the Duke and others about his making me
      Treasurer, and has carried it a great way, so as I think it cannot well be
      set back. Creed, I perceive, envies me in it, but I think as that will do
      me no hurte, so if it did I am at a great losse to think whether it were
      not best for me to let it wholly alone, for it will much disquiett me and
      my business of the Navy, which in this warr will certainly be worth all my
      time to me. Home, continuing in this doubtfull condition what to think of
      it, but God Almighty do his will in it for the best. To my office, where
      late, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Lord's day). Mr. Povy sent his coach for me betimes, and I to him,
      and there to our great trouble do find that my Lord FitzHarding do appear
      for Mr. Brunkard
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Henry Brouncker, younger brother of William, Viscount Brouncker,
     President of the Royal Society.  He was Groom of the Bedchamber to
     the Duke of York, and succeeded to the office of Cofferer on the
     death of William Ashburnham in 1671.  His character was bad, and his
     conduct in the sea-fight of 1665 was impugned.  He was expelled from
     the House of Commons, but succeeded to his brother's title in 1684.
     He died in January, 1687.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to be Paymaster upon Povy's going out, by a former promise of the Duke's,
      and offering to give as much as any for it. This put us all into a great
      dumpe, and so we went to Creed's new lodging in the Mewes, and there we
      found Creed with his parrot upon his shoulder, which struck Mr. Povy
      coming by just by the eye, very deep, which, had it hit his eye, had put
      it out. This a while troubled us, but not proving very bad, we to our
      business consulting what to do; at last resolved, and I to Mr. Coventry,
      and there had his most friendly and ingenuous advice, advising me not to
      decline the thing, it being that that will bring me to be known to great
      persons, while now I am buried among three or four of us, says he, in the
      Navy; but do not make a declared opposition to my Lord FitzHarding. Thence
      I to Creed, and walked talking in the Park an hour with him, and then to
      my Lord Sandwich's to dinner, and after dinner to Mr. Povy's, who hath
      been with the Duke of Yorke, and, by the mediation of Mr. Coventry, the
      Duke told him that the business shall go on, and he will take off
      Brunkerd, and my Lord FitzHarding is quiett too. But to see the mischief,
      I hear that Sir G. Carteret did not seem pleased, but said nothing when he
      heard me proposed to come in Povy's room, which may learn me to
      distinguish between that man that is a man's true and false friend. Being
      very glad of this news Mr. Povy and I in his coach to Hyde Parke, being
      the first day of the tour there. Where many brave ladies; among others,
      Castlemayne lay impudently upon her back in her coach asleep, with her
      mouth open. There was also my Lady Kerneguy,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Daughter of William, Duke of Hamilton, wife of Lord Carnegy, who
     became Earl of Southesk on his father's death.  She is frequently
     mentioned in the "Memoires de Grammont," and in the letters of the
     second Earl of Chesterfield.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      once my Lady Anne Hambleton, that is said to have given the Duke a clap
      upon his first coming over. Here I saw Sir J. Lawson's daughter and
      husband, a fine couple, and also Mr. Southwell and his new lady, very
      pretty. Thence back, putting in at Dr. Whore's, where I saw his lady, a
      very fine woman. So home, and thither by my desire comes by and by Creed
      and lay with me, very merry and full of discourse, what to do to-morrow,
      and the conveniences that will attend my having of this place, and I do
      think they may be very great.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, Creed and I, and had Mr. Povy's coach sent for us, and we to his
      house; where we did some business in order to the work of this day. Povy
      and I to my Lord Sandwich, who tells me that the Duke is not only a friend
      to the business, but to me, in terms of the greatest love and respect and
      value of me that can be thought, which overjoys me. Thence to St. James's,
      and there was in great doubt of Brunkerd, but at last I hear that Brunkerd
      desists. The Duke did direct Secretary Bennet, who was there, to declare
      his mind to the Tangier Committee, that he approves of me for Treasurer;
      and with a character of me to be a man whose industry and discretion he
      would trust soon as any man's in England: and did the like to my Lord
      Sandwich. So to White Hall to the Committee of Tangier, where there were
      present, my Lord of Albemarle, my Lord Peterborough, Sandwich, Barkeley,
      FitzHarding, Secretary Bennet, Sir Thomas Ingram, Sir John Lawson, Povy
      and I. Where, after other business, Povy did declare his business very
      handsomely; that he was sorry he had been so unhappy in his accounts, as
      not to give their Lordships the satisfaction he intended, and that he was
      sure his accounts are right, and continues to submit them to examination,
      and is ready to lay down in ready money the fault of his account; and that
      for the future, that the work might be better done and with more quiet to
      him, he desired, by approbation of the Duke, he might resign his place to
      Mr. Pepys. Whereupon, Secretary Bennet did deliver the Duke's command,
      which was received with great content and allowance beyond expectation;
      the Secretary repeating also the Duke's character of me. And I could
      discern my Lord FitzHarding was well pleased with me, and signified full
      satisfaction, and whispered something seriously of me to the Secretary.
      And there I received their constitution under all their hands presently;
      so that I am already confirmed their Treasurer, and put into a condition
      of striking of tallys;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The practice of striking tallies at the Exchequer was a curious
     survival of an ancient method of keeping accounts.  The method
     adopted is described in Hubert Hall's "Antiquities and Curiosities
     of the Exchequer," 1891.  The following account of the use of
     tallies, so frequently alluded to in the Diary, was supplied by Lord
     Braybrooke.  Formerly accounts were kept, and large sums of money
     paid and received, by the King's Exchequer, with little other form
     than the exchange or delivery of tallies, pieces of wood notched or
     scored, corresponding blocks being kept by the parties to the
     account; and from this usage one of the head officers of the
     Exchequer was called the tallier, or teller.  These tallies were
     often negotiable; Adam Smith, in his "Wealth of Nations," book ii.,
     ch. xi., says that "in 1696 tallies had been at forty, and fifty,
     and sixty per cent. discount, and bank-notes at twenty per cent."
     The system of tallies was discontinued in 1824; and the destruction
     of the old Houses of Parliament, in the night of October 16th, 1834,
     is thought to have been occasioned by the overheating of the flues,
     when the furnaces were employed to consume the tallies rendered
     useless by the alteration in the mode of keeping the Exchequer
     accounts.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and all without one harsh word or word of dislike, but quite the contrary;
      which is a good fortune beyond all imagination. Here we rose, and Povy and
      Creed and I, all full of joy, thence to dinner, they setting me down at
      Sir J. Winter's, by promise, and dined with him; and a worthy fine man he
      seems to be, and of good discourse, our business was to discourse of
      supplying the King with iron for anchors, if it can be judged good enough,
      and a fine thing it is to see myself come to the condition of being
      received by persons of this rank, he being, and having long been,
      Secretary to the Queene-Mother. Thence to Povy's, and there sat and
      considered of business a little and then home, where late at it, W. Howe
      being with me about his business of accounts for his money laid out in the
      fleet, and he gone, I home to supper and to bed. Newes is this day come of
      Captain Allen's being come home from the Straights, as far as Portland,
      with eleven of the King's ships, and about twenty-two of merchantmen.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and my taylor coming to me, did consult all my wardrobe how to
      order my clothes against next summer. Then to the office, where busy all
      the morning. At noon to the 'Change, and brought home Mr. Andrews, and
      there with Mr. Sheply dined and very merry, and a good dinner. Thence to
      Mr. Povy's to discourse about settling our business of Treasurer, and I
      think all things will go very fayre between us and to my content, but the
      more I see the more silly the man seems to me. Thence by coach to the
      Mewes, but Creed was not there. In our way the coach drove through a lane
      by Drury Lane, where abundance of loose women stood at the doors, which,
      God forgive me, did put evil thoughts in me, but proceeded no further,
      blessed be God. So home, and late at my office, then home and there found
      a couple of state cups, very large, coming, I suppose, each to about L6 a
      piece, from Burrows the slopseller.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and to Mr. Povy's about our business, and thence I to see Sir
      Ph. Warwicke, but could not meet with him. So to Mr. Coventry, whose
      profession of love and esteem for me to myself was so large and free that
      I never could expect or wish for more, nor could have it from any man in
      England, that I should value it more. Thence to Mr. Povy's, and with Creed
      to the 'Change and to my house, but, it being washing day, dined not at
      home, but took him (I being invited) to Mr. Hubland's, the merchant, where
      Sir William Petty, and abundance of most ingenious men, owners and
      freighters of "The Experiment," now going with her two bodies to sea. Most
      excellent discourse. Among others, Sir William Petty did tell me that in
      good earnest he hath in his will left such parts of his estate to him that
      could invent such and such things. As among others, that could discover
      truly the way of milk coming into the breasts of a woman; and he that
      could invent proper characters to express to another the mixture of
      relishes and tastes. And says, that to him that invents gold, he gives
      nothing for the philosopher's stone; for (says he) they that find out
      that, will be able to pay themselves. But, says he, by this means it is
      better than to give to a lecture; for here my executors, that must part
      with this, will be sure to be well convinced of the invention before they
      do part with their money. After dinner Mr. Hill took me with Mrs. Hubland,
      who is a fine gentlewoman, into another room, and there made her sing,
      which she do very well, to my great content. Then to Gresham College, and
      there did see a kitling killed almost quite, but that we could not quite
      kill her, with such a way; the ayre out of a receiver, wherein she was
      put, and then the ayre being let in upon her revives her immediately;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Two experiments were made for the finding out a way to breathe
     under water, useful for divers."  The first was on a bird and the
     second on "a kitling" (Birch's "History," vol. ii., p. 25).]
</pre>
    <p>
      nay, and this ayre is to be made by putting together a liquor and some
      body that ferments, the steam of that do do the work. Thence home, and
      thence to White Hall, where the house full of the Duke's going to-morrow,
      and thence to St. James's, wherein these things fell out: (1) I saw the
      Duke, kissed his hand, and had his most kind expressions of his value and
      opinion of me, which comforted me above all things in the world, (2) the
      like from Mr. Coventry most heartily and affectionately. (3) Saw, among
      other fine ladies, Mrs. Middleton,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Jane, daughter to Sir Robert Needham, is frequently mentioned in
     the "Grammont Memoirs," and Evelyn calls her "that famous and indeed
     incomparable beauty" ("Diary," August 2nd, 1683).  Her portrait is
     in the Royal Collection amongst the beauties of Charles II.'s Court.
     Sir Robert Needham was related to John Evelyn.]
</pre>
    <p>
      a very great beauty I never knew or heard of before; (4) I saw Waller the
      poet, whom I never saw before. So, very late, by coach home with W. Pen,
      who was there. To supper and to bed, with my heart at rest, and my head
      very busy thinking of my several matters now on foot, the new comfort of
      my old navy business, and the new one of my employment on Tangier.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up and to my Lord Sandwich, who follows the Duke this day by water
      down to the Hope, where "The Prince" lies. He received me, busy as he was,
      with mighty kindness and joy at my promotions; telling me most largely how
      the Duke hath expressed on all occasions his good opinion of my service
      and love for me. I paid my thanks and acknowledgement to him; and so back
      home, where at the office all the morning. At noon to the 'Change. Home,
      and Lewellin dined with me. Thence abroad, carried my wife to Westminster
      by coach, I to the Swan, Herbert's, and there had much of the good company
      of Sarah and to my wish, and then to see Mrs. Martin, who was very kind,
      three weeks of her month of lying in is over. So took up my wife and home,
      and at my office a while, and thence to supper and to bed. Great talk of
      noises of guns heard at Deale, but nothing particularly whether in earnest
      or not.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up betimes, and by agreement to the Globe taverne in Fleet Street to
      Mr. Clerke, my sollicitor, about the business of my uncle's accounts, and
      we went with one Jefferys to one of the Barons (Spelman), and there my
      accounts were declared and I sworn to the truth thereof to my knowledge,
      and so I shall after a few formalities be cleared of all. Thence to
      Povy's, and there delivered him his letters of greatest import to him that
      is possible, yet dropped by young Bland, just come from Tangier, upon the
      road by Sittingburne, taken up and sent to Mr. Pett, at Chatham. Thus
      everything done by Povy is done with a fatal folly and neglect. Then to
      our discourse with him, Creed, Mr. Viner, myself and Poyntz about the
      business of the Workehouse at Clerkenwell, and after dinner went thither
      and saw all the works there, and did also consult the Act concerning the
      business and other papers in order to our coming in to undertake it with
      Povy, the management of the House, but I do not think we can safely meddle
      with it, at least I, unless I had time to look after it myself, but the
      thing is very ingenious and laudable. Thence to my Lady Sandwich's, where
      my wife all this day, having kept Good Friday very strict with fasting.
      Here we supped, and talked very merry. My Lady alone with me, very earnest
      about Sir G. Carteret's son, with whom I perceive they do desire my Lady
      Jemimah may be matched. Thence home and to my office, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lady day). Up betimes and to my office, where all the morning. At
      noon dined alone with Sir W. Batten, where great discourse of Sir W. Pen,
      Sir W. Batten being, I perceive, quite out of love with him, thinking him
      too great and too high, and began to talk that the world do question his
      courage, upon which I told him plainly I have been told that he was
      articled against for it, and that Sir H. Vane was his great friend
      therein. This he was, I perceive, glad to hear. Thence to the office, and
      there very late, very busy, to my great content. This afternoon of a
      sudden is come home Sir W. Pen from the fleete, but upon what score I know
      not. Late home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's day and Easter day). Up (and with my wife, who has not been
      at church a month or two) to church. At noon home to dinner, my wife and I
      (Mercer staying to the Sacrament) alone. This is the day seven years
      which, by the blessing of God, I have survived of my being cut of the
      stone, and am now in very perfect good health and have long been; and
      though the last winter hath been as hard a winter as any have been these
      many years, yet I never was better in my life, nor have not, these ten
      years, gone colder in the summer than I have done all this winter, wearing
      only a doublet, and a waistcoate cut open on the back; abroad, a cloake
      and within doors a coate I slipped on. Now I am at a losse to know whether
      it be my hare's foot which is my preservative against wind, for I never
      had a fit of the collique since I wore it, and nothing but wind brings me
      pain, and the carrying away of wind takes away my pain, or my keeping my
      back cool; for when I do lie longer than ordinary upon my back in bed, my
      water the next morning is very hot, or whether it be my taking of a pill
      of turpentine every morning, which keeps me always loose, or all together,
      but this I know, with thanks to God Almighty, that I am now as well as
      ever I can wish or desire to be, having now and then little grudgings of
      wind, that brings me a little pain, but it is over presently, only I do
      find that my backe grows very weak, that I cannot stoop to write or tell
      money without sitting but I have pain for a good while after it. Yet a
      week or two ago I had one day's great pain; but it was upon my getting a
      bruise on one of my testicles, and then I did void two small stones,
      without pain though, and, upon my going to bed and bearing up of my
      testicles, I was well the next. But I did observe that my sitting with my
      back to the fire at the office did then, as it do at all times, make my
      back ake, and my water hot, and brings me some pain. I sent yesterday an
      invitation to Mrs. Turner and her family to come to keep this day with me,
      which she granted, but afterward sent me word that it being Sunday and
      Easter day she desired to choose another and put off this. Which I was
      willing enough to do; and so put it off as to this day, and will leave it
      to my own convenience when to choose another, and perhaps shall escape a
      feast by it. At my office all the afternoon drawing up my agreement with
      Mr. Povy for me to sign to him tomorrow morning. In the evening spent an
      hour in the garden walking with Sir J. Minnes, talking of the Chest
      business, wherein Sir W. Batten deals so unfairly, wherein the old man is
      very hot for the present, but that zeal will not last nor is to be
      trusted. So home to supper, prayers, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up betimes to Mr. Povy's, and there did sign and seal my agreement
      with him about my place of being Treasurer for Tangier, it being the
      greatest part of it drawnout of a draught of his own drawing up, only I
      have added something here and there in favour of myself. Thence to the
      Duke of Albemarle, the first time that we officers of the Navy have waited
      upon him since the Duke of Yorke's going, who hath deputed him to be
      Admirall in his absence. And I find him a quiet heavy man, that will help
      business when he can, and hinder nothing, and am very well pleased with
      our attendance on him. I did afterwards alone give him thanks for his
      favour to me about my Tangier business, which he received kindly, and did
      speak much of his esteem of me. Thence, and did the same to Sir H. Bennet,
      who did the like to me very fully, and did give me all his letters lately
      come from hence for me to read, which I returned in the afternoon to him.
      Thence to Mrs. Martin, who, though her husband is gone away, as he writes,
      like a fool into France, yet is as simple and wanton as ever she was, with
      much I made myself merry and away. So to my Lord Peterborough's; where
      Povy, Creed, Williamson, Auditor Beale, and myself, and mighty merry to
      see how plainly my Lord and Povy did abuse one another about their
      accounts, each thinking the other a foole, and I thinking they were not
      either of them, in that point, much in the wrong, though in everything,
      and even in this manner of reproaching one another, very witty and
      pleasant. Among other things, we had here the genteelest dinner and the
      neatest house that I have seen many a day, and the latter beyond anything
      I ever saw in a nobleman's house. Thence visited my Lord Barkeley, and did
      sit discoursing with him in his chamber a good while, and [he] mighty
      friendly to me about the same business of Tangier. From that to other
      discourse of the times and the want of money, and he said that the
      Parliament must be called again soon, and more money raised, not by tax,
      for he said he believed the people could not pay it, but he would have
      either a general excise upon everything, or else that every city
      incorporate should pay a toll into the King's revenue, as he says it is in
      all the cities in the world; for here a citizen hath no more laid on them
      than their neighbours in the country, whereas, as a city, it ought to pay
      considerably to the King for their charter; but I fear this will breed ill
      blood. Thence to Povy, and after a little talk home to my office late.
      Then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up betimes and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and I
      did most of the business there, God wot. Then to the 'Change, and thence
      to the Coffee-house with Sir W. Warren, where much good discourse for us
      both till 9 o'clock with great pleasure and content, and then parted and I
      home to dinner, having eat nothing, and so to my office. At night supped
      with my wife at Sir W. Pen's, who is to go back for good and all to the
      fleete to-morrow. Took leave and to my office, where till 12 at night, and
      then home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up betimes and to Povy's, where a good while talking about our
      business; thence abroad into the City, but upon his tally could not get
      any money in Lumbard Streete, through the disrepute which he suffers, I
      perceive, upon his giving up his place, which people think was not choice,
      but necessity, as indeed it was. So back to his house, after we had been
      at my house to taste my wine, but my wife being abroad nobody could come
      at it, and so we were defeated. To his house, and before dinner he and I
      did discourse of the business of freight, wherein I am so much concerned,
      above L100 for myself, and in my over hasty making a bill out for the rest
      for him, but he resolves to move Creed in it. Which troubled me much, and
      Creed by and by comes, and after dinner he did, but in the most cunning
      ingenious manner, do his business with Creed by bringing it in by the by,
      that the most subtile man in the world could never have done it better,
      and I must say that he is a most witty, cunning man and one that I (am)
      most afeard of in my conversation, though in all serious matters of
      business the eeriest foole that ever I met with. The bill was produced and
      a copy given Creed, whereupon he wrote his Intratur upon the originall,
      and I hope it will pass, at least I am now put to it that I must stand by
      it and justify it, but I pray God it may never come to that test. Thence
      between vexed and joyed, not knowing what yet to make of it, home, calling
      for my Lord Cooke's 3 volumes at my bookseller's, and so home, where I
      found a new cook mayd, her name is&mdash;&mdash;-that promises very
      little. So to my office, where late about drawing up a proposal for
      Captain Taylor, for him to deliver to the City about his building the new
      ship, which I have done well, and I hope will do the business, and so home
      to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and to my Lord Ashly, but did nothing, and to Sir Ph. Warwicke
      and spoke with him about business, and so back to the office, where all
      the morning. At noon home to dinner, and thence to the Tangier Committee,
      where, Lord! to see how they did run into the giving of Sir J. Lawson (who
      is come to towne to-day to get this business done) L4000 about his Mole
      business, and were going to give him 4s. per yarde more, which arises in
      the whole Mole to L36,000, is a strange thing, but the latter by chance
      was stopped, the former was given. Thence to see Mrs. Martin, whose
      husband being it seems gone away, and as she is informed he hath another
      woman whom he uses, and has long done, as a wife, she is mighty reserved
      and resolved to keep herself so till the return of her husband, which a
      pleasant thing to think of her. Thence home, and to my office, where late,
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up betimes and walked to my Lord Ashly, and there with Creed after
      long waiting spoke with him, and was civilly used by him; thence to Sir
      Ph. Warwicke, and then to visit my Lord of Falmouth, who did also receive
      me pretty civilly, but not as I expected; he, I perceive, believing that I
      had undertaken to justify Povy's accounts, taking them upon myself, but I
      rectified him therein. So to my Lady Sandwich's to dinner, and up to her
      chamber after dinner, and there discoursed about Sir G. Carteret's son, in
      proposition between us two for my Lady Jemimah. So to Povy, and with him
      spent the afternoon very busy, till I was weary of following this and
      neglecting my navy business. So at night called my wife at my Lady's, and
      so home. To my office and there made up my month's account, which, God be
      praised! rose to L1300. Which I bless God for. So after 12 o'clock home to
      supper and to bed. I find Creed mightily transported by my Lord of
      Falmouth's kind words to him, and saying that he hath a place in his
      intention for him, which he believes will be considerable. A witty man he
      is in every respect, but of no good nature, nor a man ordinarily to be
      dealt with. My Lady Castlemayne is sicke again, people think, slipping her
      filly.
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    <p>
      April 1st. All the morning very busy at the office preparing a last
      half-year's account for my Lord Treasurer. At noon eat a bit and stepped
      to Sir Ph. Warwicke, by coach to my Lord Treasurer's, and after some
      private conference and examining of my papers with him I did return into
      the City and to Sir G. Carteret, whom I found with the Commissioners of
      Prizes dining at Captain Cocke's, in Broad Streete, very merry. Among
      other tricks, there did come a blind fiddler to the doore, and Sir G.
      Carteret did go to the doore and lead the blind fiddler by the hand in.
      Thence with Sir G. Carteret to my Lord Treasurer, and by and by come Sir
      W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes, and anon we come to my Lord, and there did
      lay open the expence for the six months past, and an estimate of the seven
      months to come, to November next: the first arising to above L500,000, and
      the latter will, as we judge, come to above L1,000,000. But to see how my
      Lord Treasurer did bless himself, crying he could do no more than he
      could, nor give more money than he had, if the occasion and expence were
      never so great, which is but a sad story. And then to hear how like a
      passionate and ignorant asse Sir G. Carteret did harangue upon the abuse
      of Tickets did make me mad almost and yet was fain to hold my tongue.
      Thence home, vexed mightily to see how simply our greatest ministers do
      content themselves to understand and do things, while the King's service
      in the meantime lies a-bleeding. At my office late writing letters till
      ready to drop down asleep with my late sitting up of late, and running up
      and down a-days. So to bed.
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    <p>
      2nd (Lord's day). At my office all the morning, renewing my vowes in
      writing and then home to dinner. All the afternoon, Mr. Tasborough, one of
      Mr. Povy's clerks, with me about his master's accounts. In the evening Mr.
      Andrews and Hill sang, but supped not with me, then after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up and to the Duke of Albemarle and White Hall, where much business.
      Thence home and to dinner, and then with Creed, my wife, and Mercer to a
      play at the Duke's, of my Lord Orrery's, called "Mustapha," which being
      not good, made Betterton's part and Ianthe's but ordinary too, so that we
      were not contented with it at all. Thence home and to the office a while,
      and then home to supper and to bed. All the pleasure of the play was, the
      King and my Lady Castlemayne were there; and pretty witty Nell,&mdash;[Nell
      Gwynne]&mdash;at the King's house, and the younger Marshall sat next us;
      which pleased me mightily.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. All the morning at the office busy, at noon to the 'Change, and then
      went up to the 'Change to buy a pair of cotton stockings, which I did at
      the husband's shop of the most pretty woman there, who did also invite me
      to buy some linnen of her, and I was glad of the occasion, and bespoke
      some bands of her, intending to make her my seamstress, she being one of
      the prettiest and most modest looked women that ever I did see. Dined at
      home and to the office, where very late till I was ready to fall down
      asleep, and did several times nod in the middle of my letters.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. This day was kept publiquely by the King's command, as a fast day
      against the Dutch warr, and I betimes with Mr. Tooker, whom I have brought
      into the Navy to serve us as a husband to see goods timely shipped off
      from hence to the Fleete and other places, and took him with me to
      Woolwich and Deptford, where by business I have been hindered a great
      while of going, did a very great deale of business, and home, and there by
      promise find Creed, and he and my wife, Mercer and I by coach to take the
      ayre; and, where we had formerly been, at Hackney, did there eat some
      pullets we carried with us, and some things of the house; and after a game
      or two at shuffle-board, home, and Creed lay with me; but, being sleepy,
      he had no mind to talk about business, which indeed I intended, by
      inviting him to lie with me, but I would not force it on him, and so to
      bed, he and I, and to sleep, being the first time I have been so much at
      my ease and taken so much fresh ayre these many weeks or months.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. At the office sat all the morning, where, in the absence of Sir W.
      Batten, Sir G. Carteret being angry about the business of tickets, spoke
      of Sir W. Batten for speaking some words about the signing of tickets, and
      called Sir W. Batten in his discourse at the table to us (the clerks being
      withdrawn) "shitten foole," which vexed me. At noon to the 'Change, and
      there set my business of lighters' buying for the King, to Sir W. Warren,
      and I think he will do it for me to very great advantage, at which I am
      mightily rejoiced. Home and after a mouthfull of dinner to the office,
      where till 6 o'clock, and then to White Hall, and there with Sir G.
      Carteret and my Lord Brunkerd attended the Duke of Albemarle about the
      business of money. I also went to Jervas's, my barber, for my periwigg
      that was mending there, and there do hear that Jane is quite undone,
      taking the idle fellow for her husband yet not married, and lay with him
      several weeks that had another wife and child, and she is now going into
      Ireland. So called my wife at the 'Change and home, and at my office
      writing letters till one o'clock in the morning, that I was ready to fall
      down asleep again. Great talke of a new Comett; and it is certain one do
      now appear as bright as the late one at the best; but I have not seen it
      myself.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up betimes to the Duke of Albemarle about money to be got for the
      Navy, or else we must shut up shop. Thence to Westminster Hall and up and
      down, doing not much; then to London, but to prevent Povy's dining with me
      (who I see is at the 'Change) I went back again and to Herbert's at
      Westminster, there sent for a bit of meat and dined, and then to my Lord
      Treasurer's, and there with Sir Philip Warwicke, and thence to White Hall
      in my Lord Treasurer's chamber with Sir Philip Warwicke till dark night,
      about fower hours talking of the business of the Navy Charge, and how Sir
      G. Carteret do order business, keeping us in ignorance what he do with his
      money, and also Sir Philip did shew me nakedly the King's condition for
      money for the Navy; and he do assure me, unless the King can get some
      noblemen or rich money-gentlemen to lend him money, or to get the City to
      do it, it is impossible to find money: we having already, as he says,
      spent one year's share of the three-years' tax, which comes to L2,500,000.
      Being very glad of this day's discourse in all but that I fear I shall
      quite lose Sir G. Carteret, who knows that I have been privately here all
      this day with Sir Ph. Warwicke. However, I will order it so as to give him
      as little offence as I can. So home to my office, and then to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and all the morning full of business at the office. At noon dined
      with Mr. Povy, and then to the getting some business looked over of his,
      and then I to my Lord Chancellor's, where to have spoke with the Duke of
      Albemarle, but the King and Council busy, I could not; then to the Old
      Exchange and there of my new pretty seamstress bought four bands, and so
      home, where I found my house mighty neat and clean. Then to my office
      late, till past 12, and so home to bed. The French Embassadors
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     natural son of Henry IV. and brother of Henrietta Maria, and M. de
     Courtin.&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      are come incognito before their train, which will hereafter be very
      pompous. It is thought they come to get our King to joyne with the King of
      France in helping him against Flanders, and they to do the like to us
      against Holland. We have laine a good while with a good fleete at Harwich.
      The Dutch not said yet to be out. We, as high as we make our shew, I am
      sure, are unable to set out another small fleete, if this should be
      worsted. Wherefore, God send us peace! I cry.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). To church with my wife in the morning, in her new
      light-coloured silk gowne, which is, with her new point, very noble. Dined
      at home, and in the afternoon to Fanchurch, the little church in the
      middle of Fanchurch Streete, where a very few people and few of any rank.
      Thence, after sermon, home, and in the evening walking in the garden, my
      Lady Pen and her daughter walked with my wife and I, and so to my house to
      eat with us, and very merry, and so broke up and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and to the Duke of Albemarle's, and thence to White Hall to a
      Committee for Tangier, where new disorder about Mr. Povy's accounts, that
      I think I shall never be settled in my business of Treasurer for him. Here
      Captain Cooke met me, and did seem discontented about my boy Tom's having
      no time to mind his singing nor lute, which I answered him fully in, that
      he desired me that I would baste his coate. So home and to the 'Change,
      and thence to the "Old James" to dine with Sir W. Rider, Cutler, and Mr.
      Deering, upon the business of hemp, and so hence to White Hall to have
      attended the King and Lord Chancellor about the debts of the navy and to
      get some money, but the meeting failed. So my Lord Brunkard took me and
      Sir Thomas Harvy in his coach to the Parke, which is very troublesome with
      the dust; and ne'er a great beauty there to-day but Mrs. Middleton, and so
      home to my office, where Mr. Warren proposed my getting of L100 to get him
      a protection for a ship to go out, which I think I shall do. So home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and betimes to Alderman Cheverton to treat with him about hempe,
      and so back to the office. At noon dined at the Sun, behind the 'Change,
      with Sir Edward Deering and his brother and Commissioner Pett, we having
      made a contract with Sir Edward this day about timber. Thence to the
      office, where late very busy, but with some trouble have also some hopes
      of profit too. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, where, contrary to
      all expectation, my Lord Ashly, being vexed with Povy's accounts, did
      propose it as necessary that Povy should be still continued Treasurer of
      Tangier till he had made up his accounts; and with such arguments as, I
      confess, I was not prepared to answer, but by putting off of the
      discourse, and so, I think, brought it right again; but it troubled me so
      all the day after, and night too, that I was not quiet, though I think it
      doubtfull whether I shall be much the worse for it or no, if it should
      come to be so. Dined at home and thence to White Hall again (where I lose
      most of my time now-a-days to my great trouble, charge, and loss of time
      and benefit), and there, after the Council rose, Sir G. Carteret, my Lord
      Brunkard, Sir Thomas Harvy, and myself, down to my Lord Treasurer's
      chamber to him and the Chancellor, and the Duke of Albemarle; and there I
      did give them a large account of the charge of the Navy, and want of
      money. But strange to see how they held up their hands crying, "What shall
      we do?" Says my Lord Treasurer, "Why, what means all this, Mr. Pepys? This
      is true, you say; but what would you have me to do? I have given all I can
      for my life. Why will not people lend their money? Why will they not trust
      the King as well as Oliver? Why do our prizes come to nothing, that
      yielded so much heretofore?" And this was all we could get, and went away
      without other answer, which is one of the saddest things that, at such a
      time as this, with the greatest action on foot that ever was in England,
      nothing should be minded, but let things go on of themselves do as well as
      they can. So home, vexed, and going to my Lady Batten's, there found a
      great many women with her, in her chamber merry, my Lady Pen and her
      daughter, among others; where my Lady Pen flung me down upon the bed, and
      herself and others, one after another, upon me, and very merry we were,
      and thence I home and called my wife with my Lady Pen to supper, and very
      merry as I could be, being vexed as I was. So home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Lay long in bed, troubled a little with wind, but not much. So to
      the office, and there all the morning. At noon to Sheriff Waterman's to
      dinner, all of us men of the office in towne, and our wives, my Lady
      Carteret and daughters, and Ladies Batten, Pen, and my wife, &amp;c., and
      very good cheer we had and merry; musique at and after dinner, and a
      fellow danced a jigg; but when the company begun to dance, I came away
      lest I should be taken out; and God knows how my wife carried herself, but
      I left her to try her fortune. So home, and late at the office, and then
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and betimes to Mr. Povy, being desirous to have an end of my
      trouble of mind touching my Tangier business, whether he hath any desire
      of accepting what my Lord Ashly offered, of his becoming Treasurer again;
      and there I did, with a seeming most generous spirit, offer him to take it
      back again upon his owne terms; but he did answer to me that he would not
      above all things in the world, at which I was for the present satisfied;
      but, going away thence and speaking with Creed, he puts me in doubt that
      the very nature of the thing will require that he be put in again; and did
      give me the reasons of the auditors, which, I confess, are so plain, that
      I know not how to withstand them. But he did give me most ingenious advice
      what to do in it, and anon, my Lord Barkeley and some of the Commissioners
      coming together, though not in a meeting, I did procure that they should
      order Povy's payment of his remain of accounts to me; which order if it do
      pass will put a good stop to the fastening of the thing upon me. At noon
      Creed and I to a cook's shop at Charing Cross, and there dined and had
      much discourse, and his very good upon my business, and upon other things,
      among the rest upon Will Howe's dissembling with us, we discovering one to
      another his carriage to us, present and absent, being a very false fellow.
      Thence to White Hall again, and there spent the afternoon, and then home
      to fetch a letter for the Council, and so back to White Hall, where walked
      an hour with Mr. Wren, of my Lord Chancellor's, and Mr. Ager, and then to
      Unthanke's and called my wife, and with her through the city to Mile-End
      Greene, and eat some creame and cakes and so back home, and I a little at
      the office, and so home to supper and to bed. This morning I was saluted
      with newes that the fleetes, ours and the Dutch, were engaged, and that
      the guns were heard at Walthamstow to play all yesterday, and that Captain
      Teddiman's legs were shot off in the Royall Katherine. But before night I
      hear the contrary, both by letters of my owne and messengers thence, that
      they were all well of our side and no enemy appears yet, and that the
      Royall Katherine is come to the fleete, and likely to prove as good a ship
      as any the King hath, of which I am heartily glad, both for Christopher
      Pett's sake and Captain Teddiman that is in her.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and to White Hall about several businesses, but chiefly to see
      the proposals of my warrants about Tangier under Creed, but to my trouble
      found them not finished. So back to the office, where all the morning,
      busy, then home to dinner, and then all the afternoon till very late at my
      office, and then home to supper and to bed, weary.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, then up and to my chamber and my
      office, looking over some plates which I find necessary for me to
      understand pretty well, because of the Dutch warr. Then home to dinner,
      where Creed dined with us, and so after dinner he and I walked to the
      Rolls' Chappell, expecting to hear the great Stillingfleete preach, but he
      did not; but a very sorry fellow, which vexed me. The sermon done, we
      parted, and I home, where I find Mr. Andrews, and by and by comes Captain
      Taylor, my old acquaintance at Westminster, that understands musique very
      well and composes mighty bravely; he brought us some things of two parts
      to sing, very hard; but that that is the worst, he is very conceited of
      them, and that though they are good makes them troublesome to one, to see
      him every note commend and admire them. He supped with me, and a good
      understanding man he is and a good scholler, and, among other things, a
      great antiquary, and among other things he can, as he says, show the very
      originall Charter to Worcester, of King Edgar's, wherein he stiles
      himself, Rex Marium Brittanniae, &amp;c.; which is the great text that Mr.
      Selden and others do quote, but imperfectly and upon trust. But he hath
      the very originall, which he says he will shew me. He gone we to bed. This
      night I am told that newes is come of our taking of three Dutch
      men-of-warr, with the loss of one of our Captains.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and to the Duke of Albemarle's, where he shewed me Mr. Coventry's
      letters, how three Dutch privateers are taken, in one whereof Everson's'
      son is captaine. But they have killed poor Captaine Golding in The
      Diamond. Two of them, one of 32 and the other of 20 odd guns, did stand
      stoutly up against her, which hath 46, and the Yarmouth that hath 52 guns,
      and as many more men as they. So that they did more than we could expect,
      not yielding till many of their men were killed. And Everson, when he was
      brought before the Duke of Yorke, and was observed to be shot through the
      hat, answered, that he wished it had gone through his head, rather than
      been taken. One thing more is written: that two of our ships the other day
      appearing upon the coast of Holland, they presently fired their beacons
      round the country to give notice. And newes is brought the King, that the
      Dutch Smyrna fleete is seen upon the back of Scotland; and thereupon the
      King hath wrote to the Duke, that he do appoint a fleete to go to the
      Northward to try to meet them coming home round: which God send! Thence to
      White Hall; where the King seeing me, did come to me, and calling me by
      name, did discourse with me about the ships in the River: and this is the
      first time that ever I knew the King did know me personally; so that
      hereafter I must not go thither, but with expectation to be questioned,
      and to be ready to give good answers. So home, and thence with Creed, who
      come to dine with me, to the Old James, where we dined with Sir W. Rider
      and Cutler, and, by and by, being called by my wife, we all to a play,
      "The Ghosts," at the Duke's house, but a very simple play. Thence up and
      down, with my wife with me, to look [for] Sir Ph. Warwicke (Mr. Creed
      going from me), but missed of him and so home, and late and busy at my
      office. So home to supper and to bed. This day was left at my house a very
      neat silver watch, by one Briggs, a scrivener and sollicitor, at which I
      was angry with my wife for receiving, or, at least, for opening the box
      wherein it was, and so far witnessing our receipt of it, as to give the
      messenger 5s. for bringing it; but it can't be helped, and I will
      endeavour to do the man a kindnesse, he being a friend of my uncle
      Wight's.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and to Sir Philip Warwicke, and walked with him an houre with
      great delight in the Parke about Sir G. Carteret's accounts, and the
      endeavours that he hath made to bring Sir G. Carteret to show his accounts
      and let the world see what he receives and what he pays. Thence home to
      the office, where I find Sir J. Minnes come home from Chatham, and Sir W.
      Batten both this morning from Harwich, where they have been these 7 or 8
      days. At noon with my wife and Mr. Moore by water to Chelsey about my
      Privy Seale for Tangier, but my Lord Privy Seale was gone abroad, and so
      we, without going out of the boat, forced to return, and found him not at
      White Hall. So I to Sir Philip Warwicke and with him to my Lord Treasurer,
      who signed my commission for Tangier-Treasurer and the docquet of my Privy
      Seale, for the monies to be paid to me. Thence to White Hall to Mr. Moore
      again, and not finding my Lord I home, taking my wife and woman up at
      Unthanke's. Late at my office, then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up by five o'clock, and by water to White Hall; and there took
      coach, and with Mr. Moore to Chelsy; where, after all my fears what doubts
      and difficulties my Lord Privy Seale would make at my Tangier Privy Seale,
      he did pass it at first reading, without my speaking with him. And then
      called me in, and was very civil to me. I passed my time in contemplating
      (before I was called in) the picture of my Lord's son's lady, a most
      beautiful woman, and most like to Mrs. Butler. Thence very much joyed to
      London back again, and found out Mr. Povy; told him this; and then went
      and left my Privy Seale at my Lord Treasurer's; and so to the 'Change, and
      thence to Trinity-House; where a great dinner of Captain Crisp, who is
      made an Elder Brother. And so, being very pleasant at dinner, away home,
      Creed with me; and there met Povy; and we to Gresham College, where we saw
      some experiments upon a hen, a dogg, and a cat, of the Florence poyson.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Sir Robert Moray presented the Society from the King with a phial
     of Florentine poison sent for by his Majesty from Florence, on
     purpose to have those experiments related of the efficacy thereof,
     tried by the Society."  The poison had little effect upon the kitten
     (Birch's "History;" vol. ii., p. 31).]
</pre>
    <p>
      The first it made for a time drunk, but it come to itself again quickly;
      the second it made vomitt mightily, but no other hurt. The third I did not
      stay to see the effect of it, being taken out by Povy. He and I walked
      below together, he giving me most exceeding discouragements in the getting
      of money (whether by design or no I know not, for I am now come to think
      him a most cunning fellow in most things he do, but his accounts), and
      made it plain to me that money will be hard to get, and that it is to be
      feared Backewell hath a design in it to get the thing forced upon himself.
      This put me into a cruel melancholy to think I may lose what I have had so
      near my hand; but yet something may be hoped for which to-morrow will
      shew. He gone, Creed and I together a great while consulting what to do in
      this case, and after all I left him to do what he thought fit in his
      discourse to-morrow with my Lord Ashly. So home, and in my way met with
      Mr. Warren, from whom my hopes I fear will fail of what I hoped for, by my
      getting him a protection. But all these troubles will if not be over, yet
      we shall see the worst of there in a day or two. So to my office, and
      thence to supper, and my head akeing, betimes, that is by 10 or 11
      o'clock, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and all the morning busy at the office. At noon dined, and Mr.
      Povy by agreement with me (where his boldness with Mercer, poor innocent
      wench, did make both her and me blush, to think how he were able to
      debauch a poor girl if he had opportunity) at a dish or two of plain meat
      of his own choice. After dinner comes Creed and then Andrews, where want
      of money to Andrews the main discourse, and at last in confidence of
      Creed's judgement I am resolved to spare him 4 or L500 of what lies by me
      upon the security of some Tallys. This went against my heart to begin, but
      when obtaining Mr. Creed to joyne with me we do resolve to assist Mr.
      Andrews. Then anon we parted, and I to my office, where late, and then
      home to supper and to bed. This night I am told the first play is played
      in White Hall noon-hall, which is now turned to a house of playing. I had
      a great mind, but could not go to see it.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up and to my office about business. Anon comes Creed and Povy, and
      we treat about the business of our lending money, Creed and I, upon a
      tally for the satisfying of Andrews, and did conclude it as in papers is
      expressed, and as I am glad to have an opportunity of having 10 per cent.
      for my money, so I am as glad that the sum I begin this trade with is no
      more than L350. We all dined at Andrews' charge at the Sun behind the
      'Change, a good dinner the worst dressed that ever I eat any, then home,
      and there found Kate Joyce and Harman come to see us. With them, after
      long talk, abroad by coach, a tour in the fields, and drunk at Islington,
      it being very pleasant, the dust being laid by a little rain, and so home
      very well pleased with this day's work. So after a while at my office to
      supper and to bed. This day we hear that the Duke and the fleete are
      sailed yesterday. Pray God go along with them, that they have good speed
      in the beginning of their worke.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and Mr. Caesar, my boy's lute-master, being come betimes to
      teach him, I did speak with him seriously about the boy, what my mind was,
      if he did not look after his lute and singing that I would turn him away;
      which I hope will do some good upon the boy. All the morning busy at the
      office. At noon dined at home, and then to the office again very busy till
      very late, and so home to supper and to bed. My wife making great
      preparation to go to Court to Chappell to-morrow. This day I have newes
      from Mr. Coventry that the fleete is sailed yesterday from Harwich to the
      coast of Holland to see what the Dutch will do. God go along with them!
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). Mr. Povy, according to promise, sent his coach betimes,
      and I carried my wife and her woman to White Hall Chappell and set them in
      the Organ Loft, and I having left to untruss went to the Harp and Ball and
      there drank also, and entertained myself in talke with the mayde of the
      house, a pretty mayde and very modest. Thence to the Chappell and heard
      the famous young Stillingfleete, whom I knew at Cambridge, and is now
      newly admitted one of the King's chaplains; and was presented, they say,
      to my Lord Treasurer for St. Andrew's, Holborne, where he is now minister,
      with these words: that they (the Bishops of Canterbury, London, and
      another) believed he is the ablest young man to preach the Gospel of any
      since the Apostles. He did make the most plain, honest, good, grave
      sermon, in the most unconcerned and easy yet substantial manner, that ever
      I heard in my life, upon the words of Samuell to the people, "Fear the
      Lord in truth with all your heart, and remember the great things that he
      hath done for you." It being proper to this day, the day of the King's
      Coronation. Thence to Mr. Povy's, where mightily treated, and Creed with
      us. But Lord! to see how Povy overdoes every thing in commending it, do
      make it nauseous to me, and was not (by reason of my large praise of his
      house) over acceptable to my wife. Thence after dinner Creed and we by
      coach took the ayre in the fields beyond St. Pancras, it raining now and
      then, which it seems is most welcome weather, and then all to my house,
      where comes Mr. Hill, Andrews, and Captain Taylor, and good musique, but
      at supper to hear the arguments we had against Taylor concerning a Corant,
      he saying that the law of a dancing Corant is to have every barr to end in
      a pricked crochet and quaver, which I did deny, was very strange. It
      proceeded till I vexed him, but all parted friends, for Creed and I to
      laugh at when he was gone. After supper, Creed and I together to bed, in
      Mercer's bed, and so to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up and with Creed in Sir W. Batten's coach to White Hall. Sir W.
      Batten and I to the Duke of Albemarle, where very busy. Then I to Creed's
      chamber, where I received with much ado my two orders about receiving
      Povy's monies and answering his credits, and it is strange how he will
      preserve his constant humour of delaying all business that comes before
      him. Thence he and I to London to my office, and back again to my Lady
      Sandwich's to dinner, where my wife by agreement. After dinner alone, my
      Lady told me, with the prettiest kind of doubtfullnesse, whether it would
      be fit for her with respect to Creed to do it, that is, in the world, that
      Creed had broke his desire to her of being a servant to Mrs. Betty
      Pickering, and placed it upon encouragement which he had from some
      discourse of her ladyship, commending of her virtues to him, which, poor
      lady, she meant most innocently. She did give him a cold answer, but not
      so severe as it ought to have been; and, it seems, as the lady since to my
      Lady confesses, he had wrote a letter to her, which she answered slightly,
      and was resolved to contemn any motion of his therein. My Lady takes the
      thing very ill, as it is fit she should; but I advise her to stop all
      future occasions of the world's taking notice of his coming thither so
      often as of late he hath done. But to think that he should have this
      devilish presumption to aime at a lady so near to my Lord is strange, both
      for his modesty and discretion. Thence to the Cockepitt, and there walked
      an houre with my Lord Duke of Albemarle alone in his garden, where he
      expressed in great words his opinion of me; that I was the right hand of
      the Navy here, nobody but I taking any care of any thing therein; so that
      he should not know what could be done without me. At which I was (from
      him) not a little proud. Thence to a Committee of Tangier, where because
      not a quorum little was done, and so away to my wife (Creed with me) at
      Mrs. Pierce's, who continues very pretty and is now great with child. I
      had not seen her a great while. Thence by coach to my Lord Treasurer's,
      but could not speak with Sir Ph. Warwicke. So by coach with my wife and
      Mercer to the Parke; but the King being there, and I now-a-days being
      doubtfull of being seen in any pleasure, did part from the tour, and away
      out of the Parke to Knightsbridge, and there eat and drank in the coach,
      and so home, and after a while at my office, home to supper and to bed,
      having got a great cold I think by my pulling off my periwigg so often.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. At the office all the morning, and the like after dinner, at home
      all the afternoon till very late, and then to bed, being very hoarse with
      a cold I did lately get with leaving off my periwigg. This afternoon W.
      Pen, lately come from his father in the fleete, did give me an account how
      the fleete did sayle, about 103 in all, besides small catches, they being
      in sight of six or seven Dutch scouts, and sent ships in chase of them.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up very betimes, my cold continuing and my stomach sick with the
      buttered ale that I did drink the last night in bed, which did lie upon me
      till I did this morning vomitt it up. So walked to Povy's, where Creed met
      me, and there I did receive the first parcel of money as Treasurer of
      Tangier, and did give him my receipt for it, which was about L2,800 value
      in Tallys; we did also examine and settle several other things, and then I
      away to White Hall, talking, with Povy alone, about my opinion of Creed's
      indiscretion in looking after Mrs. Pickering, desiring him to make no more
      a sport of it, but to correct him, if he finds that he continues to owne
      any such thing. This I did by my Lady's desire, and do intend to pursue
      the stop of it. So to the Carrier's by Cripplegate, to see whether my
      mother be come to towne or no, I expecting her to-day, but she is not
      come. So to dinner to my Lady Sandwich's, and there after dinner above in
      the diningroom did spend an houre or two with her talking again about
      Creed's folly; but strange it is that he should dare to propose this
      business himself of Mrs. Pickering to my Lady, and to tell my Lady that he
      did it for her virtue sake, not minding her money, for he could have a
      wife with more, but, for that, he did intend to depend upon her Ladyshipp
      to get as much of her father and mother for her as she could; and that,
      what he did, was by encouragement from discourse of her Ladyshipp's: he
      also had wrote to Mrs. Pickering, but she did give him a slighting answer
      back again. But I do very much fear that Mrs. Pickering's honour, if the
      world comes to take notice of it, may be wronged by it. Thence home, and
      all the afternoon till night at my office, then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and to my office, where all the morning, at noon Creed dined
      with me; and, after dinner, walked in the garden, he telling me that my
      Lord Treasurer now begins to be scrupulous, and will know what becomes of
      the L26,000 saved by my Lord Peterborough, before he parts with any more
      money, which puts us into new doubts, and me into a great fear, that all
      my cake will be doe still.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [An obsolete proverb, signifying to lose one's hopes, a cake coming
     out of the oven in a state of dough being considered spoiled.

         "My cake is dough; but I'll in among the rest;
          Out of hope of all, but my share in the feast."
               Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew, act v., sc.  i.-M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      But I am well prepared for it to bear it, being not clear whether it will
      be more for my profit to have it, or go without it, as my profits of the
      Navy are likely now to be. All the afternoon till late hard at the office.
      Then to supper and to bed. This night William Hewer is returned from
      Harwich, where he hath been paying off of some ships this fortnight, and
      went to sea a good way with the fleete, which was 96 in company then, men
      of warr, besides some come in, and following them since, which makes now
      above 100, whom God bless!
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up by 5 o'clock, and by appointment with Creed by 6 at his chamber,
      expecting Povy, who come not. Thence he and I out to Sir Philip
      Warwicke's, but being not up we took a turn in the garden hard by, and
      thither comes Povy to us. After some discourse of the reason of the
      difficulty that Sir Philip Warwicke makes in issuing a warrant for my
      striking of tallys, namely, the having a clear account of the L26,000
      saved by my Lord of Peterborough, we parted, and I to Sir P. Warwicke, who
      did give me an account of his demurr, which I applied myself to remove by
      taking Creed with me to my Lord Ashly, from whom, contrary to all
      expectation, I received a very kind answer, just as we could have wished
      it, that he would satisfy my Lord Treasurer. Thence very well satisfied I
      home, and down the River to visit the victualling-ships, where I find all
      out of order. And come home to dinner, and then to write a letter to the
      Duke of Albemarle about the victualling-ships, and carried it myself to
      the Council-chamber, where it was read; and when they rose, my Lord
      Chancellor passing by stroked me on the head, and told me that the Board
      had read my letter, and taken order for the punishing of the watermen for
      not appearing on board the ships.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Among the State Papers are lists of watermen impressed and put on
     board the victualling ships.  Attached to one of these is a "note of
     their unfitness and refractory conduct; also that many go ashore to
     sleep, and are discontent that they, as masters of families, are
     pressed, while single men are excused on giving money to the
     pressmen" ("Calendar," Domestic, 1664-65, p. 323).]
</pre>
    <p>
      And so did the King afterwards, who do now know me so well, that he never
      sees me but he speaks to me about our Navy business. Thence got my Lord
      Ashly to my Lord Treasurer below in his chamber, and there removed the
      scruple, and by and by brought Mr. Sherwin to Sir Philip Warwicke and did
      the like, and so home, and after a while at my office, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. All the morning busy at the office. In the afternoon to my Lord
      Treasurer's, and there got my Lord Treasurer to sign the warrant for my
      striking of tallys, and so doing many jobbs in my way home, and there late
      writeing letters, being troubled in my mind to hear that Sir W. Batten and
      Sir J. Minnes do take notice that I am now-a-days much from the office
      upon no office business, which vexes me, and will make me mind my business
      the better, I hope in God; but what troubles me more is, that I do omit to
      write, as I should do, to Mr. Coventry, which I must not do, though this
      night I minded it so little as to sleep in the middle of my letter to him,
      and committed forty blotts and blurrs in my letter to him, but of this I
      hope never more to be guilty, if I have not already given him sufficient
      offence. So, late home, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Lord's day). Up and to my office alone all the morning, making up my
      monthly accounts, which though it hath been very intricate, and very great
      disbursements and receipts and odd reckonings, yet I differed not from the
      truth; viz.: between my first computing what my profit ought to be and
      then what my cash and debts do really make me worth, not above 10s., which
      is very much, and I do much value myself upon the account, and herein I
      with great joy find myself to have gained this month above L100 clear, and
      in the whole to be worth above L1400, the greatest sum I ever yet was
      worth. Thence home to dinner, and there find poor Mr. Spong walking at my
      door, where he had knocked, and being told I was at the office staid
      modestly there walking because of disturbing me, which methinks was one of
      the most modest acts (of a man that hath no need of being so to me) that
      ever I knew in my life. He dined with me, and then after dinner to my
      closet, where abundance of mighty pretty discourse, wherein, in a word, I
      find him the man of the world that hath of his own ingenuity obtained the
      most in most things, being withall no scholler. He gone, I took boat and
      down to Woolwich and Deptford, and made it late home, and so to supper and
      to bed. Thus I end this month in great content as to my estate and
      gettings: in much trouble as to the pains I have taken, and the rubs I
      expect yet to meet with, about the business of Tangier. The fleete, with
      about 106 ships upon the coast of Holland, in sight of the Dutch, within
      the Texel. Great fears of the sickenesse here in the City, it being said
      that two or three houses are already shut up. God preserve as all!
    </p>
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    <p>
      May 1st. Up and to Mr. Povy's, and by his bedside talked a good while.
      Among other things he do much insist I perceive upon the difficulty of
      getting of money, and would fain have me to concur in the thinking of some
      other way of disposing of the place of Treasurer to one Mr. Bell, but I
      did seem slight of it, and resolved to try to do the best or to give it
      up. Thence to the Duke of Albemarle, where I was sorry to find myself to
      come a little late, and so home, and at noon going to the 'Change I met my
      Lord Brunkard, Sir Robert Murry, Deane Wilkins, and Mr. Hooke, going by
      coach to Colonell Blunts to dinner. So they stopped and took me with them.
      Landed at the Tower-wharf, and thence by water to Greenwich; and there
      coaches met us; and to his house, a very stately sight for situation and
      brave plantations; and among others, a vineyard, the first that ever I did
      see. No extraordinary dinner, nor any other entertainment good; but only
      after dinner to the tryall of some experiments about making of coaches
      easy. And several we tried; but one did prove mighty easy (not here for me
      to describe, but the whole body of the coach lies upon one long spring),
      and we all, one after another, rid in it; and it is very fine and likely
      to take. These experiments were the intent of their coming, and pretty
      they are. Thence back by coach to Greenwich, and in his pleasure boat to
      Deptford, and there stopped and in to Mr. Evelyn's,&mdash;[Sayes Court,
      the well-known residence of John Evelyn.]&mdash;which is a most beautiful
      place; but it being dark and late, I staid not; but Deane Wilkins and Mr.
      Hooke and I walked to Redriffe; and noble discourse all day long did
      please me, and it being late did take them to my house to drink, and did
      give them some sweetmeats, and thence sent them with a lanthorn home, two
      worthy persons as are in England, I think, or the world. So to my Lady
      Batten, where my wife is tonight, and so after some merry talk home and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up and to the office all day, where sat late, and then to the office
      again, and by and by Sir W. Batten and my Lady and my wife and I by
      appointment yesterday (my Lady Pen failed us, who ought to have been with
      us) to the Rhenish winehouse at the Steelyard, and there eat a couple of
      lobsters and some prawns, and pretty merry, especially to see us four
      together, while my wife and my Lady did never intend ever to be together
      again after a year's distance between one another. Hither by and by come
      Sir Richard Ford and also Mrs. Esther, that lived formerly with my Lady
      Batten, now well married to a priest, come to see my Lady. Thence toward
      evening home, and to my office, where late, and then home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up betimes and walked to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, where a long time with
      him in his chamber alone talking of Sir G. Carteret's business, and the
      abuses he puts on the nation by his bad payments to both our vexations,
      but no hope of remedy for ought I see. Thence to my Lord Ashly to a
      Committee of Tangier for my Lord Rutherford's accounts, and that done we
      to my Lord Treasurer's, where I did receive my Lord's warrant to Sir R.
      Long for drawing a warrant for my striking of tallys. So to the Inne again
      by Cripplegate, expecting my mother's coming to towne, but she is not come
      this weeke neither, the coach being too full. So to the 'Change and thence
      home to dinner, and so out to Gresham College, and saw a cat killed with
      the Duke of Florence's poyson, and saw it proved that the oyle of tobacco
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Mr. Daniel Coxe read an account of the effects of tobacco-oil
     distilled in a retort, by one drop of which given at the mouth he
     had killed a lusty cat, which being opened, smelled strongly of the
     oil, and the blood of the heart more strongly than the rest....
     One drop of the Florentine 'oglio di tobacco' being again given to a
     dog, it proved stupefying and vomitive, as before" (Birch's "History
     of the Royal Society," vol, ii., pp. 42, 43).]
</pre>
    <p>
      drawn by one of the Society do the same effect, and is judged to be the
      same thing with the poyson both in colour and smell, and effect. I saw
      also an abortive child preserved fresh in spirits of salt. Thence parted,
      and to White Hall to the Councilchamber about an order touching the Navy
      (our being empowered to commit seamen or Masters that do not, being hired
      or pressed, follow their worke), but they could give us none. So a little
      vexed at that, because I put in the memorial to the Duke of Albemarle
      alone under my own hand, home, and after some time at the office home to
      bed. My Lord Chief Justice Hide did die suddenly this week, a day or two
      ago, of an apoplexy.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and to the office, where we sat busy all the morning. At noon
      home to dinner, and then to the office again all day till almost midnight,
      and then, weary, home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up betimes, and by water to Westminster, there to speak the first
      time with Sir Robert Long, to give him my Privy Seal and my Lord
      Treasurer's order for Tangier Tallys; he received me kindly enough. Thence
      home by water, and presently down to Woolwich and back to Blackewall, and
      there, viewed the Breach, in order to a Mast Docke, and so to Deptford to
      the Globe, where my Lord Brunkard, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and
      Commissioner Pett were at dinner, having been at the Breach also, but they
      find it will be too great charge to make use of it. After dinner to Mr.
      Evelyn's; he being abroad, we walked in his garden, and a lovely noble
      ground he hath indeed. And among other rarities, a hive of bees, so as
      being hived in glass, you may see the bees making their honey and combs
      mighty pleasantly. Thence home, and I by and by to Mr. Povy's to see him,
      who is yet in his chamber not well, and thence by his advice to one
      Lovett's, a varnisher, to see his manner of new varnish, but found not him
      at home, but his wife, a very beautiful woman, who shewed me much variety
      of admirable work, and is in order to my having of some papers fitted with
      his lines for my use for tables and the like. I know not whether I was
      more pleased with the thing, or that I was shewed it by her, but resolved
      I am to have some made. So home to my office late, and then to supper and
      to bed. My wife tells me that she hears that my poor aunt James hath had
      her breast cut off here in town, her breast having long been out of order.
      This day, after I had suffered my owne hayre to grow long, in order to
      wearing it, I find the convenience of periwiggs is so great, that I have
      cut off all short again, and will keep to periwiggs.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and all day at the office, but a little at dinner, and there late
      till past 12. So home to bed, pleased as I always am after I have rid a
      great deal of work, it being very satisfactory to me.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). Up, and to church with my wife. Home and dined. After
      dinner come Mr. Andrews and spent the afternoon with me, about our Tangier
      business of the victuals, and then parted, and after sermon comes Mr. Hill
      and a gentleman, a friend of his, one Mr. Scott, that sings well also, and
      then comes Mr. Andrews, and we all sung and supped, and then to sing again
      and passed the Sunday very pleasantly and soberly, and so I to my office a
      little, and then home to prayers and to bed. Yesterday begun my wife to
      learn to, limn of one Browne,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Alexander Browne, a printseller, who taught drawing, and practised
     it with success.  He published in 1669, "Ars Pictoria, or an Academy
     treating of Drawing, Painting, Limning and Etching."]
</pre>
    <p>
      which Mr. Hill helps her to, and, by her beginning upon some eyes, I think
      she will [do] very fine things, and I shall take great delight in it.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up very betimes, and did much business before I went out with several
      persons, among others Captain Taylor, who would leave the management of
      most of his business now he is going to Harwich, upon me, and if I can get
      money by it, which I believe it will, I shall take some of it upon me.
      Thence with Sir W. Batten to the Duke of Albemarle's and there did much
      business, and then to the 'Change, and thence off with Sir W. Warren to an
      ordinary, where we dined and sat talking of most usefull discourse till 5
      in the afternoon, and then home, and very busy till late, and so home and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up betimes, and to my business at the office, where all the morning.
      At noon comes Mrs. The. Turner, and dines with us, and my wife's
      painting-master staid and dined; and I take great pleasure in thinking
      that my wife will really come to something in that business. Here dined
      also Luellin. So after dinner to my office, and there very busy till
      almost midnight, and so home to supper and to bed. This day we have newes
      of eight ships being taken by some of ours going into the Texel, their two
      men of warr, that convoyed them, running in. They come from about Ireland,
      round to the north.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up betimes, and abroad to the Cocke-Pitt, where the Duke [of
      Albemarle] did give Sir W. Batten and me an account of the late taking of
      eight ships, and of his intent to come back to the Gunfleete&mdash;[The
      Gunfleet Sand off the Essex coast.]&mdash;with the fleete presently; which
      creates us much work and haste therein, against the fleete comes. So to
      Mr. Povy, and after discourse with him home, and thence to the Guard in
      Southwarke, there to get some soldiers, by the Duke's order, to go keep
      pressmen on board our ships. So to the 'Change and did much business, and
      then home to dinner, and there find my poor mother come out of the country
      today in good health, and I am glad to see her, but my business, which I
      am sorry for, keeps me from paying the respect I ought to her at her first
      coming, she being grown very weak in her judgement, and doating again in
      her discourse, through age and some trouble in her family. I left her and
      my wife to go abroad to buy something, and then I to my office. In the
      evening by appointment to Sir W. Warren and Mr. Deering at a taverne hard
      by with intent to do some good upon their agreement in a great bargain of
      planks. So home to my office again, and then to supper and to bed, my
      mother being in bed already.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up betimes, and at the office all the morning. At home dined, and
      then to the office all day till late at night, and then home to supper,
      weary with business, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up betimes, and find myself disappointed in my receiving presently
      of my L50 I hoped for sure of Mr. Warren upon the benefit of my press
      warrant, but he promises to make it good. So by water to the Exchequer,
      and there up and down through all the offices to strike my tallys for
      L17,500, which methinks is so great a testimony of the goodness of God to
      me, that I, from a mean clerke there, should come to strike tallys myself
      for that sum, and in the authority that I do now, is a very stupendous
      mercy to me. I shall have them struck to-morrow. But to see how every
      little fellow looks after his fees, and to get what he can for everything,
      is a strange consideration; the King's fees that he must pay himself for
      this L17,500 coming to above L100. Thence called my wife at Unthanke's to
      the New Exchange and elsewhere to buy a lace band for me, but we did not
      buy, but I find it so necessary to have some handsome clothes that I
      cannot but lay out some money thereupon. To the 'Change and thence to my
      watchmaker, where he has put it [i.e. the watch] in order, and a good and
      brave piece it is, and he tells me worth L14 which is a greater present
      than I valued it. So home to dinner, and after dinner comes several
      people, among others my cozen, Thomas Pepys, of Hatcham,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thomas Pepys, of Hatcham Barnes, Surrey, Master of the Jewel House
     to Charles II. and James II.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to receive some money, of my Lord Sandwich's, and there I paid him what
      was due to him upon my uncle's score, but, contrary to my expectation, did
      get him to sign and seale to my sale of lands for payment of debts. So
      that now I reckon myself in better condition by L100 in my content than I
      was before, when I was liable to be called to an account and others after
      me by my uncle Thomas or his children for every foot of land we had sold
      before. This I reckon a great good fortune in the getting of this done. He
      gone, come Mr. Povy, Dr. Twisden, and Mr. Lawson about settling my
      security in the paying of the L4000 ordered to Sir J. Lawson. So a little
      abroad and then home, and late at my office and closet settling this day's
      disordering of my papers, then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and all day in some little gruntings of pain, as I used to have
      from winde, arising I think from my fasting so long, and want of exercise,
      and I think going so hot in clothes, the weather being hot, and the same
      clothes I wore all winter. To the 'Change after office, and received my
      watch from the watchmaker, and a very fine [one] it is, given me by
      Briggs, the Scrivener. Home to dinner, and then I abroad to the Atturney
      Generall, about advice upon the Act for Land Carriage, which he desired
      not to give me before I had received the King's and Council's order
      therein; going home bespoke the King's works, will cost me 50s., I
      believe. So home and late at my office. But, Lord! to see how much of my
      old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still that I cannot forbear
      carrying my watch in my hand in the coach all this afternoon, and seeing
      what o'clock it is one hundred times; and am apt to think with myself, how
      could I be so long without one; though I remember since, I had one, and
      found it a trouble, and resolved to carry one no more about me while I
      lived. So home to supper and to bed, being troubled at a letter from Mr.
      Gholmly from Tangier, wherein he do advise me how people are at worke to
      overthrow our Victualling business, by which I shall lose L300 per annum,
      I am much obliged to him for this, secret kindnesse, and concerned to
      repay it him in his own concernments and look after this.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, it being Whitsunday; my
      wife very fine in a new yellow bird's-eye hood, as the fashion is now. We
      had a most sorry sermon; so home to dinner, my mother having her new suit
      brought home, which makes her very fine. After dinner my wife and she and
      Mercer to Thomas Pepys's wife's christening of his first child, and I took
      a coach, and to Wanstead, the house where Sir H. Mildmay died, and now Sir
      Robert Brookes lives, having bought it of the Duke of Yorke, it being
      forfeited to him. A fine seat, but an old-fashioned house; and being not
      full of people looks desolately. Thence to Walthamstow, where (failing at
      the old place) Sir W. Batten by and by come home, I walking up and down
      the house and garden with my Lady very pleasantly, then to supper very
      merry, and then back by coach by dark night. I all the afternoon in the
      coach reading the treasonous book of the Court of King James, printed a
      great while ago, and worth reading, though ill intended. As soon as I come
      home, upon a letter from the Duke of Albemarle, I took boat at about 12 at
      night, and down the River in a gally, my boy and I, down to the Hope and
      so up again, sleeping and waking, with great pleasure, my business to call
      upon every one of
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Our victualling ships to set them agoing, and so home, and after
      dinner to the King's playhouse, all alone, and saw "Love's Maistresse."
      Some pretty things and good variety in it, but no or little fancy in it.
      Thence to the Duke of Albemarle to give him account of my day's works,
      where he shewed me letters from Sir G. Downing, of four days' date, that
      the Dutch are come out and joyned, well-manned, and resolved to board our
      best ships, and fight for certain they will. Thence to the Swan at
      Herbert's, and there the company of Sarah a little while, and so away and
      called at the Harp and Ball, where the mayde, Mary, is very 'formosa'&mdash;[handsome]&mdash;;
      but, Lord! to see in what readiness I am, upon the expiring of my vowes
      this day, to begin to run into all my pleasures and neglect of business.
      Thence home, and being sleepy to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up betimes, and to the Duke of Albemarle with an account of my
      yesterday's actions in writing. So back to the office, where all the
      morning very busy. After dinner by coach to see and speak with Mr. Povy,
      and after little discourse back again home, where busy upon letters till
      past 12 at night, and so home to supper and to bed, weary.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and by appointment to a meeting of Sir John Lawson and Mr.
      Cholmly's atturney and Mr. Povy at the Swan taverne at Westminster to
      settle their business about my being secured in the payment of money to
      Sir J. Lawson in the other's absence. Thence at Langford's, where I never
      was since my brother died there. I find my wife and Mercer, having with
      him agreed upon two rich silk suits for me, which is fit for me to have,
      but yet the money is too much, I doubt, to lay out altogether; but it is
      done, and so let it be, it being the expense of the world that I can the
      best bear with and the worst spare. Thence home, and after dinner to the
      office, where late, and so home to supper and to bed. Sir J. Minnes and I
      had an angry bout this afternoon with Commissioner Pett about his
      neglecting his duty and absenting himself, unknown to us, from his place
      at Chatham, but a most false man I every day find him more and more, and
      in this very full of equivocation. The fleete we doubt not come to Harwich
      by this time. Sir W. Batten is gone down this day thither, and the
      Duchesse of Yorke went down yesterday to meet the Duke.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to the Duke of Albemarle, where we did
      much business, and I with good content to myself; among other things we
      did examine Nixon and Stanesby, about their late running from two
      Dutchmen;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Captain Edward Nixon, of the "Elizabeth," and Captain John
     Stanesby, of the "Eagle."  John Lanyon wrote to the Navy
     Commissioners from Plymouth, May 16th: "Understands from the seamen
     that the conduct of Captains Nixon and Stanesby in their late
     engagement with two Dutch capers was very foul; the night they left
     the Dutch, no lights were put out as formerly, and though in sight
     of them in the morning, they still kept on their way; the Eagle lay
     by some time, and both the enemy's ships plied on her, but finding
     the Elizabeth nearly out of sight she also made sail; it is true the
     wind and sea were high, but there were no sufficient reasons for
     such endeavours to get from them." ("Calendar of State Papers,"
     Domestic, 1664-65, p. 367).  Both captains were tried; Nixon was
     condemned to be shot but Stanesby was cleared, and Charnock asserts
     that he was commander the "Happy Return" in 1672.]
</pre>
    <p>
      for which they are committed to a vessel to carry them to the fleete to be
      tried. A most fowle unhandsome thing as ever was heard, for plain
      cowardice on Nixon's part. Thence with the Duke of Albemarle in his coach
      to my Lord Treasurer, and there was before the King (who ever now calls me
      by my name) and Lord Chancellor, and many other great Lords, discoursing
      about insuring of some of the King's goods, wherein the King accepted of
      my motion that we should; and so away, well pleased. To the office, and
      dined, and then to the office again, and abroad to speak with Sir G.
      Carteret; but, Lord! to see how fraile a man I am, subject to my vanities,
      that can hardly forbear, though pressed with never so much business, my
      pursuing of pleasure, but home I got, and there very busy very late. Among
      other things consulting with Mr. Andrews about our Tangier business,
      wherein we are like to meet with some trouble, and my Lord Bellasses's
      endeavour to supplant us, which vexes my mind; but, however, our
      undertaking is so honourable that we shall stand a tug for it I think. So
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to White Hall, where the Committee for Tangier met, and
      there, though the case as to the merit of it was most plain and most of
      the company favourable to our business, yet it was with much ado that I
      got the business not carried fully against us, but put off to another day,
      my Lord Arlington being the great man in it, and I was sorry to be found
      arguing so greatly against him. The business I believe will in the end be
      carried against us, and the whole business fall; I must therefore
      endeavour the most I can to get money another way. It vexed me to see
      Creed so hot against it, but I cannot much blame him, having never
      declared to him my being concerned in it. But that that troubles me most
      is my Lord Arlington calls to me privately and asks me whether I had ever
      said to any body that I desired to leave this employment, having not time
      to look after it. I told him, No, for that the thing being settled it will
      not require much time to look after it. He told me then he would do me
      right to the King, for he had been told so, which I desired him to do, and
      by and by he called me to him again and asked me whether I had no friend
      about the Duke, asking me (I making a stand) whether Mr. Coventry was not
      my friend. I told him I had received many friendships from him. He then
      advised me to procure that the Duke would in his next letter write to him
      to continue me in my place and remove any obstruction; which I told him I
      would, and thanked him. So parted, vexed at the first and amazed at this
      business of my Lord Arlington's. Thence to the Exchequer, and there got my
      tallys for L17,500, the first payment I ever had out of the Exchequer, and
      at the Legg spent 14s. upon my old acquaintance, some of them the clerks,
      and away home with my tallys in a coach, fearful every step of having one
      of them fall out, or snatched from me. Being come home, I much troubled
      out again by coach (for company taking Sir W. Warren with me), intending
      to have spoke to my Lord Arlington to have known the bottom of it, but
      missed him, and afterwards discoursing the thing as a confidant to Sir W.
      Warren, he did give me several good hints and principles not to do
      anything suddenly, but consult my pillow upon that and every great thing
      of my life, before I resolve anything in it. Away back home, and not being
      fit for business I took my wife and Mercer down by water to Greenwich at 8
      at night, it being very fine and cool and moonshine afterward. Mighty
      pleasant passage it was; there eat a cake or two, and so home by 10 or 11
      at night, and then to bed, my mind not settled what to think.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning. At noon dined at
      home, and to my office, very busy.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Till past one, Lord's day, in the morning writing letters to the
      fleete and elsewhere, and my mind eased of much business, home to bed and
      slept till 8. So up, and this day is brought home one of my new silk
      suits, the plain one, but very rich camelott and noble. I tried it and it
      pleases me, but did not wear it, being I would not go out today to church.
      So laid it by, and my mind changed, thinking to go see my Lady Sandwich,
      and I did go a little way, but stopped and returned home to dinner, after
      dinner up to my chamber to settle my Tangier accounts, and then to my
      office, there to do the like with other papers. In the evening home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and down to the ships, which now are hindered from going down to
      the fleete (to our great sorrow and shame) with their provisions, the wind
      being against them. So to the Duke of Albemarle, and thence down by water
      to Deptford, it being Trinity Monday, and so the day of choosing the
      Master of Trinity House for the next yeare, where, to my great content, I
      find that, contrary to the practice and design of Sir W. Batten, to breake
      the rule and custom of the Company in choosing their Masters by
      succession, he would have brought in Sir W. Rider or Sir W. Pen, over the
      head of Hurleston (who is a knave too besides, I believe), the younger
      brothers did all oppose it against the elder, and with great heat did
      carry it for Hurleston, which I know will vex him to the heart. Thence,
      the election being over, to church, where an idle sermon from that
      conceited fellow, Dr. Britton, saving that his advice to unity, and laying
      aside all envy and enmity among them was very apposite. Thence walked to
      Redriffe, and so to the Trinity House, and a great dinner, as is usual,
      and so to my office, where busy all the afternoon till late, and then home
      to bed, being much troubled in mind for several things, first, for the
      condition of the fleete for lacke of provisions, the blame this office
      lies under and the shame that they deserve to have brought upon them for
      the ships not being gone out of the River, and then for my business of
      Tangier which is not settled, and lastly for fear that I am not observed
      to have attended the office business of late as much as I ought to do,
      though there has been nothing but my attendance on Tangier that has
      occasioned my absence, and that of late not much.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and at the office busy all the morning. At noon dined alone, my
      wife and mother being gone by invitation to dine with my mother's old
      servant Mr. Cordery, who made them very welcome. So to Mr. Povy's, where
      after a little discourse about his business I home again, and late at the
      office busy. Late comes Sir Arthur Ingram to my office, to tell me that,
      by letters from Amsterdam of the 28th of this month (their style),
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The new style was adopted by most of the countries of Europe long
     before it was legalized in England, although Russia still retains
     the old style.]
</pre>
    <p>
      the Dutch fleete, being about 100 men-of-war, besides fire-ships, &amp;c.,
      did set out upon the 23rd and 24th inst. Being divided into seven
      squadrons; viz., 1. Generall Opdam. 2. Cottenar, of Rotterdam. 3. Trump.
      4. Schram, of Horne. 5. Stillingworth, of Freezland. 6. Everson. 7. One
      other, not named, of Zealand.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and by 4 o'clock in the morning, and with W. Hewer, there till
      12 without intermission putting some papers in order. Thence to the
      Coffee-house with Creed, where I have not been a great while, where all
      the newes is of the Dutch being gone out, and of the plague growing upon
      us in this towne; and of remedies against it: some saying one thing, some
      another. So home to dinner, and after dinner Creed and I to Colvill's,
      thinking to shew him all the respect we could by obliging him in carrying
      him 5 tallys of L5000 to secure him for so much credit he has formerly
      given Povy to Tangier, but he, like an impertinent fool, cavills at it,
      but most ignorantly that ever I heard man in my life. At last Mr. Viner by
      chance comes, who I find a very moderate man, but could not persuade the
      fool to reason, but brought away the tallys again, and so vexed to my
      office, where late, and then home to my supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined at home,
      and then to the office all the afternoon, busy till almost 12 at night,
      and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up at 4 o'clock, and all the morning in my office with W. Hewer
      finishing my papers that were so long out of order, and at noon to my
      bookseller's, and there bespoke a book or two, and so home to dinner,
      where Creed dined with me, and he and I afterwards to Alderman Backewell's
      to try him about supplying us with money, which he denied at first and
      last also, saving that he spoke a little fairer at the end than before.
      But the truth is I do fear I shall have a great deale of trouble in
      getting of money. Thence home, and in the evening by water to the Duke of
      Albemarle, whom I found mightily off the hooks, that the ships are not
      gone out of the River; which vexed me to see, insomuch that I am afeard
      that we must expect some change or addition of new officers brought upon
      us, so that I must from this time forward resolve to make myself appear
      eminently serviceable in attending at my office duly and no where else,
      which makes me wish with all my heart that I had never anything to do with
      this business of Tangier. After a while at my office, home to supper
      vexed, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning; at noon dined at home,
      and then to my office again,, where late, and so to bed, with my mind full
      of fears for the business of this office and troubled with that of
      Tangier, concerning which Mr. Povy was with me, but do give me little
      help, but more reason of being troubled. So that were it not for our
      Plymouth business I would be glad to be rid of it.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). By water to the Duke of Albemarle, where I hear that
      Nixon is condemned to be shot to death, for his cowardice, by a Council of
      War. Went to chapel and heard a little musique, and there met with Creed,
      and with him a little while walking, and to Wilkinson's for me to drink,
      being troubled with winde, and at noon to Sir Philip Warwicke's to dinner,
      where abundance of company come in unexpectedly; and here I saw one pretty
      piece of household stuff, as the company increaseth, to put a larger leaf
      upon an oval table. After dinner much good discourse with Sir Philip, who
      I find, I think, a most pious, good man, and a professor of a
      philosophical manner of life and principles like Epictetus, whom he cites
      in many things. Thence to my Lady Sandwich's, where, to my shame, I had
      not been a great while before. Here, upon my telling her a story of my
      Lord Rochester's running away on Friday night last with Mrs. Mallett, the
      great beauty and fortune of the North, who had supped at White Hall with
      Mrs. Stewart, and was going home to her lodgings with her grandfather, my
      Lord Haly, by coach; and was at Charing Cross seized on by both horse and
      foot men, and forcibly taken from him, and put into a coach with six
      horses, and two women provided to receive her, and carried away. Upon
      immediate pursuit, my Lord of Rochester (for whom the King had spoke to
      the lady often, but with no successe) was taken at Uxbridge; but the lady
      is not yet heard of, and the King mighty angry, and the Lord sent to the
      Tower. Hereupon my Lady did confess to me, as a great secret, her being
      concerned in this story. For if this match breaks between my Lord
      Rochester and her, then, by the consent of all her friends, my Lord
      Hinchingbroke stands fair, and is invited for her. She is worth, and will
      be at her mother's death (who keeps but a little from her), L2500 per
      annum. Pray God give a good success to it! But my poor Lady, who is afeard
      of the sickness, and resolved to be gone into the country, is forced to
      stay in towne a day or two, or three about it, to see the event of it.
      Thence home and to see my Lady Pen, where my wife and I were shown a fine
      rarity: of fishes kept in a glass of water, that will live so for ever;
      and finely marked they are, being foreign.&mdash;[Gold-fish introduced
      from China.]&mdash;So to supper at home and to bed, after many people
      being with me about business, among others the two Bellamys about their
      old debt due to them from the King for their victualling business, out of
      which I hope to get some money.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Lay long in bed, being in some little pain of the wind collique,
      then up and to the Duke of Albemarle, and so to the Swan, and there drank
      at Herbert's, and so by coach home, it being kept a great holiday through
      the City, for the birth and restoration of the King. To my office, where I
      stood by and saw Symson the joyner do several things, little jobbs, to the
      rendering of my closet handsome and the setting up of some neat plates
      that Burston has for my money made me, and so home to dinner, and then
      with my wife, mother, and Mercer in one boat, and I in another, down to
      Woolwich. I walking from Greenwich, the others going to and fro upon the
      water till my coming back, having done but little business. So home and to
      supper, and, weary, to bed. We have every where taken some prizes. Our
      merchants have good luck to come home safe: Colliers from the North, and
      some Streights men just now. And our Hambrough ships, of whom we were so
      much afeard, are safe in Hambrough. Our fleete resolved to sail out again
      from Harwich in a day or two.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Lay long, and very busy all the morning, at noon to the 'Change, and
      thence to dinner to Sir G. Carteret's, to talk upon the business of
      insuring our goods upon the Hambrough [ships]. Here a very fine, neat
      French dinner, without much cost, we being all alone with my Lady and one
      of the house with her; thence home and wrote letters, and then in the
      evening, by coach, with my wife and mother and Mercer, our usual tour by
      coach, and eat at the old house at Islington; but, Lord! to see how my
      mother found herself talk upon every object to think of old stories. Here
      I met with one that tells me that Jack Cole, my old schoolefellow, is dead
      and buried lately of a consumption, who was a great crony of mine. So back
      again home, and there to my closet to write letters. Hear to my great
      trouble that our Hambrough ships,
    </p>
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     [On May 29th Sir William Coventry wrote to Lord Arlington: "Capt.
     Langhorne has arrived with seven ships, and reports the taking of
     the Hamburg fleet with the man of war their convoy; mistaking the
     Dutch fleet for the English, he fell into it" ("Calendar of State
     Papers," Domestic, 1664-65, p. 393)]
</pre>
    <p>
      valued of the King's goods and the merchants' (though but little of the
      former) to L200,000 [are lost]. By and by, about 11 at night, called into
      the garden by my Lady Pen and daughter, and there walked with them and my
      wife till almost twelve, and so in and closed my letters, and home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up, and to my office, and to Westminster, doing business till noon,
      and then to the 'Change, where great the noise and trouble of having our
      Hambrough ships lost; and that very much placed upon Mr. Coventry's
      forgetting to give notice to them of the going away of our fleete from the
      coast of Holland. But all without reason, for he did; but the merchants
      not being ready, staid longer than the time ordered for the convoy to
      stay, which was ten days. Thence home with Creed and Mr. Moore to dinner.
      Anon we broke up, and Creed and I to discourse about our Tangier matters
      of money, which vex me. So to Gresham College, staid a very little while,
      and away and I home busy, and busy late, at the end of the month, about my
      month's accounts, but by the addition of Tangier it is rendered more
      intricate, and so (which I have not done these 12 months, nor would
      willingly have done now) failed of having it done, but I will do it as
      soon as I can. So weary and sleepy to bed. I endeavoured but missed of
      seeing Sir Thomas Ingram at Westminster, so went to Houseman's the
      Painter, who I intend shall draw my wife, but he was not within, but I saw
      several very good pictures.
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      JUNE 1665
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    <p>
      June 1st. Up and to the office, where sat all the morning, at noon to the
      'Change, and there did some business, and home to dinner, whither Creed
      comes, and after dinner I put on my new silke camelott sute; the best that
      ever I wore in my life, the sute costing me above L24. In this I went with
      Creed to Goldsmiths' Hall, to the burial of Sir Thomas Viner; which Hall,
      and Haberdashers also, was so full of people, that we were fain for ease
      and coolness to go forth to Pater Noster Row, to choose a silke to make me
      a plain ordinary suit. That done, we walked to Cornehill, and there at Mr.
      Cade's' stood in the balcon and saw all the funeral, which was with the
      blue-coat boys and old men, all the Aldermen, and Lord Mayor, &amp;c., and
      the number of the company very great; the greatest I ever did see for a
      taverne. Hither come up to us Dr. Allen, and then Mr. Povy and Mr. Fox.
      The show being over, and my discourse with Mr. Povy, I took coach and to
      Westminster Hall, where I took the fairest flower, and by coach to Tothill
      Fields for the ayre till it was dark. I 'light, and in with the fairest
      flower to eat a cake, and there did do as much as was safe with my flower,
      and that was enough on my part. Broke up, and away without any notice,
      and, after delivering the rose where it should be, I to the Temple and
      'light, and come to the middle door, and there took another coach, and so
      home to write letters, but very few, God knows, being by my pleasure made
      to forget everything that is. The coachman that carried [us] cannot know
      me again, nor the people at the house where we were. Home to bed, certain
      news being come that our fleete is in sight of the Dutch ships.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Lay troubled in mind abed a good while, thinking of my Tangier and
      victualling business, which I doubt will fall. Up and to the Duke of
      Albemarle, but missed him. Thence to the Harp and Ball and to Westminster
      Hall, where I visited "the flowers" in each place, and so met with Mr.
      Creed, and he and I to Mrs. Croft's to drink and did, but saw not her
      daughter Borroughes. I away home, and there dined and did business. In the
      afternoon went with my tallys, made a fair end with Colvill and Viner,
      delivering them L5000 tallys to each and very quietly had credit given me
      upon other tallys of Mr. Colvill for L2000 and good words for more, and of
      Mr. Viner too. Thence to visit the Duke of Albemarle, and thence my Lady
      Sandwich and Lord Crew. Thence home, and there met an expresse from Sir W.
      Batten at Harwich, that the fleete is all sailed from Solebay, having
      spied the Dutch fleete at sea, and that, if the calmes hinder not, they
      must needs now be engaged with them. Another letter also come to me from
      Mr. Hater, committed by the Council this afternoon to the Gate House, upon
      the misfortune of having his name used by one, without his knowledge or
      privity, for the receiving of some powder that he had bought. Up to Court
      about these two, and for the former was led up to my Lady Castlemayne's
      lodgings, where the King and she and others were at supper, and there I
      read the letter and returned; and then to Sir G. Carteret about Hater, and
      shall have him released to-morrow, upon my giving bail for his appearance,
      which I have promised to do. Sir G. Carteret did go on purpose to the King
      to ask this, and it was granted. So home at past 12, almost one o'clock in
      the morning. To my office till past two, and then home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up and to White Hall, where Sir G. Carteret did go with me to
      Secretary Morris, and prevailed with him to let Mr. Hater be released upon
      bail for his appearance. So I at a loss how to get another besides myself,
      and got Mr. Hunt, who did patiently stay with me all the morning at
      Secretary Morris's chamber, Mr. Hater being sent for with his keeper, and
      at noon comes in the Secretary, and upon entering [into] recognizances, he
      for L200, and Mr. Hunt and I for L100 each for his appearance upon demand,
      he was released, it costing him, I think, above L3. I thence home, vexed
      to be kept from the office all the morning, which I had not been in many
      months before, if not some years. At home to dinner, and all the afternoon
      at the office, where late at night, and much business done, then home to
      supper and to bed. All this day by all people upon the River, and almost
      every where else hereabout were heard the guns, our two fleets for certain
      being engaged; which was confirmed by letters from Harwich, but nothing
      particular: and all our hearts full of concernment for the Duke, and I
      particularly for my Lord Sandwich and Mr. Coventry after his Royall
      Highnesse.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th (Sunday). Up and at my chamber all the forenoon, at evening my
      accounts, which I could not do sooner, for the last month, and, blessed be
      God! am worth L1400 odd money, something more than ever I was yet in the
      world. Dined very well at noon, and then to my office, and there and in
      the garden discoursed with several people about business, among others Mr.
      Howell, the turner, who did give me so good a discourse about the
      practices of the Paymaster J. Fenn that I thought fit to recollect all
      when he was gone, and have entered it down to be for ever remembered.
      Thence to my chamber again to settle my Tangier accounts against tomorrow
      and some other things, and with great joy ended them, and so to supper,
      where a good fowl and tansy, and so to bed. Newes being come that our
      fleete is pursuing the Dutch, who, either by cunning, or by being worsted,
      do give ground, but nothing more for certain. Late to bed upon my papers
      being quite finished.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up very betimes to look some other papers, and then to White Hall to
      a Committee of Tangier, where I offered my accounts with great
      acceptation, and so had some good words and honour by it, and one or two
      things done to my content in my business of Treasurer, but I do clearly
      see that we shall lose our business of victualling, Sir Thomas Ingram
      undertaking that it shall be done by persons there as cheap as we do it,
      and give the seamen their full allowance and themselves give good security
      here for performance of contract, upon which terms there is no opposing
      it. This would trouble me, but that I hope when that fails to spend my
      time to some good advantage other ways, and so shall permit it all to God
      Almighty's pleasure. Thence home to dinner, after 'Change, where great
      talke of the Dutch being fled and we in pursuit of them, and that our ship
      Charity
    </p>
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     [Sir William Coventry and Sir William Penn to the Navy
     Commissioners, June 4th: "Engaged yesterday with the Dutch; they
     began to stand away at 3 p.m.  Chased them all the rest of the day
     and night; 20 considerable ships are destroyed and taken; we have
     only lost the Great Charity.  The Earl of Marlborough, Rear-Admiral
     Sansum, and Captain Kirby are slain, and Sir John Lawson wounded"
     ("Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, 1664-65, p. 406).]
</pre>
    <p>
      is lost upon our Captain's, Wilkinson, and Lieutenant's yielding, but of
      this there is no certainty, save the report of some of the sicke men of
      the Charity, turned adrift in a boat out of the Charity and taken up and
      brought on shore yesterday to Sole Bay, and the newes hereof brought by
      Sir Henry Felton. Home to dinner, and Creed with me. Then he and I down to
      Deptford, did some business, and back again at night. He home, and I to my
      office, and so to supper and to bed. This morning I had great discourse
      with my Lord Barkeley about Mr. Hater, towards whom from a great passion
      reproaching him with being a fanatique and dangerous for me to keepe, I
      did bring him to be mighty calme and to ask me pardons for what he had
      thought of him and to desire me to ask his pardon of Hater himself for the
      ill words he did give him the other day alone at White Hall (which was,
      that he had always thought him a man that was no good friend to the King,
      but did never think it would breake out in a thing of this nature), and
      did advise him to declare his innocence to the Council and pray for his
      examination and vindication. Of which I shall consider and say no more,
      but remember one compliment that in great kindness to me he did give me,
      extolling my care and diligence, that he did love me heartily for my owne
      sake, and more that he did will me whatsoever I thought for Mr. Coventry's
      sake, for though the world did think them enemies, and to have an ill
      aspect, one to another, yet he did love him with all his heart, which was
      a strange manner of noble compliment, confessing his owning me as a
      confidant and favourite of Mr. Coventry's.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Waked in the morning before 4 o'clock with great pain to piss, and
      great pain in pissing by having, I think, drank too great a draught of
      cold drink before going to bed. But by and by to sleep again, and then
      rose and to the office, where very busy all the morning, and at noon to
      dinner with Sir G. Carteret to his house with all our Board, where a good
      pasty and brave discourse. But our great fear was some fresh news of the
      fleete, but not from the fleete, all being said to be well and beaten the
      Dutch, but I do not give much belief to it, and indeed the news come from
      Sir W. Batten at Harwich, and writ so simply that we all made good mirth
      of it. Thence to the office, where upon Sir G. Carteret's accounts, to my
      great vexation there being nothing done by the Controller to right the
      King therein. I thence to my office and wrote letters all the afternoon,
      and in the evening by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke's about my Tangier
      business to get money, and so to my Lady Sandwich's, who, poor lady,
      expects every hour to hear of my Lord; but in the best temper, neither
      confident nor troubled with fear, that I ever did see in my life. She
      tells me my Lord Rochester is now declaredly out of hopes of Mrs. Mallett,
      and now she is to receive notice in a day or two how the King stands
      inclined to the giving leave for my Lord Hinchingbroke to look after her,
      and that being done to bring it to an end shortly. Thence by coach home,
      and to my office a little, and so before 12 o'clock home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. This morning my wife and mother rose about two o'clock; and with
      Mercer, Mary, the boy, and W. Hewer, as they had designed, took boat and
      down to refresh themselves on the water to Gravesend. Lay till 7 o'clock,
      then up and to the office upon Sir G. Carteret's accounts again, where
      very busy; thence abroad and to the 'Change, no news of certainty being
      yet come from the fleete. Thence to the Dolphin Taverne, where Sir J.
      Minnes, Lord Brunkard, Sir Thomas Harvy, and myself dined, upon Sir G.
      Carteret's charge, and very merry we were, Sir Thomas Harvy being a very
      drolle. Thence to the office, and meeting Creed away with him to my Lord
      Treasurer's, there thinking to have met the goldsmiths, at White Hall, but
      did not, and so appointed another time for my Lord to speak to them to
      advance us some money. Thence, it being the hottest day that ever I felt
      in my life, and it is confessed so by all other people the hottest they
      ever knew in England in the beginning of June, we to the New Exchange, and
      there drunk whey, with much entreaty getting it for our money, and [they]
      would not be entreated to let us have one glasse more. So took water and
      to Fox-Hall, to the Spring garden, and there walked an houre or two with
      great pleasure, saving our minds ill at ease concerning the fleete and my
      Lord Sandwich, that we have no newes of them, and ill reports run up and
      down of his being killed, but without ground. Here staid pleasantly
      walking and spending but 6d. till nine at night, and then by water to
      White Hall, and there I stopped to hear news of the fleete, but none come,
      which is strange, and so by water home, where, weary with walking and with
      the mighty heat of the weather, and for my wife's not coming home, I
      staying walking in the garden till twelve at night, when it begun to
      lighten exceedingly, through the greatness of the heat. Then despairing of
      her coming home, I to bed. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury
      Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and
      "Lord have mercy upon us" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being
      the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into
      an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some
      roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw, which took away the apprehension.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. About five o'clock my wife come home, it having lightened all night
      hard, and one great shower of rain. She come and lay upon the bed; I up
      and to the office, where all the morning. Alone at home to dinner, my
      wife, mother, and Mercer dining at W. Joyce's; I giving her a caution to
      go round by the Half Moone to his house, because of the plague. I to my
      Lord Treasurer's by appointment of Sir Thomas Ingram's, to meet the
      Goldsmiths; where I met with the great news at last newly come, brought by
      Bab May' from the Duke of Yorke, that we have totally routed the Dutch;
      that the Duke himself, the Prince, my Lord Sandwich, and Mr. Coventry are
      all well: which did put me into such joy, that I forgot almost all other
      thoughts. The particulars I shall set down by and by. By and by comes
      Alderman Maynell and Mr. Viner, and there my Lord Treasurer did intreat
      them to furnish me with money upon my tallys, Sir Philip Warwicke before
      my Lord declaring the King's changing of the hand from Mr. Povy to me,
      whom he called a very sober person, and one whom the Lord Treasurer would
      owne in all things that I should concern myself with them in the business
      of money. They did at present declare they could not part with money at
      present. My Lord did press them very hard, and I hope upon their
      considering we shall get some of them. Thence with great joy to the
      Cocke-pitt; where the Duke of Albemarle, like a man out of himself with
      content, new-told me all; and by and by comes a letter from Mr. Coventry's
      own hand to him, which he never opened (which was a strange thing), but
      did give it me to open and read, and consider what was fit for our office
      to do in it, and leave the letter with Sir W. Clerke; which upon such a
      time and occasion was a strange piece of indifference, hardly pardonable.
      I copied out the letter, and did also take minutes out of Sir W. Clerke's
      other letters; and the sum of the newes is:
    </p>
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                 VICTORY OVER THE DUTCH, JUNE 3RD, 1665.
</pre>
    <p>
      This day they engaged; the Dutch neglecting greatly the opportunity of the
      wind they had of us, by which they lost the benefit of their fire-ships.
      The Earl of Falmouth, Muskerry, and Mr. Richard Boyle killed on board the
      Duke's ship, the Royall Charles, with one shot: their blood and brains
      flying in the Duke's face; and the head of Mr. Boyle striking down the
      Duke, as some say. Earle of Marlborough, Portland, Rear-Admirall Sansum
      (to Prince Rupert) killed, and Capt. Kirby and Ableson. Sir John Lawson
      wounded on the knee; hath had some bones taken out, and is likely to be
      well again. Upon receiving the hurt, he sent to the Duke for another to
      command the Royall Oake. The Duke sent Jordan
    </p>
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     [Afterwards Sir Joseph Jordan, commander of the "Royal Sovereign,"
     and Vice-Admiral of the Red, 1672.  He was knighted on July 1st,
     1665.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      out of the St. George, who did brave things in her. Capt. Jer. Smith of
      the Mary was second to the Duke, and stepped between him and Captain
      Seaton of the Urania (76 guns and 400 men), who had sworn to board the
      Duke; killed him, 200 men, and took the ship; himself losing 99 men, and
      never an officer saved but himself and lieutenant. His master indeed is
      saved, with his leg cut off: Admirall Opdam blown up, Trump killed, and
      said by Holmes; all the rest of their admiralls, as they say, but Everson
      (whom they dare not trust for his affection to the Prince of Orange), are
      killed: we having taken and sunk, as is believed, about 24 of their best
      ships; killed and taken near 8 or 10,000 men, and lost, we think, not
      above 700. A great[er] victory never known in the world. They are all
      fled, some 43 got into the Texell, and others elsewhere, and we in pursuit
      of the rest. Thence, with my heart full of joy; home, and to my office a
      little; then to my Lady Pen's, where they are all joyed and not a little
      puffed up at the good successe of their father;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In the royal charter granted by Charles II. in 1680 to William Penn
     for the government of his American province, to be styled
     Pennsylvania, special reference is made to "the memory and merits of
     Sir William Penn in divers services, and particularly his conduct,
     courage, and discretion under our dearest brother, James, Duke of
     York, in that signal battle and victory fought and obtained against
     the Dutch fleet commanded by Heer van Opdam in 1665" ("Penn's
     Memorials of Sir W. Penn," vol. ii., p. 359).]
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    <p>
      and good service indeed is said to have been done by him. Had a great
      bonefire at the gate; and I with my Lady Pen's people and others to Mrs.
      Turner's great room, and then down into the streete. I did give the boys
      4s. among them, and mighty merry. So home to bed, with my heart at great
      rest and quiett, saving that the consideration of the victory is too great
      for me presently to comprehend.
    </p>
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     [Mrs. Ady (Julia Cartwright), in her fascinating life of Henrietta,
     Duchess of Orleans, gives an account of the receipt of the news of
     the great sea-fight in Paris, and quotes a letter of Charles II. to
     his sister, dated, "Whitehall, June 8th, 1665"  The first report
     that reached Paris was that "the Duke of York's ship had been blown
     up, and he himself had been drowned."  "The shock was too much for
     Madame...  she was seized with convulsions, and became so
     dangerously ill that Lord Hollis wrote to the king, 'If things had
     gone ill at sea I really believe Madame would have died.'"  Charles
     wrote: "I thanke God we have now the certayne newes of a very
     considerable victory over the Duch; you will see most of the
     particulars by the relation my Lord Hopis will shew you, though I
     have had as great a losse as 'tis possible in a good frinde, poore
     C. Barckely.  It troubles me so much, as I hope you will excuse the
     shortnesse of this letter, haveing receaved the newes of it but two
     houres agoe" ("Madame," 1894, pp.  215, 216).]
</pre>
    <p>
      9th. Lay long in bed, my head akeing with too much thoughts I think last
      night. Up and to White Hall, and my Lord Treasurer's to Sir Ph. Warwicke,
      about Tangier business, and in my way met with Mr. Moore, who eases me in
      one point wherein I was troubled; which was, that I heard of nothing said
      or done by my Lord Sandwich: but he tells me that Mr. Cowling, my Lord
      Chamberlain's secretary, did hear the King say that my Lord Sandwich had
      done nobly and worthily. The King, it seems, is much troubled at the fall
      of my Lord of Falmouth; but I do not meet with any man else that so much
      as wishes him alive again, the world conceiving him a man of too much
      pleasure to do the King any good, or offer any good office to him. But I
      hear of all hands he is confessed to have been a man of great honour, that
      did show it in this his going with the Duke, the most that ever any man
      did. Home, where my people busy to make ready a supper against night for
      some guests, in lieu of my stonefeast. At noon eat a small dinner at home,
      and so abroad to buy several things, and among others with my taylor to
      buy a silke suit, which though I had one lately, yet I do, for joy of the
      good newes we have lately had of our victory over the Dutch, which makes
      me willing to spare myself something extraordinary in clothes; and after
      long resolution of having nothing but black, I did buy a coloured silk
      ferrandin. So to the Old Exchange, and there at my pretty seamstresses
      bought a pair of stockings of her husband, and so home, where by and by
      comes Mr. Honiwood and Mrs. Wilde, and Roger Pepys and, after long time
      spent, Mrs. Turner, The. and Joyce. We had a very good venison pasty, this
      being instead of my stone-feast the last March, and very merry we were,
      and the more I know the more I like Mr. Honiwood's conversation. So after
      a good supper they parted, walking to the 'Change for a coach, and I with
      them to see them there. So home and to bed, glad it was over.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Lay long in bed, and then up and at the office all the morning. At
      noon dined at home, and then to the office busy all the afternoon. In the
      evening home to supper; and there, to my great trouble, hear that the
      plague is come into the City (though it hath these three or four weeks
      since its beginning been wholly out of the City); but where should it
      begin but in my good friend and neighbour's, Dr. Burnett, in Fanchurch
      Street: which in both points troubles me mightily. To the office to finish
      my letters and then home to bed, being troubled at the sicknesse, and my
      head filled also with other business enough, and particularly how to put
      my things and estate in order, in case it should please God to call me
      away, which God dispose of to his glory!
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day). Up, and expected long a new suit; but, coming not,
      dressed myself in my late new black silke camelott suit; and, when fully
      ready, comes my new one of coloured ferrandin, which my wife puts me out
      of love with, which vexes me, but I think it is only my not being used to
      wear colours which makes it look a little unusual upon me. To my chamber
      and there spent the morning reading. At noon, by invitation, comes my two
      cozen Joyces and their wives, my aunt James and he-cozen Harman, his wife
      being ill. I had a good dinner for them, and as merry as I could be in
      such company. They being gone, I out of doors a little, to shew, forsooth,
      my new suit, and back again, and in going I saw poor Dr. Burnett's door
      shut; but he hath, I hear, gained great goodwill among his neighbours; for
      he discovered it himself first, and caused himself to be shut up of his
      own accord: which was very handsome. In the evening comes Mr. Andrews and
      his wife and Mr. Hill, and staid and played, and sung and supped, most
      excellent pretty company, so pleasant, ingenious, and harmless, I cannot
      desire better. They gone we to bed, my mind in great present ease.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and in my yesterday's new suit to the Duke of Albemarle, and
      after a turne in White Hall, and then in Westminster Hall, returned, and
      with my taylor bought some gold lace for my sleeve hands in Pater Noster
      Row. So home to dinner, and then to the office, and down the River to
      Deptford, and then back again and to my Lord Treasurer's, and up and down
      to look after my Tangier business, and so home to my office, then to
      supper and to bed. The Duke of Yorke is sent for last night and expected
      to be here to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up and to the office, where all the morning doing business. At noon
      with Sir G. Carteret to my Lord Mayor's to dinner, where much company in a
      little room, and though a good, yet no extraordinary table. His name, Sir
      John Lawrence, whose father, a very ordinary old man, sat there at table,
      but it seems a very rich man. Here were at table three Sir Richard
      Brownes, viz.: he of the Councill, a clerk, and the Alderman, and his son;
      and there was a little grandson also Richard, who will hereafter be Sir
      Richard Browne. The Alderman did here openly tell in boasting how he had,
      only upon suspicion of disturbances, if there had been any bad newes from
      sea, clapped up several persons that he was afeard of; and that he had
      several times done the like and would do, and take no bail where he saw it
      unsafe for the King. But by and by he said that he was now sued in the
      Exchequer by a man for false imprisonment, that he had, upon the same
      score, imprisoned while he was Mayor four years ago, and asked advice upon
      it. I told him I believed there was none, and told my story of Field, at
      which he was troubled, and said that it was then unsafe for any man to
      serve the King, and, I believed, knows not what to do therein; but that
      Sir Richard Browne, of the Councill, advised him to speak with my Lord
      Chancellor about it. My Lord Mayor very respectfull to me; and so I after
      dinner away and found Sir J. Minnes ready with his coach and four horses
      at our office gate, for him and me to go out of towne to meet the Duke of
      Yorke coming from Harwich to-night, and so as far as Ilford, and there
      'light. By and by comes to us Sir John Shaw and Mr. Neale, that married
      the rich widow Gold, upon the same errand. After eating a dish of creame,
      we took coach again, hearing nothing of the Duke, and away home, a most
      pleasant evening and road. And so to my office, where, after my letters
      wrote, to supper and to bed. All our discourse in our way was Sir J.
      Minnes's telling me passages of the late King's and his father's, which I
      was mightily pleased to hear for information, though the pride of some
      persons and vice of most was but a sad story to tell how that brought the
      whole kingdom and King to ruine.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and to Sir Ph. Warwicke's and other places, about Tangier
      business, but to little purpose. Among others to my Lord Treasurer's,
      there to speak with him, and waited in the lobby three long hours for to
      speake with him, to the trial of my utmost patience, but missed him at
      last, and forced to go home without it, which may teach me how I make
      others wait. Home to dinner and staid Mr. Hater with me, and after dinner
      drew up a petition for Mr. Hater to present to the Councill about his
      troublesome business of powder, desiring a trial that his absence may be
      vindicated, and so to White Hall, but it was not proper to present it
      to-day. Here I met with Mr. Cowling, who observed to me how he finds every
      body silent in the praise of my Lord Sandwich, to set up the Duke and the
      Prince; but that the Duke did both to the King and my Lord Chancellor
      write abundantly of my Lord's courage and service.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Charles II.'s letter of thanks to Lord Sandwich, dated "Whitehall,
     June 9th, 1665," written entirely in the king's hand, is printed in
     Ellis's "Original Letters," 1st series, vol. iii., p. 327.]
</pre>
    <p>
      And I this day met with a letter of Captain Ferrers, wherein he tells [us]
      my Lord was with his ship in all the heat of the day, and did most
      worthily. Met with Creed, and he and I to Westminster; and there saw my
      Lord Marlborough
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Of the four distinguished men who died after the late action with
     the Dutch and were buried in Westminster Abbey, the Earl of
     Marlborough was interred on June 14th, Viscount Muskerry on the
     19th, the Earl of Falmouth on the 22nd, and Sir Edward Broughton on
     the 26th.  After the entries in the Abbey Registers is this note:
     "These four last Honble Persons dyed in his Majy's service against
     the Dutch, excepting only that ST Ed Br received his death's wound
     at sea, but dyed here at home" (Chester's "Westminster Abbey
     Registers," p. 162).]
</pre>
    <p>
      brought to be buried, several Lords of the Council carrying him, and with
      the herald in some state. Thence, vexed in my mind to think that I do so
      little in my Tangier business, and so home, and after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and put on my new stuff suit with close knees, which becomes me
      most nobly, as my wife says. At the office all day. At noon, put on my
      first laced band, all lace; and to Kate Joyce's to dinner, where my
      mother, wife, and abundance of their friends, and good usage. Thence, wife
      and Mercer and I to the Old Exchange, and there bought two lace bands
      more, one of my semstresse, whom my wife concurs with me to be a pretty
      woman. So down to Deptford and Woolwich, my boy and I. At Woolwich,
      discoursed with Mr. Sheldon about my bringing my wife down for a month or
      two to his house, which he approves of, and, I think, will be very
      convenient. So late back, and to the office, wrote letters, and so home to
      supper and to bed. This day the Newes book upon Mr. Moore's showing
      L'Estrange
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The Public Intelligencer," published by Roger L'Estrange, the
     predecessor of the "London Gazette."]
</pre>
    <p>
      (Captain Ferrers's letter) did do my Lord Sandwich great right as to the
      late victory. The Duke of Yorke not yet come to towne. The towne grows
      very sickly, and people to be afeard of it; there dying this last week of
      the plague 112, from 43 the week before, whereof but [one] in
      Fanchurch-streete, and one in Broad-streete, by the Treasurer's office.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up and to the office, where I set hard to business, but was informed
      that the Duke of Yorke is come, and hath appointed us to attend him this
      afternoon. So after dinner, and doing some business at the office, I to
      White Hall, where the Court is full of the Duke and his courtiers returned
      from sea. All fat and lusty, and ruddy by being in the sun. I kissed his
      hands, and we waited all the afternoon. By and by saw Mr. Coventry, which
      rejoiced my very heart. Anon he and I, from all the rest of the company,
      walked into the Matted Gallery; where after many expressions of love, we
      fell to talk of business. Among other things, how my Lord Sandwich, both
      in his counsells and personal service, hath done most honourably and
      serviceably. Sir J. Lawson is come to Greenwich; but his wound in his knee
      yet very bad. Jonas Poole, in the Vantguard, did basely, so as to be, or
      will be, turned out of his ship. Captain Holmes
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Captain Robert Holmes (afterwards knighted).  Sir William Coventry,
     in a letter to Lord Arlington (dated from "The Royal Charles,"
     Southwold Bay, June 13th), writes: "Capt. Holmes asked to be rear
     admiral of the white squadron in place of Sansum who was killed, but
     the Duke gave the place to Captain Harman, on which he delivered up
     his commission, which the Duke received, and put Captain Langhorne
     in his stead" ("Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, 1664-65, p.
     423).]
</pre>
    <p>
      expecting upon Sansum's death to be made Rear-admirall to the Prince (but
      Harman is
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [John Harman, afterwards knighted.  He had served with great
     reputation in several naval fights, and was desperately wounded in
     1673, while]
</pre>
    <p>
      put in) hath delivered up to the Duke his commission, which the Duke took
      and tore. He, it seems, had bid the Prince, who first told him of Holmes's
      intention, that he should dissuade him from it; for that he was resolved
      to take it if he offered it. Yet Holmes would do it, like a rash, proud
      coxcombe. But he is rich, and hath, it seems, sought an occasion of
      leaving the service. Several of our captains have done ill. The great
      ships are the ships do the business, they quite deadening the enemy. They
      run away upon sight of "The Prince."
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The Prince" was Lord Sandwich's ship; the captain was Roger
     Cuttance.  It was put up at Chatham for repair at this date.]
</pre>
    <p>
      It is strange to see how people do already slight Sir William Barkeley,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir William Berkeley, see note, vol.  iii., p.  334.  His behaviour
     after the death of his brother, Lord Falmouth, is severely commented
     on in "Poems on State Affairs," vol. i., p. 29

              "Berkeley had heard it soon, and thought not good
               To venture more of royal Harding's blood;
               To be immortal he was not of age,
               And did e'en now the Indian Prize presage;
               And judged it safe and decent, cost what cost,
               To lose the day, since his dear brother's lost.
               With his whole squadron straight away he bore,
               And, like good boy, promised to fight no more."&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      my Lord FitzHarding's brother, who, three months since, was the delight of
      the Court. Captain Smith of "The Mary" the Duke talks mightily of; and
      some great thing will be done for him. Strange to hear how the Dutch do
      relate, as the Duke says, that they are the conquerors; and bonefires are
      made in Dunkirke in their behalf; though a clearer victory can never be
      expected. Mr. Coventry thinks they cannot have lost less than 6000 men,
      and we not dead above 200, and wounded about 400; in all about 600. Thence
      home and to my office till past twelve, and then home to supper and to
      bed, my wife and mother not being yet come home from W. Hewer's chamber,
      who treats my mother tonight. Captain Grovel the Duke told us this day,
      hath done the basest thing at Lowestoffe, in hearing of the guns, and
      could not (as others) be got out, but staid there; for which he will be
      tried; and is reckoned a prating coxcombe, and of no courage.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. My wife come to bed about one in the morning. I up and abroad about
      Tangier business, then back to the office, where we sat, and at noon home
      to dinner, and then abroad to Mr. Povy's, after I and Mr. Andrews had been
      with Mr. Ball and one Major Strange, who looks after the getting of money
      for tallys and is helping Mr. Andrews. I had much discourse with Ball, and
      it may be he may prove a necessary man for our turns. With Mr. Povy I
      spoke very freely my indifference as to my place of Treasurer, being so
      much troubled in it, which he took with much seeming trouble, that I
      should think of letting go so lightly the place, but if the place can't be
      held I will. So hearing that my Lord Treasurer was gone out of town with
      his family because of the sicknesse, I returned home without staying
      there, and at the office find Sir W. Pen come home, who looks very well;
      and I am gladder to see him than otherwise I should be because of my
      hearing so well of him for his serviceablenesse in this late great action.
      To the office late, and then home to bed. It struck me very deep this
      afternoon going with a hackney coach from my Lord Treasurer's down
      Holborne, the coachman I found to drive easily and easily, at last stood
      still, and come down hardly able to stand, and told me that he was
      suddenly struck very sicke, and almost blind, he could not see; so I
      'light and went into another coach, with a sad heart for the poor man and
      trouble for myself, lest he should have been struck with the plague, being
      at the end of the towne that I took him up; but God have mercy upon us
      all! Sir John Lawson, I hear, is worse than yesterday: the King went to
      see him to-day most kindly. It seems his wound is not very bad; but he
      hath a fever, a thrush, and a hickup, all three together, which are, it
      seems, very bad symptoms.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where Sir W. Pen was the first time
      [since he] come from sea, after the battle. Mr. Mills made a sorry sermon
      to prove that there was a world to come after this. Home and dined and
      then to my chamber, where all the afternoon. Anon comes Mr. Andrews to see
      and sing with me, but Mr. Hill not coming, and having business, we soon
      parted, there coming Mr. Povy and Creed to discourse about our Tangier
      business of money. They gone, I hear Sir W. Batten and my Lady are
      returned from Harwich. I went to see them, and it is pretty to see how we
      appear kind one to another, though neither of us care 2d. one for another.
      Home to supper, and there coming a hasty letter from Commissioner Pett for
      pressing of some calkers (as I would ever on his Majesty's service), with
      all speed, I made a warrant presently and issued it. So to my office a
      little, and then home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to White Hall with Sir W. Batten (calling at my Lord
      Ashly's, but to no purpose, by the way, he being not up), and there had
      our usual meeting before the Duke with the officers of the Ordnance with
      us, which in some respects I think will be the better for us, for despatch
      sake. Thence home to the 'Change and dined alone (my wife gone to her
      mother's), after dinner to my little new goldsmith's,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [John Colvill of Lombard Street, see ante, May 24th.  He lost
     L85,832  17s. 2d.  by the closing of the Exchequer in 1672, and he
     died between 1672 and 1677 (Price's "Handbook of London Bankers ").]
</pre>
    <p>
      whose wife indeed is one of the prettiest, modest black women that ever I
      saw. I paid for a dozen of silver salts L6 14s. 6d. Thence with Sir W. Pen
      from the office down to Greenwich to see Sir J. Lawson, who is better, but
      continues ill; his hickupp not being yet gone, could have little discourse
      with him. So thence home and to supper, a while to the office, my head and
      mind mightily vexed to see the multitude of papers and business before
      [me] and so little time to do it in. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Thankes-giving-day for victory over ye Dutch. Up, and to the office,
      where very busy alone all the morning till church time, and there heard a
      mean sorry sermon of Mr. Mills. Then to the Dolphin Taverne, where all we
      officers of the Navy met with the Commissioners of the Ordnance by
      agreement, and dined: where good musique at my direction. Our club&mdash;[share]
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
             ["Next these a sort of Sots there are,
               Who crave more wine than they can bear,
               Yet hate, when drunk, to pay or spend
               Their equal Club or Dividend,
               But wrangle, when the Bill is brought,
               And think they're cheated when they're not."

     The Delights of the Bottle, or the Compleat Vintner, 3rd ed., 1721,
     p. 29.]
</pre>
    <p>
      &mdash;come to 34s. a man, nine of us. Thence after dinner, to White Hall
      with Sir W. Berkely in his coach, and so walked to Herbert's and there
      spent a little time.... Thence by water to Fox-hall, and there walked an
      hour alone, observing the several humours of the citizens that were there
      this holyday, pulling of cherries,&mdash;[The game of bob-cherry]&mdash;and
      God knows what, and so home to my office, where late, my wife not being
      come home with my mother, who have been this day all abroad upon the
      water, my mother being to go out of town speedily. So I home and to supper
      and to bed, my wife come home when I come from the office. This day I
      informed myself that there died four or five at Westminster of the plague
      in one alley in several houses upon Sunday last, Bell Alley, over against
      the Palace-gate; yet people do think that the number will be fewer in the
      towne than it was the last weeke! The Dutch are come out again with 20
      sail under Bankert; supposed gone to the Northward to meete their East
      India fleete.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and very busy all the morning. At noon with Creed to the Excise
      Office, where I find our tallys will not be money in less than sixteen
      months, which is a sad thing for the King to pay all that interest for
      every penny he spends; and, which is strange, the goldsmiths with whom I
      spoke, do declare that they will not be moved to part with money upon the
      increase of their consideration of ten per cent. which they have, and
      therefore desire I would not move in it, and indeed the consequence would
      be very ill to the King, and have its ill consequences follow us through
      all the King's revenue. Home, and my uncle Wight and aunt James dined with
      me, my mother being to go away to-morrow. So to White Hall, and there
      before and after Council discoursed with Sir Thomas Ingram about our ill
      case as to Tangier for money. He hath got the King to appoint a meeting on
      Friday, which I hope will put an end one way or other to my pain. So
      homewards and to the Cross Keys at Cripplegate, where I find all the towne
      almost going out of towne, the coaches and waggons being all full of
      people going into the country. Here I had some of the company of the
      tapster's wife a while, and so home to my office, and then home to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up pretty betimes, and in great pain whether to send my another into
      the country to-day or no, I hearing, by my people, that she, poor wretch,
      hath a mind to stay a little longer, and I cannot blame her, considering
      what a life she will through her own folly lead when she comes home again,
      unlike the pleasure and liberty she hath had here. At last I resolved to
      put it to her, and she agreed to go, so I would not oppose it, because of
      the sicknesse in the towne, and my intentions of removing my wife. So I
      did give her money and took a kind leave of her, she, poor wretch,
      desiring that I would forgive my brother John, but I refused it to her,
      which troubled her, poor soul, but I did it in kind words and so let the
      discourse go off, she leaving me though in a great deal of sorrow. So I to
      my office and left my wife and people to see her out of town, and I at the
      office all the morning. At noon my wife tells me that she is with much ado
      gone, and I pray God bless her, but it seems she was to the last unwilling
      to go, but would not say so, but put it off till she lost her place in the
      coach, and was fain to ride in the waggon part. After dinner to the office
      again till night, very busy, and so home not very late to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up and to White Hall to a Committee for Tangier, where his Royal
      Highness was. Our great design was to state to them the true condition of
      this Committee for want of money, the want whereof was so great as to need
      some sudden help, and it was with some content resolved to see it supplied
      and means proposed towards the doing of it. At this Committee, unknown to
      me, comes my Lord of Sandwich, who, it seems, come to towne last night.
      After the Committee was up, my Lord Sandwich did take me aside, and we
      walked an hour alone together in the robe-chamber, the door shut, telling
      me how much the Duke and Mr. Coventry did, both in the fleete and here,
      make of him, and that in some opposition to the Prince; and as a more
      private message, he told me that he hath been with them both when they
      have made sport of the Prince and laughed at him: yet that all the
      discourse of the towne, and the printed relation, should not give him one
      word of honour my Lord thinks mighty strange; he assuring me, that though
      by accident the Prince was in the van the beginning of the fight for the
      first pass, yet all the rest of the day my Lord was in the van, and
      continued so. That notwithstanding all this noise of the Prince, he had
      hardly a shot in his side nor a man killed, whereas he hath above 30 in
      her hull, and not one mast whole nor yard; but the most battered ship of
      the fleet, and lost most men, saving Captain Smith of "The Mary." That the
      most the Duke did was almost out of gun-shot; but that, indeed, the Duke
      did come up to my Lord's rescue after he had a great while fought with
      four of them. How poorly Sir John Lawson performed, notwithstanding all
      that was said of him; and how his ship turned out of the way, while Sir J.
      Lawson himself was upon the deck, to the endangering of the whole fleete.
      It therefore troubles my Lord that Mr. Coventry should not mention a word
      of him in his relation. I did, in answer, offer that I was sure the
      relation was not compiled by Mr. Coventry, but by L'Estrange, out of
      several letters, as I could witness; and that Mr. Coventry's letter that
      he did give the Duke of Albemarle did give him as much right as the
      Prince, for I myself read it first and then copied it out, which I
      promised to show my Lord, with which he was somewhat satisfied. From that
      discourse my Lord did begin to tell me how much he was concerned to
      dispose of his children, and would have my advice and help; and propounded
      to match my Lady Jemimah to Sir G. Carteret's eldest son, which I approved
      of, and did undertake the speaking with him about it as from myself, which
      my Lord liked. So parted, with my head full of care about this business.
      Thence home to the 'Change, and so to dinner, and thence by coach to Mr.
      Povy's. Thence by appointment with him and Creed to one Mr. Finch; one of
      the Commissioners for the Excise, to be informed about some things of the
      Excise, in order to our settling matters therein better for us for our
      Tangier business. I find him a very discreet, grave person. Thence well
      satisfied I and Creed to Mr. Fox at White Hall to speak with him about the
      same matter, and having some pretty satisfaction from him also, he and I
      took boat and to Fox Hall, where we spent two or three hours talking of
      several matters very soberly and contentfully to me, which, with the ayre
      and pleasure of the garden, was a great refreshment to me, and, 'methinks,
      that which we ought to joy ourselves in. Thence back to White Hall, where
      we parted, and I to find my Lord to receive his farther direction about
      his proposal this morning. Wherein I did that I should first by another
      hand break my intentions to Sir G. Carteret. I pitched upon Dr. Clerke,
      which my Lord liked, and so I endeavoured but in vain to find him out
      to-night. So home by hackney-coach, which is become a very dangerous
      passage now-a-days, the sickness increasing mightily, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Midsummer-day). Up very betimes, by six, and at Dr. Clerke's at
      Westminster by 7 of the clock, having over night by a note acquainted him
      with my intention of coming, and there I, in the best manner I could,
      broke my errand about a match between Sir G. Carteret's eldest son and my
      Lord Sandwich's eldest daughter, which he (as I knew he would) took with
      great content: and we both agreed that my Lord and he, being both men
      relating to the sea, under a kind aspect of His Majesty, already good
      friends, and both virtuous and good familys, their allyance might be of
      good use to us; and he did undertake to find out Sir George this morning,
      and put the business in execution. So being both well pleased with the
      proposition, I saw his niece there and made her sing me two or three songs
      very prettily, and so home to the office, where to my great trouble I
      found Mr. Coventry and the board met before I come. I excused my late
      coming by having been on the River about office business. So to business
      all the morning. At noon Captain Ferrers and Mr. Moore dined with me, the
      former of them the first time I saw him since his corning from sea, who do
      give me the best conversation in general, and as good an account of the
      particular service of the Prince and my Lord of Sandwich in the late
      sea-fight that I could desire. After dinner they parted. So I to White
      Hall, where I with Creed and Povy attended my Lord Treasurer, and did
      prevail with him to let us have an assignment for 15 or L20,000, which, I
      hope, will do our business for Tangier. So to Dr. Clerke, and there found
      that he had broke the business to Sir G. Carteret, and that he takes the
      thing mighty well. Thence I to Sir G. Carteret at his chamber, and in the
      best manner I could, and most obligingly, moved the business: he received
      it with great respect and content, and thanks to me, and promised that he
      would do what he could possibly for his son, to render him fit for my
      Lord's daughter, and shewed great kindness to me, and sense of my kindness
      to him herein. Sir William Pen told me this day that Mr. Coventry is to be
      sworn a Privy Counsellor, at which my soul is glad. So home and to my
      letters by the post, and so home to supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lord's day). Up, and several people about business come to me by
      appointment relating to the office. Thence I to my closet about my Tangier
      papers. At noon dined, and then I abroad by water, it raining hard,
      thinking to have gone down to Woolwich, but I did not, but back through
      bridge to White Hall, where, after I had again visited Sir G. Carteret,
      and received his (and now his Lady's) full content in my proposal, I went
      to my Lord Sandwich, and having told him how Sir G. Carteret received it,
      he did direct me to return to Sir G. Carteret, and give him thanks for his
      kind reception of this offer, and that he would the next day be willing to
      enter discourse with him about the business. Which message I did presently
      do, and so left the business with great joy to both sides. My Lord, I
      perceive, intends to give L5000 with her, and expects about L800 per annum
      joynture. So by water home and to supper and bed, being weary with long
      walking at Court, but had a Psalm or two with my boy and Mercer before
      bed, which pleased me mightily. This night Sir G. Carteret told me with
      great kindnesse that the order of the Council did run for the making of
      Hater and Whitfield incapable of any serving the King again, but that he
      had stopped the entry of it, which he told me with great kindnesse, but
      the thing troubles me. After dinner, before I went to White Hall, I went
      down to Greenwich by water, thinking to have visited Sir J. Lawson, where,
      when I come, I find that he is dead, and died this morning, at which I was
      much surprized; and indeed the nation hath a great loss; though I cannot,
      without dissembling, say that I am sorry for it, for he was a man never
      kind to me at all. Being at White Hall, I visited Mr. Coventry, who, among
      other talk, entered about the great question now in the House about the
      Duke's going to sea again; about which the whole House is divided. He did
      concur with me that, for the Duke's honour and safety, it were best, after
      so great a service and victory and danger, not to go again; and, above
      all, that the life of the Duke cannot but be a security to the Crowne; if
      he were away, it being more easy to attempt anything upon the King; but
      how the fleete will be governed without him, the Prince&mdash;[Rupert]&mdash;being
      a man of no government and severe in council, that no ordinary man can
      offer any advice against his; saying truly that it had been better he had
      gone to Guinny, and that were he away, it were easy to say how matters
      might be ordered, my Lord Sandwich being a man of temper and judgment as
      much as any man he ever knew, and that upon good observation he said this,
      and that his temper must correct the Prince's. But I perceive he is much
      troubled what will be the event of the question. And so I left him.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up and to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes, and to the Committee of
      Tangier, where my Lord Treasurer was, the first and only time he ever was
      there, and did promise us L15,000 for Tangier and no more, which will be
      short. But if I can pay Mr. Andrews all his money I care for no more, and
      the bills of Exchange. Thence with Mr. Povy and Creed below to a new
      chamber of Mr. Povy's, very pretty, and there discourse about his
      business, not to his content, but with the most advantage I could to him,
      and Creed also did the like. Thence with Creed to the King's Head, and
      there dined with him at the ordinary, and good sport with one Mr.
      Nicholls, a prating coxcombe, that would be thought a poet, but would not
      be got to repeat any of his verses. Thence I home, and there find my
      wife's brother and his wife, a pretty little modest woman, where they
      dined with my wife. He did come to desire my assistance for a living, and,
      upon his good promises of care, and that it should be no burden to me, I
      did say and promise I would think of finding something for him, and the
      rather because his wife seems a pretty discreet young thing, and humble,
      and he, above all things, desirous to do something to maintain her,
      telling me sad stories of what she endured with him in Holland, and I hope
      it will not be burdensome. So down by water to Woolwich, walking to and
      again from Greenwich thither and back again, my business being to speak
      again with Sheldon, who desires and expects my wife coming thither to
      spend the summer, and upon second thoughts I do agree that it will be a
      good place for her and me too. So, weary, home, and to my office a while,
      till almost midnight, and so to bed. The plague encreases mightily, I this
      day seeing a house, at a bitt-maker's over against St. Clement's Church,
      in the open street, shut up; which is a sad sight.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined by chance
      at my Lady Batten's, and they sent for my wife, and there was my Lady Pen
      and Pegg. Very merry, and so I to my office again, where till 12 o'clock
      at night, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Sir J. Minnes carried me and my wife to White Hall, and thence his
      coach along with my wife where she would. There after attending the Duke
      to discourse of the navy. We did not kiss his hand, nor do I think, for
      all their pretence, of going away to-morrow. Yet I believe they will not
      go for good and all, but I did take my leave of Sir William Coventry, who,
      it seems, was knighted and sworn a Privy-Counsellor two days since; who
      with his old kindness treated me, and I believe I shall ever find [him] a
      noble friend. Thence by water to Blackfriars, and so to Paul's churchyard
      and bespoke severall books, and so home and there dined, my man William
      giving me a lobster sent him by my old maid Sarah. This morning I met with
      Sir G. Carteret, who tells me how all things proceed between my Lord
      Sandwich and himself to full content, and both sides depend upon having
      the match finished presently, and professed great kindnesse to me, and
      said that now we were something akin. I am mightily, both with respect to
      myself and much more of my Lord's family, glad of this alliance. After
      dinner to White Hall, thinking to speak with my Lord Ashly, but failed,
      and I whiled away some time in Westminster Hall against he did come, in my
      way observing several plague houses in King's Street and [near] the
      Palace. Here I hear Mrs. Martin is gone out of town, and that her husband,
      an idle fellow, is since come out of France, as he pretends, but I believe
      not that he hath been. I was fearful of going to any house, but I did to
      the Swan, and thence to White Hall, giving the waterman a shilling,
      because a young fellow and belonging to the Plymouth. Thence by coach to
      several places, and so home, and all the evening with Sir J. Minnes and
      all the women of the house (excepting my Lady Batten) late in the garden
      chatting. At 12 o'clock home to supper and to bed. My Lord Sandwich is
      gone towards the sea to-day, it being a sudden resolution, I having taken
      no leave of him.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up and by water to White Hall, where the Court full of waggons and
      people ready to go out of towne. To the Harp and Ball, and there drank and
      talked with Mary, she telling me in discourse that she lived lately at my
      neighbour's, Mr. Knightly, which made me forbear further discourse. This
      end of the towne every day grows very bad of the plague. The Mortality
      Bill is come to 267;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [According to the Bills of Mortality, the total number of deaths in
     London for the week ending June 27th was 684, of which number 267
     were deaths from the plague.  The number of deaths rose week by week
     until September 19th, when the total was 8,297, and the deaths from
     the plague 7,165.  On September 26th the total had fallen to 6,460,
     and deaths from the plague to 5,533 The number fell gradually, week
     by week, till October 31st, when the total was 1,388, and deaths
     from the plague 1,031.  On November 7th there was a rise to 1,787
     and 1,414 respectively.  On November 14th the numbers had gone down
     to 1,359 and 1,050 respectively.  On December 12th the total had
     fallen to 442, and deaths from the plague to 243.  On December 19th
     there was a rise to 525 and 281 respectively.  The total of burials
     in 1665 was 97,506, of which number the plague claimed 68,596
     victims.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which is about ninety more than the last: and of these but four in the
      City, which is a great blessing to us. Thence to Creed, and with him up
      and down about Tangier business, to no purpose. Took leave again of Mr.
      Coventry; though I hope the Duke has not gone to stay, and so do others
      too. So home, calling at Somersett House, where all are packing up too:
      the Queene-Mother setting out for France this day to drink Bourbon waters
      this year, she being in a consumption; and intends not to come till winter
      come twelvemonths.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Queen-Mother never came to England again.  She retired to her
     chateau at Colombes, near Paris, where she died in August, 1669,
     after a long illness; the immediate cause of her death being an
     opiate ordered by her physicians.  She was buried, September 12th,
     in the church of St. Denis.  Her funeral sermon was preached by
     Bossuet.  Sir John Reresby speaks of Queen Henrietta Maria in high
     terms.  He says that in the winter, 1659-60, although the Court of
     France was very splendid, there was a greater resort to the Palais
     Royal, "the good humour and wit of our Queen Mother, and the beauty
     of the Princess [Henrietta] her daughter, giving greater invitation
     than the more particular humour of the French Queen, being a
     Spaniard."  In another place he says: "Her majesty had a great
     affection for England, notwithstanding the severe usage she and hers
     had received from it.  Her discourse was much with the great men and
     ladies of France in praise of the people and of the country; of
     their courage, generosity, good nature; and would excuse all their
     miscarriages in relation to unfortunate effects of the late war, as
     if it were a convulsion of some desperate and infatuated persons,
     rather than from the genius and temper of the kingdom" ("Memoirs of
     Sir John Reresby," ed.  Cartwright, pp. 43, 45).]
</pre>
    <p>
      So by coach home, where at the office all the morning, and at noon Mrs.
      Hunt dined with us. Very merry, and she a very good woman. To the office,
      where busy a while putting some things in my office in order, and then to
      letters till night. About 10 a'clock home, the days being sensibly shorter
      before I have once kept a summer's day by shutting up office by daylight;
      but my life hath been still as it was in winter almost. But I will for a
      month try what I can do by daylight. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up and to White Hall, to the Duke of Albemarle, who I find at
      Secretary Bennet's, there being now no other great Statesman, I think, but
      my Lord Chancellor, in towne. I received several commands from them; among
      others, to provide some bread and cheese for the garrison at Guernsey,
      which they promised to see me paid for. So to the 'Change, and home to
      dinner. In the afternoon I down to Woolwich and after me my wife and
      Mercer, whom I led to Mr. Sheldon's to see his house, and I find it a very
      pretty place for them to be at. So I back again, walking both forward and
      backward, and left my wife to come by water. I straight to White Hall,
      late, to Secretary Bennet's to give him an account of the business I
      received from him to-day, and there staid weary and sleepy till past 12 at
      night. Then writ my mind to him, and so back by water and in the dark and
      against tide shot the bridge, groping with their pole for the way, which
      troubled me before I got through. So home, about one or two o'clock in the
      morning, my family at a great losse what was become of me. To supper, and
      to bed. Thus this book of two years ends. Myself and family in good
      health, consisting of myself and wife, Mercer, her woman, Mary, Alice, and
      Susan our maids, and Tom my boy. In a sickly time of the plague growing
      on. Having upon my hands the troublesome care of the Treasury of Tangier,
      with great sums drawn upon me, and nothing to pay them with: also the
      business of the office great. Consideration of removing my wife to
      Woolwich; she lately busy in learning to paint, with great pleasure and
      successe. All other things well; especially a new interest I am making, by
      a match in hand between the eldest son of Sir G. Carteret, and my Lady
      Jemimah Montage. The Duke of Yorke gone down to the fleete, but all
      suppose not with intent to stay there, as it is not fit, all men conceive,
      he should.
    </p>
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      JULY 1665
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    <p>
      July 1st, 1665. Called up betimes, though weary and sleepy, by appointment
      by Mr. Povy and Colonell Norwood to discourse about some payments of
      Tangier. They gone, I to the office and there sat all the morning. At noon
      dined at home, and then to the Duke of Albemarle's, by appointment, to
      give him an account of some disorder in the Yarde at Portsmouth, by
      workmen's going away of their owne accord, for lacke of money, to get work
      of hay-making, or any thing else to earne themselves bread.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [There are several letters among the State Papers from Commissioner
     Thomas Middleton relating to the want of workmen at Portsmouth
     Dockyard.  On June 29th Middleton wrote to Pepys, "The ropemakers
     have discharged themselves for want of money, and gone into the
     country to make hay."  The blockmakers, the joiners, and the sawyers
     all refused to work longer without money ("Calendar," 1664-65, p.
     453).]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence to Westminster, where I hear the sicknesse encreases greatly, and
      to the Harp and Ball with Mary talking, who tells me simply her losing of
      her first love in the country in Wales, and coming up hither unknown to
      her friends, and it seems Dr. Williams do pretend love to her, and I have
      found him there several times. Thence by coach and late at the office, and
      so to bed. Sad at the newes that seven or eight houses in Bazing Hall
      street, are shut up of the plague.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd (Sunday). Up, and all the morning dressing my closet at the office
      with my plates, very neatly, and a fine place now it is, and will be a
      pleasure to sit in, though I thank God I needed none before. At noon dined
      at home, and after dinner to my accounts and cast them up, and find that
      though I have spent above L90 this month yet I have saved L17, and am
      worth in all above L1450, for which the Lord be praised! In the evening my
      Lady Pen and daughter come to see, and supped with us, then a messenger
      about business of the office from Sir G. Carteret at Chatham, and by word
      of mouth did send me word that the business between my Lord and him is
      fully agreed on,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The arrangements for the marriage of Lady Jemimah Montagu to Philip
     Carteret were soon settled, for the wedding took place on July 31st]
</pre>
    <p>
      and is mightily liked of by the King and the Duke of Yorke, and that he
      sent me this word with great joy; they gone, we to bed. I hear this night
      that Sir J. Lawson was buried late last night at St. Dunstan's by us,
      without any company at all, and that the condition of his family is but
      very poor, which I could be contented to be sorry for, though he never was
      the man that ever obliged me by word or deed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up and by water with Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Minnes to White Hall to
      the Duke of Albemarle, where, after a little business, we parted, and I to
      the Harp and Ball, and there staid a while talking to Mary, and so home to
      dinner. After dinner to the Duke of Albemarle's again, and so to the Swan,
      and there 'demeurais un peu'de temps con la fille', and so to the Harp and
      Ball, and alone 'demeurais un peu de temps baisant la', and so away home
      and late at the office about letters, and so home, resolving from this
      night forwards to close all my letters, if possible, and end all my
      business at the office by daylight, and I shall go near to do it and put
      all my affairs in the world in good order, the season growing so sickly,
      that it is much to be feared how a man can escape having a share with
      others in it, for which the good Lord God bless me, or to be fitted to
      receive it. So after supper to bed, and mightily troubled in my sleep all
      night with dreams of Jacke Cole, my old schoolfellow, lately dead, who was
      born at the same time with me, and we reckoned our fortunes pretty equal.
      God fit me for his condition!
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and sat at the office all the morning. At noon to the 'Change and
      thence to the Dolphin, where a good dinner at the cost of one Mr.
      Osbaston, who lost a wager to Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Rider, and Sir R.
      Ford, a good while since and now it is spent. The wager was that ten of
      our ships should not have a fight with ten of the enemy's before
      Michaelmas. Here was other very good company, and merry, and at last in
      come Mr. Buckeworth, a very fine gentleman, and proves to be a
      Huntingdonshire man. Thence to my office and there all the afternoon till
      night, and so home to settle some accounts of Tangier and other papers. I
      hear this day the Duke and Prince Rupert are both come back from sea, and
      neither of them go back again. The latter I much wonder at, but it seems
      the towne reports so, and I am very glad of it. This morning I did a good
      piece of work with Sir W. Warren, ending the business of the lotterys,
      wherein honestly I think I shall get above L100. Bankert, it seems, is
      come home with the little fleete he hath been abroad with, without doing
      any thing, so that there is nobody of an enemy at sea. We are in great
      hopes of meeting with the Dutch East India fleete, which is mighty rich,
      or with De Ruyter, who is so also. Sir Richard Ford told me this day, at
      table, a fine account, how the Dutch were like to have been mastered by
      the present Prince of Orange
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The period alluded to is 1650, when the States-General disbanded
     part of the forces which the Prince of Orange (William) wished to
     retain.  The prince attempted, but unsuccessfully, to possess
     himself of Amsterdam.  In the same year he died, at the early age of
     twenty-four; some say of the small-pox; others, with Sir Richard
     Ford, say of poison.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      his father to be besieged in Amsterdam, having drawn an army of foot into
      the towne, and horse near to the towne by night, within three miles of the
      towne, and they never knew of it; but by chance the Hamburgh post in the
      night fell among the horse, and heard their design, and knowing the way,
      it being very dark and rainy, better than they, went from them, and did
      give notice to the towne before the others could reach the towne, and so
      were saved. It seems this De Witt and another family, the Beckarts, were
      among the chief of the familys that were enemys to the Prince, and were
      afterwards suppressed by the Prince, and continued so till he was, as they
      say, poysoned; and then they turned all again, as it was, against the
      young Prince, and have so carried it to this day, it being about 12 and 14
      years, and De Witt in the head of them.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and advised about sending of my wife's bedding and things to
      Woolwich, in order to her removal thither. So to the office, where all the
      morning till noon, and so to the 'Change, and thence home to dinner. In
      the afternoon I abroad to St. James's, and there with Mr. Coventry a good
      while, and understand how matters are ordered in the fleete: that is, my
      Lord Sandwich goes Admiral; under him Sir G. Ascue, and Sir T. Teddiman;
      Vice-Admiral, Sir W. Pen; and under him Sir W. Barkeley, and Sir Jos.
      Jordan: Reere-Admiral, Sir Thomas Allen; and under him Sir Christopher
      Mings,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The son of a shoemaker, bred to the sea-service; he rose to the
     rank of an admiral, and was killed in the fight with the Dutch,
     June, 1666.&mdash;B.  See post, June 10th, 1666.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and Captain Harman. We talked in general of business of the Navy, among
      others how he had lately spoken to Sir G. Carteret, and professed great
      resolution of friendship with him and reconciliation, and resolves to make
      it good as well as he can, though it troubles him, he tells me, that
      something will come before him wherein he must give him offence, but I do
      find upon the whole that Mr. Coventry do not listen to these complaints of
      money with the readiness and resolvedness to remedy that he used to do,
      and I think if he begins to draw in it is high time for me to do so too.
      From thence walked round to White Hall, the Parke being quite locked up;
      and I observed a house shut up this day in the Pell Mell, where heretofore
      in Cromwell's time we young men used to keep our weekly clubs. And so to
      White Hall to Sir G. Carteret, who is come this day from Chatham, and
      mighty glad he is to see me, and begun to talk of our great business of
      the match, which goes on as fast as possible, but for convenience we took
      water and over to his coach to Lambeth, by which we went to Deptford, all
      the way talking, first, how matters are quite concluded with all possible
      content between my Lord and him and signed and sealed, so that my Lady
      Sandwich is to come thither to-morrow or next day, and the young lady is
      sent for, and all likely to be ended between them in a very little while,
      with mighty joy on both sides, and the King, Duke, Lord Chancellor, and
      all mightily pleased. Thence to newes, wherein I find that Sir G. Carteret
      do now take all my Lord Sandwich's business to heart, and makes it the
      same with his owne. He tells me how at Chatham it was proposed to my Lord
      Sandwich to be joined with the Prince in the command of the fleete, which
      he was most willing to; but when it come to the Prince, he was quite
      against it; saying, there could be no government, but that it would be
      better to have two fleetes, and neither under the command of the other,
      which he would not agree to. So the King was not pleased; but, without any
      unkindnesse, did order the fleete to be ordered as above, as to the
      Admirals and commands: so the Prince is come up; and Sir G. Carteret, I
      remember, had this word thence, that, says he, by this means, though the
      King told him that it would be but for this expedition, yet I believe we
      shall keepe him out for altogether. He tells me how my Lord was much
      troubled at Sir W. Pen's being ordered forth (as it seems he is, to go to
      Solebay, and with the best fleete he can, to go forth), and no notice
      taken of my Lord Sandwich going after him, and having the command over
      him. But after some discourse Mr. Coventry did satisfy, as he says, my
      Lord, so as they parted friends both in that point and upon the other
      wherein I know my Lord was troubled, and which Mr. Coventry did speak to
      him of first thinking that my Lord might justly take offence at, his not
      being mentioned in the relation of the fight in the news book, and did
      clear all to my Lord how little he was concerned in it, and therewith my
      Lord also satisfied, which I am mightily glad of, because I should take it
      a very great misfortune to me to have them two to differ above all the
      persons in the world. Being come to Deptford, my Lady not being within, we
      parted, and I by water to Woolwich, where I found my wife come, and her
      two mayds, and very prettily accommodated they will be; and I left them
      going to supper, grieved in my heart to part with my wife, being worse by
      much without her, though some trouble there is in having the care of a
      family at home in this plague time, and so took leave, and I in one boat
      and W. Hewer in another home very late, first against tide, we having
      walked in the dark to Greenwich. Late home and to bed, very lonely.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up and forth to give order to my pretty grocer's wife's house, who,
      her husband tells me, is going this day for the summer into the country. I
      bespoke some sugar, &amp;c., for my father, and so home to the office,
      where all the morning. At noon dined at home, and then by water to White
      Hall to Sir G. Carteret about money for the office, a sad thought, for in
      a little while all must go to wracke, winter coming on apace, when a great
      sum must be ready to pay part of the fleete, and so far we are from it
      that we have not enough to stop the mouths of poor people and their hands
      from falling about our eares here almost in the office. God give a good
      end to it! Sir G. Carteret told me one considerable thing: Alderman
      Backewell is ordered abroad upon some private score with a great sum of
      money; wherein I was instrumental the other day in shipping him away. It
      seems some of his creditors have taken notice of it, and he was like to be
      broke yesterday in his absence; Sir G. Carteret telling me that the King
      and the kingdom must as good as fall with that man at this time; and that
      he was forced to get L4000 himself to answer Backewell's people's
      occasions, or he must have broke; but committed this to me as a great
      secret and which I am heartily sorry to hear. Thence, after a little merry
      discourse of our marrying business, I parted, and by coach to several
      places, among others to see my Lord Brunkerd, who is not well, but was at
      rest when I come. I could not see him, nor had much mind, one of the great
      houses within two doors of him being shut up: and, Lord! the number of
      houses visited, which this day I observed through the town quite round in
      my way by Long Lane and London Wall. So home to the office, and thence to
      Sir W. Batten, and spent the evening at supper; and, among other
      discourse, the rashness of Sir John Lawson, for breeding up his daughter
      so high and proud, refusing a man of great interest, Sir W. Barkeley, to
      match her with a melancholy fellow, Colonell Norton's' son, of no interest
      nor good nature nor generosity at all, giving her L6000, when the other
      would have taken her with two; when he himself knew that he was not worth
      the money himself in all the world, he did give her that portion, and is
      since dead, and left his wife and two daughters beggars, and the other
      gone away with L6000, and no content in it, through the ill qualities of
      her father-in-law and husband, who, it seems, though a pretty woman,
      contracted for her as if he had been buying a horse; and, worst of all, is
      now of no use to serve the mother and two little sisters in any stead at
      Court, whereas the other might have done what he would for her: so here is
      an end of this family's pride, which, with good care, might have been what
      they would, and done well. Thence, weary of this discourse, as the act of
      the greatest rashness that ever I heard of in all my little conversation,
      we parted, and I home to bed. Sir W. Pen, it seems, sailed last night from
      Solebay with, about sixty sail of ship, and my Lord Sandwich in "The
      Prince" and some others, it seems, going after them to overtake them, for
      I am sure my Lord Sandwich will do all possible to overtake them, and will
      be troubled to the heart if he do it not.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and having set my neighbour, Mr. Hudson, wine coopers, at work
      drawing out a tierce of wine for the sending of some of it to my wife, I
      abroad, only taking notice to what a condition it hath pleased God to
      bring me that at this time I have two tierces of Claret, two quarter casks
      of Canary, and a smaller vessel of Sack; a vessel of Tent, another of
      Malaga, and another of white wine, all in my wine cellar together; which,
      I believe, none of my friends of my name now alive ever had of his owne at
      one time. To Westminster, and there with Mr. Povy and Creed talking of our
      Tangier business, and by and by I drew Creed aside and acquainted him with
      what Sir G. Carteret did tell me about Backewell the other day, because he
      hath money of his in his hands. So home, taking some new books, L5 worth,
      home to my great content. At home all the day after busy. Some excellent
      discourse and advice of Sir W. Warren's in the afternoon, at night home to
      look over my new books, and so late to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. All day very diligent at the office, ended my letters by 9 at night,
      and then fitted myself to go down to Woolwich to my wife, which I did,
      calling at Sir G. Carteret's at Deptford, and there hear that my Lady
      Sandwich is come, but not very well. By 12 o'clock to Woolwich, found my
      wife asleep in bed, but strange to think what a fine night I had down, but
      before I had been one minute on shore, the mightiest storm come of wind
      and rain that almost could be for a quarter of an houre and so left. I to
      bed, being the first time I come to her lodgings, and there lodged well.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). Very pleasant with her and among my people, while she
      made her ready, and, about 10 o'clock, by water to Sir G. Carteret, and
      there find my Lady [Sandwich] in her chamber, not very well, but looks the
      worst almost that ever I did see her in my life. It seems her drinking of
      the water at Tunbridge did almost kill her before she could with most
      violent physique get it out of her body again. We are received with most
      extraordinary kindnesse by my Lady Carteret and her children, and dined
      most nobly. Sir G. Carteret went to Court this morning. After dinner I
      took occasion to have much discourse with Mr. Ph. Carteret, and find him a
      very modest man; and I think verily of mighty good nature, and pretty
      understanding. He did give me a good account of the fight with the Dutch.
      My Lady Sandwich dined in her chamber. About three o'clock I, leaving my
      wife there, took boat and home, and there shifted myself into my black
      silke suit, and having promised Harman yesterday, I to his house, which I
      find very mean, and mean company. His wife very ill; I could not see her.
      Here I, with her father and Kate Joyce, who was also very ill, were
      godfathers and godmother to his boy, and was christened Will. Mr. Meriton
      christened him. The most observable thing I found there to my content, was
      to hear him and his clerk tell me that in this parish of Michell's,
      Cornhill, one of the middlemost parishes and a great one of the towne,
      there hath, notwithstanding this sickliness, been buried of any disease,
      man, woman, or child, not one for thirteen months last past; which [is]
      very strange. And the like in a good degree in most other parishes, I
      hear, saving only of the plague in them, but in this neither the plague
      nor any other disease. So back again home and reshifted myself, and so
      down to my Lady Carteret's, where mighty merry and great pleasantnesse
      between my Lady Sandwich and the young ladies and me, and all of us mighty
      merry, there never having been in the world sure a greater business of
      general content than this match proposed between Mr. Carteret and my Lady
      Jemimah. But withal it is mighty pretty to think how my poor Lady
      Sandwich, between her and me, is doubtfull whether her daughter will like
      of it or no, and how troubled she is for fear of it, which I do not fear
      at all, and desire her not to do it, but her fear is the most discreet and
      pretty that ever I did see. Late here, and then my wife and I, with most
      hearty kindnesse from my Lady Carteret by boat to Woolwich, come thither
      about 12 at night, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and with great pleasure looking over a nest of puppies of Mr.
      Shelden's, with which my wife is most extraordinary pleased, and one of
      them is promised her. Anon I took my leave, and away by water to the Duke
      of Albemarle's, where he tells me that I must be at Hampton Court anon. So
      I home to look over my Tangier papers, and having a coach of Mr. Povy's
      attending me, by appointment, in order to my coming to dine at his country
      house at Brainford, where he and his family is, I went and Mr. Tasbrough
      with me therein, it being a pretty chariot, but most inconvenient as to
      the horses throwing dust and dirt into one's eyes and upon one's clothes.
      There I staid a quarter of an houre, Creed being there, and being able to
      do little business (but the less the better). Creed rode before, and Mr.
      Povy and I after him in the chariot; and I was set down by him at the
      Parke pale, where one of his saddle horses was ready for me, he himself
      not daring to come into the house or be seen, because that a servant of
      his, out of his horse, happened to be sicke, but is not yet dead, but was
      never suffered to come into his house after he was ill. But this
      opportunity was taken to injure Povy, and most horribly he is abused by
      some persons hereupon, and his fortune, I believe, quite broke; but that
      he hath a good heart to bear, or a cunning one to conceal his evil. There
      I met with Sir W. Coventry, and by and by was heard by my Lord Chancellor
      and Treasurer about our Tangier money, and my Lord Treasurer had ordered
      me to forbear meddling with the L15,000 he offered me the other day, but,
      upon opening the case to them, they did offer it again, and so I think I
      shall have it, but my Lord General must give his consent in it, this money
      having been promised to him, and he very angry at the proposal. Here
      though I have not been in many years, yet I lacke time to stay, besides
      that it is, I perceive, an unpleasing thing to be at Court, everybody
      being fearful one of another, and all so sad, enquiring after the plague,
      so that I stole away by my horse to Kingston, and there with trouble was
      forced, to press two sturdy rogues to carry me to London, and met at the
      waterside with Mr. Charnocke, Sir Philip Warwicke's clerke, who had been
      in company and was quite foxed. I took him with me in my boat, and so away
      to Richmond, and there, by night, walked with him to Moreclacke, a very
      pretty walk, and there staid a good while, now and then talking and
      sporting with Nan the servant, who says she is a seaman's wife, and at
      last bade good night.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. And so all night down by water, a most pleasant passage, and come
      thither by two o'clock, and so walked from the Old Swan home, and there to
      bed to my Will, being very weary, and he lodging at my desire in my house.
      At 6 o'clock up and to Westminster (where and all the towne besides, I
      hear, the plague encreases), and, it being too soon to go to the Duke of
      Albemarle, I to the Harp and Ball, and there made a bargain with Mary to
      go forth with me in the afternoon, which she with much ado consented to.
      So I to the Duke of Albemarle's, and there with much ado did get his
      consent in part to my having the money promised for Tangier, and the other
      part did not concur. So being displeased with this, I back to the office
      and there sat alone a while doing business, and then by a solemn
      invitation to the Trinity House, where a great dinner and company, Captain
      Dobbin's feast for Elder Brother. But I broke up before the dinner half
      over and by water to the Harp and Ball, and thence had Mary meet me at the
      New Exchange, and there took coach and I with great pleasure took the ayre
      to Highgate, and thence to Hampstead, much pleased with her company,
      pretty and innocent, and had what pleasure almost I would with her, and so
      at night, weary and sweaty, it being very hot beyond bearing, we back
      again, and I set her down in St. Martin's Lane, and so I to the evening
      'Change, and there hear all the towne full that Ostend is delivered to us,
      and that Alderman Backewell
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Among the State Papers is a letter from the king to the Lord
     General (dated August 8th, 1665): "Alderman Backwell being in great
     straits for the second payment he has to make for the service in
     Flanders, as much tin is to be transmitted to him as will raise the
     sum.  Has authorized him and Sir George Carteret to treat with the
     tin farmers for 500 tons of tin to be speedily transported under
     good convoy; but if, on consulting with Alderman Backwell, this plan
     of the tin seems insufficient, then without further difficulty he is
     to dispose for that purpose of the L10,000 assigned for pay of the
     Guards, not doubting that before that comes due, other ways will be
     found for supplying it; the payment in Flanders is of such
     importance that some means must be found of providing for it"
     ("Calendar," Domestic, 1664-65, pp. 508, 509)]
</pre>
    <p>
      did go with L50,000 to that purpose. But the truth of it I do not know,
      but something I believe there is extraordinary in his going. So to the
      office, where I did what I could as to letters, and so away to bed,
      shifting myself, and taking some Venice treakle, feeling myself out of
      order, and thence to bed to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. After doing what business I could in the morning, it being a solemn
      fast-day
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["A form of Common Prayer; together with an order for fasting for
     the averting of God's heavy visitation upon many places of this
     realm.  The fast to be observed within the cities of London and
     Westminster and places adjacent, on Wednesday the twelfth of this
     instant July, and both there and in all parts of this realm on the
     first Wednesday in every month during the visitation" ("Calendar of
     State Papers," Domestic, 1664-65, p. 466).]
</pre>
    <p>
      for the plague growing upon us, I took boat and down to Deptford, where I
      stood with great pleasure an houre or two by my Lady Sandwich's bedside,
      talking to her (she lying prettily in bed) of my Lady Jemimah's being from
      my Lady Pickering's when our letters come to that place; she being at my
      Lord Montagu's, at Boughton. The truth is, I had received letters of it
      two days ago, but had dropped them, and was in a very extraordinary
      straite what to do for them, or what account to give my Lady, but sent to
      every place; I sent to Moreclacke, where I had been the night before, and
      there they were found, which with mighty joy come safe to me; but all
      ending with satisfaction to my Lady and me, though I find my Lady Carteret
      not much pleased with this delay, and principally because of the plague,
      which renders it unsafe to stay long at Deptford. I eat a bit (my Lady
      Carteret being the most kind lady in the world), and so took boat, and a
      fresh boat at the Tower, and so up the river, against tide all the way, I
      having lost it by staying prating to and with my Lady, and, from before
      one, made it seven ere we got to Hampton Court; and when I come there all
      business was over, saving my finding Mr. Coventry at his chamber, and with
      him a good while about several businesses at his chamber, and so took
      leave, and away to my boat, and all night upon the water, staying a while
      with Nan at Moreclacke, very much pleased and merry with her, and so on
      homeward, and come home by two o'clock, shooting the bridge at that time
      of night, and so to bed, where I find Will is not, he staying at Woolwich
      to come with my wife to dinner tomorrow to my Lady Carteret's. Heard Mr.
      Williamson repeat at Hampton Court to-day how the King of France hath
      lately set out a most high arrest against the Pope, which is reckoned very
      lofty and high.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Arret.  The rupture between Alexander VII. and Louis XIV. was
     healed in 1664, by the treaty signed at Pisa, on February 12th.  On
     August 9th, the pope's nephew, Cardinal Chigi, made his entry into
     Paris, as legate, to give the king satisfaction for the insult
     offered at Rome by the Corsican guard to the Duc de Crequi, the
     French ambassador; (see January 25th, 1662-63).  Cardinal Imperiali,
     Governor of Rome, asked pardon of the king in person, and all the
     hard conditions of the treaty were fulfilled.  But no arret against
     the pope was set forth in 1665.  On the contrary, Alexander, now
     wishing to please the king, issued a constitution on February 2nd,
     1665, ordering all the clergy of France, without any exception, to
     sign a formulary condemning the famous five propositions extracted
     from the works of Jansenius; and on April 29th, the king in person
     ordered the parliament to register the bull.  The Jansenist party,
     of course, demurred to this proceeding; the Bishops of Alais,
     Angers, Beauvais, and Pamiers, issuing mandates calling upon their
     clergy to refuse.  It was against these mandates, as being contrary
     to the king's declaration and the pope's intentions, that the arret
     was directed.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      13th. Lay long, being sleepy, and then up to the office, my Lord Brunker
      (after his sickness) being come to the office, and did what business there
      was, and so I by water, at night late, to Sir G. Carteret's, but there
      being no oars to carry me, I was fain to call a skuller that had a
      gentleman already in it, and he proved a man of love to musique, and he
      and I sung together the way down with great pleasure, and an incident
      extraordinary to be met with. There come to dinner, they haveing dined,
      but my Lady caused something to be brought for me, and I dined well and
      mighty merry, especially my Lady Slaning and I about eating of creame and
      brown bread, which she loves as much as I. Thence after long discourse
      with them and my Lady alone, I and [my] wife, who by agreement met here,
      took leave, and I saw my wife a little way down (it troubling me that this
      absence makes us a little strange instead of more fond), and so parted,
      and I home to some letters, and then home to bed. Above 700 died of the
      plague this week.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and all the morning at the Exchequer endeavouring to strike
      tallys for money for Tangier, and mightily vexed to see how people attend
      there, some out of towne, and others drowsy, and to others it was late, so
      that the King's business suffers ten times more than all their service is
      worth. So I am put off to to-morrow. Thence to the Old Exchange, by water,
      and there bespoke two fine shirts of my pretty seamstress, who, she tells
      me, serves Jacke Fenn. Upon the 'Change all the news is that guns have
      been heard and that news is come by a Dane that my Lord was in view of De
      Ruyter, and that since his parting from my Lord of Sandwich he hath heard
      guns, but little of it do I think true. So home to dinner, where Povy by
      agreement, and after dinner we to talk of our Tangier matters, about
      keeping our profit at the pay and victualling of the garrison, if the
      present undertakers should leave it, wherein I did [not] nor will do any
      thing unworthy me and any just man, but they being resolved to quit it, it
      is fit I should suffer Mr. Povy to do what he can with Mr. Gauden about it
      to our profit. Thence to the discoursing of putting some sums of money in
      order and tallys, which we did pretty well. So he in the evening gone, I
      by water to Sir G. Carteret's, and there find my Lady Sandwich and her
      buying things for my Lady Jem.'s wedding; and my Lady Jem. is beyond
      expectation come to Dagenhams, where Mr. Carteret is to go to visit her
      to-morrow; and my proposal of waiting on him, he being to go alone to all
      persons strangers to him, was well accepted, and so I go with him. But,
      Lord! to see how kind my Lady Carteret is to her! Sends her most rich
      jewells, and provides bedding and things of all sorts most richly for her,
      which makes my Lady and me out of our wits almost to see the kindnesse she
      treats us all with, as if they would buy the young lady. Thence away home
      and, foreseeing my being abroad two days, did sit up late making of
      letters ready against tomorrow, and other things, and so to bed, to be up
      betimes by the helpe of a larum watch, which by chance I borrowed of my
      watchmaker to-day, while my owne is mending.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and after all business done, though late, I to Deptford, but
      before I went out of the office saw there young Bagwell's wife returned,
      but could not stay to speak to her, though I had a great mind to it, and
      also another great lady, as to fine clothes, did attend there to have a
      ticket signed; which I did do, taking her through the garden to my office,
      where I signed it and had a salute&mdash;[kiss]&mdash;of her, and so I
      away by boat to Redriffe, and thence walked, and after dinner, at Sir G.
      Carteret's, where they stayed till almost three o'clock for me, and anon
      took boat, Mr. Carteret and I to the ferry-place at Greenwich, and there
      staid an hour crossing the water to and again to get our coach and horses
      over; and by and by set out, and so toward Dagenhams. But, Lord! what
      silly discourse we had by the way as to love-matters, he being the most
      awkerd man I ever met with in my life as to that business. Thither we
      come, by that time it begun to be dark, and were kindly received by Lady
      Wright and my Lord Crew. And to discourse they went, my Lord discoursing
      with him, asking of him questions of travell, which he answered well
      enough in a few words; but nothing to the lady from him at all. To supper,
      and after supper to talk again, he yet taking no notice of the lady. My
      Lord would have had me have consented to leaving the young people together
      to-night, to begin their amours, his staying being but to be little. But I
      advised against it, lest the lady might be too much surprised. So they led
      him up to his chamber, where I staid a little, to know how he liked the
      lady, which he told me he did mightily; but, Lord! in the dullest insipid
      manner that ever lover did. So I bid him good night, and down to prayers
      with my Lord Crew's family, and after prayers, my Lord, and Lady Wright,
      and I, to consult what to do; and it was agreed at last to have them go to
      church together, as the family used to do, though his lameness was a great
      objection against it. But at last my Lady Jem. sent me word by my Lady
      Wright that it would be better to do just as they used to do before his
      coming; and therefore she desired to go to church, which was yielded then
      to.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). I up, having lain with Mr. Moore in the chaplin's
      chamber. And having trimmed myself, down to Mr. Carteret; and he being
      ready we down and walked in the gallery an hour or two, it being a most
      noble and pretty house that ever, for the bigness, I saw. Here I taught
      him what to do: to take the lady always by the hand to lead her, and
      telling him that I would find opportunity to leave them two together, he
      should make these and these compliments, and also take a time to do the
      like to Lord Crew and Lady Wright. After I had instructed him, which he
      thanked me for, owning that he needed my teaching him, my Lord Crew come
      down and family, the young lady among the rest; and so by coaches to
      church four miles off; where a pretty good sermon, and a declaration of
      penitence of a man that had undergone the Churches censure for his wicked
      life. Thence back again by coach, Mr. Carteret having not had the
      confidence to take his lady once by the hand, coming or going, which I
      told him of when we come home, and he will hereafter do it. So to dinner.
      My Lord excellent discourse. Then to walk in the gallery, and to sit down.
      By and by my Lady Wright and I go out (and then my Lord Crew, he not by
      design), and lastly my Lady Crew come out, and left the young people
      together. And a little pretty daughter of my Lady Wright's most innocently
      come out afterward, and shut the door to, as if she had done it, poor
      child, by inspiration; which made us without, have good sport to laugh at.
      They together an hour, and by and by church-time, whither he led her into
      the coach and into the church, and so at church all the afternoon, several
      handsome ladies at church. But it was most extraordinary hot that ever I
      knew it. So home again and to walk in the gardens, where we left the young
      couple a second time; and my Lady Wright and I to walk together, who to my
      trouble tells me that my Lady Jem. must have something done to her body by
      Scott before she can be married, and therefore care must be had to send
      him, also that some more new clothes must of necessity be made her, which
      and other things I took care of. Anon to supper, and excellent discourse
      and dispute between my Lord Crew and the chaplin, who is a good scholler,
      but a nonconformist. Here this evening I spoke with Mrs. Carter, my old
      acquaintance, that hath lived with my Lady these twelve or thirteen years,
      the sum of all whose discourse and others for her, is, that I would get
      her a good husband; which I have promised, but know not when I shall
      perform. After Mr. Carteret was carried to his chamber, we to prayers
      again and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up all of us, and to billiards; my Lady Wright, Mr. Carteret,
      myself, and every body. By and by the young couple left together. Anon to
      dinner; and after dinner Mr. Carteret took my advice about giving to the
      servants, and I led him to give L10 among them, which he did, by leaving
      it to the chief man-servant, Mr. Medows, to do for him. Before we went, I
      took my Lady Jem. apart, and would know how she liked this gentleman, and
      whether she was under any difficulty concerning him. She blushed, and hid
      her face awhile; but at last I forced her to tell me. She answered that
      she could readily obey what her father and mother had done; which was all
      she could say, or I expect. So anon I took leave, and for London. But,
      Lord! to see, among other things, how all these great people here are
      afeard of London, being doubtfull of anything that comes from thence, or
      that hath lately been there, that I was forced to say that I lived wholly
      at Woolwich. In our way Mr. Carteret did give me mighty thanks for my care
      and pains for him, and is mightily pleased, though the truth is, my Lady
      Jem. hath carried herself with mighty discretion and gravity, not being
      forward at all in any degree, but mighty serious in her answers to him, as
      by what he says and I observed, I collect. To London to my office, and
      there took letters from the office, where all well, and so to the Bridge,
      and there he and I took boat and to Deptford, where mighty welcome, and
      brought the good newes of all being pleased to them. Mighty mirth at my
      giving them an account of all; but the young man could not be got to say
      one word before me or my Lady Sandwich of his adventures, but, by what he
      afterwards related to his father and mother and sisters, he gives an
      account that pleases them mightily. Here Sir G. Carteret would have me lie
      all night, which I did most nobly, better than ever I did in my life, Sir
      G. Carteret being mighty kind to me, leading me to my chamber; and all
      their care now is, to have the business ended, and they have reason,
      because the sicknesse puts all out of order, and they cannot safely stay
      where they are.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, and so to my house and
      eat a bit of victuals, and so to the 'Change, where a little business and
      a very thin Exchange; and so walked through London to the Temple, where I
      took water for Westminster to the Duke of Albemarle, to wait on him, and
      so to Westminster Hall, and there paid for my newes-books, and did give
      Mrs. Michell, who is going out of towne because of the sicknesse, and her
      husband, a pint of wine, and so Sir W. Warren coming to me by appointment
      we away by water home, by the way discoursing about the project I have of
      getting some money and doing the King good service too about the mast
      docke at Woolwich, which I fear will never be done if I do not go about
      it. After dispatching letters at the office, I by water down to Deptford,
      where I staid a little while, and by water to my wife, whom I have not
      seen 6 or 5 days, and there supped with her, and mighty pleasant, and saw
      with content her drawings, and so to bed mighty merry. I was much troubled
      this day to hear at Westminster how the officers do bury the dead in the
      open Tuttle-fields, pretending want of room elsewhere; whereas the New
      Chappell churchyard was walled-in at the publick charge in the last plague
      time, merely for want of room and now none, but such as are able to pay
      dear for it, can be buried there.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up and to the office, and thence presently to the Exchequer, and
      there with much trouble got my tallys, and afterwards took Mr. Falconer,
      Spicer, and another or two to the Leg and there give them a dinner, and so
      with my tallys and about 30 dozen of bags, which it seems are my due,
      having paid the fees as if I had received the money I away home, and after
      a little stay down by water to Deptford, where I find all full of joy, and
      preparing to go to Dagenhams to-morrow. To supper, and after supper to
      talk without end. Very late I went away, it raining, but I had a design
      'pour aller a la femme de Bagwell' and did so.... So away about 12, and it
      raining hard I back to Sir G. Carteret and there called up the page, and
      to bed there, being all in a most violent sweat.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, in a boat among other people to the Tower, and there to the
      office, where we sat all the morning. So down to Deptford and there dined,
      and after dinner saw my Lady Sandwich and Mr. Carteret and his two sisters
      over the water, going to Dagenhams, and my Lady Carteret towards
      Cranburne.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The royal lodge of that name in Windsor Forest, occupied by Sir
     George Carteret as Vice-Chamberlain to the King.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      So all the company broke up in most extraordinary joy, wherein I am mighty
      contented that I have had the good fortune to be so instrumental, and I
      think it will be of good use to me. So walked to Redriffe, where I hear
      the sickness is, and indeed is scattered almost every where, there dying
      1089 of the plague this week. My Lady Carteret did this day give me a
      bottle of plague-water home with me. So home to write letters late, and
      then home to bed, where I have not lain these 3 or 4 nights. I received
      yesterday a letter from my Lord Sandwich, giving me thanks for my care
      about their marriage business, and desiring it to be dispatched, that no
      disappointment may happen therein, which I will help on all I can. This
      afternoon I waited on the Duke of Albemarle, and so to Mrs. Croft's, where
      I found and saluted Mrs. Burrows, who is a very pretty woman for a mother
      of so many children. But, Lord! to see how the plague spreads. It being
      now all over King's Streete, at the Axe, and next door to it, and in other
      places.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up and abroad to the goldsmiths, to see what money I could get upon
      my present tallys upon the advance of the Excise, and I hope I shall get
      L10,000. I went also and had them entered at the Excise Office. Alderman
      Backewell is at sea. Sir R. Viner come to towne but this morning. So
      Colvill was the only man I could yet speak withal to get any money of. Met
      with Mr. Povy, and I with him and dined at the Custom House Taverne, there
      to talk of our Tangier business, and Stockedale and Hewet with us. So
      abroad to several places, among others to Anthony Joyce's, and there broke
      to him my desire to have Pall married to Harman, whose wife, poor woman,
      is lately dead, to my trouble, I loving her very much, and he will
      consider it. So home and late at my chamber, setting some papers in order;
      the plague growing very raging, and my apprehensions of it great. So very
      late to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. As soon as up I among my goldsmiths, Sir Robert Viner and Colvill,
      and there got L10,000 of my new tallys accepted, and so I made it my work
      to find out Mr. Mervin and sent for others to come with their bills of
      Exchange, as Captain Hewett, &amp;c., and sent for Mr. Jackson, but he was
      not in town. So all the morning at the office, and after dinner, which was
      very late, I to Sir R. Viner's, by his invitation in the morning, and got
      near L5000 more accepted, and so from this day the whole, or near,
      L15,000, lies upon interest. Thence I by water to Westminster, and the
      Duke of Albemarle being gone to dinner to my Lord of Canterbury's, I
      thither, and there walked and viewed the new hall, a new old-fashion hall
      as much as possible. Begun, and means left for the ending of it, by Bishop
      Juxon. Not coming proper to speak with him, I to Fox-hall, where to the
      Spring garden; but I do not see one guest there, the town being so empty
      of any body to come thither. Only, while I was there, a poor woman come to
      scold with the master of the house that a kinswoman, I think, of hers,
      that was newly dead of the plague, might be buried in the church-yard;
      for, for her part, she should not be buried in the commons, as they said
      she should. Back to White Hall, and by and by comes the Duke of Albemarle,
      and there, after a little discourse, I by coach home, not meeting with but
      two coaches, and but two carts from White Hall to my own house, that I
      could observe; and the streets mighty thin of people. I met this noon with
      Dr. Burnett, who told me, and I find in the newsbook this week that he
      posted upon the 'Change, that whoever did spread the report that, instead
      of the plague, his servant was by him killed, it was forgery, and shewed
      me the acknowledgment of the master of the pest-house, that his servant
      died of a bubo on his right groine, and two spots on his right thigh,
      which is the plague. To my office, where late writing letters, and getting
      myself prepared with business for Hampton Court to-morrow, and so having
      caused a good pullet to be got for my supper, all alone, I very late to
      bed. All the news is great: that we must of necessity fall out with
      France, for He will side with the Dutch against us. That Alderman
      Backewell is gone over (which indeed he is) with money, and that Ostend is
      in our present possession. But it is strange to see how poor Alderman
      Backewell is like to be put to it in his absence, Mr. Shaw his right hand
      being ill. And the Alderman's absence gives doubts to people, and I
      perceive they are in great straits for money, besides what Sir G. Carteret
      told me about fourteen days ago. Our fleet under my Lord Sandwich being
      about the latitude 55 (which is a great secret) to the Northward of the
      Texell. So to bed very late. In my way I called upon Sir W. Turner, and at
      Mr. Shelcrosse's (but he was not at home, having left his bill with Sir W.
      Turner), that so I may prove I did what I could as soon as I had money to
      answer all bills.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). Up very betimes, called by Mr. Cutler, by appointment,
      and with him in his coach and four horses over London Bridge to Kingston,
      a very pleasant journey, and at Hampton Court by nine o'clock, and in our
      way very good and various discourse, as he is a man, that though I think
      he be a knave, as the world thinks him, yet a man of great experience and
      worthy to be heard discourse. When we come there, we to Sir W. Coventry's
      chamber, and there discoursed long with him, he and I alone, the others
      being gone away, and so walked together through the garden to the house,
      where we parted, I observing with a little trouble that he is too great
      now to expect too much familiarity with, and I find he do not mind me as
      he used to do, but when I reflect upon him and his business I cannot think
      much of it, for I do not observe anything but the same great kindness from
      him. I followed the King to chappell, and there hear a good sermon; and
      after sermon with my Lord Arlington, Sir Thomas Ingram and others, spoke
      to the Duke about Tangier, but not to much purpose. I was not invited any
      whither to dinner, though a stranger, which did also trouble me; but yet I
      must remember it is a Court, and indeed where most are strangers; but,
      however, Cutler carried me to Mr. Marriott's the house-keeper, and there
      we had a very good dinner and good company, among others Lilly, the
      painter. Thence to the councill-chamber, where in a back room I sat all
      the afternoon, but the councill begun late to sit, and spent most of the
      time upon Morisco's Tarr businesse. They sat long, and I forced to follow
      Sir Thomas Ingram, the Duke, and others, so that when I got free and come
      to look for Cutler, he was gone with his coach, without leaving any word
      with any body to tell me so; so that I was forced with great trouble to
      walk up and down looking of him, and at last forced to get a boat to carry
      me to Kingston, and there, after eating a bit at a neat inne, which
      pleased me well, I took boat, and slept all the way, without intermission,
      from thence to Queenhive, where, it being about two o'clock, too late and
      too soon to go home to bed, I lay and slept till about four,
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. And then up and home, and there dressed myself, and by appointment
      to Deptford, to Sir G. Carteret's, between six and seven o'clock, where I
      found him and my Lady almost ready, and by and by went over to the ferry,
      and took coach and six horses nobly for Dagenhams, himself and lady and
      their little daughter, Louisonne, and myself in the coach; where, when we
      come, we were bravely entertained and spent the day most pleasantly with
      the young ladies, and I so merry as never more. Only for want of sleep,
      and drinking of strong beer had a rheum in one of my eyes, which troubled
      me much. Here with great content all the day, as I think I ever passed a
      day in my life, because of the contentfulnesse of our errand, and the
      noblenesse of the company and our manner of going. But I find Mr. Carteret
      yet as backward almost in his caresses, as he was the first day. At night,
      about seven o'clock, took coach again; but, Lord! to see in what a
      pleasant humour Sir G. Carteret hath been both coming and going; so light,
      so fond, so merry, so boyish (so much content he takes in this business),
      it is one of the greatest wonders I ever saw in my mind. But once in
      serious discourse he did say that, if he knew his son to be a debauchee,
      as many and, most are now-a-days about the Court, he would tell it, and my
      Lady Jem. should not have him; and so enlarged both he and she about the
      baseness and looseness of the Court, and told several stories of the Duke
      of Monmouth, and Richmond, and some great person, my Lord of Ormond's
      second son, married to a lady of extraordinary quality (fit and that might
      have been made a wife for the King himself), about six months since, that
      this great person hath given the pox to&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;; and
      discoursed how much this would oblige the Kingdom if the King would banish
      some of these great persons publiquely from the Court, and wished it with
      all their hearts. We set out so late that it grew dark, so as we doubted
      the losing of our way; and a long time it was, or seemed, before we could
      get to the water-side, and that about eleven at night, where, when we
      come, all merry (only my eye troubled me, as I said), we found no
      ferryboat was there, nor no oares to carry us to Deptford. However,
      afterwards oares was called from the other side at Greenwich; but, when it
      come, a frolique, being mighty merry, took us, and there we would sleep
      all night in the coach in the Isle of Doggs. So we did, there being now
      with us my Lady Scott, and with great pleasure drew up the glasses, and
      slept till daylight, and then some victuals and wine being brought us, we
      ate a bit, and so up and took boat, merry as might be; and when come to
      Sir G. Carteret's, there all to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Our good humour in every body continuing, and there I slept till
      seven o'clock. Then up and to the office, well refreshed, my eye only
      troubling me, which by keeping a little covered with my handkercher and
      washing now and then with cold water grew better by night. At noon to the
      'Change, which was very thin, and thence homeward, and was called in by
      Mr. Rawlinson, with whom I dined and some good company very harmlessly
      merry. But sad the story of the plague in the City, it growing mightily.
      This day my Lord Brunker did give me Mr. Grant's' book upon the Bills of
      Mortality, new printed and enlarged. Thence to my office awhile, full of
      business, and thence by coach to the Duke of Albemarle's, not meeting one
      coach going nor coming from my house thither and back again, which is very
      strange. One of my chief errands was to speak to Sir W. Clerke about my
      wife's brother, who importunes me, and I doubt he do want mightily, but I
      can do little for him there as to employment in the army, and out of my
      purse I dare not for fear of a precedent, and letting him come often to me
      is troublesome and dangerous too, he living in the dangerous part of the
      town, but I will do what I can possibly for him and as soon as I can.
      Mightily troubled all this afternoon with masters coming to me about Bills
      of Exchange and my signing them upon my Goldsmiths, but I did send for
      them all and hope to ease myself this weeke of all the clamour. These two
      or three days Mr. Shaw at Alderman Backewell's hath lain sick, like to
      die, and is feared will not live a day to an end. At night home and to
      bed, my head full of business, and among others, this day come a letter to
      me from Paris from my Lord Hinchingbroke, about his coming over; and I
      have sent this night an order from the Duke of Albemarle for a ship of 36
      guns to [go] to Calais to fetch him.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and after doing a little business, down to Deptford with Sir W.
      Batten, and there left him, and I to Greenwich to the Park, where I hear
      the King and Duke are come by water this morn from Hampton Court. They
      asked me several questions. The King mightily pleased with his new
      buildings there. I followed them to Castle's ship in building, and there,
      met Sir W. Batten, and thence to Sir G. Carteret's, where all the morning
      with them; they not having any but the Duke of Monmouth, and Sir W.
      Killigrew, and one gentleman, and a page more. Great variety of talk, and
      was often led to speak to the King and Duke. By and by they to dinner, and
      all to dinner and sat down to the King saving myself, which, though I
      could not in modesty expect, yet, God forgive my pride! I was sorry I was
      there, that Sir W. Batten should say that he could sit down where I could
      not, though he had twenty times more reason than I, but this was my pride
      and folly. I down and walked with Mr. Castle, who told me the design of
      Ford and Rider to oppose and do all the hurt they can to Captain Taylor in
      his new ship "The London," and how it comes, and that they are a couple of
      false persons, which I believe, and withal that he himself is a knave too.
      He and I by and by to dinner mighty nobly, and the King having dined, he
      come down, and I went in the barge with him, I sitting at the door. Down
      to Woolwich (and there I just saw and kissed my wife, and saw some of her
      painting, which is very curious; and away again to the King) and back
      again with him in the barge, hearing him and the Duke talk, and seeing and
      observing their manner of discourse. And God forgive me! though I admire
      them with all the duty possible, yet the more a man considers and observes
      them, the less he finds of difference between them and other men, though
      (blessed be God!) they are both princes of great nobleness and spirits.
      The barge put me into another boat that come to our side, Mr. Holder with
      a bag of gold to the Duke, and so they away and I home to the office. The
      Duke of Monmouth is the most skittish leaping gallant that ever I saw,
      always in action, vaulting or leaping, or clambering. Thence mighty full
      of the honour of this day, I took coach and to Kate Joyce's, but she not
      within, but spoke with Anthony, who tells me he likes well of my proposal
      for Pall to Harman, but I fear that less than L500 will not be taken, and
      that I shall not be able to give, though I did not say so to him. After a
      little other discourse and the sad news of the death of so many in the
      parish of the plague, forty last night, the bell always going, I back to
      the Exchange, where I went up and sat talking with my beauty, Mrs.
      Batelier, a great while, who is indeed one of the finest women I ever saw
      in my life. After buying some small matter, I home, and there to the
      office and saw Sir J. Minnes now come from Portsmouth, I home to set my
      Journall for these four days in order, they being four days of as great
      content and honour and pleasure to me as ever I hope to live or desire, or
      think any body else can live. For methinks if a man would but reflect upon
      this, and think that all these things are ordered by God Almighty to make
      me contented, and even this very marriage now on foot is one of the things
      intended to find me content in, in my life and matter of mirth, methinks
      it should make one mightily more satisfied in the world than he is. This
      day poor Robin Shaw at Backewell's died, and Backewell himself now in
      Flanders. The King himself asked about Shaw, and being told he was dead,
      said he was very sorry for it. The sicknesse is got into our parish this
      week, and is got, indeed, every where; so that I begin to think of setting
      things in order, which I pray God enable me to put both as to soul and
      body.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Called up at 4 o'clock. Up and to my preparing some papers for
      Hampton Court, and so by water to Fox Hall, and there Mr. Gauden's coach
      took me up, and by and by I took up him, and so both thither, a brave
      morning to ride in and good discourse with him. Among others he begun with
      me to speak of the Tangier Victuallers resigning their employment, and his
      willingness to come on. Of which I was glad, and took the opportunity to
      answer him with all kindness and promise of assistance. He told me a while
      since my Lord Berkeley did speak of it to him, and yesterday a message
      from Sir Thomas Ingram. When I come to Hampton Court I find Sir T. Ingram
      and Creed ready with papers signed for the putting of Mr. Gawden in, upon
      a resignation signed to by Lanyon and sent to Sir Thos. Ingram. At this I
      was surprized but yet was glad, and so it passed but with respect enough
      to those that are in, at least without any thing ill taken from it. I got
      another order signed about the boats, which I think I shall get something
      by. So dispatched all my business, having assurance of continuance of all
      hearty love from Sir W. Coventry, and so we staid and saw the King and
      Queene set out toward Salisbury, and after them the Duke and Duchesse,
      whose hands I did kiss. And it was the first time I did ever, or did see
      any body else, kiss her hand, and it was a most fine white and fat hand.
      But it was pretty to see the young pretty ladies dressed like men, in
      velvet coats, caps with ribbands, and with laced bands, just like men.
      Only the Duchesse herself it did not become. They gone, we with great
      content took coach again, and hungry come to Clapham about one o'clock,
      and Creed there too before us, where a good dinner, the house having
      dined, and so to walk up and down in the gardens, mighty pleasant. By and
      by comes by promise to me Sir G. Carteret, and viewed the house above and
      below, and sat and drank there, and I had a little opportunity to kiss and
      spend some time with the ladies above, his daughter, a buxom lass, and his
      sister Fissant, a serious lady, and a little daughter of hers, that begins
      to sing prettily. Thence, with mighty pleasure, with Sir G. Carteret by
      coach, with great discourse of kindnesse with him to my Lord Sandwich, and
      to me also; and I every day see more good by the alliance. Almost at
      Deptford I 'light and walked over to Half-way House, and so home, in my
      way being shown my cozen Patience's house, which seems, at distance, a
      pretty house. At home met the weekly Bill, where above 1000 encreased in
      the Bill, and of them, in all about 1,700 of the plague, which hath made
      the officers this day resolve of sitting at Deptford, which puts me to
      some consideration what to do. Therefore home to think and consider of
      every thing about it, and without determining any thing eat a little
      supper and to bed, full of the pleasure of these 6 or 7 last days.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up betimes, and down to Deptford, where, after a little discourse
      with Sir G. Carteret, who is much displeased with the order of our
      officers yesterday to remove the office to Deptford, pretending other
      things, but to be sure it is with regard to his own house (which is much
      because his family is going away). I am glad I was not at the order
      making, and so I will endeavour to alter it. Set out with my Lady all
      alone with her with six horses to Dagenhams; going by water to the Ferry.
      And a pleasant going, and good discourse; and when there, very merry, and
      the young couple now well acquainted. But, Lord! to see in what fear all
      the people here do live would make one mad, they are afeard of us that
      come to them, insomuch that I am troubled at it, and wish myself away. But
      some cause they have; for the chaplin, with whom but a week or two ago we
      were here mighty high disputing, is since fallen into a fever and dead,
      being gone hence to a friend's a good way off. A sober and a healthful
      man. These considerations make us all hasten the marriage, and resolve it
      upon Monday next, which is three days before we intended it. Mighty merry
      all of us, and in the evening with full content took coach again and home
      by daylight with great pleasure, and thence I down to Woolwich, where find
      my wife well, and after drinking and talking a little we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up betimes, and after viewing some of my wife's pictures, which now
      she is come to do very finely to my great satisfaction beyond what I could
      ever look for, I went away and by water to the office, where nobody to
      meet me, but busy all the morning. At noon to dinner, where I hear that my
      Will is come in thither and laid down upon my bed, ill of the headake,
      which put me into extraordinary fear; and I studied all I could to get him
      out of the house, and set my people to work to do it without discouraging
      him, and myself went forth to the Old Exchange to pay my fair Batelier for
      some linnen, and took leave of her, they breaking up shop for a while; and
      so by coach to Kate Joyce's, and there used all the vehemence and
      rhetorique I could to get her husband to let her go down to Brampton, but
      I could not prevail with him; he urging some simple reasons, but most that
      of profit, minding the house, and the distance, if either of them should
      be ill. However, I did my best, and more than I had a mind to do, but that
      I saw him so resolved against it, while she was mightily troubled at it.
      At last he yielded she should go to Windsor, to some friends there. So I
      took my leave of them, believing that it is great odds that we ever all
      see one another again; for I dare not go any more to that end of the
      towne. So home, and to writing of letters&mdash;hard, and then at night
      home, and fell to my Tangier papers till late, and then to bed, in some
      ease of mind that Will is gone to his lodging, and that he is likely to do
      well, it being only the headake.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Lord's day). Up, and in my night gowne, cap and neckcloth, undressed
      all day long, lost not a minute, but in my chamber, setting my Tangier
      accounts to rights. Which I did by night to my very heart's content, not
      only that it is done, but I find every thing right, and even beyond what,
      after so long neglecting them, I did hope for. The Lord of Heaven be
      praised for it! Will was with me to-day, and is very well again. It was a
      sad noise to hear our bell to toll and ring so often to-day, either for
      deaths or burials; I think five or six times. At night weary with my day's
      work, but full of joy at my having done it, I to bed, being to rise
      betimes tomorrow to go to the wedding at Dagenhams. So to bed, fearing I
      have got some cold sitting in my loose garments all this day.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up, and very betimes by six o'clock at Deptford, and there find Sir
      G. Carteret, and my Lady ready to go: I being in my new coloured silk
      suit, and coat trimmed with gold buttons and gold broad lace round my
      hands, very rich and fine. By water to the Ferry, where, when we come, no
      coach there; and tide of ebb so far spent as the horse-boat could not get
      off on the other side the river to bring away the coach. So we were fain
      to stay there in the unlucky Isle of Doggs, in a chill place, the morning
      cool, and wind fresh, above two if not three hours to our great
      discontent. Yet being upon a pleasant errand, and seeing that it could not
      be helped, we did bear it very patiently; and it was worth my observing, I
      thought, as ever any thing, to see how upon these two scores, Sir G.
      Carteret, the most passionate man in the world, and that was in greatest
      haste to be gone, did bear with it, and very pleasant all the while, at
      least not troubled much so as to fret and storm at it. Anon the coach
      comes: in the mean time there coming a News thither with his horse to go
      over, that told us he did come from Islington this morning; and that
      Proctor the vintner of the Miter in Wood-street, and his son, are dead
      this morning there, of the plague; he having laid out abundance of money
      there, and was the greatest vintner for some time in London for great
      entertainments. We, fearing the canonicall hour would be past before we
      got thither, did with a great deal of unwillingness send away the license
      and wedding ring. So that when we come, though we drove hard with six
      horses, yet we found them gone from home; and going towards the church,
      met them coming from church, which troubled us. But, however, that trouble
      was soon over; hearing it was well done: they being both in their old
      cloaths; my Lord Crew giving her, there being three coach fulls of them.
      The young lady mighty sad, which troubled me; but yet I think it was only
      her gravity in a little greater degree than usual. All saluted her, but I
      did not till my Lady Sandwich did ask me whether I had saluted her or no.
      So to dinner, and very merry we were; but yet in such a sober way as never
      almost any wedding was in so great families: but it was much better. After
      dinner company divided, some to cards, others to talk. My Lady Sandwich
      and I up to settle accounts, and pay her some money. And mighty kind she
      is to me, and would fain have had me gone down for company with her to
      Hinchingbroke; but for my life I cannot. At night to supper, and so to
      talk; and which, methought, was the most extraordinary thing, all of us to
      prayers as usual, and the young bride and bridegroom too and so after
      prayers, soberly to bed; only I got into the bridegroom's chamber while he
      undressed himself, and there was very merry, till he was called to the
      bride's chamber, and into bed they went. I kissed the bride in bed, and so
      the curtaines drawne with the greatest gravity that could be, and so good
      night. But the modesty and gravity of this business was so decent, that it
      was to me indeed ten times more delightfull than if it had been twenty
      times more merry and joviall. Whereas I feared I must have sat up all
      night, we did here all get good beds, and I lay in the same I did before
      with Mr. Brisband, who is a good scholler and sober man; and we lay in
      bed, getting him to give me an account of home, which is the most
      delightfull talke a man can have of any traveller: and so to sleep. My
      eyes much troubled already with the change of my drink. Thus I ended this
      month with the greatest joy that ever I did any in my life, because I have
      spent the greatest part of it with abundance of joy, and honour, and
      pleasant journeys, and brave entertainments, and without cost of money;
      and at last live to see the business ended with great content on all
      sides. This evening with Mr. Brisband, speaking of enchantments and
      spells; I telling him some of my charms; he told me this of his owne
      knowledge, at Bourdeaux, in France. The words these:
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                         Voyci un Corps mort,
                         Royde come un Baston,
                         Froid comme Marbre,
                         Leger come un esprit,
                         Levons to au nom de Jesus Christ.
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    <p>
      He saw four little girles, very young ones, all kneeling, each of them,
      upon one knee; and one begun the first line, whispering in the eare of the
      next, and the second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and she to
      the first. Then the first begun the second line, and so round quite
      through, and, putting each one finger only to a boy that lay flat upon his
      back on the ground, as if he was dead; at the end of the words, they did
      with their four fingers raise this boy as high as they could reach, and he
      [Mr. Brisband] being there, and wondering at it, as also being afeard to
      see it, for they would have had him to have bore a part in saying the
      words, in the roome of one of the little girles that was so young that
      they could hardly make her learn to repeat the words, did, for feare there
      might be some sleight used in it by the boy, or that the boy might be
      light, call the cook of the house, a very lusty fellow, as Sir G.
      Carteret's cook, who is very big, and they did raise him in just the same
      manner. This is one of the strangest things I ever heard, but he tells it
      me of his owne knowledge, and I do heartily believe it to be true. I
      enquired of him whether they were Protestant or Catholique girles; and he
      told me they were Protestant, which made it the more strange to me. Thus
      we end this month, as I said, after the greatest glut of content that ever
      I had; only under some difficulty because of the plague, which grows
      mightily upon us, the last week being about 1700 or 1800 of the plague. My
      Lord Sandwich at sea with a fleet of about 100 sail, to the Northward,
      expecting De Ruyter, or the Dutch East India fleet. My Lord Hinchingbroke
      coming over from France, and will meet his sister at Scott's-hall. Myself
      having obliged both these families in this business very much; as both my
      Lady, and Sir G. Carteret and his Lady do confess exceedingly, and the
      latter do also now call me cozen, which I am glad of. So God preserve us
      all friends long, and continue health among us.
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    <p>
      August 1st. Slept, and lay long; then up and my Lord [Crew] and Sir G.
      Carteret being gone abroad, I first to see the bridegroom and bride, and
      found them both up, and he gone to dress himself. Both red in the face,
      and well enough pleased this morning with their night's lodging. Thence
      down and Mr. Brisband and I to billiards: anon come my Lord and Sir G.
      Carteret in, who have been looking abroad and visiting some farms that Sir
      G. Carteret hath thereabouts, and, among other things, report the greatest
      stories of the bigness of the calfes they find there, ready to sell to the
      butchers, as big, they say, as little Cowes, and that they do give them a
      piece of chalke to licke, which they hold makes them white in the flesh
      within. Very merry at dinner, and so to talk and laugh after dinner, and
      up and down, some to [one] place, some to another, full of content on all
      sides. Anon about five o'clock, Sir G. Carteret and his lady and I took
      coach with the greatest joy and kindnesse that could be from the two
      familys or that ever I saw with so much appearance, and, I believe,
      reality in all my life. Drove hard home, and it was night ere we got to
      Deptford, where, with much kindnesse from them to me, I left them, and
      home to the office, where I find all well, and being weary and sleepy, it
      being very late, I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, it being a publique fast, as being the first Wednesday of the
      month, for the plague; I within doors all day, and upon my monthly
      accounts late, and there to my great joy settled almost all my private
      matters of money in my books clearly, and allowing myself several sums
      which I had hitherto not reckoned myself sure of, because I would not be
      over sure of any thing, though with reason I might do it, I did find
      myself really worth L1900, for which the great God of Heaven and Earth be
      praised! At night to the office to write a few letters, and so home to
      bed, after fitting myself for tomorrow's journey.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and betimes to Deptford to Sir G. Carteret's, where, not liking
      the horse that had been hired by Mr. Uthwayt for me, I did desire Sir G.
      Carteret to let me ride his new L40 horse, which he did, and so I left my
      'hacquenee'&mdash;[Haquenee = an ambling nag fitted for ladies' riding.]&mdash;behind,
      and so after staying a good while in their bedchamber while they were
      dressing themselves, discoursing merrily, I parted and to the ferry, where
      I was forced to stay a great while before I could get my horse brought
      over, and then mounted and rode very finely to Dagenhams; all the way
      people, citizens, walking to and again to enquire how the plague is in the
      City this week by the Bill; which by chance, at Greenwich, I had heard was
      2,020 of the plague, and 3,000 and odd of all diseases; but methought it
      was a sad question to be so often asked me. Coming to Dagenhams, I there
      met our company coming out of the house, having staid as long as they
      could for me; so I let them go a little before, and went and took leave of
      my Lady Sandwich, good woman, who seems very sensible of my service in
      this late business, and having her directions in some things, among
      others, to get Sir G. Carteret and my Lord to settle the portion, and what
      Sir G. Carteret is to settle, into land, soon as may be, she not liking
      that it should lie long undone, for fear of death on either side. So took
      leave of her, and then down to the buttery, and eat a piece of cold
      venison pie, and drank and took some bread and cheese in my hand; and so
      mounted after them, Mr. Marr very kindly staying to lead me the way. By
      and by met my Lord Crew returning, after having accompanied them a little
      way, and so after them, Mr. Marr telling me by the way how a mayde servant
      of Mr. John Wright's (who lives thereabouts) falling sick of the plague,
      she was removed to an out-house, and a nurse appointed to look to her;
      who, being once absent, the mayde got out of the house at the window, and
      run away. The nurse coming and knocking, and having no answer, believed
      she was dead, and went and told Mr. Wright so; who and his lady were in
      great strait what to do to get her buried. At last resolved to go to
      Burntwood hard by, being in the parish, and there get people to do it. But
      they would not; so he went home full of trouble, and in the way met the
      wench walking over the common, which frighted him worse than before; and
      was forced to send people to take her, which he did; and they got one of
      the pest coaches and put her into it to carry her to a pest house. And
      passing in a narrow lane, Sir Anthony Browne, with his brother and some
      friends in the coach, met this coach with the curtains drawn close. The
      brother being a young man, and believing there might be some lady in it
      that would not be seen, and the way being narrow, he thrust his head out
      of his own into her coach, and to look, and there saw somebody look very
      ill, and in a sick dress, and stunk mightily; which the coachman also
      cried out upon. And presently they come up to some people that stood
      looking after it, and told our gallants that it was a mayde of Mr.
      Wright's carried away sick of the plague; which put the young gentleman
      into a fright had almost cost him his life, but is now well again. I,
      overtaking our young people, 'light, and into the coach to them, where
      mighty merry all the way; and anon come to the Blockehouse, over against
      Gravesend, where we staid a great while, in a little drinking-house. Sent
      back our coaches to Dagenhams. I, by and by, by boat to Gravesend, where
      no newes of Sir G. Carteret come yet; so back again, and fetched them all
      over, but the two saddle-horses that were to go with us, which could not
      be brought over in the horseboat, the wind and tide being against us,
      without towing; so we had some difference with some watermen, who would
      not tow them over under 20s., whereupon I swore to send one of them to sea
      and will do it. Anon some others come to me and did it for 10s. By and by
      comes Sir G. Carteret, and so we set out for Chatham: in my way overtaking
      some company, wherein was a lady, very pretty, riding singly, her husband
      in company with her. We fell into talke, and I read a copy of verses which
      her husband showed me, and he discommended, but the lady commended: and I
      read them, so as to make the husband turn to commend them. By and by he
      and I fell into acquaintance, having known me formerly at the Exchequer.
      His name is Nokes, over against Bow Church. He was servant to Alderman
      Dashwood. We promised to meet, if ever we come both to London again; and,
      at parting, I had a fair salute on horseback, in Rochester streets, of the
      lady, and so parted. Come to Chatham mighty merry, and anon to supper, it
      being near 9 o'clock ere we come thither. My Lady Carteret come thither in
      a coach, by herself, before us. Great mind they have to buy a little
      'hacquenee' that I rode on from Greenwich, for a woman's horse. Mighty
      merry, and after supper, all being withdrawn, Sir G. Carteret did take an
      opportunity to speak with much value and kindness to me, which is of great
      joy to me. So anon to bed. Mr. Brisband and I together to my content.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up at five o'clock, and by six walked out alone, with my Lady
      Slanning, to the Docke Yard, where walked up and down, and so to Mr.
      Pett's, who led us into his garden, and there the lady, the best humoured
      woman in the world, and a devout woman (I having spied her on her knees
      half an houre this morning in her chamber), clambered up to the top of the
      banquetting-house to gather nuts, and mighty merry, and so walked back
      again through the new rope house, which is very usefull; and so to the
      Hill-house to breakfast and mighty merry. Then they took coach, and Sir G.
      Carteret kissed me himself heartily, and my Lady several times, with great
      kindnesse, and then the young ladies, and so with much joy, bade "God be
      with you!" and an end I think it will be to my mirthe for a great while,
      it having been the passage of my whole life the most pleasing for the
      time, considering the quality and nature of the business, and my noble
      usage in the doing of it, and very many fine journys, entertainments and
      great company. I returned into the house for a while to do business there
      with Commissioner Pett, and there with the officers of the Chest, where I
      saw more of Sir W. Batten's business than ever I did before, for whereas
      he did own once under his hand to them that he was accountable for L2200,
      of which he had yet paid but L1600, he writes them a letter lately that he
      hath but about L50 left that is due to the Chest, but I will do something
      in it and that speedily. That being done I took horse, and Mr. Barrow with
      me bore me company to Gravesend, discoursing of his business, wherein I
      vexed him, and he me, I seeing his frowardness, but yet that he is in my
      conscience a very honest man, and some good things he told me, which I
      shall remember to the King's advantage. There I took boat alone, and, the
      tide being against me, landed at Blackwall and walked to Wapping, Captain
      Bowd whom I met with talking with me all the way, who is a sober man. So
      home, and found all things well, and letters from Dover that my Lord
      Hinchingbroke is arrived at Dover, and would be at Scott's hall this
      night, where the whole company will meet. I wish myself with them. After
      writing a few letters I took boat and down to Woolwich very late, and
      there found my wife and her woman upon the key hearing a fellow in a
      barge, that lay by, fiddle. So I to them and in, very merry, and to bed, I
      sleepy and weary.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. In the morning up, and my wife showed me several things of her doing,
      especially one fine woman's Persian head mighty finely done, beyond what I
      could expect of her; and so away by water, having ordered in the yarde six
      or eight bargemen to be whipped, who had last night stolen some of the
      King's cordage from out of the yarde. I to Deptford, and there by
      agreement met with my Lord Bruncker, and there we kept our office, he and
      I, and did what there was to do, and at noon parted to meet at the office
      next week. Sir W. Warren and I thence did walk through the rain to
      Half-Way House, and there I eat a piece of boiled beef and he and I talked
      over several businesses, among others our design upon the mast docke,
      which I hope to compass and get 2 or L300 by. Thence to Redriffe, where we
      parted, and I home, where busy all the afternoon. Stepped to Colvill's to
      set right a business of money, where he told me that for certain De Ruyter
      is come home, with all his fleete, which is very ill newes, considering
      the charge we have been at in keeping a fleete to the northward so long,
      besides the great expectation of snapping him, wherein my Lord Sandwich
      will I doubt suffer some dishonour. I am told also of a great ryott upon
      Thursday last in Cheapside; Colonell Danvers, a delinquent, having been
      taken, and in his way to the Tower was rescued from the captain of the
      guard, and carried away; only one of the rescuers being taken. I am told
      also that the Duke of Buckingham is dead, but I know not of a certainty.
      So home and very late at letters, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). Dressed and had my head combed by my little girle, to
      whom I confess 'que je sum demasiado kind, nuper ponendo mes mains in su
      des choses de son breast, mais il faut que je' leave it lest it bring me
      to 'alcun major inconvenience'. So to my business in my chamber, look over
      and settling more of my papers than I could the two last days I have spent
      about them. In the evening, it raining hard, down to Woolwich, where after
      some little talk to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and with great pleasure looking over my wife's pictures, and then
      to see my Lady Pen, whom I have not seen since her coming hither, and
      after being a little merry with her, she went forth and I staid there
      talking with Mrs. Pegg and looking over her pictures, and commended them;
      but, Lord! so far short of my wife's, as no comparison. Thence to my wife,
      and there spent, talking, till noon, when by appointment Mr. Andrews come
      out of the country to speake with me about their Tangier business, and so
      having done with him and dined, I home by water, where by appointment I
      met Dr. Twisden, Mr. Povy, Mr. Lawson, and Stockdale about settling their
      business of money; but such confusion I never met with, nor could anything
      be agreed on, but parted like a company of fools, I vexed to lose so much
      time and pains to no purpose. They gone, comes Rayner, the boatmaker,
      about some business, and brings a piece of plate with him, which I refused
      to take of him, thinking indeed that the poor man hath no reason nor
      encouragement from our dealings with him to give any of us any presents.
      He gone, there comes Luellin, about Mr. Deering's business of planke, to
      have the contract perfected, and offers me twenty pieces in gold, as
      Deering had done some time since himself, but I both then and now refused
      it, resolving not to be bribed to dispatch business, but will have it done
      however out of hand forthwith. So he gone, I to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and to the office, where all the morning we sat. At noon I home to
      dinner alone, and after dinner Bagwell's wife waited at the door, and went
      with me to my office.... So parted, and I to Sir W. Batten's, and there
      sat the most of the afternoon talking and drinking too much with my Lord
      Bruncker, Sir G. Smith, G. Cocke and others very merry. I drunk a little
      mixed, but yet more than I should do. So to my office a little, and then
      to the Duke of Albemarle's about some business. The streets mighty empty
      all the way, now even in London, which is a sad sight. And to Westminster
      Hall, where talking, hearing very sad stories from Mrs. Mumford; among
      others, of Mrs. Michell's son's family. And poor Will, that used to sell
      us ale at the Hall-door, his wife and three children died, all, I think,
      in a day. So home through the City again, wishing I may have taken no ill
      in going; but I will go, I think, no more thither. Late at the office, and
      then home to supper, having taken a pullet home with me, and then to bed.
      The news of De Kuyter's coming home is certain; and told to the great
      disadvantage of our fleete, and the praise of De Kuyter; but it cannot be
      helped, nor do I know what to say to it.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up betimes to my office, where Tom Hater to the writing of letters
      with me, which have for a good while been in arreare, and we close at it
      all day till night, only made a little step out for half an houre in the
      morning to the Exchequer about striking of tallys, but no good done
      therein, people being most out of towne. At noon T. Hater dined with me,
      and so at it all the afternoon. At night home and supped, and after
      reading a little in Cowley's poems, my head being disturbed with overmuch
      business to-day, I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up betimes, and called upon early by my she-cozen Porter, the
      turner's wife, to tell me that her husband was carried to the Tower, for
      buying of some of the King's powder, and would have my helpe, but I could
      give her none, not daring any more to appear in the business, having too
      much trouble lately therein. By and by to the office, where we sat all the
      morning; in great trouble to see the Bill this week rise so high, to above
      4,000 in all, and of them above 3,000 of the plague. And an odd story of
      Alderman Bence's stumbling at night over a dead corps in the streete, and
      going home and telling his wife, she at the fright, being with child, fell
      sicke and died of the plague. We sat late, and then by invitation my Lord
      Brunker, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten and I to Sir G. Smith's to dinner,
      where very good company and good cheer. Captain Cocke was there and Jacke
      Fenn, but to our great wonder Alderman Bence, and tells us that not a word
      of all this is true, and others said so too, but by his owne story his
      wife hath been ill, and he fain to leave his house and comes not to her,
      which continuing a trouble to me all the time I was there. Thence to the
      office and, after writing letters, home, to draw-over anew my will, which
      I had bound myself by oath to dispatch by to-morrow night; the town
      growing so unhealthy, that a man cannot depend upon living two days to an
      end. So having done something of it, I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and all day long finishing and writing over my will twice, for
      my father and my wife, only in the morning a pleasant rencontre happened
      in having a young married woman brought me by her father, old Delkes, that
      carries pins always in his mouth, to get her husband off that he should
      not go to sea, 'une contre pouvait avoir done any cose cum else, but I did
      nothing, si ni baisser her'. After they were gone my mind run upon having
      them called back again, and I sent a messenger to Blackwall, but he
      failed. So I lost my expectation. I to the Exchequer, about striking new
      tallys, and I find the Exchequer, by proclamation, removing to Nonesuch.&mdash;[Nonsuch
      Palace, near Epsom, where the Exchequer money was kept during the time of
      the plague.]&mdash;Back again and at my papers, and putting up my books
      into chests, and settling my house and all things in the best and
      speediest order I can, lest it should please God to take me away, or force
      me to leave my house. Late up at it, and weary and full of wind, finding
      perfectly that so long as I keepe myself in company at meals and do there
      eat lustily (which I cannot do alone, having no love to eating, but my
      mind runs upon my business), I am as well as can be, but when I come to be
      alone, I do not eat in time, nor enough, nor with any good heart, and I
      immediately begin to be full of wind, which brings my pain, till I come to
      fill my belly a-days again, then am presently well.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. The office now not sitting, but only hereafter on Thursdays at the
      office, I within all the morning about my papers and setting things still
      in order, and also much time in settling matters with Dr. Twisden. At noon
      am sent for by Sir G. Carteret, to meet him and my Lord Hinchingbroke at
      Deptford, but my Lord did not come thither, he having crossed the river at
      Gravesend to Dagenhams, whither I dare not follow him, they being afeard
      of me; but Sir G. Carteret says, he is a most sweet youth in every
      circumstance. Sir G. Carteret being in haste of going to the Duke of
      Albemarle and the Archbishop, he was pettish, and so I could not fasten
      any discourse, but take another time. So he gone, I down to Greenwich and
      sent away the Bezan, thinking to go with my wife to-night to come back
      again to-morrow night to the Soveraigne at the buoy off the Nore. Coming
      back to Deptford, old Bagwell walked a little way with me, and would have
      me in to his daughter's, and there he being gone 'dehors, ego had my
      volunte de su hiza'. Eat and drank and away home, and after a little at
      the office to my chamber to put more things still in order, and late to
      bed. The people die so, that now it seems they are fain to carry the dead
      to be buried by day-light, the nights not sufficing to do it in. And my
      Lord Mayor commands people to be within at nine at night all, as they say,
      that the sick may have liberty to go abroad for ayre. There is one also
      dead out of one of our ships at Deptford, which troubles us mightily; the
      Providence fire-ship, which was just fitted to go to sea. But they tell me
      to-day no more sick on board. And this day W. Bodham tells me that one is
      dead at Woolwich, not far from the Rope-yard. I am told, too, that a wife
      of one of the groomes at Court is dead at Salsbury; so that the King and
      Queene are speedily to be all gone to Milton. God preserve us!
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day). Up betimes and to my chamber, it being a very wet day
      all day, and glad am I that we did not go by water to see "The Soveraigne"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The Sovereign of the Seas" was built at Woolwich in 1637 of timber
     which had been stripped of its bark while growing in the spring, and
     not felled till the second autumn afterwards; and it is observed by
     Dr. Plot ("Phil.  Trans."  for 1691), in his discourse on the most
     seasonable time for felling timber, written by the advice of Pepys,
     that after forty-seven years, "all the ancient timber then remaining
     in her, it was no easy matter to drive a nail into it" ("Quarterly
     Review," vol. viii., p. 35).&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to-day, as I intended, clearing all matters in packing up my papers and
      books, and giving instructions in writing to my executors, thereby
      perfecting the whole business of my will, to my very great joy; so that I
      shall be in much better state of soul, I hope, if it should please the
      Lord to call me away this sickly time. At night to read, being weary with
      this day's great work, and then after supper to bed, to rise betimes
      to-morrow, and to bed with a mind as free as to the business of the world
      as if I were not worth L100 in the whole world, every thing being evened
      under my hand in my books and papers, and upon the whole I find myself
      worth, besides Brampton estate, the sum of L2164, for which the Lord be
      praised!
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and my mind being at mighty ease from the dispatch of my
      business so much yesterday, I down to Deptford to Sir G. Carteret, where
      with him a great while, and a great deale of private talke concerning my
      Lord Sandwich's and his matters, and chiefly of the latter, I giving him
      great deale of advice about the necessity of his having caution concerning
      Fenn, and the many ways there are of his being abused by any man in his
      place, and why he should not bring his son in to look after his business,
      and more, to be a Commissioner of the Navy, which he listened to and
      liked, and told me how much the King was his good Master, and was sure not
      to deny him that or any thing else greater than that, and I find him a
      very cunning man, whatever at other times he seems to be, and among other
      things he told me he was not for the fanfaroone
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Fanfaron, French, from fanfare, a sounding of trumpets; hence, a
     swaggerer, or empty boaster.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to make a show with a great title, as he might have had long since, but
      the main thing to get an estate; and another thing, speaking of minding of
      business, "By God," says he, "I will and have already almost brought it to
      that pass, that the King shall not be able to whip a cat, but I must be at
      the tayle of it." Meaning so necessary he is, and the King and my Lord
      Treasurer and all do confess it; which, while I mind my business, is my
      own case in this office of the Navy, and I hope shall be more, if God give
      me life and health. Thence by agreement to Sir J. Minnes's lodgings, where
      I found my Lord Bruncker, and so by water to the ferry, and there took Sir
      W. Batten's coach that was sent for us, and to Sir W. Batten's, where very
      merry, good cheer, and up and down the garden with great content to me,
      and, after dinner, beat Captain Cocke at billiards, won about 8s. of him
      and my Lord Bruncker. So in the evening after, much pleasure back again
      and I by water to Woolwich, where supped with my wife, and then to bed
      betimes, because of rising to-morrow at four of the clock in order to the
      going out with Sir G. Carteret toward Cranborne to my Lord Hinchingbrooke
      in his way to Court. This night I did present my wife with the dyamond
      ring, awhile since given me by Mr. Dicke Vines's brother, for helping him
      to be a purser, valued at about L10, the first thing of that nature I did
      ever give her. Great fears we have that the plague will be a great Bill
      this weeke.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up by 4 o'clock and walked to Greenwich, where called at Captain
      Cocke's and to his chamber, he being in bed, where something put my last
      night's dream into my head, which I think is the best that ever was
      dreamt, which was that I had my Lady Castlemayne in my armes and was
      admitted to use all the dalliance I desired with her, and then dreamt that
      this could not be awake, but that it was only a dream; but that since it
      was a dream, and that I took so much real pleasure in it, what a happy
      thing it would be if when we are in our graves (as Shakespeere resembles
      it) we could dream, and dream but such dreams as this, that then we should
      not need to be so fearful of death, as we are this plague time. Here I
      hear that news is brought Sir G. Carteret that my Lord Hinchingbrooke is
      not well, and so cannot meet us at Cranborne to-night. So I to Sir G.
      Carteret's; and there was sorry with him for our disappointment. So we
      have put off our meeting there till Saturday next. Here I staid talking
      with Sir G. Carteret, he being mighty free with me in his business, and
      among other things hath ordered Rider and Cutler to put into my hands
      copper to the value of L5,000 (which Sir G. Carteret's share it seems come
      to in it), which is to raise part of the money he is to layout for a
      purchase for my Lady Jemimah. Thence he and I to Sir J. Minnes's by
      invitation, where Sir W. Batten and my Lady, and my Lord Bruncker, and all
      of us dined upon a venison pasty and other good meat, but nothing well
      dressed. But my pleasure lay in getting some bills signed by Sir G.
      Carteret, and promise of present payment from Mr. Fenn, which do rejoice
      my heart, it being one of the heaviest things I had upon me, that so much
      of the little I have should lie (viz. near L1000) in the King's hands.
      Here very merry and (Sir G. Carteret being gone presently after dinner) to
      Captain Cocke's, and there merry, and so broke up and I by water to the
      Duke of Albemarle, with whom I spoke a great deale in private, they being
      designed to send a fleete of ships privately to the Streights. No news yet
      from our fleete, which is much wondered at, but the Duke says for certain
      guns have been heard to the northward very much. It was dark before I
      could get home, and so land at Church-yard stairs, where, to my great
      trouble, I met a dead corps of the plague, in the narrow ally just
      bringing down a little pair of stairs. But I thank God I was not much
      disturbed at it. However, I shall beware of being late abroad again.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and after doing some necessary business about my accounts at
      home, to the office, and there with Mr. Hater wrote letters, and I did
      deliver to him my last will, one part of it to deliver to my wife when I
      am dead. Thence to the Exchange, where I have not been a great while. But,
      Lord! how sad a sight it is to see the streets empty of people, and very
      few upon the 'Change. Jealous of every door that one sees shut up, lest it
      should be the plague; and about us two shops in three, if not more,
      generally shut up. From the 'Change to Sir G. Smith's' with Mr. Fenn, to
      whom I am nowadays very complaisant, he being under payment of my bills to
      me, and some other sums at my desire, which he readily do. Mighty merry
      with Captain Cocke and Fenn at Sir G. Smith's, and a brave dinner, but I
      think Cocke is the greatest epicure that is, eats and drinks with the
      greatest pleasure and liberty that ever man did. Very contrary newes
      to-day upon the 'Change, some that our fleete hath taken some of the Dutch
      East India ships, others that we did attaque it at Bergen and were
      repulsed, others that our fleete is in great danger after this attaque by
      meeting with the great body now gone out of Holland, almost 100 sayle of
      men of warr. Every body is at a great losse and nobody can tell. Thence
      among the goldsmiths to get some money, and so home, settling some new
      money matters, and to my great joy have got home L500 more of the money
      due to me, and got some more money to help Andrews first advanced. This
      day I had the ill news from Dagenhams, that my poor lord of Hinchingbroke
      his indisposition is turned to the small-pox. Poor gentleman! that he
      should be come from France so soon to fall sick, and of that disease too,
      when he should be gone to see a fine lady, his mistresse. I am most
      heartily sorry for it. So late setting papers to rights, and so home to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon
      dined together upon some victuals I had prepared at Sir W. Batten's upon
      the King's charge, and after dinner, I having dispatched some business and
      set things in order at home, we down to the water and by boat to Greenwich
      to the Bezan yacht, where Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes, my Lord Bruncker
      and myself, with some servants (among others Mr. Carcasse, my Lord's
      clerk, a very civil gentleman), embarked in the yacht and down we went
      most pleasantly, and noble discourse I had with my Lord Bruneker, who is a
      most excellent person. Short of Gravesend it grew calme, and so we come to
      an anchor, and to supper mighty merry, and after it, being moonshine, we
      out of the cabbin to laugh and talk, and then, as we grew sleepy, went in
      and upon velvet cushions of the King's that belong to the yacht fell to
      sleep, which we all did pretty well till 3 or 4 of the clock, having risen
      in the night to look for a new comet which is said to have lately shone,
      but we could see no such thing.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up about 5 o'clock and dressed ourselves, and to sayle again down to
      the Soveraigne at the buoy of the Nore, a noble ship, now rigged and
      fitted and manned; we did not stay long, but to enquire after her
      readinesse and thence to Sheernesse, where we walked up and down, laying
      out the ground to be taken in for a yard to lay provisions for cleaning
      and repairing of ships, and a most proper place it is for the purpose.
      Thence with great pleasure up the Meadeway, our yacht contending with
      Commissioner Pett's, wherein he met us from Chatham, and he had the best
      of it. Here I come by, but had not tide enough to stop at Quinbrough, a
      with mighty pleasure spent the day in doing all and seeing these places,
      which I had never done before. So to the Hill house at Chatham and there
      dined, and after dinner spent some time discoursing of business. Among
      others arguing with the Commissioner about his proposing the laying out so
      much money upon Sheerenesse, unless it be to the slighting of Chatham
      yarde, for it is much a better place than Chatham, which however the King
      is not at present in purse to do, though it were to be wished he were.
      Thence in Commissioner Pett's coach (leaving them there). I late in the
      darke to Gravesend, where great is the plague, and I troubled to stay
      there so long for the tide. At 10 at night, having supped, I took boat
      alone, and slept well all the way to the Tower docke about three o'clock
      in the morning. So knocked up my people, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Slept till 8 o'clock, and then up and met with letters from the King
      and Lord Arlington, for the removal of our office to Greenwich. I also
      wrote letters, and made myself ready to go to Sir G. Carteret, at Windsor;
      and having borrowed a horse of Mr. Blackbrough, sent him to wait for me at
      the Duke of Albemarle's door: when, on a sudden, a letter comes to us from
      the Duke of Albemarle, to tell us that the fleete is all come back to
      Solebay, and are presently to be dispatched back again. Whereupon I
      presently by water to the Duke of Albemarle to know what news; and there I
      saw a letter from my Lord Sandwich to the Duke of Albemarle, and also from
      Sir W. Coventry and Captain Teddiman; how my Lord having commanded
      Teddiman with twenty-two ships
    </p>
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     [A news letter of August 19th (Salisbury), gives the following
     account of this affair:&mdash;"The Earl of Sandwich being on the Norway
     coast, ordered Sir Thomas Teddeman with 20 ships to attack 50 Dutch
     merchant ships in Bergen harbour; six convoyers had so placed
     themselves that only four or five of the ships could be reached at
     once.  The Governor of Bergen fired on our ships, and placed 100
     pieces of ordnance and two regiments of foot on the rocks to attack
     them, but they got clear without the loss of a ship, only 500 men
     killed or wounded, five or six captains among them. The fleet has
     gone to Sole Bay to repair losses and be ready to encounter the
     Dutch fleet, which is gone northward" ("Calendar of State Papers,"
     1664-65, pp. 526, 527).  Medals were struck in Holland, the
     inscription in Dutch on one of these is thus translated: "Thus we
     arrest the pride of the English, who extend their piracy even
     against their friends, and who insulting the forts of Norway,
     violate the rights of the harbours of King Frederick; but, for the
     reward of their audacity, see their vessels destroyed by the balls
     of the Dutch" (Hawkins's "Medallic Illustrations of the History of
     Great Britain and Ireland," ed.  Franks and Grueber, 1885, vol. i.,
     p. 508).  Sir Gilbert Talbot's "True Narrative of the Earl of
     Sandwich's Attempt upon Bergen with the English Fleet on the 3rd of
     August, 1665, and the Cause of his Miscarriage thereupon," is in the
     British Museum (Harl. MS., No. 6859).  It is printed in
     "Archaeologia," vol.  xxii., p. 33.  The Earl of Rochester also gave
     an account of the action in a letter to his mother (Wordsworth's
     "Ecclesiastical Biography," fourth edition, vol. iv., p. 611).  Sir
     John Denham, in his "Advice to a Painter," gives a long satirical
     account of the affair.  A coloured drawing of the attack upon
     Bergen, on vellum, showing the range of the ships engaged, is in the
     British Museum.  Shortly after the Bergen affair forty of the Dutch
     merchant vessels, on their way to Holland, fell into the hands of
     the English, and in Penn's "Memorials of Sir William Penn," vol.
     ii., p. 364, is a list of the prizes taken on the 3rd and 4th
     September.  The troubles connected with these prizes and the
     disgrace into which Lord Sandwich fell are fully set forth in
     subsequent pages of the Diary.  Evelyn writes in his Diary (November
     27th, 1665): "There was no small suspicion of my Lord Sandwich
     having permitted divers commanders who were at ye taking of ye East
     India prizes to break bulk and take to themselves jewels, silkes,
     &amp;c., tho' I believe some whom I could name fill'd their pockets, my
     Lo. Sandwich himself had the least share.  However, he underwent the
     blame, and it created him enemies, and prepossess'd ye Lo. Generall
     [Duke of Albemarle], for he spake to me of it with much zeale and
     concerne, and I believe laid load enough on Lo.  Sandwich at
     Oxford."]
</pre>
    <p>
      (of which but fifteen could get thither, and of those fifteen but eight or
      nine could come up to play) to go to Bergen; where, after several messages
      to and fro from the Governor of the Castle, urging that Teddiman ought not
      to come thither with more than five ships, and desiring time to think of
      it, all the while he suffering the Dutch ships to land their guns to their
      best advantage; Teddiman on the second pretence, began to play at the
      Dutch ships, (wherof ten East India-men,) and in three hours' time (the
      town and castle, without any provocation, playing on our ships,) they did
      cut all our cables, so as the wind being off the land, did force us to go
      out, and rendered our fire-ships useless; without doing any thing, but
      what hurt of course our guns must have done them: we having lost five
      commanders, besides Mr. Edward Montagu, and Mr. Windham.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This Mr. Windham had entered into a formal engagement with the Earl
     of Rochester, "not without ceremonies of religion, that if either of
     them died, he should appear, and give the other notice of the future
     state, if there was any."  He was probably one of the brothers of
     Sir William Wyndham, Bart.  See Wordsworth's "Ecclesiastical
     Biography," fourth.  edition, vol. iv., p. 615.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Our fleete is come home to our great grief with not above five weeks' dry,
      and six days' wet provisions: however, must out again; and the Duke hath
      ordered the Soveraigne, and all other ships ready, to go out to the fleete
      to strengthen them. This news troubles us all, but cannot be helped.
      Having read all this news, and received commands of the Duke with great
      content, he giving me the words which to my great joy he hath several
      times said to me, that his greatest reliance is upon me. And my Lord
      Craven also did come out to talk with me, and told me that I am in mighty
      esteem with the Duke, for which I bless God. Home, and having given my
      fellow-officers an account hereof, to Chatham, and wrote other letters, I
      by water to Charing-Cross, to the post-house, and there the people tell me
      they are shut up; and so I went to the new post-house, and there got a
      guide and horses to Hounslow, where I was mightily taken with a little
      girle, the daughter of the master of the house (Betty Gysby), which, if
      she lives, will make a great beauty. Here I met with a fine fellow who,
      while I staid for my horses, did enquire newes, but I could not make him
      remember Bergen in Norway, in 6 or 7 times telling, so ignorant he was. So
      to Stanes, and there by this time it was dark night, and got a guide who
      lost his way in the forest, till by help of the moone (which recompenses
      me for all the pains I ever took about studying of her motions,) I led my
      guide into the way back again; and so we made a man rise that kept a gate,
      and so he carried us to Cranborne. Where in the dark I perceive an old
      house new building with a great deal of rubbish, and was fain to go up a
      ladder to Sir G. Carteret's chamber. And there in his bed I sat down, and
      told him all my bad newes, which troubled him mightily; but yet we were
      very merry, and made the best of it; and being myself weary did take
      leave, and after having spoken with Mr. Fenn in bed, I to bed in my Lady's
      chamber that she uses to lie in, and where the Duchesse of York, that now
      is, was born. So to sleep; being very well, but weary, and the better by
      having carried with me a bottle of strong water; whereof now and then a
      sip did me good.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). Sir G. Carteret come and walked by my bedside half an
      houre, talking and telling me how my Lord is in this unblameable in all
      this ill-successe, he having followed orders; and that all ought to be
      imputed to the falsenesse of the King of Denmarke, who, he told me as a
      secret, had promised to deliver up the Dutch ships to us, and we expected
      no less; and swears it will, and will easily, be the ruine of him and his
      kingdom, if we fall out with him, as we must in honour do; but that all
      that can be, must be to get the fleete out again to intercept De Witt, who
      certainly will be coming home with the East India ships, he being gone
      thither. He being gone, I up and with Fenn, being ready to walk forth to
      see the place; and I find it to be a very noble seat in a noble forest,
      with the noblest prospect towards Windsor, and round about over many
      countys, that can be desired; but otherwise a very melancholy place, and
      little variety save only trees. I had thoughts of going home by water, and
      of seeing Windsor Chappell and Castle, but finding at my coming in that
      Sir G. Carteret did prevent me in speaking for my sudden return to look
      after business, I did presently eat a bit off the spit about 10 o'clock,
      and so took horse for Stanes, and thence to Brainford to Mr. Povy's, the
      weather being very pleasant to ride in. Mr. Povy not being at home I lost
      my labour, only eat and drank there with his lady, and told my bad newes,
      and hear the plague is round about them there. So away to Brainford; and
      there at the inn that goes down to the water-side, I 'light and paid off
      my post-horses, and so slipped on my shoes, and laid my things by, the
      tide not serving, and to church, where a dull sermon, and many Londoners.
      After church to my inn, and eat and drank, and so about seven o'clock by
      water, and got between nine and ten to Queenhive, very dark. And I could
      not get my waterman to go elsewhere for fear of the plague. Thence with a
      lanthorn, in great fear of meeting of dead corpses, carried to be buried;
      but, blessed be God, met none, but did see now and then a linke (which is
      the mark of them) at a distance. So got safe home about 10 o'clock, my
      people not all abed, and after supper I weary to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Called up, by message from Lord Bruncker and the rest of my fellows,
      that they will meet me at the Duke of Albemarle's this morning; so I up,
      and weary, however, got thither before them, and spoke with my Lord, and
      with him and other gentlemen to walk in the Parke, where, I perceive, he
      spends much of his time, having no whither else to go; and here I hear him
      speake of some Presbyter people that he caused to be apprehended
      yesterday, at a private meeting in Covent Garden, which he would have
      released upon paying L5 per man to the poor, but it was answered, they
      would not pay anything; so he ordered them to another prison from the
      guard. By and by comes my fellow-officers, and the Duke walked in, and to
      counsel with us; and that being done we departed, and Sir W. Batten and I
      to the office, where, after I had done a little business, I to his house
      to dinner, whither comes Captain Cocke, for whose epicurisme a dish of
      partriges was sent for, and still gives me reason to think is the greatest
      epicure in the world. Thence, after dinner, I by water to Sir W. Warren's
      and with him two hours, talking of things to his and my profit, and
      particularly good advice from him what use to make of Sir G. Carteret's
      kindnesse to me and my interest in him, with exceeding good cautions for
      me not using it too much nor obliging him to fear by prying into his
      secrets, which it were easy for me to do. Thence to my Lord Bruncker, at
      Greenwich, and Sir J. Minnes by appointment, to looke after the lodgings
      appointed for us there for our office, which do by no means please me,
      they being in the heart of all the labourers and workmen there, which
      makes it as unsafe as to be, I think, at London. Mr. Hugh May, who is a
      most ingenuous man, did show us the lodgings, and his acquaintance I am
      desirous of. Thence walked, it being now dark, to Sir J. Minnes's, and
      there staid at the door talking with him an hour while messengers went to
      get a boat for me, to carry me to Woolwich, but all to no purpose; so I
      was forced to walk it in the darke, at ten o'clock at night, with Sir J.
      Minnes's George with me, being mightily troubled for fear of the doggs at
      Coome farme, and more for fear of rogues by the way, and yet more because
      of the plague which is there, which is very strange, it being a single
      house, all alone from the towne, but it seems they use to admit beggars,
      for their owne safety, to lie in their barns, and they brought it to them;
      but I bless God I got about eleven of the clock well to my wife, and
      giving 4s. in recompence to George, I to my wife, and having first viewed
      her last piece of drawing since I saw her, which is seven or eight days,
      which pleases me beyond any thing in the world, to bed with great content
      but weary.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and after much pleasant talke and being importuned by my wife
      and her two mayds, which are both good wenches, for me to buy a necklace
      of pearle for her, and I promising to give her one of L60 in two years at
      furthest, and in less if she pleases me in her painting, I went away and
      walked to Greenwich, in my way seeing a coffin with a dead body therein,
      dead of the plague, lying in an open close belonging to Coome farme, which
      was carried out last night, and the parish have not appointed any body to
      bury it; but only set a watch there day and night, that nobody should go
      thither or come thence, which is a most cruel thing: this disease making
      us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs. So to the King's House,
      and there met my Lord Bruncker and Sir J. Minnes, and to our lodgings
      again that are appointed for us, which do please me better to day than
      last night, and are set a doing. Thence I to Deptford, where by
      appointment I find Mr. Andrews come, and to the Globe, where we dined
      together and did much business as to our Plymouth gentlemen; and after a
      good dinner and good discourse, he being a very good man, I think verily,
      we parted and I to the King's yard, walked up and down, and by and by out
      at the back gate, and there saw the Bagwell's wife's mother and daughter,
      and went to them, and went in to the daughter's house with the mother, and
      'faciebam le cose que ego tenebam a mind to con elle', and drinking and
      talking, by and by away, and so walked to Redriffe, troubled to go through
      the little lane, where the plague is, but did and took water and home,
      where all well; but Mr. Andrews not coming to even accounts, as I
      expected, with relation to something of my own profit, I was vexed that I
      could not settle to business, but home to my viall, though in the evening
      he did come to my satisfaction. So after supper (he being gone first) I to
      settle my journall and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and whereas I had appointed Mr. Hater and Will to come betimes
      to the office to meet me about business there, I was called upon as soon
      as ready by Mr. Andrews to my great content, and he and I to our Tangier
      accounts, where I settled, to my great joy, all my accounts with him, and,
      which is more, cleared for my service to the contractors since the last
      sum I received of them, L222 13s. profit to myself, and received the money
      actually in the afternoon. After he was gone comes by a pretence of mine
      yesterday old Delks the waterman, with his daughter Robins, and several
      times to and again, he leaving her with me, about the getting of his son
      Robins off, who was pressed yesterday again.... All the afternoon at my
      office mighty busy writing letters, and received a very kind and good one
      from my Lord Sandwich of his arrival with the fleete at Solebay, and the
      joy he has at my last newes he met with, of the marriage of my Lady
      Jemimah; and he tells me more, the good newes that all our ships, which
      were in such danger that nobody would insure upon them, from the Eastland,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Eastland was a name given to the eastern countries of Europe.  The
     Eastland Company, or Company of Merchants trading to the East
     Country, was incorporated in Queen Elizabeth's reign (anno 21), and
     the charter was confirmed 13 Car. II. They were also called "The
     Merchants of Elbing."]
</pre>
    <p>
      were all safe arrived, which I am sure is a great piece of good luck,
      being in much more danger than those of Hambrough which were lost, and
      their value much greater at this time to us. At night home, much contented
      with this day's work, and being at home alone looking over my papers,
      comes a neighbour of ours hard by to speak with me about business of the
      office, one Mr. Fuller, a great merchant, but not my acquaintance, but he
      come drunk, and would have had me gone and drunk with him at home, or have
      let him send for wine hither, but I would do neither, nor offered him any,
      but after some sorry discourse parted, and I up to [my] chamber and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up betimes to my office, where my clerks with me, and very busy all
      the morning writing letters. At noon down to Sir J. Minnes and Lord
      Bruncker to Greenwich to sign some of the Treasurer's books, and there
      dined very well; and thence to look upon our rooms again at the King's
      house, which are not yet ready for us. So home and late writing letters,
      and so, weary with business, home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up betimes to the office, and there, as well as all the afternoon,
      saving a little dinner time, all alone till late at night writing letters
      and doing business, that I may get beforehand with my business again,
      which hath run behind a great while, and then home to supper and to bed.
      This day I am told that Dr. Burnett, my physician, is this morning dead of
      the plague; which is strange, his man dying so long ago, and his house
      this month open again. Now himself dead. Poor unfortunate man!
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up betimes, and prepared to my great satisfaction an account for the
      board of my office disbursements, which I had suffered to run on to almost
      L120. That done I down by water to Greenwich, where we met the first day
      my Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and I, and I think we shall do well
      there, and begin very auspiciously to me by having my account abovesaid
      passed, and put into a way of having it presently paid. When we rose I
      find Mr. Andrews and Mr. Yeabsly, who is just come from Plymouth, at the
      door, and we walked together toward my Lord Brunker's, talking about their
      business, Yeabsly being come up on purpose to discourse with me about it,
      and finished all in a quarter of an hour, and is gone again. I perceive
      they have some inclination to be going on with their victualling-business
      for a while longer before they resign it to Mr. Gauden, and I am well
      contented, for it brings me very good profit with certainty, yet with much
      care and some pains. We parted at my Lord Bruncker's doore, where I went
      in, having never been there before, and there he made a noble
      entertainment for Sir J. Minnes, myself, and Captain Cocke, none else
      saving some painted lady that dined there, I know not who she is. But very
      merry we were, and after dinner into the garden, and to see his and her
      chamber, where some good pictures, and a very handsome young woman for my
      lady's woman. Thence I by water home, in my way seeing a man taken up
      dead, out of the hold of a small catch that lay at Deptford. I doubt it
      might be the plague, which, with the thought of Dr. Burnett, did something
      disturb me, so that I did not what I intended and should have done at the
      office, as to business, but home sooner than ordinary, and after supper,
      to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Lord's day). Very well in the morning, and up and to my chamber all
      the morning to put my things and papers yet more in order, and so to
      dinner. Thence all the afternoon at my office till late making up my
      papers and letters there into a good condition of order, and so home to
      supper, and after reading a good while in the King's works,&mdash;[Charles
      I.'s Works, now in the Pepysian Library]&mdash;which is a noble book, to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and being ready I out to Mr. Colvill, the goldsmith's, having
      not for some days been in the streets; but now how few people I see, and
      those looking like people that had taken leave of the world. I there, and
      made even all accounts in the world between him and I, in a very good
      condition, and I would have done the like with Sir Robert Viner, but he is
      out of towne, the sicknesse being every where thereabouts. I to the
      Exchange, and I think there was not fifty people upon it, and but few more
      like to be as they told me, Sir G. Smith and others. Thus I think to take
      adieu to-day of the London streets, unless it be to go again to Viner's.
      Home to dinner, and there W. Hewer brings me L119 he hath received for my
      office disbursements, so that I think I have L1800 and more in the house,
      and, blessed be God! no money out but what I can very well command and
      that but very little, which is much the best posture I ever was in in my
      life, both as to the quantity and the certainty I have of the money I am
      worth; having most of it in my own hand. But then this is a trouble to me
      what to do with it, being myself this day going to be wholly at Woolwich;
      but for the present I am resolved to venture it in an iron chest, at least
      for a while. In the afternoon I sent down my boy to Woolwich with some
      things before me, in order to my lying there for good and all, and so I
      followed him. Just now comes newes that the fleete is gone, or going this
      day, out again, for which God be praised! and my Lord Sandwich hath done
      himself great right in it, in getting so soon out again. I pray God, he
      may meet the enemy. Towards the evening, just as I was fitting myself,
      comes W. Hewer and shows me a letter which Mercer had wrote to her mother
      about a great difference between my wife and her yesterday, and that my
      wife will have her go away presently. This, together with my natural
      jealousy that some bad thing or other may be in the way, did trouble me
      exceedingly, so as I was in a doubt whether to go thither or no, but
      having fitted myself and my things I did go, and by night got thither,
      where I met my wife walking to the waterside with her paynter, Mr. Browne,
      and her mayds. There I met Commissioner Pett, and my Lord Brunker, and the
      lady at his house had been thereto-day, to see her. Commissioner Pett
      staid a very little while, and so I to supper with my wife and Mr.
      Shelden, and so to bed with great pleasure.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. In the morning waking, among other discourse my wife begun to tell
      me the difference between her and Mercer, and that it was only from
      restraining her to gad abroad to some Frenchmen that were in the town,
      which I do not wholly yet in part believe, and for my quiet would not
      enquire into it. So rose and dressed myself, and away by land walking a
      good way, then remembered that I had promised Commissioner Pett to go with
      him in his coach, and therefore I went back again to him, and so by his
      coach to Greenwich, and called at Sir Theophilus Biddulph's, a sober,
      discreet man, to discourse of the preventing of the plague in Greenwich,
      and Woolwich, and Deptford, where in every place it begins to grow very
      great. We appointed another meeting, and so walked together to Greenwich
      and there parted, and Pett and I to the office, where all the morning, and
      after office done I to Sir J. Minnes and dined with him, and thence to
      Deptford thinking to have seen Bagwell, but did not, and so straight to
      Redriffe, and home, and late at my business to dispatch away letters, and
      then home to bed, which I did not intend, but to have staid for altogether
      at Woolwich, but I made a shift for a bed for Tom, whose bed is gone to
      Woolwich, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up betimes and to my business of settling my house and papers, and
      then abroad and met with Hadley, our clerke, who, upon my asking how the
      plague goes, he told me it encreases much, and much in our parish; for,
      says he, there died nine this week, though I have returned but six: which
      is a very ill practice, and makes me think it is so in other places; and
      therefore the plague much greater than people take it to be. Thence, as I
      intended, to Sir R. Viner's, and there found not Mr. Lewes ready for me,
      so I went forth and walked towards Moorefields to see (God forbid my
      presumption!) whether I could see any dead corps going to the grave; but,
      as God would have it, did not. But, Lord! how every body's looks, and
      discourse in the street is of death, and nothing else, and few people
      going up and down, that the towne is like a place distressed and forsaken.
      After one turne there back to Viner's, and there found my business ready
      for me, and evened all reckonings with them to this day to my great
      content. So home, and all day till very late at night setting my Tangier
      and private accounts in order, which I did in both, and in the latter to
      my great joy do find myself yet in the much best condition that ever I was
      in, finding myself worth L2180 and odd, besides plate and goods, which I
      value at L250 more, which is a very great blessing to me. The Lord make me
      thankfull! and of this at this day above L1800 in cash in my house, which
      speaks but little out of my hands in desperate condition, but this is very
      troublesome to have in my house at this time. So late to bed, well pleased
      with my accounts, but weary of being so long at them.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up and, after putting several things in order to my removal, to
      Woolwich; the plague having a great encrease this week, beyond all
      expectation of almost 2,000, making the general Bill 7,000, odd 100; and
      the plague above 6,000. I down by appointment to Greenwich, to our office,
      where I did some business, and there dined with our company and Sir W.
      Boreman, and Sir The. Biddulph, at Mr. Boreman's, where a good venison
      pasty, and after a good merry dinner I to my office, and there late
      writing letters, and then to Woolwich by water, where pleasant with my
      wife and people, and after supper to bed. Thus this month ends with great
      sadness upon the publick, through the greatness of the plague every where
      through the kingdom almost. Every day sadder and sadder news of its
      encrease. In the City died this week 7,496 and of them 6,102 of the
      plague. But it is feared that the true number of the dead, this week is
      near 10,000; partly from the poor that cannot be taken notice of, through
      the greatness of the number, and partly from the Quakers and others that
      will not have any bell ring for them. Our fleete gone out to find the
      Dutch, we having about 100 sail in our fleete, and in them the Soveraigne
      one; so that it is a better fleete than the former with the Duke was. All
      our fear is that the Dutch should be got in before them; which would be a
      very great sorrow to the publick, and to me particularly, for my Lord
      Sandwich's sake. A great deal of money being spent, and the kingdom not in
      a condition to spare, nor a parliament without much difficulty to meet to
      give more. And to that; to have it said, what hath been done by our late
      fleetes? As to myself I am very well, only in fear of the plague, and as
      much of an ague by being forced to go early and late to Woolwich, and my
      family to lie there continually. My late gettings have been very great to
      my great content, and am likely to have yet a few more profitable jobbs in
      a little while; for which Tangier, and Sir W. Warren I am wholly obliged
      to.
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    <p>
      September 1st. Up, and to visit my Lady Pen and her daughter at the
      Ropeyarde where I did breakfast with them and sat chatting a good while.
      Then to my lodging at Mr. Shelden's, where I met Captain Cocke and eat a
      little bit of dinner, and with him to Greenwich by water, having good
      discourse with him by the way. After being at Greenwich a little while, I
      to London, to my house, there put many more things in order for my totall
      remove, sending away my girle Susan and other goods down to Woolwich, and
      I by water to the Duke of Albemarle, and thence home late by water. At the
      Duke of Albemarle's I overheard some examinations of the late plot that is
      discoursed of and a great deale of do there is about it. Among other
      discourses, I heard read, in the presence of the Duke, an examination and
      discourse of Sir Philip Howard's, with one of the plotting party. In many
      places these words being, "Then," said Sir P. Howard, "if you so come over
      to the King, and be faithfull to him, you shall be maintained, and be set
      up with a horse and armes," and I know not what. And then said such a one,
      "Yes, I will be true to the King." "But, damn me," said Sir Philip, "will
      you so and so?" And thus I believe twelve times Sir P. Howard answered him
      a "damn me," which was a fine way of rhetorique to persuade a Quaker or
      Anabaptist from his persuasion. And this was read in the hearing of Sir P.
      Howard, before the Duke and twenty more officers, and they make sport of
      it, only without any reproach, or he being anything ashamed of it!
    </p>
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     [This republican plot was described by the Lord Chancellor in a
     speech delivered on October 9th, when parliament met at Oxford.]
</pre>
    <p>
      But it ended, I remember, at last, "But such a one (the plotter) did at
      last bid them remember that he had not told them what King he would be
      faithfull to."
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. This morning I wrote letters to Mr. Hill and Andrews to come to dine
      with me to-morrow, and then I to the office, where busy, and thence to
      dine with Sir J. Minnes, where merry, but only that Sir J. Minnes who hath
      lately lost two coach horses, dead in the stable, has a third now a dying.
      After dinner I to Deptford, and there took occasion to 'entrar a la casa
      de la gunaica de ma Minusier', and did what I had a mind... To Greenwich,
      where wrote some letters, and home in pretty good time.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Lord's day). Up; and put on my coloured silk suit very fine, and my
      new periwigg, bought a good while since, but durst not wear, because the
      plague was in Westminster when I bought it; and it is a wonder what will
      be the fashion after the plague is done, as to periwiggs, for nobody will
      dare to buy any haire, for fear of the infection, that it had been cut off
      of the heads of people dead of the plague. Before church time comes Mr.
      Hill (Mr. Andrews failing because he was to receive the Sacrament), and to
      church, where a sorry dull parson, and so home and most excellent company
      with Mr. Hill and discourse of musique. I took my Lady Pen home, and her
      daughter Pegg, and merry we were; and after dinner I made my wife show
      them her pictures, which did mad Pegg Pen, who learns of the same man and
      cannot do so well. After dinner left them and I by water to Greenwich,
      where much ado to be suffered to come into the towne because of the
      sicknesse, for fear I should come from London, till I told them who I was.
      So up to the church, where at the door I find Captain Cocke in my Lord
      Brunker's coach, and he come out and walked with me in the church-yarde
      till the church was done, talking of the ill government of our Kingdom,
      nobody setting to heart the business of the Kingdom, but every body
      minding their particular profit or pleasures, the King himself minding
      nothing but his ease, and so we let things go to wracke. This arose upon
      considering what we shall do for money when the fleete comes in, and more
      if the fleete should not meet with the Dutch, which will put a disgrace
      upon the King's actions, so as the Parliament and Kingdom will have the
      less mind to give more money, besides so bad an account of the last money,
      we fear, will be given, not half of it being spent, as it ought to be,
      upon the Navy. Besides, it is said that at this day our Lord Treasurer
      cannot tell what the profit of Chimney money is, what it comes to per
      annum, nor looks whether that or any other part of the revenue be duly
      gathered as it ought; the very money that should pay the City the L200,000
      they lent the King, being all gathered and in the hands of the Receiver
      and hath been long and yet not brought up to pay the City, whereas we are
      coming to borrow 4 or L500,000 more of the City, which will never be lent
      as is to be feared. Church being done, my Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes,
      and I up to the Vestry at the desire of the justices of the Peace, Sir
      Theo. Biddulph and Sir W. Boreman and Alderman Hooker, in order to the
      doing something for the keeping of the plague from growing; but Lord! to
      consider the madness of the people of the town, who will (because they are
      forbid) come in crowds along with the dead corps to see them buried; but
      we agreed on some orders for the prevention thereof. Among other stories,
      one was very passionate, methought, of a complaint brought against a man
      in the towne for taking a child from London from an infected house.
      Alderman Hooker told us it was the child of a very able citizen in
      Gracious Street, a saddler, who had buried all the rest of his children of
      the plague, and himself and wife now being shut up and in despair of
      escaping, did desire only to save the life of this little child; and so
      prevailed to have it received stark-naked into the arms of a friend, who
      brought it (having put it into new fresh clothes) to Greenwich; where upon
      hearing the story, we did agree it should be permitted to be received and
      kept in the towne. Thence with my Lord Bruncker to Captain Cocke's, where
      we mighty merry and supped, and very late I by water to Woolwich, in great
      apprehensions of an ague. Here was my Lord Bruncker's lady of pleasure,
      who, I perceive, goes every where with him; and he, I find, is obliged to
      carry her, and make all the courtship to her that can be.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Writing letters all the morning, among others to my Lady Carteret,
      the first I have wrote to her, telling her the state of the city as to
      health and other sorrowfull stories, and thence after dinner to Greenwich,
      to Sir J. Minnes, where I found my Lord Bruncker, and having staid our
      hour for the justices by agreement, the time being past we to walk in the
      Park with Mr. Hammond and Turner, and there eat some fruit out of the
      King's garden and walked in the Parke, and so back to Sir J. Minnes, and
      thence walked home, my Lord Bruncker giving me a very neat cane to walk
      with; but it troubled me to pass by Coome farme where about twenty-one
      people have died of the plague, and three or four days since I saw a dead
      corps in a coffin lie in the Close unburied, and a watch is constantly
      kept there night and day to keep the people in, the plague making us
      cruel, as doggs, one to another.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and walked with some Captains and others talking to me to
      Greenwich, they crying out upon Captain Teddiman's management of the
      business of Bergen, that he staid treating too long while he saw the Dutch
      fitting themselves, and that at first he might have taken every ship, and
      done what he would with them. How true I cannot tell. Here we sat very
      late and for want of money, which lies heavy upon us, did nothing of
      business almost. Thence home with my Lord Bruncker to dinner where very
      merry with him and his doxy. After dinner comes Colonell Blunt in his new
      chariot made with springs; as that was of wicker, wherein a while since we
      rode at his house. And he hath rode, he says, now this journey, many miles
      in it with one horse, and out-drives any coach, and out-goes any horse,
      and so easy, he says. So for curiosity I went into it to try it, and up
      the hill to the heath, and over the cart-rutts and found it pretty well,
      but not so easy as he pretends, and so back again, and took leave of my
      Lord and drove myself in the chariot to the office, and there ended my
      letters and home pretty betimes and there found W. Pen, and he staid
      supper with us and mighty merry talking of his travells and the French
      humours, etc., and so parted and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Busy all the morning writing letters to several, so to dinner, to
      London, to pack up more things thence; and there I looked into the street
      and saw fires burning in the street, as it is through the whole City, by
      the Lord Mayor's order. Thence by water to the Duke of Albemarle's: all
      the way fires on each side of the Thames, and strange to see in broad
      daylight two or three burials upon the Bankeside, one at the very heels of
      another: doubtless all of the plague; and yet at least forty or fifty
      people going along with every one of them. The Duke mighty pleasant with
      me; telling me that he is certainly informed that the Dutch were not come
      home upon the 1st instant, and so he hopes our fleete may meet with them,
      and here to my great joy I got him to sign bills for the several sums I
      have paid on Tangier business by his single letter, and so now I can get
      more hands to them. This was a great joy to me: Home to Woolwich late by
      water, found wife in bed, and yet late as [it] was to write letters in
      order to my rising betimes to go to Povy to-morrow. So to bed, my wife
      asking me to-night about a letter of hers I should find, which indeed Mary
      did the other day give me as if she had found it in my bed, thinking it
      had been mine, brought to her from a man without name owning great
      kindness to her and I know not what. But looking it over seriously, and
      seeing it bad sense and ill writ, I did believe it to be her brother's and
      so had flung it away, but finding her now concerned at it and vexed with
      Mary about it, it did trouble me, but I would take no notice of it
      to-night, but fell to sleep as if angry.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up by 5 of the clock, mighty full of fear of an ague, but was obliged
      to go, and so by water, wrapping myself up warm, to the Tower, and there
      sent for the Weekely Bill, and find 8,252 dead in all, and of them 6,878
      of the plague; which is a most dreadfull number, and shows reason to fear
      that the plague hath got that hold that it will yet continue among us.
      Thence to Brainford, reading "The Villaine," a pretty good play, all the
      way. There a coach of Mr. Povy's stood ready for me, and he at his house
      ready to come in, and so we together merrily to Swakely, Sir R. Viner's. A
      very pleasant place, bought by him of Sir James Harrington's lady. He took
      us up and down with great respect, and showed us all his house and
      grounds; and it is a place not very moderne in the garden nor house, but
      the most uniforme in all that ever I saw; and some things to excess.
      Pretty to see over the screene of the hall (put up by Sir J. Harrington, a
      Long Parliamentman) the King's head, and my Lord of Essex on one side, and
      Fairfax on the other; and upon the other side of the screene, the parson
      of the parish, and the lord of the manor and his sisters. The
      window-cases, door-cases, and chimnys of all the house are marble. He
      showed me a black boy that he had, that died of a consumption, and being
      dead, he caused him to be dried in an oven, and lies there entire in a
      box. By and by to dinner, where his lady I find yet handsome, but hath
      been a very handsome woman; now is old. Hath brought him near L100,000 and
      now he lives, no man in England in greater plenty, and commands both King
      and Council with his credit he gives them. Here was a fine lady a
      merchant's wife at dinner with us, and who should be here in the quality
      of a woman but Mrs. Worship's daughter, Dr. Clerke's niece, and after
      dinner Sir Robert led us up to his long gallery, very fine, above stairs
      (and better, or such, furniture I never did see), and there Mrs. Worship
      did give us three or four very good songs, and sings very neatly, to my
      great delight. After all this, and ending the chief business to my content
      about getting a promise of some money of him, we took leave, being
      exceedingly well treated here, and a most pleasant journey we had back,
      Povy and I, and his company most excellent in anything but business, he
      here giving me an account of as many persons at Court as I had a mind or
      thought of enquiring after. He tells me by a letter he showed me, that the
      King is not, nor hath been of late, very well, but quite out of humour;
      and, as some think, in a consumption, and weary of every thing. He showed
      me my Lord Arlington's house that he was born in, in a towne called
      Harlington: and so carried me through a most pleasant country to
      Brainford, and there put me into my boat, and good night. So I wrapt
      myself warm, and by water got to Woolwich about one in the morning, my
      wife and all in bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Waked, and fell in talk with my wife about the letter, and she
      satisfied me that she did not know from whence it come, but believed it
      might be from her cozen Franke Moore lately come out of France. The truth
      is the thing I think cannot have much in it, and being unwilling (being in
      other things so much at ease) to vex myself in a strange place at a
      melancholy time, passed all by and were presently friends. Up, and several
      with me about business. Anon comes my Lord Bruncker, as I expected, and we
      to the enquiring into the business of the late desertion of the
      Shipwrights from worke, who had left us for three days together for want
      of money, and upon this all the morning, and brought it to a pretty good
      issue, that they, we believe, will come to-morrow to work. To dinner,
      having but a mean one, yet sufficient for him, and he well enough pleased,
      besides that I do not desire to vye entertainments with him or any else.
      Here was Captain Cocke also, and Mr. Wayth. We staid together talking upon
      one business or other all the afternoon. In the evening my Lord Bruncker
      hearing that Mr. Ackeworth's clerke, the Dutchman who writes and draws so
      well, was transcribing a book of Rates and our ships for Captain Millet a
      gallant of his mistress's, we sent for him for it. He would not deliver
      it, but said it was his mistress's and had delivered it to her. At last we
      were forced to send to her for it; she would come herself, and indeed the
      book was a very neat one and worth keeping as a rarity, but we did think
      fit, and though much against my will, to cancell all that he had finished
      of it, and did give her the rest, which vexed her, and she bore it
      discreetly enough, but with a cruel deal of malicious rancour in her
      looks. I must confess I would have persuaded her to have let us have it to
      the office, and it may be the board would not have censured too hardly of
      it, but my intent was to have had it as a Record for the office, but she
      foresaw what would be the end of it and so desired it might rather be
      cancelled, which was a plaguy deal of spite. My Lord Bruncker being gone
      and company, and she also, afterwards I took my wife and people and walked
      into the fields about a while till night, and then home, and so to sing a
      little and then to bed. I was in great trouble all this day for my boy Tom
      who went to Greenwich yesterday by my order and come not home till
      to-night for fear of the plague, but he did come home to-night, saying he
      staid last night by Mr. Hater's advice hoping to have me called as I come
      home with my boat to come along with me.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and walked to Greenwich, and there we sat and dispatched a good
      deal of business I had a mind to. At noon, by invitation, to my Lord
      Bruncker's, all of us, to dinner, where a good venison pasty, and mighty
      merry. Here was Sir W. Doyly, lately come from Ipswich about the sicke and
      wounded, and Mr. Evelyn and Captain Cocke. My wife also was sent for by my
      Lord Bruncker, by Cocke, and was here. After dinner, my Lord and his
      mistress would see her home again, it being a most cursed rainy afternoon,
      having had none a great while before, and I, forced to go to the office on
      foot through all the rain, was almost wet to my skin, and spoiled my silke
      breeches almost. Rained all the afternoon and evening, so as my letters
      being done, I was forced to get a bed at Captain Cocke's, where I find Sir
      W. Doyly, and he, and Evelyn at supper; and I with them full of discourse
      of the neglect of our masters, the great officers of State, about all
      business, and especially that of money: having now some thousands
      prisoners, kept to no purpose at a great charge, and no money provided
      almost for the doing of it. We fell to talk largely of the want of some
      persons understanding to look after businesses, but all goes to rack.
      "For," says Captain Cocke, "my Lord Treasurer, he minds his ease, and lets
      things go how they will: if he can have his L8000 per annum, and a game at
      l'ombre,&mdash;[Spanish card game]&mdash;he is well. My Lord Chancellor he
      minds getting of money and nothing else; and my Lord Ashly will rob the
      Devil and the Alter, but he will get money if it be to be got." But that
      that put us into this great melancholy, was newes brought to-day, which
      Captain Cocke reports as a certain truth, that all the Dutch fleete,
      men-of-war and merchant East India ships, are got every one in from Bergen
      the 3d of this month, Sunday last; which will make us all ridiculous. The
      fleete come home with shame to require a great deale of money, which is
      not to be had, to discharge many men that must get the plague then or
      continue at greater charge on shipboard, nothing done by them to encourage
      the Parliament to give money, nor the Kingdom able to spare any money, if
      they would, at this time of the plague, so that, as things look at
      present, the whole state must come to ruine. Full of these melancholy
      thoughts, to bed; where, though I lay the softest I ever did in my life,
      with a downe bed, after the Danish manner, upon me, yet I slept very ill,
      chiefly through the thoughts of my Lord Sandwich's concernment in all this
      ill successe at sea.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Walked home; being forced thereto by one of my watermen
      falling sick yesterday, and it was God's great mercy I did not go by water
      with them yesterday, for he fell sick on Saturday night, and it is to be
      feared of the plague. So I sent him away to London with his fellow; but
      another boat come to me this morning, whom I sent to Blackewall for Mr.
      Andrews. I walked to Woolwich, and there find Mr. Hill, and he and I all
      the morning at musique and a song he hath set of three parts, methinks,
      very good. Anon comes Mr. Andrews, though it be a very ill day, and so
      after dinner we to musique and sang till about 4 or 5 o'clock, it blowing
      very hard, and now and then raining, and wind and tide being against us,
      Andrews and I took leave and walked to Greenwich. My wife before I come
      out telling me the ill news that she hears that her father is very ill,
      and then I told her I feared of the plague, for that the house is shut up.
      And so she much troubled she did desire me to send them something; and I
      said I would, and will do so. But before I come out there happened newes
      to come to the by an expresse from Mr. Coventry, telling me the most happy
      news of my Lord Sandwich's meeting with part of the Dutch; his taking two
      of their East India ships, and six or seven others, and very good prizes
      and that he is in search of the rest of the fleet, which he hopes to find
      upon the Wellbancke, with the loss only of the Hector, poor Captain
      Cuttle. This newes do so overjoy me that I know not what to say enough to
      express it, but the better to do it I did walk to Greenwich, and there
      sending away Mr. Andrews, I to Captain Cocke's, where I find my Lord
      Bruncker and his mistress, and Sir J. Minnes. Where we supped (there was
      also Sir W. Doyly and Mr. Evelyn); but the receipt of this newes did put
      us all into such an extacy of joy, that it inspired into Sir J. Minnes and
      Mr. Evelyn such a spirit of mirth, that in all my life I never met with so
      merry a two hours as our company this night was. Among other humours, Mr.
      Evelyn's repeating of some verses made up of nothing but the various
      acceptations of may and can, and doing it so aptly upon occasion of
      something of that nature, and so fast, did make us all die almost with
      laughing, and did so stop the mouth of Sir J. Minnes in the middle of all
      his mirth (and in a thing agreeing with his own manner of genius), that I
      never saw any man so out-done in all my life; and Sir J. Minnes's mirth
      too to see himself out-done, was the crown of all our mirth. In this
      humour we sat till about ten at night, and so my Lord and his mistress
      home, and we to bed, it being one of the times of my life wherein I was
      the fullest of true sense of joy.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and walked to the office, there to do some business till ten of
      the clock, and then by agreement my Lord, Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Doyly, and
      I took boat and over to the ferry, where Sir W. Batten's coach was ready
      for us, and to Walthamstow drove merrily, excellent merry discourse in the
      way, and most upon our last night's revells; there come we were very
      merry, and a good plain venison dinner. After dinner to billiards, where I
      won an angel,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A gold coin, so called because it bore the image of an angel,
     varying in value from six shillings and eightpence to ten
     shillings.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and among other sports we were merry with my pretending to have a warrant
      to Sir W. Hickes (who was there, and was out of humour with Sir W. Doyly's
      having lately got a warrant for a leash of buckes, of which we were now
      eating one) which vexed him, and at last would compound with me to give my
      Lord Bruncker half a buck now, and me a Doe for it a while hence when the
      season comes in, which we agreed to and had held, but that we fear Sir W.
      Doyly did betray our design, which spoiled all; however, my Lady Batten
      invited herself to dine with him this week, and she invited us all to dine
      with her there, which we agreed to, only to vex him, he being the most
      niggardly fellow, it seems, in the world. Full of good victuals and mirth
      we set homeward in the evening, and very merry all the way. So to
      Greenwich, where when come I find my Lord Rutherford and Creed come from
      Court, and among other things have brought me several orders for money to
      pay for Tangier; and, among the rest L7000 and more, to this Lord, which
      is an excellent thing to consider, that, though they can do nothing else,
      they can give away the King's money upon their progresse. I did give him
      the best answer I could to pay him with tallys, and that is all they could
      get from me. I was not in humour to spend much time with them, but walked
      a little before Sir J. Minnes's door and then took leave, and I by water
      to Woolwich, where with my wife to a game at tables,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The old name for backgammon, used by Shakespeare and others.  The
     following lines are from an epitaph entirely made up of puns on
     backgammon

              "Man's life's a game at tables, and he may
               Mend his bad fortune by his wiser play."

                              Wit's Recre., i. 250, reprint, 1817.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and walked to the office, where we sat late, and thence to
      dinner home with Sir J. Minnes, and so to the office, where writing
      letters, and home in the evening, where my wife shews me a letter from her
      brother speaking of their father's being ill, like to die, which, God
      forgive me! did not trouble me so much as it should, though I was indeed
      sorry for it. I did presently resolve to send him something in a letter
      from my wife, viz. 20s. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and walked to Greenwich, taking pleasure to walk with my minute
      watch in my hand, by which I am come now to see the distances of my way
      from Woolwich to Greenwich, and do find myself to come within two minutes
      constantly to the same place at the end of each quarter of an houre. Here
      we rendezvoused at Captain Cocke's, and there eat oysters, and so my Lord
      Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and I took boat, and in my Lord's coach to Sir W.
      Hickes's, whither by and by my Lady Batten and Sir William comes. It is a
      good seat, with a fair grove of trees by it, and the remains of a good
      garden; but so let to run to ruine, both house and every thing in and
      about it, so ill furnished and miserably looked after, I never did see in
      all my life. Not so much as a latch to his dining-room door; which saved
      him nothing, for the wind blowing into the room for want thereof, flung
      down a great bow pott that stood upon the side-table, and that fell upon
      some Venice glasses, and did him a crown's worth of hurt. He did give us
      the meanest dinner (of beef, shoulder and umbles of venison
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Dr. Johnson was puzzled by the following passage in "The Merry
     Wives of Windsor," act v., sc. 3: "Divide me like a bribe-buck, each
     a haunch.  I will keep the sides to myself; my shoulders for the
     fellow of this walk."  If he could have read the account of Sir
     William Hickes's dinner, he would at once have understood the
     allusion to the keeper's perquisites of the shoulders of all deer
     killed in his walk.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which he takes away from the keeper of the Forest, and a few pigeons, and
      all in the meanest manner) that ever I did see, to the basest degree.
      After dinner we officers of the Navy stepped aside to read some letters
      and consider some business, and so in again. I was only pleased at a very
      fine picture of the Queene-Mother, when she was young, by Van-Dike; a very
      good picture, and a lovely sweet face. Thence in the afternoon home, and
      landing at Greenwich I saw Mr. Pen walking my way, so we walked together,
      and for discourse I put him into talk of France, when he took delight to
      tell me of his observations, some good, some impertinent, and all ill
      told, but it served for want of better, and so to my house, where I find
      my wife abroad, and hath been all this day, nobody knows where, which
      troubled me, it being late and a cold evening. So being invited to his
      mother's to supper, we took Mrs. Barbara, who was mighty finely dressed,
      and in my Lady's coach, which we met going for my wife, we thither, and
      there after some discourse went to supper. By and by comes my wife and
      Mercer, and had been with Captain Cocke all day, he coming and taking her
      out to go see his boy at school at Brumly [Bromley], and brought her home
      again with great respect. Here pretty merry, only I had no stomach, having
      dined late, to eat. After supper Mr. Pen and I fell to discourse about
      some words in a French song my wife was saying, "D'un air tout interdict,"
      wherein I laid twenty to one against him which he would not agree with me,
      though I know myself in the right as to the sense of the word, and almost
      angry we were, and were an houre and more upon the dispute, till at last
      broke up not satisfied, and so home in their coach and so to bed. H.
      Russell did this day deliver my 20s. to my wife's father or mother, but
      has not yet told us how they do.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and walked to Greenwich, and there fitted myself in several
      businesses to go to London, where I have not been now a pretty while. But
      before I went from the office newes is brought by word of mouth that
      letters are now just now brought from the fleete of our taking a great
      many more of the Dutch fleete, in which I did never more plainly see my
      command of my temper in my not admitting myself to receive any kind of joy
      from it till I had heard the certainty of it, and therefore went by water
      directly to the Duke of Albemarle, where I find a letter of the Lath from
      Solebay, from my Lord Sandwich, of the fleete's meeting with about
      eighteen more of the Dutch fleete, and his taking of most of them; and the
      messenger says, they had taken three after the letter was wrote and
      sealed; which being twenty-one, and the fourteen took the other day, is
      forty-five sail; some of which are good, and others rich ships, which is
      so great a cause of joy in us all that my Lord and everybody is highly
      joyed thereat. And having taken a copy of my Lord's letter, I away back
      again to the Beare at the Bridge foot, being full of wind and out of
      order, and there called for a biscuit and a piece of cheese and gill of
      sacke, being forced to walk over the Bridge, toward the 'Change, and the
      plague being all thereabouts. Here my news was highly welcome, and I did
      wonder to see the 'Change so full, I believe 200 people; but not a man or
      merchant of any fashion, but plain men all. And Lord! to see how I did
      endeavour all I could to talk with as few as I could, there being now no
      observation of shutting up of houses infected, that to be sure we do
      converse and meet with people that have the plague upon them. I to Sir
      Robert Viner's, where my main business was about settling the business of
      Debusty's L5000 tallys, which I did for the present to enable me to have
      some money, and so home, buying some things for my wife in the way. So
      home, and put up several things to carry to Woolwich, and upon serious
      thoughts I am advised by W. Griffin to let my money and plate rest there,
      as being as safe as any place, nobody imagining that people would leave
      money in their houses now, when all their families are gone. So for the
      present that being my opinion, I did leave them there still. But, Lord! to
      see the trouble that it puts a man to, to keep safe what with pain a man
      hath been getting together, and there is good reason for it. Down to the
      office, and there wrote letters to and again about this good newes of our
      victory, and so by water home late. Where, when I come home I spent some
      thoughts upon the occurrences of this day, giving matter for as much
      content on one hand and melancholy on another, as any day in all my life.
      For the first; the finding of my money and plate, and all safe at London,
      and speeding in my business of money this day. The hearing of this good
      news to such excess, after so great a despair of my Lord's doing anything
      this year; adding to that, the decrease of 500 and more, which is the
      first decrease we have yet had in the sickness since it begun: and great
      hopes that the next week it will be greater. Then, on the other side, my
      finding that though the Bill in general is abated, yet the City within the
      walls is encreased, and likely to continue so, and is close to our house
      there. My meeting dead corpses of the plague, carried to be buried close
      to me at noon-day through the City in Fanchurch-street. To see a person
      sick of the sores, carried close by me by Gracechurch in a hackney-coach.
      My finding the Angell tavern, at the lower end of Tower-hill, shut up, and
      more than that, the alehouse at the Tower-stairs, and more than that, the
      person was then dying of the plague when I was last there, a little while
      ago, at night, to write a short letter there, and I overheard the
      mistresse of the house sadly saying to her husband somebody was very ill,
      but did not think it was of the plague. To hear that poor Payne, my
      waiter, hath buried a child, and is dying himself. To hear that a labourer
      I sent but the other day to Dagenhams, to know how they did there, is dead
      of the plague; and that one of my own watermen, that carried me daily,
      fell sick as soon as he had landed me on Friday morning last, when I had
      been all night upon the water (and I believe he did get his infection that
      day at Brainford), and is now dead of the plague. To hear that Captain
      Lambert and Cuttle are killed in the taking these ships; and that Mr.
      Sidney Montague is sick of a desperate fever at my Lady Carteret's, at
      Scott's-hall. To hear that Mr. Lewes hath another daughter sick. And,
      lastly, that both my servants, W. Hewer and Tom Edwards, have lost their
      fathers, both in St. Sepulchre's parish, of the plague this week, do put
      me into great apprehensions of melancholy, and with good reason. But I put
      off the thoughts of sadness as much as I can, and the rather to keep my
      wife in good heart and family also. After supper (having eat nothing all
      this day) upon a fine tench of Mr. Shelden's taking, we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, it being a cold misting morning, and so by water to the office,
      where very busy upon several businesses. At noon got the messenger,
      Marlow, to get me a piece of bread and butter and cheese and a bottle of
      beer and ale, and so I went not out of the office but dined off that, and
      my boy Tom, but the rest of my clerks went home to dinner. Then to my
      business again, and by and by sent my waterman to see how Sir W. Warren
      do, who is sicke, and for which I have reason to be very sorry, he being
      the friend I have got most by of most friends in England but the King: who
      returns me that he is pretty well again, his disease being an ague. I by
      water to Deptford, thinking to have seen my valentine, but I could not,
      and so come back again, and to the office, where a little business, and
      thence with Captain Cocke, and there drank a cup of good drink, which I am
      fain to allow myself during this plague time, by advice of all, and not
      contrary to my oathe, my physician being dead, and chyrurgeon out of the
      way, whose advice I am obliged to take, and so by water home and eat my
      supper, and to bed, being in much pain to think what I shall do this
      winter time; for go every day to Woolwich I cannot, without endangering my
      life; and staying from my wife at Greenwich is not handsome.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office, where
      I find Sir J. Minnes gone to the fleete, like a doating foole, to do no
      good, but proclaim himself an asse; for no service he can do there, nor
      inform my Lord, who is come in thither to the buoy of the Nore, in
      anything worth his knowledge. At noon to dinner to my Lord Bruncker, where
      Sir W. Batten and his Lady come, by invitation, and very merry we were,
      only that the discourse of the likelihood of the increase of the plague
      this weeke makes us a little sad, but then again the thoughts of the late
      prizes make us glad. After dinner, by appointment, comes Mr. Andrews, and
      he and I walking alone in the garden talking of our Tangier business, and
      I endeavoured by the by to offer some encouragements for their continuing
      in the business, which he seemed to take hold of, and the truth is my
      profit is so much concerned that I could wish they would, and would take
      pains to ease them in the business of money as much as was possible. He
      being gone (after I had ordered him L2000, and he paid me my quantum out
      of it) I also walked to the office, and there to my business; but find
      myself, through the unfitness of my place to write in, and my coming from
      great dinners, and drinking wine, that I am not in the good temper of
      doing business now a days that I used to be and ought still to be. At
      night to Captain Cocke's, meaning to lie there, it being late, and he not
      being at home, I walked to him to my Lord Bruncker's, and there staid a
      while, they being at tables; and so by and by parted, and walked to his
      house; and, after a mess of good broth, to bed, in great pleasure, his
      company being most excellent.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). Up, and before I went out of my chamber did draw a
      musique scale, in order to my having it at any time ready in my hand to
      turn to for exercise, for I have a great mind in this Vacation to perfect
      myself in my scale, in order to my practising of composition, and so that
      being done I down stairs, and there find Captain Cocke under the barber's
      hands, the barber that did heretofore trim Commissioner Pett, and with
      whom I have been. He offered to come this day after dinner with his violin
      to play me a set of Lyra-ayres upon it, which I was glad of, hoping to be
      merry thereby. Being ready we to church, where a company of fine people to
      church, and a fine Church, and very good sermon, Mr. Plume' being a very
      excellent scholler and preacher. Coming out of the church I met Mrs.
      Pierce, whom I was ashamed to see, having not been with her since my
      coming to town, but promised to visit her. Thence with Captain Cocke, in
      his coach, home to dinner, whither comes by invitation my Lord Bruncker
      and his mistresse and very good company we were, but in dinner time comes
      Sir J. Minnes from the fleete, like a simple weak man, having nothing to
      say of what he hath done there, but tells of what value he imagines the
      prizes to be, and that my Lord Sandwich is well, and mightily concerned to
      hear that I was well. But this did put me upon a desire of going thither;
      and, moving of it to my Lord, we presently agreed upon it to go this very
      tide, we two and Captain Cocke. So every body prepared to fit himself for
      his journey, and I walked to Woolwich to trim and shift myself, and by the
      time I was ready they come down in the Bezan yacht, and so I aboard and my
      boy Tom, and there very merrily we sailed to below Gravesend, and there
      come to anchor for all night, and supped and talked, and with much
      pleasure at last settled ourselves to sleep having very good lodging upon
      cushions in the cabbin.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. By break of day we come to within sight of the fleete, which was a
      very fine thing to behold, being above 100 ships, great and small; with
      the flag-ships of each squadron, distinguished by their several flags on
      their main, fore, or mizen masts. Among others, the Soveraigne, Charles,
      and Prince; in the last of which my Lord Sandwich was. When we called by
      her side his Lordshipp was not stirring, so we come to anchor a little
      below his ship, thinking to have rowed on board him, but the wind and tide
      was so strong against us that we could not get up to him, no, though rowed
      by a boat of the Prince's that come to us to tow us up; at last however he
      brought us within a little way, and then they flung out a rope to us from
      the Prince and so come on board, but with great trouble and tune and
      patience, it being very cold; we find my Lord newly up in his night-gown
      very well. He received us kindly; telling us the state of the fleet,
      lacking provisions, having no beer at all, nor have had most of them these
      three weeks or month, and but few days' dry provisions. And indeed he
      tells us that he believes no fleete was ever set to sea in so ill
      condition of provision, as this was when it went out last. He did inform
      us in the business of Bergen,
    </p>
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     [Lord Sandwich was not so successful in convincing other people as
     to the propriety of his conduct at Bergen as he was with Pepys.]
</pre>
    <p>
      so as to let us see how the judgment of the world is not to be depended on
      in things they know not; it being a place just wide enough, and not so
      much hardly, for ships to go through to it, the yardarmes sticking in the
      very rocks. He do not, upon his best enquiry, find reason to except
      against any part of the management of the business by Teddiman; he having
      staid treating no longer than during the night, whiles he was fitting
      himself to fight, bringing his ship a-breast, and not a quarter of an hour
      longer (as is said); nor could more ships have been brought to play, as is
      thought. Nor could men be landed, there being 10,000 men effectively
      always in armes of the Danes; nor, says he, could we expect more from the
      Dane than he did, it being impossible to set fire on the ships but it must
      burn the towne. But that wherein the Dane did amisse is, that he did
      assist them, the Dutch, all the while, while he was treating with us,
      while he should have been neutrall to us both. But, however, he did demand
      but the treaty of us; which is, that we should not come with more than
      five ships. A flag of truce is said, and confessed by my Lord, that he
      believes it was hung out; but while they did hang it out, they did shoot
      at us; so that it was not either seen perhaps, or fit to cease upon sight
      of it, while they continued actually in action against us. But the main
      thing my Lord wonders at, and condemns the Dane for, is, that the
      blockhead, who is so much in debt to the Hollander, having now a treasure
      more by much than all his Crowne was worth, and that which would for ever
      have beggared the Hollanders, should not take this time to break with the
      Hollander, and, thereby paid his debt which must have been forgiven him,
      and got the greatest treasure into his hands that ever was together in the
      world. By and by my Lord took me aside to discourse of his private
      matters, who was very free with me touching the ill condition of the
      fleete that it hath been in, and the good fortune that he hath had, and
      nothing else that these prizes are to be imputed to. He also talked with
      me about Mr. Coventry's dealing with him in sending Sir W. Pen away before
      him, which was not fair nor kind; but that he hath mastered and cajoled
      Sir W. Pen, that he hath been able to do, nothing in the fleete, but been
      obedient to him; but withal tells me he is a man that is but of very mean
      parts, and a fellow not to be lived with, so false and base he is; which I
      know well enough to be very true, and did, as I had formerly done, give my
      Lord my knowledge of him. By and by was called a Council of Warr on board,
      when come Sir W. Pen there, and Sir Christopher Mings, Sir Edward Spragg,
      Sir Jos. Jordan, Sir Thomas Teddiman, and Sir Roger Cuttance, and so the
      necessity of the fleete for victuals, clothes, and money was discoursed,
      but by the discourse there of all but my Lord, that is to say, the
      counterfeit grave nonsense of Sir W. Pen and the poor mean discourse of
      the rest, methinks I saw how the government and management of the greatest
      business of the three nations is committed to very ordinary heads, saving
      my Lord, and in effect is only upon him, who is able to do what he pleases
      with them, they not having the meanest degree of reason to be able to
      oppose anything that he says, and so I fear it is ordered but like all the
      rest of the King's publique affayres. The council being up they most of
      them went away, only Sir W. Pen who staid to dine there and did so, but
      the wind being high the ship (though the motion of it was hardly
      discernible to the eye) did make me sick, so as I could not eat any thing
      almost. After dinner Cocke did pray me to helpe him to L500 of W. How, who
      is deputy Treasurer, wherein my Lord Bruncker and I am to be concerned and
      I did aske it my Lord, and he did consent to have us furnished with L500,
      and I did get it paid to Sir Roger Cuttance and Mr. Pierce in part for
      above L1000 worth of goods, Mace, Nutmegs, Cynamon, and Cloves, and he
      tells us we may hope to get L1500 by it, which God send! Great spoil, I
      hear, there hath been of the two East India ships, and that yet they will
      come in to the King very rich: so that I hope this journey will be worth
      L100 to me.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [There is a shorthand journal of proceedings relating to Pepys's
     purchase of some East India prize goods among the Rawlinson MSS. in
     the Bodleian Library.]
</pre>
    <p>
      After having paid this money, we took leave of my Lord and so to our Yacht
      again, having seen many of my friends there. Among others I hear that W.
      Howe will grow very rich by this last business and grows very proud and
      insolent by it; but it is what I ever expected. I hear by every body how
      much my poor Lord of Sandwich was concerned for me during my silence a
      while, lest I had been dead of the plague in this sickly time. No sooner
      come into the yacht, though overjoyed with the good work we have done
      to-day, but I was overcome with sea sickness so that I begun to spue
      soundly, and so continued a good while, till at last I went into the
      cabbin and shutting my eyes my trouble did cease that I fell asleep, which
      continued till we come into Chatham river where the water was smooth, and
      then I rose and was very well, and the tide coming to be against us we did
      land before we come to Chatham and walked a mile, having very good
      discourse by the way, it being dark and it beginning to rain just as we
      got thither. At Commissioner Pett's we did eat and drink very well and
      very merry we were, and about 10 at night, it being moonshine and very
      cold, we set out, his coach carrying us, and so all night travelled to
      Greenwich, we sometimes sleeping a little and then talking and laughing by
      the way, and with much pleasure, but that it was very horrible cold, that
      I was afeard of an ague. A pretty passage was that the coach stood of a
      sudden and the coachman come down and the horses stirring, he cried, Hold!
      which waked me, and the coach[man] standing at the boote to [do] something
      or other and crying, Hold! I did wake of a sudden and not knowing who he
      was, nor thinking of the coachman between sleeping and waking I did take
      up the heart to take him by the shoulder, thinking verily he had been a
      thief. But when I waked I found my cowardly heart to discover a fear
      within me and that I should never have done it if I had been awake.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. About 4 or 5 of the clock we come to Greenwich, and, having first
      set down my Lord Bruncker, Cocke and I went to his house, it being light,
      and there to our great trouble, we being sleepy and cold, we met with the
      ill newes that his boy Jacke was gone to bed sicke, which put Captain
      Cocke and me also into much trouble, the boy, as they told us, complaining
      of his head most, which is a bad sign it seems. So they presently betook
      themselves to consult whither and how to remove him. However I thought it
      not fit for me to discover too much fear to go away, nor had I any place
      to go to. So to bed I went and slept till 10 of the clock and then comes
      Captain Cocke to wake me and tell me that his boy was well again. With
      great joy I heard the newes and he told it, so I up and to the office
      where we did a little, and but a little business. At noon by invitation to
      my Lord Bruncker's where we staid till four of the clock for my Lady
      Batten and she not then coming we to dinner and pretty merry but
      disordered by her making us stay so long. After dinner I to the office,
      and there wrote letters and did business till night and then to Sir J.
      Minnes's, where I find my Lady Batten come, and she and my Lord Bruncker
      and his mistresse, and the whole house-full there at cards. But by and by
      my Lord Bruncker goes away and others of the company, and when I expected
      Sir J. Minnes and his sister should have staid to have made Sir W. Batten
      and Lady sup, I find they go up in snuffe to bed without taking any manner
      of leave of them, but left them with Mr. Boreman. The reason of this I
      could not presently learn, but anon I hear it is that Sir J. Minnes did
      expect and intend them a supper, but they without respect to him did first
      apply themselves to Boreman, which makes all this great feude. However I
      staid and there supped, all of us being in great disorder from this, and
      more from Cocke's boy's being ill, where my Lady Batten and Sir W. Batten
      did come to town with an intent to lodge, and I was forced to go seek a
      lodging which my W. Hewer did get me, viz., his own chamber in the towne,
      whither I went and found it a very fine room, and there lay most
      excellently.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Called up by Captain Cocke (who was last night put into great
      trouble upon his boy's being rather worse than better, upon which he
      removed him out of his house to his stable), who told me that to my
      comfort his boy was now as well as ever he was in his life. So I up, and
      after being trimmed, the first time I have been touched by a barber these
      twelvemonths, I think, and more, went to Sir J. Minnes's, where I find all
      out of order still, they having not seen one another till by and by Sir J.
      Minnes and Sir W. Batten met, to go into my Lord Bruncker's coach, and so
      we four to Lambeth, and thence to the Duke of Albemarle, to inform him
      what we have done as to the fleete, which is very little, and to receive
      his direction. But, Lord! what a sad time it is to see no boats upon the
      River; and grass grows all up and down White Hall court, and nobody but
      poor wretches in the streets! And, which is worst of all, the Duke showed
      us the number of the plague this week, brought in the last night from the
      Lord Mayor; that it is encreased about 600 more than the last, which is
      quite contrary to all our hopes and expectations, from the coldness of the
      late season. For the whole general number is 8,297, and of them the plague
      7,165; which is more in the whole by above 50, than the biggest Bill yet;
      which is very grievous to us all. I find here a design in my Lord Bruncker
      and Captain Cocke to have had my Lord Bruncker chosen as one of us to have
      been sent aboard one of the East Indiamen, and Captain Cocke as a merchant
      to be joined with him, and Sir J. Minnes for the other, and Sir G. Smith
      to be joined with him. But I did order it so that my Lord Bruncker and Sir
      J. Minnes were ordered, but I did stop the merchants to be added, which
      would have been a most pernicious thing to the King I am sure. In this I
      did, I think, a very good office, though I cannot acquit myself from some
      envy of mine in the business to have the profitable business done by
      another hand while I lay wholly imployed in the trouble of the office.
      Thence back again by my Lord's coach to my Lord Bruncker's house, where I
      find my Lady Batten, who is become very great with Mrs. Williams (my Lord
      Bruncker's whore), and there we dined and were mighty merry. After dinner
      I to the office there to write letters, to fit myself for a journey
      to-morrow to Nonsuch to the Exchequer by appointment. That being done I to
      Sir J. Minnes where I find Sir W. Batten and his Lady gone home to
      Walthamstow in great snuffe as to Sir J. Minnes, but yet with some
      necessity, hearing that a mayde-servant of theirs is taken ill. Here I
      staid and resolved of my going in my Lord Bruncker's coach which he would
      have me to take, though himself cannot go with me as he intended, and so
      to my last night's lodging to bed very weary.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up between five and six o'clock; and by the time I was ready, my
      Lord's coach comes for me; and taking Will Hewer with me, who is all in
      mourning for his father, who is lately dead of the plague, as my boy Tom's
      is also, I set out, and took about L100 with me to pay the fees there, and
      so rode in some fear of robbing. When I come thither, I find only Mr.
      Ward, who led me to Burgess's bedside, and Spicer's, who, watching of the
      house, as it is their turns every night, did lie long in bed to-day, and I
      find nothing at all done in my business, which vexed me. But not seeing
      how to helpe it I did walk up and down with Mr. Ward to see the house; and
      by and by Spicer and Mr. Falconbrige come to me and he and I to a towne
      near by, Yowell, there drink and set up my horses and also bespoke a
      dinner, and while that is dressing went with Spicer and walked up and down
      the house and park; and a fine place it hath heretofore been, and a fine
      prospect about the house. A great walk of an elme and a walnutt set one
      after another in order. And all the house on the outside filled with
      figures of stories, and good painting of Rubens' or Holben's doing. And
      one great thing is, that most of the house is covered, I mean the posts,
      and quarters in the walls; covered with lead, and gilded. I walked into
      the ruined garden, and there found a plain little girle, kinswoman of Mr.
      Falconbridge, to sing very finely by the eare only, but a fine way of
      singing, and if I come ever to lacke a girle again I shall think of
      getting her. Thence to the towne, and there Spicer, Woodruffe, and W.
      Bowyer and I dined together and a friend of Spicer's; and a good dinner I
      had for them. Falconbrige dined somewhere else, by appointment. Strange to
      see how young W. Bowyer looks at 41 years; one would not take him for 24
      or more, and is one of the greatest wonders I ever did see. After dinner,
      about 4 of the clock we broke up, and I took coach and home (in fear for
      the money I had with me, but that this friend of Spicer's, one of the
      Duke's guard did ride along the best part of the way with us). I got to my
      Lord Bruncker's before night, and there I sat and supped with him and his
      mistresse, and Cocke whose boy is yet ill. Thence, after losing a crowne
      betting at Tables&mdash;[Cribbage]&mdash;, we walked home, Cocke seeing me
      at my new lodging, where I went to bed. All my worke this day in the coach
      going and coming was to refresh myself in my musique scale, which I would
      fain have perfecter than ever I had yet.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up betimes and to the office, meaning to have entered my last 5 or 6
      days' Journall, but was called away by my Lord Bruncker and Sir J. Minnes,
      and to Blackwall, there to look after the storehouses in order to the
      laying of goods out of the East India ships when they shall be unloaden.
      That being done, we into Johnson's house, and were much made of, eating
      and drinking. But here it is observable what he tells us, that in digging
      his late Docke, he did 12 foot under ground find perfect trees
      over-covered with earth. Nut trees, with the branches and the very nuts
      upon them; some of whose nuts he showed us. Their shells black with age,
      and their kernell, upon opening, decayed, but their shell perfectly hard
      as ever. And a yew tree he showed us (upon which, he says, the very ivy
      was taken up whole about it), which upon cutting with an addes [adze], we
      found to be rather harder than the living tree usually is. They say, very
      much, but I do not know how hard a yew tree naturally is.
    </p>
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     [The same discovery was made in 1789, in digging the Brunswick Dock,
     also at Blackwall, and elsewhere in the neighbourhood.]
</pre>
    <p>
      The armes, they say, were taken up at first whole, about the body, which
      is very strange. Thence away by water, and I walked with my Lord Bruncker
      home, and there at dinner comes a letter from my Lord Sandwich to tell me
      that he would this day be at Woolwich, and desired me to meet him. Which
      fearing might have lain in Sir J. Minnes' pocket a while, he sending it
      me, did give my Lord Bruncker, his mistress, and I occasion to talk of him
      as the most unfit man for business in the world. Though at last afterwards
      I found that he was not in this faulty, but hereby I have got a clear
      evidence of my Lord Bruncker's opinion of him. My Lord Bruncker presently
      ordered his coach to be ready and we to Woolwich, and my Lord Sandwich not
      being come, we took a boat and about a mile off met him in his Catch, and
      boarded him, and come up with him; and, after making a little halt at my
      house, which I ordered, to have my wife see him, we all together by coach
      to Mr. Boreman's, where Sir J. Minnes did receive him very handsomely, and
      there he is to lie; and Sir J. Minnes did give him on the sudden, a very
      handsome supper and brave discourse, my Lord Bruncker, and Captain Cocke,
      and Captain Herbert being there, with myself. Here my Lord did witness
      great respect to me, and very kind expressions, and by other occasions,
      from one thing to another did take notice how I was overjoyed at first to
      see the King's letter to his Lordship, and told them how I did kiss it,
      and that, whatever he was, I did always love the King. This my Lord
      Bruncker did take such notice [of] as that he could not forbear kissing me
      before my Lord, professing his finding occasion every day more and more to
      love me, and Captain Cocke has since of himself taken notice of that
      speech of my Lord then concerning me, and may be of good use to me. Among
      other discourse concerning long life, Sir J. Minnes saying that his
      great-grandfather was alive in Edward the Vth's time; my Lord Sandwich did
      tell us how few there have been of his family since King Harry the VIIIth;
      that is to say, the then Chiefe Justice, and his son the Lord Montagu, who
      was father to Sir Sidney,
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     Montagu," as in some former editions.  Pepys seems to have written
     Lord Montagu by mistake for Sir Edward Montagu.]
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    <p>
      who was his father. And yet, what is more wonderfull, he did assure us
      from the mouth of my Lord Montagu himself, that in King James's time
      ([when he] had a mind to get the King to cut off the entayle of some land
      which was given in Harry the VIIIth's time to the family, with the
      remainder in the Crowne); he did answer the King in showing how unlikely
      it was that ever it could revert to the Crown, but that it would be a
      present convenience to him; and did show that at that time there were
      4,000 persons derived from the very body of the Chiefe Justice. It seems
      the number of daughters in the family having been very great, and they too
      had most of them many children, and grandchildren, and
      great-grandchildren. This he tells as a most known and certain truth.
      After supper, my Lord Bruncker took his leave, and I also did mine, taking
      Captain Herbert home to my lodging to lie with me, who did mighty
      seriously inquire after who was that in the black dress with my wife
      yesterday, and would not believe that it was my wife's mayde, Mercer, but
      it was she.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and to my Lord Sandwich, who did advise alone with me how far he
      might trust Captain Cocke in the business of the prize-goods, my Lord
      telling me that he hath taken into his hands 2 or L3000 value of them: it
      being a good way, he says, to get money, and afterwards to get the King's
      allowance thereof, it being easier, he observes, to keepe money when got
      of the King than to get it when it is too late. I advised him not to trust
      Cocke too far, and did therefore offer him ready money for a L1000 or two,
      which he listens to and do agree to, which is great joy to me, hoping
      thereby to get something! Thence by coach to Lambeth, his Lordship, and
      all our office, and Mr. Evelyn, to the Duke of Albemarle, where, after the
      compliment with my Lord very kind, we sat down to consult of the disposing
      and supporting of the fleete with victuals and money, and for the sicke
      men and prisoners; and I did propose the taking out some goods out of the
      prizes, to the value of L10,000, which was accorded to, and an order,
      drawn up and signed by the Duke and my Lord, done in the best manner I
      can, and referred to my Lord Bruncker and Sir J. Minnes, but what
      inconveniences may arise from it I do not yet see, but fear there may be
      many. Here we dined, and I did hear my Lord Craven whisper, as he is
      mightily possessed with a good opinion of me, much to my advantage, which
      my good Lord did second, and anon my Lord Craven did speak publiquely of
      me to the Duke, in the hearing of all the rest; and the Duke did say
      something of the like advantage to me; I believe, not much to the
      satisfaction of my brethren; but I was mightily joyed at it. Thence took
      leave, leaving my Lord Sandwich to go visit the Bishop of Canterbury, and
      I and Sir W. Batten down to the Tower, where he went further by water, and
      I home, and among other things took out all my gold to carry along with me
      to-night with Captain Cocke downe to the fleete, being L180 and more,
      hoping to lay out that and a great deal more to good advantage. Thence
      down to Greenwich to the office, and there wrote several letters, and so
      to my Lord Sandwich, and mighty merry and he mighty kind to me in the face
      of all, saying much in my favour, and after supper I took leave and with
      Captain Cocke set out in the yacht about ten o'clock at night, and after
      some discourse, and drinking a little, my mind full of what we are going
      about and jealous of Cocke's outdoing me. So to sleep upon beds brought by
      Cocke on board mighty handsome, and never slept better than upon this bed
      upon the floor in the Cabbin.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). Waked, and up and drank, and then to discourse; and
      then being about Grayes, and a very calme, curious morning, we took our
      wherry, and to the fishermen, and bought a great deal of fine fish, and to
      Gravesend to White's, and had part of it dressed; and, in the meantime, we
      to walk about a mile from the towne, and so back again; and there, after
      breakfast, one of our watermen told us he had heard of a bargain of cloves
      for us, and we went to a blind alehouse at the further end wretched dirty
      seamen, who, of the towne to a couple of poor wretches, had got together
      about 37 lb. of cloves and to 10 of nutmeggs, and we bought them of them,
      the first at 5s. 6d. per lb. and the latter at 4s.; and paid them in gold;
      but, Lord! to see how silly these men are in the selling of it, and easily
      to be persuaded almost to anything, offering a bag to us to pass as 20
      lbs. of cloves, which upon weighing proved 25 lbs. But it would never have
      been allowed by my conscience to have wronged the poor wretches, who told
      us how dangerously they had got some, and dearly paid for the rest of
      these goods. This being done we with great content herein on board again
      and there Captain Cocke and I to discourse of our business, but he will
      not yet be open to me, nor am I to him till I hear what he will say and do
      with Sir Roger Cuttance. However, this discourse did do me good, and got
      me a copy of the agreement made the other day on board for the parcel of
      Mr. Pierce and Sir Roger Cuttance, but this great parcel is of my Lord
      Sandwich's. By and by to dinner about 3 o'clock and then I in the cabbin
      to writing down my journall for these last seven days to my great content,
      it having pleased God that in this sad time of the plague every thing else
      has conspired to my happiness and pleasure more for these last three
      months than in all my life before in so little time. God long preserve it
      and make me thankful) for it! After finishing my Journal), then to
      discourse and to read, and then to supper and to bed, my mind not being at
      full ease, having not fully satisfied myself how Captain Cocke will deal
      with me as to the share of the profits.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Found ourselves come to the fleete, and so aboard the Prince; and
      there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of L5,000
      with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, nutmeggs,
      and indigo. And I was near signing to an undertaking for the payment of
      the whole sum; but I did by chance escape it; having since, upon second
      thoughts, great cause to be glad of it, reflecting upon the craft and not
      good condition, it may be, of Captain Cocke. I could get no trifles for my
      wife. Anon to dinner and thence in great haste to make a short visit to
      Sir W. Pen, where I found them and his lady and daughter and many
      commanders at dinner. Among others Sir G. Askue, of whom whatever the
      matter is, the world is silent altogether. But a very pretty dinner there
      was, and after dinner Sir W. Pen made a bargain with Cocke for ten bales
      of silke, at 16s. per lb., which, as Cocke says, will be a good
      pennyworth, and so away to the Prince and presently comes my Lord on board
      from Greenwich, with whom, after a little discourse about his trusting of
      Cocke, we parted and to our yacht; but it being calme, we to make haste,
      took our wherry toward Chatham; but, it growing darke, we were put to
      great difficultys, our simple, yet confident waterman, not knowing a step
      of the way; and we found ourselves to go backward and forward, which, in
      the darke night and a wild place, did vex us mightily. At last we got a
      fisher boy by chance, and took him into the boat, and being an odde kind
      of boy, did vex us too; for he would not answer us aloud when we spoke to
      him, but did carry us safe thither, though with a mistake or two; but I
      wonder they were not more. In our way I was [surprised] and so were we
      all, at the strange nature of the sea-water in a darke night, that it
      seemed like fire upon every stroke of the oare, and, they say, is a sign
      of winde. We went to the Crowne Inne, at Rochester, and there to supper,
      and made ourselves merry with our poor fisher-boy, who told us he had not
      been in a bed in the whole seven years since he came to 'prentice, and
      hath two or three more years to serve. After eating something, we in our
      clothes to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up by five o'clock and got post horses and so set out for Greenwich,
      calling and drinking at Dartford. Being come to Greenwich and shifting
      myself I to the office, from whence by and by my Lord Bruncker and Sir J.
      Minnes set out toward Erith to take charge of the two East India shipps,
      which I had a hand in contriving for the King's service and may do myself
      a good office too thereby. I to dinner with Mr. Wright to his
      father-in-law in Greenwich, one of the most silly, harmless, prating old
      men that ever I heard in my life. Creed dined with me, and among other
      discourses got of me a promise of half that he could get my Lord
      Rutherford to give me upon clearing his business, which should not be
      less, he says, than L50 for my half, which is a good thing, though
      cunningly got of him. By and by Luellin comes, and I hope to get something
      of Deering shortly. They being gone, Mr. Wright and I went into the garden
      to discourse with much trouble for fear of losing all the profit and
      principal of what we have laid out in buying of prize goods, and therefore
      puts me upon thoughts of flinging up my interest, but yet I shall take
      good advice first. Thence to the office, and after some letters down to
      Woolwich, where I have not lain with my wife these eight days I think, or
      more. After supper, and telling her my mind in my trouble in what I have
      done as to buying' of these goods, we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and saw and admired my wife's picture of our Saviour,
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      now finished, which is very pretty. So by water to Greenwich, where with
      Creed and Lord Rutherford, and there my Lord told me that he would give me
      L100 for my pains, which pleased me well, though Creed, like a cunning
      rogue, hath got a promise of half of it from me. We to the King's Head,
      the great musique house, the first time I was ever there, and had a good
      breakfast, and thence parted, I being much troubled to hear from Creed,
      that he was told at Salsbury that I am come to be a great swearer and
      drinker, though I know the contrary; but, Lord! to see how my late little
      drinking of wine is taken notice of by envious men to my disadvantage. I
      thence to Captain Cocke's, [and] (he not yet come from town) to Mr.
      Evelyn's, where much company; and thence in his coach with him to the Duke
      of Albemarle by Lambeth, who was in a mighty pleasant humour; there the
      Duke tells us that the Dutch do stay abroad, and our fleet must go out
      again, or to be ready to do so. Here we got several things ordered as we
      desired for the relief of the prisoners, and sick and wounded men. Here I
      saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God! there is above
      1800 decrease, being the first considerable decrease we have had. Back
      again the same way and had most excellent discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching
      all manner of learning; wherein I find him a very fine gentleman, and
      particularly of paynting, in which he tells me the beautifull Mrs.
      Middleton is rare, and his own wife do brave things. He brought me to the
      office, whither comes unexpectedly Captain Cocke, who hath brought one
      parcel of our goods by waggons, and at first resolved to have lodged them
      at our office; but then the thoughts of its being the King's house altered
      our resolution, and so put them at his friend's, Mr. Glanvill's, and there
      they are safe. Would the rest of them were so too! In discourse, we come
      to mention my profit, and he offers me L500 clear, and I demand L600 for
      my certain profit. We part to-night, and I lie there at Mr. Glanvill's
      house, there being none there but a maydeservant and a young man; being in
      some pain, partly from not knowing what to do in this business, having a
      mind to be at a certainty in my profit, and partly through his having
      Jacke sicke still, and his blackemore now also fallen sicke. So he being
      gone, I to bed.
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    <p>
      28th. Up, and being mightily pleased with my night's lodging, drank a cup
      of beer, and went out to my office, and there did some business, and so
      took boat and down to Woolwich (having first made a visit to Madam
      Williams, who is going down to my Lord Bruncker) and there dined, and then
      fitted my papers and money and every thing else for a journey to Nonsuch
      to-morrow. That being done I walked to Greenwich, and there to the office
      pretty late expecting Captain Cocke's coming, which he did, and so with me
      to my new lodging (and there I chose rather to lie because of my interest
      in the goods that we have brought there to lie), but the people were abed,
      so we knocked them up, and so I to bed, and in the night was mightily
      troubled with a looseness (I suppose from some fresh damp linen that I put
      on this night), and feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none, I having
      called the mayde up out of her bed, she had forgot I suppose to put one
      there; so I was forced in this strange house to rise and shit in the
      chimney twice; and so to bed and was very well again, and
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. To sleep till 5 o'clock, when it is now very dark, and then rose,
      being called up by order by Mr. Marlow, and so up and dressed myself, and
      by and by comes Mr. Lashmore on horseback, and I had my horse I borrowed
      of Mr. Gillthropp, Sir W. Batten's clerke, brought to me, and so we set
      out and rode hard and was at Nonsuch by about eight o'clock, a very fine
      journey and a fine day. There I come just about chappell time and so I
      went to chappell with them and thence to the several offices about my
      tallys, which I find done, but strung for sums not to my purpose, and so
      was forced to get them to promise me to have them cut into other sums.
      But, Lord! what ado I had to persuade the dull fellows to it, especially
      Mr. Warder, Master of the Pells, and yet without any manner of reason for
      their scruple. But at last I did, and so left my tallies there against
      another day, and so walked to Yowell, and there did spend a peece upon
      them, having a whole house full, and much mirth by a sister of the
      mistresse of the house, an old mayde lately married to a lieutenant of a
      company that quarters there, and much pleasant discourse we had and,
      dinner being done, we to horse again and come to Greenwich before night,
      and so to my lodging, and there being a little weary sat down and fell to
      order some of my pocket papers, and then comes Captain Cocke, and after a
      great deal of discourse with him seriously upon the disorders of our state
      through lack of men to mind the public business and to understand it, we
      broke up, sitting up talking very late. We spoke a little of my late
      business propounded of taking profit for my money laid out for these
      goods, but he finds I rise in my demand, he offering me still L500
      certain. So we did give it over, and I to bed. I hear for certain this
      night upon the road that Sir Martin Noell is this day dead of the plague
      in London, where he hath lain sick of it these eight days.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, and at noon with
      Sir W. Batten to Coll. Cleggat to dinner, being invited, where a very
      pretty dinner to my full content and very merry. The great burden we have
      upon us at this time at the office, is the providing for prisoners and
      sicke men that are recovered, they lying before our office doors all night
      and all day, poor wretches. Having been on shore, the captains won't
      receive them on board, and other ships we have not to put them on, nor
      money to pay them off, or provide for them. God remove this difficulty!
      This made us followed all the way to this gentleman's house and there are
      waited for our coming out after dinner. Hither come Luellin to me and
      would force me to take Mr. Deering's 20 pieces in gold he did offer me a
      good while since, which I did, yet really and sincerely against my will
      and content, I seeing him a man not likely to do well in his business, nor
      I to reap any comfort in having to do with, and be beholden to, a man that
      minds more his pleasure and company than his business. Thence mighty merry
      and much pleased with the dinner and company and they with me I parted and
      there was set upon by the poor wretches, whom I did give good words and
      some little money to, and the poor people went away like lambs, and in
      good earnest are not to be censured if their necessities drive them to bad
      courses of stealing or the like, while they lacke wherewith to live.
      Thence to the office, and there wrote a letter or two and dispatched a
      little business, and then to Captain Cocke's, where I find Mr. Temple, the
      fat blade, Sir Robert. Viner's chief man. And we three and two companions
      of his in the evening by agreement took ship in the Bezan and the tide
      carried us no further than Woolwich about 8 at night, and so I on shore to
      my wife, and there to my great trouble find my wife out of order, and she
      took me downstairs and there alone did tell me her falling out with both
      her mayds and particularly Mary, and how Mary had to her teeth told her
      she would tell me of something that should stop her mouth and words of
      that sense. Which I suspect may be about Brown, but my wife prays me to
      call it to examination, and this, I being of myself jealous, do make me
      mightily out of temper, and seeing it not fit to enter into the dispute
      did passionately go away, thinking to go on board again. But when I come
      to the stairs I considered the Bezan would not go till the next ebb, and
      it was best to lie in a good bed and, it may be, get myself into a better
      humour by being with my wife. So I back again and to bed and having
      otherwise so many reasons to rejoice and hopes of good profit, besides
      considering the ill that trouble of mind and melancholly may in this
      sickly time bring a family into, and that if the difference were never so
      great, it is not a time to put away servants, I was resolved to salve up
      the business rather than stir in it, and so become pleasant with my wife
      and to bed, minding nothing of this difference. So to sleep with a good
      deal of content, and saving only this night and a day or two about the
      same business a month or six weeks ago, I do end this month with the
      greatest content, and may say that these last three months, for joy,
      health, and profit, have been much the greatest that ever I received in
      all my life in any twelve months almost in my life, having nothing upon me
      but the consideration of the sicklinesse of the season during this great
      plague to mortify mee. For all which the Lord God be praised!
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    <p>
      October 1st (Lord's day). Called up about 4 of the clock and so dressed
      myself and so on board the Bezan, and there finding all my company asleep
      I would not wake them, but it beginning to be break of day I did stay upon
      the decke walking, and then into the Maister's cabbin and there laid and
      slept a little, and so at last was waked by Captain Cocke's calling of me,
      and so I turned out, and then to chat and talk and laugh, and mighty
      merry. We spent most of the morning talking and reading of "The Siege of
      Rhodes," which is certainly (the more I read it the more I think so) the
      best poem that ever was wrote. We breakfasted betimes and come to the
      fleete about two of the clock in the afternoon, having a fine day and a
      fine winde. My Lord received us mighty kindly, and after discourse with us
      in general left us to our business, and he to his officers, having called
      a council of wary, we in the meantime settling of papers with Mr. Pierce
      and everybody else, and by and by with Captain Cuttance. Anon called down
      to my Lord, and there with him till supper talking and discourse; among
      other things, to my great joy, he did assure me that he had wrote to the
      King and Duke about these prize-goods, and told me that they did approve
      of what he had done, and that he would owne what he had done, and would
      have me to tell all the world so, and did, under his hand, give Cocke and
      me his certificate of our bargains, and giving us full power of disposal
      of what we have so bought. This do ease my mind of all my fear, and makes
      my heart lighter by L100 than it was before. He did discourse to us of the
      Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the
      Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with
      masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough. He
      discoursed against them that would have us yield to no conditions but
      conquest over the Dutch, and seems to believe that the Dutch will call for
      the protection of the King of France and come under his power, which were
      to be wished they might be brought to do under ours by fair means, and to
      that end would have all Dutch men and familys, that would come hither and
      settled, to be declared denizens; and my Lord did whisper to me alone that
      things here must break in pieces, nobody minding any thing, but every man
      his owne business of profit or pleasure, and the King some little designs
      of his owne, and that certainly the kingdom could not stand in this
      condition long, which I fear and believe is very true. So to supper and
      there my Lord the kindest man to me, before all the table talking of me to
      my advantage and with tenderness too that it overjoyed me. So after supper
      Captain Cocke and I and Temple on board the Bezan, and there to cards for
      a while and then to read again in "Rhodes" and so to sleep. But, Lord! the
      mirth which it caused me to be waked in the night by their snoaring round
      about me; I did laugh till I was ready to burst, and waked one of the two
      companions of Temple, who could not a good while tell where he was that he
      heard one laugh so, till he recollected himself, and I told him what it
      was at, and so to sleep again, they still snoaring.
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    <p>
      2nd. We having sailed all night (and I do wonder how they in the dark
      could find the way) we got by morning to Gillingham, and thence all walked
      to Chatham; and there with Commissioner Pett viewed the Yard; and among
      other things, a teame of four horses come close by us, he being with me,
      drawing a piece of timber that I am confident one man could easily have
      carried upon his back. I made the horses be taken away, and a man or two
      to take the timber away with their hands. This the Commissioner did see,
      but said nothing, but I think had cause to be ashamed of. We walked, he
      and I and Cocke, to the Hill-house, where we find Sir W. Pen in bed and
      there much talke and much dissembling of kindnesse from him, but he is a
      false rogue, and I shall not trust him, but my being there did procure his
      consent to have his silk carried away before the money received, which he
      would not have done for Cocke I am sure. Thence to Rochester, walked to
      the Crowne, and while dinner was getting ready, I did there walk to visit
      the old Castle ruines, which hath been a noble place, and there going up I
      did upon the stairs overtake three pretty mayds or women and took them up
      with me, and I did 'baiser sur mouches et toucher leur mains' and necks to
      my great pleasure: but, Lord! to see what a dreadfull thing it is to look
      down the precipices, for it did fright me mightily, and hinder me of much
      pleasure which I would have made to myself in the company of these three,
      if it had not been for that. The place hath been very noble and great and
      strong in former ages. So to walk up and down the Cathedral, and thence to
      the Crowne, whither Mr. Fowler, the Mayor of the towne, was come in his
      gowne, and is a very reverend magistrate. After I had eat a bit, not
      staying to eat with them, I went away, and so took horses and to
      Gravesend, and there staid not, but got a boat, the sicknesse being very
      much in the towne still, and so called on board my Lord Bruncker and Sir
      John Minnes, on board one of the East Indiamen at Erith, and there do find
      them full of envious complaints for the pillageing of the ships, but I did
      pacify them, and discoursed about making money of some of the goods, and
      do hope to be the better by it honestly. So took leave (Madam Williams
      being here also with my Lord), and about 8 o'clock got to Woolwich and
      there supped and mighty pleasant with my wife, who is, for ought I see,
      all friends with her mayds, and so in great joy and content to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and to my great content visited betimes by Mr. Woolly, my uncle
      Wight's cozen, who comes to see what work I have for him about these East
      India goods, and I do find that this fellow might have been of great use,
      and hereafter may be of very great use to me, in this trade of prize
      goods, and glad I am fully of his coming hither. While I dressed myself,
      and afterwards in walking to Greenwich we did discourse over all the
      business of the prize goods, and he puts me in hopes I may get some money
      in what I have done, but not so much as I expected, but that I may
      hereafter do more. We have laid a design of getting more, and are to talk
      again of it a few days hence. To the office, where nobody to meet me, Sir
      W. Batten being the only man and he gone this day to meet to adjourne the
      Parliament to Oxford. Anon by appointment comes one to tell me my Lord
      Rutherford is come; so I to the King's Head to him, where I find his lady,
      a fine young Scotch lady, pretty handsome and plain. My wife also, and
      Mercer, by and by comes, Creed bringing them; and so presently to dinner
      and very merry; and after to even our accounts, and I to give him tallys,
      where he do allow me L100, of which to my grief the rogue Creed has
      trepanned me out of L50. But I do foresee a way how it may be I may get a
      greater sum of my Lord to his content by getting him allowance of interest
      upon his tallys. That being done, and some musique and other diversions,
      at last away goes my Lord and Lady, and I sent my wife to visit Mrs.
      Pierce, and so I to my office, where wrote important letters to the Court,
      and at night (Creed having clownishly left my wife), I to Mrs. Pierces and
      brought her and Mrs. Pierce to the King's Head and there spent a piece
      upon a supper for her and mighty merry and pretty discourse, she being as
      pretty as ever, most of our mirth being upon "my Cozen" (meaning my Lord
      Bruncker's ugly mistress, whom he calls cozen), and to my trouble she
      tells me that the fine Mrs. Middleton is noted for carrying about her body
      a continued sour base smell, that is very offensive, especially if she be
      a little hot. Here some bad musique to close the night and so away and all
      of us saw Mrs. Belle Pierce (as pretty as ever she was almost) home, and
      so walked to Will's lodging where I used to lie, and there made shift for
      a bed for Mercer, and mighty pleasantly to bed. This night I hear that of
      our two watermen that use to carry our letters, and were well on Saturday
      last, one is dead, and the other dying sick of the plague. The plague,
      though decreasing elsewhere, yet being greater about the Tower and
      thereabouts.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up and to my office, where Mr. Andrews comes, and reckoning with him
      I get L64 of him. By and by comes Mr. Gawden, and reckoning with him he
      gives me L60 in his account, which is a great mercy to me. Then both of
      them met and discoursed the business of the first man's resigning and the
      other's taking up the business of the victualling of Tangier, and I do not
      think that I shall be able to do as well under Mr. Gawden as under these
      men, or within a little as to profit and less care upon me. Thence to the
      King's Head to dinner, where we three and Creed and my wife and her woman
      dined mighty merry and sat long talking, and so in the afternoon broke up,
      and I led my wife to our lodging again, and I to the office where did much
      business, and so to my wife. This night comes Sir George Smith to see me
      at the office, and tells me how the plague is decreased this week 740, for
      which God be praised! but that it encreases at our end of the town still,
      and says how all the towne is full of Captain Cocke's being in some ill
      condition about prize-goods, his goods being taken from him, and I know
      not what. But though this troubles me to have it said, and that it is
      likely to be a business in Parliament, yet I am not much concerned at it,
      because yet I believe this newes is all false, for he would have wrote to
      me sure about it. Being come to my wife, at our lodging, I did go to bed,
      and left my wife with her people to laugh and dance and I to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Lay long in bed talking among other things of my sister Pall, and my
      wife of herself is very willing that I should give her L400 to her
      portion, and would have her married soon as we could; but this great
      sicknesse time do make it unfit to send for her up. I abroad to the office
      and thence to the Duke of Albemarle, all my way reading a book of Mr.
      Evelyn's translating and sending me as a present, about directions for
      gathering a Library;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Instructions concerning erecting of a Library, presented to my
     Lord the President De Mesme by Gilbert Naudeus, and now interpreted
     by Jo.  Evelyn, Esquire.  London, 1661: This little book was
     dedicated to Lord Clarendon by the translator.  It was printed while
     Evelyn was abroad, and is full of typographical errors; these are
     corrected in a copy mentioned in Evelyn's "Miscellaneous Writings,"
     1825, p.  xii, where a letter to Dr. Godolphin on the subject is
     printed.]
</pre>
    <p>
      but the book is above my reach, but his epistle to my Lord Chancellor is a
      very fine piece. When I come to the Duke it was about the victuallers'
      business, to put it into other hands, or more hands, which I do advise in,
      but I hope to do myself a jobb of work in it. So I walked through
      Westminster to my old house the Swan, and there did pass some time with
      Sarah, and so down by water to Deptford and there to my Valentine.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
          [A Mrs. Bagwell.  See ante, February 14th, 1664-65]
</pre>
    <p>
      Round about and next door on every side is the plague, but I did not value
      it, but there did what I would 'con elle', and so away to Mr. Evelyn's to
      discourse of our confounded business of prisoners, and sick and wounded
      seamen, wherein he and we are so much put out of order.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Each of the Commissioners for the Sick and Wounded was appointed to
     a particular district, and Evelyn's district was Kent and Sussex.
     On September 25th, 1665, Evelyn wrote in his Diary: "My Lord Admiral
     being come from ye fleete to Greenewich, I went thence with him to
     ye Cockpit to consult with the Duke of Albemarle.  I was peremptory
     that unlesse we had L10,000 immediately, the prisoners would starve,
     and 'twas proposed it should be rais'd out of the E. India prizes
     now taken by Lord Sandwich.  They being but two of ye Commission,
     and so not impower'd to determine, sent an expresse to his Majesty
     and Council to know what they should do."]
</pre>
    <p>
      And here he showed me his gardens, which are for variety of evergreens,
      and hedge of holly, the finest things I ever saw in my life.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Evelyn purchased Sayes Court, Deptford, in 1653, and laid out his
     gardens, walks, groves, enclosures, and plantations, which
     afterwards became famous for their beauty.  When he took the place
     in hand it was nothing but an open field of one hundred acres, with
     scarcely a hedge in it.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence in his coach to Greenwich, and there to my office, all the way
      having fine discourse of trees and the nature of vegetables. And so to
      write letters, I very late to Sir W. Coventry of great concernment, and so
      to my last night's lodging, but my wife is gone home to Woolwich. The
      Bill, blessed be God! is less this week by 740 of what it was the last
      week. Being come to my lodging I got something to eat, having eat little
      all the day, and so to bed, having this night renewed my promises of
      observing my vowes as I used to do; for I find that, since I left them
      off, my mind is run a'wool-gathering and my business neglected.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and having sent for Mr. Gawden he come to me, and he and I
      largely discoursed the business of his Victualling, in order to the adding
      of partners to him or other ways of altering it, wherein I find him ready
      to do anything the King would have him do. So he and I took his coach and
      to Lambeth and to the Duke of Albemarle about it, and so back again, where
      he left me. In our way discoursing of the business and contracting a great
      friendship with him, and I find he is a man most worthy to be made a
      friend, being very honest and gratefull, and in the freedom of our
      discourse he did tell me his opinion and knowledge of Sir W. Pen to be,
      what I know him to be, as false a man as ever was born, for so, it seems,
      he hath been to him. He did also tell me, discoursing how things are
      governed as to the King's treasure, that, having occasion for money in the
      country, he did offer Alderman Maynell to pay him down money here, to be
      paid by the Receiver in some county in the country, upon whom Maynell had
      assignments, in whose hands the money also lay ready. But Maynell refused
      it, saying that he could have his money when he would, and had rather it
      should lie where it do than receive it here in towne this sickly time,
      where he hath no occasion for it. But now the evil is that he hath lent
      this money upon tallys which are become payable, but he finds that nobody
      looks after it, how long the money is unpaid, and whether it lies dead in
      the Receiver's hands or no, so the King he pays Maynell 10 per cent. while
      the money lies in his Receiver's hands to no purpose but the benefit of
      the Receiver. I to dinner to the King's Head with Mr. Woolly, who is come
      to instruct me in the business of my goods, but gives me not so good
      comfort as I thought I should have had. But, however, it will be well
      worth my time though not above 2 or L300. He gone I to my office, where
      very busy drawing up a letter by way of discourse to the Duke of Albemarle
      about my conception how the business of the Victualling should be ordered,
      wherein I have taken great pains, and I think have hitt the right if they
      will but follow it. At this very late and so home to our lodgings to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up and to the office along with Mr. Childe, whom I sent for to
      discourse about the victualling business, who will not come into
      partnership (no more will Captain Beckford ), but I do find him a mighty
      understanding man, and one I will keep a knowledge of. Did business,
      though not much, at the office; because of the horrible crowd and
      lamentable moan of the poor seamen that lie starving in the streets for
      lack of money. Which do trouble and perplex me to the heart; and more at
      noon when we were to go through them, for then a whole hundred of them
      followed us; some cursing, some swearing, and some praying to us. And that
      that made me more troubled was a letter come this afternoon from the Duke
      of Albemarle, signifying the Dutch to be in sight, with 80 sayle,
      yesterday morning, off of Solebay, coming right into the bay. God knows
      what they will and may do to us, we having no force abroad able to oppose
      them, but to be sacrificed to them. Here come Sir W. Rider to me, whom I
      sent for about the victualling business also, but he neither will not come
      into partnership, but desires to be of the Commission if there be one.
      Thence back the back way to my office, where very late, very busy. But
      most of all when at night come two waggons from Rochester with more goods
      from Captain Cocke; and in houseing them at Mr. Tooker's lodgings come two
      of the Custome-house to seize them, and did seize them but I showed them
      my 'Transire'. However, after some hot and angry words, we locked them up,
      and sealed up the key, and did give it to the constable to keep till
      Monday, and so parted. But, Lord! to think how the poor constable come to
      me in the dark going home; "Sir," says he, "I have the key, and if you
      would have me do any service for you, send for me betimes to-morrow
      morning, and I will do what you would have me." Whether the fellow do this
      out of kindness or knavery, I cannot tell; but it is pretty to observe.
      Talking with him in the high way, come close by the bearers with a dead
      corpse of the plague; but, Lord! to see what custom is, that I am come
      almost to think nothing of it. So to my lodging, and there, with Mr. Hater
      and Will, ending a business of the state of the last six months' charge of
      the Navy, which we bring to L1,000,000 and above, and I think we do not
      enlarge much in it if anything. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). Up and, after being trimmed, to the office, whither I
      upon a letter from the Duke of Albemarle to me, to order as many ships
      forth out of the river as I can presently, to joyne to meet the Dutch;
      having ordered all the Captains of the ships in the river to come to me, I
      did some business with them, and so to Captain Cocke's to dinner, he being
      in the country. But here his brother Solomon was, and, for guests, myself,
      Sir G. Smith, and a very fine lady, one Mrs. Penington, and two more
      gentlemen. But, both [before] and after dinner, most witty discourse with
      this lady, who is a very fine witty lady, one of the best I ever heard
      speake, and indifferent handsome. There after dinner an houre or two, and
      so to the office, where ended my business with the Captains; and I think
      of twenty-two ships we shall make shift to get out seven. (God helpe us!
      men being sick, or provisions lacking.) And so to write letters to Sir Ph.
      Warwicke, Sir W. Coventry, and Sir G. Carteret to Court about the last six
      months' accounts, and sent away by an express to-night. This day I hear
      the Pope is dead;&mdash;[a false report]&mdash;and one said, that the
      newes is, that the King of France is stabbed, but that the former is very
      true, which will do great things sure, as to the troubling of that part of
      the world, the King of Spayne
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Philip IV., King of Spain, who succeeded to the throne in 1621,
     died in 1665.  He was succeeded by his son Charles II.]
</pre>
    <p>
      being so lately dead. And one thing more, Sir Martin Noell's lady is dead
      with griefe for the death of her husband and nothing else, as they say, in
      the world; but it seems nobody can make anything of his estate, whether he
      be dead worth anything or no, he having dealt in so many things, publique
      and private, as nobody can understand whereabouts his estate is, which is
      the fate of these great dealers at everything. So after my business being
      done I home to my lodging and to bed,
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, my head full of business, and called upon also by Sir John Shaw,
      to whom I did give a civil answer about our prize goods, that all his dues
      as one of the Farmers of the Customes are paid, and showed him our
      Transire; with which he was satisfied, and parted, ordering his servants
      to see the weight of them. I to the office, and there found an order for
      my coming presently to the Duke of Albemarle, and what should it be, but
      to tell me, that, if my Lord Sandwich do not come to towne, he do resolve
      to go with the fleete to sea himself, the Dutch, as he thinks, being in
      the Downes, and so desired me to get a pleasure boat for to take him in
      to-morrow morning, and do many other things, and with a great liking of
      me, and my management especially, as that coxcombe my Lord Craven do tell
      me, and I perceive it, and I am sure take pains enough to deserve it.
      Thence away and to the office at London, where I did some business about
      my money and private accounts, and there eat a bit of goose of Mr.
      Griffin's, and so by water, it raining most miserably, to Greenwich,
      calling on several vessels in my passage. Being come there I hear another
      seizure hath been made of our goods by one Captain Fisher that hath been
      at Chatham by warrant of the Duke of Albemarle, and is come in my absence
      to Tooker's and viewed them, demanding the key of the constable, and so
      sealed up the door. I to the house, but there being no officers nor
      constable could do nothing, but back to my office full of trouble about
      this, and there late about business, vexed to see myself fall into this
      trouble and concernment in a thing that I want instruction from my Lord
      Sandwich whether I should appear in it or no, and so home to bed, having
      spent two hours, I and my boy, at Mr. Glanvill's removing of faggots to
      make room to remove our goods to, but when done I thought it not fit to
      use it. The newes of the killing of the [King of] France is wholly untrue,
      and they say that of the Pope too.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and receive a stop from the Duke of Albemarle of setting out any
      more ships, or providing a pleasure boat for himself, which I am glad of,
      and do see, what I thought yesterday, that this resolution of his was a
      sudden one and silly. By and by comes Captain Cocke's Jacob to tell me
      that he is come from Chatham this morning, and that there are four waggons
      of goods at hand coming to towne, which troubles me. I directed him to
      bring them to his master's house. But before I could send him away to
      bring them thither, newes is brought me that they are seized on in the
      towne by this Captain Fisher and they will carry them to another place. So
      I to them and found our four waggons in the streete stopped by the church
      by this Fisher and company and 100 or 200 people in the streetes gazing. I
      did give them good words, and made modest desires of carrying the goods to
      Captain Cocke's, but they would have them to a house of their hiring,
      where in a barne the goods were laid. I had transires to show for all, and
      the tale was right, and there I spent all the morning seeing this done. At
      which Fisher was vexed that I would not let it be done by any body else
      for the merchant, and that I must needs be concerned therein, which I did
      not think fit to owne. So that being done, I left the goods to be watched
      by men on their part and ours, and so to the office by noon, whither by
      and by comes Captain Cocke, whom I had with great care sent for by
      expresse the last night, and so I with him to his house and there eat a
      bit, and so by coach to Lambeth, and I took occasion first to go to the
      Duke of Albemarle to acquaint him with some thing of what had been done
      this morning in behalf of a friend absent, which did give a good entrance
      and prevented their possessing the Duke with anything of evil of me by
      their report, and by and by in comes. Captain Cocke and tells his whole
      story. So an order was made for the putting him in possession upon giving
      security to, be accountable for the goods, which for the present did
      satisfy us, and so away, giving Locke that drew the order a piece. (Lord!
      to see how unhappily a man may fall into a necessity of bribing people to
      do him right in a thing, wherein he hath done nothing but fair, and bought
      dear.) So to the office, there to write my letters, and Cocke comes to
      tell me that Fisher is come to him, and that he doubts not to cajole
      Fisher and his companion and make them friends with drink and a bribe.
      This night comes Sir Christopher Mings to towne, and I went to see him,
      and by and by he being then out of the town comes to see me. He is newly
      come from Court, and carries direction for the making a show of getting
      out the fleete again to go fight the Dutch, but that it will end in a
      fleete of 20 good sayling frigates to go to the Northward or Southward,
      and that will be all. I enquired, but he would not be to know that he had
      heard any thing at Oxford about the business of the prize goods, which I
      did suspect, but he being gone, anon comes Cocke and tells me that he hath
      been with him a great while, and that he finds him sullen and speaking
      very high what disrespect he had received of my Lord, saying that he hath
      walked 3 or 4 hours together at that Earle's cabbin door for audience and
      could not be received, which, if true, I am sorry for. He tells me that
      Sir G. Ascue says, that he did from the beginning declare against these
      [prize] goods, and would not receive his dividend; and that he and Sir W.
      Pen are at odds about it, and that he fears Mings hath been doing ill
      offices to my Lord. I did to-night give my Lord an account of all this,
      and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and so in my chamber staid all the morning doing something
      toward my Tangier accounts, for the stating of them, and also comes up my
      landlady, Mrs. Clerke, to make an agreement for the time to come; and I,
      for the having room enough, and to keepe out strangers, and to have a
      place to retreat to for my wife, if the sicknesse should come to Woolwich,
      am contented to pay dear; so for three rooms and a dining-room, and for
      linen and bread and beer and butter, at nights and mornings, I am to give
      her L5 10s. per month, and I wrote and we signed to an agreement. By and
      by comes Cocke to tell me that Fisher and his fellow were last night
      mightily satisfied and promised all friendship, but this morning he finds
      them to have new tricks and shall be troubled with them. So he being to go
      down to Erith with them this afternoon about giving security, I advised
      him to let them go by land, and so he and I (having eat something at his
      house) by water to Erith, but they got thither before us, and there we met
      Mr. Seymour, one of the Commissioners for Prizes, and a Parliament-man,
      and he was mighty high, and had now seized our goods on their behalf; and
      he mighty imperiously would have all forfeited, and I know not what. I
      thought I was in the right in a thing I said and spoke somewhat earnestly,
      so we took up one another very smartly, for which I was sorry afterwards,
      shewing thereby myself too much concerned, but nothing passed that I
      valued at all. But I could not but think [it odd] that a Parliament-man,
      in a serious discourse before such persons as we and my Lord Bruncker, and
      Sir John Minnes, should quote Hudibras, as being the book I doubt he hath
      read most. They I doubt will stand hard for high security, and Cocke would
      have had me bound with him for his appearing, but I did stagger at it,
      besides Seymour do stop the doing it at all till he has been with the Duke
      of Albemarle. So there will be another demurre. It growing late, and I
      having something to do at home, took my leave alone, leaving Cocke there
      for all night, and so against tide and in the darke and very cold weather
      to Woolwich, where we had appointed to keepe the night merrily; and so, by
      Captain Cocke's coach, had brought a very pretty child, a daughter of one
      Mrs. Tooker's, next door to my lodging, and so she, and a daughter and
      kinsman of Mrs. Pett's made up a fine company at my lodgings at Woolwich,
      where my wife and Mercer, and Mrs. Barbara danced, and mighty merry we
      were, but especially at Mercer's dancing a jigg, which she does the best I
      ever did see, having the most natural way of it, and keeps time the most
      perfectly I ever did see. This night is kept in lieu of yesterday, for my
      wedding day of ten years; for which God be praised! being now in an
      extreme good condition of health and estate and honour, and a way of
      getting more money, though at this houre under some discomposure, rather
      than damage, about some prize goods that I have bought off the fleete, in
      partnership with Captain Cocke; and for the discourse about the world
      concerning my Lord Sandwich, that he hath done a thing so bad; and indeed
      it must needs have been a very rash act; and the rather because of a
      Parliament now newly met to give money, and will have some account of what
      hath already been spent, besides the precedent for a General to take what
      prizes he pleases, and the giving a pretence to take away much more than
      he intended, and all will lie upon him; and not giving to all the
      Commanders, as well as the Flaggs, he displeases all them, and offends
      even some of them, thinking others to be better served than themselves;
      and lastly, puts himself out of a power of begging anything again a great
      while of the King. Having danced with my people as long as I saw fit to
      sit up, I to bed and left them to do what they would. I forgot that we had
      W. Hewer there, and Tom, and Golding, my barber at Greenwich, for our
      fiddler, to whom I did give 10s.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Called up before day, and so I dressed myself and down, it being
      horrid cold, by water to my Lord Bruncker's ship, who advised me to do so,
      and it was civilly to show me what the King had commanded about the
      prize-goods, to examine most severely all that had been done in the taking
      out any with or without order, without respect to my Lord Sandwich at all,
      and that he had been doing of it, and find him examining one man, and I do
      find that extreme ill use was made of my Lord's order. For they did toss
      and tumble and spoil, and breake things in hold to a great losse and shame
      to come at the fine goods, and did take a man that knows where the fine
      goods were, and did this over and over again for many days, Sir W.
      Berkeley being the chief hand that did it, but others did the like at
      other times, and they did say in doing it that my Lord Sandwich's back was
      broad enough to bear it. Having learned as much as I could, which was,
      that the King and Duke were very severe in this point, whatever order they
      before had given my Lord in approbation of what he had done, and that all
      will come out and the King see, by the entries at the Custome House, what
      all do amount to that had been taken, and so I took leave, and by water,
      very cold, and to Woolwich where it was now noon, and so I staid dinner
      and talking part of the afternoon, and then by coach, Captain Cocke's, to
      Greenwich, taking the young lady home, and so to Cocke, and he tells me
      that he hath cajolled with Seymour, who will be our friend; but that,
      above all, Seymour tells him, that my Lord Duke did shew him to-day an
      order from Court, for having all respect paid to the Earle of Sandwich,
      and what goods had been delivered by his order, which do overjoy us, and
      that to-morrow our goods shall be weighed, and he doubts not possession
      to-morrow or next day. Being overjoyed at this I to write my letters, and
      at it very late. Good newes this week that there are about 600 less dead
      of the plague than the last. So home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Lay long, and this morning comes Sir Jer. Smith
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Captain Jeremiah Smith (or Smyth), knighted June, 1665; Admiral of
     the Blue in 1666.  He succeeded Sir William Penn as Comptroller of
     the Victualling Accounts in 1669, and held the office until 1675.]
</pre>
    <p>
      to see me in his way to Court, and a good man he is, and one that I must
      keep fair with, and will, it being I perceive my interest to have
      kindnesse with the Commanders. So to the office, and there very busy till
      about noon comes Sir W. Warren, and he goes and gets a bit of meat ready
      at the King's Head for us, and I by and by thither, and we dined together,
      and I am not pleased with him about a little business of Tangier that I
      put to him to do for me, but however, the hurt is not much, and his other
      matters of profit to me continue very likely to be good. Here we spent
      till 2 o'clock, and so I set him on shore, and I by water to the Duke of
      Albemarle, where I find him with Lord Craven and Lieutenant of the Tower
      about him; among other things, talking of ships to get of the King to
      fetch coles for the poore of the city, which is a good worke. But, Lord!
      to hear the silly talke between these three great people! Yet I have no
      reason to find fault, the Duke and Lord Craven being my very great
      friends. Here did the business I come about, and so back home by water,
      and there Cocke comes to me and tells me that he is come to an
      understanding with Fisher, and that he must give him L100, and that he
      shall have his goods in possession to-morrow, they being all weighed
      to-day, which pleases me very well. This day the Duke tells me that there
      is no news heard of the Dutch, what they do or where they are, but
      believes that they are all gone home, for none of our spyes can give us
      any tideings of them. Cocke is fain to keep these people, Fisher and his
      fellow, company night and day to keep them friends almost and great
      troubles withal. My head is full of settling the victualling business
      also, that I may make some profit out of it, which I hope justly to do to
      the King's advantage. To-night come Sir J. Bankes to me upon my letter to
      discourse it with him, and he did give me the advice I have taken almost
      as fully as if I had been directed by him what to write. The business also
      of my Tangier accounts to be sent to Court is upon my hands in great
      haste; besides, all my owne proper accounts are in great disorder, having
      been neglected now above a month, which grieves me, but it could not be
      settled sooner. These together and the feare of the sicknesse and
      providing for my family do fill my head very full, besides the infinite
      business of the office, and nobody here to look after it but myself. So
      late from my office to my lodgings, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and to the office, where mighty busy, especially with Mr.
      Gawden, with whom I shall, I think, have much to do, and by and by comes
      the Lieutenant of the Tower by my invitation yesterday, but I had got
      nothing for him, it is to discourse about the Cole shipps. So he went away
      to Sheriffe Hooker's, and I staid at the office till he sent for me at
      noon to dinner, I very hungry. When I come to the Sheriffe's he was not
      there, nor in many other places, nor could find him at all, so was forced
      to come to the office and get a bit of meat from the taverne, and so to my
      business. By and by comes the Lieutenant and reproaches me with my not
      treating him as I ought, but all in jest, he it seemed dined with Mr.
      Adrian May. Very late writing letters at the office, and much satisfied to
      hear from Captain Cocke that he had got possession of some of his goods to
      his own house, and expected to have all to-night. The towne, I hear, is
      full of talke that there are great differences in the fleete among the
      great Commanders, and that Mings at Oxford did impeach my Lord of
      something, I think about these goods, but this is but talke. But my heart
      and head to-night is full of the Victualling business, being overjoyed and
      proud at my success in my proposal about it, it being read before the
      King, Duke, and the Caball with complete applause and satisfaction. This
      Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Coventry both writ me, besides Sir W.
      Coventry's letter to the Duke of Albemarle, which I read yesterday, and I
      hope to find my profit in it also. So late home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). Up, and while I staid for the barber, tried to compose
      a duo of counterpoint, and I think it will do very well, it being by Mr.
      Berckenshaw's rule. By and by by appointment comes Mr. Povy's coach, and,
      more than I expected, him himself, to fetch me to Brainford: so he and I
      immediately set out, having drunk a draft of mulled sacke; and so rode
      most nobly, in his most pretty and best contrived charriott in the world,
      with many new conveniences, his never having till now, within a day or
      two, been yet finished; our discourse upon Tangier business, want of
      money, and then of publique miscarriages, nobody minding the publique, but
      every body himself and his lusts. Anon we come to his house, and there I
      eat a bit, and so with fresh horses, his noble fine horses, the best
      confessedly in England, the King having none such, he sent me to Sir
      Robert Viner's, whom I met coming just from church, and so after having
      spent half-an-hour almost looking upon the horses with some gentlemen that
      were in company, he and I into his garden to discourse of money, but none
      is to be had, he confessing himself in great straits, and I believe it.
      Having this answer, and that I could not get better, we fell to publique
      talke, and to think how the fleete and seamen will be paid, which he
      protests he do not think it possible to compass, as the world is now: no
      money got by trade, nor the persons that have it by them in the City to be
      come at. The Parliament, it seems, have voted the King L1,250,000 at
      L50,000 per month, tax for the war; and voted to assist the King against
      the Dutch, and all that shall adhere to them; and thanks to be given him
      for his care of the Duke of Yorke, which last is a very popular vote on
      the Duke's behalf. He tells me how the taxes of the last assessment, which
      should have been in good part gathered, are not yet laid, and that even in
      part of the City of London; and the Chimny-money comes almost to nothing,
      nor any thing else looked after. Having done this I parted, my mind not
      eased by any money, but only that I had done my part to the King's
      service. And so in a very pleasant evening back to Mr. Povy's, and there
      supped, and after supper to talke and to sing, his man Dutton's wife
      singing very pleasantly (a mighty fat woman), and I wrote out one song
      from her and pricked the tune, both very pretty. But I did never heare one
      sing with so much pleasure to herself as this lady do, relishing it to her
      very heart, which was mighty pleasant.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up about seven o'clock; and, after drinking, and I observing Mr.
      Povy's being mightily mortifyed in his eating and drinking, and coaches
      and horses, he desiring to sell his best, and every thing else, his
      furniture of his house, he walked with me to Syon,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sion House, granted by Edward VI. to his uncle, the Duke of
     Somerset.  After his execution, 1552, it was forfeited, and given to
     John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.  The duke being beheaded in
     1553, it reverted to the Crown, and was granted in 1604 to Henry
     Percy, Earl of Northumberland.  It still belongs to the Duke of
     Northumberland.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and there I took water, in our way he discoursing of the wantonnesse of
      the Court, and how it minds nothing else, and I saying that that would
      leave the King shortly if he did not leave it, he told me "No," for the
      King do spend most of his time in feeling and kissing them naked... But
      this lechery will never leave him. Here I took boat (leaving him there)
      and down to the Tower, where I hear the Duke of Albemarle is, and I to
      Lumbard Streete, but can get no money. So upon the Exchange, which is very
      empty, God knows! and but mean people there. The newes for certain that
      the Dutch are come with their fleete before Margett, and some men were
      endeavouring to come on shore when the post come away, perhaps to steal
      some sheep. But, Lord! how Colvill talks of the businesse of publique
      revenue like a madman, and yet I doubt all true; that nobody minds it, but
      that the King and Kingdom must speedily be undone, and rails at my Lord
      about the prizes, but I think knows not my relation to him. Here I
      endeavoured to satisfy all I could, people about Bills of Exchange from
      Tangier, but it is only with good words, for money I have not, nor can
      get. God knows what will become of all the King's matters in a little
      time, for he runs in debt every day, and nothing to pay them looked after.
      Thence I walked to the Tower; but, Lord! how empty the streets are and
      melancholy, so many poor sick people in the streets full of sores; and so
      many sad stories overheard as I walk, every body talking of this dead, and
      that man sick, and so many in this place, and so many in that. And they
      tell me that, in Westminster, there is never a physician and but one
      apothecary left, all being dead; but that there are great hopes of a great
      decrease this week: God send it! At the Tower found my Lord Duke and
      Duchesse at dinner; so I sat down. And much good cheer, the Lieutenant and
      his lady, and several officers with the Duke. But, Lord! to hear the silly
      talk that was there, would make one mad; the Duke having none almost but
      fools about him. Much of their talke about the Dutch coming on shore,
      which they believe they may some of them have been and steal sheep, and
      speak all in reproach of them in whose hands the fleete is; but, Lord
      helpe him, there is something will hinder him and all the world in going
      to sea, which is want of victuals; for we have not wherewith to answer our
      service; and how much better it would have been if the Duke's advice had
      been taken for the fleete to have gone presently out; but, God helpe the
      King! while no better counsels are given, and what is given no better
      taken. Thence after dinner receiving many commands from the Duke, I to our
      office on the Hill, and there did a little business and to Colvill's
      again, and so took water at the Tower, and there met with Captain Cocke,
      and he down with me to Greenwich, I having received letters from my Lord
      Sandwich to-day, speaking very high about the prize goods, that he would
      have us to fear nobody, but be very confident in what we have done, and
      not to confess any fault or doubt of what he hath done; for the King hath
      allowed it, and do now confirm it, and sent orders, as he says, for
      nothing to be disturbed that his Lordshipp hath ordered therein as to the
      division of the goods to the fleete; which do comfort us, but my Lord
      writes to me that both he and I may hence learn by what we see in this
      business. But that which pleases me best is that Cocke tells me that he
      now understands that Fisher was set on in this business by the design of
      some of the Duke of Albemarle's people, Warcupp and others, who lent him
      money to set him out in it, and he has spent high. Who now curse him for a
      rogue to take L100 when he might have had as well L1,500, and they are
      mightily fallen out about it. Which in due time shall be discovered, but
      that now that troubles me afresh is, after I am got to the office at
      Greenwich that some new troubles are come, and Captain Cocke's house is
      beset before and behind with guards, and more, I do fear they may come to
      my office here to search for Cocke's goods and find some small things of
      my clerk's. So I assisted them in helping to remove their small trade, but
      by and by I am told that it is only the Custome House men who came to
      seize the things that did lie at Mr. Glanville's, for which they did never
      yet see our Transire, nor did know of them till to-day. So that my fear is
      now over, for a transire is ready for them. Cocke did get a great many of
      his goods to London to-day. To the Still Yarde, which place, however, is
      now shut up of the plague; but I was there, and we now make no bones of
      it. Much talke there is of the Chancellor's speech and the King's at the
      Parliament's meeting, which are very well liked; and that we shall
      certainly, by their speeches, fall out with France at this time, together
      with the Dutch, which will find us work. Late at the office entering my
      Journall for 8 days past, the greatness of my business hindering me of
      late to put it down daily, but I have done it now very true and
      particularly, and hereafter will, I hope, be able to fall into my old way
      of doing it daily. So to my lodging, and there had a good pullet to my
      supper, and so to bed, it being very cold again, God be thanked for it!
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and all day long busy at the office, mighty busy, only stepped
      to my lodging and had a fowl for my dinner, and at night my wife and
      Mercer comes to me, which troubled me a little because I am to be mighty
      busy to-morrow all day seriously about my accounts. So late from my office
      to her, and supped, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and after some pleasant discourse with my wife (though my head
      full of business) I out and left her to go home, and myself to the office,
      and thence by water to the Duke of Albemarle's, and so back again and find
      my wife gone. So to my chamber at my lodgings, and to the making of my
      accounts up of Tangier, which I did with great difficulty, finding the
      difference between short and long reckonings where I have had occasion to
      mix my moneys, as I have of late done my Tangier treasure upon other
      occasions, and other moneys upon that. However, I was at it late and did
      it pretty perfectly, and so, after eating something, to bed, my mind eased
      of a great deal of figures and castings.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to my accounts again, and stated them very clear and fair,
      and at noon dined at my lodgings with Mr. Hater and W. Hewer at table with
      me, I being come to an agreement yesterday with my landlady for L6 per
      month, for so many rooms for myself, them, and my wife and mayde, when she
      shall come, and to pay besides for my dyett. After dinner I did give them
      my accounts and letters to write against I went to the Duke of Albemarle's
      this evening, which I did; and among other things, spoke to him for my
      wife's brother, Balty, to be of his guard, which he kindly answered that
      he should. My business of the Victualling goes on as I would have it; and
      now my head is full how to make some profit of it to myself or people. To
      that end, when I came home, I wrote a letter to Mr. Coventry, offering
      myself to be the Surveyor Generall, and am apt to think he will assist me
      in it, but I do not set my heart much on it, though it would be a good
      helpe. So back to my office, and there till past one before I could get
      all these letters and papers copied out, which vexed me, but so sent them
      away without hopes of saving the post, and so to my lodging to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and had my last night's letters brought back to me, which
      troubles me, because of my accounts, lest they should be asked for before
      they come, which I abhorr, being more ready to give than they can be to
      demand them: so I sent away an expresse to Oxford with them, and another
      to Portsmouth, with a copy of my letter to Mr. Coventry about my
      victualling business, for fear he should be gone from Oxford, as he
      intended, thither. So busy all the morning and at noon to Cocke, and dined
      there. He and I alone, vexed that we are not rid of all our trouble about
      our goods, but it is almost over, and in the afternoon to my lodging, and
      there spent the whole afternoon and evening with Mr. Hater, discoursing of
      the business of the office, where he tells me that among others Thomas
      Willson do now and then seem to hint that I do take too much business upon
      me, more than I can do, and that therefore some do lie undone. This I
      confess to my trouble is true, but it arises from my being forced to take
      so much on me, more than is my proper task to undertake. But for this at
      last I did advise to him to take another clerk if he thinks fit, I will
      take care to have him paid. I discoursed also much with him about persons
      fit to be put into the victualling business, and such as I could spare
      something out of their salaries for them, but without trouble I cannot, I
      see, well do it, because Thomas Willson must have the refusal of the best
      place which is London of L200 per annum, which I did intend for Tooker,
      and to get L50 out of it as a help to Mr. Hater. How[ever], I will try to
      do something of this kind for them. Having done discourse with him late, I
      to enter my Tangier accounts fair, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21 st. Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning, and then with my
      two clerks home to dinner, and so back again to the office, and there very
      late very busy, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd (Lord's day). Up, and after ready and going to Captain Cocke's, where
      I find we are a little further safe in some part of our goods, I to
      Church, in my way was meeting with some letters, which made me resolve to
      go after church to my Lord Duke of Albemarle's, so, after sermon, I took
      Cocke's chariott, and to Lambeth; but, in going and getting over the
      water, and through White Hall, I spent so much time, the Duke had almost
      dined. However, fresh meat was brought for me to his table, and there I
      dined, and full of discourse and very kind. Here they are again talking of
      the prizes, and my Lord Duke did speake very broad that my Lord Sandwich
      and Pen should do what they would, and answer for themselves. For his
      part, he would lay all before the King. Here he tells me the Dutch
      Embassador at Oxford is clapped up, but since I hear it is not true.
      Thence back again, it being evening before I could get home, and there
      Cocke not being within, I and Mr. Salomon to Mr. Glanville's, and there we
      found Cocke and sat and supped, and was mighty merry with only Madam
      Penington, who is a fine, witty lady. Here we spent the evening late with
      great mirth, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and after doing some business I down by water, calling to see my
      wife, with whom very merry for ten minutes, and so to Erith, where my Lord
      Bruncker and I kept the office, and dispatched some business by
      appointment on the Bezan. Among other things about the slopsellers, who
      have trusted us so long, they are not able, nor can be expected to trust
      us further, and I fear this winter the fleete will be undone by that
      particular. Thence on board the East India ship, where my Lord Bruncker
      had provided a great dinner, and thither comes by and by Sir John Minnes
      and before him Sir W. Warren and anon a Perspective glasse maker, of whom
      we, every one, bought a pocket glasse. But I am troubled with the much
      talke and conceitedness of Mrs. Williams and her impudence, in case she be
      not married to my Lord. They are getting themselves ready to deliver the
      goods all out to the East India Company, who are to have the goods in
      their possession and to advance two thirds of the moderate value thereof
      and sell them as well as they can and the King to give them 6 per cent.
      for the use of the money they shall so advance. By this means the company
      will not suffer by the King's goods bringing down the price of their own.
      Thence in the evening back again with Sir W. Warren and Captain Taylor in
      my boat, and the latter went with me to the office, and there he and I
      reckoned; and I perceive I shall get L100 profit by my services of late to
      him, which is a very good thing. Thence to my lodging, where I find my
      Lord Rutherford, of which I was glad. We supped together and sat up late,
      he being a mighty wanton man with a daughter in law of my landlady's, a
      pretty conceited woman big with child, and he would be handling her
      breasts, which she coyly refused. But they gone, my Lord and I to
      business, and he would have me forbear paying Alderman Backewell the money
      ordered him, which I, in hopes to advantage myself, shall forbear, but do
      not think that my Lord will do any thing gratefully more to me than he
      hath done, not that I shall get any thing as I pretended by helping him to
      interest for his last L7700, which I could do, and do him a courtesy too.
      Discourse being done, he to bed in my chamber and I to another in the
      house.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Lay long, having a cold. Then to my Lord and sent him going to
      Oxford, and I to my office, whither comes Sir William Batten now newly
      from Oxford. I can gather nothing from him about my Lord Sandwich about
      the business of the prizes, he being close, but he shewed me a bill which
      hath been read in the House making all breaking of bulke for the time to
      come felony, but it is a foolish Act, and will do no great matter, only is
      calculated to my Lord Sandwich's case. He shewed me also a good letter
      printed from the Bishopp of Munster to the States of Holland shewing the
      state of their case. Here we did some business and so broke up and I to
      Cocke, where Mr. Evelyn was, to dinner, and there merry, yet vexed again
      at publique matters, and to see how little heed is had to the prisoners
      and sicke and wounded. Thence to my office, and no sooner there but to my
      great surprise am told that my Lord Sandwich is come to towne; so I
      presently to Boreman's, where he is and there found him: he mighty kind to
      me, but no opportunity of discourse private yet, which he tells me he must
      have with me; only his business is sudden to go to the fleece, to get out
      a few ships to drive away the Dutch. I left him in discourse with Sir W.
      Batten and others, and myself to the office till about 10 at night and so,
      letters being done, I to him again to Captain Cocke's, where he supped,
      and lies, and never saw him more merry, and here is Charles Herbert, who
      the King hath lately knighted.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This person, erroneously called by Pepys Sir C. Herbert, will be
     best defined by subjoining the inscription on his monument in
     Westminster Abbey: "Sir Charles Harbord, Knight, third son of Sir
     Charles Harbord, Knight, Surveyor-General, and First Lieutenant of
     the Royall James, under the most noble and illustrious Captaine,
     Edward, Earle of Sandwich, Vice-Admirall of England, which, after a
     terrible fight, maintained to admiration against a squadron of the
     Holland fleet, above six hours, neere the Suffolk coast, having put
     off two fireships; at last, being utterly disabled, and few of her
     men remaining unhurt, was, by a third, unfortunately set on fire.
     But he (though he swome well) neglected to save himselfe, as some
     did, and out of perfect love to that worthy Lord, whom, for many
     yeares, he had constantly accompanyed, in all his honourable
     employments, and in all the engagements of the former warre, dyed
     with him, at the age of xxxii., much bewailed by his father, whom he
     never offended; and much beloved by all for his knowne piety,
     vertue, loyalty, fortitude, and fidelity."&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      My Lord, to my great content, did tell me before them, that never anything
      was read to the King and Council, all the chief Ministers of State being
      there, as my letter about the Victualling was, and no more said upon it
      than a most thorough consent to every word was said, and directed, that it
      be pursued and practised. After much mirth, and my Lord having travelled
      all night last night, he to bed, and we all parted, I home.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up and to my Lord Sandwich's, where several Commanders, of whom I
      took the state of all their ships, and of all could find not above four
      capable of going out. The truth is, the want of victuals being the whole
      overthrow of this yeare both at sea, and now at the Nore here and
      Portsmouth, where all the fleete lies. By and by comes down my Lord, and
      then he and I an houre together alone upon private discourse. He tells me
      that Mr. Coventry and he are not reconciled, but declared enemies: the
      only occasion of it being, he tells me, his ill usage from him about the
      first fight, wherein he had no right done him, which, methinks, is a poor
      occasion, for, in my conscience, that was no design of Coventry's. But,
      however, when I asked my Lord whether it were not best, though with some
      condescension, to be friends with him, he told me it was not possible, and
      so I stopped. He tells me, as very private, that there are great factions
      at the Court between the King's party and the Duke of Yorke's, and that
      the King, which is a strange difficulty, do favour my Lord in opposition
      to the Duke's party; that my Lord Chancellor, being, to be sure, the
      patron of the Duke's, it is a mystery whence it should be that Mr.
      Coventry is looked upon by him [Clarendon] as an enemy to him; that if he
      had a mind himself to be out of this employment, as Mr. Coventry, he
      believes, wishes, and himself and I do incline to wish it also, in many
      respects, yet he believes he shall not be able, because of the King, who
      will keepe him in on purpose, in opposition to the other party; that
      Prince Rupert and he are all possible friends in the world; that Coventry
      hath aggravated this business of the prizes, though never so great
      plundering in the world as while the Duke and he were at sea; and in Sir
      John Lawson's time he could take and pillage, and then sink a whole ship
      in the Streights, and Coventry say nothing to it; that my Lord Arlington
      is his fast friend; that the Chancellor is cold to him, and though I told
      him that I and the world do take my Lord Chancellor, in his speech the
      other day, to have said as much as could be wished, yet he thinks he did
      not. That my Lord Chancellor do from hence begin to be cold to him,
      because of his seeing him and Arlington so great: that nothing at Court is
      minded but faction and pleasure, and nothing intended of general good to
      the kingdom by anybody heartily; so that he believes with me, in a little
      time confusion will certainly come over all the nation. He told me how a
      design was carried on a while ago, for the Duke of Yorke to raise an army
      in the North, and to be the Generall of it, and all this without the
      knowledge or advice of the Duke of Albemarle, which when he come to know,
      he was so vexed, they were fain to let it fall to content him: that his
      matching with the family of Sir G. Carteret do make the difference greater
      between Coventry and him, they being enemies; that the Chancellor did, as
      every body else, speak well of me the other day, but yet was, at the
      Committee for Tangier, angry that I should offer to suffer a bill of
      exchange to be protested. So my Lord did bid me take heed, for that I
      might easily suppose I could not want enemies, no more than others. In all
      he speaks with the greatest trust and love and confidence in what I say or
      do, that a man can do. After this discourse ended we sat down to dinner
      and mighty merry, among other things, at the Bill brought into the House
      to make it felony to break bulke, which, as my Lord says well, will make
      that no prizes shall be taken, or, if taken, shall be sunke after
      plundering; and the Act for the method of gathering this last L1,250,000
      now voted, and how paid wherein are several strange imperfections. After
      dinner my Lord by a ketch down to Erith, where the Bezan was, it blowing
      these last two days and now both night and day very hard southwardly, so
      that it has certainly drove the Dutch off the coast. My Lord being gone I
      to the office, and there find Captain Ferrers, who tells me his wife is
      come to town to see him, having not seen him since 15 weeks ago at his
      first going to sea last. She is now at a Taverne and stays all night, so I
      was obliged to give him my house and chamber to lie in, which he with
      great modesty and after much force took, and so I got Mr. Evelyn's coach
      to carry her thither, and the coach coming back, I with Mr. Evelyn to
      Deptford, where a little while with him doing a little business, and so in
      his coach back again to my lodgings, and there sat with Mrs. Ferrers two
      hours, and with my little girle, Mistress Frances Tooker, and very
      pleasant. Anon the Captain comes, and then to supper very merry, and so I
      led them to bed. And so to bed myself, having seen my pretty little girle
      home first at the next door.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and, leaving my guests to make themselves ready, I to the
      office, and thither comes Sir Jer. Smith and Sir Christopher Mings to see
      me, being just come from Portsmouth and going down to the Fleete. Here I
      sat and talked with them a good while and then parted, only Sir
      Christopher Mings and I together by water to the Tower; and I find him a
      very witty well-spoken fellow, and mighty free to tell his parentage,
      being a shoemaker's son, to whom he is now going, and I to the 'Change,
      where I hear how the French have taken two and sunk one of our
      merchant-men in the Streights, and carried the ships to Toulon; so that
      there is no expectation but we must fall out with them. The 'Change pretty
      full, and the town begins to be lively again, though the streets very
      empty, and most shops shut. So back again I and took boat and called for
      Sir Christopher Mings at St. Katharine's, who was followed with some
      ordinary friends, of which, he says, he is proud, and so down to
      Greenwich, the wind furious high, and we with our sail up till I made it
      be taken down. I took him, it being 3 o'clock, to my lodgings and did give
      him a good dinner and so parted, he being pretty close to me as to any
      business of the fleete, knowing me to be a servant of my Lord Sandwich's.
      He gone I to the office till night, and then they come and tell me my wife
      is come to towne, so I to her vexed at her coming, but it was upon
      innocent business, so I was pleased and made her stay, Captain Ferrers and
      his lady being yet there, and so I left them to dance, and I to the office
      till past nine at night, and so to them and there saw them dance very
      prettily, the Captain and his wife, my wife and Mrs. Barbary, and Mercer
      and my landlady's daughter, and then little Mistress Frances Tooker and
      her mother, a pretty woman come to see my wife. Anon to supper, and then
      to dance again (Golding being our fiddler, who plays very well and all
      tunes) till past twelve at night, and then we broke up and every one to
      bed, we make shift for all our company, Mrs. Tooker being gone.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and after some pleasant discourse with my wife, I out, leaving
      her and Mrs. Ferrers there, and I to Captain Cocke's, there to do some
      business, and then away with Cocke in his coach through Kent Streete, a
      miserable, wretched, poor place, people sitting sicke and muffled up with
      plasters at every 4 or 5 doors. So to the 'Change, and thence I by water
      to the Duke of Albemarle's, and there much company, but I staid and dined,
      and he makes mighty much of me; and here he tells us the Dutch are gone,
      and have lost above 160 cables and anchors, through the last foule
      weather. Here he proposed to me from Mr. Coventry, as I had desired of Mr.
      Coventry, that I should be Surveyor-Generall of the Victualling business,
      which I accepted. But, indeed, the terms in which Mr. Coventry proposes it
      for me are the most obliging that ever I could expect from any man, and
      more; it saying me to be the fittest man in England, and that he is sure,
      if I will undertake, I will perform it; and that it will be also a very
      desirable thing that I might have this encouragement, my encouragement in
      the Navy alone being in no wise proportionable to my pains or deserts.
      This, added to the letter I had three days since from Mr. Southerne,
      signifying that the Duke of Yorke had in his master's absence opened my
      letter, and commanded him to tell me that he did approve of my being the
      Surveyor-General, do make me joyful beyond myself that I cannot express
      it, to see that as I do take pains, so God blesses me, and hath sent me
      masters that do observe that I take pains. After having done here, I back
      by water and to London, and there met with Captain Cocke's coach again,
      and I went in it to Greenwich and thence sent my wife in it to Woolwich,
      and I to the office, and thence home late with Captain Taylor, and he and
      I settled all accounts between us, and I do find that I do get above L129
      of him for my services for him within these six months. At it till almost
      one in the morning, and after supper he away and I to bed, mightily
      satisfied in all this, and in a resolution I have taken to-night with Mr.
      Hater to propose the port of London for the victualling business for
      Thomas Willson, by which it will be better done and I at more ease, in
      case he should grumble.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Duke of York's letter appointing Thomas Wilson Surveyor of the
     Victualling of His Majesty's Navy in the Port of London, and
     referring to Pepys as Surveyor-General of the Victualling Affairs,
     is printed in "Memoirs of the English Affairs, chiefly Naval, 1660-
     73," by James, Duke of York, 1729, p. 131.]
</pre>
    <p>
      So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and sent for Thomas Willson, and broke the victualling business
      to him and he is mightily contented, and so am I that I have bestowed it
      on him, and so I to Mr. Boreman's, where Sir W. Batten is, to tell him
      what I had proposed to Thomas Willson, and the newes also I have this
      morning from Sir W. Clerke, which is, that notwithstanding all the care
      the Duke of Albemarle hath taken about the putting the East India prize
      goods into the East India Company's hands, and my Lord Bruncker and Sir J.
      Minnes having laden out a great part of the goods, an order is come from
      Court to stop all, and to have the goods delivered to the
      Sub-Commissioners of prizes. At which I am glad, because it do vex this
      simple weake man, and we shall have a little reparation for the disgrace
      my Lord Sandwich has had in it. He tells me also that the Parliament hath
      given the Duke of Yorke L120,000, to be paid him after the L1,250,000 is
      gathered upon the tax which they have now given the King.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This sum was granted by the Commons to Charles, with a request that
     he would bestow it on his brother.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      He tells me that the Dutch have lately launched sixteen new ships; all
      which is great news. Thence by horsebacke with Mr. Deane to Erith, and so
      aboard my Lord Bruncker and dined, and very merry with him and good
      discourse between them about ship building, and, after dinner and a little
      pleasant discourse, we away and by horse back again to Greenwich, and
      there I to the office very late, offering my persons for all the
      victualling posts much to my satisfaction. Also much other business I did
      to my mind, and so weary home to my lodging, and there after eating and
      drinking a little I to bed. The King and Court, they say, have now finally
      resolved to spend nothing upon clothes, but what is of the growth of
      England; which, if observed, will be very pleasing to the people, and very
      good for them.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). Up, and being ready set out with Captain Cocke in his
      coach toward Erith, Mr. Deane riding along with us, where we dined and
      were very merry. After dinner we fell to discourse about the Dutch, Cocke
      undertaking to prove that they were able to wage warr with us three years
      together, which, though it may be true, yet, not being satisfied with his
      arguments, my Lord and I did oppose the strength of his arguments, which
      brought us to a great heate, he being a conceited man, but of no Logique
      in his head at all, which made my Lord and I mirth. Anon we parted, and
      back again, we hardly having a word all the way, he being so vexed at our
      not yielding to his persuasion. I was set down at Woolwich towne end, and
      walked through the towne in the darke, it being now night. But in the
      streete did overtake and almost run upon two women crying and carrying a
      man's coffin between them. I suppose the husband of one of them, which,
      methinks, is a sad thing. Being come to Shelden's, I find my people in the
      darke in the dining room, merry and laughing, and, I thought, sporting one
      with another, which, God helpe me! raised my jealousy presently. Come in
      the darke, and one of them touching me (which afterward I found was Susan)
      made them shreeke, and so went out up stairs, leaving them to light a
      candle and to run out. I went out and was very vexed till I found my wife
      was gone with Mr. Hill and Mercer this day to see me at Greenwich, and
      these people were at supper, and the candle on a sudden falling out of the
      candlesticke (which I saw as I come through the yarde) and Mrs. Barbary
      being there I was well at ease again, and so bethought myself what to do,
      whether to go to Greenwich or stay there; at last go I would, and so with
      a lanthorne, and 3 or 4 people with me, among others Mr. Browne, who was
      there, would go, I walked with a lanthorne and discoursed with him about
      paynting and the several sorts of it. I came in good time to Greenwich,
      where I found Mr. Hill with my wife, and very glad I was to see him. To
      supper and discourse of musique and so to bed, I lying with him talking
      till midnight about Berckenshaw's musique rules, which I did to his great
      satisfaction inform him in, and so to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and to my office about business. At noon to dinner, and after
      some discourse of musique, he and I to the office awhile, and he to get
      Mr. Coleman, if he can, against night. By and by I back again home, and
      there find him returned with Mr. Coleman (his wife being ill) and Mr.
      Laneare, with whom with their Lute we had excellent company and good
      singing till midnight, and a good supper I did give them, but Coleman's
      voice is quite spoiled, and when he begins to be drunk he is excellent
      company, but afterward troublesome and impertinent. Laneare sings in a
      melancholy method very well, and a sober man he seems to be. They being
      gone, we to bed. Captain Ferrers coming this day from my Lord is forced to
      lodge here, and I put him to Mr. Hill.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up, and to the office, Captain Ferrers going back betimes to my
      Lord. I to the office, where Sir W. Batten met me, and did tell me that
      Captain Cocke's black was dead of the plague, which I had heard of before,
      but took no notice. By and by Captain Cocke come to the office, and Sir W.
      Batten and I did send to him that he would either forbear the office, or
      forbear going to his owne office. However, meeting yesterday the Searchers
      with their rods in their hands coming from Captain Cocke's house, I did
      overhear them say that the fellow did not die of the plague, but he had I
      know been ill a good while, and I am told that his boy Jack is also ill.
      At noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, leaving Mr. Hill if
      he can to get Mrs. Coleman at night. About nine at night I come home, and
      there find Mrs. Pierce come and little Fran. Tooker, and Mr. Hill, and
      other people, a great many dancing, and anon comes Mrs. Coleman with her
      husband and Laneare. The dancing ended and to sing, which Mrs. Coleman do
      very finely, though her voice is decayed as to strength but mighty sweet
      though soft, and a pleasant jolly woman, and in mighty good humour was
      to-night. Among other things Laneare did, at the request of Mr. Hill,
      bring two or three the finest prints for my wife to see that ever I did
      see in all my life. But for singing, among other things, we got Mrs.
      Coleman to sing part of the Opera, though she won't owne that ever she did
      get any of it without book in order to the stage; but, above all, her
      counterfeiting of Captain Cooke's part, in his reproaching his man with
      cowardice, "Base slave," &amp;c., she do it most excellently. At it till
      past midnight, and then broke up and to bed. Hill and I together again,
      and being very sleepy we had little discourse as we had the other night.
      Thus we end the month merrily; and the more for that, after some fears
      that the plague would have increased again this week, I hear for certain
      that there is above 400 [less], the whole number being 1,388, and of them
      of the plague, 1,031. Want of money in the Navy puts everything out of
      order. Men grow mutinous; and nobody here to mind the business of the Navy
      but myself. At least Sir W. Batten for the few days he has been here do
      nothing. I in great hopes of my place of Surveyor-Generall of the
      Victualling, which will bring me L300 per annum.
    </p>
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      NOVEMBER 1665
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    <p>
      November 1st. Lay very long in bed discoursing with Mr. Hill of most
      things of a man's life, and how little merit do prevail in the world, but
      only favour; and that, for myself, chance without merit brought me in; and
      that diligence only keeps me so, and will, living as I do among so many
      lazy people that the diligent man becomes necessary, that they cannot do
      anything without him, and so told him of my late business of the
      victualling, and what cares I am in to keepe myself having to do with
      people of so different factions at Court, and yet must be fair with them
      all, which was very pleasant discourse for me to tell, as well as he
      seemed to take it, for him to hear. At last up, and it being a very foule
      day for raine and a hideous wind, yet having promised I would go by water
      to Erith, and bearing sayle was in danger of oversetting, but ordered them
      take down their sayle, and so cold and wet got thither, as they had ended
      their dinner. How[ever], I dined well, and after dinner all on shore, my
      Lord Bruncker with us to Mrs. Williams's lodgings, and Sir W. Batten, Sir
      Edmund Pooly, and others; and there, it being my Lord's birth-day, had
      every one a green riband tied in our hats very foolishly; and methinks
      mighty disgracefully for my Lord to have his folly so open to all the
      world with this woman. But by and by Sir W. Batten and I took coach, and
      home to Boreman, and so going home by the backside I saw Captain Cocke
      'lighting out of his coach (having been at Erith also with her but not on
      board) and so he would come along with me to my lodging, and there sat and
      supped and talked with us, but we were angry a little a while about our
      message to him the other day about bidding him keepe from the office or
      his owne office, because of his black dying. I owned it and the reason of
      it, and would have been glad he had been out of the house, but I could not
      bid him go, and so supped, and after much other talke of the sad condition
      and state of the King's matters we broke up, and my friend and I to bed.
      This night coming with Sir W. Batten into Greenwich we called upon Coll.
      Cleggatt, who tells us for certaine that the King of Denmark hath declared
      to stand for the King of England, but since I hear it is wholly false.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, left my wife and to the office, and there to my great content Sir
      W. Warren come to me to settle the business of the Tangier boates, wherein
      I shall get above L100, besides L100 which he gives me in the paying for
      them out of his owne purse. He gone, I home to my lodgings to dinner, and
      there comes Captain Wagers newly returned from the Streights, who puts me
      in great fear for our last ships that went to Tangier with provisions,
      that they will be taken. A brave, stout fellow this Captain is, and I
      think very honest. To the office again after dinner and there late writing
      letters, and then about 8 at night set out from my office and fitting
      myself at my lodgings intended to have gone this night in a Ketch down to
      the Fleete, but calling in my way at Sir J. Minnes's, who is come up from
      Erith about something about the prizes, they persuaded me not to go till
      the morning, it being a horrible darke and a windy night. So I back to my
      lodging and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Was called up about four o'clock and in the darke by lanthorne took
      boat and to the Ketch and set sayle, sleeping a little in the Cabbin till
      day and then up and fell to reading of Mr. Evelyn's book about Paynting,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This must surely have been Evelyn's "Sculptura, or the History and
     Art of Chalcography and Engraving in Copper," published in 1662.
     The translation of Freart's "Idea of the Perfection of Painting
     demonstrated" was not published until 1668.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which is a very pretty book. Carrying good victuals and Tom with me I to
      breakfast about 9 o'clock, and then to read again and come to the Fleete
      about twelve, where I found my Lord (the Prince being gone in) on board
      the Royall James, Sir Thomas Allen commander, and with my Lord an houre
      alone discoursing what was my chief and only errand about what was
      adviseable for his Lordship to do in this state of things, himself being
      under the Duke of Yorke's and Mr. Coventry's envy, and a great many more
      and likely never to do anything honourably but he shall be envied and the
      honour taken as much as can be from it. His absence lessens his interest
      at Court, and what is worst we never able to set out a fleete fit for him
      to command, or, if out, to keepe them out or fit them to do any great
      thing, or if that were so yet nobody at home minds him or his condition
      when he is abroad, and lastly the whole affairs of state looking as if
      they would all on a sudden break in pieces, and then what a sad thing it
      would be for him to be out of the way. My Lord did concur in every thing
      and thanked me infinitely for my visit and counsel, telling me that in
      every thing he concurs, but puts a query, what if the King will not think
      himself safe, if any man should go but him. How he should go off then? To
      that I had no answer ready, but the making the King see that he may be of
      as good use to him here while another goes forth. But for that I am not
      able to say much. We after this talked of some other little things and so
      to dinner, where my Lord infinitely kind to me, and after dinner I rose
      and left him with some Commanders at the table taking tobacco and I took
      the Bezan back with me, and with a brave gale and tide reached up that
      night to the Hope, taking great pleasure in learning the seamen's manner
      of singing when they sound the depths, and then to supper and to sleep,
      which I did most excellently all night, it being a horrible foule night
      for wind and raine.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. They sayled from midnight, and come to Greenwich about 5 o'clock in
      the morning. I however lay till about 7 or 8, and so to my office, my head
      a little akeing, partly for want of natural rest, partly having so much
      business to do to-day, and partly from the newes I hear that one of the
      little boys at my lodging is not well; and they suspect, by their sending
      for plaister and fume, that it may be the plague; so I sent Mr. Hater and
      W. Hewer to speake with the mother; but they returned to me, satisfied
      that there is no hurt nor danger, but the boy is well, and offers to be
      searched, however, I was resolved myself to abstain coming thither for a
      while. Sir W. Batten and myself at the office all the morning. At noon
      with him to dinner at Boreman's, where Mr. Seymour with us, who is a most
      conceited fellow and not over much in him. Here Sir W. Batten told us
      (which I had not heard before) that the last sitting day his cloake was
      taken from Mingo he going home to dinner, and that he was beaten by the
      seamen and swears he will come to Greenwich, but no more to the office
      till he can sit safe. After dinner I to the office and there late, and
      much troubled to have 100 seamen all the afternoon there, swearing below
      and cursing us, and breaking the glasse windows, and swear they will pull
      the house down on Tuesday next. I sent word of this to Court, but nothing
      will helpe it but money and a rope. Late at night to Mr. Glanville's there
      to lie for a night or two, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). Up, and after being trimmed, by boat to the Cockpitt,
      where I heard the Duke of Albemarle's chaplin make a simple sermon: among
      other things, reproaching the imperfection of humane learning, he cried:
      "All our physicians cannot tell what an ague is, and all our arithmetique
      is not able to number the days of a man;" which, God knows, is not the
      fault of arithmetique, but that our understandings reach not the thing. To
      dinner, where a great deale of silly discourse, but the worst is I hear
      that the plague increases much at Lambeth, St. Martin's and Westminster,
      and fear it will all over the city. Thence I to the Swan, thinking to have
      seen Sarah but she was at church, and so I by water to Deptford, and there
      made a visit to Mr. Evelyn, who, among other things, showed me most
      excellent painting in little; in distemper, Indian incke, water colours:
      graveing; and, above all, the whole secret of mezzo-tinto, and the manner
      of it, which is very pretty, and good things done with it. He read to me
      very much also of his discourse, he hath been many years and now is about,
      about Guardenage; which will be a most noble and pleasant piece. He read
      me part of a play or two of his making, very good, but not as he conceits
      them, I think, to be. He showed me his Hortus Hyemalis; leaves laid up in
      a book of several plants kept dry, which preserve colour, however, and
      look very finely, better than any Herball. In fine, a most excellent
      person he is, and must be allowed a little for a little conceitedness; but
      he may well be so, being a man so much above others. He read me, though
      with too much gusto, some little poems of his own, that were not
      transcendant, yet one or two very pretty epigrams; among others, of a lady
      looking in at a grate, and being pecked at by an eagle that was there.
      Here comes in, in the middle of our discourse Captain Cocke, as drunk as a
      dogg, but could stand, and talk and laugh. He did so joy himself in a
      brave woman that he had been with all the afternoon, and who should it be
      but my Lady Robinson, but very troublesome he is with his noise and talke,
      and laughing, though very pleasant. With him in his coach to Mr.
      Glanville's, where he sat with Mrs. Penington and myself a good while
      talking of this fine woman again and then went away. Then the lady and I
      to very serious discourse and, among other things, of what a bonny lasse
      my Lady Robinson is, who is reported to be kind to the prisoners, and has
      said to Sir G. Smith, who is her great crony, "Look! there is a pretty
      man, I would be content to break a commandment with him," and such loose
      expressions she will have often. After an houre's talke we to bed, the
      lady mightily troubled about a pretty little bitch she hath, which is very
      sicke, and will eat nothing, and the worst was, I could hear her in her
      chamber bemoaning the bitch, and by and by taking her into bed with her.
      The bitch pissed and shit a bed, and she was fain to rise and had coals
      out of my chamber to dry the bed again. This night I had a letter that Sir
      G. Carteret would be in towne to-morrow, which did much surprize me.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning and then to dinner
      to Captain Cocke's with Mr. Evelyn, where very merry, only vexed after
      dinner to stay too long for our coach. At last, however, to Lambeth and
      thence the Cockpitt, where we found Sir G. Carteret come, and in with the
      Duke and the East India Company about settling the business of the prizes,
      and they have gone through with it. Then they broke up, and Sir G.
      Carteret come out, and thence through the garden to the water side and by
      water I with him in his boat down with Captain Cocke to his house at
      Greenwich, and while supper was getting ready Sir G. Carteret and I did
      walk an houre in the garden before the house, talking of my Lord
      Sandwich's business; what enemies he hath, and how they have endeavoured
      to bespatter him: and particularly about his leaving of 30 ships of the
      enemy, when Pen would have gone, and my Lord called him back again: which
      is most false. However, he says, it was purposed by some hot-heads in the
      House of Commons, at the same time when they voted a present to the Duke
      of Yorke, to have voted L10,000 to the Prince, and half-a-crowne to my
      Lord of Sandwich; but nothing come of it.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The tide of popular indignation ran high against Lord Sandwich, and
     he was sent to Spain as ambassador to get him honourably out of the
     way (see post, December 6th).]
</pre>
    <p>
      But, for all this, the King is most firme to my Lord, and so is my Lord
      Chancellor, and my Lord Arlington. The Prince, in appearance, kind; the
      Duke of Yorke silent, says no hurt; but admits others to say it in his
      hearing. Sir W. Pen, the falsest rascal that ever was in the world; and
      that this afternoon the Duke of Albemarle did tell him that Pen was a very
      cowardly rogue, and one that hath brought all these rogueish fanatick
      Captains into the fleete, and swears he should never go out with the
      fleete again. That Sir W. Coventry is most kind to Pen still; and says
      nothing nor do any thing openly to the prejudice of my Lord. He agrees
      with me, that it is impossible for the King [to] set out a fleete again
      the next year; and that he fears all will come to ruine, there being no
      money in prospect but these prizes, which will bring, it may be, L20,000,
      but that will signify nothing in the world for it. That this late Act of
      Parliament for bringing the money into the Exchequer, and making of it
      payable out there, intended as a prejudice to him and will be his
      convenience hereafter and ruine the King's business, and so I fear it will
      and do wonder Sir W. Coventry would be led by Sir G. Downing to persuade
      the King and Duke to have it so, before they had thoroughly weighed all
      circumstances; that for my Lord, the King has said to him lately that I
      was an excellent officer, and that my Lord Chancellor do, he thinks, love
      and esteem of me as well as he do of any man in England that he hath no
      more acquaintance with. So having done and received from me the sad newes
      that we are like to have no money here a great while, not even of the very
      prizes, I set up my rest
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The phrase "set up my rest" is a metaphor from the once fashionable
     game of Primero, meaning, to stand upon the cards you have in your
     hand, in hopes they may prove better than those of your adversary.
     Hence, to make up your mind, to be determined (see Nares's
     "Glossary").]
</pre>
    <p>
      in giving up the King's service to be ruined and so in to supper, where
      pretty merry, and after supper late to Mr. Glanville's, and Sir G.
      Carteret to bed. I also to bed, it being very late.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and to Sir G. Carteret, and with him, he being very passionate to
      be gone, without staying a minute for breakfast, to the Duke of
      Albemarle's and I with him by water and with Fen: but, among other things,
      Lord! to see how he wondered to see the river so empty of boats, nobody
      working at the Custome-house keys; and how fearful he is, and vexed that
      his man, holding a wine-glasse in his hand for him to drinke out of, did
      cover his hands, it being a cold, windy, rainy morning, under the
      waterman's coate, though he brought the waterman from six or seven miles
      up the river, too. Nay, he carried this glasse with him for his man to let
      him drink out of at the Duke of Albemarle's, where he intended to dine,
      though this he did to prevent sluttery, for, for the same reason he
      carried a napkin with him to Captain Cocke's, making him believe that he
      should eat with foule linnen. Here he with the Duke walked a good while in
      the Parke, and I with Fen, but cannot gather that he intends to stay with
      us, nor thinks any thing at all of ever paying one farthing of money more
      to us here, let what will come of it. Thence in, and Sir W. Batten comes
      in by and by, and so staying till noon, and there being a great deal of
      company there, Sir W. Batten and I took leave of the Duke and Sir G.
      Carteret, there being no good to be done more for money, and so over the
      River and by coach to Greenwich, where at Boreman's we dined, it being
      late. Thence my head being full of business and mind out of order for
      thinking of the effects which will arise from the want of money, I made an
      end of my letters by eight o'clock, and so to my lodging and there spent
      the evening till midnight talking with Mrs. Penington, who is a very
      discreet, understanding lady and very pretty discourse we had and great
      variety, and she tells me with great sorrow her bitch is dead this
      morning, died in her bed. So broke up and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and to the office, where busy among other things to looke my
      warrants for the settling of the Victualling business, the warrants being
      come to me for the Surveyors of the ports and that for me also to be
      Surveyor-Generall. I did discourse largely with Tom Willson about it and
      doubt not to make it a good service to the King as well, as the King gives
      us very good salarys. It being a fast day, all people were at church and
      the office quiett; so I did much business, and at noon adventured to my
      old lodging, and there eat, but am not yet well satisfied, not seeing of
      Christopher, though they say he is abroad. Thence after dinner to the
      office again, and thence am sent for to the King's Head by my Lord
      Rutherford, who, since I can hope for no more convenience from him, his
      business is troublesome to me, and therefore I did leave him as soon as I
      could and by water to Deptford, and there did order my matters so, walking
      up and down the fields till it was dark night, that 'je allais a la maison
      of my valentine,&mdash;[Bagwell's wife]&mdash;and there 'je faisais
      whatever je voudrais avec' her, and, about eight at night, did take water,
      being glad I was out of the towne; for the plague, it seems, rages there
      more than ever, and so to my lodgings, where my Lord had got a supper and
      the mistresse of the house, and her daughters, and here staid Mrs. Pierce
      to speake with me about her husband's business, and I made her sup with
      us, and then at night my Lord and I walked with her home, and so back
      again. My Lord and I ended all we had to say as to his business overnight,
      and so I took leave, and went again to Mr. Glanville's and so to bed, it
      being very late.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and did give the servants something at Mr. Glanville's and so
      took leave, meaning to lie to-night at my owne lodging. To my office,
      where busy with Mr. Gawden running over the Victualling business, and he
      is mightily pleased that this course is taking and seems sensible of my
      favour and promises kindnesse to me. At noon by water, to the King's Head
      at Deptford, where Captain Taylor invites Sir W: Batten, Sir John Robinson
      (who come in with a great deale of company from hunting, and brought in a
      hare alive and a great many silly stories they tell of their sport, which
      pleases them mightily, and me not at all, such is the different sense of
      pleasure in mankind), and others upon the score of a survey of his new
      ship; and strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles
      everybody, Sir W. Batten and Sir J. Robinson being now as kind to him, and
      report well of his ship and proceedings, and promise money, and Sir W.
      Batten is a solicitor for him, but it is a strange thing to observe, they
      being the greatest enemys he had, and yet, I believe, hath in the world in
      their hearts. Thence after dinner stole away and to my office, where did a
      great deale of business till midnight, and then to Mrs. Clerk's, to lodge
      again, and going home W. Hewer did tell me my wife will be here to-morrow,
      and hath put away Mary, which vexes me to the heart, I cannot helpe it,
      though it may be a folly in me, and when I think seriously on it, I think
      my wife means no ill design in it, or, if she do, I am a foole to be
      troubled at it, since I cannot helpe it. The Bill of Mortality, to all our
      griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the encrease generally through the
      whole City and suburbs, which makes us all sad.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and entered all my Journall since the 28th of October, having
      every day's passages well in my head, though it troubles me to remember
      it, and which I was forced to, being kept from my lodging, where my books
      and papers are, for several days. So to my office, where till two or three
      o'clock busy before I could go to my lodging to dinner, then did it and to
      my office again. In the evening newes is brought me my wife is come: so I
      to her, and with her spent the evening, but with no great pleasure, I
      being vexed about her putting away of Mary in my absence, but yet I took
      no notice of it at all, but fell into other discourse, and she told me,
      having herself been this day at my house at London, which was boldly done,
      to see Mary have her things, that Mr. Harrington, our neighbour, an East
      country merchant, is dead at Epsum of the plague, and that another
      neighbour of ours, Mr. Hollworthy, a very able man, is also dead by a fall
      in the country from his horse, his foot hanging in the stirrup, and his
      brains beat out. Here we sat talking, and after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. I up and to the office (leaving my wife in bed) and there till noon,
      then to dinner and back again to the office, my wife going to Woolwich
      again, and I staying very late at my office, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Lord's day). Up, and invited by Captain Cocke to dinner. So after
      being ready I went to him, and there he and I and Mr. Yard (one of the
      Guinny Company) dined together and very merry. After dinner I by water to
      the Duke of Albemarle, and there had a little discourse and business with
      him, chiefly to receive his commands about pilotts to be got for our
      Hambro' ships, going now at this time of the year convoy to the merchant
      ships, that have lain at great pain and charge, some three, some four
      months at Harwich for a convoy. They hope here the plague will be less
      this weeke. Thence back by water to Captain Cocke's, and there he and I
      spent a great deale of the evening as we had done of the day reading and
      discoursing over part of Mr. Stillingfleet's "Origines Sacrae," wherein
      many things are very good and some frivolous. Thence by and by he and I to
      Mrs. Penington's, but she was gone to bed. So we back and walked a while,
      and then to his house and to supper, and then broke up, and I home to my
      lodging to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning, and at noon to
      Captain Cocke's to dinner as we had appointed in order to settle our
      business of accounts. But here came in an Alderman, a merchant, a very
      merry man, and we dined, and, he being gone, after dinner Cocke and I
      walked into the garden, and there after a little discourse he did
      undertake under his hand to secure me in L500 profit, for my share of the
      profit of what we have bought of the prize goods. We agreed upon the
      terms, which were easier on my side than I expected, and so with
      extraordinary inward joy we parted till the evening. So I to the office
      and among other business prepared a deed for him to sign and seale to me
      about our agreement, which at night I got him to come and sign and seale,
      and so he and I to Glanville's, and there he and I sat talking and playing
      with Mrs. Penington, whom we found undrest in her smocke and petticoats by
      the fireside, and there we drank and laughed, and she willingly suffered
      me to put my hand in her bosom very wantonly, and keep it there long.
      Which methought was very strange, and I looked upon myself as a man
      mightily deceived in a lady, for I could not have thought she could have
      suffered it, by her former discourse with me; so modest she seemed and I
      know not what. We staid here late, and so home after he and I had walked
      till past midnight, a bright moonshine, clear, cool night, before his door
      by the water, and so I home after one of the clock.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Called up by break of day by Captain Cocke, by agreement, and he and
      I in his coach through Kent-streete (a sad place through the plague,
      people sitting sicke and with plaisters about them in the street begging)
      to Viner's and Colvill's about money business, and so to my house, and
      there I took L300 in order to the carrying it down to my Lord Sandwich in
      part of the money I am to pay for Captain Cocke by our agreement. So I
      took it down, and down I went to Greenwich to my office, and there sat
      busy till noon, and so home to dinner, and thence to the office again, and
      by and by to the Duke of Albemarle's by water late, where I find he had
      remembered that I had appointed to come to him this day about money, which
      I excused not doing sooner; but I see, a dull fellow, as he is, do
      sometimes remember what another thinks he mindeth not. My business was
      about getting money of the East India Company; but, Lord! to see how the
      Duke himself magnifies himself in what he had done with the Company; and
      my Lord Craven what the King could have done without my Lord Duke, and a
      deale of stir, but most mightily what a brave fellow I am. Back by water,
      it raining hard, and so to the office, and stopped my going, as I
      intended, to the buoy of the Nore, and great reason I had to rejoice at
      it, for it proved the night of as great a storme as was almost ever
      remembered. Late at the office, and so home to bed. This day, calling at
      Mr. Rawlinson's to know how all did there, I hear that my pretty grocer's
      wife, Mrs. Beversham, over the way there, her husband is lately dead of
      the plague at Bow, which I am sorry for, for fear of losing her
      neighbourhood.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and all the morning at the office, busy, and at noon to the
      King's Head taverne, where all the Trinity House dined to-day, to choose a
      new Master in the room of Hurlestone, that is dead, and Captain Crispe is
      chosen. But, Lord! to see how Sir W. Batten governs all and tramples upon
      Hurlestone, but I am confident the Company will grow the worse for that
      man's death, for now Batten, and in him a lazy, corrupt, doating rogue,
      will have all the sway there. After dinner who comes in but my Lady
      Batten, and a troop of a dozen women almost, and expected, as I found
      afterward, to be made mighty much of, but nobody minded them; but the best
      jest was, that when they saw themselves not regarded, they would go away,
      and it was horrible foule weather; and my Lady Batten walking through the
      dirty lane with new spicke and span white shoes, she dropped one of her
      galoshes in the dirt, where it stuck, and she forced to go home without
      one, at which she was horribly vexed, and I led her; and after vexing her
      a little more in mirth, I parted, and to Glanville's, where I knew Sir
      John Robinson, Sir G. Smith, and Captain Cocke were gone, and there, with
      the company of Mrs. Penington, whose father, I hear, was one of the Court
      of justice, and died prisoner, of the stone, in the Tower, I made them,
      against their resolutions, to stay from houre to houre till it was almost
      midnight, and a furious, darke and rainy, and windy, stormy night, and,
      which was best, I, with drinking small beer, made them all drunk drinking
      wine, at which Sir John Robinson made great sport. But, they being gone,
      the lady and I very civilly sat an houre by the fireside observing the
      folly of this Robinson, that makes it his worke to praise himself, and all
      he say and do, like a heavy-headed coxcombe. The plague, blessed be God!
      is decreased 400; making the whole this week but 1300 and odd; for which
      the Lord be praised!
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and fitted myself for my journey down to the fleete, and sending
      my money and boy down by water to Eriffe,&mdash;[Erith]&mdash;I borrowed a
      horse of Mr. Boreman's son, and after having sat an houre laughing with my
      Lady Batten and Mrs. Turner, and eat and drank with them, I took horse and
      rode to Eriffe, where, after making a little visit to Madam Williams, who
      did give me information of W. Howe's having bought eight bags of precious
      stones taken from about the Dutch Vice-Admirall's neck, of which there
      were eight dyamonds which cost him L60,000 sterling, in India, and hoped
      to have made L2000 here for them. And that this is told by one that sold
      him one of the bags, which hath nothing but rubys in it, which he had for
      35s.; and that it will be proved he hath made L125 of one stone that he
      bought. This she desired, and I resolved I would give my Lord Sandwich
      notice of. So I on board my Lord Bruncker; and there he and Sir Edmund
      Pooly carried me down into the hold of the India shipp, and there did show
      me the greatest wealth lie in confusion that a man can see in the world.
      Pepper scattered through every chink, you trod upon it; and in cloves and
      nutmegs, I walked above the knees; whole rooms full. And silk in bales,
      and boxes of copper-plate, one of which I saw opened. Having seen this,
      which was as noble a sight as ever I saw in my life, I away on board the
      other ship in despair to get the pleasure-boat of the gentlemen there to
      carry me to the fleet. They were Mr. Ashburnham and Colonell Wyndham; but
      pleading the King's business, they did presently agree I should have it.
      So I presently on board, and got under sail, and had a good bedd by the
      shift, of Wyndham's; and so,
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Sailed all night, and got down to Quinbrough water, where all the
      great ships are now come, and there on board my Lord, and was soon
      received with great content. And after some little discourse, he and I on
      board Sir W. Pen; and there held a council of Warr about many wants of the
      fleete, but chiefly how to get slopps and victuals for the fleete now
      going out to convoy our Hambro' ships, that have been so long detained for
      four or five months for want of convoy, which we did accommodate one way
      or other, and so, after much chatt, Sir W. Pen did give us a very good and
      neat dinner, and better, I think, than ever I did see at his owne house at
      home in my life, and so was the other I eat with him. After dinner much
      talke, and about other things, he and I about his money for his prize
      goods, wherein I did give him a cool answer, but so as we did not disagree
      in words much, and so let that fall, and so followed my Lord Sandwich, who
      was gone a little before me on board the Royall James. And there spent an
      houre, my Lord playing upon the gittarr, which he now commends above all
      musique in the world, because it is base enough for a single voice, and is
      so portable and manageable without much trouble. That being done, I got my
      Lord to be alone, and so I fell to acquaint him with W. Howe's business,
      which he had before heard a little of from Captain Cocke, but made no
      great matter of it, but now he do, and resolves nothing less than to lay
      him by the heels, and seize on all he hath, saying that for this yeare or
      two he hath observed him so proud and conceited he could not endure him.
      But though I was not at all displeased with it, yet I prayed him to
      forbear doing anything therein till he heard from me again about it, and I
      had made more enquiry into the truth of it, which he agreed to. Then we
      fell to publique discourse, wherein was principally this: he cleared it to
      me beyond all doubt that Coventry is his enemy, and has been long so. So
      that I am over that, and my Lord told it me upon my proposal of a
      friendship between them, which he says is impossible, and methinks that my
      Lord's displeasure about the report in print of the first fight was not of
      his making, but I perceive my Lord cannot forget it, nor the other think
      he can. I shewed him how advisable it were upon almost any terms for him
      to get quite off the sea employment. He answers me again that he agrees to
      it, but thinks the King will not let him go off: He tells me he lacks now
      my Lord Orrery to solicit it for him, who is very great with the King. As
      an infinite secret, my Lord tells me, the factions are high between the
      King and the Duke, and all the Court are in an uproare with their loose
      amours; the Duke of Yorke being in love desperately with Mrs. Stewart.
      Nay, that the Duchesse herself is fallen in love with her new Master of
      the Horse, one Harry Sidney, and another, Harry Savill. So that God knows
      what will be the end of it. And that the Duke is not so obsequious as he
      used to be, but very high of late; and would be glad to be in the head of
      an army as Generall; and that it is said that he do propose to go and
      command under the King of Spayne, in Flanders. That his amours to Mrs.
      Stewart are told the King. So that all is like to be nought among them.
      That he knows that the Duke of Yorke do give leave to have him spoken
      slightly of in his owne hearing, and doth not oppose it, and told me from
      what time he hath observed this to begin. So that upon the whole my Lord
      do concur to wish with all his heart that he could with any honour get
      from off the imployment. After he had given thanks to me for my kind visit
      and good counsel, on which he seems to set much by, I left him, and so
      away to my Bezan againe, and there to read in a pretty French book, "La
      Nouvelle Allegorique," upon the strife between rhetorique and its enemies,
      very pleasant. So, after supper, to sleepe, and sayled all night, and came
      to Erith before break of day.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. About nine of the clock, I went on shore, there (calling by the way
      only to look upon my Lord Bruncker) to give Mrs. Williams an account of
      her matters, and so hired an ill-favoured horse, and away to Greenwich to
      my lodgings, where I hear how rude the souldiers have been in my absence,
      swearing what they would do with me, which troubled me, but, however,
      after eating a bit I to the office and there very late writing letters,
      and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Lord's day). Up, and after being trimmed, alone by water to Erith,
      all the way with my song book singing of Mr. Lawes's long recitative song
      in the beginning of his book. Being come there, on board my Lord Bruncker,
      I find Captain Cocke and other company, the lady not well, and mighty
      merry we were; Sir Edmund Pooly being very merry, and a right English
      gentleman, and one of the discontented Cavaliers, that think their loyalty
      is not considered. After dinner, all on shore to my Lady Williams, and
      there drank and talked; but, Lord! the most impertinent bold woman with my
      Lord that ever I did see. I did give her an account again of my business
      with my Lord touching W. Howe, and she did give me some more information
      about it, and examination taken about it, and so we parted and I took
      boat, and to Woolwich, where we found my wife not well of them, and I out
      of humour begun to dislike her paynting, the last things not pleasing me
      so well as the former, but I blame myself for my being so little
      complaisant. So without eating or drinking, there being no wine (which
      vexed me too), we walked with a lanthorne to Greenwich and eat something
      at his house, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up before day, and wrote some letters to go to my Lord, among others
      that about W. Howe, which I believe will turn him out, and so took horse
      for Nonesuch, with two men with me, and the ways very bad, and the weather
      worse, for wind and rayne. But we got in good time thither, and I did get
      my tallys got ready, and thence, with as many as could go, to Yowell, and
      there dined very well, and I saw my Besse, a very well-favoured country
      lass there, and after being very merry and having spent a piece I took
      horse, and by another way met with a very good road, but it rained hard
      and blew, but got home very well. Here I find Mr. Deering come to trouble
      me about business, which I soon dispatched and parted, he telling me that
      Luellin hath been dead this fortnight, of the plague, in St. Martin's
      Lane, which much surprised me.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and at
      noon home to dinner and quickly back again to the office, where very busy
      all the evening and late sent a long discourse to Mr. Coventry by his
      desire about the regulating of the method of our payment of bills in the
      Navy, which will be very good, though, it may be, he did ayme principally
      at striking at Sir G. Carteret. So weary but pleased with this business
      being over I home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and by water to the Duke of Albemarle, and there did some little
      business, but most to shew myself, and mightily I am yet in his and Lord
      Craven's books, and thence to the Swan and there drank and so down to the
      bridge, and so to the 'Change, where spoke with many people, and about a
      great deale of business, which kept me late. I heard this day that Mr.
      Harrington is not dead of the plague, as we believed, at which I was very
      glad, but most of all, to hear that the plague is come very low; that is,
      the whole under 1,000, and the plague 600 and odd: and great hopes of a
      further decrease, because of this day's being a very exceeding hard frost,
      and continues freezing. This day the first of the Oxford Gazettes come
      out, which is very pretty, full of newes, and no folly in it. Wrote by
      Williamson. Fear that our Hambro' ships at last cannot go, because of the
      great frost, which we believe it is there, nor are our ships cleared at
      the Pillow [Pillau], which will keepe them there too all this winter, I
      fear. From the 'Change, which is pretty full again, I to my office and
      there took some things, and so by water to my lodging at Greenwich and
      dined, and then to the office awhile and at night home to my lodgings, and
      took T. Willson and T. Hater with me, and there spent the evening till
      midnight discoursing and settling of our Victualling business, that
      thereby I might draw up instructions for the Surveyours and that we might
      be doing something to earne our money. This done I late to bed. Among
      other things it pleased me to have it demonstrated, that a Purser without
      professed cheating is a professed loser, twice as much as he gets.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up betimes, and so, being trimmed, I to get papers ready against Sir
      H. Cholmly come to me by appointment, he being newly come over from
      Tangier. He did by and by come, and we settled all matters about his
      money, and he is a most satisfied man in me, and do declare his resolution
      to give me 200 per annum. It continuing to be a great frost, which gives
      us hope for a perfect cure of the plague, he and I to walk in the parke,
      and there discoursed with grief of the calamity of the times; how the
      King's service is performed, and how Tangier is governed by a man, who,
      though honourable, yet do mind his ways of getting and little else
      compared, which will never make the place flourish. I brought him and had
      a good dinner for him, and there come by chance Captain Cuttance, who
      tells me how W. Howe is laid by the heels, and confined to the Royall
      Katharine, and his things all seized and how, also, for a quarrel, which
      indeed the other night my Lord told me, Captain Ferrers, having cut all
      over the back of another of my Lord's servants, is parted from my Lord. I
      sent for little Mrs. Frances Tooker, and after they were gone I sat
      dallying with her an hour, doing what I would with my hands about her. And
      a very pretty creature it is. So in the evening to the office, where late
      writing letters, and at my lodging later writing for the last twelve days
      my Journall and so to bed. Great expectation what mischief more the French
      will do us, for we must fall out. We in extraordinary lacke of money and
      everything else to go to sea next year. My Lord Sandwich is gone from the
      fleete yesterday toward Oxford.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and after doing some business at the office, I to London, and
      there, in my way, at my old oyster shop in Gracious Streete, bought two
      barrels of my fine woman of the shop, who is alive after all the plague,
      which now is the first observation or inquiry we make at London concerning
      everybody we knew before it. So to the 'Change, where very busy with
      several people, and mightily glad to see the 'Change so full, and hopes of
      another abatement still the next week. Off the 'Change I went home with
      Sir G. Smith to dinner, sending for one of my barrels of oysters, which
      were good, though come from Colchester, where the plague hath been so
      much. Here a very brave dinner, though no invitation; and, Lord! to see
      how I am treated, that come from so mean a beginning, is matter of wonder
      to me. But it is God's great mercy to me, and His blessing upon my taking
      pains, and being punctual in my dealings. After dinner Captain Cocke and I
      about some business, and then with my other barrel of oysters home to
      Greenwich, sent them by water to Mrs. Penington, while he and I landed,
      and visited Mr. Evelyn, where most excellent discourse with him; among
      other things he showed me a ledger of a Treasurer of the Navy, his great
      grandfather, just 100 years old; which I seemed mighty fond of, and he did
      present me with it, which I take as a great rarity; and he hopes to find
      me more, older than it. He also shewed us several letters of the old Lord
      of Leicester's, in Queen Elizabeth's time, under the very hand-writing of
      Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Mary, Queen of Scotts; and others, very
      venerable names. But, Lord! how poorly, methinks, they wrote in those
      days, and in what plain uncut paper. Thence, Cocke having sent for his
      coach, we to Mrs. Penington, and there sat and talked and eat our oysters
      with great pleasure, and so home to my lodging late and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and busy at the office all day long, saving dinner time, and in
      the afternoon also very late at my office, and so home to bed. All our
      business is now about our Hambro fleete, whether it can go or no this
      yeare, the weather being set in frosty, and the whole stay being for want
      of Pilotts now, which I have wrote to the Trinity House about, but have so
      poor an account from them, that I did acquaint Sir W. Coventry with it
      this post.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's day). Up, though very late abed, yet before day to dress
      myself to go toward Erith, which I would do by land, it being a horrible
      cold frost to go by water: so borrowed two horses of Mr. Howell and his
      friend, and with much ado set out, after my horses being frosted
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Frosting means, having the horses' shoes turned up by the smith.]
</pre>
    <p>
      (which I know not what it means to this day), and my boy having lost one
      of my spurs and stockings, carrying them to the smith's; but I borrowed a
      stocking, and so got up, and Mr. Tooker with me, and rode to Erith, and
      there on board my Lord Bruncker, met Sir W. Warren upon his business,
      among others, and did a great deale, Sir J. Minnes, as God would have it,
      not being there to hinder us with his impertinences. Business done, we to
      dinner very merry, there being there Sir Edmund Pooly, a very worthy
      gentleman. They are now come to the copper boxes in the prizes, and hope
      to have ended all this weeke. After dinner took leave, and on shore to
      Madam Williams, to give her an account of my Lord's letter to me about
      Howe, who he has clapped by the heels on suspicion of having the jewells,
      and she did give me my Lord Bruncker's examination of the fellow, that
      declares his having them; and so away, Sir W. Warren riding with me, and
      the way being very bad, that is, hard and slippery by reason of the frost,
      so we could not come to past Woolwich till night. However, having a great
      mind to have gone to the Duke of Albemarle, I endeavoured to have gone
      farther, but the night come on and no going, so I 'light and sent my horse
      by Tooker, and returned on foot to my wife at Woolwich, where I found, as
      I had directed, a good dinner to be made against to-morrow, and invited
      guests in the yarde, meaning to be merry, in order to her taking leave,
      for she intends to come in a day or two to me for altogether. But here,
      they tell me, one of the houses behind them is infected, and I was fain to
      stand there a great while, to have their back-door opened, but they could
      not, having locked them fast, against any passing through, so was forced
      to pass by them again, close to their sicke beds, which they were removing
      out of the house, which troubled me; so I made them uninvite their guests,
      and to resolve of coming all away to me to-morrow, and I walked with a
      lanthorne, weary as I was, to Greenwich; but it was a fine walke, it being
      a hard frost, and so to Captain Cocke's, but he I found had sent for me to
      come to him to Mrs. Penington's, and there I went, and we were very merry,
      and supped, and Cocke being sleepy he went away betimes. I stayed alone
      talking and playing with her till past midnight, she suffering me whatever
      'ego voulais avec ses mamilles.... Much pleased with her company we
      parted, and I home to bed at past one, all people being in bed thinking I
      would have staid out of town all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and being to go to wait on the Duke of Albemarle, who is to go
      out of towne to Oxford to-morrow, and I being unwilling to go by water, it
      being bitter cold, walked it with my landlady's little boy Christopher to
      Lambeth, it being a very fine walke and calling at half the way and drank,
      and so to the Duke of Albemarle, who is visited by every body against his
      going; and mighty kind to me: and upon my desiring his grace to give me
      his kind word to the Duke of Yorke, if any occasion there were of speaking
      of me, he told me he had reason to do so; for there had been nothing done
      in the Navy without me. His going, I hear, is upon putting the sea
      business into order, and, as some say, and people of his owne family, that
      he is agog to go to sea himself the next year. Here I met with a letter
      from Sir G. Carteret, who is come to Cranborne, that he will be here this
      afternoon and desires me to be with him. So the Duke would have me dine
      with him. So it being not dinner time, I to the Swan, and there found
      Sarah all alone in the house.... So away to the Duke of Albemarle again,
      and there to dinner, he most exceeding kind to me to the observation of
      all that are there. At dinner comes Sir G. Carteret and dines with us.
      After dinner a great deal alone with Sir G. Carteret, who tells me that my
      Lord hath received still worse and worse usage from some base people about
      the Court. But the King is very kind, and the Duke do not appear the
      contrary; and my Lord Chancellor swore to him "by&mdash;-I will not
      forsake my Lord of Sandwich." Our next discourse is upon this Act for
      money, about which Sir G. Carteret comes to see what money can be got upon
      it. But none can be got, which pleases him the thoughts of, for, if the
      Exchequer should succeede in this, his office would faile. But I am apt to
      think at this time of hurry and plague and want of trade, no money will be
      got upon a new way which few understand. We walked, Cocke and I, through
      the Parke with him, and so we being to meet the Vice-Chamberlayne
      to-morrow at Nonesuch, to treat with Sir Robert Long about the same
      business, I into London, it being dark night, by a hackney coach; the
      first I have durst to go in many a day, and with great pain now for fear.
      But it being unsafe to go by water in the dark and frosty cold, and unable
      being weary with my morning walke to go on foot, this was my only way. Few
      people yet in the streets, nor shops open, here and there twenty in a
      place almost; though not above five or sixe o'clock at night. So to
      Viner's, and there heard of Cocke, and found him at the Pope's Head,
      drinking with Temple. I to them, where the Goldsmiths do decry the new
      Act, for money to be all brought into the Exchequer, and paid out thence,
      saying they will not advance one farthing upon it; and indeed it is their
      interest to say and do so. Thence Cocke and I to Sir G. Smith's, it being
      now night, and there up to his chamber and sat talking, and I barbing&mdash;[shaving]&mdash;against
      to-morrow; and anon, at nine at night, comes to us Sir G. Smith and the
      Lieutenant of the Tower, and there they sat talking and drinking till past
      midnight, and mighty merry we were, the Lieutenant of the Tower being in a
      mighty vein of singing, and he hath a very good eare and strong voice, but
      no manner of skill. Sir G. Smith shewed me his lady's closett, which was
      very fine; and, after being very merry, here I lay in a noble chamber, and
      mighty highly treated, the first time I have lain in London a long time.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up before day, and Cocke and I took a hackney coach appointed with
      four horses to take us up, and so carried us over London Bridge. But
      there, thinking of some business, I did 'light at the foot of the bridge,
      and by helpe of a candle at a stall, where some payers were at work, I
      wrote a letter to Mr. Hater, and never knew so great an instance of the
      usefulness of carrying pen and ink and wax about one: so we, the way being
      very bad, to Nonesuch, and thence to Sir Robert Longs house; a fine place,
      and dinner time ere we got thither; but we had breakfasted a little at Mr.
      Gawden's, he being out of towne though, and there borrowed Dr. Taylor's
      sermons, and is a most excellent booke and worth my buying, where had a
      very good dinner, and curiously dressed, and here a couple of ladies,
      kinswomen of his, not handsome though, but rich, that knew me by report of
      The. Turner, and mighty merry we were. After dinner to talk of our
      business, the Act of Parliament, where in short I see Sir R. Long mighty
      fierce in the great good qualities of it. But in that and many other
      things he was stiff in, I think without much judgement, or the judgement I
      expected from him, and already they have evaded the necessity of bringing
      people into the Exchequer with their bills to be paid there. Sir G.
      Carteret is titched&mdash;[fretful, tetchy]&mdash;at this, yet resolves
      with me to make the best use we can of this Act for the King, but all our
      care, we think, will not render it as it should be. He did again here
      alone discourse with me about my Lord, and is himself strongly for my
      Lord's not going to sea, which I am glad to hear and did confirm him in
      it. He tells me too that he talked last night with the Duke of Albemarle
      about my Lord Sandwich, by the by making him sensible that it is his
      interest to preserve his old friends, which he confessed he had reason to
      do, for he knows that ill offices were doing of him, and that he honoured
      my Lord Sandwich with all his heart. After this discourse we parted, and
      all of us broke up and we parted. Captain Cocke and I through Wandsworth.
      Drank at Sir Allen Broderick's, a great friend and comrade of Cocke's,
      whom he values above the world for a witty companion, and I believe he is
      so. So to Fox-Hall and there took boat, and down to the Old Swan, and
      thence to Lumbard Streete, it being darke night, and thence to the Tower.
      Took boat and down to Greenwich, Cocke and I, he home and I to the office,
      where did a little business, and then to my lodgings, where my wife is
      come, and I am well pleased with it, only much trouble in those lodgings
      we have, the mistresse of the house being so deadly dear in everything we
      have; so that we do resolve to remove home soon as we know how the plague
      goes this weeke, which we hope will be a good decrease. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, my wife and I talking how to dispose of our goods, and resolved
      upon sending our two mayds Alce (who has been a day or two at Woolwich
      with my wife, thinking to have had a feast there) and Susan home. So my
      wife after dinner did take them to London with some goods, and I in the
      afternoon after doing other business did go also by agreement to meet
      Captain Cocke and from him to Sir Roger Cuttance, about the money due from
      Cocke to him for the late prize goods, wherein Sir Roger is troubled that
      he hath not payment as agreed, and the other, that he must pay without
      being secured in the quiett possession of them, but some accommodation to
      both, I think, will be found. But Cocke do tell me that several have
      begged so much of the King to be discovered out of stolen prize goods and
      so I am afeard we shall hereafter have trouble, therefore I will get
      myself free of them as soon as I can and my money paid. Thence home to my
      house, calling my wife, where the poor wretch is putting things in a way
      to be ready for our coming home, and so by water together to Greenwich,
      and so spent the night together.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon comes Sir Thomas
      Allen, and I made him dine with me, and very friendly he is, and a good
      man, I think, but one that professes he loves to get and to save. He dined
      with my wife and me and Mrs. Barbary, whom my wife brings along with her
      from Woolwich for as long as she stays here. In the afternoon to the
      office, and there very late writing letters and then home, my wife and
      people sitting up for me, and after supper to bed. Great joy we have this
      week in the weekly Bill, it being come to 544 in all, and but 333 of the
      plague; so that we are encouraged to get to London soon as we can. And my
      father writes as great news of joy to them, that he saw Yorke's waggon go
      again this week to London, and was full of passengers; and tells me that
      my aunt Bell hath been dead of the plague these seven weeks.
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    <p>
      December 1st. This morning to the office, full of resolution to spend the
      whole day at business, and there, among other things, I did agree with
      Poynter to be my clerke for my Victualling business, and so all alone all
      the day long shut up in my little closett at my office, drawing up
      instructions, which I should long since have done for my Surveyours of the
      Ports, Sir W. Coventry desiring much to have them, and he might well have
      expected them long since. After dinner to it again, and at night had long
      discourse with Gibson, who is for Yarmouth, who makes me understand so
      much of the victualling business and the pursers' trade, that I am ashamed
      I should go about the concerning myself in a business which I understand
      so very very little of, and made me distrust all I had been doing to-day.
      So I did lay it by till to-morrow morning to think of it afresh, and so
      home by promise to my wife, to have mirth there. So we had our neighbours,
      little Miss Tooker and Mrs. Daniels, to dance, and after supper I to bed,
      and left them merry below, which they did not part from till two or three
      in the morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and discoursing with my wife, who is resolved to go to London for
      good and all this day, we did agree upon giving Mr. Sheldon L10, and Mrs.
      Barbary two pieces, and so I left her to go down thither to fetch away the
      rest of the things and pay him the money, and so I to the office, where
      very busy setting Mr. Poynter to write out my last night's worke, which
      pleases me this day, but yet it is pretty to reflect how much I am out of
      confidence with what I had done upon Gibson's discourse with me, for fear
      I should have done it sillily, but Poynter likes them, and Mr. Hater also,
      but yet I am afeard lest they should do it out of flattery, so conscious I
      am of my ignorance. Dined with my wife at noon and took leave of her, she
      being to go to London, as I said, for altogether, and I to the office,
      busy till past one in the morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. It being Lord's day, up and dressed and to church, thinking to have
      sat with Sir James Bunce to hear his daughter and her husband sing, that
      are so much commended, but was prevented by being invited into Coll.
      Cleggatt's pew. However, there I sat, near Mr. Laneare, with whom I spoke,
      and in sight, by chance, and very near my fat brown beauty of our Parish,
      the rich merchant's lady, a very noble woman, and Madame Pierce. A good
      sermon of Mr. Plume's, and so to Captain Cocke's, and there dined with
      him, and Colonell Wyndham, a worthy gentleman, whose wife was nurse to the
      present King, and one that while she lived governed him and every thing
      else, as Cocke says, as a minister of state; the old King putting mighty
      weight and trust upon her. They talked much of matters of State and
      persons, and particularly how my Lord Barkeley hath all along been a
      fortunate, though a passionate and but weak man as to policy; but as a
      kinsman brought in and promoted by my Lord of St. Alban's, and one that is
      the greatest vapourer in the world, this Colonell Wyndham says; and one to
      whom only, with Jacke Asheburnel and Colonel Legg, the King's removal to
      the Isle of Wight from Hampton Court was communicated; and (though
      betrayed by their knavery, or at best by their ignorance, insomuch that
      they have all solemnly charged one another with their failures therein,
      and have been at daggers-drawing publickly about it), yet now none greater
      friends in the world. We dined, and in comes Mrs. Owen, a kinswoman of my
      Lord Bruncker's, about getting a man discharged, which I did for her, and
      by and by Mrs. Pierce to speake with me (and Mary my wife's late maid, now
      gone to her) about her husband's business of money, and she tells us how
      she prevented Captain Fisher the other day in his purchase of all her
      husband's fine goods, as pearls and silks, that he had seized in an
      Apothecary's house, a friend of theirs, but she got in and broke them open
      and removed all before Captain Fisher came the next day to fetch them
      away, at which he is starke mad. She went home, and I to my lodgings. At
      night by agreement I fetched her again with Cocke's coach, and he come and
      we sat and talked together, thinking to have had Mrs. Coleman and my
      songsters, her husband and Laneare, but they failed me. So we to supper,
      and as merry as was sufficient, and my pretty little Miss with me; and so
      after supper walked [with] Pierce home, and so back and to bed. But, Lord!
      I stand admiring of the wittinesse of her little boy, which is one of the
      wittiest boys, but most confident that ever I did see of a child of 9
      years old or under in all my life, or indeed one twice his age almost, but
      all for roguish wit. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Several people to me about business, among others Captain Taylor,
      intended Storekeeper for Harwich, whom I did give some assistance in his
      dispatch by lending him money. So out and by water to London and to the
      'Change, and up and down about several businesses, and after the observing
      (God forgive me!) one or two of my neighbour Jason's women come to towne,
      which did please me very well, home to my house at the office, where my
      wife had got a dinner for me: and it was a joyfull thing for us to meet
      here, for which God be praised! Here was her brother come to see her, and
      speake with me about business. It seems my recommending of him hath not
      only obtained his presently being admitted into the Duke of Albemarle's
      guards, and present pay, but also by the Duke's and Sir Philip Howard's
      direction, to be put as a right-hand man, and other marks of special
      respect, at which I am very glad, partly for him, and partly to see that I
      am reckoned something in my recommendations, but wish he may carry himself
      that I may receive no disgrace by him. So to the 'Change. Up and down
      again in the evening about business and to meet Captain Cocke, who waited
      for Mrs. Pierce (with whom he is mightily stricken), to receive and hide
      for her her rich goods she saved the other day from seizure. Upon the
      'Change to-day Colvill tells me, from Oxford, that the King in person hath
      justified my Lord Sandwich to the highest degree; and is right in his
      favour to the uttermost. So late by water home, taking a barrel of oysters
      with me, and at Greenwich went and sat with Madam Penington .... and made
      her undress her head and sit dishevilled all night sporting till two in
      the morning, and so away to my lodging and so to bed. Over-fasting all the
      morning hath filled me mightily with wind, and nothing else hath done it,
      that I fear a fit of the cholique.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up and to the office, where very busy about several businesses all
      the morning. At noon empty, yet without stomach to dinner, having spoiled
      myself with fasting yesterday, and so filled with wind. In the afternoon
      by water, calling Mr. Stevens (who is with great trouble paying of seamen
      of their tickets at Deptford) and to London, to look for Captain Kingdom
      whom we found at home about 5 o'clock. I tried him, and he promised to
      follow us presently to the East India House to sign papers to-night in
      order to the settling the business of my receiving money for Tangier. We
      went and stopt the officer there to shut up. He made us stay above an
      houre. I sent for him; he comes, but was not found at home, but abroad on
      other business, and brings a paper saying that he had been this houre
      looking for the Lord Ashley's order. When he looks for it, that is not the
      paper. He would go again to look; kept us waiting till almost 8 at night.
      Then was I to go home by water this weather and darke, and to write
      letters by the post, besides keeping the East India officers there so
      late. I sent for him again; at last he comes, and says he cannot find the
      paper (which is a pretty thing to lay orders for L100,000 no better). I
      was angry; he told me I ought to give people ease at night, and all
      business was to be done by day. I answered him sharply, that I did [not]
      make, nor any honest man, any difference between night and day in the
      King's business, and this was such, and my Lord Ashley should know. He
      answered me short. I told him I knew the time (meaning the Rump's time)
      when he did other men's business with more diligence. He cried, "Nay, say
      not so," and stopped his mouth, not one word after. We then did our
      business without the order in less than eight minutes, which he made me to
      no purpose stay above two hours for the doing. This made him mad, and so
      we exchanged notes, and I had notes for L14,000 of the Treasurer of the
      Company, and so away and by water to Greenwich and wrote my letters, and
      so home late to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up betimes, it being fast-day; and by water to the Duke of Albemarle,
      who come to towne from Oxford last night. He is mighty brisk, and very
      kind to me, and asks my advice principally in every thing. He surprises me
      with the news that my Lord Sandwich goes Embassador to Spayne speedily;
      though I know not whence this arises, yet I am heartily glad of it. He did
      give me several directions what to do, and so I home by water again and to
      church a little, thinking to have met Mrs. Pierce in order to our meeting
      at night; but she not there, I home and dined, and comes presently by
      appointment my wife. I spent the afternoon upon a song of Solyman's words
      to Roxalana that I have set, and so with my wife walked and Mercer to Mrs.
      Pierce's, where Captain Rolt and Mrs. Knipp, Mr. Coleman and his wife, and
      Laneare, Mrs. Worshipp and her singing daughter, met; and by and by
      unexpectedly comes Mr. Pierce from Oxford. Here the best company for
      musique I ever was in, in my life, and wish I could live and die in it,
      both for musique and the face of Mrs. Pierce, and my wife and Knipp, who
      is pretty enough; but the most excellent, mad-humoured thing, and sings
      the noblest that ever I heard in my life, and Rolt, with her, some things
      together most excellently. I spent the night in extasy almost; and, having
      invited them to my house a day or two hence, we broke up, Pierce having
      told me that he is told how the King hath done my Lord Sandwich all the
      right imaginable, by shewing him his countenance before all the world on
      every occasion, to remove thoughts of discontent; and that he is to go
      Embassador, and that the Duke of Yorke is made generall of all forces by
      land and sea, and the Duke of Albemarle, lieutenant-generall. Whether the
      two latter alterations be so, true or no, he knows not, but he is told so;
      but my Lord is in full favour with the King. So all home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up and to the office, where very busy all day. Sir G. Carteret's
      letter tells me my Lord Sandwich is, as I was told, declared Embassador
      Extraordinary to Spayne, and to go with all speed away, and that his
      enemies have done him as much good as he could wish. At noon late to
      dinner, and after dinner spent till night with Mr. Gibson and Hater
      discoursing and making myself more fully [know] the trade of pursers, and
      what fittest to be done in their business, and so to the office till
      midnight writing letters, and so home, and after supper with my wife about
      one o'clock to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, well pleased in my mind about my Lord Sandwich, about whom I
      shall know more anon from Sir G. Carteret, who will be in towne, and also
      that the Hambrough [ships] after all difficulties are got out. God send
      them good speed! So, after being trimmed, I by water to London, to the
      Navy office, there to give order to my mayde to buy things to send down to
      Greenwich for supper to-night; and I also to buy other things, as oysters,
      and lemons, 6d. per piece, and oranges, 3d. That done I to the 'Change,
      and among many other things, especially for getting of my Tangier money, I
      by appointment met Mr. Gawden, and he and I to the Pope's Head Taverne,
      and there he did give me alone a very pretty dinner. Our business to talk
      of his matters and his supply of money, which was necessary for us to talk
      on before the Duke of Albemarle this afternoon and Sir G. Carteret. After
      that I offered now to pay him the L4000 remaining of his L8000 for
      Tangier, which he took with great kindnesse, and prayed me most frankly to
      give him a note for L3500 and accept the other L500 for myself, which in
      good earnest was against my judgement to do, for [I] expected about L100
      and no more, but however he would have me do it, and ownes very great
      obligations to me, and the man indeed I love, and he deserves it. This put
      me into great joy, though with a little stay to it till we have time to
      settle it, for for so great a sum I was fearfull any accident might by
      death or otherwise defeate me, having not now time to change papers. So we
      rose, and by water to White Hall, where we found Sir G. Carteret with the
      Duke, and also Sir G. Downing, whom I had not seen in many years before.
      He greeted me very kindly, and I him; though methinks I am touched, that
      it should be said that he was my master heretofore, as doubtless he will.
      So to talk of our Navy business, and particularly money business, of which
      there is little hopes of any present supply upon this new Act, the
      goldsmiths being here (and Alderman Backewell newly come from Flanders),
      and none offering any. So we rose without doing more than my stating the
      case of the Victualler, that whereas there is due to him on the last
      year's declaration L80,000, and the charge of this year's amounts to
      L420,000 and odd, he must be supplied between this and the end of January
      with L150,000, and the remainder in 40 weeks by weekly payments, or else
      he cannot go through his business. Thence after some discourse with Sir G.
      Carteret, who, though he tells me that he is glad of my Lord's being made
      Embassador, and that it is the greatest courtesy his enemies could do him;
      yet I find he is not heartily merry upon it, and that it was no design of
      my Lord's friends, but the prevalence of his enemies, and that the Duke of
      Albemarle and Prince Rupert are like to go to sea together the next year.
      I pray God, when my Lord is gone, they do not fall hard upon the
      Vice-Chamberlain, being alone, and in so envious a place, though by this
      late Act and the instructions now a brewing for our office as to method of
      payments will destroy the profit of his place of itself without more
      trouble. Thence by water down to Greenwich, and there found all my company
      come; that is, Mrs. Knipp, and an ill, melancholy, jealous-looking fellow,
      her husband, that spoke not a word to us all the night, Pierce and his
      wife, and Rolt, Mrs. Worshipp and her daughter, Coleman and his wife, and
      Laneare, and, to make us perfectly happy, there comes by chance to towne
      Mr. Hill to see us. Most excellent musique we had in abundance, and a good
      supper, dancing, and a pleasant scene of Mrs. Knipp's rising sicke from
      table, but whispered me it was for some hard word or other her husband
      gave her just now when she laughed and was more merry than ordinary. But
      we got her in humour again, and mighty merry; spending the night, till two
      in the morning, with most complete content as ever in my life, it being
      increased by my day's work with Gawden. Then broke up, and we to bed, Mr.
      Hill and I, whom I love more and more, and he us.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Called up betimes by my Lord Bruncker, who is come to towne from his
      long water worke at Erith last night, to go with him to the Duke of
      Albemarle, which by his coach I did. Our discourse upon the ill posture of
      the times through lacke of money. At the Duke's did some business, and I
      believe he was not pleased to see all the Duke's discourse and
      applications to me and everybody else. Discoursed also with Sir G.
      Carteret about office business, but no money in view. Here my Lord and I
      staid and dined, the Vice-Chamberlain taking his leave. At table the
      Duchesse, a damned ill-looked woman, complaining of her Lord's going to
      sea the next year, said these cursed words: "If my Lord had been a coward
      he had gone to sea no more: it may be then he might have been excused, and
      made an Embassador" (meaning my Lord Sandwich).
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [When Lord Sandwich was away a new commander had to be chosen, and
     rank and long service pointed out Prince Rupert for the office, it
     having been decided that the heir presumptive should be kept at
     home.  It was thought, however, that the same confidence could not
     be placed in the prince's discretion as in his courage, and
     therefore the Duke of Albemarle was induced to take a joint command
     with him, "and so make one admiral of two persons" (see Lister's
     "Life of Clarendon," vol. ii., pp. 360,361).]
</pre>
    <p>
      This made me mad, and I believed she perceived my countenance change, and
      blushed herself very much. I was in hopes others had not minded it, but my
      Lord Bruncker, after we were come away, took notice of the words to me
      with displeasure. Thence after dinner away by water, calling and taking
      leave of Sir G. Carteret, whom we found going through at White Hall, and
      so over to Lambeth and took coach and home, and so to the office, where
      late writing letters, and then home to Mr. Hill, and sang, among other
      things, my song of "Beauty retire," which he likes, only excepts against
      two notes in the base, but likes the whole very well. So late to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Lay long talking, Hill and I, with great pleasure, and
      then up, and being ready walked to Cocke's for some newes, but heard none,
      only they would have us stay their dinner, and sent for my wife, who come,
      and very merry we were, there being Sir Edmund Pooly and Mr. Evelyn.
      Before we had dined comes Mr. Andrews, whom we had sent for to Bow, and so
      after dinner home, and there we sang some things, but not with much
      pleasure, Mr. Andrews being in so great haste to go home, his wife looking
      every hour to be brought to bed. He gone Mr. Hill and I continued our
      musique, one thing after another, late till supper, and so to bed with
      great pleasure.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Lay long with great pleasure talking. So I left him and to London to
      the 'Change, and after discoursed with several people about business; met
      Mr. Gawden at the Pope's Head, where he brought Mr. Lewes and T. Willson
      to discourse about the Victualling business, and the alterations of the
      pursers' trade, for something must be done to secure the King a little
      better, and yet that they may have wherewith to live. After dinner I took
      him aside, and perfected to my great joy my business with him, wherein he
      deals most nobly in giving me his hand for the L4,000, and would take my
      note but for L3500. This is a great blessing, and God make me thankfull
      truly for it. With him till it was darke putting in writing our discourse
      about victualling, and so parted, and I to Viner's, and there evened all
      accounts, and took up my notes setting all straight between us to this
      day. The like to Colvill, and paying several bills due from me on the
      Tangier account. Then late met Cocke and Temple at the Pope's Head, and
      there had good discourse with Temple, who tells me that of the L80,000
      advanced already by the East India Company, they have had L5000 out of
      their hands. He discoursed largely of the quantity of money coyned, and
      what may be thought the real sum of money in the kingdom. He told me, too,
      as an instance of the thrift used in the King's business, that the tools
      and the interest of the money-using to the King for the money he borrowed
      while the new invention of the mill money was perfected, cost him L35,000,
      and in mirthe tells me that the new fashion money is good for nothing but
      to help the Prince if he can secretly get copper plates shut up in silver
      it shall never be discovered, at least not in his age. Thence Cocke and I
      by water, he home and I home, and there sat with Mr. Hill and my wife
      supping, talking and singing till midnight, and then to bed. [That I may
      remember it the more particularly, I thought fit to insert this additional
      memorandum of Temple's discourse this night with me, which I took in
      writing from his mouth. Before the Harp and Crosse money was cried down,
      he and his fellow goldsmiths did make some particular trials what
      proportion that money bore to the old King's money, and they found that
      generally it come to, one with another, about L25 in every L100. Of this
      money there was, upon the calling of it in, L650,000 at least brought into
      the Tower; and from thence he computes that the whole money of England
      must be full L6,250,000. But for all this believes that there is above
      L30,000,000; he supposing that about the King's coming in (when he begun
      to observe the quantity of the new money) people begun to be fearfull of
      this money's being cried down, and so picked it out and set it a-going as
      fast as they could, to be rid of it; and he thinks L30,000,000 the rather,
      because if there were but L16,250,000 the King having L2,000,000 every
      year, would have the whole money of the kingdom in his hands in eight
      years. He tells me about L350,000 sterling was coined out of the French
      money, the proceeds of Dunkirke; so that, with what was coined of the
      Crosse money, there is new coined about L1,000,000 besides the gold, which
      is guessed at L500,000. He tells me, that, though the King did deposit the
      French money in pawn all the while for the L350,000 he was forced to
      borrow thereupon till the tools could be made for the new Minting in the
      present form, yet the interest he paid for that time came to L35,000,
      Viner having to his knowledge L10,000 for the use of L100,000 of it.]&mdash;(The
      passage between brackets is from a piece of paper inserted in this place.)
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to the office, where my Lord Bruncker met, and among other
      things did finish a contract with Cocke for hemp, by which I hope to get
      my money due from him paid presently. At noon home to dinner, only eating
      a bit, and with much kindness taking leave of Mr. Hill who goes away
      to-day, and so I by water saving the tide through Bridge and to Sir G.
      Downing by appointment at Charing Crosse, who did at first mightily please
      me with informing me thoroughly the virtue and force of this Act, and
      indeed it is ten times better than ever I thought could have been said of
      it, but when he come to impose upon me that without more ado I must get by
      my credit people to serve in goods and lend money upon it and none could
      do it better than I, and the King should give me thanks particularly in
      it, and I could not get him to excuse me, but I must come to him though to
      no purpose on Saturday, and that he is sure I will bring him some bargains
      or other made upon this Act, it vexed me more than all the pleasure I took
      before, for I find he will be troublesome to me in it, if I will let him
      have as much of my time as he would have. So late I took leave and in the
      cold (the weather setting in cold) home to the office and, after my
      letters being wrote, home to supper and to bed, my wife being also gone to
      London.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up betimes and finished my journall for five days back, and then
      after being ready to my Lord Bruncker by appointment, there to order the
      disposing of some money that we have come into the office, and here to my
      great content I did get a bill of imprest to Captain Cocke to pay myself
      in part of what is coming to me from him for my Lord Sandwich's
      satisfaction and my owne, and also another payment or two wherein I am
      concerned, and having done that did go to Mr. Pierce's, where he and his
      wife made me drink some tea, and so he and I by water together to London.
      Here at a taverne in Cornhill he and I did agree upon my delivering up to
      him a bill of Captain Cocke's, put into my hand for Pierce's use upon
      evening of reckonings about the prize goods, and so away to the 'Change,
      and there hear the ill news, to my great and all our great trouble, that
      the plague is encreased again this week, notwithstanding there hath been a
      day or two great frosts; but we hope it is only the effects of the late
      close warm weather, and if the frosts continue the next week, may fall
      again; but the town do thicken so much with people, that it is much if the
      plague do not grow again upon us. Off the 'Change invited by Sheriff
      Hooker, who keeps the poorest, mean, dirty table in a dirty house that
      ever I did see any Sheriff of London; and a plain, ordinary, silly man I
      think he is, but rich; only his son, Mr. Lethulier, I like, for a pretty,
      civil, understanding merchant; and the more by much, because he happens to
      be husband to our noble, fat, brave lady in our parish, that I and my wife
      admire so. Thence away to the Pope's Head Taverne, and there met first
      with Captain Cocke, and dispatched my business with him to my content, he
      being ready to sign his bill of imprest of L2,000, and gives it me in part
      of his payment to me, which glads my heart. He being gone, comes Sir W.
      Warren, who advised with me about several things about getting money, and
      L100 I shall presently have of him. We advised about a business of
      insurance, wherein something may be saved to him and got to me, and to
      that end he and I did take a coach at night and to the Cockepitt, there to
      get the Duke of Albemarle's advice for our insuring some of our Sounde
      goods coming home under Harman's convoy, but he proved shy of doing it
      without knowledge of the Duke of Yorke, so we back again and calling at my
      house to see my wife, who is well; though my great trouble is that our
      poor little parish is the greatest number this weeke in all the city
      within the walls, having six, from one the last weeke; and so by water to
      Greenwich leaving Sir W. Warren at home, and I straight to my Lord
      Bruncker, it being late, and concluded upon insuring something and to send
      to that purpose to Sir W. Warren to come to us to-morrow morning. So I
      home and, my mind in great rest, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and to the office a while with my Lord Bruncker, where we
      directed Sir W. Warren in the business of the insurance as I desired, and
      ended some other businesses of his, and so at noon I to London, but the
      'Change was done before I got thither, so I to the Pope's Head Taverne,
      and there find Mr. Gawden and Captain Beckford and Nick Osborne going to
      dinner, and I dined with them and very exceeding merry we were as I had
      [not] been a great while, and dinner being done I to the East India House
      and there had an assignment on Mr. Temple for the L2,000 of Cocke's, which
      joyed my heart; so, having seen my wife in the way, I home by water and to
      write my letters and then home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and spent all the morning with my Surveyors of the Ports for the
      Victualling, and there read to them what instructions I had provided for
      them and discoursed largely much of our business and the business of the
      pursers. I left them to dine with my people, and to my Lord Bruncker's
      where I met with a great good dinner and Sir T. Teddiman, with whom my
      Lord and I were to discourse about the bringing of W. Howe to a tryall for
      his jewells, and there till almost night, and so away toward the office
      and in my way met with Sir James Bunce; and after asking what newes, he
      cried "Ah!" says he (I know [not] whether in earnest or jest), "this is
      the time for you," says he, "that were for Oliver heretofore; you are full
      of employment, and we poor Cavaliers sit still and can get nothing;" which
      was a pretty reproach, I thought, but answered nothing to it, for fear of
      making it worse. So away and I to see Mrs. Penington, but company being to
      come to her, I staid not, but to the office a little and so home, and
      after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and met at the office; Sir W. Batten with us, who come from
      Portsmouth on Monday last, and hath not been with us to see or discourse
      with us about any business till this day. At noon to dinner, Sir W. Warren
      with me on boat, and thence I by water, it being a fearfull cold, snowing
      day to Westminster to White Hall stairs and thence to Sir G. Downing, to
      whom I brought the happy newes of my having contracted, as we did this day
      with Sir W. Warren, for a ship's lading of Norway goods here and another
      at Harwich to the value of above L3,000, which is the first that hath been
      got upon the New Act, and he is overjoyed with it and tells me he will do
      me all the right to Court about it in the world, and I am glad I have it
      to write to Sir W. Coventry to-night. He would fain have me come in L200
      to lend upon the Act, but I desire to be excused in doing that, it being
      to little purpose for us that relate to the King to do it, for the sum
      gets the King no courtesy nor credit. So I parted from him and walked to
      Westminster Hall, where Sir W. Warren, who come along with me, staid for
      me, and there I did see Betty Howlet come after the sicknesse to the Hall.
      Had not opportunity to salute her, as I desired, but was glad to see her
      and a very pretty wench she is. Thence back, landing at the Old Swan and
      taking boat again at Billingsgate, and setting ashore we home and I to the
      office.... and there wrote my letters, and so home to supper and to bed,
      it being a great frost. Newes is come to-day of our Sounde fleete being
      come, but I do not know what Sir W. Warren hath insured.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). After being trimmed word brought me that Cutler's coach
      is, by appointment, come to the Isle of Doggs for me, and so I over the
      water; and in his coach to Hackney, a very fine, cold, clear, frosty day.
      At his house I find him with a plain little dinner, good wine, and
      welcome. He is still a prating man; and the more I know him, the less I
      find in him. A pretty house he hath here indeed, of his owne building. His
      old mother was an object at dinner that made me not like it; and, after
      dinner, to visit his sicke wife I did not also take much joy in, but very
      friendly he is to me, not for any kindnesse I think he hath to any man,
      but thinking me, I perceive, a man whose friendship is to be looked after.
      After dinner back again and to Deptford to Mr. Evelyn's, who was not
      within, but I had appointed my cozen Thos. Pepys of Hatcham to meet me
      there, to discourse about getting his L1000 of my Lord Sandwich, having
      now an opportunity of my having above that sum in my hands of his. I found
      this a dull fellow still in all his discourse, but in this he is ready
      enough to embrace what I counsel him to, which is, to write importunately
      to my Lord and me about it and I will look after it. I do again and again
      declare myself a man unfit to be security for such a sum. He walked with
      me as far as Deptford upper towne, being mighty respectfull to me, and
      there parted, he telling me that this towne is still very bad of the
      plague. I walked to Greenwich first, to make a short visit to my Lord
      Bruncker, and next to Mrs. Penington and spent all the evening with her
      with the same freedom I used to have and very pleasant company. With her
      till one of the clock in the morning and past, and so to my lodging to
      bed, and
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Betimes, up, it being a fine frost, and walked it to Redriffe,
      calling and drinking at Half-way house, thinking, indeed, to have
      overtaken some of the people of our house, the women, who were to walk the
      same walke, but I could not. So to London, and there visited my wife, and
      was a little displeased to find she is so forward all of a spurt to make
      much of her brother and sister since my last kindnesse to him in getting
      him a place, but all ended well presently, and I to the 'Change and up and
      down to Kingdon and the goldsmith's to meet Mr. Stephens, and did get all
      my money matters most excellently cleared to my complete satisfaction.
      Passing over Cornhill I spied young Mrs. Daniel and Sarah, my landlady's
      daughter, who are come, as I expected, to towne, and did say they spied me
      and I dogged them to St. Martin's, where I passed by them being shy, and
      walked down as low as Ducke Lane and enquired for some Spanish books, and
      so back again and they were gone. So to the 'Change, hoping to see them in
      the streete, and missing them, went back again thither and back to the
      'Change, but no sight of them, so went after my business again, and,
      though late, was sent to by Sir W. Warren (who heard where I was) to
      intreat me to come dine with him, hearing that I lacked a dinner, at the
      Pope's Head; and there with Mr. Hinton, the goldsmith, and others, very
      merry; but, Lord! to see how Dr. Hinton come in with a gallant or two from
      Court, and do so call "Cozen" Mr. Hinton, the goldsmith, but I that know
      him to be a beggar and a knave, did make great sport in my mind at it.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [John Hinton, M.D., a strong royalist, who attended Henrietta Maria
     in her confinement at Exeter when she gave birth to the Princess
     Henrietta.  He was knighted by Charles II., and appointed physician
     in ordinary to the king and queen.  His knighthood was a reward for
     having procured a private advance of money from his kinsman, the
     goldsmith, to enable the Duke of Albemarle to pay the army (see
     "Memorial to King Charles II. from Sir John Hinton, A.D. 1679,"
     printed in Ellis's "Original Letters," 3rd series, vol. iv.,
     p  296).]
</pre>
    <p>
      After dinner Sir W. Warren and I alone in another room a little while
      talking about business, and so parted, and I hence, my mind full of
      content in my day's worke, home by water to Greenwich, the river beginning
      to be very full of ice, so as I was a little frighted, but got home well,
      it being darke. So having no mind to do any business, went home to my
      lodgings, and there got little Mrs. Tooker, and Mrs. Daniel, the daughter,
      and Sarah to my chamber to cards and sup with me, when in comes Mr. Pierce
      to me, who tells me how W. Howe has been examined on shipboard by my Lord
      Bruncker to-day, and others, and that he has charged him out of envy with
      sending goods under my Lord's seale and in my Lord Bruncker's name,
      thereby to get them safe passage, which, he tells me, is false, but that
      he did use my name to that purpose, and hath acknowledged it to my Lord
      Bruncker, but do also confess to me that one parcel he thinks he did use
      my Lord Bruncker's name, which do vexe me mightily that my name should be
      brought in question about such things, though I did not say much to him of
      my discontent till I have spoke with my Lord Bruncker about it. So he
      being gone, being to go to Oxford to-morrow, we to cards again late, and
      so broke up, I having great pleasure with my little girle, Mrs. Tooker.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon by agreement
      comes Hatcham Pepys to dine with me. I thought to have had him to Sir J.
      Minnes to a good venison pasty with the rest of my fellows, being invited,
      but seeing much company I went away with him and had a good dinner at
      home. He did give me letters he hath wrote to my Lord and Moore about my
      Lord's money to get it paid to my cozen, which I will make good use of. I
      made mighty much of him, but a sorry dull fellow he is, fit for nothing
      that is ingenious, nor is there a turd of kindnesse or service to be had
      from him. So I shall neglect him if I could get but him satisfied about
      this money that I may be out of bonds for my Lord to him. To see that this
      fellow could desire me to helpe him to some employment, if it were but of
      L100 per annum: when he is not worth less than, I believe, L20,000. He
      gone, I to Sir J. Minnes, and thence with my Lord Bruncker on board the
      Bezan to examine W. Howe again, who I find upon this tryall one of much
      more wit and ingenuity in his answers than ever I expected, he being very
      cunning and discreet and well spoken in them. I said little to him or
      concerning him; but, Lord! to see how he writes to me a-days, and styles
      me "My Honour." So much is a man subjected and dejected under afflictions
      as to flatter me in that manner on this occasion. Back with my Lord to Sir
      J. Minnes, where I left him and the rest of a great deale of company, and
      so I to my office, where late writing letters and then home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and was trimmed, but not time enough to save my Lord Bruncker's
      coach or Sir J. Minnes's, and so was fain to walk to Lambeth on foot, but
      it was a very fine frosty walke, and great pleasure in it, but troublesome
      getting over the River for ice. I to the Duke of Albemarle, whither my
      brethren were all come, but I was not too late. There we sat in discourse
      upon our Navy business an houre, and thence in my Lord Bruncker's coach
      alone, he walking before (while I staid awhile talking with Sir G. Downing
      about the Act, in which he is horrid troublesome) to the Old Exchange.
      Thence I took Sir Ellis Layton to Captain Cocke's, where my Lord Bruncker
      and Lady Williams dine, and we all mighty merry; but Sir Ellis Layton one
      of the best companions at a meale in the world. After dinner I to the
      Exchange to see whether my pretty seamstress be come again or no, and I
      find she is, so I to her, saluted her over her counter in the open
      Exchange above, and mightily joyed to see her, poor pretty woman! I must
      confess I think her a great beauty. After laying out a little money there
      for two pair of thread stockings, cost 8s., I to Lumbard Streete to see
      some business to-night there at the goldsmith's, among others paying in
      L1258 to Viner for my Lord Sandwich's use upon Cocke's account. I was
      called by my Lord Bruncker in his coach with his mistresse, and Mr. Cottle
      the lawyer, our acquaintance at Greenwich, and so home to Greenwich, and
      thence I to Mrs. Penington, and had a supper from the King's Head for her,
      and there mighty merry and free as I used to be with her, and at last,
      late, I did pray her to undress herself into her nightgowne, that I might
      see how to have her picture drawne carelessly (for she is mighty proud of
      that conceit), and I would walk without in the streete till she had done.
      So I did walk forth, and whether I made too many turns or no in the darke
      cold frosty night between the two walls up to the Parke gate I know not,
      but she was gone to bed when I come again to the house, upon pretence of
      leaving some papers there, which I did on purpose by her consent. So I
      away home, and was there sat up for to be spoken with my young Mrs.
      Daniel, to pray me to speake for her husband to be a Lieutenant. I had the
      opportunity here of kissing her again and again, and did answer that I
      would be very willing to do him any kindnesse, and so parted, and I to
      bed, exceedingly pleased in all my matters of money this month or two, it
      having pleased God to bless me with several opportunities of good sums,
      and that I have them in effect all very well paid, or in my power to have.
      But two things trouble me; one, the sicknesse is increased above 80 this
      weeke (though in my owne parish not one has died, though six the last
      weeke); the other, most of all, which is, that I have so complexed an
      account for these last two months for variety of layings out upon Tangier,
      occasions and variety of gettings that I have not made even with myself
      now these 3 or 4 months, which do trouble me mightily, finding that I
      shall hardly ever come to understand them thoroughly again, as I used to
      do my accounts when I was at home.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. At the office all the morning. At noon all of us dined at Captain
      Cocke's at a good chine of beef, and other good meat; but, being all
      frost-bitten, was most of it unroast; but very merry, and a good dish of
      fowle we dressed ourselves. Mr. Evelyn there, in very good humour. All the
      afternoon till night pleasant, and then I took my leave of them and to the
      office, where I wrote my letters, and away home, my head full of business
      and some trouble for my letting my accounts go so far that I have made an
      oathe this night for the drinking no wine, &amp;c., on such penalties till
      I have passed my accounts and cleared all. Coming home and going to bed,
      the boy tells me his sister Daniel has provided me a supper of little
      birds killed by her husband, and I made her sup with me, and after supper
      were alone a great while, and I had the pleasure of her lips, she being a
      pretty woman, and one whom a great belly becomes as well as ever I saw
      any. She gone, I to bed. This day I was come to by Mrs. Burrows, of
      Westminster, Lieutenant Burrows (lately dead) his wife, a most pretty
      woman and my old acquaintance; I had a kiss or two of her, and a most
      modest woman she is.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up betimes and to my Lord Bruncker to consider the late instructions
      sent us for the method of our signing bills hereafter and paying them. By
      and by, by agreement, comes Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten, and then to
      read them publicly and consider of putting them in execution. About this
      all the morning, and, it appearing necessary for the Controller to have
      another Clerke, I recommended Poynter to him, which he accepts, and I by
      that means rid of one that I fear would not have been fit for my turne,
      though he writes very well. At noon comes Mr. Hill to towne, and finds me
      out here, and brings Mr. Houbland, who met him here. So I was compelled to
      leave my Lord and his dinner and company, and with them to the Beare, and
      dined with them and their brothers, of which Hill had his and the other
      two of his, and mighty merry and very fine company they are, and I glad to
      see them. After dinner I forced to take leave of them by being called upon
      by Mr. Andrews, I having sent for him, and by a fine glosse did bring him
      to desire tallys for what orders I have to pay him and his company for
      Tangier victualls, and I by that means cleared to myself L210 coming to me
      upon their two orders, which is also a noble addition to my late profits,
      which have been very considerable of late, but how great I know not till I
      come to cast up my accounts, which burdens my mind that it should be so
      backward, but I am resolved to settle to nothing till I have done it. He
      gone, I to my Lord Bruncker's, and there spent the evening by my desire in
      seeing his Lordship open to pieces and make up again his watch, thereby
      being taught what I never knew before; and it is a thing very well worth
      my having seen, and am mightily pleased and satisfied with it. So I sat
      talking with him till late at night, somewhat vexed at a snappish answer
      Madam Williams did give me to herself, upon my speaking a free word to her
      in mirthe, calling her a mad jade. She answered, we were not so well
      acquainted yet. But I was more at a letter from my Lord Duke of Albemarle
      to-day, pressing us to continue our meetings for all Christmas, which,
      though every body intended not to have done, yet I am concluded in it, who
      intended nothing else. But I see it is necessary that I do make often
      visits to my Lord Duke, which nothing shall hinder after I have evened my
      accounts, and now the river is frozen I know not how to get to him. Thence
      to my lodging, making up my Journall for 8 or 9 days, and so my mind being
      eased of it, I to supper and to bed. The weather hath been frosty these
      eight or nine days, and so we hope for an abatement of the plague the next
      weeke, or else God have mercy upon us! for the plague will certainly
      continue the next year if it do not.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. At my office all the morning and home to dinner, my head full of
      business, and there my wife finds me unexpectedly. But I not being at
      leisure to stay or talk with her, she went down by coach to Woolwich,
      thinking to fetch Mrs. Barbary to carry her to London to keep her
      Christmas with her, and I to the office. This day one come to me with four
      great turkies, as a present from Mr. Deane, at Harwich, three of which my
      wife carried in the evening home with her to London in her coach (Mrs.
      Barbary not being to be got so suddenly, but will come to her the next
      week), and I at my office late, and then to my lodgings to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Sunday). Up betimes, to my Lord Duke of Albemarle by water, and
      after some talke with him about business of the office with great content,
      and so back again and to dinner, my landlady and her daughters with me,
      and had mince-pies, and very merry at a mischance her young son had in
      tearing of his new coate quite down the outside of his sleeve in the whole
      cloth, one of the strangest mishaps that ever I saw in my life. Then to
      church, and placed myself in the Parson's pew under the pulpit, to hear
      Mrs. Chamberlain in the next pew sing, who is daughter to Sir James Bunch,
      of whom I have heard much, and indeed she sings very finely, and from
      church met with Sir W. Warren and he and I walked together talking about
      his and my businesses, getting of money as fairly as we can, and, having
      set him part of his way home, I walked to my Lord Bruncker, whom I heard
      was at Alderman Hooker's, hoping to see and salute Mrs. Lethulier, whom I
      did see in passing, but no opportunity of beginning acquaintance, but a
      very noble lady she is, however the silly alderman got her. Here we sat
      talking a great while, Sir The. Biddulph and Mr. Vaughan, a son-in-law of
      Alderman Hooker's. Hence with my Lord Bruncker home and sat a little with
      him and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Christmas-day). To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in
      the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so
      merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people
      have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and
      woman gazing and smiling at them. Here I saw again my beauty Lethulier.
      Thence to my Lord Bruncker's by invitation and dined there, and so home to
      look over and settle my papers, both of my accounts private, and those of
      Tangier, which I have let go so long that it were impossible for any soul,
      had I died, to understand them, or ever come to any good end in them. I
      hope God will never suffer me to come to that disorder again.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and to the office, where Sir J. Minnes and my Lord Bruncker and
      I met, to give our directions to the Commanders of all the ships in the
      river to bring in lists of their ships' companies, with entries,
      discharges, &amp;c., all the last voyage, where young Seymour, among 20
      that stood bare, stood with his hat on, a proud, saucy young man. Thence
      with them to Mr. Cuttle's, being invited, and dined nobly and neatly; with
      a very pretty house and a fine turret at top, with winding stairs and the
      finest prospect I know about all Greenwich, save the top of the hill, and
      yet in some respects better than that. Here I also saw some fine writing
      worke and flourishing of Mr. Hore, he one that I knew long ago, an
      acquaintance of Mr. Tomson's at Westminster, that is this man's clerk. It
      is the story of the several Archbishops of Canterbury, engrossed in
      vellum, to hang up in Canterbury Cathedrall in tables, in lieu of the old
      ones, which are almost worn out. Thence to the office a while, and so to
      Captain Cocke's and there talked, and home to look over my papers, and so
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and with Cocke, by coach to London, there home to my wife, and
      angry about her desiring a mayde yet, before the plague is quite over. It
      seems Mercer is troubled that she hath not one under her, but I will not
      venture my family by increasing it before it be safe. Thence about many
      businesses, particularly with Sir W. Warren on the 'Change, and he and I
      dined together and settled our Tangier matters, wherein I get above L200
      presently. We dined together at the Pope's Head to do this, and thence to
      the goldsmiths, I to examine the state of my matters there too, and so
      with him to my house, but my wife was gone abroad to Mrs. Mercer's, so we
      took boat, and it being darke and the thaw having broke the ice, but not
      carried it quite away, the boat did pass through so much of it all along,
      and that with the crackling and noise that it made me fearfull indeed. So
      I forced the watermen to land us on Redriffe side, and so walked together
      till Sir W. Warren and I parted near his house and thence I walked quite
      over the fields home by light of linke, one of my watermen carrying it,
      and I reading by the light of it, it being a very fine, clear, dry night.
      So to Captain Cocke's, and there sat and talked, especially with his
      Counsellor, about his prize goods, that hath done him good turne, being of
      the company with Captain Fisher, his name Godderson; here I supped and so
      home to bed, with great content that the plague is decreased to 152, the
      whole being but 330.
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    <p>
      28th. Up and to the office, and thence with a great deal of business in my
      head, dined alone with Cocke. So home alone strictly about my accounts,
      wherein I made a good beginning, and so, after letters wrote by the post,
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up betimes, and all day long within doors upon my accounts, publique
      and private, and find the ill effect of letting them go so long without
      evening, that no soul could have ever understood them but myself, and I
      with much ado. But, however, my regularity in all I did and spent do helpe
      me, and I hope to find them well. Late at them and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up and to the office, at noon home to dinner, and all the afternoon
      to my accounts again, and there find myself, to my great joy, a great deal
      worth above L4000, for which the Lord be praised! and is principally
      occasioned by my getting L500 of Cocke, for my profit in his bargains of
      prize goods, and from Mr. Gawden's making me a present of L500 more, when
      I paid him 8000 for Tangier. So to my office to write letters, then to my
      accounts again, and so to bed, being in great ease of mind.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st (Lord's day). All the morning in my chamber, writing fair the state
      of my Tangier accounts, and so dined at home. In the afternoon to the Duke
      of Albemarle and thence back again by water, and so to my chamber to
      finish the entry of my accounts and to think of the business I am next to
      do, which is the stating my thoughts and putting in order my collections
      about the business of pursers, to see where the fault of our present
      constitution relating to them lies and what to propose to mend it, and
      upon this late and with my head full of this business to bed. Thus ends
      this year, to my great joy, in this manner. I have raised my estate from
      L1300 in this year to L4400. I have got myself greater interest, I think,
      by my diligence, and my employments encreased by that of Treasurer for
      Tangier, and Surveyour of the Victualls. It is true we have gone through
      great melancholy because of the great plague, and I put to great charges
      by it, by keeping my family long at Woolwich, and myself and another part
      of my family, my clerks, at my charge at Greenwich, and a mayde at London;
      but I hope the King will give us some satisfaction for that. But now the
      plague is abated almost to nothing, and I intending to get to London as
      fast as I can. My family, that is my wife and maids, having been there
      these two or three weeks. The Dutch war goes on very ill, by reason of
      lack of money; having none to hope for, all being put into disorder by a
      new Act that is made as an experiment to bring credit to the Exchequer,
      for goods and money to be advanced upon the credit of that Act. I have
      never lived so merrily (besides that I never got so much) as I have done
      this plague time, by my Lord Bruncker's and Captain Cocke's good company,
      and the acquaintance of Mrs. Knipp, Coleman and her husband, and Mr.
      Laneare, and great store of dancings we have had at my cost (which I was
      willing to indulge myself and wife) at my lodgings. The great evil of this
      year, and the only one indeed, is the fall of my Lord of Sandwich, whose
      mistake about the prizes hath undone him, I believe, as to interest at
      Court; though sent (for a little palliating it) Embassador into Spayne,
      which he is now fitting himself for. But the Duke of Albemarle goes with
      the Prince to sea this next year, and my Lord very meanly spoken of; and,
      indeed, his miscarriage about the prize goods is not to be excused, to
      suffer a company of rogues to go away with ten times as much as himself,
      and the blame of all to be deservedly laid upon him.
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     [According to Granville Penn ("Memorials of Sir W. Penn," ii. 488 n.)
     L2000 went to Lord Sandwich and L8000 among eight others.]
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    <p>
      My whole family hath been well all this while, and all my friends I know
      of, saving my aunt Bell, who is dead, and some children of my cozen
      Sarah's, of the plague. But many of such as I know very well, dead; yet,
      to our great joy, the town fills apace, and shops begin to be open again.
      Pray God continue the plague's decrease! for that keeps the Court away
      from the place of business, and so all goes to rack as to publick matters,
      they at this distance not thinking of it.
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     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS, PEPY'S DIARY,1965 N.S.,COMPLETE:

     A fair salute on horseback, in Rochester streets, of the lady
     A most conceited fellow and not over much in him
     A conceited man, but of no Logique in his head at all
     A vineyard, the first that ever I did see
     A pretty man, I would be content to break a commandment with him
     About two o'clock, too late and too soon to go home to bed
     Accounts I never did see, or hope again to see in my days
     All the towne almost going out of towne (Plague panic)
     Among  many lazy people that the diligent man becomes necessary
     And feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none
     And all to dinner and sat down to the King saving myself
     At a loss whether it will be better for me to have him die
     Bagwell's wife waited at the door, and went with me to my office
     Baseness and looseness of the Court
     Because I would not be over sure of any thing
     Being able to do little business (but the less the better)
     Being the first Wednesday of the month
     Best poem that ever was wrote (Siege of Rhodes)
     Bottle of strong water; whereof now and then a sip did me good
     Buy some roll-tobacco to smell to and chaw
     By his many words and no understanding, confound himself
     Castlemayne is sicke again, people think, slipping her filly
     Church, where a most insipid young coxcomb preached
     Clean myself with warm water; my wife will have me
     Consult my pillow upon that and every great thing of my life
     Contracted for her as if he had been buying a horse
     Convenience of periwiggs is so great
     Copper to the value of L5,000
     Costs me 12d. a kiss after the first
     Delight to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition
     Desired me that I would baste his coate
     Did bear with it, and very pleasant all the while
     Did put evil thoughts in me, but proceeded no further
     Discourse of Mr. Evelyn touching all manner of learning
     Disease making us more cruel to one another than if we are doggs
     Doubtfull whether her daughter will like of it or no
     Dying this last week of the plague 112, from 43 the week before
     Endeavouring to strike tallys for money for Tangier
     Every body is at a great losse and nobody can tell
     Every body's looks, and discourse in the street is of death
     Fell to sleep as if angry
     Find that now and then a little difference do no hurte
     First thing of that nature I did ever give her (L10 ring)
     For my quiet would not enquire into it
     For, for her part, she should not be buried in the commons
     France, which is accounted the best place for bread
     French have taken two and sunk one of our merchant-men
     Give the other notice of the future state, if there was any
     Going with her woman to a hot-house to bathe herself
     Good discourse and counsel from him, which I hope I shall take
     Great many silly stories they tell of their sport
     Great thaw it is not for a man to walk the streets
     Had what pleasure almost I would with her
     Hath sent me masters that do observe that I take pains
     Hath a good heart to bear, or a cunning one to conceal his evil
     Hear that the plague is come into the City
     Heard noises over their head upon the leads
     His wife and three children died, all, I think, in a day
     His disease was the pox and that he must be fluxed (Rupert)
     His enemies have done him as much good as he could wish
     Houses marked with a red cross upon the doors
     How sad a sight it is to see the streets empty of people
     How little merit do prevail in the world, but only favour
     How little heed is had to the prisoners and sicke and wounded
     How Povy overdoes every thing in commending it
     How unhppily a man may fall into a necessity of bribing people
     I kissed the bride in bed, and so the curtaines drawne
     I have promised, but know not when I shall perform
     I know not how their fortunes may agree
     I met a dead corps of the plague, in the narrow ally
     I am a foole to be troubled at it, since I cannot helpe it
     If the exportations exceed importations
     In our graves (as Shakespeere resembles it) we could dream
     It is a strange thing how fancy works
     King shall not be able to whip a cat
     King himself minding nothing but his ease
     King is not at present in purse to do
     L10,000 to the Prince, and half-a-crowne to my Lord of Sandwich
     Law against it signifies nothing in the world
     Law and severity were used against drunkennesse
     Lechery will never leave him
     Left him with some Commanders at the table taking tobacco
     Less he finds of difference between them and other men
     Lord! in the dullest insipid manner that ever lover did
     Luxury and looseness of the times
     Money I have not, nor can get
     Mr. Evelyn's translating and sending me as a present
     Must be forced to confess it to my wife, which troubles me
     My wife after her bathing lying alone in another bed
     My old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still
     Nan at Moreclacke, very much pleased and merry with her
     Never could man say worse himself nor have worse said
     No man is wise at all times
     Not had the confidence to take his lady once by the hand
     Not liking that it should lie long undone, for fear of death
     Not to be censured if their necessities drive them to bad
     Offer to give me a piece to receive of me 20
     One whom a great belly becomes as well as ever I saw any
     Ordered him L2000, and he paid me my quantum out of it
     Ordered in the yarde six or eight bargemen to be whipped
     Out of my purse I dare not for fear of a precedent
     Pest coaches and put her into it to carry her to a pest house
     Plague claimed 68,596 victims (in 1665)
     Plague, forty last night, the bell always going
     Pleases them mightily, and me not at all
     Poor seamen that lie starving in the streets
     Pretends to a resolution of being hereafter very clean
     Pretty to see the young pretty ladies dressed like men
     Pride of some persons and vice of most was but a sad story
     Quakers and others that will not have any bell ring for them
     Resolving not to be bribed to dispatch business
     Sat an hour or two talking and discoursing....
     Saying me to be the fittest man in England
     Searchers with their rods in their hands
     See how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody
     Sicke men that are recovered, they lying before our office doors
     So to bed, to be up betimes by the helpe of a larum watch
     So great a trouble is fear
     The coachman that carried [us] cannot know me again
     The boy is well, and offers to be searched
     This absence makes us a little strange instead of more fond
     Those bred in the North among the colliers are good for labour
     Though neither of us care 2d. one for another
     Tied our men back to back, and thrown them all into the sea
     Told us he had not been in a bed in the whole seven years
     Too much of it will make her know her force too much
     Two shops in three, if not more, generally shut up
     Up, leaving my wife in bed, being sick of her months
     Wanton as ever she was, with much I made myself merry and away
     Well enough pleased this morning with their night's lodging
     What silly discourse we had by the way as to love-matters
     When she least shews it hath her wit at work
     Where money is free, there is great plenty
     Which may teach me how I make others wait
     Who is the most, and promises the least, of any man
     Wife that brings me nothing almost (besides a comely person)
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    <p>
      January 1st (New-Yeare's Day). Called up by five o'clock, by my order, by
      Mr. Tooker, who wrote, while I dictated to him, my business of the
      Pursers; and so, without eating or drinking, till three in the afternoon,
      and then, to my great content, finished it. So to dinner, Gibson and he
      and I, and then to copying it over, Mr. Gibson reading and I writing, and
      went a good way in it till interrupted by Sir W. Warren's coming, of whom
      I always learne something or other, his discourse being very good and his
      brains also. He being gone we to our business again, and wrote more of it
      fair, and then late to bed.
    </p>
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     [This document is in the British Museum (Harleian MS. 6287), and is
     entitled, "A Letter from Mr. Pepys, dated at Greenwich, 1 Jan.
     1665-6, which he calls his New Year's Gift to his hon. friend, Sir
     Wm. Coventry, wherein he lays down a method for securing his Majesty
     in husbandly execution of the Victualling Part of the Naval
     Expence."  It consists of nineteen closely written folio pages, and
     is a remarkable specimen of Pepys's business habits.&mdash;B. There are
     copies of several letters on the victualling of the navy, written by
     Pepys in 1666, among the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian.]
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    <p>
      2nd. Up by candlelight again, and wrote the greatest part of my business
      fair, and then to the office, and so home to dinner, and after dinner up
      and made an end of my fair writing it, and that being done, set two
      entering while to my Lord Bruncker's, and there find Sir J. Minnes and all
      his company, and Mr. Boreman and Mrs. Turner, but, above all, my dear Mrs.
      Knipp, with whom I sang, and in perfect pleasure I was to hear her sing,
      and especially her little Scotch song of "Barbary Allen;"
    </p>
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     [The Scottish ballad is entitled, "Sir John Grehme and Barbara
     Allan," and the English version, "Barbara Allen's Cruelty."  Both
     are printed in Percy's "Reliques," Series III.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and to make our mirthe the completer, Sir J. Minnes was in the highest
      pitch of mirthe, and his mimicall tricks, that ever I saw, and most
      excellent pleasant company he is, and the best mimique that ever I saw,
      and certainly would have made an excellent actor, and now would be an
      excellent teacher of actors. Thence, it being post night, against my will
      took leave, but before I come to my office, longing for more of her
      company, I returned and met them coming home in coaches, so I got into the
      coach where Mrs. Knipp was and got her upon my knee (the coach being full)
      and played with her breasts and sung, and at last set her at her house and
      so good night. So home to my lodgings and there endeavoured to have
      finished the examining my papers of Pursers' business to have sent away
      to-night, but I was so sleepy with my late early risings and late goings
      to bed that I could not do it, but was forced to go to bed and leave it to
      send away to-morrow by an Expresse.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and all the morning till three in the afternoon examining and
      fitting up my Pursers' paper and sent it away by an Expresse. Then comes
      my wife, and I set her to get supper ready against I go to the Duke of
      Albemarle and back again; and at the Duke's with great joy I received the
      good news of the decrease of the plague this week to 70, and but 253 in
      all; which is the least Bill hath been known these twenty years in the
      City. Through the want of people in London is it, that must make it so low
      below the ordinary number for Bills. So home, and find all my good company
      I had bespoke, as Coleman and his wife, and Laneare, Knipp and her surly
      husband; and good musique we had, and, among other things, Mrs. Coleman
      sang my words I set of "Beauty retire," and I think it is a good song, and
      they praise it mightily. Then to dancing and supper, and mighty merry till
      Mr. Rolt come in, whose pain of the tooth-ake made him no company, and
      spoilt ours; so he away, and then my wife's teeth fell of akeing, and she
      to bed. So forced to break up all with a good song, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and to the office, where my Lord Bruncker and I, against Sir W.
      Batten and Sir J. Minnes and the whole table, for Sir W. Warren in the
      business of his mast contract, and overcome them and got them to do what I
      had a mind to, for indeed my Lord being unconcerned in what I aimed at. So
      home to dinner, where Mr. Sheldon come by invitation from Woolwich, and as
      merry as I could be with all my thoughts about me and my wife still in
      pain of her tooth. He anon took leave and took Mrs. Barbary his niece home
      with him, and seems very thankful to me for the L10 I did give him for my
      wife's rent of his house, and I am sure I am beholding to him, for it was
      a great convenience to me, and then my wife home to London by water and I
      to the office till 8 at night, and so to my Lord Bruncker's, thinking to
      have been merry, having appointed a meeting for Sir J. Minnes and his
      company and Mrs. Knipp again, but whatever hindered I know not, but no
      company come, which vexed me because it disappointed me of the glut of
      mirthe I hoped for. However, good discourse with my Lord and merry, with
      Mrs. Williams's descants upon Sir J. Minnes's and Mrs. Turner's not
      coming. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. I with my Lord Bruncker and Mrs. Williams by coach with four horses
      to London, to my Lord's house in Covent-Guarden. But, Lord! what staring
      to see a nobleman's coach come to town. And porters every where bow to us;
      and such begging of beggars! And a delightfull thing it is to see the
      towne full of people again as now it is; and shops begin to open, though
      in many places seven or eight together, and more, all shut; but yet the
      towne is full, compared with what it used to be. I mean the City end; for
      Covent-Guarden and Westminster are yet very empty of people, no Court nor
      gentry being there. Set Mrs. Williams down at my Lord's house and he and I
      to Sir G. Carteret, at his chamber at White Hall, he being come to town
      last night to stay one day. So my Lord and he and I much talke about the
      Act, what credit we find upon it, but no private talke between him and I.
      So I to the 'Change, and there met Mr. Povy, newly come to town, and he
      and I to Sir George Smith's and there dined nobly. He tells me how my Lord
      Bellases complains for want of money and of him and me therein, but I
      value it not, for I know I do all that can be done. We had no time to talk
      of particulars, but leave it to another day, and I away to Cornhill to
      expect my Lord Bruncker's coming back again, and I staid at my stationer's
      house, and by and by comes my Lord, and did take me up and so to
      Greenwich, and after sitting with them a while at their house, home,
      thinking to get Mrs. Knipp, but could not, she being busy with company,
      but sent me a pleasant letter, writing herself "Barbary Allen." I went
      therefore to Mr. Boreman's for pastime, and there staid an houre or two
      talking with him, and reading a discourse about the River of Thames, the
      reason of its being choked up in several places with shelfes; which is
      plain is, by the encroachments made upon the River, and running out of
      causeways into the River at every wood-wharfe; which was not heretofore
      when Westminster Hall and White Hall were built, and Redriffe Church,
      which now are sometimes overflown with water. I had great satisfaction
      herein. So home and to my papers for lacke of company, but by and by comes
      little Mrs. Tooker and sat and supped with me, and I kept her very late
      talking and making her comb my head, and did what I will with her. So late
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up betimes and by water to the Cockepitt, there met Sir G. Carteret
      and, after discourse with the Duke, all together, and there saw a letter
      wherein Sir W. Coventry did take notice to the Duke with a commendation of
      my paper about Pursers, I to walke in the Parke with the Vice-Chamberlain,
      and received his advice about my deportment about the advancing the credit
      of the Act; giving me caution to see that we do not misguide the King by
      making them believe greater matters from it than will be found. But I see
      that this arises from his great trouble to see the Act succeede, and to
      hear my name so much used and my letters shown at Court about goods served
      us in upon the credit of it. But I do make him believe that I do it with
      all respect to him and on his behalfe too, as indeed I do, as well as my
      owne, that it may not be said that he or I do not assist therein. He tells
      me that my Lord Sandwich do proceed on his journey with the greatest
      kindnesse that can be imagined from the King and Chancellor, which was
      joyfull newes to me. Thence with Lord Bruncker to Greenwich by water to a
      great dinner and much company; Mr. Cottle and his lady and others and I
      went, hoping to get Mrs. Knipp to us, having wrote a letter to her in the
      morning, calling myself "Dapper Dicky," in answer to hers of "Barbary
      Allen," but could not, and am told by the boy that carried my letter, that
      he found her crying; but I fear she lives a sad life with that ill-natured
      fellow her husband: so we had a great, but I a melancholy dinner, having
      not her there, as I hoped. After dinner to cards, and then comes notice
      that my wife is come unexpectedly to me to towne. So I to her. It is only
      to see what I do, and why I come not home; and she is in the right that I
      would have a little more of Mrs. Knipp's company before I go away. My wife
      to fetch away my things from Woolwich, and I back to cards and after cards
      to choose King and Queene, and a good cake there was, but no marks found;
      but I privately found the clove, the mark of the knave, and privately put
      it into Captain Cocke's piece, which made some mirthe, because of his
      lately being knowne by his buying of clove and mace of the East India
      prizes. At night home to my lodging, where I find my wife returned with my
      things, and there also Captain Ferrers is come upon business of my Lord's
      to this town about getting some goods of his put on board in order to his
      going to Spain, and Ferrers presumes upon my finding a bed for him, which
      I did not like to have done without my invitation because I had done [it]
      several times before, during the plague, that he could not provide himself
      safely elsewhere. But it being Twelfth Night, they had got the fiddler and
      mighty merry they were; and I above come not to them, but when I had done
      my business among my papers went to bed, leaving them dancing, and
      choosing King and Queene.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). Up, and being trimmed I was invited by Captain Cocke, so
      I left my wife, having a mind to some discourse with him, and dined with
      him. He tells me of new difficulties about his goods which troubles me and
      I fear they will be great. He tells me too what I hear everywhere how the
      towne talks of my Lord Craven being to come into Sir G. Carteret's place;
      but sure it cannot be true. But I do fear those two families, his and my
      Lord Sandwich's, are quite broken. And I must now stand upon my own legs.
      Thence to my lodging, and considering how I am hindered by company there
      to do any thing among my papers, I did resolve to go away to-day rather
      than stay to no purpose till to-morrow and so got all my things packed up
      and spent half an hour with W. Howe about his papers of accounts for
      contingencies and my Lord's accounts, so took leave of my landlady and
      daughters, having paid dear for what time I have spent there, but yet
      having been quiett and my health, I am very well contented therewith. So
      with my wife and Mercer took boat and away home; but in the evening,
      before I went, comes Mrs. Knipp, just to speake with me privately, to
      excuse her not coming to me yesterday, complaining how like a devil her
      husband treats her, but will be with us in towne a weeke hence, and so I
      kissed her and parted. Being come home, my wife and I to look over our
      house and consider of laying out a little money to hang our bedchamber
      better than it is, and so resolved to go and buy something to-morrow, and
      so after supper, with great joy in my heart for my coming once again
      hither, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and my wife and I by coach to Bennett's, in Paternoster Row, few
      shops there being yet open, and there bought velvett for a coate, and
      camelott for a cloake for myself; and thence to a place to look over some
      fine counterfeit damasks to hang my wife's closett, and pitched upon one,
      and so by coach home again, I calling at the 'Change, and so home to
      dinner and all the afternoon look after my papers at home and my office
      against to-morrow, and so after supper and considering the uselessness of
      laying out so much money upon my wife's closett, but only the chamber, to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and then to the office, where we met first since the plague,
      which God preserve us in! At noon home to dinner, where uncle Thomas with
      me, and in comes Pierce lately come from Oxford, and Ferrers. After dinner
      Pierce and I up to my chamber, where he tells me how a great difference
      hath been between the Duke and Duchesse, he suspecting her to be naught
      with Mr. Sidney.
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     ["This Duchess was Chancellor Hyde's daughter, and she was a very
     handsome woman, and had a great deal of wit; therefore it was not
     without reason that Mr. Sydney, the handsomest youth of his time, of
     the Duke's bedchamber, was so much in love with her, as appeared to
     us all, and the Duchess not unkind to him, but very innocently.  He
     was afterwards banished the Court for another reason, as was
     reported" (Sir John Reresby's "Memoirs," August 5th, 1664, ed.
     Cartwright, pp. 64,65). "'How could the Duke of York make my mother
     a Papist?' said the Princess Mary to Dr. Bumet.  'The Duke caught a
     man in bed with her,' said the Doctor, 'and then had power to make
     her do anything.'  The Prince, who sat by the fire, said, 'Pray,
     madam, ask the Doctor a few more questions'" (Spence's "Anecdotes,"
     ed.  Singer, 329).]
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    <p>
      But some way or other the matter is made up; but he was banished the
      Court, and the Duke for many days did not speak to the Duchesse at all. He
      tells me that my Lord Sandwich is lost there at Court, though the King is
      particularly his friend. But people do speak every where slightly of him;
      which is a sad story to me, but I hope it may be better again. And that
      Sir G. Carteret is neglected, and hath great enemies at work against him.
      That matters must needs go bad, while all the town, and every boy in the
      streete, openly cries, "The King cannot go away till my Lady Castlemaine
      be ready to come along with him;" she being lately put to bed And that he
      visits her and Mrs. Stewart every morning before he eats his breakfast.
      All this put together makes me very sad, but yet I hope I shall do pretty
      well among them for all this, by my not meddling with either of their
      matters. He and Ferrers gone I paid uncle Thomas his last quarter's money,
      and then comes Mr. Gawden and he and I talked above stairs together a good
      while about his business, and to my great joy got him to declare that of
      the L500 he did give me the other day, none of it was for my
      Treasurershipp for Tangier (I first telling him how matters stand between
      Povy and I, that he was to have half of whatever was coming to me by that
      office), and that he will gratify me at 2 per cent. for that when he next
      receives any money. So there is L80 due to me more than I thought of. He
      gone I with a glad heart to the office to write, my letters and so home to
      supper and bed, my wife mighty full of her worke she hath to do in
      furnishing her bedchamber.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and by coach to Sir G. Downing, where Mr. Gawden met me by
      agreement to talke upon the Act. I do find Sir G. Downing to be a mighty
      talker, more than is true, which I now know to be so, and suspected it
      before, but for all that I have good grounds to think it will succeed for
      goods and in time for money too, but not presently. Having done with him,
      I to my Lord Bruncker's house in Covent-Garden, and, among other things,
      it was to acquaint him with my paper of Pursers, and read it to him, and
      had his good liking of it. Shewed him Mr. Coventry's sense of it, which he
      sent me last post much to my satisfaction. Thence to the 'Change, and
      there hear to our grief how the plague is encreased this week from seventy
      to eighty-nine. We have also great fear of our Hambrough fleete, of their
      meeting the Dutch; as also have certain newes, that by storms Sir Jer.
      Smith's fleet is scattered, and three of them come without masts back to
      Plymouth, which is another very exceeding great disappointment, and if the
      victualling ships are miscarried will tend to the losse of the garrison of
      Tangier. Thence home, in my way had the opportunity I longed for, of
      seeing and saluting Mrs. Stokes, my little goldsmith's wife in Paternoster
      Row, and there bespoke some thing, a silver chafing-dish for warming
      plates, and so home to dinner, found my wife busy about making her
      hangings for her chamber with the upholster. So I to the office and anon
      to the Duke of Albemarle, by coach at night, taking, for saving time, Sir
      W. Warren with me, talking of our businesses all the way going and coming,
      and there got his reference of my pursers' paper to the Board to consider
      of it before he reads it, for he will never understand it I am sure. Here
      I saw Sir W. Coventry's kind letter to him concerning my paper, and among
      others of his letters, which I saw all, and that is a strange thing, that
      whatever is writ to this Duke of Albemarle, all the world may see; for
      this very night he did give me Mr. Coventry's letter to read, soon as it
      come to his hand, before he had read it himself, and bid me take out of it
      what concerned the Navy, and many things there was in it, which I should
      not have thought fit for him to have let any body so suddenly see; but,
      among other things, find him profess himself to the Duke a friend into the
      inquiring further into the business of Prizes, and advises that it may be
      publique, for the righting the King, and satisfying the people and getting
      the blame to be rightly laid where it should be, which strikes very hard
      upon my Lord Sandwich, and troubles me to read it. Besides, which vexes me
      more, I heard the damned Duchesse again say to twenty gentlemen publiquely
      in the room, that she would have Montagu sent once more to sea, before he
      goes his Embassy, that we may see whether he will make amends for his
      cowardice, and repeated the answer she did give the other day in my
      hearing to Sir G. Downing, wishing her Lord had been a coward, for then
      perhaps he might have been made an Embassador, and not been sent now to
      sea. But one good thing she said, she cried mightily out against the
      having of gentlemen Captains with feathers and ribbands, and wished the
      King would send her husband to sea with the old plain sea Captains, that
      he served with formerly, that would make their ships swim with blood,
      though they could not make legs
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Make bows, play the courtier.  The reading, "make leagues,"
     appeared in former editions till Mr. Mynors Bright corrected it.]
</pre>
    <p>
      as Captains nowadays can. It grieved me to see how slightly the Duke do
      every thing in the world, and how the King and every body suffers whatever
      he will to be done in the Navy, though never so much against reason, as in
      the business of recalling tickets, which will be done notwithstanding all
      the arguments against it. So back again to my office, and there to
      business and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and to the office. By and by to the Custome House to the Farmers,
      there with a letter of Sir G. Carteret's for L3000, which they ordered to
      be paid me. So away back again to the office, and at noon to dinner all of
      us by invitation to Sir W. Pen's, and much other company. Among others,
      Lieutenant of the Tower, and Broome, his poet, and Dr. Whistler, and his
      (Sir W. Pen's) son-in-law Lowder, servant&mdash;[lover]&mdash;to Mrs.
      Margaret Pen, and Sir Edward Spragg, a merry man, that sang a pleasant
      song pleasantly. Rose from table before half dined, and with Mr. Mountney
      of the Custome House to the East India House, and there delivered to him
      tallys for L3000 and received a note for the money on Sir R. Viner. So
      ended the matter, and back to my company, where staid a little, and thence
      away with my Lord Bruncker for discourse sake, and he and I to Gresham
      College to have seen Mr. Hooke and a new invented chariott of Dr. Wilkins,
      but met with nobody at home! So to Dr. Wilkins's, where I never was
      before, and very kindly received and met with Dr. Merritt, and fine
      discourse among them to my great joy, so sober and so ingenious. He is now
      upon finishing his discourse of a universal character. So away and I home
      to my office about my letters, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. By coach to the Duke of Albemarle, where Sir W. Batten and I only
      met. Troubled at my heart to see how things are ordered there without
      consideration or understanding. Thence back by coach and called at
      Wotton's, my shoemaker, lately come to towne, and bespoke shoes, as also
      got him to find me a taylor to make me some clothes, my owne being not yet
      in towne, nor Pym, my Lord Sandwich's taylor. So he helped me to a pretty
      man, one Mr. Penny, against St. Dunstan's Church. Thence to the 'Change
      and there met Mr. Moore, newly come to towne, and took him home to dinner
      with me and after dinner to talke, and he and I do conclude my Lord's case
      to be very bad and may be worse, if he do not get a pardon for his doings
      about the prizes and his business at Bergen, and other things done by him
      at sea, before he goes for Spayne. I do use all the art I can to get him
      to get my Lord to pay my cozen Pepys, for it is a great burden to my mind
      my being bound for my Lord in L1000 to him. Having done discourse with him
      and directed him to go with my advice to my Lord expresse to-morrow to get
      his pardon perfected before his going, because of what I read the other
      night in Sir W. Coventry's letter, I to the office, and there had an
      extraordinary meeting of Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Batten, and Sir W. Pen, and
      my Lord Bruncker and I to hear my paper read about pursers, which they did
      all of them with great good will and great approbation of my method and
      pains in all, only Sir W. Pen, who must except against every thing and
      remedy nothing, did except against my proposal for some reasons, which I
      could not understand, I confess, nor my Lord Bruncker neither, but he did
      detect indeed a failure or two of mine in my report about the ill
      condition of the present pursers, which I did magnify in one or two little
      things, to which, I think, he did with reason except, but at last with all
      respect did declare the best thing he ever heard of this kind, but when
      Sir W. Batten did say, "Let us that do know the practical part of the
      Victualling meet Sir J. Minnes, Sir W. Pen and I and see what we can do to
      mend all," he was so far from offering or furthering it, that he declined
      it and said, he must be out of towne. So as I ever knew him never did in
      his life ever attempt to mend any thing, but suffer all things to go on in
      the way they are, though never so bad, rather than improve his experience
      to the King's advantage. So we broke up, however, they promising to meet
      to offer some thing in it of their opinions, and so we rose, and I and my
      Lord Bruncker by coach a little way for discourse sake, till our coach
      broke, and tumbled me over him quite down the side of the coach, falling
      on the ground about the Stockes, but up again, and thinking it fit to have
      for my honour some thing reported in writing to the Duke in favour of my
      pains in this, lest it should be thought to be rejected as frivolous, I
      did move it to my Lord, and he will see it done to-morrow. So we parted,
      and I to the office and thence home to my poor wife, who works all day at
      home like a horse, at the making of her hangings for our chamber and the
      bed. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. At the office all the morning, where my Lord Bruncker moved to have
      something wrote in my matter as I desired him last night, and it was
      ordered and will be done next sitting. Home with his Lordship to Mrs.
      Williams's, in Covent-Garden, to dinner (the first time I ever was there),
      and there met Captain Cocke; and pretty merry, though not perfectly so,
      because of the fear that there is of a great encrease again of the plague
      this week. And again my Lord Bruncker do tell us, that he hath it from Sir
      John Baber; who is related to my Lord Craven, that my Lord Craven do look
      after Sir G. Carteret's place, and do reckon himself sure of it. After
      dinner Cocke and I together by coach to the Exchange, in our way talking
      of our matters, and do conclude that every thing must breake in pieces,
      while no better counsels govern matters than there seem to do, and that it
      will become him and I and all men to get their reckonings even, as soon as
      they can, and expect all to breake. Besides, if the plague continues among
      us another yeare, the Lord knows what will become of us. I set him down at
      the 'Change, and I home to my office, where late writing letters and doing
      business, and thence home to supper and to bed. My head full of cares, but
      pleased with my wife's minding her worke so well, and busying herself
      about her house, and I trust in God if I can but clear myself of my Lord
      Sandwich's bond, wherein I am bound with him for L1000 to T. Pepys, I
      shall do pretty well, come what will come.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). Long in bed, till raised by my new taylor, Mr. Penny,
      [who comes and brings me my new velvet coat, very handsome, but plain, and
      a day hence will bring me my camelott cloak.] He gone I close to my papers
      and to set all in order and to perform my vow to finish my journall and
      other things before I kiss any woman more or drink any wine, which I must
      be forced to do to-morrow if I go to Greenwich as I am invited by Mr.
      Boreman to hear Mrs. Knipp sing, and I would be glad to go, so as we may
      be merry. At noon eat the second of the two cygnets Mr. Shepley sent us
      for a new-year's gift, and presently to my chamber again and so to work
      hard all day about my Tangier accounts, which I am going again to make up,
      as also upon writing a letter to my father about Pall, whom it is time now
      I find to think of disposing of while God Almighty hath given me something
      to give with her, and in my letter to my father I do offer to give her
      L450 to make her own L50 given her by my uncle up L500. I do also therein
      propose Mr. Harman the upholster for a husband for her, to whom I have a
      great love and did heretofore love his former wife, and a civil man he is
      and careful in his way, beside, I like his trade and place he lives in,
      being Cornhill. Thus late at work, and so to supper and to bed. This
      afternoon, after sermon, comes my dear fair beauty of the Exchange, Mrs.
      Batelier, brought by her sister, an acquaintance of Mercer's, to see my
      wife. I saluted her with as much pleasure as I had done any a great while.
      We sat and talked together an houre, with infinite pleasure to me, and so
      the fair creature went away, and proves one of the modestest women, and
      pretty, that ever I saw in my life, and my [wife] judges her so too.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Busy all the morning in my chamber in my old cloth suit, while my
      usuall one is to my taylor's to mend, which I had at noon again, and an
      answer to a letter I had sent this morning to Mrs. Pierce to go along with
      my wife and I down to Greenwich to-night upon an invitation to Mr.
      Boreman's to be merry to dance and sing with Mrs. Knipp. Being dressed,
      and having dined, I took coach and to Mrs. Pierce, to her new house in
      Covent-Garden, a very fine place and fine house. Took her thence home to
      my house, and so by water to Boreman's by night, where the greatest
      disappointment that ever I saw in my life, much company, a good supper
      provided, and all come with expectation of excesse of mirthe, but all
      blank through the waywardnesse of Mrs. Knipp, who, though she had
      appointed the night, could not be got to come. Not so much as her husband
      could get her to come; but, which was a pleasant thing in all my anger, I
      asking him, while we were in expectation what answer one of our many
      messengers would bring, what he thought, whether she would come or no, he
      answered that, for his part, he could not so much as thinke. By and by we
      all to supper, which the silly master of the feast commended, but, what
      with my being out of humour, and the badnesse of the meate dressed, I did
      never eat a worse supper in my life. At last, very late, and supper done,
      she came undressed, but it brought me no mirthe at all; only, after all
      being done, without singing, or very little, and no dancing, Pierce and I
      to bed together, and he and I very merry to find how little and thin
      clothes they give us to cover us, so that we were fain to lie in our
      stockings and drawers, and lay all our coates and clothes upon the bed. So
      to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and leaving the women in bed together (a pretty black and white)
      I to London to the office, and there forgot, through business, to bespeake
      any dinner for my wife and Mrs. Pierce. However, by noon they come, and a
      dinner we had, and Kate Joyce comes to see us, with whom very merry. After
      dinner she and I up to my chamber, who told me her business was chiefly
      for my advice about her husband's leaving off his trade, which though I
      wish enough, yet I did advise against, for he is a man will not know how
      to live idle, and employment he is fit for none. Thence anon carried her
      and Mrs. Pierce home, and so to the Duke of Albemarle, and mighty kind he
      to me still. So home late at my letters, and so to bed, being mightily
      troubled at the newes of the plague's being encreased, and was much the
      saddest news that the plague hath brought me from the beginning of it;
      because of the lateness of the year, and the fear, we may with reason
      have, of its continuing with us the next summer. The total being now 375,
      and the plague 158.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Busy all the morning, settling things against my going out of towne
      this night. After dinner, late took horse, having sent for Lashmore to go
      with me, and so he and I rode to Dagenhams in the dark. There find the
      whole family well. It was my Lord Crew's desire that I should come, and
      chiefly to discourse with me of Lord Sandwich's matters; and therein to
      persuade, what I had done already, that my Lord should sue out a pardon
      for his business of the prizes, as also for Bergen, and all he hath done
      this year past, before he begins his Embassy to Spayne. For it is to be
      feared that the Parliament will fly out against him and particular men,
      the next Session. He is glad also that my Lord is clear of his
      sea-imployment, though sorry as I am, only in the manner of its bringing
      about. By and by to supper, my Lady Wright very kind. After supper up to
      wait on my Lady Crew, who is the same weake silly lady as ever, asking
      such saintly questions. Down to my Lord again and sat talking an houre or
      two, and anon to prayers the whole family, and then all to bed, I
      handsomely used, lying in the chamber Mr. Carteret formerly did, but sat
      up an houre talking sillily with Mr. Carteret and Mr. Marre, and so to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up before day and thence rode to London before office time, where I
      met a note at the doore to invite me to supper to Mrs. Pierces because of
      Mrs. Knipp, who is in towne and at her house: To the office, where, among
      other things, vexed with Major Norwood's coming, who takes it ill my not
      paying a bill of Exchange of his, but I have good reason for it, and so
      the less troubled, but yet troubled, so as at noon being carried by my
      Lord Bruncker to Captain Cocke's to dinner, where Mrs. Williams was, and
      Mrs. Knipp, I was not heartily merry, though a glasse of wine did a little
      cheer me. After dinner to the office. Anon comes to me thither my Lord
      Bruncker, Mrs. Williams, and Knipp. I brought down my wife in her
      night-gowne, she not being indeed very well, to the office to them and
      there by and by they parted all and my wife and I anon and Mercer, by
      coach, to Pierces; where mighty merry, and sing and dance with great
      pleasure; and I danced, who never did in company in my life, and Captain
      Cocke come for a little while and danced, but went away, but we staid and
      had a pretty supper, and spent till two in the morning, but got home well
      by coach, though as dark as pitch, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up and ready, called on by Mr. Moone, my Lord Bellases' secretary,
      who and I good friends though I have failed him in some payments. Thence
      with Sir J. Minnes to the Duke of Albemarle's, and carried all well, and
      met Norwood but prevented him in desiring a meeting of the Commissioners
      for Tangier. Thence to look for Sir H. [Cholmly], but he not within, he
      coming to town last night. It is a remarkable thing how infinitely naked
      all that end of the towne, Covent-Garden, is at this day of people; while
      the City is almost as full again of people as ever it was. To the 'Change
      and so home to dinner and the office, whither anon comes Sir H. Cholmley
      to me, and he and I to my house, there to settle his accounts with me, and
      so with great pleasure we agreed and great friends become, I think, and he
      presented me upon the foot of our accounts for this year's service for him
      L100, whereof Povy must have half. Thence to the office and wrote a letter
      to Norwood to satisfy him about my nonpayment of his bill, for that do
      still stick in my mind. So at night home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. To the office, where upon Mr. Kinaston's coming to me about some
      business of Colonell Norwood's, I sent my boy home for some papers, where,
      he staying longer than I would have him, and being vexed at the business
      and to be kept from my fellows in the office longer than was fit, I become
      angry, and boxed my boy when he came, that I do hurt my thumb so much,
      that I was not able to stir all the day after, and in great pain. At noon
      to dinner, and then to the office again, late, and so to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). Lay almost till noon merrily and with pleasure talking
      with my wife in bed. Then up looking about my house, and the roome which
      my wife is dressing up, having new hung our bedchamber with blue, very
      handsome. After dinner to my Tangier accounts and there stated them
      against to-morrow very distinctly for the Lords to see who meet tomorrow,
      and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and set my people to work in copying Tangier accounts, and I
      down the river to Greenwich to the office to fetch away some papers and
      thence to Deptford, where by agreement my Lord Bruncker was to come, but
      staid almost till noon, after I had spent an houre with W. Howe talking of
      my Lord Sandwich's matters and his folly in minding his pleasures too much
      now-a-days, and permitting himself to be governed by Cuttance to the
      displeasing of all the Commanders almost of the fleete, and thence we may
      conceive indeed the rise of all my Lord's misfortunes of late. At noon my
      Lord Bruncker did come, but left the keys of the chests we should open, at
      Sir G. Carteret's lodgings, of my Lord Sandwich's, wherein Howe's supposed
      jewells are; so we could not, according to my Lord Arlington's order, see
      them today; but we parted, resolving to meet here at night: my Lord
      Bruncker being going with Dr. Wilkins, Mr. Hooke, and others, to Colonell
      Blunts, to consider again of the business of charriots, and to try their
      new invention. Which I saw here my Lord Bruncker ride in; where the
      coachman sits astride upon a pole over the horse, but do not touch the
      horse, which is a pretty odde thing; but it seems it is most easy for the
      horse, and, as they say, for the man also. Thence I with speede by water
      home and eat a bit, and took my accounts and to the Duke of Albemarle,
      where for all I feared of Norwood he was very civill, and Sir Thomas
      Ingram beyond expectation, I giving them all content and I thereby settled
      mightily in my mind, for I was weary of the employment, and had had
      thoughts of giving it over. I did also give a good step in a business of
      Mr. Hubland's, about getting a ship of his to go to Tangier, which during
      this strict embargo is a great matter, and I shall have a good reward for
      it, I hope. Thence by water in the darke down to Deptford, and there find
      my Lord Bruncker come and gone, having staid long for me. I back presently
      to the Crowne taverne behind the Exchange by appointment, and there met
      the first meeting of Gresham College since the plague. Dr. Goddard did
      fill us with talke, in defence of his and his fellow physicians going out
      of towne in the plague-time; saying that their particular patients were
      most gone out of towne, and they left at liberty; and a great deal more,
      &amp;c. But what, among other fine discourse pleased me most, was Sir G.
      Ent about Respiration; that it is not to this day known, or concluded on
      among physicians, nor to be done either, how the action is managed by
      nature, or for what use it is. Here late till poor Dr. Merriot was drunk,
      and so all home, and I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up and to the office and then to dinner. After dinner to the office
      again all the afternoon, and much business with me. Good newes beyond all
      expectation of the decrease of the plague, being now but 79, and the whole
      but 272. So home with comfort to bed. A most furious storme all night and
      morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. By agreement my Lord Bruncker called me up, and though it was a very
      foule, windy, and rainy morning, yet down to the waterside we went, but no
      boat could go, the storme continued so. So my Lord to stay till fairer
      weather carried me into the Tower to Mr. Hore's and there we staid talking
      an houre, but at last we found no boats yet could go, so we to the office,
      where we met upon an occasion extraordinary of examining abuses of our
      clerkes in taking money for examining of tickets, but nothing done in it.
      Thence my Lord and I, the weather being a little fairer, by water to
      Deptford to Sir G. Carteret's house, where W. Howe met us, and there we
      opened the chests, and saw the poor sorry rubys which have caused all this
      ado to the undoing of W. Howe; though I am not much sorry for it, because
      of his pride and ill nature. About 200 of these very small stones, and a
      cod of muske (which it is strange I was not able to smell) is all we could
      find; so locked them up again, and my Lord and I, the wind being again
      very furious, so as we durst not go by water, walked to London quite round
      the bridge, no boat being able to stirre; and, Lord! what a dirty walk we
      had, and so strong the wind, that in the fields we many times could not
      carry our bodies against it, but were driven backwards. We went through
      Horsydowne, where I never was since a little boy, that I went to enquire
      after my father, whom we did give over for lost coming from Holland. It
      was dangerous to walk the streets, the bricks and tiles falling from the
      houses that the whole streets were covered with them; and whole chimneys,
      nay, whole houses in two or three places, blowed down. But, above all, the
      pales on London-bridge on both sides were blown away, so that we were fain
      to stoop very low for fear of blowing off of the bridge. We could see no
      boats in the Thames afloat, but what were broke loose, and carried through
      the bridge, it being ebbing water. And the greatest sight of all was,
      among other parcels of ships driven here and there in clusters together,
      one was quite overset and lay with her masts all along in the water, and
      keel above water. So walked home, my Lord away to his house and I to
      dinner, Mr. Creed being come to towne and to dine with me, though now it
      was three o'clock. After dinner he and I to our accounts and very
      troublesome he is and with tricks which I found plainly and was vexed at;
      while we were together comes Sir G. Downing with Colonell Norwood,
      Rumball, and Warrupp to visit me. I made them drink good wine and
      discoursed above alone a good while with Sir G. Downing, who is very
      troublesome, and then with Colonell Norwood, who hath a great mind to have
      me concerned with him in everything; which I like, but am shy of
      adventuring too much, but will thinke of it. They gone, Creed and I to
      finish the settling his accounts. Thence to the office, where the Houblans
      and we discoursed upon a rubb which we have for one of the ships I hoped
      to have got to go out to Tangier for them. They being gone, I to my
      office-business late, and then home to supper and even sacke for lacke of
      a little wine, which I was forced to drink against my oathe, but without
      pleasure.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up and to the office, at noon home to dinner. So abroad to the Duke
      of Albemarle and Kate Joyce's and her husband, with whom I talked a great
      deale about Pall's business, and told them what portion I would give her,
      and they do mightily like of it and will proceed further in speaking with
      Harman, who hath already been spoke to about it, as from them only, and he
      is mighty glad of it, but doubts it may be an offence to me, if I should
      know of it, so thinks that it do come only from Joyce, which I like the
      better. So I do believe the business will go on, and I desire it were
      over. I to the office then, where I did much business, and set my people
      to work against furnishing me to go to Hampton Court, where the King and
      Duke will be on Sunday next. It is now certain that the King of France
      hath publickly declared war against us, and God knows how little fit we
      are for it. At night comes Sir W. Warren, and he and I into the garden,
      and talked over all our businesses. He gives me good advice not to embarke
      into trade (as I have had it in my thoughts about Colonell Norwood) so as
      to be seen to mind it, for it will do me hurte, and draw my mind off from
      my business and embroile my estate too soon. So to the office business,
      and I find him as cunning a man in all points as ever I met with in my
      life and mighty merry we were in the discourse of our owne trickes. So
      about to o'clock at night I home and staid with him there settling my
      Tangier-Boates business and talking and laughing at the folly of some of
      our neighbours of this office till two in the morning and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and pleased mightily with what my poor wife hath been doing
      these eight or ten days with her owne hands, like a drudge in fitting the
      new hangings of our bed-chamber of blue, and putting the old red ones into
      my dressing-room, and so by coach to White Hall, where I had just now
      notice that Sir G. Carteret is come to towne. He seems pleased, but I
      perceive he is heartily troubled at this Act, and the report of his losing
      his place, and more at my not writing to him to the prejudice of the Act.
      But I carry all fair to him and he to me. He bemoans the Kingdom as in a
      sad state, and with too much reason I doubt, having so many enemys about
      us and no friends abroad, nor money nor love at home. Thence to the Duke
      of Albemarle, and there a meeting with all the officers of the Navy,
      where, Lord! to see how the Duke of Albemarle flatters himself with false
      hopes of money and victuals and all without reason. Then comes the
      Committee of Tangier to sit, and I there carry all before me very well.
      Thence with Sir J. Bankes and Mr. Gawden to the 'Change, they both very
      wise men. After 'Change and agreeing with Houblon about our ships, D.
      Gawden and I to the Pope's Head and there dined and little Chaplin (who a
      rich man grown). He gone after dinner, D. Gawden and I to talke of the
      Victualling business of the Navy in what posture it is, which is very sad
      also for want of money. Thence home to my chamber by oathe to finish my
      Journall. Here W. Hewer came to me with L320 from Sir W. Warren, whereof
      L220 is got clearly by a late business of insurance of the Gottenburg
      ships, and the other L100 which was due and he had promised me before to
      give me to my very extraordinary joy, for which I ought and do bless God
      and so to my office, where late providing a letter to send to Mr. Gawden
      in a manner we concluded on to-day, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up very betimes to finish my letter and writ it fair to Mr. Gawden,
      it being to demand several arrears in the present state of the
      victualling, partly to the King's and partly to give him occasion to say
      something relating to the want of money on his own behalf. This done I to
      the office, where all the morning. At noon after a bit of dinner back to
      the office and there fitting myself in all points to give an account to
      the Duke and Mr. Coventry in all things, and in my Tangier business, till
      three o'clock in the morning, and so to bed,
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. And up again about six (Lord's day), and being dressed in my velvett
      coate and plain cravatte took a hackney coach provided ready for me by
      eight o'clock, and so to my Lord Bruncker's with all my papers, and there
      took his coach with four horses and away toward Hampton Court, having a
      great deale of good discourse with him, particularly about his coming to
      lie at the office, when I went further in inviting him to than I intended,
      having not yet considered whether it will be convenient for me or no to
      have him here so near us, and then of getting Mr. Evelyn or Sir Robert
      Murray into the Navy in the room of Sir Thomas Harvey. At Brainford I
      'light, having need to shit, and went into an Inne doore that stood open,
      found the house of office and used it, but saw no people, only after I was
      in the house, heard a great dogg barke, and so was afeard how I should get
      safe back again, and therefore drew my sword and scabbard out of my belt
      to have ready in my hand, but did not need to use it, but got safe into
      the coach again, but lost my belt by the shift, not missing it till I come
      to Hampton Court. At the Wicke found Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten at a
      lodging provided for us by our messenger, and there a good dinner ready.
      After dinner took coach and to Court, where we find the King, and Duke,
      and Lords, all in council; so we walked up and down: there being none of
      the ladies come, and so much the more business I hope will be done. The
      Council being up, out comes the King, and I kissed his hand, and he
      grasped me very kindly by the hand. The Duke also, I kissed his, and he
      mighty kind, and Sir W. Coventry. I found my Lord Sandwich there, poor
      man! I see with a melancholy face, and suffers his beard to grow on his
      upper lip more than usual. I took him a little aside to know when I should
      wait on him, and where: he told me, and that it would be best to meet at
      his lodgings, without being seen to walk together. Which I liked very
      well; and, Lord! to see in what difficulty I stand, that I dare not walk
      with Sir W. Coventry, for fear my Lord or Sir G. Carteret should see me;
      nor with either of them, for fear Sir W. Coventry should. After changing a
      few words with Sir W. Coventry, who assures me of his respect and love to
      me, and his concernment for my health in all this sickness, I went down
      into one of the Courts, and there met the King and Duke; and the Duke
      called me to him. And the King come to me of himself, and told me, "Mr.
      Pepys," says he, "I do give you thanks for your good service all this
      year, and I assure you I am very sensible of it." And the Duke of Yorke
      did tell me with pleasure, that he had read over my discourse about
      pursers, and would have it ordered in my way, and so fell from one
      discourse to another. I walked with them quite out of the Court into the
      fields, and then back to my Lord Sandwich's chamber, where I find him very
      melancholy and not well satisfied, I perceive, with my carriage to Sir G.
      Carteret, but I did satisfy him and made him confess to me, that I have a
      very hard game to play; and told me he was sorry to see it, and the
      inconveniences which likely may fall upon me with him; but, for all that,
      I am not much afeard, if I can but keepe out of harm's way in not being
      found too much concerned in my Lord's or Sir G. Carteret's matters, and
      that I will not be if I can helpe it. He hath got over his business of the
      prizes, so far as to have a privy seale passed for all that was in his
      distribution to the officers, which I am heartily glad of; and, for the
      rest, he must be answerable for what he is proved to have. But for his
      pardon for anything else, he thinks it not seasonable to aske it, and not
      usefull to him; because that will not stop a Parliament's mouth, and for
      the King, he is sure enough of him. I did aske him whether he was sure of
      the interest and friendship of any great Ministers of State and he told
      me, yes. As we were going further, in comes my Lord Mandeville, so we were
      forced to breake off and I away, and to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, where
      he not come in but I find Sir W. Pen, and he and I to discourse. I find
      him very much out of humour, so that I do not think matters go very well
      with him, and I am glad of it. He and I staying till late, and Sir W.
      Coventry not coming in (being shut up close all the afternoon with the
      Duke of Albemarle), we took boat, and by water to Kingston, and so to our
      lodgings, where a good supper and merry, only I sleepy, and therefore
      after supper I slunk away from the rest to bed, and lay very well and
      slept soundly, my mind being in a great delirium between joy for what the
      King and Duke have said to me and Sir W. Coventry, and trouble for my Lord
      Sandwich's concernments, and how hard it will be for me to preserve myself
      from feeling thereof.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and to Court by coach, where to Council before the Duke of
      Yorke, the Duke of Albemarle with us, and after Sir W. Coventry had gone
      over his notes that he had provided with the Duke of Albemarle, I went
      over all mine with good successe, only I fear I did once offend the Duke
      of Albemarle, but I was much joyed to find the Duke of Yorke so much
      contending for my discourse about the pursers against Sir W. Pen, who
      opposes it like a foole; my Lord Sandwich come in in the middle of the
      business, and, poor man, very melancholy, methought, and said little at
      all, or to the business, and sat at the lower end, just as he come, no
      roome being made for him, only I did give him my stoole, and another was
      reached me. After council done, I walked to and again up and down the
      house, discoursing with this and that man. Among others tooke occasion to
      thanke the Duke of Yorke for his good opinion in general of my service,
      and particularly his favour in conferring on me the Victualling business.
      He told me that he knew nobody so fit as I for it, and next, he was very
      glad to find that to give me for my encouragement, speaking very kindly of
      me. So to Sir W. Coventry's to dinner with him, whom I took occasion to
      thanke for his favour and good thoughts of what little service I did,
      desiring he would do the last act of friendship in telling me of my faults
      also. He told me he would be sure he would do that also, if there were any
      occasion for it. So that as much as it is possible under so great a fall
      of my Lord Sandwich's, and difference between them, I may conclude that I
      am thoroughly right with Sir W. Coventry. I dined with him with a great
      deale of company, and much merry discourse. I was called away before
      dinner ended to go to my company who dined at our lodgings. Thither I went
      with Mr. Evelyn (whom I met) in his coach going that way, but finding my
      company gone, but my Lord Bruncker left his coach for me; so Mr. Evelyn
      and I into my Lord's coach, and rode together with excellent discourse
      till we come to Clapham, talking of the vanity and vices of the Court,
      which makes it a most contemptible thing; and indeed in all his discourse
      I find him a most worthy person. Particularly he entertained me with
      discourse of an Infirmary, which he hath projected for the sick and
      wounded seamen against the next year, which I mightily approve of; and
      will endeavour to promote it, being a worthy thing, and of use, and will
      save money. He set me down at Mr. Gawden's, where nobody yet come home, I
      having left him and his sons and Creed at Court, so I took a book and into
      the gardens, and there walked and read till darke with great pleasure, and
      then in and in comes Osborne, and he and I to talk of Mr. Jaggard, who
      comes from London, and great hopes there is of a decrease this week also
      of the plague. Anon comes in Creed, and after that Mr. Gawden and his
      sons, and then they bringing in three ladies, who were in the house, but I
      do not know them, his daughter and two nieces, daughters of Dr.
      Whistler's, with whom and Creed mighty sport at supper, the ladies very
      pretty and mirthfull. I perceive they know Creed's gut and stomach as well
      as I, and made as much mirthe as I with it at supper. After supper I made
      the ladies sing, and they have been taught, but, Lord! though I was forced
      to commend them, yet it was the saddest stuff I ever heard. However, we
      sat up late, and then I, in the best chamber like a prince, to bed, and
      Creed with me, and being sleepy talked but little.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Lay long till Mr. Gawden was gone out being to take a little
      journey. Up, and Creed and I some good discourse, but with some trouble
      for the state of my Lord's matters. After walking a turne or two in the
      garden, and bid good morrow to Mr. Gawden's sons, and sent my service to
      the ladies, I took coach after Mr. Gawden's, and home, finding the towne
      keeping the day solemnly, it being the day of the King's murther, and they
      being at church, I presently into the church, thinking to see Mrs.
      Lethulier or Batelier, but did not, and a dull sermon of our young
      Lecturer, too bad. This is the first time I have been in this church since
      I left London for the plague, and it frighted me indeed to go through the
      church more than I thought it could have done, to see so [many] graves lie
      so high upon the churchyards where people have been buried of the plague.
      I was much troubled at it, and do not think to go through it again a good
      while. So home to my wife, whom I find not well, in bed, and it seems hath
      not been well these two days. She rose and we to dinner, after dinner up
      to my chamber, where she entertained me with what she hath lately bought
      of clothes for herself, and Damask linnen, and other things for the house.
      I did give her a serious account how matters stand with me, of favour with
      the King and Duke, and of danger in reference to my Lord's and Sir G.
      Carteret's falls, and the dissatisfaction I have heard the Duke of
      Albemarle hath acknowledged to somebody, among other things, against my
      Lord Sandwich, that he did bring me into the Navy against his desire and
      endeavour for another, which was our doting foole Turner. Thence from one
      discourse to another, and looking over my house, and other things I spent
      the day at home, and at night betimes to bed. After dinner this day I went
      down by water to Deptford, and fetched up what money there was of W.
      Howe's contingencies in the chest there, being L516 13s. 3d. and brought
      it home to dispose of.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Lay pretty long in bed, and then up and to the office, where we met
      on extraordinary occasion about the business of tickets. By and by to the
      'Change, and there did several businesses, among others brought home my
      cozen Pepys, whom I appointed to be here to-day, and Mr. Moore met us upon
      the business of my Lord's bond. Seeing my neighbour Mr. Knightly walk
      alone from the 'Change, his family being not yet come to town, I did
      invite him home with me, and he dined with me, a very sober, pretty man he
      is. He is mighty solicitous, as I find many about the City that live near
      the churchyards, to have the churchyards covered with lime, and I think it
      is needfull, and ours I hope will be done. Good pleasant discourse at
      dinner of the practices of merchants to cheate the "Customers," occasioned
      by Mr. Moore's being with much trouble freed of his prize goods, which he
      bought, which fell into the Customers' hands, and with much ado hath
      cleared them. Mr. Knightly being gone, my cozen Pepys and Moore and I to
      our business, being the clearing of my Lord Sandwich's bond wherein I am
      bound with him to my cozen for L1000 I have at last by my dexterity got my
      Lord's consent to have it paid out of the money raised by his prizes. So
      the bond is cancelled, and he paid by having a note upon Sir Robert Viner,
      in whose hands I had lodged my Lord's money, by which I am to my
      extraordinary comfort eased of a liablenesse to pay the sum in case of my
      Lord's death, or troubles in estate, or my Lord's greater fall, which God
      defend! Having settled this matter at Sir R. Viner's, I took up Mr. Moore
      (my cozen going home) and to my Lord Chancellor's new house which he is
      building, only to view it, hearing so much from Mr. Evelyn of it; and,
      indeed, it is the finest pile I ever did see in my life, and will be a
      glorious house. Thence to the Duke of Albemarle, who tells me Mr. Coventry
      is come to town and directs me to go to him about some business in hand,
      whether out of displeasure or desire of ease I know not; but I asked him
      not the reason of it but went to White Hall, but could not find him there,
      though to my great joy people begin to bustle up and down there, the King
      holding his resolution to be in towne to-morrow, and hath good
      encouragement, blessed be God! to do so, the plague being decreased this
      week to 56, and the total to 227. So after going to the Swan in the
      Palace, and sent for Spicer to discourse about my last Tangier tallys that
      have some of the words washed out with the rain, to have them new writ, I
      home, and there did some business and at the office, and so home to
      supper, and to bed.
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      FEBRUARY 1665-1666
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    <p>
      February 1st. Up and to the office, where all the morning till late, and
      Mr. Coventry with us, the first time since before the plague, then hearing
      my wife was gone abroad to buy things and see her mother and father, whom
      she hath not seen since before the plague, and no dinner provided for me
      ready, I walked to Captain Cocke's, knowing my Lord Bruncker dined there,
      and there very merry, and a good dinner. Thence my Lord and his mistresse,
      Madam Williams, set me down at the Exchange, and I to Alderman Backewell's
      to set all my reckonings straight there, which I did, and took up all my
      notes. So evened to this day, and thence to Sir Robert Viner's, where I
      did the like, leaving clear in his hands just L2000 of my owne money, to
      be called for when I pleased. Having done all this I home, and there to
      the office, did my business there by the post and so home, and spent till
      one in the morning in my chamber to set right all my money matters, and so
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up betimes, and knowing that my Lord Sandwich is come to towne with
      the King and Duke, I to wait upon him, which I did, and find him in very
      good humour, which I am glad to see with all my heart. Having received his
      commands, and discoursed with some of his people about my Lord's going,
      and with Sir Roger Cuttance, who was there, and finds himself slighted by
      Sir W. Coventry, I advised him however to look after employment lest it
      should be said that my Lord's friends do forsake the service after he hath
      made them rich with the prizes. I to London, and there among other things
      did look over some pictures at Cade's for my house, and did carry home a
      silver drudger
    </p>
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     [The dredger was probably the drageoir of France; in low Latin,
     dragerium, or drageria, in which comfits (dragdes) were kept.
     Roquefort says, "The ladies wore a little spice-box, in shape like a
     watch, to carry dragles, and it was called a drageoir."  The custom
     continued certainly till the middle of the last century.  Old
     Palsgrave, in his "Eclaircissement de la Langue Francaise," gives
     "dradge" as spice, rendering it by the French word dragde.  Chaucer
     says, of his Doctor of Physic, "Full ready hadde he his Apothecaries
     To send him dragges, and his lattuaries."  The word sometimes may
     have signified the pounded condiments in which our forefathers
     delighted.  It is worth notice, that "dragge" was applied to a grain
     in the eastern counties, though not exclusively there, appearing to
     denote mixed grain.  Bishop Kennett tells us that "dredge mault is
     mault made up of oats, mixed with barley, of which they make an
     excellent, freshe, quiete sort of drinke, in Staffordshire."  The
     dredger is still commonly used in our kitchen.&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      for my cupboard of plate, and did call for my silver chafing dishes, but
      they are sent home, and the man would not be paid for them, saying that he
      was paid for them already, and with much ado got him to tell me by Mr.
      Wayth, but I would not accept of that, but will send him his money, not
      knowing any courtesy I have yet done him to deserve it. So home, and with
      my wife looked over our plate, and picked out L40 worth, I believe, to
      change for more usefull plate, to our great content, and then we shall
      have a very handsome cupboard of plate. So to dinner, and then to the
      office, where we had a meeting extraordinary, about stating to the Duke
      the present debts of the Navy, for which ready money must be had, and that
      being done, I to my business, where late, and then home to supper, and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and to the office very busy till 3 o'clock, and then home, all of
      us, for half an hour to dinner, and to it again till eight at night,
      stating our wants of money for the Duke, but could not finish it. So broke
      up, and I to my office, then about letters and other businesses very late,
      and so home to supper, weary with business, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Lord's day; and my wife and I the first time together at church since
      the plague, and now only because of Mr. Mills his coming home to preach
      his first sermon; expecting a great excuse for his leaving the parish
      before any body went, and now staying till all are come home; but he made
      but a very poor and short excuse, and a bad sermon. It was a frost, and
      had snowed last night, which covered the graves in the churchyard, so as I
      was the less afeard for going through. Here I had the content to see my
      noble Mrs. Lethulier, and so home to dinner, and all the afternoon at my
      Journall till supper, it being a long while behindhand. At supper my wife
      tells me that W. Joyce has been with her this evening, the first time
      since the plague, and tells her my aunt James is lately dead of the stone,
      and what she had hath given to his and his brother's wife and my cozen
      Sarah. So after supper to work again, and late to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten (at whose lodgings calling for him, I saw
      his Lady the first time since her coming to towne since the plague, having
      absented myself designedly to shew some discontent, and that I am not at
      all the more suppliant because of my Lord Sandwich's fall), to my Lord
      Bruncker's, to see whether he goes to the Duke's this morning or no. But
      it is put off, and so we parted. My Lord invited me to dinner to-day to
      dine with Sir W. Batten and his Lady there, who were invited before, but
      lest he should thinke so little an invitation would serve my turne I
      refused and parted, and to Westminster about business, and so back to the
      'Change, and there met Mr. Hill, newly come to town, and with him the
      Houblands, preparing for their ship's and his going to Tangier, and agreed
      that I must sup with them to-night. So home and eat a bit, and then to
      White Hall to a Committee for Tangier, but it did not meet but was put off
      to to-morrow, so I did some little business and visited my Lord Sandwich,
      and so, it raining, went directly to the Sun, behind the Exchange, about
      seven o'clock, where I find all the five brothers Houblons, and mighty
      fine gentlemen they are all, and used me mighty respectfully. We were
      mighty civilly merry, and their discourses, having been all abroad, very
      fine. Here late and at last accompanied home with Mr. J. Houblon and Hill,
      whom I invited to sup with me on Friday, and so parted and I home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to the office, where very busy all the morning. We met upon a
      report to the Duke of Yorke of the debts of the Navy, which we finished by
      three o'clock, and having eat one little bit of meate, I by water before
      the rest to White Hall (and they to come after me) because of a Committee
      for Tangier, where I did my business of stating my accounts perfectly
      well, and to good liking, and do not discern, but the Duke of Albemarle is
      my friend in his intentions notwithstanding my general fears. After that
      to our Navy business, where my fellow officers were called in, and did
      that also very well, and then broke up, and I home by coach, Tooker with
      me, and staid in Lumbard Streete at Viner's, and sent home for the plate
      which my wife and I had a mind to change, and there changed it, about L50
      worth, into things more usefull, whereby we shall now have a very handsome
      cupboard of plate. So home to the office, wrote my letters by the post,
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. It being fast day I staid at home all day long to set things to
      rights in my chamber by taking out all my books, and putting my chamber in
      the same condition it was before the plague. But in the morning doing of
      it, and knocking up a nail I did bruise my left thumb so as broke a great
      deal of my flesh off, that it hung by a little. It was a sight frighted my
      wife, but I put some balsam of Mrs. Turner's to it, and though in great
      pain, yet went on with my business, and did it to my full content, setting
      every thing in order, in hopes now that the worst of our fears are over as
      to the plague for the next year. Interrupted I was by two or three
      occasions this day to my great vexation, having this the only day I have
      been able to set apart for this work since my coming to town. At night to
      supper, weary, and to bed, having had the plasterers and joiners also to
      do some jobbs.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon to the 'Change,
      expecting to have received from Mr. Houbland, as he promised me, an
      assignment upon Viner, for my reward for my getting them the going of
      their two ships to Tangier, but I find myself much disappointed therein,
      for I spoke with him and he said nothing of it, but looked coldly, through
      some disturbance he meets with in our business through Colonell Norwood's
      pressing them to carry more goods than will leave room for some of their
      own. But I shall ease them. Thence to Captain Cocke's, where Mr.
      Williamson, Wren, Boldell and Madam Williams, and by and by Lord Bruncker,
      he having been with the King and Duke upon the water to-day, to see
      Greenwich house, and the yacht Castle is building of, and much good
      discourse. So to White Hall to see my Lord Sandwich, and then home to my
      business till night, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and betimes to Sir Philip Warwicke, who was glad to see me, and
      very kind. Thence to Colonell Norwood's lodgings, and there set about
      Houblons' business about their ships. Thence to Westminster, to the
      Exchequer, about my Tangier business to get orders for tallys, and so to
      the Hall, where the first day of the Terme, and the Hall very full of
      people, and much more than was expected, considering the plague that hath
      been. Thence to the 'Change, and to the Sun behind it to dinner with the
      Lieutenant of the Tower, Colonell Norwood and others, where strange
      pleasure they seem to take in their wine and meate, and discourse of it
      with the curiosity and joy that methinks was below men of worthe. Thence
      home, and there very much angry with my people till I had put all things
      in good forwardnesse about my supper for the Houblons, but that being done
      I was in good humour again, and all things in good order. Anon the five
      brothers Houblons come and Mr. Hill, and a very good supper we had, and
      good company and discourse, with great pleasure. My new plate sets off my
      cupboard very nobly. Here they were till about eleven at night with great
      pleasure, and a fine sight it is to see these five brothers thus loving
      one to another, and all industrious merchants. Our subject was principally
      Mr. Hill's going for them to Portugall, which was the occasion of this
      entertainment. They gone, we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and to the office. At noon, full of business, to dinner. This
      day comes first Sir Thomas Harvy after the plague, having been out of
      towne all this while. He was coldly received by us, and he went away
      before we rose also, to make himself appear yet a man less necessary.
      After dinner, being full of care and multitude of business, I took coach
      and my wife with me. I set her down at her mother's (having first called
      at my Lord Treasurer's and there spoke with Sir Ph. Warwicke), and I to
      the Exchequer about Tangier orders, and so to the Swan and there staid a
      little, and so by coach took up my wife, and at the old Exchange bought a
      muffe, and so home and late at my letters, and so to supper and to bed,
      being now-a-days, for these four or five months, mightily troubled with my
      snoring in my sleep, and know not how to remedy it.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day). Up, and put on a new black cloth suit to an old coate
      that I make to be in mourning at Court, where they are all, for the King
      of Spayne.&mdash;[Philip IV., who died September 17th, 1665.]&mdash;To
      church I, and at noon dined well, and then by water to White Hall,
      carrying a captain of the Tower (who desired his freight thither); there I
      to the Parke, and walked two or three turns of the Pell Mell with the
      company about the King and Duke; the Duke speaking to me a good deal.
      There met Lord Bruncker and Mr. Coventry, and discoursed about the Navy
      business; and all of us much at a loss that we yet can hear nothing of Sir
      Jeremy Smith's fleete, that went away to the Streights the middle of
      December, through all the storms that we have had since, that have driven
      back three or four of them with their masts by the board. Yesterday come
      out the King's Declaration of War against the French, but with such mild
      invitations of both them and the Dutch to come over hither with promise of
      their protection, that every body wonders at it. Thence home with my Lord
      Bruncker for discourse sake, and thence by hackney coach home, and so my
      wife and I mighty pleasant discourse, supped and to bed. The great wound I
      had Wednesday last in my thumb having with once dressing by Mrs. Turner's
      balsam been perfectly cured, whereas I did not hope to save my nail,
      whatever else ill it did give me. My wife and I are much thoughtfull
      now-a-days about Pall's coming up in order to a husband.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and very busy to perform an oathe in finishing my Journall this
      morning for 7 or 8 days past. Then to several people attending upon
      business, among others Mr. Grant and the executors of Barlow for the L25
      due for the quarter before he died, which I scrupled to pay, being obliged
      but to pay every half year. Then comes Mr. Caesar, my boy's lute-master,
      whom I have not seen since the plague before, but he hath been in
      Westminster all this while very well; and tells me in the height of it,
      how bold people there were, to go in sport to one another's burials; and
      in spite too, ill people would breathe in the faces (out of their windows)
      of well people going by. Then to dinner before the 'Change, and so to the
      'Change, and then to the taverne to talk with Sir William Warren, and so
      by coach to several places, among others to my Lord Treasurer's, there to
      meet my Lord Sandwich, but missed, and met him at [my] Lord Chancellor's,
      and there talked with him about his accounts, and then about Sir G.
      Carteret, and I find by him that Sir G. Carteret has a worse game to play
      than my Lord Sandwich, for people are jeering at him, and he cries out of
      the business of Sir W. Coventry, who strikes at all and do all. Then to my
      bookseller's, and then received some books I have new bought, and here
      late choosing some more to new bind, having resolved to give myself L10 in
      books, and so home to the office and then home to supper, where Mr. Hill
      was and supped with us, and good discourse; an excellent person he still
      appears to me. After supper, and he gone, we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon to the 'Change, and
      thence after business dined at the Sheriffe's [Hooker], being carried by
      Mr. Lethulier, where to my heart's content I met with his wife, a most
      beautifull fat woman. But all the house melancholy upon the sickness of a
      daughter of the house in childbed, Mr. Vaughan's lady. So all of them
      undressed, but however this lady a very fine woman. I had a salute of her,
      and after dinner some discourse the Sheriffe and I about a parcel of
      tallow I am buying for the office of him. I away home, and there at the
      office all the afternoon till late at night, and then away home to supper
      and to bed. Ill newes this night that the plague is encreased this week,
      and in many places else about the towne, and at Chatham and elsewhere.
      This day my wife wanting a chambermaid with much ado got our old little
      Jane to be found out, who come to see her and hath lived all this while in
      one place, but is so well that we will not desire her removal, but are
      mighty glad to see the poor wench, who is very well and do well.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (St. Valentine's day). This morning called up by Mr. Hill, who, my
      wife thought, had been come to be her Valentine; she, it seems, having
      drawne him last night, but it proved not. However, calling him up to our
      bed-side, my wife challenged him. I up, and made myself ready, and so with
      him by coach to my Lord Sandwich's by appointment to deliver Mr. Howe's
      accounts to my Lord. Which done, my Lord did give me hearty and large
      studied thanks for all my kindnesse to him and care of him and his
      business. I after profession of all duty to his Lordship took occasion to
      bemoane myself that I should fall into such a difficulty about Sir G.
      Carteret, as not to be for him, but I must be against Sir W. Coventry, and
      therefore desired to be neutrall, which my Lord approved and confessed
      reasonable, but desired me to befriend him privately. Having done in
      private with my Lord I brought Mr. Hill to kisse his hands, to whom my
      Lord professed great respect upon my score. My Lord being gone, I took Mr.
      Hill to my Lord Chancellor's new house that is building, and went with
      trouble up to the top of it, and there is there the noblest prospect that
      ever I saw in my life, Greenwich being nothing to it; and in every thing
      is a beautiful house, and most strongly built in every respect; and as if,
      as it hath, it had the Chancellor for its master. Thence with him to his
      paynter, Mr. Hales, who is drawing his picture, which will be mighty like
      him, and pleased me so, that I am resolved presently to have my wife's and
      mine done by him, he having a very masterly hand. So with mighty
      satisfaction to the 'Change and thence home, and after dinner abroad,
      taking Mrs. Mary Batelier with us, who was just come to see my wife, and
      they set me down at my Lord Treasurer's, and themselves went with the
      coach into the fields to take the ayre. I staid a meeting of the Duke of
      Yorke's, and the officers of the Navy and Ordnance. My Lord Treasurer
      lying in bed of the gowte. Our business was discourse of the straits of
      the Navy for want of money, but after long discourse as much out of order
      as ordinary people's, we come to no issue, nor any money promised, or like
      to be had, and yet the worke must be done. Here I perceive Sir G. Carteret
      had prepared himself to answer a choque of Sir W. Coventry, by offering of
      himself to shew all he had paid, and what is unpaid, and what moneys and
      assignments he hath in his hands, which, if he makes good, was the best
      thing he ever did say in his life, and the best timed, for else it must
      have fallen very foule on him. The meeting done I away, my wife and they
      being come back and staying for me at the gate. But, Lord! to see how
      afeard I was that Sir W. Coventry should have spyed me once whispering
      with Sir G. Carteret, though not intended by me, but only Sir G. Carteret
      come to me and I could not avoyde it. So home, they set me down at the
      'Change, and I to the Crowne, where my Lord Bruncker was come and several
      of the Virtuosi, and after a small supper and but little good discourse I
      with Sir W. Batten (who was brought thither with my Lord Bruncker) home,
      where I find my wife gone to Mrs. Mercer's to be merry, but presently come
      in with Mrs. Knipp, who, it seems, is in towne, and was gone thither with
      my wife and Mercer to dance, and after eating a little supper went thither
      again to spend the whole night there, being W. Howe there, at whose
      chamber they are, and Lawd Crisp by chance. I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and my wife not come home all night. To the office, where sat
      all the morning. At noon to Starky's, a great cooke in Austin Friars,
      invited by Colonell Atkins, and a good dinner for Colonell Norwood and his
      friends, among others Sir Edward Spragg and others, but ill attendance.
      Before dined, called on by my wife in a coach, and so I took leave, and
      then with her and Knipp and Mercer (Mr. Hunt newly come out of the country
      being there also come to see us) to Mr. Hales, the paynter's, having set
      down Mr. Hunt by the way. Here Mr. Hales' begun my wife in the posture we
      saw one of my Lady Peters, like a St. Katharine.
    </p>
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     [It was the fashion at this time to be painted as St. Catherine, in
     compliment to the queen.]
</pre>
    <p>
      While he painted, Knipp, and Mercer, and I, sang; and by and by comes Mrs.
      Pierce, with my name in her bosom for her Valentine, which will cost me
      money. But strange how like his very first dead colouring is, that it did
      me good to see it, and pleases me mightily, and I believe will be a noble
      picture. Thence with them all as far as Fleete Streete, and there set
      Mercer and Knipp down, and we home. I to the office, whither the Houblons
      come telling me of a little new trouble from Norwood about their ship,
      which troubles me, though without reason. So late home to supper and to
      bed. We hear this night of Sir Jeremy Smith, that he and his fleete have
      been seen at Malaga; which is good newes.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up betimes, and by appointment to the Exchange, where I met Messrs.
      Houblons, and took them up in my coach and carried them to Charing Crosse,
      where they to Colonell Norwood to see how they can settle matters with
      him, I having informed them by the way with advice to be easy with him,
      for he may hereafter do us service, and they and I are like to understand
      one another to very good purpose. I to my Lord Sandwich, and there alone
      with him to talke of his affairs, and particularly of his prize goods,
      wherein I find he is wearied with being troubled, and gives over the care
      of it to let it come to what it will, having the King's release for the
      dividend made, and for the rest he thinks himself safe from being proved
      to have anything more. Thence to the Exchequer, and so by coach to the
      'Change, Mr. Moore with me, who tells me very odde passages of the
      indiscretion of my Lord in the management of his family, of his
      carelessnesse, &amp;c., which troubles me, but makes me rejoice with all
      my heart of my being rid of the bond of L1000, for that would have been a
      cruel blow to me. With Moore to the Coffee-House, the first time I have
      been there, where very full, and company it seems hath been there all the
      plague time. So to the 'Change, and then home to dinner, and after dinner
      to settle accounts with him for my Lord, and so evened with him to this
      day. Then to the office, and out with Sir W. Warren for discourse by coach
      to White Hall, thinking to have spoke with Sir W. Coventry, but did not,
      and to see the Queene, but she comes but to Hampton Court to-night. Back
      to my office and there late, and so home to supper and bed. I walked a
      good while to-night with Mr. Hater in the garden, talking about a husband
      for my sister, and reckoning up all our clerks about us, none of which he
      thinks fit for her and her portion. At last I thought of young Gawden, and
      will thinke of it again.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. Late to dinner,
      and then to the office again, and there busy till past twelve at night,
      and so home to supper and to bed. We have newes of Sir Jeremy Smith's
      being very well with his fleete at Cales.&mdash;[Cadiz]
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed discoursing with pleasure with my wife,
      among other things about Pall's coming up, for she must be here a little
      to be fashioned, and my wife hath a mind to go down for her, which I am
      not much against, and so I rose and to my chamber to settle several
      things. At noon comes my uncle Wight to dinner, and brings with him Mrs.
      Wight, sad company to me, nor was I much pleased with it, only I must shew
      respect to my uncle. After dinner they gone, and it being a brave day, I
      walked to White Hall, where the Queene and ladies are all come: I saw some
      few of them, but not the Queene, nor any of the great beauties. I
      endeavoured to have seen my Lord Hinchingbrooke, who come to town
      yesterday, but I could not. Met with Creed and walked with him a turne or
      two in the Parke, but without much content, having now designs of getting
      money in my head, which allow me not the leisure I used to have with him,
      besides an odde story lately told of him for a great truth, of his
      endeavouring to lie with a woman at Oxford, and her crying out saved her;
      and this being publickly known, do a little make me hate him. Thence took
      coach, and calling by the way at my bookseller's for a booke I writ about
      twenty years ago in prophecy of this year coming on, 1666, explaining it
      to be the marke of the beast, I home, and there fell to reading, and then
      to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and by coach to my Lord Sandwich's, but he was gone out. So I to
      White Hall, and there waited on the Duke of Yorke with some of the rest of
      our brethren, and thence back again to my Lord's, to see my Lord
      Hinchingbroke, which I did, and I am mightily out of countenance in my
      great expectation of him by others' report, though he is indeed a pretty
      gentleman, yet nothing what I took him for, methinks, either as to person
      or discourse discovered to me, but I must try him more before I go too far
      in censuring. Hence to the Exchequer from office to office, to set my
      business of my tallys in doing, and there all the morning. So at noon by
      coach to St. Paul's Church-yarde to my Bookseller's, and there bespoke a
      few more books to bring all I have lately bought to L10. Here I am told
      for certain, what I have heard once or twice already, of a Jew in town,
      that in the name of the rest do offer to give any man L10 to be paid L100,
      if a certain person now at Smyrna be within these two years owned by all
      the Princes of the East, and particularly the grand Signor as the King of
      the world, in the same manner we do the King of England here, and that
      this man is the true Messiah. One named a friend of his that had received
      ten pieces in gold upon this score, and says that the Jew hath disposed of
      L1100 in this manner, which is very strange; and certainly this year of
      1666 will be a year of great action; but what the consequences of it will
      be, God knows! Thence to the 'Change, and from my stationer's thereabouts
      carried home by coach two books of Ogilby's, his AEsop and Coronation,
      which fell to my lot at his lottery. Cost me L4 besides the binding. So
      home. I find my wife gone out to Hales, her paynter's, and I after a
      little dinner do follow her, and there do find him at worke, and with
      great content I do see it will be a very brave picture. Left her there,
      and I to my Lord Treasurer's, where Sir G. Carteret and Sir J. Minnes met
      me, and before my Lord Treasurer and Duke of Albemarle the state of our
      Navy debts were laid open, being very great, and their want of money to
      answer them openly professed, there being but L1,500,000 to answer a
      certaine expense and debt of L2,300,000. Thence walked with Fenn down to
      White Hall, and there saw the Queene at cards with many ladies, but none
      of our beauties were there. But glad I was to see the Queene so well, who
      looks prettily; and methinks hath more life than before, since it is
      confessed of all that she miscarryed lately; Dr. Clerke telling me
      yesterday at White Hall that he had the membranes and other vessels in his
      hands which she voided, and were perfect as ever woman's was that bore a
      child. Thence hoping to find my Lord Sandwich, away by coach to my Lord
      Chancellor's, but missed him, and so home and to office, and then to
      supper and my Journall, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and to the office; where, among other businesses, Mr. Evelyn's
      proposition about publique Infirmarys was read and agreed on, he being
      there: and at noon I took him home to dinner, being desirous of keeping my
      acquaintance with him; and a most excellent humoured man I still find him,
      and mighty knowing. After dinner I took him by coach to White Hall, and
      there he and I parted, and I to my Lord Sandwich's, where coming and
      bolting into the dining-room, I there found Captain Ferrers going to
      christen a child of his born yesterday, and I come just pat to be a
      godfather, along with my Lord Hinchingbrooke, and Madam Pierce, my
      Valentine, which for that reason I was pretty well contented with, though
      a little vexed to see myself so beset with people to spend me money, as
      she of a Valentine and little Mrs. Tooker, who is come to my house this
      day from Greenwich, and will cost me 20s., my wife going out with her this
      afternoon, and now this christening. Well, by and by the child is brought
      and christened Katharine, and I this day on this occasion drank a glasse
      of wine, which I have not professedly done these two years, I think, but a
      little in the time of the sicknesse. After that done, and gone and kissed
      the mother in bed, I away to Westminster Hall, and there hear that Mrs.
      Lane is come to town. So I staid loitering up and down till anon she comes
      and agreed to meet at Swayn's, and there I went anon, and she come, but
      staid but little, the place not being private. I have not seen her since
      before the plague. So thence parted and 'rencontrais a' her last 'logis',
      and in the place did what I 'tenais a mind pour ferais con her'. At last
      she desired to borrow money of me, L5, and would pawn gold with me for it,
      which I accepted and promised in a day or two to supply her. So away home
      to the office, and thence home, where little Mrs. Tooker staid all night
      with us, and a pretty child she is, and happens to be niece to my beauty
      that is dead, that lived at the Jackanapes, in Cheapside. So to bed, a
      little troubled that I have been at two houses this afternoon with Mrs.
      Lane that were formerly shut up of the plague.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall by his coach, by the way
      talking of my brother John to get a spiritual promotion for him, which I
      am now to looke after, for as much as he is shortly to be Master in Arts,
      and writes me this weeke a Latin letter that he is to go into orders this
      Lent. There to the Duke's chamber, and find our fellows discoursing there
      on our business, so I was sorry to come late, but no hurte was done
      thereby. Here the Duke, among other things, did bring out a book of great
      antiquity of some of the customs of the Navy, about 100 years since, which
      he did lend us to read and deliver him back again. Thence I to the
      Exchequer, and there did strike my tallys for a quarter for Tangier and
      carried them home with me, and thence to Trinity-house, being invited to
      an Elder Brother's feast; and there met and sat by Mr. Prin, and had good
      discourse about the privileges of Parliament, which, he says, are few to
      the Commons' House, and those not examinable by them, but only by the
      House of Lords. Thence with my Lord Bruncker to Gresham College, the first
      time after the sicknesse that I was there, and the second time any met.
      And here a good lecture of Mr. Hooke's about the trade of felt-making,
      very pretty. And anon alone with me about the art of drawing pictures by
      Prince Rupert's rule and machine, and another of Dr. Wren's;
    </p>
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     [Afterwards the famous Sir Christopher Wren.  He was one of the
     mainstays of the Royal Society.]
</pre>
    <p>
      but he says nothing do like squares, or, which is the best in the world,
      like a darke roome,&mdash;[The camera obscura.]&mdash;which pleased me
      mightily. Thence with Povy home to my house, and there late settling
      accounts with him, which was very troublesome to me, and he gone, found
      Mr. Hill below, who sat with me till late talking, and so away, and we to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner and thence by coach with my wife for ayre principally for her. I
      alone stopped at Hales's and there mightily am pleased with my wife's
      picture that is begun there, and with Mr. Hill's, though I must [owne] I
      am not more pleased with it now the face is finished than I was when I saw
      it the second time of sitting. Thence to my Lord Sandwich's, but he not
      within, but goes to-morrow. My wife to Mrs. Hunt's, who is lately come to
      towne and grown mighty fat. I called her there, and so home and late at
      the office, and so home to supper and to bed. We are much troubled that
      the sicknesse in general (the town being so full of people) should be but
      three, and yet of the particular disease of the plague there should be ten
      encrease.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up betimes, and out of doors by 6 of the clock, and walked (W. Howe
      with me) to my Lord Sandwich's, who did lie the last night at his house in
      Lincoln's Inne Fields. It being fine walking in the morning, and the
      streets full of people again. There I staid, and the house full of people
      come to take leave of my Lord, who this day goes out of towne upon his
      embassy towards Spayne. And I was glad to find Sir W. Coventry to come,
      though I know it is only a piece of courtshipp. I had much discourse with
      my Lord, he telling me how fully he leaves the King his friend and the
      large discourse he had with him the other day, and how he desired to have
      the business of the prizes examined before he went, and that he yielded to
      it, and it is done as far as it concerns himself to the full, and the
      Lords Commissioners for prizes did reprehend all the informers in what
      related to his Lordship, which I am glad of in many respects. But we could
      not make an end of discourse, so I promised to waite upon [him] on Sunday
      at Cranborne, and took leave and away hence to Mr. Hales's with Mr. Hill
      and two of the Houblons, who come thither to speak with me, and saw my
      wife's picture, which pleases me well, but Mr. Hill's picture never a whit
      so well as it did before it was finished, which troubled me, and I begin
      to doubt the picture of my Lady Peters my wife takes her posture from, and
      which is an excellent picture, is not of his making, it is so master-like.
      I set them down at the 'Change and I home to the office, and at noon dined
      at home and to the office again. Anon comes Mrs. Knipp to see my wife, who
      is gone out, so I fain to entertain her, and took her out by coach to look
      my wife at Mrs. Pierce's and Unthanke's, but find her not. So back again,
      and then my wife comes home, having been buying of things, and at home I
      spent all the night talking with this baggage, and teaching her my song of
      "Beauty retire," which she sings and makes go most rarely, and a very fine
      song it seems to be. She also entertained me with repeating many of her
      own and others' parts of the play-house, which she do most excellently;
      and tells me the whole practices of the play-house and players, and is in
      every respect most excellent company. So I supped, and was merry at home
      all the evening, and the rather it being my birthday, 33 years, for which
      God be praised that I am in so good a condition of healthe and estate, and
      every thing else as I am, beyond expectation, in all. So she to Mrs.
      Turner's to lie, and we to bed. Mightily pleased to find myself in
      condition to have these people come about me and to be able to entertain
      them, and have the pleasure of their qualities, than which no man can have
      more in the world.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. All the morning at the office till past three o'clock. At that houre
      home and eat a bit alone, my wife being gone out. So abroad by coach with
      Mr. Hill, who staid for me to speake about business, and he and I to
      Hales's, where I find my wife and her woman, and Pierce and Knipp, and
      there sung and was mighty merry, and I joyed myself in it; but vexed at
      first to find my wife's picture not so like as I expected; but it was only
      his having finished one part, and not another, of the face; but, before I
      went, I was satisfied it will be an excellent picture. Here we had ale and
      cakes and mighty merry, and sung my song, which she [Knipp] now sings
      bravely, and makes me proud of myself. Thence left my wife to go home with
      Mrs. Pierce, while I home to the office, and there pretty late, and to
      bed, after fitting myself for to-morrow's journey.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lord's day). My wife up between three and four of the clock in the
      morning to dress herself, and I about five, and were all ready to take
      coach, she and I and Mercer, a little past five, but, to our trouble, the
      coach did not come till six. Then with our coach of four horses I hire on
      purpose, and Leshmore to ride by, we through the City to Branford and so
      to Windsor, Captain Ferrers overtaking us at Kensington, being to go with
      us, and here drank, and so through, making no stay, to Cranborne, about
      eleven o'clock, and found my Lord and the ladies at a sermon in the house;
      which being ended we to them, and all the company glad to see us, and
      mighty merry to dinner. Here was my Lord, and Lord Hinchingbroke, and Mr.
      Sidney, Sir Charles Herbert, and Mr. Carteret, my Lady Carteret, my Lady
      Jemimah, and Lady Slaning. After dinner to talk to and again, and then to
      walke in the Parke, my Lord and I alone, talking upon these heads; first,
      he has left his business of the prizes as well as is possible for him,
      having cleared himself before the Commissioners by the King's commands, so
      that nothing or little is to be feared from that point, he goes fully
      assured, he tells me, of the King's favour. That upon occasion I may know,
      I desired to know, his friends I may trust to, he tells me, but that he is
      not yet in England, but continues this summer in Ireland, my Lord Orrery
      is his father almost in affection. He tells me my Lord of Suffolke, Lord
      Arlington, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Treasurer, Mr. Atturny Montagu,
      Sir Thomas Clifford in the House of Commons, Sir G. Carteret, and some
      others I cannot presently remember, are friends that I may rely on for
      him. He tells me my Lord Chancellor seems his very good friend, but doubts
      that he may not think him so much a servant of the Duke of Yorke's as he
      would have him, and indeed my Lord tells me he hath lately made it his
      business to be seen studious of the King's favour, and not of the Duke's,
      and by the King will stand or fall, for factions there are, as he tells
      me, and God knows how high they may come. The Duke of Albemarle's post is
      so great, having had the name of bringing in the King, that he is like to
      stand, or, if it were not for him, God knows in what troubles we might be
      from some private faction, if an army could be got into another hand,
      which God forbid! It is believed that though Mr. Coventry be in appearance
      so great against the Chancellor, yet that there is a good understanding
      between the Duke and him. He dreads the issue of this year, and fears
      there will be some very great revolutions before his coming back again. He
      doubts it is needful for him to have a pardon for his last year's actions,
      all which he did without commission, and at most but the King's private
      single word for that of Bergen; but he dares not ask it at this time, lest
      it should make them think that there is something more in it than yet they
      know; and if it should be denied, it would be of very ill consequence. He
      says also, if it should in Parliament be enquired into the selling of
      Dunkirke (though the Chancellor was the man that would have it sold to
      France, saying the King of Spayne had no money to give for it); yet he
      will be found to have been the greatest adviser of it; which he is a
      little apprehensive may be called upon this Parliament. He told me it
      would not be necessary for him to tell me his debts, because he thinks I
      know them so well. He tells me, that for the match propounded of Mrs.
      Mallett for my Lord Hinchingbroke, it hath been lately off, and now her
      friends bring it on again, and an overture hath been made to him by a
      servant of hers, to compass the thing without consent of friends, she
      herself having a respect to my Lord's family, but my Lord will not listen
      to it but in a way of honour. The Duke hath for this weeke or two been
      very kind to him, more than lately; and so others, which he thinks is a
      good sign of faire weather again. He says the Archbishopp of Canterbury
      hath been very kind to him, and hath plainly said to him that he and all
      the world knows the difference between his judgment and brains and the
      Duke of Albemarle's, and then calls my Lady Duchesse the veryest slut and
      drudge and the foulest worde that can be spoke of a woman almost. My Lord
      having walked an houre with me talking thus and going in, and my Lady
      Carteret not suffering me to go back again to-night, my Lord to walke
      again with me about some of this and other discourse, and then in a-doors
      and to talke with all and with my Lady Carteret, and I with the young
      ladies and gentle men, who played on the guittar, and mighty merry, and
      anon to supper, and then my Lord going away to write, the young gentlemen
      to flinging of cushions, and other mad sports; at this late till towards
      twelve at night, and then being sleepy, I and my wife in a passage-room to
      bed, and slept not very well because of noise.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Called up about five in the morning, and my Lord up, and took leave,
      a little after six, very kindly of me and the whole company. Then I in,
      and my wife up and to visit my Lady Slaving in her bed, and there sat
      three hours, with Lady Jemimah with us, talking and laughing, and by and
      by my Lady Carteret comes, and she and I to talke, I glad to please her in
      discourse of Sir G. Carteret, that all will do well with him, and she is
      much pleased, he having had great annoyance and fears about his well
      doing, and I fear hath doubted that I have not been a friend to him, but
      cries out against my Lady Castlemaine, that makes the King neglect his
      business and seems much to fear that all will go to wracke, and I fear
      with great reason; exclaims against the Duke of Albemarle, and more the
      Duchesse for a filthy woman, as indeed she is. Here staid till 9 o'clock
      almost, and then took coach with so much love and kindnesse from my Lady
      Carteret, Lady Jemimah, and Lady Slaving, that it joys my heart, and when
      I consider the manner of my going hither, with a coach and four horses and
      servants and a woman with us, and coming hither being so much made of, and
      used with that state, and then going to Windsor and being shewn all that
      we were there, and had wherewith to give every body something for their
      pains, and then going home, and all in fine weather and no fears nor cares
      upon me, I do thinke myself obliged to thinke myself happy, and do look
      upon myself at this time in the happiest occasion a man can be, and
      whereas we take pains in expectation of future comfort and ease, I have
      taught myself to reflect upon myself at present as happy, and enjoy myself
      in that consideration, and not only please myself with thoughts of future
      wealth and forget the pleasure we at present enjoy. So took coach and to
      Windsor, to the Garter, and thither sent for Dr. Childe; who come to us,
      and carried us to St. George's Chappell; and there placed us among the
      Knights' stalls (and pretty the observation, that no man, but a woman may
      sit in a Knight's place, where any brass-plates are set); and hither come
      cushions to us, and a young singing-boy to bring us a copy of the anthem
      to be sung. And here, for our sakes, had this anthem and the great service
      sung extraordinary, only to entertain us. It is a noble place indeed, and
      a good Quire of voices. Great bowing by all the people, the poor Knights
      particularly, to the Alter. After prayers, we to see the plate of the
      chappell, and the robes of Knights, and a man to shew us the banners of
      the several Knights in being, which hang up over the stalls. And so to
      other discourse very pretty, about the Order. Was shewn where the late
      [King] is buried, and King Henry the Eighth, and my Lady [Jane] Seymour.
      This being done, to the King's house, and to observe the neatness and
      contrivance of the house and gates: it is the most romantique castle that
      is in the world. But, Lord! the prospect that is in the balcone in the
      Queene's lodgings, and the terrace and walk, are strange things to
      consider, being the best in the world, sure. Infinitely satisfied I and my
      wife with all this, she being in all points mightily pleased too, which
      added to my pleasure; and so giving a great deal of money to this and that
      man and woman, we to our taverne, and there dined, the Doctor with us; and
      so took coach and away to Eton, the Doctor with me. Before we went to
      Chappell this morning, Kate Joyce, in a stage-coach going toward London,
      called to me. I went to her and saluted her, but could not get her to stay
      with us, having company. At Eton I left my wife in the coach, and he and I
      to the College, and there find all mighty fine. The school good, and the
      custom pretty of boys cutting their names in the struts of the window when
      they go to Cambridge, by which many a one hath lived to see himself
      Provost and Fellow, that had his name in the window standing. To the Hall,
      and there find the boys' verses, "De Peste;" it being their custom to make
      verses at Shrove-tide. I read several, and very good ones they were, and
      better, I think, than ever I made when I was a boy, and in rolls as long
      and longer than the whole Hall, by much. Here is a picture of Venice hung
      up given, and a monument made of Sir H. Wotton's giving it to the College.
      Thence to the porter's, in the absence of the butler, and did drink of the
      College beer, which is very good; and went into the back fields to see the
      scholars play. And so to the chappell, and there saw, among other things,
      Sir H. Wotton's stone with this Epitaph
    </p>
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          Hic facet primus hujus sententiae Author:&mdash;
          Disputandi pruritus fit ecclesiae scabies.
</pre>
    <p>
      But unfortunately the word "Author" was wrong writ, and now so basely
      altered that it disgraces the stone. Thence took leave of the Doctor, and
      so took coach, and finely, but sleepy, away home, and got thither about
      eight at night, and after a little at my office, I to bed; and an houre
      after, was waked with my wife's quarrelling with Mercer, at which I was
      angry, and my wife and I fell out. But with much ado to sleep again, I
      beginning to practise more temper, and to give her her way.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and after a harsh word or two my wife and I good friends, and so
      up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon late to dinner, my
      wife gone out to Hales's about her picture, and, after dinner, I after
      her, and do mightily like her picture, and think it will be as good as my
      Lady Peters's. So home mightily pleased, and there late at business and
      set down my three last days' journalls, and so to bed, overjoyed to thinke
      of the pleasure of the last Sunday and yesterday, and my ability to bear
      the charge of these pleasures, and with profit too, by obliging my Lord,
      and reconciling Sir George Carteret's family.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Ash Wednesday). Up, and after doing a little business at my office I
      walked, it being a most curious dry and cold morning, to White Hall, and
      there I went into the Parke, and meeting Sir Ph. Warwicke took a turne
      with him in the Pell Mall, talking of the melancholy posture of affairs,
      where every body is snarling one at another, and all things put together
      looke ominously. This new Act too putting us out of a power of raising
      money. So that he fears as I do, but is fearfull of enlarging in that
      discourse of an ill condition in every thing, and the State and all. We
      appointed another time to meet to talke of the business of the Navy alone
      seriously, and so parted, and I to White Hall, and there we did our
      business with the Duke of Yorke, and so parted, and walked to Westminster
      Hall, where I staid talking with Mrs. Michell and Howlett long and her
      daughter, which is become a mighty pretty woman, and thence going out of
      the Hall was called to by Mrs. Martin, so I went to her and bought two
      bands, and so parted, and by and by met at her chamber, and there did what
      I would, and so away home and there find Mrs. Knipp, and we dined
      together, she the pleasantest company in the world. After dinner I did
      give my wife money to lay out on Knipp, 20s., and I abroad to White Hall
      to visit Colonell Norwood, and then Sir G. Carteret, with whom I have
      brought myself right again, and he very open to me; is very melancholy,
      and matters, I fear, go down with him, but he seems most afeard of a
      general catastrophe to the whole kingdom, and thinks, as I fear, that all
      things will come to nothing. Thence to the Palace Yard, to the Swan, and
      there staid till it was dark, and then to Mrs. Lane's, and there lent her
      L5 upon L4 01s. in gold. And then did what I would with her, and I
      perceive she is come to be very bad, and offers any thing, that it is
      dangerous to have to do with her, nor will I see [her] any more a good
      while. Thence by coach home and to the office, where a while, and then
      betimes to bed by ten o'clock, sooner than I have done many a day. And
      thus ends this month, with my mind full of resolution to apply myself
      better from this time forward to my business than I have done these six or
      eight days, visibly to my prejudice both in quiett of mind and setting
      backward of my business, that I cannot give a good account of it as I
      ought to do.
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      MARCH 1665-1666
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    <p>
      March 1st. Up, and to the office and there all the morning sitting and at
      noon to dinner with my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen at the
      White Horse in Lumbard Streete, where, God forgive us! good sport with
      Captain Cocke's having his mayde sicke of the plague a day or two ago and
      sent to the pest house, where she now is, but he will not say anything but
      that she is well. But blessed be God! a good Bill this week we have; being
      but 237 in all, and 42 of the plague, and of them but six in the City:
      though my Lord Bruneker says, that these six are most of them in new
      parishes where they were not the last week. Here was with us also Mr.
      Williamson, who the more I know, the more I honour. Hence I slipt after
      dinner without notice home and there close to my business at my office
      till twelve at night, having with great comfort returned to my business by
      some fresh vowes in addition to my former, and-more severe, and a great
      joy it is to me to see myself in a good disposition to business. So home
      to supper and to my Journall and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, as I have of late resolved before 7 in the morning and to the
      office, where all the morning, among other things setting my wife and
      Mercer with much pleasure to worke upon the ruling of some paper for the
      making of books for pursers, which will require a great deale of worke and
      they will earn a good deale of money by it, the hopes of which makes them
      worke mighty hard. At noon dined and to the office again, and about 4
      o'clock took coach and to my Lord Treasurer's and thence to Sir Philip
      Warwicke's new house by appointment, there to spend an houre in talking
      and we were together above an hour, and very good discourse about the
      state of the King as to money, and particularly in the point of the Navy.
      He endeavours hard to come to a good understanding of Sir G. Carteret's
      accounts, and by his discourse I find Sir G. Carteret must be brought to
      it, and what a madman he is that he do not do it of himself, for the King
      expects the Parliament will call upon him for his promise of giving an
      account of the money, and he will be ready for it, which cannot be, I am
      sure, without Sir G. Carteret's accounts be better understood than they
      are. He seems to have a great esteem of me and my opinion and thoughts of
      things. After we had spent an houre thus discoursing and vexed that we do
      but grope so in the darke as we do, because the people, that should
      enlighten us, do not helpe us, we resolved fitting some things for another
      meeting, and so broke up. He shewed me his house, which is yet all unhung,
      but will be a very noble house indeed. Thence by coach calling at my
      bookseller's and carried home L10 worth of books, all, I hope, I shall buy
      a great while. There by appointment find Mr. Hill come to sup and take his
      last leave of me, and by and by in comes Mr. James Houbland to bear us
      company, a man I love mightily, and will not lose his acquaintance. He
      told me in my eare this night what he and his brothers have resolved to
      give me, which is L200, for helping them out with two or three ships. A
      good sum and that which I did believe they would give me, and I did expect
      little less. Here we talked and very good company till late, and then took
      leave of one another, and indeed I am heartily sorry for Mr. Hill's
      leaving us, for he is a very worthy gentleman, as most I know. God give
      him a good voyage and successe in his business. Thus we parted and my wife
      and I to bed, heavy for the losse of our friend.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. All the morning at the office, at noon to the Old James, being sent
      for, and there dined with Sir William Rider, Cutler, and others, to make
      an end with two Scots Maisters about the freight of two ships of my Lord
      Rutherford's. After a small dinner and a little discourse I away to the
      Crowne behind the Exchange to Sir W. Pen, Captain Cocke and Fen, about
      getting a bill of Cocke's paid to Pen, in part for the East India goods he
      sold us. Here Sir W. Pen did give me the reason in my eare of his
      importunity for money, for that he is now to marry his daughter. God send
      her better fortune than her father deserves I should wish him for a false
      rogue. Thence by coach to Hales's, and there saw my wife sit; and I do
      like her picture mightily, and very like it will be, and a brave piece of
      work. But he do complain that her nose hath cost him as much work as
      another's face, and he hath done it finely indeed. Thence home and late at
      the office, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th (Lord's day). And all day at my Tangier and private accounts, having
      neglected them since Christmas, which I hope I shall never do again; for I
      find the inconvenience of it, it being ten times the labour to remember
      and settle things. But I thank God I did it at last, and brought them all
      fine and right; and I am, I thinke, by all appears to me (and I am sure I
      cannot be L10 wrong), worth above L4600, for which the Lord be praised!
      being the biggest sum I ever was worth yet.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. I was at it till past two o'clock on Monday morning, and then read my
      vowes, and to bed with great joy and content that I have brought my things
      to so good a settlement, and now having my mind fixed to follow my
      business again and sensible of Sir W. Coventry's jealousies, I doubt,
      concerning me, partly my siding with Sir G. Carteret, and partly that
      indeed I have been silent in my business of the office a great while, and
      given but little account of myself and least of all to him, having not
      made him one visitt since he came to towne from Oxford, I am resolved to
      fall hard to it again, and fetch up the time and interest I have lost or
      am in a fair way of doing it. Up about eight o'clock, being called up by
      several people, among others by Mr. Moone, with whom I went to Lumbard
      Streete to Colvill, and so back again and in my chamber he and I did end
      all our businesses together of accounts for money upon bills of Exchange,
      and am pleased to find myself reputed a man of business and method, as he
      do give me out to be. To the 'Change at noon and so home to dinner. Newes
      for certain of the King of Denmarke's declaring for the Dutch, and
      resolution to assist them. To the office, and there all the afternoon. In
      the evening come Mr. James and brother Houblons to agree upon share
      parties for their ships, and did acquaint me that they had paid my
      messenger, whom I sent this afternoon for it, L200 for my friendship in
      the business, which pleases me mightily. They being gone I forth late to
      Sir H. Viner's to take a receipt of them for the L200 lodged for me there
      with them, and so back home, and after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up betimes and did much business before office time. Then to the
      office and there till noon and so home to dinner and to the office again
      till night. In the evening being at Sir W. Batten's, stepped in (for I
      have not used to go thither a good while), I find my Lord Bruncker and
      Mrs. Williams, and they would of their own accord, though I had never
      obliged them (nor my wife neither) with one visit for many of theirs, go
      see my house and my wife; which I showed them and made them welcome with
      wine and China oranges (now a great rarity since the war, none to be had).
      There being also Captain Cocke and Mrs. Turner, who had never been in my
      house since I come to the office before, and Mrs. Carcasse, wife of Mr.
      Carcasses. My house happened to be mighty clean, and did me great honour,
      and they mightily pleased with it. They gone I to the office and did some
      business, and then home to supper and to bed. My mind troubled through a
      doubtfulness of my having incurred Sir W. Coventry's displeasure by not
      having waited on him since his coming to towne, which is a mighty faulte
      and that I can bear the fear of the bad effects of till I have been with
      him, which shall be to-morrow, God willing. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up betimes, and to St. James's, thinking Mr. Coventry had lain there;
      but he do not, but at White Hall; so thither I went and had as good a time
      as heart could wish, and after an houre in his chamber about publique
      business he and I walked up, and the Duke being gone abroad we walked an
      houre in the Matted Gallery: he of himself begun to discourse of the
      unhappy differences between him and my Lord of Sandwich, and from the
      beginning to the end did run through all passages wherein my Lord hath, at
      any time, gathered any dissatisfaction, and cleared himself to me most
      honourably; and in truth, I do believe he do as he says. I did afterwards
      purge myself of all partiality in the business of Sir G. Carteret, (whose
      story Sir W. Coventry did also run over,) that I do mind the King's
      interest, notwithstanding my relation to him; all which he declares he
      firmly believes, and assures me he hath the same kindnesse and opinion of
      me as ever. And when I said I was jealous of myself, that having now come
      to such an income as I am, by his favour, I should not be found to do as
      much service as might deserve it; he did assure me, he thinks it not too
      much for me, but thinks I deserve it as much as any man in England. All
      this discourse did cheer my heart, and sets me right again, after a good
      deal of melancholy, out of fears of his disinclination to me, upon the
      differences with my Lord Sandwich and Sir G. Carteret; but I am satisfied
      throughly, and so went away quite another man, and by the grace of God
      will never lose it again by my folly in not visiting and writing to him,
      as I used heretofore to do. Thence by coach to the Temple, and it being a
      holyday, a fast-day, there 'light, and took water, being invited, and down
      to Greenwich, to Captain Cocke's, where dined, he and Lord Bruncker, and
      Matt. Wren, Boltele, and Major Cooper, who is also a very pretty
      companion; but they all drink hard, and, after dinner, to gaming at cards.
      So I provoked my Lord to be gone, and he and I to Mr. Cottle's and met
      Mrs. Williams (without whom he cannot stir out of doors) and there took
      coach and away home. They carry me to London and set me down at the
      Temple, where my mind changed and I home, and to writing and heare my boy
      play on the lute, and a turne with my wife pleasantly in the garden by
      moonshine, my heart being in great peace, and so home to supper and to
      bed. The King and Duke are to go to-morrow to Audly End, in order to the
      seeing and buying of it of my Lord Suffolke.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up betimes and to the office, where all the morning sitting and did
      discover three or four fresh instances of Sir W. Pen's old cheating
      dissembling tricks, he being as false a fellow as ever was born. Thence
      with Sir. W. Batten and Lord Bruncker to the White Horse in Lumbard
      Streete to dine with Captain Cocke, upon particular business of canvas to
      buy for the King, and here by chance I saw the mistresse of the house I
      have heard much of, and a very pretty woman she is indeed and her husband
      the simplest looked fellow and old that ever I saw. After dinner I took
      coach and away to Hales's, where my wife is sitting; and, indeed, her face
      and necke, which are now finished, do so please me that I am not myself
      almost, nor was not all the night after in writing of my letters, in
      consideration of the fine picture that I shall be master of. Thence home
      and to the office, where very late, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and being ready, to the Cockpitt to make a visit to the Duke of
      Albemarle, and to my great joy find him the same man to me that [he has
      been] heretofore, which I was in great doubt of, through my negligence in
      not visiting of him a great while; and having now set all to rights there,
      I am in mighty ease in my mind and I think shall never suffer matters to
      run so far backward again as I have done of late, with reference to my
      neglecting him and Sir W. Coventry. Thence by water down to Deptford,
      where I met my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Batten by agreement, and to
      measuring Mr. Castle's new third-rate ship, which is to be called the
      Defyance.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [William Castell wrote to the Navy Commissioners on February 17th,
     1665-66, to inform them that the "Defiance" had gone to Longreach,
     and again, on February 22nd, to say that Mr. Grey had no masts large
     enough for the new ship.  Sir William Batten on March 29th asked for
     the consent of the Board to bring the "Defiance" into dock ("
     Calendar of State Papers," Domestic, 1665-66, pp.  252, 262, 324).]
</pre>
    <p>
      And here I had my end in saving the King some money and getting myself
      some experience in knowing how they do measure ships. Thence I left them
      and walked to Redriffe, and there taking water was overtaken by them in
      their boat, and so they would have me in with them to Castle's house,
      where my Lady Batten and Madam Williams were, and there dined and a deale
      of doings. I had a good dinner and counterfeit mirthe and pleasure with
      them, but had but little, thinking how I neglected my business. Anon, all
      home to Sir W. Batten's and there Mrs. Knipp coming we did spend the
      evening together very merry. She and I singing, and, God forgive me! I do
      still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem
      pleasure above all things, though yet in the middle of it, it has
      reluctances after my business, which is neglected by my following my
      pleasure. However musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my
      business is. They being gone I to the office a while and so home to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and to the office, and there busy sitting till noon. I find at
      home Mrs. Pierce and Knipp come to dine with me. We were mighty merry;
      and, after dinner, I carried them and my wife out by coach to the New
      Exchange, and there I did give my valentine, Mrs. Pierce, a dozen payre of
      gloves, and a payre of silke stockings, and Knipp for company's sake,
      though my wife had, by my consent, laid out 20s. upon her the other day,
      six payre of gloves. Thence to Hales's to have seen our pictures, but
      could not get in, he being abroad, and so to the Cakehouse hard by, and
      there sat in the coach with great pleasure, and eat some fine cakes and so
      carried them to Pierces and away home. It is a mighty fine witty boy, Mrs.
      Pierces little boy. Thence home and to the office, where late writing
      letters and leaving a great deale to do on Monday, I home to supper and to
      bed. The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure,
      knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and out of my
      observation that most men that do thrive in the world, do forget to take
      pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve
      that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it
      with any pleasure.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day). Up, and by water to White Hall, there met Mr. Coventry
      coming out, going along with the Commissioners of the Ordnance to the
      water side to take barge, they being to go down to the Hope. I returned
      with them as far as the Tower in their barge speaking with Sir W. Coventry
      and so home and to church, and at noon dined and then to my chamber, where
      with great pleasure about one business or other till late, and so to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up betimes, and called on by abundance of people about business, and
      then away by water to Westminster, and there to the Exchequer about some
      business, and thence by coach calling at several places, to the Old
      Exchange, and there did much business, and so homeward and bought a silver
      salt for my ordinary table to use, and so home to dinner, and after dinner
      comes my uncle and aunt Wight, the latter I have not seen since the
      plague; a silly, froward, ugly woman she is. We made mighty much of them,
      and she talks mightily of her fear of the sicknesse, and so a deale of
      tittle tattle and I left them and to my office where late, and so home to
      supper and to bed. This day I hear my Uncle Talbot Pepys died the last
      week, and was buried. All the news now is, that Sir Jeremy Smith is at
      Cales&mdash;[Cadiz]&mdash;with his fleete, and Mings in the Elve.&mdash;[Elbe]&mdash;The
      King is come this noon to towne from Audly End, with the Duke of Yorke and
      a fine train of gentlemen.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up betimes, and to the office, where busy sitting all the morning,
      and I begin to find a little convenience by holding up my head to Sir W.
      Pen, for he is come to be more supple. At noon to dinner, and then to the
      office again, where mighty business, doing a great deale till midnight and
      then home to supper and to bed. The plague encreased this week 29 from 28,
      though the total fallen from 238 to 207, which do never a whit please me.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and met by 6 o'clock in my chamber Mr. Povy (from White Hall)
      about evening reckonings between him and me, on our Tangier business, and
      at it hard till toward eight o'clock, and he then carried me in his
      chariot to White Hall, where by and by my fellow officers met me, and we
      had a meeting before the Duke. Thence with my Lord Bruncker towards
      London, and in our way called in Covent Garden, and took in Sir John
      (formerly Dr.) Baber; who hath this humour that he will not enter into
      discourse while any stranger is in company, till he be told who he is that
      seems a stranger to him. This he did declare openly to me, and asked my
      Lord who I was, giving this reason, that he has been inconvenienced by
      being too free in discourse till he knew who all the company were. Thence
      to Guildhall (in our way taking in Dr. Wilkins), and there my Lord and I
      had full and large discourse with Sir Thomas Player, the Chamberlain of
      the City (a man I have much heard of for his credit and punctuality in the
      City, and on that score I had a desire to be made known to him), about the
      credit of our tallys, which are lodged there for security to such as
      should lend money thereon to the use of the Navy. And I had great
      satisfaction therein: and the truth is, I find all our matters of credit
      to be in an ill condition. Thence, I being in a little haste walked before
      and to the 'Change a little and then home, and presently to Trinity house
      to dinner, where Captain Cox made his Elder Brother's dinner. But it
      seemed to me a very poor sorry dinner. I having many things in my head
      rose, when my belly was full, though the dinner not half done, and home
      and there to do some business, and by and by out of doors and met Mr. Povy
      coming to me by appointment, but it being a little too late, I took a
      little pride in the streete not to go back with him, but prayed him to
      come another time, and I away to Kate Joyce's, thinking to have spoke to
      her husband about Pall's business, but a stranger, the Welsh Dr. Powell,
      being there I forebore and went away and so to Hales's, to see my wife's
      picture, which I like mighty well, and there had the pleasure to see how
      suddenly he draws the Heavens, laying a darke ground and then lightening
      it when and where he will. Thence to walk all alone in the fields behind
      Grayes Inne, making an end of reading over my dear "Faber fortunae," of my
      Lord Bacon's, and thence, it growing dark, took two or three wanton turns
      about the idle places and lanes about Drury Lane, but to no satisfaction,
      but a great fear of the plague among them, and so anon I walked by
      invitation to Mrs. Pierces, where I find much good company, that is to
      say, Mrs. Pierce, my wife, Mrs. Worshipp and her daughter, and Harris the
      player, and Knipp, and Mercer, and Mrs. Barbary Sheldon, who is come this
      day to spend a weeke with my wife; and here with musique we danced, and
      sung and supped, and then to sing and dance till past one in the morning;
      and much mirthe with Sir Anthony Apsley and one Colonell Sidney, who lodge
      in the house; and above all, they are mightily taken with Mrs. Knipp.
      Hence weary and sleepy we broke up, and I and my company homeward by coach
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Lay till it was full time to rise, it being eight o'clock, and so to
      the office and there sat till almost three o'clock and then to dinner, and
      after dinner (my wife and Mercer and Mrs. Barbary being gone to Hales's
      before), I and my cozen Anthony Joyce, who come on purpose to dinner with
      me, and he and I to discourse of our proposition of marriage between Pall
      and Harman, and upon discourse he and I to Harman's house and took him to
      a taverne hard by, and we to discourse of our business, and I offered
      L500, and he declares most ingenuously that his trade is not to be trusted
      on, that he however needs no money, but would have her money bestowed on
      her, which I like well, he saying that he would adventure 2 or L300 with
      her. I like him as a most good-natured, and discreet man, and, I believe,
      very cunning. We come to this conclusion for us to meete one another the
      next weeke, and then we hope to come to some end, for I did declare myself
      well satisfied with the match. Thence to Hales's, where I met my wife and
      people; and do find the picture, above all things, a most pretty picture,
      and mighty like my wife; and I asked him his price: he says L14, and the
      truth is, I think he do deserve it. Thence toward London and home, and I
      to the office, where I did much, and betimes to bed, having had of late so
      little sleep, and there slept
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Till 7 this morning. Up and all the morning about the Victualler's
      business, passing his account. At noon to the 'Change, and did several
      businesses, and thence to the Crowne behind the 'Change and dined with my
      Lord Bruncker and Captain Cocke and Fenn, and Madam Williams, who without
      question must be my Lord's wife, and else she could not follow him
      wherever he goes and kisse and use him publiquely as she do. Thence to the
      office, where Sir W. Pen and I made an end of the Victualler's business,
      and thence abroad about several businesses, and so in the evening back
      again, and anon called on by Mr. Povy, and he and I staid together in my
      chamber till 12 at night ending our reckonings and giving him tallys for
      all I was to pay him and so parted, and I to make good my Journall for two
      or three days, and begun it till I come to the other side, where I have
      scratched so much, for, for want of sleep, I begun to write idle and from
      the purpose. So forced to breake off, and to bed.&mdash;[There are several
      erasures in the original MS.]
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to finish my Journall, which I had not sense enough the last
      night to make an end of, and thence to the office, where very busy all the
      morning. At noon home to dinner and presently with my wife out to Hales's,
      where I am still infinitely pleased with my wife's picture. I paid him L14
      for it, and 25s. for the frame, and I think it is not a whit too deare for
      so good a picture. It is not yet quite finished and dry, so as to be fit
      to bring home yet. This day I begun to sit, and he will make me, I think,
      a very fine picture. He promises it shall be as good as my wife's, and I
      sit to have it full of shadows, and do almost break my neck looking over
      my shoulder to make the posture for him to work by. Thence home and to the
      office, and so home having a great cold, and so my wife and Mrs. Barbary
      have very great ones, we are at a loss how we all come by it together, so
      to bed, drinking butter-ale. This day my W. Hewer comes from Portsmouth
      and gives me an instance of another piece of knavery of Sir W. Pen, who
      wrote to Commissioner Middleton, that it was my negligence the other day
      he was not acquainted, as the board directed, with our clerks coming down
      to the pay. But I need no new arguments to teach me that he is a false
      rogue to me and all the world besides.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Lord's day). Up and my cold better, so to church, and then home to
      dinner, and so walked out to St. James's Church, thinking to have seen
      faire Mrs. Butler, but could not, she not being there, nor, I believe,
      lives thereabouts now. So walked to Westminster, very fine fair dry
      weather, but all cry out for lack of rain. To Herbert's and drank, and
      thence to Mrs. Martin's, and did what I would with her; her husband going
      for some wine for us. The poor man I do think would take pains if I can
      get him a purser's place, which I will endeavour. She tells me as a secret
      that Betty Howlet of the Hall, my little sweetheart, that I used to call
      my second wife, is married to a younger son of Mr. Michell's (his elder
      brother, who should have had her, being dead this plague), at which I am
      glad, and that they are to live nearer me in Thames Streete, by the Old
      Swan. Thence by coach home and to my chamber about some accounts, and so
      to bed. Sir Christopher Mings is come home from Hambro without anything
      done, saving bringing home some pipestaves for us.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up betimes and upon a meeting extraordinary at the office most of
      the morning with Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Coventry, and Sir W. Pen, upon the
      business of the accounts. Where now we have got almost as much as we would
      have we begin to lay all on the Controller, and I fear he will be run down
      with it, for he is every day less and less capable of doing business.
      Thence with my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Coventry to the ticket office, to see
      in what little order things are there, and there it is a shame to see how
      the King is served. Thence to the Chamberlain of London, and satisfy
      ourselves more particularly how much credit we have there, which proves
      very little. Thence to Sir Robert Long's, absent. About much the same
      business, but have not the satisfaction we would have there neither. So
      Sir W. Coventry parted, and my Lord and I to Mrs. Williams's, and there I
      saw her closett, where indeed a great many fine things there are, but the
      woman I hate. Here we dined, and Sir J. Minnes come to us, and after
      dinner we walked to the King's play-house, all in dirt, they being
      altering of the stage to make it wider. But God knows when they will begin
      to act again; but my business here was to see the inside of the stage and
      all the tiring-rooms and machines; and, indeed, it was a sight worthy
      seeing. But to see their clothes, and the various sorts, and what a
      mixture of things there was; here a wooden-leg, there a ruff, here a
      hobbyhorse, there a crown, would make a man split himself to see with
      laughing; and particularly Lacy's wardrobe, and Shotrell's. But then
      again, to think how fine they show on the stage by candle-light, and how
      poor things they are to look now too near hand, is not pleasant at all.
      The machines are fine, and the paintings very pretty. Thence mightily
      satisfied in my curiosity I away with my Lord to see him at her house
      again, and so take leave and by coach home and to the office, and thence
      sent for to Sir G. Carteret by and by to the Broad Streete, where he and I
      walked two or three hours till it was quite darke in his gallery talking
      of his affairs, wherein I assure him all will do well, and did give him
      (with great liberty, which he accepted kindly) my advice to deny the Board
      nothing they would aske about his accounts, but rather call upon them to
      know whether there was anything more they desired, or was wanting. But our
      great discourse and serious reflections was upon the bad state of the
      kingdom in general, through want of money and good conduct, which we fear
      will undo all. Thence mightily satisfied with this good fortune of this
      discourse with him I home, and there walked in the darke till 10 o'clock
      at night in the garden with Sir W. Warren, talking of many things
      belonging to us particularly, and I hope to get something considerably by
      him before the year be over. He gives me good advice of circumspection in
      my place, which I am now in great mind to improve; for I think our office
      stands on very ticklish terms, the Parliament likely to sit shortly and
      likely to be asked more money, and we able to give a very bad account of
      the expence of what we have done with what they did give before. Besides,
      the turning out the prize officers may be an example for the King giving
      us up to the Parliament's pleasure as easily, for we deserve it as much.
      Besides, Sir G. Carteret did tell me tonight how my Lord Bruncker himself,
      whose good-will I could have depended as much on as any, did himself to
      him take notice of the many places I have; and though I was a painful man,
      yet the Navy was enough for any man to go through with in his owne single
      place there, which much troubles me, and shall yet provoke me to more and
      more care and diligence than ever. Thence home to supper, where I find my
      wife and Mrs. Barbary with great colds, as I also at this time have. This
      day by letter from my father he propounds a match in the country for Pall,
      which pleased me well, of one that hath seven score and odd pounds land
      per annum in possession, and expects L1000 in money by the death of an old
      aunt. He hath neither father, mother, sister, nor brother, but demands
      L600 down, and L100 on the birth of first child, which I had some
      inclination to stretch to. He is kinsman to, and lives with, Mr. Phillips,
      but my wife tells me he is a drunken, ill-favoured, ill-bred country
      fellow, which sets me off of it again, and I will go on with Harman. So
      after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon dined in
      haste, and so my wife, Mrs. Barbary, Mercer, and I by coach to Hales's,
      where I find my wife's picture now perfectly finished in all respects, and
      a beautiful picture it is, as almost I ever saw. I sat again, and had a
      great deale done, but, whatever the matter is, I do not fancy that it has
      the ayre of my face, though it will be a very fine picture. Thence home
      and to my business, being post night, and so home to supper and to, bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up betimes, and first by coach to my Lord Generall to visitt him,
      and then to the Duke of Yorke, where we all met and did our usual business
      with him; but, Lord! how everything is yielded to presently, even by Sir
      W. Coventry, that is propounded by the Duke, as now to have Troutbecke,
      his old surgeon, and intended to go Surgeon-General of the fleete, to go
      Physician-General of the fleete, of which there never was any precedent in
      the world, and he for that to have L20 per month. Thence with Lord
      Bruncker to Sir Robert Long, whom we found in his closett, and after some
      discourse of business he fell to discourse at large and pleasant, and
      among other things told us of the plenty of partridges in France, where he
      says the King of France and his company killed with their guns, in the
      plain de Versailles, 300 and odd partridges at one bout. Thence I to the
      Excise Office behind the 'Change, and there find our business of our
      tallys in great disorder as to payment, and thereupon do take a resolution
      of thinking how to remedy it, as soon as I can. Thence home, and there met
      Sir W. Warren, and after I had eat a bit of victuals (he staying in the
      office) he and I to White Hall. He to look after the business of the prize
      ships which we are endeavouring to buy, and hope to get money by them. So
      I to London by coach and to Gresham College, where I staid half an houre,
      and so away home to my office, and there walking late alone in the darke
      in the garden with Sir W. Warren, who tells me that at the Committee of
      the Lords for the prizes to-day, there passed very high words between my
      Lord Ashly and Sir W. Coventry, about our business of the prize ships. And
      that my Lord Ashly did snuff and talk as high to him, as he used to do to
      any ordinary seaman. And that Sir W. Coventry did take it very quietly,
      but yet for all did speak his mind soberly and with reason, and went away,
      saying, he had done his duty therein, and so left it to them, whether they
      would let so many ships go for masts or not: Here he and I talked of 1,000
      businesses, all profitable discourse, and late parted, and I home to
      supper and to bed, troubled a little at a letter from my father, telling
      me how [he] is like to be sued for a debt of Tom's, by Smith, the mercer.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and to the office all the morning. At noon my wife being gone to
      her father's I dined with Sir W. Batten, he inviting me. After dinner to
      my office close, and did very much business, and so late home to supper
      and to bed. The plague increased four this week, which troubles me, though
      but one in the whole.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and going out of my dressing-room, when ready to go down stairs,
      I spied little Mrs. Tooker, my pretty little girle, which, it seems, did
      come yesterday to our house to stay a little while with us, but I did not
      know of it till now. I was glad of her coming, she being a very pretty
      child, and now grown almost a woman. I out by six o'clock by appointment
      to Hales's, where we fell to my picture presently very hard, and it comes
      on a very fine picture, and very merry, pleasant discourse we had all the
      morning while he was painting. Anon comes my wife and Mercer and little
      Tooker, and having done with me we all to a picture drawer's hard by,
      Hales carrying me to see some landskipps of a man's doing. But I do not
      [like] any of them, save only a piece of fruit, which indeed was very
      fine. Thence I to Westminster, to the Chequer, about a little business,
      and then to the Swan, and there sent for a bit of meat and dined; and
      after dinner had opportunity of being pleased with Sarah; and so away to
      Westminster Hall, and there Mrs. Michell tells me with great joy how
      little Betty Howlett is married to her young son Michell, which is a
      pretty odd thing, that he should so soon succeed in the match to his elder
      brother that died of the plague, and to the house and trade intended for
      him, and more they say that the girle has heretofore said that she did
      love this little one more than the other brother that was intended her all
      along. I am mighty glad of this match, and more that they are likely to
      live near me in Thames Streete, where I may see Betty now and then, whom I
      from a girle did use to call my second wife, and mighty pretty she is.
      Thence by coach to Anthony Joyce to receive Harman's answer, which did
      trouble me to receive, for he now demands L800, whereas he never made
      exception at the portion, but accepted of L500. This I do not like; but,
      however, I cannot much blame the man, if he thinks he can get more of
      another than of me. So home and hard to my business at the office, where
      much business, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to dinner,
      where Anthony Joyce, and I did give my final answer, I would give but L500
      with my sister, and did show him the good offer made us in the country, to
      which I did now more and more incline, and intend to pursue that. After
      dinner I to White Hall to a Committee for Tangier, where the Duke of Yorke
      was, and I acquitted myself well in what I had to do. After the Committee
      up, I had occasion to follow the Duke into his lodgings, into a chamber
      where the Duchesse was sitting to have her picture drawn by Lilly, who was
      there at work. But I was well pleased to see that there was nothing near
      so much resemblance of her face in his work, which is now the second, if
      not the third time, as there was of my wife's at the very first time. Nor
      do I think at last it can be like, the lines not being in proportion to
      those of her face. So home, and to the office, where late, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lady day and Sunday). Up, and to my chamber in my gowne all the
      morning about settling my papers there. At noon to dinner, where my wife's
      brother, whom I sent for to offer making him a Muster-Master and send to
      sea, which the poore man likes well of and will go, and it will be a good
      preferment to him, only hazardous. I hope he will prove a good discreet
      man. After dinner to my papers and Tangier accounts again till supper, and
      after supper again to them, but by my mixing them, I know not how, my
      private and publique accounts, it makes me mad to see how hard it is to
      bring them to be understood, and my head is confounded, that though I did
      sweare to sit up till one o'clock upon them, yet, I fear, it will be to no
      purpose, for I cannot understand what I do or have been doing of them
      to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and a meeting extraordinary there was of Sir W. Coventry, Lord
      Bruncker, and myself, about the business of settling the ticket office,
      where infinite room is left for abusing the King in the wages of seamen.
      Our [meeting] being done, my Lord Bruncker and I to the Tower, to see the
      famous engraver, to get him to grave a seale for the office. And did see
      some of the finest pieces of work in embossed work, that ever I did see in
      my life, for fineness and smallness of the images thereon, and I will
      carry my wife thither to shew them her. Here I also did see bars of gold
      melting, which was a fine sight. So with my Lord to the Pope's Head
      Taverne in Lumbard Streete to dine by appointment with Captain Taylor,
      whither Sir W. Coventry come to us, and were mighty merry, and I find
      reason to honour him every day more and more. Thence alone to Broade
      Street to Sir G. Carteret by his desire to confer with him, who is I find
      in great pain about the business of the office, and not a little, I
      believe, in fear of falling there, Sir W. Coventry having so great a pique
      against him, and herein I first learn an eminent instance how great a man
      this day, that nobody would think could be shaken, is the next overthrown,
      dashed out of countenance, and every small thing of irregularity in his
      business taken notice of, where nobody the other day durst cast an eye
      upon them, and next I see that he that the other day nobody durst come
      near is now as supple as a spaniel, and sends and speaks to me with great
      submission, and readily hears to advice. Thence home to the office, where
      busy late, and so home a little to my accounts publique and private, but
      could not get myself rightly to know how to dispose of them in order to
      passing.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. All the morning at the office busy. At noon dined at home, Mr.
      Cooke, our old acquaintance at my Lord Sandwich's, come to see and dine
      with me, but I quite out of humour, having many other and better things to
      thinke of. Thence to the office to settle my people's worke and then home
      to my publique accounts of Tangier, which it is strange by meddling with
      evening reckonings with Mr. Povy lately how I myself am become intangled
      therein, so that after all I could do, ready to breake my head and brains,
      I thought of another way, though not so perfect, yet the only one which
      this account is capable of. Upon this latter I sat up till past two in the
      morning and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and with Creed, who come hither betimes to speake with me about
      his accounts, to White Hall by water, mighty merry in discourse, though I
      had been very little troubled with him, or did countenance it, having now,
      blessed be God! a great deale of good business to mind to better purpose
      than chatting with him. Waited on the Duke, after that walked with Sir W.
      Clerke into St. James's Parke, and by and by met with Mr. Hayes, Prince
      Rupert's Secretary, who are mighty, both, briske blades, but I fear they
      promise themselves more than they expect. Thence to the Cockpitt, and
      dined with a great deal of company at the Duke of Albemarle's, and a bad
      and dirty, nasty dinner. So by coach to Hales's, and there sat again, and
      it is become mighty like. Hither come my wife and Mercer brought by Mrs.
      Pierce and Knipp, we were mighty merry and the picture goes on the better
      for it. Thence set them down at Pierces, and we home, where busy and at my
      chamber till 12 at night, and so to bed. This night, I am told, the Queene
      of Portugall, the mother to our Queene, is lately dead, and newes brought
      of it hither this day.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Donna Luiza, the Queen Regent of Portugal.  She was daughter of the
     Duke de Medina Sidonia and widow of Juan IV. The Court wore the
     deepest mourning on this occasion.  The ladies were directed to wear
     their hair plain, and to appear without spots on their faces, the
     disfiguring fashion of patching having just been introduced.&mdash;
     Strickland s Queens of England, vol. viii., p. 362.]
</pre>
    <p>
      29th. All the morning hard at the office. At noon dined and then out to
      Lumbard Streete, to look after the getting of some money that is lodged
      there of mine in Viner's hands, I having no mind to have it lie there
      longer. So back again and to the office, where and at home about publique
      and private business and accounts till past 12 at night, and so to bed.
      This day, poor Jane, my old, little Jane, came to us again, to my wife's
      and my great content, and we hope to take mighty pleasure in her, she
      having all the marks and qualities of a good and loving and honest
      servant, she coming by force away from the other place, where she hath
      lived ever since she went from us, and at our desire, her late mistresse
      having used all the stratagems she could to keepe her.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. My wife and I mighty pleased with Jane's coming to us again. Up, and
      away goes Alce, our cooke-mayde, a good servant, whom we loved and did
      well by her, and she an excellent servant, but would not bear being told
      of any faulte in the fewest and kindest words and would go away of her
      owne accord, after having given her mistresse warning fickly for a quarter
      of a yeare together. So we shall take another girle and make little Jane
      our cook, at least, make a trial of it. Up, and after much business I out
      to Lumbard Streete, and there received L2200 and brought it home; and,
      contrary to expectation, received L35 for the use of L2000 of it [for] a
      quarter of a year, where it hath produced me this profit, and hath been a
      convenience to me as to care and security of my house, and demandable at
      two days' warning, as this hath been. This morning Sir W. Warren come to
      me a second time about having L2000 of me upon his bills on the Act to
      enable him to pay for the ships he is buying, wherein I shall have
      considerable profit. I am loth to do it, but yet speaking with Colvill I
      do not see but I shall be able to do it and get money by it too. Thence
      home and eat one mouthful, and so to Hales's, and there sat till almost
      quite darke upon working my gowne, which I hired to be drawn in; an Indian
      gowne, and I do see all the reason to expect a most excellent picture of
      it. So home and to my private accounts in my chamber till past one in the
      morning, and so to bed, with my head full of thoughts for my evening of
      all my accounts tomorrow, the latter end of the month, in which God give
      me good issue, for I never was in such a confusion in my life and that in
      great sums.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st All the morning at the office busy. At noon to dinner, and thence to
      the office and did my business there as soon as I could, and then home and
      to my accounts, where very late at them, but, Lord! what a deale of do I
      have to understand any part of them, and in short do what I could, I could
      not come to any understanding of them, but after I had throughly wearied
      myself, I was forced to go to bed and leave them much against my will and
      vowe too, but I hope God will forgive me, for I have sat up these four
      nights till past twelve at night to master them, but cannot. Thus ends
      this month, with my head and mind mighty full and disquiett because of my
      accounts, which I have let go too long, and confounded my publique with my
      private that I cannot come to any liquidating of them. However, I do see
      that I must be grown richer than I was by a good deale last month. Busy
      also I am in thoughts for a husband for my sister, and to that end my wife
      and I have determined that she shall presently go into the country to my
      father and mother, and consider of a proffer made them for her in the
      country, which, if she likes, shall go forward.
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    <p>
      April 1st (Lord's day). Up and abroad, and by coach to Charing Cross, to
      wait on Sir Philip Howard; whom I found in bed: and he do receive me very
      civilly. My request was about suffering my wife's brother to go to sea,
      and to save his pay in the Duke's guards; which after a little difficulty
      he did with great respect agree to. I find him a very fine-spoken
      gentleman, and one of great parts, and very courteous. Much pleased with
      this visit I to White Hall, where I met Sir G. Downing, and to discourse
      with him an houre about the Exchequer payments upon the late Act, and
      informed myself of him thoroughly in my safety in lending L2000 to Sir W.
      Warren, upon an order of his upon the Exchequer for L2602 and I do purpose
      to do it. Thence meeting Dr. Allen, the physician, he and I and another
      walked in the Parke, a most pleasant warm day, and to the Queene's
      chappell; where I do not so dislike the musique. Here I saw on a post an
      invitation to all good Catholiques to pray for the soul of such a one
      departed this life. The Queene, I hear, do not yet hear of the death of
      her mother, she being in a course of physique, that they dare not tell it
      her. At noon by coach home, and there by invitation met my uncle and aunt
      Wight and their cozen Mary, and dined with me and very merry. After dinner
      my uncle and I abroad by coach to White Hall, up and down the house, and I
      did some business and thence with him and a gentleman he met with to my
      Lord Chancellor's new house, and there viewed it again and again and up to
      the top and I like it as well as ever and think it a most noble house. So
      all up and down my Lord St. Albans his new building and market-house, and
      the taverne under the market-house, looking to and again into every place
      of building, and so away and took coach and home, where to my accounts,
      and was at them till I could not hold open my eyes, and so to bed. I this
      afternoon made a visit to my Lady Carteret, whom I understood newly come
      to towne; and she took it mighty kindly, but I see her face and heart are
      dejected from the condition her husband's matters stand in. But I hope
      they will do all well enough. And I do comfort her as much as I can, for
      she is a noble lady.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and to the office and thence with Mr. Gawden to Guildhall to see
      the bills and tallys there in the chamber (and by the way in the streete
      his new coach broke and we fain to take an old hackney). Thence to the
      Exchequer again to inform myself of some other points in the new Act in
      order to my lending Sir W. Warren L2000 upon an order of his upon the Act,
      which they all encourage me to. There walking with Mr. Gawden in
      Westminster Hall, he and I to talke from one business to another and at
      last to the marriage of his daughter. He told me the story of Creed's
      pretences to his daughter, and how he would not believe but she loved him,
      while his daughter was in great passion on the other hand against him.
      Thence to talke of his son Benjamin; and I propounded a match for him, and
      at last named my sister, which he embraces heartily, and speaking of the
      lowness of her portion, that it would be less than L1000, he tells me if
      every thing else agrees, he will out of what he means to give me yearly,
      make a portion for her shall cost me nothing more than I intend freely.
      This did mightily rejoice me and full of it did go with him to London to
      the 'Change; and there did much business and at the Coffee-house with Sir
      W. Warren, who very wisely did shew me that my matching my sister with Mr.
      Gawden would undo me in all my places, everybody suspecting me in all I
      do; and I shall neither be able to serve him, nor free myself from
      imputation of being of his faction, while I am placed for his severest
      check. I was convinced that it would be for neither of our interests to
      make this alliance, and so am quite off of it again, but with great
      satisfaction in the motion. Thence to the Crowne tavern behind the
      Exchange to meet with Cocke and Fenn and did so, and dined with them, and
      after dinner had the intent of our meeting, which was some private
      discourse with Fenn, telling him what I hear and think of his business,
      which he takes very kindly and says he will look about him. It was about
      his giving of ill language and answers to people that come to him about
      money and some other particulars. This morning Mrs. Barbary and little
      Mrs. Tooker went away homeward. Thence my wife by coach calling me at
      White Hall to visit my Lady Carteret, and she was not within. So to
      Westminster Hall, where I purposely tooke my wife well dressed into the
      Hall to see and be seen; and, among others, [met] Howlet's daughter, who
      is newly married, and is she I call wife, and one I love mightily. So to
      Broad Streete and there met my Lady and Sir G. Carteret, and sat and
      talked with them a good while and so home, and to my accounts which I
      cannot get through with. But at it till I grew drowsy, and so to bed
      mightily vexed that I can come to no better issue in my accounts.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and Sir W. Warren with me betimes and signed a bond, and assigned
      his order on the Exchequer to a blank for me to fill and I did deliver him
      L1900. The truth is, it is a great venture to venture so much on the Act,
      but thereby I hedge in L300 gift for my service about some ships that he
      hath bought, prizes, and good interest besides, and his bond to repay me
      the money at six weeks' warning. So to the office, where busy all the
      morning. At noon home to dinner, and there my brother Balty dined with me
      and my wife, who is become a good serious man, and I hope to do him good
      being sending him a Muster-Master on one of the squadrons of the fleete.
      After dinner and he gone I to my accounts hard all the afternoon till it
      was quite darke, and I thank God I do come to bring them very fairly to
      make me worth L5,000 stocke in the world, which is a great mercy to me.
      Though I am a little troubled to find L50 difference between the
      particular account I make to myself of my profits and loss in each month
      and the account which I raise from my acquittances and money which I have
      at the end of every month in my chest and other men's hands. However I do
      well believe that I am effectually L5,000, the greatest sum I ever was in
      my life yet, and this day I have as I have said before agreed with Sir W.
      Warren and got of him L300 gift. At night a while to the office and then
      home and supped and to my accounts again till I was ready to sleepe, there
      being no pleasure to handle them, if they are not kept in good order. So
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen in his coach to White Hall, in his way
      talking simply and fondly as he used to do, but I find myself to slight
      him and his simple talke, I thank God, and that my condition will enable
      me to do it. Thence, after doing our business with the Duke of Yorke, with
      Captain Cocke home to the 'Change in his coach. He promises me presently a
      dozen of silver salts, and proposes a business for which he hath promised
      Mrs. Williams for my Lord Bruncker a set of plate shall cost him L500 and
      me the like, which will be a good business indeed. After done several
      businesses at the 'Change I home, and being washing day dined upon cold
      meate, and so abroad by coach to Hales's, and there sat till night,
      mightily pleased with my picture, which is now almost finished. So by
      coach home, it being the fast day and to my chamber and so after supper to
      bed, consulting how to send my wife into the country to advise about
      Pall's marriage, which I much desire, and my father too, and two or three
      offers are now in hand.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and before office time to Lumbard Streete, and there at Viner's
      was shewn the silver plates, made for Captain Cocke to present my Lord
      Bruncker; and I chose a dozen of the same weight to be bespoke for myself,
      which he told me yesterday he would give me on the same occasion. To the
      office, where the falsenesse and impertinencies of Sir W. Pen would make a
      man mad to think of. At noon would have avoided, but could not, dining
      with my Lord Bruncker and his mistresse with Captain Cocke at the Sun
      Taverne in Fish Streete, where a good dinner, but the woman do tire me,
      and indeed how simply my Lord Bruncker, who is otherwise a wise man, do
      proceed at the table in serving of Cocke, without any means of
      understanding in his proposal, or defence when proposed, would make a man
      think him a foole. After dinner home, where I find my wife hath on a
      sudden, upon notice of a coach going away to-morrow, taken a resolution of
      going in it to Brampton, we having lately thought it fit for her to go to
      satisfy herself and me in the nature of the fellow that is there proposed
      to my sister. So she to fit herself for her journey and I to the office
      all the afternoon till late, and so home and late putting notes to "It is
      decreed, nor shall thy fate, &amp;c." and then to bed. The plague is, to
      our great grief, encreased nine this week, though decreased a few in the
      total. And this encrease runs through many parishes, which makes us much
      fear the next year.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up mighty betimes upon my wife's going this day toward Brampton. I
      could not go to the coach with her, but W. Hewer did and hath leave from
      me to go the whole day's journey with her. All the morning upon business
      at the office, and at noon dined, and Mrs. Hunt coming lent her L5 on her
      occasions and so carried her to Axe Yard end at Westminster and there left
      her, a good and understanding woman, and her husband I perceive thrives
      mightily in his business of the Excise. Thence to Mr. Hales and there sat,
      and my picture almost finished, which by the word of Mr. and Mrs. Pierce
      (who come in accidently) is mighty like, and I am sure I am mightily
      pleased both in the thing and the posture. Thence with them home a little,
      and so to White Hall and there met by agreement with Sir Stephen Fox and
      Mr. Ashburnham, and discoursed the business of our Excise tallys; the
      former being Treasurer of the guards, and the other Cofferer of the King's
      household. I benefitted much by their discourse. We come to no great
      conclusion upon our discourse, but parted, and I home, where all things,
      methinks, melancholy in the absence of my wife. This day great newes of
      the Swedes declaring for us against the Dutch, and, so far as that, I
      believe it. After a little supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Lay pretty long to-day, lying alone and thinking of several
      businesses. So up to the office and there till noon. Thence with my Lord
      Bruncker home by coach to Mrs. Williams's, where Bab. Allen and Dr.
      Charleton dined. Bab and I sang and were mighty merry as we could be
      there, where the rest of the company did not overplease. Thence took her
      by coach to Hales's, and there find Mrs. Pierce and her boy and Mary. She
      had done sitting the first time, and indeed her face is mighty like at
      first dash. Thence took them to the cakehouse, and there called in the
      coach for cakes and drank, and thence I carried them to my Lord
      Chancellor's new house to shew them that, and all mightily pleased, thence
      set each down at home, and so I home to the office, where about ten of the
      clock W. Hewer comes to me to tell me that he has left my wife well this
      morning at Bugden, which was great riding, and brings me a letter from
      her. She is very well got thither, of which I am heartily glad. After
      writing several letters, I home to supper and to bed. The Parliament of
      which I was afraid of their calling us of the Navy to an account of the
      expense of money and stores and wherein we were so little ready to give
      them a good answer [will soon meet]. The Bishop of Munster, every body
      says, is coming to peace with the Dutch, we having not supplied him with
      the money promised him.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). Up, and was in great trouble how to get a passage to
      White Hall, it raining, and no coach to be had. So I walked to the Old
      Swan, and there got a scull. To the Duke of Yorke, where we all met to
      hear the debate between Sir Thomas Allen and Mr. Wayth; the former
      complaining of the latter's ill usage of him at the late pay of his ship.
      But a very sorry poor occasion he had for it. The Duke did determine it
      with great judgement, chiding both, but encouraging Wayth to continue to
      be a check to all captains in any thing to the King's right. And, indeed,
      I never did see the Duke do any thing more in order, nor with more
      judgement than he did pass the verdict in this business. The Court full
      this morning of the newes of Tom Cheffin's death, the King's
      closett-keeper. He was well last night as ever, flaying at tables in the
      house, and not very ill this morning at six o'clock, yet dead before
      seven: they think, of an imposthume in his breast. But it looks fearfully
      among people nowadays, the plague, as we hear, encreasing every where
      again. To the Chappell, but could not get in to hear well. But I had the
      pleasure once in my life to see an Archbishop (this was of Yorke) in a
      pulpit. Then at a loss how to get home to dinner, having promised to carry
      Mrs. Hunt thither. At last got my Lord Hinchingbroke's coach, he staying
      at Court; and so took her up in Axe-yard, and home and dined. And good
      discourse of the old matters of the Protector and his family, she having a
      relation to them. The Protector
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Richard Cromwell subsequently returned to England, and resided in
     strict privacy at Cheshunt for some years before his death in 1712]
</pre>
    <p>
      lives in France: spends about L500 per annum. Thence carried her home
      again and then to Court and walked over to St. James's Chappell, thinking
      to have heard a Jesuite preach, but come too late. So got a hackney and
      home, and there to business. At night had Mercer comb my head and so to
      supper, sing a psalm, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up betimes, and with my Joyner begun the making of the window in my
      boy's chamber bigger, purposing it shall be a roome to eat and for having
      musique in. To the office, where a meeting upon extraordinary business, at
      noon to the 'Change about more, and then home with Creed and dined, and
      then with him to the Committee of Tangier, where I got two or three things
      done I had a mind to of convenience to me. Thence by coach to Mrs.
      Pierce's, and with her and Knipp and Mrs. Pierce's boy and girle abroad,
      thinking to have been merry at Chelsey; but being come almost to the house
      by coach near the waterside, a house alone, I think the Swan, a gentleman
      walking by called to us to tell us that the house was shut up of the
      sicknesse. So we with great affright turned back, being holden to the
      gentleman; and went away (I for my part in great disorder) for Kensington,
      and there I spent about 30s. upon the jades with great pleasure, and we
      sang finely and staid till about eight at night, the night coming on apace
      and so set them down at Pierce's, and so away home, where awhile with Sir
      W. Warren about business, and then to bed,
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up betimes, and many people to me about business. To the office and
      there sat till noon, and then home and dined, and to the office again all
      the afternoon, where we sat all, the first time of our resolution to sit
      both forenoons and afternoons. Much business at night and then home, and
      though late did see some work done by the plasterer to my new window in
      the boy's chamber plastered. Then to supper, and after having my head
      combed by the little girle to bed. Bad news that the plague is decreased
      in the general again and two increased in the sickness.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. To White Hall, having first set my people to worke about setting me
      rails upon the leads of my wife's closett, a thing I have long designed,
      but never had a fit opportunity till now. After having done with the Duke
      of Yorke, I to Hales's, where there was nothing found to be done more to
      my picture, but the musique, which now pleases me mightily, it being
      painted true. Thence home, and after dinner to Gresham College, where a
      great deal of do and formality in choosing of the Council and Officers. I
      had three votes to be of the Council, who am but a stranger, nor expected
      any. So my Lord Bruncker being confirmed President I home, where I find to
      my great content my rails up upon my leads. To the office and did a little
      business, and then home and did a great jobb at my Tangier accounts, which
      I find are mighty apt to run into confusion, my head also being too full
      of other businesses and pleasures. This noon Bagwell's wife come to me to
      the office, after her being long at Portsmouth. After supper, and past 12
      at night to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined at home
      and so to my office again, and taking a turne in the garden my Lady Pen
      comes to me and takes me into her house, where I find her daughter and a
      pretty lady of her acquaintance, one Mrs. Lowder, sister, I suppose, of
      her servant Lowder's, with whom I, notwithstanding all my resolution to
      follow business close this afternoon, did stay talking and playing the
      foole almost all the afternoon, and there saw two or three foolish sorry
      pictures of her doing, but very ridiculous compared to what my wife do.
      She grows mighty homely and looks old. Thence ashamed at myself for this
      losse of time, yet not able to leave it, I to the office, where my Lord
      Bruncker come; and he and I had a little fray, he being, I find, a very
      peevish man, if he be denied what he expects, and very simple in his
      argument in this business (about signing a warrant for paying Sir Thos.
      Allen L1000 out of the groats); but we were pretty good friends before we
      parted, and so we broke up and I to the writing my letters by the post,
      and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, being called up by my wife's brother, for whom I have got a
      commission from the Duke of Yorke for Muster-Master of one of the
      divisions, of which Harman is Rere-Admirall, of which I am glad as well as
      he. After I had acquainted him with it, and discoursed a little of it, I
      went forth and took him with me by coach to the Duke of Albemarle, who
      being not up, I took a walk with Balty into the Parke, and to the Queene's
      Chappell, it being Good Friday, where people were all upon their knees
      very silent; but, it seems, no masse this day. So back and waited on the
      Duke and received some commands of his, and so by coach to Mr. Hales's,
      where it is pretty strange to see that his second doing, I mean the second
      time of her sitting, is less like Mrs. Pierce than the first, and yet I am
      confident will be most like her, for he is so curious that I do not see
      how it is possible for him to mistake. Here he and I presently resolved of
      going to White Hall, to spend an houre in the galleries there among the
      pictures, and we did so to my great satisfaction, he shewing me the
      difference in the payntings, and when I come more and more to distinguish
      and observe the workmanship, I do not find so many good things as I
      thought there was, but yet great difference between the works of some and
      others; and, while my head and judgment was full of these, I would go back
      again to his house to see his pictures, and indeed, though, I think, at
      first sight some difference do open, yet very inconsiderably but that I
      may judge his to be very good pictures. Here we fell into discourse of my
      picture, and I am for his putting out the Landskipp, though he says it is
      very well done, yet I do judge it will be best without it, and so it shall
      be put out, and be made a plain sky like my wife's picture, which will be
      very noble. Thence called upon an old woman in Pannier Ally to agree for
      ruling of some paper for me and she will do it pretty cheap. Here I found
      her have a very comely black mayde to her servant, which I liked very
      well. So home to dinner and to see my joiner do the bench upon my leads to
      my great content. After dinner I abroad to carry paper to my old woman,
      and so to Westminster Hall, and there beyond my intention or design did
      see and speak with Betty Howlett, at her father's still, and it seems they
      carry her to her own house to begin the world with her young husband on
      Monday next, Easter Monday. I please myself with the thoughts of her
      neighbourhood, for I love the girl mightily. Thence home, and thither
      comes Mr. Houblon and a brother, with whom I evened for the charter
      parties of their ships for Tangier, and paid them the third advance on
      their freight to full satisfaction, and so, they being gone, comes Creed
      and with him till past one in the morning, evening his accounts till my
      head aked and I was fit for nothing, however, coming at last luckily to
      see through and settle all to my mind, it did please me mightily, and so
      with my mind at rest to bed, and he with me and hard to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up about seven and finished our papers, he and I, and I delivered
      him tallys and some money and so away I to the office, where we sat all
      the morning. At noon dined at home and Creed with me, then parted, and I
      to the office, and anon called thence by Sir H. Cholmley and he and I to
      my chamber, and there settled our matters of accounts, and did give him
      tallys and money to clear him, and so he being gone and all these accounts
      cleared I shall be even with the King, so as to make a very clear and
      short account in a very few days, which pleases me very well. Here he and
      I discoursed a great while about Tangier, and he do convince me, as things
      are now ordered by my Lord Bellasses and will be by Norwood (men that do
      only mind themselves), the garrison will never come to any thing, and he
      proposes his owne being governor, which in truth I do think will do very
      well, and that he will bring it to something. He gone I to my office,
      where to write letters late, and then home and looked over a little more
      my papers of accounts lately passed, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Easter Day). Up and by water to Westminster to the Swan to lay down
      my cloak, and there found Sarah alone, with whom after I had staid awhile
      I to White Hall Chapel, and there coming late could hear nothing of the
      Bishop of London's sermon. So walked into the Park to the Queene's
      chappell, and there heard a good deal of their mass, and some of their
      musique, which is not so contemptible, I think, as our people would make
      it, it pleasing me very well; and, indeed, better than the anthem I heard
      afterwards at White Hall, at my coming back. I staid till the King went
      down to receive the Sacrament, and stood in his closett with a great many
      others, and there saw him receive it, which I did never see the manner of
      before. But I do see very little difference between the degree of the
      ceremonies used by our people in the administration thereof, and that in
      the Roman church, saving that methought our Chappell was not so fine, nor
      the manner of doing it so glorious, as it was in the Queene's chappell.
      Thence walked to Mr. Pierces, and there dined, I alone with him and her
      and their children: very good company and good discourse, they being able
      to tell me all the businesses of the Court; the amours and the mad doings
      that are there; how for certain Mrs. Stewart do do everything with the
      King that a mistress should do; and that the King hath many bastard
      children that are known and owned, besides the Duke of Monmouth. After a
      great deale of this discourse I walked thence into the Parke with her
      little boy James with me, who is the wittiest boy and the best company in
      the world, and so back again through White Hall both coming and going, and
      people did generally take him to be my boy and some would aske me. Thence
      home to Mr. Pierce again; and he being gone forth, she and I and the
      children out by coach to Kensington, to where we were the other day, and
      with great pleasure stayed till night; and were mighty late getting home,
      the horses tiring and stopping at every twenty steps. By the way we
      discoursed of Mrs. Clerke, who, she says, is grown mighty high, fine, and
      proud, but tells me an odd story how Captain Rolt did see her the other
      day accost a gentleman in Westminster Hall and went with him, and he
      dogged them to Moorefields to a little blind bawdy house, and there staid
      watching three hours and they come not out, so could stay no longer but
      left them there, and he is sure it was she, he knowing her well and
      describing her very clothes to Mrs. Pierce, which she knows are what she
      wears. Seeing them well at home I homeward, but the horses at Ludgate Hill
      made a final stop; so there I 'lighted, and with a linke, it being about
      10 o'clock, walked home, and after singing a Psalm or two and supped to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and set my people, Mercer, W. Hewer, Tom and the girle at work
      at ruling and stitching my ruled book for the Muster-Masters, and I hard
      toward the settling of my Tangier accounts. At noon dined alone, the girl
      Mercer taking physique can eat nothing, and W. Hewer went forth to dinner.
      So up to my accounts again, and then comes Mrs. Mercer and fair Mrs.
      Turner, a neighbour of hers that my wife knows by their means, to visit
      me. I staid a great while with them, being taken with this pretty woman,
      though a mighty silly, affected citizen woman she is. Then I left them to
      come to me at supper anon, and myself out by coach to the old woman in
      Pannyer Alley for my ruled papers, and they are done, and I am much more
      taken with her black maid Nan. Thence further to Westminster, thinking to
      have met Mrs. Martin, but could not find her, so back and called at
      Kirton's to borrow 10s. to pay for my ruled papers, I having not money in
      my pocket enough to pay for them. But it was a pretty consideration that
      on this occasion I was considering where I could with most confidence in a
      time of need borrow 10s., and I protest I could not tell where to do it
      and with some trouble and fear did aske it here. So that God keepe me from
      want, for I shall be in a very bad condition to helpe myself if ever I
      should come to want or borrow. Thence called for my papers and so home,
      and there comes Mrs. Turner and Mercer and supped with me, and well
      pleased I was with their company, but especially Mrs. Turner's, she being
      a very pretty woman of person and her face pretty good, the colour of her
      haire very fine and light. They staid with me talking till about eleven
      o'clock and so home, W. Hewer, who supped with me, leading them home. So I
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined at home,
      my brother Balty with me, who is fitting himself to go to sea. So after
      dinner to my accounts and did proceed a good way in settling them, and
      thence to the office, where all the afternoon late, writing my letters and
      doing business, but, Lord! what a conflict I had with myself, my heart
      tempting me 1000 times to go abroad about some pleasure or other,
      notwithstanding the weather foule. However I reproached myself with my
      weaknesse in yielding so much my judgment to my sense, and prevailed with
      difficulty and did not budge, but stayed within, and, to my great content,
      did a great deale of business, and so home to supper and to bed. This day
      I am told that Moll Davis, the pretty girle, that sang and danced so well
      at the Duke's house, is dead.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. [Up] and by coach with Sir W. Batten and Sir Thos. Allen to White
      Hall, and there after attending the Duke as usual and there concluding of
      many things preparatory to the Prince and Generall's going to sea on
      Monday next, Sir W. Batten and Sir T. Allen and I to Mr. Lilly's, the
      painter's; and there saw the heads, some finished, and all begun, of the
      Flaggmen in the late great fight with the Duke of Yorke against the Dutch.
      The Duke of Yorke hath them done to hang in his chamber, and very finely
      they are done indeed. Here is the Prince's, Sir G. Askue's, Sir Thomas
      Teddiman's, Sir Christopher Mings, Sir Joseph Jordan, Sir William
      Barkeley, Sir Thomas Allen, and Captain Harman's, as also the Duke of
      Albemarle's; and will be my Lord Sandwich's, Sir W. Pen's, and Sir Jeremy
      Smith's. Being very well satisfied with this sight, and other good
      pictures hanging in the house, we parted, and I left them, and [to] pass
      away a little time went to the printed picture seller's in the way thence
      to the Exchange, and there did see great plenty of fine prints; but did
      not buy any, only a print of an old pillar in Rome made for a Navall
      Triumph,
    </p>
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     [The columna rostrata erected in the Forum to C. Duilius, who
     obtained a triumph for the first naval victory over the
     Carthaginians, B.C. 261.  Part of the column was discovered in the
     ruins of the Forum near the Arch of Septimius, and transferred to
     the Capitol.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which for the antiquity of the shape of ships, I buy and keepe. Thence to
      the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play books
      and intend to get all the late new plays. So to Westminster, and there at
      the Swan got a bit of meat and dined alone; and so away toward King's
      Street, and spying out of my coach Jane that lived heretofore at Jevons,
      my barber's, I went a little further and stopped, and went on foot back,
      and overtook her, taking water at Westminster Bridge, and spoke to her,
      and she telling me whither she was going I over the water and met her at
      Lambeth, and there drank with her; she telling me how he that was so long
      her servant, did prove to be a married man, though her master told me
      (which she denies) that he had lain with her several times in his house.
      There left her 'sans essayer alcune cose con elle', and so away by boat to
      the 'Change, and took coach and to Mr. Hales, where he would have
      persuaded me to have had the landskipp stand in my picture, but I like it
      not and will have it otherwise, which I perceive he do not like so well,
      however is so civil as to say it shall be altered. Thence away to Mrs.
      Pierces, who was not at home, but gone to my house to visit me with Mrs.
      Knipp. I therefore took up the little girle Betty and my mayde Mary that
      now lives there and to my house, where they had been but were gone, so in
      our way back again met them coming back again to my house in Cornehill,
      and there stopped laughing at our pretty misfortunes, and so I carried
      them to Fish Streete, and there treated them with prawns and lobsters, and
      it beginning to grow darke we away, but the jest is our horses would not
      draw us up the Hill, but we were fain to 'light and stay till the coachman
      had made them draw down to the bottom of the Hill, thereby warming their
      legs, and then they came up cheerfully enough, and we got up and I carried
      them home, and coming home called at my paper ruler's and there found
      black Nan, which pleases me mightily, and having saluted her again and
      again away home and to bed..... In all my ridings in the coach and
      intervals my mind hath been full these three weeks of setting in musique
      "It is decreed, &amp;c."
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Lay long in bed, so to the office, where all the morning. At noon
      dined with Sir W. Warren at the Pope's Head. So back to the office, and
      there met with the Commissioners of the Ordnance, where Sir W. Pen being
      almost drunk vexed me, and the more because Mr. Chichly observed it with
      me, and it was a disparagement to the office. They gone I to my office.
      Anon comes home my wife from Brampton, not looked for till Saturday, which
      will hinder me of a little pleasure, but I am glad of her coming. She
      tells me Pall's business with Ensum is like to go on, but I must give, and
      she consents to it, another 100. She says she doubts my father is in want
      of money, for rents come in mighty slowly. My mother grows very unpleasant
      and troublesome and my father mighty infirm through his old distemper,
      which altogether makes me mighty thoughtfull. Having heard all this and
      bid her welcome I to the office, where late, and so home, and after a
      little more talk with my wife, she to bed and I after her.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and after an houre or two's talke with my poor wife, who gives
      me more and more content every day than other, I abroad by coach to
      Westminster, and there met with Mrs. Martin, and she and I over the water
      to Stangold, and after a walke in the fields to the King's Head, and there
      spent an houre or two with pleasure with her, and eat a tansy and so
      parted, and I to the New Exchange, there to get a list of all the modern
      plays which I intend to collect and to have them bound up together. Thence
      to Mr. Hales's, and there, though against his particular mind, I had my
      landskipp done out, and only a heaven made in the roome of it, which
      though it do not please me thoroughly now it is done, yet it will do
      better than as it was before. Thence to Paul's Churchyarde, and there
      bespoke some new books, and so to my ruling woman's and there did see my
      work a doing, and so home and to my office a little, but was hindered of
      business I intended by being sent for to Mrs. Turner, who desired some
      discourse with me and lay her condition before me, which is bad and poor.
      Sir Thomas Harvey intends again to have lodgings in her house, which she
      prays me to prevent if I can, which I promised. Thence to talke generally
      of our neighbours. I find she tells me the faults of all of them, and
      their bad words of me and my wife, and indeed do discover more than I
      thought. So I told her, and so will practise that I will have nothing to
      do with any of them. She ended all with a promise of shells to my wife,
      very fine ones indeed, and seems to have great respect and honour for my
      wife. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up betimes and to the office, there to prepare some things against
      the afternoon for discourse about the business of the pursers and settling
      the pursers' matters of the fleete according to my proposition. By and by
      the office sat, and they being up I continued at the office to finish my
      matters against the meeting before the Duke this afternoon, so home about
      three to clap a bit of meate in my mouth, and so away with Sir W. Batten
      to White Hall, and there to the Duke, but he being to go abroad to take
      the ayre, he dismissed us presently without doing any thing till to-morrow
      morning. So my Lord Bruncker and I down to walk in the garden [at White
      Hall], it being a mighty hot and pleasant day; and there was the King,
      who, among others, talked to us a little; and among other pretty things,
      he swore merrily that he believed the ketch that Sir W. Batten bought the
      last year at Colchester was of his own getting, it was so thick to its
      length. Another pleasant thing he said of Christopher Pett, commending him
      that he will not alter his moulds of his ships upon any man's advice;
      "as," says he, "Commissioner Taylor I fear do of his New London, that he
      makes it differ, in hopes of mending the Old London, built by him." "For,"
      says he, "he finds that God hath put him into the right, and so will keep
      in it while he is in." "And," says the King, "I am sure it must be God put
      him in, for no art of his owne ever could have done it;" for it seems he
      cannot give a good account of what he do as an artist. Thence with my Lord
      Bruncker in his coach to Hide Parke, the first time I have been there this
      year. There the King was; but I was sorry to see my Lady Castlemaine, for
      the mourning forceing all the ladies to go in black, with their hair plain
      and without any spots, I find her to be a much more ordinary woman than
      ever I durst have thought she was; and, indeed, is not so pretty as Mrs.
      Stewart, whom I saw there also. Having done at the Park he set me down at
      the Exchange, and I by coach home and there to my letters, and they being
      done, to writing a large letter about the business of the pursers to Sir
      W. Batten against to-morrow's discourse, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd (Lord's day). Up, and put on my new black coate, long down to my
      knees, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, where all in deep mourning
      for the Queene's mother. There had great discourse, before the Duke and
      Sir W. Coventry begun the discourse of the day about the purser's
      business, which I seconded, and with great liking to the Duke, whom
      however afterward my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen did stop by some thing
      they said, though not much to the purpose, yet because our proposition had
      some appearance of certain charge to the King it was ruled that for this
      year we should try another the same in every respect with ours, leaving
      out one circumstance of allowing the pursers the victuals of all men short
      of the complement. I was very well satisfied with it and am contented to
      try it, wishing it may prove effectual. Thence away with Sir W. Batten in
      his coach home, in our way he telling me the certaine newes, which was
      afterward confirmed to me this day by several, that the Bishopp of Munster
      has made a league [with] the Hollanders, and that our King and Court are
      displeased much at it: moreover we are not sure of Sweden. I home to my
      house, and there dined mighty well, my poor wife and Mercer and I. So back
      again walked to White Hall, and there to and again in the Parke, till
      being in the shoemaker's stockes.&mdash;[A cant expression for tight
      shoes.]&mdash;I was heartily weary, yet walked however to the Queene's
      Chappell at St. James's, and there saw a little mayde baptized; many parts
      and words whereof are the same with that of our Liturgy, and little that
      is more ceremonious than ours. Thence walked to Westminster and eat a bit
      of bread and drank, and so to Worster House, and there staid, and saw the
      Council up, and then back, walked to the Cockepitt, and there took my
      leave of the Duke of Albemarle, who is going to-morrow to sea. He seems
      mightily pleased with me, which I am glad of; but I do find infinitely my
      concernment in being careful to appear to the King and Duke to continue my
      care of his business, and to be found diligent as I used to be. Thence
      walked wearily as far as Fleet Streete and so there met a coach and home
      to supper and to bed, having sat a great while with Will Joyce, who come
      to see me, and it is the first time I have seen him at my house since the
      plague, and find him the same impertinent, prating coxcombe that ever he
      was.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Being mighty weary last night, lay long this morning, then up and to
      the office, where Sir W. Batten, Lord Bruncker and I met, and toward noon
      took coach and to White Hall, where I had the opportunity to take leave of
      the Prince, and again of the Duke of Albemarle; and saw them kiss the
      King's hands and the Duke's; and much content, indeed, there seems to be
      in all people at their going to sea, and [they] promise themselves much
      good from them. This morning the House of Parliament do meet, only to
      adjourne again till winter. The plague, I hear, encreases in the towne
      much, and exceedingly in the country everywhere. Thence walked to
      Westminster Hall, and after a little stay, there being nothing now left to
      keep me there, Betty Howlett being gone, I took coach and away home, in my
      way asking in two or three places the worth of pearles, I being now come
      to the time that I have long ago promised my wife a necklace. Dined at
      home and took Balty with me to Hales's to show him his sister's picture,
      and thence to Westminster, and there I to the Swan and drank, and so back
      again alone to Hales's and there met my wife and Mercer, Mrs. Pierce being
      sitting, and two or three idle people of her acquaintance more standing
      by. Her picture do come on well. So staid until she had done and then set
      her down at home, and my wife and I and the girle by coach to Islington,
      and there eat and drank in the coach and so home, and there find a girle
      sent at my desire by Mrs. Michell of Westminster Hall, to be my girle
      under the cooke-mayde, Susan. But I am a little dissatisfied that the
      girle, though young, is taller and bigger than Su, and will not, I fear,
      be under her command, which will trouble me, and the more because she is
      recommended by a friend that I would not have any unkindness with, but my
      wife do like very well of her. So to my accounts and journall at my
      chamber, there being bonfires in the streete, for being St. George's day,
      and the King's Coronation, and the day of the Prince and Duke's going to
      sea. So having done my business, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and presently am told that the girle that came yesterday hath
      packed up her things to be gone home again to Enfield, whence she come,
      which I was glad of, that we might be at first rid of her altogether
      rather than be liable to her going away hereafter. The reason was that
      London do not agree with her. So I did give her something, and away she
      went. By and by comes Mr. Bland to me, the first time since his coming
      from Tangier, and tells me, in short, how all things are out of order
      there, and like to be; and the place never likely to come to anything
      while the soldiers govern all, and do not encourage trade. He gone I to
      the office, where all the morning, and so to dinner, and there in the
      afternoon very busy all day till late, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and to White Hall to the Duke as usual, and did our business
      there. So I away to Westminster (Batty with me, whom I had presented to
      Sir W. Coventry) and there told Mrs. Michell of her kinswoman's running
      away, which troubled her. So home, and there find another little girle
      come from my wife's mother, likely to do well. After dinner I to the
      office, where Mr. Prin come to meet about the Chest business; and till
      company come, did discourse with me a good while alone in the garden about
      the laws of England, telling me the many faults in them; and among others,
      their obscurity through multitude of long statutes, which he is about to
      abstract out of all of a sort; and as he lives, and Parliaments come, get
      them put into laws, and the other statutes repealed, and then it will be a
      short work to know the law, which appears a very noble good thing. By and
      by Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Rider met with us, and we did something to
      purpose about the Chest, and hope we shall go on to do so. They up, I to
      present Batty to Sir W. Pen, who at my entreaty did write a most obliging
      letter to Harman to use him civilly, but the dissembling of the rogue is
      such, that it do not oblige me at all. So abroad to my ruler's of my
      books, having, God forgive me! a mind to see Nan there, which I did, and
      so back again, and then out again to see Mrs. Bettons, who were looking
      out of the window as I come through Fenchurch Streete. So that indeed I am
      not, as I ought to be, able to command myself in the pleasures of my eye.
      So home, and with my wife and Mercer spent our evening upon our new leads
      by our bedchamber singing, while Mrs. Mary Batelier looked out of the
      window to us, and we talked together, and at last bid good night. However,
      my wife and I staid there talking of several things with great pleasure
      till eleven o'clock at night, and it is a convenience I would not want for
      any thing in the world, it being, methinks, better than almost any roome
      in my house. So having, supped upon the leads, to bed. The plague, blessed
      be God! is decreased sixteen this week.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. To the office, where all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and in
      the afternoon to my office again, where very busy all the afternoon and
      particularly about fitting of Mr. Yeabsly's accounts for the view of the
      Lords Commissioners for Tangier. At night home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up (taking Balty with me, who lay at my house last [night] in order
      to his going away to-day to sea with the pursers of the Henery, whom I
      appointed to call him), abroad to many several places about several
      businesses, to my Lord Treasurer's, Westminster, and I know not where. At
      noon to the 'Change a little, and there bespoke some maps to hang in my
      new roome (my boy's roome) which will be very-pretty. Home to dinner, and
      after dinner to the hanging up of maps, and other things for the fitting
      of the roome, and now it will certainly be one of the handsomest and most
      usefull roomes in my house. So that what with this room and the room on my
      leads my house is half as good again as it was. All this afternoon about
      this till I was so weary and it was late I could do no more but finished
      the room. So I did not get out to the office all the day long. At night
      spent a good deale of time with my wife and Mercer teaching them a song,
      and so after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up and to the office. At noon dined at home. After dinner abroad
      with my wife to Hales's to see only our pictures and Mrs. Pierce's, which
      I do not think so fine as I might have expected it. My wife to her
      father's, to carry him some ruling work, which I have advised her to let
      him do. It will get him some money. She also is to look out again for
      another little girle, the last we had being also gone home the very same
      day she came. She was also to look after a necklace of pearle, which she
      is mighty busy about, I being contented to lay out L80 in one for her. I
      home to my business. By and by comes my wife and presently after, the tide
      serving, Balty took leave of us, going to sea, and upon very good terms,
      to be Muster-Master of a squadron, which will be worth L100 this yeare to
      him, besides keeping him the benefit of his pay in the Guards. He gone, I
      very busy all the afternoon till night, among other things, writing a
      letter to my brother John, the first I have done since my being angry with
      him, and that so sharpe a one too that I was sorry almost to send it when
      I had wrote it, but it is preparatory to my being kind to him, and sending
      for him up hither when he hath passed his degree of Master of Arts. So
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where Mr. Mills, a lazy, simple
      sermon upon the Devil's having no right to any thing in this world. So
      home to dinner, and after dinner I and my boy down by water to Redriffe
      and thence walked to Mr. Evelyn's, where I walked in his garden till he
      come from Church, with great pleasure reading Ridly's discourse, all my
      way going and coming, upon the Civill and Ecclesiastical Law. He being
      come home, he and I walked together in the garden with mighty pleasure, he
      being a very ingenious man; and the more I know him, the more I love him.
      His chief business with me was to propose having my cozen Thomas Pepys in
      Commission of the Peace, which I do not know what to say to till I speake
      with him, but should be glad of it and will put him upon it. Thence walked
      back again reading and so took water and home, where I find my uncle and
      aunt Wight, and supped with them upon my leads with mighty pleasure and
      mirthe, and they being gone I mighty weary to bed, after having my haire
      of my head cut shorter, even close to my skull, for coolnesse, it being
      mighty hot weather.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up and, being ready, to finish my journall for four days past. To
      the office, where busy all the morning. At noon dined alone, my wife gone
      abroad to conclude about her necklace of pearle. I after dinner to even
      all my accounts of this month; and, bless God! I find myself,
      notwithstanding great expences of late; viz. L80 now to pay for a
      necklace; near L40 for a set of chairs and couch; near L40 for my three
      pictures: yet I do gather, and am now worth L5200. My wife comes home by
      and by, and hath pitched upon a necklace with three rows, which is a very
      good one, and L80 is the price. In the evening, having finished my
      accounts to my full content and joyed that I have evened them so plainly,
      remembering the trouble my last accounts did give me by being let alone a
      little longer than ordinary, by which I am to this day at a loss for L50,
      I hope I shall never commit such an error again, for I cannot devise where
      the L50 should be, but it is plain I ought to be worth L50 more than I am,
      and blessed be God the error was no greater. In the evening with my [wife]
      and Mercer by coach to take the ayre as far as Bow, and eat and drank in
      the coach by the way and with much pleasure and pleased with my company.
      At night home and up to the leads, but were contrary to expectation driven
      down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a shitten pot in their
      house of office close by, which do trouble me for fear it do hereafter
      annoy me. So down to sing a little and then to bed. So ends this month
      with great layings-out. Good health and gettings, and advanced well in the
      whole of my estate, for which God make me thankful.
    </p>
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    <p>
      May 1st. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon, my cozen Thomas
      Pepys did come to me, to consult about the business of his being a justice
      of the Peace, which he is much against; and among other reasons, tells me,
      as a confidant, that he is not free to exercise punishment according to
      the Act against Quakers and other people, for religion. Nor do he
      understand Latin, and so is not capable of the place as formerly, now all
      warrants do run in Latin. Nor is he in Kent, though he be of Deptford
      parish, his house standing in Surry. However, I did bring him to incline
      towards it, if he be pressed to take it. I do think it may be some repute
      to me to have my kinsman in Commission there, specially if he behave
      himself to content in the country. He gone and my wife gone abroad, I out
      also to and fro, to see and be seen, among others to find out in Thames
      Streete where Betty Howlett is come to live, being married to Mrs.
      Michell's son; which I did about the Old Swan, but did not think fit to go
      thither or see them. Thence by water to Redriffe, reading a new French
      book my Lord Bruncker did give me to-day, "L'Histoire Amoureuse des
      Gaules,"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This book, which has frequently been reprinted, was written by
     Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, for the amusement of his mistress,
     Madame de Montglas, and consists of sketches of the chief ladies of
     the court, in which he libelled friends and foes alike.  These
     circulated in manuscript, and were printed at Liege in 1665.  Louis
     XIV. was so much annoyed with the book that he sent the author to
     the Bastille for over a year.]
</pre>
    <p>
      being a pretty libel against the amours of the Court of France. I walked
      up and down Deptford yarde, where I had not been since I come from living
      at Greenwich, which is some months. There I met with Mr. Castle, and was
      forced against my will to have his company back with me. So we walked and
      drank at Halfway house and so to his house, where I drank a cupp of syder,
      and so home, where I find Mr. Norbury newly come to town to see us. After
      he gone my wife tells me the ill newes that our Susan is sicke and gone to
      bed, with great pain in her head and back, which troubles us all. However
      we to bed expecting what to-morrow would produce. She hath we conceive
      wrought a little too much, having neither maid nor girle to help her.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up and find the girle better, which we are glad of, and with Sir W.
      Batten to White Hall by coach. There attended the Duke as usual. Thence
      with Captain Cocke, whom I met there, to London, to my office, to consult
      about serving him in getting him some money, he being already tired of his
      slavery to my Lord Bruncker, and the charge it costs him, and gets no
      manner of courtesy from him for it. He gone I home to dinner, find the
      girle yet better, so no fear of being forced to send her out of doors as
      we intended. After dinner. I by water to White Hall to a Committee for
      Tangier upon Mr. Yeabsly's business, which I got referred to a Committee
      to examine. Thence among other stops went to my ruler's house, and there
      staid a great while with Nan idling away the afternoon with pleasure. By
      and by home, so to my office a little, and then home to supper with my
      wife, the girle being pretty well again, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home, and contrary to
      my expectation find my little girle Su worse than she was, which troubled
      me, and the more to see my wife minding her paynting and not thinking of
      her house business, this being the first day of her beginning the second
      time to paynt. This together made me froward that I was angry with my
      wife, and would not have Browne to think to dine at my table with me
      always, being desirous to have my house to myself without a stranger and a
      mechanique to be privy to all my concernments. Upon this my wife and I had
      a little disagreement, but it ended by and by, and then to send up and
      down for a nurse to take the girle home and would have given anything. I
      offered to the only one that we could get 20s. per weeke, and we to find
      clothes, and bedding and physique, and would have given 30s., as demanded,
      but desired an houre or two's time. So I away by water to Westminster, and
      there sent for the girle's mother to Westminster Hall to me; she came and
      undertakes to get her daughter a lodging and nurse at next doore to her,
      though she dare not, for the parish's sake, whose sexton her husband is,
      to [have] her into her owne house. Thence home, calling at my bookseller's
      and other trifling places, and in the evening the mother come and with a
      nurse she has got, who demanded and I did agree at 10s. per weeke to take
      her, and so she away, and my house mighty uncouth, having so few in it,
      and we shall want a servant or two by it, and the truth is my heart was a
      little sad all the afternoon and jealous of myself. But she went, and we
      all glad of it, and so a little to the office, and so home to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up and by water to Westminster to Charing Cross (Mr. Gregory for
      company with me) to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, who was not within. So I took
      Gregory to White Hall, and there spoke with Joseph Williamson to have
      leave in the next Gazette to have a general pay for the Chest at Chatham
      declared upon such a day in June. Here I left Gregory, and I by coach back
      again to Sir Philip Warwicke's, and in the Park met him walking, so
      discoursed about the business of striking a quarter's tallys for Tangier,
      due this day, which he hath promised to get my Lord Treasurer's warrant
      for, and so away hence, and to Mr. Hales, to see what he had done to Mrs.
      Pierces picture, and whatever he pretends, I do not think it will ever be
      so good a picture as my wife's. Thence home to the office a little and
      then to dinner, and had a great fray with my wife again about Browne's
      coming to teach her to paynt, and sitting with me at table, which I will
      not yield to. I do thoroughly believe she means no hurte in it; but very
      angry we were, and I resolved all into my having my will done, without
      disputing, be the reason what it will; and so I will have it. After dinner
      abroad again and to the New Exchange about play books, and to White Hall,
      thinking to have met Sir G. Carteret, but failed. So to the Swan at
      Westminster, and there spent a quarter of an hour with Jane, and thence
      away home, and my wife coming home by and by (having been at her mother's
      to pray her to look out for a mayde for her) by coach into the fields to
      Bow, and so home back in the evening, late home, and after supper to bed,
      being much out of order for lack of somebody in the room of Su. This
      evening, being weary of my late idle courses, and the little good I shall
      do the King or myself in the office, I bound myself to very strict rules
      till Whitsunday next.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. At the office all the morning. After dinner upon a letter from the
      fleete from Sir W. Coventry I did do a great deale of worke for the
      sending away of the victuallers that are in the river, &amp;c., too much
      to remember. Till 10 at night busy about letters and other necessary
      matter of the office. About 11 home, it being a fine moonshine and so my
      wife and Mercer come into the garden, and, my business being done, we sang
      till about twelve at night, with mighty pleasure to ourselves and
      neighbours, by their casements opening, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). To church. Home, and after dinner walked to White Hall,
      thinking to have seen Mr. Coventry, but failed, and therefore walked clear
      on foot back again. Busy till night in fitting my Victualling papers in
      order, which I through my multitude of business and pleasure have not
      examined these several months. Walked back again home, and so to the
      Victualling Office, where I met Mr. Gawden, and have received some
      satisfaction, though it be short of what I expected, and what might be
      expected from me. So after evened I have gone, and so to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up betimes to set my Victualling papers in order against Sir W.
      Coventry comes, which indeed makes me very melancholy, being conscious
      that I am much to seeke in giving a good answer to his queries about the
      Victualling business. At the office mighty busy, and brought myself into a
      pretty plausible condition before Sir W. Coventry come, and did give him a
      pretty tolerable account of every thing and went with him into the
      Victualling office, where we sat and examined his businesses and state of
      the victualling of the fleete, which made me in my heart blushe that I
      could say no more to it than I did or could. But I trust in God I shall
      never be in that condition again. We parted, and I with pretty good grace,
      and so home to dinner, where my wife troubled more and more with her
      swollen cheek. So to dinner, my sister-in-law with us, who I find more and
      more a witty woman; and then I to my Lord Treasurer's and the Exchequer
      about my Tangier businesses, and with my content passed by all things and
      persons without so much as desiring any stay or loss of time with them,
      being by strong vowe obliged on no occasion to stay abroad but my publique
      offices. So home again, where I find Mrs. Pierce and Mrs. Ferrers come to
      see my wife. I staid a little with them, being full of business, and so to
      the office, where busy till late at night and so weary and a little
      conscious of my failures to-day, yet proud that the day is over without
      more observation on Sir W. Coventry's part, and so to bed and to sleepe
      soundly.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and to the office all the morning. At noon dined at home, my
      wife's cheek bad still. After dinner to the office again and thither comes
      Mr. Downing, the anchor-smith, who had given me 50 pieces in gold the last
      month to speake for him to Sir W. Coventry, for his being smith at
      Deptford; but after I had got it granted to him, he finds himself not fit
      to go on with it, so lets it fall. So has no benefit of my motion. I
      therefore in honour and conscience took him home the money, and, though
      much to my grief, did yet willingly and forcibly force him to take it
      again, the poor man having no mind to have it. However, I made him take
      it, and away he went, and I glad to have given him so much cause to speake
      well of me. So to my office again late, and then home to supper to a good
      lobster with my wife, and then a little to my office again, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up by five o'clock, which I have not a long time done, and down the
      river by water to Deptford, among other things to examine the state of
      Ironworke, in order to the doing something with reference to Downing that
      may induce him to returne me the 50 pieces. Walked back again reading of
      my Civill Law Book, and so home and by coach to White Hall, where we did
      our usual business before the Duke, and heard the Duke commend Deane's
      ship "The Rupert" before "The Defyance," built lately by Castle, in
      hearing of Sir W. Batten, which pleased me mightily. Thence by water to
      Westminster, and there looked after my Tangier order, and so by coach to
      Mrs. Pierces, thinking to have gone to Hales's, but she was not ready, so
      away home and to dinner, and after dinner out by coach to Lovett's to have
      forwarded what I have doing there, but find him and his pretty wife gone
      to my house to show me something. So away to my Lord Treasurer's, and
      thence to Pierces, where I find Knipp, and I took them to Hales's to see
      our pictures finished, which are very pretty, but I like not hers half so
      well as I thought at first, it being not so like, nor so well painted as I
      expected, or as mine and my wife's are. Thence with them to Cornhill to
      call and choose a chimney-piece for Pierces closett, and so home, where my
      wife in mighty pain and mightily vexed at my being abroad with these
      women; and when they were gone called them whores and I know not what,
      which vexed me, having been so innocent with them. So I with them to Mrs.
      Turner's and there sat with them a while, anon my wife sends for me, I
      come, and what was it but to scold at me and she would go abroad to take
      the ayre presently, that she would. So I left my company and went with her
      to Bow, but was vexed and spoke not one word to her all the way going nor
      coming, or being come home, but went up straight to bed. Half an hour
      after (she in the coach leaning on me as being desirous to be friends) she
      comes up mighty sicke with a fit of the cholique and in mighty pain and
      calls for me out of the bed; I rose and held her, she prays me to forgive
      her, and in mighty pain we put her to bed, where the pain ceased by and
      by, and so had some asparagus to our bed side for supper and very kindly
      afterward to sleepe and good friends in the morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. So up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner and there busy all the afternoon till past six o'clock, and then
      abroad with my wife by coach, who is now at great ease, her cheeke being
      broke inward. We took with us Mrs. Turner, who was come to visit my wife
      just as we were going out. A great deale of tittle tattle discourse to
      little purpose, I finding her, though in other things a very discreete
      woman, as very a gossip speaking of her neighbours as any body. Going out
      towards Hackney by coach for the ayre, the silly coachman carries us to
      Shoreditch, which was so pleasant a piece of simplicity in him and us,
      that made us mighty merry. So back again late, it being wondrous hot all
      the day and night and it lightning exceeding all the way we went and came,
      but without thunder. Coming home we called at a little ale-house, and had
      an eele pye, of which my wife eat part and brought home the rest. So being
      come home we to supper and to bed. This day come our new cook maid Mary,
      commended by Mrs. Batters.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up betimes, and then away with Mr. Yeabsly to my Lord Ashly's,
      whither by and by comes Sir H. Cholmly and Creed, and then to my Lord, and
      there entered into examination of Mr. Yeabsly's accounts, wherein as in
      all other things I find him one of the most distinct men that ever I did
      see in my life. He raised many scruples which were to be answered another
      day and so parted, giving me an alarme how to provide myself against the
      day of my passing my accounts. Thence I to Westminster to look after the
      striking of my tallys, but nothing done or to be done therein. So to the
      'Change, to speake with Captain Cocke, among other things about getting of
      the silver plates of him, which he promises to do; but in discourse he
      tells me that I should beware of my fellow-officers; and by name told me
      that my Lord Bruncker should say in his hearing, before Sir W. Batten, of
      me, that he could undo the man, if he would; wherein I think he is a
      foole; but, however, it is requisite I be prepared against the man's
      friendship. Thence home to dinner alone, my wife being abroad. After
      dinner to the setting some things in order in my dining-room; and by and
      by comes my wife home and Mrs. Pierce with her, so I lost most of this
      afternoon with them, and in the evening abroad with them, our long tour by
      coach, to Hackney, so to Kingsland, and then to Islington, there
      entertaining them by candlelight very well, and so home with her, set her
      down, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up to the office very betimes to draw up a letter for the Duke of
      Yorke relating to him the badness of our condition in this office for want
      of money. That being in good time done we met at the office and there sat
      all the morning. At noon home, where I find my wife troubled still at my
      checking her last night in the coach in her long stories out of Grand
      Cyrus, which she would tell, though nothing to the purpose, nor in any
      good manner.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir Walter Scott observes, in his "Life of Dryden," that the
     romances of Calprenede and Scuderi, those ponderous and unmerciful
     folios, now consigned to oblivion, were, in their day, not only
     universally read and admired, but supposed to furnish the most
     perfect models of gallantry and heroism.  Dr. Johnson read them all.
     "I have," says Mrs. Chapone, "and yet I am still alive, dragged
     through 'Le Grand Cyrus,' in twelve huge volumes; 'Cleopatra,' in
     eight or ten; 'Ibrahim,' 'Clelie,' and some others, whose names, as
     well as all the rest of them, I have forgotten" ("Letters to Mrs.
     Carter").  No wonder that Pepys sat on thorns, when his wife began
     to recite "Le Grand Cyrus" in the coach, "and trembled at the
     impending tale."&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      This she took unkindly, and I think I was to blame indeed; but she do find
      with reason, that in the company of Pierce, Knipp, or other women that I
      love, I do not value her, or mind her as I ought. However very good
      friends by and by, and to dinner, and after dinner up to the putting our
      dining room in order, which will be clean again anon, but not as it is to
      be because of the pictures which are not come home. To the office and did
      much business, in the evening to Westminster and White Hall about business
      and among other things met Sir G. Downing on White Hall bridge, and there
      walked half an hour, talking of the success of the late new Act; and
      indeed it is very much, that that hath stood really in the room of
      L800,000 now since Christmas, being itself but L1,250,000. And so I do
      really take it to be a very considerable thing done by him; for the
      beginning, end, and every part of it, is to be imputed to him. So home by
      water, and there hard till 12 at night at work finishing the great letter
      to the Duke of Yorke against to-morrow morning, and so home to bed. This
      day come home again my little girle Susan, her sicknesse proving an ague,
      and she had a fit soon almost as she come home. The fleete is not yet gone
      from the Nore. The plague encreases in many places, and is 53 this week
      with us.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day). Up, and walked to White Hall, where we all met to
      present a letter to the Duke of Yorke, complaining solemnly of the want of
      money, and that being done, I to and again up and down Westminster,
      thinking to have spent a little time with Sarah at the Swan, or Mrs.
      Martin, but was disappointed in both, so walked the greatest part of the
      way home, where comes Mr. Symons, my old acquaintance, to dine with me,
      and I made myself as good company as I could to him, but he was mighty
      impertinent methought too yet, and thereby I see the difference between
      myself now and what it was heretofore, when I reckoned him a very brave
      fellow. After dinner he and I walked together as far as Cheapside, and I
      quite through to Westminster again, and fell by chance into St. Margett's'
      Church, where I heard a young man play the foole upon the doctrine of
      purgatory. At this church I spied Betty Howlett, who indeed is mighty
      pretty, and struck me mightily. After church time, standing in the Church
      yarde, she spied me, so I went to her, her father and mother and husband
      being with her. They desired and I agreed to go home with Mr. Michell, and
      there had the opportunity to have saluted two or three times Betty and
      make an acquaintance which they are pleased with, though not so much as I
      am or they think I am. I staid here an houre or more chatting with them in
      a little sorry garden of theirs by the Bowling Alley, and so left them and
      I by water home, and there was in great pain in mind lest Sir W. Pen, who
      is going down to the Fleete, should come to me or send for me to be
      informed in the state of things, and particularly the Victualling, that by
      my pains he might seem wise. So after spending an houre with my wife
      pleasantly in her closett, I to bed even by daylight.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Comes betimes a letter from Sir W. Coventry, that he and Sir G.
      Carteret are ordered presently down to the Fleete. I up and saw Sir W. Pen
      gone also after them, and so I finding it a leisure day fell to making
      cleane my closett in my office, which I did to my content and set up my
      Platts again, being much taken also with Griffin's mayde, that did cleane
      it, being a pretty mayde. I left her at it, and toward Westminster myself
      with my wife by coach and meeting took up Mr. Lovett the varnisher with
      us, who is a pleasant speaking and humoured man, so my wife much taken
      with him, and a good deale of worke I believe I shall procure him. I left
      my wife at the New Exchange and myself to the Exchequer, to looke after my
      Tangier tallys, and there met Sir G. Downing, who shewed me his present
      practise now begun this day to paste up upon the Exchequer door a note of
      what orders upon the new Act are paid and now in paying, and my Lord of
      Oxford coming by, also took him, and shewed him his whole method of
      keeping his books, and everything of it, which indeed is very pretty, and
      at this day there is assigned upon the Act L804,000. Thence at the New
      Exchange took up my wife again, and so home to dinner, and after dinner to
      my office again to set things in order. In the evening out with my wife
      and my aunt Wight, to take the ayre, and happened to have a pleasant race
      between our hackney-coach and a gentleman's. At Bow we eat and drank and
      so back again, it being very cool in the evening. Having set home my aunt
      and come home, I fell to examine my wife's kitchen book, and find 20s.
      mistake, which made me mighty angry and great difference between us, and
      so in the difference to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and to the office, where we met and sat all the morning. At noon
      home to dinner, and after dinner by coach to Sir Philip Warwicke's, he
      having sent for me, but was not within, so I to my Lord Crew's, who is
      very lately come to towne, and with him talking half an houre of the
      business of the warr, wherein he is very doubtful, from our want of money,
      that we shall fail. And I do concur with him therein. After some little
      discourse of ordinary matters, I away to Sir Philip Warwicke's again, and
      was come in, and gone out to my Lord Treasurer's; whither I followed him,
      and there my business was, to be told that my Lord Treasurer hath got
      L10,000 for us in the Navy, to answer our great necessities, which I did
      thank him for; but the sum is not considerable. So home, and there busy
      all the afternoon till night, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up very betimes, and so down the river to Deptford to look after
      some business, being by and by to attend the Duke and Mr. Coventry, and so
      I was wiling to carry something fresh that I may look as a man minding
      business, which I have done too much for a great while to forfeit, and is
      now so great a burden upon my mind night and day that I do not enjoy
      myself in the world almost. I walked thither, and come back again by
      water, and so to White Hall, and did our usual business before the Duke,
      and so to the Exchequer, where the lazy rogues have not yet done my
      tallys, which vexes me. Thence to Mr. Hales, and paid him for my picture,
      and Mr. Hill's, for the first L14 for the picture, and 25s. for the frame,
      and for the other L7 for the picture, it being a copy of his only, and 5s.
      for the frame; in all, L22 10s. I am very well satisfied in my pictures,
      and so took them in another coach home along with me, and there with great
      pleasure my wife and I hung them up, and, that being done, to dinner,
      where Mrs. Barbara Sheldon come to see us and dined with us, and we kept
      her all the day with us, I going down to Deptford, and, Lord! to see with
      what itching desire I did endeavour to see Bagwell's wife, but failed, for
      which I am glad, only I observe the folly of my mind that cannot refrain
      from pleasure at a season above all others in my life requisite for me to
      shew my utmost care in. I walked both going and coming, spending my time
      reading of my Civill and Ecclesiastical Law book. Being returned home, I
      took my wife and Mrs. Barbary and Mercer out by coach and went our Grand
      Tour, and baited at Islington, and so late home about 11 at night, and so
      with much pleasure to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, lying long, being wearied yesterday with long walking. So to the
      office, where all the morning with fresh occasion of vexing at myself for
      my late neglect of business, by which I cannot appear half so usefull as I
      used to do. Home at noon to dinner, and then to my office again, where I
      could not hold my eyes open for an houre, but I drowsed (so little
      sensible I apprehend my soul is of the necessity of minding business), but
      I anon wakened and minded my business, and did a great deale with very
      great pleasure, and so home at night to supper and to bed, mightily
      pleased with myself for the business that I have done, and convinced that
      if I would but keepe constantly to do the same I might have leisure enough
      and yet do all my business, and by the grace of God so I will. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up by 5 o'clock, and so down by water to Deptford and Blackewall to
      dispatch some business. So walked to Dickeshoare, and there took boat
      again and home, and thence to Westminster, and attended all the morning on
      the Exchequer for a quarter's tallys for Tangier. But, Lord! to see what a
      dull, heavy sort of people they are there would make a man mad. At noon
      had them and carried them home, and there dined with great content with my
      people, and within and at the office all the afternoon and night, and so
      home to settle some papers there, and so to bed, being not very well,
      having eaten too much lobster at noon at dinner with Mr. Hollyard, he
      coming in and commending it so much.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to the office all the morning. At noon took Mr. Deane
      (lately come to towne) home with me to dinner, and there after giving him
      some reprimands and good advice about his deportment in the place where by
      my interest he is at Harwich, and then declaring my resolution of being
      his friend still, we did then fall to discourse about his ship "Rupert,"
      built by him there, which succeeds so well as he hath got great honour by
      it, and I some by recommending him; the King, Duke, and every body saying
      it is the best ship that was ever built. And then he fell to explain to me
      his manner of casting the draught of water which a ship will draw
      before-hand: which is a secret the King and all admire in him; and he is
      the first that hath come to any certainty before-hand, of foretelling the
      draught of water of a ship before she be launched. I must confess I am
      much pleased in his successe in this business, and do admire at the
      confidence of Castle who did undervalue the draught Deane sent up to me,
      that I was ashamed to owne it or him, Castle asking of me upon the first
      sight of it whether he that laid it down had ever built a ship or no,
      which made me the more doubtfull of him. He being gone, I to the office,
      where much business and many persons to speake with me. Late home and to
      bed, glad to be at a little quiett.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). With my wife to church in the morning. At noon dined
      mighty nobly, ourselves alone. After dinner my wife and Mercer by coach to
      Greenwich, to be gossip to Mrs. Daniel's child. I out to Westminster, and
      straight to Mrs. Martin's, and there did what I would with her, she
      staying at home all the day for me; and not being well pleased with her
      over free and loose company, I away to Westminster Abbey, and there fell
      in discourse with Mr. Blagrave, whom I find a sober politique man, that
      gets money and increase of places, and thence by coach home, and thence by
      water after I had discoursed awhile with Mr. Yeabsly, whom I met and took
      up in my coach with me, and who hath this day presented my Lord Ashly with
      L100 to bespeak his friendship to him in his accounts now before us; and
      my Lord hath received it, and so I believe is as bad, as to bribes, as
      what the world says of him. Calling on all the Victualling ships to know
      what they had of their complements, and so to Deptford, to enquire after a
      little business there, and thence by water back again, all the way coming
      and going reading my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae," which I can never read
      too often, and so back home, and there find my wife come home, much
      pleased with the reception she had there, and she was godmother, and did
      hold the child at the Font, and it is called John. So back again home, and
      after setting my papers in order and supping, to bed, desirous to rise
      betimes in the morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up between 4 and 5 o'clock and to set several papers to rights, and
      so to the office, where we had an extraordinary meeting. But, Lord! how it
      torments me to find myself so unable to give an account of my Victualling
      business, which puts me out of heart in every thing else, so that I never
      had a greater shame upon me in my owne mind, nor more trouble as to
      publique business than I have now, but I will get out of it as soon as
      possibly I can. At noon dined at home, and after dinner comes in my wife's
      brother Balty and his wife, he being stepped ashore from the fleete for a
      day or two. I away in some haste to my Lord Ashly, where it is stupendous
      to see how favourably, and yet closely, my Lord Ashly carries himself to
      Mr. Yeabsly, in his business, so as I think we shall do his business for
      him in very good manner. But it is a most extraordinary thing to observe,
      and that which I would not but have had the observation of for a great
      deal of money. Being done there, and much forwarded Yeabsly's business, I
      with Sir H. Cholmly to my Lord Bellassis, who is lately come from Tangier
      to visit him, but is not within. So to Westminster Hall a little about
      business and so home by water, and then out with my wife, her brother,
      sister, and Mercer to Islington, our grand tour, and there eat and drank.
      But in discourse I am infinitely pleased with Balty, his deportment in his
      business of Muster-Master, and hope mighty well from him, and am glad with
      all my heart I put him into this business. Late home and to bed, they also
      lying at my house, he intending to go away to-morrow back again to sea.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up betimes and to my business of entering some Tangier payments in
      my book in order, and then to the office, where very busy all the morning.
      At noon home to dinner, Balty being gone back to sea and his wife dining
      with us, whom afterward my wife carried home. I after dinner to the
      office, and anon out on several occasions, among others to Lovett's, and
      there staid by him and her and saw them (in their poor conditioned manner)
      lay on their varnish, which however pleased me mightily to see. Thence
      home to my business writing letters, and so at night home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up by 5 o'clock and to my chamber settling several matters in order.
      So out toward White Hall, calling in my way on my Lord Bellassis, where I
      come to his bedside, and did give me a full and long account of his
      matters, how he left them at Tangier. Declares himself fully satisfied
      with my care: seems cunningly to argue for encreasing the number of men
      there. Told me the whole story of his gains by the Turky prizes, which he
      owns he hath got about L5000 by. Promised me the same profits Povy was to
      have had; and in fine, I find him a pretty subtle man; and so I left him,
      and to White Hall before the Duke and did our usual business, and eased my
      mind of two or three things of weight that lay upon me about Lanyon's
      salary, which I have got to be L150 per annum. Thence to Westminster to
      look after getting some little for some great tallys, but shall find
      trouble in it. Thence homeward and met with Sir Philip Warwicke, and spoke
      about this, in which he is scrupulous. After that to talk of the wants of
      the Navy. He lays all the fault now upon the new Act, and owns his owne
      folly in thinking once so well of it as to give way to others' endeavours
      about it, and is grieved at heart to see what passe things are like to
      come to. Thence to the Excise Office to the Commissioners to get a meeting
      between them and myself and others about our concernments in the Excise
      for Tangier, and so to the 'Change awhile, and thence home with Creed, and
      find my wife at dinner with Mr. Cooke, who is going down to Hinchinbrooke.
      After dinner Creed and I and wife and Mercer out by coach, leaving them at
      the New Exchange, while I to White Hall, and there staid at Sir G.
      Carteret's chamber till the Council rose, and then he and I, by agreement
      this morning, went forth in his coach by Tiburne, to the Parke;
      discoursing of the state of the Navy as to money, and the state of the
      Kingdom too, how ill able to raise more: and of our office as to the
      condition of the officers; he giving me caution as to myself, that there
      are those that are my enemies as well as his, and by name my Lord
      Bruncker, who hath said some odd speeches against me. So that he advises
      me to stand on my guard; which I shall do, and unless my too-much
      addiction to pleasure undo me, will be acute enough for any of them. We
      rode to and again in the Parke a good while, and at last home and set me
      down at Charing Crosse, and thence I to Mrs. Pierces to take up my wife
      and Mercer, where I find her new picture by Hales do not please her, nor
      me indeed, it making no show, nor is very like, nor no good painting. Home
      to supper and to bed, having my right eye sore and full of humour of late,
      I think, by my late change of my brewer, and having of 8s. beer.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up very betimes, and did much business in my chamber. Then to the
      office, where busy all the morning. At noon rose in the pleasantest humour
      I have seen Sir W. Coventry and the whole board in this twelvemonth from a
      pleasant crossing humour Sir W. Batten was in, he being hungry, and
      desirous to be gone. Home, and Mr. Hunt come to dine with me, but I was
      prevented dining till 4 o'clock by Sir H. Cholmly and Sir J. Bankes's
      coming in about some Tangier business. They gone I to dinner, the others
      having dined. Mr. Sheply is also newly come out of the country and come to
      see us, whom I am glad to see. He left all well there; but I perceive
      under some discontent in my Lord's behalfe, thinking that he is under
      disgrace with the King; but he is not so at all, as Sir G. Carteret
      assures me. They gone I to the office and did business, and so in the
      evening abroad alone with my wife to Kingsland, and so back again and to
      bed, my right eye continuing very ill of the rheum, which hath troubled it
      four or five days.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up betimes and to my chamber to do business, where the greatest part
      of the morning. Then out to the 'Change to speake with Captain [Cocke],
      who tells me my silver plates are ready for me, and shall be sent me
      speedily; and proposes another proposition of serving us with a thousand
      tons of hempe, and tells me it shall bring me 6500, if the bargain go
      forward, which is a good word. Thence to Sir G. Carteret, who is at the
      pay of the tickets with Sir J. Minnes this day, and here I sat with them a
      while, the first time I ever was there, and thence to dinner with him, a
      good dinner. Here come a gentleman over from France arrived here this day,
      Mr. Browne of St. Mellos, who, among other things, tells me the meaning of
      the setting out of doggs every night out of the towne walls, which are
      said to secure the city; but it is not so, but only to secure the anchors,
      cables, and ships that lie dry, which might otherwise in the night be
      liable to be robbed. And these doggs are set out every night, and called
      together in every morning by a man with a home, and they go in very
      orderly. Thence home, and there find Knipp at dinner with my wife, now
      very big, and within a fortnight of lying down. But my head was full of
      business and so could have no sport. So I left them, promising to return
      and take them out at night, and so to the Excise Office, where a meeting
      was appointed of Sir Stephen Fox, the Cofferer, and myself, to settle the
      business of our tallys, and it was so pretty well against another meeting.
      Thence away home to the office and out again to Captain Cocke (Mr. Moore
      for company walking with me and discoursing and admiring of the learning
      of Dr. Spencer), and there he and I discoursed a little more of our
      matters, and so home, and (Knipp being gone) took out my wife and Mercer
      to take the ayre a little, and so as far as Hackney and back again, and
      then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up betimes and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined
      at home. So to the office again, and a while at the Victualling Office to
      understand matters there a little, and thence to the office and despatched
      much business, to my great content, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Lord's day). Rose betimes, and to my office till church time to
      write two copies of my Will fair, bearing date this day, wherein I have
      given my sister Pall L500, my father for his owne and my mother's support
      L2,000, to my wife the rest of my estate, but to have L2500 secured to
      her, though by deducting out of what I have given my father and my sister.
      I dispatched all before church time and then to church, my wife with me.
      Thence home to dinner, whither come my uncle Wight, and aunt and uncle
      Norbury, and Mr. Shepley. A good dinner and very merry. After dinner we
      broke up and I by water to Westminster to Mrs. Martin's, and there sat
      with her and her husband and Mrs. Burrows, the pretty, an hour or two,
      then to the Swan a while, and so home by water, and with my wife by and by
      by water as low as Greenwich, for ayre only, and so back again home to
      supper and to bed with great pleasure.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up and to my chamber to do some business there, and then to the
      office, where a while, and then by agreement to the Excise Office, where I
      waited all the morning for the Cofferer and Sir St. Foxe's coming, but
      they did not, so I and the Commissioners lost their labour and expectation
      of doing the business we intended. Thence home, where I find Mr. Lovett
      and his wife came to see us. They are a pretty couple, and she a fine bred
      woman. They dined with us, and Browne, the paynter, and she plays finely
      on the lute. My wife and I were well pleased with her company. After
      dinner broke up, I to the office and they abroad. All the afternoon I busy
      at the office, and down by water to Deptford. Walked back to Redriffe, and
      so home to the office again, being thoughtfull how to answer Sir W.
      Coventry against to-morrow in the business of the Victualling, but that I
      do trust to Tom Wilson, that he will be ready with a book for me to-morrow
      morning. So to bed, my wife telling me where she hath been to-day with my
      aunt Wight, and seen Mrs. Margaret Wight, and says that she is one of the
      beautifullest women that ever she saw in her life, the most excellent nose
      and mouth. They have been also to see pretty Mrs. Batelier, and conclude
      her to be a prettier woman than Mrs. Pierce, whom my wife led my aunt to
      see also this day.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (King's birth-day and Restauration day). Waked with the ringing of
      the bells all over the towne; so up before five o'clock, and to the
      office, where we met, and I all the morning with great trouble upon my
      spirit to think how I should come off in the afternoon when Sir W.
      Coventry did go to the Victualling office to see the state of matters
      there, and methinks by his doing of it without speaking to me, and only
      with Sir W. Pen, it must be of design to find my negligence. However, at
      noon I did, upon a small invitation of Sir W. Pen's, go and dine with Sir
      W. Coventry at his office, where great good cheer and many pleasant
      stories of Sir W. Coventry; but I had no pleasure in them. However, I had
      last night and this morning made myself a little able to report how
      matters were, and did readily go with them after dinner to the Victualling
      office; and there, beyond belief, did acquit myself very well to full
      content; so that, beyond expectation, I got over this second rub in this
      business; and if ever I fall on it again, I deserve to be undone. Being
      broke up there, I with a merry heart home to my office, and thither my
      wife comes to me, to tell me, that if I would see the handsomest woman in
      England, I shall come home presently; and who should it be but the pretty
      lady of our parish, that did heretofore sit on the other side of our
      church, over against our gallery, that is since married; she with Mrs.
      Anne Jones, one of this parish, that dances finely, and Mrs. sister did
      come to see her this afternoon, and so I home and there find Creed also
      come to me. So there I spent most of the afternoon with them, and indeed
      she is a pretty black woman, her name Mrs. Horsely. But, Lord! to see how
      my nature could not refrain from the temptation; but I must invite them to
      Foxhall, to Spring Gardens, though I had freshly received minutes of a
      great deale of extraordinary business. However I could not helpe it, but
      sent them before with Creed, and I did some of my business; and so after
      them, and find them there, in an arbour, and had met with Mrs. Pierce, and
      some company with her. So here I spent 20s. upon them, and were pretty
      merry. Among other things, had a fellow that imitated all manner of birds,
      and doggs, and hogs, with his voice, which was mighty pleasant. Staid here
      till night: then set Mrs. Pierce in at the New Exchange; and ourselves
      took coach, and so set Mrs. Horsely home, and then home ourselves, but
      with great trouble in the streets by bonefires, it being the King's
      birth-day and day of Restauration; but, Lord! to see the difference how
      many there were on the other side, and so few ours, the City side of the
      Temple, would make one wonder the difference between the temper of one
      sort of people and the other: and the difference among all between what
      they do now, and what it was the night when Monk come into the City. Such
      a night as that I never think to see again, nor think it can be. After I
      come home I was till one in the morning with Captain Cocke drawing up a
      contract with him intended to be offered to the Duke to-morrow, which, if
      it proceeds, he promises me L500.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up and to my office, there to settle some business in order.to our
      waiting on the Duke to-day. That done to White Hall to Sir W. Coventry's
      chamber, where I find the Duke gone out with the King to-day on hunting.
      So after some discourse with him, I by water to Westminster, and there
      drew a draught of an order for my Lord Treasurer to sign for my having
      some little tallys made me in lieu of two great ones, of L2000 each, to
      enable me to pay small sums therewith. I shewed it to Sir R. Long and had
      his approbation, and so to Sir Ph. Warwicke's, and did give it him to get
      signed. So home to my office, and there did business. By and by toward
      noon word is brought me that my father and my sister are come. I expected
      them to-day, but not so soon. I to them, and am heartily glad to see them,
      especially my father, who, poor man, looks very well, and hath rode up
      this journey on horseback very well, only his eyesight and hearing is very
      bad. I staid and dined with them, my wife being gone by coach to Barnet,
      with W. Hewer and Mercer, to meet them, and they did come Ware way. After
      dinner I left them to dress themselves and I abroad by appointment to my
      Lord Ashly, who, it is strange to see, how prettily he dissembles his
      favour to Yeabsly's business, which none in the world could mistrust only
      I, that am privy to his being bribed. Thence to White Hall, and there
      staid till the Council was up, with Creed expecting a meeting of Tangier
      to end Yeabsly's business, but we could not procure it. So I to my Lord
      Treasurer's and got my warrant, and then to Lovett's, but find nothing
      done there. So home and did a little business at the office, and so down
      by water to Deptford and back again home late, and having signed some
      papers and given order in business, home, where my wife is come home, and
      so to supper with my father, and mighty pleasant we were, and my wife
      mighty kind to him and Pall, and so after supper to bed, myself being
      sleepy, and my right eye still very sore, as it has been now about five
      days or six, which puts me out of tune. To-night my wife tells me newes
      has been brought her that Balty's wife is brought to bed, by some fall or
      fit, before her time, of a great child but dead. If the woman do well we
      have no reason to be sorry, because his staying a little longer without a
      child will be better for him and her.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Waked very betimes in the morning by extraordinary thunder and rain,
      which did keep me sleeping and waking till very late, and it being a
      holiday and my eye very sore, and myself having had very little sleep for
      a good while till nine o'clock, and so up, and so saw all my family up,
      and my father and sister, who is a pretty good-bodied woman, and not over
      thicke, as I thought she would have been, but full of freckles, and not
      handsome in face. And so I out by water among the ships, and to Deptford
      and Blackewall about business, and so home and to dinner with my father
      and sister and family, mighty pleasant all of us; and, among other things,
      with a sparrow that our Mercer hath brought up now for three weeks, which
      is so tame that it flies up and down, and upon the table, and eats and
      pecks, and do everything so pleasantly, that we are mightily pleased with
      it. After dinner I to my papers and accounts of this month to sett all
      straight, it being a publique Fast-day appointed to pray for the good
      successe of the fleete. But it is a pretty thing to consider how little a
      matter they make of this keeping of a Fast, that it was not so much as
      declared time enough to be read in the churches the last Sunday; but
      ordered by proclamation since: I suppose upon some sudden newes of the
      Dutch being come out. To my accounts and settled them clear; but to my
      grief find myself poorer than I was the last by near L20, by reason of my
      being forced to return L50 to Downing, the smith, which he had presented
      me with. However, I am well contented, finding myself yet to be worth
      L5,200. Having done, to supper with my wife, and then to finish the
      writing fair of my accounts, and so to bed. This day come to town Mr.
      Homewood, and I took him home in the evening to my chamber, and discoursed
      with him about my business of the Victualling, which I have a mind to
      employ him in, and he is desirous of also, but do very ingenuously declare
      he understands it not so well as other things, and desires to be informed
      in the nature of it before he attempts it, which I like well, and so I
      carried him to Mr. Gibson to discourse with him about it, and so home
      again to my accounts. Thus ends this month, with my mind oppressed by my
      defect in my duty of the Victualling, which lies upon me as a burden, till
      I get myself into a better posture therein, and hinders me and casts down
      my courage in every thing else that belongs to me, and the jealousy I have
      of Sir W. Coventry's being displeased with me about it; but I hope in a
      little time to remedy all. As to publique business; by late tidings of the
      French fleete being come to Rochelle (how true, though, I know not) our
      fleete is divided; Prince Rupert being gone with about thirty ships to the
      Westward as is conceived to meet the French, to hinder their coming to
      join with the Dutch. My Lord Duke of Albemarle lies in the Downes with the
      rest, and intends presently to sail to the Gunfleete.
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      JUNE 1666
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    <p>
      June 1st. Being prevented yesterday in meeting by reason of the fast day,
      we met to-day all the morning. At noon I and my father, wife and sister,
      dined at Aunt Wight's here hard by at Mr. Woolly's, upon sudden warning,
      they being to go out of town to-morrow. Here dined the faire Mrs. Margaret
      Wight, who is a very fine lady, but the cast of her eye, got only by an
      ill habit, do her much wrong and her hands are bad; but she hath the face
      of a noble Roman lady. After dinner my uncle and Woolly and I out into
      their yarde, to talke about what may be done hereafter to all our profits
      by prizegoods, which did give us reason to lament the losse of the
      opportunity of the last yeare, which, if we were as wise as we are now,
      and at the peaceable end of all those troubles that we met with, all might
      have been such a hit as will never come again in this age, and so I do
      really believe it. Thence home to my office and there did much business,
      and at night home to my father to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and to the office, where certain newes is brought us of a letter
      come to the King this morning from the Duke of Albemarle, dated yesterday
      at eleven o'clock, as they were sailing to the Gunfleete, that they were
      in sight of the Dutch fleete, and were fitting themselves to fight them;
      so that they are, ere this, certainly engaged; besides, several do averr
      they heard the guns all yesterday in the afternoon. This put us at the
      Board into a tosse. Presently come orders for our sending away to the
      fleete a recruite of 200 soldiers. So I rose from the table, and to the
      Victualling office, and thence upon the River among several vessels, to
      consider of the sending them away; and lastly, down to Greenwich, and
      there appointed two yachts to be ready for them; and did order the
      soldiers to march to Blackewall. Having set all things in order against
      the next flood, I went on shore with Captain Erwin at Greenwich, and into
      the Parke, and there we could hear the guns from the fleete most plainly.
      Thence he and I to the King's Head and there bespoke a dish of steaks for
      our dinner about four o'clock. While that was doing, we walked to the
      water-side, and there seeing the King and Duke come down in their barge to
      Greenwich-house, I to them, and did give them an account [of] what I was
      doing. They went up to the Parke to hear the guns of the fleete go off.
      All our hopes now are that Prince Rupert with his fleete is coming back
      and will be with the fleete this even: a message being sent to him to that
      purpose on Wednesday last; and a return is come from him this morning,
      that he did intend to sail from St. Ellen's point about four in the
      afternoon on Wednesday [Friday], which was yesterday; which gives us great
      hopes, the wind being very fair, that he is with them this even, and the
      fresh going off of the guns makes us believe the same. After dinner,
      having nothing else to do till flood, I went and saw Mrs. Daniel, to whom
      I did not tell that the fleets were engaged, because of her husband, who
      is in the R. Charles. Very pleasant with her half an hour, and so away and
      down to Blackewall, and there saw the soldiers (who were by this time
      gotten most of them drunk) shipped off. But, Lord! to see how the poor
      fellows kissed their wives and sweethearts in that simple manner at their
      going off, and shouted, and let off their guns, was strange sport. In the
      evening come up the River the Katharine yacht, Captain Fazeby, who hath
      brought over my Lord of Alesbury and Sir Thomas Liddall (with a very
      pretty daughter, and in a pretty travelling-dress) from Flanders, who saw
      the Dutch fleete on Thursday, and ran from them; but from that houre to
      this hath not heard one gun, nor any newes of any fight. Having put the
      soldiers on board, I home and wrote what I had to write by the post, and
      so home to supper and to bed, it being late.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Lord's-day; Whit-sunday). Up, and by water to White Hall, and there
      met with Mr. Coventry, who tells me the only news from the fleete is
      brought by Captain Elliott, of The Portland, which, by being run on board
      by The Guernsey, was disabled from staying abroad; so is come in to
      Aldbrough. That he saw one of the Dutch great ships blown up, and three on
      fire. That they begun to fight on Friday; and at his coming into port, he
      could make another ship of the King's coming in, which he judged to be the
      Rupert: that he knows of no other hurt to our ships. With this good newes
      I home by water again, and to church in the sermon-time, and with great
      joy told it my fellows in the pew. So home after church time to dinner,
      and after dinner my father, wife, sister, and Mercer by water to Woolwich,
      while I walked by land, and saw the Exchange as full of people, and hath
      been all this noon as of any other day, only for newes. I to St.
      Margaret's, Westminster, and there saw at church my pretty Betty Michell,
      and thence to the Abbey, and so to Mrs. Martin, and there did what 'je
      voudrais avec her.... So by and by he come in, and after some discourse
      with him I away to White Hall, and there met with this bad newes farther,
      that the Prince come to Dover but at ten o'clock last night, and there
      heard nothing of a fight; so that we are defeated of all our hopes of his
      helpe to the fleete. It is also reported by some Victuallers that the Duke
      of Albemarle and Holmes their flags were shot down, and both fain to come
      to anchor to renew their rigging and sails. A letter is also come this
      afternoon, from Harman in the Henery; which is she [that] was taken by
      Elliott for the Rupert; that being fallen into the body of the Dutch
      fleete, he made his way through them, was set on by three fire-ships one
      after another, got two of them off, and disabled the third; was set on
      fire himself; upon which many of his men leapt into the sea and perished;
      among others, the parson first. Have lost above 100 men, and a good many
      women (God knows what is become of Balty), and at last quenched his own
      fire and got to Aldbrough; being, as all say, the greatest hazard that
      ever any ship escaped, and as bravely managed by him. The mast of the
      third fire-ship fell into their ship on fire, and hurt Harman's leg, which
      makes him lame now, but not dangerous. I to Sir G. Carteret, who told me
      there hath been great bad management in all this; that the King's orders
      that went on Friday for calling back the Prince, were sent but by the
      ordinary post on Wednesday; and come to the Prince his hands but on
      Friday; and then, instead of sailing presently, he stays till four in the
      evening. And that which is worst of all, the Hampshire, laden with
      merchants' money, come from the Straights, set out with or but just before
      the fleete, and was in the Downes by five in the clock yesterday morning;
      and the Prince with his fleete come to Dover but at ten of the clock at
      night. This is hard to answer, if it be true. This puts great astonishment
      into the King, and Duke, and Court, every body being out of countenance.
      So meeting Creed, he and I by coach to Hide Parke alone to talke of these
      things, and do blesse God that my Lord Sandwich was not here at this time
      to be concerned in a business like to be so misfortunate. It was a
      pleasant thing to consider how fearfull I was of being seen with Creed all
      this afternoon, for fear of people's thinking that by our relation to my
      Lord Sandwich we should be making ill construction of the Prince's
      failure. But, God knows, I am heartily sorry for the sake of the whole
      nation, though, if it were not for that, it would not be amisse to have
      these high blades find some checke to their presumption and their
      disparaging of as good men. Thence set him down in Covent Guarden and so
      home by the 'Change, which is full of people still, and all talk highly of
      the failure of the Prince in not making more haste after his instructions
      did come, and of our managements here in not giving it sooner and with
      more care and oftener. Thence. After supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen to White Hall in the
      latter's coach, where, when we come, we find the Duke at St. James's,
      whither he is lately gone to lodge. So walking through the Parke we saw
      hundreds of people listening at the Gravel-pits,&mdash;[Kensington]&mdash;and
      to and again in the Parke to hear the guns, and I saw a letter, dated last
      night, from Strowd, Governor of Dover Castle, which says that the Prince
      come thither the night before with his fleete, but that for the guns which
      we writ that we heard, it is only a mistake for thunder;
    </p>
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     [Evelyn was in his garden when he heard the guns, and be at once set
     off to Rochester and the coast, but he found that nothing had been
     heard at Deal (see his "Diary," June 1st, 1666).]
</pre>
    <p>
      and so far as to yesterday it is a miraculous thing that we all Friday,
      and Saturday and yesterday, did hear every where most plainly the guns go
      off, and yet at Deale and Dover to last night they did not hear one word
      of a fight, nor think they heard one gun. This, added to what I have set
      down before the other day about the Katharine, makes room for a great
      dispute in philosophy, how we should hear it and they not, the same wind
      that brought it to us being the same that should bring it to them: but so
      it is. Major Halsey, however (he was sent down on purpose to hear newes),
      did bring newes this morning that he did see the Prince and his fleete at
      nine of the clock yesterday morning, four or five leagues to sea behind
      the Goodwin, so that by the hearing of the guns this morning we conclude
      he is come to the fleete. After wayting upon the Duke, Sir W. Pen (who was
      commanded to go to-night by water down to Harwich, to dispatch away all
      the ships he can) and I home, drinking two bottles of Cocke ale in the
      streete in his new fine coach, where no sooner come, but newes is brought
      me of a couple of men come to speak with me from the fleete; so I down,
      and who should it be but Mr. Daniel, all muffled up, and his face as black
      as the chimney, and covered with dirt, pitch, and tarr, and powder, and
      muffled with dirty clouts, and his right eye stopped with okum. He is come
      last night at five o'clock from the fleete, with a comrade of his that
      hath endangered another eye. They were set on shore at Harwich this
      morning, and at two o'clock, in a catch with about twenty more wounded men
      from the Royall Charles. They being able to ride, took post about three
      this morning, and were here between eleven and twelve. I went presently
      into the coach with them, and carried them to Somerset-House-stairs, and
      there took water (all the world gazing upon us, and concluding it to be
      newes from the fleete, and every body's face appeared expecting of newes)
      to the Privy-stairs, and left them at Mr. Coventry's lodging (he, though,
      not being there); and so I into the Parke to the King, and told him my
      Lord Generall was well the last night at five o'clock, and the Prince come
      with his fleete and joyned with his about seven. The King was mightily
      pleased with this newes, and so took me by the hand and talked a little of
      it. Giving him the best account I could; and then he bid me to fetch the
      two seamen to him, he walking into the house. So I went and fetched the
      seamen into the Vane room to him, and there he heard the whole account.
    </p>
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                                THE FIGHT.
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    <p>
      How we found the Dutch fleete at anchor on Friday half seas over, between
      Dunkirke and Ostend, and made them let slip their anchors. They about
      ninety, and we less than sixty. We fought them, and put them to the run,
      till they met with about sixteen sail of fresh ships, and so bore up
      again. The fight continued till night, and then again the next morning
      from five till seven at night. And so, too, yesterday morning they begun
      again, and continued till about four o'clock, they chasing us for the most
      part of Saturday and yesterday, we flying from them. The Duke himself,
      then those people were put into the catch, and by and by spied the
      Prince's fleete coming, upon which De Ruyter called a little council
      (being in chase at this time of us), and thereupon their fleete divided
      into two squadrons; forty in one, and about thirty in the other (the
      fleete being at first about ninety, but by one accident or other, supposed
      to be lessened to about seventy); the bigger to follow the Duke, the less
      to meet the Prince. But the Prince come up with the Generall's fleete, and
      the Dutch come together again and bore towards their own coast, and we
      with them; and now what the consequence of this day will be, at that time
      fighting, we know not. The Duke was forced to come to anchor on Friday,
      having lost his sails and rigging. No particular person spoken of to be
      hurt but Sir W. Clerke, who hath lost his leg, and bore it bravely. The
      Duke himself had a little hurt in his thigh, but signified little. The
      King did pull out of his pocket about twenty pieces in gold, and did give
      it Daniel for himself and his companion; and so parted, mightily pleased
      with the account he did give him of the fight, and the successe it ended
      with, of the Prince's coming, though it seems the Duke did give way again
      and again. The King did give order for care to be had of Mr. Daniel and
      his companion; and so we parted from him, and then met the Duke [of York],
      and gave him the same account: and so broke up, and I left them going to
      the surgeon's and I myself by water to the 'Change, and to several people
      did give account of the business. So home about four o'clock to dinner,
      and was followed by several people to be told the newes, and good newes it
      is. God send we may hear a good issue of this day's business! After I had
      eat something I walked to Gresham College, where I heard my Lord Bruncker
      was, and there got a promise of the receipt of the fine varnish, which I
      shall be glad to have. Thence back with Mr. Hooke to my house and there
      lent some of my tables of naval matters, the names of rigging and the
      timbers about a ship, in order to Dr. Wilkins' book coming out about the
      Universal Language. Thence, he being gone, to the Crown, behind the
      'Change, and there supped at the club with my Lord Bruncker, Sir G. Ent,
      and others of Gresham College; and all our discourse is of this fight at
      sea, and all are doubtful of the successe, and conclude all had been lost
      if the Prince had not come in, they having chased us the greatest part of
      Saturday and Sunday. Thence with my Lord Bruncker and Creed by coach to
      White Hall, where fresh letters are come from Harwich, where the
      Gloucester, Captain Clerke, is come in, and says that on Sunday night upon
      coming in of the Prince, the Duke did fly; but all this day they have been
      fighting; therefore they did face again, to be sure. Captain Bacon of The
      Bristoll is killed. They cry up Jenings of The Ruby, and Saunders of The
      Sweepstakes. They condemn mightily Sir Thomas Teddiman for a coward, but
      with what reason time must shew. Having heard all this Creed and I walked
      into the Parke till 9 or 10 at night, it being fine moonshine, discoursing
      of the unhappinesse of our fleete, what it would have been if the Prince
      had not come in, how much the Duke hath failed of what he was so
      presumptuous of, how little we deserve of God Almighty to give us better
      fortune, how much this excuses all that was imputed to my Lord Sandwich,
      and how much more he is a man fit to be trusted with all those matters
      than those that now command, who act by nor with any advice, but rashly
      and without any order. How bad we are at intelligence that should give the
      Prince no sooner notice of any thing but let him come to Dover without
      notice of any fight, or where the fleete were, or any thing else, nor give
      the Duke any notice that he might depend upon the Prince's reserve; and
      lastly, of how good use all may be to checke our pride and presumption in
      adventuring upon hazards upon unequal force against a people that can
      fight, it seems now, as well as we, and that will not be discouraged by
      any losses, but that they will rise again. Thence by water home, and to
      supper (my father, wife, and sister having been at Islington today at
      Pitt's) and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, expecting every houre
      more newes of the fleete and the issue of yesterday's fight, but nothing
      come. At noon, though I should have dined with my Lord Mayor and Aldermen
      at an entertainment of Commissioner Taylor's, yet it being a time of
      expectation of the successe of the fleete, I did not go, but dined at
      home, and after dinner by water down to Deptford (and Woolwich, where I
      had not been since I lodged there, and methinks the place has grown
      natural to me), and thence down to Longreach, calling on all the ships in
      the way, seeing their condition for sayling, and what they want. Home
      about 11 of the clock, and so eat a bit and to bed, having received no
      manner of newes this day, but of The Rainbow's being put in from the
      fleete, maimed as the other ships are, and some say that Sir W. Clerke is
      dead of his leg being cut off.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up betimes, and vexed with my people for having a key taken out of
      the chamber doors and nobody knew where it was, as also with my boy for
      not being ready as soon as I, though I called him, whereupon I boxed him
      soundly, and then to my business at the office and on the Victualling
      Office, and thence by water to St. James's, whither he [the Duke of York]
      is now gone, it being a monthly fast-day for the plague. There we all met,
      and did our business as usual with the Duke, and among other things had
      Captain Cocke's proposal of East country goods read, brought by my Lord
      Bruncker, which I make use of as a monkey do the cat's foot. Sir W.
      Coventry did much oppose it, and it's likely it will not do; so away goes
      my hopes of L500. Thence after the Duke into the Parke, walking through to
      White Hall, and there every body listening for guns, but none heard, and
      every creature is now overjoyed and concludes upon very good grounds that
      the Dutch are beaten because we have heard no guns nor no newes of our
      fleete. By and by walking a little further, Sir Philip Frowde did meet the
      Duke with an expresse to Sir W. Coventry (who was by) from Captain Taylor,
      the Storekeeper at Harwich, being the narration of Captain Hayward of The
      Dunkirke; who gives a very serious account, how upon Monday the two
      fleetes fought all day till seven at night, and then the whole fleete of
      Dutch did betake themselves to a very plain flight, and never looked back
      again. That Sir Christopher Mings is wounded in the leg; that the Generall
      is well. That it is conceived reasonably, that of all the Dutch fleete,
      which, with what recruits they had, come to one hundred sayle, there is
      not above fifty got home; and of them, few if any of their flags. And that
      little Captain Bell, in one of the fire-ships, did at the end of the day
      fire a ship of 70 guns. We were all so overtaken with this good newes,
      that the Duke ran with it to the King, who was gone to chappell, and there
      all the Court was in a hubbub, being rejoiced over head and ears in this
      good newes. Away go I by coach to the New Exchange, and there did spread
      this good newes a little, though I find it had broke out before. And so
      home to our own church, it being the common Fast-day, and it was just
      before sermon; but, Lord! how all the people in the church stared upon me
      to see me whisper to Sir John Minnes and my Lady Pen. Anon I saw people
      stirring and whispering below, and by and by comes up the sexton from my
      Lady Ford to tell me the newes (which I had brought), being now sent into
      the church by Sir W. Batten in writing, and handed from pew to pew. But
      that which pleased me as much as the newes, was, to have the fair Mrs.
      Middleton at our church, who indeed is a very beautiful lady. Here after
      sermon comes to our office 40 people almost of all sorts and qualities to
      hear the newes, which I took great delight to tell them. Then home and
      found my wife at dinner, not knowing of my being at church, and after
      dinner my father and she out to Hales's, where my father is to begin to
      sit to-day for his picture, which I have a desire to have. I all the
      afternoon at home doing some business, drawing up my vowes for the rest of
      the yeare to Christmas; but, Lord! to see in what a condition of happiness
      I am, if I would but keepe myself so; but my love of pleasure is such,
      that my very soul is angry with itself for my vanity in so doing. Anon
      took coach and to Hales's, but he was gone out, and my father and wife
      gone. So I to Lovett's, and there to my trouble saw plainly that my
      project of varnished books will not take, it not keeping colour, not being
      able to take polishing upon a single paper. Thence home, and my father and
      wife not coming in, I proceeded with my coach to take a little ayre as far
      as Bow all alone, and there turned back and home; but before I got home,
      the bonefires were lighted all the towne over, and I going through
      Crouched Friars, seeing Mercer at her mother's gate, stopped, and 'light,
      and into her mother's, the first time I ever was there, and find all my
      people, father and all, at a very fine supper at W. Hewer's lodging, very
      neatly, and to my great pleasure. After supper, into his chamber, which is
      mighty fine with pictures and every thing else, very curious, which
      pleased me exceedingly. Thence to the gate, with the women all about me,
      and Mrs. Mercer's son had provided a great many serpents, and so I made
      the women all fire some serpents. By and by comes in our faire neighbour,
      Mrs. Turner, and two neighbour's daughters, Mrs. Tite, the elder of whom,
      a long red-nosed silly jade; the younger, a pretty black girle, and the
      merriest sprightly jade that ever I saw. With them idled away the whole
      night till twelve at night at the bonefire in the streets. Some of the
      people thereabouts going about with musquets, and did give me two or three
      vollies of their musquets, I giving them a crowne to drink; and so home.
      Mightily pleased with this happy day's newes, and the more, because
      confirmed by Sir Daniel Harvy, who was in the whole fight with the
      Generall, and tells me that there appear but thirty-six in all of the
      Dutch fleete left at the end of the voyage when they run home. The joy of
      the City was this night exceeding great.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up betimes, and to my office about business (Sir W. Coventry having
      sent me word that he is gone down to the fleete to see how matters stand,
      and to be back again speedily); and with the same expectation of
      congratulating ourselves with the victory that I had yesterday. But my
      Lord Bruncker and Sir T. H. that come from Court, tell me quite contrary
      newes, which astonishes me: that is to say, that we are beaten, lost many
      ships and good commanders; have not taken one ship of the enemy's; and so
      can only report ourselves a victory; nor is it certain that we were left
      masters of the field. But, above all, that The Prince run on shore upon
      the Galloper, and there stuck; was endeavoured to be fetched off by the
      Dutch, but could not; and so they burned her; and Sir G. Ascue is taken
      prisoner, and carried into Holland. This newes do much trouble me, and the
      thoughts of the ill consequences of it, and the pride and presumption that
      brought us to it. At noon to the 'Change, and there find the discourse of
      towne, and their countenances much changed; but yet not very plain. So
      home to dinner all alone, my father and people being gone all to Woolwich
      to see the launching of the new ship The Greenwich, built by Chr. Pett. I
      left alone with little Mrs. Tooker, whom I kept with me in my chamber all
      the afternoon, and did what I would with her. By and by comes Mr. Wayth to
      me; and discoursing of our ill successe, he tells me plainly from Captain
      Page's own mouth (who hath lost his arm in the fight), that the Dutch did
      pursue us two hours before they left us, and then they suffered us to go
      on homewards, and they retreated towards their coast: which is very sad
      newes. Then to my office and anon to White Hall, late, to the Duke of York
      to see what commands he hath and to pray a meeting to-morrow for Tangier
      in behalf of Mr. Yeabsly, which I did do and do find the Duke much damped
      in his discourse, touching the late fight, and all the Court talk sadly of
      it. The Duke did give me several letters he had received from the fleete,
      and Sir W. Coventry and Sir W. Pen, who are gone down thither, for me to
      pick out some works to be done for the setting out the fleete again; and
      so I took them home with me, and was drawing out an abstract of them till
      midnight. And as to newes, I do find great reason to think that we are
      beaten in every respect, and that we are the losers. The Prince upon the
      Galloper, where both the Royall Charles and Royall Katharine had come
      twice aground, but got off. The Essex carried into Holland; the Swiftsure
      missing (Sir William Barkeley) ever since the beginning of the fight.
      Captains Bacon, Tearne, Wood, Mootham, Whitty, and Coppin, slayne. The
      Duke of Albemarle writes, that he never fought with worse officers in his
      life, not above twenty of them behaving themselves like men. Sir William
      Clerke lost his leg; and in two days died. The Loyall George, Seven Oakes,
      and Swiftsure, are still missing, having never, as the Generall writes
      himself, engaged with them. It was as great an alteration to find myself
      required to write a sad letter instead of a triumphant one to my Lady
      Sandwich this night, as ever on any occasion I had in my life. So late
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up very betimes and to attend the Duke of York by order, all of us to
      report to him what the works are that are required of us and to divide
      among us, wherein I have taken a very good share, and more than I can
      perform, I doubt. Thence to the Exchequer about some Tangier businesses,
      and then home, where to my very great joy I find Balty come home without
      any hurt, after the utmost imaginable danger he hath gone through in the
      Henery, being upon the quarterdeck with Harman all the time; and for which
      service Harman I heard this day commended most seriously and most
      eminently by the Duke of Yorke. As also the Duke did do most utmost right
      to Sir Thomas Teddiman, of whom a scandal was raised, but without cause,
      he having behaved himself most eminently brave all the whole fight, and to
      extraordinary great service and purpose, having given Trump himself such a
      broadside as was hardly ever given to any ship. Mings is shot through the
      face, and into the shoulder, where the bullet is lodged. Young Holmes' is
      also ill wounded, and Ather in The Rupert. Balty tells me the case of The
      Henery; and it was, indeed, most extraordinary sad and desperate. After
      dinner Balty and I to my office, and there talked a great deal of this
      fight; and I am mightily pleased in him and have great content in, and
      hopes of his doing well. Thence out to White Hall to a Committee for
      Tangier, but it met not. But, Lord! to see how melancholy the Court is,
      under the thoughts of this last overthrow (for so it is), instead of a
      victory, so much and so unreasonably expected. Thence, the Committee not
      meeting, Creed and I down the river as low as Sir W. Warren's, with whom I
      did motion a business that may be of profit to me, about buying some
      lighters to send down to the fleete, wherein he will assist me. So back
      again, he and I talking of the late ill management of this fight, and of
      the ill management of fighting at all against so great a force bigger than
      ours, and so to the office, where we parted, but with this satisfaction
      that we hear the Swiftsure, Sir W. Barkeley, is come in safe to the Nore,
      after her being absent ever since the beginning of the fight, wherein she
      did not appear at all from beginning to end. But wherever she has been,
      they say she is arrived there well, which I pray God however may be true.
      At the office late, doing business, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and to St. James's, there to wait on the Duke of Yorke, and had
      discourse with him about several businesses of the fleete. But, Lord! to
      see how the Court is divided about The Swiftsure and The Essex's being
      safe. And wagers and odds laid on both sides. I did tell the Duke how Sir
      W. Batten did tell me this morning that he was sure the Swiftsure is safe.
      This put them all in a great joy and certainty of it, but this I doubt
      will prove nothing. Thence to White Ball in expectation of a meeting of
      Tangier, and we did industriously labour to have it this morning; but we
      could not get a fifth person there, so after much pains and thoughts on my
      side on behalfe of Yeabsly, we were fain to breake up. But, Lord! to see
      with what patience Lord Ashly did stay all the morning to get a Committee,
      little thinking that I know the reason of his willingnesse. So I home to
      dinner and back again to White Hall, and, being come thither a little too
      soon, went to Westminster Hall, and bought a payre of gloves, and to see
      how people do take this late fight at sea, and I find all give over the
      thoughts of it as a victory and to reckon it a great overthrow. So to
      White Hall, and there when we were come all together in certain
      expectation of doing our business to Yeabsly's full content, and us that
      were his friends, my Lord Peterborough (whether through some difference
      between him and my Lord Ashly, or him and me or Povy, or through the
      falsenesse of Creed, I know not) do bring word that the Duke of Yorke (who
      did expressly bid me wait at the Committee for the dispatch of the
      business) would not have us go forward in this business of allowing the
      losse of the ships till Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Coventry were come to
      towne, which was the very thing indeed which we would have avoided. This
      being told us, we broke up doing nothing, to my great discontent, though I
      said nothing, and afterwards I find by my Lord Ashly's discourse to me
      that he is troubled mightily at it, and indeed it is a great abuse of him
      and of the whole Commissioners that nothing of that nature can be done
      without Sir G. Carteret or Sir W. Coventry. No sooner was the Committee
      up, and I going [through] the Court homeward, but I am told Sir W.
      Coventry is come to town; so I to his chamber, and there did give him an
      account how matters go in our office, and with some content I parted from
      him, after we had discoursed several things of the haste requisite to be
      made in getting the fleete out again and the manner of doing it. But I do
      not hear that he is at all pleased or satisfied with the late fight; but
      he tells me more newes of our suffering, by the death of one or two
      captains more than I knew before. But he do give over the thoughts of the
      safety of The Swiftsure or Essex. Thence homewards, landed at the Old
      Swan, and there find my pretty Betty Michell and her husband at their
      doore in Thames Streete, which I was glad to find, and went into their
      shop, and they made me drink some of their strong water, the first time I
      was ever with them there. I do exceedingly love her. After sitting a
      little and talking with them about several things at great distance I
      parted and home to my business late. But I am to observe how the drinking
      of some strong water did immediately put my eyes into a fit of sorenesse
      again as they were the other day. I mean my right eye only. Late at night
      I had an account brought me by Sir W. Warren that he has gone through four
      lighters for me, which pleases me very well. So home to bed, much troubled
      with our disappointment at the Tangier Committee.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Up very betimes, and down the river to Deptford, and
      did a good deale of business in sending away and directing several things
      to the Fleete. That being done, back to London to my office, and there at
      my office till after Church time fitting some notes to carry to Sir W.
      Coventry in the afternoon. At noon home to dinner, where my cozen Joyces,
      both of them, they and their wives and little Will, come by invitation to
      dinner to me, and I had a good dinner for them; but, Lord! how sicke was I
      of W. Joyce's company, both the impertinencies of it and his ill manners
      before me at my table to his wife, which I could hardly forbear taking
      notice of; but being at my table and for his wife's sake, I did, though I
      will prevent his giving me the like occasion again at my house I will
      warrant him. After dinner I took leave and by water to White Hall, and
      there spent all the afternoon in the Gallery, till the Council was up, to
      speake with Sir W. Coventry. Walking here I met with Pierce the surgeon,
      who is lately come from the fleete, and tells me that all the commanders,
      officers, and even the common seamen do condemn every part of the late
      conduct of the Duke of Albemarle: both in his fighting at all, in his
      manner of fighting, running among them in his retreat, and running the
      ships on ground; so as nothing can be worse spoken of. That Holmes,
      Spragg, and Smith do all the business, and the old and wiser commanders
      nothing. So as Sir Thomas Teddiman (whom the King and all the world speak
      well of) is mightily discontented, as being wholly slighted. He says we
      lost more after the Prince come, than before too. The Prince was so
      maimed, as to be forced to be towed home. He says all the fleete confess
      their being chased home by the Dutch; and yet the body of the Dutch that
      did it, was not above forty sayle at most. And yet this put us into the
      fright, as to bring all our ships on ground. He says, however, that the
      Duke of Albemarle is as high almost as ever, and pleases himself to think
      that he hath given the Dutch their bellies full, without sense of what he
      hath lost us; and talks how he knows now the way to beat them. But he
      says, that even Smith himself, one of his creatures, did himself condemn
      the late conduct from the beginning to the end. He tells me further, how
      the Duke of Yorke is wholly given up to his new mistresse, my Lady Denham,
      going at noon-day with all his gentlemen with him to visit her in Scotland
      Yard; she declaring she will not be his mistresse, as Mrs. Price, to go up
      and down the Privy-stairs, but will be owned publicly; and so she is. Mr.
      Bruncker, it seems, was the pimp to bring it about, and my Lady
      Castlemaine, who designs thereby to fortify herself by the Duke; there
      being a falling-out the other day between the King and her: on this
      occasion, the Queene, in ordinary talke before the ladies in her
      drawing-room, did say to my Lady Castlemaine that she feared the King did
      take cold, by staying so late abroad at her house. She answered before
      them all, that he did not stay so late abroad with her, for he went
      betimes thence (though he do not before one, two, or three in the
      morning), but must stay somewhere else. The King then coming in and
      overhearing, did whisper in the eare aside, and told her she was a bold
      impertinent woman, and bid her to be gone out of the Court, and not come
      again till he sent for, her; which she did presently, and went to a
      lodging in the Pell Mell, and kept there two or three days, and then sent
      to the King to know whether she might send for her things away out of her
      house. The King sent to her, she must first come and view them: and so she
      come, and the King went to her, and all friends again. He tells me she
      did, in her anger, say she would be even with the King, and print his
      letters to her. So putting all together, we are and are like to be in a
      sad condition. We are endeavouring to raise money by borrowing it of the
      City; but I do not think the City will lend a farthing. By and by the
      Council broke up, and I spoke with Sir W. Coventry about business, with
      whom I doubt not in a little time to be mighty well, when I shall appear
      to mind my business again as I used to do, which by the grace of God I
      will do. Gone from him I endeavoured to find out Sir G. Carteret, and at
      last did at Mr. Ashburnham's, in the Old Palace Yarde, and thence he and I
      stepped out and walked an houre in the church-yarde, under Henry the
      Seventh's Chappell, he being lately come from the fleete; and tells me, as
      I hear from every body else, that the management in the late fight was bad
      from top to bottom. That several said this would not have been if my Lord
      Sandwich had had the ordering of it. Nay, he tells me that certainly had
      my Lord Sandwich had the misfortune to have done as they have done, the
      King could not have saved him. There is, too, nothing but discontent among
      the officers; and all the old experienced men are slighted. He tells me to
      my question (but as a great secret), that the dividing of the fleete did
      proceed first from a proposition from the fleete, though agreed to hence.
      But he confesses it arose from want of due intelligence, which he
      confesses we do want. He do, however, call the fleete's retreat on Sunday
      a very honourable retreat, and that the Duke of Albemarle did do well in
      it, and would have been well if he had done it sooner, rather than venture
      the loss of the fleete and crown, as he must have done if the Prince had
      not come. He was surprised when I told him I heard that the King did
      intend to borrow some money of the City, and would know who had spoke of
      it to me; I told him Sir Ellis Layton this afternoon. He says it is a
      dangerous discourse; for that the City certainly will not be invited to do
      it, and then for the King to ask it and be denied, will be the beginning
      of our sorrow. He seems to fear we shall all fall to pieces among
      ourselves. This evening we hear that Sir Christopher Mings is dead of his
      late wounds; and Sir W. Coventry did commend him to me in a most
      extraordinary manner. But this day, after three days' trial in vain, and
      the hazard of the spoiling of the ship in lying till next spring, besides
      the disgrace of it, newes is brought that the Loyall London is launched at
      Deptford. Having talked thus much with Sir G. Carteret we parted there,
      and I home by water, taking in my boat with me young Michell and my Betty
      his wife, meeting them accidentally going to look a boat. I set them down
      at the Old Swan and myself, went through bridge to the Tower, and so home,
      and after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and down by water to Sir W. Warren's (the first time I was in
      his new house on the other side the water since he enlarged it) to
      discourse about our lighters that he hath bought for me, and I hope to get
      L100 by this jobb. Having done with him I took boat again (being mightily
      struck with a woman in a hat, a seaman's mother,&mdash;[Mother or mauther,
      a wench.]&mdash;that stood on the key) and home, where at the office all
      the morning with Sir W. Coventry and some others of our board hiring of
      fireships, and Sir W. Coventry begins to see my pains again, which I do
      begin to take, and I am proud of it, and I hope shall continue it. He
      gone, at noon I home to dinner, and after dinner my father and wife out to
      the painter's to sit again, and I, with my Lady Pen and her daughter, to
      see Harman; whom we find lame in bed. His bones of his anckle are broke,
      but he hopes to do well soon; and a fine person by his discourse he seems
      to be and my hearty [friend]; and he did plainly tell me that at the
      Council of War before the fight, it was against his reason to begin the
      fight then, and the reasons of most sober men there, the wind being such,
      and we to windward, that they could not use their lower tier of guns,
      which was a very sad thing for us to have the honour and weal of the
      nation ventured so foolishly. I left them there, and walked to Deptford,
      reading in Walsingham's Manual, a very good book, and there met with Sir
      W. Batten and my Lady at Uthwayt's. Here I did much business and yet had
      some little mirthe with my Lady, and anon we all come up together to our
      office, where I was very late doing much business. Late comes Sir J.
      Bankes to see me, and tells me that coming up from Rochester he overtook
      three or four hundred seamen, and he believes every day they come flocking
      from the fleete in like numbers; which is a sad neglect there, when it
      will be impossible to get others, and we have little reason to think that
      these will return presently again. He gone, I to end my letters to-night,
      and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon to
      dinner, and then to White Hall in hopes of a meeting of Tangier about
      Yeabsly's business, but it could not be obtained, Sir G. Carteret nor Sir
      W. Coventry being able to be there, which still vexes [me] to see the poor
      man forced still to attend, as also being desirous to see what my profit
      is, and get it. Walking here in the galleries I find the Ladies of Honour
      dressed in their riding garbs, with coats and doublets with deep skirts,
      just for all the world like mine, and buttoned their doublets up the
      breast, with perriwigs and with hats; so that, only for a long petticoat
      dragging under their men's coats, nobody could take them for women in any
      point whatever; which was an odde sight, and a sight did not please me. It
      was Mrs. Wells and another fine lady that I saw thus. Thence down by water
      to Deptford, and there late seeing some things dispatched down to the
      fleete, and so home (thinking indeed to have met with Bagwell, but I did
      not) to write my letters very late, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and by coach to St. James's, and there did our business before
      the Duke as usual, having, before the Duke come out of his bed, walked in
      an ante-chamber with Sir H. Cholmly, who tells me there are great jarrs
      between the Duke of Yorke and the Duke of Albemarle, about the later's
      turning out one or two of the commanders put in by the Duke of Yorke.
      Among others, Captain Du Tell, a Frenchman, put in by the Duke of Yorke,
      and mightily defended by him; and is therein led by Monsieur Blancford,
      that it seems hath the same command over the Duke of Yorke as Sir W.
      Coventry hath; which raises ill blood between them. And I do in several
      little things observe that Sir W. Coventry hath of late, by the by,
      reflected on the Duke of Albemarle and his captains, particularly in that
      of old Teddiman, who did deserve to be turned out this fight, and was so;
      but I heard Sir W. Coventry say that the Duke of Albemarle put in one as
      bad as he is in his room, and one that did as little. After we had done
      with the Duke of Yorke, I with others to White Hall, there to attend again
      a Committee of Tangier, but there was none, which vexed me to the heart,
      and makes me mighty doubtfull that when we have one, it will be prejudiced
      against poor Yeabsly and to my great disadvantage thereby, my Lord
      Peterborough making it his business, I perceive (whether in spite to me,
      whom he cannot but smell to be a friend to it, or to my Lord Ashly, I know
      not), to obstruct it, and seems to take delight in disappointing of us;
      but I shall be revenged of him. Here I staid a very great while, almost
      till noon, and then meeting Balty I took him with me, and to Westminster
      to the Exchequer about breaking of two tallys of L2000 each into smaller
      tallys, which I have been endeavouring a good while, but to my trouble it
      will not, I fear, be done, though there be no reason against it, but only
      a little trouble to the clerks; but it is nothing to me of real profit at
      all. Thence with Balty to Hales's by coach, it being the seventh day from
      my making my late oathes, and by them I am at liberty to dispense with any
      of my oathes every seventh day after I had for the six days before going
      performed all my vowes. Here I find my father's picture begun, and so much
      to my content, that it joys my very heart to thinke that I should have his
      picture so well done; who, besides that he is my father, and a man that
      loves me, and hath ever done so, is also, at this day, one of the most
      carefull and innocent men, in the world. Thence with mighty content
      homeward, and in my way at the Stockes did buy a couple of lobsters, and
      so home to dinner, where I find my wife and father had dined, and were
      going out to Hales's to sit there, so Balty and I alone to dinner, and in
      the middle of my grace, praying for a blessing upon (these his good
      creatures), my mind fell upon my lobsters: upon which I cried, Odd zooks!
      and Balty looked upon me like a man at a losse what I meant, thinking at
      first that I meant only that I had said the grace after meat instead of
      that before meat. But then I cried, what is become of my lobsters?
      Whereupon he run out of doors to overtake the coach, but could not, so
      came back again, and mighty merry at dinner to thinke of my surprize.
      After dinner to the Excise Office by appointment, and there find my Lord
      Bellasses and the Commissioners, and by and by the whole company come to
      dispute the business of our running so far behindhand there, and did come
      to a good issue in it, that is to say, to resolve upon having the debt due
      to us, and the Household and the Guards from the Excise stated, and so we
      shall come to know the worst of our condition and endeavour for some helpe
      from my Lord Treasurer. Thence home, and put off Balty, and so, being
      invited, to Sir Christopher Mings's funeral, but find them gone to church.
      However I into the church (which is a fair, large church, and a great
      chappell) and there heard the service, and staid till they buried him, and
      then out. And there met with Sir W. Coventry (who was there out of great
      generosity, and no person of quality there but he) and went with him into
      his coach, and being in it with him there happened this extraordinary
      case, one of the most romantique that ever I heard of in my life, and
      could not have believed, but that I did see it; which was this:&mdash;About
      a dozen able, lusty, proper men come to the coach-side with tears in their
      eyes, and one of them that spoke for the rest begun and says to Sir W.
      Coventry, "We are here a dozen of us that have long known and loved, and
      served our dead commander, Sir Christopher Mings, and have now done the
      last office of laying him in the ground. We would be glad we had any other
      to offer after him, and in revenge of him. All we have is our lives; if
      you will please to get His Royal Highness to give us a fireship among us
      all, here is a dozen of us, out of all which choose you one to be
      commander, and the rest of us, whoever he is, will serve him; and, if
      possible, do that that shall show our memory of our dead commander, and
      our revenge." Sir W. Coventry was herewith much moved (as well as I, who
      could hardly abstain from weeping), and took their names, and so parted;
      telling me that he would move His Royal Highness as in a thing very
      extraordinary, which was done. Thereon see the next day in this book. So
      we parted. The truth is, Sir Christopher Mings was a very stout man, and a
      man of great parts, and most excellent tongue among ordinary men; and as
      Sir W. Coventry says, could have been the most useful man at such a pinch
      of time as this. He was come into great renowne here at home, and more
      abroad in the West Indys. He had brought his family into a way of being
      great; but dying at this time, his memory and name (his father being
      always and at this day a shoemaker, and his mother a Hoyman's daughter; of
      which he was used frequently to boast) will be quite forgot in a few
      months as if he had never been, nor any of his name be the better by it;
      he having not had time to will any estate, but is dead poor rather than
      rich. So we left the church and crowd, and I home (being set down on Tower
      Hill), and there did a little business and then in the evening went down
      by water to Deptford, it being very late, and there I staid out as much
      time as I could, and then took boat again homeward, but the officers being
      gone in, returned and walked to Mrs. Bagwell's house, and there (it being
      by this time pretty dark and past ten o'clock) went into her house and did
      what I would. But I was not a little fearfull of what she told me but now,
      which is, that her servant was dead of the plague, that her coming to me
      yesterday was the first day of her coming forth, and that she had new
      whitened the house all below stairs, but that above stairs they are not so
      fit for me to go up to, they being not so. So I parted thence, with a very
      good will, but very civil, and away to the waterside, and sent for a pint
      of sacke and so home, drank what I would and gave the waterman the rest;
      and so adieu. Home about twelve at night, and so to bed, finding most of
      my people gone to bed. In my way home I called on a fisherman and bought
      three eeles, which cost me three shillings.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and to the office, and there sat all the morning. At noon dined
      at home, and thence with my wife and father to Hales's, and there looked
      only on my father's picture (which is mighty like); and so away to White
      Hall to a committee for Tangier, where the Duke of York was, and Sir W.
      Coventry, and a very full committee; and instead of having a very
      prejudiced meeting, they did, though indeed inclined against Yeabsly,
      yield to the greatest part of his account, so as to allow of his demands
      to the value of L7,000 and more, and only give time for him to make good
      his pretence to the rest; which was mighty joy to me: and so we rose up.
      But I must observe the force of money, which did make my Lord Ashly to
      argue and behave himself in the business with the greatest friendship, and
      yet with all the discretion imaginable; and [it] will be a business of
      admonition and instruction to me concerning him (and other men, too, for
      aught I know) as long as I live. Thence took Creed with some kind of
      violence and some hard words between us to St. James's, to have found out
      Sir W. Coventry to have signed the order for his payment among others that
      did stay on purpose to do it (and which is strange among the rest my Lord
      Ashly, who did cause Creed to write it presently and kept two or three of
      them with him by cunning to stay and sign it), but Creed's ill nature
      (though never so well bribed, as it hath lately in this case by twenty
      pieces) will not be overcome from his usual delays. Thence failing of
      meeting Sir W. Coventry I took leave of Creed (very good friends) and away
      home, and there took out my father, wife, sister, and Mercer our grand
      Tour in the evening, and made it ten at night before we got home, only
      drink at the doore at Islington at the Katherine Wheel, and so home and to
      the office a little, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up betimes, and to my Journall entries, but disturbed by many
      businesses, among others by Mr. Houblon's coming to me about evening their
      freight for Tangier, which I did, and then Mr. Bland, who presented me
      yesterday with a very fine African mat, to lay upon the ground under a bed
      of state, being the first fruits of our peace with Guyland. So to the
      office, and thither come my pretty widow Mrs. Burrows, poor woman, to get
      her ticket paid for her husband's service, which I did her myself, and did
      'baisser her moucher', and I do hope may thereafter have some day 'sa'
      company. Thence to Westminster to the Exchequer, but could not persuade
      the blockheaded fellows to do what I desire, of breaking my great tallys
      into less, notwithstanding my Lord Treasurer's order, which vexed [me] so
      much that I would not bestow more time and trouble among a company of
      dunces, and so back again home, and to dinner, whither Creed come and
      dined with me and after dinner Mr. Moore, and he and I abroad, thinking to
      go down the river together, but the tide being against me would not, but
      returned and walked an houre in the garden, but, Lord! to hear how he
      pleases himself in behalf of my Lord Sandwich, in the miscarriage of the
      Duke of Albemarle, and do inveigh against Sir W. Coventry as a cunning
      knave, but I thinke that without any manner of reason at all, but only his
      passion. He being gone I to my chamber at home to set my Journall right
      and so to settle my Tangier accounts, which I did in very good order, and
      then in the evening comes Mr. Yeabsly to reckon with me, which I did also,
      and have above L200 profit therein to myself, which is a great blessing,
      the God of heaven make me thankfull for it. That being done, and my eyes
      beginning to be sore with overmuch writing, I to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up betimes and to my office, and there we sat all the morning and
      dispatched much business, the King, Duke of Yorke, and Sir W. Coventry
      being gone down to the fleete. At noon home to dinner and then down to
      Woolwich and Deptford to look after things, my head akeing from the
      multitude of businesses I had in my head yesterday in settling my
      accounts. All the way down and up, reading of "The Mayor of Quinborough,"
      a simple play. At Deptford, while I am there, comes Mr. Williamson, Sir
      Arthur Ingram and Jacke Fen, to see the new ships, which they had done,
      and then I with them home in their boat, and a very fine gentleman Mr.
      Williamson is. It seems the Dutch do mightily insult of their victory, and
      they have great reason.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This treatment seems to have been that of the Dutch populace alone,
     and there does not appear to have been cause of complaint against
     the government.  Respecting Sir W. Berkeley's body the following
     notice was published in the "London Gazette" of July 15th, 1666 (No.
     69) "Whitehall, July 15.  This day arrived a trumpet from the States
     of Holland, who came over from Calais in the Dover packet-boat, with
     a letter to his Majesty, that the States have taken order for the
     embalming the body of Sir William Berkeley, which they have placed
     in the chapel of the great church at the Hague, a civility they
     profess to owe to his corpse, in respect to the quality of his
     person, the greatness of his command, and of the high courage and
     valour he showed in the late engagement; desiring his Majesty to
     signify his pleasure about the further disposal of it."  "Frederick
     Ruysch, the celebrated Dutch anatomist, undertook, by order of the
     States-General, to inject the body of the English Admiral Berkeley,
     killed in the sea-fight of 1666; and the body, already somewhat
     decomposed, was sent over to England as well prepared as if it had
     been the fresh corpse of a child.  This produced to Ruysch, on the
     part of the States-General, a recompense worthy of their liberality,
     and the merit of the anatomist," "James's Medical Dictionary."]
</pre>
    <p>
      Sir William Barkeley was killed before his ship taken; and there he lies
      dead in a sugar-chest, for every body to see, with his flag standing up by
      him. And Sir George Ascue is carried up and down the Hague for people to
      see. Home to my office, where late, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). Being invited to Anthony Joyce's to dinner, my wife and
      sister and Mercer and I walked out in the morning, it being fine weather,
      to Christ Church, and there heard a silly sermon, but sat where we saw one
      of the prettiest little boys with the prettiest mouth that ever I saw in
      [my] life. Thence to Joyce's, where William Joyce and his wife were, and
      had a good dinner; but, Lord! how sicke was I of the company, only hope I
      shall have no more of it a good while; but am invited to Will's this week;
      and his wife, poor unhappy woman, cried to hear me say that I could not be
      there, she thinking that I slight her: so they got me to promise to come.
      Thence my father and I walked to Gray's Inne Fields, and there spent an
      houre or two walking and talking of several businesses; first, as to his
      estate, he told me it produced about L80 per ann., but then there goes L30
      per. ann. taxes and other things, certain charge, which I do promise to
      make good as far as this L30, at which the poor man was overjoyed and
      wept. As to Pall he tells me he is mightily satisfied with Ensum, and so I
      promised to give her L500 presently, and to oblige myself to 100 more on
      the birth of her first child, he insuring her in L10 per ann. for every
      L100, and in the meantime till she do marry I promise to allow her L10 per
      ann. Then as to John I tell him I will promise him nothing, but will
      supply him as so much lent him, I declaring that I am not pleased with him
      yet, and that when his degree is over I will send for him up hither, and
      if he be good for any thing doubt not to get him preferment. This
      discourse ended to the joy of my father and no less to me to see that I am
      able to do this, we return to Joyce's and there wanting a coach to carry
      us home I walked out as far as the New Exchange to find one, but could
      not. So down to the Milke-house, and drank three glasses of whay, and then
      up into the Strand again, and there met with a coach, and so to Joyce's
      and took up my father, wife, sister, and Mercer, and to Islington, where
      we drank, and then our tour by Hackney home, where, after a little,
      business at my office and then talke with my Lady and Pegg Pen in the
      garden, I home and to bed, being very weary.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up betimes and in my chamber most of the morning setting things to
      rights there, my Journall and accounts with my father and brother, then to
      the office a little, and so to Lumbard Streete, to borrow a little money
      upon a tally, but cannot. Thence to the Exchequer, and there after much
      wrangling got consent that I should have a great tally broken into little
      ones. Thence to Hales's to see how my father's picture goes on, which
      pleases me mighty well, though I find again, as I did in Mrs. Pierce's,
      that a picture may have more of a likeness in the first or second working
      than it shall have when finished, though this is very well and to my full
      content, but so it is, and certainly mine was not so like at the first,
      second, or third sitting as it was afterward. Thence to my Lord Bellasses,
      by invitation, and there dined with him, and his lady and daughter; and at
      dinner there played to us a young boy, lately come from France, where he
      had been learning a yeare or two on the viallin, and plays finely. But
      impartially I do not find any goodnesse in their ayres (though very good)
      beyond ours when played by the same hand, I observed in several of
      Baptiste's'
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Jean Baptiste Lulli, son of a Tuscan peasant, born 1633, died 1687.
     He invented the dramatic overture.  "But during the first years of
     Charles II. all musick affected by the beau mond run in the french
     way; and the rather because at that time the master of the court
     musick in France, whose name was Baptista (an Italian frenchifyed)
     had influenced the french style by infusing a great portion of the
     Italian harmony into it, whereby the ayre was exceedingly improved"
     (North's "Memoires of Musick," ed. Rimbault, 1846, p, 102).]
</pre>
    <p>
      (the present great composer) and our Bannister's. But it was pretty to see
      how passionately my Lord's daughter loves musique, the most that ever I
      saw creature in my life. Thence after dinner home and to the office and
      anon to Lumbard Streete again, where much talke at Colvill's, he censuring
      the times, and how matters are ordered, and with reason enough; but, above
      all, the thinking to borrow money of the City, which will not be done, but
      be denied, they being little pleased with the King's affairs, and that
      must breed differences between the King and the City. Thence down by water
      to Deptford, to order things away to the fleete and back again, and after
      some business at my office late home to supper and to bed. Sir W. Coventry
      is returned this night from the fleete, he being the activest man in the
      world, and we all (myself particularly) more afeard of him than of the
      King or his service, for aught I see; God forgive us! This day the great
      newes is come of the French, their taking the island of St. Christopher's'
      from us; and it is to be feared they have done the like of all those
      islands thereabouts this makes the city mad.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to my office, there to fit business against the rest meet,
      which they did by and by, and sat late. After the office rose (with Creed
      with me) to Wm. Joyce's to dinner, being invited, and there find my father
      and sister, my wife and Mercer, with them, almost dined. I made myself as
      complaisant as I could till I had dined, but yet much against my will, and
      so away after dinner with Creed to Penny's, my Tailor, where I bespoke a
      thin stuff suit, and did spend a little time evening some little accounts
      with Creed and so parted, and I to Sir. G. Carteret's by appointment;
      where I perceive by him the King is going to borrow some money of the
      City; but I fear it will do no good, but hurt. He tells me how the
      Generall&mdash;[The Duke of Albemarle.]&mdash;is displeased, and there
      have been some high words between the Generall and Sir W. Coventry. And it
      may be so; for I do not find Sir W. Coventry so highly commending the Duke
      as he used to be, but letting fall now and then some little jerkes: as
      this day, speaking of newes from Holland, he says, "I find their victory
      begins to shrinke there, as well as ours here." Here I met with Captain
      Cocke, and he tells me that the first thing the Prince said to the King
      upon his coming, was complaining of the Commissioners of the Navy; that
      they could have been abroad in three or four days but for us; that we do
      not take care of them which I am troubled at, and do fear may in violence
      break out upon this office some time or other; for we shall not be able to
      carry on the business. Thence home, and at my business till late at night,
      then with my wife into the garden and there sang with Mercer, whom I feel
      myself begin to love too much by handling of her breasts in a' morning
      when she dresses me, they being the finest that ever I saw in my life,
      that is the truth of it. So home and to supper with beans and bacon and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, but in some pain of the collique. I have of late taken too much
      cold by washing my feet and going in a thin silke waistcoate, without any
      other coate over it, and open-breasted, but I hope it will go over. I did
      this morning (my father being to go away to-morrow) give my father some
      money to buy him a horse, and for other things to himself and my mother
      and sister, among them L20, besides undertaking to pay for other things
      for them to about L3, which the poor man takes with infinite kindnesse,
      and I do not thinke I can bestow it better. Thence by coach to St. James's
      as usual to wait on the Duke of York, after having discoursed with
      Collonell Fitzgerald, whom I met in my way and he returned with me to
      Westminster, about paying him a sum of 700 and odd pounds, and he bids me
      defalk L25 for myself,&mdash;[Abate from an amount.]&mdash;which is a very
      good thing; having done with the Duke I to the Exchequer and there after
      much ado do get my business quite over of the difficulty of breaking a
      great tally into little ones and so shall have it done tomorrow. Thence to
      the Hall and with Mrs. Martin home and staid with her a while, and then
      away to the Swan and sent for a bit of meat and dined there, and thence to
      Faythorne, the picture-seller's, and there chose two or three good Cutts
      to try to vernish, and so to Hales's to see my father's picture, which is
      now near finished and is very good, and here I staid and took a nap of an
      hour, thinking my father and wife would have come, but they did not; so I
      away home as fast as I could, fearing lest my father this day going abroad
      to see Mr. Honiwood at Major Russell's might meet with any trouble, and so
      in great pain home; but to spite me, in Cheapside I met Mrs. Williams in a
      coach, and she called me, so I must needs 'light and go along with her and
      poor Knipp (who is so big as she can tumble and looks-every day to lie
      down) as far as Paternoster Row, which I did do and there staid in
      Bennett's shop with them, and was fearfull lest the people of the shop,
      knowing me, should aske after my father and give Mrs. Williams any
      knowledge of me to my disgrace. Having seen them done there and
      accompanied them to Ludgate I 'light and into my owne coach and home,
      where I find my father and wife had had no intent of coming at all to
      Hales's. So I at home all the evening doing business, and at night in the
      garden (it having been these three or four days mighty hot weather)
      singing in the evening, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and at the office all the morning; whereby several circumstances
      I find Sir W. Coventry and the Duke of Albemarle do not agree as they used
      to do; Sir W. Coventry commending Aylett (in some reproach to the Duke),
      whom the Duke hath put out for want of courage; and found fault with
      Steward, whom the Duke keeps in, though as much in fault as any commander
      in the fleete. At noon home to dinner, my father, sister, and wife dining
      at Sarah Giles's, poor woman, where I should have been, but my pride would
      not suffer me. After dinner to Mr. Debasty's to speake with Sir Robert
      Viner, a fine house and a great many fine ladies. He used me mighty
      civilly. My business was to set the matter right about the letter of
      credit he did give my Lord Belassis, that I may take up the tallys lodged
      with Viner for his security in the answering of my Lord's bills, which we
      did set right very well, and Sir Robert Viner went home with me and did
      give me the L5000 tallys presently. Here at Mr. Debasty's I saw, in a gold
      frame, a picture of a Outer playing on his flute which, for a good while,
      I took for paynting, but at last observed it a piece of tapestry, and is
      the finest that ever I saw in my life for figures, and good natural
      colours, and a very fine thing it is indeed. So home and met Sir George
      Smith by the way, who tells me that this day my Lord Chancellor and some
      of the Court have been with the City, and the City have voted to lend the
      King L100,000; which, if soon paid (as he says he believes it will), will
      be a greater service than I did ever expect at this time from the City. So
      home to my letters and then with my wife in the garden, and then upon our
      leades singing in the evening and so to supper (while at supper comes
      young Michell, whose wife I love, little Betty Howlet, to get my favour
      about a ticket, and I am glad of this occasion of obliging him and give
      occasion of his coming to me, for I must be better acquainted with him and
      her), and after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and before I went out Mr. Peter Barr sent me a tierce of claret,
      which is very welcome. And so abroad down the river to Deptford and there
      did some business, and then to Westminster, and there did with much ado
      get my tallys (my small ones instead of one great one of L2,000), and so
      away home and there all day upon my Tangier accounts with Creed, and, he
      being gone, with myself, in settling other accounts till past twelve at
      night, and then every body being in bed, I to bed, my father, wife, and
      sister late abroad upon the water, and Mercer being gone to her mother's
      and staid so long she could not get into the office, which vexed me.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. My father and sister very betimes took their leave; and my wife,
      with all possible kindnesse, went with them to the coach, I being mightily
      pleased with their company thus long, and my father with his being here,
      and it rejoices my heart that I am in condition to do any thing to comfort
      him, and could, were it not for my mother, have been contented he should
      have stayed always here with me, he is such innocent company. They being
      gone, I to my papers, but vexed at what I heard but a little of this
      morning, before my wife went out, that Mercer and she fell out last night,
      and that the girle is gone home to her mother's for all-together: This
      troubles me, though perhaps it may be an ease to me of so much charge. But
      I love the girle, and another we must be forced to keepe I do foresee and
      then shall be sorry to part with her. At the office all the morning, much
      disquiett in my mind in the middle of my business about this girle. Home
      at noon to dinner, and what with the going away of my father today and the
      losse of Mercer, I after dinner went up to my chamber and there could have
      cried to myself, had not people come to me about business. In the evening
      down to Tower Wharfe thinking to go by water, but could not get watermen;
      they being now so scarce, by reason of the great presse; so to the Custome
      House, and there, with great threats, got a couple to carry me down to
      Deptford, all the way reading Pompey the Great (a play translated from the
      French by several noble persons; among others, my Lord Buckhurst), that to
      me is but a mean play, and the words and sense not very extraordinary.
      From Deptford I walked to Redriffe, and in my way was overtaken by
      Bagwell, lately come from sea in the Providence, who did give me an
      account of several particulars in the late fight, and how his ship was
      deserted basely by the York, Captain Swanly, commander. So I home and
      there after writing my letters home to supper and to bed, fully resolved
      to rise betimes, and go down the river to-morrow morning, being vexed this
      night to find none of the officers in the yarde at 7 at night, nor any
      body concerned as if it were a Dutch warr. It seems Mercer's mother was
      here in the morning to speak with my wife, but my wife would not. In the
      afternoon I and my wife in writing did instruct W. Hewer in some discourse
      to her, and she in the evening did come and satisfy my wife, and by and by
      Mercer did come, which I was mighty glad of and eased of much pain about
      her.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Sunday. Midsummer Day. Up, but, being weary the last night, not so
      soon as I intended. Then being dressed, down by water to Deptford, and
      there did a great deale of business, being in a mighty hurry, Sir W.
      Coventry writing to me that there was some thoughts that the Dutch fleete
      were out or coming out. Business being done in providing for the carrying
      down of some provisions to the fleete, I away back home and after dinner
      by water to White Hall, and there waited till the councill rose, in the
      boarded gallery, and there among other things I hear that Sir Francis
      Prujean is dead, after being married to a widow about a yeare or
      thereabouts. He died very rich, and had, for the last yeare, lived very
      handsomely, his lady bringing him to it. He was no great painstaker in
      person, yet died very rich; and, as Dr. Clerke says, was of a very great
      judgment, but hath writ nothing to leave his name to posterity. In the
      gallery among others met with Major Halsey, a great creature of the Duke
      of Albemarle's; who tells me that the Duke, by name, hath said that he
      expected to have the worke here up in the River done, having left Sir W.
      Batten and Mr. Phipps there. He says that the Duke of Albemarle do say
      that this is a victory we have had, having, as he was sure, killed them
      8000 men, and sunk about fourteen of their ships; but nothing like this
      appears true. He lays much of the little success we had, however, upon the
      fleete's being divided by order from above, and the want of spirit in the
      commanders; and that he was commanded by order to go out of the Downes to
      the Gun-fleete, and in the way meeting the Dutch fleete, what should he
      do? should he not fight them? especially having beat them heretofore at as
      great disadvantage. He tells me further, that having been downe with the
      Duke of Albemarle, he finds that Holmes and Spragge do govern most
      business of the Navy; and by others I understand that Sir Thomas Allen is
      offended thereat; that he is not so much advised with as he ought to be.
      He tells me also, as he says, of his own knowledge, that several people
      before the Duke went out did offer to supply the King with L100,000
      provided he would be treasurer of it, to see it laid out for the Navy;
      which he refused, and so it died. But I believe none of this. This day I
      saw my Lady Falmouth, with whom I remember now I have dined at my Lord
      Barkeley's heretofore, a pretty woman: she was now in her second or third
      mourning, and pretty pleasant in her looks. By and by the Council rises,
      and Sir W. Coventry comes out; and he and I went aside, and discoursed of
      much business of the Navy; and afterwards took his coach, and to
      Hide-Parke, he and I alone: there we had much talke. First, he started a
      discourse of a talke he hears about the towne, which, says he, is a very
      bad one, and fit to be suppressed, if we knew how which is, the comparing
      of the successe of the last year with that of this; saying that that was
      good, and that bad. I was as sparing in speaking as I could, being jealous
      of him and myself also, but wished it could be stopped; but said I doubted
      it could not otherwise than by the fleete's being abroad again, and so
      finding other worke for men's minds and discourse. Then to discourse of
      himself, saying, that he heard that he was under the lash of people's
      discourse about the Prince's not having notice of the Dutch being out, and
      for him to comeback again, nor the Duke of Albemarle notice that the
      Prince was sent for back again: to which he told me very particularly how
      careful he was the very same night that it was resolved to send for the
      Prince back, to cause orders to be writ, and waked the Duke, who was then
      in bed, to sign them; and that they went by expresse that very night,
      being the Wednesday night before the fight, which begun on the Friday; and
      that for sending them by the post expresse, and not by gentlemen on
      purpose, he made a sport of it, and said, I knew of none to send it with,
      but would at least have lost more time in fitting themselves out, than any
      diligence of theirs beyond that of the ordinary post would have recovered.
      I told him that this was not so much the towne talke as the reason of
      dividing the fleete. To this he told me he ought not to say much; but did
      assure me in general that the proposition did first come from the fleete,
      and the resolution not being prosecuted with orders so soon as the
      Generall thought fit, the Generall did send Sir Edward Spragge up on
      purpose for them; and that there was nothing in the whole business which
      was not done with the full consent and advice of the Duke of Albemarle.
    </p>
    <p>
      But he did adde (as the Catholiques call 'le secret de la Masse'), that
      Sir Edward Spragge&mdash;who had even in Sir Christopher Mings's time put
      in to be the great favourite of the Prince, but much more now had a mind
      to be the great man with him, and to that end had a mind to have the
      Prince at a distance from the Duke of Albemarle, that they might be doing
      something alone&mdash;did, as he believed, put on this business of
      dividing the fleete, and that thence it came.
    </p>
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     [This division of the fleet was the original cause of the disaster,
     and at a later period the enemies of Clarendon charged him with
     having advised this action, but Coventry's communication to Pepys in
     the text completely exonerates Clarendon.]
</pre>
    <p>
      He tells me as to the business of intelligence, the want whereof the world
      did complain much of, that for that it was not his business, and as he was
      therefore to have no share in the blame, so he would not meddle to lay it
      any where else. That de Ruyter was ordered by the States not to make it
      his business to come into much danger, but to preserve himself as much as
      was fit out of harm's way, to be able to direct the fleete. He do, I
      perceive, with some violence, forbear saying any thing to the reproach of
      the Duke of Albemarle; but, contrarily, speaks much of his courage; but I
      do as plainly see that he do not like the Duke of Albemarle's proceedings,
      but, contrarily, is displeased therewith. And he do plainly diminish the
      commanders put in by the Duke, and do lessen the miscarriages of any that
      have been removed by him. He concurs with me, that the next bout will be a
      fatal one to one side or other, because, if we be beaten, we shall not be
      able to set out our fleete again. He do confess with me that the hearts of
      our seamen are much saddened; and for that reason, among others, wishes
      Sir Christopher Mings was alive, who might inspire courage and spirit into
      them. Speaking of Holmes, how great a man he is, and that he do for the
      present, and hath done all the voyage, kept himself in good order and
      within bounds; but, says he, a cat will be a cat still, and some time or
      other out his humour must break again. He do not disowne but that the
      dividing of the fleete upon the presumptions that were then had (which, I
      suppose, was the French fleete being come this way), was a good
      resolution. Having had all this discourse, he and I back to White Hall;
      and there I left him, being [in] a little doubt whether I had behaved
      myself in my discourse with the policy and circumspection which ought to
      be used to so great a courtier as he is, and so wise and factious a man,
      and by water home, and so, after supper, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and all the morning at my Tangier accounts, which the chopping
      and changing of my tallys make mighty troublesome; but, however, I did end
      them with great satisfaction to myself. At noon, without staying to eat my
      dinner, I down by water to Deptford, and there coming find Sir W. Batten
      and Sir Jeremy Smith (whom the dispatch of the Loyall London detained) at
      dinner at Greenwich at the Beare Taverne, and thither I to them and there
      dined with them. Very good company of strangers there was, but I took no
      great pleasure among them, being desirous to be back again. So got them to
      rise as soon as I could, having told them the newes Sir W. Coventry just
      now wrote me to tell them, which is, that the Dutch are certainly come
      out. I did much business at Deptford, and so home, by an old poor man, a
      sculler, having no oares to be got, and all this day on the water
      entertained myself with the play of Commenius, and being come home did go
      out to Aldgate, there to be overtaken by Mrs. Margot Pen in her father's
      coach, and my wife and Mercer with her, and Mrs. Pen carried us to two
      gardens at Hackny, (which I every day grow more and more in love with,)
      Mr. Drake's one, where the garden is good, and house and the prospect
      admirable; the other my Lord Brooke's, where the gardens are much better,
      but the house not so good, nor the prospect good at all. But the gardens
      are excellent; and here I first saw oranges grow: some green, some half,
      some a quarter, and some full ripe, on the same tree, and one fruit of the
      same tree do come a year or two after the other. I pulled off a little one
      by stealth (the man being mighty curious of them) and eat it, and it was
      just as other little green small oranges are; as big as half the end of my
      little finger. Here were also great variety of other exotique plants, and
      several labarinths, and a pretty aviary. Having done there with very great
      pleasure we away back again, and called at the Taverne in Hackny by the
      church, and there drank and eate, and so in the Goole of the evening home.
      This being the first day of my putting on my black stuff bombazin suit,
      and I hope to feel no inconvenience by it, the weather being extremely
      hot. So home and to bed, and this night the first night of my lying
      without a waistcoat, which I hope I shall very well endure. So to bed.
      This morning I did with great pleasure hear Mr. Caesar play some good
      things on his lute, while he come to teach my boy Tom, and I did give him
      40s. for his encouragement.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up and to my office betimes, and there all the morning, very busy to
      get out the fleete, the Dutch being now for certain out, and we shall not,
      we thinke, be much behindhand with them. At noon to the 'Change about
      business, and so home to dinner, and after dinner to the setting my
      Journall to rights, and so to the office again, where all the afternoon
      full of business, and there till night, that my eyes were sore, that I
      could not write no longer. Then into the garden, then my wife and Mercer
      and my Lady Yen and her daughter with us, and here we sung in the darke
      very finely half an houre, and so home to supper and to bed. This
      afternoon, after a long drowth, we had a good shower of rain, but it will
      not signify much if no more come. This day in the morning come Mr. Chichly
      to Sir W. Coventry, to tell him the ill successe of the guns made for the
      Loyall London; which is, that in the trial every one of the great guns,
      the whole cannon of seven (as I take it), broke in pieces, which is a
      strange mishap, and that which will give more occasion to people's
      discourse of the King's business being done ill. This night Mary my
      cookemayde, that hath been with us about three months, but find herself
      not able to do my worke, so is gone with great kindnesse away, and another
      (Luce) come, very ugly and plaine, but may be a good servant for all that.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and to my office awhile, and then down the river a little way to
      see vessels ready for the carrying down of 400 land soldiers to the
      fleete. Then back to the office for my papers, and so to St. James's,
      where we did our usual attendance on the Duke. Having done with him, we
      all of us down to Sir W. Coventry's chamber (where I saw his father my
      Lord Coventry's picture hung up, done by Stone, who then brought it home.
      It is a good picture, drawn in his judge's robes, and the great seale by
      him. And while it was hanging up, "This," says Sir W. Coventry, merrily,
      "is the use we make of our fathers,") to discourse about the proposition
      of serving us with hempe, delivered in by my Lord Brouncker as from an
      unknown person, though I know it to be Captain Cocke's. My Lord and Sir
      William Coventry had some earnest words about it, the one promoting it for
      his private ends, being, as Cocke tells me himself, to have L500 if the
      bargain goes on, and I am to have as much, and the other opposing it for
      the unseasonableness of it, not knowing at all whose the proposition is,
      which seems the more ingenious of the two. I sat by and said nothing,
      being no great friend to the proposition, though Cocke intends me a
      convenience by it. But what I observed most from the discourse was this of
      Sir W. Coventry, that he do look upon ourselves in a desperate condition.
      The issue of all standing upon this one point, that by the next fight, if
      we beat, the Dutch will certainly be content to take eggs for their money
      (that was his expression); or if we be beaten, we must be contented to
      make peace, and glad if we can have it without paying too dear for it. And
      withall we do rely wholly upon the Parliament's giving us more money the
      next sitting, or else we are undone. Being gone hence, I took coach to the
      Old Exchange, but did not go into it, but to Mr. Cade's, the stationer,
      stood till the shower was over, it being a great and welcome one after so
      much dry weather. Here I understand that Ogleby is putting out some new
      fables of his owne, which will be very fine and very satyricall. Thence
      home to dinner, and after dinner carried my wife to her sister's and I to
      Mr. Hales's, to pay for my father's picture, which cost me L10 the head
      and 25s. the frame. Thence to Lovett's, who has now done something towards
      the varnishing of single paper for the making of books, which will do, I
      think, very well. He did also carry me to a Knight's chamber in Graye's
      Inne, where there is a frame of his making, of counterfeite tortoise
      shell, which indeed is most excellently done. Then I took him with me to a
      picture shop to choose a print for him to vernish, but did not agree for
      one then. Thence to my wife to take her up and so carried her home, and I
      at the office till late, and so to supper with my wife and to bed. I did
      this afternoon visit my Lord Bellasses, who professes all imaginable
      satisfaction in me. He spoke dissatisfiedly with Creed, which I was
      pleased well enough with. My Lord is going down to his garrison to Hull,
      by the King's command, to put it in order for fear of an invasion which
      course I perceive is taken upon the sea-coasts round; for we have a real
      apprehension of the King of France's invading us.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and
      after dinner abroad to Lumbard Streete, there to reckon with Sir Robert
      Viner for some money, and did sett all straight to my great content, and
      so home, and all the afternoon and evening at the office, my mind full at
      this time of getting my accounts over, and as much money in my hands as I
      can, for a great turne is to be feared in the times, the French having
      some great design (whatever it is) in hand, and our necessities on every
      side very great. The Dutch are now known to be out, and we may expect them
      every houre upon our coast. But our fleete is in pretty good readinesse
      for them.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and within doors most of the morning, sending a porter (Sanders)
      up and down to several people to pay them money to clear my month's debts
      every where, being mighty desirous to have all clear so soon as I can, and
      to that end did so much in settling my Tangier accounts clear. At noon
      dined, having first been down at Deptford and did a little business there
      and back again. After dinner to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, but
      I come a little too late, they were up, so I to several places about
      business, among others to Westminster Hall, and there did meet with Betty
      Michell at her own mother's shop. I would fain have carried her home by
      water, but she was to sup at that end of the town. So I away to White
      Hall, and thence, the Council being up, walked to St. James's, and there
      had much discourse with Sir W. Coventry at his chamber, who I find quite
      weary of the warr, decries our having any warr at all, or himself to have
      been any occasion of it, that he hopes this will make us shy of any warr
      hereafter, or to prepare better for it, believes that one overthrow on the
      Dutch side would make them desire peace, and that one on ours will make us
      willing to accept of one: tells me that Commissioner Pett is fallen
      infinitely under the displeasure of the Prince and Duke of Albemarle, not
      giving them satisfaction in the getting out of the fleete, and that the
      complaint he believes is come to the King, and by Sir W. Coventry's
      discourse I find he do concur in it, and speaks of his having of no
      authority in the place where he is, and I do believe at least it will end
      in his being removed to some other yarde, and I am not sorry for it, but
      do fear that though he deserves as bad, yet at this time the blame may not
      be so well deserved. Thence home and to the office; where I met with a
      letter from Dover, which tells me (and it did come by expresse) that newes
      is brought over by a gentleman from Callice that the Dutch fleete, 130
      sail, are come upon the French coast; and that the country is bringing in
      picke-axes, and shovells, and wheel-barrows into Callice; that there are
      6,000 men armed with head, back, and breast (Frenchmen) ready to go on
      board the Dutch fleete, and will be followed by 12,000 more. That they
      pretend they are to come to Dover; and that thereupon the Governor of
      Dover Castle is getting the victuallers' provision out of the towne into
      the Castle to secure it. But I do think this is a ridiculous conceit; but
      a little time will show. At night home to supper and to bed,
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and to the office, and mightily troubled all this morning with
      going to my Lord Mayor (Sir Thomas Bludworth,
    </p>
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     [As his conduct during the Great Fire fully proved, when he is said
     to have boasted that he would extinguish the flames by the same
     means to which Swift tells us Gulliver had recourse at Lilliput.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      a silly man, I think), and other places, about getting shipped some men
      that they have these two last nights pressed in the City out of houses:
      the persons wholly unfit for sea, and many of them people of very good
      fashion, which is a shame to think of, and carried to Bridewell they are,
      yet without being impressed with money legally as they ought to be. But to
      see how the King's business is done; my Lord Mayor himself did scruple at
      this time of extremity to do this thing, because he had not money to pay
      the pressed-money to the men, he told me so himself; nor to take up boats
      to carry them down through bridge to the ships I had prepared to carry
      them down in; insomuch that I was forced to promise to be his paymaster,
      and he did send his City Remembrancer afterwards to the office, and at the
      table, in the face of the officers, I did there out of my owne purse
      disburse L15 to pay for their pressing and diet last night and this
      morning; which is a thing worth record of my Lord Mayor. Busy about this
      all the morning, at noon dined and then to the office again, and all the
      afternoon till twelve at night full of this business and others, and among
      these others about the getting off men pressed by our officers of the
      fleete into the service; even our owne men that are at the office, and the
      boats that carry us. So that it is now become impossible to have so much
      as a letter carried from place to place, or any message done for us: nay,
      out of Victualling ships full loaden to go down to the fleete, and out of
      the vessels of the officers of the Ordnance, they press men, so that for
      want of discipline in this respect I do fear all will be undone. Vexed
      with these things, but eased in mind by my ridding of a great deale of
      business from the office, I late home to supper and to bed. But before I
      was in bed, while I was undressing myself, our new ugly mayde, Luce, had
      like to have broke her necke in the darke, going down our upper stairs;
      but, which I was glad of, the poor girle did only bruise her head, but at
      first did lie on the ground groaning and drawing her breath, like one
      a-dying. This month I end in much hurry of business, but in much more
      trouble in mind to thinke what will become of publique businesses, having
      so many enemys abroad, and neither force nor money at all, and but little
      courage for ourselves, it being really true that the spirits of our seamen
      and commanders too are really broke by the last defeate with the Dutch,
      and this is not my conjecture only, but the real and serious thoughts of
      Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Coventry, whom I have at distinct times heard
      the same thing come from with a great deale of grief and trouble. But,
      lastly, I am providing against a foule day to get as much money into my
      hands as I can, at least out of the publique hands, that so, if a turne,
      which I fear, do come, I may have a little to trust to. I pray God give me
      good successe in my choice how to dispose of what little I have, that I
      may not take it out of publique hands, and put it into worse.
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    <p>
      July 1st (Sunday). Up betimes, and to the office receiving letters, two or
      three one after another from Sir W. Coventry, and sent as many to him,
      being full of variety of business and hurry, but among the chiefest is the
      getting of these pressed men out of the City down the river to the fleete.
      While I was hard at it comes Sir W. Pen to towne, which I little expected,
      having invited my Lady and her daughter Pegg to dine with me to-day; which
      at noon they did, and Sir W. Pen with them: and pretty merry we were. And
      though I do not love him, yet I find it necessary to keep in with him; his
      good service at Shearnesse in getting out the fleete being much taken
      notice of, and reported to the King and Duke [of York], even from the
      Prince and Duke of Albemarle themselves, and made the most of to me and
      them by Sir W. Coventry: therefore I think it discretion, great and
      necessary discretion, to keep in with him. After dinner to the office
      again, where busy, and then down to Deptford to the yard, thinking to have
      seen Bagwell's wife, whose husband is gone yesterday back to the fleete,
      but I did not see her, so missed what I went for, and so back to the Tower
      several times, about the business of the pressed men, and late at it till
      twelve at night, shipping of them. But, Lord! how some poor women did cry;
      and in my life I never did see such natural expression of passion as I did
      here in some women's bewailing themselves, and running to every parcel of
      men that were brought, one after another, to look for their husbands, and
      wept over every vessel that went off, thinking they might be there, and
      looking after the ship as far as ever they could by moone-light, that it
      grieved me to the heart to hear them. Besides, to see poor patient
      labouring men and housekeepers, leaving poor wives and families, taking up
      on a sudden by strangers, was very hard, and that without press-money, but
      forced against all law to be gone. It is a great tyranny. Having done this
      I to the Lieutenant of the Tower and bade him good night, and so away home
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up betimes, and forced to go to my Lord Mayor's, about the business
      of the pressed men; and indeed I find him a mean man of understanding and
      dispatch of any publique business. Thence out of curiosity to Bridewell to
      see the pressed men, where there are about 300; but so unruly that I durst
      not go among them: and they have reason to be so, having been kept these
      three days prisoners, with little or no victuals, and pressed out, and,
      contrary to all course of law, without press-money, and men that are not
      liable to it. Here I met with prating Colonel Cox, one of the City
      collonells heretofore a great presbyter: but to hear how the fellow did
      commend himself, and the service he do the King; and, like an asse, at
      Paul's did take me out of my way on purpose to show me the gate (the
      little north gate) where he had two men shot close by him on each hand,
      and his own hair burnt by a bullet-shot in the insurrection of Venner, and
      himself escaped. Thence home and to the Tower to see the men from
      Bridewell shipped. Being rid of him I home to dinner, and thence to the
      Excise office by appointment to meet my Lord Bellasses and the
      Commissioners, which we did and soon dispatched, and so I home, and there
      was called by Pegg Pen to her house, where her father and mother, and Mrs.
      Norton, the second Roxalana, a fine woman, indifferent handsome, good body
      and hand, and good mine, and pretends to sing, but do it not excellently.
      However I took pleasure there, and my wife was sent for, and Creed come in
      to us, and so there we spent the most of the afternoon. Thence weary of
      losing so much time I to the office, and thence presently down to
      Deptford; but to see what a consternation there is upon the water by
      reason of this great press, that nothing is able to get a waterman to
      appear almost. Here I meant to have spoke with Bagwell's mother, but her
      face was sore, and so I did not, but returned and upon the water found one
      of the vessels loaden with the Bridewell birds in a great mutiny, and they
      would not sail, not they; but with good words, and cajoling the ringleader
      into the Tower (where, when he was come, he was clapped up in the hole),
      they were got very quietly; but I think it is much if they do not run the
      vessel on ground. But away they went, and I to the Lieutenant of the
      Tower, and having talked with him a little, then home to supper very late
      and to bed weary.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Being very weary, lay long in bed, then to the office and there sat
      all the day. At noon dined at home, Balty's wife with us, and in very good
      humour I was and merry at dinner, and after dinner a song or two, and so I
      abroad to my Lord Treasurer's (sending my sister home by the coach), while
      I staid there by appointment to have met my Lord Bellasses and
      Commissioners of Excise, but they did not meet me, he being abroad.
      However Mr. Finch, one of the Commissioners, I met there, and he and I
      walked two houres together in the garden, talking of many things;
      sometimes of Mr. Povy, whose vanity, prodigality, neglect of his business,
      and committing it to unfit hands hath undone him and outed him of all his
      publique employments, and the thing set on foot by an accidental revivall
      of a business, wherein he had three or fours years ago, by surprize, got
      the Duke of Yorke to sign to the having a sum of money paid out of the
      Excise, before some that was due to him, and now the money is fallen
      short, and the Duke never likely to be paid. This being revived hath
      undone Povy. Then we fell to discourse of the Parliament, and the great
      men there: and among others, Mr. Vaughan, whom he reports as a man of
      excellent judgement and learning, but most passionate and 'opiniastre'. He
      had done himself the most wrong (though he values it not), that is, the
      displeasure of the King in his standing so long against the breaking of
      the Act for a trienniall parliament; but yet do believe him to be a most
      loyall gentleman. He told me Mr. Prin's character; that he is a man of
      mighty labour and reading and memory, but the worst judge of matters, or
      layer together of what he hath read, in the world; which I do not,
      however, believe him in; that he believes him very true to the King in his
      heart, but can never be reconciled to episcopacy; that the House do not
      lay much weight upon him, or any thing he says. He told me many fine
      things, and so we parted, and I home and hard to work a while at the
      office and then home and till midnight about settling my last month's
      accounts wherein I have been interrupted by public business, that I did
      not state them two or three days ago, but I do now to my great joy find
      myself worth above L5600, for which the Lord's name be praised! So with my
      heart full of content to bed. Newes come yesterday from Harwich, that the
      Dutch had appeared upon our coast with their fleete, and we believe did go
      to the Gun-fleete, and they are supposed to be there now; but I have heard
      nothing of them to-day. Yesterday Dr. Whistler, at Sir W. Pen's, told me
      that Alexander Broome, a the great song-maker, is lately dead.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and visited very betimes by Mr. Sheply, who is come to town upon
      business from Hinchingbrooke, where he left all well. I out and walked
      along with him as far as Fleet Streete, it being a fast day, the usual
      fast day for the plague, and few coaches to be had. Thanks be to God, the
      plague is, as I hear, encreased but two this week; but in the country in
      several places it rages mightily, and particularly in Colchester, where it
      hath long been, and is believed will quite depopulate the place. To St.
      James's, and there did our usual business with the Duke, all of us, among
      other things, discoursing about the places where to build ten great ships;
      the King and Council have resolved on none to be under third-rates; but it
      is impossible to do it, unless we have more money towards the doing it
      than yet we have in any view. But, however, the shew must be made to the
      world. Thence to my Lord Bellasses to take my leave of him, he being going
      down to the North to look after the Militia there, for fear of an
      invasion. Thence home and dined, and then to the office, where busy all
      day, and in the evening Sir W. Pen come to me, and we walked together, and
      talked of the late fight. I find him very plain, that the whole conduct of
      the late fight was ill, and that that of truth's all, and he tells me that
      it is not he, but two-thirds of the commanders of the whole fleete have
      told him so: they all saying, that they durst not oppose it at the Council
      of War, for fear of being called cowards, though it was wholly against
      their judgement to fight that day with the disproportion of force, and
      then we not being able to use one gun of our lower tier, which was a
      greater disproportion than the other. Besides, we might very well have
      staid in the Downs without fighting, or any where else, till the Prince
      could have come up to them; or at least till the weather was fair, that we
      might have the benefit of our whole force in the ships that we had. He
      says three things must [be] remedied, or else we shall be undone by this
      fleete. 1. That we must fight in a line, whereas we fight promiscuously,
      to our utter and demonstrable ruine; the Dutch fighting otherwise; and we,
      whenever we beat them. 2. We must not desert ships of our own in distress,
      as we did, for that makes a captain desperate, and he will fling away his
      ship, when there is no hopes left him of succour. 3. That ships, when they
      are a little shattered, must not take the liberty to come in of
      themselves, but refit themselves the best they can, and stay out&mdash;many
      of our ships coming in with very small disablenesses. He told me that our
      very commanders, nay, our very flag-officers, do stand in need of
      exercising among themselves, and discoursing the business of commanding a
      fleete; he telling me that even one of our flag-men in the fleete did not
      know which tacke lost the wind, or which kept it, in the last engagement.
      He says it was pure dismaying and fear that made them all run upon the
      Galloper, not having their wits about them; and that it was a miracle they
      were not all lost. He much inveighs upon my discoursing of Sir John
      Lawson's saying heretofore, that sixty sail would do as much as one
      hundred; and says that he was a man of no counsel at all, but had got the
      confidence to say as the gallants did, and did propose to himself to make
      himself great by them, and saying as they did; but was no man of judgement
      in his business, but hath been out in the greatest points that have come
      before them. And then in the business of fore-castles, which he did
      oppose, all the world sees now the use of them for shelter of men. He did
      talk very rationally to me, insomuch that I took more pleasure this night
      in hearing him discourse, than I ever did in my life in any thing that he
      said. He gone I to the office again, and so after some business home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning busy, then at noon
      dined and Mr. Sheply with me, who come to towne the other day. I lent him
      630 in silver upon 30 pieces in gold. But to see how apt every body is to
      neglect old kindnesses! I must charge myself with the ingratitude of being
      unwilling to lend him so much money without some pawne, if he should have
      asked it, but he did not aske it, poor man, and so no harm done. After
      dinner, he gone, I to my office and Lumbard Streete about money, and then
      to my office again, very busy, and so till late, and then a song with my
      wife and Mercer in the garden, and so with great content to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and after doing some business at my office abroad to Lumbard
      Street, about the getting of a good sum of money, thence home, in
      preparation for my having some good sum in my hands, for fear of a trouble
      in the State, that I may not have all I have in the world out of my hands
      and so be left a beggar. Having put that in a way, I home to the office,
      and so to the Tower; about shipping of some more pressed men, and that
      done, away to Broad Streete, to Sir G. Carteret, who is at a pay of
      tickets all alone, and I believe not less than one thousand people in the
      streets. But it is a pretty thing to observe that both there and every
      where else, a man shall see many women now-a-days of mean sort in the
      streets, but no men; men being so afeard of the press. I dined with Sir G.
      Carteret, and after dinner had much discourse about our publique business;
      and he do seem to fear every day more and more what I do; which is, a
      general confusion in the State; plainly answering me to the question, who
      is it that the weight of the warr depends [upon]? that it is only Sir W.
      Coventry. He tells me, too, the Duke of Albemarle is dissatisfied, and
      that the Duchesse do curse Coventry as the man that betrayed her husband
      to the sea: though I believe that it is not so. Thence to Lumbard Streete,
      and received L2000, and carried it home: whereof L1000 in gold. The
      greatest quantity not only that I ever had of gold, but that ever I saw
      together, and is not much above half a 100 lb. bag full, but is much
      weightier. This I do for security sake, and convenience of carriage;
      though it costs me above L70 the change of it, at 18 1/2d. per piece.
      Being at home, I there met with a letter from Bab Allen,&mdash;[Mrs. Knipp]&mdash;to
      invite me to be god-father to her boy, with Mrs. Williams, which I
      consented to, but know not the time when it is to be. Thence down to the
      Old Swan, calling at Michell's, he not being within, and there I did steal
      a kiss or two of her, and staying a little longer, he come in, and her
      father, whom I carried to Westminster, my business being thither, and so
      back again home, and very busy all the evening. At night a song in the
      garden and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. At the office all the morning, at noon dined at home and Creed with
      me, and after dinner he and I two or three hours in my chamber discoursing
      of the fittest way for a man to do that hath money, and find all he offers
      of turning some into gold and leaving some in a friend's hand is nothing
      more than what I thought of myself, but is doubtful, as well as I, what is
      best to be done of all these or other ways to be thought on. He tells me
      he finds all things mighty dull at Court; and that they now begin to lie
      long in bed; it being, as we suppose, not seemly for them to be found
      playing and gaming as they used to be; nor that their minds are at ease
      enough to follow those sports, and yet not knowing how to employ
      themselves (though there be work enough for their thoughts and councils
      and pains), they keep long in bed. But he thinks with me, that there is
      nothing in the world can helpe us but the King's personal looking after
      his business and his officers, and that with that we may yet do well; but
      otherwise must be undone: nobody at this day taking care of any thing, nor
      hath any body to call him to account for it. Thence left him and to my
      office all the afternoon busy, and in some pain in my back by some bruise
      or other I have given myself in my right testicle this morning, and the
      pain lies there and hath done, and in my back thereupon all this day. At
      night into the garden to my wife and Lady Pen and Pegg, and Creed, who
      staid with them till to at night. My Lady Pen did give us a tarte and
      other things, and so broke up late and I to bed. It proved the hottest
      night that ever I was in in my life, and thundered and lightened all night
      long and rained hard. But, Lord! to see in what fears I lay a good while,
      hearing of a little noise of somebody walking in the house: so rung the
      bell, and it was my mayds going to bed about one o'clock in the morning.
      But the fear of being robbed, having so much money in the house, was very
      great, and is still so, and do much disquiet me.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). Up, and pretty well of my pain, so that it did not
      trouble me at all, and I do clearly find that my pain in my back was
      nothing but only accompanied my bruise in my stones. To church, wife and
      Mercer and I, in expectation of hearing some mighty preacher to-day, Mrs.
      Mary Batelier sending us word so; but it proved our ordinary silly
      lecturer, which made me merry, and she laughed upon us to see her mistake.
      At noon W. Hewer dined with us, and a good dinner, and I expected to have
      had newes sent me of Knipp's christening to-day; but, hearing nothing of
      it, I did not go, though I fear it is but their forgetfulness and so I may
      disappoint them. To church, after dinner, again, a thing I have not done a
      good while before, go twice in one day. After church with my wife and
      Mercer and Tom by water through bridge to the Spring Garden at Fox Hall,
      and thence down to Deptford and there did a little business, and so back
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up betimes, and with Sir W. Pen in his coach to Westminster to Sir G.
      Downing's, but missed of him, and so we parted, I by water home, where
      busy all the morning, at noon dined at home, and after dinner to my
      office, where busy till come to by Lovett and his wife, who have brought
      me some sheets of paper varnished on one side, which lies very white and
      smooth and, I think, will do our business most exactly, and will come up
      to the use that I intended them for, and I am apt to believe will be an
      invention that will take in the world. I have made up a little book of it
      to give Sir W. Coventry to-morrow, and am very well pleased with it. Home
      with them, and there find my aunt Wight with my wife come to take her
      leave of her, being going for the summer into the country; and there was
      also Mrs. Mary Batelier and her sister, newly come out of France, a black,
      very black woman, but mighty good-natured people both, as ever I saw. Here
      I made the black one sing a French song, which she did mighty innocently;
      and then Mrs. Lovett play on the lute, which she do very well; and then
      Mercer and I sang; and so, with great pleasure, I left them, having shewed
      them my chamber, and L1000 in gold, which they wondered at, and given them
      sweetmeats, and shewn my aunt Wight my father's picture, which she
      admires. So I left them and to the office, where Mr. Moore come to me and
      talking of my Lord's family business tells me that Mr. Sheply is
      ignorantly, we all believe, mistaken in his accounts above L700 more than
      he can discharge himself of, which is a mighty misfortune, poor man, and
      may undo him, and yet every body believes that he do it most honestly. I
      am troubled for him very much. He gone, I hard at the office till night,
      then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning, sitting, and
      there presented Sir W. Coventry with my little book made up of Lovett's
      varnished paper, which he and the whole board liked very well. At noon
      home to dinner and then to the office; the yarde being very full of women
      (I believe above three hundred) coming to get money for their husbands and
      friends that are prisoners in Holland; and they lay clamouring and
      swearing and cursing us, that my wife and I were afeard to send a
      venison-pasty that we have for supper to-night to the cook's to be baked,
      for fear of their offering violence to it: but it went, and no hurt done.
      Then I took an opportunity, when they were all gone into the foreyarde,
      and slipt into the office and there busy all the afternoon, but by and by
      the women got into the garden, and come all to my closett window, and
      there tormented me, and I confess their cries were so sad for money, and
      laying down the condition of their families and their husbands, and what
      they have done and suffered for the King, and how ill they are used by us,
      and how well the Dutch are used here by the allowance of their masters,
      and what their husbands are offered to serve the Dutch abroad, that I do
      most heartily pity them, and was ready to cry to hear them, but cannot
      helpe them. However, when the rest were gone, I did call one to me that I
      heard complaine only and pity her husband and did give her some money, and
      she blessed me and went away. Anon my business at the office being done I
      to the Tower to speak with Sir John Robinson about business, principally
      the bad condition of the pressed men for want of clothes, so it is
      represented from the fleete, and so to provide them shirts and stockings
      and drawers. Having done with him about that, I home and there find my
      wife and the two Mrs. Bateliers walking in the garden. I with them till
      almost 9 at night, and then they and we and Mrs. Mercer, the mother, and
      her daughter Anne, and our Mercer, to supper to a good venison-pasty and
      other good things, and had a good supper, and very merry, Mistresses
      Bateliers being both very good-humoured. We sang and talked, and then led
      them home, and there they made us drink; and, among other things, did show
      us, in cages, some birds brought from about Bourdeaux, that are all fat,
      and, examining one of them, they are so, almost all fat. Their name is
      [Ortolans], which are brought over to the King for him to eat, and indeed
      are excellent things. We parted from them and so home to bed, it being
      very late, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and by water to Sir G. Downing's, there to discourse with him
      about the reliefe of the prisoners in Holland; which I did, and we do
      resolve of the manner of sending them some. So I away by coach to St.
      James's, and there hear that the Duchesse is lately brought to bed of a
      boy. By and by called to wait on the Duke, the King being present; and
      there agreed, among other things, of the places to build the ten new great
      ships ordered to be built, and as to the relief of prisoners in Holland.
      And then about several stories of the basenesse of the King of Spayne's
      being served with officers: they in Flanders having as good common men as
      any Prince in the world, but the veriest cowards for the officers, nay for
      the generall officers, as the Generall and Lieutenant-generall, in the
      whole world. But, above all things, the King did speake most in contempt
      of the ceremoniousnesse of the King of Spayne, that he do nothing but
      under some ridiculous form or other, and will not piss but another must
      hold the chamber-pot. Thence to Westminster Hall and there staid a while,
      and then to the Swan and kissed Sarah, and so home to dinner, and after
      dinner out again to Sir Robert Viner, and there did agree with him to
      accommodate some business of tallys so as I shall get in near L2000 into
      my own hands, which is in the King's, upon tallys; which will be a
      pleasure to me, and satisfaction to have a good sum in my own hands,
      whatever evil disturbances should be in the State; though it troubles me
      to lose so great a profit as the King's interest of ten per cent. for that
      money. Thence to Westminster, doing several things by the way, and there
      failed of meeting Mrs. Lane, and so by coach took up my wife at her
      sister's, and so away to Islington, she and I alone, and so through
      Hackney, and home late, our discourse being about laying up of some money
      safe in prevention to the troubles I am afeard we may have in the state,
      and so sleepy (for want of sleep the last night, going to bed late and
      rising betimes in the morning) home, but when I come to the office, I
      there met with a command from my Lord Arlington, to go down to a galliott
      at Greenwich, by the King's particular command, that is going to carry the
      Savoy Envoye over, and we fear there may be many Frenchmen there on board;
      and so I have a power and command to search for and seize all that have
      not passes from one of the Secretarys of State, and to bring them and
      their papers and everything else in custody some whither. So I to the
      Tower, and got a couple of musquetiers with me, and Griffen and my boy Tom
      and so down; and, being come, found none on board but two or three
      servants, looking to horses and doggs, there on board, and, seeing no
      more, I staid not long there, but away and on shore at Greenwich, the
      night being late and the tide against us; so, having sent before, to Mrs.
      Clerke's and there I had a good bed, and well received, the whole people
      rising to see me, and among the rest young Mrs. Daniel, whom I kissed
      again and again alone, and so by and by to bed and slept pretty well,
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. But was up again by five o'clock, and was forced to rise, having
      much business, and so up and dressed myself (enquiring, was told that Mrs.
      Tooker was gone hence to live at London) and away with Poundy to the
      Tower, and thence, having shifted myself, but being mighty drowsy for want
      of sleep, I by coach to St. James's, to Goring House, there to wait on my
      Lord Arlington to give him an account of my night's worke, but he was not
      up, being not long since married: so, after walking up and down the house
      below,&mdash;being the house I was once at Hartlib's sister's wedding, and
      is a very fine house and finely furnished,&mdash;and then thinking it too
      much for me to lose time to wait my Lord's rising, I away to St. James's,
      and there to Sir W. Coventry, and wrote a letter to my Lord Arlington
      giving him an account of what I have done, and so with Sir W. Coventry
      into London, to the office. And all the way I observed him mightily to
      make mirth of the Duke of Albemarle and his people about him, saying, that
      he was the happiest man in the world for doing of great things by sorry
      instruments. And so particularized in Sir W. Clerke, and Riggs, and
      Halsey, and others. And then again said that the only quality eminent in
      him was, that he did persevere; and indeed he is a very drudge, and stands
      by the King's business. And this he said, that one thing he was good at,
      that he never would receive an excuse if the thing was not done; listening
      to no reasoning for it, be it good or bad. But then I told him, what he
      confessed, that he would however give the man, that he employs, orders for
      removing of any obstruction that he thinks he shall meet with in the
      world, and instanced in several warrants that he issued for breaking open
      of houses and other outrages about the business of prizes, which people
      bore with either for affection or fear, which he believes would not have
      been borne with from the King, nor Duke, nor any man else in England, and
      I thinke he is in the right, but it is not from their love of him, but
      from something else I cannot presently say. Sir W. Coventry did further
      say concerning Warcupp, his kinsman, that had the simplicity to tell Sir
      W. Coventry, that the Duke did intend to go to sea and to leave him his
      agent on shore for all things that related to the sea. But, says Sir W.
      Coventry, I did believe but the Duke of Yorke would expect to be his agent
      on shore for all sea matters. And then he begun to say what a great man
      Warcupp was, and something else, and what was that but a great lyer; and
      told me a story, how at table he did, they speaking about antipathys, say,
      that a rose touching his skin any where, would make it rise and pimple;
      and, by and by, the dessert coming, with roses upon it, the Duchesse bid
      him try, and they did; but they rubbed and rubbed, but nothing would do in
      the world, by which his lie was found at then. He spoke contemptibly of
      Holmes and his mermidons, that come to take down the ships from hence, and
      have carried them without any necessaries, or any thing almost, that they
      will certainly be longer getting ready than if they had staid here. In
      fine, I do observe, he hath no esteem nor kindnesse for the Duke's
      matters, but, contrarily, do slight him and them; and I pray God the
      Kingdom do not pay too dear by this jarring; though this blockheaded Duke
      I did never expect better from. At the office all the morning, at noon
      home and thought to have slept, my head all day being full of business and
      yet sleepy and out of order, and so I lay down on my bed in my gowne to
      sleep, but I could not, therefore about three o'clock up and to dinner and
      thence to the office, where. Mrs. Burroughs, my pretty widow, was and so I
      did her business and sent her away by agreement, and presently I by coach
      after and took her up in Fenchurch Streete and away through the City,
      hiding my face as much as I could, but she being mighty pretty and well
      enough clad, I was not afeard, but only lest somebody should see me and
      think me idle. I quite through with her, and so into the fields Uxbridge
      way, a mile or two beyond Tyburne, and then back and then to Paddington,
      and then back to Lyssen green, a place the coachman led me to (I never
      knew in my life) and there we eat and drank and so back to Chasing Crosse,
      and there I set her down. All the way most excellent pretty company. I had
      her lips as much as I would, and a mighty pretty woman she is and very
      modest and yet kinde in all fair ways. All this time I passed with mighty
      pleasure, it being what I have for a long time wished for, and did pay
      this day 5s. forfeite for her company. She being gone, I to White Hall and
      there to Lord Arlington's, and met Mr. Williamson, and find there is no
      more need of my trouble about the Galliott, so with content departed, and
      went straight home, where at the office did the most at the office in that
      wearied and sleepy state I could, and so home to supper, and after supper
      falling to singing with Mercer did however sit up with her, she pleasing
      me with her singing of "Helpe, helpe," 'till past midnight and I not a
      whit drowsy, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Lay sleepy in bed till 8 in the morning, then up and to the office,
      where till about noon, then out to the 'Change and several places, and so
      home to dinner. Then out again to Sir R. Vines, and there to my content
      settled the business of two tallys, so as I shall have L2000 almost more
      of my owne money in my hand, which pleases me mightily, and so home and
      there to the office, where mighty busy, and then home to supper and to
      even my Journall and to bed. Our fleete being now in all points ready to
      sayle, but for the carrying of the two or three new ships, which will
      keepe them a day or two or three more. It is said the Dutch is gone off
      our coast, but I have no good reason to believe it, Sir W. Coventry not
      thinking any such thing.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up betimes to the office, to write fair a laborious letter I wrote
      as from the Board to the Duke of Yorke, laying out our want of money
      again; and particularly the business of Captain Cocke's tenders of hemp,
      which my Lord Bruncker brought in under an unknown hand without name.
      Wherein his Lordship will have no great successe, I doubt. That being
      done, I down to Thames-streete, and there agreed for four or five tons of
      corke, to send this day to the fleete, being a new device to make
      barricados with, instead of junke. By this means I come to see and kiss
      Mr. Hill's young wife, and a blithe young woman she is. So to the office
      and at noon home to dinner, and then sent for young Michell and employed
      him all the afternoon about weighing and shipping off of the corke, having
      by this means an opportunity of getting him 30 or 40s. Having set him a
      doing, I home and to the office very late, very busy, and did indeed
      dispatch much business, and so to supper and to bed. After a song in the
      garden, which, and after dinner, is now the greatest pleasure I take, and
      indeed do please me mightily, to bed, after washing my legs and feet with
      warm water in my kitchen. This evening I had Davila
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Enrico Caterino Davila (1576-1631) was one of the chief historical
     writers of Italy, and his "Storia delle guerre civili di Francia"
     covers a period of forty years, from the death of Henri II. to the
     Peace of Vervins in 1598.]
</pre>
    <p>
      brought home to me, and find it a most excellent history as ever I read.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where our lecturer made a sorry
      silly sermon, upon the great point of proving the truth of the Christian
      religion. Home and had a good dinner, expecting Mr. Hunt, but there comes
      only young Michell and his wife, whom my wife concurs with me to be a
      pretty woman, and with her husband is a pretty innocent couple. Mightily
      pleasant we were, and I mightily pleased in her company and to find my
      wife so well pleased with them also. After dinner he and I walked to White
      Hall, not being able to get a coach. He to the Abbey, and I to White Hall,
      but met with nobody to discourse with, having no great mind to be found
      idling there, and be asked questions of the fleete, so walked only through
      to the Parke, and there, it being mighty hot and I weary, lay down by the
      canaille, upon the grasse, and slept awhile, and was thinking of a
      lampoone which hath run in my head this weeke, to make upon the late fight
      at sea, and the miscarriages there; but other businesses put it out of my
      head. Having lain there a while, I then to the Abbey and there called
      Michell, and so walked in great pain, having new shoes on, as far as
      Fleete Streete and there got a coach, and so in some little ease home and
      there drank a great deale of small beer; and so took up my wife and Betty
      Michell and her husband, and away into the fields, to take the ayre, as
      far as beyond Hackny, and so back again, in our way drinking a great deale
      of milke, which I drank to take away, my heartburne, wherewith I have of
      late been mightily troubled, but all the way home I did break abundance of
      wind behind, which did presage no good but a great deal of cold gotten. So
      home and supped and away went Michell and his wife, of whom I stole two or
      three salutes, and so to bed in some pain and in fear of more, which
      accordingly I met with, for I was in mighty pain all night long of the
      winde griping of my belly and making of me shit often and vomit too, which
      is a thing not usual with me, but this I impute to the milke that I drank
      after so much beer, but the cold, to my washing my feet the night before.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Lay in great pain in bed all the morning and most of the afternoon,
      being in much pain, making little or no water, and indeed having little
      within to make any with. And had great twinges with the wind all the day
      in my belly with wind. And a looseness with it, which however made it not
      so great as I have heretofore had it. A wonderful dark sky, and shower of
      rain this morning, which at Harwich proved so too with a shower of hail as
      big as walnuts. I had some broth made me to drink, which I love, only to
      fill up room. Up in the afternoon, and passed the day with Balty, who is
      come from sea for a day or two before the fight, and I perceive could be
      willing fairly to be out of the next fight, and I cannot much blame him,
      he having no reason by his place to be there; however, would not have him
      to be absent, manifestly to avoid being there. At night grew a little
      better and took a glyster of sacke, but taking it by halves it did me not
      much good, I taking but a little of it. However, to bed, and had a pretty
      good night of it,
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. So as to be able to rise to go to the office and there sat, but now
      and then in pain, and without making much water, or freely. However, it
      grew better and better, so as after dinner believing the jogging in a
      coach would do me good, I did take my wife out to the New Exchange to buy
      things. She there while I with Balty went and bought a common
      riding-cloake for myself, to save my best. It cost me but 30s., and will
      do my turne mighty well. Thence home and walked in the garden with Sir W.
      Pen a while, and saying how the riding in the coach do me good (though I
      do not yet much find it), he ordered his to be got ready while I did some
      little business at the office, and so abroad he and I after 8 o'clock at
      night, as far almost as Bow, and so back again, and so home to supper and
      to bed. This day I did bid Balty to agree with the Dutch paynter, which he
      once led me to, to see landskipps, for a winter piece of snow, which
      indeed is a good piece, and costs me but 40s., which I would not take the
      money again for, it being, I think, very good. After a little supper to
      bed, being in less pain still, and had very good rest.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up in good case, and so by coach to St. James's after my fellows,
      and there did our business, which is mostly every day to complain of want
      of money, and that only will undo us in a little time. Here, among other
      things, before us all, the Duke of Yorke did say, that now at length he is
      come to a sure knowledge that the Dutch did lose in the late engagements
      twenty-nine captains and thirteen ships. Upon which Sir W. Coventry did
      publickly move, that if his Royal Highness had this of a certainty, it
      would be of use to send this down to the fleete, and to cause it to be
      spread about the fleete, for the recovering of the spirits of the officers
      and seamen; who are under great dejectedness for want of knowing that they
      did do any thing against the enemy, notwithstanding all that they did to
      us. Which, though it be true, yet methought was one of the most
      dishonourable motions to our countrymen that ever was made; and is worth
      remembering. Thence with Sir W. Pen home, calling at Lilly's, to have a
      time appointed when to be drawn among the other Commanders of Flags the
      last year's fight. And so full of work Lilly is, that he was faro to take
      his table-book out to see how his time is appointed, and appointed six
      days hence for him to come between seven and eight in the morning. Thence
      with him home; and there by appointment I find Dr. Fuller, now Bishop of
      Limericke, in Ireland; whom I knew in his low condition at Twittenham. I
      had also by his desire Sir W. Pen, and with him his lady and daughter, and
      had a good dinner, and find the Bishop the same good man as ever; and in a
      word, kind to us, and, methinks, one of the comeliest and most becoming
      prelates in all respects that ever I saw in my life. During dinner comes
      an acquaintance of his, Sir Thomas Littleton; whom I knew not while he was
      in my house, but liked his discourse; and afterwards, by Sir W. Pen, do
      come to know that he is one of the greatest speakers in the House of
      Commons, and the usual second to the great Vaughan. So was sorry I did
      observe him no more, and gain more of his acquaintance. After dinner, they
      being gone, and I mightily pleased with my guests, I down the river to
      Greenwich, about business, and thence walked to Woolwich, reading "The
      Rivall Ladys" all the way, and find it a most pleasant and fine writ play.
      At Woolwich saw Mr. Shelden, it being late, and there eat and drank, being
      kindly used by him and Bab, and so by water to Deptford, it being 10
      o'clock before I got to Deptford, and dark, and there to Bagwell's, and,
      having staid there a while, away home, and after supper to bed. The Duke
      of Yorke said this day that by the letters from the Generals they would
      sail with the Fleete this day or to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up in very good health in every respect, only my late fever got by
      my pain do break out about my mouth. So to the office, where all the
      morning sitting. Full of wants of money, and much stores to buy, for to
      replenish the stores, and no money to do it with, nor anybody to trust us
      without it. So at noon home to dinner, Balty and his wife with us. By and
      by Balty takes his leave of us, he going away just now towards the fleete,
      where he will pass through one great engagement more before he be two days
      older, I believe. I to the office, where busy all the afternoon, late, and
      then home, and, after some pleasant discourse to my wife, to bed. After I
      was in bed I had a letter from Sir W. Coventry that tells me that the
      fleete is sailed this morning; God send us good newes of them!
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and finding by a letter late last night that the fleete is gone,
      and that Sir W. Pen is ordered to go down to Sheernesse, and finding him
      ready to go to St. James's this morning, I was willing to go with him to
      see how things go,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir William Penn's instructions from the Duke of York directing him
     to embark on his Majesty's yacht "Henrietta," and to see to the
     manning of such ships has had been left behind by the fleet, dated
     on this day, 20th July, is printed in Penn's "Memorials of Sir W.
     Penn," vol. ii., p. 406.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and so with him thither (but no discourse with the Duke), but to White
      Hall, and there the Duke of York did bid Sir W. Pen to stay to discourse
      with him and the King about business of the fleete, which troubled me a
      little, but it was only out of envy, for which I blame myself, having no
      reason to expect to be called to advise in a matter I understand not. So I
      away to Lovett's, there to see how my picture goes on to be varnished (a
      fine Crucifix),
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This picture occasioned Pepys trouble long afterwards, having been
     brought as evidence that he was a Papist (see "Life," vol. i., p.
     xxxiii).]
</pre>
    <p>
      which will be very fine; and here I saw some fine prints, brought from
      France by Sir Thomas Crew, who is lately returned. So home, calling at the
      stationer's for some paper fit to varnish, and in my way home met with
      Lovett, to whom I gave it, and he did present me with a varnished staffe,
      very fine and light to walk with. So home and to dinner, there coming
      young Mrs. Daniel and her sister Sarah, and dined with us; and old Mr.
      Hawly, whose condition pities me, he being forced to turne under
      parish-clerke at St. Gyles's, I think at the other end of the towne.
      Thence I to the office, where busy all the afternoon, and in the evening
      with Sir W. Pen, walking with whom in the garden I am of late mighty
      great, and it is wisdom to continue myself so, for he is of all the men of
      the office at present most manifestly usefull and best thought of. He and
      I supped together upon the seat in the garden, and thence, he gone, my
      wife and Mercer come and walked and sang late, and then home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up and to the office, where all the morning sitting. At noon walked
      in the garden with Commissioner Pett (newly come to towne), who tells me
      how infinite the disorders are among the commanders and all officers of
      the fleete. No discipline: nothing but swearing and cursing, and every
      body doing what they please; and the Generalls, understanding no better,
      suffer it, to the reproaching of this Board, or whoever it will be. He
      himself hath been challenged twice to the field, or something as good, by
      Sir Edward Spragge and Captain Seymour. He tells me that captains carry,
      for all the late orders, what men they please; demand and consume what
      provisions they please. So that he fears, and I do no less, that God
      Almighty cannot bless us while we keep in this disorder that we are in: he
      observing to me too, that there is no man of counsel or advice in the
      fleete; and the truth is, the gentlemen captains will undo us, for they
      are not to be kept in order, their friends about the King and Duke, and
      their own house, is so free, that it is not for any person but the Duke
      himself to have any command over them. He gone I to dinner, and then to
      the office, where busy all the afternoon. At night walked in the garden
      with my wife, and so I home to supper and to bed. Sir W. Pen is gone down
      to Sheernesse to-day to see things made ready against the fleete shall
      come in again, which makes Pett mad, and calls him dissembling knave, and
      that himself takes all the pains and is blamed, while he do nothing but
      hinder business and takes all the honour of it to himself, and tells me
      plainly he will fling, up his commission rather than bear it.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, and there till noon mighty busy,
      setting money matters and other things of mighty moment to rights to the
      great content of my mind, I finding that accounts but a little let go can
      never be put in order by strangers, for I cannot without much difficulty
      do it myself. After dinner to them again till about four o'clock and then
      walked to White Hall, where saw nobody almost but walked up and down with
      Hugh May, who is a very ingenious man. Among other things, discoursing of
      the present fashion of gardens to make them plain, that we have the best
      walks of gravell in the world, France having no nor Italy; and our green
      of our bowling allies is better than any they have. So our business here
      being ayre, this is the best way, only with a little mixture of statues,
      or pots, which may be handsome, and so filled with another pot of such and
      such a flower or greene as the season of the year will bear. And then for
      flowers, they are best seen in a little plat by themselves; besides, their
      borders spoil the walks of another garden: and then for fruit, the best
      way is to have walls built circularly one within another, to the South, on
      purpose for fruit, and leave the walking garden only for that use. Thence
      walked through the House, where most people mighty hush and, methinks,
      melancholy. I see not a smiling face through the whole Court; and, in my
      conscience, they are doubtfull of the conduct again of the Generalls, and
      I pray God they may not make their fears reasonable. Sir Richard Fanshaw
      is lately dead at Madrid. Guyland is lately overthrowne wholly in Barbary
      by the King of Tafiletta. The fleete cannot yet get clear of the River,
      but expect the first wind to be out, and then to be sure they fight. The
      Queene and Maids of Honour are at Tunbridge.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and to my chamber doing several things there of moment, and then
      comes Sympson, the Joyner; and he and I with great pains contriving
      presses to put my books up in: they now growing numerous, and lying one
      upon another on my chairs, I lose the use to avoyde the trouble of
      removing them, when I would open a book. Thence out to the Excise office
      about business, and then homewards met Colvill, who tells me he hath L1000
      ready for me upon a tally; which pleases me, and yet I know not now what
      to do with it, having already as much money as is fit for me to have in
      the house, but I will have it. I did also meet Alderman Backewell, who
      tells me of the hard usage he now finds from Mr. Fen, in not getting him a
      bill or two paid, now that he can be no more usefull to him; telling me
      that what by his being abroad and Shaw's death he hath lost the ball, but
      that he doubts not to come to give a kicke at it still, and then he shall
      be wiser and keepe it while he hath it. But he says he hath a good master,
      the King, who will not suffer him to be undone, as otherwise he must have
      been, and I believe him. So home and to dinner, where I confess,
      reflecting upon the ease and plenty that I live in, of money, goods,
      servants, honour, every thing, I could not but with hearty thanks to
      Almighty God ejaculate my thanks to Him while I was at dinner, to myself.
      After dinner to the office and there till five or six o'clock, and then by
      coach to St. James's and there with Sir W. Coventry and Sir G. Downing to
      take the gyre in the Parke. All full of expectation of the fleete's
      engagement, but it is not yet. Sir W. Coventry says they are eighty-nine
      men-of-warr, but one fifth-rate, and that, the Sweepstakes, which carries
      forty guns. They are most infinitely manned. He tells me the Loyall
      London, Sir J. Smith (which, by the way, he commends to be the-best ship
      in the world, large and small), hath above eight hundred men; and moreover
      takes notice, which is worth notice, that the fleete hath lane now near
      fourteen days without any demand for a farthingworth of any thing of any
      kind, but only to get men. He also observes, that with this excesse of
      men, nevertheless, they have thought fit to leave behind them sixteen
      ships, which they have robbed of their men, which certainly might have
      been manned, and they been serviceable in the fight, and yet the fleete
      well-manned, according to the excesse of supernumeraries, which we hear
      they have. At least two or three of them might have been left manned, and
      sent away with the Gottenburgh ships. They conclude this to be much the
      best fleete, for force of guns, greatnesse and number of ships and men,
      that ever England did see; being, as Sir W. Coventry reckons, besides
      those left behind, eighty-nine men of warr and twenty fire-ships, though
      we cannot hear that they have with them above eighteen. The French are not
      yet joined with the Dutch, which do dissatisfy the Hollanders, and if they
      should have a defeat, will undo De Witt; the people generally of Holland
      do hate this league with France. We cannot think of any business, but lie
      big with expectation of the issue of this fight, but do conclude that,
      this fight being over, we shall be able to see the whole issue of the
      warr, good or bad. So homeward, and walked over the Parke (St. James's)
      with Sir G. Downing, and at White Hall took a coach; and there to supper
      with much pleasure and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and to the office, where little business done, our heads being
      full of expectation of the fleete's being engaged, but no certain notice
      of it, only Sheppeard in the Duke's yacht left them yesterday morning
      within a league of the Dutch fleete, and making after them, they standing
      into the sea. At noon to dinner, and after dinner with Mercer (as of late
      my practice is) a song and so to the office, there to set up again my
      frames about my Platts, which I have got to be all gilded, and look very
      fine, and then to my business, and busy very late, till midnight, drawing
      up a representation of the state of my victualling business to the Duke, I
      having never appeared to him doing anything yet and therefore I now do it
      in writing, I now having the advantage of having had two fleetes
      dispatched in better condition than ever any fleetes were yet, I believe;
      at least, with least complaint, and by this means I shall with the better
      confidence get my bills out for my salary. So home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up betimes to write fair my last night's paper for the Duke, and so
      along with Sir W. Batten by hackney coach to St. James's, where the Duke
      is gone abroad with the King to the Parke, but anon come back to White
      Hall, and we, after an houre's waiting, walked thither (I having desired
      Sir W. Coventry in his chamber to read over my paper about the
      victualling, which he approves of, and I am glad I showed it him first, it
      makes it the less necessary to show it the Duke at all, if I find it best
      to let it alone). At White Hall we find [the Court] gone to Chappell, it
      being St. James's-day. And by and by, while they are at chappell, and we
      waiting chappell being done, come people out of the Parke, telling us that
      the guns are heard plain. And so every body to the Parke, and by and by
      the chappell done, and the King and Duke into the bowling-green, and upon
      the leads, whither I went, and there the guns were plain to be heard;
      though it was pretty to hear how confident some would be in the loudnesse
      of the guns, which it was as much as ever I could do to hear them. By and
      by the King to dinner, and I waited there his dining; but, Lord! how
      little I should be pleased, I think, to have so many people crowding about
      me; and among other things it astonished me to see my Lord Barkeshire
      waiting at table, and serving the King drink, in that dirty pickle as I
      never saw man in my life. Here I met Mr. Williams, who in serious
      discourse told me he did hope well of this fight because of the equality
      of force or rather our having the advantage in number, and also because we
      did not go about it with the presumption that we did heretofore, when, he
      told me, he did before the last fight look upon us by our pride fated to
      be overcome. He would have me to dine where he was invited to dine, at the
      Backe-stayres. So after the King's meat was taken away, we thither; but he
      could not stay, but left me there among two or three of the King's
      servants, where we dined with the meat that come from his table; which was
      most excellent, with most brave drink cooled in ice (which at this hot
      time was welcome), and I drinking no wine, had metheglin for the King's
      owne drinking, which did please me mightily. Thence, having dined mighty
      nobly, I away to Mrs. Martin's new lodgings, where I find her, and was
      with her close, but, Lord! how big she is already. She is, at least seems,
      in mighty trouble for her husband at sea, when I am sure she cares not for
      him, and I would not undeceive her, though I know his ship is one of those
      that is not gone, but left behind without men. Thence to White Hall again
      to hear news, but found none; so back toward Westminster, and there met
      Mrs. Burroughs, whom I had a mind to meet, but being undressed did appear
      a mighty ordinary woman. Thence by water home, and out again by coach to
      Lovett's to see my Crucifix, which is not done. So to White Hall again to
      have met Sir G. Carteret, but he is gone, abroad, so back homewards, and
      seeing Mr. Spong took him up, and he and I to Reeves, the glass maker's,
      and did set several glasses and had pretty discourse with him, and so
      away, and set down Mr. Spong in London, and so home and with my wife,
      late, twatling at my Lady Pen's, and so home to supper and to bed. I did
      this afternoon call at my woman that ruled my paper to bespeak a musique
      card, and there did kiss Nan. No news to-night from the fleete how matters
      go yet.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined at home:
      Mr. Hunt and his wife, who is very gallant, and newly come from Cambridge,
      because of the sicknesse, with us. Very merry at table, and the people I
      do love mightily, but being in haste to go to White Hall I rose, and Mr.
      Hunt with me, and by coach thither, where I left him in the boarded
      gallery, and I by appointment to attend the Duke of Yorke at his closett,
      but being not come, Sir G. Carteret and I did talke together, and [he]
      advises me, that, if I could, I would get the papers of examination
      touching the business of the last year's prizes, which concern my Lord
      Sandwich, out of Warcupp's hands, who being now under disgrace and poor,
      he believes may be brought easily to part with them. My Lord Crew, it
      seems, is fearfull yet that maters may be enquired into. This I will
      endeavour to do, though I do not thinke it signifies much. By and by the
      Duke of Yorke comes and we had a meeting and, among other things, I did
      read my declaration of the proceedings of the Victualling hired this
      yeare, and desired his Royall Highnesse to give me the satisfaction of
      knowing whether his Royall Highnesse were pleased therewith. He told me he
      was, and that it was a good account, and that the business of the
      Victualling was much in a better condition than it was the last yeare;
      which did much joy me, being said in the company of my fellows, by which I
      shall be able with confidence to demand my salary and the rest of the
      subsurveyors. Thence away mightily satisfied to Mrs. Pierces, there to
      find my wife. Mrs. Pierce hath lain in of a boy about a month. The boy is
      dead this day. She lies in good state, and very pretty she is, but
      methinks do every day grow more and more great, and a little too much,
      unless they get more money than I fear they do. Thence with my wife and
      Mercer to my Lord Chancellor's new house, and there carried them up to the
      leads, where I find my Lord Chamberlain, Lauderdale, Sir Robert Murray,
      and others, and do find it the most delightfull place for prospect that
      ever was in the world, and even ravishing me, and that is all, in short, I
      can say of it. Thence to Islington to our old house and eat and drank, and
      so round by Kingsland home, and there to the office a little and Sir W.
      Batten's, but no newes at all from the fleete, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up and to the office, where all the morning busy. At noon dined at
      home and then to the office again, and there walking in the garden with
      Captain Cocke till 5 o'clock. No newes yet of the fleete. His great
      bargaine of Hempe with us by his unknown proposition is disliked by the
      King, and so is quite off; of which he is glad, by this means being rid of
      his obligation to my Lord Bruncker, which he was tired with, and
      especially his mistresse, Mrs. Williams, and so will fall into another way
      about it, wherein he will advise only with myself, which do not displease
      me, and will be better for him and the King too. Much common talke of
      publique business, the want of money, the uneasinesse that Parliament will
      find in raising any, and the ill condition we shall be in if they do not,
      and his confidence that the Swede is true to us, but poor, but would be
      glad to do us all manner of service in the world. He gone, I away by water
      from the Old Swan to White Hall. The waterman tells me that newes is come
      that our ship Resolution is burnt, and that we had sunke four or five of
      the enemy's ships. When I come to White Hall I met with Creed, and he
      tells me the same news, and walking with him to the Park I to Sir W.
      Coventry's lodging, and there he showed me Captain Talbot's letter,
      wherein he says that the fight begun on the 25th; that our White squadron
      begun with one of the Dutch squadrons, and then the Red with another so
      hot that we put them both to giving way, and so they continued in pursuit
      all the day, and as long as he stayed with them: that the Blue fell to the
      Zealand squadron; and after a long dispute, he against two or three great
      ships, he received eight or nine dangerous shots, and so come away; and
      says, he saw the Resolution burned by one of their fire-ships, and four or
      five of the enemy's. But says that two or three of our great ships were in
      danger of being fired by our owne fire-ships, which Sir W. Coventry, nor
      I, cannot understand. But upon the whole, he and I walked two or three
      turns in the Parke under the great trees, and do doubt that this gallant
      is come away a little too soon, having lost never a mast nor sayle. And
      then we did begin to discourse of the young gentlemen captains, which he
      was very free with me in speaking his mind of the unruliness of them; and
      what a losse the King hath of his old men, and now of this Hannam, of the
      Resolution, if he be dead, and that there is but few old sober men in the
      fleete, and if these few of the Flags that are so should die, he fears
      some other gentlemen captains will get in, and then what a council we
      shall have, God knows. He told me how he is disturbed to hear the
      commanders at sea called cowards here on shore, and that he was yesterday
      concerned publiquely at a dinner to defend them, against somebody that
      said that not above twenty of them fought as they should do, and indeed it
      is derived from the Duke of Albemarle himself, who wrote so to the King
      and Duke, and that he told them how they fought four days, two of them
      with great disadvantage. The Count de Guiche, who was on board De Ruyter,
      writing his narrative home in French of the fight, do lay all the honour
      that may be upon the English courage above the Dutch, and that he himself
      [Sir W. Coventry] was sent down from the King and Duke of Yorke after the
      fight, to pray them to spare none that they thought had not done their
      parts, and that they had removed but four, whereof Du Tell is one, of whom
      he would say nothing; but, it seems, the Duke of Yorke hath been much
      displeased at his removal, and hath now taken him into his service, which
      is a plain affront to the Duke of Albemarle; and two of the others, Sir W.
      Coventry did speake very slenderly of their faults. Only the last, which
      was old Teddiman, he says, is in fault, and hath little to excuse himself
      with; and that, therefore, we should not be forward in condemning men of
      want of courage, when the Generalls, who are both men of metal, and hate
      cowards, and had the sense of our ill successe upon them (and by the way
      must either let the world thinke it was the miscarriage of the Captains or
      their owne conduct), have thought fit to remove no more of them, when
      desired by the King and Duke of Yorke to do it, without respect to any
      favour any of them can pretend to in either of them. At last we concluded
      that we never can hope to beat the Dutch with such advantage as now in
      number and force and a fleete in want of nothing, and he hath often
      repeated now and at other times industriously that many of the Captains
      have: declared that they want nothing, and again, that they did lie ten
      days together at the Nore without demanding of any thing in the world but
      men, and of them they afterward, when they went away, the generalls
      themselves acknowledge that they have permitted several ships to carry
      supernumeraries, but that if we do not speede well, we must then play
      small games and spoile their trade in small parties. And so we parted, and
      I, meeting Creed in the Parke again, did take him by coach and to
      Islington, thinking to have met my Lady Pen and wife, but they were gone,
      so we eat and drank and away back, setting him down in Cheapside and I
      home, and there after a little while making of my tune to "It is decreed,"
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and to the office, where no more newes of the fleete than was
      yesterday. Here we sat and at noon to dinner to the Pope's Head, where my
      Lord Bruncker and his mistresse dined and Commissioner Pett, Dr.
      Charleton, and myself, entertained with a venison pasty by Sir W. Warren.
      Here very pretty discourse of Dr. Charleton's, concerning Nature's
      fashioning every creature's teeth according to the food she intends them;
      and that men's, it is plain, was not for flesh, but for fruit, and that he
      can at any time tell the food of a beast unknown by the teeth. My Lord
      Bruncker made one or two objections to it that creatures find their food
      proper for their teeth rather than that the teeth were fitted for the
      food, but the Doctor, I think, did well observe that creatures do
      naturally and from the first, before they have had experience to try, do
      love such a food rather than another, and that all children love fruit,
      and none brought to flesh, but against their wills at first. Thence with
      my Lord Bruncker to White Hall, where no news. So to St. James's to Sir W.
      Coventry, and there hear only of the Bredah's being come in and gives the
      same small account that the other did yesterday, so that we know not what
      is done by the body of the fleete at all, but conceive great reason to
      hope well. Thence with my Lord to his coach-house, and there put in his
      six horses into his coach, and he and I alone to Highgate. All the way
      going and coming I learning of him the principles of Optickes, and what it
      is that makes an object seem less or bigger and how much distance do
      lessen an object, and that it is not the eye at all, or any rule in
      optiques, that can tell distance, but it is only an act of reason
      comparing of one mark with another, which did both please and inform me
      mightily. Being come thither we went to my Lord Lauderdale's house to
      speake with him, about getting a man at Leith to joyne with one we employ
      to buy some prize goods for the King; we find [him] and his lady and some
      Scotch people at supper. Pretty odd company; though my Lord Bruncker tells
      me, my Lord Lauderdale is a man of mighty good reason and judgement. But
      at supper there played one of their servants upon the viallin some Scotch
      tunes only; several, and the best of their country, as they seemed to
      esteem them, by their praising and admiring them: but, Lord! the strangest
      ayre that ever I heard in my life, and all of one cast. But strange to
      hear my Lord Lauderdale say himself that he had rather hear a cat mew,
      than the best musique in the world; and the better the musique, the more
      sicke it makes him; and that of all instruments, he hates the lute most,
      and next to that, the baggpipe. Thence back with my Lord to his house, all
      the way good discourse, informing of myself about optiques still, and
      there left him and by a hackney home, and after writing three or four
      letters, home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). Up and all the morning in my chamber making up my
      accounts in my book with my father and brother and stating them. Towards
      noon before sermon was done at church comes newes by a letter to Sir W.
      Batten, to my hand, of the late fight, which I sent to his house, he at
      church. But, Lord! with what impatience I staid till sermon was done, to
      know the issue of the fight, with a thousand hopes and fears and thoughts
      about the consequences of either. At last sermon is done and he come home,
      and the bells immediately rung soon as the church was done. But coming; to
      Sir W. Batten to know the newes, his letter said nothing of it; but all
      the towne is full of a victory. By and by a letter from Sir W. Coventry
      tells me that we have the victory. Beat them into the Weelings;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In a letter from Richard Browne to Williamson, dated Yarmouth, July
     30th, we read, "The Zealanders were engaged with the Blue squadron
     Wednesday and most of Thursday, but at length the Zealanders ran;
     the Dutch fleet escaped to the Weelings and Goree" ("Calendar of
     State Papers," 1665-66, p  591).]
</pre>
    <p>
      had taken two of their great ships; but by the orders of the Generalls
      they are burned. This being, methought, but a poor result after the
      fighting of two so great fleetes, and four days having no tidings of them,
      I was still impatient; but could know no more. So away home to dinner,
      where Mr. Spong and Reeves dined with me by invitation. And after dinner
      to our business of my microscope to be shown some of the observables of
      that, and then down to my office to looke in a darke room with my glasses
      and tube, and most excellently things appeared indeed beyond imagination.
      This was our worke all the afternoon trying the several glasses and
      several objects, among others, one of my plates, where the lines appeared
      so very plain that it is not possible to thinke how plain it was done.
      Thence satisfied exceedingly with all this we home and to discourse many
      pretty things, and so staid out the afternoon till it began to be dark,
      and then they away and I to Sir W. Batten, where the Lieutenant of the
      Tower was, and Sir John Minnes, and the newes I find is no more or less
      than what I had heard before; only that our Blue squadron, it seems, was
      pursued the most of the time, having more ships, a great many, than its
      number allotted to her share. Young Seamour is killed, the only captain
      slain. The Resolution burned; but, as they say, most of her [crew] and
      commander saved. This is all, only we keep the sea, which denotes a
      victory, or at least that we are not beaten; but no great matters to brag
      of, God knows. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and did some business in my chamber, then by and by comes my
      boy's Lute-Master, and I did direct him hereafter to begin to teach him to
      play his part on the Theorbo, which he will do, and that in a little time
      I believe. So to the office, and there with Sir W. Warren, with whom I
      have spent no time a good while. We set right our business of the
      Lighters, wherein I thinke I shall get L100. At noon home to dinner and
      there did practise with Mercer one of my new tunes that I have got Dr.
      Childe to set me a base to and it goes prettily. Thence abroad to pay
      several debts at the end of the month, and so to Sir W. Coventry, at St.
      James's, where I find him in his new closett, which is very fine, and well
      supplied with handsome books. I find him speak very slightly of the late
      victory: dislikes their staying with the fleete up their coast, believing
      that the Dutch will come out in fourteen days, and then we with our
      unready fleete, by reason of some of the ships being maymed, shall be in
      bad condition to fight them upon their owne coast: is much dissatisfied
      with the great number of men, and their fresh demands of twenty-four
      victualling ships, they going out but the other day as full as they could
      stow. I asked him whether he did never desire an account of the number of
      supernumeraries, as I have done several ways, without which we shall be in
      great errour about the victuals; he says he has done it again and again,
      and if any mistake should happen they must thanke themselves. He spoke
      slightly of the Duke of Albemarle, saying, when De Ruyter come to give him
      a broadside&mdash;"Now," says he, chewing of tobacco the while, "will this
      fellow come and give, me two broadsides, and then he will run;" but it
      seems he held him to it two hours, till the Duke himself was forced to
      retreat to refit, and was towed off, and De Ruyter staid for him till he
      come back again to fight. One in the ship saying to the Duke, "Sir,
      methinks De Ruyter hath given us more: than two broadsides;"&mdash;"Well,"
      says the Duke, "but you shall find him run by and by," and so he did, says
      Sir W. Coventry; but after the Duke himself had been first made to fall
      off. The Resolution had all brass guns, being the same that Sir J. Lawson
      had in her in the Straights. It is observed that the two fleetes were even
      in number to one ship. Thence home; and to sing with my wife and Mercer in
      the garden; and coming in I find my wife plainly dissatisfied with me,
      that I can spend so much time with Mercer, teaching her to sing and could
      never take the pains with her. Which I acknowledge; but it is because that
      the girl do take musique mighty readily, and she do not, and musique is
      the thing of the world that I love most, and all the pleasure almost that
      I can now take. So to bed in some little discontent, but no words from me.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Good friends in the morning and up to the office, where sitting all
      the morning, and while at table we were mightily joyed with newes brought
      by Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Batten of the death of De Ruyter, but when Sir
      W. Coventry come, he told us there was no such thing, which quite dashed
      me again, though, God forgive me! I was a little sorry in my heart before
      lest it might give occasion of too much glory to the Duke of Albemarle.
      Great bandying this day between Sir W. Coventry and my Lord Bruncker about
      Captain Cocke, which I am well pleased with, while I keepe from any open
      relyance on either side, but rather on Sir W. Coventry's. At noon had a
      haunch of venison boiled and a very good dinner besides, there dining with
      me on a sudden invitation the two mayden sisters, Bateliers, and their
      elder brother, a pretty man, understanding and well discoursed, much
      pleased with his company. Having dined myself I rose to go to a Committee
      of Tangier, and did come thither time enough to meet Povy and Creed and
      none else. The Court being empty, the King being gone to Tunbridge, and
      the Duke of Yorke a-hunting. I had some discourse with Povy, who is
      mightily discontented, I find, about his disappointments at Court; and
      says, of all places, if there be hell, it is here. No faith, no truth, no
      love, nor any agreement between man and wife, nor friends. He would have
      spoke broader, but I put it off to another time; and so parted. Then with
      Creed and read over with him the narrative of the late [fight], which he
      makes a very poor thing of, as it is indeed, and speaks most slightingly
      of the whole matter. Povy discoursed with me about my Lord Peterborough's
      L50 which his man did give me from him, the last year's salary I paid him,
      which he would have Povy pay him again; but I have not taken it to myself
      yet, and therefore will most heartily return him, and mark him out for a
      coxcomb. Povy went down to Mr. Williamson's, and brought me up this
      extract out of the Flanders' letters to-day come: That Admiral Everson,
      and the Admiral and Vice-Admiral of Freezeland, with many captains and
      men, are slain; that De Ruyter is safe, but lost 250 men out of his own
      ship; but that he is in great disgrace, and Trump in better favour; that
      Bankert's ship is burned, himself hardly escaping with a few men on board
      De Haes; that fifteen captains are to be tried the seventh of August; and
      that the hangman was sent from Flushing to assist the Council of Warr. How
      much of this is true, time will shew. Thence to Westminster Hall and
      walked an hour with Creed talking of the late fight, and observing the
      ridiculous management thereof and success of the Duke of Albemarle. Thence
      parted and to Mrs. Martin's lodgings, and sat with her a while, and then
      by water home, all the way reading the Narrative of the late fight in
      order, it may be, to the making some marginal notes upon it. At the Old
      Swan found my Betty Michell at the doore, where I staid talking with her a
      pretty while, it being dusky, and kissed her and so away home and writ my
      letters, and then home to supper, where the brother and Mary Batelier are
      still and Mercer's two sisters. They have spent the time dancing this
      afternoon, and we were very merry, and then after supper into the garden
      and there walked, and then home with them and then back again, my wife and
      I and the girle, and sang in the garden and then to bed. Colville was with
      me this morning, and to my great joy I could now have all my money in,
      that I have in the world. But the times being open again, I thinke it is
      best to keepe some of it abroad. Mighty well, and end this month in
      content of mind and body. The publique matters looking more safe for the
      present than they did, and we having a victory over the Dutch just such as
      I could have wished, and as the kingdom was fit to bear, enough to give us
      the name of conquerors, and leave us masters of the sea, but without any
      such great matters done as should give the Duke of Albemarle any honour at
      all, or give him cause to rise to his former insolence.
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    <p>
      August 1st. Up betimes to the settling of my last month's accounts, and I
      bless God I find them very clear, and that I am worth L5700, the most that
      ever my book did yet make out. So prepared to attend the Duke of Yorke as
      usual, but Sir W. Pen, just as I was going out, comes home from
      Sheernesse, and held me in discourse about publique business, till I come
      by coach too late to St. James's, and there find that every thing stood
      still, and nothing done for want of me. Thence walked over the Parke with
      Sir W. Coventry, who I clearly see is not thoroughly pleased with the late
      management of the fight, nor with any thing that the Generalls do; only is
      glad to hear that De Ruyter is out of favour, and that this fight hath
      cost them 5,000 men, as they themselves do report. And it is a strange
      thing, as he observes, how now and then the slaughter runs on one hand;
      there being 5,000 killed on theirs, and not above 400 or 500 killed and
      wounded on ours, and as many flag-officers on theirs as ordinary captains
      in ours; there being Everson, and the Admiral and Vice-Admiral of
      Freezeland on theirs, and Seamour, Martin, and&mdash;&mdash;-, on ours. I
      left him going to Chappell, it being the common fast day, and the Duke of
      York at Chappell. And I to Mrs. Martin's, but she abroad, so I sauntered
      to or again to the Abbey, and then to the parish church, fearfull of being
      seen to do so, and so after the parish church was ended, I to the Swan and
      there dined upon a rabbit, and after dinner to Mrs. Martin's, and there
      find Mrs. Burroughs, and by and by comes a pretty widow, one Mrs.
      Eastwood, and one Mrs. Fenton, a maid; and here merry kissing and looking
      on their breasts, and all the innocent pleasure in the world. But, Lord!
      to see the dissembling of this widow, how upon the singing of a certain
      jigg by Doll, Mrs. Martin's sister, she seemed to be sick and fainted and
      God knows what, because the jigg, which her husband (who died this last
      sickness) loved. But by and by I made her as merry as is possible, and
      towzed and tumbled her as I pleased, and then carried her and her sober
      pretty kinswoman Mrs. Fenton home to their lodgings in the new market of
      my Lord Treasurer's, and there left them. Mightily pleased with this
      afternoon's mirth, but in great pain to ride in a coach with them, for
      fear of being seen. So home, and there much pleased with my wife's drawing
      today in her pictures, and so to supper and to bed very pleasant.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. [Up] and to the office, where we sat, and in discourse at the table
      with Sir W. Batten, I was obliged to tell him it was an untruth, which did
      displease him mightily, and parted at noon very angry with me. At home
      find Lovett, who brought me some papers varnished, and showed me my
      crucifix, which will be very fine when done. He dined with me and Balty's
      wife, who is in great pain for her husband, not hearing of him since the
      fight; but I understand he was not in it, going hence too late, and I am
      glad of it. Thence to the office, and thither comes to me Creed, and he
      and I walked a good while, and then to the victualling office together,
      and there with Mr. Gawden I did much business, and so away with Creed
      again, and by coach to see my Lord Bruncker, who it seems was not well
      yesterday, but being come thither, I find his coach ready to carry him
      abroad, but Tom, his footman, whatever the matter was, was lothe to desire
      me to come in, but I walked a great while in the Piatza till I was going
      away, but by and by my Lord himself comes down and coldly received me. So
      I soon parted, having enough for my over officious folly in troubling
      myself to visit him, and I am apt to think that he was fearfull that my
      coming was out of design to see how he spent his time [rather] than to
      enquire after his health. So parted, and I with Creed down to the New
      Exchange Stairs, and there I took water, and he parted, so home, and then
      down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of the "Rival Ladys," and find
      it a very pretty play. At Woolwich, it being now night, I find my wife and
      Mercer, and Mr. Batelier and Mary there, and a supper getting ready. So I
      staid, in some pain, it being late, and post night. So supped and merrily
      home, but it was twelve at night first. However, sent away some letters,
      and home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up and to the office, where Sir W. Batten and I sat to contract for
      some fire-ships. I there close all the morning. At noon home to dinner,
      and then abroad to Sir Philip Warwicke's at White Hall about Tangier one
      quarter tallys, and there had some serious discourse touching money, and
      the case of the Navy, wherein all I could get of him was that we had the
      full understanding of the treasure as much as my Lord Treasurer himself,
      and knew what he can do, and that whatever our case is, more money cannot
      be got till the Parliament. So talked of getting an account ready as soon
      as we could to give the Parliament, and so very melancholy parted. So I
      back again, calling my wife at her sister's, from whose husband we do now
      hear that he was safe this week, and going in a ship to the fleete from
      the buoy of the Nore, where he has been all this while, the fleete being
      gone before he got down. So home, and busy till night, and then to Sir W.
      Pen, with my wife, to sit and chat, and a small supper, and home to bed.
      The death of Everson, and the report of our success, beyond expectation,
      in the killing of so great a number of men, hath raised the estimation of
      the late victory considerably; but it is only among fools: for all that
      was but accidental. But this morning, getting Sir.W. Pen to read over the
      Narrative with me, he did sparingly, yet plainly, say that we might have
      intercepted their Zealand squadron coming home, if we had done our parts;
      and more, that we might have spooned before the wind as well as they, and
      have overtaken their ships in the pursuite, in all the while.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [To spoom, or spoon, is to go right before the wind, without any
     sail.  Sea Dictionary.  Dryden uses the word

              "When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale,
               My heaving wishes help to fill the sail."
                                        Hind and Panther, iii. 96.]
</pre>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and, at noon to dinner,
      and Mr. Cooke dined with us, who is lately come from Hinchingbroke, [Lord
      Hinchingbrooke] who is also come to town: The family all well. Then I to
      the office, where very busy to state to Mr. Coventry the account of the
      victuals of the fleete, and late at it, and then home to supper and to
      bed. This evening, Sir W. Pen come into the garden, and walked with me,
      and told me that he had certain notice that at Flushing they are in great
      distraction. De Ruyter dares not come on shore for fear of the people; nor
      any body open their houses or shops for fear of the tumult: which is a
      every good hearing.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. (Lord's day). Up, and down to the Old Swan, and there called Betty
      Michell and her husband, and had two or three a long salutes from her out
      of sight of 'su mari', which pleased me mightily, and so carried them by
      water to West minster, and I to St. James's, and there had a meeting
      before the Duke of Yorke, complaining of want of money, but nothing done
      to any purpose, for want we shall, so that now our advices to him signify
      nothing. Here Sir W. Coventry did acquaint the Duke of Yorke how the world
      do discourse of the ill method of our books, and that we would consider
      how to answer any enquiry which shall be made after our practice therein,
      which will I think concern the Controller most, but I shall make it a
      memento to myself. Thence walked to the Parish Church to have one look
      upon Betty Michell, and so away homeward by water, and landed to go to the
      church, where, I believe, Mrs. Horsely goes, by Merchant-tailors' Hall,
      and there I find in the pulpit Elborough, my old schoolfellow and a simple
      rogue, and yet I find him preaching a very good sermon, and in as right a
      parson-like manner, and in good manner too, as I have heard any body; and
      the church very full, which is a surprising consideration; but I did not
      see her. So home, and had a good dinner, and after dinner with my wife,
      and Mercer, and Jane by water, all the afternoon up as high as Morclaeke
      with great pleasure, and a fine day, reading over the second part of the
      "Siege of Rhodes," with great delight. We landed and walked at
      Barne-elmes, and then at the Neat Houses I landed and bought a millon,&mdash;[melon]&mdash;and
      we did also land and eat and drink at Wandsworth, and so to the Old Swan,
      and thence walked home. It being a mighty fine cool evening, and there
      being come, my wife and I spent an houre in the garden, talking of our
      living in the country, when I shall be turned out of the office, as I fear
      the Parliament may find faults enough with the office to remove us all,
      and I am joyed to think in how good a condition I am to retire thither,
      and have wherewith very well to subsist. Nan, at Sir W. Pen's, lately
      married to one Markeham, a kinsman of Sir W. Pen's, a pretty wench she is.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to the office a while, and then by water to my Lady
      Montagu's, at Westminster, and there visited my Lard Hinchingbroke, newly
      come from Hinchingbroke, and find him a mighty sober gentleman, to my
      great content. Thence to Sir Ph. Warwicke and my Lord Treasurer's, but
      failed in my business; so home and in Fenchurch-streete met with Mr.
      Battersby; says he, "Do you see Dan Rawlinson's door shut up?" (which I
      did, and wondered). "Why," says he, "after all the sickness, and himself
      spending all the last year in the country, one of his men is now dead of
      the plague, and his wife and one of his mayds sicke, and himself shut up;"
      which troubles me mightily. So home; and there do hear also from Mrs.
      Sarah Daniel, that Greenwich is at this time much worse than ever it was,
      and Deptford too: and she told us that they believed all the towne would
      leave the towne and come to London; which is now the receptacle of all the
      people from all infected places. God preserve us! So by and by to dinner,
      and, after dinner in comes Mrs. Knipp, and I being at the office went home
      to her, and there I sat and talked with her, it being the first time of
      her being here since her being brought to bed. I very pleasant with her;
      but perceive my wife hath no great pleasure in her being here, she not
      being pleased with my kindnesse to her. However, we talked and sang, and
      were very pleasant. By and by comes Mr. Pierce and his wife, the first
      time she also hath been here since her lying-in, both having been brought
      to bed of boys, and both of them dead. And here we talked, and were
      pleasant, only my wife in a chagrin humour, she not being pleased with my
      kindnesse to either of them, and by and by she fell into some silly
      discourse wherein I checked her, which made her mighty pettish, and
      discoursed mighty offensively to Mrs. Pierce, which did displease me, but
      I would make no words, but put the discourse by as much as I could (it
      being about a report that my wife said was made of herself and meant by
      Mrs. Pierce, that she was grown a gallant, when she had but so few suits
      of clothes these two or three years, and a great deale of that silly
      discourse), and by and by Mrs. Pierce did tell her that such discourses
      should not trouble her, for there went as bad on other people, and
      particularly of herself at this end of the towne, meaning my wife, that
      she was crooked, which was quite false, which my wife had the wit not to
      acknowledge herself to be the speaker of, though she has said it twenty
      times. But by this means we had little pleasure in their visit; however,
      Knipp and I sang, and then I offered them to carry them home, and to take
      my wife with me, but she would not go: so I with them, leaving my wife in
      a very ill humour, and very slighting to them, which vexed me. However, I
      would not be removed from my civility to them, but sent for a coach, and
      went with them; and, in our way, Knipp saying that she come out of doors
      without a dinner to us, I took them to Old Fish Streete, to the very house
      and woman where I kept my wedding dinner, where I never was since, and
      there I did give them a joie of salmon, and what else was to be had. And
      here we talked of the ill-humour of my wife, which I did excuse as much as
      I could, and they seemed to admit of it, but did both confess they
      wondered at it; but from thence to other discourse, and among others to
      that of my Lord Bruncker and Mrs. Williams, who it seems do speake mighty
      hardly of me for my not treating them, and not giving her something to her
      closett, and do speake worse of my wife, and dishonourably, but it is what
      she do of all the world, though she be a whore herself; so I value it not.
      But they told me how poorly my Lord carried himself the other day to his
      kinswoman, Mrs. Howard, and was displeased because she called him uncle to
      a little gentlewoman that is there with him, which he will not admit of;
      for no relation is to be challenged from others to a lord, and did treat
      her thereupon very rudely and ungenteely. Knipp tells me also that my Lord
      keeps another woman besides Mrs. Williams; and that, when I was there the
      other day, there was a great hubbub in the house, Mrs. Williams being
      fallen sicke, because my Lord was gone to his other mistresse, making her
      wait for him, till his return from the other mistresse; and a great deale
      of do there was about it; and Mrs. Williams swounded at it, at the very
      time when I was there and wondered at the reason of my being received so
      negligently. I set them both at home, Knipp at her house, her husband
      being at the doore; and glad she was to be found to have staid out so long
      with me and Mrs. Pierce, and none else; and Mrs. Pierce at her house, and
      am mightily pleased with the discretion of her during the simplicity and
      offensiveness of my wife's discourse this afternoon. I perceive by the new
      face at Mrs. Pierces door that our Mary is gone from her. So I home,
      calling on W. Joyce in my coach, and staid and talked a little with him,
      who is the same silly prating fellow that ever he was, and so home, and
      there find my wife mightily out of order, and reproaching of Mrs. Pierce
      and Knipp as wenches, and I know not what. But I did give her no words to
      offend her, and quietly let all pass, and so to bed without any good looke
      or words to or from my wife.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and home to
      dinner, and then to the office again, being pretty good friends with my
      wife again, no angry words passed; but she finding fault with Mercer,
      suspecting that it was she that must have told Mary, that must have told
      her mistresse of my wife's saying that she was crooked. But the truth is,
      she is jealous of my kindnesse to her. After dinner, to the office, and
      did a great deale of business. In the evening comes Mr. Reeves, with a
      twelve-foote glasse, so I left the office and home, where I met Mr.
      Batelier with my wife, in order to our going to-morrow, by agreement, to
      Bow to see a dancing meeting. But, Lord! to see how soon I could conceive
      evil fears and thoughts concerning them; so Reeves and I and they up to
      the top of the house, and there we endeavoured to see the moon, and
      Saturne and Jupiter; but the heavens proved cloudy, and so we lost our
      labour, having taken pains to get things together, in order to the
      managing of our long glasse. So down to supper and then to bed, Reeves
      lying at my house, but good discourse I had from him: in his own trade,
      concerning glasses, and so all of us late to bed. I receive fresh
      intelligence that Deptford and Greenwich are now afresh exceedingly
      afflicted with the sickness more than ever.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and with Reeves walk as far as the Temple, doing some business in
      my way at my bookseller's and elsewhere, and there parted, and I took
      coach, having first discoursed with Mr. Hooke a little, whom we met in the
      streete, about the nature of sounds, and he did make me understand the
      nature of musicall sounds made by strings, mighty prettily; and told me
      that having come to a certain number of vibrations proper to make any
      tone, he is able to tell how many strokes a fly makes with her wings
      (those flies that hum in their flying) by the note that it answers to in
      musique during their flying. That, I suppose, is a little too much
      refined; but his discourse in general of sound was mighty fine. There I
      left them, and myself by coach to St. James's, where we attended with the
      rest of my fellows on the Duke, whom I found with two or three patches
      upon his nose and about his right eye, which come from his being struck
      with the bough of a tree the other day in his hunting; and it is a wonder
      it did not strike out his eye. After we had done our business with him,
      which is now but little, the want of money being such as leaves us little
      to do but to answer complaints of the want thereof, and nothing to offer
      to the Duke, the representing of our want of money being now become
      uselesse, I into the Park, and there I met with Mrs. Burroughs by
      appointment, and did agree (after discoursing of some business of her's)
      for her to meet me at New Exchange, while I by coach to my Lord
      Treasurer's, and then called at the New Exchange, and thence carried her
      by water to Parliament stayres, and I to the Exchequer about my Tangier
      quarter tallys, and that done I took coach and to the west door of the
      Abby, where she come to me, and I with her by coach to Lissen-greene where
      we were last, and staid an hour or two before dinner could be got for us,
      I in the meantime having much pleasure with her, but all honest. And by
      and by dinner come up, and then to my sport again, but still honest; and
      then took coach and up and down in the country toward Acton, and then
      toward Chelsy, and so to Westminster, and there set her down where I took
      her up, with mighty pleasure in her company, and so I by coach home, and
      thence to Bow, with all the haste I could, to my Lady Pooly's, where my
      wife was with Mr. Batelier and his sisters, and there I found a noble
      supper, and every thing exceeding pleasant, and their mother, Mrs.
      Batelier, a fine woman, but mighty passionate upon sudden news brought her
      of the loss of a dog borrowed of the Duke of Albemarle's son to line a
      bitch of hers that is very pretty, but the dog was by and by found, and so
      all well again, their company mighty innocent and pleasant, we having
      never been here before. About ten o'clock we rose from table, and sang a
      song, and so home in two coaches (Mr. Batelier and his sister Mary and my
      wife and I in one, and Mercer alone in the other); and after being
      examined at Allgate, whether we were husbands and wives, home, and being
      there come, and sent away Mr. Batelierand his sister, I find Reeves there,
      it being a mighty fine bright night, and so upon my leads, though very
      sleepy, till one in the morning, looking on the moon and Jupiter, with
      this twelve-foote glasse and another of six foote, that he hath brought
      with him to-night, and the sights mighty pleasant, and one of the glasses
      I will buy, it being very usefull. So to bed mighty sleepy, but with much
      pleasure. Reeves lying at my house again; and mighty proud I am (and ought
      to be thankfull to God Almighty) that I am able to have a spare bed for my
      friends.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and to the office to prepare business for the Board, Reeves being
      gone and I having lent him upon one of the glasses. Here we sat, but to
      little purpose, nobody coming at us but to ask for money, not to offer us
      any goods. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, being
      mightily pleased with a Virgin's head that my wife is now doing of. In the
      evening to Lumbard-streete about money, to enable me to pay Sir G.
      Carteret's L3000, which he hath lodged in my hands, in behalf of his son
      and my Lady Jemimah, toward their portion, which, I thank God, I am able
      to do at a minute's warning. In my [way] I inquired, and find Mrs.
      Rawlinson is dead of the sickness, and her mayde continues mighty ill. He
      himself is got out of the house. I met also with Mr. Evelyn in the
      streete, who tells me the sad condition at this very day at Deptford for
      the plague, and more at Deale (within his precinct as one of the
      Commissioners for sick and wounded seamen), that the towne is almost quite
      depopulated. Thence back home again, and after some business at my office,
      late, home to supper and to bed, I being sleepy by my late want of rest,
      notwithstanding my endeavouring to get a nap of an hour this afternoon
      after dinner. So home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and to my chamber; there did some business and then to my office,
      and towards noon by water to the Exchequer about my Tangier order, and
      thence back again and to the Exchange, where little newes but what is in
      the book, and, among other things, of a man sent up for by the King and
      Council for saying that Sir W. Coventry did give intelligence to the Dutch
      of all our matters here. I met with Colvill, and he and I did agree about
      his lending me L1000 upon a tally of L1000 for Tangier. Thence to Sympson,
      the joyner, and I am mightily pleased with what I see of my presses for my
      books, which he is making for me. So homeward, and hear in
      Fanchurch-streete, that now the mayde also is dead at Mr. Rawlinson's; so
      that there are three dead in all, the wife, a man-servant, and
      mayde-servant. Home to dinner, where sister Balty dined with us, and met a
      letter come to me from him. He is well at Harwich, going to the fleete.
      After dinner to the office, and anon with my wife and sister abroad, left
      them in Paternoster Row, while Creed, who was with me at the office, and I
      to Westminster; and leaving him in the Strand, I to my Lord Chancellor's,
      and did very little business, and so away home by water, with more and
      more pleasure, I every time reading over my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae."
      So home, and there did little business, and then walked an hour talking of
      sundry things in the garden, and find him a cunning knave, as I always
      observed him to be, and so home to supper, and to bed. Pleased that this
      day I find, if I please, I can have all my money in that I have out of my
      hands, but I am at a loss whether to take it in or no, and pleased also to
      hear of Mrs. Barbara Sheldon's good fortune, who is like to have Mr.
      Wood's son, the mast-maker, a very rich man, and to be married speedily,
      she being already mighty fine upon it.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, where mighty pleased at my wife's beginnings of a little Virgin's
      head. To the office and did much business, and then to Mr. Colvill's, and
      with him did come to an agreement about my L2600 assignment on the
      Exchequer, which I had of Sir W. Warren; and, to my great joy, I think I
      shall get above L100 by it, but I must leave it to be finished on Monday.
      Thence to the office, and there did the remainder of my business, and so
      home to supper and to bed. This afternoon I hear as if we had landed some
      men upon the Dutch coasts, but I believe it is but a foolery either in the
      report or the attempt.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Lord's day). Up and to my chamber, where busy all the morning, and
      my thoughts very much upon the manner of my removal of my closett things
      the next weeke into my present musique room, if I find I can spare or get
      money to furnish it. By and by comes Reeves, by appointment, but did not
      bring the glasses and things I expected for our discourse and my
      information to-day, but we have agreed on it for next Sunday. By and by,
      in comes Betty Michell and her husband, and so to dinner, I mightily
      pleased with their company. We passed the whole day talking with them, but
      without any pleasure, but only her being there. In the evening, all
      parted, and I and my wife up to her closett to consider how to order that
      the next summer, if we live to it; and then down to my chamber at night to
      examine her kitchen accounts, and there I took occasion to fall out with
      her for her buying a laced handkercher and pinner without my leave. Though
      the thing is not much, yet I would not permit her begin to do so, lest
      worse should follow. From this we began both to be angry, and so continued
      till bed, and did not sleep friends.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, without being friends with my wife, nor great enemies, being
      both quiet and silent. So out to Colvill's, but he not being come to town
      yet, I to Paul's Church-yarde, to treat with a bookbinder, to come and
      gild the backs of all my books, to make them handsome, to stand in my new
      presses, when they come. So back again to Colvill's, and there did end our
      treaty, to my full content, about my Exchequer assignment of L2600 of Sir
      W. Warren's, for which I give him L170 to stand to the hazard of receiving
      it. So I shall get clear by it L230, which is a very good jobb. God be
      praised for it! Having done with him, then he and I took coach, and I
      carried him to Westminster, and there set him down, in our way speaking of
      several things. I find him a bold man to say any thing of any body, and
      finds fault with our great ministers of state that nobody looks after any
      thing; and I thought it dangerous to be free with him, for I do not think
      he can keep counsel, because he blabs to me what hath passed between other
      people and him. Thence I to St. James's, and there missed Sir W. Coventry;
      but taking up Mr. Robinson in my coach, I towards London, and there in the
      way met Sir W. Coventry, and followed him to White Hall, where a little
      discourse very kind, and so I away with Robinson, and set him down at the
      'Change, and thence I to Stokes the goldsmith, and sent him to and again
      to get me L1000 in gold; and so home to dinner, my wife and I friends,
      without any words almost of last night. After dinner, I abroad to Stokes,
      and there did receive L1000 worth in gold, paying 18 1/2d. and 19d. for
      others exchange. Home with them, and there to my office to business, and
      anon home in the evening, there to settle some of my accounts, and then to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. (Thanksgiving day.)
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A proclamation ordering August 14th to be observed in London and
     Westminster, and August 23rd in other places, as a day of
     thanksgiving for the late victory at sea over the Dutch, was
     published on August 6th.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Up, and comes Mr. Foley and his man, with a box of a great variety of
      carpenter's and joyner's tooles, which I had bespoke, to me, which please
      me mightily; but I will have more. Then I abroad down to the Old Swan, and
      there I called and kissed Betty Michell, and would have got her to go with
      me to Westminster, but I find her a little colder than she used to be,
      methought, which did a little molest me. So I away not pleased, and to
      White Hall, where I find them at Chappell, and met with Povy, and he and I
      together, who tells me how mad my letter makes my Lord Peterborough, and
      what a furious letter he hath writ to me in answer, though it is not come
      yet. This did trouble me; for though there be no reason, yet to have a
      nobleman's mouth open against a man may do a man hurt; so I endeavoured to
      have found him out and spoke with him, but could not. So to the chappell,
      and heard a piece of the Dean of Westminster's sermon, and a special good
      anthemne before the king, after a sermon, and then home by coach with
      Captain Cocke, who is in pain about his hempe, of which he says he hath
      bought great quantities, and would gladly be upon good terms with us for
      it, wherein I promise to assist him. So we 'light at the 'Change, where,
      after a small turn or two, taking no pleasure now-a-days to be there,
      because of answering questions that would be asked there which I cannot
      answer; so home and dined, and after dinner, with my wife and Mercer to
      the Beare-garden,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Bear Garden was situated on Bankside, close to the precinct of
     the Clinke Liberty, and very near to the old palace of the bishops
     of Winchester.  Stow, to his "Survey," says: "There be two Bear
     Gardens, the old and new Places."  The name still exists in a street
     or lane at the foot of Southwark Bridge, and in Bear Garden Wharf.]
</pre>
    <p>
      where I have not been, I think, of many years, and saw some good sport of
      the bull's tossing of the dogs: one into the very boxes. But it is a very
      rude and nasty pleasure. We had a great many hectors in the same box with
      us (and one very fine went into the pit, and played his dog for a wager,
      which was a strange sport for a gentleman), where they drank wine, and
      drank Mercer's health first, which I pledged with my hat off; and who
      should be in the house but Mr. Pierce the surgeon, who saw us and spoke to
      us. Thence home, well enough satisfied, however, with the variety of this
      afternoon's exercise; and so I to my chamber, till in the evening our
      company come to supper. We had invited to a venison pasty Mr. Batelier and
      his sister Mary, Mrs. Mercer, her daughter Anne, Mr. Le Brun, and W.
      Hewer; and so we supped, and very merry. And then about nine o'clock to
      Mrs. Mercer's gate, where the fire and boys expected us, and her son had
      provided abundance of serpents and rockets; and there mighty merry (my
      Lady Pen and Pegg going thither with us, and Nan Wright), till about
      twelve at night, flinging our fireworks, and burning one another and the
      people over the way. And at last our businesses being most spent, we into
      Mrs. Mercer's, and there mighty merry, smutting one another with candle
      grease and soot, till most of us were like devils. And that being done,
      then we broke up, and to my house; and there I made them drink, and
      upstairs we went, and then fell into dancing (W. Batelier dancing well),
      and dressing, him and I and one Mr. Banister (who with his wife come over
      also with us) like women; and Mercer put on a suit of Tom's, like a boy,
      and mighty mirth we had, and Mercer danced a jigg; and Nan Wright and my
      wife and Pegg Pen put on perriwigs. Thus we spent till three or four in
      the morning, mighty merry; and then parted, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Mighty sleepy; slept till past eight of the clock, and was called up
      by a letter from Sir W. Coventry, which, among other things, tells me how
      we have burned one hundred and sixty ships of the enemy within the Fly.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [On the 8th August the Duke of Albemarle reported to Lord Arlington
     that he had "sent 1000 good men under Sir R. Holmes and Sir William
     Jennings to destroy the islands of Vlie and Schelling."  On the 10th
     James Hayes wrote to Williamson: "On the 9th at noon smoke was seen
     rising from several places in the island of Vlie, and the 10th
     brought news that Sir Robert had burned in the enemy's harbour 160
     outward bound valuable merchant men and three men-of-war, and taken
     a little pleasure boat and eight guns in four hours.  The loss is
     computed at a million sterling, and will make great confusion when
     the people see themselves in the power of the English at their very
     doors.  Sir Robert then landed his forces, and is burning the houses
     in Vlie and Schelling as bonfires for his good success at sea"
     ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67, pp. 21,27).]
</pre>
    <p>
      I up, and with all possible haste, and in pain for fear of coming late, it
      being our day of attending the Duke of Yorke, to St. James's, where they
      are full of the particulars; how they are generally good merchant ships,
      some of them laden and supposed rich ships. We spent five fire-ships upon
      them. We landed on the Schelling (Sir Philip Howard with some men, and
      Holmes, I think; with others, about 1000 in all), and burned a town; and
      so come away. By and by the Duke of Yorke with his books showed us the
      very place and manner, and that it was not our design or expectation to
      have done this, but only to have landed on the Fly, and burned some of
      their store; but being come in, we spied those ships, and with our long
      boats, one by one, fired them, our ships running all aground, it being so
      shoal water. We were led to this by, it seems, a renegado captain of the
      Hollanders, who found himself ill used by De Ruyter for his good service,
      and so come over to us, and hath done us good service; so that now we
      trust him, and he himself did go on this expedition. The service is very
      great, and our joys as great for it. All this will make the Duke of
      Albemarle in repute again, I doubt, though there is nothing of his in
      this. But, Lord! to see what successe do, whether with or without reason,
      and making a man seem wise, notwithstanding never so late demonstration of
      the profoundest folly in the world. Thence walked over the Parke with Sir
      W. Coventry, in our way talking of the unhappy state of our office; and I
      took an opportunity to let him know, that though the backwardnesses of all
      our matters of the office may be well imputed to the known want of money,
      yet, perhaps, there might be personal and particular failings; and that I
      did, therefore, depend still upon his promise of telling me whenever he
      finds any ground to believe any defect or neglect on my part, which he
      promised me still to do; and that there was none he saw, nor, indeed, says
      he, is there room now-a-days to find fault with any particular man, while
      we are in this condition for money. This, methought, did not so well
      please me; but, however, I am glad I have said this, thereby giving myself
      good grounds to believe that at this time he did not want an occasion to
      have said what he pleased to me, if he had had anything in his mind, which
      by his late distance and silence I have feared. But then again I am to
      consider he is grown a very great man, much greater than he was, and so
      must keep more distance; and, next, that the condition of our office will
      not afford me occasion of shewing myself so active and deserving as
      heretofore; and, lastly, the muchness of his business cannot suffer him to
      mind it, or give him leisure to reflect on anything, or shew the freedom
      and kindnesse that he used to do. But I think I have done something
      considerable to my satisfaction in doing this; and that if I do but my
      duty remarkably from this time forward, and not neglect it, as I have of
      late done, and minded my pleasures, I may be as well as ever I was. Thence
      to the Exchequer, but did nothing, they being all gone from their offices;
      and so to the Old Exchange, where the towne full of the good newes, but I
      did not stay to tell or hear any, but home, my head akeing and drowsy, and
      to dinner, and then lay down upon the couch, thinking to get a little
      rest, but could not. So down the river, reading "The Adventures of Five
      Houres," which the more I read the more I admire. So down below Greenwich,
      but the wind and tide being against us, I back again to Deptford, and did
      a little business there, and thence walked to Redriffe; and so home, and
      to the office a while. In the evening comes W. Batelier and his sister,
      and my wife, and fair Mrs. Turner into the garden, and there we walked,
      and then with my Lady Pen and Pegg in a-doors, and eat and were merry, and
      so pretty late broke up, and to bed. The guns of the Tower going off, and
      there being bonefires also in the street for this late good successe.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, having slept well, and after entering my journal, to the office,
      where all the morning, but of late Sir W. Coventry hath not come to us, he
      being discouraged from the little we have to do but to answer the clamours
      of people for money. At noon home, and there dined with me my Lady Pen
      only and W. Hewer at a haunch of venison boiled, where pretty merry, only
      my wife vexed me a little about demanding money to go with my Lady Pen to
      the Exchange to lay out. I to the office, where all the afternoon and very
      busy and doing much business; but here I had a most eminent experience of
      the evil of being behindhand in business. I was the most backward to begin
      any thing, and would fain have framed to myself an occasion of going
      abroad, and should, I doubt, have done it, but some business coming in,
      one after another, kept me there, and I fell to the ridding away of a
      great deale of business, and when my hand was in it was so pleasing a
      sight to [see] my papers disposed of, and letters answered, which troubled
      my book and table, that I could have continued there with delight all
      night long, and did till called away by my Lady Pen and Pegg and my wife
      to their house to eat with them; and there I went, and exceeding merry,
      there being Nan Wright, now Mrs. Markham, and sits at table with my Lady.
      So mighty merry, home and to bed. This day Sir W. Batten did show us at
      the table a letter from Sir T. Allen, which says that we have taken ten or
      twelve' ships (since the late great expedition of burning their ships and
      towne), laden with hempe, flax, tarr, deales, &amp;c. This was good newes;
      but by and by comes in Sir G. Carteret, and he asked us with full mouth
      what we would give for good newes. Says Sir W. Batten, "I have better than
      you, for a wager." They laid sixpence, and we that were by were to give
      sixpence to him that told the best newes. So Sir W. Batten told his of the
      ten or twelve ships Sir G. Carteret did then tell us that upon the newes
      of the burning of the ships and towne the common people a Amsterdam did
      besiege De Witt's house, and he was force to flee to the Prince of Orange,
      who is gone to Cleve to the marriage of his sister. This we concluded all
      the best newest and my Lord Bruncker and myself did give Sir G. Carteret
      our sixpence a-piece, which he did give Mr. Smith to give the poor. Thus
      we made ourselves mighty merry.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up and betimes with Captain Erwin down by water to Woolwich, I
      walking alone from Greenwich thither, making an end of the "Adventures of
      Five Hours," which when all is done is the best play that ever I read in
      my life. Being come thither I did some business there and at the Rope
      Yarde, and had a piece of bride-cake sent me by Mrs. Barbary into the
      boate after me, she being here at her uncle's, with her husband, Mr.
      Wood's son, the mast-maker, and mighty nobly married, they say, she was,
      very fine, and he very rich, a strange fortune for so odd a looked mayde,
      though her hands and body be good, and nature very good, I think. Back
      with Captain Erwin, discoursing about the East Indys, where he hath often
      been. And among other things he tells me how the King of Syam seldom goes
      out without thirty or forty thousand people with him, and not a word
      spoke, nor a hum or cough in the whole company to be heard. He tells me
      the punishment frequently there for malefactors is cutting off the crowne
      of their head, which they do very dexterously, leaving their brains bare,
      which kills them presently. He told me what I remember he hath once done
      heretofore: that every body is to lie flat down at the coming by of the
      King, and nobody to look upon him upon pain of death. And that he and his
      fellows, being strangers, were invited to see the sport of taking of a
      wild elephant, and they did only kneel, and look toward the King. Their
      druggerman did desire them to fall down, for otherwise he should suffer
      for their contempt of the King. The sport being ended, a messenger comes
      from the King, which the druggerman thought had been to have taken away
      his life; but it was to enquire how the strangers liked the sport. The
      druggerman answered that they did cry it up to be the best that ever they
      saw, and that they never heard of any Prince so great in every thing as
      this King. The messenger being gone back, Erwin and his company asked
      their druggerman what he had said, which he told them. "But why," say
      they, "would you say that without our leave, it being not true?"&mdash;"It
      is no matter for that," says he, "I must have said it, or have been
      hanged, for our King do not live by meat, nor drink, but by having great
      lyes told him." In our way back we come by a little vessel that come into
      the river this morning, and says he left the fleete in Sole Bay, and that
      he hath not heard (he belonging to Sir W. Jenings, in the fleete) of any
      such prizes taken as the ten or twelve I inquired about, and said by Sir
      W. Batten yesterday to be taken, so I fear it is not true. So to
      Westminster, and there, to my great content, did receive my L2000 of Mr.
      Spicer's telling, which I was to receive of Colvill, and brought it home
      with me [to] my house by water, and there I find one of my new presses for
      my books brought home, which pleases me mightily. As, also, do my wife's
      progresse upon her head that she is making. So to dinner, and thence
      abroad with my wife, leaving her at Unthanke's; I to White Hall, waiting
      at the Council door till it rose, and there spoke with Sir W. Coventry,
      who and I do much fear our Victuallers, they having missed the fleete in
      their going. But Sir W. Coventry says it is not our fault, but theirs, if
      they have not left ships to secure them. This he spoke in a chagrin sort
      of way, methought. After a little more discourse of several businesses, I
      away homeward, having in the gallery the good fortune to see Mrs. Stewart,
      who is grown a little too tall, but is a woman of most excellent features.
      The narrative of the late expedition in burning the ships is in print, and
      makes it a great thing, and I hope it is so. So took up my wife and home,
      there I to the office, and thence with Sympson the joyner home to put
      together the press he hath brought me for my books this day, which pleases
      me exceedingly. Then to Sir W. Batten's, where Sir Richard Ford did very
      understandingly, methought, give us an account of the originall of the
      Hollands Bank,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This bank at Amsterdam is referred to in a tract entitled "An
     Appeal to Caesar," 1660, p. 22.  In 1640 Charles I. seized the money
     in the mint in the Tower entrusted to the safe keeping of the Crown.
     It was the practice of the London goldsmiths at this time to allow
     interest at the rate of six or eight per cent. on money deposited
     with them (J. Biddulph Martin, "The Grasshopper in Lombard Street,"
     1892, p. 152).]
</pre>
    <p>
      and the nature of it, and how they do never give any interest at all to
      any person that brings in their money, though what is brought in upon the
      public faith interest is given by the State for. The unsafe condition of a
      Bank under a Monarch, and the little safety to a Monarch to have any; or
      Corporation alone (as London in answer to Amsterdam) to have so great a
      wealth or credit, it is, that makes it hard to have a Bank here. And as to
      the former, he did tell us how it sticks in the memory of most merchants
      how the late King (when by the war between Holland and France and Spayne
      all the bullion of Spayne was brought hither, one-third of it to be
      coyned; and indeed it was found advantageous to the merchant to coyne most
      of it), was persuaded in a strait by my Lord Cottington to seize upon the
      money in the Tower, which, though in a few days the merchants concerned
      did prevail to get it released, yet the thing will never be forgot. So
      home to supper and to bed, understanding this evening, since I come home,
      that our Victuallers are all come in to the fleete, which is good newes.
      Sir John Minnes come home tonight not well, from Chatham, where he hath
      been at a pay, holding it at Upnor Castle, because of the plague so much
      in the towne of Chatham. He hath, they say, got an ague, being so much on
      the water.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. All the morning at my office; then to the Exchange (with my Lord
      Bruncker in his coach) at noon, but it was only to avoid Mr. Chr. Pett's
      being invited by me to dinner. So home, calling at my little mercer's in
      Lumbard Streete, who hath the pretty wench, like the old Queene, and there
      cheapened some stuffs to hang my roome, that I intend to turn into a
      closett. So home to dinner, and after dinner comes Creed to discourse with
      me about several things of Tangier concernments and accounts, among others
      starts the doubt, which I was formerly aware of, but did wink at it,
      whether or no Lanyon and his partners be not paid for more than they
      should be, which he presses, so that it did a little discompose me; but,
      however, I do think no harm will arise thereby. He gone, I to the office,
      and there very late, very busy, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Lord's day). Up and to my chamber, and there began to draw out fair
      and methodically my accounts of Tangier, in order to shew them to the
      Lords. But by and by comes by agreement Mr. Reeves, and after him Mr.
      Spong, and all day with them, both before and after dinner, till ten
      o'clock at night, upon opticke enquiries, he bringing me a frame he closes
      on, to see how the rays of light do cut one another, and in a darke room
      with smoake, which is very pretty. He did also bring a lanthorne with
      pictures in glasse, to make strange things appear on a wall, very pretty.
      We did also at night see Jupiter and his girdle and satellites, very fine,
      with my twelve-foote glasse, but could not Saturne, he being very dark.
      Spong and I had also several fine discourses upon the globes this
      afternoon, particularly why the fixed stars do not rise and set at the
      same houre all the yeare long, which he could not demonstrate, nor I
      neither, the reason of. So, it being late, after supper they away home.
      But it vexed me to understand no more from Reeves and his glasses touching
      the nature and reason of the several refractions of the several figured
      glasses, he understanding the acting part, but not one bit the theory, nor
      can make any body understand it, which is a strange dullness, methinks. I
      did not hear anything yesterday or at all to confirm either Sir Thos.
      Allen's news of the 10 or 12 ships taken, nor of the disorder at Amsterdam
      upon the news of the burning of the ships, that he [De Witt] should be
      fled to the Prince of Orange, it being generally believed that he was gone
      to France before.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Waked this morning, about six o'clock, with a violent knocking at
      Sir J. Minnes's doore, to call up Mrs. Hammon, crying out that Sir J.
      Minnes is a-dying. He come home ill of an ague on Friday night. I saw him
      on Saturday, after his fit of the ague, and then was pretty lusty. Which
      troubles me mightily, for he is a very good, harmless, honest gentleman,
      though not fit for the business. But I much fear a worse may come, that
      may be more uneasy to me. Up, and to Deptford by water, reading "Othello,
      Moore of Venice," which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play, but
      having so lately read "The Adventures of Five Houres," it seems a mean
      thing. Walked back, and so home, and then down to the Old Swan and drank
      at Betty Michell's, and so to Westminster to the Exchequer about my
      quarter tallies, and so to Lumbard Streete to choose stuff to hang my new
      intended closet, and have chosen purple. So home to dinner, and all the
      afternoon till almost midnight upon my Tangier accounts, getting Tom
      Wilson to help me in writing as I read, and at night W. Hewer, and find
      myself most happy in the keeping of all my accounts, for that after all
      the changings and turnings necessary in such an account, I find myself
      right to a farthing in an account of L127,000. This afternoon I visited
      Sir J. Minnes, who, poor man, is much impatient by these few days'
      sickness, and I fear indeed it will kill him.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and to the office, where much business and Sir W. Coventry
      there, who of late hath wholly left us, most of our business being about
      money, to which we can give no answer, which makes him weary of coming to
      us. He made an experiment to-day, by taking up a heape of petitions that
      lay upon the table. They proved seventeen in number, and found them thus:
      one for money for reparation for clothes, four desired to have tickets
      made out to them, and the other twelve were for money. Dined at home, and
      sister Balty with us. My wife snappish because I denied her money to lay
      out this afternoon; however, good friends again, and by coach set them
      down at the New Exchange, and I to the Exchequer, and there find my
      business of my tallys in good forwardness. I passed down into the Hall,
      and there hear that Mr. Bowles, the grocer, after 4 or 5 days' sickness,
      is dead, and this day buried. So away, and taking up my wife, went
      homewards. I 'light and with Harman to my mercer's in Lumbard Streete, and
      there agreed for, our purple serge for my closett, and so I away home. So
      home and late at the office, and then home, and there found Mr. Batelier
      and his sister Mary, and we sat chatting a great while, talking of witches
      and spirits, and he told me of his own knowledge, being with some others
      at Bourdeaux, making a bargain with another man at a taverne for some
      clarets, they did hire a fellow to thunder (which he had the art of doing
      upon a deale board) and to rain and hail, that is, make the noise of, so
      as did give them a pretence of undervaluing their merchants' wines, by
      saying this thunder would spoil and turne them. Which was so reasonable to
      the merchant, that he did abate two pistolls per ton for the wine in
      belief of that, whereas, going out, there was no such thing. This Batelier
      did see and was the cause of to his profit, as is above said. By and by
      broke up and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up and by coach with L100 to the Exchequer to pay fees there. There
      left it, and I to St. James's, and there with; the Duke of Yorke. I had
      opportunity of much talk with Sir. W. Pen to-day (he being newly come from
      the fleete); and he, do much undervalue the honour that is given to the
      conduct of the late business of Holmes in burning the ships and town
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The town burned (see August 15th, ante) was Brandaris, a place of
     1000 houses, on the isle of Schelling; the ships lay between that
     island and the Fly (i.e. Vlieland), the adjoining island.  This
     attack probably provoked that by the Dutch on Chatham.]
</pre>
    <p>
      saying it was a great thing indeed, and of great profit to us in being of
      great losse to the enemy, but that it was wholly a business of chance, and
      no conduct employed in it. I find Sir W. Pen do hold up his head at this
      time higher than ever he did in his life. I perceive he do look after Sir
      J. Minnes's place if he dies, and though I love him not nor do desire to
      have him in, yet I do think [he] is the first man in England for it. To
      the Exchequer, and there received my tallys, and paid my fees in good
      order, and so home, and there find Mrs. Knipp and my wife going to dinner.
      She tells me my song, of "Beauty Retire" is mightily cried up, which I am
      not a little proud of; and do think I have done "It is Decreed" better,
      but I have not finished it. My closett is doing by upholsters, which I am
      pleased with, but fear my purple will be too sad for that melancholy
      roome. After dinner and doing something at the office, I with my wife,
      Knipp, and Mercer, by coach to Moorefields, and there saw "Polichinello,"
      which pleases me mightily, and here I saw our Mary, our last chamber-maid,
      who is gone from Mrs. Pierces it seems. Thence carried Knipp home, calling
      at the Cocke alehouse at the doore and drank, and so home, and there find
      Reeves, and so up to look upon the stars, and do like my glasse very well,
      and did even with him for it and a little perspective and the Lanthorne
      that shows tricks, altogether costing me L9 5s. 0d. So to bed, he lying at
      our house.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. At the office all the morning, whither Sir W. Coventry sent me word
      that the Dutch fleete is certainly abroad; and so we are to hasten all we
      have to send to our fleete with all speed. But, Lord! to see how my Lord
      Bruncker undertakes the despatch of the fire-ships, when he is no more fit
      for it than a porter; and all the while Sir W. Pen, who is the most fit,
      is unwilling to displease him, and do not look after it; and so the King's
      work is like to be well done. At noon dined at home, Lovett with us; but
      he do not please me in his business, for he keeps things long in hand, and
      his paper do not hold so good as I expected&mdash;the varnish wiping off
      in a little time&mdash;a very sponge; and I doubt by his discourse he is
      an odde kind of fellow, and, in plain terms, a very rogue. He gone, I to
      the office (having seen and liked the upholsters' work in my roome&mdash;which
      they have almost done), and there late, and in the evening find Mr.
      Batelier and his sister there and then we talked and eat and were merry,
      and so parted late, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and dispatched several businesses at home in the morning, and
      then comes Sympson to set up my other new presses
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [These presses still exist, and, according to Pepys's wish, they are
     placed in the second court of Magdalene College in a room which they
     exactly fit, and the books are arranged in the presses just as they
     were when presented to the college.&mdash;M. B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      for my books, and so he and I fell in to the furnishing of my new closett,
      and taking out the things out of my old, and I kept him with me all day,
      and he dined with me, and so all the afternoon till it was quite darke
      hanging things, that is my maps and pictures and draughts, and setting up
      my books, and as much as we could do, to my most extraordinary
      satisfaction; so that I think it will be as noble a closett as any man
      hath, and light enough&mdash;though, indeed, it would be better to have
      had a little more light. He gone, my wife and I to talk, and sup, and then
      to setting right my Tangier accounts and enter my Journall, and then to
      bed with great content in my day's worke. This afternoon comes Mrs.
      Barbary Sheldon, now Mrs. Wood, to see my wife. I was so busy I would not
      see her. But she came, it seems, mighty rich in rings and fine clothes,
      and like a lady, and says she is matched mighty well, at which I am very
      glad, but wonder at her good fortune and the folly of her husband, and
      vexed at myself for not paying her the respect of seeing her, but I will
      come out of her debt another time.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. All the morning at the office. At noon dined at home, and after
      dinner up to my new closett, which pleases me mightily, and there I
      proceeded to put many things in order as far as I had time, and then set
      it in washing, and stood by myself a great while to see it washed; and
      then to the office, and then wrote my letters and other things, and then
      in mighty good humour home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's day). Up betimes, and to the finishing the setting things in
      order in my new closett out of my old, which I did thoroughly by the time
      sermon was done at church, to my exceeding joy, only I was a little
      disturbed with newes my Lord Bruncker brought me, that we are to attend
      the King at White Hall this afternoon, and that it is about a complaint
      from the Generalls against us. Sir W. Pen dined by invitation with me, his
      Lady and daughter being gone into the country. We very merry. After dinner
      we parted, and I to my office, whither I sent for Mr. Lewes and instructed
      myself fully in the business of the Victualling, to enable me to answer in
      the matter; and then Sir W. Pen and I by coach to White Hall, and there
      staid till the King and Cabinet were met in the Green Chamber, and then we
      were called in; and there the King begun with me, to hear how the
      victualls of the fleete stood. I did in a long discourse tell him and the
      rest (the Duke of Yorke, Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, both the
      Secretarys, Sir G. Carteret, and Sir W. Coventry,) how it stood, wherein
      they seemed satisfied, but press mightily for more supplies; and the
      letter of the Generalls, which was read, did lay their not going or too
      soon returning from the Dutch coast, this next bout, to the want of
      victuals. They then proceeded to the enquiry after the fireships; and did
      all very superficially, and without any severity at all. But, however, I
      was in pain, after we come out, to know how I had done; and hear well
      enough. But, however, it shall be a caution to me to prepare myself
      against a day of inquisition. Being come out, I met with Mr. Moore, and he
      and I an houre together in the Gallery, telling me how far they are gone
      in getting my Lord [Sandwich's] pardon, so as the Chancellor is prepared
      in it; and Sir H. Bennet do promote it, and the warrant for the King's
      signing is drawn. The business between my Lord Hinchingbroke and Mrs.
      Mallett is quite broke off; he attending her at Tunbridge, and she
      declaring her affections to be settled; and he not being fully pleased
      with the vanity and liberty of her carriage. He told me how my Lord has
      drawn a bill of exchange from Spayne of L1200, and would have me supply
      him with L500 of it, but I avoyded it, being not willing to embarke myself
      in money there, where I see things going to ruine. Thence to discourse of
      the times; and he tells me he believes both my Lord Arlington and Sir W.
      Coventry, as well as my Lord Sandwich and Sir G. Carteret, have reason to
      fear, and are afeard of this Parliament now coming on. He tells me that
      Bristoll's faction is getting ground apace against my Lord Chancellor. He
      told me that my old Lord Coventry was a cunning, crafty man, and did make
      as many bad decrees in Chancery as any man; and that in one case, that
      occasioned many years' dispute, at last when the King come in, it was
      hoped by the party grieved, to get my Lord Chancellor to reverse a decree
      of his. Sir W. Coventry took the opportunity of the business between the
      Duke of Yorke and the Duchesse, and said to my Lord Chancellor, that he
      had rather be drawn up Holborne to be hanged, than live to see his father
      pissed upon (in these very terms) and any decree of his reversed. And so
      the Chancellor did not think fit to do it, but it still stands, to the
      undoing of one Norton, a printer, about his right to the printing of the
      Bible, and Grammar, &amp;c. Thence Sir W. Pen and I to Islington and there
      drank at the Katherine Wheele, and so down the nearest way home, where
      there was no kind of pleasure at all. Being come home, hear that Sir J.
      Minnes has had a very bad fit all this day, and a hickup do take him,
      which is a very bad sign, which troubles me truly. So home to supper a
      little and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and to my new closett, which pleases me mightily, and there did
      a little business. Then to break open a window, to the leads' side in my
      old closett, which will enlighten the room mightily, and make it mighty
      pleasant. So to the office, and then home about one thing or other, about
      my new closet, for my mind is full of nothing but that. So at noon to
      dinner, mightily pleased with my wife's picture that she is upon. Then to
      the office, and thither come and walked an hour with me Sir G. Carteret,
      who tells me what is done about my Lord's pardon, and is not for letting
      the Duke of Yorke know any thing of it beforehand, but to carry it as
      speedily and quietly as we can. He seems to be very apprehensive that the
      Parliament will be troublesome and inquisitive into faults, but seems not
      to value them as to himself. He gone, I to the Victualling Office, there
      with Lewes' and Willson setting the business of the state of the fleete's
      victualling even and plain, and that being done, and other good discourse
      about it over, Mr. Willson and I by water down the River for discourse
      only, about business of the office, and then back, and I home, and after a
      little at my office home to my new closet, and there did much business on
      my Tangier account and my Journall for three days. So to supper and to
      bed. We are not sure that the Dutch fleete is out. I have another memento
      from Sir W. Coventry of the want of provisions in the fleete, which
      troubles me, though there is no reason for it; but will have the good
      effect of making me more wary. So, full of thoughts, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and in my new closet a good while doing business. Then called on
      Mrs. Martin and Burroughs of Westminster about business of the former's
      husband. Which done, I to the office, where we sat all the morning. At
      noon I, with my wife and Mercer, to Philpott Lane, a great cook's shop, to
      the wedding of Mr. Longracke, our purveyor, a good, sober, civil man, and
      hath married a sober, serious mayde. Here I met much ordinary company, I
      going thither at his great request; but there was Mr. Madden and his lady,
      a fine, noble, pretty lady, and he, and a fine gentleman seems to be. We
      four were most together; but the whole company was very simple and
      innocent. A good-dinner, and, what was best, good musique. After dinner
      the young women went to dance; among others Mr. Christopher Pett his
      daughter, who is a very pretty, modest girle, I am mightily taken with
      her; and that being done about five o'clock, home, very well pleased with
      the afternoon's work. And so we broke up mightily civilly, the bride and
      bridegroom going to Greenwich (they keeping their dinner here only for my
      sake) to lie, and we home, where I to the office, and anon am on a sudden
      called to meet Sir W. Pen and Sir W. Coventry at the Victualling Office,
      which did put me out of order to be so surprised. But I went, and there
      Sir William Coventry did read me a letter from the Generalls to the King,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The letter from Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle to the king
     (dated August 27th, from the "Royal Charles," Sole Bay) is among the
     State Papers.  The generals complain of the want of supplies, in
     spite of repeated importunities.  The demands are answered by
     accounts from Mr. Pepys of what has been sent to the fleet, which
     will not satisfy the ships, unless the provisions could be found
     "...  Have not a month's provision of beer, yet Sir Wm. Coventry
     assures the ministers that they are supplied till Oct. 3; unless
     this is quickened they will have to return home too soon....
     Want provisions according to their own computation, not Sir Wm.
     Coventry's, to last to the end of October" ("Calendar," 1666-67, p.
     71).]
</pre>
    <p>
      a most scurvy letter, reflecting most upon Sir W. Coventry, and then upon
      me for my accounts (not that they are not true, but that we do not
      consider the expence of the fleete), and then of the whole office, in
      neglecting them and the King's service, and this in very plain and sharp
      and menacing terms. I did give a good account of matters according to our
      computation of the expence of the fleete. I find Sir W. Coventry willing
      enough to accept of any thing to confront the Generalls. But a great
      supply must be made, and shall be in grace of God! But, however, our
      accounts here will be found the true ones. Having done here, and much work
      set me, I with greater content home than I thought I should have done, and
      so to the office a while, and then home, and a while in my new closet,
      which delights me every day more and more, and so late to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up betimes, and there to fit some Tangier accounts, and then, by
      appointment, to my Lord Bellasses, but about Paul's thought of the chant
      paper I should carry with me, and so fain to come back again, and did, and
      then met with Sir W. Pen, and with him to my Lord Bellasses, he sitting in
      the coach the while, while I up to my Lord and there offered him my
      account of the bills of exchange I had received and paid for him, wherein
      we agree all but one L200 bill of Vernatty's drawing, wherein I doubt he
      hath endeavoured to cheate my Lord; but that will soon appear. Thence took
      leave, and found Sir W. Pen talking to Orange Moll, of the King's house,
      who, to our great comfort, told us that they begun to act on the 18th of
      this month. So on to St. James's, in the way Sir W. Pen telling me that
      Mr. Norton, that married Sir J. Lawson's daughter, is dead. She left L800
      a year jointure, a son to inherit the whole estate. She freed from her
      father-in-law's tyranny, and is in condition to helpe her mother, who
      needs it; of which I am glad, the young lady being very pretty. To St.
      James's, and there Sir W. Coventry took Sir W. Pen and me apart, and read
      to us his answer to the Generalls' letter to the King that he read last
      night; wherein he is very plain, and states the matter in full defence of
      himself and of me with him, which he could not avoid; which is a good
      comfort to me, that I happen to be involved with him in the same cause.
      And then, speaking of the supplies which have been made to this fleete,
      more than ever in all kinds to any, even that wherein the Duke of Yorke
      himself was, "Well," says he, "if this will not do, I will say, as Sir J.
      Falstaffe did to the Prince, 'Tell your father, that if he do not like
      this let him kill the next Piercy himself,'"&mdash;["King Henry IV.," Part
      I, act v., sc. 4.]&mdash;and so we broke up, and to the Duke, and there
      did our usual business. So I to the Parke and there met Creed, and he and
      I walked to Westminster to the Exchequer, and thence to White Hall talking
      of Tangier matters and Vernatty's knavery, and so parted, and then I
      homeward and met Mr. Povy in Cheapside, and stopped and talked a good
      while upon the profits of the place which my Lord Bellasses hath made this
      last year, and what share we are to have of it, but of this all imperfect,
      and so parted, and I home, and there find Mrs. Mary Batelier, and she
      dined with us; and thence I took them to Islington, and there eat a
      custard; and so back to Moorfields, and shewed Batelier, with my wife,
      "Polichinello," which I like the more I see it; and so home with great
      content, she being a mighty good-natured, pretty woman, and thence I to
      the Victualling office, and there with Mr. Lewes and Willson upon our
      Victualling matters till ten at night, and so I home and there late
      writing a letter to Sir W. Coventry, and so home to supper and to bed. No
      newes where the Dutch are. We begin to think they will steale through the
      Channel to meet Beaufort. We think our fleete sayled yesterday, but we
      have no newes of it.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up and all the morning at the office, dined at home, and in the
      afternoon, and at night till two in the morning, framing my great letter
      to Mr. Hayes about the victualling of the fleete, about which there has
      been so much ado and exceptions taken by the Generalls.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. To bed at 2 or 3 in the morning and up again at 6 to go by
      appointment to my Lord Bellasses, but he out of town, which vexed me. So
      back and got Mr. Poynter to enter into, my book while I read from my last
      night's notes the letter, and that being done to writing it fair. At noon
      home to dinner, and then the boy and I to the office, and there he read
      while I writ it fair, which done I sent it to Sir W. Coventry to peruse
      and send to the fleete by the first opportunity; and so pretty betimes to
      bed. Much pleased to-day with thoughts of gilding the backs of all my
      books alike in my new presses.
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    <p>
      September 1st. Up and at the office all the morning, and then dined at
      home. Got my new closet made mighty clean against to-morrow. Sir W. Pen
      and my wife and Mercer and I to "Polichinelly," but were there horribly
      frighted to see Young Killigrew come in with a great many more young
      sparks; but we hid ourselves, so as we think they did not see us. By and
      by, they went away, and then we were at rest again; and so, the play being
      done, we to Islington, and there eat and drank and mighty merry; and so
      home singing, and, after a letter or two at the office, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd (Lord's day). Some of our mayds sitting up late last night to get
      things ready against our feast to-day, Jane called us up about three in
      the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City. So I rose
      and slipped on my nightgowne, and went to her window, and thought it to be
      on the backside of Marke-lane at the farthest; but, being unused to such
      fires as followed, I thought it far enough off; and so went to bed again
      and to sleep. About seven rose again to dress myself, and there looked out
      at the window, and saw the fire not so much as it was and further off. So
      to my closett to set things to rights after yesterday's cleaning. By and
      by Jane comes and tells me that she hears that above 300 houses have been
      burned down to-night by the fire we saw, and that it is now burning down
      all Fish-street, by London Bridge. So I made myself ready presently, and
      walked to the Tower, and there got up upon one of the high places, Sir J.
      Robinson's little son going up with me; and there I did see the houses at
      that end of the bridge all on fire, and an infinite great fire on this and
      the other side the end of the bridge; which, among other people, did
      trouble me for poor little Michell and our Sarah on the bridge. So down,
      with my heart full of trouble, to the Lieutenant of the Tower, who tells
      me that it begun this morning in the King's baker's' house in
      Pudding-lane, and that it hath burned St. Magnus's Church and most part of
      Fish-street already. So I down to the water-side, and there got a boat and
      through bridge, and there saw a lamentable fire. Poor Michell's house, as
      far as the Old Swan, already burned that way, and the fire running
      further, that in a very little time it got as far as the Steeleyard, while
      I was there. Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging
      into the river or bringing them into lighters that layoff; poor people
      staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and
      then running into boats, or clambering from one pair of stairs by the
      water-side to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons, I
      perceive, were loth to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows
      and balconys till they were, some of them burned, their wings, and fell
      down. Having staid, and in an hour's time seen the fire: rage every way,
      and nobody, to my sight, endeavouring to quench it, but to remove their
      goods, and leave all to the fire, and having seen it get as far as the
      Steele-yard, and the wind mighty high and driving it into the City; and
      every thing, after so long a drought, proving combustible, even the very
      stones of churches, and among other things the poor steeple by which
      pretty Mrs.&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;lives, and whereof my old
      school-fellow Elborough is parson, taken fire in the very top, an there
      burned till it fell down: I to White Hall (with a gentleman with me who
      desired to go off from the Tower, to see the fire, in my boat); to White
      Hall, and there up to the Kings closett in the Chappell, where people come
      about me, and did give them an account dismayed them all, and word was
      carried in to the King. So I was called for, and did tell the King and
      Duke of Yorke what I saw, and that unless his Majesty did command houses
      to be pulled down nothing could stop the fire. They seemed much troubled,
      and the King commanded me to go to my Lord Mayor&mdash;[Sir Thomas
      Bludworth. See June 30th, 1666.]&mdash;from him, and command him to spare
      no houses, but to pull down before the fire every way. The Duke of York
      bid me tell him that if he would have any more soldiers he shall; and so
      did my Lord Arlington afterwards, as a great secret.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir William Coventry wrote to Lord Arlington on the evening of this
     day, "The Duke of York fears the want of workmen and tools to-morrow
     morning, and wishes the deputy lieutenants and justices of peace to
     summon the workmen with tools to be there by break of day.  In some
     churches and chapels are great hooks for pulling down houses, which
     should be brought ready upon the place to-night against the morning"
     ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-66, p. 95).]
</pre>
    <p>
      Here meeting, with Captain Cocke, I in his coach, which he lent me, and
      Creed with me to Paul's, and there walked along Watlingstreet, as well as
      I could, every creature coming away loaden with goods to save, and here
      and there sicke people carried away in beds. Extraordinary good goods
      carried in carts and on backs. At last met my Lord Mayor in Canningstreet,
      like a man spent, with a handkercher about his neck. To the King's message
      he cried, like a fainting woman, "Lord! what can I do? I am spent: people
      will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes
      us faster than we can do it." That he needed no more soldiers; and that,
      for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night. So
      he left me, and I him, and walked home, seeing people all almost
      distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses,
      too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as pitch
      and tarr, in Thames-street; and warehouses of oyle, and wines, and brandy,
      and other things. Here I saw Mr. Isaake Houblon, the handsome man,
      prettily dressed and dirty, at his door at Dowgate, receiving some of his
      brothers' things, whose houses were on fire; and, as he says, have been
      removed twice already; and he doubts (as it soon proved) that they must be
      in a little time removed from his house also, which was a sad
      consideration. And to see the churches all filling with goods by people
      who themselves should have been quietly there at this time. By this time
      it was about twelve o'clock; and so home, and there find my guests, which
      was Mr. Wood and his wife Barbary Sheldon, and also Mr. Moons: she mighty
      fine, and her husband; for aught I see, a likely man. But Mr. Moone's
      design and mine, which was to look over my closett and please him with the
      sight thereof, which he hath long desired, was wholly disappointed; for we
      were in great trouble and disturbance at this fire, not knowing what to
      think of it. However, we had an extraordinary good dinner, and as merry,
      as at this time we could be. While at dinner Mrs. Batelier come to enquire
      after Mr. Woolfe and Stanes (who, it seems, are related to them), whose
      houses in Fish-street are all burned; and they in a sad condition. She
      would not stay in the fright. Soon as dined, I and Moone away, and walked,
      through the City, the streets full of nothing but people and horses and
      carts loaden with goods, ready to run over one another, and, removing
      goods from one burned house to another. They now removing out of
      Canning-streets (which received goods in the morning) into
      Lumbard-streets, and further;
    </p>
    <p>
      and among others I now saw my little goldsmith, Stokes, receiving some
      friend's goods, whose house itself was burned the day after. We parted at
      Paul's; he home, and I to Paul's Wharf, where I had appointed a boat to
      attend me, and took in Mr. Carcasse and his brother, whom I met in the
      streets and carried them below and above bridge to and again to see the
      fire, which was now got further, both below and above and no likelihood of
      stopping it. Met with the King and Duke of York in their barge, and with
      them to Queenhith and there called Sir Richard Browne to them. Their order
      was only to pull down houses apace, and so below bridge the water-side;
      but little was or could be done, the fire coming upon them so fast. Good
      hopes there was of stopping it at the Three Cranes above, and at
      Buttolph's Wharf below bridge, if care be used; but the wind carries it
      into the City so as we know not by the water-side what it do there. River
      full of lighters and boats taking in goods, and good goods swimming in the
      water, and only I observed that hardly one lighter or boat in three that
      had the goods of a house in, but there was a pair of Virginalls
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The virginal differed from the spinet in being square instead of
     triangular in form.  The word pair was used in the obsolete sense of
     a set, as we read also of a pair of organs.  The instrument is
     supposed to have obtained its name from young women, playing upon
     it.]
</pre>
    <p>
      in it. Having seen as much as I could now, I away to White Hall by
      appointment, and there walked to St. James's Parks, and there met my wife
      and Creed and Wood and his wife, and walked to my boat; and there upon the
      water again, and to the fire up and down, it still encreasing, and the
      wind great. So near the fire as we could for smoke; and all over the
      Thames, with one's face in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower
      of firedrops. This is very true; so as houses were burned by these drops
      and flakes of fire, three or four, nay, five or six houses, one from
      another. When we could endure no more upon the water; we to a little
      ale-house on the Bankside, over against the 'Three Cranes, and there staid
      till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker,
      appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between
      churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a
      most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary
      fire. Barbary and her husband away before us. We staid till, it being
      darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the
      other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a
      mile long: it made me weep to see it. The churches, houses, and all on
      fire and flaming at once; and a horrid noise the flames made, and the
      cracking of houses at their ruins. So home with a sad heart, and there
      find every body discoursing and lamenting the fire; and poor Tom Hater
      come with some few of his goods saved out of his house, which is burned
      upon Fish-streets Hall. I invited him to lie at my house, and did receive
      his goods, but was deceived in his lying there, the newes coming every
      moment of the growth of the fire; so as we were forced to begin to pack up
      our owne goods; and prepare for their removal; and did by moonshine (it
      being brave dry, and moon: shine, and warm weather) carry much of my goods
      into the garden, and Mr. Hater and I did remove my money and iron chests
      into my cellar, as thinking that the safest place. And got my bags of gold
      into my office, ready to carry away, and my chief papers of accounts also
      there, and my tallys into a box by themselves. So great was our fear, as
      Sir W. Batten hath carts come out of the country to fetch away his goods
      this night. We did put Mr. Hater, poor man, to bed a little; but he got
      but very little rest, so much noise being in my house, taking down of
      goods.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. About four o'clock in the morning, my Lady Batten sent me a cart to
      carry away all my money, and plate, and best things, to Sir W. Rider's at
      Bednall-greene. Which I did riding myself in my night-gowne in the cart;
      and, Lord! to see how the streets and the highways are crowded with people
      running and riding, and getting of carts at any rate to fetch away things.
      I find Sir W. Rider tired with being called up all night, and receiving
      things from several friends. His house full of goods, and much of Sir W.
      Batten's and Sir W. Pen's I am eased at my heart to have my treasure so
      well secured. Then home, with much ado to find a way, nor any sleep all
      this night to me nor my poor wife. But then and all this day she and I,
      and all my people labouring to get away the rest of our things, and did
      get Mr. Tooker to get me a lighter to take them in, and we did carry them
      (myself some) over Tower Hill, which was by this time full of people's
      goods, bringing their goods thither; and down to the lighter, which lay at
      next quay, above the Tower Docke. And here was my neighbour's wife, Mrs.&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;-,with
      her pretty child, and some few of her things, which I did willingly give
      way to be saved with mine; but there was no passing with any thing through
      the postern, the crowd was so great. The Duke of Yorke of this day by the
      office, and spoke to us, and did ride with his guard up and down the City,
      to keep all quiet (he being now Generall, and having the care of all).
      This day, Mercer being not at home, but against her mistress's order gone
      to her mother's, and my wife going thither to speak with W. Hewer, met her
      there, and was angry; and her mother saying that she was not a 'prentice
      girl, to ask leave every time she goes abroad, my wife with good reason
      was angry, and, when she came home, bid her be gone again. And so she went
      away, which troubled me, but yet less than it would, because of the
      condition we are in, fear of coming into in a little time of being less
      able to keepe one in her quality. At night lay down a little upon a quilt
      of W. Hewer's in the office, all my owne things being packed up or gone;
      and after me my poor wife did the like, we having fed upon the remains of
      yesterday's dinner, having no fire nor dishes, nor any opportunity of
      dressing any thing.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up by break of day to get away the remainder of my things; which I
      did by a lighter at the Iron gate and my hands so few, that it was the
      afternoon before we could get them all away. Sir W. Pen and I to
      Tower-streete, and there met the fire burning three or four doors beyond
      Mr. Howell's, whose goods, poor man, his trayes, and dishes, shovells,
      &amp;c., were flung all along Tower-street in the kennels, and people
      working therewith from one end to the other; the fire coming on in that
      narrow streete, on both sides, with infinite fury. Sir W. Batten not
      knowing how to remove his wine, did dig a pit in the garden, and laid it
      in there; and I took the opportunity of laying all the papers of my office
      that I could not otherwise dispose of. And in the evening Sir W. Pen and I
      did dig another, and put our wine in it; and I my Parmazan cheese, as well
      as my wine and some other things. The Duke of Yorke was at the office this
      day, at Sir W. Pen's; but I happened not to be within. This afternoon,
      sitting melancholy with Sir W. Pen in our garden, and thinking of the
      certain burning of this office, without extraordinary means, I did propose
      for the sending up of all our workmen from Woolwich and Deptford yards
      (none whereof yet appeared), and to write to Sir W. Coventry to have the
      Duke of Yorke's permission to pull down houses, rather than lose this
      office, which would, much hinder, the King's business. So Sir W. Pen he
      went down this night, in order to the sending them up to-morrow morning;
      and I wrote to Sir W. Coventry about the business, but received no answer.
      This night Mrs. Turner (who, poor woman, was removing her goods all this
      day, good goods into the garden, and knows not how to dispose of them),
      and her husband supped with my wife and I at night, in the office; upon a
      shoulder of mutton from the cook's, without any napkin or any thing, in a
      sad manner, but were merry. Only now and then walking into the garden, and
      saw how horridly the sky looks, all on a fire in the night, was enough to
      put us out of our wits; and, indeed, it was extremely dreadful, for it
      looks just as if it was at us; and the whole heaven on fire. I after
      supper walked in the darke down to Tower-streete, and there saw it all on
      fire, at the Trinity House on that side, and the Dolphin Taverne on this
      side, which was very near us; and the fire with extraordinary vehemence.
      Now begins the practice of blowing up of houses in Tower-streete, those
      next the Tower, which at first did frighten people more than anything, but
      it stopped the fire where it was done, it bringing down the
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A copy of this letter, preserved among the Pepys MSS. in the
     author's own handwriting, is subjoined:

     "SIR, The fire is now very neere us as well on Tower Streete as
     Fanchurch Street side, and we little hope of our escape but by this
     remedy, to ye want whereof we doe certainly owe ye loss of ye City
     namely, ye pulling down of houses, in ye way of ye fire.  This way
     Sir W. Pen and myself have so far concluded upon ye practising, that
     he is gone to Woolwich and Deptford to supply himself with men and
     necessarys in order to the doeing thereof, in case at his returne
     our condition be not bettered and that he meets with his R. Hs.
     approbation, which I had thus undertaken to learn of you.  Pray
     please to let me have this night (at whatever hour it is) what his
     R. Hs. directions are in this particular; Sir J. Minnes and Sir W.
     Batten having left us, we cannot add, though we are well assured of
     their, as well as all ye neighbourhood's concurrence.

                              "Yr. obedient servnt.
                                                  "S. P.

     "Sir W. Coventry,
     "Septr.  4, 1666."]
</pre>
    <p>
      houses to the ground in the same places they stood, and then it was easy
      to quench what little fire was in it, though it kindled nothing almost. W.
      Newer this day went to see how his mother did, and comes late home,
      telling us how he hath been forced to remove her to Islington, her house
      in Pye-corner being burned; so that the fire is got so far that way, and
      all the Old Bayly, and was running down to Fleete-streete; and Paul's is
      burned, and all Cheapside. I wrote to my father this night, but the
      post-house being burned, the letter could not go.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [J. Hickes wrote to Williamson on September 3rd from the "Golden
     Lyon," Red Cross Street Posthouse.  Sir Philip [Frowde] and his lady
     fled from the [letter] office at midnight for: safety; stayed
     himself till 1 am. till his wife and childrens' patience could stay,
     no longer, fearing lest they should be quite stopped up; the passage
     was so tedious they had much ado to get where they are.  The Chester
     and Irish, mails have come-in; sends him his letters, knows not how
     to dispose of the business ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67,
     p. 95).]
</pre>
    <p>
      5th. I lay down in the office again upon W. Hewer's, quilt, being mighty
      weary, and sore in my feet with going till I was hardly able to stand.
      About two in the morning my wife calls me up and tells me of new cryes of
      fire, it being come to Barkeing Church, which is the bottom of our lane. I
      up, and finding it so, resolved presently to take her away, and did, and
      took my gold, which was about L2350, W. Newer, and Jane, down by Proundy's
      boat to Woolwich; but, Lord! what sad sight it was by moone-light to see,
      the whole City almost on fire, that you might see it plain at Woolwich, as
      if you were by it. There, when I come, I find the gates shut, but no guard
      kept at all, which troubled me, because of discourse now begun, that there
      is plot in it, and that the French had done it. I got the gates open, and
      to Mr. Shelden's, where I locked up my gold, and charged, my wife and W.
      Newer never to leave the room without one of them in it, night, or day. So
      back again, by the way seeing my goods well in the lighters at Deptford,
      and watched well by people. Home; and whereas I expected to have seen our
      house on fire, it being now about seven o'clock, it was not. But to the
      fyre, and there find greater hopes than I expected; for my confidence of
      finding our Office on fire was such, that I durst not ask any body how it
      was with us, till I come and saw it not burned. But going to the fire, I
      find by the blowing up of houses, and the great helpe given by the workmen
      out of the King's yards, sent up by Sir W. Pen, there is a good stop given
      to it, as well as at Marke-lane end as ours; it having only burned the
      dyall of Barking Church, and part of the porch, and was there quenched. I
      up to the top of Barking steeple, and there saw the saddest sight of
      desolation that I ever saw; every where great fires, oyle-cellars, and
      brimstone, and other things burning. I became afeard to stay there long,
      and therefore down again as fast as I could, the fire being spread as far
      as I could see it; and to Sir W. Pen's, and there eat a piece of cold
      meat, having eaten nothing since Sunday, but the remains of Sunday's
      dinner. Here I met with Mr. Young and Whistler; and having removed all my
      things, and received good hopes that the fire at our end; is stopped, they
      and I walked into the town, and find Fanchurch-streete, Gracious-streete;
      and Lumbard-streete all in dust. The Exchange a sad sight, nothing
      standing there, of all the statues or pillars, but Sir Thomas Gresham's
      picture in the corner. Walked into Moorefields (our feet ready to burn,
      walking through the towne among the hot coles), and find that full of
      people, and poor wretches carrying their good there, and every body
      keeping his goods together by themselves (and a great blessing it is to
      them that it is fair weathe for them to keep abroad night and day); drank
      there, and paid two-pence for a plain penny loaf. Thence homeward, having
      passed through Cheapside and Newgate Market, all burned, and seen Anthony
      Joyce's House in fire. And took up (which I keep by me) a piece of glasse
      of Mercers' Chappell in the streete, where much more was, so melted and
      buckled with the heat of the fire like parchment. I also did see a poor
      cat taken out of a hole in the chimney, joyning to the wall of the
      Exchange; with, the hair all burned off the body, and yet alive. So home
      at night, and find there good hopes of saving our office; but great
      endeavours of watching all night, and having men ready; and so we lodged
      them in the office, and had drink and bread and cheese for them. And I lay
      down and slept a good night about midnight, though when I rose I heard
      that there had been a great alarme of French and Dutch being risen, which
      proved, nothing. But it is a strange thing to see how long this time did
      look since Sunday, having been always full of variety of actions, and
      little sleep, that it looked like a week or more, and I had forgot, almost
      the day of the week.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up about five o'clock, and where met Mr. Gawden at the gate of the
      office (I intending to go out, as I used, every now and then to-day, to
      see how the fire is) to call our men to Bishop's-gate, where no fire had
      yet been near, and there is now one broke out which did give great grounds
      to people, and to me too, to think that there is some kind of plot
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The terrible disaster which overtook London was borne by the
     inhabitants of the city with great fortitude, but foreigners and
     Roman Catholics had a bad dime.  As no cause for the outbreak of the
     fire could be traced, a general cry was raised that it owed its
     origin to a plot.  In a letter from Thomas Waade to Williamson
     (dated "Whitby, Sept. 14th") we read, "The destruction of London by
     fire is reported to be a hellish contrivance of the French,
     Hollanders, and fanatic party" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67,
     p. 124).]
</pre>
    <p>
      in this (on which many by this time have been taken, and, it hath been
      dangerous for any stranger to walk in the streets), but I went with the
      men, and we did put it out in a little time; so that that was well again.
      It was pretty to see how hard the women did work in the cannells, sweeping
      of water; but then they would scold for drink, and be as drunk as devils.
      I saw good butts of sugar broke open in the street, and people go and take
      handsfull out, and put into beer, and drink it. And now all being pretty
      well, I took boat, and over to Southwarke, and took boat on the other side
      the bridge, and so to Westminster, thinking to shift myself, being all in
      dirt from top to bottom; but could not there find any place to buy a shirt
      or pair of gloves, Westminster Hall being full of people's goods, those in
      Westminster having removed all their goods, and the Exchequer money put
      into vessels to carry to Nonsuch; but to the Swan, and there was trimmed;
      and then to White Hall, but saw nobody; and so home. A sad sight to see
      how the River looks: no houses nor church near it, to the Temple, where it
      stopped. At home, did go with Sir W. Batten, and our neighbour, Knightly
      (who, with one more, was the only man of any fashion left in all the
      neighbourhood thereabouts, they all removing their goods and leaving their
      houses to the mercy of the fire), to Sir R. Ford's, and there dined in an
      earthen platter&mdash;a fried breast of mutton; a great many of us, but
      very merry, and indeed as good a meal, though as ugly a one, as ever I had
      in my life. Thence down to Deptford, and there with great satisfaction
      landed all my goods at Sir G. Carteret's safe, and nothing missed I could
      see, or hurt. This being done to my great content, I home, and to Sir W.
      Batten's, and there with Sir R. Ford, Mr. Knightly, and one Withers, a
      professed lying rogue, supped well, and mighty merry, and our fears over.
      From them to the office, and there slept with the office full of
      labourers, who talked, and slept, and walked all night long there. But
      strange it was to see Cloathworkers' Hall on fire these three days and
      nights in one body of flame, it being the cellar full of oyle.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up by five o'clock; and, blessed be God! find all well, and by water
      to Paul's Wharfe. Walked thence, and saw, all the towne burned, and a
      miserable sight of Paul's church; with all the roofs fallen, and the body
      of the quire fallen into St. Fayth's; Paul's school also, Ludgate, and
      Fleet-street, my father's house, and the church, and a good part of the
      Temple the like. So to Creed's lodging, near the New Exchange, and there
      find him laid down upon a bed; the house all unfurnished, there being
      fears of the fire's coming to them. There borrowed a shirt of him, and
      washed. To Sir W. Coventry, at St. James's, who lay without curtains,
      having removed all his goods; as the King at White Hall, and every body
      had done, and was doing. He hopes we shall have no publique distractions
      upon this fire, which is what every body fears, because of the talke of
      the French having a hand in it. And it is a proper time for discontents;
      but all men's minds are full of care to protect themselves, and save their
      goods: the militia is in armes every where. Our fleetes, he tells me, have
      been in sight one of another, and most unhappily by fowle weather were
      parted, to our great losse, as in reason they do conclude; the Dutch being
      come out only to make a shew, and please their people; but in very bad
      condition as to stores; victuals, and men. They are at Bullen; and our
      fleete come to St. Ellen's. We have got nothing, but have lost one ship,
      but he knows not what. Thence to the Swan, and there drank: and so home,
      and find all well. My Lord Bruncker, at Sir W. Batten's, and tells us the
      Generall is sent for up, to come to advise with the King about business at
      this juncture, and to keep all quiet; which is great honour to him, but I
      am sure is but a piece of dissimulation. So home, and did give orders for
      my house to be made clean; and then down to Woolwich, and there find all
      well: Dined, and Mrs. Markham come to see my wife. So I up again, and
      calling at Deptford for some things of W. Hewer's, he being with me, and
      then home and spent the evening with Sir R. Ford, Mr. Knightly, and Sir W.
      Pen at Sir W. Batten's: This day our Merchants first met at Gresham
      College, which, by proclamation, is to be their Exchange. Strange to hear
      what is bid for houses all up and down here; a friend of Sir W. Rider's:
      having L150 for what he used to let for L40 per annum. Much dispute where
      the Custome-house shall be thereby the growth of the City again to be
      foreseen. My Lord Treasurer, they say, and others; would have it at the
      other end of the towne. I home late to Sir W. Pen's, who did give me a
      bed; but without curtains or hangings, all being down. So here I went the
      first time into a naked bed, only my drawers on; and did sleep pretty
      well: but still hath sleeping and waking had a fear of fire in my heart,
      that I took little rest. People do all the world over cry out of the
      simplicity of my Lord Mayor in generall; and more particularly in this
      business of the fire, laying it all upon' him. A proclamation
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [On September 5th proclamation was made "ordering that for supply of
     the distressed people left destitute by the late dreadful and dismal
     fire....  great proportions of bread be brought daily, not
     only to the former markets, but to those lately ordained; that all
     churches, chapels, schools, and public buildings are to be open to
     receive the goods of those who know not how to dispose of them." On
     September 6th, proclamation ordered "that as the markets are burned
     down, markets be held in Bishopsgate Street, Tower Hill, Smithfield,
     and Leadenhall Street" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67, pp.
     100, 104).]
</pre>
    <p>
      is come out for markets to be kept at Leadenhall and Mileendgreene, and
      several other places about the towne; and Tower-hill, and all churches to
      be set open to receive poor people.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen by water to White Hall and
      they to St. James's. I stopped with Sir G. Carteret to desire him to go
      with us, and to enquire after money. But the first he cannot do, and the
      other as little, or says, "when we can get any, or what shall we do for
      it?" He, it seems, is employed in the correspondence between the City and
      the King every day, in settling of things. I find him full of trouble, to
      think how things will go. I left him, and to St. James's, where we met
      first at Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and there did what business we can,
      without any books. Our discourse, as every thing else, was confused. The
      fleete is at Portsmouth, there staying a wind to carry them to the Downes,
      or towards Bullen, where they say the Dutch fleete is gone, and stays. We
      concluded upon private meetings for a while, not having any money to
      satisfy any people that may come to us. I bought two eeles upon the
      Thames, cost me six shillings. Thence with Sir W. Batten to the Cock-pit,
      whither the Duke of Albemarle is come. It seems the King holds him so
      necessary at this time, that he hath sent for him, and will keep him here.
      Indeed, his interest in the City, being acquainted, and his care in
      keeping things quiet, is reckoned that wherein he will be very
      serviceable. We to him; he is courted in appearance by every body. He very
      kind to us; I perceive he lays by all business of the fleete at present,
      and minds the City, and is now hastening to Gresham College, to discourse
      with the Aldermen. Sir W. Batten and I home (where met by my brother John,
      come to town to see how things are with us), and then presently he with me
      to Gresham College; where infinity of people, partly through novelty to
      see the new place, and partly to find out and hear what is become one man
      of another. I met with many people undone, and more that have
      extraordinary great losses. People speaking their thoughts variously about
      the beginning of the fire, and the rebuilding; of the City. Then to Sir W.
      Batten's, and took my brothet with me, and there dined with a great
      company of neighbours; and much good discourse; among others, of the low
      spirits of some rich men in the City, in sparing any encouragement to the
      poor people that wrought for the saving their houses. Among others,
      Alderman Starling, a very rich man, without; children, the fire at next
      door to him in our lane, after our men had saved his house, did give 2s.
      6d. among thirty of them, and did quarrel with some that would remove the
      rubbish out of the way of the fire, saying that they come to steal. Sir W.
      Coventry told me of another this morning, in Holborne, which he shewed the
      King that when it was offered to stop the fire near his house for such a
      reward that came but to 2s. 6d. a man among the neighbours he would, give
      but 18d. Thence to Bednall Green by coach, my brother with me, and saw all
      well there, and fetched away my journall book to enter for five days past,
      and then back to the office where I find Bagwell's wife, and her husband
      come home. Agreed to come to their house to-morrow, I sending him away to
      his ship to-day. To the office and late writing letters, and then to Sir
      W. Pen's, my brother lying with me, and Sir W. Pen gone down to rest
      himself at Woolwich. But I was much frighted and kept awake in my bed, by
      some noise I heard a great while below stairs; and the boys not coming up
      to me when I knocked. It was by their discovery of people stealing of some
      neighbours' wine that lay in vessels in the streets. So to sleep; and all
      well all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Sunday). Up and was trimmed, and sent my brother to Woolwich to my
      wife, to dine with her. I to church, where our parson made a melancholy
      but good sermon; and many and most in the church cried, specially the
      women. The church mighty full; but few of fashion, and most strangers. I
      walked to Bednall Green, and there dined well, but a bad venison pasty at
      Sir W. Rider's. Good people they are, and good discourse; and his
      daughter, Middleton, a fine woman, discreet. Thence home, and to church
      again, and there preached Dean Harding; but, methinks, a bad, poor sermon,
      though proper for the time; nor eloquent, in saying at this time that the
      City is reduced from a large folio to a decimotertio. So to my office,
      there to write down my journall, and take leave of my brother, whom I sent
      back this afternoon, though rainy; which it hath not done a good while
      before. But I had no room or convenience for him here till my house is
      fitted; but I was very kind to him, and do take very well of him his
      journey. I did give him 40s. for his pocket, and so, he being gone, and,
      it presently rayning, I was troubled for him, though it is good for the
      fyre. Anon to Sir W. Pen's to bed, and made my boy Tom to read me asleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. All the morning clearing our cellars, and breaking in pieces all my
      old lumber, to make room, and to prevent fire. And then to Sir W.
      Batten's, and dined; and there hear that Sir W. Rider says that the towne
      is full of the report of the wealth that is in his house, and would be
      glad that his friends would provide for the safety of their goods there.
      This made me get a cart; and thither, and there brought my money all away.
      Took a hackney-coach myself (the hackney-coaches now standing at Allgate).
      Much wealth indeed there is at his house. Blessed be God, I got all mine
      well thence, and lodged it in my office; but vexed to have all the world
      see it. And with Sir W. Batten, who would have taken away my hands before
      they were stowed. But by and by comes brother Balty from sea, which I was
      glad of; and so got him, and Mr. Tooker, and the boy, to watch with them
      all in the office all night, while I upon Jane's coming went down to my
      wife, calling at Deptford, intending to see Bagwell, but did not 'ouvrir
      la porte comme je' did expect. So down late to Woolwich, and there find my
      wife out of humour and indifferent, as she uses upon her having much
      liberty abroad.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Lay there, and up betimes, and by water with my gold, and laid it
      with the rest in my office, where I find all well and safe. So with Sir W.
      Batten to the New Exchange by water and to my Lord Bruncker's house, where
      Sir W. Coventry and Sir G. Carteret met. Little business before us but
      want of money. Broke up, and I home by coach round the town. Dined at
      home, Balty and myself putting up my papers in m closet in the office. He
      away, I down to Deptford and there spoke with Bagwell and agreed upon
      to-morrow, and come home in the rain by water. In the evening at Sir W.
      Pen's; with my wife, at supper, he in a mad, ridiculous, drunken humour;
      and it seems there have been some late distances between his lady and him,
      as my [wife] tells me. After supper, I home, and with Mr. Hater, Gibson,
      and Tom alone, got all my chests and money into the further cellar with
      much pains, but great content to me when done. So very late and weary, to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to St. James's by water,
      and there did our usual business with the Duke of Yorke. Thence I to
      Westminster, and there, spoke with Michell and Howlett, who tell me how
      their poor young ones are going to Shadwell's. The latter told me of the
      unkindness of the young man to his wife, which is now over, and I have
      promised to appear a counsellor to him. I am glad she is like to be so
      near us again. Thence to Martin, and there did 'tout ce que je voudrais
      avec' her, and drank, and away by water home and to dinner, Balty and his
      wife there. After dinner I took him down with me to Deptford, and there by
      the Bezan loaded above half my goods and sent them away. So we back home,
      and then I found occasion to return in the dark and to Bagwell, and
      there... did do all that I desired, but though I did intend 'pour avoir
      demeurais con elle' to-day last night, yet when I had done 'ce que je
      voudrais I did hate both elle and la cose', and taking occasion from the
      occasion of 'su marido's return... did me lever', and so away home late to
      Sir W. Pen's (Batty and his wife lying at my house), and there in the same
      simple humour I found Sir W. Pen, and so late to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and down to Tower Wharfe; and there, with Batty and labourers
      from Deptford, did get my goods housed well at home. So down to Deptford
      again to fetch the rest, and there eat a bit of dinner at the Globe, with
      the master of the Bezan with me, while the labourers went to dinner. Here
      I hear that this poor towne do bury still of the plague seven or eight in
      a day. So to Sir G. Carteret's to work, and there did to my content ship
      off into the Bezan all the rest of my goods, saving my pictures and fine
      things, that I will bring home in wherrys when the house is fit to receive
      them: and so home, and unload them by carts and hands before night, to my
      exceeding satisfaction: and so after supper to bed in my house, the first
      time I have lain there; and lay with my wife in my old closett upon the
      ground, and Batty and his wife in the best chamber, upon the ground also.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and to work, having carpenters come to helpe in setting up
      bedsteads and hangings; and at that trade my people and I all the morning,
      till pressed by publique business to leave them against my will in the
      afternoon: and yet I was troubled in being at home, to see all my goods
      lie up and down the house in a bad condition, and strange workmen going to
      and fro might take what they would almost. All the afternoon busy; and Sir
      W. Coventry come to me, and found me, as God would have it, in my office,
      and people about me setting my papers to rights; and there discoursed
      about getting an account ready against the Parliament, and thereby did
      create me infinite of business, and to be done on a sudden; which troubled
      me: but, however, he being gone, I about it late, and to good purpose. And
      so home, having this day also got my wine out of the ground again, and set
      in my cellar; but with great pain to keep the porters that carried it in
      from observing the money-chests there. So to bed as last night, only my
      wife and I upon a bedstead with curtains in that which was Mercer's
      chamber, and Balty and his wife (who are here and do us good service),
      where we lay last night. This day, poor Tom Pepys, the turner, was with
      me, and Kate, Joyce, to bespeake places; one for himself, the other for
      her husband. She tells me he hath lost L140 per annum, but have seven
      houses left.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. All the morning at the office, Harman being come to my great
      satisfaction to put up my beds and hangings, so I am at rest, and followed
      my business all day. Dined with Sir W. Batten, mighty busy about this
      account, and while my people were busy, wrote near thirty letters and
      orders with my owne hand. At it till eleven at night; and it is strange to
      see how clear my head was, being eased of all the matter of all these
      letters; whereas one would think that I should have been dazed. I never
      did observe so much of myself in my life. In the evening there comes to me
      Captain Cocke, and walked a good while in the garden. He says he hath
      computed that the rents of houses lost by this fire in the City comes to
      L600,000 per annum; that this will make the Parliament, more quiet than
      otherwise they would have been, and give the King a more ready supply;
      that the supply must be by excise, as it is in Holland; that the
      Parliament will see it necessary to carry on the warr; that the late storm
      hindered our beating the Dutch fleete, who were gone out only to satisfy
      the people, having no business to do but to avoid us; that the French, as
      late in the yeare as it is, are coming; that the Dutch are really in bad
      condition, but that this unhappinesse of ours do give them heart; that
      there was a late difference between my Lord Arlington and Sir W. Coventry
      about neglect in the last to send away an express of the other's in time;
      that it come before the King, and the Duke of Yorke concerned himself in
      it; but this fire hath stopped it. The Dutch fleete is not gone home, but
      rather to the North, and so dangerous to our Gottenburgh fleete. That the
      Parliament is likely to fall foul upon some persons; and, among others, on
      the Vice-chamberlaine, though we both believe with little ground. That
      certainly never so great a loss as this was borne so well by citizens in
      the world; he believing that not one merchant upon the 'Change will break
      upon it. That he do not apprehend there will be any disturbances in State
      upon it; for that all men are busy in looking after their owne business to
      save themselves. He gone, I to finish my letters, and home to bed; and
      find to my infinite joy many rooms clean; and myself and wife lie in our
      own chamber again. But much terrified in the nights now-a-days with dreams
      of fire, and falling down of houses.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). Lay with much pleasure in bed talking with my wife
      about Mr. Hater's lying here and W. Hewer also, if Mrs. Mercer leaves her
      house. To the office, whither also all my people about this account, and
      there busy all the morning. At noon, with my wife, against her will, all
      undressed and dirty, dined at Sir W. Pen's, where was all the company of
      our families in towne; but, Lord! so sorry a dinner: venison baked in
      pans, that the dinner I have had for his lady alone hath been worth four
      of it. Thence, after dinner, displeased with our entertainment, to my
      office again, and there till almost midnight and my people with me, and
      then home, my head mightily akeing about our accounts.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up betimes, and shaved myself after a week's growth, but, Lord! how
      ugly I was yesterday and how fine to-day! By water, seeing the City all
      the way, a sad sight indeed, much fire being still in. To Sir W. Coventry,
      and there read over my yesterday's work: being a collection of the
      particulars of the excess of charge created by a war, with good content.
      Sir W. Coventry was in great pain lest the French fleete should be passed
      by our fleete, who had notice of them on Saturday, and were preparing to
      go meet them; but their minds altered, and judged them merchant-men, when
      the same day the Success, Captain Ball, made their whole fleete, and come
      to Brighthelmstone, and thence at five o'clock afternoon, Saturday, wrote
      Sir W. Coventry newes thereof; so that we do much fear our missing them.
      Here come in and talked with him Sir Thomas Clifford, who appears a very
      fine gentleman, and much set by at Court for his activity in going to sea,
      and stoutness everywhere, and stirring up and down. Thence by coach over
      the ruines, down Fleete Streete and Cheapside to Broad Streete to Sir G.
      Carteret, where Sir W. Batten (and Sir J. Minnes, whom I had not seen a
      long time before, being his first coming abroad) and Lord Bruncker passing
      his accounts. Thence home a little to look after my people at work and
      back to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner; and thence, after some discourse;
      with him upon our publique accounts, I back home, and all the day with
      Harman and his people finishing the hangings and beds in my house, and the
      hangings will be as good as ever, and particularly in my new closet. They
      gone and I weary, my wife and I, and Balty and his wife, who come hither
      to-day to helpe us, to a barrel of oysters I sent from the river today,
      and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Strange with what freedom and quantity I pissed this night, which I
      know not what to impute to but my oysters, unless the coldness of the
      night should cause it, for it was a sad rainy and tempestuous night. Soon
      as up I begun to have some pain in my bladder and belly, as usual, which
      made me go to dinner betimes, to fill my belly, and that did ease me, so
      as I did my business in the afternoon, in forwarding the settling of my
      house, very well. Betimes to bed, my wife also being all this day ill in
      the same manner. Troubled at my wife's haire coming off so much. This day
      the Parliament met, and adjourned till Friday, when the King will be with
      them.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to St. James's, and there did our
      usual business before the Duke of Yorke; which signified little, our
      business being only complaints of lack of money. Here I saw a bastard of
      the late King of Sweden's come to kiss his hands; a mighty modish
      French-like gentleman. Thence to White Hall, with Sir W. Batten and Sir W.
      Pen, to Wilkes's; and there did hear the many profane stories of Sir Henry
      Wood damning the parsons for so much spending the wine at the sacrament,
      cursing that ever they took the cup to themselves, and then another story
      that he valued not all the world's curses, for two pence he shall get at
      any time the prayers of some poor body that is worth a 1000 of all their
      curses; Lord Norwich drawing a tooth at a health. Another time, he and
      Pinchbacke and Dr. Goffe, now a religious man, Pinchbacke did begin a
      frolick to drink out of a glass with a toad in it that he had taken up
      going out to shit, he did it without harm. Goffe, who knew sacke would
      kill the toad, called for sacke; and when he saw it dead, says he, "I will
      have a quick toad, and will not drink from a dead toad."
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["They swallow their own contradictions as easily as a hector can
     drink a frog in a glass of wine."&mdash;Benlivoglio and Urania, book v.,
     p. 92, 3rd edit.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      By that means, no other being to be found, he escaped the health. Thence
      home, and dined, and to Deptford and got all my pictures put into
      wherries, and my other fine things, and landed them all very well, and
      brought them home, and got Sympson to set them all up to-night; and he
      gone, I and the boy to finish and set up my books, and everything else in
      my house, till two o'clock; in the morning, and then to bed; but mightily
      troubled, and even in my sleep, at my missing four or five of my biggest
      books. Speed's Chronicle and Maps, and the two parts of Waggoner, and a
      book of cards, which I suppose I have put up with too much care, that I
      have forgot where they are; for sure they are not stole. Two little
      pictures of sea and ships and a little gilt frame belonging to my plate of
      the River, I want; but my books do heartily trouble me. Most of my gilt
      frames are hurt, which also troubles me, but most my books. This day I put
      on two shirts, the first time this year, and do grow well upon it; so that
      my disease is nothing but wind.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, much troubled about my books, but cannot, imagine where they
      should be. Up, to the setting my closet to rights, and Sir W. Coventry
      takes me at it, which did not displease me. He and I to discourse about
      our accounts, and the bringing them to the Parliament, and with much
      content to see him rely so well on my part. He and I together to Broad
      Streete to the Vice-Chamberlain, and there discoursed a while and parted.
      My Lady Carteret come to town, but I did not see her. He tells me how the
      fleete is come into the Downes. Nothing done, nor French fleete seen: we
      drove all from our anchors. But he says newes is come that De Ruyter is
      dead, or very near it, of a hurt in his mouth, upon the discharge of one
      of his own guns; which put him into a fever, and he likely to die, if not
      already dead. We parted, and I home to dinner, and after dinner to the
      setting things in order, and all my people busy about the same work. In
      the afternoon, out by coach, my wife with me, which we have not done
      several weeks now, through all the ruines, to shew her them, which frets
      her much, and is a sad sight indeed. Set her down at her brother's, and
      thence I to Westminster Hall, and there staid a little while, and called
      her home. She did give me an account of great differences between her
      mother and Balty's wife. The old woman charges her with going abroad and
      staying out late, and painting in the absence of her husband, and I know
      not what; and they grow proud, both he and she, and do not help their
      father and mother out of what I help them to, which I do not like, nor my
      wife. So home, and to the office, to even my journall, and then home, and
      very late up with Jane setting my books in perfect order in my closet, but
      am mightily troubled for my great books that I miss, and I am troubled the
      more for fear there should be more missing than what I find, though by the
      room they take on the shelves I do not find any reason to think it. So to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and mightily pleased with the setting of my books the last night
      in order, and that which did please me most of all is that W. Hewer tells
      me that upon enquiry he do find that Sir W. Pen hath a hamper more than
      his own, which he took for a hamper of bottles of wine, and are books in
      it. I was impatient to see it, but they were carried into a wine-cellar,
      and the boy is abroad with him at the House, where the Parliament met
      to-day, and the King to be with them. At noon after dinner I sent for
      Harry, and he tells me it is so, and brought me by and by my hamper of
      books to my great joy, with the same books I missed, and three more great
      ones, and no more. I did give him 5s. for his pains, And so home with
      great joy, and to the setting of some off them right, but could not finish
      it, but away by coach to the other end of the town, leaving my wife at the
      'Change, but neither come time enough to the Council to speak with the
      Duke of Yorke, nor with Sir G. Carteret, and so called my wife, and paid
      for some things she bought, and so home, and there after a little doing at
      the office about our accounts, which now draw near the time they should be
      ready, the House having ordered Sir G. Carteret, upon his offering them,
      to bring them in on Saturday next, I home, and there, with great pleasure,
      very late new setting all my books; and now I am in as good condition as I
      desire to be in all worldly respects. The Lord of Heaven make me
      thankfull, and continue me therein! So to bed. This day I had new stairs
      of main timber put t my cellar going into the yard.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. To my closet, and had it new washed, and now my house is so clean as
      I never saw it, or any other house in my life, and every thing in as good
      condition as ever before the fire; but with, I believe, about L20 cost one
      way or other besides about L20 charge in removing my goods, and do not
      find that I have lost any thing but two little pictures of ship and sea,
      and a little gold frame for one of my sea-cards. My glazier, indeed, is so
      full of worke that I cannot get him to come to perfect my house. To the
      office, and there busy now for good and all about my accounts. My Lord
      Brunck come thither, thinking to find an office, but we have not yet met.
      He do now give me a watch, a plain one, in the roome of my former watch
      with many motions which I did give him. If it goes well, I care not for
      the difference in worth, though believe there is above L5. He and I to Sir
      G. Carteret to discourse about his account, but Mr. Waith not being there
      nothing could be done, and therefore I home again, and busy all day. In
      the afternoon comes Anthony Joyce to see me, and with tears told me his
      losse, but yet that he had something left that he can live well upon, and
      I doubt it not. But he would buy some place that he could have and yet
      keepe his trade where he is settled in St. Jones's. He gone, I to the
      office again, and then to Sir G. Carteret, and there found Mr. Wayth, but,
      Lord! how fretfully Sir G. Carteret do discourse with Mr. Wayth about his
      accounts, like a man that understands them not one word. I held my tongue
      and let him go on like a passionate foole. In the afternoon I paid for the
      two lighters that carried my goods to Deptford, and they cost me L8. Till
      past midnight at our accounts, and have brought them to a good issue, so
      as to be ready to meet Sir G. Carteret and Sir W. Coventry to-morrow, but
      must work to-morrow, which Mr. T. Hater had no mind to, it being the
      Lord's day, but, being told the necessity, submitted, poor man! This night
      writ for brother John to come to towne. Among other reasons, my estate
      lying in money, I am afeard of any sudden miscarriage. So to bed mightily
      contented in dispatching so much business, and find my house in the best
      condition that ever I knew it. Home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). Up, and after being trimmed, all the morning at the
      office with my people about me till about one o'clock, and then home, and
      my people with me, and Mr. Wayth and I eat a bit of victuals in my old
      closet, now my little dining-room, which makes a pretty room, and my house
      being so clean makes me mightily pleased, but only I do lacke Mercer or
      somebody in the house to sing with. Soon as eat a bit Mr. Wayth and I by
      water to White Hall, and there at Sir G. Carteret's lodgings Sir W.
      Coventry met, and we did debate the whole business of our accounts to the
      Parliament; where it appears to us that the charge of the war from
      September 1st, 1664, to this Michaelmas, will have been but L3,200,000,
      and we have paid in that time somewhat about L2,200,000; so that we owe
      above L900,000: but our method of accounting, though it cannot, I believe,
      be far wide from the mark, yet will not abide a strict examination if the
      Parliament should be troublesome. Here happened a pretty question of Sir
      W. Coventry, whether this account of ours will not put my Lord Treasurer
      to a difficulty to tell what is become of all the money the Parliament
      have 'give' in this time for the war, which hath amounted to about
      L4,000,000, which nobody there could answer; but I perceive they did doubt
      what his answer could be. Having done, and taken from Sir W. Coventry the
      minutes of a letter to my Lord Treasurer, Wayth and I back again to the
      office, and thence back down to the water with my wife and landed him in
      Southwarke, and my wife and I for pleasure to Fox-hall, and there eat and
      drank, and so back home, and I to the office till midnight drawing the
      letter we are to send with our accounts to my Lord Treasurer, and that
      being done to my mind, I home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to St. James's, and there
      with Sir W. Coventry read and all approved of my letter, and then home,
      and after dinner, Mr. Hater and Gibson dining with me, to the office, and
      there very late new moulding my accounts and writing fair my letter, which
      I did against the evening, and then by coach left my wife at her
      brother's, and I to St. James's, and up and down to look [for] Sir W.
      Coventry; and at last found him and Sir G. Carteret with the Lord
      Treasurer at White Hall, consulting how to make up my Lord Treasurer's
      general account, as well as that of the Navy particularly. Here brought
      the letter, but found that Sir G. Carteret had altered his account since
      he did give me the abstract of it: so all my letter must be writ over
      again, to put in his last abstract. So to Sir G. Carteret's lodgings, to
      speak a little about the alteration; and there looking over the book that
      Sir G. Carteret intends to deliver to the Parliament of his payments since
      September 1st, 1664, and there I find my name the very second for flags,
      which I had bought for the Navy, of calico; once, about 500 and odd
      pounds, which vexed me mightily. At last, I concluded of scraping out my
      name and putting in Mr. Tooker's, which eased me; though the price was
      such as I should have had glory by. Here I saw my Lady Carteret lately
      come to towne, who, good lady! is mighty kind, and I must make much of
      her, for she is a most excellent woman. So took up my wife and away home,
      and there to bed, and
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up betimes, with all my people to get the letter writ over, and
      other things done, which I did, and by coach to Lord Bruncker's, and got
      his hand to it; and then to the Parliament House and got it signed by the
      rest, and then delivered it at the House-door to Sir Philip Warwicke; Sir
      G. Carteret being gone into the House with his book of accounts under his
      arme, to present to the House. I had brought my wife to White Hall, and
      leaving her with Mrs. Michell, where she sat in her shop and had burnt
      wine sent for her, I walked in the Hall, and among others with Ned
      Picketing, who continues still a lying, bragging coxcombe, telling me that
      my Lord Sandwich may thank himself for all his misfortune; for not
      suffering him and two or three good honest fellows more to take them by
      the throats that spoke ill of him, and told me how basely Lionell Walden
      hath carried himself towards my Lord; by speaking slightly of him, which I
      shall remember. Thence took my wife home to dinner, and then to the
      office, where Mr. Hater all the day putting in order and entering in a
      book all the measures that this account of the Navy hath been made up by,
      and late at night to Mrs. Turner's, where she had got my wife and Lady Pen
      and Pegg, and supped, and after, supper and the rest of the company by
      design gone, Mrs. Turner and her husband did lay their case to me about
      their lodgings, Sir J. Minnes being now gone wholly to his owne, and now,
      they being empty, they doubt Sir T. Harvy or Lord Bruncker may look after
      the lodgings. I did give them the best advice, poor people, that I could,
      and would do them any kindnesse, though it is strange that now they should
      have ne'er a friend of Sir W. Batten or Sir W. Pen to trust to but me,
      that they have disobliged. So home to bed, and all night still mightily
      troubled in my sleepe, with fire and houses pulling down.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to St. James's, where every body going to
      the House, I away by coach to White Hall, and after a few turns, and
      hearing that our accounts come into the House but to-day, being hindered
      yesterday by other business, I away by coach home, taking up my wife and
      calling at Bennet's, our late mercer, who is come into Covent Garden to a
      fine house looking down upon the Exchange; and I perceive many Londoners
      every day come; and Mr. Pierce hath let his wife's closett, and the little
      blind bed chamber, and a garret to a silke man for L50 fine, and L30 per
      annum, and L40 per annum more for dieting the master and two prentices. So
      home, not agreeing for silk for a petticoat for her which she desired, but
      home to dinner and then back to White Hall, leaving my wife by the way to
      buy her petticoat of Bennet, and I to White Hall waiting all day on the
      Duke of Yorke to move the King for getting Lanyon some money at Plymouth
      out of some oyle prizes brought in thither, but could get nothing done,
      but here Mr. Dugdale I hear the great loss of books in St. Paul's
      Church-yarde, and at their Hall also, which they value about L150,000;
      some booksellers being wholly undone, among others, they say, my poor
      Kirton. And Mr. Crumlu all his books and household stuff burned; they
      trusting St. Fayth's, and the roof of the church falling, broke the arch
      down into the lower church, and so all the goods burned. A very great
      loss. His father hath lost above L1000 in books; one book newly printed, a
      Discourse, it seems, of Courts. Here I had the hap to see my Lady Denham:
      and at night went into the dining-room and saw several fine ladies; among
      others, Castlemayne, but chiefly Denham again; and the Duke of Yorke
      taking her aside and talking to her in the sight of all the world, all
      alone; which was strange, and what also I did not like. Here I met with
      good Mr. Evelyn, who cries out against it, and calls it bitchering,&mdash;[This
      word was apparently of Evelyn's own making.]&mdash;for the Duke of Yorke
      talks a little to her, and then she goes away, and then he follows her
      again like a dog. He observes that none of the nobility come out of the
      country at all to help the King, or comfort him, or prevent commotions at
      this fire; but do as if the King were nobody; nor ne'er a priest comes to
      give the King and Court good council, or to comfort the poor people that
      suffer; but all is dead, nothing of good in any of their minds: he bemoans
      it, and says he fears more ruin hangs over our heads. Thence away by
      coach, and called away my wife at Unthanke's, where she tells me she hath
      bought a gowne of 15s. per yard; the same, before her face, my Lady
      Castlemayne this day bought also, which I seemed vexed for, though I do
      not grudge it her, but to incline her to have Mercer again, which I
      believe I shall do, but the girle, I hear, has no mind to come to us
      again, which vexes me. Being come home, I to Sir W. Batten, and there hear
      our business was tendered to the House to-day, and a Committee of the
      whole House chosen to examine our accounts, and a great many Hotspurs
      enquiring into it, and likely to give us much trouble and blame, and
      perhaps (which I am afeard of) will find faults enow to demand better
      officers. This I truly fear. Away with Sir W. Pen, who was there, and he
      and I walked in the garden by moonlight, and he proposes his and my
      looking out into Scotland about timber, and to use Pett there; for timber
      will be a good commodity this time of building the City; and I like the
      motion, and doubt not that we may do good in it. We did also discourse
      about our Privateer, and hope well of that also, without much hazard, as,
      if God blesses us, I hope we shall do pretty well toward getting a penny.
      I was mightily pleased with our discourse, and so parted, and to the
      office to finish my journall for three or four days, and so home to
      supper, and to bed. Our fleete abroad, and the Dutch too, for all we know;
      the weather very bad; and under the command of an unlucky man, I fear. God
      bless him, and the fleete under him!
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. A very furious blowing night all the night; and my mind still
      mightily perplexed with dreams, and burning the rest of the town, and
      waking in much pain for the fleete. Up, and with my wife by coach as far
      as the Temple, and there she to the mercer's again, and I to look out
      Penny, my tailor, to speak for a cloak and cassock for my brother, who is
      coming to town; and I will have him in a canonical dress, that he may be
      the fitter to go abroad with me. I then to the Exchequer, and there, among
      other things, spoke to Mr. Falconbridge about his girle I heard sing at
      Nonsuch, and took him and some other 'Chequer men to the Sun Taverne, and
      there spent 2s. 6d. upon them, and he sent for the girle, and she hath a
      pretty way of singing, but hath almost forgot for want of practice. She is
      poor in clothes, and not bred to any carriage, but will be soon taught
      all, and if Mercer do not come again, I think we may have her upon better
      terms, and breed her to what we please. Thence to Sir W. Coventry's, and
      there dined with him and Sir W. Batten, the Lieutenant of the Tower, and
      Mr. Thin, a pretty gentleman, going to Gottenburgh. Having dined, Sir W.
      Coventry, Sir W. Batten, and I walked into his closet to consider of some
      things more to be done in a list to be given to the Parliament of all our
      ships, and time of entry and discharge. Sir W. Coventry seems to think
      they will soon be weary of the business, and fall quietly into the giving
      the King what is fit. This he hopes. Thence I by coach home to the office,
      and there intending a meeting, but nobody being there but myself and Sir
      J. Minnes, who is worse than nothing, I did not answer any body, but kept
      to my business in the office till night, and then Sir W. Batten and Sir W.
      Pen to me, and thence to Sir W. Batten's, and eat a barrel of oysters I
      did give them, and so home, and to bed. I have this evening discoursed
      with W. Hewer about Mercer, I having a mind to have her again; and I am
      vexed to hear him say that she hath no mind to come again, though her
      mother hath. No newes of the fleete yet, but that they went by Dover on
      the 25th towards the Gunfleete, but whether the Dutch be yet abroad, or
      no, we hear not. De Ruyter is not dead, but like to do well. Most think
      that the gross of the French fleete are gone home again.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Lay long in bed, and am come to agreement with my wife to have
      Mercer again, on condition she may learn this winter two months to dance,
      and she promises me she will endeavour to learn to sing, and all this I am
      willing enough to. So up, and by and by the glazier comes to finish the
      windows of my house, which pleases me, and the bookbinder to gild the
      backs of my books. I got the glass of my book-presses to be done
      presently, which did mightily content me, and to setting my study in a
      little better order; and so to my office to my people, busy about our
      Parliament accounts; and so to dinner, and then at them again close. At
      night comes Sir W. Pen, and he and I a turn in the garden, and he broke to
      me a proposition of his and my joining in a design of fetching timber and
      deals from Scotland, by the help of Mr. Pett upon the place; which, while
      London is building, will yield good money. I approve it. We judged a third
      man, that is knowing, is necessary, and concluded on Sir W. Warren, and
      sent for him to come to us to-morrow morning. I full of this all night,
      and the project of our man of war; but he and, I both dissatisfied with
      Sir W. Batten's proposing his son to be Lieutenant, which we, neither of
      us, like. He gone, I discoursed with W. Hewer about Mercer, having a great
      mind she should come to us again, and instructed him what to say to her
      mother about it. And so home, to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. A little meeting at the office by Sir W. Batten, Sir W. Pen, and
      myself, being the first since the fire. We rose soon, and comes Sir W.
      Warren, by our desire, and with Sir W. Pen and I talked of our Scotch
      motion, which Sir W. Warren did seem to be stumbled at, and did give no
      ready answer, but proposed some thing previous to it, which he knows would
      find us work, or writing to Mr. Pett to be informed how matters go there
      as to cost and ways of providing sawyers or saw-mills. We were parted
      without coming to any good resolution in it, I discerning plainly that Sir
      W. Warren had no mind to it, but that he was surprised at our motion. He
      gone, I to some office business, and then home to dinner, and then to
      office again, and then got done by night the lists that are to be
      presented to the Parliament Committee of the ships, number of men, and
      time employed since the war, and then I with it (leaving my wife at
      Unthanke's) to St. James's, where Sir W. Coventry staid for me, and I
      perused our lists, and find to our great joy that wages, victuals, wear
      and tear, cast by the medium of the men, will come to above 3,000,000; and
      that the extraordinaries, which all the world will allow us, will arise to
      more than will justify the expence we have declared to have been at since
      the war, viz., L320,000, he and I being both mightily satisfied, he saying
      to me, that if God send us over this rub we must take another course for a
      better Comptroller. So parted, and I to my wife [at Unthanke's], who staid
      for the finishing her new best gowne (the best that ever I made her
      coloured tabby, flowered, and so took it and her home; and then I to my
      people, and having cut them out a little more work than they expected,
      viz., the writing over the lists in new method, I home to bed, being in
      good humour, and glad of the end we have brought this matter to.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where I have not been a good while:
      and there the church infinitely thronged with strangers since the fire
      come into our parish; but not one handsome face in all of them, as if,
      indeed, there was a curse, as Bishop Fuller heretofore said, upon our
      parish. Here I saw Mercer come into the church, which I had a mind to, but
      she avoided looking up, which vexed me. A pretty good sermon, and then
      home, and comes Balty and dined with us. A good dinner; and then to have
      my haire cut against winter close to my head, and then to church again. A
      sorry sermon, and away home. [Sir] W. Pen and I to walk to talk about
      several businesses, and then home; and my wife and I to read in Fuller's
      Church History, and so to supper and to bed. This month ends with my mind
      full of business and concernment how this office will speed with the
      Parliament, which begins to be mighty severe in the examining our
      accounts, and the expence of the Navy this war.
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    <p>
      October 1st, 1666. Up, and all the morning at the office, getting the list
      of all the ships and vessels employed since the war, for the Committee of
      Parliament. At noon with it to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and there dined
      with him and [Sir] W. Batten, and [Sir] W. Pen, and after dinner examined
      it and find it will do us much right in the number of men rising to near
      the expense we delivered to the Parliament. [Sir] W. Coventry and I (the
      others going before the Committee) to Lord Bruncker's for his hand, and
      find him simply mighty busy in a council of the Queen's. He come out and
      took in the papers to sign, and sent them mighty wisely out again. Sir W.
      Coventry away to the Committee, and I to the Mercer's, and there took a
      bill of what I owe of late, which comes to about L17. Thence to White
      Hall, and there did hear Betty Michell was at this end of the towne, and
      so without breach of vowe did stay to endeavour to meet with her and carry
      her home; but she did not come, so I lost my whole afternoon. But pretty!
      how I took another pretty woman for her, taking her a clap on the breech,
      thinking verily it had been her. Staid till [Sir] W. Batten and [Sir] W.
      Pen come out, and so away home by water with them, and to the office to do
      some business, and then home, and my wife do tell me that W. Hewer tells
      her that Mercer hath no mind to come. So I was angry at it, and resolved
      with her to have Falconbridge's girle, and I think it will be better for
      us, and will please me better with singing. With this resolution, to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and am sent for to Sir G. Carteret, and to him, and there he
      tells me how our lists are referred to a Sub-committee to consider and
      examine, and that I am ordered to be there this afternoon. So I away
      thence to my new bookbinder to see my books gilding in the backs, and then
      to White Hall to the House, and spoke to Sir W. Coventry, where he told me
      I must attend the Committee in the afternoon, and received some hints of
      more work to do. So I away to the 'Chequer, and thence to an alehouse, and
      found Mr. Falconbridge, and agreed for his kinswoman to come to me. He
      says she can dress my wife, and will do anything we would have her to do,
      and is of a good spirit and mighty cheerful. He is much pleased therewith,
      and so we shall be. So agreed for her coming the next week. So away home,
      and eat a short dinner, and then with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and do
      give his boy my book of papers to hold while he went into the Committee
      Chamber in the Inner Court of Wards, and I walked without with Mr.
      Slingsby, of the Tower, who was there, and who did in walking inform me
      mightily in several things; among others, that the heightening or lowering
      of money is only a cheat, and do good to some particular men, which, if I
      can but remember how, I am now by him fully convinced of. Anon Sir W. Pen
      went away, telling me that Sir W. Coventry that was within had told him
      that the fleete is all come into the buoy of the Nore, and that he must
      hasten down to them, and so went away, and I into the Committee Chamber
      before the Committee sat, and there heard Birch discourse highly and
      understandingly about the Navy business and a proposal made heretofore to
      farm the Navy; but Sir W. Coventry did abundantly answer him, and is a
      most excellent person. By and by the Committee met, and I walked out, and
      anon they rose and called me in, and appointed me to attend a Committee of
      them to-morrow at the office to examine our lists. This put me into a
      mighty fear and trouble; they doing it in a very ill humour, methought. So
      I away and called on my Lord Bruncker to desire him to be there to-morrow,
      and so home, having taken up my wife at Unthanke's, full of trouble in
      mind to think what I shall be obliged to answer, that am neither fully
      fit, nor in any measure concerned to take the shame and trouble of this
      office upon me, but only from the inability and folly of the Comptroller
      that occasions it. When come home I to Sir W. Pen's, to his boy, for my
      book, and there find he hath it not, but delivered it to the doorekeeper
      of the Committee for me. This, added to my former disquiet, made me stark
      mad, considering all the nakedness of the office lay open in papers within
      those covers. I could not tell in the world what to do, but was mad on all
      sides, and that which made me worse Captain Cocke was there, and he did so
      swear and curse at the boy that told me. So Cocke, Griffin, and the boy
      with me, they to find the housekeeper of the Parliament, Hughes, while I
      to Sir W. Coventry, but could hear nothing of it there. But coming to our
      rendezvous at the Swan Taverne, in Ding Streete, I find they have found
      the housekeeper, and the book simply locked up in the Court. So I staid
      and drank, and rewarded the doore-keeper, and away home, my heart lighter
      by all this, but to bed very sad notwithstanding, in fear of what will
      happen to-morrow upon their coming.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Waked betimes, mightily troubled in mind, and in the most true
      trouble that I ever was in my life, saving in the business last year of
      the East India prizes. So up, and with Mr. Hater and W. Hewer and Griffin
      to consider of our business, and books and papers necessary for this
      examination; and by and by, by eight o'clock, comes Birch, the first, with
      the lists and books of accounts delivered in. He calls me to work, and
      there he and I begun, when, by and by, comes Garraway,
    </p>
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     [William Garway, elected M.P. for Chichester, March 26th, 1661, and
     in 1674 he was appointed by the House to confer with Lord
     Shaftesbury respecting the charge against Pepys being popishly
     affected.  See note to the Life, vol. i., p, xxxii, and for his
     character, October 6th, 1666]
</pre>
    <p>
      the first time I ever saw him, and Sir W. Thompson and Mr. Boscawen. They
      to it, and I did make shift to answer them better than I expected. Sir W.
      Batten, Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. Pen, come in, but presently went out; and
      [Sir] J. Minnes come in, and said two or three words from the purpose, but
      to do hurt; and so away he went also, and left me all the morning with
      them alone to stand or fall. At noon Sir W. Batten comes to them to invite
      them (though fast day) to dinner, which they did, and good company they
      were, but especially Garraway. Here I have news brought me of my father's
      coming to town, and I presently to him, glad to see him, poor man, he
      being come to town unexpectedly to see us and the city. I could not stay
      with him, but after dinner to work again, only the Committee and I, till
      dark night, and by that time they cast up all the lists, and found out
      what the medium of men was borne all the war, of all sorts, and ended with
      good peace, and much seeming satisfaction; but I find them wise and
      reserved, and instructed to hit all our blots, as among others, that we
      reckon the ships full manned from the beginning. They gone, and my heart
      eased of a great deale of fear and pain, and reckoning myself to come off
      with victory, because not overcome in anything or much foiled, I away to
      Sir W. Coventry's chamber, but he not within, then to White Hall, and
      there among the ladies, and saw my Lady Castlemaine never looked so ill,
      nor Mrs. Stewart neither, as in this plain, natural dress. I was not
      pleased with either of them. Away, not finding [Sir] W. Coventry, and so
      home, and there find my father and my brother come to towne&mdash;my
      father without my expectation; but glad I am to see him. And so to supper
      with him, and to work again at the office; then home, to set up all my
      folio books, which are come home gilt on the backs, very handsome to the
      eye, and then at midnight to bed. This night [Sir] W. Pen told me [Sir] W.
      Batten swears he will have nothing to do with the Privateer if his son do
      not go Lieutenant, which angers me and him; but we will be even with him,
      one way or other.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and mighty betimes, to [Sir] W. Coventry, to give him an account
      of yesterday's work, which do give him good content. He did then tell me
      his speech lately to the House in his owne vindication about the report of
      his selling of places, he having a small occasion offered him by chance,
      which he did desire, and took, and did it to his content, and, he says, to
      the House's seeming to approve of it by their hum. He confessed how long
      he had done it, and how he desired to have something else; and, since
      then, he had taken nothing, and challenged all the world. I was glad of
      this also. Thence up to the Duke of York, by appointment, with fellow
      officers, to complaine, but to no purpose, of want of money, and so away.
      I to Sir G. Carteret, to his lodging, and here discoursed much of the want
      of money and our being designed for destruction. How the King hath lost
      his power, by submitting himself to this way of examining his accounts,
      and is become but as a private man. He says the King is troubled at it,
      but they talk an entry shall be made, that it is not to be brought into
      example; that the King must, if they do not agree presently, make them a
      courageous speech, which he says he may do, the City of London being now
      burned, and himself master of an army, better than any prince before him,
      and so I believe. Thence home, about noon, to dinner. After dinner the
      book binder come, and I sent by him some more books to gild. I to the
      office all day, and spent most of it with Sir W. Warren, whom I have had
      no discourse with a great while, and when all is done I do find him a
      mighty wise man as any I know, and his counsel as much to be followed.
      Late with Mr. Hater upon comparing the charge and husbandry of the last
      Dutch war with ours now, and do find good roome to think we have done
      little worse than they, whereof good use may and will be made. So home to
      supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and with my father talking awhile, then to the office, and there
      troubled with a message from Lord Peterborough about money; but I did give
      as kind answer as I could, though I hate him. Then to Sir G. Carteret to
      discourse about paying of part of the great ships come in, and so home
      again to compare the comparison of the two Dutch wars' charges for [Sir]
      W. Coventry, and then by water (and saw old Mr. Michell digging like a
      painfull father for his son) to him, and find him at dinner. After dinner
      to look over my papers, and comparing them with some notes of his and
      brought me, the sight of some good Navy notes of his which I shall get.
      Then examined and liked well my notes, and away together to White Hall, in
      the way discoursing the inconvenience of the King's being thus subject to
      an account, but it will be remedied for the time to come, he thinks, if we
      can get this over, and I find he will have the Comptroller's business
      better done, swearing he will never be for a wit to be employed on
      business again. Thence I home, and back again to White Hall, and meeting
      Sir H. Cholmly to White Hall; there walked till night that the Committee
      come down, and there Sir W. Coventry tells me that the Subcommittee have
      made their report to the Grand Committee, and in pretty kind terms, and
      have agreed upon allowing us L4 per head, which I am sure will do the
      business, but he had endeavoured to have got more, but this do well, and
      he and I are both mighty glad it is come to this, and the heat of the
      present business seems almost over. But I have more worke cut out for me,
      to prepare a list of the extraordinaries, not to be included within the
      L4, against Monday. So I away from him, and met with the Vice-Chamberlain,
      and I told him when I had this evening in coming hither met with Captain
      Cocke, and he told me of a wild motion made in the House of Lords by the
      Duke of Buckingham for all men that had cheated the King to be declared
      traitors and felons, and that my Lord Sandwich was named. This put me into
      a great pain, so the Vice-Chamberlain, who had heard nothing of it, having
      been all day in the City, away with me to White Hall; and there come to me
      and told me that, upon Lord Ashly's asking their direction whether, being
      a peere, he should bring in his accounts to the Commons, which they did
      give way to, the Duke of Buckingham did move that, for the time to come,
      what I have written above might be declared by some fuller law than
      heretofore. Lord Ashly answered, that it was not the fault of the present
      laws, but want of proof; and so said the Lord Chancellor. He answered,
      that a better law, he thought, might be made so the House laughing, did
      refer it to him to bring in a Bill to that purpose, and this was all. So I
      away with joyful heart home, calling on Cocke and telling him the same. So
      I away home to the office to clear my Journall for five days, and so home
      to supper and to bed, my father who had staid out late and troubled me
      thereat being come home well and gone to bed, which pleases me also. This
      day, coming home, Mr. Kirton's kinsman, my bookseller, come in my way; and
      so I am told by him that Mr. Kirton is utterly undone, and made 2 or L3000
      worse than nothing, from being worth 7 or L8,000. That the goods laid in
      the Churchyarde fired through the windows those in St. Fayth's church; and
      those coming to the warehouses' doors fired them, and burned all the books
      and the pillars of the church, so as the roof falling down, broke quite
      down, which it did not do in the other places of the church, which is
      alike pillared (which I knew not before); but being not burned, they stand
      still. He do believe there is above; L50,000 of books burned; all the
      great booksellers almost undone: not only these, but their warehouses at
      their Hall, and under Christchurch, and elsewhere being all burned. A
      great want thereof there will be of books, specially Latin books and
      foreign books; and, among others, the Polyglottes and new Bible, which he
      believes will be presently worth L40 a-piece.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and having seen my brother in his cassocke, which I am not the
      most satisfied in, being doubtfull at this time what course to have him
      profess too soon. To the office and there busy about a list of the
      extraordinaries of the charge of the fleete this war; and was led to go to
      the office of the ordnance to be satisfied in something, and find their
      accounts and books kept in mighty good order, but that they can give no
      light, nor will the nature of their affairs permit it to tell what the
      charge of the ordnance comes to a man a month. So home again and to
      dinner, there coming Creed to me; but what with business and my hatred to
      the man, I did not spend any time with him, but after dinner [my] wife and
      he and I took coach and to Westminster, but he 'light about Paul's, and
      set her at her tailor's, and myself to St. James's, but there missing
      [Sir] W. Coventry, returned and took up my wife, and calling at the
      Exchange home, whither Sir H. Cholmly come to visit me, but my business
      suffered me not to stay with him. So he gone I by water to Westminster
      Hall and thence to St. James's, and there found [Sir] W. Coventry waiting
      for me, and I did give him a good account to his mind of the business he
      expected about extraordinaries and then fell to other talke, among others,
      our sad condition contracted by want of a Comptroller;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [As Sir John Minnes performed the duties inefficiently, it was
     considered necessary to take the office from him: See January 21st.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and it was his words, that he believes, besides all the shame and trouble
      he hath brought on the office, the King had better have given L100,000
      than ever have had him there. He did discourse about some of these
      discontented Parliament-men, and says that Birch is a false rogue, but
      that Garraway is a man that hath not been well used by the Court, though
      very stout to death, and hath suffered all that is possible for the King
      from the beginning. But discontented as he is, yet he never knew a Session
      of Parliament but he hath done some good deed for the King before it rose.
      I told him the passage Cocke told me of his having begged a brace of bucks
      of the Lord Arlington for him, and when it come to him, he sent it back
      again. Sir W. Coventry told me, it is much to be pitied that the King
      should lose the service of a man so able and faithfull; and that he ought
      to be brought over, but that it is always observed, that by bringing over
      one discontented man, you raise up three in his room; which is a State
      lesson I never knew before. But when others discover your fear, and that
      discontent procures favour, they will be discontented too, and impose on
      you. Thence to White Hall and got a coach and home, and there did business
      late, and so home and set up my little books of one of my presses come
      home gilt, which pleases me mightily, and then to bed. This morning my
      wife told me of a fine gentlewoman my Lady Pen tells her of, for L20 per
      annum, that sings, dances, plays on four or five instruments and many
      other fine things, which pleases me mightily: and she sent to have her see
      her, which she did this afternoon; but sings basely, and is a tawdry wench
      that would take L8, but [neither] my wife nor I think her fit to come.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). Up, and after visiting my father in his chamber, to
      church, and then home to dinner. Little Michell and his wife come to dine
      with us, which they did, and then presently after dinner I with Sir J.
      Minnes to White Hall, where met by Sir W. Batten and Lord Bruncker, to
      attend the King and Duke of York at the Cabinet; but nobody had determined
      what to speak of, but only in general to ask for money. So I was forced
      immediately to prepare in my mind a method of discoursing. And anon we
      were called in to the Green Room, where the King, Duke of York, Prince
      Rupert, Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, Duke of Albemarle, [Sirs] G.
      Carteret, W. Coventry, Morrice. Nobody beginning, I did, and made a
      current, and I thought a good speech, laying open the ill state of the
      Navy: by the greatness of the debt; greatness of work to do against next
      yeare; the time and materials it would take; and our incapacity, through a
      total want of money. I had no sooner done, but Prince Rupert rose up and
      told the King in a heat, that whatever the gentleman had said, he had
      brought home his fleete in as good a condition as ever any fleete was
      brought home; that twenty boats would be as many as the fleete would want:
      and all the anchors and cables left in the storm might be taken up again.
      This arose from my saying, among other things we had to do, that the
      fleete was come in&mdash;the greatest fleete that ever his Majesty had yet
      together, and that in as bad condition as the enemy or weather could put
      it; and to use Sir W. Pen's words, who is upon the place taking a survey,
      he dreads the reports he is to receive from the Surveyors of its defects.
      I therefore did only answer, that I was sorry for his Highness's offence,
      but that what I said was but the report we received from those entrusted
      in the fleete to inform us. He muttered and repeated what he had said; and
      so, after a long silence on all hands, nobody, not so much as the Duke of
      Albemarle, seconding the Prince, nor taking notice of what he said, we
      withdrew. I was not a little troubled at this passage, and the more when
      speaking with Jacke Fenn about it, he told me that the Prince will be
      asking now who this Pepys is, and find him to be a creature of my Lord
      Sandwich's, and therefore this was done only to disparage him. Anon they
      broke, up, and Sir W. Coventry come out; so I asked his advice. He told me
      he had said something to salve it, which was, that his Highnesse had, he
      believed, rightly informed the King that the fleete is come in good
      condition to have staid out yet longer, and have fought the enemy, but yet
      that Mr. Pepys his meaning might be, that, though in so good condition, if
      they should come in and lie all the winter, we shall be very loth to send
      them to sea for another year's service with[out] great repairs. He said it
      would be no hurt if I went to him, and showed him the report himself
      brought up from the fleete, where every ship, by the Commander's report,
      do need more or less, and not to mention more of Sir W. Pen for doing him
      a mischief. So I said I would, but do not think that all this will redound
      to my hurt, because the truth of what I said will soon appear. Thence,
      having been informed that, after all this pains, the King hath found out
      how to supply us with 5 or L6000, when L100,000 were at this time but
      absolutely necessary, and we mentioned L50,000. This is every day a
      greater and greater omen of ruine. God fit us for it! Sir J. Minnes and I
      home (it raining) by coach, calling only on Sir G. Cartefet at his lodging
      (who is I find troubled at my Lord Treasurer and Sir Ph. Warwicke bungling
      in his accounts), and come home to supper with my father, and then all to
      bed. I made my brother in his cassocke to say grace this day, but I like
      his voice so ill that I begin to be sorry he hath taken this order upon
      him.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up and to my office, called up by Commissioner Middleton, newly come
      to town, but staid not with me; so I to my office busy all the morning.
      Towards noon, by water to Westminster Hall, and there by several hear that
      the Parliament do resolve to do something to retrench Sir G. Carteret's
      great salary; but cannot hear of any thing bad they can lay to his charge.
      The House did this day order to be engrossed the Bill against importing
      Irish cattle; a thing, it seems, carried on by the Western Parliament-men,
      wholly against the sense of most of the rest of the House; who think if
      you do this, you give the Irish again cause to rebel. Thus plenty on both
      sides makes us mad. The Committee of the Canary Company of both factions
      come to me for my Cozen Roger that is of the Committee. Thence with [Sir]
      W. Coventry when the House rose and [Sir] W. Batten to St. James's, and
      there agreed of and signed our paper of extraordinaries, and there left
      them, and I to Unthanke's, where Mr. Falconbridge's girle is, and by and
      by comes my wife, who likes her well, though I confess I cannot (though
      she be of my finding out and sings pretty well), because she will be
      raised from so mean a condition to so high all of a sudden; but she will
      be much to our profit, more than Mercer, less expense. Here we bespoke
      anew gowne for her, and to come to us on Friday. She being gone, my wife
      and I home by coach, and then I presently by water with Mr. Pierce to
      Westminster Hall, he in the way telling me how the Duke of York and Duke
      of Albemarle do not agree. The Duke of York is wholly given up to this
      bitch of Denham. The Duke of Albemarle and Prince Rupert do less agree. So
      that we are all in pieces, and nobody knows what will be done the next
      year. The King hath yesterday in Council declared his resolution of
      setting a fashion for clothes, which he will never alter.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [There are several references to this new fashion of dress
     introduced by the king, Pepys saw the Duke of York put on the vest
     on the 13th, and he says Charles II. himself put it on on the 15th.
     On November 4th Pepys dressed himself in the new vest and coat.  See
     notes, October 15th and November 22nd.]
</pre>
    <p>
      It will be a vest, I know not well how; but it is to teach the nobility
      thrift, and will do good. By and by comes down from the Committee [Sir] W.
      Coventry, and I find him troubled at several things happened this
      afternoon, which vexes me also; our business looking worse and worse, and
      our worke growing on our hands. Time spending, and no money to set
      anything in hand with; the end thereof must be speedy ruine. The Dutch
      insult and have taken off Bruant's head,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Captain Du Buat, a Frenchman in the Dutch service, plotted with two
     magistrates of Rotterdam to obtain a peace with England as the
     readiest means of pressing the elevation of the Prince of Orange to
     the office of Captain-General.  He was brought before the Supreme
     Court of Holland, condemned, and executed.  He had been one of the
     household of the Prince of Orange who were dismissed by De Witt.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which they have not dared to do (though found guilty of the fault he did
      die for, of something of the Prince of Orange's faction) till just now,
      which speaks more confidence in our being worse than before. Alderman
      Maynell, I hear, is dead. Thence returned in the darke by coach all alone,
      full of thoughts of the consequences of this ill complexion of affairs,
      and how to save myself and the little I have, which if I can do, I have
      cause to bless God that I am so well, and shall be well contented to
      retreat to Brampton, and spend the rest of my days there. So to my office,
      and did some business, and finished my Journall with resolutions, if God
      bless me, to apply myself soberly to settle all matters for myself, and
      expect the event of all with comfort. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and to the office, where we sat the first day since the fire, I
      think. At noon home, and my uncle Thomas was there, and dined with my
      brother and I (my father and I were gone abroad), and then to the office
      again in the afternoon, and there close all day long, and did much
      business. At night to Sir W. Batten, where Sir R. Ford did occasion some
      discourse of sending a convoy to the Maderas; and this did put us upon
      some new thoughts of sending our privateer thither on merchants' accounts,
      which I have more mind to, the profit being certain and occasion honest
      withall. So home, and to supper with my father, and then to set my
      remainder of my books gilt in order with much pleasure, and so late to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Fast-day for the fire). Up with Sir W. Batten by water to White
      Hall, and anon had a meeting before the Duke of York, where pretty to see
      how Sir W. Batten, that carried the surveys of all the fleete with him, to
      shew their ill condition to the Duke of York, when he found the Prince
      there, did not speak one word, though the meeting was of his asking&mdash;for
      nothing else. And when I asked him, he told me he knew the Prince too well
      to anger him, so that he was afeard to do it. Thence with him to
      Westminster, to the parish church, where the Parliament-men, and
      Stillingfleete in the pulpit. So full, no standing there; so he and I to
      eat herrings at the Dog Taverne. And then to church again, and there was
      Mr. Frampton in the pulpit, they cry up so much, a young man, and of a
      mighty ready tongue. I heard a little of his sermon, and liked it; but the
      crowd so great, I could not stay. So to the Swan, and 'baise la fille',
      and drank, and then home by coach, and took father, wife, brother, and W.
      Hewer to Islington, where I find mine host dead. Here eat and drank, and
      merry; and so home, and to the office a while, and then to Sir W. Batten
      to talk a while, and with Captain Cocke into the office to hear his newes,
      who is mighty conversant with Garraway and those people, who tells me what
      they object as to the maladministration of things as to money. But that
      they mean well, and will do well; but their reckonings are very good, and
      show great faults, as I will insert here. They say the king hath had
      towards this war expressly thus much
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     Royal Ayde.................................... L2,450,000
     More..........................................  1,250,000
     Three months' tax given the King by a power of
          raising a month's tax of L70,000 every
          year for three years.....................  0,210,000
     Customes, out of which the King did promise
          to pay L240,000, which for two years
          comes to.................................. 0,480,000
     Prizes, which they moderately reckon at........ 0,300,000
     A debt declared by the Navy, by us............. 0,900,000
                                                    &mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;
                                                     5,590,000

     The whole charge of the Navy, as we state it
          for two years and a month, hath been but.. 3,200,000

          So what is become of all this sum?........ 2,390,000
</pre>
    <p>
      He and I did bemoan our public condition. He tells me the Duke of
      Albemarle is under a cloud, and they have a mind at Court to lay him
      aside. This I know not; but all things are not right with him, and I am
      glad of it, but sorry for the time. So home to supper, and to bed, it
      being my wedding night,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [See Life, vol. i., p. xxi., where the register of St. Margaret's
     parish, Westminster, is quoted to the effect that Pepys was married
     December 1st, 1655.  It seems incomprehensible that both husband and
     wife should have been wrong as to the date of their wedding day, but
     Mrs. Pepys was unquestionably wrong as to the number of years, for
     they had been married nearly eleven.]
</pre>
    <p>
      but how many years I cannot tell; but my wife says ten.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and discoursed with my father of my sending some money for
      safety into the country, for I am in pain what to do with what I have. I
      did give him money, poor man, and he overjoyed. So left him, and to the
      office, where nothing but sad evidences of ruine coming on us for want of
      money. So home to dinner, which was a very good dinner, my father,
      brother, wife and I, and then to the office again, where I was all the
      afternoon till very late, busy, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
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     Memorandum.  I had taken my Journall during the fire and the
     disorders following in loose papers until this very day, and could
     not get time to enter them in my book till January 18, in the
     morning, having made my eyes sore by frequent attempts this winter
     to do it.  But now it is done, for which I thank God, and pray never
     the like occasion may happen.
</pre>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and after taking leave of my poor father, who is setting out
      this day for Brampton by the Cambridge coach, he having taken a journey to
      see the city burned, and to bring my brother to towne, I out by water; and
      so coach to St. James's, the weather being foul; and there, from Sir W.
      Coventry, do hear how the House have cut us off L150,000 of our wear and
      tear, for that which was saved by the King while the fleete lay in harbour
      in winter. However, he seems pleased, and so am I, that they have abated
      no more, and do intend to allow of 28,000 men for the next year; and this
      day have appointed to declare the sum they will give the King,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The parliament voted this day a supply of L1,800,000 sterling.
     See below.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and to propose the way of raising it; so that this is likely to be the
      great day. This done in his chamber, I with him to Westminster Hall, and
      there took a few turns, the Hall mighty full of people, and the House
      likely to be very full to-day about the money business. Here I met with
      several people, and do find that people have a mighty mind to have a fling
      at the Vice-Chamberlain, if they could lay hold of anything, his place
      being, indeed, too much for such, they think, or any single subject of no
      greater parts and quality than he, to enjoy. But I hope he may weather
      all, though it will not be by any dexterity of his, I dare say, if he do
      stand, but by his fate only, and people's being taken off by other things.
      Thence home by coach, mighty dirty weather, and then to the Treasurer's
      office and got a ticket paid for my little Michell, and so again by coach
      to Westminster, and come presently after the House rose. So to the Swan,
      and there sent for a piece of meat and dined alone and played with Sarah,
      and so to the Hall a while, and thence to Mrs. Martin's lodging and did
      what I would with her. She is very big, and resolves I must be godfather.
      Thence away by water with Cropp to Deptford. It was almost night before I
      got thither. So I did only give directions concerning a press that I have
      making there to hold my turning and joyner's tooles that were lately given
      me, which will be very handsome, and so away back again, it being now
      dark, and so home, and there find my wife come home, and hath brought her
      new girle I have helped her to, of Mr. Falconbridge's. She is wretched
      poor; and but ordinary favoured; and we fain to lay out seven or eight
      pounds worth of clothes upon her back, which, methinks, do go against my
      heart; and I do not think I can ever esteem her as I could have done
      another that had come fine and handsome; and which is more, her voice, for
      want of use, is so furred, that it do not at present please me; but her
      manner of singing is such, that I shall, I think, take great pleasure in
      it. Well, she is come, and I wish us good fortune in her. Here I met with
      notice of a meeting of the Commissioners for Tangier tomorrow, and so I
      must have my accounts ready for them, which caused me to confine myself to
      my chamber presently and set to the making up my accounts, which I find
      very clear, but with much difficulty by reason of my not doing them
      sooner, things being out of my mind.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. It cost me till four o'clock in the morning, and, which was pretty
      to think, I was above an hour, after I had made all right, in casting up
      of about twenty sums, being dozed with much work, and had for forty times
      together forgot to carry the 60 which I had in my mind, in one
      denomination which exceeded 60; and this did confound me for above an hour
      together. At last all even and done, and so to bed. Up at seven, and so to
      the office, after looking over my last night's work. We sat all the
      morning. At noon by coach with my Lord Bruncker and 'light at the Temple,
      and so alone I to dinner at a cooke's, and thence to my Lord Bellasses,
      whom I find kind; but he had drawn some new proposal to deliver to the
      Lords Commissioners to-day, wherein one was, that the garrison would not
      be well paid without some goldsmith's undertaking the paying of the bills
      of exchange for Tallys. He professing so much kindness to me, and saying
      that he would not be concerned in the garrison without me; and that if he
      continued in the employment, no man should have to do with the money but
      myself. I did ask his Lordship's meaning of the proposition in his paper.
      He told me he had not much considered it, but that he meant no harm to me.
      I told him I thought it would render me useless; whereupon he did very
      frankly, after my seeming denials for a good while, cause it to be writ
      over again, and that clause left out, which did satisfy me abundantly. It
      being done, he and I together to White Hall, and there the Duke of York
      (who is gone over to all his pleasures again, and leaves off care of
      business, what with his woman, my Lady Denham, and his hunting three times
      a week) was just come in from hunting. So I stood and saw him dress
      himself, and try on his vest, which is the King's new fashion, and will be
      in it for good and all on Monday next, and the whole Court: it is a
      fashion, the King says; he will never change. He being ready, he and my
      Lord Chancellor, and Duke of Albemarle, and Prince Rupert, Lord Bellasses,
      Sir H. Cholmly, Povy, and myself, met at a Committee for Tangier. My Lord
      Bellasses's propositions were read and discoursed of, about reducing the
      garrison to less charge; and indeed I am mad in love with my Lord
      Chancellor, for he do comprehend and speak out well, and with the greatest
      easinesse and authority that ever I saw man in my life. I did never
      observe how much easier a man do speak when he knows all the company to be
      below him, than in him; for though he spoke, indeed, excellent welt, yet
      his manner and freedom of doing it, as if he played with it, and was
      informing only all the rest of the company, was mighty pretty. He did call
      again and again upon Mr. Povy for his accounts. I did think fit to make
      the solemn tender of my accounts that I intended. I said something that
      was liked, touching the want of money, and the bad credit of our tallys.
      My Lord Chancellor moved, that without any trouble to any of the rest of
      the Lords, I might alone attend the King, when he was with his private
      Council; and open the state of the garrison's want of credit; and all that
      could be done, should. Most things moved were referred to Committees, and
      so we broke up. And at the end Sir W. Coventry come; so I away with him,
      and he discoursed with me something of the Parliament's business. They
      have voted giving the [King] for next year L1,800,000; which, were it not
      for his debts, were a great sum. He says, he thinks the House may say no
      more to us for the present, but that we must mend our manners against the
      next tryall, and mend them we will. But he thinks it not a fit time to be
      found making of trouble among ourselves, meaning about Sir J. Minnes, who
      most certainly must be removed, or made a Commissioner, and somebody else
      Comptroller. But he tells me that the House has a great envy at Sir G.
      Carteret, and that had he ever thought fit in all his discourse to have
      touched upon the point of our want of money and badness of payment, it
      would have been laid hold on to Sir G. Carteret's hurt; but he hath
      avoided it, though without much reason for it, most studiously, and in
      short did end thus, that he has never shewn so much of the pigeon in all
      his life as in his innocence to Sir G. Carteret at this time; which I
      believe, and will desire Sir G. Carteret to thank him for it. So we broke
      up and I by coach home, calling for a new pair of shoes, and so, little
      being to do at the office, did go home, and after spending a little in
      righting some of my books, which stood out of order, I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, among other things, talking of my
      wife's renewing her acquaintance with Mrs. Pierce, which, by my wife's ill
      using her when she was here last, hath been interrupted. Herein we were a
      little angry together, but presently friends again; and so up, and I to
      church, which was mighty full, and my beauties, Mrs. Lethulier and fair
      Batelier, both there. A very foul morning, and rained; and sent for my
      cloake to go out of the church with. So dined, and after dinner (a good
      discourse thereat to my brother) he and I by water to White Hall, and he
      to Westminster Abbey. Here I met with Sir Stephen Fox, who told me how
      much right I had done myself, and how well it is represented by the
      Committee to the House, my readinesse to give them satisfaction in
      everything when they were at the office. I was glad of this. He did
      further discourse of Sir W. Coventry's, great abilities, and how necessary
      it were that I were of the House to assist him. I did not owne it, but do
      myself think it were not unnecessary if either he should die, or be
      removed to the Lords, or any thing to hinder his doing the like service
      the next trial, which makes me think that it were not a thing very unfit;
      but I will not move in it. He and I parted, I to Mrs. Martin's, thinking
      to have met Mrs. Burrows, but she was not there, so away and took my
      brother out of the Abbey and home, and there to set some accounts right,
      and to the office to even my Journall, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Called up, though a very rainy morning, by Sir H. Cholmley, and he
      and I most of the morning together evening of accounts, which I was very
      glad of. Then he and I out to Sir Robt. Viner's, at the African house
      (where I had not been since he come thither); but he was not there; but I
      did some business with his people, and then to Colvill's, who, I find,
      lives now in Lyme Streete, and with the same credit as ever, this fire
      having not done them any wrong that I hear of at all. Thence he and I
      together to Westminster Hall, in our way talking of matters and passages
      of state, the viciousness of the Court; the contempt the King brings
      himself into thereby; his minding nothing, but doing all things just as
      his people about him will have it; the Duke of York becoming a slave to
      this whore Denham, and wholly minds her; that there really was amours
      between the Duchesse and Sidney; a that there is reason to fear that, as
      soon as the Parliament have raised this money, the King will see that he
      hath got all that he can get, and then make up a peace. He tells me, what
      I wonder at, but that I find it confirmed by Mr. Pierce, whom I met
      by-and-by in the Hall, that Sir W. Coventry is of the caball with the Duke
      of York, and Bruncker, with this Denham; which is a shame, and I am sorry
      for it, and that Sir W. Coventry do make her visits; but yet I hope it is
      not so. Pierce tells me, that as little agreement as there is between the
      Prince&mdash;[Rupert]&mdash;and Duke of Albemarle, yet they are likely to
      go to sea again; for the first will not be trusted alone, and nobody will
      go with him but this Duke of Albemarle. He tells me much how all the
      commanders of the fleete and officers that are sober men do cry out upon
      their bad discipline, and the ruine that must follow it if it continue.
      But that which I wonder most at, it seems their secretaries have been the
      most exorbitant in their fees to all sorts of the people, that it is not
      to be believed that they durst do it, so as it is believed they have got
      L800 apiece by the very vacancies in the fleete. He tells me that Lady
      Castlemayne is concluded to be with child again; and that all the people
      about the King do make no scruple of saying that the King do lie with Mrs.
      Stewart, who, he says, is a most excellent-natured lady. This day the King
      begins to put on his vest, and I did see several persons of the House of
      Lords and Commons too, great courtiers, who are in it; being a long
      cassocke close to the body, of black cloth, and pinked with white silke
      under it, and a coat over it, and the legs ruffled with black riband like
      a pigeon's leg; and, upon the whole, I wish the King may keep it, for it
      is a very fine and handsome garment.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Evelyn describes the new fashion as "a comely dress after ye
     Persian mode" (see "Diary," October 18th, 1666).  He adds that he
     had described the "comelinesse and usefulnesse" of the Persian
     clothing in his pamphlet entitled "Tyrannus, or the Mode."  "I do
     not impute to this discourse the change which soone happen'd, but
     it was an identity I could not but take notice of."  Rugge, in his
     "Diurnal," thus describes the new Court costume "1666, Oct. 11.  In
     this month His Majestie and whole Court changed the fashion of their
     clothes-viz. a close coat of cloth, pinkt with a white taffety under
     the cutts.  This in length reached the calf of the leg, and upon
     that a sercoat cutt at the breast, which hung loose and shorter than
     the vest six inches.  The breeches the Spanish cut, and buskins some
     of cloth, some of leather, but of the same colour as the vest or
     garment; of never the like fashion since William the Conqueror."  It
     is represented in a portrait of Lord Arlington, by Sir P. Lely,
     formerly belonging to Lord de Clifford, and engraved in Lodge's
     "Portraits."  Louis XIV. ordered his servants to wear the dress.
     See November 22.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Walking with Pierce in the Court of Wards out comes Sir W. Coventry, and
      he and I talked of business. Among others I proposed the making Sir J.
      Minnes a Commissioner, and make somebody else Comptroller. He tells me it
      is the thing he hath been thinking of, and hath spoke to the Duke of York
      of it. He believes it will be done; but that which I fear is that Pen will
      be Comptroller, which I shall grudge a little. The Duke of Buckingham
      called him aside and spoke a good while with him. I did presently fear it
      might be to discourse something of his design to blemish my Lord of
      Sandwich, in pursuance of the wild motion he made the other day in the
      House. Sir W. Coventry, when he come to me again, told me that he had
      wrought a miracle, which was, the convincing the Duke of Buckingham that
      something&mdash;he did not name what&mdash;that he had intended to do was
      not fit to be done, and that the Duke is gone away of that opinion. This
      makes me verily believe it was something like what I feared. By and by the
      House rose, and then we parted, and I with Sir G. Carteret, and walked in
      the Exchequer Court, discoursing of businesses. Among others, I observing
      to him how friendly Sir W. Coventry had carried himself to him in these
      late inquiries, when, if he had borne him any spleen, he could have had
      what occasion he pleased offered him, he did confess he found the same
      thing, and would thanke him for it. I did give him some other advices, and
      so away with him to his lodgings at White Hall to dinner, where my Lady
      Carteret is, and mighty kind, both of them, to me. Their son and my Lady
      Jemimah will be here very speedily. She tells me the ladies are to go into
      a new fashion shortly, and that is, to wear short coats, above their
      ancles; which she and I do not like, but conclude this long trayne to be
      mighty graceful. But she cries out of the vices of the Court, and how they
      are going to set up plays already; and how, the next day after the late
      great fast, the Duchesse of York did give the King and Queene a play. Nay,
      she told me that they have heretofore had plays at Court the very nights
      before the fast for the death of the late King: She do much cry out upon
      these things, and that which she believes will undo the whole nation; and
      I fear so too. After dinner away home, Mr. Brisband along with me as far
      as the Temple, and there looked upon a new booke, set out by one Rycault,
      secretary to my Lord Winchelsea, of the policy and customs of the Turks,
      which is, it seems, much cried up. But I could not stay, but home, where I
      find Balty come back, and with him some muster-books, which I am glad of,
      and hope he will do me credit in his employment. By and by took coach
      again and carried him home, and my wife to her tailor's, while I to White
      Hall to have found out Povy, but miss him and so call in my wife and home
      again, where at Sir W. Batten's I met Sir W. Pen, lately come from the
      fleete at the Nore; and here were many good fellows, among others Sir R.
      Holmes, who is exceeding kind to me, more than usual, which makes me
      afeard of him, though I do much wish his friendship. Thereupon, after a
      little stay, I withdrew, and to the office and awhile, and then home to
      supper and to my chamber to settle a few papers, and then to bed. This day
      the great debate was in Parliament, the manner of raising the L1,800,000
      they voted [the King] on Friday; and at last, after many proposals, one
      moved that the Chimney-money might be taken from the King, and an equal
      revenue of something else might be found for the King, and people be
      enjoyned to buy off this tax of Chimney-money for ever at eight years'
      purchase, which will raise present money, as they think, L1,600,000, and
      the State be eased of an ill burthen and the King be supplied of something
      as food or better for his use. The House seems to like this, and put off
      the debate to to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and to the office, where sat to do little business but hear
      clamours for money. At noon home to dinner, and to the office again, after
      hearing my brother play a little upon the Lyra viall, which he do so as to
      show that he hath a love to musique and a spirit for it, which I am well
      pleased with. All the afternoon at the office, and at night with Sir W.
      Batten, Sir W. Pen, [and Sir] J. Minnes, at [Sir] W. Pen's lodgings,
      advising about business and orders fit presently to make about discharging
      of ships come into the river, and which to pay first, and many things in
      order thereto. But it vexed me that, it being now past seven o'clock, and
      the businesses of great weight, and I had done them by eight o'clock, and
      sending them to be signed, they were all gone to bed, and Sir W. Pen,
      though awake, would not, being in bed, have them brought to him to sign;
      this made me quite angry. Late at work at the office, and then home to
      supper and to bed. Not come to any resolution at the Parliament to-day
      about the manner of raising this L1,800,000.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and busy about public and private business all the morning at
      the office. At noon home to dinner, alone with my brother, with whom I had
      now the first private talke I have had, and find he hath preached but
      twice in his life. I did give him some advice to study pronunciation; but
      I do fear he will never make a good speaker, nor, I fear, any general good
      scholar, for I do not see that he minds optickes or mathematiques of any
      sort, nor anything else that I can find. I know not what he may be at
      divinity and ordinary school-learning. However, he seems sober, and that
      pleases me. After dinner took him and my wife and Barker (for so is our
      new woman called, and is yet but a sorry girle), and set them down at
      Unthanke's, and so to White Hall, and there find some of my brethren with
      the Duke of York, but so few I put off the meeting. So staid and heard the
      Duke discourse, which he did mighty scurrilously, of the French, and with
      reason, that they should give Beaufort orders when he was to bring, and
      did bring, his fleete hither, that his rendezvous for his fleete, and for
      all sluggs to come to, should be between Calais and Dover; which did prove
      the taking of La Roche[lle], who, among other sluggs behind, did, by their
      instructions, make for that place, to rendezvous with the fleete; and
      Beaufort, seeing them as he was returning, took them for the English
      fleete, and wrote word to the King of France that he had passed by the
      English fleete, and the English fleete durst not meddle with him. The
      Court is all full of vests, only my Lord St. Albans not pinked but plain
      black; and they say the King says the pinking upon white makes them look
      too much like magpyes, and therefore hath bespoke one of plain velvet.
      Thence to St. James's by coach, and spoke, at four o'clock or five, with
      Sir W. Coventry, newly come from the House, where they have sat all this
      day and not come to an end of the debate how the money shall be raised. He
      tells me that what I proposed to him the other day was what he had himself
      thought on and determined, and that he believes it will speedily be done&mdash;the
      making Sir J. Minnes a Commissioner, and bringing somebody else to be
      Comptroller, and that (which do not please me, I confess, for my own
      particulars, so well as Sir J. Minnes) will, I fear, be Sir W. Pen, for he
      is the only fit man for it. Away from him and took up my wife, and left
      her at Temple Bar to buy some lace for a petticoat, and I took coach and
      away to Sir R. Viner's about a little business, and then home, and by and
      by to my chamber, and there late upon making up an account for the Board
      to pass to-morrow, if I can get them, for the clearing all my imprest
      bills, which if I can do, will be to my very good satisfaction. Having
      done this, then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. The waters so
      high in the roads, by the late rains, that our letters come not in till
      to-day, and now I understand that my father is got well home, but had a
      painful journey of it. At noon with Lord Bruncker to St. Ellen's, where
      the master of the late Pope's Head Taverne is now set up again, and there
      dined at Sir W. Warren's cost, a very good dinner. Here my Lord Bruncker
      proffered to carry me and my wife into a play at Court to-night, and to
      lend me his coach home, which tempted me much; but I shall not do it.
      Thence rose from table before dinner ended, and homewards met my wife, and
      so away by coach towards Lovett's (in the way wondering at what a good
      pretty wench our Barker makes, being now put into good clothes, and
      fashionable, at my charge; but it becomes her, so that I do not now think
      much of it, and is an example of the power of good clothes and dress),
      where I stood godfather. But it was pretty, that, being a Protestant, a
      man stood by and was my Proxy to answer for me. A priest christened it,
      and the boy's name is Samuel. The ceremonies many, and some foolish. The
      priest in a gentleman's dress, more than my owne; but is a Capuchin, one
      of the Queene-mother's priests. He did give my proxy and the woman proxy
      (my Lady Bills, absent, had a proxy also) good advice to bring up the
      child, and, at the end, that he ought never to marry the child nor the
      godmother, nor the godmother the child or the godfather: but, which is
      strange, they say that the mother of the child and the godfather may
      marry. By and by the Lady Bills come in, a well-bred but crooked woman.
      The poor people of the house had good wine, and a good cake; and she a
      pretty woman in her lying-in dress. It cost me near 40s. the whole
      christening: to midwife 20s., nurse 10s., mayde 2s. 6d., and the coach 5s.
      I was very well satisfied with what I have done, and so home and to the
      office, and thence to Sir W. Batten's, and there hear how the business of
      buying off the Chimney-money is passed in the House; and so the King to be
      satisfied some other way, and the King supplied with the money raised by
      this purchasing off of the chimnies. So home, mightily pleased in mind
      that I have got my bills of imprest cleared by bills signed this day, to
      my good satisfaction. To supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and by coach to my Lord Ashly's, and thence (he being gone out),
      to the Exchequer chamber, and there find him and my Lord Bellasses about
      my Lord Bellasses' accounts, which was the business I went upon. This was
      soon ended, and then I with Creed back home to my house, and there he and
      I did even accounts for salary, and by that time dinner was ready, and
      merry at dinner, and then abroad to Povy's, who continues as much
      confounded in all his business as ever he was; and would have had me paid
      money, as like a fool as himself, which I troubled him in refusing; but I
      did persist in it. After a little more discourse, I left them, and to
      White Hall, where I met with Sir Robert Viner, who told me a little of
      what, in going home, I had seen; also a little of the disorder and mutiny
      among the seamen at the Treasurer's office, which did trouble me then and
      all day since, considering how many more seamen will come to towne every
      day, and no money for them. A Parliament sitting, and the Exchange close
      by, and an enemy to hear of, and laugh at it.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The King of Denmark was induced to conclude a treaty with the
     United Provinces, a secret article of which bound him to declare war
     against England.  The order in council for the printing and
     publishing a declaration of war against Denmark is dated "Whitehall,
     Sept.  19, 1666;" annexed is "A True Declaration of all
     transactions between his Majesty of Great Britain and the King of
     Denmark, with a declaration of war against the said king, and the
     motives that obliged his Majesty thereunto" ("Calendar of State
     Papers," 1666-67, p. 140).]
</pre>
    <p>
      Viner too, and Backewell, were sent for this afternoon; and was before the
      King and his Cabinet about money; they declaring they would advance no
      more, it being discoursed of in the House of Parliament for the King to
      issue out his privy-seals to them to command them to trust him, which
      gives them reason to decline trusting. But more money they are persuaded
      to lend, but so little that (with horrour I speake it), coming after the
      Council was up, with Sir G. Carteret, Sir W. Coventry, Lord Bruncker, and
      myself, I did lay the state of our condition before the Duke of York, that
      the fleete could not go out without several things it wanted, and we could
      not have without money, particularly rum and bread, which we have promised
      the man Swan to helpe him to L200 of his debt, and a few other small sums
      of L200 a piece to some others, and that I do foresee the Duke of York
      would call us to an account why the fleete is not abroad, and we cannot
      answer otherwise than our want of money; and that indeed we do not do the
      King any service now, but do rather abuse and betray his service by being
      there, and seeming to do something, while we do not. Sir G. Carteret asked
      me (just in these words, for in this and all the rest I set down the very
      words for memory sake, if there should be occasion) whether L50 or L60
      would do us any good; and when I told him the very rum man must have L200,
      he held up his eyes as if we had asked a million. Sir W. Coventry told the
      Duke of York plainly he did rather desire to have his commission called in
      than serve in so ill a place, where he cannot do the King service, and I
      did concur in saying the same. This was all very plain, and the Duke of
      York did confess that he did not see how we could do anything without a
      present supply of L20,000, and that he would speak to the King next
      Council day, and I promised to wait on him to put him in mind of it. This
      I set down for my future justification, if need be, and so we broke up,
      and all parted, Sir W. Coventry being not very well, but I believe made
      much worse by this night's sad discourse. So I home by coach, considering
      what the consequence of all this must be in a little time. Nothing but
      distraction and confusion; which makes me wish with all my heart that I
      were well and quietly settled with what little I have got at Brampton,
      where I might live peaceably, and study, and pray for the good of the King
      and my country. Home, and to Sir W. Batten's, where I saw my Lady, who is
      now come down stairs after a great sickness. Sir W. Batten was at the pay
      to-day, and tells me how rude the men were, but did go away quietly, being
      promised pay on Wednesday next. God send us money for it! So to the
      office, and then to supper and to bed. Among other things proposed in the
      House to-day, to give the King in lieu of chimneys, there was the bringing
      up of sealed paper, such as Sir J. Minnes shewed me to-night, at Sir W.
      Batten's, is used in Spayne, and brings the King a great revenue; but it
      shows what shifts we are put to too much.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and all the morning at the office, where none met but myself. So
      I walked a good while with Mr. Gawden in the garden, who is lately come
      from the fleete at the buoy of the Nore, and he do tell me how all the
      sober commanders, and even Sir Thomas Allen himself, do complain of the
      ill government of the fleete. How Holmes and Jennings have commanded all
      the fleete this yeare, that nothing is done upon deliberation, but if a
      sober man give his opinion otherwise than the Prince would have it the
      Prince would cry, "Damn him, do you follow your orders, and that is enough
      for you." He tells me he hears of nothing but of swearing and drinking and
      whoring, and all manner of profaneness, quite through the whole fleete. He
      being gone, there comes to me Commissioner Middleton, whom I took on
      purpose to walk in the garden with me, and to learn what he observed when
      the fleete was at Portsmouth. He says that the fleete was in such a
      condition, as to discipline, as if the Devil had commanded it; so much
      wickedness of all sorts. Enquiring how it come to pass that so many ships
      miscarried this year, he tells me that he enquired; and the pilots do say,
      that they dare not do nor go but as the Captains will have them; and if
      they offer to do otherwise, the Captains swear they will run them through.
      He says that he heard Captain Digby (my Lord of Bristoll's son, a young
      fellow that never was but one year, if that, in the fleete) say that he
      did hope he should not see a tarpaulin have the command of a ship within
      this twelve months. He observed while he was on board the Admirall, when
      the fleete was at Portsmouth, that there was a faction there. Holmes
      commanded all on the Prince's side, and Sir Jeremy Smith on the Duke's,
      and every body that come did apply themselves to one side or other; and
      when the Duke of Albemarle was gone away to come hither, then Sir Jeremy
      Smith did hang his head, and walked in the Generall's ship but like a
      private commander. He says he was on board The Prince, when the newes come
      of the burning of London; and all the Prince said was, that now Shipton's
      prophecy was out; and he heard a young commander presently swear, that now
      a citizen's wife that would not take under half a piece before, would be
      occupied for half-a-crowne: and made mighty sport of it. He says that
      Hubberd that commanded this year the Admiral's ship is a proud conceited
      fellow (though I thought otherwise of him), and fit to command a single
      ship but not a fleete, and he do wonder that there hath not been more
      mischief this year than there hath. He says the fleete come to anchor
      between the Horse and the Island, so that when they came to weigh many of
      the ships could not turn, but run foul of the Horse, and there stuck, but
      that the weather was good. He says that nothing can do the King more
      disservice, nor please the standing officers of the ship better than these
      silly commanders that now we have, for they sign to anything that their
      officers desire of them, nor have judgment to contradict them if they
      would. He told me other good things, which made me bless God that we have
      received no greater disasters this year than we have, though they have
      been the greatest that ever was known in England before, put all their
      losses of the King's ships by want of skill and seamanship together from
      the beginning. He being gone, comes Sir G. Carteret, and he and I walked
      together awhile, discoursing upon the sad condition of the times, what
      need we have, and how impossible it is to get money. He told me my Lord
      Chancellor the other day did ask him how it come to pass that his friend
      Pepys do so much magnify all things to worst, as I did on Sunday last, in
      the bad condition of the fleete. Sir G. Carteret tells me that he answered
      him, that I was but the mouth of the rest, and spoke what they have
      dictated to me; which did, as he says, presently take off his displeasure.
      So that I am well at present with him, but I must have a care not to be
      over busy in the office again, and burn my fingers. He tells me he wishes
      he had sold his place at some good rate to somebody or other at the
      beginning of the warr, and that he would do it now, but no body will deale
      with him for it. He tells me the Duke of Albemarle is very much
      discontented, and the Duke of York do not, it seems, please him. He tells
      me that our case as to money is not to be made good at present, and
      therefore wishes a good and speedy peace before it be too late, and from
      his discourse methinks I find that there is something moving towards it.
      Many people at the office, but having no more of the office I did put it
      off till the next meeting. Thence, with Sir G. Carteret, home to dinner,
      with him, my Lady and Mr. Ashburnham, the Cofferer. Here they talk that
      the Queene hath a great mind to alter her fashion, and to have the feet
      seen, which she loves mightily; and they do believe that it [will] come
      into it in a little time. Here I met with the King's declaration about his
      proceedings with the King of Denmarke, and particularly the business of
      Bergen; but it is so well writ, that, if it be true, the King of Denmarke
      is one of the most absolute wickednesse in the world for a person of his
      quality. After dinner home, and there met Mr. Povy by appointment, and
      there he and I all the afternoon, till late at night, evening of all
      accounts between us, which we did to both our satisfaction; but that which
      troubles me most is, that I am to refund to the ignoble Lord Peterborough
      what he had given us six months ago, because we did not supply him with
      money; but it is no great matter. He gone I to the office, and there did
      some business; and so home, my mind in good ease by having done with Povy
      in order to the adjusting of all my accounts in a few days. So home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, and her new woman
      Barker with her the first time. The girle will, I think, do very well.
      Here a lazy sermon, and so home to dinner, and took in my Lady Pen and Peg
      (Sir William being below with the fleete), and mighty merry we were, and
      then after dinner presently (it being a mighty cool day) I by coach to
      White Hall, and there attended the Cabinet, and was called in before the
      King and them to give an account of our want of money for Tangier, which
      troubles me that it should be my place so often and so soon after one
      another to come to speak there of their wants&mdash;the thing of the world
      that they love least to hear of, and that which is no welcome thing to be
      the solicitor for&mdash;and to see how like an image the King sat and
      could not speak one word when I had delivered myself was very strange;
      only my Lord Chancellor did ask me, whether I thought it was in nature at
      this time to help us to anything. So I was referred to another meeting of
      the Lords Commissioners for Tangier and my Lord Treasurer, and so went
      away, and by coach home, where I spent the evening in reading
      Stillingfleet's defence of the Archbishopp, the part about Purgatory, a
      point I had never considered before, what was said for it or against it,
      and though I do believe we are in the right, yet I do not see any great
      matter in this book. So to supper; and my people being gone, most of them,
      to bed, my boy and Jane and I did get two of my iron chests out of the
      cellar into my closett, and the money to my great satisfaction to see it
      there again, and the rather because the damp cellar spoils all my chests.
      This being done, and I weary, to bed. This afternoon walking with Sir H.
      Cholmly long in the gallery, he told me, among many other things, how
      Harry Killigrew is banished the Court lately, for saying that my Lady
      Castlemayne was a little lecherous girle when she was young.... This she
      complained to the King of, and he sent to the Duke of York, whose servant
      he is, to turn him away. The Duke of York hath done it, but takes it ill
      of my Lady that he was not complained to first. She attended him to excute
      it, but ill blood is made by it. He told me how Mr. Williamson stood in a
      little place to have come into the House of Commons, and they would not
      choose him; they said, "No courtier." And which is worse, Bab May went
      down in great state to Winchelsea with the Duke of York's letters, not
      doubting to be chosen; and there the people chose a private gentleman in
      spite of him, and cried out they would have no Court pimp to be their
      burgesse; which are things that bode very ill. This afternoon I went to
      see and sat a good while with Mrs. Martin, and there was her sister Doll,
      with whom, contrary to all expectation, I did what I would, and might have
      done anything else.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and by coach to Westminster Hall, there thinking to have met
      Betty Michell, who I heard yesterday staid all night at her father's, but
      she was gone. So I staid a little and then down to the bridge by water,
      and there overtook her and her father. So saluted her and walked over
      London Bridge with them and there parted, the weather being very foul, and
      so to the Tower by water, and so heme, where I find Mr. Caesar playing the
      treble to my boy upon the Theorbo, the first time I heard him, which
      pleases me mightily. After dinner I carried him and my wife towards
      Westminster, by coach, myself 'lighting at the Temple, and there, being a
      little too soon, walked in the Temple Church, looking with pleasure on the
      monuments and epitaphs, and then to my Lord Belasses, where Creed and Povy
      by appointment met to discourse of some of their Tangier accounts between
      my Lord and Vernatty, who will prove a very knave. That being done I away
      with Povy to White Hall, and thence I to Unthanke's, and there take up my
      wife, and so home, it being very foule and darke. Being there come, I to
      the settling of some of my money matters in my chests, and evening some
      accounts, which I was at late, to my extraordinary content, and especially
      to see all things hit so even and right and with an apparent profit and
      advantage since my last accounting, but how much I cannot particularly yet
      come to adjudge.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and to the office all the morning. At noon Sir W. Batten told me
      Sir Richard Ford would accept of one-third of my profit of our private
      man-of-war, and bear one-third of the charge, and be bound in the
      Admiralty, so I shall be excused being bound, which I like mightily of,
      and did draw up a writing, as well as I could, to that purpose and signed
      and sealed it, and so he and Sir R. Ford are to go to enter into bond this
      afternoon. Home to dinner, and after dinner, it being late, I down by
      water to Shadwell, to see Betty Michell, the first time I was ever at
      their new dwelling since the fire, and there find her in the house all
      alone. I find her mighty modest. But had her lips as much as I would, and
      indeed she is mighty pretty, that I love her exceedingly. I paid her L10
      1s. that I received upon a ticket for her husband, which is a great
      kindness I have done them, and having kissed her as much as I would, I
      away, poor wretch, and down to Deptford to see Sir J. Minnes ordering of
      the pay of some ships there, which he do most miserably, and so home.
      Bagwell's wife, seeing me come the fields way, did get over her pales to
      come after and talk with me, which she did for a good way, and so parted,
      and I home, and to the office, very busy, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and down to the Old Swan, and there find little Michell come to
      his new shop that he hath built there in the room of his house that was
      burned. I hope he will do good here. I drank and bade him joy, for I love
      him and his wife well, him for his care, and her for her person, and so to
      White Hall, where we attended the Duke; and to all our complaints for want
      of money, which now we are tired out with making, the Duke only tells us
      that he is sorry for it, and hath spoke to the King of it, and money we
      shall have as soon as it can be found; and though all the issue of the war
      lies upon it, yet that is all the answer we can get, and that is as bad or
      worse than nothing. Thence to Westminster Hall, where the term is begun,
      and I did take a turn or two, and so away by coach to Sir R. Viner's, and
      there received some money, and then home and to dinner. After dinner to
      little business, and then abroad with my wife, she to see her brother, who
      is sick, and she believes is from some discontent his wife hath given him
      by her loose carriage, which he is told, and he hath found has been very
      suspicious in his absence, which I am sorry for. I to the Hall and there
      walked long, among others talking with Mr. Hayes, Prince Rupert's
      Secretary, a very ingenious man, and one, I think, fit to contract some
      friendship with. Here I staid late, walking to and again, hearing how the
      Parliament proceeds, which is mighty slowly in the settling of the money
      business, and great factions growing every day among them. I am told also
      how Holmes did last Sunday deliver in his articles to the King and Cabinet
      against [Sir Jeremy] Smith, and that Smith hath given in his answer, and
      lays his not accompanying the fleete to his pilot, who would not undertake
      to carry the ship further; which the pilot acknowledges. The thing is not
      accommodated, but only taken up, and both sides commanded to be quiet; but
      no peace like to be. The Duke of Albemarle is Smith's friend, and hath
      publiquely swore that he would never go to sea again unless Holmes's
      commission were taken from him.
    </p>
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     [In the instructions given to Sir Thomas Clifford (August 5th, 1666)
     to be communicated to Prince Rupert and the Duke of Albemarle, we
     read: "to tell them that the complaint of Sir Jeremy Smith's
     misbehaviour in the late engagement being so universal, unless he
     have fully satisfied the generals he should be brought to trial by
     court-martial, and there purged or condemned."  The Duke of
     Albemarle answered the king (August 14th?): "Wishes to clear a
     gallant man falsely accused, Sir Jeremiah Smith, who had more men
     killed and hurt, and his ship received more shot than any in the
     fleet.  There is not a more spirited man serves in the fleet" On
     October 27th H. Muddiman wrote to Sir Edward Stradling: "Sir Jeremy
     Smith has got as much credit by his late examination as his enemies
     wished him disgrace, the King and Duke of York being fully satisfied
     of his valour in the engagement.  It appears that he had 147 men
     killed and wounded, while the most eminent of his accusers had but
     two or three."  With regard to Sir Jeremy's counter-charges, we
     read: "Nov. 3.  The King having maturely considered the charges
     brought against Sir Rob. Holmes by Sir Jeremy Smith, finds no cause
     to suspect Sir Robert of cowardice in the fight with the Dutch of
     June 25 and 26, but thinks that on the night of the 26th he yielded
     too easily to the opinion of his pilot, without consulting those of
     the other ships, muzzled his ship, and thus obliged the squadron to
     do the same, and so the enemy, which might have been driven into the
     body of the king's fleet, then returning from the pursuit, was
     allowed to escape" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67, pp.  14,
     40, 222, 236).]
</pre>
    <p>
      I find by Hayes that they did expect great glory in coming home in so good
      condition as they did with the fleete, and therefore I the less wonder
      that the Prince was distasted with my discourse the other day about the
      bad state of the fleete. But it pleases me to hear that he did expect
      great thanks, and lays the fault of the want of it upon the fire, which
      deadened everything, and the glory of his services. About seven at night
      home, and called my wife, and, it being moonshine, took her into the
      garden, and there layed open our condition as to our estate, and the
      danger of my having it [his money] all in the house at once, in case of
      any disorder or troubles in the State, and therefore resolved to remove
      part of it to Brampton, and part some whither else, and part in my owne
      house, which is very necessary, and will tend to our safety, though I
      shall not think it safe out of my owne sight. So to the office, and then
      to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up betimes and by water to White Hall, and there with Sir G.
      Carteret to Sir W. Coventry, who is come to his winter lodgings at White
      Hall, and there agreed upon a method of paying of tickets; and so I back
      again home and to the office, where we sate all the morning, but to little
      purpose but to receive clamours for money. At noon home to dinner, where
      the two Mrs. Daniels come to see us, and dined with us. After dinner I out
      with my wife to Mrs. Pierces, where she hath not been a great while, from
      some little unkindness of my wife's to her when she was last here, but she
      received us with mighty respect and discretion, and was making herself
      mighty fine to go to a great ball to-night at Court, being the Queene's
      birthday; so the ladies for this one day do wear laces, but to put them
      off again to-morrow. Thence I to my Lord Bruncker's, and with him to Mrs.
      Williams's where we met Knipp. I was glad to see the jade. Made her sing;
      and she told us they begin at both houses to act on Monday next. But I
      fear, after all this sorrow, their gains will be but little. Mrs. Williams
      says, the Duke's house will now be much the better of the two, because of
      their women; which I am glad to hear. Thence with Lord Bruncker to White
      Hall and there spoke with Sir W. Coventry about some office business, and
      then I away to Mrs. Pierces, and there saw her new closet, which is mighty
      rich and fine. Her daughter Betty grows mighty pretty. Thence with my wife
      home and to do business at the office. Then to Sir W. Batten's, who tells
      me that the House of Parliament makes mighty little haste in settling the
      money, and that he knows not when it will be done; but they fall into
      faction, and libells have been found in the House. Among others, one
      yesterday, wherein they reckon up divers great sums to be given away by
      the King, among others, L10,000 to Sir W. Coventry, for weare and teare
      (the point he stood upon to advance that sum by, for them to give the
      King); Sir G. Carteret L50,000 for something else, I think supernumerarys;
      and so to Matt. Wren L5000 for passing the Canary Company's patent; and so
      a great many other sums to other persons. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and all the morning and most of the afternoon within doors,
      beginning to set my accounts in order from before this fire, I being
      behindhand with them ever since; and this day I got most of my tradesmen
      to bring in their bills and paid them. Dined at home, and busy again after
      dinner, and then abroad by water to Westminster Hall, where I walked till
      the evening, and then out, the first time I ever was abroad with Doll
      Lane, to the Dog tavern, and there drank with her, a bad face, but good
      bodied girle. Did nothing but salute and play with her and talk, and
      thence away by coach, home, and so to do a little more in my accounts, and
      then to supper and to bed. Nothing done in the House yet as to the
      finishing of the bill for money, which is a mighty sad thing, all lying at
      stake for it.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and there comes to see me my Lord Belasses, which was a great
      honour. He tells me great newes, yet but what I suspected, that Vernatty
      is fled, and so hath cheated him and twenty more, but most of all, I
      doubt, Mr. Povy. Thence to talk about publique business; he tells me how
      the two Houses begin to be troublesome; the Lords to have quarrels one
      with another. My Lord Duke of Buckingham having said to the Lord
      Chancellor (who is against the passing of the Bill for prohibiting the
      bringing over of Irish cattle), that whoever was against the Bill, was
      there led to it by an Irish interest, or an Irish understanding, which is
      as much as to say he is a Poole; this bred heat from my Lord Chancellor,
      and something he [Buckingham] said did offend my Lord of Ossory (my Lord
      Duke' of Ormond's son), and they two had hard words, upon which the latter
      sends a challenge to the former; of which the former complains to the
      House, and so the business is to be heard on Monday next. Then as to the
      Commons; some ugly knives, like poignards, to stab people with, about two
      or three hundred of them were brought in yesterday to the House, found in
      one of the house's rubbish that was burned, and said to be the house of a
      Catholique. This and several letters out of the country, saying how high
      the Catholiques are everywhere and bold in the owning their religion, have
      made the Commons mad, and they presently voted that the King be desired to
      put all Catholiques out of employment, and other high things; while the
      business of money hangs in the hedge. So that upon the whole, God knows we
      are in a sad condition like to be, there being the very beginnings of the
      late troubles. He gone, I at the office all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, where Mrs. Pierce and her boy and Knipp, who sings as well, and is
      the best company in the world, dined with us, and infinite merry. The
      playhouses begin to play next week. Towards evening I took them out to the
      New Exchange, and there my wife bought things, and I did give each of them
      a pair of Jesimy
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Jessemin (Jasminum), the flowers of which are of a delicate sweet
     smell, and often used to perfume gloves.  Edmund Howes, Stows
     continuator, informs us that sweet or perfumed gloves were first
     brought into England by the Earl of Oxford on his return from Italy,
     in the fifteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, during whose reign, and
     long afterwards, they were very fashionable.  They are frequently
     mentioned by Shakespeare.  Autolyctis, in the "Winter's Tale," has
     among his wares&mdash;"Gloves as sweet as damask roses."&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      plain gloves, and another of white. Here Knipp and I walked up and down to
      see handsome faces, and did see several. Then carried each of them home,
      and with great pleasure and content, home myself, where, having writ
      several letters, I home, and there, upon some serious discourse between my
      wife and I upon the business, I called to us my brother, and there broke
      to him our design to send him into the country with some part of our
      money, and so did seriously discourse the whole thing, and then away to
      supper and to bed. I pray God give a blessing to our resolution, for I do
      much fear we shall meet with speedy distractions for want of money.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). Up, and to church with my wife, and then home, and
      there is come little Michell and his wife, I sent for them, and also tomes
      Captain Guy to dine with me, and he and I much talk together. He cries out
      of the discipline of the fleete, and confesses really that the true
      English valour we talk of is almost spent and worn out; few of the
      commanders doing what they should do, and he much fears we shall therefore
      be beaten the next year. He assures me we were beaten home the last June
      fight, and that the whole fleete was ashamed to hear of our bonefires. He
      commends Smith, and cries out of Holmes for an idle, proud, conceited,
      though stout fellow. He tells me we are to owe the losse of so many ships
      on the sands, not to any fault of the pilots, but to the weather; but in
      this I have good authority to fear there was something more. He says the
      Dutch do fight in very good order, and we in none at all. He says that in
      the July fight, both the Prince and Holmes had their belly-fulls, and were
      fain to go aside; though, if the wind had continued, we had utterly beaten
      them. He do confess the whole to be governed by a company of fools, and
      fears our ruine. After dinner he gone, I with my brother to White Hall and
      he to Westminster Abbey. I presently to Mrs. Martin's, and there met widow
      Burroughes and Doll, and did tumble them all the afternoon as I pleased,
      and having given them a bottle of wine I parted and home by boat (my
      brother going by land), and thence with my wife to sit and sup with my
      uncle and aunt Wight, and see Woolly's wife, who is a pretty woman, and
      after supper, being very merry, in abusing my aunt with Dr. Venner, we
      home, and I to do something in my accounts, and so to bed. The Revenge
      having her forecastle blown up with powder to the killing of some men in
      the River, and the Dyamond's being overset in the careening at Sheernesse,
      are further marks of the method all the King's work is now done in. The
      Foresight also and another come to disasters in the same place this week
      in the cleaning; which is strange.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and to the office to do business, and thither comes to me Sir
      Thomas Teddiman, and he and I walked a good while in the garden together,
      discoursing of the disorder and discipline of the fleete, wherein he told
      me how bad every thing is; but was very wary in speaking any thing to the
      dishonour of the Prince or Duke of Albemarle, but do magnify my Lord
      Sandwich much before them both, for ability to serve the King, and do
      heartily wish for him here. For he fears that we shall be undone the next
      year, but that he will, however, see an end of it. To prevent the
      necessity of his dining with me I was forced to pretend occasion of going
      to Westminster, so away I went, and Mr. Barber, the clerk, having a
      request to make to me to get him into employment, did walk along with me,
      and by water to Westminster with me, he professing great love to me, and
      an able clerk he is. When I come thither I find the new Lord Mayor Bolton
      a-swearing at the Exchequer, with some of the Aldermen and Livery; but,
      Lord! to see how meanely they now look, who upon this day used to be all
      little lords, is a sad sight and worthy consideration. And every body did
      reflect with pity upon the poor City, to which they are now coming to
      choose and swear their Lord Mayor, compared with what it heretofore was.
      Thence by coach (having in the Hall bought me a velvet riding cap, cost me
      20s.) to my taylor's, and there bespoke a plain vest, and so to my
      goldsmith to bid him look out for some gold for me; and he tells me that
      ginnys, which I bought 2,000 of not long ago, and cost me but 18 1/2d.
      change, will now cost me 22d.; and but very few to be had at any price.
      However, some more I will have, for they are very convenient, and of easy
      disposal. So home to dinner and to discourse with my brother upon his
      translation of my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae," which I gave him to do
      and he has done it, but meanely; I am not pleased with it at all, having
      done it only literally, but without any life at all. About five o'clock I
      took my wife (who is mighty fine, and with a new fair pair of locks, which
      vex me, though like a foole I helped her the other night to buy them), and
      to Mrs. Pierces, and there staying a little I away before to White Hall,
      and into the new playhouse there, the first time I ever was there, and the
      first play I have seen since before the great plague. By and by Mr. Pierce
      comes, bringing my wife and his, and Knipp. By and by the King and Queene,
      Duke and Duchesse, and all the great ladies of the Court; which, indeed,
      was a fine sight. But the play being "Love in a Tub," a silly play, and
      though done by the Duke's people, yet having neither Betterton nor his
      wife, and the whole thing done ill, and being ill also, I had no manner of
      pleasure in the play. Besides, the House, though very fine, yet bad for
      the voice, for hearing. The sight of the ladies, indeed, was exceeding
      noble; and above all, my Lady Castlemayne. The play done by ten o'clock. I
      carried them all home, and then home myself, and well satisfied with the
      sight, but not the play, we with great content to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and at noon home
      to dinner, and then to the office again, where late, very busy, and
      dispatching much business. Mr. Hater staying most of the afternoon abroad,
      he come to me, poor man, to make excuse, and it was that he had been
      looking out for a little house for his family. His wife being much
      frightened in the country with the discourses of troubles and disorders
      like to be, and therefore durst not be from him, and therefore he is
      forced to bring her to towne that they may be together. This is now the
      general apprehension of all people; particulars I do not know, but my owne
      fears are also great, and I do think it time to look out to save
      something, if a storm should come. At night home to supper, and singing
      with my wife, who hath lately begun to learn, and I think will come to do
      something, though her eare is not good, nor I, I confess, have patience
      enough to teach her, or hear her sing now and then a note out of tune, and
      am to blame that I cannot bear with that in her which is fit I should do
      with her as a learner, and one that I desire much could sing, and so
      should encourage her. This I was troubled at, for I do find that I do put
      her out of heart, and make her fearfull to sing before me. So after supper
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Out with Sir W. Batten toward White Hall, being in pain in my cods
      by being squeezed the other night in a little coach when I carried Pierce
      and his wife and my people. But I hope I shall be soon well again. This
      day is a great day at the House, so little to do with the Duke of York,
      but soon parted. Coming out of the Court I met Colonell Atkins, who tells
      me the whole city rings to-day of Sir Jeremy Smith's killing of Holmes in
      a duell, at which I was not much displeased, for I fear every day more and
      more mischief from the man, if he lives; but the thing is not true, for in
      my coach I did by and by meet Sir Jer. Smith going to Court. So I by coach
      to my goldsmith, there to see what gold I can get, which is but little,
      and not under 22d. So away home to dinner, and after dinner to my closett,
      where I spent the whole afternoon till late at evening of all my accounts
      publique and private, and to my great satisfaction I do find that I do
      bring my accounts to a very near balance, notwithstanding all the hurries
      and troubles I have been put to by the late fire, that I have not been
      able to even my accounts since July last before; and I bless God I do find
      that I am worth more than ever I yet was, which is L6,200, for which the
      Holy Name of God be praised! and my other accounts of Tangier in a very
      plain and clear condition, that I am not liable to any trouble from them;
      but in fear great I am, and I perceive the whole city is, of some
      distractions and disorders among us, which God of his goodness prevent!
      Late to supper with my wife and brother, and then to bed. And thus ends
      the month with an ill aspect, the business of the Navy standing wholly
      still. No credit, no goods sold us, nobody will trust. All we have to do
      at the office is to hear complaints for want of money. The Duke of York
      himself for now three weeks seems to rest satisfied that we can do nothing
      without money, and that all must stand still till the King gets money,
      which the Parliament have been a great while about; but are so
      dissatisfied with the King's management, and his giving himself up to
      pleasures, and not minding the calling to account any of his officers, and
      they observe so much the expense of the war, and yet that after we have
      made it the most we can, it do not amount to what they have given the King
      for the warn that they are backward of giving any more. However,
      L1,800,000 they have voted, but the way of gathering it has taken up more
      time than is fit to be now lost: The seamen grow very rude, and every
      thing out of order; commanders having no power over their seamen, but the
      seamen do what they please. Few stay on board, but all coming running up
      hither to towne, and nobody can with justice blame them, we owing them so
      much money; and their familys must starve if we do not give them money, or
      they procure upon their tickets from some people that will trust them. A
      great folly is observed by all people in the King's giving leave to so
      many merchantmen to go abroad this winter, and some upon voyages where it
      is impossible they should be back again by the spring, and the rest will
      be doubtfull, but yet we let them go; what the reason of State is nobody
      can tell, but all condemn it. The Prince and Duke of Albemarle have got no
      great credit by this year's service. Our losses both of reputation and
      ships having been greater than is thought have ever been suffered in all
      ages put together before; being beat home, and fleeing home the first
      fight, and then losing so many ships then and since upon the sands, and
      some falling into the enemy's hands, and not one taken this yeare, but the
      Ruby, French prize, now at the end of the yeare, by the Frenchmen's
      mistake in running upon us. Great folly in both Houses of Parliament,
      several persons falling together by the eares, among others in the House
      of Lords, the Duke of Buckingham and my Lord Ossory. Such is our case,
      that every body fears an invasion the next yeare; and for my part, I do
      methinks foresee great unhappiness coming upon us, and do provide for it
      by laying by something against a rainy day, dividing what I have, and
      laying it in several places, but with all faithfulness to the King in all
      respects; my grief only being that the King do not look after his business
      himself, and thereby will be undone both himself and his nation, it being
      not yet, I believe, too late if he would apply himself to it, to save all,
      and conquer the Dutch; but while he and the Duke of York mind their
      pleasure, as they do and nothing else, we must be beaten. So late with my
      mind in good condition of quiet after the settling all my accounts, and to
      bed.
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    <p>
      November 1st. Up, and was presented by Burton, one of our smith's wives,
      with a very noble cake, which I presently resolved to have my wife go with
      to-day, and some wine, and house-warme my Betty Michell, which she readily
      resolved to do. So I to the office and sat all the morning, where little
      to do but answer people about want of money; so that there is little
      service done the King by us, and great disquiet to ourselves; I am sure
      there is to me very much, for I do not enjoy myself as I would and should
      do in my employment if my pains could do the King better service, and with
      the peace that we used to do it. At noon to dinner, and from dinner my
      wife and my brother, and W. Hewer and Barker away to Betty Michell's, to
      Shadwell, and I to my office, where I took in Mrs. Bagwell and did what I
      would with her, and so she went away, and I all the afternoon till almost
      night there, and then, my wife being come back, I took her and set her at
      her brother's, who is very sicke, and I to White Hall, and there all alone
      a pretty while with Sir W. Coventry at his chamber. I find him very
      melancholy under the same considerations of the King's service that I am.
      He confesses with me he expects all will be undone, and all ruined; he
      complains and sees perfectly what I with grief do, and said it first
      himself to me that all discipline is lost in the fleete, no order nor no
      command, and concurs with me that it is necessary we do again and again
      represent all things more and more plainly to the Duke of York, for a
      guard to ourselves hereafter when things shall come to be worse. He says
      the House goes on slowly in finding of money, and that the discontented
      party do say they have not done with us, for they will have a further bout
      with us as to our accounts, and they are exceedingly well instructed where
      to hit us. I left him with a thousand sad reflections upon the times, and
      the state of the King's matters, and so away, and took up my wife and
      home, where a little at the office, and then home to supper, and talk with
      my wife (with whom I have much comfort) and my brother, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up betimes, and with Sir W. Batten to Woolwich, where first we went
      on board the Ruby, French prize, the only ship of war we have taken from
      any of our enemies this year. It seems a very good ship, but with
      galleries quite round the sterne to walk in as a balcone, which will be
      taken down. She had also about forty good brass guns, but will make little
      amends to our loss in The Prince. Thence to the Ropeyarde and the other
      yards to do several businesses, he and I also did buy some apples and
      pork; by the same token the butcher commended it as the best in England
      for cloath and colour. And for his beef, says he, "Look how fat it is; the
      lean appears only here and there a speck, like beauty-spots." Having done
      at Woolwich, we to Deptford (it being very cold upon the water), and there
      did also a little more business, and so home, I reading all the why to
      make end of the "Bondman" (which the oftener I read the more I like), and
      begun "The Duchesse of Malfy;" which seems a good play. At home to dinner,
      and there come Mr. Pierce, surgeon, to see me, and after I had eat
      something, he and I and my wife by coach to Westminster, she set us down
      at White Hall, and she to her brother's. I up into the House, and among
      other things walked a good while with the Serjeant Trumpet, who tells me,
      as I wished, that the King's Italian here is about setting three parts for
      trumpets, and shall teach some to sound them, and believes they will be
      admirable musique. I also walked with Sir Stephen Fox an houre, and good
      discourse of publique business with him, who seems very much satisfied
      with my discourse, and desired more of my acquaintance. Then comes out the
      King and Duke of York from the Council, and so I spoke awhile to Sir W.
      Coventry about some office business, and so called my wife (her brother
      being now a little better than he was), and so home, and I to my chamber
      to do some business, and then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. This morning comes Mr. Lovett, and brings me my print of the Passion,
      varnished by him, and the frame black, which indeed is very fine, though
      not so fine as I expected; however, pleases me exceedingly. This, and the
      sheets of paper he prepared for me, come to L3, which I did give him, and
      though it be more than is fit to lay out on pleasure, yet, it being
      ingenious, I did not think much of it. He gone, I to the office, where all
      the morning to little purpose, nothing being before us but clamours for
      money: So at noon home to dinner, and after dinner to hang up my new
      varnished picture and set my chamber in order to be made clean, and then
      to; the office again, and there all the afternoon till late at night, and
      so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th (Lord's day). Comes my taylor's man in the morning, and brings my vest
      home, and coate to wear with it, and belt, and silver-hilted sword. So I
      rose and dressed myself, and I like myself mightily in it, and so do my
      wife. Then, being dressed, to church; and after church pulled my Lady Pen
      and Mrs. Markham into my house to dinner, and Sir J. Minnes he got Mrs.
      Pegg along with him. I had a good dinner for them, and very merry; and
      after dinner to the waterside, and so, it being very cold, to White Hall,
      and was mighty fearfull of an ague, my vest being new and thin, and the
      coat cut not to meet before upon my breast. Here I waited in the gallery
      till the Council was up, and among others did speak with Mr. Cooling, my
      Lord Chamberlain's secretary, who tells me my Lord Generall is become
      mighty low in all people's opinion, and that he hath received several
      slurs from the King and Duke of York. The people at Court do see the
      difference between his and the Prince's management, and my Lord
      Sandwich's. That this business which he is put upon of crying out against
      the Catholiques and turning them out of all employment, will undo him,
      when he comes to turn-out the officers out of the Army, and this is a
      thing of his own seeking. That he is grown a drunken sot, and drinks with
      nobody but Troutbecke, whom nobody else will keep company with. Of whom he
      told me this story: That once the Duke of Albemarle in his drink taking
      notice as of a wonder that Nan Hide should ever come to be Duchesse of
      York, "Nay," says Troutbecke, "ne'er wonder at that; for if you will give
      me another bottle of wine, I will tell you as great, if not greater, a
      miracle." And what was that, but that our dirty Besse (meaning his
      Duchesse) should come to be Duchesse of Albemarle? Here we parted, and so
      by and by the Council rose, and out comes Sir G. Carteret and Sir W.
      Coventry, and they and my Lord Bruncker and I went to Sir G. Carteret's
      lodgings, there to discourse about some money demanded by Sir W. Warren,
      and having done that broke up. And Sir G. Carteret and I alone together a
      while, where he shows a long letter, all in cipher, from my Lord Sandwich
      to him. The contents he hath not yet found out, but he tells me that my
      Lord is not sent for home, as several people have enquired after of me. He
      spoke something reflecting upon me in the business of pursers, that their
      present bad behaviour is what he did foresee, and had convinced me of, and
      yet when it come last year to be argued before the Duke of York I turned
      and said as the rest did. I answered nothing to it, but let it go, and so
      to other discourse of the ill state of things, of which all people are
      full of sorrow and observation, and so parted, and then by water, landing
      in Southwarke, home to the Tower, and so home, and there began to read
      "Potter's Discourse upon 1666," which pleases me mightily, and then broke
      off and to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (A holyday). Lay long; then up, and to the office, where vexed to meet
      with people come from the fleete at the Nore, where so many ships are laid
      up and few going abroad, and yet Sir Thomas Allen hath sent up some
      Lieutenants with warrants to presse men for a few ships to go out this
      winter, while every day thousands appear here, to our great trouble and
      affright, before our office and the ticket office, and no Captains able to
      command one-man aboard. Thence by water to Westminster, and there at the
      Swan find Sarah is married to a shoemaker yesterday, so I could not see
      her, but I believe I shall hereafter at good leisure. Thence by coach to
      my Lady Peterborough, and there spoke with my Lady, who had sent to speak
      with me. She makes mighty moan of the badness of the times, and her family
      as to money. My Lord's passionateness for want thereof, and his want of
      coming in of rents, and no wages from the Duke of York. No money to be had
      there for wages nor disbursements, and therefore prays my assistance about
      his pension. I was moved with her story, which she largely and handsomely
      told me, and promised I would try what I could do in a few days, and so
      took leave, being willing to keep her Lord fair with me, both for his
      respect to my Lord Sandwich and for my owne sake hereafter, when I come to
      pass my accounts. Thence to my Lord Crew's, and there dined, and mightily
      made of, having not, to my shame, been there in 8 months before. Here my
      Lord and Sir Thomas Crew, Mr. John, and Dr. Crew, and two strangers. The
      best family in the world for goodness and sobriety. Here beyond my
      expectation I met my Lord Hinchingbroke, who is come to towne two days
      since from Hinchingbroke, and brought his sister and brother Carteret with
      him, who are at Sir G. Carteret's. After dinner I and Sir Thomas Crew went
      aside to discourse of public matters, and do find by him that all the
      country gentlemen are publickly jealous of the courtiers in the
      Parliament, and that they do doubt every thing that they propose; and that
      the true reason why the country gentlemen are for a land-tax and against a
      general excise, is, because they are fearful that if the latter be granted
      they shall never get it down again; whereas the land-tax will be but for
      so much; and when the war ceases, there will be no ground got by the Court
      to keep it up. He do much cry out upon our accounts, and that all that
      they have had from the King hath been but estimates both from my Lord
      Treasurer and us, and from all people else, so that the Parliament is
      weary of it. He says the House would be very glad to get something against
      Sir G. Carteret, and will not let their inquiries die till they have got
      something. He do, from what he hath heard at the Committee for examining
      the burning of the City, conclude it as a thing certain that it was done
      by plots; it being proved by many witnesses that endeavours were made in
      several places to encrease the fire, and that both in City and country it
      was bragged by several Papists that upon such a day or in such a time we
      should find the hottest weather that ever was in England, and words of
      plainer sense. But my Lord Crew was discoursing at table how the judges
      have determined in the case whether the landlords or the tenants (who are,
      in their leases, all of them generally tied to maintain and uphold their
      houses) shall bear the losse of the fire; and they say that tenants should
      against all casualties of fire beginning either in their owne or in their
      neighbour's; but, where it is done by an enemy, they are not to do it. And
      this was by an enemy, there having been one convicted and hanged upon this
      very score. This is an excellent salvo for the tenants, and for which I am
      glad, because of my father's house. After dinner and this discourse I took
      coach, and at the same time find my Lord Hinchingbroke and Mr. John Crew
      and the Doctor going out to see the ruins of the City; so I took the
      Doctor into my hackney coach (and he is a very fine sober gentleman), and
      so through the City. But, Lord! what pretty and sober observations he made
      of the City and its desolation; till anon we come to my house, and there I
      took them upon Tower Hill to shew them what houses were pulled down there
      since the fire; and then to my house, where I treated them with good wine
      of several sorts, and they took it mighty respectfully, and a fine company
      of gentlemen they are; but above all I was glad to see my Lord
      Hinchingbroke drink no wine at all. Here I got them to appoint Wednesday
      come se'nnight to dine here at my house, and so we broke up and all took
      coach again, and I carried the Doctor to Chancery Lane, and thence I to
      White Hall, where I staid walking up and down till night, and then got
      almost into the play house, having much mind to go and see the play at
      Court this night; but fearing how I should get home, because of the
      bonefires and the lateness of the night to get a coach, I did not stay;
      but having this evening seen my Lady Jemimah, who is come to towne, and
      looks very well and fat, and heard how Mr. John Pickering is to be married
      this week, and to a fortune with L5000, and seen a rich necklace of pearle
      and two pendants of dyamonds, which Sir G. Carteret hath presented her
      with since her coming to towne, I home by coach, but met not one bonefire
      through the whole town in going round by the wall, which is strange, and
      speaks the melancholy disposition of the City at present, while never more
      was said of, and feared of, and done against the Papists than just at this
      time. Home, and there find my wife and her people at cards, and I to my
      chamber, and there late, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting. At noon home to
      dinner, and after dinner down alone by water to Deptford, reading
      "Duchesse of Malfy," the play, which is pretty good, and there did some
      business, and so up again, and all the evening at the office. At night
      home, and there find Mr. Batelier, who supped with us, and good company he
      is, and so after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, where we attended as usual
      the Duke of York and there was by the folly of Sir W. Batten prevented in
      obtaining a bargain for Captain Cocke, which would, I think have [been] at
      this time (during our great want of hempe), both profitable to the King
      and of good convenience to me; but I matter it not, it being done only by
      the folly, not any design, of Sir W. Batten's. Thence to Westminster Hall,
      and, it being fast day, there was no shops open, but meeting with Doll
      Lane, did go with her to the Rose taverne, and there drank and played with
      her a good while. She went away, and I staid a good while after, and was
      seen going out by one of our neighbours near the office and two of the
      Hall people that I had no mind to have been seen by, but there was no hurt
      in it nor can be alledged from it. Therefore I am not solicitous in it,
      but took coach and called at Faythorne's, to buy some prints for my wife
      to draw by this winter, and here did see my Lady Castlemayne's picture,
      done by him from Lilly's, in red chalke and other colours, by which he
      hath cut it in copper to be printed. The picture in chalke is the finest
      thing I ever saw in my life, I think; and did desire to buy it; but he
      says he must keep it awhile to correct his copper-plate by, and when that
      is done he will sell it me. Thence home and find my wife gone out with my
      brother to see her brother. I to dinner and thence to my chamber to read,
      and so to the office (it being a fast day and so a holiday), and then to
      Mrs. Turner's, at her request to speake and advise about Sir Thomas
      Harvy's coming to lodge there, which I think must be submitted to, and
      better now than hereafter, when he gets more ground, for I perceive he
      intends to stay by it, and begins to crow mightily upon his late being at
      the payment of tickets; but a coxcombe he is and will never be better in
      the business of the Navy. Thence home, and there find Mr. Batelier come to
      bring my wife a very fine puppy of his mother's spaniel, a very fine one
      indeed, which my wife is mighty proud of. He staid and supped with us, and
      they to cards. I to my chamber to do some business, and then out to them
      to play and were a little merry, and then to bed. By the Duke of York his
      discourse to-day in his chamber, they have it at Court, as well as we
      here, that a fatal day is to be expected shortly, of some great mischiefe
      to the remainder of this day; whether by the Papists, or what, they are
      not certain. But the day is disputed; some say next Friday, others a day
      sooner, others later, and I hope all will prove a foolery. But it is
      observable how every body's fears are busy at this time.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and before I went to the office I spoke with Mr. Martin for his
      advice about my proceeding in the business of the private man-of-war, he
      having heretofore served in one of them, and now I have it in my thoughts
      to send him purser in ours. After this discourse I to the office, where I
      sat all the morning, Sir W. Coventry with us, where he hath not been a
      great while, Sir W. Pen also, newly come from the Nore, where he hath been
      some time fitting of the ships out. At noon home to dinner and then to the
      office awhile, and so home for my sword, and there find Mercer come to see
      her mistresse. I was glad to see her there, and my wife mighty kind also,
      and for my part, much vexed that the jade is not with us still. Left them
      together, designing to go abroad to-morrow night to Mrs. Pierces to dance;
      and so I to Westminster Hall, and there met Mr. Grey, who tells me the
      House is sitting still (and now it was six o'clock), and likely to sit
      till midnight; and have proceeded fair to give the King his supply
      presently; and herein have done more to-day than was hoped for. So to
      White Hall to Sir W. Coventry, and there would fain have carried Captain
      Cocke's business for his bargain of hemp, but am defeated and
      disappointed, and know hardly how to carry myself in it between my
      interest and desire not to offend Sir W. Coventry. Sir W. Coventry did
      this night tell me how the business is about Sir J. Minnes; that he is to
      be a Commissioner, and my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen are to be
      Controller joyntly, which I am very glad of, and better than if they were
      either of them alone; and do hope truly that the King's business will be
      better done thereby, and infinitely better than now it is. Thence by coach
      home, full of thoughts of the consequence of this alteration in our
      office, and I think no evil to me. So at my office late, and then home to
      supper and to bed. Mr. Grey did assure me this night, that he was told
      this day, by one of the greater Ministers of State in England, and one of
      the King's Cabinet, that we had little left to agree on between the Dutch
      and us towards a peace, but only the place of treaty; which do astonish me
      to hear, but I am glad of it, for I fear the consequence of the war. But
      he says that the King, having all the money he is like to have, we shall
      be sure of a peace in a little time.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and to the office, where did a good deale of business, and then at
      noon to the Exchange and to my little goldsmith's, whose wife is very
      pretty and modest, that ever I saw any. Upon the 'Change, where I seldom
      have of late been, I find all people mightily at a losse what to expect,
      but confusion and fears in every man's head and heart. Whether war or
      peace, all fear the event will be bad. Thence home and with my brother to
      dinner, my wife being dressing herself against night; after dinner I to my
      closett all the afternoon, till the porter brought my vest back from the
      taylor's, and then to dress myself very fine, about 4 or 5 o'clock, and by
      that time comes Mr. Batelier and Mercer, and away by coach to Mrs.
      Pierces, by appointment, where we find good company: a fair lady, my Lady
      Prettyman, Mrs. Corbet, Knipp; and for men, Captain Downing, Mr. Lloyd,
      Sir W. Coventry's clerk, and one Mr. Tripp, who dances well. After some
      trifling discourse, we to dancing, and very good sport, and mightily
      pleased I was with the company. After our first bout of dancing, Knipp and
      I to sing, and Mercer and Captain Downing (who loves and understands
      musique) would by all means have my song of "Beauty, retire." which Knipp
      had spread abroad; and he extols it above any thing he ever heard, and,
      without flattery, I know it is good in its kind. This being done and going
      to dance again, comes news that White Hall was on fire; and presently more
      particulars, that the Horse-guard was on fire;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Nov. 9th.  Between seven and eight at night, there happened a fire
     in the Horse Guard House, in the Tilt Yard, over against Whitehall,
     which at first arising, it is supposed, from some snuff of a candle
     falling amongst the straw, broke out with so sudden a flame, that at
     once it seized the north-west part of that building; but being so
     close under His Majesty's own eye, it was, by the timely help His
     Majesty and His Royal Highness caused to be applied, immediately
     stopped, and by ten o'clock wholly mastered, with the loss only of
     that part of the building it had at first seized."&mdash;The London
     Gazette, No. 103.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and so we run up to the garret, and find it so; a horrid great fire; and
      by and by we saw and heard part of it blown up with powder. The ladies
      begun presently to be afeard: one fell into fits. The whole town in an
      alarme. Drums beat and trumpets, and the guards every where spread,
      running up and down in the street. And I begun to have mighty
      apprehensions how things might be at home, and so was in mighty pain to
      get home, and that that encreased all is that we are in expectation, from
      common fame, this night, or to-morrow, to have a massacre, by the having
      so many fires one after another, as that in the City, and at same time
      begun in Westminster, by the Palace, but put out; and since in Southwarke,
      to the burning down some houses; and now this do make all people conclude
      there is something extraordinary in it; but nobody knows what. By and by
      comes news that the fire has slackened; so then we were a little cheered
      up again, and to supper, and pretty merry. But, above all, there comes in
      the dumb boy that I knew in Oliver's time, who is mightily acquainted
      here, and with Downing; and he made strange signs of the fire, and how the
      King was abroad, and many things they understood, but I could not, which I
      wondering at, and discoursing with Downing about it, "Why," says he, "it
      is only a little use, and you will understand him, and make him understand
      you with as much ease as may be." So I prayed him to tell him that I was
      afeard that my coach would be gone, and that he should go down and steal
      one of the seats out of the coach and keep it, and that would make the
      coachman to stay. He did this, so that the dumb boy did go down, and, like
      a cunning rogue, went into the coach, pretending to sleep; and, by and by,
      fell to his work, but finds the seats nailed to the coach. So he did all
      he could, but could not do it; however, stayed there, and stayed the coach
      till the coachman's patience was quite spent, and beat the dumb boy by
      force, and so went away. So the dumb boy come up and told him all the
      story, which they below did see all that passed, and knew it to be true.
      After supper, another dance or two, and then newes that the fire is as
      great as ever, which put us all to our wit's-end; and I mightily [anxious]
      to go home, but the coach being gone, and it being about ten at night, and
      rainy dirty weather, I knew not what to do; but to walk out with Mr.
      Batelier, myself resolving to go home on foot, and leave the women there.
      And so did; but at the Savoy got a coach, and come back and took up the
      women; and so, having, by people come from the fire, understood that the
      fire was overcome, and all well, we merrily parted, and home. Stopped by
      several guards and constables quite through the town, round the wall, as
      we went, all being in armes. We got well home .... Being come home, we to
      cards, till two in the morning, and drinking lamb's-wool.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A beverage consisting of ale mixed with sugar, nutmeg, and the pulp
     of roasted apples.  "A cupp of lamb's-wool they dranke unto him
     then."  The King and the Miller of Mansfield (Percy's "Reliques,"
     Series III., book ii., No. 20).]
</pre>
    <p>
      So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and to the office, where Sir W. Coventry come to tell us that the
      Parliament did fall foul of our accounts again yesterday; and we must arme
      to have them examined, which I am sorry for: it will bring great trouble
      to me, and shame upon the office. My head full this morning how to carry
      on Captain Cocke's bargain of hemp, which I think I shall by my dexterity
      do, and to the King's advantage as well as my own. At noon with my Lord
      Bruncker and Sir Thomas Harvy, to Cocke's house, and there Mrs. Williams
      and other company, and an excellent dinner. Mr. Temple's wife; after
      dinner, fell to play on the harpsicon, till she tired everybody, that I
      left the house without taking leave, and no creature left standing by her
      to hear her. Thence I home and to the office, where late doing of
      business, and then home. Read an hour, to make an end of Potter's
      Discourse of the Number 666, which I like all along, but his close is most
      excellent; and, whether it be right or wrong, is mighty ingenious. Then to
      supper and to bed. This is the fatal day that every body hath discoursed
      for a long time to be the day that the Papists, or I know not who, had
      designed to commit a massacre upon; but, however, I trust in God we shall
      rise to-morrow morning as well as ever. This afternoon Creed comes to me,
      and by him, as, also my Lady Pen, I hear that my Lady Denham is exceeding
      sick, even to death, and that she says, and every body else discourses,
      that she is poysoned; and Creed tells me, that it is said that there hath
      been a design to poison the King. What the meaning of all these sad signs
      is, the Lord knows; but every day things look worse and worse. God fit us
      for the worst!
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, myself and wife, where the old dunce
      Meriton, brother to the known Meriton; of St. Martin's, Westminster, did
      make a very good sermon, beyond my expectation. Home to dinner, and we
      carried in Pegg Pen, and there also come to us little Michell and his
      wife, and dined very pleasantly. Anon to church, my wife and I and Betty
      Michell, her husband being gone to Westminster.... Alter church home, and
      I to my chamber, and there did finish the putting time to my song of "It
      is decreed," and do please myself at last and think it will be thought a
      good song. By and by little Michell comes and takes away his wife home,
      and my wife and brother and I to my uncle Wight's, where my aunt is grown
      so ugly and their entertainment so bad that I am in pain to be there; nor
      will go thither again a good while, if sent for, for we were sent for
      to-night, we had not gone else. Wooly's wife, a silly woman, and not very
      handsome, but no spirit in her at all; and their discourse mean, and the
      fear of the troubles of the times hath made them not to bring their plate
      to town, since it was carried out upon the business of the fire, so that
      they drink in earth and a wooden can, which I do not like. So home, and my
      people to bed. I late to finish my song, and then to bed also, and the
      business of the firing of the city, and the fears we have of new troubles
      and violences, and the fear of fire among ourselves, did keep me awake a
      good while, considering the sad condition I and my family should be in. So
      at last to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Lay long in bed, and then up, and Mr. Carcasse brought me near 500
      tickets to sign, which I did, and by discourse find him a cunning,
      confident, shrewd man, but one that I do doubt hath by his discourse of
      the ill will he hath got with my Lord Marquess of Dorchester (with whom he
      lived), he hath had cunning practices in his time, and would not now spare
      to use the same to his profit. That done I to the office; whither by and
      by comes Creed to me, and he and I walked in the garden a little, talking
      of the present ill condition of things, which is the common subject of all
      men's discourse and fears now-a-days, and particularly of my Lady Denham,
      whom everybody says is poisoned, and he tells me she hath said it to the
      Duke of York; but is upon the mending hand, though the town says she is
      dead this morning. He and I to the 'Change. There I had several little
      errands, and going to Sir R. Viner's, I did get such a splash and spots of
      dirt upon my new vest, that I was out of countenance to be seen in the
      street. This day I received 450 pieces of gold more of Mr. Stokes, but
      cost me 22 1/2d. change; but I am well contented with it,&mdash;I having
      now near L2800 in gold, and will not rest till I get full L3000, and then
      will venture my fortune for the saving that and the rest. Home to dinner,
      though Sir R. Viner would have staid us to dine with him, he being
      sheriffe; but, poor man, was so out of countenance that he had no wine
      ready to drink to us, his butler being out of the way, though we know him
      to be a very liberal man. And after dinner I took my wife out, intending
      to have gone and have seen my Lady Jemimah, at White Hall, but so great a
      stop there was at the New Exchange, that we could not pass in half an
      houre, and therefore 'light and bought a little matter at the Exchange,
      and then home, and then at the office awhile, and then home to my chamber,
      and after my wife and all the mayds abed but Jane, whom I put confidence
      in&mdash;she and I, and my brother, and Tom, and W. Hewer, did bring up
      all the remainder of my money, and my plate-chest, out of the cellar, and
      placed the money in my study, with the rest, and the plate in my
      dressing-room; but indeed I am in great pain to think how to dispose of my
      money, it being wholly unsafe to keep it all in coin in one place. 'But
      now I have it all at my hand, I shall remember it better to think of
      disposing of it. This done, by one in the morning to bed. This afternoon
      going towards Westminster, Creed and I did stop, the Duke of York being
      just going away from seeing of it, at Paul's, and in the Convocation House
      Yard did there see the body of Robert Braybrooke, Bishop of London, that
      died 1404: He fell down in his tomb out of the great church into St.
      Fayth's this late fire, and is here seen his skeleton with the flesh on;
      but all tough and dry like a spongy dry leather, or touchwood all upon his
      bones. His head turned aside. A great man in his time, and Lord
      Chancellor; and his skeletons now exposed to be handled and derided by
      some, though admired for its duration by others. Many flocking to see it.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. At the office all the morning, at noon home to dinner, and out to
      Bishopsgate Street, and there bought some drinking-glasses, a case of
      knives, and other things, against tomorrow, in expectation of my Lord
      Hinchingbroke's coming to dine with me. So home, and having set some
      things in the way of doing, also against to-morrow, I to my office, there
      to dispatch business, and do here receive notice from my Lord
      Hinchingbroke that he is not well, and so not in condition to come to dine
      with me to-morrow, which I am not in much trouble for, because of the
      disorder my house is in, by the bricklayers coming to mend the chimney in
      my dining-room for smoking, which they were upon almost till midnight, and
      have now made it very pretty, and do carry smoke exceeding well. This
      evening come all the Houblons to me, to invite me to sup with them
      to-morrow night. I did take them home, and there we sat and talked a good
      while, and a glass of wine, and then parted till to-morrow night. So at
      night, well satisfied in the alteration of my chimney, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence to Westminster, where I
      bought several things, as a hone, ribbon, gloves, books, and then took
      coach and to Knipp's lodging, whom I find not ready to go home with me. So
      I away to do a little business, among others to call upon Mr. Osborne for
      my Tangier warrant for the last quarter, and so to the Exchange for some
      things for my wife, and then to Knipp's again, and there staid reading of
      Waller's verses, while she finished dressing, her husband being by. I had
      no other pastime. Her lodging very mean, and the condition she lives in;
      yet makes a shew without doors, God bless us! I carried him along with us
      into the City, and set him down in Bishopsgate Street, and then home with
      her. She tells me how Smith, of the Duke's house, hath killed a man upon a
      quarrel in play; which makes every body sorry, he being a good actor, and,
      they say, a good man, however this happens. The ladies of the Court do
      much bemoan him, she says. Here she and we alone at dinner to some good
      victuals, that we could not put off, that was intended for the great
      dinner of my Lord Hinchingbroke's, if he had come. After dinner I to teach
      her my new recitative of "It is decreed," of which she learnt a good part,
      and I do well like it and believe shall be well pleased when she hath it
      all, and that it will be found an agreeable thing. Then carried her home,
      and my wife and I intended to have seen my Lady Jemimah at White Hall, but
      the Exchange Streete was so full of coaches, every body, as they say,
      going thither to make themselves fine against tomorrow night, that, after
      half an hour's stay, we could not do any [thing], only my wife to see her
      brother, and I to go speak one word with Sir G. Carteret about office
      business, and talk of the general complexion of matters, which he looks
      upon, as I do, with horrour, and gives us all for an undone people. That
      there is no such thing as a peace in hand, nor possibility of any without
      our begging it, they being as high, or higher, in their terms than ever,
      and tells me that, just now, my Lord Hollis had been with him, and wept to
      think in what a condition we are fallen. He shewed me my Lord Sandwich's
      letter to him, complaining of the lack of money, which Sir G. Carteret is
      at a loss how in the world to get the King to supply him with, and wishes
      him, for that reason, here; for that he fears he will be brought to
      disgrace there, for want of supplies. He says the House is yet in a bad
      humour; and desiring to know whence it is that the King stirs not, he says
      he minds it not, nor will be brought to it, and that his servants of the
      House do, instead of making the Parliament better, rather play the rogue
      one with another, and will put all in fire. So that, upon the whole, we
      are in a wretched condition, and I went from him in full apprehensions of
      it. So took up my wife, her brother being yet very bad, and doubtful
      whether he will recover or no, and so to St. Ellen's [St. Helen's], and
      there sent my wife home, and myself to the Pope's Head, where all the
      Houblons were, and Dr. Croone,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [William Croune, or Croone, of Emanuel College, Cambridge, chosen
     Rhetoric Professor at Gresham College, 1659, F.R.S. and M.D. Died
     October 12th, 1684, and was interred at St. Mildred's in the
     Poultry.  He was a prominent Fellow of the Royal Society and first
     Registrar.  In accordance with his wishes his widow (who married Sir
     Edwin Sadleir, Bart.) left by will one-fifth of the clear rent of
     the King's Head tavern in or near Old Fish Street, at the corner of
     Lambeth Hill, to the Royal Society for the support of a lecture and
     illustrative experiments for the advancement of natural knowledge on
     local motion.  The Croonian lecture is still delivered before the
     Royal Society.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and by and by to an exceeding pretty supper, excellent discourse of all
      sorts, and indeed [they] are a set of the finest gentlemen that ever I met
      withal in my life. Here Dr. Croone told me, that, at the meeting at
      Gresham College to-night, which, it seems, they now have every Wednesday
      again, there was a pretty experiment of the blood of one dogg let out,
      till he died, into the body of another on one side, while all his own run
      out on the other side.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [At the meeting on November 14th, "the experiment of transfusing the
     blood of one dog into another was made before the Society by Mr.
     King and Mr. Thomas Coxe upon a little mastiff and a spaniel with
     very good success, the former bleeding to death, and the latter
     receiving the blood of the other, and emitting so much of his own,
     as to make him capable of receiving that of the other."  On November
     21st the spaniel "was produced and found very well" (Birch's
     "History of the Royal Society," vol.  ii., pp.  123, 125).  The
     experiment of transfusion of blood, which occupied much of the
     attention of the Royal Society in its early days, was revived within
     the last few years.]
</pre>
    <p>
      The first died upon the place, and the other very well, and likely to do
      well. This did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of the blood of a
      Quaker to be let into an Archbishop, and such like; but, as Dr. Croone
      says, may, if it takes, be of mighty use to man's health, for the amending
      of bad blood by borrowing from a better body. After supper, James Houblon
      and another brother took me aside and to talk of some businesses of their
      owne, where I am to serve them, and will, and then to talk of publique
      matters, and I do find that they and all merchants else do give over trade
      and the nation for lost, nothing being done with care or foresight, no
      convoys granted, nor any thing done to satisfaction; but do think that the
      Dutch and French will master us the next yeare, do what we can: and so do
      I, unless necessity makes the King to mind his business, which might yet
      save all. Here we sat talking till past one in the morning, and then home,
      where my people sat up for me, my wife and all, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. This [morning] come Mr. Shepley (newly out of the country) to see
      me; after a little discourse with him, I to the office, where we sat all
      the morning, and at noon home, and there dined, Shepley with me, and after
      dinner I did pay him L70, which he had paid my father for my use in the
      country. He being gone, I took coach and to Mrs. Pierce's, where I find
      her as fine as possible, and himself going to the ball at night at Court,
      it being the Queen's birth-day, and so I carried them in my coach, and
      having set them into the house, and gotten Mr. Pierce to undertake the
      carrying in my wife, I to Unthanke's, where she appointed to be, and there
      told her, and back again about business to White Hall, while Pierce went
      and fetched her and carried her in. I, after I had met with Sir W.
      Coventry and given him some account of matters, I also to the ball, and
      with much ado got up to the loft, where with much trouble I could see very
      well. Anon the house grew full, and the candles light, and the King and
      Queen and all the ladies set: and it was, indeed, a glorious sight to see
      Mrs. Stewart in black and white lace, and her head and shoulders dressed
      with dyamonds, and the like a great many great ladies more, only the Queen
      none; and the King in his rich vest of some rich silke and silver
      trimming, as the Duke of York and all the dancers were, some of cloth of
      silver, and others of other sorts, exceeding rich. Presently after the
      King was come in, he took the Queene, and about fourteen more couple there
      was, and began the Bransles. As many of the men as I can remember
      presently, were, the King, Duke of York, Prince Rupert, Duke of Monmouth,
      Duke of Buckingham, Lord Douglas,' Mr. [George] Hamilton, Colonell
      Russell, Mr. Griffith, Lord Ossory, Lord Rochester; and of the ladies, the
      Queene, Duchess of York, Mrs. Stewart, Duchess of Monmouth, Lady Essex
      Howard, Mrs. Temples Swedes Embassadress, Lady Arlington; Lord George
      Barkeley's daughter, and many others I remember not; but all most
      excellently dressed in rich petticoats and gowns, and dyamonds, and
      pearls. After the Bransles, then to a Corant, and now and then a French
      dance; but that so rare that the Corants grew tiresome, that I wished it
      done. Only Mrs. Stewart danced mighty finely, and many French dances,
      specially one the King called the New Dance, which was very pretty; but
      upon the whole matter, the business of the dancing of itself was not
      extraordinary pleasing. But the clothes and sight of the persons was
      indeed very pleasing, and worth my coming, being never likely to see more
      gallantry while I live, if I should come twenty times. About twelve at
      night it broke up, and I to hire a coach with much difficulty, but Pierce
      had hired a chair for my wife, and so she being gone to his house, he and
      I, taking up Barker at Unthanke's, to his house, whither his wife was come
      home a good while ago and gone to bed. So away home with my wife, between
      displeased with the dull dancing, and satisfied at the clothes and
      persons. My Lady Castlemayne, without whom all is nothing, being there,
      very rich, though not dancing. And so after supper, it being very cold, to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up again betimes to attend the examination of Mr. Gawden's,
      accounts, where we all met, but I did little but fit myself for the
      drawing my great letter to the Duke of York of the state of the Navy for
      want of money. At noon to the 'Change, and thence back to the new taverne
      come by us; the Three Tuns, where D. Gawden did feast us all with a chine
      of beef and other good things, and an infinite dish of fowl, but all
      spoiled in the dressing. This noon I met with Mr. Hooke, and he tells me
      the dog which was filled with another dog's blood, at the College the
      other day, is very well, and like to be so as ever, and doubts not its
      being found of great use to men; and so do Dr. Whistler, who dined with us
      at the taverne. Thence home in the evening, and I to my preparing my
      letter, and did go a pretty way in it, staying late upon it, and then home
      to supper and to bed, the weather being on a sudden set in to be very
      cold.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, and in the afternoon shut myself in my chamber, and there till
      twelve at night finishing my great letter to the Duke of York, which do
      lay the ill condition of the Navy so open to him, that it is impossible if
      the King and he minds any thing of their business, but it will operate
      upon them to set all matters right, and get money to carry on the war,
      before it be too late, or else lay out for a peace upon any termes. It was
      a great convenience to-night that what I had writ foule in short hand, I
      could read to W. Hewer, and he take it fair in short hand, so as I can
      read it to-morrow to Sir W. Coventry, and then come home, and Hewer read
      it to me while I take it in long-hand to present, which saves me much
      time. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Lord's day). Up by candle-light and on foote to White Hall, where by
      appointment I met Lord Bruncker at Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and there I
      read over my great letter, and they approved it: and as I do do our
      business in defence of the Board, so I think it is as good a letter in the
      manner, and believe it is the worst in the matter of it, as ever come from
      any office to a Prince. Back home in my Lord Bruncker's coach, and there
      W. Hewer and I to write it over fair; dined at noon, and Mercer with us,
      and mighty merry, and then to finish my letter; and it being three o'clock
      ere we had done, when I come to Sir W. Batten; he was in a huffe, which I
      made light of, but he signed the letter, though he would not go, and liked
      the letter well. Sir W. Pen, it seems, he would not stay for it: so,
      making slight of Sir W. Pen's putting so much weight upon his hand to Sir
      W. Batten, I down to the Tower Wharf, and there got a sculler, and to
      White Hall, and there met Lord Bruncker, and he signed it, and so I
      delivered it to Mr. Cheving,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [William Chiffinch, pimp to Charles II. and receiver of the secret
     pensions paid by the French Court.  He succeeded his brother, Thomas
     Chiffinch (who died in April, 1666), as Keeper of the King's Private
     Closet (see note, vol. v., p. 265).  He is introduced by Scott into
     his "Peveril of the Peak."]
</pre>
    <p>
      and he to Sir W. Coventry, in the cabinet, the King and councill being
      sitting, where I leave it to its fortune, and I by water home again, and
      to my chamber, to even my Journall; and then comes Captain Cocke to me,
      and he and I a great deal of melancholy discourse of the times, giving all
      over for gone, though now the Parliament will soon finish the Bill for
      money. But we fear, if we had it, as matters are now managed, we shall
      never make the best of it, but consume it all to no purpose or a bad one.
      He being gone, I again to my Journall and finished it, and so to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Lay pretty long in bed talking with pleasure with my wife, and then
      up and all the morning at my own chamber fitting some Tangier matters
      against the afternoon for a meeting. This morning also came Mr. Caesar,
      and I heard him on the lute very finely, and my boy begins to play well.
      After dinner I carried and set my wife down at her brother's, and then to
      Barkeshire-house, where my Lord Chancellor hath been ever since the fire,
      but he is not come home yet, so I to Westminster Hall, where the Lords
      newly up and the Commons still sitting. Here I met with Mr. Robinson, who
      did give me a printed paper wherein he states his pretence to the post
      office, and intends to petition the Parliament in it. Thence I to the
      Bull-head tavern, where I have not been since Mr. Chetwind and the time of
      our club, and here had six bottles of claret filled, and I sent them to
      Mrs. Martin, whom I had promised some of my owne, and, having none of my
      owne, sent her this. Thence to my Lord Chancellor's, and there Mr. Creed
      and Gawden, Cholmley, and Sir G. Carteret walking in the Park over against
      the house. I walked with Sir G. Carteret, who I find displeased with the
      letter I have drawn and sent in yesterday, finding fault with the account
      we give of the ill state of the Navy, but I said little, only will justify
      the truth of it. Here we walked to and again till one dropped away after
      another, and so I took coach to White Hall, and there visited my Lady
      Jemimah, at Sir G. Carteret's lodgings. Here was Sir Thomas Crew, and he
      told me how hot words grew again to-day in the House of Lords between my
      Lord Ossory and Ashly, the former saying that something said by the other
      was said like one of Oliver's Council. Ashly said that he must give him
      reparation, or he would take it his owne way. The House therefore did
      bring my Lord Ossory to confess his fault, and ask pardon for it, as he
      was also to my Lord Buckingham, for saying that something was not truth
      that my Lord Buckingham had said. This will render my Lord Ossory very
      little in a little time. By and by away, and calling my wife went home,
      and then a little at Sir W. Batten's to hear news, but nothing, and then
      home to supper, whither Captain Cocke, half foxed, come and sat with us,
      and so away, and then we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Called up by Mr. Sheply, who is going into the country to-day to
      Hinchingbroke, I sent my service to my Lady, and in general for newes:
      that the world do think well of my Lord, and do wish he were here again,
      but that the publique matters of the State as to the war are in the worst
      condition that is possible. By and by Sir W. Warren, and with him half an
      hour discoursing of several businesses, and some I hope will bring me a
      little profit. He gone, and Sheply, I to the office a little, and then to
      church, it being thanksgiving-day for the cessation of the plague; but,
      Lord! how the towne do say that it is hastened before the plague is quite
      over, there dying some people still,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [According to the Bills of Mortality seven persons died in London of
     the plague during the week November 20th to 27th; and for some weeks
     after deaths continued from this cause.]
</pre>
    <p>
      but only to get ground for plays to be publickly acted, which the Bishops
      would not suffer till the plague was over; and one would thinke so, by the
      suddenness of the notice given of the day, which was last Sunday, and the
      little ceremony. The sermon being dull of Mr. Minnes, and people with
      great indifferency come to hear him. After church home, where I met Mr.
      Gregory, who I did then agree with to come to teach my wife to play on the
      Viall, and he being an able and sober man, I am mightily glad of it. He
      had dined, therefore went away, and I to dinner, and after dinner by coach
      to Barkeshire-house, and there did get a very great meeting; the Duke of
      York being there, and much business done, though not in proportion to the
      greatness of the business, and my Lord Chancellor sleeping and snoring the
      greater part of the time. Among other things I declared the state of our
      credit as to tallys to raise money by, and there was an order for payment
      of L5000 to Mr. Gawden, out of which I hope to get something against
      Christmas. Here we sat late, and here I did hear that there are some
      troubles like to be in Scotland, there being a discontented party already
      risen, that have seized on the Governor of Dumfreeze and imprisoned him,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [William Fielding, writing to Sir Phil. Musgrave from Carlisle on
     November 15th, says: "Major Baxter, who has arrived from Dumfries,
     reports that this morning a great number of horse and foot came into
     that town, with drawn swords and pistols, gallopped up to Sir Jas.
     Turner's lodgings, seized him in his bed, carried him without
     clothes to the marketplace, threatened to cut him to pieces, and
     seized and put into the Tollbooth all the foot soldiers that were
     with him; they also secured the minister of Dumfries.  Many of the
     party were lairds and county people from Galloway&mdash;200 horse well
     mounted, one minister was with them who had swords and pistols, and
     200 or 300 foot, some with clubs, others with scythes."  On November
     17th Rob. Meine wrote to Williamson: "On the 15th 120 fanatics from
     the Glenkins, Deray; and neighbouring parishes in Dumfriesshire,
     none worth L10 except two mad fellows, the lairds of Barscob and
     Corsuck, came to Dumfries early in the morning, seized Sir Jas.
     Turner, commander of a company of men in Dumfriesshire, and carried
     him, without violence to others, to a strong house in Maxwell town,
     Galloway, declaring they sought only revenge against the tyrant who
     had been severe with them for not keeping to church, and had laid
     their families waste" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1666-67, pp. 262,
     268).]
</pre>
    <p>
      but the story is yet very uncertain, and therefore I set no great weight
      on it. I home by Mr. Gawden in his coach, and so with great pleasure to
      spend the evening at home upon my Lyra Viall, and then to supper and to
      bed. With mighty peace of mind and a hearty desire that I had but what I
      have quietly in the country, but, I fear, I do at this day see the best
      that either I or the rest of our nation will ever see.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, with Sir W. Batten to Charing Cross, and thence I to wait on Sir
      Philip Howard, whom I find dressing himself in his night-gown and turban
      like a Turke, but one of the finest persons that ever I saw in my life. He
      had several gentlemen of his owne waiting on him, and one playing finely
      on the gittar: he discourses as well as ever I heard man, in few words and
      handsome. He expressed all kindness to Balty, when I told him how sick he
      is: he says that, before he comes to be mustered again, he must bring a
      certificate of his swearing the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, and
      having taken the Sacrament according to the rites of the Church of
      England. This, I perceive, is imposed on all, and he will be ready to do.
      I pray God he may have his health again to be able to do it. Being
      mightily satisfied with his civility, I away to Westminster Hall, and
      there walked with several people, and all the discourse is about some
      trouble in Scotland I heard of yesterday, but nobody can tell the truth of
      it. Here was Betty Michell with her mother. I would have carried her home,
      but her father intends to go with her, so I lost my hopes. And thence I to
      the Excise Office about some tallies, and then to the Exchange, where I
      did much business, and so home to dinner, and then to the office, where
      busy all the afternoon till night, and then home to supper, and after
      supper an hour reading to my wife and brother something in Chaucer with
      great pleasure, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and my Lord
      Bruncker did show me Hollar's new print of the City, with a pretty
      representation of that part which is burnt, very fine indeed; and tells me
      that he was yesterday sworn the King's servant, and that the King hath
      commanded him to go on with his great map of the City, which he was upon
      before the City was burned, like Gombout of Paris, which I am glad of. At
      noon home to dinner, where my wife and I fell out, I being displeased with
      her cutting away a lace handkercher sewed about the neck down to her
      breasts almost, out of a belief, but without reason, that it is the
      fashion. Here we did give one another the lie too much, but were presently
      friends, and then I to my office, where very late and did much business,
      and then home, and there find Mr. Batelier, and did sup and play at cards
      awhile. But he tells me the newes how the King of France hath, in defiance
      to the King of England, caused all his footmen to be put into vests, and
      that the noblemen of France will do the like; which, if true, is the
      greatest indignity ever done by one Prince to another, and would incite a
      stone to be revenged; and I hope our King will, if it be so, as he tells
      me it is:
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Planche throws some doubt on this story in his "Cyclopaedia of
     Costume" (vol. ii., p. 240), and asks the question, "Was Mr.
     Batelier hoaxing the inquisitive secretary, or was it the idle
     gossip of the day, as untrustworthy as such gossip is in general?"
     But the same statement was made by the author of the "Character of a
     Trimmer," who wrote from actual knowledge of the Court: "About this
     time a general humour, in opposition to France, had made us throw
     off their fashion, and put on vests, that we might look more like a
     distinct people, and not be under the servility of imitation, which
     ever pays a greater deference to the original than is consistent
     with the equality all independent nations should pretend to.  France
     did not like this small beginning of ill humours, at least of
     emulation; and wisely considering, that it is a natural
     introduction, first to make the world their apes, that they may be
     afterwards their slaves.  It was thought, that one of the
     instructions Madame [Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans] brought along
     with her, was to laugh us out of these vests; which she performed so
     effectually, that in a moment, like so many footmen who had quitted
     their master's livery, we all took it again, and returned to our old
     service; so that the very time of doing it gave a very critical
     advantage to France, since it looked like an evidence of our
     returning to her interest, as well as to their fashion. "The
     Character of a Trimmer" ("Miscellanies by the Marquis of Halifax,"
     1704, p. 164).  Evelyn reports that when the king expressed his
     intention never to alter this fashion, "divers courtiers and
     gentlemen gave his Majesty gold by way of wager that he would not
     persist in this resolution" ("Diary," October 18th, 1666).]
</pre>
    <p>
      being told by one that come over from Paris with my Lady Fanshaw, who is
      come over with the dead body of her husband, and that saw it before he
      come away. This makes me mighty merry, it being an ingenious kind of
      affront; but yet it makes me angry, to see that the King of England is
      become so little as to have the affront offered him. So I left my people
      at cards, and so to my chamber to read, and then to bed. Batelier did
      bring us some oysters to-night, and some bottles of new French wine of
      this year, mighty good, but I drank but little. This noon Bagwell's wife
      was with me at the office, and I did what I would, and at night comes Mrs.
      Burroughs, and appointed to meet upon the next holyday and go abroad
      together.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to White Hall, where we and the rest
      attended the Duke of York, where, among other things, we had a complaint
      of Sir William Jennings against his lieutenant, Le Neve, one that had been
      long the Duke's page, and for whom the Duke of York hath great kindness.
      It was a drunken quarrel, where one was as blameable as the other. It was
      referred to further examination, but the Duke of York declared, that as he
      would not favour disobedience, so neither drunkenness, and therein he said
      very well. Thence with Sir W. Coventry to Westminster Hall, and there
      parted, he having told me how Sir J. Minnes do disagree from the
      proposition of resigning his place, and that so the whole matter is again
      at a stand, at which I am sorry for the King's sake, but glad that Sir W.
      Pen is again defeated, for I would not have him come to be Comptroller if
      I could help it, he will be so cruel proud. Here I spoke with Sir G.
      Downing about our prisoners in Holland, and their being released; which he
      is concerned in, and most of them are. Then, discoursing of matters of the
      House of Parliament, he tells me that it is not the fault of the House,
      but the King's own party, that have hindered the passing of the Bill for
      money, by their popping in of new projects for raising it: which is a
      strange thing; and mighty confident he is, that what money is raised, will
      be raised and put into the same form that the last was, to come into the
      Exchequer; and, for aught I see, I must confess I think it is the best
      way. Thence down to the Hall, and there walked awhile, and all the talk is
      about Scotland, what news thence; but there is nothing come since the
      first report, and so all is given over for nothing. Thence home, and after
      dinner to my chamber with Creed, who come and dined with me, and he and I
      to reckon for his salary, and by and by comes in Colonel Atkins, and I did
      the like with him, and it was Creed's design to bring him only for his own
      ends, to seem to do him a courtesy, and it is no great matter. The fellow
      I hate, and so I think all the world else do. Then to talk of my report I
      am to make of the state of our wants of money to the Lord Treasurer, but
      our discourse come to little. However, in the evening, to be rid of him, I
      took coach and saw him to the Temple and there 'light, and he being gone,
      with all the haste back again and to my chamber late to enter all this
      day's matters of account, and to draw up my report to my Lord Treasurer,
      and so to bed. At the Temple I called at Playford's, and there find that
      his new impression of his ketches
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [John Hilton's "Catch that catch can, or a Choice Collection of
     Catches, Rounds and Canons for 3 or 4 voyces," was first published
     by Playford in 1651 or 1652.  The book was republished "with large
     additions by John Playford" in 1658.  The edition referred to in the
     text was published in 1667 with a second title of "The Musical
     Companion."  The book was republished in 1672-73.]
</pre>
    <p>
      are not yet out, the fire having hindered it, but his man tells me that it
      will be a very fine piece, many things new being added to it.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon rose
      and to my closet, and finished my report to my Lord Treasurer of our
      Tangier wants, and then with Sir J. Minnes by coach to Stepney to the
      Trinity House, where it is kept again now since the burning of their other
      house in London. And here a great many met at Sir Thomas Allen's feast, of
      his being made an Elder Brother; but he is sick, and so could not be
      there. Here was much good company, and very merry; but the discourse of
      Scotland, it seems, is confirmed, and that they are 4000 of them in armes,
      and do declare for King and Covenant, which is very ill news. I pray God
      deliver us from the ill consequences we may justly fear from it. Here was
      a good venison pasty or two and other good victuals; but towards the
      latter end of the dinner I rose, and without taking leave went away from
      the table, and got Sir J. Minnes' coach and away home, and thence with my
      report to my Lord Treasurer's, where I did deliver it to Sir Philip
      Warwicke for my Lord, who was busy, my report for him to consider against
      to-morrow's council. Sir Philip Warwicke, I find, is full of trouble in
      his mind to see how things go, and what our wants are; and so I have no
      delight to trouble him with discourse, though I honour the man with all my
      heart, and I think him to be a very able and right honest man. So away
      home again, and there to my office to write my letters very late, and then
      home to supper, and then to read the late printed discourse of witches by
      a member of Gresham College, and then to bed; the discourse being well
      writ, in good stile, but methinks not very convincing. This day Mr. Martin
      is come to tell me his wife is brought to bed of a girle, and I promised
      to christen it next Sunday.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lord's day). Up, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to White Hall, and
      there coming late, I to rights to the chapel, where in my usual place I
      heard one of the King's chaplains, one Mr. Floyd, preach. He was out two
      or three times in his prayer, and as many in his sermon, but yet he made a
      most excellent good sermon, of our duty to imitate the lives and practice
      of Christ and the saints departed, and did it very handsomely and
      excellent stile; but was a little overlarge in magnifying the graces of
      the nobility and prelates, that we have seen in our memorys in the world,
      whom God hath taken from us. At the end of the sermon an excellent anthem;
      but it was a pleasant thing, an idle companion in our pew, a prating, bold
      counsellor that hath been heretofore at the Navy Office, and noted for a
      great eater and drinker, not for quantity, but of the best, his name Tom
      Bales, said, "I know a fitter anthem for this sermon," speaking only of
      our duty of following the saints, and I know not what. "Cooke should have
      sung, 'Come, follow, follow me.'" I After sermon up into the gallery, and
      then to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner; where much company. Among others, Mr.
      Carteret and my Lady Jemimah, and here was also Mr. [John] Ashburnham, the
      great man, who is a pleasant man, and that hath seen much of the world,
      and more of the Court. After dinner Sir G. Carteret and I to another room,
      and he tells me more and more of our want of money and in how ill
      condition we are likely to be soon in, and that he believes we shall not
      have a fleete at sea the next year. So do I believe; but he seems to speak
      it as a thing expected by the King and as if their matters were laid
      accordingly. Thence into the Court and there delivered copies of my report
      to my Lord Treasurer, to the Duke of York, Sir W. Coventry, and others,
      and attended there till the Council met, and then was called in, and I
      read my letter. My Lord Treasurer declared that the King had nothing to
      give till the Parliament did give him some money. So the King did of
      himself bid me to declare to all that would take our tallys for payment,
      that he should, soon as the Parliament's money do come in, take back their
      tallys, and give them money: which I giving him occasion to repeat to me,
      it coming from him against the 'gre'
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Apparently a translation of the French 'contre le gre', and
     presumably an expression in common use.  "Against the grain" is
     generally supposed to have its origin in the use of a plane against
     the grain of the wood.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I perceive, of my Lord Treasurer, I was content therewith, and went out,
      and glad that I have got so much. Here staid till the Council rose,
      walking in the gallery. All the talke being of Scotland, where the highest
      report, I perceive, runs but upon three or four hundred in armes; but they
      believe that it will grow more, and do seem to apprehend it much, as if
      the King of France had a hand in it. My Lord Lauderdale do make nothing of
      it, it seems, and people do censure him for it, he from the beginning
      saying that there was nothing in it, whereas it do appear to be a pure
      rebellion; but no persons of quality being in it, all do hope that it
      cannot amount to much. Here I saw Mrs. Stewart this afternoon, methought
      the beautifullest creature that ever I saw in my life, more than ever I
      thought her so, often as I have seen her; and I begin to think do exceed
      my Lady Castlemayne, at least now. This being St. Catherine's day, the
      Queene was at masse by seven o'clock this morning; and. Mr. Ashburnham do
      say that he never saw any one have so much zeale in his life as she hath:
      and, the question being asked by my Lady Carteret, much beyond the bigotry
      that ever the old Queen-mother had. I spoke with Mr. Maya who tells me
      that the design of building the City do go on apace, and by his
      description it will be mighty handsome, and to the satisfaction of the
      people; but I pray God it come not out too late. The Council up, after
      speaking with Sir W. Coventry a little, away home with Captain Cocke in
      his coach, discourse about the forming of his contract he made with us
      lately for hempe, and so home, where we parted, and I find my uncle Wight
      and Mrs. Wight and Woolly, who staid and supped, and mighty merry
      together, and then I to my chamber to even my journal, and then to bed. I
      will remember that Mr. Ashburnham to-day at dinner told how the rich
      fortune Mrs. Mallett reports of her servants; that my Lord Herbert would
      have had her; my Lord Hinchingbroke was indifferent to have her;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [They had quarrelled (see August 26th).  She, perhaps, was piqued at
     Lord Hinchingbroke's refusal "to compass the thing without consent
     of friends" (see February 25th), whence her expression,
     "indifferent" to have her.  It is worthy of remark that their
     children intermarried; Lord Hinchingbroke's son married Lady
     Rochester's daughter.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      my Lord John Butler might not have her; my Lord of Rochester would have
      forced her;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Of the lady thus sought after, whom Pepys calls "a beauty" as well
     as a fortune, and who shortly afterwards, about the 4th February,
     1667, became the wife of the Earl of Rochester, then not twenty
     years old, no authentic portrait is known to exist.  When Mr.
     Miller, of Albemarle Street, in 1811, proposed to publish an edition
     of the "Memoires de Grammont," he sent an artist to Windsor to copy
     there the portraits which he could find of those who figure in that
     work.  In the list given to him for this purpose was the name of
     Lady Rochester.  Not finding amongst the "Beauties," or elsewhere,
     any genuine portrait of her, but seeing that by Hamilton she is
     absurdly styled "une triste heritiere," the artist made a drawing
     from some unknown portrait at Windsor of a lady of a sorrowful
     countenance, and palmed it off upon the bookseller.  In the edition
     of "Grammont" it is not actually called Lady Rochester, but "La
     Triste Heritiere."  A similar falsification had been practised in
     Edwards's edition of 1793, but a different portrait had been copied.
     It is needless, almost, to remark how ill applied is Hamilton's
     epithet.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and Sir&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;Popham, who nevertheless is likely to have
      her, would kiss her breach to have her.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and to my chamber to do some business. Then to speak with
      several people, among others with Mrs. Burroughs, whom I appointed to meet
      me at the New Exchange in the afternoon. I by water to Westminster, and
      there to enquire after my tallies, which I shall get this week. Thence to
      the Swan, having sent for some burnt claret, and there by and by comes
      Doll Lane, and she and I sat and drank and talked a great while, among
      other things about her sister's being brought to bed, and I to be
      godfather to the girle. I did tumble Doll, and do almost what I would with
      her, and so parted, and I took coach, and to the New Exchange, buying a
      neat's tongue by the way, thinking to eat it out of town, but there I find
      Burroughs in company of an old woman, an aunt of hers, whom she could not
      leave for half an hour. So after buying a few baubles to while away time,
      I down to Westminster, and there into the House of Parliament, where, at a
      great Committee, I did hear, as long as I would, the great case against my
      Lord Mordaunt, for some arbitrary proceedings of his against one Taylor,
      whom he imprisoned, and did all the violence to imaginable, only to get
      him to give way to his abusing his daughter. Here was Mr. Sawyer, my old
      chamber-fellow, a counsel against my Lord; and I am glad to see him in so
      good play. Here I met, before the committee sat, with my cozen Roger
      Pepys, the first time I have spoke with him this parliament. He hath
      promised to come, and bring Madam Turner with him, who is come to towne to
      see the City, but hath lost all her goods of all kinds in Salisbury Court,
      Sir William Turner having not endeavoured, in her absence, to save one
      penny, to dine with me on Friday next, of which I am glad. Roger bids me
      to help him to some good rich widow; for he is resolved to go, and retire
      wholly, into the country; for, he says, he is confident we shall be all
      ruined very speedily, by what he sees in the State, and I am much in his
      mind. Having staid as long as I thought fit for meeting of Burroughs, I
      away and to the 'Change again, but there I do not find her now, I having
      staid too long at the House, and therefore very hungry, having eat nothing
      to-day. Home, and there to eat presently, and then to the office a little,
      and to Sir W. Batten, where Sir J. Minnes and Captain Cocke was; but no
      newes from the North at all to-day; and the newes-book makes the business
      nothing, but that they are all dispersed. I pray God it may prove so. So
      home, and, after a little, to my chamber to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and here I had
      a letter from Mr. Brisband on another occasion, which, by the by,
      intimates my Lord Hinchingbroke's intention to come and dine with me
      to-morrow. This put me into a great surprise, and therefore endeavoured
      all I could to hasten over our business at the office, and so home at noon
      and to dinner, and then away by coach, it being a very foul day, to White
      Hall, and there at Sir G. Carteret's find my Lord Hinchingbroke, who
      promises to dine with me to-morrow, and bring Mr. Carteret along with him.
      Here I staid a little while talking with him and the ladies, and then away
      to my Lord Crew's, and then did by the by make a visit to my Lord Crew,
      and had some good discourse with him, he doubting that all will break in
      pieces in the kingdom; and that the taxes now coming out, which will tax
      the same man in three or four several capacities, as for lands, office,
      profession, and money at interest, will be the hardest that ever come out;
      and do think that we owe it, and the lateness of its being given, wholly
      to the unpreparedness of the King's own party, to make their demand and
      choice; for they have obstructed the giving it by land-tax, which had been
      done long since. Having ended my visit, I spoke to Sir Thomas Crew, to
      invite him and his brother John to dinner tomorrow, at my house, to meet
      Lord Hinchingbroke; and so homewards, calling at the cook's, who is to
      dress it, to bespeak him, and then home, and there set things in order for
      a very fine dinner, and then to the office, where late very busy and to
      good purpose as to dispatch of business, and then home. To bed, my people
      sitting up to get things in order against to-morrow. This evening was
      brought me what Griffin had, as he says, taken this evening off of the
      table in the office, a letter sealed and directed to the Principal
      Officers and Commissioners of the Navy. It is a serious and just libel
      against our disorder in paying of our money, making ten times more people
      wait than we have money for, and complaining by name of Sir W. Batten for
      paying away great sums to particular people, which is true. I was sorry to
      see this way of reproach taken against us, but more sorry that there is
      true ground for it.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen to White Hall (setting his lady and daughter
      down by the way at a mercer's in the Strand, where they are going to lay
      out some money), where, though it blows hard and rains hard, yet the Duke
      of York is gone a-hunting. We therefore lost our labour, and so back
      again, and by hackney coach to secure places to get things ready against
      dinner, and then home, and did the like there, and to my great
      satisfaction: and at noon comes my Lord Hinchingbroke, Sir Thomas Crew,
      Mr. John Crew, Mr. Carteret, and Brisband. I had six noble dishes for
      them, dressed by a man-cook, and commended, as indeed they deserved, for
      exceeding well done. We eat with great pleasure, and I enjoyed myself in
      it with reflections upon the pleasures which I at best can expect, yet not
      to exceed this; eating in silver plates, and all things mighty rich and
      handsome about me. A great deal of fine discourse, sitting almost till
      dark at dinner, and then broke up with great pleasure, especially to
      myself; and they away, only Mr. Carteret and I to Gresham College, where
      they meet now weekly again, and here they had good discourse how this late
      experiment of the dog, which is in perfect good health, may be improved
      for good uses to men, and other pretty things, and then broke up. Here was
      Mr. Henry Howard, that will hereafter be Duke of Norfolke, who is admitted
      this day into the Society, and being a very proud man, and one that values
      himself upon his family, writes his name, as he do every where, Henry
      Howard of Norfolke. Thence home and there comes my Lady Pen, Pegg, and
      Mrs. Turner, and played at cards and supped with us, and were pretty
      merry, and Pegg with me in my closet a good while, and did suffer me 'a la
      baiser mouche et toucher ses cosas' upon her breast, wherein I had great
      pleasure, and so spent the evening and then broke up, and I to bed, my
      mind mightily pleased with the day's entertainment.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, where I find Balty come out to see us, but looks like death, and I
      do fear he is in a consumption; he has not been abroad many weeks before,
      and hath now a well day, and a fit day of the headake in extraordinary
      torture. After dinner left him and his wife, they having their mother hard
      by and my wife, and I a wet afternoon to White Hall to have seen my Lady
      Carteret and Jemimah, but as God would have it they were abroad, and I was
      well contented at it. So my wife and I to Westminster Hall, where I left
      her a little, and to the Exchequer, and then presently home again, calling
      at our man-cooke's for his help to-morrow, but he could not come. So I
      home to the office, my people all busy to get a good dinner to-morrow
      again. I late at the office, and all the newes I hear I put into a letter
      this night to my Lord Bruncker at Chatham, thus:&mdash;
    </p>
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     "I doubt not of your lordship's hearing of Sir Thomas Clifford's
     succeeding Sir H. Pollard' in the Comptrollership of the King's
     house; but perhaps our ill, but confirmed, tidings from the
     Barbadoes may not [have reached you] yet, it coming but yesterday;
     viz., that about eleven ships, whereof two of the King's, the Hope
     and Coventry, going thence with men to attack St. Christopher's,
     were seized by a violent hurricane, and all sunk&mdash;two only of
     thirteen escaping, and those with loss of masts, &amp;c.  My Lord
     Willoughby  himself is involved in the disaster, and I think two
     ships thrown upon an island of the French, and so all the men, to
     500, become their prisoners.  'Tis said, too, that eighteen Dutch
     men-of-war are passed the Channell, in order to meet with our Smyrna
     ships; and some, I hear, do fright us with the King of Sweden's
     seizing our mast-ships at Gottenburgh.  But we have too much ill
     newes true, to afflict ourselves with what is uncertain.  That which
     I hear from Scotland is, the Duke of York's saying, yesterday, that
     he is confident the Lieutenant-Generall there hath driven them into
     a pound, somewhere towards the mountains."
</pre>
    <p>
      Having writ my letter, I home to supper and to bed, the world being
      mightily troubled at the ill news from Barbadoes, and the consequence of
      the Scotch business, as little as we do make of it. And to shew how mad we
      are at home, here, and unfit for any troubles: my Lord St. John did, a day
      or two since, openly pull a gentleman in Westminster Hall by the nose, one
      Sir Andrew Henly, while the judges were upon their benches, and the other
      gentleman did give him a rap over the pate with his cane, of which fray
      the judges, they say, will make a great matter: men are only sorry the
      gentle man did proceed to return a blow; for, otherwise, my Lord would
      have been soundly fined for the affront, and may be yet for his affront to
      the judges.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, and there we did attend
      the Duke of York, and had much business with him; and pretty to see, it
      being St. Andrew's day, how some few did wear St. Andrew's crosse; but
      most did make a mockery at it, and the House of Parliament, contrary to
      practice, did sit also: people having no mind to observe the Scotch
      saints' days till they hear better newes from Scotland. Thence to
      Westminster Hall and the Abbey, thinking as I had appointed to have met
      Mrs. Burroughs there, but not meeting her I home, and just overtook my
      cozen Roger Pepys, Mrs. Turner, Dicke, and Joyce Norton, coming by
      invitation to dine with me. These ladies I have not seen since before the
      plague. Mrs. Turner is come to towne to look after her things in her
      house, but all is lost. She is quite weary of the country, but cannot get
      her husband to let her live here any more, which troubles her mightily.
      She was mighty angry with me, that in all this time I never writ to her,
      which I do think and take to myself as a fault, and which I have promised
      to mend. Here I had a noble and costly dinner for them, dressed by a
      man-cooke, as that the other day was, and pretty merry we were, as I could
      be with this company and so great a charge. We sat long, and after much
      talk of the plenty of her country in fish, but in nothing also that is
      pleasing, we broke up with great kindness, and when it begun to be dark we
      parted, they in one coach home, and I in another to Westminster Hall,
      where by appointment Mrs. Burroughs and I were to meet, but did not after
      I had spent the whole evening there. Only I did go drink at the Swan, and
      there did meet with Sarah, who is now newly married, and there I did lay
      the beginnings of a future 'amour con elle'..... Thence it being late away
      called at Mrs. Burroughs' mother's door, and she come out to me, and I did
      hazer whatever I would.... and then parted, and home, and after some
      playing at cards with my wife, we to supper and to bed.
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      DECEMBER 1666
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    <p>
      December 1st. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At home
      to dinner, and then abroad walking to the Old Swan, and in my way I did
      see a cellar in Tower Streete in a very fresh fire, the late great winds
      having blown it up.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The fire continued burning in some cellars of the ruins of the city
     for four months, though it rained in the month of October ten days
     without ceasing (Rugge's "Diurnal").&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      It seemed to be only of log-wood, that Hath kept the fire all this while
      in it. Going further, I met my late Lord Mayor Bludworth, under whom the
      City was burned, and went with him by water to White Hall. But, Lord! the
      silly talk that this fellow had, only how ready he would be to part with
      all his estate in these difficult times to advance the King's service, and
      complaining that now, as every body did lately in the fire, every body
      endeavours to save himself, and let the whole perish: but a very weak man
      he seems to be. I left him at White Hall, he giving 6d. towards the boat,
      and I to Westminster Hall, where I was again defeated in my expectation of
      Burroughs. However, I was not much sorry for it, but by coach home, in the
      evening, calling at Faythorne's, buying three of my Lady Castlemayne's
      heads, printed this day, which indeed is, as to the head, I think, a very
      fine picture, and like her. I did this afternoon get Mrs. Michell to let
      me only have a sight of a pamphlet lately printed, but suppressed and much
      called after, called "The Catholique's Apology;" lamenting the severity of
      the Parliament against them, and comparing it with the lenity of other
      princes to Protestants; giving old and late instances of their loyalty to
      their princes, whatever is objected against them; and excusing their
      disquiets in Queen Elizabeth's time, for that it was impossible for them
      to think her a lawfull Queen, if Queen Mary, who had been owned as such,
      were so; one being the daughter of the true, and the other of a false
      wife: and that of the Gunpowder Treason, by saying that it was only the
      practice of some of us, if not the King, to trepan some of their religion
      into it, it never being defended by the generality of their Church, nor
      indeed known by them; and ends with a large Catalogue, in red letters, of
      the Catholiques which have lost their lives in the quarrel of the late
      King and this. The thing is very well writ indeed. So home to my letters,
      and then to my supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and after church home to dinner,
      where I met Betty Michell and her husband, very merry at dinner, and after
      dinner, having borrowed Sir W. Pen's coach, we to Westminster, they two
      and my wife and I to Mr. Martin's, where find the company almost all come
      to the christening of Mrs. Martin's child, a girl. A great deal of good
      plain company. After sitting long, till the church was done, the Parson
      comes, and then we to christen the child. I was Godfather, and Mrs. Holder
      (her husband, a good man, I know well), and a pretty lady, that waits, it
      seems, on my Lady Bath, at White Hall, her name, Mrs. Noble, were
      Godmothers. After the christening comes in the wine and the sweetmeats,
      and then to prate and tattle, and then very good company they were, and I
      among them. Here was old Mrs. Michell and Howlett, and several married
      women of the Hall, whom I knew mayds. Here was also Mrs. Burroughs and
      Mrs. Bales, the young widow, whom I led home, and having staid till the
      moon was up, I took my pretty gossip to White Hall with us, and I saw her
      in her lodging, and then my owne company again took coach, and no sooner
      in the coach but something broke, that we were fain there to stay till a
      smith could be fetched, which was above an hour, and then it costing me
      6s. to mend. Away round by the wall and Cow Lane,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Cow Lane, West Smithfield (now named King Street), was famous for
     its coachmakers.]
</pre>
    <p>
      for fear it should break again; and in pain about the coach all the way.
      But to ease myself therein Betty Michell did sit at the same end with me.
      ... Being very much pleased with this, we at last come home, and so to
      supper, and then sent them by boat home, and we to bed. When I come home I
      went to Sir W. Batten's, and there I hear more ill newes still: that all
      our New England fleete, which went out lately, are put back a third time
      by foul weather, and dispersed, some to one port and some to another; and
      their convoys also to Plymouth; and whether any of them be lost or not, we
      do not know. This, added to all the rest, do lay us flat in our hopes and
      courages, every body prophesying destruction to the nation.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and, among a great many people that come to speak with me, one
      was my Lord Peterborough's gentleman, who comes to me to dun me to get
      some money advanced for my Lord; and I demanding what newes, he tells me
      that at Court they begin to fear the business of Scotland more and more;
      and that the Duke of York intends to go to the North to raise an army, and
      that the King would have some of the Nobility and others to go and assist;
      but they were so served the last year, among others his Lord, in raising
      forces at their own charge, for fear of the French invading us, that they
      will not be got out now, without money advanced to them by the King, and
      this is like to be the King's case for certain, if ever he comes to have
      need of any army. He and others gone, I by water to Westminster, and there
      to the Exchequer, and put my tallys in a way of doing for the last
      quarter. But my not following it the last week has occasioned the clerks
      some trouble, which I am sorry for, and they are mad at. Thence at noon
      home, and there find Kate Joyce, who dined with me: Her husband and she
      are weary of their new life of being an Innkeeper, and will leave it, and
      would fain get some office; but I know none the foole is fit for, but
      would be glad to help them, if I could, though they have enough to live
      on, God be thanked! though their loss hath been to the value of L3000 W.
      Joyce now has all the trade, she says, the trade being come to that end of
      the towne. She dined with me, my wife being ill of her months in bed. I
      left her with my wife, and away myself to Westminster Hall by appointment
      and there found out Burroughs, and I took her by coach as far as the Lord
      Treasurer's and called at the cake house by Hales's, and there in the
      coach eat and drank and then carried her home.... So having set her down
      in the palace I to the Swan, and there did the first time 'baiser' the
      little sister of Sarah that is come into her place, and so away by coach
      home, where to my vyall and supper and then to bed, being weary of the
      following of my pleasure and sorry for my omitting (though with a true
      salvo to my vowes) the stating my last month's accounts in time, as I
      should, but resolve to settle, and clear all my business before me this
      month, that I may begin afresh the next yeare, and enjoy some little
      pleasure freely at Christmasse. So to bed, and with more cheerfulness than
      I have done a good while, to hear that for certain the Scott rebells are
      all routed; they having been so bold as to come within three miles of
      Edinburgh, and there given two or three repulses to the King's forces, but
      at last were mastered. Three or four hundred killed or taken, among which
      their leader, one Wallis, and seven ministers, they having all taken the
      Covenant a few days before, and sworn to live and die in it, as they did;
      and so all is likely to be there quiet again. There is also the very good
      newes come of four New-England ships come home safe to Falmouth with masts
      for the King; which is a blessing mighty unexpected, and without which, if
      for nothing else, we must have failed the next year. But God be praised
      for thus much good fortune, and send us the continuance of his favour in
      other things! So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon dined at
      home. After dinner presently to my office, and there late and then home to
      even my Journall and accounts, and then to supper much eased in mind, and
      last night's good news, which is more and more confirmed with particulars
      to very good purpose, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and by water to White Hall, where we did much business before the
      Duke of York, which being done, I away home by water again, and there to
      my office till noon busy. At noon home, and Goodgroome dined with us, who
      teaches my wife to sing. After dinner I did give him my song, "Beauty
      retire," which he has often desired of me, and without flattery I think is
      a very good song. He gone, I to the office, and there late, very busy
      doing much business, and then home to supper and talk, and then scold with
      my wife for not reckoning well the times that her musique master hath been
      with her, but setting down more than I am sure, and did convince her, they
      had been with her, and in an ill humour of anger with her to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, but very good friends with her before I rose, and so to the
      office, where we sat all the forenoon, and then home to dinner, where
      Harman dined with us, and great sport to hear him tell how Will Joyce
      grows rich by the custom of the City coming to his end of the towne, and
      how he rants over his brother and sister for their keeping an Inne, and
      goes thither and tears like a prince, calling him hosteller and his sister
      hostess. Then after dinner, my wife and brother, in another habit; go out
      to see a play; but I am not to take notice that I know of my brother's
      going. So I to the office, where very busy till late at night, and then
      home. My wife not pleased with the play, but thinks that it is because she
      is grown more critical than she used to be, but my brother she says is
      mighty taken with it. So to supper and to bed. This day, in the Gazette,
      is the whole story of defeating the Scotch rebells, and of the creation of
      the Duke of Cambridge, Knight of the Garter.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and by water to the Exchequer, where I got my tallys finished for
      the last quarter for Tangier, and having paid all my fees I to the Swan,
      whither I sent for some oysters, and thither comes Mr. Falconbridge and
      Spicer and many more clerks; and there we eat and drank, and a great deal
      of their sorry discourse, and so parted, and I by coach home, meeting
      Balty in the streete about Charing Crosse walking, which I am glad to see
      and spoke to him about his mustering business, I being now to give an
      account how the several muster-masters have behaved themselves, and so
      home to dinner, where finding the cloth laid and much crumpled but clean,
      I grew angry and flung the trenchers about the room, and in a mighty heat
      I was: so a clean cloth was laid, and my poor wife very patient, and so to
      dinner, and in comes Mrs. Barbara Sheldon, now Mrs. Wood, and dined with
      us, she mighty fine, and lives, I perceive, mighty happily, which I am
      glad [of] for her sake, but hate her husband for a block-head in his
      choice. So away after dinner, leaving my wife and her, and by water to the
      Strand, and so to the King's playhouse, where two acts were almost done
      when I come in; and there I sat with my cloak about my face, and saw the
      remainder of "The Mayd's Tragedy;" a good play, and well acted, especially
      by the younger Marshall, who is become a pretty good actor, and is the
      first play I have seen in either of the houses since before the great
      plague, they having acted now about fourteen days publickly. But I was in
      mighty pain lest I should be seen by any body to be at a play. Soon as
      done I home, and then to my office awhile, and then home and spent the
      night evening my Tangier accounts, much to my satisfaction, and then to
      supper, and mighty good friends with my poor wife, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon home
      to dinner, and there find Mr. Pierce and his wife and Betty, a pretty
      girle, who in discourse at table told me the great Proviso passed the
      House of Parliament yesterday; which makes the King and Court mad, the
      King having given order to my Lord Chamberlain to send to the playhouses
      and bawdy houses, to bid all the Parliament-men that were there to go to
      the Parliament presently. This is true, it seems; but it was carried
      against the Court by thirty or forty voices. It is a Proviso to the Poll
      Bill, that there shall be a Committee of nine persons that shall have the
      inspection upon oath, and power of giving others, of all the accounts of
      the money given and spent for this warr. This hath a most sad face, and
      will breed very ill blood. He tells me, brought in by Sir Robert Howard,
      who is one of the King's servants, at least hath a great office, and hath
      got, they say, L20,000 since the King come in. Mr. Pierce did also tell me
      as a great truth, as being told it by Mr. Cowly, who was by, and heard it,
      that Tom Killigrew should publiquely tell the King that his matters were
      coming into a very ill state; but that yet there was a way to help all,
      which is, says he, "There is a good, honest, able man, that I could name,
      that if your Majesty would employ, and command to see all things well
      executed, all things would soon be mended; and this is one Charles Stuart,
      who now spends his time in employing his lips.... about the Court, and
      hath no other employment; but if you would give him this employment, he
      were the fittest man in the world to perform it." This, he says, is most
      true; but the King do not profit by any of this, but lays all aside, and
      remembers nothing, but to his pleasures again; which is a sorrowful
      consideration. Very good company we were at dinner, and merry, and after
      dinner, he being gone about business, my wife and I and Mrs. Pierce and
      Betty and Balty, who come to see us to-day very sick, and went home not
      well, together out, and our coach broke the wheel off upon Ludgate Hill.
      So we were fain to part ourselves and get room in other people's coaches,
      and Mrs. Pierce and I in one, and I carried her home and set her down, and
      myself to the King's playhouse, which troubles me since, and hath cost me
      a forfeit of 10s., which I have paid, and there did see a good part of
      "The English Monsieur," which is a mighty pretty play, very witty and
      pleasant. And the women do very well; but, above all, little Nelly; that I
      am mightily pleased with the play, and much with the House, more than ever
      I expected, the women doing better than ever I expected, and very fine
      women. Here I was in pain to be seen, and hid myself; but, as God would
      have it, Sir John Chichly come, and sat just by me. Thence to Mrs.
      Pierce's, and there took up my wife and away home, and to the office and
      Sir W. Batten's, of whom I hear that this Proviso in Parliament is
      mightily ill taken by all the Court party as a mortal blow, and that, that
      strikes deep into the King's prerogative, which troubles me mightily.
      Home, and set some papers right in my chamber, and then to supper and to
      bed, we being in much fear of ill news of our colliers. A fleete of two
      hundred sail, and fourteen Dutch men-of-war between them and us and they
      coming home with small convoy; and the City in great want, coals being at
      L3 3s. per chaldron, as I am told. I saw smoke in the ruines this very
      day.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). Up, not to church, but to my chamber, and there begun to
      enter into this book my journall of September, which in the fire-time I
      could not enter here, but in loose papers. At noon dined, and then to my
      chamber all the afternoon and night, looking over and tearing and burning
      all the unnecessary letters, which I have had upon my file for four or
      five years backward, which I intend to do quite through all my papers,
      that I may have nothing by me but what is worth keeping, and fit to be
      seen, if I should miscarry. At this work till midnight, and then to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and at my office all the morning, and several people with me,
      Sir W. Warren, who I do every day more and more admire for a miracle of
      cunning and forecast in his business, and then Captain Cocke, with whom I
      walked in the garden, and he tells me how angry the Court is at the late
      Proviso brought in by the House. How still my Lord Chancellor is, not
      daring to do or say any thing to displease the Parliament; that the
      Parliament is in a very ill humour, and grows every day more and more so;
      and that the unskilfulness of the Court, and their difference among one
      another, is the occasion of all not agreeing in what they would have, and
      so they give leisure and occasion to the other part to run away with what
      the Court would not have. Then comes Mr. Gawden, and he and I in my
      chamber discoursing about his business, and to pay him some Tangier orders
      which he delayed to receive till I had money instead of tallies, but do
      promise me consideration for my victualling business for this year, and
      also as Treasurer for Tangier, which I am glad of, but would have been
      gladder to have just now received it. He gone, I alone to dinner at home,
      my wife and her people being gone down the river to-day for pleasure,
      though a cold day and dark night to come up. In the afternoon I to the
      Excise Office to enter my tallies, which I did, and come presently back
      again, and then to the office and did much business, and then home to
      supper, my wife and people being come well and hungry home from Erith.
      Then I to begin the setting of a Base to "It is Decreed," and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and to the office, where we sat, and at noon home to dinner, a
      small dinner because of a good supper. After dinner my wife and I by coach
      to St. Clement's Church, to Mrs. Turner's lodgings, hard by, to take our
      leaves of her. She is returning into the North to her children, where, I
      perceive, her husband hath clearly got the mastery of her, and she is
      likely to spend her days there, which for her sake I am a little sorry
      for, though for his it is but fit she should live where he hath a mind.
      Here were several people come to see and take leave of her, she going
      to-morrow: among others, my Lady Mordant, which was Betty Turner, a most
      homely widow, but young, and pretty rich, and good natured. Thence, having
      promised to write every month to her, we home, and I to my office, while
      my wife to get things together for supper. Dispatching my business at the
      office. Anon come our guests, old Mr. Batelier, and his son and daughter,
      Mercer, which was all our company. We had a good venison pasty and other
      good cheer, and as merry as in so good, innocent, and understanding
      company I could be. He is much troubled that wines, laden by him in France
      before the late proclamation was out, cannot now be brought into England,
      which is so much to his and other merchants' loss. We sat long at supper
      and then to talk, and so late parted and so to bed. This day the Poll Bill
      was to be passed, and great endeavours used to take away the Proviso.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to the office, where some accounts of Mr. Gawden's were
      examined, but I home most of the morning to even some accounts with Sir H.
      Cholmly, Mr. Moone, and others one after another. Sir H. Cholmly did with
      grief tell me how the Parliament hath been told plainly that the King hath
      been heard to say, that he would dissolve them rather than pass this Bill
      with the Proviso; but tells me, that the Proviso is removed, and now
      carried that it shall be done by a Bill by itself. He tells me how the
      King hath lately paid about L30,000
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Two thousand pounds of this sum went to Alderman Edward Bakewell
     for two diamond rings, severally charged L1000 and L900, bought
     March 14th, 1665-66 (Second addenda to Steinman's "Memoir of the
     Duchess of Cleveland," privately printed, 1878, p. 4.).]
</pre>
    <p>
      to clear debts of my Lady Castlemayne's; and that she and her husband are
      parted for ever, upon good terms, never to trouble one another more. He
      says that he hears L400,000 hath gone into the Privypurse since this warr;
      and that that hath consumed so much of our money, and makes the King and
      Court so mad to be brought to discover it. He gone, and after him the
      rest, I to the office, and at noon to the 'Change, where the very good
      newes is just come of our four ships from Smyrna, come safe without convoy
      even into the Downes, without seeing any enemy; which is the best, and
      indeed only considerable good newes to our Exchange, since the burning of
      the City; and it is strange to see how it do cheer up men's hearts. Here I
      saw shops now come to be in this Exchange, and met little Batelier, who
      sits here but at L3 per annum, whereas he sat at the other at L100, which
      he says he believes will prove of as good account to him now as the other
      did at that rent. From the 'Change to Captain Cocke's, and there, by
      agreement, dined, and there was Charles Porter, Temple, Fern, Debasty,
      whose bad English and pleasant discourses was exceeding good
      entertainment, Matt. Wren, Major Cooper, and myself, mighty merry and
      pretty discourse. They talked for certain, that now the King do follow
      Mrs. Stewart wholly, and my Lady Castlemayne not above once a week; that
      the Duke of York do not haunt my Lady Denham so much; that she troubles
      him with matters of State, being of my Lord Bristoll's faction, and that
      he avoids; that she is ill still. After dinner I away to the office, where
      we sat late upon Mr. Gawden's accounts, Sir J. Minnes being gone home
      sick. I late at the office, and then home to supper and to bed, being
      mightily troubled with a pain in the small of my back, through cold, or
      (which I think most true) my straining last night to get open my plate
      chest, in such pain all night I could not turn myself in my bed. Newes
      this day from Brampton, of Mr. Ensum, my sister's sweetheart, being dead:
      a clowne.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and to the office, where we sat. At noon to the 'Change and
      there met Captain Cocke, and had a second time his direction to bespeak
      L100 of plate, which I did at Sir R. Viner's, being twelve plates more,
      and something else I have to choose. Thence home to dinner, and there W.
      Hewer dined with me, and showed me a Gazette, in April last, which I
      wonder should never be remembered by any body, which tells how several
      persons were then tried for their lives, and were found guilty of a design
      of killing the King and destroying the Government; and as a means to it,
      to burn the City; and that the day intended for the plot was the 3rd of
      last September.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The "Gazette" of April 23rd-26th, 1666, which contains the
     following remarkable passage: "At the Sessions in the Old Bailey,
     John Rathbone, an old army colonel, William Saunders, Henry Tucker,
     Thomas Flint, Thomas Evans, John Myles, Will. Westcot, and John
     Cole, officers or soldiers in the late Rebellion, were indicted for
     conspiring the death of his Majesty and the overthrow of the
     Government.  Having laid their plot and contrivance for the
     surprisal of the Tower, the killing his Grace the Lord General, Sir
     John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, and Sir Richard Brown; and
     then to have declared for an equal division of lands, &amp;c.  The
     better to effect this hellish design, the City was to have been
     fired, and the portcullis let down to keep out all assistance; and
     the Horse Guards to have been surprised in the inns where they were
     quartered, several ostlers having been gained for that purpose.  The
     Tower was accordingly viewed, and its surprise ordered by boats over
     the moat, and from thence to scale the wall.  One Alexander, not yet
     taken, had likewise distributed money to these conspirators; and,
     for the carrying on the design more effectually, they were told of a
     Council of the great ones that sat frequently in London, from whom
     issued all orders; which Council received their directions from
     another in Holland, who sat with the States; and that the third of
     September was pitched on for the attempt, as being found by Lilly's
     Almanack, and a scheme erected for that purpose, to be a lucky day,
     a planet then ruling which prognosticated the downfall of Monarchy.
     The evidence against these persons was very full and clear, and they
     were accordingly found guilty of High Treason." See November 10th,
     1666&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      And the fire did indeed break out on the 2nd of September, which is very
      strange, methinks, and I shall remember it. At the office all the
      afternoon late, and then home to even my accounts in my Tangier book,
      which I did to great content in all respects, and joy to my heart, and so
      to bed. This afternoon Sir W. Warren and Mr. Moore, one after another,
      walked with me in the garden, and they both tell me that my Lord Sandwich
      is called home, and that he do grow more and more in esteem everywhere,
      and is better spoken of, which I am mighty glad of, though I know well
      enough his deserving the same before, and did foresee that it will come to
      it. In mighty great pain in my back still, but I perceive it changes its
      place, and do not trouble me at all in making of water, and that is my
      joy, so that I believe it is nothing but a strain, and for these three or
      four days I perceive my overworking of my eyes by candlelight do hurt them
      as it did the last winter, that by day I am well and do get them right,
      but then after candlelight they begin to be sore and run, so that I intend
      to get some green spectacles.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and very well again of my pain in my back, it having been
      nothing but cold. By coach to White Hall, seeing many smokes of the fire
      by the way yet, and took up into the coach with me a country gentleman,
      who asked me room to go with me, it being dirty&mdash;one come out of the
      North to see his son, after the burning his house: a merchant. Here
      endeavoured to wait on the Duke of York, but he would not stay from the
      Parliament. So I to Westminster Hall, and there met my good friend Mr.
      Evelyn, and walked with him a good while, lamenting our condition for want
      of good council, and the King's minding of his business and servants. I
      out to the Bell Taverne, and thither comes Doll to me...., and after an
      hour's stay, away and staid in Westminster Hall till the rising of the
      house, having told Mr. Evelyn, and he several others, of my Gazette which
      I had about me that mentioned in April last a plot for which several were
      condemned of treason at the Old Bayly for many things, and among others
      for a design of burning the city on the 3rd of September. The house sat
      till three o'clock, and then up: and I home with Sir Stephen Fox to his
      house to dinner, and the Cofferer with us. There I find Sir S. Fox's lady,
      a fine woman, and seven the prettiest children of theirs that ever I knew
      almost. A very genteel dinner, and in great state and fashion, and
      excellent discourse; and nothing like an old experienced man and a
      courtier, and such is the Cofferer Ashburnham. The House have been mighty
      hot to-day against the Paper Bill, showing all manner of averseness to
      give the King money; which these courtiers do take mighty notice of, and
      look upon the others as bad rebells as ever the last were. But the
      courtiers did carry it against those men upon a division of the House, a
      great many, that it should be committed; and so it was: which they reckon
      good news. After dinner we three to the Excise Office, and there had long
      discourse about our monies, but nothing to satisfaction, that is, to shew
      any way of shortening the time which our tallies take up before they
      become payable, which is now full two years, which is 20 per, cent. for
      all the King's money for interest, and the great disservice of his Majesty
      otherwise. Thence in the evening round by coach home, where I find Foundes
      his present, of a fair pair of candlesticks, and half a dozen of plates
      come, which cost him full L50, and is a very good present; and here I met
      with, sealed up, from Sir H. Cholmly, the lampoone, or the Mocke-Advice to
      a Paynter,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In a broadside (1680), quoted by Mr. G. T. Drury in his edition of
     Waller's Poems, 1893, satirical reference is made to the fashionable
     form of advice to the painters

               "Each puny brother of the rhyming trade
               At every turn implores the Painter's aid,
               And fondly enamoured of own foul brat
               Cries in an ecstacy, Paint this, draw that."

     The series was continued, for we find "Advice to a Painter upon the
     Defeat of the Rebels in the West and the Execution of the late Duke
     of Monmouth" ("Poems on Affairs of State," vol. ii., p. 148);
     "Advice to a Painter, being a Satire on the French King," &amp;c., 1692,
     and "Advice to a Painter," 1697 ("Poems on Affairs of State," vol.
     ii., p. 428).]
</pre>
    <p>
      abusing the Duke of York and my Lord Sandwich, Pen, and every body, and
      the King himself, in all the matters of the navy and warr. I am sorry for
      my Lord Sandwich's having so great a part in it. Then to supper and
      musique, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and to the office, where my Lord Bruncker newly come to town,
      from his being at Chatham and Harwich to spy enormities: and at noon I
      with him and his lady Williams, to Captain Cocke's, where a good dinner,
      and very merry. Good news to-day upon the Exchange, that our Hamburgh
      fleete is got in; and good hopes that we may soon have the like of our
      Gottenburgh, and then we shall be well for this winter. Very merry at
      dinner. And by and by comes in Matt. Wren from the Parliament-house; and
      tells us that he and all his party of the House, which is the Court party,
      are fools, and have been made so this day by the wise men of the other
      side; for, after the Court party had carried it yesterday so powerfully
      for the Paper-Bill,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [It was called "A Bill for raising part of the supply for his
     Majesty by an imposition on Sealed Paper and Parchment"&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      yet now it is laid aside wholly, and to be supplied by a land-tax; which
      it is true will do well, and will be the sooner finished, which was the
      great argument for the doing of it. But then it shews them fools, that
      they would not permit this to have been done six weeks ago, which they
      might have had. And next, they have parted with the Paper Bill, which,
      when once begun, might have proved a very good flower in the Crowne, as
      any there. So do really say that they are truly outwitted by the other
      side. Thence away to Sir R. Viner's, and there chose some plate besides
      twelve plates which I purpose to have with Captain Cocke's gift of L100,
      and so home and there busy late, and then home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). Lay long talking with my wife in bed, then up with
      great content and to my chamber to set right a picture or two, Lovett
      having sent me yesterday Sancta Clara's head varnished, which is very
      fine, and now my closet is so full stored, and so fine, as I would never
      desire to have it better. Dined without any strangers with me, which I do
      not like on Sundays. Then after dinner by water to Westminster to see Mrs.
      Martin, whom I found up in her chamber and ready to go abroad. I sat there
      with her and her husband and others a pretty while, and then away to White
      Hall, and there walked up and down to the Queen's side, and there saw my
      dear Lady Castlemayne, who continues admirable, methinks, and I do not
      hear but that the King is the same to her still as ever. Anon to chapel,
      by the King's closet, and heard a very good anthemne. Then with Lord
      Bruncker to Sir W. Coventry's chamber; and there we sat with him and
      talked. He is weary of anything to do, he says, in the Navy. He tells us
      this Committee of Accounts will enquire sharply into our office. And,
      speaking of Sir J. Minnes, he says he will not bear any body's faults but
      his own. He discoursed as bad of Sir W. Batten almost, and cries out upon
      the discipline of the fleete, which is lost, and that there is not in any
      of the fourth rates and under scarce left one Sea Commander, but all young
      gentlemen; and what troubles him, he hears that the gentlemen give out
      that in two or three years a Tarpaulin shall not dare to look after being
      better than a Boatswain. Which he is troubled at, and with good reason,
      and at this day Sir Robert Holmes is mighty troubled that his brother do
      not command in chief, but is commanded by Captain Hannum, who, Sir W.
      Coventry says, he believes to be at least of as good blood, is a longer
      bred seaman, an elder officer, and an elder commander, but such is Sir R.
      Holmes's pride as never to be stopt, he being greatly troubled at my Lord
      Bruncker's late discharging all his men and officers but the standing
      officers at Chatham, and so are all other Commanders, and a very great cry
      hath been to the King from them all in my Lord's absence. But Sir W.
      Coventry do undertake to defend it, and my Lord Bruncker got ground I
      believe by it, who is angry at Sir W. Batten's and Sir W. Pen's bad words
      concerning it, and I have made it worse by telling him that they refuse to
      sign to a paper which he and I signed on Saturday to declare the reason of
      his actions, which Sir W. Coventry likes and would have it sent him and he
      will sign it, which pleases me well. So we parted, and I with Lord
      Bruncker to Sir P. Neale's chamber, and there sat and talked awhile, Sir
      Edward Walker being there, and telling us how he hath lost many fine
      rowles of antiquity in heraldry by the late fire, but hath saved the most
      of his papers. Here was also Dr. Wallis, the famous scholar and
      mathematician; but he promises little. Left them, and in the dark and cold
      home by water, and so to supper and to read and so to bed, my eyes being
      better to-day, and I cannot impute it to anything but by my being much in
      the dark to-night, for I plainly find that it is only excess of light that
      makes my eyes sore. This after noon I walked with Lord Bruncker into the
      Park and there talked of the times, and he do think that the King sees
      that he cannot never have much more money or good from this Parliament,
      and that therefore he may hereafter dissolve them, that as soon as he has
      the money settled he believes a peace will be clapped up, and that there
      are overtures of a peace, which if such as the Lord Chancellor can excuse
      he will take. For it is the Chancellor's interest, he says, to bring peace
      again, for in peace he can do all and command all, but in war he cannot,
      because he understands not the nature of the war as to the management
      thereof. He tells me he do not believe the Duke of York will go to sea
      again, though there are a great many about the King that would be glad of
      any occasion to take him out of the world, he standing in their ways; and
      seemed to mean the Duke of Monmouth, who spends his time the most
      viciously and idly of any man, nor will be fit for any thing; yet bespeaks
      as if it were not impossible but the King would own him for his son, and
      that there was a marriage between his mother and him; which God forbid
      should be if it be not true, nor will the Duke of York easily be gulled in
      it. But this put to our other distractions makes things appear very sad,
      and likely to be the occasion of much confusion in a little time, and my
      Lord Bruncker seems to say that nothing can help us but the King's making
      a peace soon as he hath this money; and thereby putting himself out of
      debt, and so becoming a good husband, and then he will neither need this
      nor any other Parliament, till he can have one to his mind: for no
      Parliament can, as he says, be kept long good, but they will spoil one
      another, and that therefore it hath been the practice of kings to tell
      Parliaments what he hath for them to do, and give them so long time to do
      it in, and no longer. Harry Kembe, one of our messengers, is lately dead.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and several people to speak with me, and then comes Mr. Caesar,
      and then Goodgroome, and, what with one and the other, nothing but musique
      with me this morning, to my great content; and the more, to see that God
      Aimighty hath put me into condition to bear the charge of all this. So out
      to the 'Change, and did a little business, and then home, where they two
      musicians and Mr. Cooke come to see me, and Mercer to go along with my
      wife this afternoon to a play. To dinner, and then our company all broke
      up, and to my chamber to do several things. Among other things, to write a
      letter to my Lord Sandwich, it being one of the burdens upon my mind that
      I have not writ to him since he went into Spain, but now I do intend to
      give him a brief account of our whole year's actions since he went, which
      will make amends. My wife well home in the evening from the play; which I
      was glad of, it being cold and dark, and she having her necklace of pearl
      on, and none but Mercer with her. Spent the evening in fitting my books,
      to have the number set upon each, in order to my having an alphabet of my
      whole, which will be of great ease to me. This day Captain Batters come
      from sea in his fireship and come to see me, poor man, as his patron, and
      a poor painful wretch he is as can be. After supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and to the office, where I hear the ill news that poor Batters,
      that had been born and bred a seaman, and brought up his ship from sea but
      yesterday, was, going down from me to his ship, drowned in the Thames,
      which is a sad fortune, and do make me afeard, and will do, more than ever
      I was. At noon dined at home, and then by coach to my Lord Bellasses, but
      not at home. So to Westminster Hall, where the Lords are sitting still, I
      to see Mrs. Martin, who is very well, and intends to go abroad to-morrow
      after her childbed. She do tell me that this child did come is 'meme jour
      that it ought to hazer after my avoir ete con elle before her marid did
      venir home.... Thence to the Swan, and there I sent for Sarah, and mighty
      merry we were.... So to Sir Robert Viner's about my plate, and carried
      home another dozen of plates, which makes my stock of plates up 2 1/2
      dozen, and at home find Mr. Thomas Andrews, with whom I staid and talked a
      little and invited him to dine with me at Christmas, and then I to the
      office, and there late doing business, and so home and to bed. Sorry for
      poor Batters.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and by water down to White Hall, and there with the.Duke of York
      did our usual business, but nothing but complaints of want of money
      [without] success, and Sir W. Coventry's complaint of the defects of our
      office (indeed Sir J. Minnes's) without any amendment, and he tells us so
      plainly of the Committee of Parliament's resolution to enquire home into
      all our managements that it makes me resolve to be wary, and to do all
      things betimes to be ready for them. Thence going away met Mr. Hingston
      the organist (my old acquaintance) in the Court, and I took him to the Dog
      Taverne and got him to set me a bass to my "It is decreed," which I think
      will go well, but he commends the song not knowing the words, but says the
      ayre is good, and believes the words are plainly expressed. He is of my
      mind against having of 8ths unnecessarily in composition. This did all
      please me mightily. Then to talk of the King's family. He says many of the
      musique are ready to starve, they being five years behindhand for their
      wages; nay, Evens, the famous man upon the Harp having not his equal in
      the world, did the other day die for mere want, and was fain to be buried
      at the almes of the parish, and carried to his grave in the dark at night
      without one linke, but that Mr. Hingston met it by chance, and did give
      12d. to buy two or three links. He says all must come to ruin at this
      rate, and I believe him. Thence I up to the Lords' House to enquire for
      Lord Bellasses; and there hear how at a conference this morning between
      the two Houses about the business of the Canary Company, my Lord
      Buckingham leaning rudely over my Lord Marquis Dorchester, my Lord
      Dorchester removed his elbow. Duke of Buckingham asked him whether he was
      uneasy; Dorchester replied, yes, and that he durst not do this were he any
      where else: Buckingham replied, yes he would, and that he was a better man
      than himself; Dorchester answered that he lyed. With this Buckingham
      struck off his hat, and took him by his periwigg, and pulled it aside, and
      held him. My Lord Chamberlain and others interposed, and, upon coming into
      the House, the Lords did order them both to the Tower, whither they are to
      go this afternoon. I down into the Hall, and there the Lieutenant of the
      Tower took me with him, and would have me to the Tower to dinner; where I
      dined at the head of his table, next his lady,' who is comely and seeming
      sober and stately, but very proud and very cunning, or I am mistaken, and
      wanton, too. This day's work will bring the Lieutenant of the Tower L350.
      But a strange, conceited, vain man he is that ever I met withal, in his
      own praise, as I have heretofore observed of him. Thence home, and upon
      Tower Hill saw about 3 or 400 seamen get together; and one, standing upon
      a pile of bricks, made his sign, with his handkercher, upon his stick, and
      called all the rest to him, and several shouts they gave. This made me
      afeard; so I got home as fast as I could. And hearing of no present hurt
      did go to Sir Robert Viner's about my plate again, and coming home do hear
      of 1000 seamen said in the streets to be in armes. So in great fear home,
      expecting to find a tumult about my house, and was doubtful of my riches
      there. But I thank God I found all well. But by and by Sir W. Batten and
      Sir R. Ford do tell me, that the seamen have been at some prisons, to
      release some seamen, and the Duke of Albemarle is in armes, and all the
      Guards at the other end of the town; and the Duke of Albemarle is gone
      with some forces to Wapping, to quell the seamen; which is a thing of
      infinite disgrace to us. I sat long talking with them; and, among other
      things, Sir R. Ford did make me understand how the House of Commons is a
      beast not to be understood, it being impossible to know beforehand the
      success almost of any small plain thing, there being so many to think and
      speak to any business, and they of so uncertain minds and interests and
      passions. He did tell me, and so did Sir W. Batten, how Sir Allen
      Brodericke and Sir Allen Apsly did come drunk the other day into the
      House, and did both speak for half an hour together, and could not be
      either laughed, or pulled, or bid to sit down and hold their peace, to the
      great contempt of the King's servants and cause; which I am grieved at
      with all my heart. We were full in discourse of the sad state of our
      times, and the horrid shame brought on the King's service by the just
      clamours of the poor seamen, and that we must be undone in a little time.
      Home full of trouble on these considerations, and, among other things, I
      to my chamber, and there to ticket a good part of my books, in order to
      the numbering of them for my easy finding them to read as I have occasion.
      So to supper and to bed, with my heart full of trouble.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and here among
      other things come Captain Cocke, and I did get him to sign me a note for
      the L100 to pay for the plate he do present me with, which I am very glad
      of. At noon home to dinner, where was Balty come, who is well again, and
      the most recovered in his countenance that ever I did see. Here dined with
      me also Mrs. Batters, poor woman! now left a sad widow by the drowning of
      her husband the other day. I pity her, and will do her what kindness I
      can; yet I observe something of ill-nature in myself more than should be,
      that I am colder towards her in my charity than I should be to one so
      painful as he and she have been and full of kindness to their power to my
      wife and I. After dinner out with Balty, setting him down at the Maypole
      in the Strand, and then I to my Lord Bellasses, and there spoke with Mr.
      Moone about some business, and so away home to my business at the office,
      and then home to supper and to bed, after having finished the putting of
      little papers upon my books to be numbered hereafter.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Lay long, and when up find Mrs. Clerk of Greenwich and her daughter
      Daniel, their business among other things was a request her daughter was
      to make, so I took her into my chamber, and there it was to help her
      husband to the command of a little new pleasure boat building, which I
      promised to assist in. And here I had opportunity 'para baiser elle, and
      toucher ses mamailles'.... Then to the office, and there did a little
      business, and then to the 'Change and did the like. So home to dinner, and
      spent all the afternoon in putting some things, pictures especially, in
      order, and pasting my Lady Castlemayne's print on a frame, which I have
      made handsome, and is a fine piece. So to the office in the evening to
      marshall my papers of accounts presented to the Parliament, against any
      future occasion to recur to them, which I did do to my great content. So
      home and did some Tangier work, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. At the office all the morning, and there come news from Hogg that
      our shipp hath brought in a Lubecker to Portsmouth, likely to prove prize,
      of deals, which joys us. At noon home to dinner, and then Sir W. Pen, Sir
      R. Ford, and I met at Sir W. Batten's to examine our papers, and have
      great hopes to prove her prize, and Sir R. Ford I find a mighty yare&mdash;[Quick
      or ready, a naval term frequently used by Shakespeare.]&mdash;man in this
      business, making exceeding good observations from the papers on our
      behalf. Hereupon concluded what to write to Hogg and Middleton, which I
      did, and also with Mr. Oviatt (Sir R. Ford's son, who is to be our
      solicitor), to fee some counsel in the Admiralty, but none in town. So
      home again, and after writing letters by the post, I with all my clerks
      and Carcasse and Whitfield to the ticket-office, there to be informed in
      the method and disorder of the office, which I find infinite great, of
      infinite concernment to be mended, and did spend till 12 at night to my
      great satisfaction, it being a point of our office I was wholly
      unacquainted in. So with great content home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). Up and alone to church, and meeting Nan Wright at the
      gate had opportunity to take two or three 'baisers', and so to church,
      where a vain fellow with a periwigg preached, Chaplain, as by his prayer
      appeared, to the Earl of Carlisle? Home, and there dined with us Betty
      Michell and her husband. After dinner to White Hall by coach, and took
      them with me. And in the way I would have taken 'su main' as I did the
      last time, but she did in a manner withhold it. So set them down at White
      Hall, and I to the Chapel to find Dr. Gibbons, and from him to the Harp
      and Ball to transcribe the treble which I would have him to set a bass to.
      But this took me so much time, and it growing night, I was fearful of
      missing a coach, and therefore took a coach and to rights to call Michell
      and his wife at their father Howlett's, and so home, it being cold, and
      the ground all snow.... They gone I to my chamber, and with my brother and
      wife did number all my books in my closet, and took a list of their names,
      which pleases me mightily, and is a jobb I wanted much to have done. Then
      to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and to the office, where Lord Bruncker, [Sir] J. Mimics, [Sir]
      W. Yen, and myself met, and there I did use my notes I took on Saturday
      night about tickets, and did come to a good settlement in the business of
      that office, if it be kept to, this morning being a meeting on purpose. At
      noon to prevent my Lord Bruncker's dining here I walked as if upon
      business with him, it being frost and dry, as far as Paul's, and so back
      again through the City by Guildhall, observing the ruines thereabouts,
      till I did truly lose myself, and so home to dinner. I do truly find that
      I have overwrought my eyes, so that now they are become weak and apt to be
      tired, and all excess of light makes them sore, so that now to the
      candlelight I am forced to sit by, adding, the snow upon the ground all
      day, my eyes are very bad, and will be worse if not helped, so my Lord
      Bruncker do advise as a certain cure to use greene spectacles, which I
      will do. So to dinner, where Mercer with us, and very merry. After dinner
      she goes and fetches a little son of Mr. Backeworth's, the wittiest child
      and of the most spirit that ever I saw in my life for discourse of all
      kind, and so ready and to the purpose, not above four years old. Thence to
      Sir Robert Viner's, and there paid for the plate I have bought to the
      value of L94, with the L100 Captain Cocke did give me to that purpose, and
      received the rest in money. I this evening did buy me a pair of green
      spectacles, to see whether they will help my eyes or no. So to the
      'Change, and went to the Upper 'Change, which is almost as good as the old
      one; only shops are but on one side. Then home to the office, and did
      business till my eyes began to be bad, and so home to supper. My people
      busy making mince pies, and so to bed. No newes yet of our Gottenburgh
      fleete; which makes [us] have some fears, it being of mighty concernment
      to have our supply of masts safe. I met with Mr. Cade to-night, my
      stationer; and he tells me that he hears for certain that the
      Queene-Mother is about and hath near finished a peace with France, which,
      as a Presbyterian, he do not like, but seems to fear it will be a means to
      introduce Popery.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Christmas day). Lay pretty long in bed, and then rose, leaving my
      wife desirous to sleep, having sat up till four this morning seeing her
      mayds make mince-pies. I to church, where our parson Mills made a good
      sermon. Then home, and dined well on some good ribbs of beef roasted and
      mince pies; only my wife, brother, and Barker, and plenty of good wine of
      my owne, and my heart full of true joy; and thanks to God Almighty for the
      goodness of my condition at this day. After dinner, I begun to teach my
      wife and Barker my song, "It is decreed," which pleases me mightily as now
      I have Mr. Hinxton's base. Then out and walked alone on foot to the
      Temple, it being a fine frost, thinking to have seen a play all alone; but
      there, missing of any bills, concluded there was none, and so back home;
      and there with my brother reducing the names of all my books to an
      alphabet, which kept us till 7 or 8 at night, and then to supper, W. Hewer
      with us, and pretty merry, and then to my chamber to enter this day's
      journal only, and then to bed. My head a little thoughtfull how to behave
      myself in the business of the victualling, which I think will be prudence
      to offer my service in doing something in passing the pursers' accounts,
      thereby to serve the King, get honour to myself, and confirm me in my
      place in the victualling, which at present yields not work enough to
      deserve my wages.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and walked all the way (it being a most fine frost), to White
      Hall, to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and thence with him up to the Duke of
      York, where among other things at our meeting I did offer my assistance to
      Sir J. Minnes to do the business of his office, relating to the Pursers'
      accounts, which was well accepted by the Duke of York, and I think I have
      and shall do myself good in it, if it be taken, for it will confirm me in
      the business of the victualling office, which I do now very little for.
      Thence home, carrying a barrel of oysters with me. Anon comes Mr. John
      Andrews and his wife by invitation from Bow to dine with me, and young
      Batelier and his wife with her great belly, which has spoiled her looks
      mightily already. Here was also Mercer and Creed, whom I met coming home,
      who tells me of a most bitter lampoone now out against the Court and the
      management of State from head to foot, mighty witty and mighty severe. By
      and by to dinner, a very good one, and merry. After dinner I put the women
      into a coach, and they to the Duke's house, to a play which was acted,
      "The&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;." It was indifferently done, but was not
      pleased with the song, Gosnell not singing, but a new wench, that sings
      naughtily. Thence home, all by coach, and there Mr. Andrews to the vyall,
      who plays most excellently on it, which I did not know before. Then to
      dance, here being Pembleton come, by my wife's direction, and a fiddler;
      and we got, also, the elder Batelier to-night, and Nan Wright, and mighty
      merry we were, and I danced; and so till twelve at night, and to supper,
      and then to cross purposes, mighty merry, and then to bed, my eyes being
      sore. Creed lay here in Barker's bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up; and called up by the King's trumpets, which cost me 10s. So to
      the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon, by invitation, my wife,
      who had not been there these to months, I think, and I, to meet all our
      families at Sir W. Batten's at dinner, whither neither a great dinner for
      so much company nor anything good or handsome. In the middle of dinner I
      rose, and my wife, and by coach to the King's playhouse, and meeting Creed
      took him up, and there saw "The Scornfull Lady" well acted; Doll Common
      doing Abigail most excellently, and Knipp the widow very well, and will be
      an excellent actor, I think. In other parts the play not so well done as
      used to be, by the old actors. Anon to White Hall by coach, thinking to
      have seen a play there to-night, but found it a mistake, so back again,
      and missed our coach[man], who was gone, thinking to come time enough
      three hours hence, and we could not blame him. So forced to get another
      coach, and all three home to my house, and there to Sir W. Batten's, and
      eat a bit of cold chine of beef, and then staid and talked, and then home
      and sat and talked a little by the fireside with my wife and Creed, and so
      to bed, my left eye being very sore. No business publick or private minded
      all these two days. This day a house or two was blown up with powder in
      the Minorys, and several people spoiled, and many dug out from under the
      rubbish.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and Creed and I walked (a very fine walk in the frost) to my
      Lord Bellasses, but missing him did find him at White Hall, and there
      spoke with him about some Tangier business. That done, we to Creed's
      lodgings, which are very pretty, but he is going from them. So we to
      Lincoln's Inne Fields, he to Ned Pickering's, who it seems lives there,
      keeping a good house, and I to my Lord Crew's, where I dined, and hear the
      newes how my Lord's brother, Mr. Nathaniel Crew, hath an estate of 6 or
      L700 per annum, left him by the death of an old acquaintance of his, but
      not akin to him at all. And this man is dead without will, but had, above
      ten years since, made over his estate to this Mr. Crew, to him and his
      heirs for ever, and given Mr. Crew the keeping of the deeds in his own
      hand all this time; by which, if he would, he might have taken present
      possession of the estate, for he knew what they were. This is as great an
      act of confident friendship as this latter age, I believe, can shew. From
      hence to the Duke's house, and there saw "Macbeth" most excellently acted,
      and a most excellent play for variety. I had sent for my wife to meet me
      there, who did come, and after the play was done, I out so soon to meet
      her at the other door that I left my cloake in the playhouse, and while I
      returned to get it, she was gone out and missed me, and with W. Hewer away
      home. I not sorry for it much did go to White Hall, and got my Lord
      Bellasses to get me into the playhouse; and there, after all staying above
      an hour for the players, the King and all waiting, which was absurd, saw
      "Henry the Fifth" well done by the Duke's people, and in most excellent
      habits, all new vests, being put on but this night. But I sat so high and
      far off, that I missed most of the words, and sat with a wind coming into
      my back and neck, which did much trouble me. The play continued till
      twelve at night; and then up, and a most horrid cold night it was, and
      frosty, and moonshine. But the worst was, I had left my cloak at Sir G.
      Carteret's, and they being abed I was forced to go home without it. So by
      chance got a coach and to the Golden Lion Taverne in the Strand, and there
      drank some mulled sack, and so home, where find my poor wife staying for
      me, and then to bed mighty cold.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, called up with newes from Sir W. Batten that Hogg hath brought
      in two prizes more: and so I thither, and hear the particulars, which are
      good; one of them, if prize, being worth L4,000: for which God be thanked!
      Then to the office, and have the newes brought us of Captain Robinson's
      coming with his fleete from Gottenburgh: dispersed, though, by foul
      weather. But he hath light of five Dutch men-of-war, and taken three,
      whereof one is sunk; which is very good newes to close up the year with,
      and most of our merchantmen already heard of to be safely come home,
      though after long lookings-for, and now to several ports, as they could
      make them. At noon home to dinner, where Balty is and now well recovered.
      Then to the office to do business, and at night, it being very cold, home
      to my chamber, and there late writing, but my left eye still very sore. I
      write by spectacles all this night, then to supper and to bed. This day's
      good news making me very lively, only the arrears of much business on my
      hands and my accounts to be settled for the whole year past do lie as a
      weight on my mind.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Lord's day). Lay long, however up and to church, where Mills made a
      good sermon. Here was a collection for the sexton; but it come into my
      head why we should be more bold in making the collection while the psalm
      is singing, than in the sermon or prayer. Home, and, without any
      strangers, to dinner, and then all the afternoon and evening in my chamber
      preparing all my accounts in good condition against to-morrow, to state
      them for the whole year past, to which God give me a good issue when I
      come to close them! So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Rising this day with a full design to mind nothing else but to make
      up my accounts for the year past, I did take money, and walk forth to
      several places in the towne as far as the New Exchange, to pay all my
      debts, it being still a very great frost and good walking. I staid at the
      Fleece Tavern in Covent Garden while my boy Tom went to W. Joyce's to pay
      what I owed for candles there. Thence to the New Exchange to clear my
      wife's score, and so going back again I met Doll Lane (Mrs. Martin's
      sister), with another young woman of the Hall, one Scott, and took them to
      the Half Moon Taverne and there drank some burnt wine with them, without
      more pleasure, and so away home by coach, and there to dinner, and then to
      my accounts, wherein, at last, I find them clear and right; but, to my
      great discontent, do find that my gettings this year have been L573 less
      than my last: it being this year in all but L2,986; whereas, the last, I
      got L3,560. And then again my spendings this year have exceeded my
      spendings the last by L644: my whole spendings last year being but L509;
      whereas this year, it appears, I have spent L1154, which is a sum not fit
      to be said that ever I should spend in one year, before I am master of a
      better estate than I am. Yet, blessed be God! and I pray God make me
      thankful for it, I do find myself worth in money, all good, above L6,200;
      which is above L1800 more than I was the last year. This, I trust in God,
      will make me thankfull for what I have, and carefull to make up by care
      next year what by my negligence and prodigality I have lost and spent this
      year. The doing of this, and entering of it fair, with the sorting of all
      my expenses, to see how and in what points I have exceeded, did make it
      late work, till my eyes become very sore and ill, and then did give over,
      and supper, and to bed. Thus ends this year of publick wonder and mischief
      to this nation, and, therefore, generally wished by all people to have an
      end. Myself and family well, having four mayds and one clerk, Tom, in my
      house, and my brother, now with me, to spend time in order to his
      preferment. Our healths all well, only my eyes with overworking them are
      sore as candlelight comes to them, and not else; publick matters in a most
      sad condition; seamen discouraged for want of pay, and are become not to
      be governed: nor, as matters are now, can any fleete go out next year. Our
      enemies, French and Dutch, great, and grow more by our poverty. The
      Parliament backward in raising, because jealous of the spending of the
      money; the City less and less likely to be built again, every body
      settling elsewhere, and nobody encouraged to trade. A sad, vicious,
      negligent Court, and all sober men there fearful of the ruin of the whole
      kingdom this next year; from which, good God deliver us! One thing I
      reckon remarkable in my owne condition is, that I am come to abound in
      good plate, so as at all entertainments to be served wholly with silver
      plates, having two dozen and a half.
    </p>
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     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS, PEPY'S DIARY, 1966 N.S., COMPLETE:

     A cat will be a cat still
     About the nature of sounds
     About my new closet, for my mind is full of nothing but that
     After a harsh word or two my wife and I good friends
     All the innocent pleasure in the world
     Amending of bad blood by borrowing from a better body
     And if ever I fall on it again, I deserve to be undone
     And for his beef, says he, "Look how fat it is"
     Angry, and so continued till bed, and did not sleep friends
     Apprehension of the King of France's invading us
     As very a gossip speaking of her neighbours as any body
     Ashamed at myself for this losse of time
     Baited at Islington, and so late home about 11 at night
     Beare-garden
     Begun to write idle and from the purpose
     Being there, and seeming to do something, while we do not
     Being examined at Allgate, whether we were husbands and wives
     Being five years behindhand for their wages (court musicians)
     Better the musique, the more sicke it makes him
     Bill against importing Irish cattle
     Bringing over one discontented man, you raise up three
     But pretty!  how I took another pretty woman for her
     But fit she should live where he hath a mind
     But how many years I cannot tell; but my wife says ten
     By and by met at her chamber, and there did what I would
     Called at a little ale-house, and had an eele pye
     Catholiques are everywhere and bold
     Checking her last night in the coach in her long stories
     Contempt of the ceremoniousnesse of the King of Spayne
     Counterfeit mirthe and pleasure with them, but had but little
     Did tumble them all the afternoon as I pleased
     Did drink of the College beer, which is very good
     Did dig another, and put our wine in it; and I my Parmazan cheese
     Discoursing upon the sad condition of the times
     Do bury still of the plague seven or eight in a day
     Driven down again with a stinke by Sir W. Pen's shying of a pot
     Durst not ask any body how it was with us
     Evelyn, who cries out against it, and calls it bitchering
     Exceeding kind to me, more than usual, which makes me afeard
     Fashion, the King says; he will never change
     Fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more
     First their apes, that they may be afterwards their slaves
     For a land-tax and against a general excise
     Foretelling the draught of water of a ship before she be launche
     Gladder to have just now received it (than a promise)
     Good sport of the bull's tossing of the dogs
     Got her upon my knee (the coach being full) and played with her
     Great fire they saw in the City
     Great deale of tittle tattle discourse to little purpose
     Great newes of the Swedes declaring for us against the Dutch
     He is such innocent company
     He has been inconvenienced by being too free in discourse
     Here I first saw oranges grow
     Horrid malicious bloody flame
     I to bed even by daylight
     I do not value her, or mind her as I ought
     I did what I would, and might have done anything else
     I never did observe so much of myself in my life
     I had six noble dishes for them, dressed by a man-cook
     In opposition to France, had made us throw off their fashion
     King hath lost his power, by submitting himself to this way
     King be desired to put all Catholiques out of employment
     Lady Duchesse the veryest slut and drudge
     Last act of friendship in telling me of my faults also
     Listening to no reasoning for it, be it good or bad
     Long petticoat dragging under their men's coats
     Magnifying the graces of the nobility and prelates
     Many women now-a-days of mean sort in the streets, but no men
     Mass, and some of their musique, which is not so contemptible
     Mightily pleased with myself for the business that I have done
     Mightily vexed at my being abroad with these women
     Milke, which I drank to take away, my heartburne
     Most homely widow, but young, and pretty rich, and good natured
     Never fought with worse officers in his life
     No Parliament can, as he says, be kept long good
     No manner of means used to quench the fire
     No money to do it with, nor anybody to trust us without it
     Not being well pleased with her over free and loose company
     Not permit her begin to do so, lest worse should follow
     Now very big, and within a fortnight of lying down
     Offered to stop the fire near his house for such a reward
     Origin in the use of a plane against the grain of the wood
     Out also to and fro, to see and be seen
     Pain to ride in a coach with them, for fear of being seen
     Peace with France, which, as a Presbyterian, he do not like
     Play on the harpsicon, till she tired everybody
     Plot in it, and that the French had done it
     Providing against a foule day to get as much money into my hands
     Put up with too much care, that I have forgot where they are
     Rather hear a cat mew, than the best musique in the world
     Reading over my dear "Faber fortunae," of my Lord Bacon's
     Reading to my wife and brother something in Chaucer
     Rejoiced over head and ears in this good newes
     Removing goods from one burned house to another
     Requisite I be prepared against the man's friendship
     Sad sight it was: the whole City almost on fire
     Said that there hath been a design to poison the King
     Sang till about twelve at night, with mighty pleasure
     Says, of all places, if there be hell, it is here
     Scotch song of "Barbary Allen"
     Send up and down for a nurse to take the girle home
     Shy of any warr hereafter, or to prepare better for it
     So home to supper, and to bed, it being my wedding night
     So back again home to supper and to bed with great pleasure
     So to bed in some little discontent, but no words from me
     So home and to supper with beans and bacon and to bed
     Staying out late, and painting in the absence of her husband
     Tax the same man in three or four several capacities
     That I may have nothing by me but what is worth keeping
     That I may look as a man minding business
     The gentlemen captains will undo us
     The very rum man must have L200
     Thence to Mrs. Martin's, and did what I would with her
     There did what 'je voudrais avec' her....
     There did 'tout ce que je voudrais avec' her
     There I did lay the beginnings of a future 'amour con elle'
     There did what I would with her
     Think that we are beaten in every respect
     This is the use we make of our fathers
     This unhappinesse of ours do give them heart
     Through want of money and good conduct
     Time spending, and no money to set anything in hand
     To bed, after washing my legs and feet with warm water
     Too late for them to enjoy it with any pleasure
     Too much ill newes true, to afflict ourselves with uncertain
     Took him home the money, and, though much to my grief
     Tooke my wife well dressed into the Hall to see and be seen
     Tooth-ake made him no company, and spoilt ours
     Unless my too-much addiction to pleasure undo me
     Venison-pasty that we have for supper to-night to the cook's
     Weary of the following of my pleasure
     What I had writ foule in short hand
     What itching desire I did endeavour to see Bagwell's wife
     Wherewith to give every body something for their pains
     Who must except against every thing and remedy nothing
     With a shower of hail as big as walnuts
     World sees now the use of them for shelter of men (fore-castles)
     Ye pulling down of houses, in ye way of ye fire
     Young man play the foole upon the doctrine of purgatory
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      JANUARY 1666-1667
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      January 1st. Lay long, being a bitter, cold, frosty day, the frost being
      now grown old, and the Thames covered with ice. Up, and to the office,
      where all the morning busy. At noon to the 'Change a little, where Mr.
      James Houblon and I walked a good while speaking of our ill condition in
      not being able to set out a fleet (we doubt) this year, and the certain
      ill effect that must bring, which is lamentable. Home to dinner, where the
      best powdered goose that ever I eat. Then to the office again, and to Sir
      W. Batten's to examine the Commission going down to Portsmouth to examine
      witnesses about our prizes, of which God give a good issue! and then to
      the office again, where late, and so home, my eyes sore. To supper and to
      bed.
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    <p>
      2nd. Up, I, and walked to White Hall to attend the Duke of York, as usual.
      My wife up, and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to frost-bite
      themselves. I find the Court full of great apprehensions of the French,
      who have certainly shipped landsmen, great numbers, at Brest; and most of
      our people here guess his design for Ireland. We have orders to send all
      the ships we can possible to the Downes. God have mercy on us! for we can
      send forth no ships without men, nor will men go without money, every day
      bringing us news of new mutinies among the seamen; so that our condition
      is like to be very miserable. Thence to Westminster Hall, and there met
      all the Houblons, who do laugh at this discourse of the French, and say
      they are verily of opinion it is nothing but to send to their plantation
      in the West Indys, and that we at Court do blow up a design of invading
      us, only to make the Parliament make more haste in the money matters, and
      perhaps it may be so, but I do not believe we have any such plot in our
      heads. After them, I, with several people, among others Mr. George
      Montagu, whom I have not seen long, he mighty kind. He tells me all is
      like to go ill, the King displeasing the House of Commons by evading their
      Bill for examining Accounts, and putting it into a Commission, though
      therein he hath left out Coventry and I and named all the rest the
      Parliament named, and all country Lords, not one Courtier: this do not
      please them. He tells me he finds the enmity almost over for my Lord
      Sandwich, and that now all is upon the Vice-Chamberlain, who bears up well
      and stands upon his vindication, which he seems to like well, and the
      others do construe well also. Thence up to the Painted Chamber, and there
      heard a conference between the House of Lords and Commons about the Wine
      Patent; which I was exceeding glad to be at, because of my hearing
      exceeding good discourses, but especially from the Commons; among others,
      Mr. Swinfen, and a young man, one Sir Thomas Meres: and do outdo the Lords
      infinitely. So down to the Hall and to the Rose Taverne, while Doll Lane
      come to me, and we did 'biber a good deal de vino, et je did give elle
      twelve soldis para comprare elle some gans' for a new anno's gift ....
      Thence to the Hall again, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to the Temple, and
      there 'light and eat a bit at an ordinary by, and then alone to the King's
      House, and there saw "The Custome of the Country," the second time of its
      being acted, wherein Knipp does the Widow well; but, of all the plays that
      ever I did see, the worst-having neither plot, language, nor anything in
      the earth that is acceptable; only Knipp sings a little song admirably.
      But fully the worst play that ever I saw or I believe shall see. So away
      home, much displeased for the loss of so much time, and disobliging my
      wife by being there without her. So, by link, walked home, it being mighty
      cold but dry, yet bad walking because very slippery with the frost and
      treading. Home and to my chamber to set down my journal, and then to
      thinking upon establishing my vows against the next year, and so to supper
      and to bed.
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    <p>
      3rd. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon by
      invitation to dinner to Sir W. Pen's, where my Lord Bruncker, Sir W.
      Batten, and his lady, myself, and wife, Sir J. Minnes, and Mr. Turner and
      his wife. Indifferent merry, to which I contributed the most, but a mean
      dinner, and in a mean manner. In the evening a little to the office, and
      then to them, where I found them at cards, myself very ill with a cold
      (the frost continuing hard), so eat but little at supper, but very merry,
      and late home to bed, not much pleased with the manner of our
      entertainment, though to myself more civil than to any. This day, I hear,
      hath been a conference between the two Houses about the Bill for examining
      Accounts, wherein the House of Lords their proceedings in petitioning the
      King for doing it by Commission is, in great heat, voted by the Commons,
      after the conference, unparliamentary. The issue whereof, God knows.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and seeing things put in order for a dinner at my house to-day, I
      to the office awhile, and about noon home, and there saw all things in
      good order. Anon comes our company; my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Pen, his
      lady, and Pegg, and her servant, Mr. Lowther, my Lady Batten (Sir W.
      Batten being forced to dine at Sir K. Ford's, being invited), Mr. Turner
      and his wife. Here I had good room for ten, and no more would my table
      have held well, had Sir J. Minnes, who was fallen lame, and his sister,
      and niece, and Sir W. Batten come, which was a great content to me to be
      without them. I did make them all gaze to see themselves served so nobly
      in plate, and a neat dinner, indeed, though but of seven dishes. Mighty
      merry I was and made them all, and they mightily pleased. My Lord Bruncker
      went away after dinner to the ticket-office, the rest staid, only my Lady
      Batten home, her ague-fit coming on her at table. The rest merry, and to
      cards, and then to sing and talk, and at night to sup, and then to cards;
      and, last of all, to have a flaggon of ale and apples, drunk out of a wood
      cupp,
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     [A mazer or drinking-bowl turned out of some kind of wood, by
     preference of maple, and especially the spotted or speckled variety
     called "bird's-eye maple" (see W. H. St. John Hope's paper, "On the
     English Mediaeval Drinking-bowls called Mazers," "Archaeologia,"
     vol.  50, pp. 129,93).]
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      as a Christmas draught, made all merry; and they full of admiration at my
      plate, particularly my flaggons (which, indeed, are noble), and so late
      home, all with great mirth and satisfaction to them, as I thought, and to
      myself to see all I have and do so much outdo for neatness and plenty
      anything done by any of them. They gone, I to bed, much pleased, and do
      observe Mr. Lowther to be a pretty gentleman, and, I think, too good for
      Peg; and, by the way, Peg Pen seems mightily to be kind to me, and I
      believe by her father's advice, who is also himself so; but I believe not
      a little troubled to see my plenty, and was much troubled to hear the song
      I sung, "The New Droll"&mdash;it touching him home. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. At the office all the morning, thinking at noon to have been taken
      home, and my wife (according to appointment yesterday), by my Lord
      Bruncker, to dinner and then to a play, but he had forgot it, at which I
      was glad, being glad of avoyding the occasion of inviting him again, and
      being forced to invite his doxy, Mrs. Williams. So home, and took a small
      snap of victuals, and away, with my wife, to the Duke's house, and there
      saw "Mustapha," a most excellent play for words and design as ever I did
      see. I had seen it before but forgot it, so it was wholly new to me, which
      is the pleasure of my not committing these things to my memory. Home, and
      a little to the office, and then to bed, where I lay with much pain in my
      head most of the night, and very unquiet, partly by my drinking before I
      went out too great a draught of sack, and partly my eyes being still very
      sore.
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    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). Up pretty well in the morning, and then to church, where
      a dull doctor, a stranger, made a dull sermon. Then home, and Betty
      Michell and her husband come by invitation to dine with us, and, she I
      find the same as ever (which I was afraid of the contrary)... Here come
      also Mr. Howe to dine with me, and we had a good dinner and good merry
      discourse with much pleasure, I enjoying myself mightily to have friends
      at my table. After dinner young Michell and I, it being an excellent
      frosty day to walk, did walk out, he showing me the baker's house in
      Pudding Lane, where the late great fire begun; and thence all along Thames
      Street, where I did view several places, and so up by London Wall, by
      Blackfriars, to Ludgate; and thence to Bridewell, which I find to have
      been heretofore an extraordinary good house, and a fine coming to it,
      before the house by the bridge was built; and so to look about St. Bride's
      church and my father's house, and so walked home, and there supped
      together, and then Michell and Betty home, and I to my closet, there to
      read and agree upon my vows for next year, and so to bed and slept mighty
      well.
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    <p>
      7th. Lay long in bed. Then up and to the office, where busy all the
      morning. At noon (my wife being gone to Westminster) I with my Lord
      Bruncker by coach as far as the Temple, in the way he telling me that my
      Lady Denham is at last dead. Some suspect her poisoned, but it will be
      best known when her body is opened, which will be to-day, she dying
      yesterday morning. The Duke of York is troubled for her; but hath declared
      he will never have another public mistress again; which I shall be glad
      of, and would the King would do the like. He tells me how the Parliament
      is grown so jealous of the King's being unfayre to them in the business of
      the Bill for examining Accounts, Irish Bill, and the business of the
      Papists, that they will not pass the business for money till they see
      themselves secure that those Bills will pass; which they do observe the
      Court to keep off till all the Bills come together, that the King may
      accept what he pleases, and what he pleases to reject, which will undo all
      our business and the kingdom too. He tells me how Mr. Henry Howard, of
      Norfolke, hath given our Royal Society all his grandfather's library:
      which noble gift they value at L1000; and gives them accommodation to meet
      in at his house, Arundell House, they being now disturbed at Gresham
      College. Thence 'lighting at the Temple to the ordinary hard by and eat a
      bit of meat, and then by coach to fetch my wife from her brother's, and
      thence to the Duke's house, and saw "Macbeth," which, though I saw it
      lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially
      in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange
      perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable. So home,
      it being the last play now I am to see till a fortnight hence, I being
      from the last night entered into my vowes for the year coming on. Here I
      met with the good newes of Hogg's bringing in two prizes more to Plymouth,
      which if they prove but any part of them, I hope, at least, we shall be no
      losers by them. So home from the office, to write over fair my vowes for
      this year, and then to supper, and to bed. In great peace of mind having
      now done it, and brought myself into order again and a resolution of
      keeping it, and having entered my journall to this night, so to bed, my
      eyes failing me with writing.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, where my uncle Thomas with me to receive his quarterage. He tells
      me his son Thomas is set up in Smithfield, where he hath a shop&mdash;I
      suppose, a booth. Presently after dinner to the office, and there set
      close to my business and did a great deal before night, and am resolved to
      stand to it, having been a truant too long. At night to Sir W. Batten's to
      consider some things about our prizes, and then to other talk, and among
      other things he tells me that he hears for certain that Sir W. Coventry
      hath resigned to the King his place of Commissioner of the Navy, the thing
      he bath often told me that he had a mind to do, but I am surprised to
      think that he hath done it, and am full of thoughts all this evening after
      I heard it what may be the consequences of it to me. So home and to
      supper, and then saw the catalogue of my books, which my brother had wrote
      out, now perfectly alphabeticall, and so to bed. Sir Richard Ford did this
      evening at Sir W. Batten's tell us that upon opening the body of my Lady
      Denham it is said that they found a vessel about her matrix which had
      never been broke by her husband, that caused all pains in her body. Which
      if true is excellent invention to clear both the Duchesse from poison or
      the Duke from lying with her.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen in a hackney-coach to White
      Hall, the way being most horribly bad upon the breaking up of the frost,
      so as not to be passed almost. There did our usual [business] with the
      Duke of York, and here I do hear, by my Lord Bruncker, that for certain
      Sir W. Coventry hath resigned his place of Commissioner; which I believe
      he hath done upon good grounds of security to himself, from all the blame
      which must attend our office this next year; but I fear the King will
      suffer by it. Thence to Westminster Hall, and there to the conference of
      the Houses about the word "Nuisance,"
    </p>
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     [In the "Bill against importing Cattle from Ireland and other parts
     beyond the Seas," the Lords proposed to insert "Detriment and
     Mischief" in place of "Nuisance," but the Commons stood to their
     word, and gained their way.  The Lords finally consented that
     "Nuisance" should stand in the Bill.]
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    <p>
      which the Commons would have, and the Lords will not, in the Irish Bill.
      The Commons do it professedly to prevent the King's dispensing with it;
      which Sir Robert Howard and others did expressly repeat often: viz., "the
      King nor any King ever could do any thing which was hurtful to their
      people." Now the Lords did argue, that it was an ill precedent, and that
      which will ever hereafter be used as a way of preventing the King's
      dispensation with acts; and therefore rather advise to pass the Bill
      without that word, and let it go, accompanied with a petition, to the
      King, that he will not dispense with it; this being a more civil way to
      the King. They answered well, that this do imply that the King should pass
      their Bill, and yet with design to dispense with it; which is to suppose
      the King guilty of abusing them. And more, they produce precedents for it;
      namely, that against new buildings and about leather, wherein the word
      "Nuisance" is used to the purpose: and further, that they do not rob the
      King of any right he ever had, for he never had a power to do hurt to his
      people, nor would exercise it; and therefore there is no danger, in the
      passing this Bill, of imposing on his prerogative; and concluded, that
      they think they ought to do this, so as the people may really have the
      benefit of it when it is passed, for never any people could expect so
      reasonably to be indulged something from a King, they having already given
      him so much money, and are likely to give more. Thus they broke up, both
      adhering to their opinions; but the Commons seemed much more full of
      judgment and reason than the Lords. Then the Commons made their Report to
      the Lords of their vote, that their Lordships' proceedings in the Bill for
      examining Accounts were unparliamentary; they having, while a Bill was
      sent up to them from the Commons about the business, petitioned his
      Majesty that he would do the same thing by his Commission. They did give
      their reasons: viz., that it had no precedent; that the King ought not to
      be informed of anything passing in the Houses till it comes to a Bill;
      that it will wholly break off all correspondence between the two Houses,
      and in the issue wholly infringe the very use and being of Parliaments.
      Having left their arguments with the Lords they all broke up, and I by
      coach to the ordinary by the Temple, and there dined alone on a rabbit,
      and read a book I brought home from Mrs. Michell's, of the proceedings of
      the Parliament in the 3rd and 4th year of the late King, a very good book
      for speeches and for arguments of law. Thence to Faythorne, and bought a
      head or two; one of them my Lord of Ormond's, the best I ever saw, and
      then to Arundell House, where first the Royall Society meet, by the favour
      of Mr. Harry Howard, who was there, and has given us his grandfather's
      library, a noble gift, and a noble favour and undertaking it is for him to
      make his house the seat for this college. Here was an experiment shown
      about improving the use of powder for creating of force in winding up of
      springs and other uses of great worth. And here was a great meeting of
      worthy noble persons; but my Lord Bruncker, who pretended to make a
      congratulatory speech upon their coming hither, and in thanks to Mr.
      Howard, do it in the worst manner in the world, being the worst speaker,
      so as I do wonder at his parts and the unhappiness of his speaking. Thence
      home by coach and to the office, and then home to supper, Mercer and her
      sister there, and to cards, and then to bed. Mr. Cowling did this day in
      the House-lobby tell me of the many complaints among people against Mr.
      Townsend in the Wardrobe, and advises me to think of my Lord Sandwich's
      concernment there under his care. He did also tell me upon my demanding
      it, that he do believe there are some things on foot for a peace between
      France and us, but that we shall be foiled in it.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon home and, there being
      business to do in the afternoon, took my Lord Bruncker home with me, who
      dined with me. His discourse and mine about the bad performances of the
      Controller's and Surveyor's places by the hands they are now in, and the
      shame to the service and loss the King suffers by it. Then after dinner to
      the office, where we and some of the chief of the Trinity House met to
      examine the occasion of the loss of The Prince Royall, the master and
      mates being examined, which I took and keep, and so broke up, and I to my
      letters by the post, and so home and to supper with my mind at pretty good
      ease, being entered upon minding my business, and so to bed. This noon
      Mrs. Burroughs come to me about business, whom I did baiser....
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, being troubled at my being found abed a-days by all sorts of
      people, I having got a trick of sitting up later than I need, never
      supping, or very seldom, before 12 at night. Then to the office, there
      busy all the morning, and among other things comes Sir W. Warren and
      walked with me awhile, whose discourse I love, he being a very wise man
      and full of good counsel, and his own practices for wisdom much to be
      observed, and among other things he tells me how he is fallen in with my
      Lord Bruncker, who has promised him most particular inward friendship and
      yet not to appear at the board to do so, and he tells me how my Lord
      Bruncker should take notice of the two flaggons he saw at my house at
      dinner, at my late feast, and merrily, yet I know enviously, said, I could
      not come honestly by them. This I am glad to hear, though vexed to see his
      ignoble soul, but I shall beware of him, and yet it is fit he should see I
      am no mean fellow, but can live in the world, and have something. At noon
      home to dinner, and then to the office with my people and very busy, and
      did dispatch to my great satisfaction abundance of business, and do
      resolve, by the grace of God, to stick to it till I have cleared my heart
      of most things wherein I am in arrear in public and private matters. At
      night, home to supper and to bed. This day ill news of my father's being
      very ill of his old grief the rupture, which troubles me.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, still lying long in bed; then to the office, where sat very
      long. Then home to dinner, and so to the office again, mighty busy, and
      did to the joy of my soul dispatch much business, which do make my heart
      light, and will enable me to recover all the ground I have lost (if I have
      by my late minding my pleasures lost any) and assert myself. So home to
      supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against Atheisme,"
      a pretty book, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where young Lowther come to church
      with Sir W. Pen and his Lady and daughter, and my wife tells me that
      either they are married or the match is quite perfected, which I am apt to
      believe, because all the peoples' eyes in the church were much fixed upon
      them. At noon sent for Mercer, who dined with us, and very merry, and so
      I, after dinner, walked to the Old Swan, thinking to have got a boat to
      White Hall, but could not, nor was there anybody at home at Michell's,
      where I thought to have sat with her.... So home, to church, a dull
      sermon, and then home at my chamber all the evening. So to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and to the office, where busy getting beforehand with my
      business as fast as I can. At noon home to dinner, and presently afterward
      at my office again. I understand my father is pretty well again, blessed
      be God! and would have my Br[other] John comedown to him for a little
      while. Busy till night, pleasing myself mightily to see what a deal of
      business goes off of a man's hands when he stays by it, and then, at
      night, before it was late (yet much business done) home to supper,
      discourse with my wife, and to bed. Sir W. Batten tells me the Lords do
      agree at last with the Commons about the word "Nuisance" in the Irish
      Bill, and do desire a good correspondence between the two Houses; and that
      the King do intend to prorogue them the last of this month.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. Here my Lord
      Bruncker would have made me promise to go with him to a play this
      afternoon, where Knipp acts Mrs. Weaver's great part in "The Indian
      Emperour," and he says is coming on to be a great actor. But I am so fell
      to my business, that I, though against my inclination, will not go. At
      noon, dined with my wife and were pleasant, and then to the office, where
      I got Mrs. Burroughs 'sola cum ego, and did toucher ses mamailles'... She
      gone, I to my business and did much, and among other things to-night we
      were all mightily troubled how to prevent the sale of a great deal of
      hemp, and timber-deals, and other good goods to-morrow at the candle by
      the Prize Office, where it will be sold for little, and we shall be found
      to want the same goods and buy at extraordinary prices, and perhaps the
      very same goods now sold, which is a most horrid evil and a shame. At
      night home to supper and to bed with my mind mighty light to see the
      fruits of my diligence in having my business go off my hand so merrily.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and by coach to White Hall, and there to the Duke of York as
      usual. Here Sir W. Coventry come to me aside in the Duke's chamber, to
      tell that he had not answered part of a late letter of mine, because
      'littera scripta manet'. About his leaving the office, he tells me, [it
      is] because he finds that his business at Court will not permit him to
      attend it; and then he confesses that he seldom of late could come from it
      with satisfaction, and therefore would not take the King's money for
      nothing. I professed my sorrow for it, and prayed the continuance of his
      favour; which he promised. I do believe he hath [done] like a very wise
      man in reference to himself; but I doubt it will prove ill for the King,
      and for the office. Prince Rupert, I hear to-day, is very ill; yesterday
      given over, but better to-day. This day, before the Duke of York, the
      business of the Muster-Masters was reported, and Balty found the best of
      the whole number, so as the Duke enquired who he was, and whether he was a
      stranger by his two names, both strange, and offered that he and one more,
      who hath done next best, should have not only their owne, but part of the
      others' salary, but that I having said he was my brother-in-law, he did
      stop, but they two are ordered their pay, which I am glad of, and some of
      the rest will lose their pay, and others be laid by the heels. I was very
      glad of this being ended so well. I did also, this morning, move in a
      business wherein Mr. Hater hath concerned me, about getting a ship, laden
      with salt from France, permitted to unload, coming in after the King's
      declaration was out, which I have hopes by some dexterity to get done.
      Then with the Duke of York to the King, to receive his commands for
      stopping the sale this day of some prize-goods at the Prize-Office, goods
      fit for the Navy; and received the King's commands, and carried them to
      the Lords' House, to my Lord Ashly, who was angry much thereat, and I am
      sorry it fell to me to carry the order, but I cannot help it. So, against
      his will, he signed a note I writ to the Commissioners of Prizes, which I
      carried and delivered to Kingdone, at their new office in Aldersgate
      Streete. Thence a little to the Exchange, where it was hot that the Prince
      was dead, but I did rectify it. So home to dinner, and found Balty, told
      him the good news, and then after dinner away, I presently to White Hall,
      and did give the Duke of York a memorial of the salt business, against the
      Council, and did wait all the Council for answer, walking a good while
      with Sir Stephen Fox, who, among other things, told me his whole mystery
      in the business of the interest he pays as Treasurer for the Army. They
      give him 12d. per pound quite through the Army, with condition to be paid
      weekly. This he undertakes upon his own private credit, and to be paid by
      the King at the end of every four months. If the King pay him not at the
      end of the four months, then, for all the time he stays longer, my Lord
      Treasurer, by agreement, allows him eight per cent. per annum for the
      forbearance. So that, in fine, he hath about twelve per cent. from the
      King and the Army, for fifteen or sixteen months' interest; out of which
      he gains soundly, his expense being about L130,000 per annum; and hath no
      trouble in it, compared, as I told him, to the trouble I must have to
      bring in an account of interest. I was, however, glad of being thus
      enlightened, and so away to the other council door, and there got in and
      hear a piece of a cause, heard before the King, about a ship deserted by
      her fellows (who were bound mutually to defend each other), in their way
      to Virginy, and taken by the enemy, but it was but meanly pleaded. Then
      all withdrew, and by and by the Council rose, and I spoke with the Duke of
      York, and he told me my business was done, which I found accordingly in
      Sir Edward Walker's books. And so away, mightily satisfied, to Arundell
      House, and there heard a little good discourse, and so home, and there to
      Sir W. Batten, where I heard the examinations in two of our prizes, which
      do make but little for us, so that I do begin to doubt their proving
      prize, which troubled me. So home to supper with my wife, and after supper
      my wife told me how she had moved to W. Hewer the business of my sister
      for a wife to him, which he received with mighty acknowledgements, as she
      says, above anything; but says he hath no intention to alter his
      condition: so that I am in some measure sorry she ever moved it; but I
      hope he will think it only come from her. So after supper a little to the
      office, to enter my journall, and then home to bed. Talk there is of a
      letter to come from Holland, desiring a place of treaty; but I do doubt
      it. This day I observe still, in many places, the smoking remains of the
      late fire: the ways mighty bad and dirty. This night Sir R. Ford told me
      how this day, at Christ Church Hospital, they have given a living over
      L200 per annum to Mr. Sanchy, my old acquaintance, which I wonder at, he
      commending him mightily; but am glad of it. He tells me, too, how the
      famous Stillingfleete was a Bluecoat boy. The children at this day are
      provided for in the country by the House, which I am glad also to hear.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting. At noon home
      to dinner, and then to the office busy also till very late, my heart joyed
      with the effects of my following my business, by easing my head of cares,
      and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and most of the morning finishing my entry of my journall during
      the late fire out of loose papers into this book, which did please me
      mightily when done, I, writing till my eyes were almost blind therewith to
      make an end of it. Then all the rest of the morning, and, after a mouthful
      of dinner, all the afternoon in my closet till night, sorting all my
      papers, which have lain unsorted for all the time we were at Greenwich
      during the plague, which did please me also, I drawing on to put my office
      into a good posture, though much is behind. This morning come Captain.
      Cocke to me, and tells me that the King comes to the House this day to
      pass the poll Bill and the Irish Bill; he tells me too that, though the
      Faction is very froward in the House, yet all will end well there. But he
      says that one had got a Bill ready to present in the House against Sir W.
      Coventry, for selling of places, and says he is certain of it, and how he
      was withheld from doing it. He says, that the Vice-chamberlaine is now one
      of the greatest men in England again, and was he that did prevail with the
      King to let the Irish Bill go with the word "Nuisance." He told me, that
      Sir G. Carteret's declaration of giving double to any man that will prove
      that any of his people have demanded or taken any thing for forwarding the
      payment of the wages of any man (of which he sent us a copy yesterday,
      which we approved of) is set up, among other places, upon the House of
      Lords' door. I do not know how wisely this is done. This morning, also,
      there come to the office a letter from the Duke of York, commanding our
      payment of no wages to any of the muster-masters of the fleete the last
      year, but only two, my brother Balty, taking notice that he had taken
      pains therein, and one Ward, who, though he had not taken so much as the
      other, yet had done more than the rest. This I was exceeding glad of for
      my own sake and his. At night I, by appointment, home, where W. Batelier
      and his sister Mary, and the two Mercers, to play at cards and sup, and
      did cut our great cake lately given us by Russell: a very good one. Here
      very merry late. Sir W. Pen told me this night how the King did make them
      a very sharp speech in the House of Lords to-day, saying that he did
      expect to have had more Bills;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [On this day "An Act for raising Money by a Poll and otherwise
     towards the maintenance of the present War," and "An Act prohibiting
     the Importation of Cattle from Ireland and other parts beyond the
     Sea, and Fish taken by Foreigners," were passed.  The king.
     complained of the insufficient supply, and said, "'Tis high time for
     you to make good your promises, and 'tis high time for you to be in
     the country" ("Journals of the House of Lords," vol  xii., p. 81).]
</pre>
    <p>
      that he purposes to prorogue them on Monday come se'nnight; that whereas
      they have unjustly conceived some jealousys of his making a peace, he
      declares he knows of no such thing or treaty: and so left them. But with
      so little effect, that as soon as he come into the House, Sir W. Coventry
      moved, that now the King hath declared his intention of proroguing them,
      it would be loss of time to go on with the thing they were upon, when they
      were called to the King, which was the calling over the defaults of
      Members appearing in the House; for that, before any person could now come
      or be brought to town, the House would be up. Yet the Faction did desire
      to delay time, and contend so as to come to a division of the House;
      where, however, it was carried, by a few voices, that the debate should be
      laid by. But this shews that they are not pleased, or that they have not
      any awe over them from the King's displeasure. The company being gone, to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and at the office all the morning. Sir W. Batten tells me to my
      wonder that at his coming to my Lord Ashly, yesterday morning, to tell him
      what prize-goods he would have saved for the Navy, and not sold, according
      to the King's order on the 17th, he fell quite out with him in high terms;
      and he says, too, that they did go on to the sale yesterday, even of the
      very hempe, and other things, at which I am astonished, and will never
      wonder at the ruine of the King's affairs, if this be suffered. At noon
      dined, and Mr. Pierce come to see me, he newly come from keeping his
      Christmas in the country. So to the office, where very busy, but with
      great pleasure till late at night, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). Up betimes and down to the Old Swan, there called on
      Michell and his wife, which in her night linen appeared as pretty almost
      as ever to my thinking I saw woman. Here I drank some burnt brandy. They
      shewed me their house, which, poor people, they have built, and is very
      pretty. I invited them to dine with me, and so away to White Hall to Sir
      W. Coventry, with whom I have not been alone a good while, and very kind
      he is, and tells me how the business is now ordered by order of council
      for my Lord Bruncker to assist Sir J. Minnes in all matters of accounts
      relating to the Treasurer, and Sir W. Pen in all matters relating to the
      victuallers' and pursers' accounts, which I am very glad of, and the more
      for that I think it will not do me any hurt at all. Other discourse, much
      especially about the heat the House was in yesterday about the ill
      management of the Navy, which I was sorry to hear; though I think they
      were well answered, both by Sir G. Carteret and [Sir] W. Coventry, as he
      informs me the substance of their speeches. Having done with him, home
      mightily satisfied with my being with him, and coming home I to church,
      and there, beyond expectation, find our seat, and all the church crammed,
      by twice as many people as used to be: and to my great joy find Mr.
      Frampton in the pulpit; so to my great joy I hear him preach, and I think
      the best sermon, for goodness and oratory, without affectation or study,
      that ever I heard in my life. The truth is, he preaches the most like an
      apostle that ever I heard man; and it was much the best time that ever I
      spent in my life at church. His text, Ecclesiastes xi., verse 8th&mdash;the
      words, "But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, yet let him
      remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is
      vanity." He done, I home, and there Michell and his wife, and we dined and
      mighty merry, I mightily taken more and more with her. After dinner I with
      my brother away by water to White Hall, and there walked in the Parke, and
      a little to my Lord Chancellor's, where the King and Cabinet met, and
      there met Mr. Brisband, with whom good discourse, to White Hall towards
      night, and there he did lend me "The Third Advice to a Paynter," a bitter
      satyre upon the service of the Duke of Albemarle the last year. I took it
      home with me, and will copy it, having the former, being also mightily
      pleased with it. So after reading it, I to Sir W. Pen to discourse a
      little with him about the business of our prizes, and so home to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up betimes, and with, Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] R. Ford, by
      coach to the Swede's Resident's in the Piatza, to discourse with him about
      two of our prizes, wherein he puts in his concernment as for his
      countrymen. We had no satisfaction, nor did give him any, but I find him a
      cunning fellow. He lives in one of the great houses there, but
      ill-furnished; and come to us out of bed in his furred mittens and furred
      cap. Thence to Exeter House to the Doctors Commons, and there with our
      Proctors to Dr. Walker, who was not very well, but, however, did hear our
      matters, and after a dull seeming hearing of them read, did discourse most
      understandingly of them, as well as ever I heard man, telling us all our
      grounds of pretence to the prize would do no good, and made it appear but
      thus, and thus, it may be, but yet did give us but little reason to expect
      it would prove, which troubled us, but I was mightily taken to hear his
      manner of discourse. Thence with them to Westminster Hall, they setting me
      down at White Hall, where I missed of finding Sir G. Carteret, up to the
      Lords' House, and there come mighty seasonably to hear the Solicitor about
      my Lord Buckingham's pretence to the title of Lord Rosse. Mr. Atturny
      Montagu is also a good man, and so is old Sir P. Ball; but the Solicitor
      and Scroggs after him are excellent men. Here spoke with my Lord Bellasses
      about getting some money for Tangier, which he doubts we shall not be able
      to do out of the Poll Bill, it being so strictly tied for the Navy. He
      tells me the Lords have passed the Bill for the accounts with some little
      amendments. So down to the Hall, and thence with our company to Exeter
      House, and then did the business I have said before, we doing nothing the
      first time of going, it being too early. At home find Lovett, to whom I
      did give my Lady Castlemayne's head to do. He is talking of going into
      Spayne to get money by his art, but I doubt he will do no good, he being a
      man of an unsettled head. Thence by water down to Deptford, the first time
      I have been by water a great while, and there did some little business and
      walked home, and there come into my company three drunken seamen, but one
      especially, who told me such stories, calling me Captain, as made me
      mighty merry, and they would leap and skip, and kiss what mayds they met
      all the way. I did at first give them money to drink, lest they should
      know who I was, and so become troublesome to me. Parted at Redriffe, and
      there home and to the office, where did much business, and then to Sir W.
      Batten's, where [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] R. Ford, and I to hear a proposition
      [Sir] R. Ford was to acquaint us with from the Swedes Embassador, in
      manner of saying, that for money he might be got to our side and
      relinquish the trouble he may give us. Sir W. Pen did make a long simple
      declaration of his resolution to give nothing to deceive any poor man of
      what was his right by law, but ended in doing whatever any body else
      would, and we did commission Sir R. Ford to give promise of not beyond
      L350 to him and his Secretary, in case they did not oppose us in the
      Phoenix (the net profits of which, as [Sir] R. Ford cast up before us, the
      Admiral's tenths, and ship's thirds, and other charges all cleared, will
      amount to L3,000) and that we did gain her. [Sir] R. Ford did pray for a
      curse upon his family, if he was privy to anything more than he told us
      (which I believe he is a knave in), yet we all concluded him the most fit
      man for it and very honest, and so left it wholly to him to manage as he
      pleased. Thence to the office a little while longer, and so home, where W.
      Hewer's mother was, and Mrs. Turner, our neighbour, and supped with us.
      His mother a well-favoured old little woman, and a good woman, I believe.
      After we had supped, and merry, we parted late, Mrs. Turner having staid
      behind to talk a little about her lodgings, which now my Lord Bruncker
      upon Sir W. Coventry's surrendering do claim, but I cannot think he will
      come to live in them so as to need to put them out. She gone, we to bed
      all. This night, at supper, comes from Sir W. Coventry the Order of
      Councill for my Lord Bruncker to do all the Comptroller's part relating to
      the Treasurer's accounts, and Sir W. Pen, all relating to the
      Victualler's, and Sir J. Minnes to do the rest. This, I hope, will do much
      better for the King than now, and, I think, will give neither of them
      ground to over-top me, as I feared they would; which pleases me mightily.
      This evening, Mr. Wren and Captain Cocke called upon me at the office, and
      there told me how the House was in better temper to-day, and hath passed
      the Bill for the remainder of the money, but not to be passed finally till
      they have done some other things which they will have passed with it;
      wherein they are very open, what their meaning is, which was but doubted
      before, for they do in all respects doubt the King's pleasing them.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and there come to me Darnell the fiddler, one of the Duke's
      house, and brought me a set of lessons, all three parts, I heard them play
      to the Duke of York after Christmas at his lodgings, and bid him get me
      them. I did give him a crowne for them, and did enquire after the musique
      of the "Siege of Rhodes," which, he tells me, he can get me, which I am
      mighty glad of. So to the office, where among other things I read the
      Councill's order about my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen to be assistants to
      the Comptroller, which quietly went down with Sir J. Minnes, poor man,
      seeming a little as if he would be thought to have desired it, but yet
      apparently to his discontent; and, I fear, as the order runs, it will
      hardly do much good. At noon to dinner, and there comes a letter from Mrs.
      Pierce, telling me she will come and dine with us on Thursday next, with
      some of the players, Knipp, &amp;c., which I was glad of, but my wife
      vexed, which vexed me; but I seemed merry, but know not how to order the
      matter, whether they shall come or no. After dinner to the office, and
      there late doing much business, and so home to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there
      to the Duke of York, and did our usual business. Having done there, I to
      St. James's, to see the organ Mrs. Turner told me of the other night, of
      my late Lord Aubigney's; and I took my Lord Bruncker with me, he being
      acquainted with my present Lord Almoner, Mr. Howard, brother to the Duke
      of Norfolke; so he and I thither and did see the organ, but I do not like
      it, it being but a bauble, with a virginal! joining to it: so I shall not
      meddle with it. Here we sat and talked with him a good while, and he seems
      a good-natured gentleman: here I observed the deske which he hath, [made]
      to remove, and is fastened to one of the armes of his chayre. I do also
      observe the counterfeit windows there was, in the form of doors with
      looking-glasses instead of windows, which makes the room seem both bigger
      and lighter, I think; and I have some thoughts to have the like in one of
      my rooms. He discoursed much of the goodness of the musique in Rome, but
      could not tell me how long musique had been in any perfection in that
      church, which I would be glad to know. He speaks much of the great
      buildings that this Pope,
    </p>
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     [Fabio Chigi, of Siena, succeeded Innocent X. in 1655 as Alexander
     VII.  He died May, 1667, and was succeeded by Clement IX.]
</pre>
    <p>
      whom, in mirth to us, he calls Antichrist, hath done in his time. Having
      done with the discourse, we away, and my Lord and I walking into the Park
      back again, I did observe the new buildings: and my Lord, seeing I had a
      desire to see them, they being the place for the priests and fryers, he
      took me back to my Lord Almoner; and he took us quite through the whole
      house and chapel, and the new monastery, showing me most excellent pieces
      in wax-worke: a crucifix given by a Pope to Mary Queen of Scotts, where a
      piece of the Cross is;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pieces of "the Cross" were formerly held in such veneration, and
     were so common, that it has been often said enough existed to build
     a ship.  Most readers will remember the distinction which Sir W.
     Scott represents Louis XI. (with great appreciation of that
     monarch's character), as drawing between an oath taken on a false
     piece and one taken on a piece of the true cross.  Sir Thomas More,
     a very devout believer in relics, says ("Works," p. 119), that
     Luther wished, in a sermon of his, that he had in his hand all the
     pieces of the Holy Cross; and said that if he so had, he would throw
     them there as never sun should shine on them:&mdash;and for what
     worshipful reason would the wretch do such villainy to the cross of
     Christ?  Because, as he saith, that there is so much gold now
     bestowed about the garnishing of the pieces of the Cross, that there
     is none left for poore folke.  Is not this a high reason?  As though
     all the gold that is now bestowed about the pieces of the Holy Cross
     would not have failed to have been given to poor men, if they had
     not been bestowed about the garnishing of the Cross! and as though
     there were nothing lost, but what is bestowed about Christ's Cross!"
     "Wolsey, says Cavendish, on his fall, gave to Norris, who brought
     him a ring of gold as a token of good will from Henry, "a little
     chaine of gold, made like a bottle chain, with a cross of gold,
     wherein was a piece of the Holy Cross, which he continually wore
     about his neck, next his body; and said, furthermore, 'Master
     Norris, I assure you, when I was in prosperity, although it seem but
     small in value, yet I would not gladly have departed with the same
     for a thousand pounds.'" Life, ed.  1852, p. 167.  Evelyn mentions,
     "Diary," November 17th, 1664, that he saw in one of the chapels in
     St. Peter's a crucifix with a piece of the true cross in it.
     Amongst the jewels of Mary Queen of Scots was a cross of gold, which
     had been pledged to Hume of Blackadder for L1000 (Chalmers's "Life,"
     vol. i., p. 31 ).&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      two bits set in the manner of a cross in the foot of the crucifix: several
      fine pictures, but especially very good prints of holy pictures. I saw the
      dortoire&mdash;[dormitory]&mdash;and the cells of the priests, and we went
      into one; a very pretty little room, very clean, hung with pictures, set
      with books. The Priest was in his cell, with his hair clothes to his skin,
      bare-legged, with a sandal! only on, and his little bed without sheets,
      and no feather bed; but yet, I thought, soft enough. His cord about his
      middle; but in so good company, living with ease, I thought it a very good
      life. A pretty library they have. And I was in the refectoire, where every
      man his napkin, knife, cup of earth, and basin of the same; and a place
      for one to sit and read while the rest are at meals. And into the kitchen
      I went, where a good neck of mutton at the fire, and other victuals
      boiling. I do not think they fared very hard. Their windows all looking
      into a fine garden and the Park; and mighty pretty rooms all. I wished
      myself one of the Capuchins. Having seen what we could here, and all with
      mighty pleasure, so away with the Almoner in his coach, talking merrily
      about the difference in our religions, to White Hall, and there we left
      him. I in my Lord Bruncker's coach, he carried me to the Savoy, and there
      we parted. I to the Castle Tavern, where was and did come all our company,
      Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] R. Ford, and our Counsel Sir Ellis
      Layton, Walt Walker, Dr. Budd, Mr. Holder, and several others, and here we
      had a bad dinner of our preparing, and did discourse something of our
      business of our prizes, which was the work of the day. I staid till dinner
      was over, and there being no use of me I away after dinner without taking
      leave, and to the New Exchange, there to take up my wife and Mercer, and
      to Temple Bar to the Ordinary, and had a dish of meat for them, they
      having not dined, and thence to the King's house, and there saw "The
      Numerous Lieutenant," a silly play, I think; only the Spirit in it that
      grows very tall, and then sinks again to nothing, having two heads
      breeding upon one, and then Knipp's singing, did please us. Here, in a box
      above, we spied Mrs. Pierce; and, going out, they called us, and so we
      staid for them; and Knipp took us all in, and brought to us Nelly; a most
      pretty woman, who acted the great part of Coelia to-day very fine, and did
      it pretty well: I kissed her, and so did my wife; and a mighty pretty soul
      she is. We also saw Mrs. Halls which is my little Roman-nose black girl,
      that is mighty pretty: she is usually called Betty. Knipp made us stay in
      a box and see the dancing preparatory to to-morrow for "The Goblins," a
      play of Suckling's, not acted these twenty-five years; which was pretty;
      and so away thence, pleased with this sight also, and specially kissing of
      Nell. We away, Mr. Pierce and I, on foot to his house, the women by coach.
      In our way we find the Guards of horse in the street, and hear the
      occasion to be news that the seamen are in a mutiny, which put me into a
      great fright; so away with my wife and Mercer home preparing against
      to-morrow night to have Mrs. Pierce and Knipp and a great deal more
      company to dance; and, when I come home, hear of no disturbance there of
      the seamen, but that one of them, being arrested to-day, others do go and
      rescue him. So to the office a little, and then home to supper, and to my
      chamber awhile, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and to the office, full of thoughts how to order the business of
      our merry meeting to-night. So to the office, where busy all the morning.
      [While we were sitting in the morning at the office, we were frighted with
      news of fire at Sir W. Batten's by a chimney taking fire, and it put me
      into much fear and trouble, but with a great many hands and pains it was
      soon stopped.] At noon home to dinner, and presently to the office to
      despatch my business, and also we sat all the afternoon to examine the
      loss of The Bredagh, which was done by as plain negligence as ever ship
      was. We being rose, I entering my letters and getting the office swept and
      a good fire made and abundance of candles lighted, I home, where most of
      my company come of this end of the town-Mercer and her sister, Mr.
      Batelier and Pembleton (my Lady Pen, and Pegg, and Mr. Lowther, but did
      not stay long, and I believe it was by Sir W. Pen's order; for they had a
      great mind to have staid), and also Captain Rolt. And, anon, at about
      seven or eight o'clock, comes Mr. Harris, of the Duke's playhouse, and
      brings Mrs. Pierce with him, and also one dressed like a country-mayde
      with a straw hat on; which, at first, I could not tell who it was, though
      I expected Knipp: but it was she coming off the stage just as she acted
      this day in "The Goblins;" a merry jade. Now my house is full, and four
      fiddlers that play well. Harris I first took to my closet; and I find him
      a very curious and understanding person in all pictures and other things,
      and a man of fine conversation; and so is Rolt. So away with all my
      company down to the office, and there fell to dancing, and continued at it
      an hour or two, there coming Mrs. Anne Jones, a merchant's daughter hard
      by, who dances well, and all in mighty good humour, and danced with great
      pleasure; and then sung and then danced, and then sung many things of
      three voices&mdash;both Harris and Rolt singing their parts excellently.
      Among other things, Harris sung his Irish song&mdash;the strangest in
      itself, and the prettiest sung by him, that ever I heard. Then to supper
      in the office, a cold, good supper, and wondrous merry. Here was Mrs.
      Turner also, but the poor woman sad about her lodgings, and Mrs. Markham:
      after supper to dancing again and singing, and so continued till almost
      three in the morning, and then, with extraordinary pleasure, broke up only
      towards morning, Knipp fell a little ill, and so my wife home with her to
      put her to bed, and we continued dancing and singing; and, among other
      things, our Mercer unexpectedly did happen to sing an Italian song I know
      not, of which they two sung the other two parts to, that did almost ravish
      me, and made me in love with her more than ever with her singing. As late
      as it was, yet Rolt and Harris would go home to-night, and walked it,
      though I had a bed for them; and it proved dark, and a misly night, and
      very windy. The company being all gone to their homes, I up with Mrs.
      Pierce to Knipp, who was in bed; and we waked her, and there I handled her
      breasts and did 'baiser la', and sing a song, lying by her on the bed, and
      then left my wife to see Mrs. Pierce in bed to her, in our best chamber,
      and so to bed myself, my mind mightily satisfied with all this evening's
      work, and thinking it to be one of the merriest enjoyment I must look for
      in the world, and did content myself therefore with the thoughts of it,
      and so to bed; only the musique did not please me, they not being
      contented with less than 30s.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Lay pretty long, then to the office, where Lord Bruncker and Sir J.
      Minnes and I did meet, and sat private all the morning about dividing the
      Controller's work according to the late order of Council, between them two
      and Sir W. Pen, and it troubled me to see the poor honest man, Sir J.
      Minnes, troubled at it, and yet the King's work cannot be done without it.
      It was at last friendlily ended, and so up and home to dinner with my
      wife. This afternoon I saw the Poll Bill, now printed; wherein I do fear I
      shall be very deeply concerned, being to be taxed for all my offices, and
      then for my money that I have, and my title, as well as my head. It is a
      very great tax; but yet I do think it is so perplexed, it will hardly ever
      be collected duly. The late invention of Sir G. Downing's is continued of
      bringing all the money into the Exchequer; and Sir G. Carteret's three
      pence is turned for all the money of this act into but a penny per pound,
      which I am sorry for. After dinner to the office again, where Lord
      Bruncker, [Sir] W. Batten, and [Sir] W. Pen and I met to talk again about
      the Controller's office, and there [Sir] W. Pen would have a piece of the
      great office cut out to make an office for him, which I opposed to the
      making him very angry, but I think I shall carry it against him, and then
      I care not. So a little troubled at this fray, I away by coach with my
      wife, and left her at the New Exchange, and I to my Lord Chancellor's, and
      then back, taking up my wife to my Lord Bellasses, and there spoke with
      Mr. Moone, who tells me that the peace between us and Spayne is, as he
      hears, concluded on, which I should be glad of, and so home, and after a
      little at my office, home to finish my journall for yesterday and to-day,
      and then a little supper and to bed. This day the House hath passed the
      Bill for the Assessment, which I am glad of; and also our little Bill, for
      giving any one of us in the office the power of justice of peace, is done
      as I would have it.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and at the office. Sat all the morning, where among other things
      I did the first unkind [thing] that ever I did design to Sir W. Warren,
      but I did it now to some purpose, to make him sensible how little any
      man's friendship shall avail him if he wants money. I perceive he do
      nowadays court much my Lord Bruncker's favour, who never did any man much
      courtesy at the board, nor ever will be able, at least so much as myself.
      Besides, my Lord would do him a kindness in concurrence with me, but he
      would have the danger of the thing to be done lie upon me, if there be any
      danger in it (in drawing up a letter to Sir W. Warren's advantage), which
      I do not like, nor will endure. I was, I confess, very angry, and will
      venture the loss of Sir W. Warren's kindnesses rather than he shall have
      any man's friendship in greater esteem than mine. At noon home to dinner,
      and after dinner to the office again, and there all the afternoon, and at
      night poor Mrs. Turner come and walked in the garden for my advice about
      her husband and her relating to my Lord Bruncker's late proceedings with
      them. I do give her the best I can, but yet can lay aside some ends of my
      own in what advice I do give her. So she being gone I to make an end of my
      letters, and so home to supper and to bed, Balty lodging here with my
      brother, he being newly returned from mustering in the river.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Lord's day). Up betimes, and leaving my wife to go by coach to hear
      Mr. Frampton preach, which I had a mighty desire she should, I down to the
      Old Swan, and there to Michell and staid while he and she dressed
      themselves, and here had a 'baiser' or two of her, whom I love mightily;
      and then took them in a sculler (being by some means or other disappointed
      of my own boat) to White Hall, and so with them to Westminster, Sir W.
      Coventry, Bruncker and I all the morning together discoursing of the
      office business, and glad of the Controller's business being likely to be
      put into better order than formerly, and did discourse of many good
      things, but especially of having something done to bringing the Surveyor's
      matters into order also. Thence I up to the King's closet, and there heard
      a good Anthem, and discoursed with several people here about business,
      among others with Lord Bellasses, and so from one to another after sermon
      till the King had almost dined, and then home with Sir G. Carteret and
      dined with him, being mightily ashamed of my not having seen my Lady
      Jemimah so long, and my wife not at all yet since she come, but she shall
      soon do it. I thence to Sir Philip Warwicke, by appointment, to meet Lord
      Bellasses, and up to his chamber, but find him unwilling to discourse of
      business on Sundays; so did not enlarge, but took leave, and went down and
      sat in a low room, reading Erasmus "de scribendis epistolis," a very good
      book, especially one letter of advice to a courtier most true and good,
      which made me once resolve to tear out the two leaves that it was writ in,
      but I forebore it. By and by comes Lord Bellasses, and then he and I up
      again to Sir P. Warwicke and had much discourse of our Tangier business,
      but no hopes of getting any money. Thence I through the garden into the
      Park, and there met with Roger Pepys, and he and I to walk in the Pell
      Mell. I find by him that the House of Parliament continues full of ill
      humours, and he seems to dislike those that are troublesome more than
      needs, and do say how, in their late Poll Bill, which cost so much time,
      the yeomanry, and indeed two-thirds of the nation, are left out to be
      taxed, that there is not effectual provision enough made for collecting of
      the money; and then, that after a man his goods are distrained and sold,
      and the overplus returned, I am to have ten days to make my complaints of
      being over-rated if there be cause, when my goods are sold, and that is
      too late. These things they are resolved to look into again, and mend them
      before they rise, which they expect at furthest on Thursday next. Here we
      met with Mr. May, and he and we to talk of several things, of building,
      and such like matters; and so walked to White Hall, and there I skewed my
      cozen Roger the Duchesse of York sitting in state, while her own mother
      stands by her; he had a desire, and I shewed him my Lady Castlemayne, whom
      he approves to be very handsome, and wonders that she cannot be as good
      within as she is fair without. Her little black boy came by him; and, a
      dog being in his way, the little boy called to the dog: "Pox of this dog!"&mdash;"Now,"
      says he, blessing himself, "would I whip this child till the blood come,
      if it were my child!" and I believe he would. But he do by no means like
      the liberty of the Court, and did come with expectation of finding them
      playing at cards to-night, though Sunday; for such stories he is told, but
      how true I know not.
    </p>
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     [There is little reason to doubt that it was such as Evelyn
     describes it at a later time.  "I can never forget the inexpressible
     luxury and prophaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it
     were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which
     this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying
     with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarin, &amp;c.  A French
     boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty
     of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset
     round a large table, a bank of at least L2,000 in gold before them;
     upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with
     astonishment.  Six days after was all in the dust."&mdash;Diary,
     February, 1685.&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      After walking up and down the Court with him, it being now dark and past
      six at night, I walked to the Swan in the Palace yard and there with much
      ado did get a waterman, and so I sent for the Michells, and they come, and
      their father Howlett and his wife with them, and there we drank, and so
      into the boat, poor Betty's head aching. We home by water, a fine
      moonshine and warm night, it having been also a very summer's day for
      warmth. I did get her hand to me under my cloak.... So there we parted at
      their house, and he walked almost home with me, and then I home and to
      supper, and to read a little and to bed. My wife tells me Mr. Frampton is
      gone to sea, and so she lost her labour to-day in thinking to hear him
      preach, which I am sorry for.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and down to the Old Swan, and there drank at Michell's and saw
      Betty, and so took boat and to the Temple, and thence to my tailor's and
      other places about business in my way to Westminster, where I spent the
      morning at the Lords' House door, to hear the conference between the two
      Houses about my Lord Mordaunt, of which there was great expectation, many
      hundreds of people coming to hear it. But, when they come, the Lords did
      insist upon my Lord Mordaunt's having leave to sit upon a stool uncovered
      within their burr, and that he should have counsel, which the Commons
      would not suffer, but desired leave to report their Lordships' resolution
      to the House of Commons; and so parted for this day, which troubled me, I
      having by this means lost the whole day. Here I hear from Mr. Hayes that
      Prince Rupert is very bad still, and so bad, that he do now yield to be
      trepanned. It seems, as Dr. Clerke also tells me, it is a clap of the pox
      which he got about twelve years ago, and hath eaten to his head and come
      through his scull, so his scull must be opened, and there is great fear of
      him. Much work I find there is to do in the two Houses in a little time,
      and much difference there is between the two Houses in many things to be
      reconciled; as in the Bill for examining our accounts; Lord Mordaunt's
      Bill for building the City, and several others. A little before noon I
      went to the Swan and eat a bit of meat, thinking I should have had
      occasion to have stayed long at the house, but I did not, but so home by
      coach, calling at Broad Street and taking the goldsmith home with me, and
      paid him L15 15s. for my silver standish. He tells me gold holds up its
      price still, and did desire me to let him have what old 20s. pieces I
      have, and he would give me 3s. 2d. change for each. He gone, I to the
      office, where business all the afternoon, and at night comes Mr. Gawden at
      my desire to me, and to-morrow I shall pay him some money, and shall see
      what present he will make me, the hopes of which do make me to part with
      my money out of my chest, which I should not otherwise do, but lest this
      alteration in the Controller's office should occasion my losing my
      concernment in the Victualling, and so he have no more need of me. He
      gone, I to the office again, having come thence home with him to talk, and
      so after a little more business I to supper. I then sent for Mercer, and
      began to teach her "It is decreed," which will please me well, and so
      after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair
      short, which is grown too long upon my crown of my head, I to bed. I met
      this day in Westminster Hall Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen, and the
      latter since our falling out the other day do look mighty reservedly upon
      me, and still he shall do so for me, for I will be hanged before I seek to
      him, unless I see I need it.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up to the office all the morning, where Sir W. Pen and I look much
      askewe one upon another, though afterward business made us speak friendly
      enough, but yet we hate one another. At noon home to dinner, and then to
      the office, where all the afternoon expecting Mr. Gawden to come for some
      money I am to pay him, but he comes not, which makes me think he is
      considering whether it be necessary to make the present he hath promised,
      it being possible this alteration in the Controller's duty may make my
      place in the Victualling unnecessary, so that I am a little troubled at
      it. Busy till late at night at the office, and Sir W. Batten come to me,
      and tells me that there is newes upon the Exchange to-day, that my Lord
      Sandwich's coach and the French Embassador's at Madrid, meeting and
      contending for the way, they shot my Lord's postilion and another man
      dead; and that we have killed 25 of theirs, and that my Lord is well. How
      true this is I cannot tell, there being no newes of it at all at Court, as
      I am told late by one come thence, so that I hope it is not so. By and by
      comes Mrs. Turner to me, to make her complaint of her sad usage she
      receives from my Lord Bruncker, that he thinks much she hath not already
      got another house, though he himself hath employed her night and day ever
      since his first mention of the matter, to make part of her house ready for
      him, as he ordered, and promised she should stay till she had fitted
      herself; by which and what discourse I do remember he had of the business
      before Sir W. Coventry on Sunday last I perceive he is a rotten-hearted,
      false man as any else I know, even as Sir W. Pen himself, and, therefore,
      I must beware of him accordingly, and I hope I shall. I did pity the woman
      with all my heart, and gave her the best council I could; and so, falling
      to other discourse, I made her laugh and merry, as sad as she came to me;
      so that I perceive no passion in a woman can be lasting long; and so
      parted and I home, and there teaching my girle Barker part of my song "It
      is decreed," which she will sing prettily, and so after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Fast-day for the King's death. I all the morning at my chamber
      making up my month's accounts, which I did before dinner to my thorough
      content, and find myself but a small gainer this month, having no manner
      of profits, but just my salary, but, blessed be God! that I am able to
      save out of that, living as I do. So to dinner, then to my chamber all the
      afternoon, and in the evening my wife and I and Mercer and Barker to
      little Michell's, walked, with some neats' tongues and cake and wine, and
      there sat with the little couple with great pleasure, and talked and eat
      and drank, and saw their little house, which is very pretty; and I much
      pleased therewith, and so walked home, about eight at night, it being a
      little moonshine and fair weather, and so into the garden, and, with
      Mercer, sang till my wife put me in mind of its being a fast day; and so I
      was sorry for it, and stopped, and home to cards awhile, and had
      opportunity 'para baiser' Mercer several times, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up, and to the office, where we met and sat all the morning. At noon
      home to dinner, and by and by Mr. Osborne comes from Mr. Gawden, and takes
      money and notes for L4000, and leaves me acknowledgment for L4000 and odd;
      implying as if D. Gawden would give the L800 between Povy and myself, but
      how he will divide it I know-not, till I speak with him, so that my
      content is not yet full in the business. In the evening stept out to Sir
      Robert Viner's to get the money ready upon my notes to D. Gawden, and
      there hear that Mr. Temple is very ill. I met on the 'Change with Captain
      Cocke, who tells me that he hears new certainty of the business of Madrid,
      how our Embassador and the French met, and says that two or three of my
      Lord's men, and twenty one of the French men are killed, but nothing at
      Court of it. He fears the next year's service through the badness of our
      counsels at White Hall, but that if they were wise, and the King would
      mind his business, he might do what he would yet. The Parliament is not
      yet up, being finishing some bills. So home and to the office, and late
      home to supper, and to talk with my wife, with pleasure, and to bed. I met
      this evening at Sir R. Viner's our Mr. Turner, who I find in a melancholy
      condition about his being removed out of his house, but I find him so
      silly and so false that I dare not tell how to trust any advice to him,
      and therefore did speak only generally to him, but I doubt his condition
      is very miserable, and do pity his family. Thus the month ends: myself in
      very good health and content of mind in my family. All our heads full in
      the office at this dividing of the Comptroller's duty, so that I am in
      some doubt how it may prove to intrench upon my benefits, but it cannot be
      much. The Parliament, upon breaking up, having given the King money with
      much ado, and great heats, and neither side pleased, neither King nor
      them. The imperfection of the Poll Bill, which must be mended before they
      rise, there being several horrible oversights to the prejudice of the
      King, is a certain sign of the care anybody hath of the King's business.
      Prince Rupert very ill, and to be trepanned on Saturday next. Nobody knows
      who commands the fleete next year, or, indeed, whether we shall have a
      fleete or no. Great preparations in Holland and France, and the French
      have lately taken Antego
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     [Antigua, one of the West India Islands (Leeward Islands),
     discovered by Columbus in 1493, who is said to have named it after a
     church at Seville called Santa Maria la Antigua.  It was first
     settled by a few English families in 1632, and in 1663 another
     settlement was made under Lord Willoughby, to whom the entire island
     was granted by Charles II.  In 1666 it was invaded by a French
     force, which laid waste all the settlement.  It was reconquered by
     the English, and formally restored to them by the treaty of Breda.]
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    <p>
      from us, which vexes us. I am in a little care through my at last putting
      a great deal of money out of my hands again into the King's upon tallies
      for Tangier, but the interest which I wholly lost while in my trunk is a
      temptation while things look safe, as they do in some measure for six
      months, I think, and I would venture but little longer.
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      FEBRUARY 1666-1667
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    <p>
      February 1st. Up, and to the office, where I was all the morning doing
      business, at noon home to dinner, and after dinner down by water, though
      it was a thick misty and rainy day, and walked to Deptford from Redriffe,
      and there to Bagwell's by appointment, where the 'mulier etoit within
      expecting me venir.... By and by 'su marido' come in, and there without
      any notice taken by him we discoursed of our business of getting him the
      new ship building by Mr. Deane, which I shall do for him. Thence by and by
      after a little talk I to the yard, and spoke with some of the officers,
      but staid but little, and the new clerk of the 'Chequer, Fownes, did walk
      to Redriffe back with me. I perceive he is a very child, and is led by the
      nose by Cowly and his kinsman that was his clerk, but I did make him
      understand his duty, and put both understanding and spirit into him, so
      that I hope he will do well. [Much surprised to hear this day at Deptford
      that Mrs. Batters is going already to be married to him, that is now the
      Captain of her husband's ship. She seemed the most passionate mourner in
      the world. But I believe it cannot be true.]&mdash;(The passage between
      brackets is written in the margin of the MS.)&mdash;Thence by water to
      Billingsgate; thence to the Old Swan, and there took boat, it being now
      night, to Westminster Hall, there to the Hall, and find Doll Lane, and
      'con elle' I went to the Bell Taverne, and 'ibi je' did do what I would
      'con elle' as well as I could, she 'sedendo sobre' thus far and making
      some little resistance. But all with much content, and 'je tenai' much
      pleasure 'cum ista'. There parted, and I by coach home, and to the office,
      where pretty late doing business, and then home, and merry with my wife,
      and to supper. My brother and I did play with the base, and I upon my
      viallin, which I have not seen out of the case now I think these three
      years, or more, having lost the key, and now forced to find an expedient
      to open it. Then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and to the office. This day I hear that Prince Rupert is to be
      trepanned. God give good issue to it. Sir W. Pen looks upon me, and I on
      him, and speak about business together at the table well enough, but no
      friendship or intimacy since our late difference about his closet, nor do
      I desire to have any. At noon dined well, and my brother and I to write
      over once more with my own hand my catalogue of books, while he reads to
      me. After something of that done, and dined, I to the office, where all
      the afternoon till night busy. At night, having done all my office
      matters, I home, and my brother and I to go on with my catalogue, and so
      to supper. Mrs. Turner come to me this night again to condole her
      condition and the ill usage she receives from my Lord Bruncker, which I
      could never have expected from him, and shall be a good caution to me
      while I live. She gone, I to supper, and then to read a little, and to
      bed. This night comes home my new silver snuffe-dish, which I do give
      myself for my closet, which is all I purpose to bestow in plate of myself,
      or shall need, many a day, if I can keep what I have. So to bed. I am very
      well pleased this night with reading a poem I brought home with me last
      night from Westminster Hall, of Dryden's' upon the present war; a very
      good poem.
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3rd (Lord's day). Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen to White
Hall, and there to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and there staid till
he was ready, talking, and among other things of the Prince's being
trepanned, which was in doing just as we passed through the Stone
Gallery, we asking at the door of his lodgings, and were told so. We are
all full of wishes for the good success; though I dare say but few do
really concern ourselves for him in our hearts. Up to the Duke of York,
and with him did our business we come about, and among other things
resolve upon a meeting at the office to-morrow morning, Sir W. Coventry
to be there to determine of all things necessary for the setting of Sir
W. Pen to work in his Victualling business. This did awake in me some
thoughts of what might in discourse fall out touching my imployment, and
did give me some apprehension of trouble. Having done here, and after
our laying our necessities for money open to the Duke of York, but
nothing obtained concerning it, we parted, and I with others into the
House, and there hear that the work is done to the Prince in a few
minutes without any pain at all to him, he not knowing when it was done.
It was performed by Moulins. Having cut the outward table, as they call
 corrupted, so as it come out without any force; and their fear is, that
the whole inside of his head is corrupted like that, which do yet make
them afeard of him; but no ill accident appeared in the doing of the
thing, but all with all imaginable success, as Sir Alexander Frazier did
tell me himself, I asking him, who is very kind to me. I to the Chapel a
little, but hearing nothing did take a turn into the Park, and then back
to Chapel and heard a very good Anthem to my heart's delight, and then
to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner, and before dinner did walk with him
alone a good while, and from him hear our case likely for all these acts
to be bad for money, which troubles me, the year speeding so fast, and
he tells me that he believes the Duke of York will go to sea with the
fleete, which I am sorry for in respect to his person, but yet there is
no person in condition to command the fleete, now the Captains are
grown so great, but him, it being impossible for anybody else but him to
command any order or discipline among them. He tells me there is nothing
at all in the late discourse about my Lord Sandwich and the French
Embassador meeting and contending for the way, which I wonder at, to see
the confidence of report without any ground. By and by to dinner, where
very good company. Among other discourse, we talked much of Nostradamus

     [Michael Nostradamus, a physician and astrologer, born in the
     diocese of Avignon, 1503.  Amongst other predictions, one was
     interpreted as foreshowing the singular death of Hen. II. of France,
     by which his reputation was increased.]
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    <p>
      his prophecy of these times, and the burning of the City of London, some
      of whose verses are put into Booker's' Almanack this year; and Sir G.
      Carteret did tell a story, how at his death he did make the town swear
      that he should never be dug up, or his tomb opened, after he was buried;
      but they did after sixty years do it, and upon his breast they found a
      plate of brasse, saying what a wicked and unfaithful people the people of
      that place were, who after so many vows should disturb and open him such a
      day and year and hour; which, if true, is very strange. Then we fell to
      talking of the burning of the City; and my Lady Carteret herself did tell
      us how abundance of pieces of burnt papers were cast by the wind as far as
      Cranborne; and among others she took up one, or had one brought her to
      see, which was a little bit of paper that had been printed, whereon there
      remained no more nor less than these words: "Time is, it is done." After
      dinner I went and took a turn into the Park, and then took boat and away
      home, and there to my chamber and to read, but did receive some letters
      from Sir W. Coventry, touching the want of victuals to Kempthorne's'
      fleete going to the Streights and now in the Downes: which did trouble me,
      he saying that this disappointment might prove fatal; and the more,
      because Sir W. Coventry do intend to come to the office upon business
      to-morrow morning, and I shall not know what answer to give him. This did
      mightily trouble my mind; however, I fell to read a little in Hakewill's
      Apology, and did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying
      that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all
      respects as ever it was as to nature. I continued reading this book with
      great pleasure till supper, and then to bed sooner than ordinary, for
      rising betimes in the morning to-morrow. So after reading my usual vows to
      bed, my mind full of trouble against to-morrow, and did not sleep any good
      time of the night for thoughts of to-morrow morning's trouble.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. I up, with my head troubled to think of the issue of this morning, so
      made ready and to the office, where Mr. Gawden comes, and he and I
      discoursed the business well, and thinks I shall get off well enough; but
      I do by Sir W. Coventry's silence conclude that he is not satisfied in my
      management of my place and the charge it puts the King to, which I confess
      I am not in present condition through my late laziness to give any good
      answer to. But here do D. Gawden give me a good cordiall this morning, by
      telling me that he do give me five of the eight hundred pounds on his
      account remaining in my hands to myself, for the service I do him in my
      victualling business, and L100 for my particular share of the profits of
      my Tangier imployment as Treasurer. This do begin to make my heart glad,
      and I did dissemble it the better, so when Sir W. Coventry did come, and
      the rest met, I did appear unconcerned, and did give him answer pretty
      satisfactory what he asked me; so that I did get off this meeting without
      any ground lost, but rather a great deal gained by interposing that which
      did belong to my duty to do, and neither [Sir] W. Coventry nor (Sir) W.
      Yen did oppose anything thereunto, which did make my heart very glad. All
      the morning at this work, Sir W. Pen making a great deal of do for the
      fitting him in his setting out in his employment, and I do yield to any
      trouble that he gives me without any contradiction. Sir W. Coventry being
      gone, we at noon to dinner to Sir W. Pen's, he inviting me and my wife,
      and there a pretty good dinner, intended indeed for Sir W. Coventry, but
      he would not stay. So here I was mighty merry and all our differences
      seemingly blown over, though he knows, if he be not a fool, that I love
      him not, and I do the like that he hates me. Soon as dined, my wife and I
      out to the Duke's playhouse, and there saw "Heraclius," an excellent play,
      to my extraordinary content; and the more from the house being very full,
      and great company; among others, Mrs. Steward, very fine, with her locks
      done up with puffes, as my wife calls them: and several other great ladies
      had their hair so, though I do not like it; but my wife do mightily&mdash;but
      it is only because she sees it is the fashion. Here I saw my Lord
      Rochester and his lady, Mrs. Mallet, who hath after all this ado married
      him; and, as I hear some say in the pit, it is a great act of charity, for
      he hath no estate. But it was pleasant to see how every body rose up when
      my Lord John Butler, the Duke of Ormond's son, come into the pit towards
      the end of the play, who was a servant&mdash;[lover]&mdash;to Mrs. Mallet,
      and now smiled upon her, and she on him. I had sitting next to me a woman,
      the likest my Lady Castlemayne that ever I saw anybody like another; but
      she is a whore, I believe, for she is acquainted with every fine fellow,
      and called them by their name, Jacke, and Tom, and before the end of the
      play frisked to another place. Mightily pleased with the play, we home by
      coach, and there a little to the office, and then to my chamber, and there
      finished my Catalogue of my books with my own hand, and so to supper and
      to bed, and had a good night's rest, the last night's being troublesome,
      but now my heart light and full of resolution of standing close to my
      business.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and then
      home to dinner. Heard this morning that the Prince is much better, and
      hath good rest. All the talk is that my Lord Sandwich hath perfected the
      peace with Spayne, which is very good, if true. Sir H. Cholmly was with me
      this morning, and told me of my Lord Bellasses's base dealings with him by
      getting him to give him great gratuities to near L2000 for his friendship
      in the business of the Mole, and hath been lately underhand endeavouring
      to bring another man into his place as Governor, so as to receive his
      money of Sir H. Cholmly for nothing. Dined at home, and after dinner come
      Mrs. Daniel and her sister and staid and talked a little, and then I to
      the office, and after setting my things in order at the office I abroad
      with my wife and little Betty Michell, and took them against my vowes, but
      I will make good my forfeit, to the King's house, to show them a play,
      "The Chances." A good play I find it, and the actors most good in it; and
      pretty to hear Knipp sing in the play very properly, "All night I weepe;"
      and sung it admirably. The whole play pleases me well: and most of all,
      the sight of many fine ladies&mdash;among others, my Lady Castlemayne and
      Mrs. Middleton: the latter of the two hath also a very excellent face and
      body, I think. Thence by coach to the New Exchange, and there laid out
      money, and I did give Betty Michell two pair of gloves and a dressing-box;
      and so home in the dark, over the ruins, with a link. I was troubled with
      my pain, having got a bruise on my right testicle, I know not how. But
      this I did make good use of to make my wife shift sides with me, and I did
      come to sit 'avec' Betty Michell, and there had her 'main', which 'elle'
      did give me very frankly now, and did hazer whatever I 'voudrais avec la',
      which did 'plaisir' me 'grandement', and so set her at home with my mind
      mighty glad of what I have prevailed for so far; and so home, and to the
      office, and did my business there, and then home to supper, and after to
      set some things right in my chamber, and so to bed. This morning, before I
      went to the office, there come to me Mr. Young and Whistler, flaggmakers,
      and with mighty earnestness did present me with, and press me to take a
      box, wherein I could not guess there was less than L100 in gold: but I do
      wholly refuse it, and did not at last take it. The truth is, not thinking
      them safe men to receive such a gratuity from, nor knowing any
      considerable courtesy that ever I did do them, but desirous to keep myself
      free from their reports, and to have it in my power to say I had refused
      their offer.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, lying a little long in bed, and by water to White Hall, and there
      find the Duke of York gone out, he being in haste to go to the Parliament,
      and so all my Brethren were gone to the office too. So I to Sir Ph.
      Warwicke's about my Tangier business, and then to Westminster Hall, and
      walked up and down, and hear that the Prince do still rest well by day and
      night, and out of pain; so as great hopes are conceived of him: though I
      did meet Dr. Clerke and Mr. Pierce, and they do say they believe he will
      not recover it, they supposing that his whole head within is eaten by this
      corruption, which appeared in this piece of the inner table. Up to the
      Parliament door, and there discoursed with Roger Pepys, who goes out of
      town this week, the Parliament rising this week also. So down to the Hall
      and there spied Betty Michell, and so I sent for burnt wine to Mrs.
      Michell's, and there did drink with the two mothers, and by that means
      with Betty, poor girle, whom I love with all my heart. And God forgive me,
      it did make me stay longer and hover all the morning up and down the Hall
      to 'busquer occasions para ambulare con elle. But ego ne pouvoir'. So home
      by water and to dinner, and then to the office, where we sat upon Denis
      Gawden's accounts, and before night I rose and by water to White Hall, to
      attend the Council; but they sat not to-day. So to Sir W. Coventry's
      chamber, and find him within, and with a letter from the Downes in his
      hands, telling the loss of the St. Patricke coming from Harwich in her way
      to Portsmouth; and would needs chase two ships (she having the Malago
      fire-ship in company) which from English colours put up Dutch, and he
      would clap on board the Vice-Admirall; and after long dispute the Admirall
      comes on the other side of him, and both together took him. Our fire-ship
      (Seely) not coming in to fire all three, but come away, leaving her in
      their possession, and carried away by them: a ship built at Bristoll the
      last year, of fifty guns and upwards, and a most excellent good ship. This
      made him very melancholy. I to talk of our wants of money, but I do find
      that he is not pleased with that discourse, but grieves to hear it, and do
      seem to think that Sir G. Carteret do not mind the getting of money with
      the same good cheer that he did heretofore, nor do I think he hath the
      same reason. Thence to Westminster Hall, thinking to see Betty Michell,
      she staying there all night, and had hopes to get her out alone, but
      missed, and so away by coach home, and to Sir W. Batten's, to tell him my
      bad news, and then to the office, and home to supper, where Mrs. Hewer
      was, and after supper and she gone, W. Hewer talking with me very late of
      the ill manner of Sir G. Carteret's accounts being kept, and in what a sad
      condition he would be if either Fenn or Wayth should break or die, and am
      resolved to take some time to tell Sir G. Carteret or my Lady of it, I do
      love them so well and their family. So to bed, my pain pretty well gone.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Lay long with pleasure with my wife, and then up and to the office,
      where all the morning, and then home to dinner, and before dinner I went
      into my green dining room, and there talking with my brother upon matters
      relating to his journey to Brampton to-morrow, and giving him good counsel
      about spending the time when he shall stay in the country with my father,
      I looking another way heard him fall down, and turned my head, and he was
      fallen down all along upon the ground dead, which did put me into a great
      fright; and, to see my brotherly love! I did presently lift him up from
      the ground, he being as pale as death; and, being upon his legs, he did
      presently come to himself, and said he had something come into his stomach
      very hot. He knew not what it was, nor ever had such a fit before. I never
      was so frighted but once, when my wife was ill at Ware upon the road, and
      I did continue trembling a good while and ready to weepe to see him, he
      continuing mighty pale all dinner and melancholy, that I was loth to let
      him take his journey tomorrow; but he began to be pretty well, and after
      dinner my wife and Barker fell to singing, which pleased me pretty well,
      my wife taking mighty pains and proud that she shall come to trill, and
      indeed I think she will. So to the office, and there all the afternoon
      late doing business, and then home, and find my brother pretty well. So to
      write a letter to my Lady Sandwich for him to carry, I having not writ to
      her a great while. Then to supper and so to bed. I did this night give him
      20s. for books, and as much for his pocket, and 15s. to carry him down,
      and so to bed. Poor fellow! he is so melancholy, and withal, my wife says,
      harmless, that I begin to love him, and would be loth he should not do
      well.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. This morning my brother John come up to my bedside, and took his
      leave of us, going this day to Brampton. My wife loves him mightily as one
      that is pretty harmless, and I do begin to fancy him from yesterday's
      accident, it troubling me to think I should be left without a brother or
      sister, which is the first time that ever I had thoughts of that kind in
      my life. He gone, I up, and to the office, where we sat upon the
      Victuallers' accounts all the morning. At noon Lord Bruncker, Sir W.
      Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and myself to the Swan in Leadenhall Street to
      dinner, where an exceedingly good dinner and good discourse. Sir W. Batten
      come this morning from the House, where the King hath prorogued this
      Parliament to October next. I am glad they are up. The Bill for Accounts
      was not offered, the party being willing to let it fall; but the King did
      tell them he expected it. They are parted with great heartburnings, one
      party against the other. Pray God bring them hereafter together in better
      temper! It is said that the King do intend himself in this interval to
      take away Lord Mordaunt's government, so as to do something to appease the
      House against they come together, and let them see he will do that of his
      own accord which is fit, without their forcing him; and that he will have
      his Commission for Accounts go on which will be good things. At dinner we
      talked much of Cromwell; all saying he was a brave fellow, and did owe his
      crowne he got to himself as much as any man that ever got one. Thence to
      the office, and there begun the account which Sir W. Pen by his late
      employment hath examined, but begun to examine it in the old manner, a
      clerk to read the Petty warrants, my Lord Bruncker upon very good ground
      did except against it, and would not suffer him to go on. This being Sir
      W. Pen's clerk he took it in snuff, and so hot they grew upon it that my
      Lord Bruncker left the office. He gone (Sir) W. Pen ranted like a devil,
      saying that nothing but ignorance could do this. I was pleased at heart
      all this while. At last moved to have Lord Bruncker desired to return,
      which he did, and I read the petty warrants all the day till late at
      night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private business of
      my office stopped to attend this, but mightily pleased at this falling
      out, and the truth is [Sir] W. Pen do make so much noise in this business
      of his, and do it so little and so ill, that I think the King will be
      little the better by changing the hand. So up and to my office a little,
      but being at it all day I could not do much there. So home and to supper,
      to teach Barker to sing another piece of my song, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. To the office, where we sat all the morning busy. At noon home to
      dinner, and then to my office again, where also busy, very busy late, and
      then went home and read a piece of a play, "Every Man in his Humour,"&mdash;[Ben
      Jonson's well-known play.]&mdash;wherein is the greatest propriety of
      speech that ever I read in my life: and so to bed. This noon come my
      wife's watchmaker, and received L12 of me for her watch; but Captain Rolt
      coming to speak with me about a little business, he did judge of the work
      to be very good work, and so I am well contented, and he hath made very
      good, that I knew, to Sir W. Pen and Lady Batten.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Up and with my wife to church, where Mr. Mills made an
      unnecessary sermon upon Original Sin, neither understood by himself nor
      the people. Home, where Michell and his wife, and also there come Mr.
      Carter, my old acquaintance of Magdalene College, who hath not been here
      of many years. He hath spent his time in the North with the Bishop of
      Carlisle much. He is grown a very comely person, and of good discourse,
      and one that I like very much. We had much talk of our old acquaintance of
      the College, concerning their various fortunes; wherein, to my joy, I met
      not with any that have sped better than myself. After dinner he went away,
      and awhile after them Michell and his wife, whom I love mightily, and then
      I to my chamber there to my Tangier accounts, which I had let run a little
      behind hand, but did settle them very well to my satisfaction, but it cost
      me sitting up till two in the morning, and the longer by reason that our
      neighbour, Mrs. Turner, poor woman, did come to take her leave of us, she
      being to quit her house to-morrow to my Lord Bruncker, who hath used her
      very unhandsomely. She is going to lodgings, and do tell me very odde
      stories how Mrs. Williams do receive the applications of people, and hath
      presents, and she is the hand that receives all, while my Lord Bruncker do
      the business, which will shortly come to be loud talk if she continues
      here, I do foresee, and bring my Lord no great credit. So having done all
      my business, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and by water to the Temple, and thence to Sir Ph. Warwicke's
      about my Tangier warrant for tallies, and there met my Lord Bellasses and
      Creed, and discoursed about our business of money, but we are defeated as
      to any hopes of getting [any] thing upon the Poll Bill, which I seem but
      not much troubled at, it not concerning me much. Thence with Creed to
      Westminster Hall, and there up and down, and heard that Prince Rupert is
      still better and better; and that he did tell Dr. Troutbecke expressly
      that my Lord Sandwich is ordered home. I hear, too, that Prince Rupert
      hath begged the having of all the stolen prize-goods which he can find,
      and that he is looking out anew after them, which at first troubled me;
      but I do see it cannot come to anything, but is done by Hayes, or some of
      his little people about him. Here, among other newes, I bought the King's
      speech at proroguing the House the other day, wherein are some words which
      cannot but import some prospect of a peace, which God send us! After
      walking a good while in the Hall, it being Term time, I home by water,
      calling at Michell's and giving him a fair occasion to send his wife to
      the New Exchange to meet my wife and me this afternoon. So home to dinner,
      and after dinner by coach to Lord Bellasses, and with him to Povy's house,
      whom we find with Auditor Beale and Vernatty about their accounts still,
      which is never likely to have end. Our business was to speak with
      Vernatty, who is certainly a most cunning knave as ever was born. Having
      done what we had to do there, my Lord carried me and set me down at the
      New Exchange, where I staid at Pottle's shop till Betty Michell come,
      which she did about five o'clock, and was surprised not to 'trouver my
      muger' I there; but I did make an excuse good enough, and so I took 'elle'
      down, and over the water to the cabinet-maker's, and there bought a
      dressing-box for her for 20s., but would require an hour's time to make
      fit. This I was glad of, thinking to have got 'elle' to enter to a 'casa
      de biber', but 'elle' would not, so I did not much press it, but suffered
      'elle' to enter 'a la casa de uno de sus hermanos', and so I past my time
      walking up and down, and among other places, to one Drumbleby, a maker of
      flageolets, the best in towne. He not within, my design to bespeak a pair
      of flageolets of the same tune, ordered him to come to me in a day or two,
      and so I back to the cabinet-maker's and there staid; and by and by Betty
      comes, and here we staid in the shop and above seeing the workmen work,
      which was pretty, and some exceeding good work, and very pleasant to see
      them do it, till it was late quite dark, and the mistresse of the shop
      took us into the kitchen and there talked and used us very prettily, and
      took her for my wife, which I owned and her big belly, and there very
      merry, till my thing done, and then took coach and home ... But now comes
      our trouble, I did begin to fear that 'su marido' might go to my house to
      'enquire pour elle', and there, 'trouvant' my 'muger'&mdash;[wife in
      Spanish.]&mdash;at home, would not only think himself, but give my 'femme'
      occasion to think strange things. This did trouble me mightily, so though
      'elle' would not seem to have me trouble myself about it, yet did agree to
      the stopping the coach at the streete's end, and 'je allois con elle'
      home, and there presently hear by him that he had newly sent 'su mayde' to
      my house to see for her mistresse. This do much perplex me, and I did go
      presently home Betty whispering me behind the 'tergo de her mari', that if
      I would say that we did come home by water, 'elle' could make up 'la cose
      well satis', and there in a sweat did walk in the entry ante my door,
      thinking what I should say a my 'femme', and as God would have it, while I
      was in this case (the worst in reference a my 'femme' that ever I was in
      in my life), a little woman comes stumbling to the entry steps in the
      dark; whom asking who she was, she enquired for my house. So knowing her
      voice, and telling her 'su donna' is come home she went away. But, Lord!
      in what a trouble was I, when she was gone, to recollect whether this was
      not the second time of her coming, but at last concluding that she had not
      been here before, I did bless myself in my good fortune in getting home
      before her, and do verily believe she had loitered some time by the way,
      which was my great good fortune, and so I in a-doors and there find all
      well. So my heart full of joy, I to the office awhile, and then home, and
      after supper and doing a little business in my chamber I to bed, after
      teaching Barker a little of my song.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, with several
      things (among others) discoursed relating to our two new assistant
      controllers, but especially Sir W. Pen, who is mighty troublesome in it.
      At noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, and there did much
      business, and by and by comes Mr. Moore, who in discourse did almost
      convince me that it is necessary for my Lord Sandwich to come home end
      take his command at sea this year, for that a peace is like to be. Many
      considerations he did give me hereupon, which were very good both in
      reference to the publick and his private condition. By and by with Lord
      Bruncker by coach to his house, there to hear some Italian musique: and
      here we met Tom Killigrew, Sir Robert Murray, and the Italian Signor
      Baptista, who hath composed a play in Italian for the Opera, which T.
      Killigrew do intend to have up; and here he did sing one of the acts. He
      himself is the poet as well as the musician; which is very much, and did
      sing the whole from the words without any musique prickt, and played all
      along upon a harpsicon most admirably, and the composition most excellent.
      The words I did not understand, and so know not how they are fitted, but
      believe very well, and all in the recitativo very fine. But I perceive
      there is a proper accent in every country's discourse, and that do reach
      in their setting of notes to words, which, therefore, cannot be natural to
      any body else but them; so that I am not so much smitten with it as, it
      may be, I should be, if I were acquainted with their accent. But the whole
      composition is certainly most excellent; and the poetry, T. Killigrew and
      Sir R. Murray, who understood the words, did say was excellent. I confess
      I was mightily pleased with the musique. He pretends not to voice, though
      it be good, but not excellent. This done, T. Killigrew and I to talk: and
      he tells me how the audience at his house is not above half so much as it
      used to be before the late fire. That Knipp is like to make the best actor
      that ever come upon the stage, she understanding so well: that they are
      going to give her L30 a-year more. That the stage is now by his pains a
      thousand times better and more glorious than ever heretofore. Now,
      wax-candles, and many of them; then, not above 3 lbs. of tallow: now, all
      things civil, no rudeness anywhere; then, as in a bear-garden then, two or
      three fiddlers; now, nine or ten of the best then, nothing but rushes upon
      the ground, and every thing else mean; and now, all otherwise: then, the
      Queen seldom and the King never would come; now, not the King only for
      state, but all civil people do think they may come as well as any. He
      tells me that he hath gone several times, eight or ten times, he tells me,
      hence to Rome to hear good musique; so much he loves it, though he never
      did sing or play a note. That he hath ever endeavoured in the late King's
      time, and in this, to introduce good musique, but he never could do it,
      there never having been any musique here better than ballads. Nay, says,
      "Hermitt poore" and "Chevy Chese"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Like hermit poor in pensive place obscure" is found in "The
     Phoenix Nest," 1593, and in Harl.  MS. No. 6910, written soon after
     1596.  It was set to music by Alfonso Ferrabosco, and published in
     his "Ayres," 1609.  The song was a favourite with Izaak Walton, and
     is alluded to in "Hudibras" (Part I., canto ii., line 1169).  See
     Rimbault's "Little Book of Songs and Ballads," 1851, p. 98.  Both
     versions of the famous ballad of "Chevy Chase" are printed in
     Percy's "Reliques."]
</pre>
    <p>
      was all the musique we had; and yet no ordinary fiddlers get so much money
      as ours do here, which speaks our rudenesse still. That he hath gathered
      our Italians from several Courts in Christendome, to come to make a
      concert for the King, which he do give L200 a-year a-piece to: but badly
      paid, and do come in the room of keeping four ridiculous gundilows,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The gondolas mentioned before, as sent by the Doge of Venice.  See
     September 12th, 1661]
</pre>
    <p>
      he having got, the King to put them away, and lay out money this way; and
      indeed I do commend him for it, for I think it is a very noble
      undertaking. He do intend to have some times of the year these operas to
      be performed at the two present theatres, since he is defeated in what he
      intended in Moorefields on purpose for it; and he tells me plainly that
      the City audience was as good as the Court, but now they are most gone.
      Baptista tells me that Giacomo Charissimi is still alive at Rome, who was
      master to Vinnecotio, who is one of the Italians that the King hath here,
      and the chief composer of them. My great wonder is, how this man do to
      keep in memory so perfectly the musique of the whole act, both for the
      voice and the instrument too. I confess I do admire it: but in recitativo
      the sense much helps him, for there is but one proper way of discoursing
      and giving the accents. Having done our discourse, we all took coaches, my
      Lord's and T. Killigrew's, and to Mrs. Knipp's chamber, where this Italian
      is to teach her to sing her part. And so we all thither, and there she did
      sing an Italian song or two very fine, while he played the bass upon a
      harpsicon there; and exceedingly taken I am with her singing, and believe
      that she will do miracles at that and acting. Her little girl is mighty
      pretty and witty. After being there an hour, and I mightily pleased with
      this evening's work, we all parted, and I took coach and home, where late
      at my office, and then home to enter my last three days' Journall; and so
      to supper and to bed, troubled at nothing, but that these pleasures do
      hinder me in my business, and the more by reason of our being to dine
      abroad to-morrow, and then Saturday next is appointed to meet again at my
      Lord Bruncker's lodgings, and there to have the whole quire of Italians;
      but then I do consider that this is all the pleasure I live for in the
      world, and the greatest I can ever expect in the best of my life, and one
      thing more, that by hearing this man to-night, and I think Captain Cooke
      to-morrow, and the quire of Italians on Saturday, I shall be truly able to
      distinguish which of them pleases me truly best, which I do much desire to
      know and have good reason and fresh occasion of judging.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and by water to White Hall, where to the Duke of York, and there
      did our usual business; but troubled to see that, at this time, after our
      declaring a debt to the Parliament of L900,000, and nothing paid since,
      but the debt increased, and now the fleete to set out; to hear that the
      King hath ordered but L35,000 for the setting out of the fleete, out of
      the Poll Bill, to buy all provisions, when five times as much had been
      little enough to have done any thing to purpose. They have, indeed,
      ordered more for paying off of seamen and the Yards to some time, but not
      enough for that neither. Another thing is, the acquainting the Duke of
      York with the case of Mr. Lanyon, our agent at Plymouth, who has trusted
      us to L8000 out of purse; we are not in condition, after so many promises,
      to obtain him a farthing, nor though a message was carried by Sir G.
      Carteret and Sir W. Coventry to the Commissioners for Prizes, that he
      might have L3000 out of L20,000 worth of prizes to be shortly sold there,
      that he might buy at the candle and pay for the goods out of bills, and
      all would [not] do any thing, but that money must go all another way,
      while the King's service is undone, and those that trust him perish. These
      things grieve me to the heart. The Prince, I hear, is every day better and
      better. So away by water home, stopping at Michell's, where Mrs. Martin
      was, and I there drank with them and whispered with Betty, who tells me
      all is well, but was prevented in something she would have said, her
      'marido venant' just then, a news which did trouble me, and so drank and
      parted and home, and there took up my wife by coach, and to Mrs. Pierce's,
      there to take her up, and with them to Dr. Clerke's, by invitation, where
      we have not been a great while, nor had any mind to go now, but that the
      Dr., whom I love, would have us choose a day. Here was his wife, painted,
      and her sister Worshipp, a widow now and mighty pretty in her mourning.
      Here was also Mr. Pierce and Mr. Floyd, Secretary to the Lords
      Commissioners of Prizes, and Captain Cooke, to dinner, an ill and little
      mean one, with foul cloth and dishes, and everything poor. Discoursed most
      about plays and the Opera, where, among other vanities, Captain Cooke had
      the arrogance to say that he was fain to direct Sir W. Davenant in the
      breaking of his verses into such and such lengths, according as would be
      fit for musick, and how he used to swear at Davenant, and command him that
      way, when W. Davenant would be angry, and find fault with this or that
      note&mdash;but a vain coxcomb I perceive he is, though he sings and
      composes so well. But what I wondered at, Dr. Clerke did say that Sir W.
      Davenant is no good judge of a dramatick poem, finding fault with his
      choice of Henry the 5th, and others, for the stage, when I do think, and
      he confesses, "The Siege of Rhodes" as good as ever was writ. After dinner
      Captain Cooke and two of his boys to sing, but it was indeed both in
      performance and composition most plainly below what I heard last night,
      which I could not have believed. Besides overlooking the words which he
      sung, I find them not at all humoured as they ought to be, and as I
      believed he had done all he had sett. Though he himself do indeed sing in
      a manner as to voice and manner the best I ever heard yet, and a strange
      mastery he hath in making of extraordinary surprising closes, that are
      mighty pretty, but his bragging that he do understand tones and sounds as
      well as any man in the world, and better than Sir W. Davenant or any body
      else, I do not like by no means, but was sick of it and of him for it. He
      gone, Dr. Clerke fell to reading a new play, newly writ, of a friend's of
      his; but, by his discourse and confession afterwards, it was his own. Some
      things, but very few, moderately good; but infinitely far from the
      conceit, wit, design, and language of very many plays that I know; so
      that, but for compliment, I was quite tired with hearing it. It being
      done, and commending the play, but against my judgment, only the prologue
      magnifying the happiness of our former poets when such sorry things did
      please the world as was then acted, was very good. So set Mrs. Pierce at
      home, and away ourselves home, and there to my office, and then my chamber
      till my eyes were sore at writing and making ready my letter and accounts
      for the Commissioners of Tangier to-morrow, which being done, to bed,
      hearing that there was a very great disorder this day at the Ticket
      Office, to the beating and bruising of the face of Carcasse very much. A
      foul evening this was to-night, and I mightily troubled to get a coach
      home; and, which is now my common practice, going over the ruins in the
      night, I rid with my sword drawn in the coach.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up and to the office, where Carcasse comes with his plaistered face,
      and called himself Sir W. Batten's martyr, which made W. Batten mad
      almost, and mighty quarrelling there was. We spent the morning almost
      wholly upon considering some way of keeping the peace at the Ticket
      Office; but it is plain that the care of that office is nobody's work, and
      that is it that makes it stand in the ill condition it do. At noon home to
      dinner, and after dinner by coach to my Lord Chancellor's, and there a
      meeting: the Duke of York, Duke of Albemarle, and several other Lords of
      the Commission of Tangier. And there I did present a state of my accounts,
      and managed them well; and my Lord Chancellor did say, though he was, in
      other things, in an ill humour, that no man in England was of more method,
      nor made himself better understood than myself. But going, after the
      business of money was over, to other businesses, of settling the garrison,
      he did fling out, and so did the Duke of York, two or three severe words
      touching my Lord Bellasses: that he would have no Governor come away from
      thence in less than three years; no, though his lady were with child.
      "And," says the Duke of York, "there should be no Governor continue so,
      longer than three years." "Nor," says Lord Arlington, "when our rules are
      once set, and upon good judgment declared, no Governor should offer to
      alter them."&mdash;"We must correct the many things that are amiss there;
      for," says the Lord Chancellor, "you must think we do hear of more things
      amisse than we are willing to speak before our friends' faces." My Lord
      Bellasses would not take notice of their reflecting on him, and did
      wisely, but there were also many reflections on him. Thence away by coach
      to Sir H. Cholmly and Fitzgerald and Creed, setting down the two latter at
      the New Exchange. And Sir H. Cholmly and I to the Temple, and there walked
      in the dark in the walks talking of newes; and he surprises me with the
      certain newes that the King did last night in Council declare his being in
      treaty with the Dutch: that they had sent him a very civil letter,
      declaring that, if nobody but themselves were concerned, they would not
      dispute the place of treaty, but leave it to his choice; but that, being
      obliged to satisfy therein a Prince of equal quality with himself, they
      must except any place in England or Spayne. And so the King hath chosen
      the Hague, and thither hath chose my Lord Hollis and Harry Coventry to go
      Embassadors to treat; which is so mean a thing, as all the world will
      believe, that we do go to beg a peace of them, whatever we pretend. And it
      seems all our Court are mightily for a peace, taking this to be the time
      to make one, while the King hath money, that he may save something of what
      the Parliament hath given him to put him out of debt, so as he may need
      the help of no more Parliaments, as to the point of money: but our debt is
      so great, and expence daily so encreased, that I believe little of the
      money will be saved between this and the making of the peace up. But that
      which troubles me most is, that we have chosen a son of Secretary Morris,
      a boy never used to any business, to go Embassador [Secretary] to the
      Embassy, which shows how, little we are sensible of the weight of the
      business upon us. God therefore give a good end to it, for I doubt it, and
      yet do much more doubt the issue of our continuing the war, for we are in
      no wise fit for it, and yet it troubles me to think what Sir H. Cholmly
      says, that he believes they will not give us any reparation for what we
      have suffered by the war, nor put us into any better condition than what
      we were in before the war, for that will be shamefull for us. Thence
      parted with him and home through the dark over the ruins by coach, with my
      sword drawn, to the office, where dispatched some business; and so home to
      my chamber and to supper and to bed. This morning come up to my wife's
      bedside, I being up dressing myself, little Will Mercer to be her
      Valentine; and brought her name writ upon blue paper in gold letters, done
      by himself, very pretty; and we were both well pleased with it. But I am
      also this year my wife's Valentine, and it will cost me L5; but that I
      must have laid out if we had not been Valentines. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] J. Minnes by coach to White
      Hall, where we attended upon the Duke of York to complain of the disorders
      the other day among the seamen at the Pay at the Ticket Office, and that
      it arises from lack of money, and that we desire, unless better provided
      for with money, to have nothing more to do with the payment of tickets, it
      being not our duty; and the Duke of York and [Sir] W. Coventry did agree
      to it, so that I hope we shall be rid of that trouble. This done, I moved
      for allowance for a house for Mr. Turner, and got it granted. Then away to
      Westminster Hall, and there to the Exchequer about my tallies, and so back
      to White Hall, and so with Lord Bellasses to the Excise Office, where met
      by Sir H. Cholmly to consider about our business of money there, and that
      done, home and to dinner, where I hear Pegg Pen is married this day
      privately; no friends, but two or three relations on his side and hers.
      Borrowed many things of my kitchen for dressing their dinner. So after
      dinner to the office, and there busy and did much business, and late at
      it. Mrs. Turner come to me to hear how matters went; I told her of our
      getting rent for a house for her. She did give me account of this wedding
      to-day, its being private being imputed to its being just before Lent, and
      so in vain to make new clothes till Easter, that they might see the
      fashions as they are like to be this summer; which is reason good enough.
      Mrs. Turner tells me she hears [Sir W. Pen] gives L4500 or 4000 with her.
      They are gone to bed, so I wish them much sport, and home to supper and to
      bed. They own the treaty for a peace publickly at Court, and the
      Commissioners providing themselves to go over as soon as a passe comes for
      them.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. Among other things
      great heat we were all in on one side or other in the examining witnesses
      against Mr. Carcasse about his buying of tickets, and a cunning knave I do
      believe he is, and will appear, though I have thought otherwise
      heretofore. At noon home to dinner, and there find Mr. Andrews, and Pierce
      and Hollyard, and they dined with us and merry, but we did rise soon for
      saving of my wife's seeing a new play this afternoon, and so away by
      coach, and left her at Mrs. Pierces, myself to the Excise Office about
      business, and thence to the Temple to walk a little only, and then to
      Westminster to pass away time till anon, and here I went to Mrs. Martin's
      to thank her for her oysters.... Thence away to my Lord Bruncker's, and
      there was Sir Robert Murray, whom I never understood so well as now by
      this opportunity of discourse with him, a most excellent man of reason and
      learning, and understands the doctrine of musique, and everything else I
      could discourse of, very finely. Here come Mr. Hooke, Sir George Ent, Dr.
      Wren, and many others; and by and by the musique, that is to say, Signor
      Vincentio, who is the master-composer, and six more, whereof two eunuches,
      so tall, that Sir T. Harvey said well that he believes they do grow large
      by being gelt as our oxen do, and one woman very well dressed and handsome
      enough, but would not be kissed, as Mr. Killigrew, who brought the company
      in, did acquaint us. They sent two harpsicons before; and by and by, after
      tuning them, they begun; and, I confess, very good musique they made; that
      is, the composition exceeding good, but yet not at all more pleasing to me
      than what I have heard in English by Mrs. Knipp, Captain Cooke, and
      others. Nor do I dote on the eunuches; they sing, indeed, pretty high, and
      have a mellow kind of sound, but yet I have been as well satisfied with
      several women's voices and men also, as Crispe of the Wardrobe. The women
      sung well, but that which distinguishes all is this, that in singing, the
      words are to be considered, and how they are fitted with notes, and then
      the common accent of the country is to be known and understood by the
      hearer, or he will never be a good judge of the vocal musique of another
      country. So that I was not taken with this at all, neither understanding
      the first, nor by practice reconciled to the latter, so that their
      motions, and risings and fallings, though it may be pleasing to an
      Italian, or one that understands the tongue, yet to me it did not, but do
      from my heart believe that I could set words in English, and make musique
      of them more agreeable to any Englishman's eare (the most judicious) than
      any Italian musique set for the voice, and performed before the same man,
      unless he be acquainted with the Italian accent of speech. The composition
      as to the musique part was exceeding good, and their justness in keeping
      time by practice much before any that we have, unless it be a good band of
      practised fiddlers. So away, here being Captain Cocke, who is stole away,
      leaving them at it, in his coach, and to Mrs. Pierce's, where I took up my
      wife, and there I find Mrs. Pierce's little girl is my Valentine, she
      having drawn me; which I was not sorry for, it easing me of something more
      that I must have given to others. But here I do first observe the fashion
      of drawing of mottos as well as names; so that Pierce, who drew my wife,
      did draw also a motto, and this girl drew another for me. What mine was I
      have forgot; but my wife's was, "Most virtuous and most fair;" which, as
      it may be used, or an anagram made upon each name, might be very pretty.
      Thence with Cocke and my wife, set him at home, and then we home. To the
      office, and there did a little business, troubled that I have so much been
      hindered by matters of pleasure from my business, but I shall recover it I
      hope in a little time. So home and to supper, not at all smitten with the
      musique to-night, which I did expect should have been so extraordinary,
      Tom Killigrew crying it up, and so all the world, above all things in the
      world, and so to bed. One wonder I observed to-day, that there was no
      musique in the morning to call up our new-married people, which is very
      mean, methinks, and is as if they had married like dog and bitch.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). Up, and called at Michell's, and took him and his wife
      and carried them to Westminster, I landing at White Hall, and having no
      pleasure in the way 'con elle'; and so to the Duke's, where we all met and
      had a hot encounter before the Duke of York about the business of our
      payments at the Ticket Office, where we urged that we had nothing to do to
      be troubled with the pay, having examined the tickets. Besides, we are
      neglected, having not money sent us in time, but to see the baseness of my
      brethren, not a man almost put in a word but Sir W. Coventry, though at
      the office like very devils in this point. But I did plainly declare that,
      without money, no fleete could be expected, and desired the Duke of York
      to take notice of it, and notice was taken of it, but I doubt will do no
      good. But I desire to remember it as a most prodigious thing that to this
      day my Lord Treasurer hath not consulted counsel, which Sir W. Coventry
      and I and others do think is necessary, about the late Poll act, enough to
      put the same into such order as that any body dare lend money upon it,
      though we have from this office under our hands related the necessity
      thereof to the Duke of York, nor is like to be determined in, for ought I
      see, a good while had not Sir W. Coventry plainly said that he did believe
      it would be a better work for the King than going to church this morning,
      to send for the Atturney Generall to meet at the Lord Treasurer's this
      afternoon and to bring the thing to an issue, saying that himself, were he
      going to the Sacrament, would not think he should offend God to leave it
      and go to the ending this work, so much it is of moment to the King and
      Kingdom. Hereupon the Duke of York said he would presently speak to the
      King, and cause it to be done this afternoon. Having done here we broke
      up; having done nothing almost though for all this, and by and by I met
      Sir G. Carteret, and he is stark mad at what has passed this morning, and
      I believe is heartily vexed with me: I said little, but I am sure the King
      will suffer if some better care be not taken than he takes to look after
      this business of money. So parted, and I by water home and to dinner, W.
      Hewer with us, a good dinner and-very merry, my wife and I, and after
      dinner to my chamber, to fit some things against: the Council anon, and
      that being done away to White Hall by water, and thence to my Lord
      Chancellor's, where I met with, and had much pretty discourse with, one of
      the Progers's that knows me; and it was pretty to hear him tell me, of his
      own accord, as a matter of no shame, that in Spayne he had a pretty woman,
      his mistress, whom, when money grew scarce with him, he was forced to
      leave, and afterwards heard how she and her husband lived well, she being
      kept by an old fryer who used her as his whore; but this, says he, is
      better than as our ministers do, who have wives that lay up their estates,
      and do no good nor relieve any poor&mdash;no, not our greatest prelates,
      and I think he is in the right for my part. Staid till the Council was up,
      and attended the King and Duke of York round the Park, and was asked
      several questions by both; but I was in pain, lest they should ask me what
      I could not answer; as the Duke of York did the value of the hull of the
      St. Patrick lately lost, which I told him I could not presently answer;
      though I might have easily furnished myself to answer all those questions.
      They stood a good while to see the ganders and geese tread one another in
      the water, the goose being all the while kept for a great while: quite
      under water, which was new to me, but they did make mighty sport of it,
      saying (as the King did often) "Now you shall see a marriage, between this
      and that," which did not please me. They gone, by coach to my Lord
      Treasurer's, as the Duke of York told me, to settle the business of money
      for the navy, I walked into the Court to and again till night, and there
      met Colonell Reames, and he and I walked together a great while
      complaining of the ill-management of things, whereof he is as full as I
      am. We ran over many persons and things, and see nothing done like men
      like to do well while the King minds his pleasures so much. We did bemoan
      it that nobody would or had authority enough with the King to tell him how
      all things go to rack and will be lost. Then he and I parted, and I to
      Westminster to the Swan, and there staid till Michell and his wife come.
      Old Michell and his wife come to see me, and there we drank and laughed a
      little, and then the young ones and I took boat, it being fine moonshine.
      I did to my trouble see all the way that 'elle' did get as close 'a su
      marido' as 'elle' could, and turn her 'mains' away 'quand je' did
      endeavour to take one.... So that I had no pleasure at all 'con elle ce'
      night. When we landed I did take occasion to send him back a the bateau
      while I did get a 'baiser' or two, and would have taken 'la' by 'la' hand,
      but 'elle' did turn away, and 'quand' I said shall I not 'toucher' to
      answered 'ego' no love touching, in a slight mood. I seemed not to take
      notice of it, but parted kindly; 'su marido' did alter with me almost a my
      case, and there we parted, and so I home troubled at this, but I think I
      shall make good use of it and mind my business more. At home, by
      appointment, comes Captain Cocke to me, to talk of State matters, and
      about the peace; who told me that the whole business is managed between
      Kevet, Burgomaster of Amsterdam, and my Lord Arlington, who hath, by the
      interest of his wife there, some interest. We have proposed the Hague, but
      know not yet whether the Dutch will like it; or; if they do, whether the
      French will. We think we shall have the help of the information of their
      affairs and state, and the helps of the Prince of Orange his faction; but
      above all, that De Witt, who hath all this while said he cannot get peace,
      his mouth will now be stopped, so that he will be forced to offer fit
      terms for fear of the people; and, lastly, if France or Spayne do not
      please us, we are in a way presently to clap up a peace with the Dutch,
      and secure them. But we are also in treaty with France, as he says: but it
      must be to the excluding our alliance with the King of Spayne or House of
      Austria; which we do not know presently what will be determined in. He
      tells me the Vice-Chamberlaine is so great with the King, that, let the
      Duke of York, and Sir W. Coventry, and this office, do or say what they
      will, while the King lives, Sir G. Carteret will do what he will; and
      advises me to be often with him, and eat and drink with him.; and tells me
      that he doubts he is jealous of me, and was mighty mad to-day at our
      discourse to him before the Duke of York. But I did give him my reasons
      that the office is concerned to declare that, without money, the King's
      work cannot go on. From that discourse we ran to others, and among the
      others he assures me that Henry Bruncker is one of the shrewdest fellows
      for parts in England, and a dangerous man; that if ever the Parliament
      comes again Sir W. Coventry cannot stand, but in this I believe him not;
      that, while we want money so much in the Navy, the Officers of the
      Ordnance have at this day L300,000 good in tallys, which they can command
      money upon, got by their over-estimating their charge in getting it
      reckoned as a fifth part of the expense of the Navy; that Harry Coventry,
      who is to go upon this treaty with Lord Hollis (who he confesses to be a
      very wise man) into Holland, is a mighty quick, ready man, but not so
      weighty as he should be, he knowing him so well in his drink as he do;
      that, unless the King do do something against my Lord Mordaunt and the
      Patent for the Canary Company, before the Parliament next meets, he do
      believe there will be a civil war before there will be any more money
      given, unless it may be at their perfect disposal; and that all things are
      now ordered to the provoking of the Parliament against they come next, and
      the spending the King's money, so as to put him into a necessity of having
      it at the time it is prorogued for, or sooner. Having discoursed all this
      and much more, he away, and I to supper and to read my vows, and to bed.
      My mind troubled about Betty Michell, 'pour sa carriage' this night
      'envers moy', but do hope it will put me upon doing my business. This
      evening, going to the Queen's side to see the ladies, I did find the
      Queene, the Duchesse of York, and another or two, at cards, with the room
      full of great ladies and men; which I was amazed at to see on a Sunday,
      having not believed it; but, contrarily, flatly denied the same a little
      while since to my cozen Roger Pepys? I did this day, going by water, read
      the answer to "The Apology for Papists," which did like me mightily, it
      being a thing as well writ as I think most things that ever I read in my
      life, and glad I am that I read it.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and to my bookbinder's, and there mightily pleased to see some
      papers of the account we did give the Parliament of the expense of the
      Navy sewed together, which I could not have conceived before how prettily
      it was done. Then by coach to the Exchequer about some tallies, and thence
      back again home, by the way meeting Mr. Weaver, of Huntingdon, and did
      discourse our business of law together, which did ease my mind, for I was
      afeard I have omitted doing what I in prudence ought to have done. So home
      and to dinner, and after dinner to the office, where je had Mrs. Burrows
      all sola a my closet, and did there 'baiser and toucher ses mamelles'....
      Thence away, and with my wife by coach to the Duke of York's play-house,
      expecting a new play, and so stayed not no more than other people, but to
      the King's house, to "The Mayd's Tragedy;" but vexed all the while with
      two talking ladies and Sir Charles Sedley; yet pleased to hear their
      discourse, he being a stranger. And one of the ladies would, and did sit
      with her mask on, all the play, and, being exceeding witty as ever I heard
      woman, did talk most pleasantly with him; but was, I believe, a virtuous
      woman, and of quality. He would fain know who she was, but she would not
      tell; yet did give him many pleasant hints of her knowledge of him, by
      that means setting his brains at work to find, out who she was, and did
      give him leave to use all means to find out who she was, but pulling off
      her mask. He was mighty witty, and she also making sport with him very
      inoffensively, that a more pleasant 'rencontre' I never heard. But by that
      means lost the pleasure of the play wholly, to which now and then Sir
      Charles Sedley's exceptions against both words and pronouncing were very
      pretty. So home and to the office, did much business, then home, to
      supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning doing little business,
      our want of money being so infinite great. At noon home, and there find
      old Mr. Michell and Howlett come to desire mine and my wife's company to
      dinner to their son's, and so away by coach with them, it being Betty's
      wedding-day a year, as also Shrove Tuesday. Here I made myself mighty
      merry, the two old women being there also, and a mighty pretty dinner we
      had in this little house, to my exceeding great content, and my wife's,
      and my heart pleased to see Betty. But I have not been so merry a very
      great while as with them, every thing pleasing me there as much as among
      so mean company I could be pleased. After dinner I fell to read the Acts
      about the building of the City again;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Burnet wrote ("History of his Own Time," book ii.): "An act passed
     in this session for rebuilding the city of London, which gave Lord
     Chief Justice Hale a great reputation, for it was drawn with so true
     a judgment, and so great foresight, that the whole city was raised
     out of its ashes without any suits of law."]
</pre>
    <p>
      and indeed the laws seem to be very good, and I pray God I may live to see
      it built in that manner! Anon with much content home, walking with my wife
      and her woman, and there to my office, where late doing much business, and
      then home to supper and to bed. This morning I hear that our discourse of
      peace is all in the dirt; for the Dutch will not like of the place, or at
      least the French will not agree to it; so that I do wonder what we shall
      do, for carry on the war we cannot. I long to hear the truth of it
      to-morrow at Court.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, with Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen by coach to White Hall, by the
      way observing Sir W. Pen's carrying a favour to Sir W. Coventry, for his
      daughter's wedding, and saying that there was others for us, when we will
      fetch them, which vexed me, and I am resolved not to wear it when he
      orders me one. His wedding hath been so poorly kept, that I am ashamed of
      it; for a fellow that makes such a flutter as he do. When we come to the
      Duke of York here, I heard discourse how Harris of his play-house is sick,
      and everybody commends him, and, above all things, for acting the
      Cardinall. Here they talk also how the King's viallin,&mdash;[violin]&mdash;
      Bannister, is mad that the King hath a Frenchman come to be chief of some
      part of the King's musique, at which the Duke of York made great mirth.
      Then withdrew to his closett, all our business, lack of money and prospect
      of the effects of it, such as made Sir W. Coventry say publickly before us
      all, that he do heartily wish that his Royal Highness had nothing to do in
      the Navy, whatever become of him; so much dishonour, he says, is likely to
      fall under the management of it. The Duke of York was angry, as much as he
      could be, or ever I saw him, with Sir G. Carteret, for not paying the
      masters of some ships on Monday last, according to his promise, and I do
      think Sir G. Carteret will make himself unhappy by not taking some course
      either to borrow more money or wholly lay aside his pretence to the charge
      of raising money, when he hath nothing to do to trouble himself with.
      Thence to the Exchequer, and there find the people in readiness to
      dispatch my tallies to-day, though Ash Wednesday. So I back by coach to
      London to Sir Robt. Viner's and there got L100, and come away with it and
      pay my fees round, and so away with the 'Chequer men to the Leg in King
      Street, and there had wine for them; and here was one in company with
      them, that was the man that got the vessel to carry over the King from
      Bredhemson, who hath a pension of 200 per annum, but ill paid, and the man
      is looking after getting of a prizeship to live by; but the trouble is,
      that this poor man, who hath received no part of his money these four
      years, and is ready to starve almost, must yet pay to the Poll Bill for
      this pension. He told me several particulars of the King's coming thither,
      which was mighty pleasant, and shews how mean a thing a king is, how
      subject to fall, and how like other men he is in his afflictions. Thence
      with my tallies home, and a little dinner, and then with my wife by coach
      to Lincoln's Inn Fields, sent her to her brother's, and I with Lord
      Bellasses to the Lord Chancellor's. Lord Bellasses tells me how the King
      of France hath caused the stop to be made to our proposition of treating
      in The Hague; that he being greater than they, we may better come and
      treat at Paris: so that God knows what will become of the peace! He tells
      me, too, as a grand secret, that he do believe the peace offensive and
      defensive between Spayne and us is quite finished, but must not be known,
      to prevent the King of France's present falling upon Flanders. He do
      believe the Duke of York will be made General of the Spanish armies there,
      and Governor of Flanders, if the French should come against it, and we
      assist the Spaniard: that we have done the Spaniard abundance of mischief
      in the West Indys, by our privateers at Jamaica, which they lament
      mightily, and I am sorry for it to have it done at this time. By and by,
      come to my Lord Chancellor, who heard mighty quietly my complaints for
      lack of money, and spoke mighty kind to me, but little hopes of help
      therein, only his good word. He do prettily cry upon Povy's account with
      sometimes seeming friendship and pity, and this day quite the contrary. He
      do confess our streights here and every where else arise from our
      outspending our revenue. I mean that the King do do so. Thence away, took
      up my wife; who tells me her brother hath laid out much money upon himself
      and wife for clothes, which I am sorry to hear, it requiring great
      expense. So home and to the office a while, and then home to supper, where
      Mrs. Turner come to us, and sat and talked. Poor woman, I pity her, but
      she is very cunning. She concurs with me in the falseness of Sir W. Pen's
      friendship, and she tells pretty storms of my Lord Bruncker since he come
      to our end of the town, of people's applications to Mrs. Williams. So, she
      gone, I back to my accounts of Tangier, which I am settling, having my new
      tallies from the Exchequer this day, and having set all right as I could
      wish, then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and to the Office, where sat all the morning, and there a most
      furious conflict between Sir W. Pen and I, in few words, and on a sudden
      occasion, of no great moment, but very bitter, and stared on one another,
      and so broke off; and to our business, my heart as full of spite as it
      could hold, for which God forgive me and him! At the end of the day come
      witnesses on behalf of Mr. Carcasse; but, instead of clearing him, I find
      they were brought to recriminate Sir W. Batten, and did it by oath very
      highly, that made the old man mad, and, I confess, me ashamed, so that I
      caused all but ourselves to withdraw; being sorry to have such things
      declared in the open office, before 100 people. But it was done home, and
      I do believe true, though (Sir) W. Batten denies all, but is cruel mad,
      and swore one of them, he or Carcasse, should not continue in the Office,
      which is said like a fool. He gone, for he would not stay, and [Sir] W.
      Pen gone a good while before, Lord Bruncker, Sir T. Harvy, and I, staid
      and examined the witnesses, though amounting to little more than a
      reproaching of Sir W. Batten. I home, my head and mind vexed about the
      conflict between Sir W. Pen and I, though I have got, nor lost any ground
      by it. At home was Mr. Daniel and wife and sister, and dined with us, and
      I disturbed at dinner, Colonell Fitzgerald coming to me about tallies,
      which I did go and give him, and then to the office, where did much
      business and walked an hour or two with Lord Bruncker, who is mightily
      concerned in this business for Carcasse and against Sir W. Batten, and I
      do hope it will come to a good height, for I think it will be good for the
      King as well as for me, that they two do not agree, though I do, for ought
      I see yet, think that my Lord is for the most part in the right. He gone,
      I to the office again to dispatch business, and late at night comes in Sir
      W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and [Sir] J. Minnes to the office, and what was
      it but to examine one Jones, a young merchant, who was said to have spoke
      the worst against Sir W. Batten, but he do deny it wholly, yet I do
      believe Carcasse will go near to prove all that was sworn in the morning,
      and so it be true I wish it may. That done, I to end my letters, and then
      home to supper, and set right some accounts of Tangier, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and to the office, where I awhile, and then home with Sir H.
      Cholmly to give him some tallies upon the business of the Mole at Tangier,
      and then out with him by coach to the Excise Office, there to enter them,
      and so back again with him to the Exchange, and there I took another
      coach, and home to the office, and to my business till dinner, the rest of
      our officers having been this morning upon the Victuallers' accounts. At
      dinner all of us, that is to say, Lord Bruncker, [Sir] J. Minnes, [Sir] W.
      Batten, [Sir] T. Harvy, and myself, to Sir W. Pen's house, where some
      other company. It is instead of a wedding dinner for his daughter, whom I
      saw in palterly clothes, nothing new but a bracelet that her servant had
      given her, and ugly she is, as heart can wish. A sorry dinner, not any
      thing handsome or clean, but some silver plates they borrowed of me. My
      wife was here too. So a great deal of talk, and I seemingly merry, but
      took no pleasure at all. We had favours given us all, and we put them in
      our hats, I against my will, but that my Lord and the rest did, I being
      displeased that he did carry Sir W. Coventry's himself several days ago,
      and the people up and down the town long since, and we must have them but
      to-day. After dinner to talk a little, and then I away to my office, to
      draw up a letter of the state of the Office and Navy for the Duke of York
      against Sunday next, and at it late, and then home to supper and to bed,
      talking with my wife of the poorness and meanness of all that Sir W. Pen
      and the people about us do, compared with what we do.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. This day I am, by the blessing of God, 34 years old, in very good
      health and mind's content, and in condition of estate much beyond whatever
      my friends could expect of a child of theirs, this day 34 years. The
      Lord's name be praised! and may I be ever thankful for it. Up betimes to
      the office, in order to my letter to the Duke of York to-morrow, and then
      the office met and spent the greatest part about this letter. At noon home
      to dinner, and then to the office again very close at it all the day till
      midnight, making an end and writing fair this great letter and other
      things to my full content, it abundantly providing for the vindication of
      this office, whatever the success be of our wants of money. This evening
      Sir W. Batten come to me to the office on purpose, out of spleen (of which
      he is full to Carcasse!), to tell me that he is now informed of many
      double tickets now found of Carcasses making which quite overthrows him.
      It is strange to see how, though I do believe this fellow to be a rogue,
      and could be contented to have him removed, yet to see him persecuted by
      Sir W. Batten, who is as bad himself, and that with so much rancour, I am
      almost the fellow's friend. But this good I shall have from it, that the
      differences between Sir W. Batten and my Lord Bruncker will do me no hurt.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). Up, and with [Sir] W. Batten, by coach; he set me down
      at my Lord Bruncker's (his feud there not suffering him to 'light
      himself), and I with my Lord by and by when ready to White Hall, and by
      and by up to the Duke of York, and there presented our great letter and
      other papers, and among the rest my report of the victualling, which is
      good, I think, and will continue my pretence to the place, which I am
      still afeard Sir W. Coventry's employment may extinguish. We have
      discharged ourselves in this letter fully from blame in the bad success of
      the Navy, if money do not come soon to us, and so my heart is at pretty
      good rest in this point. Having done here, Sir W. Batten and I home by
      coach, and though the sermon at our church was begun, yet he would 'light
      to go home and eat a slice of roast beef off the spit, and did, and then
      he and I to church in the middle of the sermon. My Lady Pen there saluted
      me with great content to tell me that her daughter and husband are still
      in bed, as if the silly woman thought it a great matter of honour, and
      did, going out of the church, ask me whether we did not make a great show
      at Court today, with all our favours in our hats. After sermon home, and
      alone with my wife dined. Among other things my wife told me how ill a
      report our Mercer hath got by her keeping of company, so that she will not
      send for her to dine with us or be with us as heretofore; and, what is
      more strange, tells me that little Mis. Tooker hath got a clap as young as
      she is, being brought up loosely by her mother.... In the afternoon away
      to White Hall by water, and took a turn or two in the Park, and then back
      to White Hall, and there meeting my Lord Arlington, he, by I know not what
      kindness, offered to carry me along with him to my Lord Treasurer's,
      whither, I told him, I was going. I believe he had a mind to discourse of
      some Navy businesses, but Sir Thomas Clifford coming into the coach to us,
      we were prevented; which I was sorry for, for I had a mind to begin an
      acquaintance with him. He speaks well, and hath pretty slight superficial
      parts, I believe. He, in our going, talked much of the plain habit of the
      Spaniards; how the King and Lords themselves wear but a cloak of
      Colchester bayze, and the ladies mantles, in cold weather, of white
      flannell: and that the endeavours frequently of setting up the manufacture
      of making these stuffs there have only been prevented by the Inquisition:
      the English and Dutchmen that have been sent for to work, being taken with
      a Psalmbook or Testament, and so clapped up, and the house pulled down by
      the Inquisitors; and the greatest Lord in Spayne dare not say a word
      against it, if the word Inquisition be but mentioned. At my Lord
      Treasurer's 'light and parted with them, they going into Council, and I
      walked with Captain Cocke, who takes mighty notice of the differences
      growing in our office between Lord Bruncker and [Sir] W. Batten, and among
      others also, and I fear it may do us hurt, but I will keep out of them. By
      and by comes Sir S. Fox, and he and I walked and talked together on many
      things, but chiefly want of money, and the straits the King brings himself
      and affairs into for want of it. Captain Cocke did tell me what I must not
      forget: that the answer of the Dutch, refusing The Hague for a place of
      treaty, and proposing the Boysse, Bredah, Bergen-op-Zoome, or Mastricht,
      was seemingly stopped by the Swede's Embassador (though he did show it to
      the King, but the King would take no notice of it, nor does not) from
      being delivered to the King; and he hath wrote to desire them to consider
      better of it: so that, though we know their refusal of the place, yet they
      know not that we know it, nor is the King obliged to show his sense of the
      affront. That the Dutch are in very great straits, so as to be said to be
      not able to set out their fleete this year. By and by comes Sir Robert
      Viner and my Lord Mayor to ask the King's directions about measuring out
      the streets according to the new Act for building of the City, wherein the
      King is to be pleased.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [See Sir Christopher Wren's "Proposals for rebuilding the City of
     London after the great fire, with an engraved Plan of the principal
     Streets and Public Buildings," in Elmes's "Memoirs of Sir
     Christopher Wren," Appendix, p.61.  The originals are in All Souls'
     College Library, Oxford.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      But he says that the way proposed in Parliament, by Colonel Birch, would
      have been the best, to have chosen some persons in trust, and sold the
      whole ground, and let it be sold again by them, with preference to the old
      owner, which would have certainly caused the City to be built where these
      Trustees pleased; whereas now, great differences will be, and the streets
      built by fits, and not entire till all differences be decided. This, as he
      tells it, I think would have been the best way. I enquired about the
      Frenchman
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["One Hubert, a French papist, was seized in Essex, as he was
     getting out of the way in great confusion.  He confessed he had
     begun the fire, and persisted in his confession to his death, for he
     was hanged upon no other evidence but that of his own confession.
     It is true he gave so broken an account of the whole matter that he
     was thought mad.  Yet he was blindfolded, and carried to several
     places of the city, and then his eyes being opened, he was asked if
     that was the place, and he being carried to wrong places, after he
     looked round about for some time, he said that was not the place,
     but when he was brought to the place where it first broke out, he
     affirmed that was the true place.  "Burnet's Own Time," book ii.
     Archbishop Tillotson, according to Burnet, believed that London was
     burnt by design.]
</pre>
    <p>
      that was said to fire the City, and was hanged for it, by his own
      confession, that he was hired for it by a Frenchman of Roane, and that he
      did with a stick reach in a fire-ball in at a window of the house: whereas
      the master of the house, who is the King's baker, and his son, and
      daughter, do all swear there was no such window, and that the fire did not
      begin thereabouts. Yet the fellow, who, though a mopish besotted fellow,
      did not speak like a madman, did swear that he did fire it: and did not
      this like a madman; for, being tried on purpose, and landed with his
      keeper at the Tower Wharf, he could carry the keeper to the very house.
      Asking Sir R. Viner what he thought was the cause of the fire, he tells
      me, that the baker, son, and his daughter, did all swear again and again,
      that their oven was drawn by ten o'clock at night; that, having occasion
      to light a candle about twelve, there was not so much fire in the
      bakehouse as to light a match for a candle, so that they were fain to go
      into another place to light it; that about two in the morning they felt
      themselves almost choked with smoke, and rising, did find the fire coming
      upstairs; so they rose to save themselves; but that, at that time, the
      bavins&mdash;[brushwood, or faggots used for lighting fires]&mdash;were
      not on fire in the yard. So that they are, as they swear, in absolute
      ignorance how this fire should come; which is a strange thing, that so
      horrid an effect should have so mean and uncertain a beginning. By and by
      called in to the King and Cabinet, and there had a few insipid words about
      money for Tangier, but to no purpose. Thence away walked to my boat at
      White Hall, and so home and to supper, and then to talk with W. Hewer
      about business of the differences at present among the people of our
      office, and so to my journall and to bed. This night going through bridge
      by water, my waterman told me how the mistress of the Beare tavern, at the
      bridge-foot, did lately fling herself into the Thames, and drowned
      herself; which did trouble me the more, when they tell me it was she that
      did live at the White Horse tavern in Lumbard Streete, which was a most
      beautiful woman, as most I have seen. It seems she hath had long
      melancholy upon her, and hath endeavoured to make away with herself often.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Lay long in bed, talking with pleasure with my poor wife, how she
      used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes with her own hand for
      me, poor wretch! in our little room at my Lord Sandwich's; for which I
      ought for ever to love and admire her, and do; and persuade myself she
      would do the same thing again, if God should reduce us to it. So up and by
      coach abroad to the Duke of Albemarle's about sending soldiers down to
      some ships, and so home, calling at a belt-maker's to mend my belt, and so
      home and to dinner, where pleasant with my wife, and then to the office,
      where mighty busy all the day, saving going forth to the 'Change to pay
      for some things, and on other occasions, and at my goldsmith's did observe
      the King's new medall, where, in little, there is Mrs. Steward's face as
      well done as ever I saw anything in my whole life, I think: and a pretty
      thing it is, that he should choose her face to represent Britannia by. So
      at the office late very busy and much business with great joy dispatched,
      and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. And here did receive
      another reference from Sir W. Coventry about the business of some of the
      Muster-Masters, concerning whom I had returned their small performances,
      which do give me a little more trouble for fear [Sir] W. Coventry should
      think I had a design to favour my brother Balty, and to that end to
      disparage all the rest. But I shall clear all very well, only it do
      exercise my thoughts more than I am at leisure for. At home find Balty and
      his wife very fine, which I did not like, for fear he do spend too much of
      his money that way, and lay [not] up anything. After dinner to the office
      again, where by and by Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] J. Minnes and
      I met about receiving Carcasses answers to the depositions against him.
      Wherein I did see so much favour from my Lord to him that I do again begin
      to see that my Lord is not right at the bottom, and did make me the more
      earnest against him, though said little. My Lord rising, declaring his
      judgement in his behalf, and going away, I did hinder our arguing it by
      ourselves, and so broke up the meeting, and myself went full of trouble to
      my office, there to write over the deposition and his answers side by
      side, and then home to supper and to bed with some trouble of mind to
      think of the issue of this, how it will breed ill blood among us here.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up by candle-light, about six o'clock, it being bitter cold weather
      again, after all our warm weather, and by water down to Woolwich
      rope-yard, I being this day at a leisure, the King and Duke of York being
      gone down to Sheerenesse this morning to lay out the design for a
      fortification there to the river Medway; and so we do not attend the Duke
      of York as we should otherwise have done, and there to the Dock Yard to
      enquire of the state of things, and went into Mr. Pett's; and there,
      beyond expectation, he did present me with a Japan cane, with a silver
      head, and his wife sent me by him a ring, with a Woolwich stone;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Woolwich stones, still collected in that locality, are simply
     waterworn pebbles of flint, which, when broken with a hammer,
     exhibit on the smooth surface some resemblance to the human face;
     and their possessors are thus enabled to trace likenesses of
     friends, or eminent public characters.  The late Mr. Tennant, the
     geologist, of the Strand, had a collection of such stones.  In the
     British Museum is a nodule of globular or Egyptian jasper, which, in
     its fracture, bears a striking resemblance to the well-known
     portrait of Chaucer.  It is engraved in Rymsdyk's "Museum
     Britannicum," tab.  xxviii.  A flint, showing Mr. Pitt's face, used
     once to be exhibited at the meetings of the Pitt Club.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      now much in request; which I accepted, the values not being great, and
      knowing that I had done them courtesies, which he did own in very high
      terms; and then, at my asking, did give me an old draught of an
      ancient-built ship, given him by his father, of the Beare, in Queen
      Elizabeth's time. This did much please me, it being a thing I much desired
      to have, to shew the difference in the build of ships now and heretofore.
      Being much taken with this kindness, I away to Blackwall and Deptford, to
      satisfy myself there about the King's business, and then walked to
      Redriffe, and so home about noon; there find Mr. Hunt, newly come out of
      the country, who tells me the country is much impoverished by the
      greatness of taxes: the farmers do break every day almost, and L1000
      a-year become not worth L500. He dined with us, and we had good discourse
      of the general ill state of things, and, by the way, he told me some
      ridiculous pieces of thrift of Sir G. Downing's, who is his countryman, in
      inviting some poor people, at Christmas last, to charm the country
      people's mouths; but did give them nothing but beef, porridge, pudding,
      and pork, and nothing said all dinner, but only his mother would say,
      "It's good broth, son." He would answer, "Yes, it is good broth." Then,
      says his lady, Confirm all, and say, "Yes, very good broth." By and by she
      would begin and say, "Good pork:"&mdash;"Yes," says the mother, "good
      pork." Then he cries, "Yes, very good pork." And so they said of all
      things; to which nobody made any answer, they going there not out of love
      or esteem of them, but to eat his victuals, knowing him to be a niggardly
      fellow; and with this he is jeered now all over the country. This day just
      before dinner comes Captain Story, of Cambridge, to me to the office,
      about a bill for prest money,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Money paid to men who enlist into the public service; press money.
     So called because those who receive it are to be prest or ready when
     called on ("Encyclopaedic Dictionary ").]
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    <p>
      for men sent out of the country and the countries about him to the fleete
      the last year; but, Lord! to see the natures of men; how this man, hearing
      of my name, did ask me of my country, and told me of my cozen Roger, that
      he was not so wise a man as his father; for that he do not agree in
      Parliament with his fellow burgesses and knights of the shire, whereas I
      know very well the reason; for he is not so high a flyer as Mr. Chichley
      and others, but loves the King better than any of them, and to better
      purpose. But yet, he says that he is a very honest gentleman, and thence
      runs into a hundred stories of his own services to the King, and how he at
      this day brings in the taxes before anybody here thinks they are
      collected: discourse very absurd to entertain a stranger with. He being
      gone, and I glad of it, I home then to dinner. After dinner with my wife
      by coach abroad, andset Mr. Hunt down at the Temple and her at her
      brother's, and I to White Hall to meet [Sir] W. Coventry, but found him
      not, but met Mr. Cooling, who tells me of my Lord Duke of Buckingham's
      being sent for last night, by a Serjeant at Armes, to the Tower, for
      treasonable practices, and that the King is infinitely angry with him, and
      declared him no longer one of his Council. I know not the reason of it, or
      occasion. To Westminster Hall, and there paid what I owed for books, and
      so by coach, took up my wife to the Exchange, and there bought things for
      Mrs. Pierces little daughter, my Valentine, and so to their house, where
      we find Knipp, who also challengeth me for her Valentine. She looks well,
      sang well, and very merry we were for half an hour. Tells me Harris is
      well again, having been very ill, and so we home, and I to the office;
      then, at night, to Sir W. Pen's, and sat with my Lady, and the young
      couple (Sir William out of town) talking merrily; but they make a very
      sorry couple, methinks, though rich. So late home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and there comes to me Drumbleby with a flageolet, made to suit
      with my former and brings me one Greeting, a master, to teach my wife. I
      agree by the whole with him to teach her to take out any lesson of herself
      for L4. She was not ready to begin to-day, but do to-morrow. So I to the
      office, where my Lord Bruncker and I only all the morning, and did
      business. At noon to the Exchange and to Sir Rob. Viner's about settling
      my accounts there. So back home and to dinner, where Mr. Holliard dined
      with us, and pleasant company he is. I love his company, and he secures me
      against ever having the stone again. He gives it me, as his opinion, that
      the City will never be built again together, as is expected, while any
      restraint is laid upon them. He hath been a great loser, and would be a
      builder again, but, he says, he knows not what restrictions there will be,
      so as it is unsafe for him to begin. He gone, I to the office, and there
      busy till night doing much business, then home and to my accounts,
      wherein, beyond expectation, I succeeded so well as to settle them very
      clear and plain, though by borrowing of monies this month to pay D.
      Gawden, and chopping and changing with my Tangier money, they were become
      somewhat intricate, and, blessed be God; upon the evening my accounts, I
      do appear L6800 creditor: This done, I to supper about 12 at night, and so
      to bed. The weather for three or four days being come to be exceeding cold
      again as any time this year. I did within these six days see smoke still
      remaining of the late fire in the City; and it is strange to think how, to
      this very day, I cannot sleep at night without great terrors of fire, and
      this very night I could not sleep till almost two in the morning through
      thoughts of fire. Thus this month is ended with great content of mind to
      me, thriving in my estate, and the affairs in my offices going pretty well
      as to myself. This afternoon Mr. Gawden was with me and tells me more than
      I knew before&mdash;that he hath orders to get all the victuals he can to
      Plymouth, and the Western ports, and other outports, and some to Scotland,
      so that we do intend to keep but a flying fleete this year; which, it may
      be, may preserve us a year longer, but the end of it must be ruin. Sir J.
      Minnes this night tells me, that he hears for certain, that ballads are
      made of us in Holland for begging of a peace; which I expected, but am
      vexed at. So ends this month, with nothing of weight upon my mind, but for
      my father and mother, who are both very ill, and have been so for some
      weeks: whom God help! but I do fear my poor father will hardly be ever
      thoroughly well again.
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      March 1st. Up, it being very cold weather again after a good deal of warm
      summer weather, and to the office, where I settled to do much business
      to-day. By and by sent for to Sir G. Carteret to discourse of the business
      of the Navy, and our wants, and the best way of bestowing the little money
      we have, which is about L30,000, but, God knows, we have need of ten times
      as much, which do make my life uncomfortable, I confess, on the King's
      behalf, though it is well enough as to my own particular, but the King's
      service is undone by it. Having done with him, back again to the office,
      and in the streets, in Mark Lane, I do observe, it being St. David's day,
      the picture of a man dressed like a Welchman, hanging by the neck upon one
      of the poles that stand out at the top of one of the merchants' houses, in
      full proportion, and very handsomely done; which is one of the oddest
      sights I have seen a good while, for it was so like a man that one would
      have thought it was indeed a man.
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     [From "Poor Robin's Almanack" for 1757 it appears that, in former
     times in England, a Welshman was burnt in effigy on this
     anniversary.  Mr. W. C. Hazlitt, in his edition of Brand's "Popular
     Antiquities," adds "The practice to which Pepys refers...  was
     very common at one time; and till very lately bakers made
     gingerbread Welshmen, called taffies, on St. David's day, which were
     made to represent a man skewered" (vol. i., pp. 60,61).]
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    <p>
      Being returned home, I find Greeting, the flageolet-master, come, and
      teaching my wife; and I do think my wife will take pleasure in it, and it
      will be easy for her, and pleasant. So I, as I am well content with the
      charge it will occasion me. So to the office till dinner-time, and then
      home to dinner, and before dinner making my wife to sing. Poor wretch! her
      ear is so bad that it made me angry, till the poor wretch cried to see me
      so vexed at her, that I think I shall not discourage her so much again,
      but will endeavour to make her understand sounds, and do her good that
      way; for she hath a great mind to learn, only to please me; and,
      therefore, I am mighty unjust to her in discouraging her so much, but we
      were good friends, and to dinner, and had she not been ill with those and
      that it were not Friday (on which in Lent there are no plays) I had
      carried her to a play, but she not being fit to go abroad, I to the
      office, where all the afternoon close examining the collection of my
      papers of the accounts of the Navy since this war to my great content, and
      so at night home to talk and sing with my-wife, and then to supper and so
      to bed with great pleasure. But I cannot but remember that just before
      dinner one of my people come up to me, and told me a man come from
      Huntingdon would speak with me, how my heart come into my mouth doubting
      that my father, who has been long sicke, was dead. It put me into a
      trembling, but, blessed be [God]! it was no such thing, but a countryman
      come about ordinary business to me, to receive L50 paid to my father in
      the country for the Perkins's for their legacy, upon the death of their
      mother, by my uncle's will. So though I get nothing at present, at least
      by the estate, I am fain to pay this money rather than rob my father, and
      much good may it do them that I may have no more further trouble from
      them. I hear to-day that Tom Woodall, the known chyrurgeon, is killed at
      Somerset House by a Frenchman, but the occasion Sir W. Batten could not
      tell me.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and to the office, where sitting all the morning, and among other
      things did agree upon a distribution of L30,000 and odd, which is the only
      sum we hear of like to come out of all the Poll Bill for the use of this
      office for buying of goods. I did herein some few courtesies for
      particular friends I wished well to, and for the King's service also, and
      was therefore well pleased with what was done. Sir W. Pen this day did
      bring an order from the Duke of York for our receiving from him a small
      vessel for a fireship, and taking away a better of the King's for it, it
      being expressed for his great service to the King. This I am glad of, not
      for his sake, but that it will give me a better ground, I believe, to ask
      something for myself of this kind, which I was fearful to begin. This do
      make Sir W. Pen the most kind to me that can be. I suppose it is this,
      lest it should find any opposition from me, but I will not oppose, but
      promote it. After dinner, with my wife, to the King's house to see "The
      Mayden Queene," a new play of Dryden's, mightily commended for the
      regularity of it, and the strain and wit; and, the truth is, there is a
      comical part done by Nell,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Her skill increasing with her years, other poets sought to obtain
     recommendations of her wit and beauty to the success of their
     writings.   I have said that Dryden was one of the principal
     supporters of the King's house, and ere long in one of his new plays
     a principal character was set apart for the popular comedian.  The
     drama was a tragi-comedy called 'Secret Love, or the Maiden Queen,'
     and an additional interest was attached to its production from the
     king having suggested the plot to its author, and calling it 'his
     play.'"&mdash;Cunningham's Story of Nell Gwyn, ed: 1892, pp. 38,39.]
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    <p>
      which is Florimell, that I never can hope ever to see the like done again,
      by man or woman. The King and Duke of York were at the play. But so great
      performance of a comical part was never, I believe, in the world before as
      Nell do this, both as a mad girle, then most and best of all when she
      comes in like a young gallant; and hath the notions and carriage of a
      spark the most that ever I saw any man have. It makes me, I confess,
      admire her. Thence home and to the office, where busy a while, and then
      home to read the lives of Henry 5th and 6th, very fine, in Speede, and to
      bed. This day I did pay a bill of L50 from my father, being so much out of
      my own purse gone to pay my uncle Robert's legacy to my aunt Perkins's
      child.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Lord's day). Lay long, merrily talking with my wife, and then up and
      to church, where a dull sermon of Mr. Mills touching Original Sin, and
      then home, and there find little Michell and his wife, whom I love
      mightily. Mightily contented I was in their company, for I love her much;
      and so after dinner I left them and by water from the Old Swan to White
      Hall, where, walking in the galleries, I in the first place met Mr.
      Pierce, who tells me the story of Tom Woodall, the surgeon, killed in a
      drunken quarrel, and how the Duke of York hath a mind to get him [Pierce]
      one of his places in St. Thomas's Hospitall. Then comes Mr. Hayward, the
      Duke of York's servant, and tells us that the Swede's Embassador hath been
      here to-day with news that it is believed that the Dutch will yield to
      have the treaty at London or Dover, neither of which will get our King any
      credit, we having already consented to have it at The Hague; which, it
      seems, De Witt opposed, as a thing wherein the King of England must needs
      have some profound design, which in my conscience he hath not. They do
      also tell me that newes is this day come to the King, that the King of
      France is come with his army to the frontiers of Flanders, demanding leave
      to pass through their country towards Poland, but is denied, and thereupon
      that he is gone into the country. How true this is I dare not believe till
      I hear more. From them I walked into the Parke, it being a fine but very
      cold day; and there took two or three turns the length of the Pell Mell:
      and there I met Serjeant Bearcroft, who was sent for the Duke of
      Buckingham, to have brought him prisoner to the Tower. He come to towne
      this day, and brings word that, being overtaken and outrid by the Duchesse
      of Buckingham within a few miles of the Duke's house of Westhorp, he
      believes she got thither about a quarter of an hour before him, and so had
      time to consider; so that, when he come, the doors were kept shut against
      him. The next day, coming with officers of the neighbour market-town to
      force open the doors, they were open for him, but the Duke gone; so he
      took horse presently, and heard upon the road that the Duke of Buckingham
      was gone before him for London: so that he believes he is this day also
      come to towne before him; but no newes is yet heard of him. This is all he
      brings. Thence to my Lord Chancellor's, and there, meeting Sir H. Cholmly,
      he and I walked in my Lord's garden, and talked; among other things, of
      the treaty: and he says there will certainly be a peace, but I cannot
      believe it. He tells me that the Duke of Buckingham his crimes, as far as
      he knows, are his being of a caball with some discontented persons of the
      late House of Commons, and opposing the desires of the King in all his
      matters in that House; and endeavouring to become popular, and advising
      how the Commons' House should proceed, and how he would order the House of
      Lords. And that he hath been endeavouring to have the King's nativity
      calculated; which was done, and the fellow now in the Tower about it;
      which itself hath heretofore, as he says, been held treason, and people
      died for it; but by the Statute of Treasons, in Queen Mary's times and
      since, it hath been left out. He tells me that this silly Lord hath
      provoked, by his ill-carriage, the Duke of York, my Lord Chancellor, and
      all the great persons; and therefore, most likely, will die. He tells me,
      too, many practices of treachery against this King; as betraying him in
      Scotland, and giving Oliver an account of the King's private councils;
      which the King knows very well, and hath yet pardoned him.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Two of our greatest poets have drawn the character of the Duke of
     Buckingham in brilliant verse, and both have condemned him to
     infamy. There is enough in Pepys's reports to corroborate the main
     features of Dryden's magnificent portrait of Zimri in "Absolom and
     Achitophel":

               "In the first rank of these did Zimri stand;
               A man so various that he seemed to be
               Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
               Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong;
               Was everything by starts, and nothing long,

               But, in the course of one revolving moon,
               Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon;
               Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking,
               Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking,
                    *   *   *   *   *   *   *
               He laughed himself from Court, then sought relief
               By forming parties, but could ne'er be chief."

     Pope's facts are not correct, and hence the effect of his picture is
     impaired.  In spite of the duke's constant visits to the Tower,
     Charles II. still continued his friend; but on the death of the
     king, expecting little from James, he retired to his estate at
     Helmsley, in Yorkshire, to nurse his property and to restore his
     constitution.  He died on April 16th, 1687, at Kirkby Moorside,
     after a few days' illness, caused by sitting on the damp grass when
     heated from a fox chase.  The scene of his death was the house of a
     tenant, not "the worst inn's worst room" ("Moral Essays," epist.
     iii.).  He was buried in Westminster Abbey.]
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    <p>
      Here I passed away a little time more talking with him and Creed, whom I
      met there, and so away, Creed walking with me to White Hall, and there I
      took water and stayed at Michell's to drink. I home, and there to read
      very good things in Fuller's "Church History," and "Worthies," and so to
      supper, and after supper had much good discourse with W. Hewer, who supped
      with us, about the ticket office and the knaveries and extortions every
      day used there, and particularly of the business of Mr. Carcasse, whom I
      fear I shall find a very rogue. So parted with him, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes and [Sir] W. Batten by barge to Deptford
      by eight in the morning, where to the King's yard a little to look after
      business there, and then to a private storehouse to look upon some cordage
      of Sir W. Batten's, and there being a hole formerly made for a drain for
      tarr to run into, wherein the barrel stood still, full of stinking water,
      Sir W. Batten did fall with one leg into it, which might have been very
      bad to him by breaking a leg or other hurt, but, thanks be to God, he only
      sprained his foot a little. So after his shifting his stockings at a
      strong water shop close by, we took barge again, and so to Woolwich, where
      our business was chiefly to look upon the ballast wharfe there, which is
      offered us for the King's use to hire, but we do not think it worth the
      laying out much money upon, unless we could buy the fee-simple of it,
      which cannot be sold us, so we wholly flung it off: So to the Dockyard,
      and there staid a while talking about business of the yard, and thence to
      the Rope-yard, and so to the White Hart and there dined, and Captain Cocke
      with us, whom we found at the Rope-yard, and very merry at dinner, and
      many pretty tales of Sir J. Minnes, which I have entered in my tale book.
      But by this time Sir W. Batten was come to be in much pain in his foot, so
      as he was forced to be carried down in a chair to the barge again, and so
      away to Deptford, and there I a little in the yard, and then to Bagwell's,
      where I find his wife washing, and also I did 'hazer tout que je voudrais
      con' her, and then sent for her husband, and discoursed of his going to
      Harwich this week to his charge of the new ship building there, which I
      have got him, and so away, walked to Redriffe, and there took boat and
      away home, and upon Tower Hill, near the ticket office, meeting with my
      old acquaintance Mr. Chaplin, the cheesemonger, and there fell to talk of
      news, and he tells me that for certain the King of France is denied
      passage with his army through Flanders, and that he hears that the Dutch
      do stand upon high terms with us, and will have a promise of not being
      obliged to strike the flag to us before they will treat with us, and other
      high things, which I am ashamed of and do hope will never be yielded to.
      That they do make all imaginable preparations, but that he believes they
      will be in mighty want of men; that the King of France do court us
      mightily. He tells me too that our Lord-Treasurer is going to lay down,
      and that Lord Arlington is to be Lord Treasurer, but I believe nothing of
      it, for he is not yet of estate visible enough to have the charge I
      suppose upon him. So being parted from him I home to the office, and after
      having done business there I home to supper, and there mightily pleased
      with my wife's beginning the flagellette, believing that she will come to
      very well thereon. This day in the barge I took Berckenshaw's translation
      of Alsted his Templum, but the most ridiculous book, as he has translated
      it, that ever I saw in my life, I declaring that I understood not three
      lines together from one end of the book to the other.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and to the office, where met and sat all the morning, doing
      little for want of money, but only bear the countenance of an office. At
      noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, and there comes Martin
      my purser, and I walked with him awhile in the garden, I giving him good
      advice to beware of coming any more with high demands for supernumeraries
      or other things, for now Sir W. Pen is come to mind the business, the
      passing of his accounts will not be so easy as the last. He tells me he
      will never need it again, it being as easy, and to as much purpose to do
      the same thing otherwise, and how he do keep his Captain's table, and by
      that means hath the command of his Captains, and do not fear in a 5th-rate
      ship constantly employed to get a L1000 in five years time, and this year,
      besides all his spendings, which are I fear high, he hath got at this day
      clear above L150 in a voyage of about five or six months, which is a brave
      trade. He gone I to the office, and there all the afternoon late doing
      much business, and then to see Sir W. Batten, whose leg is all but better
      than it was, and like to do well. I by discourse do perceive he and his
      Lady are to their hearts out with my Lord Bruncker and Mrs. Williams, to
      which I added something, but, I think, did not venture too far with them.
      But, Lord! to see to what a poor content any acquaintance among these
      people, or the people of the world, as they now-adays go, is worth; for my
      part I and my wife will keep to one another and let the world go hang, for
      there is nothing but falseness in it. So home to supper and hear my wife
      and girle sing a little, and then to bed with much content of mind.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and with [Sir] W. Pen to White Hall by coach, and by the way
      agreed to acquaint [Sir] W. Coventry with the business of Mr. Carcasse,
      and he and I spoke to Sir W. Coventry that we might move it to the Duke of
      York, which I did in a very indifferent, that is, impartial manner, but
      vexed I believe Lord Bruncker. Here the Duke of York did acquaint us, and
      the King did the like also, afterwards coming in, with his resolution of
      altering the manner of the war this year; that is, we shall keep what
      fleete we have abroad in several squadrons: so that now all is come out;
      but we are to keep it as close as we can, without hindering the work that
      is to be done in preparation to this. Great preparations there are to
      fortify Sheernesse and the yard at Portsmouth, and forces are drawing down
      to both those places, and elsewhere by the seaside; so that we have some
      fear of an invasion; and the Duke of York himself did declare his
      expectation of the enemy's blocking us up here in the River, and therefore
      directed that we should send away all the ships that we have to fit out
      hence. Sir W. Pen told me, going with me this morning to White Hall, that
      for certain the Duke of Buckingham is brought into the Tower, and that he
      hath had an hour's private conference with the King before he was sent
      thither. To Westminster Hall. There bought some news books, and, as every
      where else, hear every body complain of the dearness of coals, being at L4
      per chaldron, the weather, too, being become most bitter cold, the King
      saying to-day that it was the coldest day he ever knew in England. Thence
      by coach to my Lord Crew's, where very welcome. Here I find they are in
      doubt where the Duke of Buckingham is; which makes me mightily reflect on
      the uncertainty of all history, when, in a business of this moment, and of
      this day's growth, we cannot tell the truth. Here dined my old
      acquaintance, Mr. Borfett, that was my Lord Sandwich's chaplain, and my
      Lady Wright and Dr. Boreman, who is preacher at St. Gyles's in the Fields,
      who, after dinner, did give my Lord an account of two papist women lately
      converted, whereof one wrote her recantation, which he shewed under her
      own hand mighty well drawn, so as my Lord desired a copy of it, after he
      had satisfied himself from the Doctor, that to his knowledge she was not a
      woman under any necessity. Thence by coach home and staid a very little,
      and then by water to Redriffe, and walked to Bagwell's, where 'la moher'
      was 'defro, sed' would not have me 'demeurer' there 'parce que' Mrs.
      Batters and one of my 'ancillas', I believe Jane (for she was gone abroad
      to-day), was in the town, and coming thither; so I away presently,
      esteeming it a great escape. So to the yard and spoke a word or two, and
      then by water home, wondrous cold, and reading a ridiculous ballad made in
      praise of the Duke of Albemarle, to the tune of St. George, the tune being
      printed, too; and I observe that people have some great encouragement to
      make ballads of him of this kind. There are so many, that hereafter he
      will sound like Guy of Warwicke. Then abroad with my wife, leaving her at
      the 'Change, while I to Sir H. Cholmly's, a pretty house, and a fine,
      worthy, well-disposed gentleman he is. He and I to Sir Ph. Warwicke's,
      about money for Tangier, but to little purpose. H. Cholmley tells me,
      among other things, that he hears of little hopes of a peace, their
      demands being so high as we shall never grant, and could tell me that we
      shall keep no fleete abroad this year, but only squadrons. And, among
      other things, that my Lord Bellasses, he believes, will lose his command
      of Tangier by his corrupt covetous ways of.endeavouring to sell his
      command, which I am glad [of], for he is a man of no worth in the world
      but compliment. So to the 'Change, and there bought 32s. worth of things
      for Mrs. Knipp, my Valentine, which is pretty to see how my wife is come
      to convention with me, that, whatever I do give to anybody else, I shall
      give her as much, which I am not much displeased with. So home and to the
      office and Sir W. Batten, to tell him what I had done to-day about
      Carcasse's business, and God forgive me I am not without design to give a
      blow to Sir W. Batten by it. So home, where Mr. Batelier supped with us
      and talked away the evening pretty late, and so he gone and we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. So up, and to the office, my head full of Carcasse's business; then
      hearing that Knipp is at my house, I home, and it was about a ticket for a
      friend of hers. I do love the humour of the jade very well. So to the
      office again, not being able to stay, and there about noon my Lord
      Bruncker did begin to talk of Carcasse's business. Only Commissioner Pett,
      my Lord, and I there, and it was pretty to see how Pett hugged the
      occasion of having anything against Sir W. Batten, which I am not much
      troubled at, for I love him not neither. Though I did really endeavour to
      quash it all I could, because I would prevent their malice taking effect.
      My Lord I see is fully resolved to vindicate Carcasse, though to the
      undoing of Sir W. Batten, but I believe he will find himself in a mistake,
      and do himself no good, and that I shall be glad of, for though I love the
      treason I hate the traitor. But he is vexed at my moving it to the Duke of
      York yesterday, which I answered well, so as I think he could not answer.
      But, Lord! it is pretty to see how Pett hugs this business, and how he
      favours my Lord Bruncker; who to my knowledge hates him, and has said more
      to his disadvantage, in my presence, to the King and Duke of York than any
      man in England, and so let them thrive one with another by cheating one
      another, for that is all I observe among them. Thence home late, and find
      my wife hath dined, and she and Mrs. Hewer going to a play. Here was
      Creed, and he and I to Devonshire House, to a burial of a kinsman of Sir
      R. Viner's; and there I received a ring, and so away presently to Creed,
      who staid for me at an alehouse hard by, and thence to the Duke's
      playhouse, where he parted, and I in and find my wife and Mrs. Hewer, and
      sat by them and saw "The English Princesse, or Richard the Third;" a most
      sad, melancholy play, and pretty good; but nothing eminent in it, as some
      tragedys are; only little Mis. Davis did dance a jig after the end of the
      play, and there telling the next day's play; so that it come in by force
      only to please the company to see her dance in boy's 'clothes; and, the
      truth is, there is no comparison between Nell's dancing the other day at
      the King's house in boy's clothes and this, this being infinitely beyond
      the other. Mere was Mr. Clerke and Pierce, to whom one word only of "How
      do you," and so away home, Mrs. Hewer with us, and I to the office and so
      to [Sir] W. Batten's, and there talked privately with him and [Sir] W. Pen
      about business of Carcasse against tomorrow, wherein I think I did give
      them proof enough of my ability as well as friendship to [Sir] W. Batten,
      and the honour of the office, in my sense of the rogue's business. So back
      to finish my office business, and then home to supper, and to bed. This
      day, Commissioner Taylor come to me for advice, and would force me to take
      ten pieces in gold of him, which I had no mind to, he being become one of
      our number at the Board. This day was reckoned by all people the coldest
      day that ever was remembered in England; and, God knows! coals at a very
      great price.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and to the Old Swan, where drank at Michell's, but not seeing her
      whom I love I by water to White Hall, and there acquainted Sir G. Carteret
      betimes what I had to say this day before the Duke of York in the business
      of Carcasse, which he likes well of, being a great enemy to him, and then
      I being too early here to go to Sir W. Coventry's chamber, having nothing
      to say to him, and being able to give him but a bad account of the
      business of the office (which is a shame to me, and that which I shall rue
      if I do not recover), to the Exchequer about getting a certificate of Mr.
      Lanyon's entered at Sir R. Longs office, and strange it is to see what
      horrid delays there are at this day in the business of money, there being
      nothing yet come from my Lord Treasurer to set the business of money in
      action since the Parliament broke off, notwithstanding the greatness and
      number of the King's occasions for it. So to the Swan, and there had three
      or four baisers of the little ancilla there, and so to Westminster Hall,
      where I saw Mr. Martin, the purser, come through with a picture in his
      hand, which he had bought, and observed how all the people of the Hall did
      fleer and laugh upon him, crying, "There is plenty grown upon a sudden;"
      and, the truth is, I was a little troubled that my favour should fall on
      so vain a fellow as he, and the more because, methought, the people do
      gaze upon me as the man that had raised him, and as if they guessed whence
      my kindness to him springs. So thence to White Hall, where I find all met
      at the Duke of York's chamber; and, by and by, the Duke of York comes, and
      Carcasse is called in, and I read the depositions and his answers, and he
      added with great confidence and good words, even almost to persuasion,
      what to say; and my Lord Bruncker, like a very silly solicitor, argued
      against me and us all for him; and, being asked first by the Duke of York
      his opinion, did give it for his being excused. I next did answer the
      contrary very plainly, and had, in this dispute, which vexed and will
      never be forgot by my Lord, many occasions of speaking severely, and did,
      against his bad practices. Commissioner Pett, like a fawning rogue, sided
      with my Lord, but to no purpose; and [Sir] W. Pen, like a cunning rogue,
      spoke mighty indifferently, and said nothing in all the fray, like a knave
      as he is. But [Sir] W. Batten spoke out, and did come off himself by the
      Duke's kindness very well; and then Sir G. Carteret, and Sir W. Coventry,
      and the Duke of York himself, flatly as I said; and so he was declared
      unfit to continue in, and therefore to be presently discharged the office;
      which, among other good effects, I hope, will make my Lord Bruncker not
      'alloquer' so high, when he shall consider he hath had such a publick
      foyle as this is. So home with [Sir] W. Batten, and [Sir] W. Pen, by
      coach, and there met at the office, and my Lord Bruncker presently after
      us, and there did give order to Mr. Stevens for securing the tickets in
      Carcasses hands, which my Lord against his will could not refuse to sign,
      and then home to dinner, and so away with my wife by coach, she to Mrs.
      Pierce's and I to my Lord Bellasses, and with him to [my] Lord
      Treasurer's, where by agreement we met with Sir H. Cholmly, and there sat
      and talked all the afternoon almost about one thing or other, expecting
      Sir Philip Warwicke's coming, but he come not, so we away towards night,
      Sir H. Cholmly and I to the Temple, and there parted, telling me of my
      Lord Bellasses's want of generosity, and that he [Bellasses] will
      certainly be turned out of his government, and he thinks himself stands
      fair for it. So home, and there found, as I expected, Mrs. Pierce and Mr.
      Batelier; he went for Mrs. Jones, but no Mrs. Knipp come, which vexed me,
      nor any other company. So with one fidler we danced away the evening, but
      I was not well contented with the littleness of the room, and my wife's
      want of preparing things ready, as they should be, for supper, and bad. So
      not very merry, though very well pleased. So after supper to bed, my wife
      and Mrs. Pierce, and her boy James and I. Yesterday I began to make this
      mark (V) stand instead of three pricks, which therefore I must observe
      every where, it being a mark more easy to make.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning busy. At noon home
      to dinner, where Mrs. Pierce did continue with us and her boy (who I still
      find every day more and more witty beyond his age), and did dine with us,
      and by and by comes in her husband and a brother-in-law of his, a parson,
      one of the tallest biggest men that ever I saw in my life. So to the
      office, where a meeting extraordinary about settling the number and wages
      of my Lord Bruncker's clerks for his new work upon the Treasurer's
      accounts, but this did put us upon running into the business of yesterday
      about Carcasse, wherein I perceive he is most dissatisfied with me, and I
      am not sorry for it, having all the world but him of my side therein, for
      it will let him know another time that he is not to expect our submitting
      to him in every thing, as I think he did heretofore expect. He did speak
      many severe words to me, and I returned as many to him, so that I do think
      there cannot for a great while, be, any right peace between us, and I care
      not a fart for it; but however, I must look about me and mind my business,
      for I perceive by his threats and enquiries he is and will endeavour to
      find out something against me or mine. Breaking up here somewhat brokenly
      I home, and carried Mrs. Pierce and wife to the New Exchange, and there
      did give her and myself a pair of gloves, and then set her down at home,
      and so back again straight home and thereto do business, and then to Sir
      W. Batten's, where [Sir] W. Pen and others, and mighty merry, only I have
      got a great cold, and the scolding this day at the office with my Lord
      Bruncker hath made it worse, that I am not able to speak. But, Lord! to
      see how kind Sir W. Batten and his Lady are to me upon this business of my
      standing by [Sir] W. Batten against Carcasse, and I am glad of it. Captain
      Cocke, who was here to-night, did tell us that he is certain that
      yesterday a proclamation was voted at the Council, touching the
      proclaiming of my Lord Duke of Buckingham a traytor, and that it will be
      out on Monday. So home late, and drank some buttered ale, and so to bed
      and to sleep. This cold did most certainly come by my staying a little too
      long bare-legged yesterday morning when I rose while I looked out fresh
      socks and thread stockings, yesterday's having in the night, lying near
      the window, been covered with snow within the window, which made me I
      durst not put them on.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Having my cold still grown more upon me, so as I am not
      able to speak, I lay in bed till noon, and then up and to my chamber with
      a good fire, and there spent an hour on Morly's Introduction to Musique, a
      very good but unmethodical book. Then to dinner, my wife and I, and then
      all the afternoon alone in my chamber preparing a letter for Commissioner
      Taylor to the City about getting his accounts for The Loyal London,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The "Loyal London" was the ship given to the king by the City.  It
     was launched at Deptford on June 10th, 1666]
</pre>
    <p>
      by him built for them, stated and discharged, they owing him still about
      L4000. Towards the evening comes Mr. Spong to see me, whose discourse
      about several things I proposed to him was very good, better than I have
      had with any body a good while. He gone, I to my business again, and anon
      comes my Lady Pen and her son-in law and daughter, and there we talked all
      the evening away, and then to supper; and after supper comes Sir W. Pen,
      and there we talked together, and then broke up, and so to bed. He tells
      me that our Mr. Turner has seen the proclamation against the Duke of
      Buckingham, and that therefore it is true what we heard last night.
      Yesterday and to-day I have been troubled with a hoarseness through cold
      that I could not almost speak.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and with my cold still upon me and hoarseness, but I was forced
      to rise and to the office, where all the morning busy, and among other
      things Sir W. Warren come to me, to whom of late I have been very strange,
      partly from my indifference how more than heretofore to get money, but
      most from my finding that he is become great with my Lord Bruncker, and so
      I dare not trust him as I used to do, for I will not be inward with him
      that is open to another. By and by comes Sir H. Cholmly to me about
      Tangier business, and then talking of news he tells me how yesterday the
      King did publiquely talk of the King of France's dealing with all the
      Princes of Christendome. As to the States of Holland, he [the King of
      France] hath advised them, on good grounds, to refuse to treat with us at
      the Hague, because of having opportunity of spies, by reason of our
      interest in the House of Orange; and then, it being a town in one
      particular province, it would not be fit to have it, but in a town wherein
      the provinces have equal interest, as at Mastricht, and other places
      named. That he advises them to offer no terms, nor accept of any, without
      his privity and consent, according to agreement; and tells them, if not
      so, he hath in his power to be even with them, the King of England being
      come to offer him any terms he pleases; and that my Lord St. Albans is now
      at Paris, Plenipotentiary, to make what peace he pleases; and so he can
      make it, and exclude them, the Dutch, if he sees fit. A copy of this
      letter of the King of France's the Spanish Ambassador here gets, and comes
      and tells all to our King; which our King denies, and says the King of
      France only uses his power of saying anything. At the same time, the King
      of France writes to the Emperor, that he is resolved to do all things to
      express affection to the Emperor, having it now in his power to make what
      peace he pleases between the King of England and him, and the States of
      the United Provinces; and, therefore, that he would not have him to
      concern himself in a friendship with us; and assures him that, on that
      regard, he will not offer anything to his disturbance, in his interest in
      Flanders, or elsewhere. He writes, at the same time, to Spayne, to tell
      him that he wonders to hear of a league almost ended between the Crown of
      Spayne and England, by my Lord Sandwich, and all without his privity,
      while he was making a peace upon what terms he pleased with England: that
      he is a great lover of the Crown of Spayne, and would take the King and
      his affairs, during his minority, into his protection, nor would offer to
      set his foot in Flanders, or any where else, to disturb him; and,
      therefore, would not have him to trouble himself to make peace with any
      body; only he hath a desire to offer an exchange, which he thinks may be
      of moment to both sides: that is, that he [France] will enstate the King
      of Spayne in the kingdom of Portugall, and he and the Dutch will put him
      into possession of Lisbon; and, that being done, he [France] may have
      Flanders: and this, they say; do mightily take in Spayne, which is
      sensible of the fruitless expence Flanders, so far off, gives them; and
      how much better it would be for them to be master of Portugall; and the
      King of France offers, for security herein, that the King of England shall
      be bond for him, and that he will countersecure the King of England with
      Amsterdam; and, it seems, hath assured our King, that if he will make a
      league with him, he will make a peace exclusive to the Hollander. These
      things are almost romantique, but yet true, as Sir H. Cholmly tells me the
      King himself did relate it all yesterday; and it seems as if the King of
      France did think other princes fit for nothing but to make sport for him:
      but simple princes they are, that are forced to suffer this from him. So
      at noon with Sir W. Pen by coach to the Sun in Leadenhall Streete, where
      Sir R. Ford, Sir W. Batten, and Commissioner Taylor (whose feast it was)
      were, and we dined and had a very good dinner. Among other discourses Sir
      R. Ford did tell me that he do verily believe that the city will in few
      years be built again in all the greatest streets, and answered the
      objections I did give to it. Here we had the proclamation this day come
      out against the Duke of Buckingham, commanding him to come in to one of
      the Secretaries, or to the Lieutenant of the Tower. A silly, vain man to
      bring himself to this: and there be many hard circumstances in the
      proclamation of the causes of this proceeding of the King's, which speak
      great displeasure of the King's, and crimes of his. Then to discourse of
      the business of the day, that is, to see Commissioner Taylor's accounts
      for his ship he built, The Loyall London, and it is pretty to see how
      dully this old fellow makes his demands, and yet plaguy wise sayings will
      come from the man sometimes, and also how Sir R. Ford and [Sir] W. Batten
      did with seeming reliance advise him what to do, and how to come prepared
      to answer objections to the Common Council. Thence away to the office,
      where late busy, and then home to supper, mightily pleased with my wife's
      trill, and so to bed. This night Mr. Carcasse did come to me again to
      desire favour, and that I would mediate that he might be restored, but I
      did give him no kind answer at all, but was very angry, and I confess a
      good deal of it from my Lord Bruncker's simplicity and passion.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to the office, where all-the morning, and my Lord Bruncker
      mighty quiet, and no words all day, which I wonder at, expecting that he
      would have fallen again upon the business of Carcasse, and the more for
      that here happened that Perkins, who was the greatest witness of all
      against him, was brought in by Sir W. Batten to prove that he did really
      belong to The Prince, but being examined was found rather a fool than
      anything, as not being able to give any account when he come in nor when
      he come out of her, more than that he was taken by the Dutch in her, but
      did agree in earnest to Sir W. Pen's saying that she lay up all, the
      winter before at Lambeth. This I confess did make me begin to doubt the
      truth of his evidence, but not to doubt the faults of Carcasse, for he was
      condemned by, many other better evidences than his, besides the whole
      world's report. At noon home, and there find Mr. Goodgroome, whose
      teaching of my wife only by singing over and over again to her, and
      letting her sing with him, not by herself, to correct her faults, I do not
      like at all, but was angry at it; but have this content, that I do think
      she will come to sing pretty well, and to trill in time, which pleases me
      well. He dined with us, and then to the office, when we had a sorry
      meeting to little purpose, and then broke up, and I to my office, and busy
      late to good purpose, and so home to supper and to bed. This day a poor
      seaman, almost starved for want of food, lay in our yard a-dying. I sent
      him half-a-crown, and we ordered his ticket to be paid.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and with [Sir] W. Batten to the Duke of York to our usual
      attendance, where I did fear my Lord Bruncker might move something in
      revenge that might trouble me, but he did not, but contrarily had the
      content to hear Sir G. Carteret fall foul on him in the Duke of York's bed
      chamber for his directing people with tickets and petitions to him,
      bidding him mind his Controller's place and not his, for if he did he
      should be too hard for him, and made high words, which I was glad of.
      Having done our usual business with the Duke of York, I away; and meeting
      Mr. D. Gawden in the presence-chamber, he and I to talk; and among other
      things he tells me, and I do find every where else, also, that our masters
      do begin not to like of their councils in fitting out no fleete, but only
      squadrons, and are finding out excuses for it; and, among others, he tells
      me a Privy-Councillor did tell him that it was said in Council that a
      fleete could not be set out this year, for want of victuals, which gives
      him and me a great alarme, but me especially for had it been so, I ought
      to have represented it; and therefore it puts me in policy presently to
      prepare myself to answer this objection, if ever it should come about, by
      drawing up a state of the Victualler's stores, which I will presently do.
      So to Westminster Hall, and there staid and talked, and then to Sir G.
      Carteret's, where I dined with the ladies, he not at home, and very well
      used I am among them, so that I am heartily ashamed that my wife hath not
      been there to see them; but she shall very shortly. So home by water, and
      stepped into Michell's, and there did baiser my Betty, 'que aegrotat' a
      little. At home find Mr. Holliard, and made him eat a bit of victuals.
      Here I find Mr. Greeten, who teaches my wife on the flageolet, and I think
      she will come to something on it. Mr. Holliard advises me to have my
      father come up to town, for he doubts else in the country he will never
      find ease, for, poor man, his grief is now grown so great upon him that he
      is never at ease, so I will have him up at Easter. By and by by coach, set
      down Mr. Holliard near his house at Hatton Garden and myself to Lord
      Treasurer's, and sent my wife to the New Exchange. I staid not here, but
      to Westminster Hall, and thence to Martin's, where he and she both within,
      and with them the little widow that was once there with her when I was
      there, that dissembled so well to be grieved at hearing a tune that her,
      late husband liked, but there being so much company, I had no pleasure
      here, and so away to the Hall again, and there met Doll Lane coming out,
      and 'par contrat did hazer bargain para aller to the cabaret de vin',
      called the Rose, and 'ibi' I staid two hours, 'sed' she did not 'venir',
      'lequel' troubled me, and so away by coach and took up my wife, and away
      home, and so to Sir W. Batten's, where I am told that it is intended by
      Mr. Carcasse to pray me to be godfather with Lord Bruncker to-morrow to
      his child, which I suppose they tell me in mirth, but if he should ask me
      I know not whether I should refuse it or no. Late at my office preparing a
      speech against to-morrow morning, before the King, at my Lord Treasurer's,
      and the truth is it run in my head all night. So home to supper and to
      bed. The Duke of Buckingham is concluded gone over sea, and, it is
      thought, to France.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen to my Lord Treasurer's,
      where we met with my Lord Bruncker an hour before the King come, and had
      time to talk a little of our business. Then come much company, among
      others Sir H. Cholmly, who tells me that undoubtedly my Lord Bellasses
      will go no more as Governor to Tangier, and that he do put in fair for it,
      and believes he shall have it, and proposes how it may conduce to his
      account and mine in the business of money. Here we fell into talk with Sir
      Stephen Fox, and, among other things, of the Spanish manner of walking,
      when three together, and shewed me how, which was pretty, to prevent
      differences. By and by comes the King and Duke of York, and presently the
      officers of the Ordnance were called; my Lord Berkeley, Sir John Duncomb,
      and Mr. Chichly; then we, my Lord Bruncker, [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen,
      and myself; where we find only the King and Duke of York, and my Lord
      Treasurer, and Sir G. Carteret; where I only did speak, laying down the
      state of our wants, which the King and Duke of York seemed very well
      pleased with, and we did get what we asked, L500,000, assigned upon the
      eleven months' tax: but that is not so much ready money, or what will
      raise L40,000 per week, which we desired, and the business will want. Yet
      are we fain to come away answered, when, God knows, it will undo the
      King's business to have matters of this moment put off in this manner. The
      King did prevent my offering anything by and by as Treasurer for Tangier,
      telling me that he had ordered us L30,000 on the same tax; but that is not
      what we would have to bring our payments to come within a year. So we gone
      out, in went others; viz., one after another, Sir Stephen Fox for the
      army, Captain Cocke for sick and wounded, Mr. Ashburnham for the
      household. Thence [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and I, back again; I
      mightily pleased with what I had said and done, and the success thereof.
      But, it being a fine clear day, I did, 'en gayete de coeur', propose going
      to Bow for ayre sake, and dine there, which they embraced, and so [Sir] W.
      Batten and I (setting [Sir] W. Pen down at Mark Lane end) straight to Bow,
      to the Queen's Head, and there bespoke our dinner, carrying meat with us
      from London; and anon comes [Sir] W. Pen with my wife and Lady Batten, and
      then Mr. Lowder with his mother and wife. While [Sir] W. Batten and I were
      alone, we had much friendly discourse, though I will never trust him far;
      but we do propose getting "The Flying Greyhound," our privateer, to us and
      [Sir] W. Pen at the end of the year when we call her home, by begging her
      of the King, and I do not think we shall be denied her. They being come,
      we to oysters and so to talk, very pleasant I was all day, and anon to
      dinner, and I made very good company. Here till the evening, so as it was
      dark almost before we got home (back again in the same method, I think, we
      went), and spent the night talking at Sir W. Batten's, only a little at my
      office, to look over the Victualler's contract, and draw up some arguments
      for him to plead for his charges in transportation of goods beyond the
      ports which the letter of one article in his contract do lay upon him.
      This done I home to supper and to bed. Troubled a little at my fear that
      my Lord Bruncker should tell Sir W. Coventry of our neglecting the office
      this afternoon (which was intended) to look after our pleasures, but
      nothing will fall upon me alone about this.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and pleased at Tom's teaching of Barker something to sing a 3rd
      part to a song, which will please mightily. So I to the office all the
      morning, and at noon to the 'Change, where I do hear that letters this day
      come to Court do tell us that we are likely not to agree, the Dutch
      demanding high terms, and the King of France the like, in a most braving
      manner. The merchants do give themselves over for lost, no man knowing
      what to do, whether to sell or buy, not knowing whether peace or war to
      expect, and I am told that could that be now known a man might get L20,000
      in a week's time by buying up of goods in case there should be war. Thence
      home and dined well, and then with my wife, set her at Unthanke's and I to
      Sir G. Carteret, where talked with the ladies a while, and my Lady
      Carteret talks nothing but sorrow and afflictions coming on us, and indeed
      I do fear the same. So away and met Dr. Fuller, Bishop of Limricke, and
      walked an hour with him in the Court talking of newes only, and he do
      think that matters will be bad with us. Then to Westminster Hall, and
      there spent an hour or two walking up and down, thinking 'para avoir' got
      out Doll Lane, 'sed je ne' could do it, having no opportunity 'de hazer
      le, ainsi lost the tota' afternoon, and so away and called my wife and
      home, where a little at the office, and then home to my closet to enter my
      journalls, and so to supper and to bed. This noon come little Mis. Tooker,
      who is grown a little woman; ego had opportunity 'para baiser her.... This
      morning I was called up by Sir John Winter, poor man! come in his sedan
      from the other end of the town, before I was up, and merely about the
      King's business, which is a worthy thing of him, and I believe him to be a
      worthy good man, and I will do him the right to tell the Duke of it, who
      did speak well of him the other day. It was about helping the King in the
      business of bringing down his timber to the sea-side, in the Forest of
      Deane.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning; at noon home to
      dinner, and then to the office again in the afternoon, and there all day
      very busy till night, and then, having done much business, home to supper,
      and so to bed. This afternoon come home Sir J. Minnes, who has been down,
      but with little purpose, to pay the ships below at the Nore. This evening,
      having done my letters, I did write out the heads of what I had prepared
      to speak to the King the other day at my Lord Treasurer's, which I do
      think convenient to keep by me for future use. The weather is now grown
      warm again, after much cold; and it is observable that within these eight
      days I did see smoke remaining, coming out of some cellars, from the late
      great fire, now above six months since. There was this day at the office
      (as he is most days) Sir W. Warren, against whom I did manifestly plead,
      and heartily too, God forgive me! But the reason is because I do find that
      he do now wholly rely almost upon my Lord Bruncker, though I confess I
      have no greater ground of my leaving him than the confidence which I
      perceive he hath got in my Lord Bruncker, whose seeming favours only do
      obtain of him as much compensation as, I believe (for he do know well the
      way of using his bounties), as mine more real. Besides, my Lord and I
      being become antagonistic, I do not think it safe for me to trust myself
      in the hands of one whom I know to be a knave, and using all means to
      become gracious there.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). Up betime with my wife, and by coach with Sir W. Pen
      and Sir Thomas Allen to White Hall, there my wife and I the first time
      that ever we went to my Lady Jemimah's chamber at Sir Edward Carteret's
      lodgings. I confess I have been much to blame and much ashamed of our not
      visiting her sooner, but better now than never. Here we took her before
      she was up, which I was sorry for, so only saw her, and away to chapel,
      leaving further visit till after sermon. I put my wife into the pew below,
      but it was pretty to see, myself being but in a plain band, and every way
      else ordinary, how the verger took me for her man, I think, and I was fain
      to tell him she was a kinswoman of my Lord Sandwich's, he saying that none
      under knights-baronets' ladies are to go into that pew. So she being
      there, I to the Duke of York's lodging, where in his dressing-chamber he
      talking of his journey to-morrow or next day to Harwich, to prepare some
      fortifications there; so that we are wholly upon the defensive part this
      year, only we have some expectations that we may by our squadrons annoy
      them in their trade by the North of Scotland and to the Westward. Here Sir
      W. Pen did show the Duke of York a letter of Hogg's about a prize he drove
      in within the Sound at Plymouth, where the Vice-Admiral claims her. Sir W.
      Pen would have me speak to the latter, which I did, and I think without
      any offence, but afterwards I was sorry for it, and Sir W. Pen did plainly
      say that he had no mind to speak to the Duke of York about it, so that he
      put me upon it, but it shall be, the last time that I will do such another
      thing, though I think no manner of hurt done by it to me at all. That done
      I to walk in the Parke, where to the Queene's Chapel, and there heard a
      fryer preach with his cord about his middle, in Portuguese, something I
      could understand, showing that God did respect the meek and humble, as
      well as the high and rich. He was full of action, but very decent and
      good, I thought, and his manner of delivery very good. Then I went back to
      White Hall, and there up to the closet, and spoke with several people till
      sermon was ended, which was preached by the Bishop of Hereford, an old
      good man, that they say made an excellent sermon. He was by birth a
      Catholique, and a great gallant, having L1500 per annum, patrimony, and is
      a Knight Barronet; was turned from his persuasion by the late Archbishop
      Laud. He and the Bishop of Exeter, Dr. Ward, are the two Bishops that the
      King do say he cannot have bad sermons from. Here I met with Sir H.
      Cholmly, who tells me, that undoubtedly my Lord Bellasses do go no more to
      Tangier, and that he do believe he do stand in a likely way to go
      Governor; though he says, and showed me, a young silly Lord, one Lord
      Allington, who hath offered a great sum of money to go, and will put hard
      for it, he having a fine lady, and a great man would be glad to have him
      out of the way. After Chapel I down and took out my wife from the pew,
      where she was talking with a lady whom I knew not till I was gone. It was
      Mrs. Ashfield of Brampton, who had with much civility been, it seems, at
      our house to see her. I am sorry I did not show her any more respect. With
      my wife to Sir G. Carteret's, where we dined and mightily made of, and
      most extraordinary people they are to continue friendship with for
      goodness, virtue, and nobleness and interest. After dinner he and I alone
      awhile and did joy ourselves in my Lord Sandwich's being out of the way
      all this time. He concurs that we are in a way of ruin by thus being
      forced to keep only small squadrons out, but do tell me that it was not
      choice, but only force, that we could not keep out the whole fleete. He
      tells me that the King is very kind to my Lord Sandwich, and did himself
      observe to him (Sir G. Carteret), how those very people, meaning the
      Prince and Duke of Albemarle, are punished in the same kind as they did
      seek to abuse my Lord Sandwich. Thence away, and got a hackney coach and
      carried my wife home, and there only drank, and myself back again to my
      Lord Treasurer's, where the King, Duke of York, and Sir G. Carteret and
      Lord Arlington were and none else, so I staid not, but to White Hall, and
      there meeting nobody I would speak with, walked into the Park and took two
      or three turns all alone, and then took coach and home, where I find
      Mercer, who I was glad to see, but durst [not] shew so, my wife being
      displeased with her, and indeed I fear she is grown a very gossip. I to my
      chamber, and there fitted my arguments which I had promised Mr. Gawden in
      his behalf in some pretences to allowance of the King, and then to supper,
      and so to my chamber a little again, and then to bed. Duke of Buckingham
      not heard of yet.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up betimes, and to the office to write fair my paper for D. Gawden
      against anon, and then to other business, where all the morning. D. Gawden
      by and by comes, and I did read over and give him the paper, which I think
      I have much obliged him in. A little before noon comes my old good friend,
      Mr. Richard Cumberland,&mdash;[Richard Cumberland, afterwards Bishop of
      Peterborough]&mdash;to see me, being newly come to town, whom I have not
      seen almost, if not quite, these seven years. In his plain
      country-parson's dress. I could not spend much time with him, but prayed
      him come with his brother, who was with him, to dine with me to-day; which
      he did do and I had a great deal of his good company; and a most excellent
      person he is as any I know, and one that I am sorry should be lost and
      buried in a little country town, and would be glad to remove him thence;
      and the truth is, if he would accept of my sister's fortune, I should give
      L100 more with him than to a man able to settle her four times as much as,
      I fear, he is able to do; and I will think of it, and a way how to move
      it, he having in discourse said he was not against marrying, nor yet
      engaged. I shewed him my closet, and did give him some very good musique,
      Mr. Caesar being here upon his lute. They gone I to the office, where all
      the afternoon very busy, and among other things comes Captain Jenifer to
      me, a great servant of my Lord Sandwich's, who tells me that he do hear
      for certain, though I do not yet believe it, that Sir W. Coventry is to be
      Secretary of State, and my Lord Arlington Lord Treasurer. I only wish that
      the latter were as fit for the latter office as the former is for the
      former, and more fit than my Lord Arlington. Anon Sir W. Pen come and
      talked with me in the garden, and tells me that for certain the Duke of
      Richmond is to marry Mrs. Stewart, he having this day brought in an
      account of his estate and debts to the King on that account. At night home
      to supper and so to bed. My father's letter this day do tell me of his own
      continued illness, and that my mother grows so much worse, that he fears
      she cannot long continue, which troubles me very much. This day, Mr.
      Caesar told me a pretty experiment of his, of angling with a minikin, a
      gut-string varnished over, which keeps it from swelling, and is beyond any
      hair for strength and smallness. The secret I like mightily.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon dined
      at home very pleasantly with my wife, and after dinner with a great deal
      of pleasure had her sing, which she begins to do with some pleasure to me,
      more than I expected. Then to the office again, where all the afternoon
      close, and at night home to supper and to bed. It comes in my mind this
      night to set down how a house was the other day in Bishopsgate Street
      blowed up with powder; a house that was untenanted, and between a flax
      shop and a&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;-, both bad for fire; but,
      thanks be to God, it did no more hurt; and all do conclude it a plot. I
      would also remember to my shame how I was pleased yesterday, to find the
      righteous maid of Magister Griffin sweeping of 'nostra' office, 'elle con
      the Roman nariz and bonne' body which I did heretofore like, and do still
      refresh me to think 'que elle' is come to us, that I may 'voir her
      aliquando'. This afternoon I am told again that the town do talk of my
      Lord Arlington's being to be Lord Treasurer, and Sir W. Coventry to be
      Secretary of State; and that for certain the match is concluded between
      the Duke of Richmond and Mrs. Stewart, which I am well enough pleased
      with; and it is pretty to consider how his quality will allay people's
      talk; whereas, had a meaner person married her, he would for certain have
      been reckoned a cuckold at first-dash.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up pretty betimes, and to the Old Swan, and there drank at
      Michell's, but his wife is not there, but gone to her mother's, who is
      ill, and so hath staid there since Sunday. Thence to Westminster Hall and
      drank at the Swan, and 'baiserais the petite misse'; and so to Mrs.
      Martin's.... I sent for some burnt wine, and drank and then away, not
      pleased with my folly, and so to the Hall again, and there staid a little,
      and so home by water again, where, after speaking with my wife, I with Sir
      W. Batten and [Sir] J. Minnes to our church to the vestry, to be assessed
      by the late Poll Bill, where I am rated as an Esquire, and for my office,
      all will come to about L50. But not more than I expected, nor so much by a
      great deal as I ought to be, for all my offices. So shall be glad to
      escape so. Thence by water again to White Hall, and there up into the
      house, and do hear that newes is come now that the enemy do incline again
      to a peace, but could hear no particulars, so do not believe it. I had a
      great mind to have spoke with the King, about a business proper enough for
      me, about the French prize man-of-war, how he would have her altered, only
      out of a desire to show myself mindful of business, but my linen was so
      dirty and my clothes mean, that I neither thought it fit to do that, nor
      go to other persons at the Court, with whom I had business, which did vex
      me, and I must remedy [it]. Here I hear that the Duke of Richmond and Mrs.
      Stewart were betrothed last night. Thence to Westminster Hall again, and
      there saw Betty Michell, and bought a pair of gloves of her, she being
      fain to keep shop there, her mother being sick, and her father gathering
      of the tax. I 'aimais her de toute my corazon'. Thence, my mind wandering
      all this day upon 'mauvaises amours' which I be merry for. So home by
      water again, where I find my wife gone abroad, so I to Sir W. Batten to
      dinner, and had a good dinner of ling and herring pie, very good meat,
      best of the kind that ever I had. Having dined, I by coach to the Temple,
      and there did buy a little book or two, and it is strange how "Rycaut's
      Discourse of Turky," which before the fire I was asked but 8s. for, there
      being all but twenty-two or thereabouts burned, I did now offer 20s., and
      he demands 50s., and I think I shall give it him, though it be only as a
      monument of the fire. So to the New Exchange, where I find my wife, and so
      took her to Unthanke's, and left her there, and I to White Hall, and
      thence to Westminster, only out of idleness, and to get some little
      pleasure to my 'mauvais flammes', but sped not, so back and took up my
      wife; and to Polichinelli at Charing Crosse, which is prettier and
      prettier, and so full of variety that it is extraordinary good
      entertainment. Thence by coach home, that is, my wife home, and I to the
      Exchange, and there met with Fenn, who tells me they have yet no orders
      out of the Exchequer for money upon the Acts, which is a thing not to be
      borne by any Prince of understanding or care, for no money can be got
      advanced upon the Acts only from the weight of orders in form out of the
      Exchequer so long time after the passing of the Acts. So home to the
      office a little, where I met with a sad letter from my brother, who tells
      me my mother is declared by the doctors to be past recovery, and that my
      father is also very ill every hour: so that I fear we shall see a sudden
      change there. God fit them and us for it! So to Sir W. Pen's, where my
      wife was, and supped with a little, but yet little mirth, and a bad, nasty
      supper, which makes me not love the family, they do all things so meanly,
      to make a little bad show upon their backs. Thence home and to bed, very
      much troubled about my father's and my mother's illness.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, and had some melancholy discourse with my wife about my mother's
      being so ill and my father, and after dinner to cheer myself, I having the
      opportunity of Sir W. Coventry and the Duke of York's being out of town, I
      alone out and to the Duke of York's play-house, where unexpectedly I come
      to see only the young men and women of the house act; they having liberty
      to act for their own profit on Wednesdays and Fridays this Lent: and the
      play they did yesterday, being Wednesday, was so well-taken, that they
      thought fit to venture it publickly to-day; a play of my Lord Falkland's'
      called "The Wedding Night," a kind of a tragedy, and some things very good
      in it, but the whole together, I thought, not so. I confess I was well
      enough pleased with my seeing it: and the people did do better, without
      the great actors, than I did expect, but yet far short of what they do
      when they are there, which I was glad to find the difference of. Thence to
      rights home, and there to the office to my business hard, being sorry to
      have made this scape without my wife, but I have a good salvo to my oath
      in doing it. By and by, in the evening, comes Sir W. Batten's Mingo to me
      to pray me to come to his master and Sir Richard Ford, who have very ill
      news to tell me. I knew what it was, it was about our trial for a good
      prize to-day, "The Phoenix,"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [There are references to the "Phoenix," a Dutch ship taken as a
     prize, among the State Papers (see "Calendar," 1666-67, p. 404).
     Pepys appears to have got into trouble at a later date in respect to
     this same ship, for among the Rawlinson MSS. (A. 170) are "Papers
     relating to the charge brought against him in the House of Commons
     in 1689 with reference to the ship Phoenix and the East India
     Company in 1681-86."]
</pre>
    <p>
      a worth two or L3000. I went to them, where they told me with much trouble
      how they had sped, being cast and sentenced to make great reparation for
      what we had embezzled, and they did it so well that I was much troubled at
      it, when by and by Sir W. Batten asked me whether I was mortified enough,
      and told me we had got the day, which was mighty welcome news to me and us
      all. But it is pretty to see what money will do. Yesterday, Walker was
      mighty cold on our behalf, till Sir W. Batten promised him, if we sped in
      this business of the goods, a coach; and if at the next trial we sped for
      the ship, we would give him a pair of horses. And he hath strove for us
      today like a prince, though the Swedes' Agent was there with all the
      vehemence he could to save the goods, but yet we carried it against him.
      This put me in mighty good heart, and then we go to Sir W. Pen, who is
      come back to-night from Chatham, and did put him into the same condition,
      and then comforted him. So back to my office, and wrote an affectionate
      and sad letter to my father about his and my mother's illness, and so home
      to supper and to bed late.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up and by coach to Sir Ph. Warwicke about business for Tangier about
      money, and then to Sir Stephen Fox to give him account of a little service
      I have done him about money coming to him from our office, and then to
      Lovett's and saw a few baubling things of their doing which are very
      pretty, but the quality of the people, living only by shifts, do not
      please me, that it makes me I do no more care for them, nor shall have
      more acquaintance with them after I have got my Lady Castlemayne's picture
      home. So to White Hall, where the King at Chapel, and I would not stay,
      but to Westminster to Howlett's, and there, he being not well, I sent for
      a quart of claret and burnt it and drank, and had a 'basado' or three or
      four of Sarah, whom 'je trouve ici', and so by coach to Sir Robt. Viner's
      about my accounts with him, and so to the 'Change, where I hear for
      certain that we are going on with our treaty of peace, and that we are to
      treat at Bredah. But this our condescension people do think will undo us,
      and I do much fear it. So home to dinner, where my wife having dressed
      herself in a silly dress of a blue petticoat uppermost, and a white satin
      waistcoat and whitehood, though I think she did it because her gown is
      gone to the tailor's, did, together with my being hungry, which always
      makes me peevish, make me angry, but when my belly was full were friends
      again, and dined and then by water down to Greenwich and thence walked to
      Woolwich, all the way reading Playford's "Introduction to Musique,"
      wherein are some things very pretty. At Woolwich I did much business,
      taking an account of the state of the ships there under hand, thence to
      Blackwall, and did the like for two ships we have repairing there, and
      then to Deptford and did the like there, and so home. Captain Perriman
      with me from Deptford, telling me many particulars how the King's business
      is ill ordered, and indeed so they are, God knows! So home and to the
      office, where did business, and so home to my chamber, and then to supper
      and to bed. Landing at the Tower to-night I met on Tower Hill with Captain
      Cocke and spent half an hour walking in the dusk of the evening with him,
      talking of the sorrowful condition we are in, that we must be ruined if
      the Parliament do not come and chastize us, that we are resolved to make a
      peace whatever it cost, that the King is disobliging the Parliament in
      this interval all that may be, yet his money is gone and he must have
      more, and they likely not to give it, without a great deal of do. God
      knows what the issue of it will be. But the considering that the Duke of
      York, instead of being at sea as Admirall, is now going from port to port,
      as he is at this day at Harwich, and was the other day with the King at
      Sheernesse, and hath ordered at Portsmouth how fortifications shall be
      made to oppose the enemy, in case of invasion, [which] is to us a sad
      consideration, and as shameful to the nation, especially after so many
      proud vaunts as we have made against the Dutch, and all from the folly of
      the Duke of Albemarle, who made nothing of beating them, and Sir John
      Lawson he always declared that we never did fail to beat them with lesser
      numbers than theirs, which did so prevail with the King as to throw us
      into this war.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. At the office all the morning, where Sir W. Pen come, being returned
      from Chatham, from considering the means of fortifying the river Medway,
      by a chain at the stakes, and ships laid there with guns to keep the enemy
      from coming up to burn our ships; all our care now being to fortify
      ourselves against their invading us. At noon home to dinner, and then to
      the office all the afternoon again, where Mr. Moore come, who tells me
      that there is now no doubt made of a peace being agreed on, the King
      having declared this week in Council that they would treat at Bredagh. He
      gone I to my office, where busy late, and so to supper and to bed. Vexed
      with our mayde Luce, our cook-mayde, who is a good drudging servant in
      everything else, and pleases us, but that she will be drunk, and hath been
      so last night and all this day, that she could not make clean the house.
      My fear is only fire.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). With Sir W. Batten to White Hall, and there I to Sir G.
      Carteret, who is mighty cheerful, which makes me think and by some
      discourse that there is expectation of a peace, but I did not ask [him].
      Here was Sir J. Minnes also: and they did talk of my Lord Bruncker, whose
      father, it seems, did give Mr. Ashburnham and the present Lord Digby L1200
      to be made an Irish lord, and swore the same day that he had not 12d. left
      to pay for his dinner: they make great mirth at this, my Lord Bruncker
      having lately given great matter of offence both to them and us all, that
      we are at present mightily displeased with him. By and by to the Duke of
      York, where we all met, and there was the King also; and all our discourse
      was about fortifying of the Medway and Harwich, which is to be entrenched
      quite round, and Portsmouth: and here they advised with Sir Godfry Lloyd
      and Sir Bernard de Gum, the two great engineers, and had the plates drawn
      before them; and indeed all their care they now take is to fortify
      themselves, and are not ashamed of it: for when by and by my Lord
      Arlington come in with letters, and seeing the King and Duke of York give
      us and the officers of the Ordnance directions in this matter, he did move
      that we might do it as privately as we could, that it might not come into
      the Dutch Gazette presently, as the King's and Duke of York's going down
      the other day to Sheerenesse was, the week after, in the Harlem Gazette.
      The King and Duke of York both laughed at it, and made no matter, but
      said, "Let us be safe, and let them talk, for there is nothing will
      trouble them more, nor will prevent their coming more, than to hear that
      we are fortifying ourselves." And the Duke of York said further, "What
      said Marshal Turenne, when some in vanity said that the enemies were
      afraid, for they entrenched themselves? 'Well,' says he, 'I would they
      were not afraid, for then they would not entrench themselves, and so we
      could deal with them the better.'" Away thence, and met with Sir H.
      Cholmly, who tells me that he do believe the government of Tangier is
      bought by my Lord Allington for a sum of money to my Lord Arlington, and
      something to Lord Bellasses, who (he did tell me particularly how) is as
      very a false villain as ever was born, having received money of him here
      upon promise and confidence of his return, forcing him to pay it by
      advance here, and promising to ask no more there, when at the same time he
      was treating with my Lord Allington to sell his command to him, and yet
      told Sir H. Cholmly nothing of it, but when Sir H. Cholmly told him what
      he had heard, he confessed that my Lord Allington had spoken to him of it,
      but that he was a vain man to look after it, for he was nothing fit for
      it, and then goes presently to my Lord Allington and drives on the
      bargain, yet tells Lord Allington what he himself had said of him, as
      [though] Sir H. Cholmly had said them. I am glad I am informed hereof, and
      shall know him for a Lord, &amp;c. Sir H. Cholmly tells me further that he
      is confident there will be a peace, and that a great man did tell him that
      my Lord Albemarle did tell him the other day at White Hall as a secret
      that we should have a peace if any thing the King of France can ask and
      our King can give will gain it, which he is it seems mad at. Thence back
      with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen home, and heard a piece of sermon, and
      so home to dinner, where Balty come, very fine, and dined with us, and
      after dinner with me by water to White Hall, and there he and I did walk
      round the Park, I giving him my thoughts about the difficulty of getting
      employment for him this year, but advised him how to employ himself, and I
      would do what I could. So he and I parted, and I to Martin's, where I find
      her within, and 'su hermano' and 'la veuve' Burroughs. Here I did
      'demeurer toda' the afternoon.... By and by come up the mistress of the
      house, Crags, a pleasant jolly woman. I staid all but a little, and away
      home by water through bridge, a brave evening, and so home to read, and
      anon to supper, W. Hewer with us, and then to read myself to sleep again,
      and then to bed, and mightily troubled the most of the night with fears of
      fire, which I cannot get out of my head to this day since the last great
      fire. I did this night give the waterman who uses to carry me 10s. at his
      request, for the painting of his new boat, on which shall be my arms.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. (Ladyday.) Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen by coach to
      Exeter House to our lawyers to have consulted about our trial to-morrow,
      but missed them, so parted, and [Sir] W. Pen and I to Mr. Povy's about a
      little business of [Sir] W. Pen's, where we went over Mr. Povy's house,
      which lies in the same good condition as ever, which is most extraordinary
      fine, and he was now at work with a cabinet-maker, making of a new inlaid
      table. Having seen his house, we away, having in our way thither called at
      Mr. Lilly's, who was working; and indeed his pictures are without doubt
      much beyond Mr. Hales's, I think I may say I am convinced: but a mighty
      proud man he is, and full of state. So home, and to the office, and by and
      by to dinner, a poor dinner, my wife and I, at Sir W. Pen's, and then he
      and I before to Exeter House, where I do not stay, but to the King's
      playhouse; and by and by comes Mr. Lowther and his wife and mine, and into
      a box, forsooth, neither of them being dressed, which I was almost ashamed
      of. Sir W. Pen and I in the pit, and here saw "The Mayden Queene" again;
      which indeed the more I see the more I like, and is an excellent play, and
      so done by Nell, her merry part, as cannot be better done in nature, I
      think. Thence home, and there I find letters from my brother, which tell
      me that yesterday when he wrote my mother did rattle in the throat so as
      they did expect every moment her death, which though I have a good while
      expected did much surprise me, yet was obliged to sup at Sir W. Pen's and
      my wife, and there counterfeited some little mirth, but my heart was sad,
      and so home after supper and to bed, and much troubled in my sleep of my
      being crying by my mother's bedside, laying my head over hers and crying,
      she almost dead and dying, and so waked, but what is strange, methought
      she had hair over her face, and not the same kind of face as my mother
      really hath, but yet did not consider that, but did weep over her as my
      mother, whose soul God have mercy of.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up with a sad heart in reference to my mother, of whose death I
      undoubtedly expect to hear the next post, if not of my father's also, who
      by his pain as well as his grief for her is very ill, but on my own behalf
      I have cause to be joyful this day, it being my usual feast day, for my
      being cut of the stone this day nine years, and through God's blessing am
      at this day and have long been in as good condition of health as ever I
      was in my life or any man in England is, God make me thankful for it! But
      the condition I am in, in reference to my mother, makes it unfit for me to
      keep my usual feast. Unless it shall please God to send her well (which I
      despair wholly of), and then I will make amends for it by observing
      another day in its room. So to the office, and at the office all the
      morning, where I had an opportunity to speak to Sir John Harman about my
      desire to have my brother Balty go again with him to sea as he did the
      last year, which he do seem not only contented but pleased with, which I
      was glad of. So at noon home to dinner, where I find Creed, who dined with
      us, but I had not any time to talk with him, my head being busy, and
      before I had dined was called away by Sir W. Batten, and both of us in his
      coach (which I observe his coachman do always go now from hence towards
      White Hall through Tower Street, and it is the best way) to Exeter House,
      where the judge was sitting, and after several little causes comes on
      ours, and while the several depositions and papers were at large reading
      (which they call the preparatory), and being cold by being forced to sit
      with my hat off close to a window in the Hall, Sir W. Pen and I to the
      Castle Tavern hard by and got a lobster, and he and I staid and eat it,
      and drank good wine; I only burnt wine, as my whole custom of late hath
      been, as an evasion, God knows, for my drinking of wine (but it is an
      evasion which will not serve me now hot weather is coming, that I cannot
      pretend, as indeed I really have done, that I drank it for cold), but I
      will leave it off, and it is but seldom, as when I am in women's company,
      that I must call for wine, for I must be forced to drink to them. Having
      done here then we back again to the Court, and there heard our cause
      pleaded; Sir [Edward] Turner, Sir W. Walker, and Sir Ellis Layton being
      our counsel against only Sir Robert Wiseman on the other. The second of
      our three counsel was the best, and indeed did speak admirably, and is a
      very shrewd man. Nevertheless, as good as he did make our case, and the
      rest, yet when Wiseman come to argue (nay, and though he did begin so
      sillily that we laughed in scorn in our sleeves at him), yet he did so
      state the case, that the judge did not think fit to decide the cause
      to-night, but took to to-morrow, and did stagger us in our hopes, so as to
      make us despair of the success. I am mightily pleased with the judge, who
      seems a very rational, learned, and uncorrupt man, and much good reading
      and reason there is heard in hearing of this law argued, so that the thing
      pleased me, though our success doth shake me. Thence Sir W. Pen and I home
      and to write letters, among others a sad one to my father upon fear of my
      mother's death, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. [Sir] W. Pen and I to White Hall, and in the coach did begin our
      discourse again about Balty, and he promises me to move it this very day.
      He and I met my Lord Bruncker at Sir G. Carteret's by appointment, there
      to discourse a little business, all being likely to go to rack for lack of
      money still. Thence to the Duke of York's lodgings, and did our usual
      business, and Sir W. Pen telling me that he had this morning spoke of
      Balty to Sir W. Coventry, and that the thing was done, I did take notice
      of it also to [Sir] W. Coventry, who told me that he had both the thing
      and the person in his head before to have done it, which is a double
      pleasure to me. Our business with the Duke being done, [Sir] W. Pen and I
      towards the Exchequer, and in our way met Sir G. Downing going to chapel,
      but we stopped, and he would go with us back to the Exchequer and showed
      us in his office his chests full and ground and shelves full of money, and
      says that there is L50,000 at this day in his office of people's money,
      who may demand it this day, and might have had it away several weeks ago
      upon the late Act, but do rather choose to have it continue there than to
      put it into the Banker's hands, and I must confess it is more than I
      should have believed had I not seen it, and more than ever I could have
      expected would have arisen for this new Act in so short a time, and if it
      do so now already what would it do if the money was collected upon the Act
      and returned into the Exchequer so timely as it ought to be. But it comes
      into my mind here to observe what I have heard from Sir John Bankes,
      though I cannot fully conceive the reason of it, that it will be
      impossible to make the Exchequer ever a true bank to all intents, unless
      the Exchequer stood nearer the Exchange, where merchants might with ease,
      while they are going about their business, at all hours, and without
      trouble or loss of time, have their satisfaction, which they cannot have
      now without much trouble, and loss of half a day, and no certainty of
      having the offices open. By this he means a bank for common practise and
      use of merchants, and therein I do agree with him. Being parted from Sir
      W. Pen and [Sir] G. Downing, I to Westminster Hall and there met Balty,
      whom I had sent for, and there did break the business of my getting him
      the place of going again as Muster-Master with Harman this voyage to the
      West Indys, which indeed I do owe to Sir W. Pen. He is mighty glad of it,
      and earnest to fit himself for it, but I do find, poor man, that he is
      troubled how to dispose of his wife, and apparently it is out of fear of
      her, and his honour, and I believe he hath received some cause of this his
      jealousy and care, and I do pity him in it, and will endeavour to find out
      some way to do, it for him. Having put him in a way of preparing himself
      for the voyage, I did go to the Swan, and there sent for Jervas, my old
      periwig maker, and he did bring me a periwig, but it was full of nits, so
      as I was troubled to see it (it being his old fault), and did send him to
      make it clean, and in the mean time, having staid for him a good while,
      did go away by water to the Castle Taverne, by Exeter House, and there met
      Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and several others, among the rest Sir Ellis
      Layton, who do apply himself to discourse with me, and I think by his
      discourse, out of his opinion of my interest in Sir W. Coventry, the man I
      find a wonderful witty, ready man for sudden answers and little tales, and
      sayings very extraordinary witty, but in the bottom I doubt he is not so.
      Yet he pretends to have studied men, and the truth is in several that I do
      know he did give me a very inward account of them. But above all things he
      did give me a full account, upon my demand, of this judge of the
      Admiralty, Judge Jenkins; who, he says, is a man never practised in this
      Court, but taken merely for his merit and ability's sake from Trinity
      Hall, where he had always lived; only by accident the business of the want
      of a Judge being proposed to the present Archbishop of Canterbury that now
      is, he did think of this man and sent for him up: and here he is, against
      the 'gre' and content of the old Doctors, made judge, but is a very
      excellent man both for judgment and temper, yet majesty enough, and by all
      men's report, not to be corrupted. After dinner to the Court, where Sir
      Ellis Layton did make a very silly motion in our behalf, but did neither
      hurt nor good. After him Walker and Wiseman; and then the judge did
      pronounce his sentence; for some part of the goods and ship, and the
      freight of the whole, to be free, and returned and paid by us; and the
      remaining, which was the greater part, to be ours. The loss of so much
      troubles us, but we have got a pretty good part, thanks be to God! So we
      are not displeased nor yet have cause to triumph, as we did once expect.
      Having seen the end of this, I being desirous to be at home to see the
      issue of any country letters about my mother, which I expect shall give me
      tidings of her death, I directly home and there to the office, where I
      find no letter from my father or brother, but by and by the boy tells me
      that his mistress sends me word that she hath opened my letter, and that
      she is loth to send me any more news. So I home, and there up to my wife
      in our chamber, and there received from my brother the newes of my
      mother's dying on Monday, about five or six o'clock in the afternoon, and
      that the last time she spoke of her children was on Friday last, and her
      last words were, "God bless my poor Sam!" The reading hereof did set me
      a-weeping heartily, and so weeping to myself awhile, and my wife also to
      herself, I then spoke to my wife respecting myself, and indeed, having
      some thoughts how much better both for her and us it is than it might have
      been had she outlived my father and me or my happy present condition in
      the world, she being helpless, I was the sooner at ease in my mind, and
      then found it necessary to go abroad with my wife to look after the
      providing mourning to send into the country, some to-morrow, and more
      against Sunday, for my family, being resolved to put myself and wife, and
      Barker and Jane, W. Hewer and Tom, in mourning, and my two under-mayds, to
      give them hoods and scarfs and gloves. So to my tailor's, and up and down,
      and then home and to my office a little, and then to supper and to bed, my
      heart sad and afflicted, though my judgment at ease.
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    <p>
      28th. My tailor come to me betimes this morning, and having given him
      directions, I to the office and there all the morning. At noon dined well.
      Balty, who is mighty thoughtful how to dispose of his wife, and would fain
      have me provide a place for her, which the thoughts of what I should do
      with her if he should miscarry at sea makes me avoid the offering him that
      she should be at my house. I find he is plainly jealous of her being in
      any place where she may have ill company, and I do pity him for it, and
      would be glad to help him, and will if I can. Having dined, I down by
      water with Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and [Sir] R. Ford to our prize,
      part of whose goods were condemned yesterday&mdash;"The Lindeboome"&mdash;and
      there we did drink some of her wine, very good. But it did grate my heart
      to see the poor master come on board, and look about into every corner,
      and find fault that she was not so clean as she used to be, though
      methought she was very clean; and to see his new masters come in, that had
      nothing to do with her, did trouble me to see him. Thence to Blackwall and
      there to Mr. Johnson's, to see how some works upon some of our repaired
      ships go on, and at his house eat and drank and mighty extraordinary merry
      (too merry for me whose mother died so lately, but they know it not, so
      cannot reproach me therein, though I reproach myself), and in going home
      had many good stories of Sir W. Batten and one of Sir W. Pen, the most
      tedious and silly and troublesome (he forcing us to hear him) that ever I
      heard in my life. So to the office awhile, troubled with Sir W. Pen's
      impertinences, he being half foxed at Johnson's, and so to bed.
    </p>
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      29th. Lay long talking with my wife about Balty, whom I do wish very well
      to, and would be glad to advise him, for he is very sober and willing to
      take all pains. Up and to Sir W. Batten, who I find has had some words
      with Sir W. Pen about the employing of a cooper about our prize wines,
      [Sir] W. Batten standing and indeed imposing upon us Mr. Morrice, which I
      like not, nor do [Sir] W. Pen, and I confess the very thoughts of what our
      goods will come to when we have them do discourage me in going any further
      in the adventure. Then to the office till noon, doing business, and then
      to the Exchange, and thence to the Sun Taverne and dined with [Sir] W.
      Batten, [Sir] R. Ford, and the Swede's Agent to discourse of a composition
      about our prizes that are condemned, but did do little, he standing upon
      high terms and we doing the like. I home, and there find Balty and his
      wife got thither both by my wife for me to give them good advice, for her
      to be with his father and mother all this time of absence, for saving of
      money, and did plainly and like a friend tell them my mind of the
      necessity of saving money, and that if I did not find they did endeavour
      it, I should not think fit to trouble myself for them, but I see she is
      utterly against being with his father and mother, and he is fond of her,
      and I perceive the differences between the old people and them are too
      great to be presently forgot, and so he do propose that it will be cheaper
      for him to put her to board at a place he is offered at Lee, and I, seeing
      that I am not like to be troubled with the finding a place, and having
      given him so much good advice, do leave them to stand and fall as they
      please, having discharged myself as a friend, and not likely to be
      accountable for her nor be troubled with her, if he should miscarry I
      mean, as to her lodging, and so broke up. Then he and I to make a visit to
      [Sir] W. Pen, who hath thought fit to show kindness to Balty in this
      business, indeed though he be a false rogue, but it was he knew a thing
      easy to do. Thence together to my shoemaker's, cutler's, tailor's, and up
      and down about my mourning, and in my way do observe the great streets in
      the city are marked out with piles drove into the ground; and if ever it
      be built in that form with so fair streets, it will be a noble sight. So
      to the Council chamber, but staid not there, but to a periwigg-maker's of
      his acquaintance, and there bought two periwiggs, mighty fine; indeed, too
      fine, I thought, for me; but he persuaded me, and I did buy them for L4
      10s. the two. Then to the Exchange and bought gloves, and so to the
      Bull-Head Taverne, whither he brought my French gun; and one Truelocke,
      the famous gunsmith, that is a mighty ingenious man, and he did take my
      gun in pieces, and made me understand the secrets thereof and upon the
      whole I do find it a very good piece of work, and truly wrought; but for
      certain not a thing to be used much with safety: and he do find that this
      very gun was never yet shot off: I was mighty satisfied with it and him,
      and the sight of so much curiosity of this kind. Here he brought also a
      haberdasher at my desire, and I bought a hat of him, and so away and
      called away my wife from his house, and so home and to read, and then to
      supper and to bed, my head full in behalf of Balty, who tells me strange
      stories of his mother. Among others, how she, in his absence in Ireland,
      did pawne all the things that he had got in his service under Oliver, and
      run of her own accord, without her husband's leave, into Flanders, and
      that his purse, and 4s. a week which his father receives of the French
      church, is all the subsistence his father and mother have, and that about
      L20 a year maintains them; which, if it please God, I will find one way or
      other to provide for them, to remove that scandal away.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and the French periwigg maker of whom I bought two yesterday
      comes with them, and I am very well pleased with them. So to the office,
      where all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and thence with my wife's
      knowledge and leave did by coach go see the silly play of my Lady
      Newcastle's, called "The Humourous Lovers;" the most silly thing that ever
      come upon a stage. I was sick to see it, but yet would not but have seen
      it, that I might the better understand her. Here I spied Knipp and Betty,
      of the King's house, and sent Knipp oranges, but, having little money
      about me, did not offer to carry them abroad, which otherwise I had, I
      fear, been tempted to. So with [Sir] W. Pen home (he being at the play
      also), a most summer evening, and to my office, where, among other things,
      a most extraordinary letter to the Duke of York touching the want of money
      and the sad state of the King's service thereby, and so to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st (Lord's day). Up, and my tailor's boy brings my mourning clothes
      home, and my wife hers and Barker's, but they go not to church this
      morning. I to church, and with my mourning, very handsome, and new
      periwigg, make a great shew. After church home to dinner, and there come
      Betty Michell and her husband. I do and shall love her, but, poor wretch,
      she is now almost ready to lie down. After dinner Balty (who dined also
      with us) and I with Sir J. Minnes in his coach to White Hall, but did
      nothing, but by water to Strand Bridge and thence walked to my Lord
      Treasurer's, where the King, Duke of York, and the Caball, and much
      company without; and a fine day. Anon come out from the Caball my Lord
      Hollis and Mr. H. Coventry, who, it is conceived, have received their
      instructions from the King this day; they being to begin their journey
      towards their treaty at Bredagh speedily, their passes being come. Here I
      saw the Lady Northumberland and her daughter-in-law, my Lord Treasurer's
      daughter, my Lady Piercy, a beautiful lady indeed. So away back by water,
      and left Balty at White Hall and I to Mrs. Martin.... and so by coach
      home, and there to my chamber, and then to supper and bed, having not had
      time to make up my accounts of this month at this very day, but will in a
      day or two, and pay my forfeit for not doing it, though business hath most
      hindered me. The month shuts up only with great desires of peace in all of
      us, and a belief that we shall have a peace, in most people, if a peace
      can be had on any terms, for there is a necessity of it; for we cannot go
      on with the war, and our masters are afraid to come to depend upon the
      good will of the Parliament any more, as I do hear.
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    <p>
      April 1st. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes in his coach, set him down at the
      Treasurer's Office in Broad-streete, and I in his coach to White Hall, and
      there had the good fortune to walk with Sir W. Coventry into the garden,
      and there read our melancholy letter to the Duke of York, which he likes.
      And so to talk: and he flatly owns that we must have a peace, for we
      cannot set out a fleete; and, to use his own words, he fears that we shall
      soon have enough of fighting in this new way, which we have thought on for
      this year. He bemoans the want of money, and discovers himself jealous
      that Sir G. Carteret do not look after, or concern himself for getting,
      money as he used to do, and did say it is true if Sir G. Carteret would
      only do his work, and my Lord Treasurer would do his own, Sir G. Carteret
      hath nothing to do to look after money, but if he will undertake my Lord
      Treasurer's work to raise money of the Bankers, then people must expect
      that he will do it, and did further say, that he [Carteret] and my Lord
      Chancellor do at this very day labour all they can to villify this new way
      of raising money, and making it payable, as it now is, into the Exchequer;
      and expressly said that in pursuance hereof, my Lord Chancellor hath
      prevailed with the King, in the close of his last speech to the House, to
      say, that he did hope to see them come to give money as it used to be
      given, without so many provisos, meaning, as Sir W. Coventry says, this
      new method of the Act. While we were talking, there come Sir Thomas Allen
      with two ladies; one of which was Mrs. Rebecca Allen, that I knew
      heretofore, the clerk of the rope-yard's daughter at Chatham, who, poor
      heart! come to desire favour for her husband, who is clapt up, being a
      Lieutenant [Jowles], for sending a challenge to his Captain, in the most
      saucy, base language that could be writ. I perceive [Sir] W. Coventry is
      wholly resolved to bring him to punishment; for, "bear with this," says
      he, "and no discipline shall ever be expected." She in this sad condition
      took no notice of me, nor I of her. So away we to the Duke of York, and
      there in his closett [Sir] W. Coventry and I delivered the letter, which
      the Duke of York made not much of, I thought, as to laying it to heart, as
      the matter deserved, but did promise to look after the getting of money
      for us, and I believe Sir W. Coventry will add what force he can to it. I
      did speak to [Sir] W. Coventry about Balty's warrant, which is ready, and
      about being Deputy Treasurer, which he very readily and friendlily agreed
      to, at which I was glad, and so away and by coach back to Broad-streete to
      Sir G. Carteret's, and there found my brother passing his accounts, which
      I helped till dinner, and dined there, and many good stories at dinner,
      among others about discoveries of murder, and Sir J. Minnes did tell of
      the discovery of his own great-grandfather's murder, fifteen years after
      he was murdered. Thence, after dinner, home and by water to Redriffe, and
      walked (fine weather) to Deptford, and there did business and so back
      again, walked, and pleased with a jolly femme that I saw going and coming
      in the way, which je could avoir been contented pour avoir staid with if I
      could have gained acquaintance con elle, but at such times as these I am
      at a great loss, having not confidence, no alcune ready wit. So home and
      to the office, where late, and then home to supper and bed. This evening
      Mrs. Turner come to my office, and did walk an hour with me in the garden,
      telling me stories how Sir Edward Spragge hath lately made love to our
      neighbour, a widow, Mrs. Hollworthy, who is a woman of estate, and wit and
      spirit, and do contemn him the most, and sent him away with the greatest
      scorn in the world; she tells me also odd stories how the parish talks of
      Sir W. Pen's family, how poorly they clothe their daughter so soon after
      marriage, and do say that Mr. Lowther was married once before, and some
      such thing there hath been, whatever the bottom of it is. But to think of
      the clatter they make with his coach, and his owne fine cloathes, and yet
      how meanly they live within doors, and nastily, and borrowing everything
      of neighbours is a most shitten thing.
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    <p>
      2nd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting, and much
      troubled, but little business done for want of money, which makes me
      mighty melancholy. At noon home to dinner, and Mr. Deane with me, who hath
      promised me a very fine draught of the Rupert, which he will make
      purposely for me with great perfection, which I will make one of the
      beautifullest things that ever was seen of the kind in the world, she
      being a ship that will deserve it. Then to the office, where all the
      afternoon very busy, and in the evening weary home and there to sing, but
      vexed with the unreadiness of the girle's voice to learn the latter part
      of my song, though I confess it is very hard, half notes. So to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to White Hall to Sir W. Coventry's
      chamber, and there did receive the Duke's order for Balty's receiving of
      the contingent money to be paymaster of it, and it pleases me the more for
      that it is but L1500, which will be but a little sum for to try his
      ability and honesty in the disposing of, and so I am the willinger to
      trust and pass my word for him therein. By and by up to the Duke of York,
      where our usual business, and among other things I read two most dismal
      letters of the straits we are in (from Collonell Middleton and
      Commissioner Taylor) that ever were writ in the world, so as the Duke of
      York would have them to shew the King, and to every demand of money,
      whereof we proposed many and very pressing ones, Sir G. Carteret could
      make no answer but no money, which I confess made me almost ready to cry
      for sorrow and vexation, but that which was the most considerable was when
      Sir G. Carteret did say that he had no funds to raise money on; and being
      asked by Sir W. Coventry whether the eleven months' tax was not a fund,
      and he answered, "No, that the bankers would not lend money upon it." Then
      Sir W. Coventry burst out and said he did supplicate his Royal Highness,
      and would do the same to the King, that he would remember who they were
      that did persuade the King from parting with the Chimney-money to the
      Parliament, and taking that in lieu which they would certainly have given,
      and which would have raised infallibly ready money; meaning the bankers
      and the farmers of the Chimney-money, whereof Sir, G. Carteret, I think,
      is one; saying plainly, that whoever did advise the King to that, did, as
      much as in them lay, cut the King's throat, and did wholly betray him; to
      which the Duke of York did assent; and remembered that the King did say
      again and again at the time, that he was assured, and did fully believe,
      the money would be raised presently upon a land-tax. This put as all into
      a stound; and Sir W. Coventry went on to declare, that he was glad he was
      come to have so lately concern in the Navy as he hath, for he cannot now
      give any good account of the Navy business; and that all his work now was
      to be able to provide such orders as would justify his Royal Highness in
      the business, when it shall be called to account; and that he do do, not
      concerning himself whether they are or can be performed, or no; and that
      when it comes to be examined, and falls on my Lord Treasurer, he cannot
      help it, whatever the issue of it shall be. Hereupon Sir W. Batten did
      pray him to keep also by him all our letters that come from the office
      that may justify us, which he says he do do, and, God knows, it is an ill
      sign when we are once to come to study how to excuse ourselves. It is a
      sad consideration, and therewith we broke up, all in a sad posture, the
      most that ever I saw in my life. One thing more Sir W. Coventry did say to
      the Duke of York, when I moved again, that of about L9000 debt to Lanyon,
      at Plymouth, he might pay L3700 worth of prize-goods, that he bought
      lately at the candle, out of this debt due to him from the King; and the
      Duke of York, and Sir G: Carteret, and Lord Barkeley, saying, all of them,
      that my Lord Ashly would not be got to yield to it, who is Treasurer of
      the Prizes, Sir W. Coventry did plainly desire that it might be declared
      whether the proceeds of the prizes were to go to the helping on of the
      war, or no; and, if it were, how then could this be denied? which put them
      all into another stound; and it is true, God forgive us! Thence to the
      chappell, and there, by chance, hear that Dr. Crew is to preach; and so
      into the organ-loft, where I met Mr. Carteret, and my Lady Jemimah, and
      Sir Thomas Crew's two daughters, and Dr. Childe played; and Dr. Crew did
      make a very pretty, neat, sober, honest sermon; and delivered it very
      readily, decently, and gravely, beyond his years: so as I was exceedingly
      taken with it, and I believe the whole chappell, he being but young; but
      his manner of his delivery I do like exceedingly. His text was, "But seeke
      ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things
      shall be added unto you." Thence with my Lady to Sir G. Carteret's
      lodgings, and so up into the house, and there do hear that the Dutch
      letters are come, and say that the Dutch have ordered a passe to be sent
      for our Commissioners, and that it is now upon the way, coming with a
      trumpeter blinded, as is usual. But I perceive every body begins to doubt
      the success of the treaty, all their hopes being only that if it can be
      had on any terms, the Chancellor will have it; for he dare not come before
      a Parliament, nor a great many more of the courtiers, and the King himself
      do declare he do not desire it, nor intend it but on a strait; which God
      defend him from! Here I hear how the King is not so well pleased of this
      marriage between the Duke of Richmond and Mrs. Stewart, as is talked; and
      that he [the Duke] by a wile did fetch her to the Beare, at the
      Bridge-foot, where a coach was ready, and they are stole away into Kent,
      without the King's leave; and that the King hath said he will never see
      her more; but people do think that it is only a trick. This day I saw
      Prince Rupert abroad in the Vane-room, pretty well as he used to be, and
      looks as well, only something appears to be under his periwigg on the
      crown of his head. So home by water, and there find my wife gone abroad to
      her tailor's, and I dined alone with W. Hewer, and then to the office to
      draw up a memorial for the Duke of York this afternoon at the Council
      about Lanyon's business. By and by we met by appointment at the office
      upon a reference to Carcasses business to us again from the Duke of York,
      but a very confident cunning rogue we have found him at length. He carried
      himself very uncivilly to Sir W. Batten this afternoon, as heretofore, and
      his silly Lord [Bruncker] pleaded for him, but all will not nor shall not
      do for ought he shall give, though I love the man as a man of great parts
      and ability. Thence to White Hall by water (only asking Betty Michell by
      the way how she did), and there come too late to do any thing at the
      Council. So by coach to my periwigg maker's and tailor's, and so home,
      where I find my wife with her flageolet master, which I wish she would
      practise, and so to the office, and then to Sir W. Batten's, and then to
      Sir W. Pen's, talking and spending time in vain a little while, and then
      home up to my chamber, and so to supper and to bed, vexed at two or three
      things, viz. that my wife's watch proves so bad as it do; the ill state of
      the office; and Kingdom's business; at the charge which my mother's death
      for mourning will bring me when all paid.
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    <p>
      4th. Up, and going down found Jervas the barber with a periwigg which I
      had the other day cheapened at Westminster, but it being full of nits, as
      heretofore his work used to be, I did now refuse it, having bought
      elsewhere. So to the office till noon, busy, and then (which I think I
      have not done three times in my life) left the board upon occasion of a
      letter of Sir W. Coventry, and meeting Balty at my house I took him with
      me by water, and to the Duke of Albemarle to give him an account of the
      business, which was the escaping of some soldiers for the manning of a few
      ships now going out with Harman to the West Indies, which is a sad
      consideration that at the very beginning of the year and few ships abroad
      we should be in such want of men that they do hide themselves, and swear
      they will not go to be killed and have no pay. I find the Duke of
      Albemarle at dinner with sorry company, some of his officers of the Army;
      dirty dishes, and a nasty wife at table, and bad meat, of which I made but
      an ill dinner. Pretty to hear how she talked against Captain Du Tell, the
      Frenchman, that the Prince and her husband put out the last year; and how,
      says she, the Duke of York hath made him, for his good services, his
      Cupbearer; yet he fired more shot into the Prince's ship, and others of
      the King's ships, than of the enemy. And the Duke of Albemarle did confirm
      it, and that somebody in the fight did cry out that a little Dutchman, by
      his ship, did plague him more than any other; upon which they were going
      to order him to be sunk, when they looked and found it was Du Tell, who,
      as the Duke of Albemarle says, had killed several men in several of our
      ships. He said, but for his interest, which he knew he had at Court, he
      had hanged him at the yard's-arm, without staying for a Court-martiall.
      One Colonel Howard, at the table, magnified the Duke of Albemarle's fight
      in June last, as being a greater action than ever was done by Caesar. The
      Duke of Albemarle, did say it had been no great action, had all his number
      fought, as they should have done, to have beat the Dutch; but of his 55
      ships, not above 25 fought. He did give an account that it was a fight he
      was forced to: the Dutch being come in his way, and he being ordered to
      the buoy of the Nore, he could not pass by them without fighting, nor
      avoid them without great disadvantage and dishonour; and this Sir G.
      Carteret, I afterwards giving him an account of what he said, says that it
      is true, that he was ordered up to the Nore. But I remember he said, had
      all his captains fought, he would no more have doubted to have beat the
      Dutch, with all their number, than to eat the apple that lay on his
      trencher. My Lady Duchesse, among other things, discoursed of the wisdom
      of dividing the fleete; which the General said nothing to, though he knows
      well that it come from themselves in the fleete, and was brought up hither
      by Sir Edward Spragge. Colonel Howard, asking how the prince did, the Duke
      of Albemarle answering, "Pretty well;" the other replied, "But not so well
      as to go to sea again."&mdash;"How!" says the Duchess, "what should he go
      for, if he were well, for there are no ships for him to command? And so
      you have brought your hogs to a fair market," said she. [It was pretty to
      hear the Duke of Albemarle himself to wish that they would come on our
      ground, meaning the French, for that he would pay them, so as to make them
      glad to go back to France again; which was like a general, but not like an
      admiral.] One at the table told an odd passage in this late plague: that
      at Petersfield, I think, he said, one side of the street had every house
      almost infected through the town, and the other, not one shut up. Dinner
      being done, I brought Balty to the Duke of Albemarle to kiss his hand and
      thank him far his kindness the last year to him, and take leave of him,
      and then Balty and I to walk in the Park, and, out of pity to his father,
      told him what I had in my thoughts to do for him about the money&mdash;that
      is, to make him Deputy Treasurer of the fleete, which I have done by
      getting Sir G. Carteret's consent, and an order from the Duke of York for
      L1500 to be paid to him. He promises the whole profit to be paid to my
      wife, for to be disposed of as she sees fit, for her father and mother's
      relief. So mightily pleased with our walk, it being mighty pleasant
      weather, I back to Sir G. Carteret's, and there he had newly dined, and
      talked, and find that he do give every thing over for lost, declaring no
      money to be raised, and let Sir W. Coventry name the man that persuaded
      the King to take the Land Tax on promise, of raising present money upon
      it. He will, he says, be able to clear himself enough of it. I made him
      merry, with telling him how many land-admirals we are to have this year:
      Allen at Plymouth, Holmes at Portsmouth, Spragge for Medway, Teddiman at
      Dover, Smith to the Northward, and Harman to the Southward. He did defend
      to me Sir W. Coventry as not guilty of the dividing of the fleete the last
      year, and blesses God, as I do, for my Lord Sandwich's absence, and tells
      me how the King did lately observe to him how they have been particularly
      punished that were enemies to my Lord Sandwich. Mightily pleased I am with
      his family, and my Lady Carteret was on the bed to-day, having been let
      blood, and tells me of my Lady Jemimah's being big-bellied. Thence with
      him to my Lord Treasurer's, and there walked during Council sitting with
      Sir Stephen Fox, talking of the sad condition of the King's purse, and
      affairs thereby; and how sad the King's life must be, to pass by his
      officers every hour, that are four years behind-hand unpaid. My Lord
      Barkeley [of Stratton] I met with there, and fell into talk with him on
      the same thing, wishing to God that it might be remedied, to which he
      answered, with an oath, that it was as easy to remedy it as anything in
      the world; saying, that there is himself and three more would venture
      their carcasses upon it to pay all the King's debts in three years, had
      they the managing his revenue, and putting L300,000 in his purse, as a
      stock. But, Lord! what a thing is this to me, that do know how likely a
      man my Lord Barkeley of all the world is, to do such a thing as this. Here
      I spoke with Sir W. Coventry, who tells me plainly that to all future
      complaints of lack of money he will answer but with the shrug of his
      shoulder; which methought did come to my heart, to see him to begin to
      abandon the King's affairs, and let them sink or swim, so he do his owne
      part, which I confess I believe he do beyond any officer the King hath,
      but unless he do endeavour to make others do theirs, nothing will be done.
      The consideration here do make me go away very sad, and so home by coach,
      and there took up my wife and Mercer, who had been to-day at White Hall to
      the Maundy,
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     [The practice of giving alms on Maundy Thursday to poor men and
     women equal in number to the years of the sovereign's age is a
     curious survival in an altered form of an old custom.  The original
     custom was for the king to wash the feet of twelve poor persons, and
     to give them a supper in imitation of Christ's last supper and his
     washing of the Apostles' feet.  James II. was the last sovereign to
     perform the ceremony in person, but it was performed by deputy so
     late as 1731.  The Archbishop of York was the king's deputy on that
     occasion.  The institution has passed through the various stages of
     feet washing with a supper, the discontinuance of the feet washing,
     the substitution of a gift of provisions for the supper, and finally
     the substitution of a gift of money for the provisions.  The
     ceremony took place at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall; but it is now
     held at Westminster Abbey.  Maundy is derived from the Latin word
     'maudatum', which commences the original anthem sung during the
     ceremony, in reference to Christ's command]
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    <p>
      it being Maundy Thursday; but the King did not wash the poor people's feet
      himself, but the Bishop of London did it for him, but I did not see it,
      and with them took up Mrs. Anne Jones at her mother's door, and so to take
      the ayre to Hackney, where good neat's tongue, and things to eat and
      drink, and very merry, the weather being mighty pleasant; and here I was
      told that at their church they have a fair pair of organs, which play
      while the people sing, which I am mighty glad of, wishing the like at our
      church at London, and would give L50 towards it. So very pleasant, and
      hugging of Mercer in our going home, we home, and then to the office to do
      a little business, and so to supper at home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and troubled with Mr. Carcasse's coming to speak with me, which
      made me give him occasion to fall into a heat, and he began to be
      ill-mannered to me, which made me angry. He gone, I to Sir W. Pen about
      the business of Mrs. Turner's son to keep his ship in employment, but so
      false a fellow as Sir W. Pen is I never did nor hope shall ever know
      again. So to the office, and there did business, till dinnertime, and then
      home to dinner, wife and I alone, and then down to the Old Swan, and drank
      with Betty and her husband, but no opportunity para baiser la. So to White
      Hall to the Council chamber, where I find no Council held till after the
      holidays. So to Westminster Hall, and there bought a pair of snuffers, and
      saw Mrs. Howlett after her sickness come to the Hall again. So by coach to
      the New Exchange and Mercer's and other places to take up bills for what I
      owe them, and to Mrs. Pierce, to invite her to dinner with us on Monday,
      but staid not with her. In the street met with Mr. Sanchy, my old
      acquaintance at Cambridge, reckoned a great minister here in the City; and
      by Sir Richard Ford particularly, which I wonder at; for methinks, in his
      talk, he is but a mean man. I set him down in Holborne, and I to the Old
      Exchange, and there to Sir Robert Viner's, and made up my accounts there,
      to my great content; but I find they do not keep them so regularly as, to
      be able to do it easily, and truly, and readily, nor would it have been
      easily stated by any body on my behalf but myself, several things being to
      be recalled to memory, which nobody else could have done, and therefore it
      is fully necessary for me to even accounts with these people as often as I
      can. So to the 'Change, and there met with Mr. James Houblon, but no
      hopes, as he sees, of peace whatever we pretend, but we shall be abused by
      the King of France. Then home to the office, and busy late, and then to
      Sir W. Batten's, where Mr. Young was talking about the building of the
      City again; and he told me that those few churches that are to be new
      built are plainly not chosen with regard to the convenience of the City;
      they stand a great many in a cluster about Cornhill; but that all of them
      are either in the gift of the Lord Archbishop, or Bishop of London, or
      Lord Chancellor, or gift of the City. Thus all things, even to the
      building of churches, are done in this world! And then he says, which I
      wonder at, that I should not in all this time see, that Moorefields have
      houses two stories high in them, and paved streets, the City having let
      leases for seven years, which he do conclude will be very much to the
      hindering the building of the City; but it was considered that the streets
      cannot be passable in London till a whole street be built; and several
      that had got ground of the City for charity, to build sheds on, had got
      the trick presently to sell that for L60, which did not cost them L20 to
      put up; and so the City, being very poor in stock, thought it as good to
      do it themselves, and therefore let leases for seven years of the ground
      in Moorefields; and a good deal of this money, thus advanced, hath been
      employed for the enabling them to find some money for Commissioner Taylor,
      and Sir W. Batten, towards the charge of "The Loyall London," or else, it
      is feared, it had never been paid. And Taylor having a bill to pay wherein
      Alderman Hooker was concerned it was his invention to find out this way of
      raising money, or else this had not been thought on. So home to supper and
      to bed. This morning come to me the Collectors for my Pollmoney; for which
      I paid for my title as Esquire and place of Clerk of Acts, and my head and
      wife's, and servants' and their wages, L40 17s; and though this be a great
      deal, yet it is a shame I should pay no more; that is, that I should not
      be assessed for my pay, as in the Victualling business and Tangier; and
      for my money, which, of my own accord, I had determined to charge myself
      with L1000 money, till coming to the Vestry, and seeing nobody of our
      ablest merchants, as Sir Andrew Rickard, to do it, I thought it not decent
      for me to do it, nor would it be thought wisdom to do it unnecessarily,
      but vain glory.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and betimes in the morning down to the Tower wharfe, there to
      attend the shipping of soldiers, to go down to man some ships going out,
      and pretty to see how merrily some, and most go, and how sad others&mdash;the
      leave they take of their friends, and the terms that some wives, and other
      wenches asked to part with them: a pretty mixture. So to the office,
      having staid as long as I could, and there sat all the morning, and then
      home at noon to dinner, and then abroad, Balty with me, and to White Hall,
      by water, to Sir G. Carteret, about Balty's L1500 contingent money for the
      fleete to the West Indys, and so away with him to the Exchange, and
      mercers and drapers, up and down, to pay all my scores occasioned by this
      mourning for my mother; and emptied a L50 bag, and it was a joy to me to
      see that I am able to part with such a sum, without much inconvenience; at
      least, without any trouble of mind. So to Captain Cocke's to meet Fenn, to
      talk about this money for Balty, and there Cocke tells me that he is
      confident there will be a peace, whatever terms be asked us, and he
      confides that it will take because the French and Dutch will be jealous
      one of another which shall give the best terms, lest the other should make
      the peace with us alone, to the ruin of the third, which is our best
      defence, this jealousy, for ought I at present see. So home and there very
      late, very busy, and then home to supper and to bed, the people having got
      their house very clean against Monday's dinner.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Easter day). Up, and when dressed with my wife (in mourning for my
      mother) to church both, where Mr. Mills, a lazy sermon. Home to dinner,
      wife and I and W. Hewer, and after dinner I by water to White Hall to Sir
      G. Carteret's, there to talk about Balty's money, and did present Balty to
      him to kiss his hand, and then to walk in the Parke, and heard the Italian
      musique at the Queen's chapel, whose composition is fine, but yet the
      voices of eunuchs I do not like like our women, nor am more pleased with
      it at all than with English voices, but that they do jump most excellently
      with themselves and their instrument, which is wonderful pleasant; but I
      am convinced more and more, that, as every nation has a particular accent
      and tone in discourse, so as the tone of one not to agree with or please
      the other, no more can the fashion of singing to words, for that the
      better the words are set, the more they take in of the ordinary tone of
      the country whose language the song speaks, so that a song well composed
      by an Englishman must be better to an Englishman than it can be to a
      stranger, or than if set by a stranger in foreign words. Thence back to
      White Hall, and there saw the King come out of chapel after prayers in the
      afternoon, which he is never at but after having received the Sacrament:
      and the Court, I perceive, is quite out of mourning; and some very fine;
      among others, my Lord Gerard, in a very rich vest and coat. Here I met
      with my Lord Bellasses: and it is pretty to see what a formal story he
      tells me of his leaving, his place upon the death of my Lord Cleveland, by
      which he is become Captain of the Pensioners; and that the King did leave
      it to him to keep the other or take this; whereas, I know the contrary,
      that they had a mind to have him away from Tangier. He tells me he is
      commanded by the King to go down to the Northward to satisfy the Deputy
      Lieutenants of Yorkshire, who have desired to lay down their commissions
      upon pretence of having no profit by their places but charge, but indeed
      is upon the Duke of Buckingham's being under a cloud (of whom there is yet
      nothing heard), so that the King is apprehensive of their discontent, and
      sends him to pacify them, and I think he is as good a dissembler as any
      man else, and a fine person he is for person, and proper to lead the
      Pensioners, but a man of no honour nor faith I doubt. So to Sir G.
      Carteret's again to talk with him about Balty's money, and wrote a letter
      to Portsmouth about part of it, and then in his coach, with his little
      daughter Porpot (as he used to nickname her), and saw her at home, and her
      maid, and another little gentlewoman, and so I walked into Moore Fields,
      and, as is said, did find houses built two stories high, and like to
      stand; and it must become a place of great trade, till the City be built;
      and the street is already paved as London streets used to be, which is a
      strange, and to mean unpleasing sight. So home and to my chamber about
      sending an express to Portsmouth about Balty's money, and then comes Mrs.
      Turner to enquire after her son's business, which goes but bad, which led
      me to show her how false Sir W. Pen is to her, whereupon she told me his
      obligations to her, and promises to her, and how a while since he did show
      himself dissatisfied in her son's coming to the table and applying himself
      to me, which is a good nut, and a nut I will make use of. She gone I to
      other business in my chamber, and then to supper and to bed. The Swede's
      Embassadors and our Commissioners are making all the haste they can over
      to the treaty for peace, and I find at Court, and particularly Lord
      Bellasses, says there will be a peace, and it is worth remembering what
      Sir W. Coventry did tell me (as a secret though) that whereas we are
      afeard Harman's fleete to the West Indys will not be got out before the
      Dutch come and block us up, we shall have a happy pretext to get out our
      ships under pretence of attending the Embassadors and Commissioners, which
      is a very good, but yet a poor shift.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and having dressed myself, to the office a little, and out,
      expecting to have seen the pretty daughter of the Ship taverne at the
      hither end of Billiter Lane (whom I never yet have opportunity to speak
      to). I in there to drink my morning draught of half a pint of Rhenish
      wine; but a ma doleur elle and their family are going away thence, and a
      new man come to the house. So I away to the Temple, to my new.
      bookseller's; and there I did agree for Rycaut's late History of the
      Turkish Policy, which costs me 55s.; whereas it was sold plain before the
      late fire for 8s., and bound and coloured as this is for 20s.; for I have
      bought it finely bound and truly coloured, all the figures, of which there
      was but six books done so, whereof the King and Duke of York, and Duke of
      Monmouth, and Lord Arlington, had four. The fifth was sold, and I have
      bought the sixth. So to enquire out Mrs. Knipp's new lodging, but could
      not, but do hear of her at the Playhouse, where she was practising, and I
      sent for her out by a porter, and the jade come to me all undressed, so
      cannot go home to my house to dinner, as I had invited her, which I was
      not much troubled at, because I think there is a distance between her and
      Mrs. Pierce, and so our company would not be so pleasant. So home, and
      there find all things in good readiness for a good dinner, and here
      unexpectedly I find little Mis. Tooker, whom my wife loves not from the
      report of her being already naught; however, I do shew her countenance,
      and by and by come my guests, Dr. Clerke and his wife, and Mrs. Worshipp,
      and her daughter; and then Mr. Pierce and his wife, and boy, and Betty;
      and then I sent for Mercer; so that we had, with my wife and I, twelve at
      table, and very good and pleasant company, and a most neat and excellent,
      but dear dinner; but, Lord! to see with what envy they looked upon all my
      fine plate was pleasant; for I made the best shew I could, to let them
      understand me and my condition, to take down the pride of Mrs. Clerke, who
      thinks herself very great. We sat long, and very merry, and all things
      agreeable; and, after dinner, went out by coaches, thinking to have seen a
      play, but come too late to both houses, and then they had thoughts of
      going abroad somewhere; but I thought all the charge ought not to be mine,
      and therefore I endeavoured to part the company, and so ordered it to set
      them all down at Mrs. Pierces; and there my wife and I and Mercer left
      them in good humour, and we three to the King's house, and saw the latter
      end of the "Surprisall," a wherein was no great matter, I thought, by what
      I saw there. Thence away to Polichinello, and there had three times more
      sport than at the play, and so home, and there the first night we have
      been this year in the garden late, we three and our Barker singing very
      well, and then home to supper, and so broke up, and to bed mightily
      pleased with this day's pleasure.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up. and to the office a while, none of my fellow officers coming to
      sit, it being holiday, and so towards noon I to the Exchange, and there do
      hear mighty cries for peace, and that otherwise we shall be undone; and
      yet I do suspect the badness of the peace we shall make. Several do
      complain of abundance of land flung up by tenants out of their hands for
      want of ability to pay their rents; and by name, that the Duke of
      Buckingham hath L6000 so flung up. And my father writes, that Jasper
      Trice, upon this pretence of his tenants' dealing with him, is broke up
      housekeeping, and gone to board with his brother, Naylor, at Offord; which
      is very sad. So home to dinner, and after dinner I took coach and to the
      King's house, and by and by comes after me my wife with W. Hewer and his
      mother and Barker, and there we saw "The Tameing of a Shrew," which hath
      some very good pieces in it, but generally is but a mean play; and the
      best part, "Sawny,"
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     [This play was entitled "Sawney the Scot, or the Taming of a Shrew,"
     and consisted of an alteration of Shakespeare's play by John Lacy.
     Although it had long been popular it was not printed until 1698.  In
     the old "Taming of a Shrew" (1594), reprinted by Thomas Amyot for
     the Shakespeare Society in 1844, the hero's servant is named Sander,
     and this seems to have given the hint to Lacy, when altering
     Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew," to foist a 'Scotsman into the
     action.  Sawney was one of Lacy's favourite characters, and occupies
     a prominent position in Michael Wright's picture at Hampton Court.
     Evelyn, on October 3rd, 1662, "visited Mr. Wright, a Scotsman, who
     had liv'd long at Rome, and was esteem'd a good painter," and he
     singles out as his best picture, "Lacy, the famous Roscius, or
     comedian, whom he has painted in three dresses, as a gallant, a
     Presbyterian minister, and a Scotch Highlander in his plaid."
     Langbaine and Aubrey both make the mistake of ascribing the third
     figure to Teague in "The Committee;" and in spite of Evelyn's clear
     statement, his editor in a note follows them in their blunder.
     Planche has reproduced the picture in his "History of Costume"
     (Vol. ii., p. 243).]
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    <p>
      done by Lacy, hath not half its life, by reason of the words, I suppose,
      not being understood, at least by me. After the play was done, as I come
      so I went away alone, and had a mind to have taken out Knipp to have taken
      the ayre with her, and to that end sent a porter in to her that she should
      take a coach and come to me to the Piatza in Covent Garden, where I waited
      for her, but was doubtful I might have done ill in doing it if we should
      be visti ensemble, sed elle was gone out, and so I was eased of my care,
      and therefore away to Westminster to the Swan, and there did baiser la
      little missa.... and drank, and then by water to the Old Swan, and there
      found Betty Michell sitting at the door, it being darkish. I staid and
      talked a little with her, but no once baiser la, though she was to my
      thinking at this time une de plus pretty mohers that ever I did voir in my
      vida, and God forgive me my mind did run sobre elle all the vespre and
      night and la day suivante. So home and to the office a little, and then to
      Sir W. Batten's, where he tells me how he hath found his lady's jewels
      again, which have been so long lost, and a servant imprisoned and
      arraigned, and they were in her closet under a china cup, where he hath
      servants will swear they did look in searching the house; but Mrs. Turner
      and I, and others, do believe that they were only disposed of by my Lady,
      in case she had died, to some friends of hers, and now laid there again.
      So home to supper, and to read the book I bought yesterday of the Turkish
      policy, which is a good book, well writ, and so owned by Dr. Clerke
      yesterday to me, commending it mightily to me for my reading as the only
      book of the subject that ever was writ, yet so designedly. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and to my office a little, and then, in the garden, find Sir W.
      Pen; and he and I to Sir W. Batten, where he tells us news of the new
      disorders of Hogg and his men in taking out of 30 tons of wine out of a
      prize of ours, which makes us mad; and that, added to the unwillingness of
      the men to go longer abroad without money, do lead us to conclude not to
      keep her abroad any longer, of which I am very glad, for I do not like our
      doings with what we have already got, Sir W. Batten ordering the disposal
      of our wines and goods, and he leaves it to Morrice the cooper, who I take
      to be a cunning proud knave, so that I am very desirous to adventure no
      further. So away by water from the Old Swan to White Hall, and there to
      Sir W. Coventry's, with whom I staid a great while longer than I have done
      these many months, and had opportunity of talking with him, and he do
      declare himself troubled that he hath any thing left him to do in the
      Navy, and would be glad to part with his whole profits and concernments in
      it, his pains and care being wholly ineffectual during this lack of money;
      the expense growing infinite, the service not to be done, and discipline
      and order not to be kept, only from want of money. I begun to discourse
      with him the business of Tangier, which by the removal of my Lord
      Bellasses, is now to have a new Governor; and did move him, that at this
      season all the business of reforming the garrison might be considered,
      while nobody was to be offended; and I told him it is plain that we do
      overspend our revenue: that the place is of no more profit to the King
      than it was the first day, nor in itself of better credit; no more people
      of condition willing to live there, nor any thing like a place likely to
      turn his Majesty to account: that it hath been hitherto, and, for aught I
      see, likely only to be used as a job to do a kindness to some Lord, or he
      that can get to be Governor. Sir W. Coventry agreed with me, so as to say,
      that unless the King hath the wealth of the Mogul, he would be a beggar to
      have his businesses ordered in the manner they now are: that his garrisons
      must be made places only of convenience to particular persons that he hath
      moved the Duke of York in it; and that it was resolved to send no Governor
      thither till there had been Commissioners sent to put the garrison in
      order, so as that he that goes may go with limitations and rules to
      follow, and not to do as he please, as the rest have hitherto done. That
      he is not afeard to speak his mind, though to the displeasure of any man;
      and that I know well enough; but that, when it is come, as it is now, that
      to speak the truth in behalf of the King plainly do no good, but all
      things bore down by other measures than by what is best for the King, he
      hath no temptation to be perpetually fighting of battles, it being more
      easy to him do those terms to suffer things to go on without giving any
      man offence, than to have the same thing done, and he contract the
      displeasure of all the world, as he must do, that will be for the King. I
      did offer him to draw up my thoughts in this matter to present to the Duke
      of York, which he approved of, and I do think to do it. So away, and by
      coach going home saw Sir G. Carteret going towards White Hall. So 'light
      and by water met him, and with him to the King's little chapel; and
      afterwards to see the King heal the King's Evil, wherein no pleasure, I
      having seen it before; and then to see him and the Queene and Duke of York
      and his wife, at dinner in the Queene's lodgings; and so with Sir G.
      Carteret to his lodgings to dinner; where very good company; and after
      dinner he and I to talk alone how things are managed, and to what ruin we
      must come if we have not a peace. He did tell me one occasion, how Sir
      Thomas Allen, which I took for a man of known courage and service on the
      King's side, was tried for his life in Prince Rupert's fleete, in the late
      times, for cowardice, and condemned to be hanged, and fled to Jersey;
      where Sir G. Carteret received him, not knowing the reason of his coming
      thither: and that thereupon Prince Rupert wrote to the Queen-Mother his
      dislike of Sir G. Carteret's receiving a person that stood condemned; and
      so Sir G. Carteret was forced to bid him betake himself to some other
      place. This was strange to me. Our Commissioners are preparing to go to
      Bredah to the treaty, and do design to be going the next week. So away by
      coach home, where there should have been a meeting about Carcasse's
      business, but only my Lord and I met, and so broke up, Carcasse having
      only read his answer to his charge, which is well writ, but I think will
      not prove to his advantage, for I believe him to be a very rogue. So home,
      and Balty and I to look Mr. Fenn at Sir G. Carteret's office in Broad
      Streete, and there missing him and at the banker's hard by, we home, and I
      down by water to Deptford Dockyard, and there did a little business, and
      so home back again all the way reading a little piece I lately bought,
      called "The Virtuoso, or the Stoicke," proposing many things paradoxical
      to our common opinions, wherein in some places he speaks well, but
      generally is but a sorry man. So home and to my chamber to enter my two
      last days' journall, and this, and then to supper and to bed. Blessed be
      God! I hear that my father is better and better, and will, I hope, live to
      enjoy some cheerful days more; but it is strange what he writes me, that
      Mr. Weaver, of Huntingdon, who was a lusty, likely, and but a youngish
      man, should be dead.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and (which is
      now rare, he having not been with us twice I think these six months) Sir
      G. Carteret come to us upon some particular business of his office, and
      went away again. At noon I to the 'Change, and there hear by Mr. Hublon of
      the loss of a little East Indiaman, valued at about L20,000, coming home
      alone, and safe to within ten leagues of Scilly, and there snapt by a
      French Caper. Our merchants do much pray for peace; and he tells me that
      letters are come that the Dutch have stopped the fitting of their great
      ships, and the coming out of a fleete of theirs of 50 sayle, that was
      ready to come out; but I doubt the truth of it yet. Thence to Sir G.
      Carteret, by his invitation to his office, where my Lady was, and dined
      with him, and very merry and good people they are, when pleased, as any I
      know. After dinner I to the office, where busy till evening, and then with
      Balty to Sir G. Carteret's office, and there with Mr. Fenn despatched the
      business of Balty's L1500 he received for the contingencies of the fleete,
      whereof he received about L253 in pieces of eight at a goldsmith's there
      hard by, which did puzzle me and him to tell; for I could not tell the
      difference by sight, only by bigness, and that is not always discernible,
      between a whole and half-piece and quarterpiece. Having received this
      money I home with Balty and it, and then abroad by coach with my wife and
      set her down at her father's, and I to White Hall, thinking there to have
      seen the Duchess of Newcastle's coming this night to Court, to make a
      visit to the Queene, the King having been with her yesterday, to make her
      a visit since her coming to town. The whole story of this lady is a
      romance, and all she do is romantick. Her footmen in velvet coats, and
      herself in an antique dress, as they say; and was the other day at her own
      play, "The Humourous Lovers;" the most ridiculous thing that ever was
      wrote, but yet she and her Lord mightily pleased with it; and she, at the
      end, made her respects to the players from her box, and did give them
      thanks. There is as much expectation of her coming to Court, that so
      people may come to see her, as if it were the Queen of Sheba; but I lost
      my labour, for she did not come this night. So, meeting Mr. Brisband, he
      took me up to my Lady Jemimah's chamber, who is let blood to-day, and so
      there we sat and talked an hour, I think, very merry and one odd thing or
      other, and so away, and I took up my wife at her tailor's (whose wife is
      brought to bed, and my wife must be godmother), and so with much ado got a
      coach to carry us home, it being late, and so to my chamber, having little
      left to do at my office, my eyes being a little sore by reason of my
      reading a small printed book the other day after it was dark, and so to
      supper and to bed. It comes in my head to set down that there have been
      two fires in the City, as I am told for certain, and it is so, within this
      week.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and when ready, and to my office, to do a little business, and,
      coming homeward again, saw my door and hatch open, left so by Luce, our
      cookmayde, which so vexed me, that I did give her a kick in our entry, and
      offered a blow at her, and was seen doing so by Sir W. Pen's footboy,
      which did vex me to the heart, because I know he will be telling their
      family of it; though I did put on presently a very pleasant face to the
      boy, and spoke kindly to him, as one without passion, so as it may be he
      might not think I was angry, but yet I was troubled at it. So away by
      water to White Hall, and there did our usual business before the Duke of
      York; but it fell out that, discoursing of matters of money, it rose to a
      mighty heat, very high words arising between Sir G. Carteret and [Sir] W.
      Coventry, the former in his passion saying that the other should have
      helped things if they were so bad; and the other answered, so he would,
      and things should have been better had he been Treasurer of the Navy. I
      was mightily troubled at this heat, and it will breed ill blood, I fear;
      but things are in that bad condition that I do daily expect when we shall
      all fly in one another's faces, when we shall be reduced, every one, to
      answer for himself. We broke up; and I soon after to Sir G. Carteret's
      chamber, where I find the poor man telling his lady privately, and she
      weeping. I went into them, and did seem, as indeed I was, troubled for
      this; and did give the best advice I could, which, I think, did please
      them: and they do apprehend me their friend, as indeed I am, for I do take
      the Vice-chamberlain for a most honest man. He did assure me that he was
      not, all expences and things paid, clear in estate L15,000 better than he
      was when the King come in; and that the King and Lord Chancellor did know
      that he was worth, with the debt the King owed him, L50,000, I think, he
      said, when the King come into England. I did pacify all I could, and then
      away by water home, there to write letters and things for the dispatch of
      Balty away this day to sea; and after dinner he did go, I having given him
      much good counsell; and I have great hopes that he will make good use of
      it, and be a good man, for I find him willing to take pains and very
      sober. He being gone, I close at my office all the afternoon getting off
      of hand my papers, which, by the late holidays and my laziness, were grown
      too many upon my hands, to my great trouble, and therefore at it as late
      as my eyes would give me leave, and then by water down to Redriffe,
      meaning to meet my wife, who is gone with Mercer, Barker, and the boy (it
      being most sweet weather) to walk, and I did meet with them, and walked
      back, and then by the time we got home it was dark, and we staid singing
      in the garden till supper was ready, and there with great pleasure. But I
      tried my girles Mercer and Barker singly one after another, a single song,
      "At dead low ebb," etc., and I do clearly find that as to manner of
      singing the latter do much the better, the other thinking herself as I do
      myself above taking pains for a manner of singing, contenting ourselves
      with the judgment and goodness of eare. So to supper, and then parted and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and strange how
      the false fellow Commissioner. Pett was eager to have had Carcasses
      business brought on to-day that he might give my Lord Bruncker (who hates
      him, I am sure, and hath spoke as much against him to the King in my
      hearing as any man) a cast of his office in pleading for his man Carcasse,
      but I did prevent its being brought on to-day, and so broke up, and I home
      to dinner, and after dinner with a little singing with some pleasure alone
      with my poor wife, and then to the office, where sat all the afternoon
      till late at night, and then home to supper and to bed, my eyes troubling
      me still after candle-light, which troubles me. Wrote to my father, who, I
      am glad to hear, is at some ease again, and I long to have him in town,
      that I may see what can be done for him here; for I would fain do all I
      can that I may have him live, and take pleasure in my doing well in the
      world. This afternoon come Mrs. Lowther to me to the office, and there je
      did toker ses mammailles and did baiser them and su bocca, which she took
      fort willingly....
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). Up, and to read a little in my new History of Turkey,
      and so with my wife to church, and then home, where is little Michell and
      my pretty Betty and also Mercer, and very merry. A good dinner of roast
      beef. After dinner I away to take water at the Tower, and thence to
      Westminster, where Mrs. Martin was not at home. So to White Hall, and
      there walked up and down, and among other things visited Sir G. Carteret,
      and much talk with him, who is discontented, as he hath reason, to see how
      things are like to come all to naught, and it is very much that this
      resolution of having of country Admirals should not come to his eares till
      I told him the other day, so that I doubt who manages things. From him to
      Margaret's Church, and there spied Martin, and home with her..... but fell
      out to see her expensefullness, having bought Turkey work, chairs, &amp;c.
      By and by away home, and there took out my wife, and the two Mercers, and
      two of our mayds, Barker and Jane, and over the water to the Jamaica
      House, where I never was before, and there the girls did run for wagers
      over the bowling-green; and there, with much pleasure, spent little, and
      so home, and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in my book of
      Turkey, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Lay long in bed, and by and by called up by Sir H. Cholmly, who
      tells me that my Lord Middleton is for certain chosen Governor of Tangier;
      a man of moderate understanding, not covetous, but a soldier of fortune,
      and poor. Here comes Mr. Sanchy with an impertinent business to me of a
      ticket, which I put off. But by and by comes Dr. Childe by appointment,
      and sat with me all the morning making me bases and inward parts to
      several songs that I desired of him, to my great content. Then dined, and
      then abroad by coach, and I set him down at Hatton Garden, and I to the
      King's house by chance, where a new play: so full as I never saw it; I
      forced to stand all the while close to the very door till I took cold, and
      many people went away for want of room. The King, and Queene, and Duke of
      York and Duchesse there, and all the Court, and Sir W. Coventry. The play
      called "The Change of Crownes;" a play of Ned Howard's, the best that ever
      I saw at that house, being a great play and serious; only Lacy did act the
      country-gentleman come up to Court, who do abuse the Court with all the
      imaginable wit and plainness about selling of places, and doing every
      thing for money. The play took very much. Thence I to my new bookseller's,
      and there bought "Hooker's Polity," the new edition, and "Dugdale's
      History of the Inns of Court," of which there was but a few saved out of
      the fire, and Playford's new Catch-book, that hath a great many new
      fooleries in it. Then home, a little at the office, and then to supper and
      to bed, mightily pleased with the new play.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, at noon home to
      dinner, and thence in haste to carry my wife to see the new play I saw
      yesterday, she not knowing it. But there, contrary to expectation, find
      "The Silent Woman." However, in; and there Knipp come into the pit. I took
      her by me, and here we met with Mrs. Horsley, the pretty woman&mdash;an
      acquaintance of Mercer's, whose house is burnt. Knipp tells me the King
      was so angry at the liberty taken by Lacy's, part to abuse him to his
      face, that he commanded they should act no more, till Moone went and got
      leave for them to act again, but not this play. The King mighty angry; and
      it was bitter indeed, but very true and witty. I never was more taken with
      a play than I am with this "Silent Woman," as old as it is, and as often
      as I have seen it. There is more wit in it than goes to ten new plays.
      Thence with my wife and Knipp to Mrs. Pierce's, and saw her closet again,
      and liked her picture. Thence took them all to the Cake-house, in
      Southampton Market-place, where Pierce told us the story how, in good
      earnest, [the King] is offended with the Duke of Richmond's marrying, and
      Mrs. Stewart's sending the King his jewels again. As she tells it, it is
      the noblest romance and example of a brave lady that ever I read in my
      life. Pretty to hear them talk of yesterday's play, and I durst not own to
      my wife to have seen it. Thence home and to [Sir] W. Batten!'s, where we
      have made a bargain for the ending of some of the trouble about some of
      our prizes for L1400. So home to look on my new books that I have lately
      bought, and then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and with the two Sir Williams by coach to the Duke of York, who
      is come to St. James's, the first time we have attended him there this
      year. In our way, in Tower Street, we saw Desbrough walking on foot: who
      is now no more a prisoner, and looks well, and just as he used to do
      heretofore. When we come to the Duke of York's I was spoke to by Mr.
      Bruncker on behalf of Carcasse. Thence by coach to Sir G. Carteret's, in
      London, there to pass some accounts of his, and at it till dinner, and
      then to work again a little, and then go away, and my wife being sent for
      by me to the New Exchange I took her up, and there to the King's playhouse
      (at the door met with W. Joyce in the street, who come to our coach side,
      but we in haste took no notice of him, for which I was sorry afterwards,
      though I love not the fellow, yet for his wife's sake), and saw a piece of
      "Rollo," a play I like not much, but much good acting in it: the house
      very empty. So away home, and I a little to the office, and then to Sir
      Robert Viner's, and so back, and find my wife gone down by water to take a
      little ayre, and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading my
      new book, "Origines Juridiciales," which pleases me. So to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and to read more in the "Origines," and then to the office,
      where the news is strong that not only the Dutch cannot set out a fleete
      this year, but that the French will not, and that he hath given the answer
      to the Dutch Embassador, saying that he is for the King of England's,
      having an honourable peace, which, if true, is the best news we have had a
      good while. At the office all the morning, and there pleased with the
      little pretty Deptford woman I have wished for long, and she hath occasion
      given her to come again to me. After office I to the 'Change a little, and
      then home and to dinner, and then by coach with my wife to the Duke of
      York's house, and there saw "The Wits," a play I formerly loved, and is
      now corrected and enlarged: but, though I like the acting, yet I like not
      much in the play now. The Duke of York and [Sir] W. Coventry gone to
      Portsmouth, makes me thus to go to plays. So home, and to the office a
      little and then home, where I find Goodgroome, and he and I did sing
      several things over, and tried two or three grace parts in Playford's new
      book, my wife pleasing me in singing her part of the things she knew,
      which is a comfort to my very heart. So he being gone we to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to the office all the morning, doing a great deal of
      business. At noon to dinner betimes, and then my wife and I by coach to
      the Duke's house, calling at Lovett's, where I find my Lady Castlemayne's
      picture not yet done, which has lain so many months there, which vexes me,
      but I mean not to trouble them more after this is done. So to the
      playhouse, not much company come, which I impute to the heat of the
      weather, it being very hot. Here we saw "Macbeth,"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [See November 5th, 1664.  Downes wrote: "The Tragedy of Macbeth,
     alter'd by Sir William Davenant; being drest in all it's finery, as
     new cloaths, new scenes,  machines as flyings for the Witches; with
     all the singing and dancing in it.  The first compos'd by Mr. Lock,
     the other by Mr. Channell and Mr. Joseph Preist; it being all
     excellently perform'd, being in the nature of an opera, it
     recompenc'd double the expence; it proves still a lasting play."]
</pre>
    <p>
      which, though I have seen it often, yet is it one of the best plays for a
      stage, and variety of dancing and musique, that ever I saw. So being very
      much pleased, thence home by coach with young Goodyer and his own sister,
      who offered us to go in their coach. A good-natured youth I believe he is,
      but I fear will mind his pleasures too much. She is pretty, and a modest,
      brown girle. Set us down, so my wife and I into the garden, a fine
      moonshine evening, and there talking, and among other things she tells me
      that she finds by W. Hewer that my people do observe my minding my
      pleasure more than usual, which I confess, and am ashamed of, and so from
      this day take upon me to leave it till Whit-Sunday. While we were sitting
      in the garden comes Mrs. Turner to advise about her son, the Captain, when
      I did give her the best advice I could, to look out for some land
      employment for him, a peace being at hand, when few ships will be employed
      and very many, and these old Captains, to be provided for. Then to other
      talk, and among the rest about Sir W. Pen's being to buy Wansted House of
      Sir Robert Brookes, but has put him off again, and left him the other day
      to pay for a dinner at a tavern, which she says our parishioner, Mrs.
      Hollworthy, talks of; and I dare be hanged if ever he could mean to buy
      that great house, that knows not how to furnish one that is not the tenth
      part so big. Thence I to my chamber to write a little, and then to bed,
      having got a mighty cold in my right eare and side of my throat, and in
      much trouble with it almost all the night.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, with much pain in my eare and palate. To the office out of
      humour all the morning. At noon dined, and with my wife to the King's
      house, but there found the bill torn down and no play acted, and so being
      in the humour to see one, went to the Duke of York's house, and there saw
      "The Witts" again, which likes me better than it did the other day, having
      much wit in it. Here met with Mr. Rolt, who tells me the reason of no play
      to-day at the King's house. That Lacy had been committed to the porter's
      lodge for his acting his part in the late new play, and that being thence
      released he come to the King's house, there met with Ned Howard, the poet
      of the play, who congratulated his release; upon which Lacy cursed him as
      that it was the fault of his nonsensical play that was the cause of his
      ill usage. Mr. Howard did give him some reply; to which Lacy [answered]
      him, that he was more a fool than a poet; upon which Howard did give him a
      blow on the face with his glove; on which Lacy, having a cane in his hand,
      did give him a blow over the pate. Here Rolt and others that discoursed of
      it in the pit this afternoon did wonder that Howard did not run him
      through, he being too mean a fellow to fight with. But Howard did not do
      any thing but complain to the King of it; so the whole house is silenced,
      and the gentry seem to rejoice much at it, the house being become too
      insolent. Here were many fine ladies this afternoon at this house as I
      have at any time seen, and so after the play home and there wrote to my
      father, and then to walk in the garden with my wife, resolving by the
      grace of God to see no more plays till Whitsuntide, I having now seen a
      play every day this week till I have neglected my business, and that I am
      ashamed of, being found so much absent; the Duke of York and Sir W.
      Coventry having been out of town at Portsmouth did the more embolden me
      thereto. So home, and having brought home with me from Fenchurch Street a
      hundred of sparrowgrass,&mdash;[A form once so commonly used for asparagus
      that it has found its way into dictionaries.]&mdash;cost 18d. We had them
      and a little bit of salmon, which my wife had a mind to, cost 3s. So to
      supper, and my pain being somewhat better in my throat, we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). Up, and John, a hackney coachman whom of late I have
      much used, as being formerly Sir W. Pen's coachman, coming to me by my
      direction to see whether I would use him to-day or no, I took him to our
      backgate to look upon the ground which is to be let there, where I have a
      mind to buy enough to build a coach-house and stable; for I have had it
      much in my thoughts lately that it is not too much for me now, in degree
      or cost, to keep a coach, but contrarily, that I am almost ashamed to be
      seen in a hackney, and therefore if I can have the conveniency, I will
      secure the ground at least till peace comes, that I do receive
      encouragement to keep a coach, or else that I may part with the ground
      again. The place I like very well, being close to my owne house, and so
      resolve to go about it, and so home and with my wife to church, and then
      to dinner, Mercer with us, with design to go to Hackney to church in the
      afternoon. So after dinner she and I sung "Suo Moro," which is one of the
      best pieces of musique to my thinking that ever I did hear in my life;
      then took coach and to Hackney church, where very full, and found much
      difficulty to get pews, I offering the sexton money, and he could not help
      me. So my wife and Mercer ventured into a pew, and I into another. A
      knight and his lady very civil to me when they come, and the like to my
      wife in hers, being Sir G. Viner and his lady&mdash;rich in jewells, but
      most in beauty&mdash;almost the finest woman that ever I saw. That which
      we went chiefly to see was the young ladies of the schools,&mdash;[Hackney
      was long famous for its boarding schools.]&mdash;whereof there is great
      store, very pretty; and also the organ, which is handsome, and tunes the
      psalm, and plays with the people; which is mighty pretty, and makes me
      mighty earnest to have a pair at our church, I having almost a mind to
      give them a pair, if they would settle a maintenance on them for it. I am
      mightily taken with them. So, church done, we to coach and away to
      Kingsland and Islington, and there eat and drank at the Old House, and so
      back, it raining a little, which is mighty welcome, it having not rained
      in many weeks, so that they say it makes the fields just now mighty sweet.
      So with great pleasure home by night. Set down Mercer, and I to my
      chamber, and there read a great deal in Rycaut's Turkey book with great
      pleasure, and so eat and to bed. My sore throat still troubling me, but
      not so much. This night I do come to full resolution of diligence for a
      good while, and I hope God will give me the grace and wisdom to perform
      it.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up pretty betimes, my throat better, and so drest me, and to White
      Hall to see Sir W. Coventry, returned from Portsmouth, whom I am almost
      ashamed to see for fear he should have been told how often I have been at
      plays, but it is better to see him at first than afterward. So walked to
      the Old Swan and drank at Michell's, and then to White Hall and over the
      Park to St. James's to [Sir] W. Coventry, where well received, and good
      discourse. He seems to be sure of a peace; that the King of France do not
      intend to set out a fleete, for that he do design Flanders. Our
      Embassadors set out this week. Thence I over the Park to Sir G. Carteret,
      and after him by coach to the Lord Chancellor's house, the first time I
      have been therein; and it is very noble, and brave pictures of the ancient
      and present nobility, never saw better. Thence with him to London, mighty
      merry in the way. Thence home, and find the boy out of the house and
      office, and by and by comes in and hath been to Mercer's. I did pay his
      coat for him. Then to my chamber, my wife comes home with linen she hath
      been buying of. I then to dinner, and then down the river to Greenwich,
      and the watermen would go no further. So I turned them off, giving them
      nothing, and walked to Woolwich; there did some business, and met with
      Captain Cocke and back with him. He tells me our peace is agreed on; we
      are not to assist the Spanyard against the French for this year, and no
      restitution, and we are likely to lose Poleroone.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Among the State Papers is a document dated July 8th, 1667, in which
     we read: "At Breda, the business is so far advanced that the English
     have relinquished their pretensions to the ships Henry Bonaventure
     and Good Hope.  The matter sticks only at Poleron; the States have
     resolved not to part with it, though the English should have a right
     to it" ("Calendar," 1667, p. 278).]
</pre>
    <p>
      I know not whether this be true or no, but I am for peace on any terms. He
      tells me how the King was vexed the other day for having no paper laid him
      at the Council-table, as was usual; and Sir Richard Browne did tell his
      Majesty he would call the person whose work it was to provide it: who
      being come, did tell his Majesty that he was but a poor man, and was out
      L400 or L500 for it, which was as much as he is worth; and that he cannot
      provide it any longer without money, having not received a penny since the
      King's coming in. So the King spoke to my Lord Chamberlain; and many such
      mementos the King do now-a-days meet withall, enough to make an ingenuous
      man mad. I to Deptford, and there scolded with a master for his ship's not
      being gone, and so home to the office and did business till my eyes are
      sore again, and so home to sing, and then to bed, my eyes failing me
      mightily:
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (St. George's-day). The feast being kept at White Hall, out of
      design, as it is thought, to make the best countenance we can to the
      Swede's Embassadors, before their leaving us to go to the treaty abroad,
      to shew some jollity. We sat at the office all the morning. Word is
      brought me that young Michell is come to call my wife to his wife's
      labour, and she went, and I at the office full of expectation what to hear
      from poor Betty Michell. This morning much to do with Sir W. Warren, all
      whose applications now are to Lord Bruncker, and I am against him now, not
      professedly, but apparently in discourse, and will be. At noon home to
      dinner, where alone, and after dinner to my musique papers, and by and by
      comes in my wife, who gives me the good news that the midwife and she
      alone have delivered poor Betty of a pretty girl, which I am mighty glad
      of, and she in good condition, my wife as well as I mightily pleased with
      it. Then to the office to do things towards the post, and then my wife and
      I set down at her mother's, and I up and down to do business, but did
      little; and so to Mrs. Martin's, and there did hazer what I would con her,
      and then called my wife and to little Michell's, where we saw the little
      child, which I like mightily, being I allow very pretty, and asked her how
      she did, being mighty glad of her doing well, and so home to the office,
      and then to my chamber, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and with [Sir] W. Pen to St. James's, and there the Duke of York
      was preparing to go to some further ceremonies about the Garter, that he
      could give us no audience. Thence to Westminster Hall, the first day of
      the Term, and there joyed Mrs. Michell, who is mightily pleased with my
      wife's work yesterday, and so away to my barber's about my periwigg, and
      then to the Exchange, there to meet Fenn about some money to be borrowed
      of the office of the Ordnance to answer a great pinch. So home to dinner,
      and in the afternoon met by agreement (being put on it by Harry Bruncker's
      frighting us into a despatch of Carcasse's business) [Lord] Bruncker, T.
      Harvey, [Sir] J. Minnes, [Sir] W. Batten, and I (Sir W. Pen keeping out of
      the way still), where a great many high words from Bruncker, and as many
      from me and others to him, and to better purpose, for I think we have
      fortified ourselves to overthrow his man Carcasse, and to do no honour to
      him. We rose with little done but great heat, not to be reconciled I
      doubt, and I care not, for I will be on the right side, and that shall
      keep me: Thence by coach to Sir John Duncomb's' lodging in the Pell Mell,&mdash;[See
      November 8th, 1664]&mdash;in order to the money spoken of in the morning;
      and there awhile sat and discoursed.: and I find him that he is a very
      proper man for business, being very resolute and proud, and industrious.
      He told me what reformation they had made in the office of the Ordnance,
      taking away Legg's fees:
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [William Legge, eldest son of Edward Legge, sometime Vice-President
     of Munster, born 1609(?).  He served under Maurice of Nassau and
     Gustavus Adolphus, and held the rank of colonel in the Royalist
     army.  He closely attached himself to Prince Rupert, and was an
     active agent in affecting the reconciliation between that prince and
     his uncle Charles I.  Colonel Legge distinguished himself in several
     actions, and was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of
     Worcester; it was said that he would have "been executed if his wife
     had not contrived his escape from Coventry gaol in her own clothes."
     He was Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles I., and also to Charles
     II.; he held the offices of Master of the Armories and Lieutenant-
     General of the Ordnance.  He refused honours (a knighthood from
     Charles I. and an earldom from Charles II.), but his eldest son
     George was created Baron Dartmouth in 1682.  He died October 13th,
     1672, at his house in the Minories, and was buried in]
</pre>
    <p>
      and have got an order that no Treasurer after him shall ever sit at the
      Board; and it is a good one: that no master of the Ordnance here shall
      ever sell a place. He tells me they have not paid any increase of price
      for any thing during this war, but in most have paid less; and at this day
      have greater stores than they know where to lay, if there should be peace,
      and than ever was any time this war. That they pay every man in course,
      and have notice of the disposal of every farthing. Every man that they owe
      money to has his share of every sum they receive; never borrowed all this
      war but L30,000 by the King's express command, but do usually stay till
      their assignments become payable in their own course, which is the whole
      mystery, that they have had assignments for a fifth part of whatever was
      assigned to the Navy. They have power of putting out and in of all
      officers; are going upon a building that will cost them L12,000; that they
      out of their stock of tallies have been forced to help the Treasurer of
      the Navy at this great pinch. Then to talk of newes: that he thinks the
      want of money hath undone the King, for the Parliament will never give the
      King more money without calling all people to account, nor, as he
      believes, will ever make war again, but they will manage it themselves:
      unless, which I proposed, he would visibly become a severer inspector into
      his own business and accounts, and that would gain upon the Parliament
      yet: which he confesses and confirms as the only lift to set him upon his
      legs, but says that it is not in his nature ever to do. He says that he
      believes but four men (such as he could name) would do the business of
      both offices, his and ours, and if ever the war were to be again it should
      be so, he believes. He told me to my face that I was a very good clerk,
      and did understand the business and do it very well, and that he would
      never desire a better. He do believe that the Parliament, if ever they
      meet, will offer some alterations to the King, and will turn some of us
      out, and I protest I think he is in the right that either they or the King
      will be advised to some regulations, and therefore I ought to beware, as
      it is easy for me to keep myself up if I will. He thinks that much of our
      misfortune hath been for want of an active Lord Treasurer, and that such a
      man as Sir W. Coventry would do the business thoroughly. This talk being
      over, comes his boy and tells us [Sir] W. Coventry is come in, and so he
      and I to him, and there told the difficulty of getting this money, and
      they did play hard upon Sir G. Carteret as a man moped and stunned, not
      knowing which way to turn himself. Sir W. Coventry cried that he was
      disheartened, and I do think that there is much in it, but Sir J. Duncomb
      do charge him with mighty neglect in the pursuing of his business, and
      that he do not look after it himself, but leaves it to Fenn, so that I do
      perceive that they are resolved to scheme at bringing the business into a
      better way of execution, and I think it needs, that is the truth of it. So
      I away to Sir G. Carteret's lodgings about this money, and contrary to
      expectation I find he hath prevailed with Legg on his own bond to lend him
      L2000, which I am glad of, but, poor man, he little sees what observations
      people do make upon his management, and he is not a man fit to be told
      what one hears. Thence by water at 10 at night from Westminster Bridge,
      having kissed little Frank, and so to the Old Swan, and walked home by
      moonshine, and there to my chamber a while, and supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Received a writ from the Exchequer this morning of distrain for
      L70,000, which troubled me, though it be but, matter of form. To the
      office, where sat all the morning. At noon my wife being to Unthanke's
      christening, I to Sir W. Batten's to dinner, where merry, and the rather
      because we are like to come to some good end in another of our prizes.
      Thence by coach to my Lord Treasurer's, and there being come too soon to
      the New Exchange, but did nothing, and back again, and there found my Lord
      Bruncker and T. Harvy, and walked in a room very merrily discoursing. By
      and by comes my Lord Ashly and tells us my Lord Treasurer is ill and
      cannot speak with us now. Thence away, Sir W. Pen and I and Mr. Lewes, who
      come hither after us, and Mr. Gawden in the last man's coach. Set me down
      by the Poultry, and I to Sir Robert Viner's, and there had my account
      stated and took it home to review. So home to the office, and there late
      writing out something, having been a little at Sir W. Batten's to talk,
      and there vexed to see them give order for Hogg's further abroad, and so
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and by coach with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen to White Hall,
      and there saw the Duke of Albemarle, who is not well, and do grow crazy.
      Thence I to St. James's, to meet Sir G. Carteret, and did, and Lord
      Berkely, to get them (as we would have done the Duke of Albemarle) to the
      meeting of the Lords of Appeale in the business of one of our prizes. With
      them to the meeting of the Guinny Company, and there staid, and went with
      Lord Berkely. While I was waiting for him in the Matted Gallery, a young
      man was most finely working in Indian inke the great picture of the King
      and Queen sitting,&mdash;[Charles I. and Henrietta Maria.]&mdash;by Van
      Dyke; and did it very finely. Thence to Westminster Hall to hear our
      cause, but [it] did not come before them to-day, so went down and walked
      below in the Hall, and there met with Ned Pickering, who tells me the ill
      newes of his nephew Gilbert, who is turned a very rogue, and then I took a
      turn with Mr. Evelyn, with whom I walked two hours, till almost one of the
      clock: talking of the badness of the Government, where nothing but
      wickedness, and wicked men and women command the King: that it is not in
      his nature to gainsay any thing that relates to his pleasures; that much
      of it arises from the sickliness of our Ministers of State, who cannot be
      about him as the idle companions are, and therefore he gives way to the
      young rogues; and then, from the negligence of the Clergy, that a Bishop
      shall never be seen about him, as the King of France hath always: that the
      King would fain have some of the same gang to be Lord Treasurer, which
      would be yet worse, for now some delays are put to the getting gifts of
      the King, as that whore my Lady Byron,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Eleanor, daughter of Robert Needham, Viscount Kilmurrey, and widow
     of Peter Warburton, became in 1644 the second wife of John Byron,
     first Lord Byron.  Died 1663.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      who had been, as he called it, the King's seventeenth whore abroad, did
      not leave him till she had got him to give her an order for L4000 worth of
      plate to be made for her; but by delays, thanks be to God! she died before
      she had it. He tells me mighty stories of the King of France, how great a
      prince he is. He hath made a code to shorten the law; he hath put out all
      the ancient commanders of castles that were become hereditary; he hath
      made all the fryers subject to the bishops, which before were only subject
      to Rome, and so were hardly the King's subjects, and that none shall
      become 'religieux' but at such an age, which he thinks will in a few,
      years ruin the Pope, and bring France into a patriarchate. He confirmed to
      me the business of the want of paper at the Council-table the other day,
      which I have observed; Wooly being to have found it, and did, being
      called, tell the King to his face the reason of it; and Mr. Evelyn tells
      me several of the menial servants of the Court lacking bread, that have
      not received a farthing wages since the King's coming in. He tells me the
      King of France hath his mistresses, but laughs at the foolery of our King,
      that makes his bastards princes,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Louis made his own bastards dukes and princes, and legitimatized
     them as much as he could, connecting them also by marriage with the
     real blood-royal.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and loses his revenue upon them, and makes his mistresses his masters and
      the King of France did never grant Lavalliere
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Louise Francoise de la Baume le Blanc de la Valliere had four
     children by Louis XIV., of whom only two survived-Marie Anne
     Bourbon, called Mademoiselle de Blois, born in 1666, afterwards
     married to the Prince de Conti, and the Comte de Vermandois, born in
     1667.  In that year (the very year in which Evelyn was giving this
     account to Pepys), the Duchy of Vaujour and two baronies were
     created in favour of La Valliere, and her daughter, who, in the deed
     of creation, was legitimatized, and styled princess.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      any thing to bestow on others, and gives a little subsistence, but no
      more, to his bastards. He told me the whole story of Mrs. Stewart's going
      away from Court, he knowing her well; and believes her, up to her leaving
      the Court, to be as virtuous as any woman in the world: and told me, from
      a Lord that she told it to but yesterday, with her own mouth, and a sober
      man, that when the Duke of Richmond did make love to her, she did ask the
      King, and he did the like also; and that the King did not deny it, and
      [she] told this Lord that she was come to that pass as to resolve to have
      married any gentleman of L1500 a-year that would have had her in honour;
      for it was come to that pass, that she could not longer continue at Court
      without prostituting herself to the King,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Even at a much later time Mrs. Godolphin well resolved "not to talk
     foolishly to men, more especially THE KING,"&mdash;"be sure never to
     talk to THE KING" ("Life," by Evelyn).  These expressions speak
     volumes as to Charles's character.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      whom she had so long kept off, though he had liberty more than any other
      had, or he ought to have, as to dalliance.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Evelyn evidently believed the Duchess of Richmond to be innocent;
     and his testimony, coupled with her own declaration, ought to weigh
     down all the scandal which Pepys reports from other sources.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      She told this Lord that she had reflected upon the occasion she had given
      the world to think her a bad woman, and that she had no way but to marry
      and leave the Court, rather in this way of discontent than otherwise, that
      the world might see that she sought not any thing but her honour; and that
      she will never come to live at Court more than when she comes to town to
      come to kiss the Queene her Mistress's hand: and hopes, though she hath
      little reason to hope, she can please her Lord so as to reclaim him, that
      they may yet live comfortably in the country on his estate. She told this
      Lord that all the jewells she ever had given her at Court, or any other
      presents, more than the King's allowance of L700 per annum out of the
      Privypurse for her clothes, were, at her first coming the King did give
      her a necklace of pearl of about L1100 and afterwards, about seven months
      since, when the King had hopes to have obtained some courtesy of her, the
      King did give her some jewells, I have forgot what, and I think a pair of
      pendants. The Duke of York, being once her Valentine, did give her a
      jewell of about L800; and my Lord Mandeville, her Valentine this year, a
      ring of about L300; and the King of France would have had her mother, who,
      he says, is one of the most cunning women in the world, to have let her
      stay in France, saying that he loved her not as a mistress, but as one
      that he could marry as well as any lady in France; and that, if she might
      stay, for the honour of his Court he would take care she should not
      repent. But her mother, by command of the Queen-mother, thought rather to
      bring her into England; and the King of France did give her a jewell: so
      that Mr. Evelyn believes she may be worth in jewells about L6000, and that
      that is all that she hath in the world: and a worthy woman; and in this
      hath done as great an act of honour as ever was done by woman. That now
      the Countesse Castlemayne do carry all before her: and among other
      arguments to prove Mrs. Stewart to have been honest to the last, he says
      that the King's keeping in still with my Lady Castlemayne do show it; for
      he never was known to keep two mistresses in his life, and would never
      have kept to her had he prevailed any thing with Mrs. Stewart. She is gone
      yesterday with her Lord to Cobham. He did tell me of the ridiculous humour
      of our King and Knights of the Garter the other day, who, whereas
      heretofore their robes were only to be worn during their ceremonies and
      service, these, as proud of their coats, did wear them all day till night,
      and then rode into the Parke with them on. Nay, and he tells me he did see
      my Lord Oxford and the Duke of Monmouth in a hackney-coach with two
      footmen in the Parke, with their robes on; which is a most scandalous
      thing, so as all gravity may be said to be lost among us. By and by we
      discoursed of Sir Thomas Clifford, whom I took for a very rich and learned
      man, and of the great family of that name. He tells me he is only a man of
      about seven-score pounds a-year, of little learning more than the law of a
      justice of peace, which he knows well: a parson's son, got to be burgess
      in a little borough in the West, and here fell into the acquaintance of my
      Lord Arlington, whose creature he is, and never from him; a man of virtue,
      and comely, and good parts enough; and hath come into his place with a
      great grace, though with a great skip over the heads of a great many, as
      Chichly and Duncum, and some Lords that did expect it. By the way, he
      tells me, that of all the great men of England there is none that
      endeavours more to raise those that he takes into favour than my Lord
      Arlington; and that, on that score, he is much more to be made one's
      patron than my Lord Chancellor, who never did, nor never will do, any
      thing, but for money! After having this long discourse we parted, about
      one of the clock, and so away by water home, calling upon Michell, whose
      wife and girle are pretty well, and I home to dinner, and after dinner
      with Sir W. Batten to White Hall, there to attend the Duke of York before
      council, where we all met at his closet and did the little business we
      had, and here he did tell us how the King of France is intent upon his
      design against Flanders, and hath drawn up a remonstrance of the cause of
      the war, and appointed the 20th of the next month for his rendezvous, and
      himself to prepare for the campaign the 30th, so that this, we are in
      hopes, will keep him in employment. Turenne is to be his general. Here was
      Carcasses business unexpectedly moved by him, but what was done therein
      appears in my account of his case in writing by itself. Certain newes of
      the Dutch being abroad on our coast with twenty-four great ships. This
      done Sir W. Batten and I back again to London, and in the way met my Lady
      Newcastle going with her coaches and footmen all in velvet: herself, whom
      I never saw before, as I have heard her often described, for all the
      town-talk is now-a-days of her extravagancies, with her velvetcap, her
      hair about her ears; many black patches, because of pimples about her
      mouth; naked-necked, without any thing about it, and a black
      just-au-corps. She seemed to me a very comely woman: but I hope to see
      more of her on Mayday. My mind is mightily of late upon a coach. At home,
      to the office, where late spending all the evening upon entering in long
      hand our late passages with Carcasse for memory sake, and so home in great
      pain in my back by the uneasiness of Sir W. Batten's coach driving hard
      this afternoon over the stones to prevent coming too late. So at night to
      supper in great pain, and to bed, where lay in great pain, not able to
      turn myself all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up with much pain, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon
      home to dinner, W. Hewer with us. This noon I got in some coals at 23s.
      per chaldron, a good hearing, I thank God-having not been put to buy a
      coal all this dear time, that during this war poor people have been forced
      to give 45s. and 50s., and L3. In the afternoon (my wife and people busy
      these late days, and will be for some time, making of shirts and smocks)
      to the office, where late, and then home, after letters, and so to supper
      and to bed, with much pleasure of mind, after having dispatched business.
      This afternoon I spent some time walking with Mr. Moore, in the garden,
      among other things discoursing of my Lord Sandwich's family, which he
      tells me is in a very bad condition, for want of money and management, my
      Lord's charging them with bills, and nobody, nor any thing provided to
      answer them. He did discourse of his hopes of being supplied with L1900
      against a present bill from me, but I took no notice of it, nor will do
      it. It seems Mr. Sheply doubts his accounts are ill kept, and every thing
      else in the family out of order, which I am grieved to hear of.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). Lay long, my pain in my back being still great, though
      not so great as it was. However, up and to church, where a lazy sermon,
      and then home and to dinner, my wife and I alone and Barker. After dinner,
      by water&mdash;the day being mighty pleasant, and the tide serving finely,
      I up (reading in Boyle's book of colours), as high as Barne Elmes, and
      there took one turn alone, and then back to Putney Church, where I saw the
      girls of the schools, few of which pretty; and there I come into a pew,
      and met with little James Pierce, which I was much pleased at, the little
      rogue being very glad to see me: his master, Reader to the Church. Here
      was a good sermon and much company, but I sleepy, and a little out of
      order, for my hat falling down through a hole underneath the pulpit,
      which, however, after sermon, by a stick, and the helpe of the clerke, I
      got up again, and then walked out of the church with the boy, and then
      left him, promising him to get him a play another time. And so by water,
      the tide being with me again, down to Deptford, and there I walked down
      the Yard, Shish and Cox with me, and discoursed about cleaning of the wet
      docke, and heard, which I had before, how, when the docke was made, a ship
      of near 500 tons was there found; a ship supposed of Queene Elizabeth's
      time, and well wrought, with a great deal of stoneshot in her, of eighteen
      inches diameter, which was shot then in use: and afterwards meeting with
      Captain Perriman and Mr. Castle at Half-way Tree, they tell me of
      stoneshot of thirty-six inches diameter, which they shot out of
      mortarpieces. Thence walked to Half-way Tree, and there stopt and talk
      with Mr. Castle and Captain Perriman, and so to Redriffe and took boat
      again, and so home, and there to write down my Journall, and so to supper
      and to read, and so to bed, mightily pleased with my reading of Boyle's
      book of colours to-day, only troubled that some part of it, indeed the
      greatest part, I am not able to understand for want of study. My wife this
      night troubled at my leaving her alone so much and keeping her within
      doors, which indeed I do not well nor wisely in.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, being visited very early by Creed newly come from
      Hinchingbrooke, who went thither without my knowledge, and I believe only
      to save his being taxed by the Poll Bill. I did give him no very good
      countenance nor welcome, but took occasion to go forth and walked (he with
      me) to St. Dunstan's, and thence I to Sir W. Coventry's, where a good
      while with him, and I think he pretty kind, but that the nature of our
      present condition affords not matter for either of us to be pleased with
      any thing. We discoursed of Carcasse, whose Lord, he tells me, do make
      complaints that his clerk should be singled out, and my Lord Berkeley do
      take his part. So he advises we would sum up all we have against him and
      lay it before the Duke of York; he condemned my Lord Bruncker. Thence to
      Sir G. Carteret, and there talked a little while about office business,
      and thence by coach home, in several places paying my debts in order to my
      evening my accounts this month, and thence by and by to White Hall again
      to Sir G. Carteret to dinner, where very good company and discourse, and I
      think it my part to keep in there now more than ordinary because of the
      probability of my Lord's coming soon home. Our Commissioners for the
      treaty set out this morning betimes down the river. Here I hear that the
      Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of York's son, is very sick; and my Lord
      Treasurer very bad of the stone, and hath been so some days. After dinner
      Sir G. Carteret and I alone in his closet an hour or more talking of my
      Lord Sandwich's coming home, which, the peace being likely to be made
      here, he expects, both for my Lord's sake and his own (whose interest he
      wants) it will be best for him to be at home, where he will be well
      received by the King; he is sure of his service well accepted, though the
      business of Spain do fall by this peace. He tells me my Lord Arlington
      hath done like a gentleman by him in all things. He says, if my Lord
      [Sandwich] were here, he were the fittest man to be Lord Treasurer of any
      man in England; and he thinks it might be compassed; for he confesses that
      the King's matters do suffer through the inability of this man, who is
      likely to die, and he will propound him to the King. It will remove him
      from his place at sea, and the King will have a good place to bestow. He
      says to me, that he could wish, when my Lord comes, that he would think
      fit to forbear playing, as a thing below him, and which will lessen him,
      as it do my Lord St. Albans, in the King's esteem: and as a great secret
      tells me that he hath made a match for my Lord Hinchingbroke to a daughter
      of my Lord Burlington's, where there is a great alliance, L10,000 portion;
      a civil family, and relation to my Lord Chancellor, whose son hath married
      one of the daughters; and that my Lord Chancellor do take it with very
      great kindness, so that he do hold himself obliged by it. My Lord Sandwich
      hath referred it to my Lord Crew, Sir G. Carteret, and Mr. Montagu, to end
      it. My Lord Hinchingbroke and the lady know nothing yet of it. It will, I
      think, be very happy. Very glad of this discourse, I away mightily pleased
      with the confidence I have in this family, and so away, took up my wife,
      who was at her mother's, and so home, where I settled to my chamber about
      my accounts, both Tangier and private, and up at it till twelve at night,
      with good success, when news is brought me that there is a great fire in
      Southwarke: so we up to the leads, and then I and the boy down to the end
      of our, lane, and there saw it, it seeming pretty great, but nothing to
      the fire of London, that it made me think little of it. We could at that
      distance see an engine play&mdash;that is, the water go out, it being
      moonlight. By and by, it begun to slacken, and then I home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and Mr. Madden come to speak with me, whom my people not knowing
      have made to wait long without doors, which vexed me. Then comes Sir John
      Winter to discourse with me about the forest of Deane, and then about my
      Lord Treasurer, and asking me whether, as he had heard, I had not been cut
      for the stone, I took him to my closet, and there shewed it to him, of
      which he took the dimensions and had some discourse of it, and I believe
      will shew my Lord Treasurer it. Thence to the office, where we sat all the
      morning, but little to do, and then to the 'Change, where for certain I
      hear, and the News book declares, a peace between France and Portugal. Met
      here with Mr. Pierce, and he tells me the Duke of Cambridge is very ill
      and full of spots about his body, that Dr. Frazier knows not what to think
      of it. Then home and to dinner, and then to the office, where all the
      afternoon; we met about Sir W. Warren's business and accounts, wherein I
      do rather oppose than forward him, but not in declared terms, for I will
      not be at, enmity with him, but I will not have him find any friendship so
      good as mine. By and by rose and by water to White Hall, and then called
      my wife at Unthanke's. So home and to my chamber, to my accounts, and
      finished them to my heart's wishes and admiration, they being grown very
      intricate, being let alone for two months, but I brought them together all
      naturally, within a few shillings, but to my sorrow the Poll money I paid
      this month and mourning have made me L80 a worse man than at my last
      balance, so that I am worth now but L6700, which is yet an infinite mercy
      to me, for which God make me thankful. So late to supper, with a glad
      heart for the evening of my accounts so well, and so to bed.
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    <p>
      May 1st. Up, it being a fine day, and after doing a little business in my
      chamber I left my wife to go abroad with W. Hewer and his mother in a
      Hackney coach incognito to the Park, while I abroad to the Excise Office
      first, and there met the Cofferer and Sir Stephen Fox about our money
      matters there, wherein we agreed, and so to discourse of my Lord
      Treasurer, who is a little better than he was of the stone, having rested
      a little this night. I there did acquaint them of my knowledge of that
      disease, which I believe will be told my Lord Treasurer. Thence to
      Westminster; in the way meeting many milk-maids with their garlands upon
      their pails, dancing with a fiddler before them;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [On the 1st of May milkmaids used to borrow silver cups, tankards,
     &amp;c., to hang them round their milkpails, with the addition of
     flowers and ribbons, which they carried upon their heads,
     accompanied by a bagpipe or fiddle, and went from door to door,
     dancing before the houses of their customers, in order to obtain a
     small gratuity from each of them.

              "In London thirty years ago,
               When pretty milkmaids went about,
               It was a goodly sight to see
               Their May-day pageant all drawn out.

              "Such scenes and sounds once blest my eyes
               And charm'd my ears; but all have vanish'd,
               On May-day now no garlands go,
               For milkmaids and their dance are banish'd."

                    Hone's Every-Day Book, vol. i., pp. 569, 570.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and saw pretty Nelly standing at her lodgings' door in Drury-lane in her
      smock sleeves and bodice, looking upon one: she seemed a mighty pretty
      creature. To the Hall and there walked a while, it being term. I thence
      home to the Rose, and then had Doll Lane venir para me.... To my Lord
      Crew's, where I found them at dinner, and among others. Mrs. Bocket, which
      I have not seen a long time, and two little dirty children, and she as
      idle a prating and impertinent woman as ever she was. After dinner my Lord
      took me alone and walked with me, giving me an account of the meeting of
      the Commissioners for Accounts, whereof he is one. How some of the
      gentlemen, Garraway, Littleton, and others, did scruple at their first
      coming there, being called thither to act, as Members of Parliament, which
      they could not do by any authority but that of Parliament, and therefore
      desired the King's direction in it, which was sent for by my Lord
      Bridgewater, who brought answer, very short, that the King expected they
      should obey his Commission. Then they went on, and observed a power to be
      given them of administering and framing an oath, which they thought they
      could not do by any power but Act of Parliament; and the whole Commission
      did think fit to have the judges' opinion in it; and so, drawing up their
      scruples in writing, they all attended the King, who told them he would
      send to the judges to be answered, and did so; who have, my Lord tells me,
      met three times about it, not knowing what answer to give to it; and they
      have met this week, doing nothing but expecting the solution of the judges
      in this point. My Lord tells me he do believe this Commission will do more
      hurt than good; it may undo some accounts, if these men shall think fit;
      but it can never clear an account, for he must come into the Exchequer for
      all this. Besides, it is a kind of inquisition that hath seldom ever been
      granted in England; and he believes it will never, besides, give any
      satisfaction to the People or Parliament, but be looked upon as a forced,
      packed business of the King, especially if these Parliament-men that are
      of it shall not concur with them: which he doubts they will not, and,
      therefore, wishes much that the King would lay hold of this fit occasion,
      and let the Commission fall. Then to talk of my Lord Sandwich, whom my
      Lord Crew hath a great desire might get to be Lord Treasurer if the
      present Lord should die, as it is believed he will, in a little time; and
      thinks he can have no competitor but my Lord Arlington, who, it is given
      out, desires it: but my Lord thinks it is not so, for that the being
      Secretary do keep him a greater interest with the King than the other
      would do at least, do believe, that if my Lord would surrender him his
      Wardrobe place, it would be a temptation to Arlington to assist my Lord in
      getting the Treasurer's. I did object to my Lord [Crew] that it would be
      no place of content, nor safety, nor honour for my Lord, the State being
      so indigent as it is, and the [King] so irregular, and those about him,
      that my Lord must be forced to part with anything to answer his warrants;
      and that, therefore, I do believe the King had rather have a man that may
      be one of his vicious caball, than a sober man that will mind the publick,
      that so they may sit at cards and dispose of the revenue of the kingdom.
      This my Lord was moved at, and said he did not indeed know how to answer
      it, and bid me think of it; and so said he himself would also do. He do
      mightily cry out of the bad management of our monies, the King having had
      so much given him; and yet, when the Parliament do find that the King
      should have L900,000 in his purse by the best account of issues they have
      yet seen, yet we should report in the Navy a debt due from the King of
      L900,000; which, I did confess, I doubted was true in the first, and knew
      to be true in the last, and did believe that there was some great
      miscarriages in it: which he owned to believe also, saying, that at this
      rate it is not in the power of the kingdom to make a war, nor answer the
      King's wants. Thence away to the King's playhouse, by agreement met Sir W.
      Pen, and saw "Love in a Maze" but a sorry play: only Lacy's clowne's part,
      which he did most admirably indeed; and I am glad to find the rogue at
      liberty again. Here was but little, and that ordinary, company. We sat at
      the upper bench next the boxes; and I find it do pretty well, and have the
      advantage of seeing and hearing the great people, which may be pleasant
      when there is good store. Now was only Prince Rupert and my Lord
      Lauderdale, and my Lord, the naming of whom puts me in mind of my seeing,
      at Sir Robert Viner's, two or three great silver flagons, made with
      inscriptions as gifts of the King to such and such persons of quality as
      did stay in town the late great plague, for the keeping things in order in
      the town, which is a handsome thing. But here was neither Hart, Nell, nor
      Knipp; therefore, the play was not likely to please me. Thence Sir W. Pen
      and I in his coach, Tiburne way, into the Park, where a horrid dust, and
      number of coaches, without pleasure or order. That which we, and almost
      all went for, was to see my Lady Newcastle; which we could not, she being
      followed and crowded upon by coaches all the way she went, that nobody
      could come near her; only I could see she was in a large black coach,
      adorned with silver instead of gold, and so white curtains, and every
      thing black and white, and herself in her cap, but other parts I could not
      make [out]. But that which I did see, and wonder at with reason, was to
      find Pegg Pen in a new coach, with only her husband's pretty sister with
      her, both patched and very fine, and in much the finest coach in the park,
      and I think that ever I did see one or other, for neatness and richness in
      gold, and everything that is noble. My Lady Castlemayne, the King, my Lord
      St. Albans, nor Mr. Jermyn, have so neat a coach, that ever I saw. And,
      Lord! to have them have this, and nothing else that is correspondent, is
      to me one of the most ridiculous sights that ever I did see, though her
      present dress was well enough; but to live in the condition they do at
      home, and be abroad in this coach, astonishes me. When we had spent half
      an hour in the Park, we went out again, weary of the dust, and despairing
      of seeing my Lady Newcastle; and so back the same way, and to St. James's,
      thinking to have met my Lady Newcastle before she got home, but we staying
      by the way to drink, she got home a little before us: so we lost our
      labours, and then home; where we find the two young ladies come home, and
      their patches off, I suppose Sir W. Pen do not allow of them in his sight,
      and going out of town to-night, though late, to Walthamstow. So to talk a
      little at Sir W. Batten's, and then home to supper, where I find Mrs.
      Hewer and her son, who have been abroad with my wife in the Park, and so
      after supper to read and then to bed. Sir W. Pen did give me an account
      this afternoon of his design of buying Sir Robert Brooke's fine house at
      Wansted; which I so wondered at, and did give him reasons against it,
      which he allowed of: and told me that he did intend to pull down the house
      and build a less, and that he should get L1500 by the old house, and I
      know not what fooleries. But I will never believe he ever intended to buy
      it, for my part; though he troubled Mr. Gawden to go and look upon it, and
      advise him in it.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. To the office, where all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and
      then abroad to my Lord Treasurer's, who continues so ill as not to be
      troubled with business. So Mr. Gawden and I to my Lord Ashly's and spoke
      with him, and then straight home, and there I did much business at the
      office, and then to my own chamber and did the like there, to my great
      content, but to the pain of my eyes, and then to supper and to bed, having
      a song with my wife with great pleasure, she doing it well.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes, [Sir] W. Batten, and [Sir] W. Pen in the
      last man's coach to St. James's, and thence up to the Duke of York's
      chamber, which, as it is now fretted at the top, and the chimney-piece
      made handsome, is one of the noblest and best-proportioned rooms that
      ever, I think, I saw in my life, and when ready, into his closet and did
      our business, where, among other things, we had a proposition of Mr.
      Pierces, for being continued in pay, or something done for him, in reward
      of his pains as Chyrurgeon-Generall; forasmuch as Troutbecke, that was
      never a doctor before, hath got L200 a year settled on him for nothing but
      that one voyage with the Duke of Albemarle. The Duke of York and the whole
      company did shew most particular kindness to Mr. Pierce, every body moving
      for him, and the Duke himself most, that he is likely to be a very great
      man, I believe. Here also we had another mention of Carcasses business,
      and we directed to bring in a report of our opinion of his case, which
      vexes us that such a rogue shall make us so much trouble. Thence I
      presently to the Excise Office, and there met the Cofferer and [Sir]
      Stephen Fox by agreement, and agreed upon a method for our future
      payments, and then we three to my Lord Treasurer, who continues still very
      ill. I had taken my stone with me on purpose, and Sir Philip Warwicke
      carried it in to him to see, but was not in a condition to talk with me
      about it, poor man. So I with them to Westminster by coach; the Cofferer
      telling us odd stories how he was dealt with by the men of the Church at
      Westminster in taking a lease of them at the King's coming in, and
      particularly the devilish covetousness of Dr. Busby. Sir Stephen Fox, in
      discourse, told him how he is selling some land he hath, which yields him
      not above three per cent., if so much, and turning it into money, which he
      can put out at ten per cent.; and, as times go, if they be like to
      continue, it is the best way for me to keep money going so, for aught I
      see. I to Westminster Hall, and there took a turn with my old acquaintance
      Mr. Pechell, whose red nose makes me ashamed to be seen with him, though
      otherwise a good-natured man. So away, I not finding of Mr. Moore, with
      whom I should have met and spoke about a letter I this day received from
      him from my Lord Hinchingbroke, wherein he desires me to help him to L1900
      to pay a bill of exchange of his father's, which troubles me much, but I
      will find some way, if I can do it, but not to bring myself in bonds or
      disbursements for it, whatever comes of it. So home to dinner, where my
      wife hath 'ceux la' upon her and is very ill with them, and so forced to
      go to bed, and I sat by her a good while, then down to my chamber and made
      an end of Rycaut's History of the Turks, which is a very good book. Then
      to the office, and did some business, and then my wife being pretty well,
      by coach to little Michell's, and there saw my poor Betty and her little
      child, which slept so soundly we could hardly wake it in an hour's time
      without hurting it, and they tell me what I did not know, that a child (as
      this do) will hunt and hunt up and down with its mouth if you touch the
      cheek of it with your finger's end for a nipple, and fit its mouth for
      sucking, but this hath not sucked yet, she having no nipples. Here sat a
      while, and then my wife and I, it being a most curious clear evening,
      after some rain to-day, took a most excellent tour by coach to Bow, and
      there drank and back again, and so a little at the office, and home to
      read a little, and to supper and bed mightily refreshed with this
      evening's tour, but troubled that it hath hindered my doing some business
      which I would have done at the office. This day the newes is come that the
      fleete of the Dutch, of about 20 ships, which come upon our coasts upon
      design to have intercepted our colliers, but by good luck failed, is gone
      to the Frith,&mdash;[Frith of Forth. See 5th of this month.]&mdash;and
      there lies, perhaps to trouble the Scotch privateers, which have galled
      them of late very much, it may be more than all our last year's fleete.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up and to the office, where sat all the morning, among other things a
      great conflict I had with Sir W. Warren, he bringing a letter to the
      Board, flatly in words charging them with their delays in passing his
      accounts, which have been with them these two years, part of which I said
      was not true, and the other undecent. The whole Board was concerned to
      take notice of it, as well as myself, but none of them had the honour to
      do it, but suffered me to do it alone, only Sir W. Batten, who did what he
      did out of common spite to him. So I writ in the margin of the letter,
      "Returned as untrue," and, by consent of the Board, did give it him again,
      and so parted. Home to dinner, and there came a woman whose husband I sent
      for, one Fisher, about the business of Perkins and Carcasse, and I do
      think by her I shall find the business as bad as ever it was, and that we
      shall find Commissioner Pett a rogue, using foul play on behalf of
      Carcasse. After dinner to the office again, and there late all the
      afternoon, doing much business, and with great content home to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). Up, and going down to the water side, I met Sir John
      Robinson, and so with him by coach to White Hall, still a vain, prating,
      boasting man as any I know, as if the whole City and Kingdom had all its
      work done by him. He tells me he hath now got a street ordered to be
      continued, forty feet broad, from Paul's through Cannon Street to the
      Tower, which will be very fine. He and others this day, where I was in the
      afternoon, do tell me of at least six or eight fires within these few
      days; and continually stirs of fires, and real fires there have been, in
      one place or other, almost ever since the late great fire, as if there was
      a fate sent people for fire. I walked over the Park to Sir W. Coventry's.
      Among other things to tell him what I hear of people being forced to sell
      their bills before September for 35 and 40 per cent. loss, and what is
      worst, that there are some courtiers that have made a knot to buy them, in
      hopes of some ways to get money of the King to pay them, which Sir W.
      Coventry is amazed at, and says we are a people made up for destruction,
      and will do what he can to prevent all this by getting the King to provide
      wherewith to pay them. We talked of Tangier, of which he is ashamed; also
      that it should put the King to this charge for no good in the world: and
      now a man going over that is a good soldier, but a debauched man, which
      the place need not to have. And so used these words: "That this place was
      to the King as my Lord Carnarvon says of wood, that it is an excrescence
      of the earth provided by God for the payment of debts." Thence away to Sir
      G. Carteret, whom I find taking physic. I staid talking with him but a
      little, and so home to church, and heard a dull sermon, and most of the
      best women of our parish gone into the country, or at least not at church.
      So home, and find my boy not there, nor was at church, which vexed me, and
      when he come home I enquired, he tells me he went to see his mother. I
      send him back to her to send me some token that he was with her. So there
      come a man with him back of good fashion. He says he saw him with her,
      which pacified me, but I did soundly threaten him before him, and so to
      dinner, and then had a little scolding with my wife for not being fine
      enough to go to the christening to-day, which she excused by being ill, as
      she was indeed, and cried, but I was in an ill humour and ashamed, indeed,
      that she should not go dressed. However, friends by and by, and we went by
      water to Michell's, and there his little house full of his father and
      mothers and the kindred, hardly any else, and mighty merry in this
      innocent company, and Betty mighty pretty in bed, but, her head akeing,
      not very merry, but the company mighty merry, and I with them, and so the
      child was christened; my wife, his father, and her mother, the witnesses,
      and the child's name Elizabeth. So we had gloves and wine and wafers, very
      pretty, and talked and tattled, and so we away by water and up with the
      tide, she and I and Barker, as high as Barne Eimes, it being a fine
      evening, and back again to pass the bridges at standing water between 9
      and 10 at might, and then home and to supper, and then to bed with much
      pleasure. This day Sir W. Coventry tells me the Dutch fleete shot some
      shot, four or five hundred, into Burnt-Island in the Frith, but without
      any hurt; and so are gone.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up and angry with my mayds for letting in watermen, and I know not
      who, anybody that they are acquainted with, into my kitchen to talk and
      prate with them, which I will not endure. Then out and by coach to my Lord
      Treasurer's, who continues still very ill, then to Sir Ph. Warwicke's
      house, and there did a little business about my Tangier tallies, and so to
      Westminster Hall, and there to the Exchequer to consult about some way of
      getting our poor Creditors of the Navy (who served in their goods before
      the late Session of Parliament) paid out of the 11 months tax, which seems
      to relate only for goods to be then served in, and I think I have found
      out a way to bring them into the Act, which, if it do, I shall think a
      good service done. Thence by coach home with Captain Cocke, in our way
      talking of my Lord Bruncker and his Lady, who are mighty angry with us all
      of the office, about Carcasse's business, but especially with me, and in
      great confidence he bids me have a care of him, for he hath said that he
      would wound me with the person where my greatest interest is. I suppose he
      means Sir W. Coventry, and therefore I will beware of him, and am glad,
      though vexed to hear it. So home to dinner, where Creed come, whom I vexed
      devilishly with telling him a wise man, and good friend of his and mine,
      did say that he lately went into the country to Hinchingbroke; and, at his
      coming to town again, hath shifted his lodgings, only to avoid paying to
      the Poll Bill, which is so true that he blushed, and could not in words
      deny it, but the fellow did think to have not had it discovered. He is so
      devilish a subtle false rogue, that I am really weary and afeard of his
      company, and therefore after dinner left him in the house, and to my
      office, where busy all the afternoon despatching much business, and in the
      evening to Sir R. Viner's to adjust accounts there, and so home, where
      some of our old Navy creditors come to me by my direction to consider of
      what I have invented for their help as I have said in the morning, and
      like it mighty well, and so I to the office, where busy late, then home to
      supper and sing with my wife, who do begin to give me real pleasure with
      her singing, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up betimes, and by coach to St. James's; but there find Sir W.
      Coventry gone out betimes this morning, on horseback, with the King and
      Duke of York, to Putney-heath,&mdash;to run some horses, and so back again
      to the office, where some witnesses from Chatham which I sent for are come
      up, and do give shrewd testimonies against Carcasse, which put my Lord
      into a new flame, and he and I to high words, and so broke up. Then home
      to dinner, where W. Hewer dined with us, and he and I after dinner to
      discourse of Carcasses business, wherein I apparently now do manage it
      wholly against my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Pen, like a false rogue, shrinking
      out of the collar, Sir J. Minnes, afoot, being easily led either way, and
      Sir W. Batten, a malicious fellow that is not able to defend any thing, so
      that the whole odium must fall on me, which I will therefore beware how I
      manage that I may not get enemies to no purpose. It vexes me to see with
      what a company I am mixed, but then it pleases me to see that I am
      reckoned the chief mover among them, as they do, confess and esteem me in
      every thing. Thence to the office, and did business, and then by coach to
      St. James's again, but [Sir] W. Coventry not within, so I wrote something
      to him, and then straight back again and to Sir W. Batten's, and there
      talked with him and [Sir] J. Minnes, who are mighty hot in Carcasses
      business, but their judgment's not to be trusted. However, I will go
      through with it, or otherwise we shall be all slaves to my Lord Bruncker
      and his man's impudence. So to the office a little, and then home to
      supper and to bed, after hearing my wife sing, who is manifestly come to
      be more musical in her eare than ever I thought she could have been made,
      which rejoices me to the heart, for I take great delight now to hear her
      sing.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up pretty betimes and out of doors, and in Fen Church street met Mr.
      Lovett going with a picture to me, but I could not stand to discourse or
      see it, but on to the next hackney coach and so to Sir W. Coventry, where
      he and I alone a while discoursing of some businesses of the office, and
      then up to the Duke of York to his chamber with my fellow brethren who are
      come, and so did our usual weekly business, which was but little to-day,
      and I was glad that the business of Carcasse was not mentioned because our
      report was not ready, but I am resolved it shall against the next coming
      to the Duke of York. Here was discourse about a way of paying our old
      creditors which did please me, there being hopes of getting them
      comprehended within the 11 months Tax, and this did give occasion for Sir
      G. Carteret's and my going to Sir Robert Long to discourse it, who do
      agree that now the King's Council do say that they may be included in the
      Act, which do make me very glad, not so much for the sake of the poor men
      as for the King, for it would have been a ruin to him and his service not
      to have had a way to have paid the debt. There parted with Sir G. Carteret
      and into Westminster Hall, where I met with Sir H. Cholmly, and he and I
      to Sir Ph. Warwicke's to speak a little about our Tangier business, but to
      little purpose, my Lord Treasurer being so ill that no business can be
      done. Thence with Sir H. Cholmly to find out Creed from one lodging to
      another, which he hath changed so often that there is no finding him, but
      at last do come to his lodging that he is entering into this day, and do
      find his goods unlading at the door, by Scotland Yard, and there I set
      down Sir H. Cholmly, and I away to the 'Change, where spoke about several
      things, and then going home did meet Mr. Andrews our neighbour, and did
      speak with him to enquire about the ground behind our house, of which I
      have a mind to buy enough to make a stable and coach-house; for I do see
      that my condition do require it, as well as that it is more charge to my
      purse to live as I do than to keep one, and therefore I am resolved before
      winter to have one, unless some extraordinary thing happens to hinder me.
      He promises me to look after it for me, and so I home to dinner, where I
      find my wife's flageolette master, and I am so pleased with her
      proceeding, though she hath lost time by not practising, that I am
      resolved for the encouragement of the man to learn myself a little for a
      month or so, for I do foresee if God send my wife and I to live, she will
      become very good company for me. He gone, comes Lovett with my little
      print of my dear Lady Castlemayne varnished, and the frame prettily done
      like gold, which pleases me well. He dined with me, but by his discourse I
      do still see that he is a man of good wit but most strange experience, and
      acquaintance with all manner of subtleties and tricks, that I do think him
      not fit for me to keep any acquaintance with him, lest he some time or
      other shew me a slippery trick. After dinner, he gone, I to the office,
      where all the afternoon very busy, and so in the evening to Sir R.
      Viner's, thinking to finish my accounts there, but am prevented, and so
      back again home, and late at my office at business, and so home to supper
      and sing a little with my dear wife, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and to the office, and at noon home to dinner, and then with my
      wife and Barker by coach, and left them at Charing Cross, and I to St.
      James's, and there found Sir W. Coventry alone in his chamber, and sat and
      talked with him more than I have done a great while of several things of
      the Navy, how our debts and wants do unfit us for doing any thing. He
      tells me he hears stories of Commissioner Pett, of selling timber to the
      Navy under other names, which I told him I believe is true, and did give
      him an instance. He told me also how his clerk Floyd he hath put away for
      his common idlenesse and ill company, and particularly that yesterday he
      was found not able to come and attend him, by being run into the arme in a
      squabble, though he pretends it was done in the streets by strangers, at
      nine at night, by the Maypole in the Strand. Sir W. Coventry did write to
      me this morning to recommend him another, which I could find in my heart
      to do W. Hewer for his good; but do believe he will not part with me, nor
      have I any mind to let him go. I would my brother were fit for it, I would
      adventure him there. He insists upon an unmarried man, that can write
      well, and hath French enough to transcribe it only from a copy, and may
      write shorthand, if it may be. Thence with him to my Lord Chancellor at
      Clarendon House, to a Committee for Tangier, where several things spoke of
      and proceeded on, and particularly sending Commissioners thither before
      the new Governor goes, which I think will signify as much good as any
      thing else that hath been done about the place, which is none at all. I
      did again tell them the badness of their credit by the time their tallies
      took before they become payable, and their spending more than their fund.
      They seem well satisfied with what I said, and I am glad that I may be
      remembered that I do tell them the case plain; but it troubled me that I
      see them hot upon it, that the Governor shall not be paymaster, which will
      force me either to the providing one there to do it (which I will never
      undertake), or leave the employment, which I had rather do. Mightily
      pleased with the noblenesse of this house, and the brave furniture and
      pictures, which indeed is very noble, and, being broke up, I with Sir G.
      Carteret in his coach into Hide Park, to discourse of things, and spent an
      hour in this manner with great pleasure, telling me all his concernments,
      and how he is gone through with the purchase for my Lady Jemimah and her
      husband; how the Treasury is like to come into the hands of a Committee;
      but that not that, nor anything else, will do our business, unless the
      King himself will mind his business, and how his servants do execute their
      parts; he do fear an utter ruin in the state, and that in a little time,
      if the King do not mind his business soon; that the King is very kind to
      him, and to my Lord Sandwich, and that he doubts not but at his coming
      home, which he expects about Michaelmas, he will be very well received.
      But it is pretty strange how he began again the business of the intention
      of a marriage of my Lord Hinchingbroke to a daughter of my Lord
      Burlington's to my Lord Chancellor, which he now tells me as a great
      secret, when he told it me the last Sunday but one; but it may be the poor
      man hath forgot, and I do believe he do make it a secret, he telling me
      that he has not told it to any but myself, end this day to his daughter my
      Lady Jemimah, who looks to lie down about two months hence. After all this
      discourse we turned back and to White Hall, where we parted, and I took up
      my wife at Unthanke's, and so home, and in our street, at the Three Tuns'
      Tavern' door, I find a great hubbub; and what was it but two brothers have
      fallen out, and one killed the other. And who should they be but the two
      Fieldings; one whereof, Bazill, was page to my Lady Sandwich; and he hath
      killed the other, himself being very drunk, and so is sent to Newgate. I
      to the office and did as much business as my eyes would let me, and so
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up and to the office, where a meeting about the Victuallers'
      accounts all the morning, and at noon all of us to Kent's, at the Three
      Tuns' Tavern, and there dined well at Mr. Gawden's charge; and, there the
      constable of the parish did show us the picklocks and dice that were found
      in the dead man's pocket, and but 18d. in money; and a table-book, wherein
      were entered the names of several places where he was to go; and among
      others Kent's house, where he was to dine, and did dine yesterday: and
      after dinner went into the church, and there saw his corpse with the wound
      in his left breast; a sad spectacle, and a broad wound, which makes my
      hand now shake to write of it. His brother intending, it seems, to kill
      the coachman, who did not please him, this fellow stepped in, and took
      away his sword; who thereupon took out his knife, which was of the
      fashion, with a falchion blade, and a little cross at the hilt like a
      dagger; and with that stabbed him. So to the office again, very busy, and
      in the evening to Sir Robert Viner's, and there took up all my notes and
      evened our balance to the 7th of this month, and saw it entered in their
      ledger, and took a receipt for the remainder of my money as the balance of
      an account then adjusted. Then to my Lord Treasurer's, but missed Sir Ph.
      Warwicke, and so back again, and drove hard towards Clerkenwell,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [At Newcastle House, Clerkenwell Close, the duke and duchess lived
     in great state.  The house was divided, and let in tenements in the
     eighteenth century.]
</pre>
    <p>
      thinking to have overtaken my Lady Newcastle, whom I saw before us in her
      coach, with 100 boys and girls running looking upon her but I could not:
      and so she got home before I could come up to her. But I will get a time
      to see her. So to the office and did more business, and then home and sang
      with pleasure with my wife, and to supper and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and being called on by Mr. Commander, he and I out to the ground
      behind Sir W. Pen's, where I am resolved to take a lease of some of it for
      a stable and coach [house], and so to keep a coach, unless some change
      come before I can do it, for I do see it is a greater charge to me now in
      hackneys, and I am a little dishonoured by going in them. We spoke with
      him that hath the letting it, and I do believe when I can tell how much it
      will be fit for me to have we shall go near to agree. So home, and there
      found my door open, which makes me very angry with Nell, and do think to
      put her away for it, though it do so go against me to part with a servant
      that it troubles me more than anything in the world. So to the office,
      where all the morning. At noon home to dinner, where Mr. Goodgroome and
      Creed, and I have great hopes that my wife will come to sing to my mind.
      After dinner my wife and Creed and I being entered a hackney coach to go
      to the other end of the town, we espied The. Turner coming in her coach to
      see us, which we were surprised at, and so 'light and took her and another
      young lady home, and there sat and talked with The., she being lately come
      out of the North after two or three years absence. She is come to put out
      her sister and brothers to school at Putney. After a little talk, I over
      Tower Hill with them to a lady's they go to visit, and so away with my
      wife, whose being dressed this day in fair hair did make me so mad, that I
      spoke not one word to her in our going, though I was ready to burst with
      anger. So to White Hall to the Committee of Tangier, where they were
      discoursing about laws for the civil government of the place, but so dull
      and so little to the purpose that I fell to slumber, when the fear of
      being seen by Sir W. Coventry did trouble me much afterwards, but I hope
      he did not. After that broke up. Creed and I into the Park, and walked, a
      most pleasant evening, and so took coach, and took up my wife, and in my
      way home discovered my trouble to my wife for her white locks,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Randle Holmes says the ladies wore "false locks set on wyres, to
     make them stand at a distance from the head," and accompanies the
     information with the figure of a lady "with a pair of locks and
     curls which were in great fashion in 1670" (Planche's "Cyclopaedia
     of Costume;" Vol. i., p. 248).]
</pre>
    <p>
      swearing by God, several times, which I pray God forgive me for, and
      bending my fist, that I would not endure it. She, poor wretch,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A new light is thrown upon this favourite expression of Pepys's
     when speaking of his wife by the following quotation from a Midland
     wordbook: "Wretch, n., often used as an expression of endearment or
     sympathy.  Old Woman to Young Master: 'An''ow is the missis to-day,
     door wretch?'  Of a boy going to school a considerable distance off
     'I met 'im with a bit o' bread in 'is bag, door wretch'" ("A
     Glossary of Words and Phrases used in S.E. Worcestershire," by Jesse
     Salisbury.  Published by the English Dialect Society, 1894).]
</pre>
    <p>
      was surprized with it, and made me no answer all the way home; but there
      we parted, and I to the office late, and then home, and without supper to
      bed, vexed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, to settle some accounts there,
      and by and by down comes my wife to me in her night-gown, and we begun
      calmly, that upon having money to lace her gown for second mourning, she
      would promise to wear white locks no more in my sight, which I, like a
      severe fool, thinking not enough, begun to except against, and made her
      fly out to very high terms and cry, and in her heat told me of keeping
      company with Mrs. Knipp, saying, that if I would promise never to see her
      more&mdash;of whom she hath more reason to suspect than I had heretofore
      of Pembleton&mdash;she would never wear white locks more. This vexed me,
      but I restrained myself from saying anything, but do think never to see
      this woman&mdash;at least, to have her here more, but by and by I did give
      her money to buy lace, and she promised to wear no more white locks while
      I lived, and so all very good friends as ever, and I to my business, and
      she to dress herself. Against noon we had a coach ready for us, and she
      and I to White Hall, where I went to see whether Sir G. Carteret was at
      dinner or no, our design being to make a visit there, and I found them set
      down, which troubled me, for I would not then go up, but back to the coach
      to my wife, and she and I homeward again, and in our way bethought
      ourselves of going alone, she and I, to go to a French house to dinner,
      and so enquired out Monsieur Robins, my perriwigg-maker, who keeps an
      ordinary, and in an ugly street in Covent Garden, did find him at the
      door, and so we in; and in a moment almost had the table covered, and
      clean glasses, and all in the French manner, and a mess of potage first,
      and then a couple of pigeons a la esterve, and then a piece of
      boeuf-a-la-mode, all exceeding well seasoned, and to our great liking; at
      least it would have been anywhere else but in this bad street, and in a
      perriwigg-maker's house; but to see the pleasant and ready attendance that
      we had, and all things so desirous to please, and ingenious in the people,
      did take me mightily. Our dinner cost us 6s., and so my wife and I away to
      Islington, it being a fine day, and thence to Sir G. Whitmore's house,
      where we 'light, and walked over the fields to Kingsland, and back again;
      a walk, I think, I have not taken these twenty years; but puts me in mind
      of my boy's time, when I boarded at Kingsland, and used to shoot with my
      bow and arrows in these fields. A very pretty place it is; and little did
      any of my friends think I should come to walk in these fields in this
      condition and state that I am. Then took coach again, and home through
      Shoreditch; and at home my wife finds Barker to have been abroad, and
      telling her so many lies about it, that she struck her, and the wench said
      she would not stay with her: so I examined the wench, and found her in so
      many lies myself, that I was glad to be rid of her, and so resolved having
      her go away to-morrow. So my wife and W. Hewer and I to supper, and then
      he and I to my chamber to begin the draught of the report from this office
      to the Duke of York in the case of Mr. Carcasse, which I sat up till
      midnight to do, and then to bed, believing it necessary to have it done,
      and to do it plainly, for it is not to be endured the trouble that this
      rascal hath put us to, and the disgrace he hath brought upon this office.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and when ready, to the office (my wife rising to send away
      Barker, according to our resolution last night, and she did do it with
      more clothes than have cost us L10, and 20s. in her purse, which I did for
      the respect I bear Mr. Falconbridge, otherwise she had not deserved half
      of it, but I am the more willing to do it to be rid of one that made work
      and trouble in the house, and had not qualities of any honour or pleasure
      to me or my family, but what is a strange thing did always declare to her
      mistress and others that she had rather be put to drudgery and to wash the
      house than to live as she did like a gentlewoman), and there I and Gibson
      all the morning making an end of my report against Carcasse, which I think
      will do our business, but it is a horrid shame such a rogue should give me
      and all of us this trouble. This morning come Sir H. Cholmly to me for a
      tally or two; and tells me that he hears that we are by agreement to give
      the King of France Nova Scotia, which he do not like: but I do not know
      the importance of it.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Nova Scotia and the adjoining countries were called by the French
     Acadie.  Pepys is not the only official personage whose ignorance of
     Nova Scotia is on record.  A story is current of a prime minister
     (Duke of Newcastle) who was surprised at hearing Cape Breton was an
     island.  "Egad, I'll go tell the King Cape Breton is an island!"
     Of the same it is said, that when told Annapolis was in danger, and
     ought to be defended: "Oh! certainly Annapolis must be defended,&mdash;
     where is Annapolis?"&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Then abroad with my wife to my Lord Treasurer's, and she to her tailor's.
      I find Sir Philip Warwicke, who I perceive do give over my Lord Treasurer
      for a man of this world, his pain being grown great again upon him, and
      all the rest he hath is by narcotiques, and now Sir Philip Warwicke do
      please himself, like a good man, to tell some of the good ejaculations of
      my Lord Treasurer concerning the little worth of this world, to buy it
      with so much pain, and other things fit for a dying man. So finding no
      business likely to be done here for Tangier, I having a warrant for
      tallies to be signed, I away to the New Exchange, and there staid a
      little, and then to a looking-glass shop to consult about covering the
      wall in my closet over my chimney, which is darkish, with looking-glasses,
      and then to my wife's tailor's, but find her not ready to go home, but got
      to buy things, and so I away home to look after my business and finish my
      report of Carcasse, and then did get Sir W. Batten, Sir J. Minnes, and
      [Sir] W. Pen together, and read it over with all the many papers relating
      to the business, which they do wonder at, and the trouble I have taken
      about it, and like the report, so as that they do unanimously resolve to
      sign it, and stand by it, and after a great deal of discourse of the
      strange deportment of my Lord Bruncker in this business to withstand the
      whole board in behalf of such an impudent rogue as this is, I parted, and
      home to my wife, and supped and talked with her, and then to bed,
      resolving to rise betimes to-morrow to write fair the report.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up by 5 o'clock, and when ready down to my chamber, and there with
      Mr. Fist, Sir W. Batten's clerk, who writes mighty well, writing over our
      report in Mr. Carcasses business, in which we continued till 9 o'clock,
      that the office met, and then to the office, where all the morning, and so
      at noon home to dinner, where Mr. Holliard come and eat with us, who among
      other things do give me good hopes that we shall give my father some ease
      as to his rupture when he comes to town, which I expect to-morrow. After
      dinner comes Fist, and he and I to our report again till 9 o'clock, and
      then by coach to my Lord Chancellor's, where I met Mr. Povy, expecting the
      coming of the rest of the Commissioners for Tangier. Here I understand how
      the two Dukes, both the only sons of the Duke of York, are sick even to
      danger, and that on Sunday last they were both so ill, as that the poor
      Duchess was in doubt which would die first: the Duke of Cambridge of some
      general disease; the other little Duke, whose title I know not, of the
      convulsion fits, of which he had four this morning. Fear that either of
      them might be dead, did make us think that it was the occasion that the
      Duke of York and others were not come to the meeting of the Commission
      which was designed, and my Lord Chancellor did expect. And it was pretty
      to observe how, when my Lord sent down to St. James's to see why the Duke
      of York come not, and Mr. Povy, who went, returned, my Lord (Chancellor)
      did ask, not how the Princes or the Dukes do, as other people do, but "How
      do the children?" which methought was mighty great, and like a great man
      and grandfather. I find every body mightily concerned for these children,
      as a matter wherein the State is much concerned that they should live. At
      last it was found that the meeting did fail from no known occasion, at
      which my Lord Chancellor was angry, and did cry out against Creed that he
      should give him no notice. So Povy and I went forth, and staid at the gate
      of the house by the streete, and there stopped to talk about the business
      of the Treasury of Tangier, which by the badness of our credit, and the
      resolution that the Governor shall not be paymaster, will force me to
      provide one there to be my paymaster, which I will never do, but rather
      lose my place, for I will not venture my fortune to a fellow to be
      employed so far off, and in that wicked place. Thence home, and with Fist
      presently to the finishing the writing fair of our report. And by and by
      to Sir W. Batten's, and there he and I and [Sir] J. Minnes and [Sir] W.
      Pen did read and sign it with great good liking, and so away to the office
      again to look over and correct it, and then home to supper and to bed, my
      mind being pretty well settled, having this report done, and so to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. [This morning my wife had some things brought home by a new woman of
      the New Exchange, one Mrs. Smith, which she would have me see for her fine
      hand, and indeed it is a fine hand, and the woman I have observed is a
      mighty pretty looked woman.] Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] J.
      Minnes to St. James's, and stopt at Temple Bar for Sir J. Minnes to go
      into the Devil's Taverne to shit, he having drunk whey, and his belly
      wrought. Being come, we up to the Duke of York's chamber, who, when ready,
      we to our usual business, and being very glad, we all that signed it, that
      is, Sir J. Minnes, W. Batten, W. Pen, and myself, and then Sir G. Carteret
      and [Sir] W. Coventry, Bruncker, and T. Harvy, and the officers of the
      Ordnance, Sir J. Duncombe, and Mr. Cholmely presented our report about
      Carcasse, and did afterwards read it with that success that the Duke of
      York was for punishing him, not only with turning him out of the office,
      but with what other punishment he could, which nobody did forward, and so
      he escaped, only with giving security to secure the King against double
      tickets of his and other things that he might have wronged the King or
      subject in before his dismission. Yet, Lord! to see how our silly Lord
      Bruncker would have stood to have justified this rogue, though to the
      reproach of all us who have signed, which I shall never forget to have
      been a most malicious or a most silly act, and I do think it is as much
      the latter as the other, for none but a fool could have done as this silly
      Lord hath done in this business. So the Duke of York did like our report,
      and ordered his being secured till he did give his security, which did
      fully content me, and will I hope vindicate the office. It happened that
      my Lord Arlington coming in by chance was at the hearing of all this,
      which I was not sorry for, for he did move or did second the Duke of York
      that this roguery of his might be put in the News-book that it might be
      made publique to satisfy for the wrong the credit of this office hath
      received by this rogue's occasion. So with utmost content I away with Sir
      G. Carteret to London, talking all the way; and he do tell me that the
      business of my Lord Hinchingbroke his marriage with my Lord Burlington's
      daughter is concluded on by all friends; and that my Lady is now told of
      it, and do mightily please herself with it; which I am mighty glad of. So
      home, and there I find that my wife hath been at my desire at the Inne,
      thinking that my father might be come up with the coach, but he is not
      come this week, poor man, but will be here the next. At noon to dinner,
      and then to Sir W. Batten's, where I hear the news how our Embassadors
      were but ill received at Flushing, nor at Bredah itself, there being only
      a house and no furniture provided for them, though it be said that they
      have as much as the French. Here we staid talking a little, and then I to
      the office about my business, and thence to the office, where busy about
      my own papers of my office, and by and by comes the office full to examine
      Sir W. Warren's account, which I do appear mighty fierce in against him,
      and indeed am, for his accounts are so perplexed that I am sure he cannot
      but expect to get many a L1000 in it before it passes our hands, but I
      will not favour him, but save what I can to the King. At his accounts,
      wherein I very high against him, till late, and then we broke up with
      little done, and so broke up, and I to my office, where late doing of
      business, and then home to supper and to bed. News still that my Lord
      Treasurer is so ill as not to be any man of this world; and it is said
      that the Treasury shall be managed by Commission. I would to God Sir G.
      Carteret, or my Lord Sandwich, be in it! But the latter is the more fit
      for it. This day going to White Hall, Sir W. Batten did tell me strange
      stories of Sir W. Pen, how he is already ashamed of the fine coach which
      his son-in-law and daughter have made, and indeed it is one of the most
      ridiculous things for people of their low, mean fashion to make such a
      coach that ever I saw. He tells me how his people come as they do to mine
      every day to borrow one thing or other, and that his Lady hath been forced
      to sell some coals (in the late dear time) only to enable her to pay money
      that she hath borrowed of Griffin to defray her family expense, which is a
      strange story for a rogue that spends so much money on clothes and other
      occasions himself as he do, but that which is most strange, he tells me
      that Sir W. Pen do not give L6000, as is usually [supposed], with his
      daughter to him, and that Mr. Lowder is come to use the tubb, that is to
      bathe and sweat himself, and that his lady is come to use the tubb too,
      which he takes to be that he hath, and hath given her the pox, but I hope
      it is not so, but, says Sir W. Batten, this is a fair joynture, that he
      hath made her, meaning by that the costs the having of a bath.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and, among
      other things, comes in Mr. Carcasse, and after many arguings against it,
      did offer security as was desired, but who should this be but Mr. Powell,
      that is one other of my Lord Bruncker's clerks; and I hope good use will
      be made of it. But then he began to fall foul upon the injustice of the
      Board, which when I heard I threatened him with being laid by the heels,
      which my Lord Bruncker took up as a thing that I could not do upon the
      occasion he had given, but yet did own that it was ill said of him. I made
      not many words of it, but have let him see that I can say what I will
      without fear of him, and so we broke off, leaving the bond to be drawn by
      me, which I will do in the best manner I can. At noon, this being Holy
      Thursday, that is, Ascension Day, when the boys go on procession round the
      parish, we were to go to the Three Tuns' Tavern, to dine with the rest of
      the parish; where all the parish almost was, Sir Andrew Rickard and
      others; and of our house, J. Minnes, W. Batten, W. Pen, and myself; and
      Mr. Mills did sit uppermost at the table. Here we were informed that the
      report of our Embassadors being ill received in their way to Bredah is not
      true, but that they are received with very great civility, which I am glad
      to hear. But that that did vex me was that among all us there should come
      in Mr. Carcasse to be a guest for his money (5s. a piece) as well as any
      of us. This did vex me, and I would have gone, and did go to my house,
      thinking to dine at home, but I was called away from them, and so we sat
      down, and to dinner. Among other things Sir John Fredericke and Sir R.
      Ford did talk of Paul's School, which, they tell me, must be taken away;
      and then I fear it will be long before another place, as they say is
      promised, is found; but they do say that the honour of their company is
      concerned in the doing of it, and that it is a thing that they are obliged
      to do. Thence home, and to my office, where busy; anon at 7 at night I and
      my wife and Sir W. Pen in his coach to Unthanke's, my wife's tailor, for
      her to speak one word, and then we to my Lord Treasurer's, where I find
      the porter crying, and suspected it was that my Lord is dead; and, poor
      Lord! we did find that he was dead just now; and the crying of the fellow
      did so trouble me, that considering I was not likely to trouble him any
      more, nor have occasion to give any more anything, I did give him 3s.; but
      it may be, poor man, he hath lost a considerable hope by the death of his
      Lord, whose house will be no more frequented as before, and perhaps I may
      never come thither again about any business. There is a good man gone: and
      I pray God that the Treasury may not be worse managed by the hand or hands
      it shall now be put into; though, for certain, the slowness, though he was
      of great integrity, of this man, and remissness, have gone as far to undo
      the nation, as anything else that hath happened; and yet, if I knew all
      the difficulties that he hath lain under, and his instrument Sir Philip
      Warwicke, I might be brought to another mind. Thence we to Islington, to
      the Old House, and there eat and drank, and then it being late and a
      pleasant evening, we home, and there to my chamber, and to bed. It is
      remarkable that this afternoon Mr. Moore come to me, and there, among
      other things, did tell me how Mr. Moyer, the merchant, having procured an
      order from the King and Duke of York and Council, with the consent of my
      Lord Chancellor, and by assistance of Lord Arlington, for the releasing
      out of prison his brother, Samuel Moyer, who was a great man in the late
      times in Haberdashers'-hall, and was engaged under hand and seal to give
      the man that obtained it so much in behalf of my Lord Chancellor; but it
      seems my Lady Duchess of Albemarle had before undertaken it for so much
      money, but hath not done it. The Duke of Albemarle did the next day send
      for this Moyer, to tell him, that notwithstanding this order of the King
      and Council's being passed for release of his brother, yet, if he did not
      consider the pains of some friends of his, he would stop that order. This
      Moyer being an honest, bold man, told him that he was engaged to the hand
      that had done the thing to give him a reward; and more he would not give,
      nor could own any kindness done by his Grace's interest; and so parted.
      The next day Sir Edward Savage did take the said Moyer in tax about it,
      giving ill words of this Moyer and his brother; which he not being able to
      bear, told him he would give to the person that had engaged him what he
      promised, and not any thing to any body else; and that both he and his
      brother were as honest men as himself, or any man else; and so sent him
      going, and bid him do his worst. It is one of the most extraordinary cases
      that ever I saw or understood; but it is true. This day Mr. Sheply is come
      to town and to see me, and he tells me my father is very well only for his
      pain, so that he is not able to stir; but is in great pain. I would to God
      that he were in town that I might have what help can be got for him, for
      it troubles me to have him live in that condition of misery if I can help
      it.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning upon some accounts of
      Mr. Gawden's, and at noon to the Three Tuns to dinner with Lord Bruncker,
      Sir J. Minnes, W. Batten, W. Pen, and T. Harvy, where very merry, and my
      Lord Bruncker in appearance as good friends as ever, though I know he has
      a hatred to me in heart. After dinner to my house, where Mr. Sheply dined,
      and we drank and talked together. He, poor man, hath had his arm broke the
      late frost, slipping in going over Huntingdon Bridge. He tells me that
      jasper Trice and Lewes Phillips and Mr. Ashfield are gone from Brampton,
      and he thinks chiefly from the height of Sir J. Bernard's carriage, who
      carries all things before him there, which they cannot bear with, and so
      leave the town, and this is a great instance of the advantage a man of the
      law hath over all other people, which would make a man to study it a
      little. Sheply being gone, there come the flageolet master, who having had
      a bad bargain of teaching my wife by the year, she not practising so much
      as she should do, I did think that the man did deserve some more
      consideration, and so will give him an opportunity of 20s. a month more,
      and he shall teach me, and this afternoon I begun, and I think it will be
      a few shillings well spent. Then to Sir R. Viner's with 600 pieces of gold
      to turn into silver, for the enabling me to answer Sir G. Carteret's
      L3000; which he now draws all out of my hand towards the paying for a
      purchase he hath made for his son and my Lady Jemimah, in
      Northamptonshire, of Sir Samuel Luke, in a good place; a good house, and
      near all her friends; which is a very happy thing. Thence to St. James's,
      and there spoke with Sir W. Coventry, and give him some account of some
      things, but had little discourse with him, there being company with him,
      and so directly home again and then to my office, doing some business, and
      so to my house, and with my wife to practice on the flageolet a little,
      and with great pleasure I see she can readily hit her notes, but only want
      of practice makes her she cannot go through a whole tune readily. So to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and all the morning at the office, and then to dinner, and after
      dinner to the office to dictate some letters, and then with my wife to Sir
      W. Turner's to visit The., but she being abroad we back again home, and
      then I to the office, finished my letters, and then to walk an hour in the
      garden talking with my wife, whose growth in musique do begin to please me
      mightily, and by and by home and there find our Luce drunk, and when her
      mistress told her of it would be gone, and so put up some of her things
      and did go away of her accord, nobody pressing her to it, and the truth
      is, though she be the dirtiest, homeliest servant that ever I kept, yet I
      was sorry to have her go, partly through my love to my servants, and
      partly because she was a very drudging, working wench, only she would be
      drunk. But that which did a little trouble me was that I did hear her tell
      her mistress that she would tell her master something before she was aware
      of her that she would be sorry to have him know; but did it in such a
      silly, drunken manner, that though it trouble me a little, yet not knowing
      what to suspect she should know, and not knowing well whether she said it
      to her mistress or Jane, I did not much think of it. So she gone, we to
      supper and to bed, my study being made finely clean.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber to set some papers in order, and
      then, to church, where my old acquaintance, that dull fellow, Meriton,
      made a good sermon, and hath a strange knack of a grave, serious delivery,
      which is very agreeable. After church to White Hall, and there find Sir G.
      Carteret just set down to dinner, and I dined with them, as I intended,
      and good company, the best people and family in the world I think. Here
      was great talk of the good end that my Lord Treasurer made; closing his
      owne eyes and setting his mouth, and bidding adieu with the greatest
      content and freedom in the world; and is said to die with the cleanest
      hands that ever any Lord Treasurer did. After dinner Sir G. Carteret and I
      alone, and there, among other discourse, he did declare that he would be
      content to part with his place of Treasurer of the Navy upon good terms. I
      did propose my Lord Belasses as a man likely to buy it, which he listened
      to, and I did fully concur and promote his design of parting with it, for
      though I would have my father live, I would not have him die Treasurer of
      the Navy, because of the accounts which must be uncleared at his death,
      besides many other circumstances making it advisable for him to let it go.
      He tells me that he fears all will come to naught in the nation soon if
      the King do not mind his business, which he do not seem likely to do. He
      says that the Treasury will be managed for a while by a Commission,
      whereof he thinks my Lord Chancellor for the honour of it, and my Lord
      Ashly, and the two Secretaries will be, and some others he knows not. I
      took leave of him, and directly by water home, and there to read the life
      of Mr. Hooker, which pleases me as much as any thing I have read a great
      while, and by and by comes Mr. Howe to see us, and after him a little Mr.
      Sheply, and so we all to talk, and, Mercer being there, we some of us to
      sing, and so to supper, a great deal of silly talk. Among other things, W.
      Howe told us how the Barristers and Students of Gray's Inne rose in
      rebellion against the Benchers the other day, who outlawed them, and a
      great deal of do; but now they are at peace again. They being gone, I to
      my book again, and made an end of Mr. Hooker's Life, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up betimes, and comes my flagelette master to set me a new tune,
      which I played presently, and shall in a month do as much as I desire at
      it. He being gone, I to several businesses in my chamber, and then by
      coach to the Commissioners of Excise, and so to Westminster Hall, and
      there spoke with several persons I had to do with. Here among other news,
      I hear that the Commissioners for the Treasury were named by the King
      yesterday; but who they are nobody could tell: but the persons are the
      Lord Chancellor, the two Secretaries, Lord Ashly, and others say Sir W.
      Coventry and Sir John Duncomb, but all conclude the Duke of Albemarle; but
      reports do differ, but will be known in a day or two. Having done my
      business, I then homeward, and overtook Mr. Commander; so took him into a
      coach with me, and he and I into Lincoln's Inne Fields, there to look upon
      the coach-houses to see what ground is necessary for coach-house and
      horses, because of that that I am going about to do, and having satisfied
      myself in this he and I to Mr. Hide's to look upon the ground again behind
      our house, and concluded upon his going along with us to-morrow to see
      some stables, he thinking that we demand more than is necessary. So away
      home, and then, I, it being a broken day, and had power by my vows, did
      walk abroad, first through the Minorys, the first time I have been over
      the Hill to the postern-gate, and seen the place, since the houses were
      pulled down about that side of the Tower, since the fire, to find where my
      young mercer with my pretty little woman to his wife lives, who lived in
      Lumbard streete, and I did espy them, but took no notice now of them, but
      may do hereafter. Thence down to the Old Swan, and there saw Betty
      Michell, whom I have not seen since her christening. But, Lord! how pretty
      she is, and looks as well as ever I saw her, and her child (which I am
      fain to seem very fond of) is pretty also, I think, and will be. Thence by
      water to Westminster Hall, and there walked a while talking at random with
      Sir W. Doyly, and so away to Mrs. Martin's lodging, who was gone before,
      expecting me, and there je hazer what je vellem cum her and drank, and so
      by coach home (but I have forgot that I did in the morning go to the Swan,
      and there tumbling of la little fille, son uncle did trouver her cum su
      neckcloth off, which I was ashamed of, but made no great matter of it, but
      let it pass with a laugh), and there spent the evening with my wife at our
      flagelets, and so to supper, and after a little reading to bed. My wife
      still troubled with her cold. I find it everywhere now to be a thing
      doubted whether we shall have peace or no, and the captain of one of our
      ships that went with the Embassadors do say, that the seamen of Holland to
      his hearing did defy us, and called us English dogs, and cried out against
      peace, and that the great people there do oppose peace, though he says the
      common people do wish it.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up and to the office, where sat all the morning. At noon dined at
      home with my wife and find a new girle, a good big girle come to us, got
      by Payne to be our girle; and his daughter Nell we make our cook. This
      wench's name is Mary, and seems a good likely maid. After dinner I with
      Mr. Commander and Mr. Hide's brother to Lincolne's Inne Fields, and there
      viewed several coach-houses, and satisfied ourselves now fully in it, and
      then there parted, leaving the rest to future discourse between us. Thence
      I home; but, Lord! how it went against my heart to go away from the very
      door of the Duke's play-house, and my Lady Castlemayne's coach, and many
      great coaches there, to see "The Siege of Rhodes." I was very near making
      a forfeit, but I did command myself, and so home to my office, and there
      did much business to my good content, much better than going to a play,
      and then home to my wife, who is not well with her cold, and sat and read
      a piece of Grand Cyrus in English by her, and then to my chamber and to
      supper, and so to bed. This morning the Captain come from Holland did tell
      us at the board what I have said he reported yesterday. This evening after
      I come from the office Mrs. Turner come to see my wife and me, and sit and
      talk with us, and so, my wife not being well and going to bed, Mrs. Turner
      and I sat up till 12 at night talking alone in my chamber, and most of our
      discourse was of our neighbours. As to my Lord Bruncker, she says how Mrs.
      Griffin, our housekeeper's wife, hath it from his maid, that comes to her
      house often, that they are very poor; that the other day Mrs. Williams was
      fain to send a jewell to pawn; that their maid hath said herself that she
      hath got L50 since she come thither, and L17 by the payment of one bill;
      that they have a most lewd and nasty family here in the office, but Mrs.
      Turner do tell me that my Lord hath put the King to infinite charge since
      his coming thither in alterations, and particularly that Mr. Harper at
      Deptford did himself tell her that my Lord hath had of Foly, the
      ironmonger, L50 worth in locks and keys for his house, and that it is from
      the fineness of them, having some of L4 and L5 a lock, such as is in the
      Duke's closet; that he hath several of these; that he do keep many of her
      things from her of her own goods, and would have her bring a bill into the
      office for them; that Mrs. Griffin do say that he do not keep Mrs.
      Williams now for love, but need, he having another whore that he keeps in
      Covent Garden; that they do owe money everywhere almost for every thing,
      even Mrs. Shipman for her butter and cheese about L3, and after many
      demands cannot get it. Mrs. Turner says she do believe their coming here
      is only out of a belief of getting purchase by it, and that their servants
      (which was wittily said of her touching his clerks) do act only as
      privateers, no purchase, no pay. And in my conscience she is in the right.
      Then we fell to talk of Sir W. Pen, and his family and rise. She [Mrs.
      Turner] says that he was a pityfull [fellow] when she first knew them;
      that his lady was one of the sourest, dirty women, that ever she saw; that
      they took two chambers, one over another, for themselves and child, in
      Tower Hill; that for many years together they eat more meals at her house
      than at their own; did call brothers and sisters the husbands and wives;
      that her husband was godfather to one, and she godmother to another (this
      Margaret) of their children, by the same token that she was fain to write
      with her own hand a letter to Captain Twiddy, to stand for a godfather for
      her; that she brought my Lady, who then was a dirty slattern, with her
      stockings hanging about her heels, so that afterwards the people of the
      whole Hill did say that Mrs. Turner had made Mrs. Pen a gentlewoman, first
      to the knowledge of my Lady Vane, Sir Henry's lady, and him to the
      knowledge of most of the great people that then he sought to, and that in
      short his rise hath been his giving of large bribes, wherein, and she
      agrees with my opinion and knowledge before therein, he is very profuse.
      This made him General; this got him out of the Tower when he was in; and
      hath brought him into what he is now, since the King's coming in: that
      long ago, indeed, he would drink the King's health privately with Mr.
      Turner; but that when he saw it fit to turn Roundhead, and was offered by
      Mr. Turner to drink the King's health, he answered "No;" he was changed,
      and now, he that would make him drink the King's health, or any health but
      the Protector's and the State's, or to that purpose, he would be the first
      man should sheath his sword in his guts. That at the King's coming in, he
      did send for her husband, and told him what a great man Sir W. Coventry
      was like to be, and that he having all the records in his hands of the
      Navy, if he would transcribe what was of most present use of the practice
      of the Navy, and give them him to give Sir W. Coventry from him, it would
      undoubtedly do his business of getting him a principal officer's place;
      that her husband was at L5 charge to get these presently writ; that Sir W.
      Pen did give them Sir W. Coventry as from himself, which did set him up
      with W. Coventry, and made him what he is, and never owned any thing of
      Mr. Turner in them; by which he left him in the lurch, though he did
      promise the Duke of Albemarle to do all that was possible, and made no
      question of Mr. Turner's being what he desired; and when afterwards, too,
      did propose to him the getting of the Purveyor's place for him, he did
      tell Mr. Turner it was necessary to present Sir W. Coventry 100 pieces,
      which he did, and W. Coventry took 80 of them: so that he was W.
      Coventry's mere broker, as Sir W. Batten and my Lady did once tell my Lady
      Duchess of Albemarle, in the case of Mr. Falconer, whom W. Pen made to
      give W. Coventry L200 for his place of Clerk of the Rope Yard of Woolwich,
      and to settle L80 a year upon his daughter Pegg, after the death of his
      wife, and a gold watch presently to his wife. Mrs. Turner do tell me that
      my Lady and Pegg have themselves owned to her that Sir W. Coventry and Sir
      W. Pen had private marks to write to one another by, that when they in
      appearance writ a fair letter in behalf of anybody, that they had a little
      mark to show they meant it only in shew: this, these silly people did
      confess themselves of him. She says that their son, Mr. William Pen, did
      tell her that his father did observe the commanders did make their
      addresses to me and applications, but they should know that his father
      should be the chief of the office, and that she hath observed that Sir W.
      Pen never had a kindness to her son, since W. Pen told her son that he had
      applied himself to me. That his rise hath been by her and her husband's
      means, and that it is a most inconceivable thing how this man can have the
      face to use her and her family with the neglect that he do them. That he
      was in the late war a most devilish plunderer, and that got him his
      estate, which he hath in Ireland, and nothing else, and that he hath
      always been a very liberal man in his bribes, that upon his coming into
      this part of the Controller's business wherein he is, he did send for T.
      Willson and told him how against his knowledge he was put in, and had so
      little wit as to say to him, "This will make the pot boyle, will it not,
      Mr. Willson? will it not make the pot boyle?" and do offer him to come in
      and do his business for him, and he would reward him. This Mr. Willson did
      come and tell her presently, he having been their servant, and to this day
      is very faithful to them. That her husband's not being forward to make him
      a bill for Rere Admirall's pay and Generall's pay both at the same time
      after he was first made Generall did first give him occasion of keeping a
      distance from him, since which they have never been great friends, Pen
      having by degrees been continually growing higher and higher, till now
      that he do wholly slight them and use them only as servants. Upon the
      whole, she told me stories enough to confirm me that he is the most false
      fellow that ever was born of woman, and that so she thinks and knows him
      to be.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and by water to White Hall to Sir G. Carteret, who tells me now
      for certain how the Commission for the Treasury is disposed of: viz., to
      Duke of Albemarle, Lord Ashly, Sir W. Coventry, Sir John Duncomb, and Sir
      Thomas Clifford: at which, he says, all the whole Court is disturbed; it
      having been once concluded otherwise into the other hands formerly
      mentioned in yesterday's notes, but all of a sudden the King's choice was
      changed, and these are to be the men; the first of which is only for a
      puppet to give honour to the rest. He do presage that these men will make
      it their business to find faults in the management of the late Lord
      Treasurer, and in discouraging the bankers: but I am, whatever I in
      compliance do say to him, of another mind, and my heart is very glad of
      it, for I do expect they will do much good, and that it is the happiest
      thing that hath appeared to me for the good of the nation since the King
      come in. Thence to St. James's, and up to the Duke of York; and there in
      his chamber Sir W. Coventry did of himself take notice of this business of
      the Treasury, wherein he is in the Commission, and desired that I would be
      thinking of any thing fit for him to be acquainted with for the lessening
      of charge and bettering of our credit, and what our expence bath been
      since the King's coming home, which he believes will be one of the first
      things they shall enquire into: which I promised him, and from time to
      time, which he desires, will give him an account of what I can think of
      worthy his knowledge. I am mighty glad of this opportunity of professing
      my joy to him in what choice the King hath made, and the hopes I have that
      it will save the kingdom from perishing and how it do encourage me to take
      pains again, after my having through despair neglected it! which he told
      me of himself that it was so with him, that he had given himself up to
      more ease than ever he expected, and that his opinion of matters was so
      bad, that there was no publick employment in the kingdom should have been
      accepted by him but this which the King hath now given him; and therein he
      is glad, in hopes of the service he may do therein; and in my conscience
      he will. So into the Duke of York's closet; and there, among other things,
      Sir W. Coventry did take notice of what he told me the other day, about a
      report of Commissioner Pett's dealing for timber in the Navy, and selling
      it to us in other names; and, besides his own proof, did produce a paper I
      had given him this morning about it, in the case of Widow Murford and
      Morecocke, which was so handled, that the Duke of York grew very angry,
      and commanded us presently to fall into the examination of it, saying that
      he would not trust a man for his sake that lifts up the whites of his
      eyes. And it was declared that if he be found to have done so, he should
      be reckoned unfit to serve the Navy; and I do believe he will be turned
      out; and it was, methought, a worthy saying of Sir W. Coventry to the Duke
      of York, "Sir," says he, "I do not make this complaint out of any
      disrespect to Commissioner Pett, but because I do love to do these things
      fairly and openly." Thence I to Westminster Hall with Sir G. Carteret to
      the Chequer Chamber to hear our cause of the Lindeboome prize there before
      the Lords of Appeal, where was Lord Ashly, Arlington, Barkely, and Sir G.
      Carteret, but the latter three signified nothing, the former only either
      minding or understanding what was said. Here was good pleading of Sir
      Walter Walker's and worth hearing, but little done in our business. Thence
      by coach to the Red Lyon, thinking to meet my father, but I come too soon,
      but my wife is gone out of town to meet him. I am in great pain, poor man,
      for him, lest he should come up in pain to town. So I staid not, but to
      the 'Change, and there staid a little, where most of the newes is that the
      Swedes are likely to fall out with the Dutch, which we wish, but how true
      I know not. Here I met my uncle Wight, the second day he hath been abroad,
      having been sick these two months even to death, but having never sent to
      me even in the greatest of his danger. I do think my Aunt had no mind I
      should come, and so I never went to see him, but neither he took notice of
      it to me, nor I made any excuse for it to him, but past two or three How
      do you's, and so parted and so home, and by and by comes my poor father,
      much better than I expected, being at ease by fits, according as his truss
      sits, and at another time in as much pain. I am mighty glad to see him
      come well to town. So to dinner, where Creed comes. After dinner my wife
      and father abroad, and Creed and I also by water, and parted at the Temple
      stairs, where I landed, and to the King's house, where I did give 18d.,
      and saw the two last acts of "The Goblins," a play I could not make any
      thing of by these two acts, but here Knipp spied me out of the
      tiring-room, and come to the pit door, and I out to her, and kissed her,
      she only coming to see me, being in a country-dress, she, and others
      having, it seemed, had a country-dance in the play, but she no other part:
      so we parted, and I into the pit again till it was done. The house full,
      but I had no mind to be seen, but thence to.my cutler's, and two or three
      other places on small, errands, and so home, where my father and wife come
      home, and pretty well my father, who to supper and betimes to bed at his
      country hours. I to Sir W. Batten's, and there got some more part of my
      dividend of the prize-money. So home and to set down in writing the state
      of the account, and then to supper, and my wife to her flageolet, wherein
      she did make out a tune so prettily of herself, that I was infinitely
      pleased beyond whatever I expected from her, and so to bed. This day
      coming from Westminster with W. Batten, we saw at White Hall stairs a
      fisher-boat, with a sturgeon that he had newly catched in the River; which
      I saw, but it was but a little one; but big enough to prevent my mistake
      of that for a colt, if ever I become Mayor of Huntingdon!
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [During a very high flood in the meadows between Huntingdon and
     Godmanchester, something was seen floating, which the Godmanchester
     people thought was a black pig, and the Huntingdon folk declared it
     was a sturgeon; when rescued from the waters, it proved to be a
     young donkey.  This mistake led to the one party being styled
     "Godmanchester black pigs," and the other "Huntingdon sturgeons,"
     terms not altogether forgotten at this day.  Pepys's colt must be
     taken to be the colt of an ass.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home,
      and with my father dined, and, poor man! he hath put off his
      travelling-clothes to-day, and is mighty spruce, and I love to see him
      cheerful. After dinner I to my chamber, and my wife and I to talk, and by
      and by they tell Mrs. Daniel would speak with me, so I down to the parlour
      to her, and sat down together and talked about getting her husband a place
      .... I do promise, and mean to do what kindness I can to her husband.
      After having been there hasti je was ashamed de peur that my people
      pensait.... de it, or lest they might espy us through some trees, we
      parted and I to the office, and presently back home again, and there was
      asked by my wife, I know not whether simply or with design, how I come to
      look as I did, car ego was in much chaleur et de body and of animi, which
      I put off with the heat of the season, and so to other business, but I had
      some fear hung upon me lest alcuno had sidi decouvert. So to the office,
      and then to Sir R. Viner's about some part of my accounts now going on
      with him, and then home and ended my letters, and then to supper and my
      chamber to settle many things there, and then to bed. This noon I was on
      the 'Change, where I to my astonishment hear, and it is in the Gazette,
      that Sir John Duncomb is sworn yesterday a Privy-councillor. This day I
      hear also that last night the Duke of Kendall, second son of the Duke of
      York, did die; and that the other, Duke of Cambridge, continues very ill
      still. This afternoon I had opportunity para jouer with Mrs. Pen, tokendo
      her mammailles and baisando elle, being sola in the casa of her pater, and
      she fort willing.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and to the office, where, by and by, by appointment, we met upon
      Sir W. Warren's accounts, wherein I do appear in every thing as much as I
      can his enemy, though not so far but upon good conditions from him I may
      return to be his friend, but I do think it necessary to do what I do at
      present. We broke off at noon without doing much, and then home, where my
      wife not well, but yet engaged by invitation to go with Sir W. Pen. I got
      her to go with him by coach to Islington to the old house, where his lady
      and Madam Lowther, with her exceeding fine coach and mean horses, and her
      mother-in-law, did meet us, and two of Mr. Lowther's brothers, and here
      dined upon nothing but pigeon-pyes, which was such a thing for him to
      invite all the company to, that I was ashamed of it. But after dinner was
      all our sport, when there come in a juggler, who, indeed, did shew us so
      good tricks as I have never seen in my life, I think, of legerdemaine, and
      such as my wife hath since seriously said that she would not believe but
      that he did them by the help of the devil. Here, after a bad dinner, and
      but ordinary company, saving that I discern good parts in one of the sons,
      who, methought, did take me up very prettily in one or two things that I
      said, and I was so sensible of it as to be a caution to me hereafter how I
      do venture to speak more than is necessary in any company, though, as I
      did now, I do think them incapable to censure me. We broke up, they back
      to Walthamstow, and only my wife and I and Sir W. Pen to the King's
      playhouse, and there saw "The Mayden Queene," which, though I have often
      seen, yet pleases me infinitely, it being impossible, I think, ever to
      have the Queen's part, which is very good and passionate, and Florimel's
      part, which is the most comicall that ever was made for woman, ever done
      better than they two are by young Marshall and Nelly. Home, where I spent
      the evening with my father and wife, and late at night some flagillette
      with my wife, and then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined at home,
      and there come Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and dined with me, telling me that
      the Duke of Cambridge continues very ill, so as they do despair of his
      living. So to the office again, where all the afternoon. About 4 o'clock
      comes Mrs. Pierce to see my wife, and I into them, and there find Pierce
      very fine, and in her own hair, which do become her, and so says my wife,
      ten times better than lighter hair, her complexion being mighty good. With
      them talked a little, and was invited by her to come with my wife on
      Wednesday next in the evening, to be merry there, which we shall do. Then
      to the office again, where dispatched a great deal of business till late
      at night, to my great content, and then home and with my wife to our
      flageolets a little, and so to supper and to bed, after having my chamber
      a little wiped up.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's day). Up sooner than usual on Sundays, and to walk, it being
      exceeding hot all night (so as this night I begun to leave off my
      waistcoat this year) and this morning, and so to walk in the garden till
      toward church time, when my wife and I to church, where several strangers
      of good condition come to our pew, where the pew was full. At noon dined
      at home, where little Michell come and his wife, who continues mighty
      pretty. After dinner I by water alone to Westminster, where, not finding
      Mrs. Martin within, did go towards the parish church, and in the way did
      overtake her, who resolved to go into the church with her that she was
      going with (Mrs. Hargrave, the little crooked woman, the vintner's wife of
      the Dog) and then go out again, and so I to the church, and seeing her
      return did go out again myself, but met with Mr. Howlett, who, offering me
      a pew in the gallery, I had no excuse but up with him I must go, and then
      much against my will staid out the whole church in pain while she expected
      me at home, but I did entertain myself with my perspective glass up and
      down the church, by which I had the great pleasure of seeing and gazing at
      a great many very fine women; and what with that, and sleeping, I passed
      away the time till sermon was done, and then to Mrs. Martin, and there
      staid with her an hour or two, and there did what I would with her, and
      after been here so long I away to my boat, and up with it as far as Barne
      Elmes, reading of Mr. Evelyn's late new book against Solitude, in which I
      do not find much excess of good matter, though it be pretty for a bye
      discourse. I walked the length of the Elmes, and with great pleasure saw
      some gallant ladies and people come with their bottles, and basket, and
      chairs, and form, to sup under the trees, by the waterside, which was
      mighty pleasant. I to boat again and to my book, and having done that I
      took another book, Mr. Boyle's of Colours, and there read, where I
      laughed, finding many fine things worthy observation, and so landed at the
      Old Swan, and so home, where I find my poor father newly come out of an
      unexpected fit of his pain, that they feared he would have died. They had
      sent for me to White Hall and all up and down, and for Mr. Holliard also,
      who did come, but W. Hewer being here did I think do the business in
      getting my father's bowel, that was fallen down, into his body again, and
      that which made me more sensible of it was that he this morning did show
      me the place where his bowel did use to fall down and swell, which did
      trouble me to see. But above all things the poor man's patience under it,
      and his good heart and humour, as soon as he was out of it, did so work
      upon me, that my heart was sad to think upon his condition, but do hope
      that a way will be found by a steel truss to relieve him. By and by to
      supper, all our discourse about Brampton, and my intentions to build there
      if I could be free of my engagement to my Uncle Thomas and his son, that
      they may not have what I have built, against my will, to them whether I
      will or no, in case of me and my brothers being without heirs male; which
      is the true reason why I am against laying out money upon that place,
      together with my fear of some inconvenience by being so near
      Hinchingbroke; being obliged to be a servant to that family, and subject
      to what expence they shall cost me; and to have all that I shall buy, or
      do, esteemed as got by the death of my uncle, when indeed what I have from
      him is not worth naming. After supper to read and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and there comes Greeting my flagelette master, and I practised
      with him. There come also Richardson, the bookbinder, with one of Ogilby's
      Bibles in quires for me to see and buy, it being Mr. Cade's, my
      stationer's; but it is like to be so big that I shall not use it, it being
      too great to stir up and down without much trouble, which I shall not like
      nor do intend it for. So by water to White Hall, and there find Sir G.
      Carteret at home, and talked with him a while, and find that the new
      Commissioners of the Treasury did meet this morning. So I to find out Sir
      W. Coventry, but missed, only I do hear that they have chosen Sir G.
      Downing for their Secretary; and I think in my conscience they have done a
      great thing in it; for he is a business active man, and values himself
      upon having of things do well under his hand; so that I am mightily
      pleased in their choice. Here I met Mr. Pierce, who tells me that he
      lately met Mr. Carcasse, who do mightily inveigh against me, for that all
      that has been done against him he lays on me, and I think he is in the
      right and I do own it, only I find what I suspected, that he do report
      that Sir W. Batten and I, who never agreed before, do now, and since this
      business agree even more, which I did fear would be thought, and therefore
      will find occasion to undeceive the world in that particular by promoting
      something shortly against [Sir] W. Batten. So home, and there to sing with
      my wife before dinner, and then to dinner, and after dinner comes Carcasse
      to speak with me, but I would not give him way to enlarge on anything, but
      he would have begun to have made a noise how I have undone him and used
      all the wit I could in the drawing up of his report, wherein he told me I
      had taken a great deal of pains to undo him. To which I did not think fit
      to enter into any answer, but dismissed him, and so I again up to my
      chamber, vexed at the impudence of this rogue, but I think I shall be wary
      enough for him: So to my chamber, and there did some little business, and
      then abroad, and stopped at the Bear-garden-stairs, there to see a prize
      fought. But the house so full there was no getting in there, so forced to
      go through an alehouse into the pit, where the bears are baited; and upon
      a stool did see them fight, which they did very furiously, a butcher and a
      waterman. The former had the better all along, till by and by the latter
      dropped his sword out of his hand, and the butcher, whether not seeing his
      sword dropped I know not, but did give him a cut over the wrist, so as he
      was disabled to fight any longer. But, Lord! to see how in a minute the
      whole stage was full of watermen to revenge the foul play, and the
      butchers to defend their fellow, though most blamed him; and there they
      all fell to it to knocking down and cutting many on each side. It was
      pleasant to see, but that I stood in the pit, and feared that in the
      tumult I might get some hurt. At last the rabble broke up, and so I away
      to White Hall and so to St. James's, but I found not Sir W. Coventry, so
      into the Park and took a turn or two, it being a most sweet day, and so by
      water home, and with my father and wife walked in the garden, and then
      anon to supper and to bed. The Duke of Cambridge very ill still.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and by coach to St. James's, where I find Sir W. Coventry, and
      he desirous to have spoke with me. It was to read over a draught of a
      letter which he hath made for his brother Commissioners and him to sign to
      us, demanding an account of the whole business of the Navy accounts; and I
      perceive, by the way he goes about it, that they will do admirable things.
      He tells me they have chosen Sir G. Downing their Secretary, who will be
      as fit a man as any in the world; and said, by the by, speaking of the
      bankers being fearful of Sir G. Downing's being Secretary, he being their
      enemy, that they did not intend to be ruled by their Secretary, but do the
      business themselves. My heart is glad to see so great hopes of good to the
      nation as will be by these men; and it do me good to see Sir W. Coventry
      so cheerfull as he now is on the same score. Thence home, and there fell
      to seeing my office and closet there made soundly clean, and the windows
      cleaned. At which all the morning, and so at noon to dinner. After dinner
      my wife away down with Jane and W. Hewer to Woolwich, in order to a little
      ayre and to lie there to-night, and so to gather May-dew to-morrow
      morning,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [If we are to credit the following paragraph, extracted from the
     "Morning Post" of May 2nd, 1791, the virtues of May dew were then
     still held in some estimation; for it records that "on the day
     preceding, according to annual and superstitious custom, a number of
     persons went into the fields, and bathed their faces with the dew on
     the grass, under the idea that it would render them beautiful"
     (Hone's "Every Day Book," vol. ii., p. 611).  Aubrey speaks of May
     dew as "a great dissolvent" ("Miscellanies," p. 183).&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which Mrs. Turner hath taught her as the only thing in the world to wash
      her face with; and I am contented with it. Presently comes Creed, and he
      and I by water to Fox-hall, and there walked in Spring Garden. A great
      deal of company, and the weather and garden pleasant: that it is very
      pleasant and cheap going thither, for a man may go to spend what he will,
      or nothing, all is one. But to hear the nightingale and other birds, and
      here fiddles, and there a harp, and here a Jew's trump, and here laughing,
      and there fine people walking, is mighty divertising. Among others, there
      were two pretty women alone, that walked a great while, which being
      discovered by some idle gentlemen, they would needs take them up; but to
      see the poor ladies how they were put to it to run from them, and they
      after them, and sometimes the ladies put themselves along with other
      company, then the other drew back; at last, the last did get off out of
      the house, and took boat and away. I was troubled to see them abused so;
      and could have found in my heart, as little desire of fighting as I have,
      to have protected the ladies. So by water, set Creed down at White Hall,
      and I to the Old Swan, and so home. My father gone to bed, and wife abroad
      at Woolwich, I to Sir W. Pen, where he and his Lady and Pegg and pretty
      Mrs. Lowther her sister-in-law at supper, where I sat and talked, and Sir
      W. Pen, half drunk, did talk like a fool and vex his wife, that I was half
      pleased and half vexed to see so much folly and rudeness from him, and so
      late home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and by coach to St. James's, where by and by up to the Duke of
      York, where, among other things, our parson Mills having the offer of
      another benefice by Sir Robert Brookes, who was his pupil, he by my Lord
      Barkeley [of Stratton] is made one of the Duke's Chaplains, which
      qualifies him for two livings. But to see how slightly such things are
      done, the Duke of York only taking my Lord Barkeley's word upon saying,
      that we the officers of the Navy do say he is a good man and minister of
      our parish, and the Duke of York admits him to kiss his hand, but speaks
      not one word to him; but so a warrant will be drawn from the Duke of York
      to qualify him, and there's an end of it. So we into the Duke's closett,
      where little to do, but complaint for want of money and a motion of Sir W.
      Coventry's that we should all now bethink ourselves of lessening charge to
      the King, which he said was the only way he saw likely to put the King out
      of debt, and this puts me upon thinking to offer something presently
      myself to prevent its being done in a worse manner without me relating to
      the Victualling business, which, as I may order it, I think may be done
      and save myself something. Thence home, and there settle to some accounts
      of mine in my chamber I all the morning till dinner. My wife comes home
      from Woolwich, but did not dine with me, going to dress herself against
      night, to go to Mrs. Pierce's to be merry, where we are to have Knepp and
      Harris and other good people. I at my accounts all the afternoon, being a
      little lost in them as to reckoning interest. Anon comes down my wife,
      dressed in her second mourning, with her black moyre waistcoat, and short
      petticoat, laced with silver lace so basely that I could not endure to see
      her, and with laced lining, which is too soon, so that I was horrid angry,
      and went out of doors to the office and there staid, and would not go to
      our intended meeting, which vexed me to the blood, and my wife sent twice
      or thrice to me, to direct her any way to dress her, but to put on her
      cloth gown, which she would not venture, which made me mad: and so in the
      evening to my chamber, vexed, and to my accounts, which I ended to my
      great content, and did make amends for the loss of our mirth this night,
      by getting this done, which otherwise I fear I should not have done a good
      while else. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon dined at home,
      being without any words friends with my wife, though last night I was very
      angry, and do think I did give her as much cause to be angry with me.
      After dinner I walked to Arundell House, the way very dusty, the day of
      meeting of the Society being changed from Wednesday to Thursday, which I
      knew not before, because the Wednesday is a Council-day, and several of
      the Council are of the Society, and would come but for their attending the
      King at Council; where I find much company, indeed very much company, in
      expectation of the Duchesse of Newcastle, who had desired to be invited to
      the Society; and was, after much debate, pro and con., it seems many being
      against it; and we do believe the town will be full of ballads of it. Anon
      comes the Duchesse with her women attending her; among others, the
      Ferabosco,2 of whom so much talk is that her lady would bid her show her
      face and kill the gallants. She is indeed black, and hath good black
      little eyes, but otherwise but a very ordinary woman I do think, but they
      say sings well. The Duchesse hath been a good, comely woman; but her dress
      so antick, and her deportment so ordinary, that I do not like her at all,
      nor did I hear her say any thing that was worth hearing, but that she was
      full of admiration, all admiration. Several fine experiments were shown
      her of colours, loadstones, microscopes, and of liquors among others, of
      one that did, while she was there, turn a piece of roasted mutton into
      pure blood, which was very rare. Here was Mrs. Moore of Cambridge, whom I
      had not seen before, and I was glad to see her; as also a very pretty
      black boy that run up and down the room, somebody's child in Arundell
      House. After they had shown her many experiments, and she cried still she
      was full of admiration, she departed, being led out and in by several
      Lords that were there; among others Lord George Barkeley and Earl of
      Carlisle, and a very pretty young man, the Duke of Somerset. She gone, I
      by coach home, and there busy at my letters till night, and then with my
      wife in the evening singing with her in the garden with great pleasure,
      and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up, and there came young Mrs. Daniel in the morning as I expected
      about business of her husband's. I took her into the office to discourse
      with her about getting some employment for him.... By water to White Hall
      to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, the first time I ever was
      there and I think the second that they have met at the Treasury chamber
      there. Here I saw Duncomb look as big, and take as much state on him, as
      if he had been born a lord. I was in with him about Tangier, and at
      present received but little answer from them, they being in a cloud of
      business yet, but I doubt not but all will go well under them. Here I met
      with Sir H. Cholmly, who tells me that he is told this day by Secretary
      Morris that he believes we are, and shall be, only fooled by the French;
      and that the Dutch are very high and insolent, and do look upon us as come
      over only to beg a peace; which troubles me very much, and I do fear it is
      true. Thence to Sir G. Carteret at his lodgings; who, I perceive, is
      mightily displeased with this new Treasury; and he hath reason, for it
      will eclipse him; and he tells me that my Lord Ashly says they understand
      nothing; and he says he believes the King do not intend they shall sit
      long. But I believe no such thing, but that the King will find such
      benefit by them as he will desire to have them continue, as we see he hath
      done, in the late new Act that was so much decried about the King; but yet
      the King hath since permitted it, and found good by it. He says, and I
      believe, that a great many persons at Court are angry at the rise of this
      Duncomb, whose father, he tells me, was a long-Parliamentman, and a great
      Committee-man; and this fellow used to carry his papers to Committees
      after him: he was a kind of an atturny: but for all this, I believe this
      man will be a great man, in spite of all. Thence I away to Holborne to Mr.
      Gawden, whom I met at Bernard's Inn gate, and straight we together to the
      Navy Office, where we did all meet about some victualling business, and so
      home to dinner and to the office, where the weather so hot now-a-days that
      I cannot but sleep before I do any business, and in the evening home, and
      there, to my unexpected satisfaction, did get my intricate accounts of
      interest, which have been of late much perplexed by mixing of some moneys
      of Sir G. Carteret's with mine, evened and set right: and so late to
      supper, and with great quiet to bed; finding by the balance of my account
      that I am creditor L6900, for which the Lord of Heaven be praised!
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    <p>
      June 1st. Up; and there comes to me Mr. Commander, whom I employ about
      hiring of some ground behind the office, for the building of me a stable
      and coach-house: for I do find it necessary for me, both in respect to
      honour and the profit of it also, my expense in hackney-coaches being now
      so great, to keep a coach, and therefore will do it. Having given him some
      instructions about it, I to the office, where we sat all the morning;
      where we have news that our peace with Spayne, as to trade, is wholly
      concluded, and we are to furnish him with some men for Flanders against
      the French. How that will agree with the French, I know not; but they say
      that he also hath liberty, to get what men he pleases out of England. But
      for the Spaniard, I hear that my Lord Castlehaven is raising a regiment of
      4000 men, which he is to command there; and several young gentlemen are
      going over in commands with him: and they say the Duke of Monmouth is
      going over only as a traveller, not to engage on either side, but only to
      see the campagne, which will be becoming him much more than to live
      whoreing and rogueing, as he now do. After dinner to the office, where,
      after a little nap, I fell to business, and did very much with infinite
      joy to myself, as it always is to me when I have dispatched much business,
      and therefore it troubles me to see how hard it is for me to settle to it
      sometimes when my mind is upon pleasure. So home late to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd (Lord's day). Up betimes, and down to my chamber without trimming
      myself, or putting on clean linen, thinking only to keep to my chamber and
      do business to-day, but when I come there I find that without being shaved
      I am not fully awake, nor ready to settle to business, and so was fain to
      go up again and dress myself, which I did, and so down to my chamber, and
      fell roundly to business, and did to my satisfaction by dinner go far in
      the drawing up a state of my accounts of Tangier for the new Lords
      Commissioners. So to dinner, and then to my business again all the
      afternoon close, when Creed come to visit me, but I did put him off, and
      to my business, till anon I did make an end, and wrote it fair with a
      letter to the Lords to accompany my accounts, which I think will be so
      much satisfaction and so soon done (their order for my doing it being
      dated but May 30) as they will not find from any hand else. Being weary
      and almost blind with writing and reading so much to-day, I took boat at
      the Old Swan, and there up the river all alone as high as Putney almost,
      and then back again, all the way reading, and finishing Mr. Boyle's book
      of Colours, which is so chymical, that I can understand but little of it,
      but understand enough to see that he is a most excellent man. So back and
      home, and there to supper, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and by coach to St. James's, and with Sir W. Coventry a great
      while talking about several businesses, but especially about accounts, and
      how backward our Treasurer is in giving them satisfaction, and the truth
      is I do doubt he cannot do better, but it is strange to say that being
      conscious of our doing little at this day, nor for some time past in our
      office for want of money, I do hang my head to him, and cannot be so free
      with him as I used to be, nor can be free with him, though of all men, I
      think, I have the least cause to be so, having taken so much more pains,
      while I could do anything, than the rest of my fellows. Parted with him,
      and so going through the Park met Mr. Mills, our parson, whom I went back
      with to bring him to [Sir] W. Coventry, to give him the form of a
      qualification for the Duke of York to sign to, to enable him to have two
      livings: which was a service I did, but much against my will, for a lazy,
      fat priest. Thence to Westminster Hall, and there walked a turn or two
      with Sir William Doyly, who did lay a wager with me, the Treasurership
      would be in one hand, notwithstanding this present Commission, before
      Christmas: on which we did lay a poll of ling, a brace of carps, and a
      pottle of wine; and Sir W. Pen and Mr. Scowen to be at the eating of them.
      Thence down by water to Deptford, it being Trinity Monday, when the Master
      is chosen, and there, finding them all at church, and thinking they dined,
      as usual, at Stepny, I turned back, having a good book in my hand, the
      Life of Cardinal Wolsey, wrote by his own servant, and to Ratcliffe; and
      so walked to Stepny, and spent, my time in the churchyard, looking over
      the gravestones, expecting when the company would come by. Finding no
      company stirring, I sent to the house to see; and, it seems, they dine not
      there, but at Deptford: so I back again to Deptford, and there find them
      just sat down. And so I down with them; and we had a good dinner of plain
      meat, and good company at our table: among others, my good Mr. Evelyn,
      with whom, after dinner, I stepped aside, and talked upon the present
      posture of our affairs; which is, that the Dutch are known to be abroad
      with eighty sail of ships of war, and twenty fire-ships; and the French
      come into the Channell with twenty sail of men-of-war, and five fireships,
      while we have not a ship at sea to do them any hurt with; but are calling
      in all we can, while our Embassadors are treating at Bredah; and the Dutch
      look upon them as come to beg peace, and use them accordingly; and all
      this through the negligence of our Prince, who hath power, if he would, to
      master all these with the money and men that he hath had the command of,
      and may now have, if he would mind his business. But, for aught we see,
      the Kingdom is likely to be lost, as well as the reputation of it is, for
      ever; notwithstanding so much reputation got and preserved by a rebel that
      went before him. This discourse of ours ended with sorrowful reflections
      upon our condition, and so broke up, and Creed and I got out of the room,
      and away by water to White Hall, and there he and I waited in the
      Treasury-chamber an hour or two, where we saw the Country Receivers and
      Accountants for money come to attend; and one of them, a brisk young
      fellow, with his hat cocked like a fool behind, as the present fashion
      among the blades is, committed to the Serjeant. By and by, I, upon desire,
      was called in, and delivered in my report of my Accounts. Present, Lord
      Ashly, Clifford, and Duncomb, who, being busy, did not read it; but
      committed it to Sir George Downing, and so I was dismissed; but, Lord! to
      see how Duncomb do take upon him is an eyesore, though I think he deserves
      great honour, but only the suddenness of his rise, and his pride. But I do
      like the way of these lords, that they admit nobody to use many words, nor
      do they spend many words themselves, but in great state do hear what they
      see necessary, and say little themselves, but bid withdraw. Thence Creed
      and I by water up to Fox Hall, and over against it stopped, thinking to
      see some Cock-fighting; but it was just being done, and, therefore, back
      again to the other side, and to Spring Garden, and there eat and drank a
      little, and then to walk up and down the garden, reflecting upon the bad
      management of things now, compared with what it was in the late rebellious
      times, when men, some for fear, and some for religion, minded their
      business, which none now do, by being void of both. Much talk of this and,
      other kinds, very pleasant, and so when it was almost night we home,
      setting him in at White Hall, and I to the Old Swan, and thence home,
      where to supper, and then to read a little, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and to the office, and there busy all the morning putting in
      order the answering the great letter sent to the office by the new
      Commissioners of the Treasury, who demand an account from the King's
      coming in to this day, which we shall do in the best manner we can. At
      noon home to dinner, and after dinner comes Mr. Commander to me and tells
      me, after all, that I cannot have a lease of the ground for my coach-house
      and stable, till a suit in law be ended, about the end of the old stable
      now standing, which they and I would have pulled down to make a better way
      for a coach. I am a little sorry that I cannot presently have it, because
      I am pretty full in my mind of keeping a coach; but yet, when I think on
      it again, the Dutch and French both at sea, and we poor, and still out of
      order, I know not yet what turns there may be, and besides, I am in danger
      of parting with one of my places, which relates to the Victualling, that
      brings me by accident in L800 a year, that is, L300 from the King and L500
      from D. Gawden. I ought to be well contented to forbear awhile, and
      therefore I am contented. To the office all the afternoon, where I
      dispatched much business to my great content, and then home in the
      evening, and there to sing and pipe with my wife, and that being done, she
      fell all of a sudden to discourse about her clothes and my humours in not
      suffering her to wear them as she pleases, and grew to high words between
      us, but I fell to read a book (Boyle's Hydrostatiques)
    </p>
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     ["Hydrostatical Paradoxes made out by New Experiments" was
     published by the Hon. Robert Boyle in 1666 (Oxford).]
</pre>
    <p>
      aloud in my chamber and let her talk, till she was tired and vexed that I
      would not hear her, and so become friends, and to bed together the first
      night after 4 or 5 that she hath lain from me by reason of a great cold
      she had got.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and with Mr. Kenasteri by coach to White Hall to the
      Commissioners of the Treasury about getting money for Tangier, and did
      come to, after long waiting, speak with them, and there I find them all
      sat; and, among the rest, Duncomb lolling, with his heels upon another
      chair, by that, that he sat upon, and had an answer good enough, and then
      away home, and (it being a most windy day, and hath been so all night,
      South West, and we have great hopes that it may have done the Dutch or
      French fleets some hurt) having got some papers in order, I back to St.
      James's, where we all met at Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and dined and
      talked of our business, he being a most excellent man, and indeed, with
      all his business, hath more of his employed upon the good of the service
      of the Navy, than all of us, that makes me ashamed of it. This noon
      Captain Perriman brings us word how the Happy Returne's' [crew] below in
      the Hope, ordered to carry the Portugal Embassador to Holland (and the
      Embassador, I think, on board), refuse to go till paid; and by their
      example two or three more ships are in a mutiny: which is a sad
      consideration, while so many of the enemy's ships are at this day
      triumphing in the sea. Here a very good and neat dinner, after the French
      manner, and good discourse, and then up after dinner to the Duke of York
      and did our usual business, and are put in hopes by Sir W. Coventry that
      we shall have money, and so away, Sir G. Carteret and I to my Lord Crew to
      advise about Sir G. Carteret's carrying his accounts to-morrow to the
      Commissioners appointed to examine them and all other accounts since the
      war, who at last by the King's calling them to him yesterday and chiding
      them will sit, but Littleton and Garraway much against their wills. The
      truth of it is, it is a ridiculous thing, for it will come to nothing, nor
      do the King nor kingdom good in any manner, I think. Here they talked of
      my Lord Hinchingbroke's match with Lord Burlington's daughter, which is
      now gone a pretty way forward, and to great content, which I am infinitely
      glad of. So from hence to White Hall, and in the streete Sir G. Carteret
      showed me a gentleman coming by in his coach, who hath been sent for up
      out of Lincolneshire, I think he says he is a justice of peace there, that
      the Council have laid by the heels here, and here lies in a messenger's
      hands, for saying that a man and his wife are but one person, and so ought
      to pay but 12d. for both to the Poll Bill; by which others were led to do
      the like: and so here he lies prisoner. To White Hall, and there I
      attended to speak with Sir W. Coventry about Lanyon's business, to get him
      some money out of the Prize Office from my Lord Ashly, and so home, and
      there to the office a little, and thence to my chamber to read, and
      supper, and to bed. My father, blessed be God! finds great ease by his new
      steel trusse, which he put on yesterday. So to bed. The Duke of Cambridge
      past hopes of living still.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to the office all the morning, where (which he hath not done
      a great while) Sir G. Carteret come to advise with us for the disposing of
      L10,000, which is the first sum the new Lords Treasurers have provided us;
      but, unless we have more, this will not enable us to cut off any of the
      growing charge which they seem to give it us for, and expect we should
      discharge several ships quite off with it. So home and with my father and
      wife to Sir W. Pen's to dinner, which they invited us to out of their
      respect to my father, as a stranger; though I know them as false as the
      devil himself, and that it is only that they think it fit to oblige me;
      wherein I am a happy man, that all my fellow-officers are desirous of my
      friendship. Here as merry as in so false a place, and where I must
      dissemble my hatred, I could be, and after dinner my father and wife to a
      play, and I to my office, and there busy all the afternoon till late at
      night, and then my wife and I sang a song or two in the garden, and so
      home to supper and to bed. This afternoon comes Mr. Pierce to me about
      some business, and tells me that the Duke of Cambridge is yet living, but
      every minute expected to die, and is given over by all people, which
      indeed is a sad loss.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and after with my flageolet and Mr. Townsend, whom I sent for to
      come to me to discourse about my Lord Sandwich's business; for whom I am
      in some pain, lest the Accounts of the Wardrobe may not be in so good
      order as may please the new Lords Treasurers, who are quick-sighted, and
      under obligations of recommending themselves to the King and the world, by
      their finding and mending of faults, and are, most of them, not the best
      friends to my Lord, and to the office, and there all the morning. At noon
      home to dinner, my father, wife, and I, and a good dinner, and then to the
      office again, where busy all the afternoon, also I have a desire to
      dispatch all business that hath lain long on my hands, and so to it till
      the evening, and then home to sing and pipe with my wife, and then to
      supper and to bed, my head full of thoughts how to keep if I can some part
      of my wages as Surveyor of the Victualling, which I see must now come to
      be taken away among the other places that have been occasioned by this
      war, and the rather because I have of late an inclination to keep a coach.
      Ever since my drinking, two days ago, some very Goole drink at Sir W.
      Coventry's table I have been full of wind and with some pain, and I was
      afraid last night that it would amount to much, but, blessed be God! I
      find that the worst is past, so that I do clearly see that all the
      indisposition I am liable to-day as to sickness is only the Colique. This
      day I read (shown me by Mr. Gibson) a discourse newly come forth of the
      King of France, his pretence to Flanders, which is a very fine discourse,
      and the truth is, hath so much of the Civil Law in it, that I am not a fit
      judge of it, but, as it appears to me, he hath a good pretence to it by
      right of his Queene. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and to the office, where all the news this morning is, that the
      Dutch are come with a fleete of eighty sail to Harwich, and that guns were
      heard plain by Sir W. Rider's people at Bednallgreene, all yesterday even.
      So to the office, we all sat all the morning, and then home to dinner,
      where our dinner a ham of French bacon, boiled with pigeons, an excellent
      dish. Here dined with us only W. Hewer and his mother. After dinner to the
      office again, where busy till night, and then home and to read a little
      and then to bed. The news is confirmed that the Dutch are off of Harwich,
      but had done nothing last night. The King hath sent down my Lord of Oxford
      to raise the countries there; and all the Westerne barges are taken up to
      make a bridge over the River, about the Hope, for horse to cross the
      River, if there be occasion.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). Up, and by water to White Hall, and so walked to St.
      James's, where I hear that the Duke of Cambridge, who was given over long
      since by the Doctors, is now likely to recover; for which God be praised!
      To Sir W. Coventry, and there talked with him a great while; and mighty
      glad I was of my good fortune to visit him, for it keeps in my
      acquaintance with him, and the world sees it, and reckons my interest
      accordingly. In comes my Lord Barkeley, who is going down to Harwich also
      to look after the militia there: and there is also the Duke of Monmouth,
      and with him a great many young Hectors, the Lord Chesterfield, my Lord
      Mandeville, and others: but to little purpose, I fear, but to debauch the
      country women thereabouts. My Lord Barkeley wanting some maps, and Sir W.
      Coventry recommending the six maps of England that are bound up for the
      pocket, I did offer to present my Lord with them, which he accepted: and
      so I will send them him. Thence to White Hall, and there to the Chapel,
      where I met Creed, and he and I staid to hear who preached, which was a
      man who begun dully, and so we away by water and landed in Southwarke, and
      to a church in the street where we take water beyond the bridge, which was
      so full and the weather hot that we could not stand there. So to my house,
      where we find my father and wife at dinner, and after dinner Creed and I
      by water to White Hall, and there we parted, and I to Sir G. Carteret's,
      where, he busy, I up into the house, and there met with a gentleman,
      Captain Aldrige, that belongs to my Lord Barkeley, and I did give him the
      book of maps for my Lord, and so I to Westminster Church and there staid a
      good while, and saw Betty Michell there. So away thence, and after church
      time to Mrs. Martin's, and then hazer what I would with her, and then took
      boat and up, all alone, a most excellent evening, as high as Barne Elmes,
      and there took a turn; and then to my boat again, and home, reading and
      making an end of the book I lately bought a merry satyr called "The
      Visions," translated from Spanish by L'Estrange, wherein there are many
      very pretty things; but the translation is, as to the rendering it into
      English expression, the best that ever I saw, it being impossible almost
      to conceive that it should be a translation. Being come home I find an
      order come for the getting some fire-ships presently to annoy the Dutch,
      who are in the King's Channel, and expected up higher. So [Sir] W. Batten
      and [Sir] W. Pen being come this evening from their country houses to town
      we did issue orders about it, and then home to supper and, to bed,
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up; and news brought us that, the Dutch are come up as high as the
      Nore; and more pressing orders for fireships. W. Batten, W. Pen, and I to
      St. James's; where the Duke of York gone this morning betimes, to send
      away some men down to Chatham. So we three to White Hall, and met Sir W.
      Coventry, who presses all that is possible for fire-ships. So we three to
      the office presently; and thither comes Sir Fretcheville Hollis, who is to
      command them all in some exploits he is to do with them on the enemy in
      the River. So we all down to Deptford, and pitched upon ships and set men
      at work: but, Lord! to see how backwardly things move at this pinch,
      notwithstanding that, by the enemy's being now come up as high as almost
      the Hope, Sir J. Minnes, who has gone down to pay some ships there, hath
      sent up the money; and so we are possessed of money to do what we will
      with. Yet partly ourselves, being used to be idle and in despair, and
      partly people that have been used to be deceived by us as to money, won't
      believe us; and we know not, though we have it, how almost to promise it;
      and our wants such, and men out of the way, that it is an admirable thing
      to consider how much the King suffers, and how necessary it is in a State
      to keep the King's service always in a good posture and credit. Here I eat
      a bit, and then in the afternoon took boat and down to Greenwich, where I
      find the stairs full of people, there being a great riding
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [It was an ancient custom in Berkshire, when a man had beaten his
     wife, for the neighbours to parade in front of his house, for the
     purpose of serenading him with kettles, and horns and hand-bells,
     and every species of "rough music," by which name the ceremony was
     designated.  Perhaps the riding mentioned by Pepys was a punishment
     somewhat similar.  Malcolm ("Manners of London") quotes from the
     "Protestant Mercury," that a porter's lady, who resided near Strand
     Lane, beat her husband with so much violence and perseverance, that
     the poor man was compelled to leap out of the window to escape her
     fury.  Exasperated at this virago, the neighbours made a "riding,"
     i.e. a pedestrian procession, headed by a drum, and accompanied by a
     chemise, displayed for a banner.  The manual musician sounded the
     tune of "You round-headed cuckolds, come dig, come dig!" and nearly
     seventy coalheavers, carmen, and porters, adorned with large horns
     fastened to their heads, followed.  The public seemed highly pleased
     with the nature of the punishment, and gave liberally to the
     vindicators of injured manhood.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      there to-day for a man, the constable of the town, whose wife beat him.
      Here I was with much ado fain to press two watermen to make me a galley,
      and so to Woolwich to give order for the dispatch of a ship I have taken
      under my care to see dispatched, and orders being so given, I, under
      pretence to fetch up the ship, which lay at Grays (the Golden Hand),
    </p>
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     [The "Golden Hand" was to have been used for the conveyance of the
     Swedish Ambassadors' horses and goods to Holland.  In August, 1667,
     Frances, widow of Captain Douglas and daughter of Lord Grey,
     petitioned the king "for a gift of the prize ship Golden Hand, now
     employed in weighing the ships sunk at Chatham, where her husband
     lost his life in defence of the ships against the Dutch" ("Calendar
     of State Papers," 1667, p. 430)]
</pre>
    <p>
      did do that in my way, and went down to Gravesend, where I find the Duke
      of Albemarle just come, with a great many idle lords and gentlemen, with
      their pistols and fooleries; and the bulwarke not able to have stood half
      an hour had they come up; but the Dutch are fallen down from the Hope and
      Shell-haven as low as Sheernesse, and we do plainly at this time hear the
      guns play. Yet I do not find the Duke of Albemarle intends to go thither,
      but stays here to-night, and hath, though the Dutch are gone, ordered our
      frigates to be brought to a line between the two blockhouses; which I took
      then to be a ridiculous thing. So I away into the town and took a captain
      or two of our ships (who did give me an account of the proceedings of the
      Dutch fleete in the river) to the taverne, and there eat and drank, and I
      find the townsmen had removed most of their goods out of the town, for
      fear of the Dutch coming up to them; and from Sir John Griffen, that last
      night there was not twelve men to be got in the town to defend it: which
      the master of the house tells me is not true, but that the men of the town
      did intend to stay, though they did indeed, and so had he, at the Ship,
      removed their goods. Thence went off to an Ostend man-of-war, just now
      come up, who met the Dutch fleete, who took three ships that he come
      convoying hither from him says they are as low as the Nore, or
      thereabouts. So I homeward, as long as it was light reading Mr. Boyle's
      book of Hydrostatics, which is a most excellent book as ever I read, and I
      will take much pains to understand him through if I can, the doctrine
      being very useful. When it grew too dark to read I lay down and took a
      nap, it being a most excellent fine evening, and about one o'clock got
      home, and after having wrote to Sir W. Coventry an account of what I had
      done and seen (which is entered in my letter-book), I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and more letters still from Sir W. Coventry about more
      fire-ships, and so Sir W. Batten and I to the office, where Bruncker come
      to us, who is just now going to Chatham upon a desire of Commissioner
      Pett's, who is in a very fearful stink for fear of the Dutch, and desires
      help for God and the King and kingdom's sake. So Bruncker goes down, and
      Sir J. Minnes also, from Gravesend. This morning Pett writes us word that
      Sheernesse is lost last night, after two or three hours' dispute. The
      enemy hath possessed himself of that place; which is very sad, and puts us
      into great fears of Chatham. Sir W. Batten and I down by water to
      Deptford, and there Sir W. Pen and we did consider of several matters
      relating to the dispatch of the fire-ships, and so [Sir] W. Batten and I
      home again, and there to dinner, my wife and father having dined, and
      after dinner, by W. Hewer's lucky advice, went to Mr. Fenn, and did get
      him to pay me above L400 of my wages, and W. Hewer received it for me, and
      brought it home this night. Thence I meeting Mr. Moore went toward the
      other end of the town by coach, and spying Mercer in the street, I took
      leave of Moore and 'light and followed her, and at Paul's overtook her and
      walked with her through the dusty street almost to home, and there in
      Lombard Street met The. Turner in coach, who had been at my house to see
      us, being to go out of town to-morrow to the Northward, and so I promised
      to see her tomorrow, and then home, and there to our business, hiring some
      fire-ships, and receiving every hour almost letters from Sir W. Coventry,
      calling for more fire-ships; and an order from Council to enable us to
      take any man's ships; and Sir W. Coventry, in his letter to us, says he do
      not doubt but at this time, under an invasion, as he owns it to be, the
      King may, by law, take any man's goods. At this business late, and then
      home; where a great deal of serious talk with my wife about the sad state
      we are in, and especially from the beating up of drums this night for the
      trainbands upon pain of death to appear in arms to-morrow morning with
      bullet and powder, and money to supply themselves with victuals for a
      fortnight; which, considering the soldiers drawn out to Chatham and
      elsewhere, looks as if they had a design to ruin the City and give it up
      to be undone; which, I hear, makes the sober citizens to think very sadly
      of things. So to bed after supper, ill in my mind. This afternoon Mrs.
      Williams sent to me to speak with her, which I did, only about news. I had
      not spoke with her many a day before by reason of Carcasses business.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up very betimes to our business at the office, there hiring of more
      fire-ships; and at it close all the morning. At noon home, and Sir W. Pen
      dined with us. By and by, after dinner, my wife out by coach to see her
      mother; and I in another, being afraid, at this busy time, to be seen with
      a woman in a coach, as if I were idle, towards The. Turner's; but met Sir
      W. Coventry's boy; and there in his letter find that the Dutch had made no
      motion since their taking Sheernesse; and the Duke of Albemarle writes
      that all is safe as to the great ships against any assault, the boom and
      chaine being so fortified; which put my heart into great joy.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [There had been correspondence with Pett respecting this chain in
     April and May.  On the 10th May Pett wrote to the Navy
     Commissioners, "The chain is promised to be dispatched to-morrow,
     and all things are ready for fixing it."  On the 11th June the Dutch
     "got twenty or twenty-two ships over the narrow part of the river at
     Chatham, where ships had been sunk; after two and a half hours'
     fighting one guard-ship after another was fired and blown up, and
     the enemy master of the chain" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1667,
     pp. 58, 87, 215).]
</pre>
    <p>
      When I come to Sir W: Coventry's chamber, I find him abroad; but his
      clerk, Powell, do tell me that ill newes is come to Court of the Dutch
      breaking the Chaine at Chatham; which struck me to the heart. And to White
      Hall to hear the truth of it; and there, going up the back-stairs, I did
      hear some lacquies speaking of sad newes come to Court, saying, that
      hardly anybody in the Court but do look as if he cried, and would not go
      into the house for fear of being seen, but slunk out and got into a coach,
      and to The. Turner's to Sir W. Turner's, where I met Roger Pepys, newly
      come out of the country. He and I talked aside a little, he offering a
      match for Pall, one Barnes, of whom we shall talk more the next time. His
      father married a Pepys; in discourse, he told me further that his
      grandfather, my great grandfather, had L800 per annum, in Queen
      Elizabeth's time, in the very town of Cottenham; and that we did certainly
      come out of Scotland with the Abbot of Crowland. More talk I had, and
      shall have more with him, but my mind is so sad and head full of this ill
      news that I cannot now set it down. A short visit here, my wife coming to
      me, and took leave of The., and so home, where all our hearts do now ake;
      for the newes is true, that the Dutch have broke the chaine and burned our
      ships, and particularly "The Royal Charles,"
    </p>
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     [Vandervelde's drawings of the conflagration of the English fleet,
     made by him on the spot, are in the British Museum.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      other particulars I know not, but most sad to be sure. And, the truth is,
      I do fear so much that the whole kingdom is undone, that I do this night
      resolve to study with my father and wife what to do with the little that I
      have in money by me, for I give [up] all the rest that I have in the
      King's hands, for Tangier, for lost. So God help us! and God knows what
      disorders we may fall into, and whether any violence on this office, or
      perhaps some severity on our persons, as being reckoned by the silly
      people, or perhaps may, by policy of State, be thought fit to be condemned
      by the King and Duke of York, and so put to trouble; though, God knows! I
      have, in my own person, done my full duty, I am sure. So having with much
      ado finished my business at the office, I home to consider with my father
      and wife of things, and then to supper and to bed with a heavy heart. The
      manner of my advising this night with my father was, I took him and my
      wife up to her chamber, and shut the door; and there told them the sad
      state of the times how we are like to be all undone; that I do fear some
      violence will be offered to this office, where all I have in the world is;
      and resolved upon sending it away&mdash;sometimes into the country&mdash;sometimes
      my father to lie in town, and have the gold with him at Sarah Giles's, and
      with that resolution went to bed full of fear and fright, hardly slept all
      night.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. No sooner up but hear the sad newes confirmed of the Royall Charles
      being taken by them, and now in fitting by them&mdash;which Pett should
      have carried up higher by our several orders, and deserves, therefore, to
      be hanged for not doing it&mdash;and turning several others; and that
      another fleete is come up into the Hope. Upon which newes the King and
      Duke of York have been below&mdash;[Below London Bridge.]&mdash;since four
      o'clock in the morning, to command the sinking of ships at Barking-Creeke,
      and other places, to stop their coming up higher: which put me into such a
      fear, that I presently resolved of my father's and wife's going into the
      country; and, at two hours' warning, they did go by the coach this day,
      with about L1300 in gold in their night-bag. Pray God give them good
      passage, and good care to hide it when they come home! but my heart is
      full of fear: They gone, I continued in fright and fear what to do with
      the rest. W. Hewer hath been at the banker's, and hath got L500 out of
      Backewell's hands of his own money; but they are so called upon that they
      will be all broke, hundreds coming to them for money: and their answer is,
      "It is payable at twenty days&mdash;when the days are out, we will pay
      you;" and those that are not so, they make tell over their money, and make
      their bags false, on purpose to give cause to retell it, and so spend
      time. I cannot have my 200 pieces of gold again for silver, all being
      bought up last night that were to be had, and sold for 24 and 25s.
      a-piece. So I must keep the silver by me, which sometimes I think to fling
      into the house of office, and then again know not how I shall come by it,
      if we be made to leave the office. Every minute some one or other calls
      for this or that order; and so I forced to be at the office, most of the
      day, about the fire-ships which are to be suddenly fitted out: and it's a
      most strange thing that we hear nothing from any of my brethren at
      Chatham; so that we are wholly in the dark, various being the reports of
      what is done there; insomuch that I sent Mr. Clapham express thither to
      see how matters go: I did, about noon, resolve to send Mr. Gibson away
      after my wife with another 1000 pieces, under colour of an express to Sir
      Jeremy Smith; who is, as I hear, with some ships at Newcastle; which I did
      really send to him, and may, possibly, prove of good use to the King; for
      it is possible, in the hurry of business, they may not think of it at
      Court, and the charge of an express is not considerable to the King. So
      though I intend Gibson no further than to Huntingdon I direct him to send
      the packet forward. My business the most of the afternoon is listening to
      every body that comes to the office, what news? which is variously
      related, some better, some worse, but nothing certain. The King and Duke
      of York up and down all the day here and there: some time on Tower Hill,
      where the City militia was; where the King did make a speech to them, that
      they should venture themselves no further than he would himself. I also
      sent, my mind being in pain, Saunders after my wife and father, to
      overtake them at their night's lodgings, to see how matters go with them.
      In the evening, I sent for my cousin Sarah [Gyles] and her husband, who
      come; and I did deliver them my chest of writings about Brampton, and my
      brother Tom's papers, and my journalls, which I value much; and did send
      my two silver flaggons to Kate Joyce's: that so, being scattered what I
      have, something might be saved. I have also made a girdle, by which, with
      some trouble, I do carry about me L300 in gold about my body, that I may
      not be without something in case I should be surprised: for I think, in
      any nation but our's, people that appear (for we are not indeed so) so
      faulty as we, would have their throats cut. In the evening comes Mr.
      Pelling, and several others, to the office, and tell me that never were
      people so dejected as they are in the City all over at this day; and do
      talk most loudly, even treason; as, that we are bought and sold&mdash;that
      we are betrayed by the Papists, and others, about the King; cry out that
      the office of the Ordnance hath been so backward as no powder to have been
      at Chatham nor Upnor Castle till such a time, and the carriages all
      broken; that Legg is a Papist; that Upnor, the old good castle built by
      Queen Elizabeth, should be lately slighted; that the ships at Chatham
      should not be carried up higher. They look upon us as lost, and remove
      their families and rich goods in the City; and do think verily that the
      French, being come down with his army to Dunkirke, it is to invade us, and
      that we shall be invaded. Mr. Clerke, the solicitor, comes to me about
      business, and tells me that he hears that the King hath chosen Mr.
      Pierpont and Vaughan of the West, Privy-councillors; that my Lord
      Chancellor was affronted in the Hall this day, by people telling him of
      his Dunkirke house; and that there are regiments ordered to be got
      together, whereof to be commanders my Lord Fairfax, Ingoldsby, Bethell,
      Norton, and Birch, and other Presbyterians; and that Dr. Bates will have
      liberty to preach. Now, whether this be true or not, I know not; but do
      think that nothing but this will unite us together. Late at night comes
      Mr. Hudson, the cooper, my neighbour, and tells me that he come from
      Chatham this evening at five o'clock, and saw this afternoon "The Royal
      James," "Oake," and "London," burnt by the enemy with their fire-ships:
      that two or three men-of-war come up with them, and made no more of Upnor
      Castle's shooting, than of a fly; that those ships lay below Upnor Castle,
      but therein, I conceive, he is in an error; that the Dutch are fitting out
      "The Royall Charles;" that we shot so far as from the Yard thither, so
      that the shot did no good, for the bullets grazed on the water; that Upnor
      played hard with their guns at first, but slowly afterwards, either from
      the men being beat off, or their powder spent. But we hear that the fleete
      in the Hope is not come up any higher the last flood; and Sir W. Batten
      tells me that ships are provided to sink in the River, about Woolwich,
      that will prevent their coming up higher if they should attempt it. I made
      my will also this day, and did give all I had equally between my father
      and wife, and left copies of it in each of Mr. Hater and W. Hewer's hands,
      who both witnessed the will, and so to supper and then to bed, and slept
      pretty well, but yet often waking.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and to the office; where Mr. Fryer comes and tells me that there
      are several Frenchmen and Flemish ships in the River, with passes from the
      Duke of York for carrying of prisoners, that ought to be parted from the
      rest of the ships, and their powder taken, lest they do fire themselves
      when the enemy comes, and so spoil us; which is good advice, and I think I
      will give notice of it; and did so. But it is pretty odd to see how every
      body, even at this high time of danger, puts business off of their own
      hands! He says that he told this to the Lieutenant of the Tower, to whom
      I, for the same reason, was directing him to go; and the Lieutenant of the
      Tower bade him come to us, for he had nothing to do with it; and yesterday
      comes Captain Crew, of one of the fireships, and told me that the officers
      of the Ordnance would deliver his gunner's materials, but not compound
      them,
    </p>
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     [Meaning, apparently, that the Ordnance would deliver the charcoal,
     sulphur, and saltpetre separately, but not mix them as gunpowder.]

     [The want of ammunition when the Dutch burnt the fleet, and the
     revenge of the deserter sailors, are well described by Marvell

          "Our Seamen, whom no danger's shape could fright,
          Unpaid, refuse to mount their ships, for spite
          Or to their fellows swim, on board the Dutch,
          Who show the tempting metal in their clutch.]
</pre>
    <p>
      but that we must do it; whereupon I was forced to write to them about it;
      and one that like a great many come to me this morning by and by comes&mdash;Mr.
      Wilson, and by direction of his, a man of Mr. Gawden's; who come from
      Chatham last night, and saw the three ships burnt, they lying all dry, and
      boats going from the men-of-war and fire them. But that, that he tells me
      of worst consequence is, that he himself, I think he said, did hear many
      Englishmen on board the Dutch ships speaking to one another in English;
      and that they did cry and say, "We did heretofore fight for tickets; now
      we fight for dollars!" and did ask how such and such a one did, and would
      commend themselves to them: which is a sad consideration. And Mr. Lewes,
      who was present at this fellow's discourse to me, did tell me, that he is
      told that when they took "The Royall Charles," they said that they had
      their tickets signed, and showed some, and that now they come to have them
      paid, and would have them paid before they parted. And several seamen come
      this morning to me, to tell me that, if I would get their tickets paid,
      they would go and do all they could against the Dutch; but otherwise they
      would not venture being killed, and lose all they have already fought for:
      so that I was forced to try what I could do to get them paid. This man
      tells me that the ships burnt last night did lie above Upnor Castle, over
      against the Docke; and the boats come from the ships of war and burnt them
      all which is very sad. And masters of ships, that we are now taking up, do
      keep from their ships all their stores, or as much as they can, so that we
      can despatch them, having not time to appraise them nor secure their
      payment; only some little money we have, which we are fain to pay the men
      we have with, every night, or they will not work. And indeed the hearts as
      well as affections of the seamen are turned away; and in the open streets
      in Wapping, and up and down, the wives have cried publickly, "This comes
      of your not paying our husbands; and now your work is undone, or done by
      hands that understand it not." And Sir W. Batten told me that he was
      himself affronted with a woman, in language of this kind, on Tower Hill
      publickly yesterday; and we are fain to bear it, and to keep one at the
      office door to let no idle people in, for fear of firing of the office and
      doing us mischief. The City is troubled at their being put upon duty:
      summoned one hour, and discharged two hours after; and then again summoned
      two hours after that; to their great charge as well as trouble. And
      Pelling, the Potticary, tells me the world says all over, that less charge
      than what the kingdom is put to, of one kind or other, by this business,
      would have set out all our great ships. It is said they did in open
      streets yesterday, at Westminster, cry, "A Parliament! a Parliament!" and
      I do believe it will cost blood to answer for these miscarriages. We do
      not hear that the Dutch are come to Gravesend; which is a wonder. But a
      wonderful thing it is that to this day we have not one word yet from
      Bruncker, or Peter Pett, or J. Minnes, of any thing at Chatham. The people
      that come hither to hear how things go, make me ashamed to be found unable
      to answer them: for I am left alone here at the office; and the truth is,
      I am glad my station is to be here, near my own home and out of danger,
      yet in a place of doing the King good service. I have this morning good
      news from Gibson; three letters from three several stages, that he was
      safe last night as far as Royston, at between nine and ten at night. The
      dismay that is upon us all, in the business of the kingdom and Navy at
      this day, is not to be expressed otherwise than by the condition the
      citizens were in when the City was on fire, nobody knowing which way to
      turn themselves, while every thing concurred to greaten the fire; as here
      the easterly gale and spring-tides for coming up both rivers, and enabling
      them to break the chaine. D. Gawden did tell me yesterday, that the day
      before at the Council they were ready to fall together by the ears at the
      Council-table, arraigning one another of being guilty of the counsel that
      brought us into this misery, by laying up all the great ships. Mr. Hater
      tells me at noon that some rude people have been, as he hears, at my Lord
      Chancellor's, where they have cut down the trees before his house and
      broke his windows; and a gibbet either set up before or painted upon his
      gate, and these three words writ: "Three sights to be seen; Dunkirke,
      Tangier, and a barren Queene."
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        ["Pride, Lust, Ambition, and the People's Hate,
          The kingdom's broker, ruin of the State,
          Dunkirk's sad loss, divider of the fleet,
          Tangier's compounder for a barren sheet
          This shrub of gentry, married to the crown,
          His daughter to the heir, is tumbled down."

                    Poems on State Affairs, vol. i., p. 253.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      It gives great matter of talk that it is said there is at this hour, in
      the Exchequer, as much money as is ready to break down the floor. This
      arises, I believe, from Sir G. Downing's late talk of the greatness of the
      sum lying there of people's money, that they would not fetch away, which
      he shewed me and a great many others. Most people that I speak with are in
      doubt how we shall do to secure our seamen from running over to the Dutch;
      which is a sad but very true consideration at this day. At noon I am told
      that my Lord Duke of Albemarle is made Lord High Constable; the meaning
      whereof at this time I know not, nor whether it, be true or no. Dined, and
      Mr. Hater and W. Hewer with me; where they do speak very sorrowfully of
      the posture of the times, and how people do cry out in the streets of
      their being bought and sold; and both they, and every body that come to
      me, do tell me that people make nothing of talking treason in the streets
      openly: as, that we are bought and sold, and governed by Papists, and that
      we are betrayed by people about the King, and shall be delivered up to the
      French, and I know not what. At dinner we discoursed of Tom of the Wood, a
      fellow that lives like a hermit near Woolwich, who, as they say, and Mr.
      Bodham, they tell me, affirms that he was by at the justice's when some
      did accuse him there for it, did foretell the burning of the City, and now
      says that a greater desolation is at hand. Thence we read and laughed at
      Lilly's prophecies this month, in his Almanack this year! So to the office
      after dinner; and thither comes Mr. Pierce, who tells me his condition,
      how he cannot get his money, about L500, which, he says, is a very great
      part of what he hath for his family and children, out of Viner's hand: and
      indeed it is to be feared that this will wholly undo the bankers. He says
      he knows nothing of the late affronts to my Lord Chancellor's house, as is
      said, nor hears of the Duke of Albemarle's being made High Constable; but
      says that they are in great distraction at White Hall, and that every
      where people do speak high against Sir W. Coventry: but he agrees with me,
      that he is the best Minister of State the King hath, and so from my heart
      I believe. At night come home Sir W. Batten and W. Pen, who only can tell
      me that they have placed guns at Woolwich and Deptford, and sunk some
      ships below Woolwich and Blackewall, and are in hopes that they will stop
      the enemy's coming up. But strange our confusion! that among them that are
      sunk they have gone and sunk without consideration "The Franakin,"' one of
      the King's ships, with stores to a very considerable value, that hath been
      long loaden for supply of the ships; and the new ship at Bristoll, and
      much wanted there; and nobody will own that they directed it, but do lay
      it on Sir W. Rider. They speak also of another ship, loaden to the value
      of L80,000, sunk with the goods in her, or at least was mightily contended
      for by him, and a foreign ship, that had the faith of the nation for her
      security: this Sir R. Ford tells us: And it is too plain a truth, that
      both here and at Chatham the ships that we have sunk have many, and the
      first of them, been ships completely fitted for fire-ships at great
      charge. But most strange the backwardness and disorder of all people,
      especially the King's people in pay, to do any work, Sir W. Pen tells me,
      all crying out for money; and it was so at Chatham, that this night comes
      an order from Sir W. Coventry to stop the pay of the wages of that Yard;
      the Duke of Albemarle having related, that not above three of 1100 in pay
      there did attend to do any work there. This evening having sent a
      messenger to Chatham on purpose, we have received a dull letter from my
      Lord Bruncker and Peter Pett, how matters have gone there this week; but
      not so much, or so particularly, as we knew it by common talk before, and
      as true. I doubt they will be found to have been but slow men in this
      business; and they say the Duke of Albemarle did tell my Lord Bruncker to
      his face that his discharging of the great ships there was the cause of
      all this; and I am told that it is become common talk against my Lord
      Bruncker. But in that he is to be justified, for he did it by verbal order
      from Sir W. Coventry, and with good intent; and it was to good purpose,
      whatever the success be, for the men would have but spent the King so much
      the more in wages, and yet not attended on board to have done the King any
      service; and as an evidence of that, just now, being the 15th day in the
      morning that I am writing yesterday's passages, one is with me, Jacob
      Bryan, Purser of "The Princesse," who confesses to me that he hath about
      180 men borne at this day in victuals and wages on that ship lying at
      Chatham, being lately brought in thither; of which 180 there was not above
      five appeared to do the King any service at this late business. And this
      morning also, some of the Cambridge's men come up from Portsmouth, by
      order from Sir Fretcheville Hollis, who boasted to us the other day that
      he had sent for 50, and would be hanged if 100 did not come up that would
      do as much as twice the number of other men: I say some of them, instead
      of being at work at Deptford, where they were intended, do come to the
      office this morning to demand the payment of their tickets; for otherwise
      they would, they said, do no more work; and are, as I understand from
      every body that has to do with them, the most debauched, damning, swearing
      rogues that ever were in the Navy, just like their prophane commander. So
      to Sir W. Batten's to sit and talk a little, and then home to my
      flageolet, my heart being at pretty good ease by a letter from my wife,
      brought by Saunders, that my father and wife got well last night to their
      Inne and out again this morning, and Gibson's being got safe to Caxton at
      twelve last night. So to supper, and then to bed. No news to-day of any
      motion of the enemy either upwards towards Chatham or this way.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. All the morning at the office. No newes more than last night; only
      Purser Tyler comes and tells me that he being at all the passages in this
      business at Chatham, he says there have been horrible miscarriages, such
      as we shall shortly hear of: that the want of boats hath undone us; and it
      is commonly said, and Sir J. Minnes under his hand tells us, that they
      were employed by the men of the Yard to carry away their goods; and I hear
      that Commissioner Pett will be found the first man that began to remove;
      he is much spoken against, and Bruncker is complained of and reproached
      for discharging the men of the great ships heretofore. At noon Mr. Hater
      dined with me; and tells me he believes that it will hardly be the want of
      money alone that will excuse to the Parliament the neglect of not setting
      out a fleete, it having never been done in our greatest straits, but
      however unlikely it appeared, yet when it was gone about, the State or
      King did compass it; and there is something in it. In like manner all the
      afternoon busy, vexed to see how slowly things go on for want of money. At
      night comes, unexpectedly so soon, Mr. Gibson, who left my wife well, and
      all got down well with them, but not with himself, which I was afeard of,
      and cannot blame him, but must myself be wiser against another time. He
      had one of his bags broke, through his breeches, and some pieces dropped
      out, not many, he thinks, but two, for he 'light, and took them up, and
      went back and could find no more. But I am not able to tell how many,
      which troubles me, but the joy of having the greatest part safe there
      makes me bear with it, so as not to afflict myself for it. This afternoon
      poor Betty Michell, whom I love, sent to tell my wife her child was dying,
      which I am troubled for, poor girle! At night home and to my flageolet.
      Played with pleasure, but with a heavy heart, only it pleased me to think
      how it may please God I may live to spend my time in the country with
      plainness and pleasure, though but with little glory. So to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). Up, and called on by several on business of the office.
      Then to the office to look out several of my old letters to Sir W.
      Coventry in order to the preparing for justifying this office in our
      frequent foretelling the want of money. By and by comes Roger Pepys and
      his son Talbot, whom he had brought to town to settle at the Temple, but,
      by reason of our present stirs, will carry him back again with him this
      week. He seems to be but a silly lad. I sent them to church this morning,
      I staying at home at the office, busy. At noon home to dinner, and much
      good discourse with him, he being mighty sensible of our misery and
      mal-administration. Talking of these straits we are in, he tells me that
      my Lord Arlington did the last week take up L12,000 in gold, which is very
      likely, for all was taken up that could be. Discoursing afterwards with
      him of our family he told me, that when I come to his house he will show
      me a decree in Chancery, wherein there was twenty-six men all housekeepers
      in the town of Cottenham, in Queene Elizabeth's time, of our name. He to
      church again in the afternoon, I staid at home busy, and did show some
      dalliance to my maid Nell, speaking to her of her sweetheart which she
      had, silly girle. After sermon Roger Pepys comes again. I spent the
      evening with him much troubled with the thoughts of the evils of our time,
      whereon we discoursed. By and by occasion offered for my writing to Sir W.
      Coventry a plain bold letter touching lack of money; which, when it was
      gone, I was afeard might give offence: but upon two or three readings over
      again the copy of it, I was satisfied it was a good letter; only Sir W.
      Batten signed it with me, which I could wish I had done alone. Roger Pepys
      gone, I to the garden, and there dallied a while all alone with Mrs.
      Markham, and then home to my chamber and to read and write, and then to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to my office, where busy all the morning, particularly
      setting my people to work in transcribing pieces of letters publique and
      private, which I do collect against a black day to defend the office with
      and myself. At noon dined at home, Mr. Hater with me alone, who do seem to
      be confident that this nation will be undone, and with good reason: Wishes
      himself at Hambrough, as a great many more, he says, he believes do, but
      nothing but the reconciling of the Presbyterian party will save us, and I
      am of his mind. At the office all the afternoon, where every moment
      business of one kind or other about the fire-ships and other businesses,
      most of them vexatious for want of money, the commanders all complaining
      that, if they miss to pay their men a night, they run away; seamen
      demanding money of them by way of advance, and some of Sir Fretcheville
      Hollis's men, that he so bragged of, demanding their tickets to be paid,
      or they would not work: this Hollis, Sir W. Batten and W. Pen say, proves
      a very..., as Sir W. B. terms him, and the other called him a conceited,
      idle, prating, lying fellow. But it was pleasant this morning to hear
      Hollis give me the account what, he says, he told the King in Commissioner
      Pett's presence, whence it was that his ship was fit sooner than others,
      telling the King how he dealt with the several Commissioners and agents of
      the Ports where he comes, offering Lanyon to carry him a Ton or two of
      goods to the streights, giving Middleton an hour or two's hearing of his
      stories of Barbadoes, going to prayer with Taylor, and standing bare and
      calling, "If it please your Honour," to Pett, but Sir W. Pen says that he
      tells this story to every body, and believes it to be a very lie. At night
      comes Captain Cocke to see me, and he and I an hour in the garden
      together. He tells me there have been great endeavours of bringing in the
      Presbyterian interest, but that it will not do. He named to me several of
      the insipid lords that are to command the armies that are to be raised. He
      says the King and Court are all troubled, and the gates of the Court were
      shut up upon the first coming of the Dutch to us, but they do mind the
      business no more than ever: that the bankers, he fears, are broke as to
      ready-money, though Viner had L100,000 by him when our trouble begun: that
      he and the Duke of Albemarle have received into their own hands, of Viner,
      the former L10,000, and the latter L12,000, in tallies or assignments, to
      secure what was in his hands of theirs; and many other great men of our.
      masters have done the like; which is no good sign, when they begin to fear
      the main. He and every body cries out of the office of the Ordnance, for
      their neglects, both at Gravesend and Upnor, and everywhere else. He gone,
      I to my business again, and then home to supper and to bed. I have lately
      played the fool much with our Nell, in playing with her breasts. This
      night, late, comes a porter with a letter from Monsieur Pratt, to borrow
      L100 for my Lord Hinchingbroke, to enable him to go out with his troop in
      the country, as he is commanded; but I did find an excuse to decline it.
      Among other reasons to myself, this is one, to teach him the necessity of
      being a good husband, and keeping money or credit by him.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and did this morning dally with Nell... which I was afterward
      troubled for. To the office, and there all the morning. Peg Pen come to
      see me, and I was glad of it, and did resolve to have tried her this
      afternoon, but that there was company with elle at my home, whither I got
      her. Dined at home, W. Hewer with me, and then to the office, and to my
      Lady Pen's, and did find occasion for Peg to go home with me to my
      chamber, but there being an idle gentleman with them, he went with us, and
      I lost my hope. So to the office, and by and by word was brought me that
      Commissioner Pett is brought to the Tower, and there laid up close
      prisoner; which puts me into a fright, lest they may do the same with us
      as they do with him. This puts me upon hastening what I am doing with my
      people, and collecting out of my papers our defence. Myself got Fist, Sir
      W. Batten's clerk, and busy with him writing letters late, and then home
      to supper and to read myself asleep, after piping, and so to bed. Great
      newes to-night of the blowing up of one of the Dutch greatest ships, while
      a Council of War was on board: the latter part, I doubt, is not so, it not
      being confirmed since; but the former, that they had a ship blown up, is
      said to be true. This evening comes Sir G. Carteret to the office, to talk
      of business at Sir W. Batten's; where all to be undone for want of money,
      there being none to pay the Chest at their publique pay the 24th of this
      month, which will make us a scorn to the world. After he had done there,
      he and I into the garden, and walked; and the greatest of our discourse
      is, his sense of the requisiteness of his parting with his being Treasurer
      of the Navy, if he can, on any good terms. He do harp upon getting my Lord
      Bruncker to take it on half profit, but that he is not able to secure him
      in paying him so much. But the thing I do advise him to do by all means,
      and he resolves on it, being but the same counsel which I intend to take
      myself. My Lady Jem goes down to Hinchingbroke to lie down, because of the
      troubles of the times here. He tells me he is not sure that the King of
      France will not annoy us this year, but that the Court seems [to] reckon
      upon it as a thing certain, for that is all that I and most people are
      afeard of this year. He tells me now the great question is, whether a
      Parliament or no Parliament; and says the Parliament itself cannot be
      thought able at present to raise money, and therefore it will be to no
      purpose to call one. I hear this day poor Michell's child is dead.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy with Fist again,
      beginning early to overtake my business in my letters, which for a post or
      two have by the late and present troubles been interrupted. At noon comes
      Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen, and we to [Sir] W. Pen's house, and there
      discoursed of business an hour, and by and by comes an order from Sir R.
      Browne, commanding me this afternoon to attend the Council-board, with all
      my books and papers touching the Medway. I was ready [to fear] some
      mischief to myself, though it appears most reasonable that it is to inform
      them about Commissioner Pett. I eat a little bit in haste at Sir W.
      Batten's, without much comfort, being fearful, though I shew it not, and
      to my office and get up some papers, and found out the most material
      letters and orders in our books, and so took coach and to the
      Council-chamber lobby, where I met Mr. Evelyn, who do miserably decry our
      follies that bring all this misery upon us. While we were discoursing over
      our publique misfortunes, I am called in to a large Committee of the
      Council: present the Duke of Albemarle, Anglesey, Arlington, Ashly,
      Carteret, Duncomb, Coventry, Ingram, Clifford, Lauderdale, Morrice,
      Manchester, Craven, Carlisle, Bridgewater. And after Sir W. Coventry's
      telling them what orders His Royal Highness had made for the safety of the
      Medway, I told them to their full content what we had done, and showed
      them our letters. Then was Peter Pett called in, with the Lieutenant of
      the Tower. He is in his old clothes, and looked most sillily. His charge
      was chiefly the not carrying up of the great ships, and the using of the
      boats in carrying away his goods; to which he answered very sillily,
      though his faults to me seem only great omissions. Lord Arlington and
      Coventry very severe against him; the former saying that, if he was not
      guilty, the world would think them all guilty.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pett was made a scapegoat.  This is confirmed by Marvel:

              "After this loss, to relish discontent,
               Some one must be accused by Parliament;
               All our miscarriages on Pett must fall,
               His name alone seems fit to answer all.
               Whose counsel first did this mad war beget?
               Who all commands sold through the Navy?  Pett.
               Who would not follow when the Dutch were beat?
               Who treated out the time at Bergen?  Pett.
               Who the Dutch fleet with storms disabled met,
               And, rifling prizes, them neglected?  Pett.
               Who with false news prevented the Gazette,
               The fleet divided, writ for Ruhert?  Pett.
               Who all our seamen cheated of their debt?
               And all our prizes who did swallow?  Pett.
               Who did advise no navy out to set?
               And who the forts left unprepared?  Pett.
               Who to supply with powder did forget
               Languard, Sheerness, Gravesend, and Upnor? Pett.
               Who all our ships exposed in Chatham net?
               Who should it be but the fanatick Pett?
               Pett, the sea-architect, in making ships,
               Was the first cause of all these naval slips.
               Had he not built, none of these faults had been;
               If no creation, there had been no sin
               But his great crime, one boat away he sent,
               That lost our fleet, and did our flight prevent."

                              Instructions to a Painter.&mdash;B]
</pre>
    <p>
      The latter urged, that there must be some faults, and that the Admiral
      must be found to have done his part. I did say an unhappy word, which I
      was sorry for, when he complained of want of oares for the boats: and
      there was, it seems, enough, and good enough, to carry away all the boats
      with from the King's occasions. He said he used never a boat till they
      were all gone but one; and that was to carry away things of great value,
      and these were his models of ships; which, when the Council, some of them,
      had said they wished that the Dutch had had them instead of the King's
      ships, he answered, he did believe the Dutch would have made more
      advantage of the models than of the ships, and that the King had had
      greater loss thereby; this they all laughed at. After having heard him for
      an hour or more, they bid him withdraw. I all this while showing him no
      respect, but rather against him, for which God forgive me! for I mean no
      hurt to him, but only find that these Lords are upon their own purgation,
      and it is necessary I should be so in behalf of the office. He being gone,
      they caused Sir Richard Browne to read over his minutes; and then my Lord
      Arlington moved that they might be put into my hands to put into form, I
      being more acquainted with such business; and they were so. So I away back
      with my books and papers; and when I got into the Court it was pretty to
      see how people gazed upon me, that I thought myself obliged to salute
      people and to smile, lest they should think I was a prisoner too; but
      afterwards I found that most did take me to be there to bear evidence
      against P. Pett; but my fear was such, at my going in, of the success of
      the day, that at my going in I did think fit to give T. Hater, whom I took
      with me, to wait the event, my closet-key and directions where to find
      L500 and more in silver and gold, and my tallys, to remove, in case of any
      misfortune to me. Thence to Sir G. Carteret's to take my leave of my Lady
      Jem, who is going into the country tomorrow; but she being now at prayers
      with my Lady and family, and hearing here by Yorke, the carrier, that my
      wife is coming to towne, I did make haste home to see her, that she might
      not find me abroad, it being the first minute I have been abroad since
      yesterday was se'ennight. It is pretty to see how strange it is to be
      abroad to see people, as it used to be after a month or two's absence, and
      I have brought myself so to it, that I have no great mind to be abroad,
      which I could not have believed of myself. I got home, and after being
      there a little, she come, and two of her fellow-travellers with her, with
      whom we drunk: a couple of merchant-like men, I think, but have friends in
      our country. They being gone, I and my wife to talk, who did give me so
      bad an account of her and my father's method in burying of our gold, that
      made me mad: and she herself is not pleased with it, she believing that my
      sister knows of it. My father and she did it on Sunday, when they were
      gone to church, in open daylight, in the midst of the garden; where, for
      aught they knew, many eyes might see them: which put me into such trouble,
      that I was almost mad about it, and presently cast about, how to have it
      back again to secure it here, the times being a little better now; at
      least at White Hall they seem as if they were, but one way or other I am
      resolved to free them from the place if I can get them. Such was my
      trouble at this, that I fell out with my wife, that though new come to
      towne, I did not sup with her, nor speak to her tonight, but to bed and
      sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, without any respect to my wife, only answering her a question or
      two, without any anger though, and so to the office, where all the morning
      busy, and among other things Mr. Barber come to me (one of the clerks of
      the Ticket office) to get me to sign some tickets, and told me that all
      the discourse yesterday, about that part of the town where he was, was
      that Mr. Pett and I were in the Tower; and I did hear the same before. At
      noon, home to dinner, and there my wife and I very good friends; the care
      of my gold being somewhat over, considering it was in their hands that
      have as much cause to secure it as myself almost, and so if they will be
      mad, let them. But yet I do intend to, send for it away. Here dined Mercer
      with us, and after dinner she cut my hair, and then I into my closet and
      there slept a little, as I do now almost every day after dinner; and then,
      after dallying a little with Nell, which I am ashamed to think of, away to
      the office. Busy all the afternoon; in the evening did treat with, and in
      the end agree; but by some kind of compulsion, with the owners of six
      merchant ships, to serve the King as men-of-war. But, Lord! to see how
      against the hair it is with these men and every body to trust us and the
      King; and how unreasonable it is to expect they should be willing to lend
      their ships, and lay out 2 or L300 a man to fit their ships for new
      voyages, when we have not paid them half of what we owe them for their old
      services! I did write so to Sir W. Coventry this night. At night my wife
      and I to walk and talk again about our gold, which I am not quiet in my
      mind to be safe, and therefore will think of some way to remove it, it
      troubling me very much. So home with my wife to supper and to bed,
      miserable hot weather all night it was.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up and by water to White Hall, there to discourse with [Sir] G.
      Carteret and Mr. Fenn about office business. I found them all aground, and
      no money to do anything with. Thence homewards, calling at my Tailor's to
      bespeak some coloured clothes, and thence to Hercules Pillars, all alone,
      and there spent 6d. on myself, and so home and busy all the morning. At
      noon to dinner, home, where my wife shows me a letter from her father, who
      is going over sea, and this afternoon would take his leave of her. I sent
      him by her three Jacobuses in gold, having real pity for him and her. So I
      to my office, and there all the afternoon. This day comes news from
      Harwich that the Dutch fleete are all in sight, near 100 sail great and
      small, they think, coming towards them; where, they think, they shall be
      able to oppose them; but do cry out of the falling back of the seamen, few
      standing by them, and those with much faintness. The like they write from
      Portsmouth, and their letters this post are worth reading. Sir H. Cholmly
      come to me this day, and tells me the Court is as mad as ever; and that
      the night the Dutch burned our ships the King did sup with my Lady
      Castlemayne, at the Duchess of Monmouth's, and there were all mad in
      hunting of a poor moth. All the Court afraid of a Parliament; but he
      thinks nothing can save us but the King's giving up all to a Parliament.
      Busy at the office all the afternoon, and did much business to my great
      content. In the evening sent for home, and there I find my Lady Pen and
      Mrs. Lowther, and Mrs. Turner and my wife eating some victuals, and there
      I sat and laughed with them a little, and so to the office again, and in
      the evening walked with my wife in the garden, and did give Sir W. Pen at
      his lodgings (being just come from Deptford from attending the dispatch of
      the fire-ships there) an account of what passed the other day at Council
      touching Commissioner Pett, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and to my office, where busy, and there comes Mrs. Daniel... At
      the office I all the morning busy. At noon home to dinner, where Mr. Lewes
      Phillips, by invitation of my wife, comes, he coming up to town with her
      in the coach this week, and she expected another gentleman, a
      fellow-traveller, and I perceive the feast was for him, though she do not
      say it, but by some mistake he come not, so there was a good dinner lost.
      Here we had the two Mercers, and pretty merry. Much talk with Mr. Phillips
      about country business, among others that there is no way for me to
      purchase any severall lands in Brampton, or making any severall that is
      not so, without much trouble and cost, and, it may be, not do it neither,
      so that there is no more ground to be laid to our Brampton house. After
      dinner I left them, and to the office, and thence to Sir W. Pen's, there
      to talk with Mrs. Lowther, and by and by we hearing Mercer and my boy
      singing at my house, making exceeding good musique, to the joy of my
      heart, that I should be the master of it, I took her to my office and
      there merry a while, and then I left them, and at the office busy all the
      afternoon, and sleepy after a great dinner. In the evening come Captain
      Hart and Haywood to me about the six merchant-ships now taken up for
      men-of-war; and in talk they told me about the taking of "The Royal
      Charles;" that nothing but carelessness lost the ship, for they might have
      saved her the very tide that the Dutch come up, if they would have but
      used means and had had but boats: and that the want of boats plainly lost
      all the other ships. That the Dutch did take her with a boat of nine men,
      who found not a man on board her, and her laying so near them was a main
      temptation to them to come on; and presently a man went up and struck her
      flag and jacke, and a trumpeter sounded upon her "Joan's placket is torn,"
      that they did carry her down at a time, both for tides and wind, when the
      best pilot in Chatham would not have undertaken it, they heeling her on
      one side to make her draw little water: and so carried her away safe. They
      being gone, by and by comes Sir W. Pen home, and he and I together
      talking. He hath been at Court; and in the first place, I hear the Duke of
      Cambridge is dead; a which is a great loss to the nation, having, I think,
      never an heyre male now of the King's or Duke's to succeed to the Crown.
      He tells me that they do begin already to damn the Dutch, and call them
      cowards at White Hall, and think of them and their business no better than
      they used to do; which is very sad. The King did tell him himself, which
      is so, I was told, here in the City, that the City, hath lent him L10,000,
      to be laid out towards securing of the River of Thames; which, methinks,
      is a very poor thing, that we should be induced to borrow by such mean
      sums. He tells me that it is most manifest that one great thing making it
      impossible for us to have set out a fleete this year, if we could have
      done it for money or stores, was the liberty given the beginning of the
      year for the setting out of merchant-men, which did take up, as is said,
      above ten, if not fifteen thousand seamen: and this the other day Captain
      Cocke tells me appears in the council-books, that is the number of seamen
      required to man the merchant ships that had passes to go abroad. By and
      by, my wife being here, they sat down and eat a bit of their nasty
      victuals, and so parted and we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). Up to my chamber, and there all the morning reading in
      my Lord Coke's Pleas of the Crowne, very fine noble reading. After church
      time comes my wife and Sir W. Pen his lady and daughter; and Mrs. Markham
      and Captain Harrison (who come to dine with them), by invitation end dined
      with me, they as good as inviting themselves. I confess I hate their
      company and tricks, and so had no great pleasure in [it], but a good
      dinner lost. After dinner they all to church, and I by water alone to
      Woolwich, and there called on Mr. Bodham: and he and I to see the batterys
      newly raised; which, indeed, are good works to command the River below the
      ships that are sunk, but not above them. Here I met with Captain Cocke and
      Matt. Wren, Fenn, and Charles Porter, and Temple and his wife. Here I fell
      in with these, and to Bodham's with them, and there we sat and laughed and
      drank in his arbour, Wren making much and kissing all the day of Temple's
      wife. It is a sad sight to see so many good ships there sunk in the River,
      while we would be thought to be masters of the sea. Cocke says the bankers
      cannot, till peace returns, ever hope to have credit again; so that they
      can pay no more money, but people must be contented to take publick
      security such as they can give them; and if so, and they do live to
      receive the money thereupon, the bankers will be happy men. Fenn read me
      an order of council passed the 17th instant, directing all the Treasurers
      of any part of the King's revenue to make no payments but such as shall be
      approved by the present Lords Commissioners; which will, I think, spoil
      the credit of all his Majesty's service, when people cannot depend upon
      payment any where. But the King's declaration in behalf of the bankers, to
      make good their assignments for money, is very good, and will, I hope,
      secure me. Cocke says, that he hears it is come to it now, that the King
      will try what he can soon do for a peace; and if he cannot, that then he
      will cast all upon the Parliament to do as they see fit: and in doing so,
      perhaps, he may save us all. The King of France, it is believed, is
      engaged for this year;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Louis XIV. was at this time in Flanders, with his queen, his
     mistresses, and all his Court.  Turenne commanded under him.  Whilst
     Charles was hunting moths at Lady Castlemaine's, and the English
     fleet was burning, Louis was carrying on the campaign with vigour.
     Armentieres was taken on the 28th May; Charleroi on the 2nd June,
     St. Winox on the 6th, Fumes on the 12th, Ath on the 16th, Toumay on
     the 24th; the Escarpe on the 6th July, Courtray on the 18th,
     Audenarde on the 31st; and Lisle on the 27th August.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      so that we shall be safe as to him. The great misery the City and kingdom
      is like to suffer for want of coals in a little time is very visible, and,
      is feared, will breed a mutiny; for we are not in any prospect to command
      the sea for our colliers to come, but rather, it is feared, the Dutch may
      go and burn all our colliers at Newcastle; though others do say that they
      lie safe enough there. No news at all of late from Bredagh what our
      Treaters do. By and by, all by water in three boats to Greenwich, there to
      Cocke's, where we supped well, and then late, Wren, Fenn, and I home by
      water, set me in at the Tower, and they to White Hall, and so I home, and
      after a little talk with my wife to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and to the office, where much business upon me by the coming of
      people of all sorts about the dispatch of one business or other of the
      fire-ships, or other ships to be set out now. This morning Greeting come,
      and I with him at my flageolet. At noon dined at home with my wife alone,
      and then in the afternoon all the day at my office. Troubled a little at a
      letter from my father, which tells me of an idle companion, one Coleman,
      who went down with him and my wife in the coach, and come up again with my
      wife, a pensioner of the King's Guard, and one that my wife, indeed, made
      the feast for on Saturday last, though he did not come; but if he knows
      nothing of our money I will prevent any other inconvenience. In the
      evening comes Mr. Povy about business; and he and I to walk in the garden
      an hour or two, and to talk of State matters. He tells me his opinion that
      it is out of possibility for us to escape being undone, there being
      nothing in our power to do that is necessary for the saving us: a lazy
      Prince, no Council, no money, no reputation at home or abroad. He says
      that to this day the King do follow the women as much as ever he did; that
      the Duke of York hath not got Mrs. Middleton, as I was told the other day:
      but says that he wants not her, for he hath others, and hath always had,
      and that he [Povy] hath known them brought through the Matted Gallery at
      White Hall into his [the Duke's] closet; nay, he hath come out of his
      wife's bed, and gone to others laid in bed for him: that Mr. Bruncker is
      not the only pimp, but that the whole family is of the same strain, and
      will do anything to please him: that, besides the death of the two Princes
      lately, the family is in horrible disorder by being in debt by spending
      above L60,000 per. annum, when he hath not L40,000: that the Duchesse is
      not only the proudest woman in the world, but the most expensefull; and
      that the Duke of York's marriage with her hath undone the kingdom, by
      making the Chancellor so great above reach, who otherwise would have been
      but an ordinary man, to have been dealt with by other people; and he would
      have been careful of managing things well, for fear of being called to
      account; whereas, now he is secure, and hath let things run to rack, as
      they now appear. That at a certain time Mr. Povy did carry him an account
      of the state of the Duke of York's estate, showing in faithfullness how he
      spent more than his estate would bear, by above L20,000 per annum, and
      asked my Lord's opinion of it; to which he answered that no man that loved
      the King or kingdom durst own the writing of that paper; at which Povy was
      startled, and reckoned himself undone for this good service, and found it
      necessary then to show it to the Duke of York's Commissioners; who read,
      examined, and approved of it, so as to cause it to be put into form, and
      signed it, and gave it the Duke. Now the end of the Chancellor was, for
      fear that his daughter's ill housewifery should be condemned. He [Povy]
      tells me that the other day, upon this ill newes of the Dutch being upon
      us, White Hall was shut up, and the Council called and sat close; and, by
      the way, he do assure me, from the mouth of some Privy-councillors, that
      at this day the Privy-council in general do know no more what the state of
      the kingdom as to peace and war is, than he or I; nor knows who manages
      it, nor upon whom it depends; and there my Lord Chancellor did make a
      speech to them, saying that they knew well that he was no friend to the
      war from the beginning, and therefore had concerned himself little in, nor
      could say much to it; and a great deal of that kind, to discharge himself
      of the fault of the war. Upon which my Lord Anglesey rose up and told his
      Majesty that he thought their coming now together was not to enquire who
      was, or was not, the cause of the war, but to enquire what was, or could
      be, done in the business of making a peace, and in whose hands that was,
      and where it was stopped or forwarded; and went on very highly to have all
      made open to them: and, by the way, I remember that Captain Cocke did the
      other day tell me that this Lord Anglesey hath said, within few days, that
      he would willingly give L10,000 of his estate that he was well secured of
      the rest, such apprehensions he hath of the sequel of things, as giving
      all over for lost. He tells me, speaking of the horrid effeminacy of the
      King, that the King hath taken ten times more care and pains in making
      friends between my Lady Castlemayne and Mrs. Stewart, when they have
      fallen out, than ever he did to save his kingdom; nay, that upon any
      falling out between my Lady Castlemayne's nurse and her woman, my Lady
      hath often said she would make the King to make them friends, and they
      would be friends and be quiet; which the King hath been fain to do: that
      the King is, at this day, every night in Hyde Park with the Duchesse of
      Monmouth, or with my Lady Castlemaine: that he [Povy] is concerned of late
      by my Lord Arlington in the looking after some buildings that he is about
      in Norfolke, where my Lord is laying out a great deal of money; and that
      he, Mr. Povy, considering the unsafeness of laying out money at such a
      time as this, and, besides, the enviousness of the particular county, as
      well as all the kingdom, to find him building and employing workmen, while
      all the ordinary people of the country are carried down to the seasides
      for securing the land, he thought it becoming him to go to my Lord
      Arlington (Sir Thomas Clifford by), and give it as his advice to hold his
      hands a little; but my Lord would not, but would have him go on, and so
      Sir Thomas Clifford advised also, which one would think, if he were a
      statesman worth a fart should be a sign of his foreseeing that all shall
      do well. But I do forbear concluding any such thing from them. He tells me
      that there is not so great confidence between any two men of power in the
      nation at this day, that he knows of, as between my Lord Arlington and Sir
      Thomas Clifford; and that it arises by accident only, there being no
      relation nor acquaintance between them, but only Sir Thomas Clifford's
      coming to him, and applying himself to him for favours, when he come first
      up to town to be a Parliament-man. He tells me that he do not think there
      is anything in the world for us possibly to be saved by but the King of
      France's generousnesse to stand by us against the Dutch, and getting us a
      tolerable peace, it may be, upon our giving him Tangier and the islands he
      hath taken, and other things he shall please to ask. He confirms me in the
      several grounds I have conceived of fearing that we shall shortly fall
      into mutinys and outrages among ourselves, and that therefore he, as a
      Treasurer, and therefore much more myself, I say, as being not only a
      Treasurer but an officer of the Navy, on whom, for all the world knows,
      the faults of all our evils are to be laid, do fear to be seized on by
      some rude hands as having money to answer for, which will make me the more
      desirous to get off of this Treasurership as soon as I can, as I had
      before in my mind resolved. Having done all this discourse, and concluded
      the kingdom in a desperate condition, we parted; and I to my wife, with
      whom was Mercer and Betty Michell, poor woman, come with her husband to
      see us after the death of her little girle. We sat in the garden together
      a while, it being night, and then Mercer and I a song or two, and then in
      (the Michell's home), my wife, Mercer, and I to supper, and then parted
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen in his new chariot (which indeed is plain,
      but pretty and more fashionable in shape than any coach he hath, and yet
      do not cost him, harness and all, above L32) to White Hall; where staid a
      very little: and thence to St. James's to [Sir] W. Coventry, whom I have
      not seen since before the coming of the Dutch into the river, nor did
      indeed know how well to go see him, for shame either to him or me, or both
      of us, to find ourselves in so much misery. I find that he and his
      fellow-Treasurers are in the utmost want of money, and do find fault with
      Sir G. Carteret, that, having kept the mystery of borrowing money to
      himself so long, to the ruin of the nation, as [Sir] W. Coventry said in
      words to [Sir] W. Pen and me, he should now lay it aside and come to them
      for money for every penny he hath, declaring that he can raise no more:
      which, I confess, do appear to me the most like ill-will of any thing that
      I have observed of [Sir] W. Coventry, when he himself did tell us, on
      another occasion at the same time, that the bankers who used to furnish
      them money are not able to lend a farthing, and he knows well enough that
      that was all the mystery [Sir] G. Carteret did use, that is, only his
      credit with them. He told us the masters and owners of the two ships that
      I had complained of, for not readily setting forth their ships, which we
      had taken up to make men-of-war, had been yesterday with the King and
      Council, and had made their case so well understood, that the King did owe
      them for what they had earned the last year, that they could not set them
      out again without some money or stores out of the King's Yards; the latter
      of which [Sir] W. Coventry said must be done, for that they were not able
      to raise money for them, though it was but L200 a ship: which do skew us
      our condition to be so bad, that I am in a total despair of ever having
      the nation do well. After talking awhile, and all out of heart with
      stories of want of seamen, and seamen's running away, and their demanding
      a month's advance, and our being forced to give seamen 3s. a-day to go
      hence to work at Chatham, and other things that show nothing but
      destruction upon us; for it is certain that, as it now is, the seamen of
      England, in my conscience, would, if they could, go over and serve the
      King of France or Holland rather than us. Up to the Duke of York to his
      chamber, where he seems to be pretty easy, and now and then merry; but yet
      one may perceive in all their minds there is something of trouble and
      care, and with good reason. Thence to White Hall, and with Sir W. Pen, by
      chariot; and there in the Court met with my Lord Anglesey: and he to talk
      with [Sir] W. Pen, and told him of the masters of ships being with the
      Council yesterday, and that we were not in condition, though the men were
      willing, to furnish them with L200 of money, already due to them as earned
      by them the last year, to enable them to set out their ships again this
      year for the King: which he is amazed at; and when I told him, "My Lord,
      this is a sad instance of the condition we are in," he answered, that it
      was so indeed, and sighed: and so parted: and he up to the
      Council-chamber, where I perceive they sit every morning, and I to
      Westminster Hall, where it is Term time. I met with none I knew, nor did
      desire it, but only past through the-Hall and so back again, and by coach
      home to dinner, being weary indeed of seeing the world, and thinking it
      high time for me to provide against the foul weather that is certainly
      coming upon us. So to the office, and there [Sir] W. Pen and I did some
      business, and then home to dinner, where my wife pleases me mightily with
      what she can do upon the flageolet, and then I to the office again, and
      busy all the afternoon, and it is worth noting that the King and Council,
      in their order of the 23rd instant, for unloading three merchant-ships
      taken up for the King's service for men-of-war, do call the late coming of
      the Dutch "an invasion." I was told, yesterday, that Mr. Oldenburg, our
      Secretary at Gresham College, is put into the Tower, for writing newes to
      a virtuoso in France, with whom he constantly corresponds in philosophical
      matters; which makes it very unsafe at this time to write, or almost do
      any thing. Several captains come to the office yesterday and to-day,
      complaining that their men come and go when they will, and will not be
      commanded, though they are paid every night, or may be. Nay, this
      afternoon comes Harry Russell from Gravesend, telling us that the money
      carried down yesterday for the Chest at Chatham had like to have been
      seized upon yesterday, in the barge there, by seamen, who did beat our
      watermen: and what men should these be but the boat's crew of Sir
      Fretcheville Hollis, who used to brag so much of the goodness and order of
      his men, and his command over them. Busy all the afternoon at the office.
      Towards night I with Mr. Kinaston to White Hall about a Tangier order, but
      lost our labour, only met Sir H. Cholmly there, and he tells me great
      newes; that this day in Council the King hath declared that he will call
      his Parliament in thirty days: which is the best newes I have heard a
      great while, and will, if any thing, save the kingdom. How the King come
      to be advised to this, I know not; but he tells me that it was against the
      Duke of York's mind flatly, who did rather advise the King to raise money
      as he pleased; and against the Chancellor's, who told the King that Queen
      Elizabeth did do all her business in eighty-eight without calling a
      Parliament, and so might he do, for anything he saw. But, blessed be God!
      it is done; and pray God it may hold, though some of us must surely go to
      the pot, for all must be flung up to them, or nothing will be done. So
      back home, and my wife down by water, I sent her, with Mrs. Hewer and her
      son, W. Hewer, to see the sunk ships, while I staid at the office, and in
      the evening was visited by Mr. Roberts the merchant by us about the
      getting him a ship cleared from serving the King as a man of war, which I
      will endeavour to do. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and in dressing myself in my dressing chamber comes up Nell, and
      I did play with her.... So being ready I to White Hall by water, and there
      to the Lords Treasurers' chamber, and there wait, and here it is every
      body's discourse that the Parliament is ordered to meet the 25th of July,
      being, as they say, St. James's day; which every creature is glad of. But
      it is pretty to consider how, walking to the Old Swan from my house, I met
      Sir Thomas Harvy, whom, asking the newes of the Parliament's meeting, he
      told me it was true, and they would certainly make a great rout among us.
      I answered, I did not care for my part, though I was ruined, so that the
      Commonwealth might escape ruin by it. He answered, that is a good one, in
      faith; for you know yourself to be secure, in being necessary to the
      office; but for my part, says he, I must look to be removed; but then,
      says he, I doubt not but I shall have amends made me; for all the world
      knows upon what terms I come in; which is a saying that a wise man would
      not unnecessarily have said, I think, to any body, meaning his buying his
      place of my Lord Barkely [of Stratton]. So we parted, and I to White Hall,
      as I said before, and there met with Sir Stephen Fox and Mr. Scawen, who
      both confirm the news of the Parliament's meeting. Here I staid for an
      order for my Tangier money, L30,000, upon the 11 months' tax, and so away
      to my Lord Arlington's office, and there spoke to him about Mr. Lanyon's
      business, and received a good answer, and thence to Westminster Hall and
      there walked a little, and there met with Colonell Reames, who tells me of
      a letter come last night, or the day before, from my Lord St. Albans, out
      of France, wherein he says, that the King of France did lately fall out
      with him, giving him ill names, saying that he had belied him to our King,
      by saying that he had promised to assist our King, and to forward the
      peace; saying that indeed he had offered to forward the peace at such a
      time, but it was not accepted of, and so he thinks himself not obliged,
      and would do what was fit for him; and so made him to go out of his sight
      in great displeasure: and he hath given this account to the King, which,
      Colonell Reymes tells me, puts them into new melancholy at Court, and he
      believes hath forwarded the resolution of calling the Parliament.
      Wherewith for all this I am very well contented, and so parted and to the
      Exchequer, but Mr. Burgess was not in his office; so alone to the Swan,
      and thither come Mr. Kinaston to me, and he and I into a room and there
      drank and discoursed, and I am mightily pleased with him for a most
      diligent and methodical man in all his business. By and by to Burgess, and
      did as much as we could with him about our Tangier order, though we met
      with unexpected delays in it, but such as are not to be avoided by reason
      of the form of the Act and the disorders which the King's necessities do
      put upon it, and therefore away by coach, and at White Hall spied Mr.
      Povy, who tells me, as a great secret, which none knows but himself, that
      Sir G. Carteret hath parted with his place of Treasurer of the Navy, by
      consent, to my Lord Anglesey, and is to be Treasurer of Ireland in his
      stead; but upon what terms it is I know not, but Mr. Povy tells it is so,
      and that it is in his power to bring me to as great a friendship and
      confidence in my Lord Anglesey as ever I was with [Sir] W. Coventry, which
      I am glad of, and so parted, and I to my tailor's about turning my old
      silk suit and cloak into a suit and vest, and thence with Mr. Kinaston
      (whom I had set down in the Strand and took up again at the Temple gate)
      home, and there to dinner, mightily pleased with my wife's playing on the
      flageolet, and so after dinner to the office. Such is the want already of
      coals, and the despair of having any supply, by reason of the enemy's
      being abroad, and no fleete of ours to secure, that they are come, as Mr.
      Kinaston tells me, at this day to L5 10s. per chaldron. All the afternoon
      busy at the office. In the evening with my wife and Mercer took coach and
      to Islington to the Old House, and there eat and drank and sang with great
      pleasure, and then round by Hackney home with great pleasure, and when
      come home to bed, my stomach not being well pleased with the cream we had
      to-night.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Wakened this morning, about three o'clock, by Mr. Griffin with a
      letter from Sir W. Coventry to W. Pen, which W. Pen sent me to see, that
      the Dutch are come up to the Nore again, and he knows not whether further
      or no, and would have, therefore, several things done: ships sunk, and I
      know not what&mdash;which Sir W. Pen (who it seems is very ill this night,
      or would be thought so) hath directed Griffin to carry to the Trinity
      House; so he went away with the letter, and I tried and with much ado did
      get a little sleep more, and so up about six o'clock, full of thought what
      to do with the little money I have left and my plate, wishing with all my
      heart that that was all secured. So to the office, where much business all
      the morning, and the more by my brethren being all out of the way; Sir W.
      Pen this night taken so ill cannot stir; [Sir] W. Batten ill at
      Walthamstow; Sir J. Minnes the like at Chatham, and my Lord Bruncker there
      also upon business. Horrible trouble with the backwardness of the
      merchants to let us have their ships, and seamen's running away, and not
      to be got or kept without money. It is worth turning to our letters this
      day to Sir W. Coventry about these matters. At noon to dinner, having a
      haunch of venison boiled; and all my clerks at dinner with me; and
      mightily taken with Mr. Gibson's discourse of the faults of this war in
      its management compared [with] that in the last war, which I will get him
      to put into writing. Thence, after dinner, to the office again, and there
      I saw the proclamations come out this day for the Parliament to meet the
      25th of next month; for which God be praised! and another to invite seamen
      to bring in their complaints, of their being ill-used in the getting their
      tickets and money, there being a Committee of the Council appointed to
      receive their complaints. This noon W. Hewer and T. Hater both tell me
      that it is all over the town, and Mr. Pierce tells me also, this afternoon
      coming to me, that for certain Sir G. Carteret hath parted with his
      Treasurer's place, and that my Lord Anglesey is in it upon agreement and
      change of places, though the latter part I do not think. This Povy told me
      yesterday, and I think it is a wise act of [Sir] G. Carteret. Pierce tells
      me that he hears for certain fresh at Court, that France and we shall
      agree; and more, that yesterday was damned at the Council, the Canary
      Company; and also that my Lord Mordaunt hath laid down his Commission,
      both good things to please the Parliament, which I hope will do good.
      Pierce tells me that all the town do cry out of our office, for a pack of
      fools and knaves; but says that everybody speaks either well, or at least
      the best of me, which is my great comfort, and think I do deserve it, and
      shall shew I have; but yet do think, and he also, that the Parliament will
      send us all going; and I shall be well contented with it, God knows! But
      he tells me how Matt. Wren should say that he was told that I should say
      that W. Coventry was guilty of the miscarriage at Chatham, though I
      myself, as he confesses, did tell him otherwise, and that it was wholly
      Pett's fault. This do trouble me, not only as untrue, but as a design in
      some [one] or other to do me hurt; for, as the thing is false, so it never
      entered into my mouth or thought, nor ever shall. He says that he hath
      rectified Wren in his belief of this, and so all is well. He gone, I to
      business till the evening, and then by chance home, and find the fellow
      that come up with my wife, Coleman, last from Brampton, a silly rogue, but
      one that would seem a gentleman; but I did not stay with him. So to the
      office, where late, busy, and then to walk a little in the garden, and so
      home to supper and to bed. News this tide, that about 80 sail of the
      Dutch, great and small were seen coming up the river this morning; and
      this tide some of them to the upper end of the Hope.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and hear Sir W. Batten is come to town: I to see him; he is very
      ill of his fever, and come to town only for advice. Sir J. Minnes, I hear
      also, is very ill all this night, worse than before. Thence I going out
      met at the gate Sir H. Cholmly coming to me, and I to him in the coach,
      and both of us presently to St. James's, by the way discoursing of some
      Tangier business about money, which the want of I see will certainly bring
      the place into a bad condition. We find the Duke of York and [Sir] W.
      Coventry gone this morning, by two o'clock, to Chatham, to come home
      to-night: and it is fine to observe how both the King and Duke of York
      have, in their several late journeys to and again, done them in the night
      for coolnesse. Thence with him to the Treasury Chamber, and then to the
      Exchequer to inform ourselves a little about our warrant for L30,000 for
      Tangier, which vexes us that it is so far off in time of payment. Having
      walked two or three turns with him in the Hall we parted, and I home by
      coach, and did business at the office till noon, and then by water to
      White Hall to dinner to Sir G. Carteret, but he not at home, but I dined
      with my Lady and good company, and good dinner. My Lady and the family in
      very good humour upon this business of his parting with his place of
      Treasurer of the Navy, which I perceive they do own, and we did talk of it
      with satisfaction. They do here tell me that the Duke of Buckingham hath
      surrendered himself to Secretary Morrice, and is going to the Tower. Mr.
      Fenn, at the table, says that he hath been taken by the watch two or three
      times of late, at unseasonable hours, but so disguised that they could not
      know him: and when I come home, by and by, Mr. Lowther tells me that the
      Duke of Buckingham do dine publickly this day at Wadlow's, at the Sun
      Tavern; and is mighty merry, and sent word to the Lieutenant of the Tower,
      that he would come to him as soon as he had dined. Now, how sad a thing it
      is, when we come to make sport of proclaiming men traitors, and banishing
      them, and putting them out of their offices, and Privy Council, and of
      sending to and going to the Tower: God have mercy on us! At table, my Lady
      and Sir Philip Carteret have great and good discourse of the greatness of
      the present King of France&mdash;what great things he hath done, that a
      man may pass, at any hour in the night, all over that wild city [Paris],
      with a purse in his hand and no danger: that there is not a beggar to be
      seen in it, nor dirt lying in it; that he hath married two of Colbert's
      daughters to two of the greatest princes of France, and given them
      portions&mdash;bought the greatest dukedom in France, and given it to
      Colbert;
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     [The Carterets appear to have mystified Pepys, who eagerly believed
     all that was told him.  At this time Paris was notoriously unsafe,
     infested with robbers and beggars, and abominably unclean.  Colbert
     had three daughters, of whom the eldest was just married when Pepys
     wrote, viz., Jean Marie Therese, to the Duc de Chevreuse, on the 3rd
     February, 1667.  The second daughter, Henriette Louise, was not
     married to the Duc de St. Aignan till January 21st, 1671; and the
     third, Marie Anne, to the Duc de Mortemart, February 14th, 1679.
     Colbert himself was never made a duke.  His highest title was
     Marquis de Seignelay.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and ne'er a prince in France dare whisper against it, whereas here our
      King cannot do any such thing, but everybody's mouth is open against him
      for it, and the man that hath the favour also. That to several commanders
      that had not money to set them out to the present campagne, he did of his
      own accord&mdash;send them L1000 sterling a-piece, to equip themselves.
      But then they did enlarge upon the slavery of the people&mdash;that they
      are taxed more than the real estates they have; nay, it is an ordinary
      thing for people to desire to give the King all their land that they have,
      and themselves become only his tenants, and pay him rent to the full value
      of it: so they may have but their earnings, But this will not be granted;
      but he shall give the value of his rent, and part of his labour too. That
      there is not a petty governor of a province&mdash;nay, of a town, but he
      will take the daughter from the richest man in the town under him, that
      hath got anything, and give her to his footman for a wife if he pleases,
      and the King of France will do the like to the best man in his kingdom&mdash;take
      his daughter from him, and give her to his footman, or whom he pleases. It
      is said that he do make a sport of us now; and says, that he knows no
      reason why his cozen, the King of England, should not be as willing to let
      him have his kingdom, as that the Dutch should take it from him, which is
      a most wretched thing that ever we should live to be in this most
      contemptible condition. After dinner Sir G. Carteret come in, and I to him
      and my Lady, and there he did tell me that the business was done between
      him and my Lord Anglesey; that himself is to have the other's place of
      Deputy Treasurer of Ireland, which is a place of honour and great profit,
      being far better, I know not for what reason, but a reason there is, than
      the Treasurer's, my Lord of Corke's, and to give the other his, of
      Treasurer of the Navy; that the King, at his earnest entreaty, did, with
      much unwillingness, but with owning of great obligations to him, for his
      faithfulness and long service to him and his father, and therefore was
      willing to grant his desire. That the Duke of York hath given him the same
      kind words, so that it is done with all the good manner that could be, and
      he I perceive do look upon it, and so do I, I confess, as a great good
      fortune to him to meet with one of my Lord Anglesey's quality willing to
      receive it at this time. Sir W. Coventry he hath not yet made acquainted
      with it, nor do intend it, it being done purely to ease himself of the
      many troubles and plagues which he thinks the perverseness and unkindness
      of Sir W. Coventry and others by his means have and is likely every day to
      bring upon him, and the Parliament's envy, and lastly to put himself into
      a condition of making up his accounts, which he is, he says, afeard he
      shall never otherwise be. My Lord Chancellor, I perceive, is his friend in
      it. I remember I did in the morning tell Sir H. Cholmly of this business:
      and he answered me, he was sorry for it; for, whatever Sir G. Carteret
      was, he is confident my Lord Anglesey is one of the greatest knaves in the
      world, which is news to me, but I shall make my use of it. Having done
      this discourse with Sir G. Carteret, and signified my great satisfaction
      in it, which they seem to look upon as something, I went away and by coach
      home, and there find my wife making of tea, a drink which Mr. Pelling, the
      Potticary, tells her is good for her cold and defluxions. I to the office
      (whither come Mr. Carcasse to me to sue for my favour to him), and Sir W.
      Pen's, where I find Mr. Lowther come to town after the journey, and after
      a small visit to him, I to the office to do much business, and then in the
      evening to Sir W. Batten's, to see how he did; and he is better than he
      was. He told me how Mrs. Lowther had her train held up yesterday by her
      page, at his house in the country; which is so ridiculous a piece of pride
      as I am ashamed of. He told me also how he hears by somebody that my Lord
      Bruncker's maid hath told that her lady Mrs. Williams had sold her jewels
      and clothes to raise money for something or other; and indeed the last
      night a letter was sent from her to me, to send to my Lord, with about
      five pieces of gold in it, which methought at the time was but a poor
      supply. I then to Sir W. Pen, who continues a little ill, or dissembles
      it, the latter of which I am apt to believe. Here I staid but little, not
      meaning much kindness in it; and so to the office, and dispatched more
      business; and then home at night, and to supper with my wife, and who
      should come in but Mr. Pelling, and supped with us, and told us the news
      of the town; how the officers of the Navy are cried out upon, and a great
      many greater men; but do think that I shall do well enough; and I think,
      if I have justice, I shall. He tells me of my Lord Duke of Buckingham, his
      dining to-day at the Sun, and that he was mighty merry; and, what is
      strange, tells me that really he is at this day a very popular man, the
      world reckoning him to suffer upon no other account than that he did
      propound in Parliament to have all the questions that had to do with the
      receipt of the taxes and prizes; but they must be very silly that do think
      he can do any thing out of good intention. After a great deal of
      tittle-tattle with this honest man, he gone we to bed. We hear that the
      Dutch are gone down again; and thanks be to God! the trouble they give us
      this second time is not very considerable.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, having had many ugly dreams to-night of my father and my sister
      and mother's coming to us, and meeting my wife and me at the gate of the
      office going out, they all in laced suits, and come, they told me, to be
      with me this May day. My mother told me she lacked a pair of gloves, and I
      remembered a pair of my wife's in my chamber, and resolved she should have
      them, but then recollected how my mother come to be here when I was in
      mourning for her, and so thinking it to be a mistake in our thinking her
      all this while dead, I did contrive that it should be said to any that
      enquired that it was my mother-in-law, my wife's mother, that was dead,
      and we in mourning for. This dream troubled me and I waked.... These
      dreams did trouble me mightily all night. Up, and by coach to St. James's,
      and there find Sir W. Coventry and Sir W. Pen above stairs, and then we to
      discourse about making up our accounts against the Parliament; and Sir W.
      Coventry did give us the best advice he could for us to provide for our
      own justification, believing, as everybody do, that they will fall heavily
      upon us all, though he lay all upon want of money, only a little, he says
      (if the Parliament be in any temper), may be laid upon themselves for not
      providing money sooner, they being expressly and industriously warned
      thereof by him, he says, even to the troubling them, that some of them did
      afterwards tell him that he had frighted them. He says he do prepare to
      justify himself, and that he hears that my Lord Chancellor, my Lord
      Arlington, the Vice Chamberlain and himself are reported all up and down
      the Coffee houses to be the four sacrifices that must be made to atone the
      people. Then we to talk of the loss of all affection and obedience, now in
      the seamen, so that all power is lost. He told us that he do concur in
      thinking that want of money do do the most of it, but that that is not
      all, but the having of gentlemen Captains, who discourage all Tarpaulins,
      and have given out that they would in a little time bring it to that pass
      that a Tarpaulin should not dare to aspire to more than to be a Boatswain
      or a gunner. That this makes the Sea Captains to lose their own good
      affections to the service, and to instil it into the seamen also, and that
      the seamen do see it themselves and resent it; and tells us that it is
      notorious, even to his bearing of great ill will at Court, that he hath
      been the opposer of gentlemen Captains; and Sir W. Pen did put in, and
      said that he was esteemed to have been the man that did instil it into Sir
      W. Coventry, which Sir W. Coventry did owne also, and says that he hath
      always told the Gentlemen Captains his opinion of them, and that himself
      who had now served to the business of the sea 6 or 7 years should know a
      little, and as much as them that had never almost been at sea, and that
      yet he found himself fitter to be a Bishop or Pope than to be a
      Sea-Commander, and so indeed he is. I begun to tell him of the experience
      I had of the great brags made by Sir F. Hollis the other day, and the
      little proof either of the command or interest he had in his men, which
      Sir W. Pen seconded by saying Sir Fr. Hollis had told him that there was
      not a pilot to be got the other day for his fire-ships, and so was forced
      to carry them down himself, which Sir W. Coventry says, in my conscience,
      he knows no more to do and understand the River no more than he do Tiber
      or Ganges. Thence I away with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, to the Treasury
      Chamber, but to no purpose, and so by coach home, and there to my office
      to business, and then home to dinner, and to pipe with my wife, and so to
      the office again, having taken a resolution to take a turn to Chatham
      to-morrow, indeed to do business of the King's, but also to give myself
      the satisfaction of seeing the place after the Dutch have been here. I
      have sent to and got Creed to go with me by coach betimes to-morrow
      morning. After having done my business at the office I home, and there I
      found Coleman come again to my house, and with my wife in our great
      chamber, which vexed me, there being a bed therein. I staid there awhile,
      and then to my study vexed, showing no civility to the man. But he comes
      on a compliment to receive my wife's commands into the country, whither he
      is going, and it being Saturday my wife told me there was no other room
      for her to bring him in, and so much is truth. But I staid vexed in my
      closet till by and by my cozen Thomas Pepys, of Hatcham, come to see me,
      and he up to my closet, and there sat talking an hour or two of the sad
      state of the times, whereof we did talk very freely, and he thinks nothing
      but a union of religious interests will ever settle us; and I do think
      that, and the Parliament's taking the whole management of things into
      their hands, and severe inquisitions into our miscarriages; will help us.
      After we had bewailed ourselves and the kingdom very freely one to another
      (wherein I do blame myself for my freedom of speech to anybody), he gone,
      and Coleman gone also before, I to the office, whither Creed come by my
      desire, and he and I to my wife, to whom I now propose the going to
      Chatham, who, mightily pleased with it, sent for Mercer to go with her,
      but she could not go, having friends at home, which vexed my wife and me;
      and the poor wretch would have had anybody else to have gone, but I would
      like nobody else, so was contented to stay at home, on condition to go to
      Ispsum next Sunday, which I will do, and so I to the office to dispatch my
      business, and then home to supper with Creed, and then Creed and I
      together to bed, very pleasant in discourse. This day talking with Sir W.
      Batten, he did give me an account how ill the King and Duke of York was
      advised to send orders for our frigates and fire-ships to come from
      Gravesend, soon as ever news come of the Dutch being returned into the
      river, wherein no seamen, he believes, was advised with; for, says he, we
      might have done just as Warwicke did, when he, W. Batten; come with the
      King and the like fleete, in the late wars, into the river: for Warwicke
      did not run away from them, but sailed before them when they sailed, and
      come to anchor when they come to anchor, and always kept in a small
      distance from them: so as to be able to take any opportunity of any of
      their ships running aground, or change of wind, or any thing else, to his
      advantage. So might we have done with our fire-ships, and we have lost an
      opportunity of taking or burning a good ship of their's, which was run
      aground about Holehaven, I think he said, with the wind so as their ships
      could not get her away; but we might have done what we would with her,
      and, it may be, done them mischief, too, with the wind. This seems very
      probable, and I believe was not considered.
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    <p>
      30th (Lord's day). Up about three o'clock, and Creed and I got ourselves
      ready, and took coach at our gate, it being very fine weather, and the
      cool of the morning, and with much pleasure, without any stop, got to
      Rochester about ten of the clock, all the way having mighty pleasant talk
      of the fate that is over all we do, that it seems as if we were designed
      in every thing, by land by sea, to undo ourselves. At the foot of
      Rochester bridge, at the landing-place, I met my Lord Bruncker and my Lord
      Douglas, and all the officers of the soldiers in the town, waiting there
      for the Duke of York, whom they heard was coming thither this day; by and
      by comes my Lord Middleton, the first time I remember to have seen him,
      well mounted, who had been to meet him, but come back without him; he
      seems a fine soldier, and so every body says he is; and a man, like my
      Lord Teviott, and indeed most of the Scotch gentry, as I observe, of few
      words. After staying here by the water-side and seeing the boats come up
      from Chatham, with them that rowed with bandeleeres about their shoulders,
      and muskets in their boats, they being the workmen of the Yard, who have
      promised to redeem their credit, lost by their deserting the service when
      the Dutch were there, my Lord Bruncker went with Lord Middleton to his
      inne, the Crowne, to dinner, which I took unkindly, but he was slightly
      invited. So I and Creed down by boat to Chatham-yard (our watermen having
      their bandeleeres about them all the way), and to Commissioner Pett's
      house, where my Lord Bruncker told me that I should meet with his dinner
      two dishes of meat, but did not, but however by the help of Mr. Wiles had
      some beer and ale brought me, and a good piece of roast beef from
      somebody's table, and eat well at two, and after dinner into the garden to
      shew Creed, and I must confess it must needs be thought a sorrowful thing
      for a man that hath taken so much pains to make a place neat to lose it as
      Commissioner Pett must now this. Thence to see the batteries made; which,
      indeed, are very fine, and guns placed so as one would think the River
      should be very secure. I was glad, as also it was new to me, to see so
      many fortifications as I have of late seen, and so up to the top of the
      Hill, there to look, and could see towards Sheerenesse, to spy the Dutch
      fleete, but could make [out] none but one vessel, they being all gone. But
      here I was told, that, in all the late attempt, there was but one man that
      they knew killed on shore: and that was a man that had laid himself upon
      his belly upon one of the hills, on the other side of the River, to see
      the action; and a bullet come, took the ground away just under his belly,
      and ripped up his belly, and so was killed. Thence back to the docke, and
      in my way saw how they are fain to take the deals of the rope-house to
      supply other occasions, and how sillily the country troopers look, that
      stand upon the passes there; and, methinks, as if they were more willing
      to run away than to fight, and it is said that the country soldiers did
      first run at Sheerenesse, but that then my Lord Douglas's men did run
      also; but it is excused that there was no defence for them towards the
      sea, that so the very beach did fly in their faces as the bullets come,
      and annoyed them, they having, after all this preparation of the officers
      of the ordnance, only done something towards the land, and nothing at all
      towards the sea. The people here everywhere do speak very badly of Sir
      Edward Spragge, as not behaving himself as he should have done in that
      business, going away with the first, and that old Captain Pyne, who, I am
      here told, and no sooner, is Master-Gunner of England, was the last that
      staid there. Thence by barge, it raining hard, down to the chaine; and in
      our way did see the sad wrackes of the poor "Royall Oake," "James," and
      "London;"
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     ["The bottom of the 'Royal James' is got afloat, and those of the
     'Loyal London' and 'Royal Oak' soon will be so.  Many men are at work
     to put Sheerness in a posture of defence, and a boom is being fitted
     over the river by Upnor Castle, which with the good fortifications
     will leave nothing to fear."&mdash;Calendar of State Papers, 1667, p.
     285.]
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      and several other of our ships by us sunk, and several of the enemy's,
      whereof three men-of-war that they could not get off, and so burned. We
      did also see several dead bodies lie by the side of the water. I do not
      see that Upnor Castle hath received any hurt by them, though they played
      long against it; and they themselves shot till they had hardly a gun left
      upon the carriages, so badly provided they were: they have now made two
      batteries on that side, which will be very good, and do good service. So
      to the chaine, and there saw it fast at the end on Upnor side of the
      River; very fast, and borne up upon the several stages across the River;
      and where it is broke nobody can tell me. I went on shore on Upnor side to
      look upon the end of the chaine; and caused the link to be measured, and
      it was six inches and one-fourth in circumference. They have burned the
      Crane House that was to hawl it taught. It seems very remarkable to me,
      and of great honour to the Dutch, that those of them that did go on shore
      to Gillingham, though they went in fear of their lives, and were some of
      them killed; and, notwithstanding their provocation at Schelling, yet
      killed none of our people nor plundered their houses, but did take some
      things of easy carriage, and left the rest, and not a house burned; and,
      which is to our eternal disgrace, that what my Lord Douglas's men, who
      come after them, found there, they plundered and took all away; and the
      watermen that carried us did further tell us, that our own soldiers are
      far more terrible to those people of the country-towns than the Dutch
      themselves. We were told at the batteries, upon my seeing of the
      field-guns that were there, that, had they come a day sooner, they had
      been able to have saved all; but they had no orders, and lay lingering
      upon the way, and did not come forward for want of direction. Commissioner
      Pett's house was all unfurnished, he having carried away all his goods. I
      met with no satisfaction whereabouts the chaine was broke, but do confess
      I met with nobody that I could well expect to have satisfaction [from], it
      being Sunday; and the officers of the Yard most of them abroad, or at the
      Hill house, at the pay of the Chest, which they did make use of to day to
      do part in. Several complaints, I hear, of the Monmouth's coming away too
      soon from the chaine, where she was placed with the two guard-ships to
      secure it; and Captain Robert Clerke, my friend, is blamed for so doing
      there, but I hear nothing of him at London about it; but Captain Brookes's
      running aground with the "Sancta Maria," which was one of the three ships
      that were ordered to be sunk to have dammed up the River at the chaine, is
      mightily cried against, and with reason, he being the chief man to approve
      of the abilities of other men, and the other two slips did get safe
      thither and he run aground; but yet I do hear that though he be blameable,
      yet if she had been there, she nor two more to them three would have been
      able to have commanded the river all over. I find that here, as it hath
      been in our river, fire-ships, when fitted, have been sunk afterwards, and
      particularly those here at the Mussle, where they did no good at all. Our
      great ships that were run aground and sunk are all well raised but the
      "Vanguard," which they go about to raise to-morrow. "The Henery," being
      let loose to drive up the river of herself, did run up as high as the
      bridge, and broke down some of the rails of the bridge, and so back again
      with the tide, and up again, and then berthed himself so well as no pilot
      could ever have done better; and Punnet says he would not, for his life,
      have undertaken to have done it, with all his skill. I find it is true
      that the Dutch did heele "The Charles" to get her down, and yet run
      aground twice or thrice, and yet got her safe away, and have her, with a
      great many good guns in her, which none of our pilots would ever have
      undertaken. It is very considerable the quantity of goods, which the
      making of these platforms and batterys do take out of the King's stores:
      so that we shall have little left there, and, God knows! no credit to buy
      any; besides, the taking away and spending of (it is possible) several
      goods that would have been either rejected or abatement made for them
      before used. It is a strange thing to see that, while my Lords Douglas and
      Middleton do ride up and down upon single horses, my Lord Bruncker do go
      up and down with his hackney-coach and six horses at the King's charge,
      which will do, for all this time, and the time that he is likely to stay,
      must amount to a great deal. But I do not see that he hath any command
      over the seamen, he being affronted by three or four seamen before my very
      face, which he took sillily, methought; and is not able to do so much good
      as a good boatswain in this business. My Lord Bruncker, I perceive, do
      endeavour to speak well of Commissioner Pett, saying that he did exercise
      great care and pains while he was there, but do not undertake to answer
      for his not carrying up of the great ships. Back again to Rochester, and
      there walked to the Cathedral as they were beginning of the service, but
      would not be seen to stay to church there, besides had no mind, but rather
      to go to our inne, the White Hart, where we drank and were fain (the towne
      being so full of soldiers) to have a bed corded for us to lie in, I being
      unwilling to lie at the Hill house for one night, being desirous to be
      near our coach to be gone betimes to-morrow morning. Here in the streets,
      I did hear the Scotch march beat by the drums before the soldiers, which
      is very odde. Thence to the Castle, and viewed it with Creed, and had good
      satisfaction from him that showed it us touching the history of it. Then
      into the fields, a fine walk, and there saw Sir Francis Clerke's house,
      which is a pretty seat, and then back to our inne and bespoke supper, and
      so back to the fields and into the Cherry garden, where we had them fresh
      gathered, and here met with a young, plain, silly shopkeeper, and his
      wife, a pretty young woman, the man's name Hawkins, and I did kiss her,
      and we talked (and the woman of the house is a very talking bawdy jade),
      and eat cherries together, and then to walk in the fields till it was
      late, and did kiss her, and I believe had I had a fit time and place I
      might have done what I would with her. Walked back and left them at their
      house near our inne, and then to our inne, where, I hear, my Lord Bruncker
      hath sent for me to speak with me before I go: so I took his coach, which
      stands there with two horses, and to him and to his bedside, where he was
      in bed, and hath a watchman with a halbert at his door; and to him, and
      did talk a little, and find him a very weak man for this business that he
      is upon; and do pity the King's service, that is no better handled, and
      his folly to call away Pett before we could have found a better man to
      have staid in his stead; so took leave of him, and with Creed back again,
      it being now about 10 at night, and to our inne to supper, and then to
      bed, being both sleepy, but could get no sheets to our bed, only linen to
      our mouths, and so to sleep, merrily talking of Hawkins and his wife, and
      troubled that Creed did see so much of my dalliance, though very little.
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      July 1st. Up betimes, about 9 o'clock, waked by a damned noise between a
      sow gelder and a cow and a dog, nobody after we were up being able to tell
      us what it was. After being ready we took coach, and, being very sleepy,
      droused most part of the way to Gravesend, and there 'light, and down to
      the new batterys, which are like to be very fine, and there did hear a
      plain fellow cry out upon the folly of the King's officers above, to spend
      so much money in works at Woolwich and Deptford, and sinking of good ships
      loaden with goods, when, if half the charge had been laid out here, it
      would have secured all that, and this place too, before now. And I think
      it is not only true in this, but that the best of the actions of us all
      are so silly, that the meanest people begin to see through them, and
      contemn them. Besides, says he, they spoil the river by it. Then informed
      ourselves where we might have some creame, and they guided us to one Goody
      Best's, a little out of the towne towards London road, and thither we went
      with the coach, and find it a mighty clean, plain house, and had a dish of
      very good creame to our liking, and so away presently very merry, and fell
      to reading of the several Advices to a Painter, which made us good sport,
      and indeed are very witty, and Creed did also repeat to me some of the
      substance of letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth's time, which he
      hath of late read in the printed Cabbala, which is a very fine style at
      this day and fit to be imitated. With this, and talking and laughing at
      the folly of our masters in the management of things at this day, we got
      home by noon, where all well, and then to dinner, and after dinner both of
      us laid down upon the couch and chairs and to sleep, which I did for an
      hour or two, and then to the office, where I am sorry to hear that Sir J.
      Minnes is likely to die this night, or to-morrow, I forgot to set down
      that we met this morning upon the road with Mrs. Williams going down to my
      Lord Bruncker; we bowed without speaking one to another, but I am ashamed
      at the folly of the man to have her down at this serious busy time, when
      the town and country is full of people and full of censure, and against
      him particularly. At Sir W. Batten's my Lady tells me that she hears for
      certain that my Lord's maid of his lodging here do give out that Mrs.
      Williams hath been fain of late to sell her best clothes and jewels to get
      a little money upon, which is a sad condition. Thence to the office, and
      did write to my Lord Bruncker to give me a little satisfaction about the
      certainty of the chain's being broke, which I begin to doubt, and the more
      from Sir W. Pen's discourse. It is worth while to read my letter to him
      entered in my letter book. Home in the evening to supper, and so pretty
      betimes, about 10 o'clock, to bed, and slept well. This day letters are
      come that my sister is very ill.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and put on my new silke camelott suit, made of my cloak, and suit
      now made into a vest. So to the office, where W. Pen and myself, and Sir
      T. Harvy met, the first time we have had a meeting since the coming of the
      Dutch upon this coast. Our only business (for we have little else to do,
      nobody being willing to trust us for anything) was to speak with the
      owners of six merchantmen which we have been taking up this fortnight, and
      are yet in no readiness, they not fitting their ships without money
      advanced to them, we owing them for what their ships have earned the last
      year. So every thing stands still for money, while we want money to pay
      for some of the most necessary things that we promised ready money for in
      the height of our wants, as grapnells, &amp;c. At noon home to dinner, and
      after dinner my wife and Jane (mighty fine the girle) to go to see Jane's
      old mistress, who was to see her, and did see my wife the other day, and
      it is pleasant to hear with what kindness her old mistress speaks of this
      girle, and how she would still have her, and how the wench cried when she
      told her that she must come to her old mistress my wife. They gone, I to
      my chamber, and there dallied a little with my maid Nell.... and so to the
      office where busy till night, and then comes Mrs. Turner, and walks with
      me in the garden to talk with me about her husband's business, and to tell
      me how she hears at the other end of the town how bad our office is spoken
      of by the King and Prince and Duke of Albemarle, and that there is not a
      good word said of any of us but of me; and me they all do speak mightily
      of, which, whether true or no, I am mighty glad to hear, but from all put
      together that I hear from other people, I am likely to pass as well as
      anybody. So, she gone, comes my wife and to walk in the garden, Sir J.
      Minnes being still ill and so keeping us from singing, and by and by Sir
      W. Pen come and walked with us and gave us a bottle of Syder, and so we
      home to supper and to bed. This day I am told that poor Tooker is dead, a
      very painfull poor man as ever I knew.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and within most of the morning, my tailor's boy coming to alter
      something in my new suit I put on yesterday. Then to the office and did
      business, and then (my wife being a little ill of those in bed) I to Sir
      W. Batten's and dined, and there comes in Sir Richard Ford, tells us how
      he hath been at the Sessions-house, and there it is plain that there is a
      combination of rogues in the town, that do make it their business to set
      houses on fire, and that one house they did set on fire in Aldersgate
      Streete last Easter; and that this is proved by two young men, whom one of
      them debauched by degrees to steal their fathers' plate and clothes, and
      at last to be of their company; and they had their places to take up what
      goods were flung into the streets out of the windows, when the houses were
      on fire; and this is like to be proved to a great number of rogues,
      whereof five are already found, and some found guilty this day. One of
      these boys is the son of a Montagu, of my Lord Manchester's family; but
      whose son he could not tell me. This is a strange thing methinks, but I am
      glad that it is proved so true and discovered. So home, and to enter my
      Journall of my late journey to this hour, and then to the office, where to
      do a little business, and then by water to White Hall (calling at
      Michell's in my way, but the rogue would not invite me in, I having a mind
      para voir his wife), and there to the Council-chamber, to deliver a letter
      to their Lordships about the state of the six merchantmen which we have
      been so long fitting out. When I come, the King and the whole table full
      of Lords were hearing of a pitifull cause of a complaint of an old man,
      with a great grey beard, against his son, for not allowing him something
      to live on; and at last come to the ordering the son to allow his father
      L10 a year. This cause lasted them near two hours; which, methinks, at
      this time to be the work of the Council-board of England, is a scandalous
      thing, and methought Sir W. Coventry to me did own as much. Here I find
      all the newes is the enemy's landing 3,000 men near Harwich,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Richard Browne, writing to Williamson from Aldeburgh, on July 2nd,
     says: "The Dutch fleet of 80 sail has anchored in the bay; they were
     expected to land, but they tacked about, and stood first northward
     and then southward, close by Orford lighthouse, and have now passed
     the Ness towards Harwich; they have fired no guns, but made false
     fires" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1667, p. 258).]
</pre>
    <p>
      and attacking Landguard Fort, and being beat off thence with our great
      guns, killing some of their men, and they leaving their ladders behind
      them; but we had no Horse in the way on Suffolk side, otherwise we might
      have galled their Foot. The Duke of York is gone down thither this day,
      while the General sat sleeping this afternoon at the Council-table. The
      news so much talked of this Exchange, of a peace, I find by Sir Richard
      Browne arises from a letter the Swedes' agent hath received from Bredah
      and shewed at Court to-day, that they are come very near it, but I do not
      find anybody here relying upon it. This cause being over, the Trinity
      House men, whom I did not expect to meet, were called in, and there Sir W.
      Pen made a formal speech in answer to a question of the King's, whether
      the lying of the sunk ships in the river would spoil the river. But, Lord!
      how gingerly he answered it, and with a deal of do that he did not know
      whether it would be safe as to the enemy to have them taken up, but that
      doubtless it would be better for the river to have them taken up.
      Methought the Council found them answer like fools, and it ended in
      bidding them think more of it, and bring their answer in writing. Thence I
      to Westminster Hall, and there hear how they talk against the present
      management of things, and against Sir W. Coventry for his bringing in of
      new commanders and casting out the old seamen, which I did endeavour to
      rectify Mrs. Michell and them in, letting them know that he hath opposed
      it all his life the most of any man in England. After a deal of this
      tittle tattle, I to Mrs. Martin's, and there she was gone in before, but
      when I come, contrary to my expectation, I find her all in trouble, and
      what was it for but that I have got her with child.... and is in exceeding
      grief, and swears that the child is mine, which I do not believe, but yet
      do comfort her that either it cannot be so, or if it be that I will take
      care to send for her husband, though I do hardly see how I can be sure of
      that, the ship being at sea, and as far as Scotland, but however I must do
      it, and shall find some way or other of doing it, though it do trouble me
      not a little. Thence, not pleased, away to White Hall to Mr. Williamson,
      and by and by my Lord Arlington about Mr. Lanyon's business, and it is
      pretty to see how Mr. Williamson did altogether excuse himself that my
      business was not done when I come to my Lord and told him my business;
      "Why," says my Lord, "it hath been done, and the King signed it several
      days ago," and so it was and was in Mr. Williamson's hands, which made us
      both laugh, and I in innocent mirth, I remember, said, it is pretty to see
      in what a condition we are that all our matters now-a-days are undone, we
      know not how, and done we know not when. He laughed at it, but I have
      since reflected on it, and find it a severe speech as it might be taken by
      a chief minister of state, as indeed Mr. Williamson is, for he is indeed
      the Secretary. But we fell to other pleasant talk, and a fine gentleman he
      is, and so gave him L5 for his fee, and away home, and to Sir W. Batten's
      to talk a little, and then to the office to do a little business, and so
      home to supper and read myself asleep, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and, in vain expecting Sir R. Ford's calling on me, I took coach
      and to the Sessions-house, where I have a mind to hear Bazill Fielding's
      case&mdash;[See May 9th, 1667]&mdash;tried; and so got up to the Bench, my
      Lord Chief-Justice Keeling being Judge. Here I stood bare, not
      challenging, though I might well enough, to be covered. But here were
      several fine trials; among others, several brought in for making it their
      trade to set houses on fire merely to get plunder; and all proved by the
      two little boys spoken of yesterday by Sir R. Ford, who did give so good
      account of particulars that I never heard children in my life. And I
      confess, though I was unsatisfied with the force given to such little
      boys, to take away men's lives, yet, when I was told that my Lord
      Chief-Justice did declare that there was no law against taking the oath of
      children above twelve years old, and then heard from Sir R. Ford the good
      account which the boys had given of their understanding the nature and
      consequence of an oath, and now my own observation of the sobriety and
      readiness of their answers, further than of any man of any rank that come
      to give witness this day, though some men of years and learning, I was a
      little amazed, and fully satisfied that they ought to have as much credit
      as the rest. They proved against several, their consulting several times
      at a bawdy-house in Moore-Fields, called the Russia House, among many
      other rogueries, of setting houses on fire, that they might gather the
      goods that were flung into the streets; and it is worth considering how
      unsafe it is to have children play up and down this lewd town. For these
      two boys, one is my Lady Montagu's (I know not what Lady Montagu) son, and
      the other of good condition, were playing in Moore-Fields, and one rogue,
      Gabriel Holmes, did come to them and teach them to drink, and then to
      bring him plate and clothes from their fathers' houses, and carry him into
      their houses, and leaving open the doors for him, and at last were made of
      their conspiracy, and were at the very burning of this house in Aldersgate
      Street, on Easter Sunday at night last, and did gather up goods, as they
      had resolved before and this Gabriel Holmes did advise to have had two
      houses set on fire, one after another, that, while they were quenching of
      one, they might be burning another. And it is pretty that G. Holmes did
      tell his fellows, and these boys swore it, that he did set fire to a box
      of linen in the Sheriffe, Sir Joseph Shelden's' house, while he was
      attending the fire in Aldersgate Street, and the Sheriffe himself said
      that there was a fire in his house, in a box of linen, at the same time,
      but cannot conceive how this fellow should do it. The boys did swear
      against one of them, that he had made it his part to pull the plug out of
      the engine while it was a-playing; and it really was so. And goods they
      did carry away, and the manner of the setting the house on fire was, that
      Holmes did get to a cockpit; where, it seems, there was a publick cockpit,
      and set fire to the straw in it, and hath a fire-ball at the end of the
      straw, which did take fire, and so it prevailed, and burned the house;
      and, among other things they carried away, he took six of the cocks that
      were at the cockpit; and afterwards the boys told us how they had one
      dressed, by the same token it was so hard they could not eat it. But that
      which was most remarkable was the impudence of this Holmes, who hath been
      arraigned often, and still got away; and on this business was taken and
      broke loose just at Newgate Gate; and was last night luckily taken about
      Bow, who got loose, and run into the river, and hid himself in the rushes;
      and they pursued him with a dog, and the dog got him and held him till he
      was taken. But the impudence of this fellow was such, that he denied he
      ever saw the boys before, or ever knew the Russia House, or that the
      people knew him; and by and by the mistress of the Russia House was called
      in, being indicted, at the same time, about another thing; and she denied
      that the fellow was of her acquaintance, when it was pretty to see how the
      little boys did presently fall upon her, and ask her how she durst say so,
      when she was always with them when they met at her house, and particularly
      when she come in in her smock before a dozen of them, at which the Court
      laughed, and put the woman away. Well, this fellow Holmes was found guilty
      of the act of burning the house, and other things, that he stood indicted
      for. And then there were other good cases, as of a woman that come to
      serve a gentlewoman, and in three days run away, betimes in the morning,
      with a great deal of plate and rings, and other good things. It was time
      very well spent to be here. Here I saw how favourable the judge was to a
      young gentleman that struck one of the officers, for not making him room:
      told him he had endangered the loss of his hand, but that he hoped he had
      not struck him, and would suppose that he had not struck him. About that
      the Court rose, and I to dinner with my Lord Mayor and Sheriffs; where a
      good dinner and good discourse; the judge being there. There was also
      tried this morning Fielding, which I thought had been Bazilll&mdash;but it
      proved the other, and Bazill was killed; that killed his brother, who was
      found guilty of murder, and nobody pitied him. The judge seems to be a
      worthy man, and able: and do intend, for these rogues that burned this
      house to be hung in some conspicuous place in the town, for an example.
      After dinner to the Court again, where I heard some more causes, but with
      so much trouble because of the hot weather that I had no pleasure in it.
      Anon the Court rose, and I walked to Fleet streete for my belt at the
      beltmaker's, and so home and to the office, wrote some letters, and then
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and to the office, where Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, [Sir] T.
      Harvy and I met upon Mr. Gawden's accounts, and was at it all the morning.
      This morning Sir G. Carteret did come to us, and walked in the garden. It
      was to talk with me about some thing of my Lord Sandwich's, but here he
      told us that the great seale is passed to my Lord Annesly [Anglesey] for
      Treasurer of the Navy: so that now he do no more belong to us: and I
      confess, for his sake, I am glad of it, and do believe the other will have
      little content in it. At noon I home to dinner with my wife, and after
      dinner to sing, and then to the office a little and Sir W. Batten's, where
      I am vexed to hear that Nan Wright, now Mrs. Markham, Sir W. Pen's mayde
      and whore, is come to sit in our pew at church, and did so while my Lady
      Batten was there. I confess I am very much vexed at it and ashamed. By and
      by out with [Sir] W. Pen to White Hall, where I staid not, but to the New
      Exchange to buy gloves and other little errands, and so home and to my
      office busy till night, and then walked in the garden with my wife, and
      then to supper and to sing, and so to bed. No news, but that the Dutch are
      gone clear from Harwich northward, and have given out they are going to
      Yarmouth.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to the office, where some of us sat busy all the morning. At
      noon home to dinner, whither Creed come to dine with us and brings the
      first word I hear of the news of a peace, the King having letters come to
      him this noon signifying that it is concluded on, and that Mr. Coventry is
      upon his way coming over for the King's satisfaction. The news was so good
      and sudden that I went with great joy to [Sir] W. Batten and then to [Sir]
      W. Pen to tell it them, and so home to dinner, mighty merry, and light at
      my heart only on this ground, that a continuing of the war must undo us,
      and so though peace may do the like if we do not make good use of it to
      reform ourselves and get up money, yet there is an opportunity for us to
      save ourselves. At least, for my own particular, we shall continue well
      till I can get my money into my hands, and then I will shift for myself.
      After dinner away, leaving Creed there, by coach to Westminster, where to
      the Swan and drank, and then to the Hall, and there talked a little with
      great joy of the peace, and then to Mrs. Martin's, where I met with the
      good news que elle ne est con child, the fear of which she did give me the
      other day, had troubled me much. My joy in this made me send for wine, and
      thither come her sister and Mrs. Cragg, and I staid a good while there.
      But here happened the best instance of a woman's falseness in the world,
      that her sister Doll, who went for a bottle of wine, did come home all
      blubbering and swearing against one Captain Vandener, a Dutchman of the
      Rhenish Wine House, that pulled her into a stable by the Dog tavern, and
      there did tumble her and toss her, calling him all the rogues and toads in
      the world, when she knows that elle hath suffered me to do any thing with
      her a hundred times. Thence with joyful heart to White Hall to ask Mr.
      Williamson the news, who told me that Mr. Coventry is coming over with a
      project of a peace; which, if the States agree to, and our King, when
      their Ministers on both sides have shewed it them, we shall agree, and
      that is all: but the King, I hear, do give it out plain that the peace is
      concluded. Thence by coach home, and there wrote a few letters, and then
      to consult with my wife about going to Epsum to-morrow, sometimes
      designing to go and then again not; and at last it grew late and I
      bethought myself of business to employ me at home tomorrow, and so I did
      not go. This afternoon I met with Mr. Rolt, who tells me that he is going
      Cornett under Collonel Ingoldsby, being his old acquaintance, and
      Ingoldsby hath a troop now from under the King, and I think it is a
      handsome way for him, but it was an ominous thing, methought, just as he
      was bidding me his last adieu, his nose fell a-bleeding, which ran in my
      mind a pretty while after. This afternoon Sir Alexander Frazier, who was
      of council for Sir J. Minnes, and had given him over for a dead man, said
      to me at White Hall:&mdash;"What," says he, "Sir J. Minnes is dead." I
      told him, "No! but that there is hopes of his life." Methought he looked
      very sillily after it, and went his way. Late home to supper, a little
      troubled at my not going to Epsum to-morrow, as I had resolved, especially
      having the Duke of York and [Sir] W. Coventry out of town, but it was my
      own fault and at last my judgment to stay, and so to supper and to bed.
      This day, with great satisfaction, I hear that my Lady Jemimah is brought
      to bed, at Hinchingbroke, of a boy.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, there to settle some papers, and
      thither comes Mr. Moore to me and talked till church time of the news of
      the times about the peace and the bad consequences of it if it be not
      improved to good purpose of fitting ourselves for another war. He tells me
      he heard that the discontented Parliament-men are fearful that the next
      sitting the King will put for a general excise, by which to raise him
      money, and then to fling off the Parliament, and raise a land-army and
      keep them all down like slaves; and it is gotten among them, that Bab.
      May, the Privy-purse, hath been heard to say that L300 a-year is enough
      for any country gentleman; which makes them mad, and they do talk of 6 or
      L800,000 gone into the Privy-purse this war, when in King James's time it
      arose but to L5,000, and in King Charles's but L10,000 in a year. He tells
      me that a goldsmith in town told him that, being with some plate with my
      Lady Castlemayne lately, she directed her woman (the great beauty),
      "Wilson," says she, "make a note for this, and for that, to the
      Privy-purse for money." He tells me a little more of the baseness of the
      courses taken at Court in the case of Mr. Moyer, who is at liberty, and is
      to give L500 for his liberty; but now the great ones are divided, who
      shall have the money, the Duke of Albemarle on one hand, and another Lord
      on the other; and that it is fain to be decided by having the person's
      name put into the King's warrant for his liberty, at whose intercession
      the King shall own that he is set at liberty; which is a most lamentable
      thing, that we do professedly own that we do these things, not for right
      and justice sake, but only to gratify this or that person about the King.
      God forgive us all! Busy till noon, and then home to dinner, and Mr. Moore
      come and dined with us, and much more discourse at and after dinner of the
      same kind, and then, he gone, I to my office busy till the evening, and
      then with my wife and Jane over to Half-way house, a very good walk; and
      there drank, and in the cool of the evening back again, and sang with
      pleasure upon the water, and were mightily pleased in hearing a boatfull
      of Spaniards sing, and so home to supper and to bed. Jane of late mighty
      fine, by reason of a laced whiske her mistress hath given her, which makes
      her a very gracefull servant. But, above all, my wife and I were the most
      surprised in the beauty of a plain girle, which we met in the little lane
      going from Redriffe-stairs into the fields, one of the prettiest faces
      that we think we ever saw in our lives.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and to my chamber, and by and by comes Greeting, and to my
      flageolett with him with a pretty deal of pleasure, and then to the
      office, where [Sir] W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen and I met about putting men to
      work for the weighing of the ships in the River sunk. Then home again, and
      there heard Mr. Caesar play some very good things on the lute together
      with myself on the violl and Greeting on the viallin. Then with my wife
      abroad by coach, she to her tailor's, I to Westminster to Burges about my
      Tangier business, and thence to White Hall, where I spoke with Sir John
      Nicholas, who tells me that Mr. Coventry is come from Bredah, as was
      expected; but, contrary to expectation, brings with him two or three
      articles which do not please the King: as, to retrench the Act of
      Navigation, and then to ascertain what are contraband goods; and then that
      those exiled persons, who are or shall take refuge in their country, may
      be secure from any further prosecution. Whether these will be enough to
      break the peace upon, or no, he cannot tell; but I perceive the certainty
      of peace is blown over. So called on my wife and met Creed by the way, and
      they two and I to Charing Cross, there to see the great boy and girle that
      are lately come out of Ireland, the latter eight, the former but four
      years old, of most prodigious bigness for their age. I tried to weigh them
      in my arms, and find them twice as heavy as people almost twice their age;
      and yet I am apt to believe they are very young. Their father a little
      sorry fellow, and their mother an old Irish woman. They have had four
      children of this bigness, and four of ordinary growth, whereof two of each
      are dead. If, as my Lord Ormond certifies, it be true that they are no
      older, it is very monstrous. So home and to dinner with my wife and to
      pipe, and then I to the office, where busy all the afternoon till the
      evening, and then with my wife by coach abroad to Bow and Stratford, it
      being so dusty weather that there was little pleasure in it, and so home
      and to walk in the garden, and thither comes Pelling to us to talk, and so
      in and to supper, and then to bed. All the world being as I hear very much
      damped that their hopes of peace is become uncertain again.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up pretty betimes and to the office, where busy till office time, and
      then we sat, but nothing to do but receive clamours about money. This day
      my Lord Anglesey, our new Treasurer, come the first time to the Board, and
      there sat with us till noon; and I do perceive he is a very notable man,
      and understanding, and will do things regular, and understand them
      himself, not trust Fenn, as Sir G. Carteret did, and will solicit soundly
      for money, which I do fear was Sir G. Carteret's fault, that he did not do
      that enough, considering the age we live in, that nothing will do but by
      solicitation, though never so good for the King or Kingdom, and a bad
      business well solicited shall, for peace sake, speed when a good one shall
      not. But I do confess that I do think it a very bold act of him to take
      upon himself the place of Treasurer of the Navy at this time, but when I
      consider that a regular accountant never ought to fear any thing nor have
      reason I then do cease to wonder. At noon home to dinner and to play on
      the flageolet with my wife, and then to the office, where very busy close
      at my office till late at night. At night walked and sang with my wife in
      the garden, and so home to supper and to bed. This evening news comes for
      certain that the Dutch are with their fleete before Dover, and that it is
      expected they will attempt something there. The business of the peace is
      quite dashed again, so as now it is doubtful whether the King will
      condescend to what the Dutch demand, it being so near the Parliament, it
      being a thing that will, it may be, recommend him to them when they shall
      find that the not having of a peace lies on his side by denying some of
      their demands. This morning Captain Clerke (Robin Clerke) was at the
      table, now commands the Monmouth, and did when the enemy passed the chaine
      at Chatham the other day, who said publickly at the table that he did
      admire at the order when it was brought him for sinking of the Monmouth
      (to the endangering of the ship, and spoiling of all her provisions) when
      her number of men were upon her that he could have carried her up the
      River whither he pleased, and have-been a guard to the rest, and could
      have sunk her at any time. He did carry some 100 barrels of powder out of
      the ship to save it after the orders come for the sinking her. He knew no
      reason at all, he declares, that could lead them to order the sinking her,
      nor the rest of the great ships that were sunk, but above all admires they
      would burn them on shore and sink them there, when it had been better to
      have sunk them long way in the middle of the River, for then they would
      not have burned them so low as now they did.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and to the office betimes, and there all the morning very busy
      causing papers to be entered and sorted to put the office in order against
      the Parliament. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office again close
      all the afternoon upon the same occasion with great pleasure till late,
      and then with my wife and Mercer in the garden and sung, and then home and
      sung, and to supper with great content, and so to bed. The Duke of York is
      come back last night from Harwich, the news he brings I know not, nor hear
      anything to-day from Dover, whether the enemy have made any attempt there
      as was expected. This day our girle Mary, whom Payne helped us to, to be
      under his daughter, when she come to be our cook-mayde, did go away
      declaring that she must be where she might earn something one day, and
      spend it and play away the next. But a good civil wench, and one neither
      wife nor I did ever give angry word to, but she has this silly vanity that
      she must play.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up betimes and to my office, and there busy till the office (which
      was only Sir T. Harvy and myself) met, and did little business and then
      broke up. He tells me that the Council last night did sit close to
      determine of the King's answer about the peace, and that though he do not
      certainly know, yet by all discourse yesterday he do believe it is peace,
      and that the King had said it should be peace, and had bidden Alderman
      Baclewell to declare [it] upon the 'Change. It is high time for us to have
      peace that the King and Council may get up their credits and have time to
      do it, for that indeed is the bottom of all our misery, that nobody have
      any so good opinion of the King and his Council and their advice as to
      lend money or venture their persons, or estates, or pains upon people that
      they know cannot thrive with all that we can do, but either by their
      corruption or negligence must be undone. This indeed is the very bottom of
      every man's thought, and the certain ground that we must be ruined unless
      the King change his course, or the Parliament come and alter it. At noon
      dined alone with my wife. All the afternoon close at the office, very hard
      at gathering papers and putting things in order against the Parliament,
      and at night home with my wife to supper, and then to bed, in hopes to
      have all things in my office in good condition in a little time for any
      body to examine, which I am sure none else will.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up betimes and to my chamber, there doing business, and by and by
      comes Greeting and begun a new month with him, and now to learn to set
      anything from the notes upon the flageolet, but, Lord! to see how like a
      fool he goes about to give me direction would make a man mad. I then out
      and by coach to White Hall and to the Treasury chamber, where did a little
      business, and thence to the Exchequer to Burges, about Tangier business,
      and so back again, stepping into the Hall a little, and then homeward by
      coach, and met at White Hall with Sir H. Cholmly, and so into his coach,
      and he with me to the Excise Office, there to do a little business also,
      in the way he telling me that undoubtedly the peace is concluded; for he
      did stand yesterday where he did hear part of the discourse at the Council
      table, and there did hear the King argue for it. Among other things, that
      the spirits of the seamen were down, and the forces of our enemies are
      grown too great and many for us, and he would not have his subjects
      overpressed; for he knew an Englishman would do as much as any man upon
      hopeful terms; but where he sees he is overpressed, he despairs soon as
      any other; and, besides that, they have already such a load of dejection
      upon them, that they will not be in temper a good while again. He heard my
      Lord Chancellor say to the King, "Sir," says he, "the whole world do
      complain publickly of treachery, that things have been managed falsely by
      some of his great ministers."&mdash;"Sir," says he, "I am for your
      Majesty's falling into a speedy enquiry into the truth of it, and, where
      you meet with it, punish it. But, at the same time, consider what you have
      to do, and make use of your time for having a peace; for more money will
      not be given without much trouble, nor is it, I fear, to be had of the
      people, nor will a little do it to put us into condition of doing our
      business." But Sir H. Cholmly tells me he [the] Chancellors did say the
      other day at his table, "Treachery!" says he; "I could wish we could prove
      there was anything of that in it; for that would imply some wit and
      thoughtfulness; but we are ruined merely by folly and neglect." And so Sir
      H. Cholmly tells me they did all argue for peace, and so he do believe
      that the King hath agreed to the three points Mr. Coventry brought over,
      which I have mentioned before, and is gone with them back. He tells me
      further that the Duke of Buckingham was before the Council the other day,
      and there did carry it very submissively and pleasingly to the King; but
      to my Lord Arlington, who do prosecute the business, he was most bitter
      and sharp, and very slighting. As to the letter about his employing a man
      to cast the King's nativity, says he to the King, "Sir," says he, "this is
      none of my hand, and I refer it to your Majesty whether you do not know
      this hand." The King answered, that it was indeed none of his, and that he
      knew whose it was, but could not recall it presently. "Why," says he, "it
      is my sister of Richmond's, some frolick or other of hers of some certain
      person; and there is nothing of the King's name in it, but it is only said
      to be his by supposition, as is said." The King, it seems, seemed not very
      much displeased with what the Duke had said; but, however, he is still in
      the Tower, and no discourse of his being out in haste, though my Lady
      Castlemayne hath so far solicited for him that the King and she are quite
      fallen out: he comes not to her, nor hath for some three or four days; and
      parted with very foul words, the King calling her a whore, and a jade that
      meddled with things she had nothing to do with at all: and she calling him
      fool; and told him if he was not a fool, he would not suffer his
      businesses to be carried on by fellows that did not understand them, and
      cause his best subjects, and those best able to serve him, to be
      imprisoned; meaning the Duke of Buckingham. And it seems she was not only
      for his liberty, but to be restored to all his places; which, it is
      thought, he will never be. While we were at the Excise office talking with
      Mr. Ball, it was computed that the Parliament had given the King for this
      war only, besides all prizes, and besides the L200,000 which he was to
      spend of his own revenue, to guard the sea above L5,000,000 and odd
      L100,000; which is a most prodigious sum. Sir H. Cholmly, as a true
      English gentleman, do decry the King's expenses of his Privy-purse, which
      in King James's time did not rise to above L5000 a year, and in King
      Charles's to L10,000, do now cost us above L100,000, besides the great
      charge of the monarchy, as the Duke of York L100,000 of it, and other
      limbs of the Royal family, and the guards, which, for his part, says he,
      "I would have all disbanded, for the King is not the better by them, and
      would be as safe without them; for we have had no rebellions to make him
      fear anything." But, contrarily, he is now raising of a land-army, which
      this Parliament and kingdom will never bear; besides, the commanders they
      put over them are such as will never be able to raise or command them; but
      the design is, and the Duke of York, he says, is hot for it, to have a
      land-army, and so to make the government like that of France, but our
      princes have not brains, or at least care and forecast enough to do that.
      It is strange how he and every body do now-a-days reflect upon Oliver, and
      commend him, what brave things he did, and made all the neighbour princes
      fear him; while here a prince, come in with all the love and prayers and
      good liking of his people, who have given greater signs of loyalty and
      willingness to serve him with their estates than ever was done by any
      people, hath lost all so soon, that it is a miracle what way a man could
      devise to lose so much in so little time. Thence he set me down at my Lord
      Crew's and away, and I up to my Lord, where Sir Thomas Crew was, and by
      and by comes Mr. Caesar, who teaches my Lady's page upon the lute, and
      here Mr. Caesar did play some very fine things indeed, to my great liking.
      Here was my Lord Hinchingbroke also, newly come from Hinchingbroke, where
      all well, but methinks I knowing in what case he stands for money by his
      demands to me and the report Mr. Moore gives of the management of the
      family, makes me, God forgive me! to contemn him, though I do really
      honour and pity them, though they deserve it not, that have so good an
      estate and will live beyond it. To dinner, and very good discourse with my
      Lord. And after dinner Sir Thomas Crew and I alone, and he tells me how I
      am mightily in esteem with the Parliament; there being harangues made in
      the House to the Speaker, of Mr. Pepys's readiness and civility to show
      them every thing, which I am at this time very glad of. He tells me the
      news of the King and my Lady Castlemayne which I have wrote already this
      day, and the design of the Parliament to look into things very well before
      they give any more money, and I pray God they may. Thence, after dinner,
      to St. James's, but missed Sir W. Coventry, and so home, and there find my
      wife in a dogged humour for my not dining at home, and I did give her a
      pull by the nose and some ill words, which she provoked me to by something
      she spoke, that we fell extraordinarily out, insomuch, that I going to the
      office to avoid further anger, she followed me in a devilish manner
      thither, and with much ado I got her into the garden out of hearing, to
      prevent shame, and so home, and by degrees I found it necessary to calme
      her, and did, and then to the office, where pretty late, and then to walk
      with her in the garden, and so to supper, and pretty good friends, and so
      to bed with my mind very quiet.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up pretty betimes, it being mighty hot weather, I lying this night,
      which I have not done, I believe, since a boy, I am sure not since I had
      the stone before, with only a rugg and a sheet upon me. To my chamber, and
      my wife up to do something, and by chance we fell out again, but I to the
      office, and there we did at the board much business, though the most was
      the dividing of L5000 which the Lords Commissioners have with great
      difficulty found upon our letter to them this week that would have
      required L50,000 among a great many occasions. After rising, my Lord
      Anglesey, this being the second time of his being with us, did take me
      aside and asked me where I lived, because he would be glad to have some
      discourse with me. This I liked well enough, and told him I would wait
      upon him, which I will do, and so all broke up, and I home to dinner,
      where Mr. Pierce dined with us, who tells us what troubles me, that my
      Lord Buckhurst hath got Nell away from the King's house, lies with her,
      and gives her L100 a year, so as she hath sent her parts to the house, and
      will act no more.
    </p>
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     [Lord Buckhurst and Nell Gwyn, with the help of Sir Charles Sedley,
     kept "merry house" at Epsom next door to the King's Head Inn (see
     Cunningham's "Story of Nell Gwyn," ed.  1892, p. 57)]
</pre>
    <p>
      And yesterday Sir Thomas Crew told me that Lacy lies a-dying of the pox,
      and yet hath his whore by him, whom he will have to look on, he says,
      though he can do no more; nor would receive any ghostly advice from a
      Bishop, an old acquaintance of his, that went to see him. He says there is
      a strangeness between the King and my Lady Castlemayne, as I was told
      yesterday. After dinner my wife and I to the New Exchange, to pretty maid
      Mrs. Smith's shop, where I left my wife, and I to Sir W. Coventry, and
      there had the opportunity of talk with him, who I perceive do not like our
      business of the change of the Treasurer's hand, and he tells me that he is
      entered the lists with this new Treasurer before the King in taking away
      the business of the Victualling money from his hand, and the Regiment, and
      declaring that he hath no right to the 3d. per by his patent, for that it
      was always heretofore given by particular Privy Seal, and that the King
      and Council just upon his coming in had declared L2000 a year sufficient.
      This makes him angry, but Sir W. Coventry I perceive cares not, but do
      every day hold up his head higher and higher, and this day I have received
      an order from the Commissioners of the Treasury to pay no more pensions
      for Tangier, which I am glad of, and he tells me they do make bold with
      all things of that kind. Thence I to White Hall, and in the street I spied
      Mrs. Borroughs, and took a means to meet and salute her and talk a little,
      and then parted, and I home by coach, taking up my wife at the Exchange,
      and there I am mightily pleased with this Mrs. Smith, being a very
      pleasant woman. So home, and resolved upon going to Epsum tomorrow, only
      for ayre, and got Mrs. Turner to go with us, and so home and to supper
      (after having been at the office) and to bed. It is an odd and sad thing
      to say, that though this be a peace worse than we had before, yet every
      body's fear almost is, that the Dutch will not stand by their promise, now
      the King hath consented to all they would have. And yet no wise man that I
      meet with, when he comes to think of it, but wishes, with all his heart, a
      war; but that the King is not a man to be trusted with the management of
      it. It was pleasantly said by a man in this City, a stranger, to one that
      told him that the peace was concluded, "Well," says he, "and have you a
      peace?"&mdash;"Yes," says the other.&mdash;"Why, then," says he, "hold
      your peace!" partly reproaching us with the disgracefulness of it, that it
      is not fit to be mentioned; and next, that we are not able to make the
      Dutch keep it, when they have a mind to break it. Sir Thomas Crew
      yesterday, speaking of the King of France, how great a man he is, why,
      says he, all the world thought that when the last Pope died, there would
      have been such bandying between the Crowns of France and Spain, whereas,
      when he was asked what he would have his ministers at Rome do, why, says
      he, let them choose who they will; if the Pope will do what is fit, the
      Pope and I will be friends. If he will not, I will take a course with him:
      therefore, I will not trouble myself; and thereupon the election was
      despatched in a little time&mdash;I think in a day, and all ended.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Of Clement IX., Giulio Rispogliosi, elected June 20th, 1667, N.S.
     He was succeeded by Clement X. in 1670.]
</pre>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). Up, and my wife, a little before four, and to make us
      ready; and by and by Mrs. Turner come to us, by agreement, and she and I
      staid talking below, while my wife dressed herself, which vexed me that
      she was so long about it keeping us till past five o'clock before she was
      ready. She ready; and, taking some bottles of wine, and beer, and some
      cold fowle with us into the coach, we took coach and four horses, which I
      had provided last night, and so away. A very fine day, and so towards
      Epsum, talking all the way pleasantly, and particularly of the pride and
      ignorance of Mrs. Lowther, in having of her train carried up? The country
      very fine, only the way very dusty. We got to Epsum by eight o'clock, to
      the well; where much company, and there we 'light, and I drank the water:
      they did not, but do go about and walk a little among the women, but I did
      drink four pints, and had some very good stools by it. Here I met with
      divers of our town, among others with several of the tradesmen of our
      office, but did talk but little with them, it growing hot in the sun, and
      so we took coach again and to the towne, to the King's Head, where our
      coachman carried us, and there had an ill room for us to go into, but the
      best in the house that was not taken up. Here we called for drink, and
      bespoke dinner; and hear that my Lord Buckhurst and Nelly are lodged at
      the next house, and Sir Charles Sidly with them and keep a merry house.
      Poor girl! I pity her; but more the loss of her at the King's house. Here
      I saw Gilsthrop, Sir W. Batten's clerk that hath been long sick, he looks
      like a dying man, with a consumption got, as is believed, by the pox, but
      God knows that the man is in a sad condition, though he finds himself much
      better since his coming thither, he says. W. Hewer rode with us, and I
      left him and the women, and myself walked to church, where few people,
      contrary to what I expected, and none I knew, but all the Houblons,
      brothers, and them after sermon I did salute, and walk with towards my
      inne, which was in their way to their lodgings. They come last night to
      see their elder brother, who stays here at the waters, and away to-morrow.
      James did tell me that I was the only happy man of the Navy, of whom, he
      says, during all this freedom the people have taken of speaking treason,
      he hath not heard one bad word of me, which is a great joy to me; for I
      hear the same of others, but do know that I have deserved as well as most.
      We parted to meet anon, and I to my women into a better room, which the
      people of the house borrowed for us, and there to dinner, a good dinner,
      and were merry, and Pendleton come to us, who happened to be in the house,
      and there talked and were merry. After dinner, he gone, we all lay down
      after dinner (the day being wonderful hot) to sleep, and each of us took a
      good nap, and then rose; and Tom Wilson come to see me, and sat and talked
      an hour; and I perceive he hath been much acquainted with Dr. Fuller (Tom)
      and Dr. Pierson, and several of the great cavalier parsons during the late
      troubles; and I was glad to hear him talk of them, which he did very
      ingeniously, and very much of Dr. Fuller's art of memory, which he did
      tell me several instances of. By and by he parted, and we took coach and
      to take the ayre, there being a fine breeze abroad; and I went and carried
      them to the well, and there filled some bottles of water to carry home
      with me; and there talked with the two women that farm the well, at L12
      per annum, of the lord of the manor, Mr. Evelyn (who with his lady, and
      also my Lord George Barkeley's lady, and their fine daughter, that the
      King of France liked so well, and did dance so rich in jewells before the
      King at the Ball I was at, at our Court, last winter, and also their son,
      a Knight of the Bath, were at church this morning). Here W. Hewer's horse
      broke loose, and we had the sport to see him taken again. Then I carried
      them to see my cozen Pepys's house, and 'light, and walked round about it,
      and they like it, as indeed it deserves, very well, and is a pretty place;
      and then I walked them to the wood hard by, and there got them in the
      thickets till they had lost themselves, and I could not find the way into
      any of the walks in the wood, which indeed are very pleasant, if I could
      have found them. At last got out of the wood again; and I, by leaping down
      the little bank, coming out of the wood, did sprain my right foot, which
      brought me great present pain, but presently, with walking, it went away
      for the present, and so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the
      Downes, where a flock of sheep was; and the most pleasant and innocent
      sight that ever I saw in my life&mdash;we find a shepherd and his little
      boy reading, far from any houses or sight of people, the Bible to him; so
      I made the boy read to me, which he did, with the forced tone that
      children do usually read, that was mighty pretty, and then I did give him
      something, and went to the father, and talked with him; and I find he had
      been a servant in my cozen Pepys's house, and told me what was become of
      their old servants. He did content himself mightily in my liking his boy's
      reading, and did bless God for him, the most like one of the old
      patriarchs that ever I saw in my life, and it brought those thoughts of
      the old age of the world in my mind for two or three days after. We took
      notice of his woolen knit stockings of two colours mixed, and of his shoes
      shod with iron shoes, both at the toe and heels, and with great nails in
      the soles of his feet, which was mighty pretty: and, taking notice of
      them, "Why," says the poor man, "the downes, you see, are full of stones,
      and we are faine to shoe ourselves thus; and these," says he, "will make
      the stones fly till they sing before me." I did give the poor man
      something, for which he was mighty thankful, and I tried to cast stones
      with his horne crooke. He values his dog mightily, that would turn a sheep
      any way which he would have him, when he goes to fold them: told me there
      was about eighteen scoare sheep in his flock, and that he hath four
      shillings a week the year round for keeping of them: so we posted thence
      with mighty pleasure in the discourse we had with this poor man, and Mrs.
      Turner, in the common fields here, did gather one of the prettiest
      nosegays that ever I saw in my life. So to our coach, and through Mr.
      Minnes's wood, and looked upon Mr. Evelyn's house; and so over the common,
      and through Epsum towne to our inne, in the way stopping a poor woman with
      her milk-pail, and in one of my gilt tumblers did drink our bellyfulls of
      milk, better than any creame; and so to our inne, and there had a dish of
      creame, but it was sour, and so had no pleasure in it; and so paid our
      reckoning, and took coach, it being about seven at night, and passed and
      saw the people walking with their wives and children to take the ayre, and
      we set out for home, the sun by and by going down, and we in the cool of
      the evening all the way with much pleasure home, talking and pleasing
      ourselves with the pleasure of this day's work, Mrs. Turner mightily
      pleased with my resolution, which, I tell her, is never to keep a
      country-house, but to keep a coach, and with my wife on the Saturday to go
      sometimes for a day to this place, and then quit to another place; and
      there is more variety and as little charge, and no trouble, as there is in
      a country-house. Anon it grew dark, and as it grew dark we had the
      pleasure to see several glow-wormes, which was mighty pretty, but my foot
      begins more and more to pain me, which Mrs. Turner, by keeping her warm
      hand upon it, did much ease; but so that when we come home, which was just
      at eleven at night, I was not able to walk from the lane's end to my house
      without being helped, which did trouble me, and therefore to bed
      presently, but, thanks be to God, found that I had not been missed, nor
      any business happened in my absence. So to bed, and there had a cerecloth
      laid to my foot and leg alone, but in great pain all night long.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. So as I was not able to go to-day to wait on the Duke of York with
      my fellows, but was forced in bed to write the particulars for their
      discourse there, and kept my bed all day, and anon comes Mrs. Turner, and
      new-dressed my foot, and did it so, that I was at much ease presently, and
      so continued all day, so as I slept much and well in the daytime, and in
      the evening rose and eat something, where our poor Jane very sad for the
      death of her poor brother, who hath left a wife and two small children. I
      did give her 20s. in money, and what wine she needed, for the burying him.
      This evening come to see me Pelling, and we did sing together, and he
      sings well indeed, and after supper I was willing to go to bed to ease my
      foot again, which I did, and slept well all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. In the morning I was able to put on a wide shoe on the foot, and to
      the office without much pain, and there sat all the morning. At noon home
      to dinner, where Creed to discourse of our Tangier business, which stands
      very bad in the business of money, and therefore we expect to have a
      committee called soon, and to acquaint them among other things with the
      order come to me for the not paying of any more pensions. We dined
      together, and after dinner I to the office, and there very late, very
      busy, doing much business indeed, and so with great comfort home to
      supper, and so to bed to ease my foot, which toward night began to ake.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to my chamber to set down my Journall of Sunday last with
      much pleasure, and my foot being pretty well, but yet I am forced to limp.
      Then by coach, set my wife down at the New Exchange, and I to White Hall
      to the Treasury chamber, but to little purpose. So to Mr. Burges to as
      little. There to the Hall and talked with Mrs. Michell, who begins to tire
      me about doing something for her elder son, which I am willing to do, but
      know not what. Thence to White Hall again, and thence away, and took up my
      wife at Unthanke's, and left her at the 'Change, and so I to Bennet's to
      take up a bill for the last silk I had for my vest and coat, which I owe
      them for, and so to the Excise Office, and there did a little business,
      and so to Temple Bar and staid at my bookseller's till my wife calls me,
      and so home, where I am saluted with the news of Hogg's bringing a rich
      Canary prize to Hull:
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Thomas Pointer to Samuel Pepys (Hull, July 15th): "Capt. Hogg has
     brought in a great prize laden with Canary wine; also Capt. Reeves
     of the 'Panther,' and the 'Fanfan,' whose commander is slain, have
     come in with their prizes" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1667,
     p. 298).]
</pre>
    <p>
      and Sir W. Batten do offer me L1000 down for my particular share, beside
      Sir Richard Ford's part, which do tempt me; but yet I would not take it,
      but will stand and fall with the company. He and two more, the Panther and
      Fanfan, did enter into consortship; and so they have all brought in each a
      prize, though ours worth as much as both theirs, and more. However, it
      will be well worth having, God be thanked for it! This news makes us all
      very glad. I at Sir W. Batten's did hear the particulars of it; and there
      for joy he did give the company that were there a bottle or two of his own
      last year's wine, growing at Walthamstow, than which the whole company
      said they never drank better foreign wine in their lives. Home, and to
      dinner, and by and by comes Mr. Pierce, who is interested in the Panther,
      for some advice, and then comes Creed, and he and I spent the whole
      afternoon till eight at night walking and talking of sundry things public
      and private in the garden, but most of all of the unhappy state of this
      nation at this time by the negligence of the King and his Council. The
      Duke of Buckingham is, it seems, set at liberty, without any further
      charge against him or other clearing of him, but let to go out; which is
      one of the strangest instances of the fool's play with which all publick
      things are done in this age, that is to be apprehended. And it is said
      that when he was charged with making himself popular&mdash;as indeed he
      is, for many of the discontented Parliament, Sir Robert Howard and Sir
      Thomas Meres, and others, did attend at the Council-chamber when he was
      examined&mdash;he should answer, that whoever was committed to prison by
      my Lord Chancellor or my Lord Arlington, could not want being popular. But
      it is worth considering the ill state a Minister of State is in, under
      such a Prince as ours is; for, undoubtedly, neither of those two great men
      would have been so fierce against the Duke of Buckingham at the
      Council-table the other day, had they [not] been assured of the King's
      good liking, and supporting them therein: whereas, perhaps at the desire
      of my Lady Castlemayne, who, I suppose, hath at last overcome the King,
      the Duke of Buckingham is well received again, and now these men delivered
      up to the interest he can make for his revenge. He told me over the story
      of Mrs. Stewart, much after the manner which I was told it long since, and
      have entered it in this book, told me by Mr. Evelyn; only he says it is
      verily believed that the King did never intend to marry her to any but
      himself, and that the Duke of York and Lord Chancellor were jealous of it;
      and that Mrs. Stewart might be got with child by the King, or somebody
      else, and the King own a marriage before his contract, for it is but a
      contract, as he tells me, to this day, with the Queene, and so wipe their
      noses of the Crown; and that, therefore, the Duke of York and Chancellor
      did do all they could to forward the match with my Lord Duke of Richmond,
      that she might be married out of the way; but, above all, it is a worthy
      part that this good lady hath acted. Thus we talked till night and then
      parted, and so I to my office and did business, and so home to supper, and
      there find my sister Michell
    </p>
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     [The wife of Balthazar St. Michel, Mrs. Pepys's brother.&mdash;B.  Leigh,
     opposite to Sheerness.&mdash;R.]
</pre>
    <p>
      come from Lee to see us; but do tattle so much of the late business of the
      Dutch coming thither that I was weary of it. Yet it is worth remembering
      what she says: that she hath heard both seamen and soldiers swear they
      would rather serve the Dutch than the King, for they should be better
      used.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Reference has already been made to Andrew Marvell's "Instructions
     to a Painter", in which the unpaid English sailors are described as
     swimming to the Dutch ships, where they received the money which was
     withheld from them on their own ships.]
</pre>
    <p>
      She saw "The Royal Charles" brought into the river by them; and how they
      shot off their great guns for joy, when they got her out of Chatham River.
      I would not forget that this very day when we had nothing to do almost but
      five merchantmen to man in the River, which have now been about it some
      weeks, I was asked at Westminster, what the matter was that there was such
      ado kept in pressing of men, as it seems there is thereabouts at this day.
      So after supper we all to bed, my foot very well again, I thank God.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up and to the office, where busy all the morning, and most of our
      time taken up with Carcasse upon some complaints brought in against him,
      and many other petitions about tickets lost, which spends most of our
      time. Home to dinner, and then to the office again, where very well
      employed at the office till evening; and then being weary, took out my
      wife and Will Batelier by coach to Islington, but no pleasure in our
      going, the way being so dusty that one durst not breathe. Drank at the old
      house, and so home, and then to the office a little, and so home to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up and comes the flageolet master, and brings me two new great Ivory
      pipes which cost me 32s., and so to play, and he being done, and Balty's
      wife taking her leave of me, she going back to Lee to-day, I to
      Westminster and there did receive L15,000 orders out of the Exchequer in
      part of a bigger sum upon the eleven months tax for Tangier, part of which
      I presently delivered to Sir H. Cholmly, who was there, and thence with
      Mr. Gawden to Auditor Woods and Beales to examine some precedents in his
      business of the Victualling on his behalf, and so home, and in my way by
      coach down Marke Lane, mightily pleased and smitten to see, as I thought,
      in passing, the pretty woman, the line-maker's wife that lived in
      Fenchurch Streete, and I had great mind to have gone back to have seen,
      but yet would correct my nature and would not. So to dinner with my wife,
      and then to sing, and so to the office, where busy all the afternoon late,
      and to Sir W. Batten's and to Sir R. Ford's, we all to consider about our
      great prize at Hull, being troubled at our being likely to be troubled
      with Prince Rupert, by reason of Hogg's consorting himself with two
      privateers of the Prince's, and so we study how to ease or secure
      ourselves. So to walk in the garden with my wife, and then to supper and
      to bed. One tells me that, by letter from Holland, the people there are
      made to believe that our condition in England is such as they may have
      whatever they will ask; and that so they are mighty high, and despise us,
      or a peace with us; and there is too much reason for them to do so. The
      Dutch fleete are in great squadrons everywhere still about Harwich, and
      were lately at Portsmouth; and the last letters say at Plymouth, and now
      gone to Dartmouth to destroy our Streights' fleete lately got in thither;
      but God knows whether they can do it any hurt, or no, but it was pretty
      news come the other day so fast, of the Dutch fleets being in so many
      places, that Sir W. Batten at table cried, "By God," says he, "I think the
      Devil shits Dutchmen."
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to the office, where all the morning, and then towards the
      'Change, at noon, in my way observing my mistake yesterday in Mark Lane,
      that the woman I saw was not the pretty woman I meant, the line-maker's
      wife, but a new-married woman, very pretty, a strong-water seller: and in
      going by, to my content, I find that the very pretty daughter at the Ship
      tavern, at the end of Billiter Lane, is there still, and in the bar: and,
      I believe, is married to him that is new come, and hath new trimmed the
      house. Home to dinner, and then to the office, we having dispatched away
      Mr. Oviatt to Hull, about our prizes there; and I have wrote a letter of
      thanks by him to Lord Bellasses, who had writ to me to offer all his
      service for my interest there, but I dare not trust him. In the evening
      late walking in the garden with my wife, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). Up betimes, and all the morning, and then to dinner
      with my wife alone, and then all the afternoon in like manner, in my
      chamber, making up my Tangier accounts and drawing a letter, which I have
      done at last to my full content, to present to the Lords Commissioners for
      Tangier tomorrow; and about seven at night, when finished my letter and
      weary, I and my wife and Mercer up by water to Barne Elmes, where we
      walked by moonshine, and called at Lambeth, and drank and had cold meat in
      the boat, and did eat, and sang, and down home, by almost twelve at night,
      very fine and pleasant, only could not sing ordinary songs with the
      freedom that otherwise I would. Here Mercer tells me that the pretty maid
      of the Ship tavern I spoke of yesterday is married there, which I am glad
      of. So having spent this night, with much serious pleasure to consider
      that I am in a condition to fling away an angell
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The angel coin was so called from the figure of the Archangel
     Michael in conflict with the dragon on the obverse.  On the reverse
     was a representation of a ship with a large cross as a mast.  The
     last angel coined was in Charles I.'s reign, and the value varied
     from 6s. 8d. to 10s.]
</pre>
    <p>
      in such a refreshment to myself and family, we home and to bed, leaving
      Mercer, by the way, at her own door.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and with Sir W. Batten and [Sir] J. Minnes to St. James's, where
      the first time I have been there since the enemy's being with us, where
      little business but lack of money, which now is so professed by Sir W.
      Coventry as nothing is more, and the King's whole business owned to be at
      a stand for want of it. So up to my Lord Chancellor's, where was a
      Committee of Tangier in my Lord's roome, where he is to hear causes, where
      all the judges' pictures hang up, very fine. Here I read my letter to
      them, which was well received, and they did fall seriously to discourse
      the want of money and other particulars, and to some pretty good purpose.
      But to see how Sir W. Coventry did oppose both my Lord Chancellor and the
      Duke of York himself, about the Order of the Commissioners of the Treasury
      to me for not paying of pensions, and with so much reason, and eloquence
      so natural, was admirable. And another thing, about his pressing for the
      reduction of the charge of Tangier, which they would have put off to
      another time; "But," says he, "the King suffers so much by the putting off
      of the consideration of reductions of charge, that he is undone; and
      therefore I do pray you, sir, to his Royal Highness, that when any thing
      offers of the kind, you will not let it escape you." Here was a great
      bundle of letters brought hither, sent up from sea, from a vessel of ours
      that hath taken them after they had been flung over by a Dutchman;
      wherein, among others, the Duke of York did read the superscription of one
      to De Witt, thus "To the most wise, foreseeing and discreet, These, &amp;c.;"
      which, I thought with myself, I could have been glad might have been duly
      directed to any one of them at the table, though the greatest men in this
      kingdom. The Duke of York, the Lord Chancellor, my Lord Duke of Albemarle,
      Arlington, Ashley, Peterborough, and Coventry (the best of them all for
      parts), I perceive they do all profess their expectation of a peace, and
      that suddenly, and do advise of things accordingly, and do all speak of it
      (and expressly, I remember, the Duke of Albemarle), saying that they hoped
      for it. Letters were read at the table from Tangier that Guiland is wholly
      lost, and that he do offer Arzill to us to deliver it to us. But Sir W.
      Coventry did declare his opinion that we should have nothing to do with
      it, and said that if Tangier were offered us now, as the King's condition
      is, he would advise against the taking it; saying, that the King's charge
      is too great, and must be brought down, it being, like the fire of this
      City, never to be mastered till you have brought it under you; and that
      these places abroad are but so much charge to the King, and we do rather
      hitherto strive to greaten them than lessen them; and then the King is
      forced to part with them, "as," says he, "he did with Dunkirke," by my
      Lord Tiviott's making it so chargeable to the King as he did that, and
      would have done Tangier, if he had lived: I perceive he is the only man
      that do seek the King's profit, and is bold to deliver what he thinks on
      every occasion. Having broke up here, I away with Mr. Gawden in his coach
      to the 'Change, and there a little, and then home and dined, and then to
      the office, and by and by with my wife to White Hall (she to Unthanke's),
      and there met Creed and did a little business at the Treasury chamber, and
      then to walk in Westminster Hall an hour or two, with much pleasure
      reflecting upon our discourse to-day at the Tangier meeting, and crying up
      the worth of Sir W. Coventry. Creed tells me of the fray between the Duke
      of Buckingham at the Duke's playhouse the last Saturday (and it is the
      first day I have heard that they have acted at either the King's or Duke's
      houses this month or six weeks) and Henry Killigrew, whom the Duke of
      Buckingham did soundly beat and take away his sword, and make a fool of,
      till the fellow prayed him to spare his life; and I am glad of it; for it
      seems in this business the Duke of Buckingham did carry himself very
      innocently and well, and I wish he had paid this fellow's coat well. I
      heard something of this at the 'Change to-day: and it is pretty to hear
      how people do speak kindly of the Duke of Buckingham, as one that will
      enquire into faults; and therefore they do mightily favour him. And it
      puts me in mind that, this afternoon, Billing, the Quaker, meeting me in
      the Hall, come to me, and after a little discourse did say, "Well," says
      he, "now you will be all called to an account;" meaning the Parliament is
      drawing near. This done I took coach and took up my wife, and so home, and
      after a little at the office I home to my chamber a while, and then to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd: Up betimes and to the office, doing something towards our great
      account to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and anon the office
      sat, and all the morning doing business. At noon home to dinner, and then
      close to my business all the afternoon. In the evening Sir R. Ford is come
      back from the Prince and tells Sir W. Batten and me how basely Sir W. Pen
      received our letter we sent him about the prizes at Hull, and slily
      answered him about the Prince's leaving all his concerns to him, but the
      Prince did it afterward by letter brought by Sir R. Ford to us, which Sir
      W. Pen knows not of, but a very rogue he is. By and by comes sudden news
      to me by letter from the Clerke of the Cheque at Gravesend, that there
      were thirty sail of Dutch men-of-war coming up into the Hope this last
      tide: which I told Sir W. Pen of; but he would not believe it, but
      laughed, and said it was a fleete of Billanders,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Bilander.  A small merchant vessel with two masts, particularly
     distinguished from other vessels with two masts by the form of her
     mainsail, which is bent to the whole length of her yard, hanging
     fore and aft, and inclined to the horizon at an angle of about 45
     deg.  Few vessels are now rigged in this manner, and the name is
     rather indiscriminately used."&mdash;Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and that the guns that were heard was the salutation of the Swede's
      Ambassador that comes over with them. But within half an hour comes
      another letter from Captain Proud, that eight of them were come into the
      Hope, and thirty more following them, at ten this morning. By and by comes
      an order from White Hall to send down one of our number to Chatham,
      fearing that, as they did before, they may make a show first up hither,
      but then go to Chatham: so my Lord Bruncker do go, and we here are ordered
      to give notice to the merchant men-of-war, gone below the barricado at
      Woolwich, to come up again. So with much trouble to supper, home and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Betimes this morning comes a letter from the Clerke of the Cheque at
      Gravesend to me, to tell me that the Dutch fleete did come all into the
      Hope yesterday noon, and held a fight with our ships from thence till
      seven at night; that they had burned twelve fire-ships, and we took one of
      their's, and burned five of our fire-ships. But then rising and going to
      Sir W. Batten, he tells me that we have burned one of their men-of-war,
      and another of theirs is blown up: but how true this is, I know not. But
      these fellows are mighty bold, and have had the fortune of the wind
      easterly this time to bring them up, and prevent our troubling them with
      our fire-ships; and, indeed, have had the winds at their command from the
      beginning, and now do take the beginning of the spring, as if they had
      some great design to do. I to my office, and there hard at work all the
      morning, to my great content, abstracting the contract book into my
      abstract book, which I have by reason of the war omitted for above two
      years, but now am endeavouring to have all my books ready and perfect
      against the Parliament comes, that upon examination I may be in condition
      to value myself upon my perfect doing of my own duty. At noon home to
      dinner, where my wife mighty musty,&mdash;[Dull, heavy, spiritless]&mdash;but
      I took no notice of it, but after dinner to the office, and there with Mr.
      Harper did another good piece of work about my late collection of the
      accounts of the Navy presented to the Parliament at their last session,
      which was left unfinished, and now I have done it which sets my mind at my
      ease, and so, having tired myself, I took a pair of oares about five
      o'clock, which I made a gally at Redriffe, and so with very much pleasure
      down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of
      Boyle's Hydrostatickes, which the more I read and understand, the more I
      admire, as a most excellent piece of philosophy; as we come nearer
      Gravesend, we hear the Dutch fleete and ours a-firing their guns most
      distinctly and loud. But before we got to Gravesend they ceased, and it
      grew darkish, and so I landed only (and the flood being come) and went up
      to the Ship and discoursed with the landlord of the house, who undeceives
      me in what I heard this morning about the Dutch having lost two
      men-of-war, for it is not so, but several of their fire-ships. He do say,
      that this afternoon they did force our ships to retreat, but that now they
      are gone down as far as Shield-haven: but what the event hath been of this
      evening's guns they know not, but suppose not much, for they have all this
      while shot at good distance one from another. They seem confident of the
      security of this town and the River above it, if the enemy should come up
      so high; their fortifications being so good, and guns many. But he do say
      that people do complain of Sir Edward Spragg, that he hath not done
      extraordinary; and more of Sir W. Jenings, that he come up with his
      tamkins
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Tamkin, or tampion, the wooden stopper of a cannon placed in the
     muzzle to exclude water or dust.]
</pre>
    <p>
      in his guns. Having discoursed this a little with him, and eat a bit of
      cold venison and drank, I away, took boat, and homeward again, with great
      pleasure, the moon shining, and it being a fine pleasant cool evening, and
      got home by half-past twelve at night, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, and there sang with much pleasure with my wife, and so to the
      office again, and busy all the afternoon. At night Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W.
      Pen, and myself, and Sir R. Ford, did meet in the garden to discourse
      about our prizes at Hull. It appears that Hogg is the eeriest rogue, the
      most observable embezzler, that ever was known. This vexes us, and made us
      very free and plain with Sir W. Pen, who hath been his great patron, and
      as very a rogue as he. But he do now seem to own that his opinion is
      changed of him, and that he will joyne with us in our strictest inquiries,
      and did sign to the letters we had drawn, which he had refused before, and
      so seemingly parted good friends, and then I demanded of Sir R. Ford and
      the rest, what passed to-day at the meeting of the Parliament: who told me
      that, contrary to all expectation by the King that there would be but a
      thin meeting, there met above 300 this first day, and all the discontented
      party; and, indeed, the whole House seems to be no other almost. The
      Speaker told them, as soon as they were sat, that he was ordered by the
      King to let them know he was hindered by some important business to come
      to them and speak to them, as he intended; and, therefore, ordered him to
      move that they would adjourn themselves till Monday next, it being very
      plain to all the House that he expects to hear by that time of the sealing
      of the peace, which by letters, it seems, from my Lord Holis, was to be
      sealed the last Sunday.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The peace was signed on the 31st.  See August 9th.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      But before they would come to the question whether they would adjourn, Sir
      Thomas Tomkins steps up and tells them, that all the country is grieved at
      this new raised standing army; and that they thought themselves safe
      enough in their trayn-bands; and that, therefore, he desired the King
      might be moved to disband them. Then rises Garraway and seconds him, only
      with this explanation, which he said he believed the other meant; that, as
      soon as peace should be concluded, they might be disbanded. Then rose Sir
      W. Coventry, and told them that he did approve of what the last gentleman
      said; but also, that at the same time he did no more than what, he durst
      be bold to say, he knew to be the King's mind, that as soon as peace was
      concluded he would do it of himself. Then rose Sir Thomas Littleton, and
      did give several reasons for the uncertainty of their meeting again but to
      adjourne, in case news comes of the peace being ended before Monday next,
      and the possibility of the King's having some about him that may endeavour
      to alter his own, and the good part of his Council's advice, for the
      keeping up of the land-army; and, therefore, it was fit that they did
      present it to the King as their desire, that, as soon as peace was
      concluded, the land-army might be laid down, and that this their request
      might be carried to the King by them of their House that were
      Privy-councillors; which was put to the vote, and carried 'nemine
      contradicente'. So after this vote passed, they adjourned: but it is plain
      what the effects of this Parliament will be, if they be suffered to sit,
      that they will fall foul upon the faults of the Government; and I pray God
      they may be permitted to do it, for nothing else, I fear, will save the
      King and kingdom than the doing it betimes. They gone, I to walk with my
      wife in the garden, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and betimes to the office, where Mr. Hater and I together all
      the morning about the perfecting of my abstract book of contracts and
      other things to my great content. At noon home to dinner, and then to the
      office again all the afternoon doing of other good things there, and being
      tired, I then abroad with my wife and left her at the New Exchange, while
      I by water thence to Westminster to the Hall, but shops were shut up, and
      so to White Hall by water, and thence took up my wife at Unthanke's, and
      so home, mightily tired with the dust in riding in a coach, it being
      mighty troublesome. So home and to my office, and there busy very late,
      and then to walk a little with my wife, and then to supper and to bed. No
      news at all this day what we have done to the enemy, but that the enemy is
      fallen down, and we after them, but to little purpose.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up and to the office, where I hear that Sir John Coventry is come
      over from Bredah, a nephew, I think, of Sir W. Coventry's: but what
      message he brings I know not. This morning news is come that Sir Jos.
      Jordan is come from Harwich, with sixteen fire-ships and four other little
      ships of war: and did attempt to do some execution upon the enemy, but did
      it without discretion, as most do say, so as that they have been able to
      do no good, but have lost four of their fire ships. They attempted [this],
      it seems, when the wind was too strong, that our grapplings could not
      hold: others say we come to leeward of them, but all condemn it as a
      foolish management. They are come to Sir Edward Spragg about Lee, and the
      Dutch are below at the Nore. At the office all the morning; and at noon to
      the 'Change, where I met Fenn; and he tells me that Sir John Coventry do
      bring the confirmation of the peace; but I do not find the 'Change at all
      glad of it, but rather the worse, they looking upon it as a peace made
      only to preserve the King for a time in his lusts and ease, and to
      sacrifice trade and his kingdoms only to his own pleasures: so that the
      hearts of merchants are quite down. He tells me that the King and my Lady
      Castlemayne are quite broke off, and she is gone away, and is with child,
      and swears the King shall own it; and she will have it christened in the
      Chapel at White Hall so, and owned for the King's, as other Kings have
      done; or she will bring it into White Hall gallery, and dash the brains of
      it out before the King's face.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Charles owned only four children by Lady Castlemaine-Anne, Countess
     of Sussex, and the Dukes of Southampton, Grafton, and
     Northumberland.  The last of these was born in 1665.  The paternity
     of all her other children was certainly doubtful.  See pp. 50,52.]
</pre>
    <p>
      He tells me that the King and Court were never in the world so bad as they
      are now for gaming, swearing, whoring, and drinking, and the most
      abominable vices that ever were in the world; so that all must come to
      nought. He told me that Sir G. Carteret was at this end of the town; so I
      went to visit him in Broad Street; and there he and I together: and he is
      mightily pleased with my Lady Jem's having a son; and a mighty glad man he
      is. He [Sir George Carteret] tells me, as to news, that the peace is now
      confirmed, and all that over. He says it was a very unhappy motion in the
      House the other day about the land-army; for, whether the King hath a mind
      of his own to do the thing desired or no, his doing it will be looked upon
      as a thing done only in fear of the Parliament. He says that the Duke of
      York is suspected to be the great man that is for raising of this army,
      and bringing things to be commanded by an army; but he believes that he is
      wronged, and says that he do know that he is wronged therein. He do say
      that the Court is in a way to ruin all for their pleasures; and says that
      he himself hath once taken the liberty to tell the King the necessity of
      having, at least, a show of religion in the Government, and sobriety; and
      that it was that, that did set up and keep up Oliver, though he was the
      greatest rogue in the world, and that it is so fixed in the nature of the
      common Englishman that it will not out of him. He tells me that while all
      should be labouring to settle the kingdom, they are at Court all in
      factions, some for and others against my Lord Chancellor, and another for
      and against another man, and the King adheres to no man, but this day
      delivers himself up to this, and the next to that, to the ruin of himself
      and business; that he is at the command of any woman like a slave, though
      he be the best man to the Queene in the world, with so much respect, and
      never lies a night from her: but yet cannot command himself in the
      presence of a woman he likes. Having had this discourse, I parted, and
      home to dinner, and thence to the office all the afternoon to my great
      content very busy. It raining this day all day to our great joy, it having
      not rained, I think, this month before, so as the ground was everywhere so
      burned and dry as could be; and no travelling in the road or streets in
      London, for dust. At night late home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). Up and to my chamber, where all the morning close, to
      draw up a letter to Sir W. Coventry upon the tidings of peace, taking
      occasion, before I am forced to it, to resign up to his Royall Highness my
      place of the Victualling, and to recommend myself to him by promise of
      doing my utmost to improve this peace in the best manner we may, to save
      the kingdom from ruin. By noon I had done this to my good content, and
      then with my wife all alone to dinner, and so to my chamber all the
      afternoon to write my letter fair, and sent it away, and then to talk with
      my wife, and read, and so by daylight (the only time I think I have done
      it this year) to supper, and then to my chamber to read and so to bed, my
      mind very much eased after what I have done to-day.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten to St. James's, to Sir W. Coventry's
      chamber; where, among other things, he come to me, and told me that he had
      received my yesterday's letters, and that we concurred very well in our
      notions; and that, as to my place which I had offered to resign of the
      Victualling, he had drawn up a letter at the same time for the Duke of
      York's signing for the like places in general raised during this war; and
      that he had done me right to the Duke of York, to let him know that I had,
      of my own accord, offered to resign mine. The letter do bid us to do all
      things, particularizing several, for the laying up of the ships, and
      easing the King of charge; so that the war is now professedly over. By and
      by up to the Duke of York's chamber; and there all the talk was about
      Jordan's coming with so much indiscretion, with his four little frigates
      and sixteen fire-ships from Harwich, to annoy the enemy. His failures were
      of several sorts, I know not which the truest: that he come with so strong
      a gale of wind, that his grapplings would not hold; that he did come by
      their lee; whereas if he had come athwart their hawse, they would have
      held; that they did not stop a tide, and come up with a windward tide, and
      then they would not have come so fast. Now, there happened to be Captain
      Jenifer by, who commanded the Lily in this business, and thus says that,
      finding the Dutch not so many as they expected, they did not know but that
      there were more of them above, and so were not so earnest to the setting
      upon these; that they did do what they could to make the fire-ships fall
      in among the enemy; and, for their lives, neither Sir J. Jordan nor others
      could, by shooting several times at them, make them go in; and it seems
      they were commanded by some idle fellows, such as they could of a sudden
      gather up at Harwich; which is a sad consideration that, at such a time as
      this, where the saving the reputation of the whole nation lay at stake,
      and after so long a war, the King had not credit to gather a few able men
      to command these vessels. He says, that if they had come up slower, the
      enemy would, with their boats and their great sloops, which they have to
      row with a great many men, they would, and did, come and cut up several of
      our fireships, and would certainly have taken most of them, for they do
      come with a great provision of these boats on purpose, and to save their
      men, which is bravely done of them, though they did, on this very
      occasion, shew great fear, as they say, by some men leaping overboard out
      of a great ship, as these were all of them of sixty and seventy guns
      a-piece, which one of our fireships laid on board, though the fire did not
      take. But yet it is brave to see what care they do take to encourage their
      men to provide great stores of boats to save them, while we have not
      credit to find one boat for a ship. And, further, he told us that this new
      way used by Deane, and this Sir W. Coventry observed several times, of
      preparing of fire-ships, do not do the work; for the fire, not being
      strong and quick enough to flame up, so as to take the rigging and sails,
      lies smothering a great while, half an hour before it flames, in which
      time they can get her off safely, though, which is uncertain, and did fail
      in one or two this bout, it do serve to burn our own ships. But what a
      shame it is to consider how two of our ships' companies did desert their
      ships for fear of being taken by their boats, our little frigates being
      forced to leave them, being chased by their greater! And one more company
      did set their ship on fire, and leave her; which afterwards a Feversham
      fisherman come up to, and put out the fire, and carried safe into
      Feversham, where she now is, which was observed by the Duke of York, and
      all the company with him, that it was only want of courage, and a general
      dismay and abjectness of spirit upon all our men; and others did observe
      our ill management, and God Almighty's curse upon all that we have in
      hand, for never such an opportunity was of destroying so many good ships
      of theirs as we now had. But to see how negligent we were in this
      business, that our fleete of Jordan's should not have any notice where
      Spragg was, nor Spragg of Jordan's, so as to be able to meet and join in
      the business, and help one another; but Jordan, when he saw Spragg's
      fleete above, did think them to be another part of the enemy's fleete!
      While, on the other side, notwithstanding our people at Court made such a
      secret of Jordan's design that nobody must know it, and even this Office
      itself must not know it; nor for my part I did not, though Sir W. Batten
      says by others' discourse to him he had heard something of it; yet De
      Ruyter, or he that commanded this fleete, had notice of it, and told it to
      a fisherman of ours that he took and released on Thursday last, which was
      the day before our fleete came to him. But then, that, that seems most to
      our disgrace, and which the Duke of York did take special and vehement
      notice of, is, that when the Dutch saw so many fire-ships provided for
      them, themselves lying, I think, about the Nore, they did with all their
      great ships, with a North-east wind, as I take it they said, but whatever
      it was, it was a wind that we should not have done it with, turn down to
      the Middle-ground; which the Duke of York observed, never was nor would
      have been undertaken by ourselves. And whereas some of the company
      answered, it was their great fear, not their choice that made them do it,
      the Duke of York answered, that it was, it may be, their fear and wisdom
      that made them do it; but yet their fear did not make them mistake, as we
      should have done, when we have had no fear upon us, and have run our ships
      on ground. And this brought it into my mind, that they managed their
      retreat down this difficult passage, with all their fear, better than we
      could do ourselves in the main sea, when the Duke of Albemarle run away
      from the Dutch, when the Prince was lost, and the Royal Charles and the
      other great ships come on ground upon the Galloper. Thus, in all things,
      in wisdom, courage, force, knowledge of our own streams, and success, the
      Dutch have the best of us, and do end the war with victory on their side.
      The Duke of York being ready, we into his closet, but, being in haste to
      go to the Parliament House, he could not stay. So we parted, and to
      Westminster Hall, where the Hall full of people to see the issue of the
      day, the King being come to speak to the House to-day. One thing
      extraordinary was, this day a man, a Quaker, came naked through the Hall,
      only very civilly tied about the privities to avoid scandal, and with a
      chafing-dish of fire and brimstone burning upon his head, did pass through
      the Hall, crying, "Repent! repent!" I up to the Painted Chamber, thinking
      to have got in to have heard the King's speech, but upon second thoughts
      did not think it would be worth the crowd, and so went down again into the
      Hall and there walked with several, among others my Lord Rutherford, who
      is come out of Scotland, and I hope I may get some advantage by it in
      reference to the business of the interest of the great sum of money I paid
      him long since without interest. But I did not now move him in it. But
      presently comes down the House of Commons, the King having made then a
      very short and no pleasing speech to them at all, not at all giving them
      thanks for their readiness to come up to town at this busy time; but told
      them that he did think he should have had occasion for them, but had none,
      and therefore did dismiss them to look after their own occasions till
      October; and that he did wonder any should offer to bring in a suspicion
      that he intended to rule by an army, or otherwise than by the laws of the
      land, which he promised them he would do; and so bade them go home and
      settle the minds of the country in that particular; and only added, that
      he had made a peace which he did believe they would find reasonable, and a
      good peace, but did give them none of the particulars thereof. Thus they
      are dismissed again to their general great distaste, I believe the
      greatest that ever Parliament was, to see themselves so fooled, and the
      nation in certain condition of ruin, while the King, they see, is only
      governed by his lust, and women, and rogues about him. The Speaker, they
      found, was kept from coming in the morning to the House on purpose, till
      after the King was come to the House of Lords, for fear they should be
      doing anything in the House of Commons to the further dissatisfaction of
      the King and his courtiers. They do all give up the kingdom for lost that
      I speak to; and do hear what the King says, how he and the Duke of York do
      do what they can to get up an army, that they may need no more
      Parliaments: and how my Lady Castlemayne hath, before the late breach
      between her and the King, said to the King that he must rule by an army,
      or all would be lost, and that Bab. May hath given the like advice to the
      King, to crush the English gentlemen, saying that L300 a-year was enough
      for any man but them that lived at Court. I am told that many petitions
      were provided for the Parliament, complaining of the wrongs they have
      received from the Court and courtiers, in city and country, if the
      Parliament had but sat: and I do perceive they all do resolve to have a
      good account of the money spent before ever they give a farthing more: and
      the whole kingdom is everywhere sensible of their being abused, insomuch
      that they forced their Parliament-men to come up to sit; and my cozen
      Roger told me that (but that was in mirth) he believed, if he had not come
      up, he should have had his house burned. The kingdom never in so troubled
      a condition in this world as now; nobody pleased with the peace, and yet
      nobody daring to wish for the continuance of the war, it being plain that
      nothing do nor can thrive under us. Here I saw old good Mr. Vaughan, and
      several of the great men of the Commons, and some of them old men, that
      are come 200 miles, and more, to attend this session-of Parliament; and
      have been at great charge and disappointments in their other private
      business; and now all to no purpose, neither to serve their country,
      content themselves, nor receive any thanks from the King. It is verily
      expected by many of them that the King will continue the prorogation in
      October, so as, if it be possible, never to have [this] Parliament more.
      My Lord Bristoll took his place in the House of Lords this day, but not in
      his robes; and when the King come in, he withdrew but my Lord of
      Buckingham was there as brisk as ever, and sat in his robes; which is a
      monstrous thing, that a man proclaimed against, and put in the Tower, and
      all, and released without any trial, and yet not restored to his places:
      But, above all, I saw my Lord Mordaunt as merry as the best, that it seems
      hath done such further indignities to Mr. Taylor' since the last sitting
      of Parliament as would hang [him], if there were nothing else, would the
      King do what were fit for him; but nothing of that is now likely to be.
      After having spent an hour or two in the hall, my cozen Roger and I and
      Creed to the Old Exchange, where I find all the merchants sad at this
      peace and breaking up of the Parliament, as men despairing of any good to
      the nation, which is a grievous consideration; and so home, and there
      cozen Roger and Creed to dinner with me, and very merry:&mdash;but among
      other things they told me of the strange, bold sermon of Dr. Creeton
      yesterday, before the King; how he preached against the sins of the Court,
      and particularly against adultery, over and over instancing how for that
      single sin in David, the whole nation was undone; and of our negligence in
      having our castles without ammunition and powder when the Dutch come upon
      us; and how we have no courage now a-days, but let our ships be taken out
      of our harbour. Here Creed did tell us the story of the dwell last night,
      in Coventgarden, between Sir H. Bellasses and Tom Porter. It is worth
      remembering the silliness of the quarrell, and is a kind of emblem of the
      general complexion of this whole kingdom at present. They two it seems
      dined yesterday at Sir Robert Carr's, where it seems people do drink high,
      all that come. It happened that these two, the greatest friends in the
      world, were talking together: and Sir H. Bellasses talked a little louder
      than ordinary to Tom Porter, giving of him some advice. Some of the
      company standing by said, "What! are they quarrelling, that they talk so
      high?" Sir H. Bellasses hearing it, said, "No!" says he: "I would have you
      know that I never quarrel, but I strike; and take that as a rule of mine!"&mdash;"How?"
      says Tom Porter, "strike! I would I could see the man in England that
      durst give me a blow!" with that Sir H. Bellasses did give him a box of
      the eare; and so they were going to fight there, but were hindered. And by
      and by Tom Porter went out; and meeting Dryden the poet, told him of the
      business, and that he was resolved to fight Sir H. Bellasses presently;
      for he knew, if he did not, they should be made friends to-morrow, and
      then the blow would rest upon him; which he would prevent, and desired
      Dryden to let him have his boy to bring him notice which way Sir H.
      Bellasses goes. By and by he is informed that Sir H. Bellasses's coach was
      coming: so Tom Porter went down out of the Coffee-house where he stayed
      for the tidings, and stopped the coach, and bade Sir H. Bellasses come
      out. "Why," says H. Bellasses, "you will not hurt me coming out, will
      you?"&mdash;"No," says Tom Porter. So out he went, and both drew: and H.
      Bellasses having drawn and flung away his scabbard, Tom Porter asked him
      whether he was ready? The other answering him he was, they fell to fight,
      some of their acquaintance by. They wounded one another, and H. Bellasses
      so much that it is feared he will die: and finding himself severely
      wounded, he called to Tom Porter, and kissed him, and bade him shift for
      himself; "for," says he, "Tom, thou hast hurt me; but I will make shift to
      stand upon my legs till thou mayest withdraw, and the world not take
      notice of you, for I would not have thee troubled for what thou hast
      done." And so whether he did fly or no I cannot tell: but Tom Porter
      shewed H. Bellasses that he was wounded too: and they are both ill, but H.
      Bellasses to fear of life. And this is a fine example; and H. Bellasses a
      Parliament-man too, and both of them most extraordinary friends! Among
      other discourse, my cozen Roger told us a thing certain, that the
      Archbishop of Canterbury; that now is, do keep a wench, and that he is as
      very a wencher as can be; and tells us it is a thing publickly known that
      Sir Charles Sidley had got away one of the Archbishop's wenches from him,
      and the Archbishop sent to him to let him know that she was his kinswoman,
      and did wonder that he would offer any dishonour to one related to him. To
      which Sir Charles Sidley is said to answer, "A pox take his Grace! pray
      tell his Grace that I believe he finds himself too old, and is afraid that
      I should outdo him among his girls, and spoil his trade." But he makes no
      more of doubt to say that the Archbishop is a wencher, and known to be so,
      which is one of the most astonishing things that I have heard of, unless
      it be, what for certain he says is true, that my Lady Castlemayne hath
      made a Bishop lately, namely,&mdash;her uncle, Dr. Glenham, who, I think
      they say, is Bishop of Carlisle; a drunken, swearing rascal, and a scandal
      to the Church; and do now pretend to be Bishop of Lincoln, in competition
      with Dr. Raynbow, who is reckoned as worthy a man as most in the Church
      for piety and learning: which are things so scandalous to consider, that
      no man can doubt but we must be undone that hears of them. After dinner
      comes W. How and a son of Mr. Pagett's to see me, with whom I drank, but
      could not stay, and so by coach with cozen Roger (who before his going did
      acquaint me in private with an offer made of his marrying of Mrs.
      Elizabeth Wiles, whom I know; a kinswoman of Mr. Honiwood's, an ugly old
      maid, but a good housewife; and is said to have L2500 to her portion; but
      if I can find that she hath but L2000, which he prays me to examine, he
      says he will have her, she being one he hath long known intimately, and a
      good housewife, and discreet woman; though I am against it in my heart,
      she being not handsome at all) and it hath been the very bad fortune of
      the Pepyses that ever I knew, never to marry an handsome woman, excepting
      Ned Pepys and Creed, set the former down at the Temple resolving to go to
      Cambridge to-morrow, and Creed and I to White Hall to the Treasury chamber
      there to attend, but in vain, only here, looking out of the window into
      the garden, I saw the King (whom I have not had any desire to see since
      the Dutch come upon the coast first to Sheerness, for shame that I should
      see him, or he me, methinks, after such a dishonour) come upon the garden;
      with him two or three idle Lords; and instantly after him, in another
      walk, my Lady Castlemayne, led by Bab. May: at which I was surprised,
      having but newly heard the stories of the King and her being parted for
      ever. So I took Mr. Povy, who was there, aside, and he told me all, how
      imperious this woman is, and hectors the King to whatever she will. It
      seems she is with child, and the King says he did not get it: with that
      she made a slighting "puh" with her mouth, and went out of the house, and
      never come in again till the King went to Sir Daniel Harvy's to pray her;
      and so she is come to-day, when one would think his mind should be full of
      some other cares, having but this morning broken up such a Parliament,
      with so much discontent, and so many wants upon him, and but yesterday
      heard such a sermon against adultery. But it seems she hath told the King,
      that whoever did get it, he should own it; and the bottom of the quarrel
      is this:&mdash;She is fallen in love with young Jermin who hath of late
      lain with her oftener than the King, and is now going to marry my Lady
      Falmouth; the King he is mad at her entertaining Jermin, and she is mad at
      Jermin's going to marry from her: so they are all mad; and thus the
      kingdom is governed! and they say it is labouring to make breaches between
      the Duke of Richmond and his lady that the King may get her to him. But he
      tells me for certain that nothing is more sure than that the King, and
      Duke of York, and the Chancellor, are desirous and labouring all they can
      to get an army, whatever the King says to the Parliament; and he believes
      that they are at last resolved to stand and fall all three together: so
      that he says match of the Duke of York with the Chancellor's daughter hath
      undone the nation. He tells me also that the King hath not greater enemies
      in the world than those of his own family; for there is not an officer in
      the house almost but curses him for letting them starve, and there is not
      a farthing of money to be raised for the buying them bread. Having done
      talking with him I to Westminster Hall, and there talked and wandered up
      and down till the evening to no purpose, there and to the Swan, and so
      till the evening, and so home, and there to walk in the garden with my
      wife, telling her of my losing L300 a year by my place that I am to part
      with, which do a little trouble me, but we must live with somewhat more
      thrift, and so home to supper and to play on the flageolet, which do do
      very prettily, and so to bed. Many guns were heard this afternoon, it
      seems, at White Hall and in the Temple garden very plain; but what it
      should be nobody knows, unless the Dutch be driving our ships up the
      river. To-morrow we shall know.
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    <p>
      30th. Up and to the office, where we sat busy all the morning. At noon
      home to dinner, where Daniel and his wife with us, come to see whether I
      could get him any employment. But I am so far from it, that I have the
      trouble upon my mind how to dispose of Mr. Gibson and one or two more I am
      concerned for in the Victualling business, which are to be now discharged.
      After dinner by coach to White Hall, calling on two or three tradesmen and
      paying their bills, and so to White Hall, to the Treasury-chamber, where I
      did speak with the Lords, and did my business about getting them to assent
      to 10 per cent. interest on the 11 months tax, but find them mightily put
      to it for money. Here I do hear that there are three Lords more to be
      added to them; my Lord Bridgewater, my Lord Anglesey, and my Lord
      Chamberlaine. Having done my business, I to Creed's chamber, and thence
      out with Creed to White Hall with him; in our way, meeting with Mr.
      Cooling, my Lord Chamberlain's secretary, on horseback, who stopped to
      speak with us, and he proved very drunk, and did talk, and would have
      talked all night with us, I not being able to break loose from him, he
      holding me so by the hand. But, Lord! to see his present humour, how he
      swears at every word, and talks of the King and my Lady Castlemayne in the
      plainest words in the world. And from him I gather that the story I
      learned yesterday is true&mdash;that the King hath declared that he did
      not get the child of which she is conceived at this time, he having not as
      he says lain with her this half year. But she told him, "God damn me, but
      you shall own it!" It seems, he is jealous of Jermin, and she loves him
      so, that the thoughts of his marrying of my Lady Falmouth puts her into
      fits of the mother; and he, it seems, hath lain with her from time to
      time, continually, for a good while; and once, as this Cooling says, the
      King had like to have taken him a-bed with her, but that he was fain to
      creep under the bed into her closet.... But it is a pretty thing he told
      us how the King, once speaking of the Duke of York's being mastered by his
      wife, said to some of the company by, that he would go no more abroad with
      this Tom Otter (meaning the Duke of York) and his wife. Tom Killigrew,
      being by, answered, "Sir," says he, "pray which is the best for a man, to
      be a Tom Otter to his wife or to his mistress?" meaning the King's being
      so to my Lady Castlemayne. Thus he went on; and speaking then of my Lord
      Sandwich, whom he professed to love exceedingly, says Creed, "I know not
      what, but he is a man, methinks, that I could love for himself, without
      other regards."... He talked very lewdly; and then took notice of my
      kindness to him on shipboard seven years ago, when the King was coming
      over, and how much he was obliged to me; but says, pray look upon this
      acknowledgement of a kindness in me to be a miracle; for, says he, "it is
      against the law at Court for a man that borrows money of me, even to buy
      his place with, to own it the next Sunday;" and then told us his horse was
      a bribe, and his boots a bribe; and told us he was made up of bribes, as
      an Oxford scholar is set out with other men's goods when he goes out of
      town, and that he makes every sort of tradesman to bribe him; and invited
      me home to his house, to taste of his bribe wine. I never heard so much
      vanity from a man in my life; so, being now weary of him, we parted, and I
      took coach, and carried Creed to the Temple. There set him down, and to my
      office, where busy late till my eyes begun to ake, and then home to
      supper: a pullet, with good sauce, to my liking, and then to play on the
      flageolet with my wife, which she now does very prettily, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up, and after some time with Greeting upon my flageolet I to my
      office, and there all the morning busy. Among other things, Sir W. Batten,
      [Sir] W. Pen, and myself did examine a fellow of our private man-of-war,
      who we have found come up from Hull, with near L500 worth of pieces of
      eight, though he will confess but 100 pieces. But it appears that there
      have been fine doings there. At noon dined at home, and then to the
      office, where busy again till the evening, when Major Halsey and Kinaston
      to adjust matters about Mrs. Rumbald's bill of exchange, and here Major
      Halsey, speaking much of my doing business, and understanding business,
      told me how my Lord Generall do say that I am worth them all, but I have
      heard that Halsey hath said the same behind my back to others. Then abroad
      with my wife by coach to Marrowbone, where my Lord Mayor and Aldermen, it
      seem, dined to-day: and were just now going away, methought, in a
      disconsolate condition, compared with their splendour they formerly had,
      when the City was standing. Here my wife and I drank at the gate, not
      'lighting, and then home with much pleasure, and so to my chamber, and my
      wife and I to pipe, and so to supper and to bed.
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      August 1st. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon my wife and I
      dined at Sir W. Pen's, only with Mrs. Turner and her husband, on a damned
      venison pasty, that stunk like a devil. However, I did not know it till
      dinner was done. We had nothing but only this, and a leg of mutton, and a
      pullet or two. Mrs. Markham was here, with her great belly. I was very
      merry, and after dinner, upon a motion of the women, I was got to go to
      the play with them-the first I have seen since before the Dutch coming
      upon our coast, and so to the King's house, to see "The Custome of the
      Country." The house mighty empty&mdash;more than ever I saw it&mdash;and
      an ill play. After the play, we into the house, and spoke with Knipp, who
      went abroad with us by coach to the Neat Houses in the way to Chelsy; and
      there, in a box in a tree, we sat and sang, and talked and eat; my wife
      out of humour, as she always is, when this woman is by. So, after it was
      dark, we home. Set Knepp down at home, who told us the story how Nell is
      gone from the King's house, and is kept by my Lord Buckhurst. Then we
      home, the gates of the City shut, it being so late: and at Newgate we find
      them in trouble, some thieves having this night broke open prison. So we
      through, and home; and our coachman was fain to drive hard from two or
      three fellows, which he said were rogues, that he met at the end of
      Blow-bladder Street, next Cheapside. So set Mrs. Turner home, and then we
      home, and I to the Office a little; and so home and to bed, my wife in an
      ill humour still.
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    <p>
      2nd. Up, but before I rose my wife fell into angry discourse of my
      kindness yesterday to Mrs. Knipp, and leading her, and sitting in the
      coach hand in hand, and my arm about her middle, and in some bad words
      reproached me with it. I was troubled, but having much business in my head
      and desirous of peace rose and did not provoke her. So she up and come to
      me and added more, and spoke basely of my father, who I perceive did do
      something in the country, at her last being there, that did not like her,
      but I would not enquire into anything, but let her talk, and when ready
      away to the Office I went, where all the morning I was, only Mr. Gawden
      come to me, and he and I home to my chamber, and there reckoned, and there
      I received my profits for Tangier of him, and L250 on my victualling
      score. He is a most noble-minded man as ever I met with, and seems to own
      himself much obliged to me, which I will labour to make him; for he is a
      good man also: we talked on many good things relating to the King's
      service, and, in fine, I had much matter of joy by this morning's work,
      receiving above L400 of him, on one account or other; and a promise that,
      though I lay down my victualling place, yet, as long as he continues
      victualler, I shall be the better by him. To the office again, and there
      evened all our business with Mr. Kinaston about Colonel Norwood's Bill of
      Exchange from Tangier, and I am glad of it, for though he be a good man,
      yet his importunity tries me. So home to dinner, where Mr. Hater with me
      and W. Hewer, because of their being in the way after dinner, and so to
      the office after dinner, where and with my Lord Bruneker at his lodgings
      all the afternoon and evening making up our great account for the Lords
      Commissioners of the Treasury, but not so as pleased me yet. So at 12 at
      night home to supper and to bed, my wife being gone in an ill humour to
      bed before me. This noon my wife comes to me alone, and tells me she had
      those upon her and bid me remember it. I asked her why, and she said she
      had a reason. I do think by something too she said to-day, that she took
      notice that I had not lain with her this half-year, that she thinks that I
      have some doubt that she might be with child by somebody else. Which God
      knows never entered into my head, or whether my father observed any thing
      at Brampton with Coleman I know not. But I do not do well to let these
      beginnings of discontents take so much root between us.
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    <p>
      3rd. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. Then at noon to
      dinner, and to the office again, there to enable myself, by finishing our
      great account, to give it to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury;
      which I did, and there was called in to them, to tell them only the total
      of our debt of the Navy on the 25th of May last, which is above L950,000.
      Here I find them mighty hot in their answer to the Council-board about our
      Treasurer's threepences of the Victualling, and also against the present
      farm of the Customes, which they do most highly inveigh against. So home
      again by coach, and there hard to work till very late and my eyes began to
      fail me, which now upon very little overworking them they do, which
      grieves me much. Late home, to supper, and to bed.
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    <p>
      4th (Lord's day). Busy at my Office from morning till night, in writing
      with my own hand fair our large general account of the expence and debt of
      the Navy, which lasted me till night to do, that I was almost blind, and
      Mr. Gibson with me all day long, and dined with me, and excellent
      discourse I had with him, he understanding all the business of the Navy
      most admirably. To walk a little with my wife at night in the garden, it
      being very hot weather again, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and with Sir W. Batten in the morning to St. James's, where we
      did our ordinary business with the Duke of York, where I perceive they
      have taken the highest resolution in the world to become good husbands,
      and to retrench all charge; and to that end we are commanded to give him
      an account of the establishment in the seventh year of the late King's
      reign, and how offices and salaries have been increased since; and I hope
      it will end in the taking away some of our Commissioners, though it may be
      to the lessening of some of our salaries also. After done with the Duke of
      York, and coming out through his dressing-room, I there spied Signor
      Francisco tuning his gittar, and Monsieur de Puy with him, who did make
      him play to me, which he did most admirably&mdash;so well as I was
      mightily troubled that all that pains should have been taken upon so bad
      an instrument. Walked over the Park with Mr. Gawden, end with him by coach
      home, and to the Exchange, where I hear the ill news of our loss lately of
      four rich ships, two from Guinea, one from Gallipoly, all with rich oyles;
      and the other from Barbadoes, worth, as is guessed, L80,000. But here is
      strong talk, as if Harman had taken some of the Dutch East India ships,
      but I dare not yet believe it, and brought them into Lisbon.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Sept. 6, 1667.  John Clarke to James Hickes.  A vessel arrived
     from Harwich brings news that the English lost 600 to 700 men in the
     attempt on St. Christopher; that Sir John Harman was not then there,
     but going with 11 ships, and left a ketch at Barbadoes to bring more
     soldiers after him; that the ketch met a French sloop with a packet
     from St. Christopher to their fleet at Martinico, and took her,
     whereupon Sir John Harman sailed there and fell upon their fleet of
     27 sail, 25 of which he sank, and burnt the others, save two which
     escaped; also that he left three of his fleet there, and went with
     the rest to Nevis, to make another attempt on St. Christopher.
     "Calendar of State Payers, 1667, p. 447]
</pre>
    <p>
      Home, and dined with my wife at Sir W. Pen's, where a very good pasty of
      venison, better than we expected, the last stinking basely, and after
      dinner he and my wife and I to the Duke of York's house, and there saw
      "Love Trickes, or the School of Compliments;" a silly play, only Miss
      [Davis's] dancing in a shepherd's clothes did please us mightily. Thence
      without much pleasure home and to my Office, so home, to supper, and to
      bed. My wife mighty angry with Nell, who is turned a very gossip, and gads
      abroad as soon as our backs are turned, and will put her away tomorrow,
      which I am not sorry for.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning very full of business. A
      full Board. Here, talking of news, my Lord Anglesey did tell us that the
      Dutch do make a further bogle with us about two or three things, which
      they will be satisfied in, he says, by us easily; but only in one, it
      seems, they do demand that we shall not interrupt their East Indiamen
      coming home, and of which they are in some fear; and we are full of hopes
      that we have 'light upon some of them, and carried them into Lisbon, by
      Harman; which God send! But they, which do shew the low esteem they have
      of us, have the confidence to demand that we shall have a cessation on our
      parts, and yet they at liberty to take what they will; which is such an
      affront, as another cannot be devised greater. At noon home to dinner,
      where I find Mrs. Wood, formerly Bab. Shelden, and our Mercer, who is
      dressed to-day in a paysan dress, that looks mighty pretty. We dined and
      sang and laughed mighty merry, and then I to the Office, only met at the
      door with Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Burroughs, who I took in and drank with,
      but was afraid my wife should see them, they being, especially the first,
      a prattling gossip, and so after drinking with them parted, and I to the
      Office, busy as long as my poor eyes would endure, which troubles me
      mightily and then into the garden with my wife, and to Sir W. Batten's
      with [Sir] W. Pen and [Sir] J. Minnes, and there eat a melon and talked,
      and so home to supper and to bed. My wife, as she said last night, hath
      put away Nell to-day, for her gossiping abroad and telling of stories. Sir
      W. Batten did tell me to-night that the Council have ordered a hearing
      before them of Carcasses business, which do vex me mightily, that we
      should be troubled so much by an idle rogue, a servant of our own, and all
      my thoughts to-night have been how to manage the matter before the
      Council.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and at the office very busy, and did much business all the
      morning. My wife abroad with her maid Jane and Tom all the afternoon,
      being gone forth to eat some pasties at "The Bottle of Hay," in St. John's
      Street, as you go to Islington, of which she is mighty fond, and I dined
      at home alone, and at the office close all the afternoon, doing much
      business to my great content. This afternoon Mr. Pierce, the surgeon,
      comes to me about business, and tells me that though the King and my Lady
      Castlemayne are friends again, she is not at White Hall, but at Sir D.
      Harvy's, whither the King goes to her; and he says she made him ask her
      forgiveness upon his knees, and promised to offend her no more so: that,
      indeed, she did threaten to bring all his bastards to his closet-door, and
      hath nearly hectored him out of his wits. I at my office till night, and
      then home to my pipe, my wife not coming home, which vexed me. I then into
      the garden, and there walked alone in the garden till 10 at night, when
      she come home, having been upon the water and could not get home sooner.
      So to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and all the morning at the office, where busy, and at noon home
      to dinner, where Creed dined with us, who tells me that Sir Henry
      Bellasses is dead of the duell he fought about ten days ago, with Tom
      Porter; and it is pretty to see how the world talk of them as a couple of
      fools, that killed one another out of love. After dinner to the office a
      while, and then with my wife to the Temple, where I light and sent her to
      her tailor's. I to my bookseller's; where, by and by, I met Mr. Evelyn,
      and talked of several things, but particularly of the times: and he tells
      me that wise men do prepare to remove abroad what they have, for that we
      must be ruined, our case being past relief, the kingdom so much in debt,
      and the King minding nothing but his lust, going two days a-week to see my
      Lady Castlemayne at Sir D. Harvy's. He gone, I met with Mr. Moore, who
      tells me that my Lord Hinchingbroke is now with his mistress, but not that
      he is married, as W. Howe come and told us the other day. So by coach to
      White Hall, and there staid a little, thinking to see Sir G. Carteret, but
      missed him, and so by coach took up my wife, and so home, and as far as
      Bow, where we staid and drank, and there, passing by Mr. Lowther and his
      lady, they stopped and we talked a little with them, they being in their
      gilt coach, and so parted; and presently come to us Mr. Andrews, whom I
      had not seen a good while, who, as other merchants do, do all give over
      any hopes of things doing well, and so he spends his time here most,
      playing at bowles. After dining together at the coach-side, we with great
      pleasure home, and so to the office, where I despatched my business, and
      home to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and betimes with Sir H. Cholmly upon some accounts of Tangier,
      and then he and I to Westminster, to Mr. Burges, and then walked in the
      Hall, and he and I talked, and he do really declare that he expects that
      of necessity this kingdom will fall back again to a commonwealth, and
      other wise men are of the same mind: this family doing all that silly men
      can do, to make themselves unable to support their kingdom, minding their
      lust and their pleasure, and making their government so chargeable, that
      people do well remember better things were done, and better managed, and
      with much less charge under a commonwealth than they have been by this
      King, and do seem to resolve to wind up his businesses and get money in
      his hand against the turn do come. After some talk I by coach and there
      dined, and with us Mr. Batelier by chance coming in to speak with me, and
      when I come home, and find Mr. Goodgroome, my wife's singing-master, there
      I did soundly rattle him for neglecting her so much as he hath done&mdash;she
      not having learned three songs these three months and more. After dinner
      my wife abroad with Mrs. Turner, and I to the office, where busy all the
      afternoon, and in the evening by coach to St. James's, and there met Sir
      W. Coventry; and he and I walked in the Park an hour. And then to his
      chamber, where he read to me the heads of the late great dispute between
      him and the rest of the Commissioners of the Treasury, and our new
      Treasurer of the Navy where they have overthrown him the last Wednesday,
      in the great dispute touching his having the payment of the Victualler,
      which is now settled by Council that he is not to have it and, indeed,
      they have been most just, as well as most severe and bold, in the doing
      this against a man of his quality; but I perceive he do really make no
      difference between any man. He tells me this day it is supposed the peace
      is ratified at Bredah, and all that matter over. We did talk of many
      retrenchments of charge of the Navy which he will put in practice, and
      every where else; though, he tells me, he despairs of being able to do
      what ought to be done for the saving of the kingdom, which I tell him, as
      indeed all the world is almost in hopes of, upon the proceeding of these
      gentlemen for the regulating of the Treasury, it being so late, and our
      poverty grown so great, that they want where to set their feet, to begin
      to do any thing. He tells me how weary he hath for this year and a half
      been of the war; and how in the Duke of York's bedchamber, at Christ
      Church, at Oxford, when the Court was there, he did labour to persuade the
      Duke to fling off the care of the Navy, and get it committed to other
      hands; which, if he had done, would have been much to his honour, being
      just come home with so much honour from sea as he did. I took notice of
      the sharp letter he wrote, which he sent us to read yesterday, to Sir
      Edward Spragg, where he is very plain about his leaving his charge of the
      ships at Gravesend, when the enemy come last up, and several other things:
      a copy whereof I have kept. But it is done like a most worthy man; and he
      says it is good, now and then, to tell these gentlemen their duties, for
      they need it. And it seems, as he tells me, all our Knights are fallen out
      one with another, he, and Jenings, and Hollis, and (his words were) they
      are disputing which is the coward among them; and yet men that take the
      greatest liberty of censuring others! Here, with him, very late, till I
      could hardly get a coach or link willing to go through the ruines; but I
      do, but will not do it again, being, indeed, very dangerous. So home and
      to supper, and bed, my head most full of an answer I have drawn this noon
      to the Committee of the Council to whom Carcasses business is referred to
      be examined again.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and to the Office, and there finished the letter about Carcasse,
      and sent it away, I think well writ, though it troubles me we should be
      put to trouble by this rogue so much. At the office all the morning, and
      at noon home to dinner, where I sang and piped with my wife with great
      pleasure, and did hire a coach to carry us to Barnett to-morrow. After
      dinner I to the office, and there wrote as long as my eyes would give me
      leave, and then abroad and to the New Exchange, to the bookseller's there,
      where I hear of several new books coming out&mdash;Mr. Spratt's History of
      the Royal Society, and Mrs. Phillips's' poems. Sir John Denham's poems are
      going to be all printed together; and, among others, some new things; and
      among them he showed me a copy of verses of his upon Sir John Minnes's
      going heretofore to Bullogne to eat a pig.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The collected edition of Denham's poems is dated 1668.  The verses
     referred to are inscribed "To Sir John Mennis being invited from
     Calice to Bologne to eat a pig," and two of the lines run

                   "Little Admiral John
                    To Bologne is gone."]
</pre>
    <p>
      Cowley, he tells me, is dead; who, it seems, was a mighty civil, serious
      man; which I did not know before. Several good plays are likely to be
      abroad soon, as Mustapha and Henry the 5th. Here having staid and
      divertised myself a good while, I home again and to finish my letters by
      the post, and so home, and betimes to bed with my wife because of rising
      betimes to-morrow.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day). Up by four o'clock, and ready with Mrs. Turner to take
      coach before five; which we did, and set on our journey, and got to the
      Wells at Barnett by seven o'clock, and there found many people a-drinking;
      but the morning is a very cold morning, so as we were very cold all the
      way in the coach. Here we met Joseph Batelier, and I talked with him, and
      here was W. Hewer also, and his uncle Steventon: so, after drinking three
      glasses and the women nothing, we back by coach to Barnett, where to the
      Red Lyon, where we 'light, and went up into the great Room, and there
      drank, and eat some of the best cheese-cakes that ever I eat in my life,
      and so took coach again, and W. Hewer on horseback with us, and so to
      Hatfield, to the inn, next my Lord Salisbury's house, and there rested
      ourselves, and drank, and bespoke dinner; and so to church, it being just
      church-time, and there we find my Lord and my Lady Sands and several fine
      ladies of the family, and a great many handsome faces and genteel persons
      more in the church, and did hear a most excellent good sermon, which
      pleased me mightily, and very devout; it being upon, the signs of saving
      grace, where it is in a man, and one sign, which held him all this day,
      was, that where that grace was, there is also the grace of prayer, which
      he did handle very finely. In this church lies the former Lord of
      Salisbury, Cecil, buried in a noble tomb. So the church being done, we to
      our inn, and there dined very well, and mighty merry; and as soon as we
      had dined we walked out into the Park through the fine walk of trees, and
      to the Vineyard, and there shewed them that, which is in good order, and
      indeed a place of great delight; which, together with our fine walk
      through the Park, was of as much pleasure as could be desired in the world
      for country pleasure and good ayre. Being come back, and weary with the
      walk, for as I made it, it was pretty long, being come back to our inne,
      there the women had pleasure in putting on some straw hats, which are much
      worn in this country, and did become them mightily, but especially my
      wife. So, after resting awhile, we took coach again, and back to Barnett,
      where W. Hewer took us into his lodging, which is very handsome, and there
      did treat us very highly with cheesecakes, cream, tarts, and other good
      things; and then walked into the garden, which was pretty, and there
      filled my pockets full of filberts, and so with much pleasure. Among other
      things, I met in this house with a printed book of the Life of O.
      Cromwell, to his honour as a soldier and politician, though as a rebell,
      the first of that kind that ever I saw, and it is well done. Took coach
      again, and got home with great content, just at day shutting in, and so as
      soon as home eat a little and then to bed, with exceeding great content at
      our day's work.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. My wife waked betimes to call up her maids to washing, and so to bed
      again, whom I then hugged, it being cold now in the mornings.... Up by and
      by, and with Mr. Gawden by coach to St. James's, where we find the Duke
      gone a-hunting with the King, but found Sir W. Coventry within, with whom
      we discoursed, and he did largely discourse with us about our speedy
      falling upon considering of retrenchments in the expense of the Navy,
      which I will put forward as much as I can. So having done there I to
      Westminster Hall to Burges, and then walked to the New Exchange, and there
      to my bookseller's, and did buy Scott's Discourse of Witches; and do hear
      Mr. Cowley mightily lamented his death, by Dr. Ward, the Bishop of
      Winchester, and Dr. Bates, who were standing there, as the best poet of
      our nation, and as good a man. Thence I to the printseller's, over against
      the Exchange towards Covent Garden, and there bought a few more prints of
      cittys, and so home with them, and my wife and maids being gone over the
      water to the whitster's
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A bleacher of linen.  "The whitsters of Datchet Mead" are referred
     to by Mrs. Ford ("Merry Wives of Windsor," act iii., sc. 3).]
</pre>
    <p>
      with their clothes, this being the first time of her trying this way of
      washing her linen, I dined at Sir W. Batten's, and after dinner, all alone
      to the King's playhouse, and there did happen to sit just before Mrs.
      Pierce, and Mrs. Knepp, who pulled me by the hair; and so I addressed
      myself to them, and talked to them all the intervals of the play, and did
      give them fruit. The play is "Brenoralt," which I do find but little in,
      for my part. Here was many fine ladies-among others, the German Baron,
      with his lady, who is envoye from the Emperour, and their fine daughter,
      which hath travelled all Europe over with them, it seems; and is
      accordingly accomplished, and indeed, is a wonderful pretty woman. Here
      Sir Philip Frowde, who sat next to me, did tell me how Sir H. Belasses is
      dead, and that the quarrel between him and Tom Porter, who is fled, did
      arise in the ridiculous fashion that I was first told it, which is a
      strange thing between two so good friends. The play being done, I took the
      women, and Mrs. Corbett, who was with them, by coach, it raining, to Mrs.
      Manuel's, the Jew's wife, formerly a player, who we heard sing with one of
      the Italians that was there; and, indeed, she sings mightily well; and
      just after the Italian manner, but yet do not please me like one of Mrs.
      Knepp's songs, to a good English tune, the manner of their ayre not
      pleasing me so well as the fashion of our own, nor so natural. Here I sat
      a little and then left them, and then by coach home, and my wife not come
      home, so the office a little and then home, and my wife come; and so,
      saying nothing where I had been, we to supper and pipe, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and to the office, where we sat busy all the morning. At noon
      home to dinner all alone, my wife being again at the whitster's. After
      dinner with Sir W. Pen to St. James's, where the rest come and attended
      the Duke of York, with our usual business; who, upon occasion, told us
      that he did expect this night or to-morrow to hear from Breda of the
      consummation of the peace. Thence Sir W. Pen and I to the King's house,
      and there saw "The Committee," which I went to with some prejudice, not
      liking it before, but I do now find it a very good play, and a great deal
      of good invention in it; but Lacy's part is so well performed that it
      would set off anything. The play being done, we with great pleasure home,
      and there I to the office to finish my letters, and then home to my
      chamber to sing and pipe till my wife comes home from her washing, which
      was nine at night, and a dark and rainy night, that I was troubled at her
      staying out so long. But she come well home, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and to the office, where we held a meeting extraordinary upon
      some particular business, and there sat all the morning. At noon, my wife
      being gone to the whitster's again to her clothes, I to dinner to Sir W.
      Batten's, where much of our discourse concerning Carcasse, who it seems do
      find success before the Council, and do everywhere threaten us with what
      he will prove against us, which do vex us to see that we must be subjected
      to such a rogue of our own servants as this is. By and by to talk of our
      prize at Hull, and Sir W. Batten offering, again and again, seriously how
      he would sell his part for L1000 and I considering the knavery of Hogg and
      his company, and the trouble we may have with the Prince Rupert about the
      consort ship, and how we are linked with Sir R. Ford, whose son-in-law too
      is got thither, and there we intrust him with all our concern, who I doubt
      not is of the same trade with his father-in-law for a knave, and then the
      danger of the sea, if it shall be brought about, or bad debts contracted
      in the sale, but chiefly to be eased of my fears about all or any of this,
      I did offer my part to him for L700. With a little beating the bargain, we
      come to a perfect agreement for L666 13s. 4d., which is two-thirds of
      L1000, which is my proportion of the prize. I went to my office full of
      doubts and joy concerning what I had done; but, however, did put into
      writing the heads of our agreement, and returned to Sir W. Batten, and we
      both signed them; and Sir R. Ford, being come thither since, witnessed
      them. So having put it past further dispute I away, satisfied, and took
      coach and to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Country Captain,"
      which is a very ordinary play. Methinks I had no pleasure therein at all,
      and so home again and to my business hard till my wife come home from her
      clothes, and so with her to supper and to bed. No news yet come of the
      ratification of the peace which we have expected now every hour since
      yesterday.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and to the office betimes, where busy, and sat all the morning,
      vexed with more news of Carcasses proceedings at the Council, insomuch as
      we four, [Sir] J. Minnes, [Sir] W. Batten, (Sir) W. Pen, and myself, did
      make an appointment to dine with Sir W. Coventry to-day to discourse it
      with him, which we did by going thither as soon as the office was up, and
      there dined, and very merry, and many good stories, and after dinner to
      our discourse about Carcasse, and how much we are troubled that we should
      be brought, as they say we shall, to defend our report before the
      Council-board with him, and to have a clerk imposed on us. He tells us in
      short that there is no intention in the Lords for the latter, but wholly
      the contrary. That they do not desire neither to do anything in disrespect
      to the Board, and he will endeavour to prevent, as he hath done, our
      coming to plead at the table with our clerk, and do believe the whole will
      amount to nothing at the Council, only what he shall declare in behalf of
      the King against the office, if he offers anything, will and ought to be
      received, to which we all shew a readiness, though I confess even that
      (though I think I am as clear as the clearest of them), yet I am troubled
      to think what trouble a rogue may without cause give a man, though it be
      only by bespattering a man, and therefore could wish that over, though I
      fear nothing to be proved. Thence with much satisfaction, and Sir W. Pen
      and I to the Duke's house, where a new play. The King and Court there: the
      house full, and an act begun. And so went to the King's, and there saw
      "The Merry Wives of Windsor:" which did not please me at all, in no part
      of it, and so after the play done we to the Duke's house, where my wife
      was by appointment in Sir W. Pen's coach, and she home, and we home, and I
      to my office, where busy till letters done, and then home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and at the office all the morning, and so at noon to dinner, and
      after dinner my wife and I to the Duke's playhouse, where we saw the new
      play acted yesterday, "The Feign Innocence, or Sir Martin Marr-all;" a
      play made by my Lord Duke of Newcastle, but, as every body says, corrected
      by Dryden. It is the most entire piece of mirth, a complete farce from one
      end to the other, that certainly was ever writ. I never laughed so in all
      my life. I laughed till my head [ached] all the evening and night with the
      laughing; and at very good wit therein, not fooling. The house full, and
      in all things of mighty content to me. Thence to the New Exchange with my
      wife, where, at my bookseller's, I saw "The History of the Royall
      Society," which, I believe, is a fine book, and have bespoke one in
      quires. So home, and I to the office a little, and so to my chamber, and
      read the history of 88&mdash;[See 10th of this month.]&mdash;in Speede, in
      order to my seeing the play thereof acted to-morrow at the King's house.
      So to supper in some pain by the sudden change of the weather cold and my
      drinking of cold drink, which I must I fear begin to leave off, though I
      shall try it as long as I can without much pain. But I find myself to be
      full of wind, and my anus to be knit together as it is always with cold.
      Every body wonders that we have no news from Bredah of the ratification of
      the peace; and do suspect that there is some stop in it. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and all the morning at the office, where we sat, and my head was
      full of the business of Carcasse, who hath a hearing this morning before
      the Council and hath summonsed at least thirty persons, and which is
      wondrous, a great many of them, I hear, do declare more against him than
      for him, and yet he summonses people without distinction. Sure he is
      distracted. At noon home to dinner, and presently my wife and I and Sir W.
      Pen to the King's playhouse, where the house extraordinary full; and there
      was the King and Duke of York to see the new play, "Queen Elizabeth's
      Troubles and the History of Eighty Eight." I confess I have sucked in so
      much of the sad story of Queen Elizabeth, from my cradle, that I was ready
      to weep for her sometimes; but the play is the most ridiculous that sure
      ever come upon the stage; and, indeed, is merely a shew, only shews the
      true garbe of the Queen in those days, just as we see Queen Mary and Queen
      Elizabeth painted; but the play is merely a puppet play, acted by living
      puppets. Neither the design nor language better; and one stands by and
      tells us the meaning of things: only I was pleased to see Knipp dance
      among the milkmaids, and to hear her sing a song to Queen Elizabeth; and
      to see her come out in her night-gowne with no lockes on, but her bare
      face and hair only tied up in a knot behind; which is the comeliest dress
      that ever I saw her in to her advantage. Thence home and went as far as
      Mile End with Sir W. Pen, whose coach took him up there for his
      country-house; and after having drunk there, at the Rose and Crowne, a
      good house for Alderman Bides ale,&mdash;[John Bide, brewer, Sheriff of
      London in 1647.&mdash;B.]&mdash;we parted, and we home, and there I
      finished my letters, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Lord's day). Up, and being ready, walked up and down to Cree Church,
      to see it how it is; but I find no alteration there, as they say there
      was, for my Lord Mayor and Aldermen to come to sermon, as they do every
      Sunday, as they did formerly to Paul's. Walk back home and to our own
      church, where a dull sermon and our church empty of the best sort of
      people, they being at their country houses, and so home, and there dined
      with me Mr. Turner and his daughter Betty.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Betty Turner, who is frequently mentioned after this date, appears
     to have been a daughter of Serjeant John Turner and his wife Jane,
     and younger sister of Theophila Turner (see January 4th, 6th,
     1668-69).]
</pre>
    <p>
      Her mother should, but they were invited to Sir J. Minnes, where she dined
      and the others here with me. Betty is grown a fine lady as to carriage and
      discourse. I and my wife are mightily pleased with her. We had a good
      haunch of venison, powdered and boiled, and a good dinner and merry. After
      dinner comes Mr. Pelling the Potticary, whom I had sent for to dine with
      me, but he was engaged. After sitting an hour to talk we broke up, all
      leaving Pelling to talk with my wife, and I walked towards White Hall,
      but, being wearied, turned into St. Dunstan's Church, where I heard an
      able sermon of the minister of the place; and stood by a pretty, modest
      maid, whom I did labour to take by the hand and the body; but she would
      not, but got further and further from me; and, at last, I could perceive
      her to take pins out of her pocket to prick me if I should touch her again&mdash;which
      seeing I did forbear, and was glad I did spy her design. And then I fell
      to gaze upon another pretty maid in a pew close to me, and she on me; and
      I did go about to take her by the hand, which she suffered a little and
      then withdrew. So the sermon ended, and the church broke up, and my amours
      ended also, and so took coach and home, and there took up my wife, and to
      Islington with her, our old road, but before we got to Islington, between
      that and Kingsland, there happened an odd adventure: one of our
      coach-horses fell sick of the staggers, so as he was ready to fall down.
      The coachman was fain to 'light, and hold him up, and cut his tongue to
      make him bleed, and his tail. The horse continued shaking every part of
      him, as if he had been in an ague, a good while, and his blood settled in
      his tongue, and the coachman thought and believed he would presently drop
      down dead; then he blew some tobacco in his nose, upon which the horse
      sneezed, and, by and by, grows well, and draws us the rest of our way, as
      well as ever he did; which was one of the strangest things of a horse I
      ever observed, but he says it is usual. It is the staggers. Staid and eat
      and drank at Islington, at the old house, and so home, and to my chamber
      to read, and then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and at the office all the morning very busy. Towards noon I to
      Westminster about some tallies at the Exchequer, and then straight home
      again and dined, and then to sing with my wife with great content, and
      then I to the office again, where busy, and then out and took coach and to
      the Duke of York's house, all alone, and there saw "Sir Martin Marr-all"
      again, though I saw him but two days since, and do find it the most
      comical play that ever I saw in my life. Soon as the play done I home, and
      there busy till night, and then comes Mr. Moore to me only to discourse
      with me about some general things touching the badness of the times, how
      ill they look, and he do agree with most people that I meet with, that we
      shall fall into a commonwealth in a few years, whether we will or no; for
      the charge of a monarchy is such as the kingdom cannot be brought to bear
      willingly, nor are things managed so well nowadays under it, as
      heretofore. He says every body do think that there is something
      extraordinary that keeps us so long from the news of the peace being
      ratified, which the King and the Duke of York have expected these six
      days. He gone, my wife and I and Mrs. Turner walked in the garden a good
      while till 9 at night, and then parted, and I home to supper and to read a
      little (which I cannot refrain, though I have all the reason in the world
      to favour my eyes, which every day grow worse and worse by over-using
      them), and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and to my chamber to set down my journall for the last three
      days, and then to the office, where busy all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, and then with my wife abroad, set her down at the Exchange, and I
      to St. James's, where find Sir W. Coventry alone, and fell to discourse of
      retrenchments; and thereon he tells how he hath already propounded to the
      Lords Committee of the Councils how he would have the Treasurer of the
      Navy a less man, that might not sit at the Board, but be subject to the
      Board. He would have two Controllers to do his work and two Surveyors,
      whereof one of each to take it by turns to reside at Portsmouth and
      Chatham by a kind of rotation; he would have but only one Clerk of the
      Acts. He do tell me he hath propounded how the charge of the Navy in peace
      shall come within L200,000, by keeping out twenty-four ships in summer,
      and ten in the winter. And several other particulars we went over of
      retrenchment: and I find I must provide some things to offer that I may be
      found studious to lessen the King's charge. By and by comes my Lord
      Bruncker, and then we up to the Duke of York, and there had a hearing of
      our usual business, but no money to be heard of&mdash;no, not L100 upon
      the most pressing service that can be imagined of bringing in the King's
      timber from Whittlewood, while we have the utmost want of it, and no
      credit to provide it elsewhere, and as soon as we had done with the Duke
      of York, Sir W. Coventry did single [out] Sir W. Pen and me, and desired
      us to lend the King some money, out of the prizes we have taken by Hogg.
      He did not much press it, and we made but a merry answer thereto; but I
      perceive he did ask it seriously, and did tell us that there never was so
      much need of it in the world as now, we being brought to the lowest
      straits that can be in the world. This troubled me much. By and by Sir W.
      Batten told me that he heard how Carcasse do now give out that he will
      hang me, among the rest of his threats of him and Pen, which is the first
      word I ever heard of the kind from him concerning me. It do trouble me a
      little, though I know nothing he can possibly find to fasten on me.
      Thence, with my Lord Bruncker to the Duke's Playhouse (telling my wife so
      at the 'Change, where I left her), and there saw "Sir Martin Marr-all"
      again, which I have now seen three times, and it hath been acted but four
      times, and still find it a very ingenious play, and full of variety. So
      home, and to the office, where my eyes would not suffer me to do any thing
      by candlelight, and so called my wife and walked in the garden. She mighty
      pressing for a new pair of cuffs, which I am against the laying out of
      money upon yet, which makes her angry. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and my wife and I fell out about the pair of cuffs, which she
      hath a mind to have to go to see the ladies dancing to-morrow at Betty
      Turner's school; and do vex me so that I am resolved to deny them her.
      However, by-and-by a way was found that she had them, and I well
      satisfied, being unwilling to let our difference grow higher upon so small
      an occasion and frowardness of mine. Then to the office, my Lord Bruncker
      and I all the morning answering petitions, which now by a new Council's
      order we are commanded to set a day in a week apart for, and we resolve to
      do it by turn, my Lord and I one week and two others another. At noon home
      to dinner, and then my wife and I mighty pleasant abroad, she to the New
      Exchange and I to the Commissioners of the Treasury, who do sit very
      close, and are bringing the King's charges as low as they can; but Sir W.
      Coventry did here again tell me that he is very serious in what he said to
      Sir W. Pen and me yesterday about our lending of money to the King; and
      says that people do talk that we had had the King's ships at his cost to
      take prizes, and that we ought to lend the King money more than other
      people. I did tell him I will consider it, and so parted; and do find I
      cannot avoid it. So to Westminster Hall and there staid a while, and
      thence to Mrs. Martin's, and there did take a little pleasure both with
      her and her sister. Here sat and talked, and it is a strange thing to see
      the impudence of the woman, that desires by all means to have her mari
      come home, only that she might beat liberty to have me para toker her,
      which is a thing I do not so much desire. Thence by coach, took up my
      wife, and home and out to Mile End, and there drank, and so home, and
      after some little reading in my chamber, to supper and to bed. This day I
      sent my cozen Roger a tierce of claret, which I give him. This morning
      come two of Captain Cooke's boys, whose voices are broke, and are gone
      from the Chapel, but have extraordinary skill; and they and my boy, with
      his broken voice, did sing three parts; their names were Blaewl and
      Loggings; but, notwithstanding their skill, yet to hear them sing with
      their broken voices, which they could not command to keep in tune, would
      make a man mad&mdash;so bad it was.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and to the office; whence Lord Bruncker, J. Minnes, W. Pen, and
      I, went to examine some men that are put in there, for rescuing of men
      that were pressed into the service: and we do plainly see that the
      desperate condition that we put men into for want of their pay, makes them
      mad, they being as good men as ever were in the world, and would as
      readily serve the King again, were they but paid. Two men leapt overboard,
      among others, into the Thames, out of the vessel into which they were
      pressed, and were shot by the soldiers placed there to keep them, two days
      since; so much people do avoid the King's service! And then these men are
      pressed without money, and so we cannot punish them for any thing, so that
      we are forced only to make a show of severity by keeping them in prison,
      but are unable to punish them. Returning to the office, did ask whether we
      might visit Commissioner Pett, to which, I confess, I have no great mind;
      and it was answered that he was close prisoner, and we could not; but the
      Lieutenant of the Tower would send for him to his lodgings, if we would:
      so we put it off to another time. Returned to the office, where we sat all
      the morning, and at noon to Captain Cocke's to dinner; where Lord Bruncker
      and his Lady, Matt. Wren, and Bulteale, and Sir Allen Apsly; the last of
      whom did make good sport, he being already fallen under the retrenchments
      of the new Committee, as he is Master Falconer;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The post of Master Falconer was afterwards granted to Charles's son
     by Nell Gwyn, and it is still held by the Duke of St. Albans, as an
     hereditary office.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which makes him mad, and swears that we are doing that the Parliament
      would have done&mdash;that is, that we are now endeavouring to destroy one
      another. But it was well observed by some at the table, that they do not
      think this retrenching of the King's charge will be so acceptable to the
      Parliament, they having given the King a revenue of so many L100,000's
      a-year more than his predecessors had, that he might live in pomp, like a
      king. After dinner with my Lord Bruncker and his mistress to the King's
      playhouse, and there saw "The Indian Emperour;" where I find Nell come
      again, which I am glad of; but was most infinitely displeased with her
      being put to act the Emperour's daughter; which is a great and serious
      part, which she do most basely. The rest of the play, though pretty good,
      was not well acted by most of them, methought; so that I took no great
      content in it. But that, that troubled me most was, that Knipp sent by
      Moll' to desire to speak to me after the play; and she beckoned to me at
      the end of the play, and I promised to come; but it was so late, and I
      forced to step to Mrs. Williams's lodgings with my Lord Bruncker and her,
      where I did not stay, however, for fear of her shewing me her closet, and
      thereby forcing me to give her something; and it was so late, that for
      fear of my wife's coming home before me, I was forced to go straight home,
      which troubled me. Home and to the office a little, and then home and to
      my chamber to read, and anon, late, comes home my wife, with Mr. Turner
      and Mrs. Turner, with whom she supped, having been with Mrs. Turner to-day
      at her daughter's school, to see her daughters dancing, and the rest,
      which she says is fine. They gone, I to supper and to bed. My wife very
      fine to-day, in her new suit of laced cuffs and perquisites. This evening
      Pelling comes to me, and tells me that this night the Dutch letters are
      come, and that the peace was proclaimed there the 19th inst., and that all
      is finished; which, for my life, I know not whether to be glad or sorry
      for, a peace being so necessary, and yet the peace is so bad in its terms.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and Greeting comes, who brings me a tune for two flageolets,
      which we played, and is a tune played at the King's playhouse, which goes
      so well, that I will have more of them, and it will be a mighty pleasure
      for me to have my wife able to play a part with me, which she will easily,
      I find, do. Then abroad to White Hall in a hackney-coach with Sir W. Pen:
      and in our way, in the narrow street near Paul's, going the backway by
      Tower Street, and the coach being forced to put back, he was turning
      himself into a cellar,&mdash;[So much of London was yet in ruins.&mdash;B]&mdash;which
      made people cry out to us, and so we were forced to leap out&mdash;he out
      of one, and I out of the other boote;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The "boot" was originally a projection on each side of the coach,
     where the passengers sat with their backs to the carriage.  Such a
     "boot" is seen in the carriage containing the attendants of Queen
     Elizabeth, in Hoefnagel's well-known picture of Nonsuch Palace,
     dated 1582.  Taylor, the Water Poet, the inveterate opponent of the
     introduction of coaches, thus satirizes the one in which he was
     forced to take his place as a passenger: "It wears two boots and no
     spurs, sometimes having two pairs of legs in one boot; and
     oftentimes against nature most preposterously it makes fair ladies
     wear the boot.  Moreover, it makes people imitate sea-crabs, in
     being drawn sideways, as they are when they sit in the boot of the
     coach."  In course of time these projections were abolished, and the
     coach then consisted of three parts, viz., the body, the boot (on
     the top of which the coachman sat), and the baskets at the back.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Query, whether a glass-coach would have permitted us to have made the
      escape?&mdash;[See note on introduction of glass coaches, September 23rd,
      1667.]&mdash;neither of us getting any hurt; nor could the coach have got
      much hurt had we been in it; but, however, there was cause enough for us
      to do what we could to save ourselves. So being all dusty, we put into the
      Castle tavern, by the Savoy, and there brushed ourselves, and then to
      White Hall with our fellows to attend the Council, by order upon some
      proposition of my Lord Anglesey, we were called in. The King there: and it
      was about considering how the fleete might be discharged at their coming
      in shortly (the peace being now ratified, and it takes place on Monday
      next, which Sir W. Coventry said would make some clashing between some of
      us twenty to one, for want of more warning, but the wind has kept the
      boats from coming over), whether by money or tickets, and cries out
      against tickets, but the matter was referred for us to provide an answer
      to, which we must do in a few days. So we parted, and I to Westminster to
      the Exchequer, to see what sums of money other people lend upon the Act;
      and find of all sizes from L1000 to L100 nay, to L50, nay, to L20, nay, to
      L5: for I find that one Dr. Reade, Doctor of Law, gives no more, and
      others of them L20; which is a poor thing, methinks, that we should stoop
      so low as to borrow such sums. Upon the whole, I do think to lend, since I
      must lend, L300, though, God knows! it is much against my will to lend
      any, unless things were in better condition, and likely to continue so.
      Thence home and there to dinner, and after dinner by coach out again,
      setting my wife down at Unthanke's, and I to the Treasury-chamber, where I
      waited, talking with Sir G. Downing, till the Lords met. He tells me how
      he will make all the Exchequer officers, of one side and t'other, to lend
      the King money upon the Act; and that the least clerk shall lend money,
      and he believes the least will L100: but this I do not believe. He made me
      almost ashamed that we of the Navy had not in all this time lent any; so
      that I find it necessary I should, and so will speedily do it, before any
      of my fellows begin, and lead me to a bigger sum. By and by the Lords
      come; and I perceive Sir W. Coventry is the man, and nothing done till he
      comes. Among other things, I hear him observe, looking over a paper, that
      Sir John Shaw is a miracle of a man, for he thinks he executes more places
      than any man in England; for there he finds him a Surveyor of some of the
      King's woods, and so reckoned up many other places, the most inconsistent
      in the world. Their business with me was to consider how to assigne such
      of our commanders as will take assignements upon the Act for their wages;
      and the consideration thereof was referred to me to give them an answer
      the next sitting: which is a horrid poor thing: but they scruple at
      nothing of honour in the case. So away hence, and called my wife, and to
      the King's house, and saw "The Mayden Queene," which pleases us mightily;
      and then away, and took up Mrs. Turner at her door, and so to Mile End,
      and there drank, and so back to her house, it being a fine evening, and
      there supped. The first time I ever was there since they lived there; and
      she hath all things so neat and well done, that I am mightily pleased with
      her, and all she do. So here very merry, and then home and to bed, my eyes
      being very bad. I find most people pleased with their being at ease, and
      safe of a peace, that they may know no more charge or hazard of an
      ill-managed war: but nobody speaking of the peace with any content or
      pleasure, but are silent in it, as of a thing they are ashamed of; no, not
      at Court, much less in the City.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (St. Bartholomew's day). This morning was proclaimed the peace
      between us and the States of the United Provinces, and also of the King of
      France and Denmarke; and in the afternoon the Proclamations were printed
      and come out; and at night the bells rung, but no bonfires that I hear of
      any where, partly from the dearness of firing, but principally from the
      little content most people have in the peace. All the morning at the
      office. At noon dined, and Creed with me, at home. After dinner we to a
      play, and there saw "The Cardinall" at the King's house, wherewith I am
      mightily pleased; but, above all, with Becke Marshall. But it is pretty to
      observe how I look up and down for, and did spy Knipp; but durst not own
      it to my wife that I see her, for fear of angering her, who do not like my
      kindness to her, and so I was forced not to take notice of her, and so
      homeward, leaving Creed at the Temple: and my belly now full with plays,
      that I do intend to bind myself to see no more till Michaelmas. So with my
      wife to Mile End, and there drank of Bides ale, and so home. Most of our
      discourse is about our keeping a coach the next year, which pleases my
      wife mightily; and if I continue as able as now, it will save us money.
      This day comes a letter from the Duke of York to the Board to invite us,
      which is as much as to fright us, into the lending the King money; which
      is a poor thing, and most dishonourable, and shows in what a case we are
      at the end of the war to our neighbours. And the King do now declare
      publickly to give 10 per cent. to all lenders; which makes some think that
      the Dutch themselves will send over money, and lend it upon our publick
      faith, the Act of Parliament. So home and to my office, wrote a little,
      and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and thence home; and Pelling comes
      by invitation to dine with me, and much pleasant discourse with him. After
      dinner, away by water to White Hall, where I landed Pelling, who is going
      to his wife, where she is in the country, at Parson's Greene: and myself
      to Westminster, and there at the Swan I did baiser Frank, and to the
      parish church, thinking to see Betty Michell; and did stay an hour in the
      crowd, thinking, by the end of a nose that I saw, that it had been her;
      but at last the head turned towards me, and it was her mother, which vexed
      me, and so I back to my boat, which had broke one of her oars in rowing,
      and had now fastened it again; and so I up to Putney, and there stepped
      into the church, to look upon the fine people there, whereof there is
      great store, and the young ladies; and so walked to Barne-Elmes, whither I
      sent Russel, reading of Boyle's Hydrostatickes, which are of infinite
      delight. I walked in the Elmes a good while, and then to my boat, and
      leisurely home, with great pleasure to myself; and there supped, and W.
      Hewer with us, with whom a great deal of good talk touching the Office,
      and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and Greeting come, and I reckoned with him for his teaching of
      my wife and me upon the flageolet to this day, and so paid him for having
      as much as he can teach us. Then to the Office, where we sat upon a
      particular business all the morning: and my Lord Anglesey with us: who,
      and my Lord Bruncker, do bring us news how my Lord Chancellor's seal is to
      be taken away from him to-day. The thing is so great and sudden to me,
      that it put me into a very great admiration what should be the meaning of
      it; and they do not own that they know what it should be: but this is
      certain, that the King did resolve it on Saturday, and did yesterday send
      the Duke of Albemarle, the only man fit for those works, to him for his
      purse: to which the Chancellor answered, that he received it from the
      King, and would deliver it to the King's own hand, and so civilly returned
      the Duke of Albemarle without it; and this morning my Lord Chancellor is
      to be with the King, to come to an end in the business. After sitting, we
      rose, and my wife being gone abroad with Mrs. Turner to her washing at the
      whitster's, I dined at Sir W. Batten's, where Mr. Boreman was, who come
      from White Hall; who tells us that he saw my Lord Chancellor come in his
      coach with some of his men, without his Seal, to White Hall to his
      chamber; and thither the King and Duke of York come and staid together
      alone, an hour or more: and it is said that the King do say that he will
      have the Parliament meet, and that it will prevent much trouble by having
      of him out of their enmity, by his place being taken away; for that all
      their enmity will be at him. It is said also that my Lord Chancellor
      answers, that he desires he may be brought to his trial, if he have done
      any thing to lose his office; and that he will be willing, and is most
      desirous, to lose that, and his head both together. Upon what terms they
      parted nobody knows but the Chancellor looked sad, he says. Then in comes
      Sir Richard Ford, and says he hears that there is nobody more presses to
      reconcile the King and Chancellor than the Duke of Albemarle and Duke of
      Buckingham: the latter of which is very strange, not only that he who was
      so lately his enemy should do it, but that this man, that but the other
      day was in danger of losing his own head, should so soon come to be a
      mediator for others: it shows a wise Government. They all say that he
      [Clarendon] is but a poor man, not worth above L3000 a-year in land; but
      this I cannot believe: and all do blame him for having built so great a
      house, till he had got a better estate. Having dined, Sir J. Minnes and I
      to White Hall, where we could be informed in no more than we were told
      before, nobody knowing the result of the meeting, but that the matter is
      suspended. So I walked to the King's playhouse, there to meet Sir W. Pen,
      and saw "The Surprizall," a very mean play, I thought: or else it was
      because I was out of humour, and but very little company in the house. But
      there Sir W. Pen and I had a great deal of discourse with Moll; who tells
      us that Nell is already left by my Lord Buckhurst, and that he makes sport
      of her, and swears she hath had all she could get of him; and Hart,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Charles Hart, great-nephew of Shakespeare, a favourite actor.  He
     is credited with being Nell Gwyn's first lover (or Charles I., as
     the wits put it), and with having brought her on the stage.  He died
     of stone, and was buried at Stanmore Magna, Middlesex, where he had
     a country house.]
</pre>
    <p>
      her great admirer, now hates her; and that she is very poor, and hath lost
      my Lady Castlemayne, who was her great friend also but she is come to the
      House, but is neglected by them all.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Lord Buckhurst's liaison with Nell Gwyn probably came to an end
     about this time.  We learn from Pepys that in January, 1667-68, the
     king sent several times for Nelly (see January 11th, 1667-68).
     Nell's eldest son by Charles II., Charles Beauclerc, was not born
     till May 8th, 1670.  He was created Earl of Burford in 1676 and Duke
     of St. Albans in 1684.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence with Sir W. Pen home, and I to the office, where late about
      business, and then home to supper, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and am invited betimes to be godfather tomorrow to Captain
      Poole's child with my Lady Pen and Lady Batten, which I accepted out of
      complaisance to them, and so to the office, where we sat all the morning.
      At noon dined at home, and then my wife and I, with Sir W. Pen, to the New
      Exchange, set her down, and he and I to St. James's, where Sir J. Minnes,
      [Sir] W. Batten, and we waited upon the Duke of York, but did little
      business, and he, I perceive, his head full of other business, and of late
      hath not been very ready to be troubled with any of our business. Having
      done with him, Sir J. Minnes, [Sir] W. Batten and I to White Hall, and
      there hear how it is like to go well enough with my Lord Chancellor; that
      he is like to keep his Seal, desiring that he may stand his trial in
      Parliament, if they will accuse him of any thing. Here Sir J. Minnes and I
      looking upon the pictures; and Mr. Chevins, being by, did take us, of his
      own accord, into the King's closet, to shew us some pictures, which,
      indeed, is a very noble place, and exceeding great variety of brave
      pictures, and the best hands. I could have spent three or four hours there
      well, and we had great liberty to look and Chevins seemed to take pleasure
      to shew us, and commend the pictures. Having done here, I to the Exchange,
      and there find my wife gone with Sir W. Pen. So I to visit Colonel
      Fitzgerald, who hath been long sick at Woolwich, where most of the
      officers and soldiers quartered there, since the Dutch being in the river,
      have died or been sick, and he among the rest; and, by the growth of his
      beard and gray [hairs], I did not know him. His desire to speak with me
      was about the late command for my paying no more pensions for Tangier.
      Thence home, and there did business, and so in the evening home to supper
      and to bed. This day Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, was with me; and tells me
      how this business of my Lord Chancellor's was certainly designed in my
      Lady Castlemayne's chamber; and that, when he went from the King on Monday
      morning, she was in bed, though about twelve o'clock, and ran out in her
      smock into her aviary looking into White Hall garden; and thither her
      woman brought her her nightgown; and stood joying herself at the old man's
      going away: and several of the gallants of White Hall, of which there were
      many staying to see the Chancellor return, did talk to her in her
      birdcage; among others, Blancford, telling her she was the bird of
      paradise.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Clarendon refers to this scene in the continuation of his Life (ed.
     1827, vol. iii., p. 291), and Lister writes: "Lady Castlemaine rose
     hastily from her noontide bed, and came out into her aviary, anxious
     to read in the saddened air of her distinguished enemy some presage
     of his fall" ("Life of Clarendon," vol. ii., p. 412).]
</pre>
    <p>
      28th. Up; and staid undressed till my tailor's boy did mend my vest, in
      order to my going to the christening anon. Then out and to White Hall, to
      attend the Council, by their order, with an answer to their demands
      touching our advice for the paying off of the seamen, when the ships shall
      come in, which answer is worth seeing, shewing the badness of our
      condition. There, when I come, I was forced to stay till past twelve
      o'clock, in a crowd of people in the lobby, expecting the hearing of the
      great cause of Alderman Barker against my Lord Deputy of Ireland, for his
      ill usage in his business of land there; but the King and Council sat so
      long, as they neither heard them nor me. So when they rose, I into the
      House, and saw the King and Queen at dinner, and heard a little of their
      viallins' musick, and so home, and there to dinner, and in the afternoon
      with my Lady Batten, Pen, and her daughter, and my wife, to Mrs. Poole's,
      where I mighty merry among the women, and christened the child, a girl,
      Elizabeth, which, though a girl, yet my Lady Batten would have me to give
      the name. After christening comes Sir W. Batten, [Sir] W. Pen, and Mr.
      Lowther, and mighty merry there, and I forfeited for not kissing the two
      godmothers presently after the christening, before I kissed the mother,
      which made good mirth; and so anon away, and my wife and I took coach and
      went twice round Bartholomew fayre; which I was glad to see again, after
      two years missing it by the plague, and so home and to my chamber a
      little, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and Mr. Moore comes to me, and among other things tells me that
      my Lord Crew and his friends take it very ill of me that my Lord
      Sandwich's sea-fee should be retrenched, and so reported from this Office,
      and I give them no notice of it. The thing, though I know to be false&mdash;at
      least, that nothing went from our office towards it&mdash;yet it troubled
      me, and therefore after the office rose I went and dined with my Lord
      Crew, and before dinner I did enter into that discourse, and laboured to
      satisfy him; but found, though he said little, yet that he was not yet
      satisfied; but after dinner did pray me to go and see how it was, whether
      true or no. Did tell me if I was not their friend, they could trust to
      nobody, and that he did not forget my service and love to my Lord, and
      adventures for him in dangerous times, and therefore would not willingly
      doubt me now; but yet asked my pardon if, upon this news, he did begin to
      fear it. This did mightily trouble me: so I away thence to White Hall, but
      could do nothing. So home, and there wrote all my letters, and then, in
      the evening, to White Hall again, and there met Sir Richard Browne, Clerk
      to the Committee for retrenchments, who assures me no one word was ever
      yet mentioned about my Lord's salary. This pleased me, and I to Sir G.
      Carteret, who I find in the same doubt about it, and assured me he saw it
      in our original report, my Lord's name with a discharge against it. This,
      though I know to be false, or that it must be a mistake in my clerk, I
      went back to Sir R. Browne and got a sight of their paper, and find how
      the mistake arose, by the ill copying of it out for the Council from our
      paper sent to the Duke of York, which I took away with me and shewed Sir
      G. Carteret, and thence to my Lord Crew, and the mistake ended very
      merrily, and to all our contents, particularly my own, and so home, and to
      the office, and then to my chamber late, and so to supper and to bed. I
      find at Sir G. Carteret's that they do mightily joy themselves in the
      hopes of my Lord Chancellor's getting over this trouble; and I make them
      believe, and so, indeed, I do believe he will, that my Lord Chancellor is
      become popular by it. I find by all hands that the Court is at this day
      all to pieces, every man of a faction of one sort or other, so as it is to
      be feared what it will come to. But that, that pleases me is, I hear
      to-night that Mr. Bruncker is turned away yesterday by the Duke of York,
      for some bold words he was heard by Colonel Werden to say in the garden,
      the day the Chancellor was with the King&mdash;that he believed the King
      would be hectored out of everything. For this the Duke of York, who all
      say hath been very strong for his father-in-law at this trial, hath turned
      him away: and every body, I think, is glad of it; for he was a pestilent
      rogue, an atheist, that would have sold his King and country for 6d.
      almost, so covetous and wicked a rogue he is, by all men's report. But one
      observed to me, that there never was the occasion of men's holding their
      tongues at Court and everywhere else as there is at this day, for nobody
      knows which side will be uppermost.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and to White Hall, where at the Council Chamber I hear Barker's
      business is like to come to a hearing to-day, having failed the last day.
      I therefore to Westminster to see what I could do in my 'Chequer business
      about Tangier, and finding nothing to be done, returned, and in the Lobby
      staid till almost noon expecting to hear Barker's business, but it was not
      called, so I come away. Here I met with Sir G. Downing, who tells me of
      Sir W. Pen's offering to lend L500; and I tell him of my L300, which he
      would have me to lend upon the credit of the latter part of the Act;
      saying, that by that means my 10 per cent. will continue to me the longer.
      But I understand better, and will do it upon the L380,000, which will come
      to be paid the sooner; there being no delight in lending money now, to be
      paid by the King two years hence. But here he and Sir William Doyly were
      attending the Council as Commissioners for sick and wounded, and
      prisoners: and they told me their business, which was to know how we shall
      do to release our prisoners; for it seems the Dutch have got us to agree
      in the treaty, as they fool us in anything, that the dyet of the prisoners
      on both sides shall be paid for, before they be released; which they have
      done, knowing ours to run high, they having more prisoners of ours than we
      have of theirs; so that they are able and most ready to discharge the debt
      of theirs, but we are neither able nor willing to do that for ours, the
      debt of those in Zealand only, amounting to above L5000 for men taken in
      the King's own ships, besides others taken in merchantmen, which expect,
      as is usual, that the King should redeem them; but I think he will not, by
      what Sir G. Downing says. This our prisoners complain of there; and say in
      their letters, which Sir G. Downing shewed me, that they have made a good
      feat that they should be taken in the service of the King, and the King
      not pay for their victuals while prisoners for him. But so far they are
      from doing thus with their men, as we do to discourage ours, that I find
      in the letters of some of our prisoners there, which he shewed me, that
      they have with money got our men, that they took, to work and carry their
      ships home for them; and they have been well rewarded, and released when
      they come into Holland: which is done like a noble, brave, and wise
      people. Having staid out my time that I thought fit for me to return home,
      I home and there took coach and with my wife to Walthamstow; to Sir W.
      Pen's, by invitation, the first time I have been there, and there find him
      and all their guests (of our office only) at dinner, which was a very bad
      dinner, and everything suitable, that I never knew people in my life that
      make their flutter, that do things so meanly. I was sick to see it, but
      was merry at some ridiculous humours of my Lady Batten, who, as being an
      ill-bred woman, would take exceptions at anything any body said, and I
      made good sport at it. After dinner into the garden and wilderness, which
      is like the rest of the house, nothing in order, nor looked after. By and
      by comes newes that my Lady Viner was come to see Mrs. Lowther, which I
      was glad of, and all the pleasure I had here was to see her, which I did,
      and saluted her, and find she is pretty, though not so eminently so as
      people talked of her, and of very pretty carriage and discourse. I sat
      with them and her an hour talking and pleasant, and then slunk away alone
      without taking leave, leaving my wife there to come home with them, and I
      to Bartholomew fayre, to walk up and down; and there, among other things,
      find my Lady Castlemayne at a puppet-play, "Patient Grizill,"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The well-known story, first told by Boccaccio, then by Petrarca,
     afterwards by Chaucer, and which has since become proverbial.  Tom
     Warton, writing about 1770, says, "I need not mention that it is to
     this day represented in England, on a stage of the lowest species,
     and of the highest antiquity: I mean at a puppet show" ("Hist. of
     English Poetry," sect. xv.).&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and the street full of people expecting her coming out. I confess I did
      wonder at her courage to come abroad, thinking the people would abuse her;
      but they, silly people! do not know her work she makes, and therefore
      suffered her with great respect to take coach, and she away, without any
      trouble at all, which I wondered at, I confess. I only walked up and down,
      and, among others, saw Tom Pepys, the turner, who hath a shop, and I think
      lives in the fair when the fair is not. I only asked how he did as he
      stood in the street, and so up and down sauntering till late and then
      home, and there discoursed with my wife of our bad entertainment to-day,
      and so to bed. I met Captain Cocke to-day at the Council Chamber and took
      him with me to Westminster, who tells me that there is yet expectation
      that the Chancellor will lose the Seal, and that he is sure that the King
      hath said it to him who told it him, and he fears we shall be soon broke
      in pieces, and assures me that there have been high words between the Duke
      of York and Sir W. Coventry, for his being so high against the Chancellor;
      so as the Duke of York would not sign some papers that he brought, saying
      that he could not endure the sight of him: and that Sir W. Coventry
      answered, that what he did was in obedience to the King's commands; and
      that he did not think any man fit to serve a Prince, that did not know how
      to retire and live a country life. This is all I hear.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. At the office all the morning; where, by Sir W. Pen, I do hear that
      the Seal was fetched away to the King yesterday from the Lord Chancellor
      by Secretary Morrice; which puts me into a great horror, to have it done
      after so much debate and confidence that it would not be done at last.
      When we arose I took a turn with Lord Bruncker in the garden, and he tells
      me that he hath of late discoursed about this business with Sir W.
      Coventry, who he finds is the great man in the doing this business of the
      Chancellor's, and that he do persevere in it, though against the Duke of
      York's opinion, to which he says that the Duke of York was once of the
      same mind, and if he hath thought fit since, for any reason, to alter his
      mind, he hath not found any to alter his own, and so desires to be
      excused, for it is for the King's and kingdom's good. And it seems that
      the Duke of York himself was the first man that did speak to the King of
      this, though he hath since altered his mind; and that W. Coventry did tell
      the Duke of York that he was not fit to serve a Prince that did not know
      how to retire, and live a private life; and that he was ready for that, if
      it be his and the King's pleasure. After having wrote my letters at the
      office in the afternoon, I in the evening to White Hall to see how matters
      go, and there I met with Mr. Ball, of the Excise-office, and he tells me
      that the Seal is delivered to Sir Orlando Bridgeman; the man of the whole
      nation that is the best spoken of, and will please most people; and
      therefore I am mighty glad of it. He was then at my Lord Arlington's,
      whither I went, expecting to see him come out; but staid so long, and Sir
      W. Coventry coming thither, whom I had not a mind should see me there idle
      upon a post-night, I went home without seeing him; but he is there with
      his Seal in his hand. So I home, took up my wife, whom I left at
      Unthanke's, and so home, and after signing my letters to bed. This day,
      being dissatisfied with my wife's learning so few songs of Goodgroome, I
      did come to a new bargain with him to teach her songs at so much, viz.;
      10s. a song, which he accepts of, and will teach her.
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    <p>
      September 1st (Lord's day). Up, and betimes by water from the Tower, and
      called at the Old Swan for a glass of strong water, and sent word to have
      little Michell and his wife come and dine with us to-day; and so, taking
      in a gentleman and his lady that wanted a boat, I to Westminster. Setting
      them on shore at Charing Cross, I to Mrs. Martin's, where I had two pair
      of cuffs which I bespoke, and there did sit and talk with her.... and here
      I did see her little girle my goddaughter, which will be pretty, and there
      having staid a little I away to Creed's chamber, and when he was ready
      away to White Hall, where I met with several people and had my fill of
      talk. Our new Lord-keeper, Bridgeman, did this day, the first time, attend
      the King to chapel with his Seal. Sir H. Cholmly tells me there are hopes
      that the women will also have a rout, and particularly that my Lady
      Castlemayne is coming to a composition with the King to be gone; but how
      true this is, I know not. Blancfort is made Privy-purse to the Duke of
      York; the Attorney-general is made Chief justice, in the room of my Lord
      Bridgeman; the Solicitor-general is made Attorney-general; and Sir Edward
      Turner made Solicitor-general. It is pretty to see how strange every body
      looks, nobody knowing whence this arises; whether from my Lady
      Castlemayne, Bab. May, and their faction; or from the Duke of York,
      notwithstanding his great appearance of defence of the Chancellor; or from
      Sir William Coventry, and some few with him. But greater changes are yet
      expected. So home and by water to dinner, where comes Pelting and young
      Michell and his wife, whom I have not seen a great while, poor girle, and
      then comes Mr. Howe, and all dined with me very merry, and spent all the
      afternoon, Pelting, Howe, and I, and my boy, singing of Lock's response to
      the Ten Commandments, which he hath set very finely, and was a good while
      since sung before the King, and spoiled in the performance, which
      occasioned his printing them for his vindication, and are excellent good.
      They parted, in the evening my wife and I to walk in the garden and there
      scolded a little, I being doubtful that she had received a couple of fine
      pinners (one of point de Gesne), which I feared she hath from some [one]
      or other of a present; but, on the contrary, I find she hath bought them
      for me to pay for them, without my knowledge. This do displease me much;
      but yet do so much please me better than if she had received them the
      other way, that I was not much angry, but fell to other discourse, and so
      to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes, and then,
      having got a great cold, I know not how, I to bed and lay ill at ease all
      the night.
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    <p>
      2nd. This day is kept in the City as a publick fast for the fire this day
      twelve months: but I was not at church, being commanded, with the rest, to
      attend the Duke of York; and, therefore, with Sir J. Minnes to St.
      James's, where we had much business before the Duke of York, and observed
      all things to be very kind between the Duke of York and W. Coventry, which
      did mightily joy me. When we had done, Sir W. Coventry called me down with
      him to his chamber, and there told me that he is leaving the Duke of
      York's service, which I was amazed at. But he tells me that it is not with
      the least unkindness on the Duke of York's side, though he expects, and I
      told him he was in the right, it will be interpreted otherwise, because
      done just at this time; "but," says he, "I did desire it a good while
      since, and the Duke of York did, with much entreaty, grant it, desiring
      that I would say nothing of it, that he might have time and liberty to
      choose his successor, without being importuned for others whom he should
      not like:" and that he hath chosen Mr. Wren, which I am glad of, he being
      a very ingenious man; and so Sir W. Coventry says of him, though he knows
      him little; but particularly commends him for the book he writ in answer
      to "Harrington's Oceana," which, for that reason, I intend to buy. He
      tells me the true reason is, that he, being a man not willing to undertake
      more business than he can go through, and being desirous to have his whole
      time to spend upon the business of the Treasury, and a little for his own
      ease, he did desire this of the Duke of York. He assures me that the
      kindness with which he goes away from the Duke of York is one of the
      greatest joys that ever he had in the world. I used some freedom with him,
      telling him how the world hath discoursed of his having offended the Duke
      of York, about the late business of the Chancellor. He do not deny it, but
      says that perhaps the Duke of York might have some reason for it, he
      opposing him in a thing wherein he was so earnest but tells me, that,
      notwithstanding all that, the Duke of York does not now, nor can blame
      him; for he tells me that he was the man that did propose the removal of
      the Chancellor; and that he did still persist in it, and at this day
      publickly owns it, and is glad of it; but that the Duke of York knows that
      he did first speak of it to the Duke of York, before he spoke to any
      mortal creature besides, which was fair dealing: and the Duke of York was
      then of the same mind with him, and did speak of it to the King; though
      since, for reasons best known to himself, he was afterwards altered. I did
      then desire to know what was the great matter that grounded his desire of
      the Chancellor's removal? He told me many things not fit to be spoken, and
      yet not any thing of his being unfaithful to the King; but, 'instar
      omnium', he told me, that while he was so great at the Council-board, and
      in the administration of matters, there was no room for any body to
      propose any remedy to what was amiss, or to compass any thing, though
      never so good for the kingdom, unless approved of by the Chancellor, he
      managing all things with that greatness which now will be removed, that
      the King may have the benefit of others' advice. I then told him that the
      world hath an opinion that he hath joined himself with my Lady
      Castlemayne's faction in this business; he told me, he cannot help it, but
      says they are in an errour: but for first he will never, while he lives,
      truckle under any body or any faction, but do just as his own reason and
      judgment directs; and, when he cannot use that freedom, he will have
      nothing to do in public affairs but then he added, that he never was the
      man that ever had any discourse with my Lady Castlemayne, or with others
      from her, about this or any public business, or ever made her a visit, or
      at least not this twelvemonth, or been in her lodgings but when called on
      any business to attend the King there, nor hath had any thing to do in
      knowing her mind in this business. He ended all with telling me that he
      knows that he that serves a Prince must expect, and be contented to stand,
      all fortunes, and be provided to retreat, and that that he is most willing
      to do whenever the King shall please. And so we parted, he setting me down
      out of his coach at Charing Cross, and desired me to tell Sir W. Pen what
      he had told me of his leaving the Duke of York's service, that his friends
      might not be the last that know it. I took a coach and went homewards; but
      then turned again, and to White Hall, where I met with many people; and,
      among other things, do learn that there is some fear that Mr. Bruncker is
      got into the King's favour, and will be cherished there; which will breed
      ill will between the King and Duke of York, he lodging at this time in
      White Hall since he was put away from the Duke of York: and he is great
      with Bab. May, my Lady Castlemayne, and that wicked crew. But I find this
      denied by Sir G. Carteret, who tells me that he is sure he hath no
      kindness from the King; that the King at first, indeed, did endeavour to
      persuade the Duke of York from putting him away; but when, besides this
      business of his ill words concerning his Majesty in the business of the
      Chancellor, he told him that he hath had, a long time, a mind to put him
      away for his ill offices, done between him and his wife, the King held his
      peace, and said no more, but wished him to do what he pleased with him;
      which was very noble. I met with Fenn; and he tells me, as I do hear from
      some others, that the business of the Chancellor's had proceeded from
      something of a mistake, for the Duke of York did first tell the King that
      the Chancellor had a desire to be eased of his great trouble; and that the
      King, when the Chancellor come to him, did wonder to hear him deny it, and
      the Duke of York was forced to deny to the King that ever he did tell him
      so in those terms: but the King did answer that he was sure that he did
      say some such thing to him; but, however, since it had gone so far, did
      desire him to be contented with it, as a thing very convenient for him as
      well as for himself (the King), and so matters proceeded, as we find. Now
      it is likely the Chancellor might, some time or other, in a compliment or
      vanity, say to the Duke of York, that he was weary of this burden, and I
      know not what; and this comes of it. Some people, and myself among them,
      are of good hope from this change that things are reforming; but there are
      others that do think but that it is a hit of chance, as all other our
      greatest matters are, and that there is no general plot or contrivance in
      any number of people what to do next, though, I believe, Sir W. Coventry
      may in himself have further designs; and so that, though other changes may
      come, yet they shall be accidental and laid upon [not] good principles of
      doing good. Mr. May shewed me the King's new buildings, in order to their
      having of some old sails for the closing of the windows this winter. I
      dined with Sir G. Carteret, with whom dined Mr. Jack Ashburnham and Dr.
      Creeton, who I observe to be a most good man and scholar. In discourse at
      dinner concerning the change of men's humours and fashions touching meats,
      Mr. Ashburnham told us, that he remembers since the only fruit in request,
      and eaten by the King and Queen at table as the best fruit, was the
      Katharine payre, though they knew at the time other fruits of France and
      our own country. After dinner comes in Mr. Townsend; and there I was
      witness of a horrid rateing, which Mr. Ashburnham, as one of the Grooms of
      the King's Bedchamber, did give him for want of linen for the King's
      person; which he swore was not to be endured, and that the King would not
      endure it, and that the King his father, would have hanged his
      Wardrobe-man should he have been served so the King having at this day no
      handkerchers, and but three bands to his neck, he swore. Mr. Townsend
      answered want of money, and the owing of the linen-draper L5000; and that
      he hath of late got many rich things made&mdash;beds, and sheets, and
      saddles, and all without money, and he can go no further but still this
      old man, indeed, like an old loving servant, did cry out for the King's
      person to be neglected. But, when he was gone, Townsend told me that it is
      the grooms taking away the King's linen at the quarter's end, as their
      fees, which makes this great want: for, whether the King can get it or no,
      they will run away at the quarter's end with what he hath had, let the
      King get more as he can. All the company gone, Sir G. Carteret and I to
      talk: and it is pretty to observe how already he says that he did always
      look upon the Chancellor indeed as his friend, though he never did do him
      any service at all, nor ever got any thing by him, nor was he a man apt,
      and that, I think, is true, to do any man any kindness of his own nature;
      though I do know that he was believed by all the world to be the greatest
      support of Sir G. Carteret with the King of any man in England: but so
      little is now made of it! He observes that my Lord Sandwich will lose a
      great friend in him; and I think so too, my Lord Hinchingbroke being about
      a match calculated purely out of respect to my Lord Chancellor's family.
      By and by Sir G. Carteret, and Townsend, and I, to consider of an answer
      to the Commissioners of the Treasury about my Lord Sandwich's profits in
      the Wardrobe; which seem, as we make them, to be very small, not L1000
      a-year; but only the difference in measure at which he buys and delivers
      out to the King, and then 6d. in the pound from the tradesmen for what
      money he receives for him; but this, it is believed, these Commissioners
      will endeavour to take away. From him I went to see a great match at
      tennis, between Prince Rupert and one Captain Cooke, against Bab. May and
      the elder Chichly; where the King was, and Court; and it seems are the
      best players at tennis in the nation. But this puts me in mind of what I
      observed in the morning, that the King, playing at tennis, had a
      steele-yard carried to him, and I was told it was to weigh him after he
      had done playing; and at noon Mr. Ashburnham told me that it is only the
      King's curiosity, which he usually hath of weighing himself before and
      after his play, to see how much he loses in weight by playing: and this
      day he lost 4 lbs. Thence home and took my wife out to Mile End Green, and
      there I drank, and so home, having a very fine evening. Then home, and I
      to Sir W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen, and there discoursed of Sir W.
      Coventry's leaving the Duke of York, and Mr. Wren's succeeding him. They
      told me both seriously, that they had long cut me out for Secretary to the
      Duke of York, if ever [Sir] W. Coventry left him; which, agreeing with
      what I have heard from other hands heretofore, do make me not only think
      that something of that kind hath been thought on, but do comfort me to see
      that the world hath such an esteem of my qualities as to think me fit for
      any such thing. Though I am glad, with all my heart, that I am not so; for
      it would never please me to be forced to the attendance that that would
      require, and leave my wife and family to themselves, as I must do in such
      a case; thinking myself now in the best place that ever man was in to
      please his own mind in, and, therefore, I will take care to preserve it.
      So to bed, my cold remaining though not so much upon me. This day Nell, an
      old tall maid, come to live with us, a cook maid recommended by Mr.
      Batelier.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. All the morning, business at the office, dined at home, then in the
      afternoon set my wife down at the Exchange, and I to St. James's, and
      there attended the Duke of York about the list of ships that we propose to
      sell: and here there attended Mr. Wren the first time, who hath not yet, I
      think, received the Duke of York's seal and papers. At our coming hither,
      we found the Duke and Duchesse all alone at dinner, methought melancholy;
      or else I thought so, from the late occasion of the Chancellor's fall,
      who, they say, however, takes it very contentedly. Thence I to White Hall
      a little, and so took up my wife at the 'Change, and so home, and at the
      office late, and so home to supper and to bed, our boy ill.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. By coach to White Hall to the Council-chamber; and there met with Sir
      W. Coventry going in, who took me aside, and told me that he was just come
      from delivering up his seal and papers to Mr. Wren; and told me he must
      now take his leave of me as a naval man, but that he shall always bear
      respect to his friends there, and particularly to myself, with great
      kindness; which I returned to him with thanks, and so, with much kindness
      parted: and he into, the Council. I met with Sir Samuel Morland, who
      chewed me two orders upon the Exchequer, one of L600, and another of L400,
      for money assigned to him, which he would have me lend him money upon, and
      he would allow 12 per cent. I would not meddle with them, though they are
      very good; and would, had I not so much money out already on public
      credit. But I see by this his condition all trade will be bad. I staid and
      heard Alderman Barker's case of his being abused by the Council of
      Ireland, touching his lands there: all I observed there is the silliness
      of the King, playing with his dog all the while, and not minding the
      business,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Lord Rochester wrote

                   "His very dog at council board
                    Sits grave and wise as any lord."

     Poems, 1697; p. 150.&mdash;The king's dogs were constantly stolen from
     him, and he advertised for their return.  Some of these amusing
     advertisements are printed in "Notes and Queries" (seventh series,
     vol. vii., p. 26).]
</pre>
    <p>
      and what he said was mighty weak; but my Lord Keeper I observe to be a
      mighty able man. The business broke off without any end to it, and so I
      home, and thence with my wife and W. Hewer to Bartholomew fayre, and there
      Polichinelli, where we saw Mrs. Clerke and all her crew; and so to a
      private house, and sent for a side of pig, and eat it at an acquaintance
      of W. Hewer's, where there was some learned physic and chymical books, and
      among others, a natural "Herball" very fine. Here we staid not, but to the
      Duke of York's play house, and there saw "Mustapha," which, the more I
      see, the more I like; and is a most admirable poem, and bravely acted;
      only both Betterton and Harris could not contain from laughing in the
      midst of a most serious part from the ridiculous mistake of one of the men
      upon the stage; which I did not like. Thence home, where Batelier and his
      sister Mary come to us and sat and talked, and so, they gone, we to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and all the morning at the office, where we sat till noon, and
      then I home to dinner, where Mary Batelier and her brother dined with us,
      who grows troublesome in his talking so much of his going to Marseilles,
      and what commissions he hath to execute as a factor, and a deal of do of
      which I am weary. After dinner, with Sir W. Pen, my wife, and Mary
      Batelier to the Duke of York's house, and there saw "Heraclius," which is
      a good play; but they did so spoil it with their laughing, and being all
      of them out, and with the noise they made within the theatre, that I was
      ashamed of it, and resolve not to come thither again a good while,
      believing that this negligence, which I never observed before, proceeds
      only from their want of company in the pit, that they have no care how
      they act. My wife was ill, and so I was forced to go out of the house with
      her to Lincoln's Inn walks, and there in a corner she did her business,
      and was by and by well, and so into the house again, but sick of their ill
      acting. So home and to the office, where busy late, then home to supper
      and to bed. This morning was told by Sir W. Batten, that he do hear from
      Mr. Grey, who hath good intelligence, that our Queen is to go into a
      nunnery, there to spend her days; and that my Lady Castlemayne is going
      into France, and is to have a pension of L4000 a-year. This latter I do
      more believe than the other, it being very wise in her to do it, and save
      all she hath, besides easing the King and kingdom of a burden and
      reproach.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to Westminster to the Exchequer, and then into the Hall, and
      there bought "Guillim's Heraldry" for my wife, and so to the Swan, and
      thither come Doll Lane, and je did toucher her, and drank, and so away, I
      took coach and home, where I find my wife gone to Walthamstow by
      invitation with Sir W. Batten, and so I followed, taking up Mrs. Turner,
      and she and I much discourse all the way touching the baseness of Sir W.
      Pen and sluttishness of his family, and how the world do suspect that his
      son Lowther, who is sick of a sore mouth, has got the pox. So we come to
      Sir W. Batten's, where Sir W. Pen and his Lady, and we and Mrs. Shipman,
      and here we walked and had an indifferent good dinner, the victuals very
      good and cleanly dressed and good linen, but no fine meat at all. After
      dinner we went up and down the house, and I do like it very well, being
      furnished with a great deal of very good goods. And here we staid, I tired
      with the company, till almost evening, and then took leave, Turner and I
      together again, and my wife with [Sir] W. Pen. At Aldgate I took my wife
      into our coach, and so to Bartholomew fair, and there, it being very
      dirty, and now night, we saw a poor fellow, whose legs were tied behind
      his back, dance upon his hands with his arse above his head, and also
      dance upon his crutches, without any legs upon the ground to help him,
      which he did with that pain that I was sorry to see it, and did pity him
      and give him money after he had done. Then we to see a piece of
      clocke-work made by an Englishman&mdash;indeed, very good, wherein all the
      several states of man's age, to 100 years old, is shewn very pretty and
      solemne; and several other things more cheerful, and so we ended, and took
      a link, the women resolving to be dirty, and walked up and down to get a
      coach; and my wife, being a little before me, had been like to be taken up
      by one, whom we saw to be Sam Hartlib. My wife had her wizard on: yet we
      cannot say that he meant any hurt; for it was as she was just by a
      coach-side, which he had, or had a mind to take up; and he asked her,
      "Madam, do you go in this coach?" but, soon as he saw a man come to her (I
      know not whether he knew me) he departed away apace. By and by did get a
      coach, and so away home, and there to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to dinner,
      where Goodgroome was teaching my wife, and dined with us, and I did tell
      him of my intention to learn to trill, which he will not promise I shall
      obtain, but he will do what can be done, and I am resolved to learn. All
      the afternoon at the office, and towards night out by coach with my wife,
      she to the 'Change, and I to see the price of a copper cisterne for the
      table, which is very pretty, and they demand L6 or L7 for one; but I will
      have one. Then called my wife at the 'Change, and bought a nightgown for
      my wife: cost but 24s., and so out to Mile End to drink, and so home to
      the office to end my letters, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). Up, and walked to St. James's; but there I find Sir W.
      Coventry gone from his chamber, and Mr. Wren not yet come thither. But I
      up to the Duke of York, and there, after being ready, my Lord Bruncker and
      I had an audience, and thence with my Lord Bruncker to White Hall, and he
      told me, in discourse, how that, though it is true that Sir W. Coventry
      did long since propose to the Duke of York the leaving his service, as
      being unable to fulfill it, as he should do, now he hath so much public
      business, and that the Duke of York did bid him to say nothing of it, but
      that he would take time to please himself in another to come in his place;
      yet the Duke's doing it at this time, declaring that he hath found out
      another, and this one of the Chancellor's servants, he cannot but think
      was done with some displeasure, and that it could not well be otherwise,
      that the Duke of York should keep one in that place, that had so eminently
      opposed him in the defence of his father-in-law, nor could the Duchesse
      ever endure the sight of him, to be sure. But he thinks that the Duke of
      York and he are parted upon clear terms of friendship. He tells me he do
      believe that my Lady Castlemayne is compounding with the King for a
      pension, and to leave the Court; but that her demands are mighty high: but
      he believes the King is resolved, and so do every body else I speak with,
      to do all possible to please the Parliament; and he do declare that he
      will deliver every body up to them to give an account of their actions:
      and that last Friday, it seems, there was an Act of Council passed, to put
      out all Papists in office, and to keep out any from coming in. I went to
      the King's Chapel to the closet, and there I hear Cresset sing a tenor
      part along with the Church musick very handsomely, but so loud that people
      did laugh at him, as a thing done for ostentation. Here I met Sir G.
      Downing, who would speak with me, and first to inquire what I paid for my
      kid's leather gloves I had on my hand, and shewed me others on his, as
      handsome, as good in all points, cost him but 12d. a pair, and mine me 2s.
      He told me he had been seven years finding out a man that could dress
      English sheepskin as it should be&mdash;and, indeed, it is now as good, in
      all respects, as kid, and he says will save L100,000 a-year, that goes out
      to France for kid's skins. Thus he labours very worthily to advance our
      own trade, but do it with mighty vanity and talking. But then he told me
      of our base condition, in the treaty with Holland and France, about our
      prisoners, that whereas before we did clear one another's prisoners, man
      for man, and we upon the publication of the peace did release all our's,
      300 at Leith, and others in other places for nothing, the Dutch do keep
      theirs, and will not discharge them with[out] paying their debts according
      to the Treaty. That his instruments in Holland, writing to our Embassadors
      about this to Bredagh, they answer them that they do not know of any thing
      that they have done therein, but left it just as it was before. To which,
      when they answer, that by the treaty their Lordships had [not] bound our
      countrymen to pay their debts in prison, they answer they cannot help it,
      and we must get them off as cheap as we can. On this score, they demand
      L1100 for Sir G. Ascue, and L5000 for the one province of Zealand, for the
      prisoners that we have therein. He says that this is a piece of shame that
      never any nation committed, and that our very Lords here of the Council,
      when he related this matter to them, did not remember that they had agreed
      to this article; and swears that all their articles are alike, as the
      giving away Polleroon, and Surinam, and Nova Scotia, which hath a river
      300 miles up the country, with copper mines more than Swedeland, and
      Newcastle coals, the only place in America that hath coals that we know
      of; and that Cromwell did value those places, and would for ever have made
      much of them; but we have given them away for nothing, besides a debt to
      the King of Denmarke. But, which is most of all, they have discharged
      those very particular demands of merchants of the Guinny Company and
      others, which he, when he was there, had adjusted with the Dutch, and come
      to an agreement in writing, and they undertaken to satisfy, and that this
      was done in black and white under their hands; and yet we have forgiven
      all these, and not so much as sent to Sir G. Downing to know what he had
      done, or to confer with him about any one point of the treaty, but signed
      to what they would have, and we here signed to whatever in grosse was
      brought over by Mr. Coventry. And [Sir G. Downing] tells me, just in these
      words, "My Lord Chancellor had a mind to keep himself from being
      questioned by clapping up a peace upon any terms." When I answered that
      there was other privy-councillors to be advised with besides him, and
      that, therefore, this whole peace could not be laid to his charge, he
      answered that nobody durst say any thing at the council-table but himself,
      and that the King was as much afeard of saying any thing there as the
      meanest privy-councillor; and says more, that at this day the King, in
      familiar talk, do call the Chancellor "the insolent man," and says that he
      would not let him speak himself in Council: which is very high, and do
      shew that the Chancellor is like to be in a bad state, unless he can
      defend himself better than people think. And yet Creed tells me that he do
      hear that my Lord Cornbury do say that his father do long for the coming
      of the Parliament, in order to his own vindication, more than any one of
      his enemies. And here it comes into my head to set down what Mr.
      Rawlinson, whom I met in Fenchurch Street on Friday last, looking over his
      ruines there, told me, that he was told by one of my Lord Chancellor's
      gentlemen lately (&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;byname), that a grant coming
      to him to be sealed, wherein the King hath given her [Lady Castlemaine],
      or somebody by her means, a place which he did not like well of, he did
      stop the grant; saying, that he thought this woman would sell everything
      shortly: which she hearing of, she sent to let him know that she had
      disposed of this place, and did not doubt, in a little time, to dispose of
      his. This Rawlinson do tell me my Lord Chancellor's own gentleman did tell
      him himself. Thence, meeting Creed, I with him to the Parke, there to walk
      a little, and to the Queen's Chapel and there hear their musique, which I
      liked in itself pretty well as to the composition, but their voices are
      very harsh and rough that I thought it was some instruments they had that
      made them sound so. So to White Hall, and saw the King and Queen at
      dinner; and observed (which I never did before), the formality, but it is
      but a formality, of putting a bit of bread wiped upon each dish into the
      mouth of every man that brings a dish; but it should be in the sauce. Here
      were some Russes come to see the King at dinner: among others, the
      interpreter, a comely Englishman, in the Envoy's own clothes; which the
      Envoy, it seems, in vanity did send to show his fine clothes upon this
      man's back, which is one, it seems, of a comelier presence than himself:
      and yet it is said that none of their clothes are their own, but taken out
      of the King's own Wardrobe; and which they dare not bring back dirty or
      spotted, but clean, or are in danger of being beaten, as they say:
      insomuch that, Sir Charles Cotterell says, when they are to have an
      audience they never venture to put on their clothes till he appears to
      come to fetch them; and, as soon as ever they come home, put them off
      again. I to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner; where Mr. Cofferer Ashburnham;
      who told a good story of a prisoner's being condemned at Salisbury for a
      small matter. While he was on the bench with his father-in-law, judge
      Richardson, and while they were considering to transport him to save his
      life, the fellow flung a great stone at the judge, that missed him, but
      broke through the wainscoat. Upon this, he had his hand cut off, and was
      hanged presently! Here was a gentleman, one Sheres, one come lately from
      my Lord Sandwich, with an express; but, Lord! I was almost ashamed to see
      him, lest he should know that I have not yet wrote one letter to my Lord
      since his going. I had no discourse with him, but after dinner Sir G.
      Carteret and I to talk about some business of his, and so I to Mrs.
      Martin, where was Mrs. Burroughs, and also fine Mrs. Noble, my partner in
      the christening of Martin's child, did come to see it, and there we sat
      and talked an hour, and then all broke up and I by coach home, and there
      find Mr. Pelling and Howe, and we to sing and good musique till late, and
      then to supper, and Howe lay at my house, and so after supper to bed with
      much content, only my mind a little troubled at my late breach of vowes,
      which however I will pay my forfeits, though the badness of my eyes,
      making me unfit to read or write long, is my excuse, and do put me upon
      other pleasures and employment which I should refrain from in observation
      of my vowes.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up; and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon comes Creed
      to dine with me. After dinner, he and I and my wife to the Bear-Garden, to
      see a prize fought there. But, coming too soon, I left them there and went
      on to White Hall, and there did some business with the Lords of the
      Treasury; and here do hear, by Tom Killigrew and Mr. Progers, that for
      certain news is come of Harman's having spoiled nineteen of twenty-two
      French ships, somewhere about the Barbadoes, I think they said; but
      wherever it is, it is a good service, and very welcome. Here I fell in
      talk with Tom Killigrew about musick, and he tells me that he will bring
      me to the best musick in England (of which, indeed, he is master), and
      that is two Italians and Mrs. Yates, who, he says, is come to sing the
      Italian manner as well as ever he heard any: says that Knepp won't take
      pains enough, but that she understands her part so well upon the stage,
      that no man or woman in the House do the like. Thence I by water to the
      Bear-Garden, where now the yard was full of people, and those most of them
      seamen, striving by force to get in, that I was afeard to be seen among
      them, but got into the ale-house, and so by a back-way was put into the
      bull-house, where I stood a good while all alone among the bulls, and was
      afeard I was among the bears, too; but by and by the door opened, and I
      got into the common pit; and there, with my cloak about my face, I stood
      and saw the prize fought, till one of them, a shoemaker, was so cut in
      both his wrists that he could not fight any longer, and then they broke
      off: his enemy was a butcher. The sport very good, and various humours to
      be seen among the rabble that is there. Thence carried Creed to White
      Hall, and there my wife and I took coach and home, and both of us to Sir
      W. Batten's, to invite them to dinner on Wednesday next, having a whole
      buck come from Hampton Court, by the warrant which Sir Stephen Fox did
      give me. And so home to supper and to bed, after a little playing on the
      flageolet with my wife, who do outdo therein whatever I expected of her.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and all the morning at the Office, where little to do but bemoan
      ourselves under the want of money; and indeed little is, or can be done,
      for want of money, we having not now received one penny for any service in
      many weeks, and none in view to receive, saving for paying of some
      seamen's wages. At noon sent to by my Lord Bruncker to speak with him, and
      it was to dine with him and his Lady Williams (which I have not now done
      in many months at their own table) and Mr. Wren, who is come to dine with
      them, the first time he hath been at the office since his being the Duke
      of York's Secretary. Here we sat and eat and talked and of some matters of
      the office, but his discourse is as yet but weak in that matter, and no
      wonder, he being new in it, but I fear he will not go about understanding
      with the impatience that Sir W. Coventry did. Having dined, I away, and
      with my wife and Mercer, set my wife down at the 'Change, and the other at
      White Hall, and I to St. James's, where we all met, and did our usual
      weekly business with the Duke of York. But, Lord! methinks both he and we
      are mighty flat and dull over what we used to be, when Sir W. Coventry was
      among us. Thence I into St. James's Park, and there met Mr. Povy; and he
      and I to walk an hour or more in the Pell Mell, talking of the times. He
      tells me, among other things, that this business of the Chancellor do
      breed a kind of inward distance between the King and the Duke of York, and
      that it cannot be avoided; for though the latter did at first move it
      through his folly, yet he is made to see that he is wounded by it, and is
      become much a less man than he was, and so will be: but he tells me that
      they are, and have always been, great dissemblers one towards another; and
      that their parting heretofore in France is never to be thoroughly
      reconciled between them. He tells me that he believes there is no such
      thing like to be, as a composition with my Lady Castlemayne, and that she
      shall be got out of the way before the Parliament comes; for he says she
      is as high as ever she was, though he believes the King is as weary of her
      as is possible, and would give any thing to remove her, but he is so weak
      in his passion that he dare not do it; that he do believe that my Lord
      Chancellor will be doing some acts in the Parliament which shall render
      him popular; and that there are many people now do speak kindly of him
      that did not before; but that, if he do do this, it must provoke the King,
      and that party that removed him. He seems to doubt what the King of France
      will do, in case an accommodation shall be made between Spain and him for
      Flanders, for then he will have nothing more easy to do with his army than
      to subdue us. Parted with him at White Hall, and, there I took coach and
      took up my wife and Mercer, and so home and I to the office, where ended
      my letters, and then to my chamber with my boy to lay up some papers and
      things that lay out of order against to-morrow, to make it clear against
      the feast that I am to have. Here Mr. Pelling come to sit with us, and
      talked of musique and the musicians of the town, and so to bed, after
      supper.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and with Mr. Gawden to the Exchequer. By the way, he tells me
      this day he is to be answered whether he must hold Sheriffe or no; for he
      would not hold unless he may keep it at his office, which is out of the
      city (and so my Lord Mayor must come with his sword down, whenever he
      comes thither), which he do, because he cannot get a house fit for him in
      the city, or else he will fine for it. Among others that they have in
      nomination for Sheriffe, one is little Chaplin, who was his servant, and a
      very young man to undergo that place; but as the city is now, there is no
      great honour nor joy to be had, in being a public officer. At the
      Exchequer I looked after my business, and when done went home to the
      'Change, and there bought a case of knives for dinner, and a dish of fruit
      for 5s., and bespoke other things, and then home, and here I find all
      things in good order, and a good dinner towards. Anon comes Sir W. Batten
      and his lady, and Mr. Griffith, their ward, and Sir W. Pen and his lady,
      and Mrs. Lowther, who is grown, either through pride or want of manners, a
      fool, having not a word to say almost all dinner; and, as a further mark
      of a beggarly, proud fool, hath a bracelet of diamonds and rubies about
      her wrist, and a sixpenny necklace about her neck, and not one good rag of
      clothes upon her back; and Sir John Chichly in their company, and Mrs.
      Turner. Here I had an extraordinary good and handsome dinner for them,
      better than any of them deserve or understand, saving Sir John Chichly and
      Mrs. Turner, and not much mirth, only what I by discourse made, and that
      against my genius. After dinner I took occasion to break up the company
      soon as I could, and all parted, Sir W. Batten and I by water to White
      Hall, there to speak with the Commissioners of the Treasury, who are
      mighty earnest for our hastening all that may be the paying off of the
      Seamen, now there is money, and are considering many other thins for
      easing of charge, which I am glad of, but vexed to see that J. Duncomb
      should be so pressing in it as if none of us had like care with him.
      Having done there, I by coach to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there
      saw part of "The Ungratefull Lovers;" and sat by Beck Marshall, who is
      very handsome near hand. Here I met Mrs. Turner and my wife as we agreed,
      and together home, and there my wife and I part of the night at the
      flageolet, which she plays now any thing upon almost at first sight and in
      good time. But here come Mr. Moore, and sat and discoursed with me of
      publique matters: the sum of which is, that he do doubt that there is more
      at the bottom than the removal of the Chancellor; that is, he do verily
      believe that the King do resolve to declare the Duke of Monmouth
      legitimate, and that we shall soon see it. This I do not think the Duke of
      York will endure without blows; but his poverty, and being lessened by
      having the Chancellor fallen and [Sir] W. Coventry gone from him, will
      disable him from being able to do any thing almost, he being himself
      almost lost in the esteem of people; and will be more and more, unless my
      Lord Chancellor, who is already begun to be pitied by some people, and to
      be better thought of than was expected, do recover himself in Parliament.
      He would seem to fear that this difference about the Crowne (if there be
      nothing else) will undo us. He do say that, that is very true; that my
      Lord [Chancellor] did lately make some stop of some grants of L2000 a-year
      to my Lord Grandison, which was only in his name, for the use of my Lady
      Castlemaine's children; and that this did incense her, and she did speak
      very scornful words, and sent a scornful message to him about it. He gone,
      after supper, I to bed, being mightily pleased with my wife's playing so
      well upon the flageolet, and I am resolved she shall learn to play upon
      some instrument, for though her eare be bad, yet I see she will attain any
      thing to be done by her hand.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and at the office all the morning till almost noon, and then I
      rode from the office (which I have not done five times I think since I
      come thither) and to the Exchequer for some tallies for Tangier; and that
      being done, to the Dog taverne, and there I spent half a piece upon the
      clerks, and so away, and I to Mrs. Martin's, but she not at home, but
      staid and drunk with her sister and landlady, and by that time it was time
      to go to a play, which I did at the Duke's house, where "Tu Quoque" was
      the first time acted, with some alterations of Sir W. Davenant's; but the
      play is a very silly play, methinks; for I, and others that sat by me, Mr.
      Povy and Mr. Progers, were weary of it; but it will please the citizens.
      My wife also was there, I having sent for her to meet me there, and W.
      Hewer. After the play we home, and there I to the office and despatched my
      business, and then home, and mightily pleased with my wife's playing on
      the flageolet, she taking out any tune almost at first sight, and keeping
      time to it, which pleases me mightily. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Called up by people come to deliver in ten chaldron of coals,
      brought in one of our prizes from Newcastle. The rest we intend to sell,
      we having above ten chaldron between us. They sell at about 28s. or 29s.
      per chaldron; but Sir W. Batten hath sworn that he was a cuckold that
      sells under 30s., and that makes us lay up all but what we have for our
      own spending, which is very pleasant; for I believe we shall be glad to
      sell them for less. To the office, and there despatched business till ten
      o'clock, and then with Sir W. Batten and my wife and Mrs. Turner by
      hackney-coach to Walthamstow, to Mr. Shipman's to dinner, where Sir W. Pen
      and my Lady and Mrs. Lowther (the latter of which hath got a sore nose,
      given her, I believe, from her husband, which made me I could not look
      upon her with any pleasure), and here a very good and plentifull wholesome
      dinner, and, above all thing, such plenty of milk meats, she keeping a
      great dairy, and so good as I never met with. The afternoon proved very
      foul weather, the morning fair. We staid talking till evening, and then
      home, and there to my flageolet with my wife, and so to bed without any
      supper, my belly being full and dinner not digested. It vexed me to hear
      how Sir W. Pen, who come alone from London, being to send his coachman for
      his wife and daughter, and bidding his coachman in much anger to go for
      them (he being vexed, like a rogue, to do anything to please his wife),
      his coachman Tom was heard to say a pox, or God rot her, can she walk
      hither? These words do so mad me that I could find in my heart to give him
      or my Lady notice of them.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy. At noon comes Mr.
      Pierce and dined with me to advise about several matters of his relating
      to the office and his purse, and here he told me that the King and Duke of
      York and the whole Court is mighty joyful at the Duchesse of York's being
      brought to bed this day, or yesterday, of a son; which will settle men's
      minds mightily. And he tells me that he do think that what the King do, of
      giving the Duke of Monmouth the command of his Guards, and giving my Lord
      Gerard L12,000 for it, is merely to find an employment for him upon which
      he may live, and not out of any design to bring him into any title to the
      Crowne; which Mr. Moore did the other day put me into great fear of. After
      dinner, he gone, my wife to the King's play-house to see "The Northerne
      Castle," which I think I never did see before. Knipp acted in it, and did
      her part very extraordinary well; but the play is but a mean, sorry play;
      but the house very full of gallants. It seems, it hath not been acted a
      good while. Thence to the Exchange for something for my wife, and then
      home and to the office, and then home to our flageolet, and so to bed,
      being mightily troubled in mind at the liberty I give myself of going to
      plays upon pretence of the weakness of my eyes, that cannot continue so
      long together at work at my office, but I must remedy it.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). Up to my chamber, there to set some papers to rights.
      By and by to church, where I stood, in continual fear of Mrs. Markham's
      coming to church, and offering to come into our pew, to prevent which,
      soon as ever I heard the great door open, I did step back, and clap my
      breech to our pew-door, that she might be forced to shove me to come in;
      but as God would have it, she did not come. Mr. Mills preached, and after
      sermon, by invitation, he and his wife come to dine with me, which is the
      first time they have been in my house; I think, these five years, I
      thinking it not amiss, because of their acquaintance in our country, to
      shew them some respect. Mr. Turner and his wife, and their son the
      Captain, dined with me, and I had a very good dinner for them, and very
      merry, and after dinner, he [Mr. Mills] was forced to go, though it
      rained, to Stepney, to preach. We also to church, and then home, and there
      comes Mr. Pelling, with two men, by promise, one Wallington and Piggott,
      the former whereof, being a very little fellow, did sing a most excellent
      bass, and yet a poor fellow, a working goldsmith, that goes without gloves
      to his hands. Here we sung several good things, but I am more and more
      confirmed that singing with many voices is not singing, but a sort of
      instrumental musique, the sense of the words being lost by not being
      heard, and especially as they set them with Fuges of words, one after
      another, whereas singing properly, I think, should be but with one or two
      voices at most and the counterpoint. They supped with me, and so broke,
      up, and then my wife and I to my chamber, where, through the badness of my
      eyes, she was forced to read to me, which she do very well, and was Mr.
      Boyle's discourse upon the style of the Scripture,' which is a very fine
      piece, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and several come to me, among others Mr. Yeabsly of Plymouth, to
      discourse about their matters touching Tangier, and by and by Sir H.
      Cholmly, who was with me a good while; who tells me that the Duke of
      York's child is christened, the Duke of Albemarle and the Marquis of
      Worcester' godfathers, and my Lady Suffolke godmother; and they have named
      it Edgar, which is a brave name. But it seems they are more joyful in the
      Chancellor's family, at the birth of this Prince, than in wisdom they
      should, for fear it should give the King cause of jealousy. Sir H. Cholmly
      do not seem to think there is any such thing can be in the King's
      intention as that of raising the Duke of Monmouth to the Crowne, though he
      thinks there may possibly be some persons that would, and others that
      would be glad to have the Queen removed to some monastery, or somewhere or
      other, to make room for a new wife; for they will all be unsafe under the
      Duke of York. He says the King and Parliament will agree; that is, that
      the King will do any thing that they will have him. We together to the
      Exchequer about our Tangier orders, and so parted at the New Exchange,
      where I staid reading Mrs. Phillips's poems till my wife and Mercer called
      me to Mrs. Pierces, by invitation to dinner, where I find her painted,
      which makes me loathe her, and the nastiest poor dinner that made me sick,
      only here I met with a Fourth Advice to the Painter upon the coming in of
      the Dutch to the River and end of the war, that made my heart ake to read,
      it being too sharp, and so true. Here I also saw a printed account of the
      examinations taken, touching the burning of the City of London, shewing
      the plot of the Papists therein; which, it seems, hath been ordered and to
      have been burnt by the hands of the hangman, in Westminster Palace. I will
      try to get one of them. After dinner she showed us her closet, which is
      pretty, with her James's picture done by Hales, but with a mighty bad
      hand, which is his great fault that he do do negligently, and the drapery
      also not very good. Being tired of being here, and sick of their damned
      sluttish dinner, my wife and Mercer and I away to the King's play-house,
      to see the "Scornfull Lady;" but it being now three o'clock there was not
      one soul in the pit; whereupon, for shame, we would not go in, but,
      against our wills, went all to see "Tu Quoque" again, where there is a
      pretty store of company, and going with a prejudice the play appeared
      better to us. Here we saw Madam Morland, who is grown mighty fat, but is
      very comely. But one of the best arts of our sport was a mighty pretty
      lady that sat behind, that did laugh so heartily and constantly, that it
      did me good to hear her. Thence to the King's house, upon a wager of mine
      with my wife, that there would be no acting there today, there being no
      company: so I went in and found a pretty good company there, and saw their
      dance at the end of he play, and so to the coach again, and to the Cock
      ale house, and there drank in our coach, and so home, and my wife read to
      me as last night, and so to bed vexed with our dinner to-day, and myself
      more with being convinced that Mrs. Pierce paints, so that henceforth to
      be sure I shall loathe her.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and at the office all the morning, where Mr. Wren come to us and
      sat with us, only to learn, and do intend to come once or twice a week and
      sit with us. In the afternoon walked to the Old Swan, the way mighty
      dirty, and there called at Michell's, and there had opportunity para kiss
      su moher, but elle did receive it with a great deal of seeming regret,
      which did vex me. But however I do not doubt overcoming her as I did the
      moher of the monsieur at Deptford. So thence by water to Westminster, to
      Burgess, and there did receive my orders for L1500 more for Tangier.
      Thence to the Hall, and there talked a little with Mrs. Michell, and so to
      Mrs. Martin's to pay for my cuffs and drink with her.... And by and by
      away by coach and met with Sir H. Cholmly, and with him to the Temple, and
      there in Playford's shop did give him some of my Exchequer orders and took
      his receipts, and so parted and home, and there to my business hard at the
      office, and then home, my wife being at Mrs. Turner's, who and her husband
      come home with her, and here staid and talked and staid late, and then
      went away and we to bed. But that which vexed me much this evening is that
      Captain Cocke and Sir W. Batten did come to me, and sat, and drank a
      bottle of wine, and told me how Sir W. Pen hath got an order for the
      "Flying Greyhound" for himself, which is so false a thing, and the part of
      a knave, as nothing almost can be more. This vexed me; but I resolve to
      bring it before the Duke, and try a pull for it.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up betimes and to Captain Cocke, in his coach which he sent for me,
      and he not being ready I walked in the Exchange, which is now made pretty,
      by having windows and doors before all their shops, to keep out the cold.
      By and by to him, and he being ready, he and I out in his coach to my Lord
      Chancellor's; there to Mr. Wren's chamber, who did tell us the whole of
      Sir W. Pen's having the order for this ship of ours, and we went with him
      to St. James's, and there I did see the copy of it, which is built upon a
      suggestion of his having given the King a ship of his, "The Prosperous,"
      wherein is such a cheat as I have the best advantage in the world over
      him, and will make him do reason, or lay him on his back. This I was very
      glad of, and having done as far as I could in it we returned, and I home,
      and there at the office all the morning, and at noon with my Lord Bruncker
      to the Treasurer's office to look over the clerks who are there making up
      the books, but in such a manner as it is a shame to see. Then home to
      dinner, and after dinner, my mind mighty full of this business of Sir W.
      Pen's, to the office, and there busy all the afternoon. This evening Sir
      W. Batten and [Sir] W. Pen and I met at [Sir] W. Batten's house, and there
      I took an opportunity to break the business, at which [Sir] W. Pen is much
      disturbed, and would excuse it the most he can, but do it so basely, that
      though he do offer to let go his pretence to her, and resign up his order
      for her, and come in only to ask his share of her (which do very well
      please me, and give me present satisfaction), yet I shall remember him for
      a knave while I live. But thus my mind is quieted for the present more
      than I thought I should be, and am glad that I shall have no need of
      bidding him open defiance, which I would otherwise have done, and made a
      perpetual war between us. So to the office, and there busy pretty late,
      and so home and to supper with my wife, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner, W.
      Hewer and I and my wife, when comes my cozen, Kate Joyce, and an aunt of
      ours, Lettice, formerly Haynes, and now Howlett, come to town to see her
      friends, and also Sarah Kite, with her little boy in her armes, a very
      pretty little boy. The child I like very well, and could wish it my own.
      My wife being all unready, did not appear. I made as much of them as I
      could such ordinary company; and yet my heart was glad to see them, though
      their condition was a little below my present state, to be familiar with.
      She tells me how the lifeguard, which we thought a little while since was
      sent down into the country about some insurrection, was sent to
      Winchcombe, to spoil the tobacco there, which it seems the people there do
      plant contrary to law, and have always done, and still been under force
      and danger of having it spoiled, as it hath been oftentimes, and yet they
      will continue to plant it.
    </p>
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     [Winchcombe St. Peter, a market-town in Gloucestershire.  Tobacco
     was first cultivated in this parish, after its introduction into
     England, in 1583, and it proved, a considerable source of profit to
     the inhabitants, till the trade was placed under restrictions.  The
     cultivation was first prohibited during the Commonwealth, and
     various acts were passed in the reign of Charles II. for the same
     purpose.  Among the king's pamphlets in the British Museum is a
     tract entitled "Harry Hangman's Honour, or Glostershire Hangman's
     Request to the Smokers and Tobacconists of London," dated June 11th,
     1655.  The author writes: "The very planting of tobacco hath proved
     the decay of my trade, for since it hath been planted in
     Glostershire, especially at Winchcomb, my trade hath proved nothing
     worth."  He adds: "Then 'twas a merry world with me, for indeed
     before tobacco was there planted, there being no kind of trade to
     employ men, and very small tillage, necessity compelled poor men to
     stand my friends by stealing of sheep and other cattel, breaking of
     hedges, robbing of orchards, and what not."]
</pre>
    <p>
      The place, she says, is a miserable poor place. They gone, I to the
      office, where all the afternoon very busy, and at night, when my eyes were
      weary of the light, I and my wife to walk in the garden, and then home to
      supper and pipe, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. At the office doing business all the morning. At noon expected Creed
      to have come to dine with me and brought Mr. Sheres (the gentleman lately
      come from my Lord Sandwich) with him; but they come not, so there was a
      good dinner lost. After dinner my wife and Jane about some business of
      hers abroad, and then I to the office, where, having done my business, I
      out to pay some debts: among others to the taverne at the end of Billiter
      Lane, where my design was to see the pretty mistress of the house, which I
      did, and indeed is, as I always thought, one of the modestest, prettiest,
      plain women that ever I saw. Thence was met in the street by Sir W. Pen,
      and he and I by coach to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Mad
      Couple," which I do not remember that I have seen; it is a pretty pleasant
      play. Thence home, and my wife and I to walk in the garden, she having
      been at the same play with Jane, in the 18d. seat, to shew Jane the play,
      and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. All the morning at the office, dined at home, and expected Sheres
      again, but he did not come, so another dinner lost by the folly of Creed.
      After having done some business at the office, I out with my wife to
      Sheres's lodging and left an invitation for him to dine with me tomorrow,
      and so back and took up my wife at the Exchange, and then kissed Mrs.
      Smith's pretty hand, and so with my wife by coach to take some ayre (but
      the way very dirty) as far as Bow, and so drinking (as usual) at Mile End
      of Byde's ale, we home and there busy at my letters till late, and so to
      walk by moonshine with my wife, and so to bed. The King, Duke of York, and
      the men of the Court, have been these four or five days a-hunting at
      Bagshot.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd (Lord's day). At my chamber all the morning making up some accounts,
      to my great content. At noon comes Mr. Sheres, whom I find a good,
      ingenious man, but do talk a little too much of his travels. He left my
      Lord Sandwich well, but in pain to be at home for want of money, which
      comes very hardly. Most of the afternoon talking of Spain, and informing
      him against his return how things are here, and so spent most of the
      afternoon, and then he parted, and then to my chamber busy till my eyes
      were almost blind with writing and reading, and I was fain to get the boy
      to come and write for me, and then to supper, and Pelling come to me at
      supper, and then to sing a Psalm with him, and so parted and to bed, after
      my wife had read some thing to me (to save my eyes) in a good book. This
      night I did even my accounts of the house, which I have to my great shame
      omitted now above two months or more, and therefore am content to take my
      wife's and mayd's accounts as they give them, being not able to correct
      them, which vexes me; but the fault being my own, contrary to my wife's
      frequent desires, I cannot find fault, but am resolved never to let them
      come to that pass again. The truth is, I have indulged myself more in
      pleasure for these last two months than ever I did in my life before,
      since I come to be a person concerned in business; and I doubt, when I
      come to make up my accounts, I shall find it so by the expence.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and walked to the Exchange, there to get a coach but failed, and
      so was forced to walk a most dirty walk to the Old Swan, and there took
      boat, and so to the Exchange, and there took coach to St. James's and did
      our usual business with the Duke of York. Thence I walked over the Park to
      White Hall and took water to Westminster, and there, among other things,
      bought the examinations of the business about the Fire of London, which is
      a book that Mrs. Pierce tells me hath been commanded to be burnt. The
      examinations indeed are very plain. Thence to the Excise office, and so to
      the Exchange, and did a little business, and so home and took up my wife,
      and so carried her to the other end, where I 'light at my Lord Ashly's, by
      invitation, to dine there, which I did, and Sir H. Cholmly, Creed, and
      Yeabsly, upon occasion of the business of Yeabsly, who, God knows, do
      bribe him very well for it; and it is pretty to see how this great man do
      condescend to these things, and do all he can in his examining of his
      business to favour him, and yet with great cunning not to be discovered
      but by me that am privy to it. At table it is worth remembering that my
      Lord tells us that the House of Lords is the last appeal that a man can
      make, upon a poynt of interpretation of the law, and that therein they are
      above the judges; and that he did assert this in the Lords' House upon the
      late occasion of the quarrel between my Lord Bristoll and the Chancellor,
      when the former did accuse the latter of treason, and the judges did bring
      it in not to be treason: my Lord Ashly did declare that the judgment of
      the judges was nothing in the presence of their Lordships, but only as far
      as they were the properest men to bring precedents; but not to interpret
      the law to their Lordships, but only the inducements of their persuasions:
      and this the Lords did concur in. Another pretty thing was my Lady Ashly's
      speaking of the bad qualities of glass-coaches; among others, the flying
      open of the doors upon any great shake: but another was, that my Lady
      Peterborough being in her glass-coach, with the glass up, and seeing a
      lady pass by in a coach whom she would salute, the glass was so clear,
      that she thought it had been open, and so ran her head through the glass,
      and cut all her forehead! After dinner, before we fell to the examination
      of Yeabsly's business, we were put into my Lord's room before he could
      come to us, and there had opportunity to look over his state of his
      accounts of the prizes; and there saw how bountiful the King hath been to
      several people and hardly any man almost, Commander of the Navy of any
      note, but hath had some reward or other out of it; and many sums to the
      Privy-purse, but not so many, I see, as I thought there had been: but we
      could not look quite through it. But several Bedchamber-men and people
      about the Court had good sums; and, among others, Sir John Minnes and Lord
      Bruncker have L200 a-piece for looking to the East India prizes, while I
      did their work for them. By and by my Lord come, and we did look over
      Yeabsly's business a little; and I find how prettily this cunning Lord can
      be partial and dissemble it in this case, being privy to the bribe he is
      to receive. This done; we away, and with Sir H. Cholmly to Westminster;
      who by the way told me how merry the king and Duke of York and Court were
      the other day, when they were abroad a-hunting. They come to Sir G.
      Carteret's house at Cranbourne, and there were entertained, and all made
      drunk; and that all being drunk, Armerer did come to the King, and swore
      to him, "By God, Sir," says he, "you are not so kind to the Duke of York
      of late as you used to be."&mdash;"Not I?" says the King. "Why so?"&mdash;"Why,"
      says he, "if you are, let us drink his health."&mdash;"Why, let us," says
      the King. Then he fell on his knees, and drank it; and having done, the
      King began to drink it. "Nay, Sir," says Armerer, "by God you must do it
      on your knees!" So he did, and then all the company: and having done it,
      all fell a-crying for joy, being all maudlin and kissing one another, the
      King the Duke of York, and the Duke of York the King: and in such a
      maudlin pickle as never people were: and so passed the day. But Sir H.
      Cholmly tells me, that the King hath this good luck, that the next day he
      hates to have any body mention what he had done the day before, nor will
      suffer any body to gain upon him that way; which is a good quality. Parted
      with Sir H. Cholmly at White Hall, and there I took coach and took up my
      wife at Unthanke's, and so out for ayre, it being a mighty pleasant day,
      as far as Bow, and so drank by the way, and home, and there to my chamber
      till by and by comes Captain Cocke about business; who tells me that Mr.
      Bruncker is lost for ever, notwithstanding my Lord Bruncker hath advised
      with him, Cocke, how he might make a peace with the Duke of York and
      Chancellor, upon promise of serving him in the Parliament but Cocke says
      that is base to offer, and will have no success neither. He says that Mr.
      Wren hath refused a present of Tom Wilson's for his place of Store-keeper
      of Chatham, and is resolved never to take any thing; which is both wise in
      him, and good to the King's service. He stayed with me very late, here
      being Mrs. Turner and W. Batelier drinking and laughing, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning very busy. At noon
      home, where there dined with me Anthony Joyce and his wife, and Will and
      his wife, and my aunt Lucett, that was here the other day, and Sarah Kite,
      and I had a good dinner for them, and were as merry as I could be in that
      company where W. Joyce is, who is still the same impertinent fellow that
      ever he was. After dinner I away to St. James's, where we had an audience
      of the Duke of York of many things of weight, as the confirming an
      establishment of the numbers of men on ships in peace and other things of
      weight, about which we stayed till past candle-light, and so Sir W. Batten
      and W. Pen and I fain to go all in a hackney-coach round by London Wall,
      for fear of cellars, this being the first time I have been forced to go
      that way this year, though now I shall begin to use it. We tired one coach
      upon Holborne-Conduit Hill, and got another, and made it a long journey
      home. Where to the office and then home, and at my business till twelve at
      night, writing in short hand the draught of a report to make to the King
      and Council to-morrow, about the reason of not having the book of the
      Treasurer made up. This I did finish to-night to the spoiling of my eyes,
      I fear. This done, then to bed. This evening my wife tells me that W.
      Batelier hath been here to-day, and brought with him the pretty girl he
      speaks of, to come to serve my wife as a woman, out of the school at Bow.
      My wife says she is extraordinary handsome, and inclines to have her, and
      I am glad of it&mdash;at least, that if we must have one, she should be
      handsome. But I shall leave it wholly to my wife, to do what she will
      therein.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up as soon as I could see and to the office to write over fair with
      Mr. Hater my last night's work, which I did by nine o'clock, and got it
      signed, and so with Sir H. Cholmly, who come to me about his business, to
      White Hall: and thither come also my Lord Bruncker: and we by and by
      called in, and our paper read; and much discourse thereon by Sir G.
      Carteret, my Lord Anglesey, Sir W. Coventry, and my Lord Ashly, and
      myself: but I could easily discern that they none of them understood the
      business; and the King at last ended it with saying lazily, "Why," says
      he, "after all this discourse, I now come to understand it; and that is,
      that there can nothing be done in this more than is possible," which was
      so silly as I never heard: "and therefore," says he, "I would have these
      gentlemen to do as much as possible to hasten the Treasurer's accounts;
      and that is all." And so we broke up: and I confess I went away ashamed,
      to see how slightly things are advised upon there. Here I saw the Duke of
      Buckingham sit in Council again, where he was re-admitted, it seems, the
      last Council-day: and it is wonderful to see how this man is come again to
      his places, all of them, after the reproach and disgrace done him: so that
      things are done in a most foolish manner quite through. The Duke of
      Buckingham did second Sir W. Coventry in the advising the King that he
      would not concern himself in the owning or not owning any man's accounts,
      or any thing else, wherein he had not the same satisfaction that would
      satisfy the Parliament; saying, that nothing would displease the
      Parliament more than to find him defending any thing that is not right,
      nor justifiable to the utmost degree but methought he spoke it but very
      poorly. After this, I walked up and down the Gallery till noon; and here I
      met with Bishop Fuller, who, to my great joy, is made, which I did not
      hear before, Bishop of Lincoln. At noon I took coach, and to Sir G.
      Carteret's, in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, to the house that is my Lord's, which
      my Lord lets him have: and this is the first day of dining there. And
      there dined with him and his lady my Lord Privy-seale, who is indeed a
      very sober man; who, among other talk, did mightily wonder at the reason
      of the growth of the credit of banquiers, since it is so ordinary a thing
      for citizens to break, out of knavery. Upon this we had much discourse;
      and I observed therein, to the honour of this City, that I have not heard
      of one citizen of London broke in all this war, this plague, this fire,
      and this coming up of the enemy among us; which he owned to be very
      considerable.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This remarkable fact is confirmed by Evelyn, in a letter to Sir
     Samuel Tuke, September 27th, 1666.  See "Correspondence," vol.
     iii., p. 345, edit. 1879.]
</pre>
    <p>
      After dinner I to the King's playhouse, my eyes being so bad since last
      night's straining of them, that I am hardly able to see, besides the pain
      which I have in them. The play was a new play; and infinitely full: the
      King and all the Court almost there. It is "The Storme," a play of
      Fletcher's;' which is but so-so, methinks; only there is a most admirable
      dance at the end, of the ladies, in a military manner, which indeed did
      please me mightily. So, it being a mighty wet day and night, I with much
      ado got a coach, and, with twenty stops which he made, I got him to carry
      me quite through, and paid dear for it, and so home, and there comes my
      wife home from the Duke of York's playhouse, where she hath been with my
      aunt and Kate Joyce, and so to supper, and betimes to bed, to make amends
      for my last night's work and want of sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and to my chamber, whither Jonas Moore comes, and, among other
      things, after our business done, discoursing of matters of the office, I
      shewed him my varnished things, which he says he can outdo much, and tells
      me the mighty use of Napier's bones;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [John Napier or Neper (1550-1617), laird of Merchiston (now
     swallowed up in the enlarged Edinburgh of to-day, although the old
     castle still stands), and the inventor of logarithms.  He published
     his "Rabdologiae seu numerationis per virgulas libri duo" in 1617,
     and the work was reprinted and translated into Italian (1623) and
     Dutch (1626).  In 1667 William Leybourn published "The Art of
     Numbering by Speaking Rods, vulgarly termed Napier's Bones."]
</pre>
    <p>
      so that I will have a pair presently. To the office, where busy all the
      morning sitting, and at noon home to dinner, and then with my wife abroad
      to the King's playhouse, to shew her yesterday's new play, which I like as
      I did yesterday, the principal thing extraordinary being the dance, which
      is very good. So to Charing Cross by coach, about my wife's business, and
      then home round by London Wall, it being very dark and dirty, and so to
      supper, and, for the ease of my eyes, to bed, having first ended all my
      letters at the office.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and to the office, where very busy all the morning. While I was
      busy at the Office, my wife sends for me to come home, and what was it but
      to see the pretty girl which she is taking to wait upon her: and though
      she seems not altogether so great a beauty as she had before told me, yet
      indeed she is mighty pretty; and so pretty, that I find I shall be too
      much pleased with it, and therefore could be contented as to my judgement,
      though not to my passion, that she might not come, lest I may be found too
      much minding her, to the discontent of my wife. She is to come next week.
      She seems, by her discourse, to be grave beyond her bigness and age, and
      exceeding well bred as to her deportment, having been a scholar in a
      school at Bow these seven or eight years. To the office again, my head
      running on this pretty girl, and there till noon, when Creed and Sheres
      come and dined with me; and we had a great deal of pretty discourse of the
      ceremoniousness of the Spaniards, whose ceremonies are so many and so
      known, that, Sheres tells me, upon all occasions of joy or sorrow in a
      Grandee's family, my Lord Embassador is fain to send one with an 'en hora
      buena', if it be upon a marriage, or birth of a child, or a 'pesa me', if
      it be upon the death of a child, or so. And these ceremonies are so set,
      and the words of the compliment, that he hath been sent from my Lord, when
      he hath done no more than send in word to the Grandee that one was there
      from the Embassador; and he knowing what was his errand, that hath been
      enough, and he never spoken with him: nay, several Grandees having been to
      marry a daughter, have wrote letters to my Lord to give him notice, and
      out of the greatness of his wisdom to desire his advice, though people he
      never saw; and then my Lord he answers by commending the greatness of his
      discretion in making so good an alliance, &amp;c., and so ends. He says
      that it is so far from dishonour to a man to give private revenge for an
      affront, that the contrary is a disgrace; they holding that he that
      receives an affront is not fit to appear in the sight of the world till he
      hath revenged himself; and therefore, that a gentleman there that receives
      an affront oftentimes never appears again in the world till he hath, by
      some private way or other, revenged himself: and that, on this account,
      several have followed their enemies privately to the Indys, thence to
      Italy, thence to France and back again, watching for an opportunity to be
      revenged. He says my Lord was fain to keep a letter from the Duke of York
      to the Queen of Spain a great while in his hands, before he could think
      fit to deliver it, till he had learnt whether the Queen would receive it,
      it being directed to his cozen. He says that many ladies in Spain, after
      they are found to be with child, do never stir out of their beds or
      chambers till they are brought to bed: so ceremonious they are in that
      point also. He tells me of their wooing by serenades at the window, and
      that their friends do always make the match; but yet that they have
      opportunities to meet at masse at church, and there they make love: that
      the Court there hath no dancing, nor visits at night to see the King or
      Queen, but is always just like a cloyster, nobody stirring in it: that my
      Lord Sandwich wears a beard now, turned up in the Spanish manner. But that
      which pleases me most indeed is, that the peace which he hath made with
      Spain is now printed here, and is acknowledged by all the merchants to be
      the best peace that ever England had with them: and it appears that the
      King thinks it so, for this is printed before the ratification is gone
      over; whereas that with France and Holland was not in a good while after,
      till copys come over of it in English out of Holland and France, that it
      was a reproach not to have it printed here. This I am mighty glad of; and
      is the first and only piece of good news, or thing fit to be owned, that
      this nation hath done several years. After dinner I to the office, and
      they gone, anon comes Pelling, and he and I to Gray's Inne Fields,
      thinking to have heard Mrs. Knight sing at her lodgings, by a friend's
      means of his;
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     [Mrs. Knight, a celebrated singer and mistress of Charles II. There
     is in Waller's "Poems" a song sung by her to the queen on her
     birthday.  In her portrait, engraved by Faber, after Kneller, she is
     represented in mourning, and in a devout posture before a crucifix.
     Evelyn refers to her singing as incomparable, and adds that she had
     "the greatest reach of any English woman; she had been lately
     roaming in Italy, and was much improv'd in that quality" ("Diary,"
     December 2nd, 1674).]
</pre>
    <p>
      but we come too late; so must try another time. So lost our labour, and I
      by coach home, and there to my chamber, and did a great deal of good
      business about my Tangier accounts, and so with pleasure discoursing with
      my wife of our journey shortly to Brampton, and of this little girle,
      which indeed runs in my head, and pleases me mightily, though I dare not
      own it, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, having slept not so much to-night as I used to do, for my
      thoughts being so full of this pretty little girle that is coming to live
      with us, which pleases me mightily. All the morning at the Office, busy
      upon an Order of Council, wherein they are mightily at a loss what to
      advise about our discharging of seamen by ticket, there being no money to
      pay their wages before January, only there is money to pay them since
      January, provided by the Parliament, which will be a horrid disgrace to
      the King and Crowne of England that no man shall reckon himself safe, but
      where the Parliament takes care. And this did move Mr. Wren at the table
      to-day to say, that he did believe if ever there be occasion more to raise
      money, it will become here, as it is in Poland, that there are two
      treasurers&mdash;one for the King, and the other for the kingdom. At noon
      dined at home, and Mr. Hater with me, and Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, dropped
      in, who I feared did come to bespeak me to be godfather to his son, which
      I am unwilling now to be, having ended my liking to his wife, since I find
      she paints. After dinner comes Sir Fr. Hollis to me about business; and I
      with him by coach to the Temple, and there I 'light; all the way he
      telling me romantic lies of himself and his family, how they have been
      Parliamentmen for Grimsby, he and his forefathers, this 140 years; and his
      father is now: and himself, at this day, stands for to be, with his
      father, by the death of his fellow-burgess; and that he believes it will
      cost him as much as it did his predecessor, which was L300 in ale, and L52
      in buttered ale; which I believe is one of his devilish lies. Here I
      'light and to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw a piece of "Sir
      Martin Marrall," with great delight, though I have seen it so often, and
      so home, and there busy late, and so home to my supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). Up, and put off first my summer's silk suit, and put on
      a cloth one. Then to church, and so home to dinner, my wife and I alone to
      a good dinner. All the afternoon talking in my chamber with my wife, about
      my keeping a coach the next year, and doing some things to my house, which
      will cost money&mdash;that is, furnish our best chamber with tapestry, and
      other rooms with pictures. In the evening read good books&mdash;my wife to
      me; and I did even my kitchen accounts. Then to supper, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. By water to White Hall, there to a committee of Tangier, but they
      not met yet, I went to St. James's, there thinking to have opportunity to
      speak to the Duke of York about the petition I have to make to him for
      something in reward for my service this war, but I did waive it. Thence to
      White Hall, and there a Committee met, where little was done, and thence
      to the Duke of York to Council, where we the officers of the Navy did
      attend about the business of discharging the seamen by tickets, where
      several of the Lords spoke and of our number none but myself, which I did
      in such manner as pleased the King and Council. Speaking concerning the
      difficulty of pleasing of seamen and giving them assurance to their
      satisfaction that they should be paid their arrears of wages, my Lord
      Ashly did move that an assignment for money on the Act might be put into
      the hands of the East India Company, or City of London, which he thought
      the seamen would believe. But this my Lord Anglesey did very handsomely
      oppose, and I think did carry it that it will not be: and it is indeed a
      mean thing that the King should so far own his own want of credit as to
      borrow theirs in this manner. My Lord Anglesey told him that this was the
      way indeed to teach the Parliament to trust the King no more for the time
      to come, but to have a kingdom's Treasurer distinct from the King's. Home
      at noon to dinner, where I expected to have had our new girle, my wife's
      woman, but she is not yet come. I abroad after dinner to White Hall, and
      there among other things do hear that there will be musique to-morrow
      night before the King. So to Westminster, where to the Swan.... and drank
      and away to the Hall, and thence to Mrs. Martin's, to bespeak some linen,
      and there je did avoir all with her, and drank, and away, having first
      promised my goddaughter a new coat-her first coat. So by coach home, and
      there find our pretty girl Willet come, brought by Mr. Batelier, and she
      is very pretty, and so grave as I never saw a little thing in my life.
      Indeed I think her a little too good for my family, and so well carriaged
      as I hardly ever saw. I wish my wife may use her well. Now I begin to be
      full of thought for my journey the next week, if I can get leave, to
      Brampton. Tonight come and sat with me Mr. Turner and his wife and tell me
      of a design of sending their son Franke to the East Indy Company's service
      if they can get him entertainment, which they are promised by Sir Andr.
      Rickard, which I do very well like of. So the company broke up and to bed.
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    <p>
      October 1st. All the morning busy at the office, pleased mightily with my
      girle that we have got to wait on my wife. At noon dined with Sir G.
      Carteret and the rest of our officers at his house in Broad Street, they
      being there upon his accounts. After dinner took coach and to my wife, who
      was gone before into the Strand, there to buy a nightgown, where I found
      her in a shop with her pretty girle, and having bought it away home, and I
      thence to Sir G. Carteret's again, and so took coach alone, it now being
      almost night, to White Hall, and there in the Boarded-gallery did hear the
      musick with which the King is presented this night by Monsieur Grebus, the
      master of his musick; both instrumentall&mdash;I think twenty-four violins&mdash;and
      vocall; an English song upon Peace. But, God forgive me! I never was so
      little pleased with a concert of musick in my life. The manner of setting
      of words and repeating them out of order, and that with a number of
      voices, makes me sick, the whole design of vocall musick being lost by it.
      Here was a great press of people; but I did not see many pleased with it,
      only the instrumental musick he had brought by practice to play very just.
      So thence late in the dark round by the wall home by coach, and there to
      sing and sup with my wife, and look upon our pretty girle, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and very busy all the morning, upon my accounts of Tangier, to
      present to the Commissioners of the Treasury in the afternoon, and the
      like upon the accounts of the office. This morning come to me Mr. Gawden
      about business, with his gold chain about his neck, as being Sheriffe of
      the City this year. At noon to the Treasury Office again, and there dined
      and did business, and then by coach to the New Exchange, and there met my
      wife and girl, and took them to the King's house to see "The Traytour,"
      which still I like as a very good play; and thence, round by the wall,
      home, having drunk at the Cock ale-house, as I of late have used to do,
      and so home and to my chamber to read, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and going out of doors, I understand that Sir W. Batten is gone
      to bed on a sudden again this morning, being struck very ill, and I
      confess I have observed him for these last two months to look very ill and
      to look worse and worse. I to St. James's (though it be a sitting day) to
      the Duke of York, about the Tangier Committee, which met this morning, and
      he come to us, and the Charter for the City of Tangier was read and the
      form of the Court Merchant. That being done Sir W. Coventry took me into
      the gallery, and walked with me an hour, discoursing of Navy business, and
      with much kindness to, and confidence in, me still; which I must endeavour
      to preserve, and will do; and, good man! all his care how to get the Navy
      paid off, and that all other things therein may go well. He gone, I thence
      to my Lady Peterborough, who sent for me; and with her an hour talking
      about her husband's pension, and how she hath got an order for its being
      paid again; though, I believe, for all that order, it will hardly be; but
      of that I said nothing; but her design is to get it paid again: and how to
      raise money upon it, to clear it from the engagement which lies upon it to
      some citizens, who lent her husband money, without her knowledge, upon it,
      to vast loss. She intends to force them to take their money again, and
      release her husband of those hard terms. The woman is a very wise woman,
      and is very plain in telling me how her plate and jewels are at pawne for
      money, and how they are forced to live beyond their estate, and do get
      nothing by his being a courtier. The lady I pity, and her family. Having
      done with her, and drunk two glasses of her meade, which she did give me,
      and so to the Treasurer's Office, and there find my Lord Bruncker and
      [Sir] W. Pen at dinner with Sir G. Carteret about his accounts, where I
      dined and talked and settled some business, and then home, and there took
      out my wife and Willet, thinking to have gone to a play, but both houses
      were begun, and so we to the 'Change, and thence to my tailor's, and
      there, the coachman desiring to go home to change his horses, we went with
      him into a nasty end of all St. Giles's, and there went into a nasty room,
      a chamber of his, where he hath a wife and child, and there staid, it
      growing dark too, and I angry thereat, till he shifted his horses, and
      then home apace, and there I to business late, and so home, to supper, and
      walk in the garden with my wife and girle, with whom we are mightily
      pleased, and after talking and supping, to bed. This noon, going home, I
      did call on Will Lincolne and agree with him to carry me to Brampton.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and to White Hall to attend the Council about Commissioner Pett's
      business, along with my Lord Bruncker and Sir W. Pen, and in the
      Robe-chamber the Duke of York come to us, the officers of the Navy, and
      there did meet together about Navy business, where Sir W. Coventry was
      with us, and among other things did recommend his Royal Highness, now the
      prizes were disposing, to remember Sir John Harman to the King, for some
      bounty, and also for my Lady Minnes, which was very nobly done of him.
      Thence all of us to attend the Council, where we were anon called on, and
      there was a long hearing of Commissioner Pett, who was there, and there
      were the two Masters Attendant of Chatham called in, who do deny their
      having any order from Commissioner Pett about bringing up the great ships,
      which gives the lie to what he says; but, in general, I find him to be but
      a weak, silly man, and that is guilty of horrid neglect in this business
      all along. Here broke off without coming to an issue, but that there
      should be another hearing on Monday next. So the Council rose, and I staid
      walking up and down the galleries till the King went to dinner, and then I
      to my Lord Crew's to dinner; but he having dined, I took a very short
      leave, confessing I had not dined; and so to an ordinary hard by the
      Temple-gate, where I have heretofore been, and there dined&mdash;cost me
      10d. And so to my Lord Ashly's, where after dinner Sir H. Cholmly, Creed
      and I, with his Lordship, about Mr. Yeabsly's business, where having come
      to agreement with him abating him L1000 of what he demands for ships lost,
      I to Westminster, to Mrs. Martin's lodging, whither I sent for her, and
      there hear that her husband is come from sea, which is sooner than I
      expected; and here I staid and drank, and so did toucher elle and away,
      and so by coach to my tailor's, and thence to my Lord Crew's, and there
      did stay with him an hour till almost night, discoursing about the ill
      state of my Lord Sandwich, that he can neither be got to be called home,
      nor money got to maintain him there; which will ruin his family. And the
      truth is, he do almost deserve it, for by all relation he hath, in a
      little more than a year and a half, spent L20,000 of the King's money, and
      the best part of L10,000 of his own; which is a most prodigious expence,
      more than ever Embassador spent there, and more than these Commissioners
      of the Treasury will or do allow. And they demand an account before they
      will give him any more money; which puts all his friends to a loss what to
      answer. But more money we must get him, or to be called home. I offer to
      speak to Sir W. Coventry about it; but my Lord will not advise to it,
      without consent of Sir G. Carteret. So home, and there to see Sir W.
      Batten, who fell sick yesterday morning: He is asleep: and so I could not
      see him; but in an hour after, word is brought me that he is so ill, that
      it is believed he cannot live till to-morrow, which troubles me and my
      wife mightily, partly out of kindness, he being a good neighbour and
      partly because of the money he owes me, upon our bargain of the late
      prize. So home and to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and to the Office; and there all the morning; none but my Lord
      Anglesey and myself; but much surprized with the news of the death of Sir
      W. Batten, who died this morning, having been but two days sick. Sir W.
      Pen and I did dispatch a letter this morning to Sir W. Coventry, to
      recommend Colonel Middleton, who we think a most honest and understanding
      man, and fit for that place. Sir G. Carteret did also come this morning,
      and walked with me in the garden; and concluded not to concern [himself]
      or have any advice made to Sir W. Coventry, in behalf of my Lord
      Sandwich's business; so I do rest satisfied, though I do think they are
      all mad, that they will judge Sir W. Coventry an enemy, when he is indeed
      no such man to any body, but is severe and just, as he ought to be, where
      he sees things ill done. At noon home, and by coach to Temple Bar to a
      India shop, and there bought a gown and sash, which cost me 26s., and so
      she [Mrs. Pepys] and Willet away to the 'Change, and I to my Lord Crew,
      and there met my Lord Hinchingbroke and Lady Jemimah, and there dined with
      them and my Lord, where pretty merry, and after dinner my Lord Crew and
      Hinchingbroke and myself went aside to discourse about my Lord Sandwich's
      business, which is in a very ill state for want of money, and so parted,
      and I to my tailor's, and there took up my wife and Willet, who staid
      there for me, and to the Duke of York's playhouse, but the house so full,
      it being a new play, "The Coffee House," that we could not get in, and so
      to the King's house: and there, going in, met with Knepp, and she took us
      up into the tireing-rooms: and to the women's shift, where Nell was
      dressing herself, and was all unready, and is very pretty, prettier than I
      thought. And so walked all up and down the house above, and then below
      into the scene-room, and there sat down, and she gave us fruit and here I
      read the questions to Knepp, while she answered me, through all her part
      of "Flora's Figary's," which was acted to-day. But, Lord! to see how they
      were both painted would make a man mad, and did make me loath them; and
      what base company of men comes among them, and how lewdly they talk! and
      how poor the men are in clothes, and yet what a shew they make on the
      stage by candle-light, is very observable. But to see how Nell cursed, for
      having so few people in the pit, was pretty; the other house carrying away
      all the people at the new play, and is said, now-a-days, to have generally
      most company, as being better players. By and by into the pit, and there
      saw the play, which is pretty good, but my belly was full of what I had
      seen in the house, and so, after the play done, away home, and there to
      the writing my letters, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). Up, and dressed myself, and so walked out with the boy
      to Smithfield to Cow Lane, to Lincolne's, and there spoke with him, and
      agreed upon the hour to-morrow, to set out towards Brampton; but vexed
      that he is not likely to go himself, but sends another for him. Here I
      took a hackney coach, and to White Hall, and there met Sir W. Coventry,
      and discoursed with him, and then with my Lord Bruncker, and many others,
      to end my matters in order to my going into the country to-morrow for five
      or six days, which I have not done for above three years. Walked with
      Creed into the Park a little, and at last went into the Queen's side, and
      there saw the King and Queen, and saw the ladies, in order to my hearing
      any news stirring to carry into the country, but met with none, and so
      away home by coach, and there dined, and W. How come to see me, and after
      dinner parted, and I to my writing to my Lord Sandwich, which is the
      greatest business I have to do before my going into the country, and in
      the evening to my office to set matters to rights there, and being in the
      garden Sir W. Pen did come to me, and fell to discourse about the business
      of "The Flying Greyhound," wherein I was plain to him and he to me, and at
      last concluded upon my writing a petition to the Duke of York for a
      certain ship, The Maybolt Gallyott, and he offers to give me L300 for my
      success, which, however, I would not oblige him to, but will see the issue
      of it by fair play, and so I did presently draw a petition, which he
      undertakes to proffer to the Duke of York, and solicit for me, and will
      not seem to doubt of his success. So I wrote, and did give it him, and
      left it with him, and so home to supper, where Pelling comes and sits with
      me, and there tells us how old Mr. Batelier is dead this last night in the
      night, going to bed well, which I am mightily troubled for, he being a
      good man. Supper done, and he gone, I to my chamber to write my journal to
      this night, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up betimes, and did do several things towards the settling all
      matters both of house and office in order for my journey this day, and did
      leave my chief care, and the key of my closet, with Mr. Hater, with
      directions what papers to secure, in case of fire or other accident; and
      so, about nine o'clock, I, and my wife, and Willet, set out in a coach I
      have hired, with four horses; and W. Hewer and Murford rode by us on
      horseback; and so my wife and she in their morning gowns, very handsome
      and pretty, and to my great liking. We set out, and so out at Allgate, and
      so to the Green Man, and so on to Enfield, in our way seeing Mr. Lowther
      and his lady in a coach, going to Walthamstow; and he told us that he
      would overtake us at night, he being to go that way. So we to Enfield, and
      there bayted, it being but a foul, bad day, and there Lowther and Mr.
      Burford, an acquaintance of his, did overtake us, and there drank and eat
      together; and, by and by, we parted, we going before them, and very merry,
      my wife and girle and I talking, and telling tales, and singing, and
      before night come to Bishop Stafford, where Lowther and his friend did
      meet us again, and carried us to the Raynedeere, where Mrs. Aynsworth,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Elizabeth Aynsworth, here mentioned, was a noted procurerss at
     Cambridge, banished from that town by the university authorities for
     her evil courses.  She subsequently kept the Rein Deer Inn at
     Bishops Stortford, at which the Vice-Chancellor, and some of the
     heads of colleges, had occasion to sleep, in their way to London,
     and were nobly entertained, their supper being served off plate.
     The next morning their hostess refused to make any charge, saying,
     that she was still indebted to the Vice-Chancellor, who, by driving
     her out of Cambridge, had made her fortune.  No tradition of this
     woman has been preserved at Bishops Stortford; but it appears, from
     the register of that parish, that she was buried there 26th of
     March, 1686.  It is recorded in the "History of Essex," vol. iii.,
     (p. 130) 8vo., 1770, and in a pamphlet in the British Museum,
     entitled, "Boteler's Case," that she was implicated in the murder of
     Captain Wood, a Hertfordshire gentleman, at Manuden, in Essex, and
     for which offence a person named Boteler was executed at Chelmsford,
     September 10th, 1667, and that Mrs. Aynsworth, tried at the same
     time as an accessory before the fact, was acquitted for want of
     evidence; though in her way to the jail she endeavoured to throw
     herself into the river, but was prevented.  See Postea, May 25th,
     1668.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      who lived heretofore at Cambridge, and whom I knew better than they think
      for, do live. It was the woman that, among other things, was great with my
      cozen Barnston, of Cottenham, and did use to sing to him, and did teach me
      "Full forty times over," a very lewd song: a woman they are very well
      acquainted with, and is here what she was at Cambridge, and all the good
      fellows of the country come hither. Lowther and his friend stayed and
      drank, and then went further this night; but here we stayed, and supped,
      and lodged. But, as soon as they were gone, and my supper getting ready, I
      fell to write my letter to my Lord Sandwich, which I could not finish
      before my coming from London; so did finish it to my good content, and a
      good letter, telling him the present state of all matters, and did get a
      man to promise to carry it to-morrow morning, to be there, at my house, by
      noon, and I paid him well for it; so, that being done, and my mind at
      ease, we to supper, and so to bed, my wife and I in one bed, and the girl
      in another, in the same room, and lay very well, but there was so much
      tearing company in the house, that we could not see my landlady; so I had
      no opportunity of renewing my old acquaintance with her, but here we slept
      very well.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up pretty betimes, though not so soon as we intended, by reason of
      Murford's not rising, and then not knowing how to open our door, which,
      and some other pleasant simplicities of the fellow, did give occasion to
      us to call him. Sir Martin Marrall, and W. Hewer being his helper and
      counsellor, we did call him, all this journey, Mr. Warner, which did give
      us good occasion of mirth now and then. At last, rose, and up, and broke
      our fast, and then took coach, and away, and at Newport did call on Mr.
      Lowther, and he and his friend, and the master of the house, their friend,
      where they were, a gentleman, did presently get a-horseback and overtook
      us, and went with us to Audley-End, and did go along with us all over the
      house and garden: and mighty merry we were. The house indeed do appear
      very fine, but not so fine as it hath heretofore to me; particularly the
      ceilings are not so good as I always took them to be, being nothing so
      well wrought as my Lord Chancellor's are; and though the figure of the
      house without be very extraordinary good, yet the stayre-case is exceeding
      poor; and a great many pictures, and not one good one in the house but one
      of Harry the Eighth, done by Holben; and not one good suit of hangings in
      all the house, but all most ancient things, such as I would not give the
      hanging-up of in my house; and the other furniture, beds and other things,
      accordingly.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Mr. George T. Robinson, F.S.A., in a paper on "Decorative Plaster
     Work," read before the Society of Arts in April, 1891, refers to the
     ceilings at Audley End as presenting an excellent idea of the state
     of the stuccoer's art in the middle of James I.'s reign, and adds,
     "Few houses in England can show so fine a series of the same date
 ...  The great hall has medallions in the square portions of the
     ceiling formed by its dividing timber beams.  The large saloon on
     the principal floor-a room about 66 feet long by 30 feet wide-has a
     very remarkable ceiling of the pendentive type, which presents many
     peculiarities, the most notable of which, that these not only depend
     from the ceiling, but the outside ones spring from the walls in a
     natural and structural manner.  This is a most unusual circumstance
     in the stucco work of the time, the reason for the omission of this
     reasonable treatment evidently being the unwillingness of the
     stuccoer to omit his elaborate frieze in which he took such delight"
     ("Journal Soc. of Arts," vol. xxxix., p. 449)]
</pre>
    <p>
      Only the gallery is good, and, above all things, the cellars, where we
      went down and drank of much good liquor; and indeed the cellars are fine:
      and here my wife and I did sing to my great content. And then to the
      garden, and there eat many grapes, and took some with us and so away
      thence, exceeding well satisfied, though not to that degree that, by my
      old esteem of the house, I ought and did expect to have done, the
      situation of it not pleasing me. Here we parted with Lowther and his
      friends, and away to Cambridge, it being foul, rainy weather, and there
      did take up at the Rose, for the sake of Mrs. Dorothy Drawwater, the
      vintner's daughter, which is mentioned in the play of Sir Martin Marrall.
      Here we had a good chamber, and bespoke a good supper; and then I took my
      wife, and W. Hewer, and Willet, it holding up a little, and shewed them
      Trinity College and St. John's Library, and went to King's College Chapel,
      to see the outside of it only; and so to our inne, and with much pleasure
      did this, they walking in their pretty morning gowns, very handsome, and I
      proud to find myself in condition to do this; and so home to our lodging,
      and there by and by, to supper, with much good sport, talking with the
      Drawers concerning matters of the town, and persons whom I remember, and
      so, after supper, to cards; and then to bed, lying, I in one bed, and my
      wife and girl in another, in the same room, and very merry talking
      together, and mightily pleased both of us with the girl. Saunders, the
      only violin in my time, is, I hear, dead of the plague in the late plague
      there.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and got ready, and eat our breakfast; and then took coach: and
      the poor, as they did yesterday, did stand at the coach to have something
      given them, as they do to all great persons; and I did give them
      something: and the town musique did also come and play: but, Lord! what
      sad music they made! However, I was pleased with them, being all of us in
      very good humour, and so through the town, and observed at our College of
      Magdalene the posts new painted, and understand that the Vice-Chancellor'
      is there this year. And so away for Huntingdon mightily pleased all along
      the road to remember old stories; and come to Brampton at about noon, and
      there find my father and sister and brother all well and here laid up our
      things, and up and down to see the garden with my father, and the house,
      and do altogether find it very pretty; especially the little parlour and
      the summerhouses in the garden, only the wall do want greens upon it, and
      the house is too low-roofed; but that is only because of my coming from a
      house with higher ceilings. But altogether is very pretty; and I bless God
      that I am like to have such a pretty place to retire to: and I did walk
      with my father without doors, and do find a very convenient way of laying
      out money there in building, which will make a very good seat, and the
      place deserves it, I think, very well. By and by to dinner, and after
      dinner I walked up to Hinchingbroke, where my Lady expected me; and there
      spent all the afternoon with her: the same most excellent, good, discreet
      lady that ever she was; and, among other things, is mightily pleased with
      the lady that is like to be her son Hinchingbroke's wife, which I am
      mightily glad of. By and by my wife comes with Willet, my wife in her
      velvett vest, which is mighty fine, and becomes her exceedingly. I am
      pleased with my Lady Paulina and Anne, who both are grown very proper
      ladies, and handsome enough. But a thousand questions my Lady asked me,
      till she could think of no more almost, but walked up and down the house,
      with me. But I do find, by her, that they are reduced to great straits for
      money, having been forced to sell her plate, 8 or L900 worth; and she is
      now going to sell a suit of her best hangings, of which I could almost
      wish to buy a piece or two, if the pieces will be broke. But the house is
      most excellently furnished, and brave rooms and good pictures, so that it
      do please me infinitely beyond Audley End. Here we staid till night
      walking and talking and drinking, and with mighty satisfaction my Lady
      with me alone most of the day talking of my Lord's bad condition to be
      kept in Spayne without money and at a great expense, which (as we will
      save the family) we must labour to remove. Night being come, we took leave
      with all possible kindness, and so home, and there Mr. Shepley staid with
      us and sapped, and full of good country discourse, and when supper done
      took his leave, and we all to bed, only I a little troubled that my father
      tells me that he is troubled that my wife shows my sister no countenance,
      and, him but very little, but is as a stranger in the house; and I do
      observe she do carry herself very high; but I perceive there was some
      great falling out when she was here last, but the reason I have no mind to
      enquire after, for vexing myself, being desirous to pass my time with as
      much mirth as I can while I am abroad. So all to bed. My wife and I in the
      high bed in our chamber, and Willet in the trundle bed, which she desired
      to lie in, by us.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Waked in the morning with great pain of the collique, by cold taken
      yesterday, I believe, with going up and down in my shirt, but with rubbing
      my belly, keeping of it warm, I did at last come to some ease, and rose,
      and up to walk up and down the garden with my father, to talk of all our
      concernments: about a husband for my sister, whereof there is at present
      no appearance; but we must endeavour to find her one now, for she grows
      old and ugly: then for my brother; and resolve he shall stay here this
      winter, and then I will either send him to Cambridge for a year, till I
      get him some church promotion, or send him to sea as a chaplain, where he
      may study, and earn his living. Then walked round about our Greene, to see
      whether, in case I cannot buy out my uncle Thomas and his son's right in
      this house, that I can buy another place as good thereabouts to build on,
      and I do not see that I can. But this, with new building, may be made an
      excellent pretty thing, and I resolve to look after it as soon as I can,
      and Goody Gorum dies. By this time it was almost noon, and then my father
      and I and wife and Willet abroad, by coach round the towne of Brampton, to
      observe any other place as good as ours, and find none; and so back with
      great pleasure; and thence went all of us, my sister and brother, and W.
      Hewer, to dinner to Hinchingbroke, where we had a good plain country
      dinner, but most kindly used; and here dined the Minister of Brampton and
      his wife, who is reported a very good, but poor man. Here I spent alone
      with my Lady, after dinner, the most of the afternoon, and anon the two
      twins were sent for from schoole, at Mr. Taylor's, to come to see me, and
      I took them into the garden, and there, in one of the summer-houses, did
      examine them, and do find them so well advanced in their learning, that I
      was amazed at it: they repeating a whole ode without book out of Horace,
      and did give me a very good account of any thing almost, and did make me
      very readily very good Latin, and did give me good account of their Greek
      grammar, beyond all possible expectation; and so grave and manly as I
      never saw, I confess, nor could have believed; so that they will be fit to
      go to Cambridge in two years at most. They are both little, but very like
      one another, and well-looked children. Then in to my Lady again, and staid
      till it was almost night again, and then took leave for a great while
      again, but with extraordinary kindness from my Lady, who looks upon me
      like one of her own family and interest. So thence, my wife and people by
      the highway, and I walked over the park with Mr. Shepley, and through the
      grove, which is mighty pretty, as is imaginable, and so over their
      drawbridge to Nun's Bridge, and so to my father's, and there sat and
      drank, and talked a little, and then parted. And he being gone, and what
      company there was, my father and I, with a dark lantern; it being now
      night, into the garden with my wife, and there went about our great work
      to dig up my gold. But, Lord! what a tosse I was for some time in, that
      they could not justly tell where it was; that I begun heartily to sweat,
      and be angry, that they should not agree better upon the place, and at
      last to fear that it was gone but by and by poking with a spit, we found
      it, and then begun with a spudd to lift up the ground. But, good God! to
      see how sillily they did it, not half a foot under ground, and in the
      sight of the world from a hundred places, if any body by accident were
      near hand, and within sight of a neighbour's window, and their hearing
      also, being close by: only my father says that he saw them all gone to
      church before he begun the work, when he laid the money, but that do not
      excuse it to me. But I was out of my wits almost, and the more from that,
      upon my lifting up the earth with the spudd, I did discern that I had
      scattered the pieces of gold round about the ground among the grass and
      loose earth; and taking up the iron head-pieces wherein they were put, I
      perceive the earth was got among the gold, and wet, so that the bags were
      all rotten, and all the notes, that I could not tell what in the world to
      say to it, not knowing how to judge what was wanting, or what had been
      lost by Gibson in his coming down: which, all put together, did make me
      mad; and at last was forced to take up the head-pieces, dirt and all, and
      as many of the scattered pieces as I could with the dirt discern by the
      candlelight, and carry them up into my brother's chamber, and there locke
      them up till I had eat a little supper: and then, all people going to bed,
      W. Hewer and I did all alone, with several pails of water and basins, at
      last wash the dirt off of the pieces, and parted the pieces and the dirt,
      and then begun to tell [them]; and by a note which I had of the value of
      the whole in my pocket, do find that there was short above a hundred
      pieces, which did make me mad; and considering that the neighbour's house
      was so near that we could not suppose we could speak one to another in the
      garden at the place where the gold lay&mdash;especially my father being
      deaf&mdash;but they must know what we had been doing on, I feared that
      they might in the night come and gather some pieces and prevent us the
      next morning; so W. Hewer and I out again about midnight, for it was now
      grown so late, and there by candlelight did make shift to gather
      forty-five pieces more. And so in, and to cleanse them: and by this time
      it was past two in the morning; and so to bed, with my mind pretty quiet
      to think that I have recovered so many. And then to bed, and I lay in the
      trundle-bed, the girl being gone to bed to my wife, and there lay in some
      disquiet all night, telling of the clock till it was daylight.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. And then rose and called W. Hewer, and he and I, with pails and a
      sieve, did lock ourselves into the garden, and there gather all the earth
      about the place into pails, and then sift those pails in one of the
      summer-houses, just as they do for dyamonds in other parts of the world;
      and there, to our great content, did with much trouble by nine o'clock
      (and by the time we emptied several pails and could not find one), we did
      make the last night's forty-five up seventy-nine: so that we are come to
      about twenty or thirty of what I think the true number should be; and
      perhaps within less; and of them I may reasonably think that Mr. Gibson
      might lose some: so that I am pretty well satisfied that my loss is not
      great, and do bless God that it is so well,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [About the year 1842, in removing the foundation of an old wall,
     adjoining a mansion at Brampton, always considered the quondam
     residence of the Pepys family, an iron pot, full of silver coins,
     was discovered, and taken to the Earl of Sandwich, the owner of the
     house, in whose possession they still remain.  The pot was so much
     corroded, that a small piece of it only could be preserved.  The
     coins were chiefly half-crowns of Elizabeth and the two elder
     Stuarts, and all of a date anterior to the Restoration.  Although
     Pepys states that the treasure which he caused to be buried was gold
     exclusively, it is very probable that, in the confusion, a pot full
     of silver money was packed up with the rest; but, at all events, the
     coincidence appeared too singular to pass over without notice.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and do leave my father to make a second examination of the dirt, which he
      promises he will do, and, poor man, is mightily troubled for this
      accident, but I declared myself very well satisfied, and so indeed I am;
      and my mind at rest in it, being but an accident, which is unusual; and so
      gives me some kind of content to remember how painful it is sometimes to
      keep money, as well as to get it, and how doubtful I was how to keep it
      all night, and how to secure it to London: and so got all my gold put up
      in bags. And so having the last night wrote to my Lady Sandwich to lend me
      John Bowles to go along with me my journey, not telling her the reason,
      that it was only to secure my gold, we to breakfast, and then about ten
      o'clock took coach, my wife and I, and Willet, and W. Hewer, and Murford
      and Bowles (whom my Lady lent me), and my brother John on horseback; and
      with these four I thought myself pretty safe. But, before we went out, the
      Huntingdon musick come to me and played, and it was better than that of
      Cambridge. Here I took leave of my father, and did give my sister 20s. She
      cried at my going; but whether it was at her unwillingness for my going,
      or any unkindness of my wife's, or no, I know not; but, God forgive me! I
      take her to be so cunning and ill-natured, that I have no great love for
      her; but only [she] is my sister, and must be provided for. My gold I put
      into a basket, and set under one of the seats; and so my work every
      quarter of an hour was to look to see whether all was well; and I did ride
      in great fear all the day, but it was a pleasant day, and good company,
      and I mightily contented. Mr. Shepley saw me beyond St. Neots, and there
      parted, and we straight to Stevenage, through Bald Lanes, which are
      already very bad; and at Stevenage we come well before night, and all sat,
      and there with great care I got the gold up to the chamber, my wife
      carrying one bag, and the girl another, and W. Hewer the rest in the
      basket, and set it all under a bed in our chamber; and then sat down to
      talk, and were very pleasant, satisfying myself, among other things, from
      John Bowles, in some terms of hunting, and about deere, bucks, and does.
      And so anon to supper, and very merry we were, and a good supper, and
      after supper to bed. Brecocke alive still, and the best host I know
      almost.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and eat our breakfast, and set out about nine o'clock, and so to
      Barnett, where we staid and baited, the weather very good all day and
      yesterday, and by five o'clock got home, where I find all well; and did
      bring my gold, to my heart's content, very safe home, having not this day
      carried it in a basket, but in our hands: the girl took care of one, and
      my wife another bag, and I the rest, I being afraid of the bottom of the
      coach, lest it should break, and therefore was at more ease in my mind
      than I was yesterday. At home we find that Sir W. Batten's burial was
      to-day carried from hence, with a hundred or two of coaches, to
      Walthamstow, and there buried. Here I hear by Mr. Pierce the surgeon; and
      then by Mr. Lewes, and also by Mr. Hater, that the Parliament hath met on
      Thursday last, and adjourned to Monday next. The King did make them a very
      kind speech, promising them to leave all to them to do, and call to
      account what and whom they pleased; and declared by my Lord Keeper how
      many, thirty-six, actes he had done since he saw them; among others,
      disbanding the army, and putting all Papists out of employment, and
      displacing persons that had managed their business ill, that the
      Parliament is mightily pleased with the King's speech, and voted giving
      him thanks for what he said and hath done; and, among things, would by
      name thank him for displacing my Lord Chancellor, for which a great many
      did speak in the House, but it was opposed by some, and particularly Harry
      Coventry, who got that it should be put to a Committee to consider what
      particulars to mention in their thanks to the King, saying that it was too
      soon to give thanks for the displacing of a man, before they knew or had
      examined what was the cause of his displacing. And so it rested; but this
      do shew that they are and will be very high; and Mr. Pierce do tell me
      that he fears, and do hear, that it hath been said among them, that they
      will move for the calling my Lord Sandwich home, to bring him to account;
      which do trouble me mightily; but I trust it will not be so. Anon comes
      home Sir W. Pen from the burial, and he and I to walk in the garden, where
      he did confirm the most of this news, and so to talk of our particular
      concernments, and among the rest he says that Lady Batten and her
      children-in-law are all broke in pieces, and that there is but L800 found
      in the world, of money; and is in great doubt what we shall do towards the
      doing ourselves right with them, about the prize-money. This troubles me,
      but we will fall to work upon that next week close. Then he tells me he
      did deliver my petition into the hands of Sir W. Coventry, who did take it
      with great kindness and promised to present it to the Duke of York, and
      that himself has since seen the Duke of York, but it was in haste, and
      thinks the Duke of York did tell him that the thing was done, but he is
      confident that it either is or will be done. This do please me mightily.
      So after a little talk more I away home to supper with John Bowles and
      brother and wife (who, I perceive, is already a little jealous of my being
      fond of Willet, but I will avoid giving her any cause to continue in that
      mind, as much as possible), and before that did go with Sir W. Pen to my
      Lady Batten, whom I had not seen since she was a widow, which she took
      unkindly, but I did excuse it; and the house being full of company, and of
      several factions, she against the children, and they against one another
      and her, I away, and home to supper, and after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day). Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence walked to
      Sir W. Coventry's lodgings, but he was gone out, so I to St. James's, and
      there to the Duke of York's chamber: and there he was dressing; and many
      Lords and Parliament-men come to kiss his hands, they being newly come to
      town. And there the Duke of York did of himself call me to him, and tell
      me that he had spoke to the King, and that the King had granted me the
      ship I asked for; and did, moreover, say that he was mightily satisfied
      with my service, and that he would be willing to do anything that was in
      his power for me: which he said with mighty kindness; which I did return
      him thanks for, and departed with mighty joy, more than I did expect. And
      so walked over the Park to White Hall, and there met Sir H. Cholmly, who
      walked with me, and told me most of the news I heard last night of the
      Parliament; and thinks they will do all things very well, only they will
      be revenged of my Lord Chancellor; and says, however, that he thinks there
      will be but two things proved on him; and that one is, that he may have
      said to the King, and to others, words to breed in the King an ill opinion
      of the Parliament&mdash;that they were factious, and that it was better to
      dissolve them: and this, he thinks, they will be able to prove; but what
      this will amount to, he knows not. And next, that he hath taken money for
      several bargains that have been made with the Crown; and did instance one
      that is already complained of: but there are so many more involved in it,
      that, should they unravel things of this sort, every body almost will be
      more or less concerned. But these are the two great points which he thinks
      they will insist on, and prove against him. Thence I to the Chapel, and
      there heard the sermon and a pretty good anthem, and so home by water to
      dinner, where Bowies and brother, and a good dinner, and in the afternoon
      to make good my journal to this day, and so by water again to White Hall,
      and thence only walked to Mrs. Martin's, and there sat with her and her
      sister and Borroughs... and there drank and talked and away by water home,
      and there walked with Sir W. Pen, and told him what the Duke of York told
      me to-day about the ship I begged; and he was knave enough, of his own
      accord, but, to be sure, in order to his own advantage, to offer me to
      send for the master of the vessel, "The Maybolt Galliott," and bid him to
      get her furnished as for a long voyage, and I to take no notice of it,
      that she might be the more worth to me: so that here he is a very knave to
      the King, and I doubt not his being the same to me on occasion. So in a
      doors and supped with my wife and brother, W. Hewer, and Willett, and so
      evened with W. Hewer for my expenses upon the road this last journey, and
      do think that the whole journey will cost me little less than L18 or L20,
      one way or other; but I am well pleased with it, and so after supper to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence walked to St. James's,
      and there to Mr. Wren's; and he told me that my business was done about my
      warrant on the Maybolt Galliott; which I did see, and though it was not so
      full in the reciting of my services as the other was in that of Sir W.
      Pen's, yet I was well pleased with it, and do intend to fetch it away
      anon. Thence with Sir Thomas Allen, in a little sorry coach which he hath
      set up of late, and Sir Jeremy Smith, to White Hall, and there I took
      water and went to Westminster Hall, and there hear that the House is this
      day again upon the business of giving the King the thanks of the House for
      his speech, and, among other things, for laying aside of my Lord
      Chancellor. Thence I to Mrs. Martin's, where by appointment comes to me
      Mrs. Howlett, which I was afraid was to have told me something of my
      freedom with her daughter, but it was not so, but only to complain to me
      of her son-in-law, how he abuses and makes a slave of her, and his mother
      is one that encourages him in it, so that they are at this time upon very
      bad terms one with another, and desires that I would take a time to advise
      him and tell him what it becomes him to do, which office I am very glad
      of, for some ends of my own also con sa fille, and there drank and parted,
      I mightily satisfied with this business, and so home by water with Sir W.
      Warren, who happened to be at Westminster, and there I pretty strange to
      him, and little discourse, and there at the office Lord Bruncker, W. Pen,
      T. Hater and I did some business, and so home to dinner, and thence I out
      to visit Sir G. Carteret and ladies there; and from him do understand that
      the King himself (but this he told me as a great secret) is satisfied that
      this thanks which he expects from the House, for the laying aside of my
      Lord Chancellor, is a thing irregular; but, since it is come into the
      House, he do think it necessary to carry it on, and will have it, and hath
      made his mind known to be so, to some of the House. But Sir G. Carteret do
      say he knows nothing of what my Lord Bruncker told us to-day, that the
      King was angry with the Duke of York yesterday, and advised him not to
      hinder what he had a mind to have done, touching this business; which is
      news very bad, if true. Here I visited my Lady Carteret, who hath been
      sick some time, but now pretty well, but laid on her bed. Thence to my
      Lord Crew, to see him after my coming out of the country, and he seems
      satisfied with some steps they have made in my absence towards my Lord
      Sandwich's relief for money: and so I have no more to do, nor will trouble
      myself more about it till they send for me. He tells me also that the King
      will have the thanks of the House go on: and commends my Lord Keeper's
      speech for all but what he was forced to say, about the reason of the
      King's sending away the House so soon the last time, when they were met,
      but this he was forced to do. Thence to Westminster Hall, and there walked
      with Mr. Scowen, who tells me that it is at last carried in the House that
      the thanks shall be given to the King&mdash;among other things,
      particularly for the removal of my Lord Chancellor; but he tells me it is
      a strange act, and that which he thinks would never have been, but that
      the King did insist upon it, that, since it come into the House, it might
      not be let fall. After walking there awhile I took coach and to the Duke
      of York's House, and there went in for nothing into the pit, at the last
      act, to see Sir Martin Marrall, and met my wife, who was there, and my
      brother, and W. Hewer and Willett, and carried them home, still being
      pleased with the humour of the play, almost above all that ever I saw.
      Home, and there do find that John Bowles is not yet come thither. I
      suppose he is playing the good fellow in the town. So to the office a
      while, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and to the office, where, Sir W. Pen being ill of the gout, we
      all of us met there in his parlour and did the business of the office, our
      greatest business now being to manage the pay of the ships in order and
      with speed to satisfy the Commissioners of the Treasury. This morning my
      brother set out for Brampton again, and is gone. At noon home to dinner,
      and thence my wife and I and Willet to the Duke of York's house, where,
      after long stay, the King and Duke of York come, and there saw "The
      Coffee-house," the most ridiculous, insipid play that ever I saw in my
      life, and glad we were that Betterton had no part in it. But here, before
      the play begun, my wife begun to complain to me of Willet's confidence in
      sitting cheek by jowl by us, which was a poor thing; but I perceive she is
      already jealous of my kindness to her, so that I begin to fear this girle
      is not likely to stay long with us. The play done, we home by coach, it
      being moonlight, and got well home, and I to my chamber to settle some
      papers, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and at home most of the morning with Sir H. Cholmly, about some
      accounts of his; and for news he tells me that the Commons and Lords have
      concurred, and delivered the King their thanks, among other things, for
      his removal of the Chancellor; who took their thanks very well, and, among
      other things, promised them, in these words, never, in any degree, to
      entertain the Chancellor any employment again. And he tells me that it is
      very true, he hath it from one that was by, that the King did, give the
      Duke of York a sound reprimand; told him that he had lived with him with
      more kindness than ever any brother King lived with a brother, and that he
      lived as much like a monarch as himself, but advised him not to cross him
      in his designs about the Chancellor; in which the Duke of York do very
      wisely acquiesce, and will be quiet as the King bade him, but presently
      commands all his friends to be silent in the business of the Chancellor,
      and they were so: but that the Chancellor hath done all that is possible
      to provoke the King, and to bring himself to lose his head by enraging of
      people. He gone, I to the office, busy all the morning. At noon to Broad
      Street to Sir G. Carteret and Lord Bruncker, and there dined with them,
      and thence after dinner with Bruncker to White Hall, where the Duke of
      York is now newly come for this winter, and there did our usual business,
      which is but little, and so I away to the Duke of York's house, thinking
      as we appointed, to meet my wife there, but she was not; and more, I was
      vexed to see Young (who is but a bad actor at best) act Macbeth in the
      room of Betterton, who, poor man! is sick: but, Lord! what a prejudice it
      wrought in me against the whole play, and everybody else agreed in
      disliking this fellow. Thence home, and there find my wife gone home;
      because of this fellow's acting of the part, she went out of the house
      again. There busy at my chamber with Mr. Yeabsly, and then with Mr. Lewes,
      about public business late, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and being sent for by my Lady Batten, I to her, and there she
      found fault with my not seeing her since her being a widow, which I
      excused as well as I could, though it is a fault, but it is my nature not
      to be forward in visits. But here she told me her condition, which is good
      enough, being sole executrix, to the disappointment of all her husband's
      children, and prayed my friendship about the accounts of the prizes, which
      I promised her. And here do see what creatures widows are in weeping for
      their husbands, and then presently leaving off; but I cannot wonder at it,
      the cares of the world taking place of all other passions. Thence to the
      office, where all the morning busy, and at noon home to dinner, where Mr.
      John Andrews and his wife come and dined with me, and pretty merry we
      were, only I out of humour the greatest part of the dinner, by reason that
      my people had forgot to get wine ready, I having none in my house, which I
      cannot say now these almost three years, I think, without having two or
      three sorts, by which we were fain to stay a great while, while some could
      be fetched. When it come I begun to be merry, and merry we were, but it
      was an odd, strange thing to observe of Mr. Andrews what a fancy he hath
      to raw meat, that he eats it with no pleasure unless the blood run about
      his chops, which it did now by a leg of mutton that was not above half
      boiled; but, it seems, at home all his meat is dressed so, and beef and
      all, and [he] eats it so at nights also. Here most of our discourse is of
      the business of the Parliament, who run on mighty furiously, having
      yesterday been almost all the morning complaining against some high
      proceedings of my Lord Chief Justice Keeling, that the gentlemen of the
      country did complain against him in the House, and run very high. It is
      the man that did fall out with my cozen Roger Pepys, once, at the Assizes
      there, and would have laid him by the heels; but, it seems, a very able
      lawyer. After dinner I to the office, where we all met with intent to
      proceed to the publique sale of several prize ships, but upon discourse my
      Lord Anglesey did discover (which troubled me that he that is a stranger
      almost should do more than we ourselves could) that the appraisements made
      by our officers were not above half of what he had been offered for one of
      them, and did make it good by bringing a gentleman to give us L700 for the
      Wildboare, which they valued but at L276, which made us all startle and
      stop the sale, and I did propose to acquaint the Duke of York with it, and
      accordingly we did agree on it, and I wrote a severe letter about it, and
      we are to attend him with it to-morrow about it. This afternoon my Lord
      Anglesey tells us that the House of Commons have this morning run into the
      inquiry in many things; as, the sale of Dunkirke, the dividing of the
      fleete the last year, the business of the prizes with my Lord Sandwich,
      and many other things; so that now they begin to fall close upon it, and
      God knows what will be the end of it, but a Committee they have chosen to
      inquire into the miscarriages of the war. Having done, and being a little
      tired, Sir W. Pen and I in his coach out to Mile End Green, and there
      drank a cup of Byde's ale, and so talking about the proceedings of
      Parliament, and how little a thing the King is become to be forced to
      suffer it, though I declare my being satisfied that things should be
      enquired into, we back again home, and I to my office to my letters, and
      so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and by coach with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, and there attended
      the Duke of York; but first we find him to spend above an hour in private
      in his closet with Sir W. Coventry; which I was glad to see, that there is
      so much confidence between them. By and by we were called in and did our
      usual business, and complained of the business yesterday discovered of our
      officers abusing the King in the appraisement of the prizes. Here it was
      worth observing that the Duke of York, considering what third rate ships
      to keep abroad, the Rupert was thought on, but then it was said that
      Captain Hubbert was Commander of her and that the King had a mind for
      Spragg to command the ship, which would not be well to be by turning out
      Hubbert, who is a good man, but one the Duke of York said he did not know
      whether he did so well conforme, as at this lime to please the people and
      Parliament. Sir W. Coventry answered, and the Duke of York merrily agreed
      to it, that it was very hard to know what it was that the Parliament would
      call conformity at this time, and so it stopped, which I only observe to
      see how the Parliament's present temper do amuse them all. Thence to
      several places to buy a hat, and books, and neckcloths, and several
      errands I did before I got home, and, among others, bought me two new pair
      of spectacles of Turlington, who, it seems, is famous for them; and his
      daughter, he being out of the way, do advise me two very young sights, as
      that that will help me most, and promises me great ease from them, and I
      will try them. At the Exchange I met Creed, and took him home with me, and
      dined, and among other things he tells me that Sir Robert Brookes is the
      man that did mention the business in Parliament yesterday about my Lord
      Sandwich, but that it was seconded by nobody, but the matter will fall
      before the Committee for miscarriages. Thence, after dinner, my wife and
      he, and I, and Willet to the King's house, and saw "Brenoralt," which is a
      good tragedy, that I like well, and parted after the play, and so home,
      and there a little at my office, and so to my chamber, and spent this
      night late in telling over all my gold, and putting it into proper bags
      and my iron chest, being glad with my heart to see so much of it here
      again, but cannot yet tell certainly how much I have lost by Gibson in his
      journey, and my father's burying of it in the dirt. At this late, but did
      it to my mind, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. At the office all the morning, where very busy, and at noon home to
      a short dinner, being full of my desire of seeing my Lord Orrery's new
      play this afternoon at the King's house, "The Black Prince," the first
      time it is acted; where, though we come by two o'clock, yet there was no
      room in the pit, but we were forced to go into one of the upper boxes, at
      4s. a piece, which is the first time I ever sat in a box in my life. And
      in the same box come, by and by, behind me, my Lord Barkeley [of Stratton]
      and his lady; but I did not turn my face to them to be known, so that I
      was excused from giving them my seat; and this pleasure I had, that from
      this place the scenes do appear very fine indeed, and much better than in
      the pit. The house infinite full, and the King and Duke of York was there.
      By and by the play begun, and in it nothing particular but a very fine
      dance for variety of figures, but a little too long. But, as to the
      contrivance, and all that was witty (which, indeed, was much, and very
      witty), was almost the same that had been in his two former plays of
      "Henry the 5th" and "Mustapha," and the same points and turns of wit in
      both, and in this very same play often repeated, but in excellent
      language, and were so excellent that the whole house was mightily pleased
      with it all along till towards the end he comes to discover the chief of
      the plot of the play by the reading of along letter, which was so long and
      some things (the people being set already to think too long) so
      unnecessary that they frequently begun to laugh, and to hiss twenty times,
      that, had it not been for the King's being there, they had certainly
      hissed it off the stage. But I must confess that, as my Lord Barkeley says
      behind me, the having of that long letter was a thing so absurd, that he
      could not imagine how a man of his parts could possibly fall into it; or,
      if he did, if he had but let any friend read it, the friend would have
      told him of it; and, I must confess, it is one of the most remarkable
      instances that ever I did or expect to meet with in my life of a wise
      man's not being wise at all times, and in all things, for nothing could be
      more ridiculous than this, though the letter of itself at another time
      would be thought an excellent letter, and indeed an excellent Romance, but
      at the end of the play, when every body was weary of sitting, and were
      already possessed with the effect of the whole letter; to trouble them
      with a letter a quarter of an hour long, was a most absurd thing. After
      the play done, and nothing pleasing them from the time of the letter to
      the end of the play, people being put into a bad humour of disliking
      (which is another thing worth the noting), I home by coach, and could not
      forbear laughing almost all the way home, and all the evening to my going
      to bed, at the ridiculousness of the letter, and the more because my wife
      was angry with me, and the world, for laughing, because the King was
      there, though she cannot defend the length of the letter. So after having
      done business at the office, I home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). Up, and put on my new tunique of velvett; which is very
      plain, but good. This morning is brought to me an order for the presenting
      the Committee of Parliament to-morrow with a list of the commanders and
      ships' names of all the fleetes set out since the war, and particularly of
      those ships which were divided from the fleete with Prince Rupert;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This question of the division of the fleet in May, 1666, was one
     over which endless controversy as to responsibility was raised.
     When Prince Rupert, with twenty ships, was detached to prevent the
     junction of the French squadron with the Dutch, the Duke of
     Albemarle was left with fifty-four ships against eighty belonging to
     the Dutch.  Albemarle's tactics are praised by Captain Mahan.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which gives me occasion to see that they are busy after that business, and
      I am glad of it. So I alone to church, and then home, and there Mr. Deane
      comes and dines with me by invitation, and both at and after dinner he and
      I spent all the day till it was dark in discourse of business of the Navy
      and the ground of the many miscarriages, wherein he do inform me in many
      more than I knew, and I had desired him to put them in writing, and many
      indeed they are and good ones; and also we discoursed of the business of
      shipping, and he hath promised me a draught of the ship he is now
      building, wherein I am mightily pleased. This afternoon comes to me
      Captain O'Bryan, about a ship that the King hath given him; and he and I
      to talk of the Parliament; and he tells me that the business of the Duke
      of York's slackening sail in the first fight, at the beginning of the war,
      is brought into question, and Sir W. Pen and Captain Cox are to appear
      to-morrow about it; and it is thought will at last be laid upon Mr.
      Bruncker's giving orders from the Duke of York (which the Duke of York do
      not own) to Captain Cox to do it; but it seems they do resent this very
      highly, and are mad in going through all business, where they can lay any
      fault. I am glad to hear, that in the world I am as kindly spoke of as any
      body; for, for aught I see, there is bloody work like to be, Sir W.
      Coventry having been forced to produce a letter in Parliament wherein the
      Duke of Albemarle did from Sheernesse write in what good posture all
      things were at Chatham, and that the chain was so well placed that he
      feared no attempt of the enemy: so that, among other things, I see every
      body is upon his own defence, and spares not to blame another to defend
      himself, and the same course I shall take. But God knows where it will
      end! He gone, and Deane, I to my chamber for a while, and then comes
      Pelling the apothecary to see us, and sat and supped with me (my wife
      being gone to bed sick of the cholique), and then I to bed, after supper.
      Pelting tells me that my Lady Duchesse Albemarle was at Mrs. Turner's this
      afternoon, she being ill, and did there publickly talk of business, and of
      our Office; and that she believed that I was safe, and had done well; and
      so, I thank God! I hear every body speaks of me; and indeed, I think,
      without vanity, I may expect to be profited rather than injured by this
      inquiry, which the Parliament makes into business.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and betimes got a coach at the Exchange, and thence to St.
      James's, where I had forgot that the Duke of York and family were gone to
      White Hall, and thence to Westminster Hall and there walked a little,
      finding the Parliament likely to be busy all this morning about the
      business of Mr. Bruncker for advising Cox and Harman to shorten sail when
      they were in pursuit of the Dutch after the first great victory. I went
      away to Mr. Creed's chamber, there to meet Sir H. Cholmly, about business
      of Mr. Yeabsly, where I was delivered of a great fear that they would
      question some of the orders for payment of money which I had got them
      signed at the time of the plague, when I was here alone, but all did pass.
      Thence to Westminster again, and up to the lobby, where many commanders of
      the fleete were, and Captain Cox, and Mr. Pierce, the Surgeon; the last of
      whom hath been in the House, and declared that he heard Bruncker advise;
      and give arguments to, Cox, for the safety of the Duke of York's person,
      to shorten sail, that they might not be in the middle of the enemy in the
      morning alone; and Cox denying to observe his advice, having received the
      Duke of York's commands over night to keep within cannon-shot (as they
      then were) of the enemy, Bruncker did go to Harman, and used the same
      arguments, and told him that he was sure it would be well pleasing to the
      King that care should be taken of not endangering the Duke of York; and,
      after much persuasion, Harman was heard to say, "Why, if it must be, then
      lower the topsail." And so did shorten sail, to the loss, as the
      Parliament will have it, of the greatest victory that ever was, and which
      would have saved all the expence of blood, and money, and honour, that
      followed; and this they do resent, so as to put it to the question,
      whether Bruncker should not be carried to the Tower: who do confess that,
      out of kindness to the Duke of York's safety, he did advise that they
      should do so, but did not use the Duke of York's name therein; and so it
      was only his error in advising it, but the greatest theirs in taking it,
      contrary to order. At last, it ended that it should be suspended till
      Harman comes home; and then the Parliament-men do all tell me that it will
      fall heavy, and, they think, be fatal to Bruncker or him. Sir W. Pen tells
      me he was gone to bed, having been all day labouring, and then not able to
      stand, of the goute, and did give order for the keeping the sails
      standing, as they then were, all night. But, which I wonder at, he tells
      me that he did not know the next day that they had shortened sail, nor
      ever did enquire into it till about ten days ago, that this begun to be
      mentioned; and, indeed, it is charged privately as a fault on the Duke of
      York, that he did not presently examine the reason of the breach of his
      orders, and punish it. But Cox tells me that he did finally refuse it; and
      what prevailed with Harman he knows not, and do think that we might have
      done considerable service on the enemy the next day, if this had not been
      done. Thus this business ended to-day, having kept them till almost two
      o'clock; and then I by coach with Sir W. Pen as far as St. Clement's,
      talking of this matter, and there set down; and I walked to Sir G.
      Carteret's, and there dined with him and several Parliament-men, who, I
      perceive, do all look upon it as a thing certain that the Parliament will
      enquire into every thing, and will be very severe where they can find any
      fault. Sir W. Coventry, I hear, did this day make a speech, in apology for
      his reading the letter of the Duke of Albemarle, concerning the good
      condition which Chatham was in before the enemy come thither: declaring
      his simple intention therein, without prejudice to my Lord. And I am told
      that he was also with the Duke of Albemarle yesterday to excuse it; but
      this day I do hear, by some of Sir W. Coventry's friends, that they think
      he hath done himself much injury by making this man, and his interest, so
      much his enemy. After dinner, I away to Westminster, and up to the
      Parliament-house, and there did wait with great patience, till seven at
      night, to be called in to the Committee, who sat all this afternoon,
      examining the business of Chatham; and at last was called in, and told,
      that the least they expected from us Mr. Wren had promised them, and only
      bade me to bring all my fellow-officers thitherto attend them tomorrow,
      afternoon. Sir Robert Brookes in the chair: methinks a sorry fellow to be
      there, because a young man; and yet he seems to speak very well. I gone
      thence, my cozen Pepys comes out to me, and walks in the Hall with me, and
      bids me prepare to answer to every thing; for they do seem to lodge the
      business of Chatham upon the Commissioners of the Navy, and they are
      resolved to lay the fault heavy somewhere, and to punish it: and prays me
      to prepare to save myself, and gives me hints what to prepare against;
      which I am obliged to him for, and do begin to mistrust lest some unhappy
      slip or other after all my diligence and pains may not be found (which I
      can [not] foresee) that may prove as fatal to a man as the constant course
      of negligence and unfaithfulness of other men. Here we parted, and I to
      White Hall to Mr. Wren's chamber, thereto advise with him about the list
      of ships and commanders which he is to present to the Parliament, and took
      coach (little Michell being with me, whom I took with me from Westminster
      Hall), and setting him down in Gracious street home myself, where I find
      my wife and the two Mercers and Willett and W. Batelier have been dancing,
      but without a fidler. I had a little pleasure in talking with these, but
      my head and heart full of thoughts between hope and fear and doubts what
      will become of us and me particularly against a furious Parliament. Then
      broke up and to bed, and there slept pretty well till about four o'clock,
      and from that time could not, but my thoughts running on speeches to the
      Parliament to excuse myself from the blame which by other men's negligence
      will 'light, it may be, upon the office. This day I did get a list of the
      fourteen particular miscarriages which are already before the Committee to
      be examined; wherein, besides two or three that will concern this Office
      much, there are those of the prizes, and that of Bergen, and not following
      the Dutch ships, against my Lord Sandwich; that, I fear, will ruine him,
      unless he hath very good luck, or they may be in better temper before he
      can come to be charged: but my heart is full of fear for him and his
      family. I hear that they do prosecute the business against my Lord Chief
      Justice Keeling with great severity.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Slept but ill all the last part of the night, for fear of this day's
      success in Parliament: therefore up, and all of us all the morning close,
      till almost two o'clock, collecting all we had to say and had done from
      the beginning, touching the safety of the River Medway and Chatham. And,
      having done this, and put it into order, we away, I not having time to eat
      my dinner; and so all in my Lord Bruncker's coach, that is to say,
      Bruncker, W. Pen, T. Harvy, and myself, talking of the other great matter
      with which they charge us, that is, of discharging men by ticket, in order
      to our defence in case that should be asked. We come to the
      Parliament-door, and there, after a little waiting till the Committee was
      sat, we were, the House being very full, called in: Sir W. Pen went in and
      sat as a Member; and my Lord Bruncker would not at first go in, expecting
      to have a chair set for him, and his brother had bid him not go in, till
      he was called for; but, after a few words, I had occasion to mention him,
      and so he was called in, but without any more chair or respect paid him
      than myself: and so Bruncker, and T. Harvy, and I, were there to answer:
      and I had a chair brought me to lean my books upon: and so did give them
      such an account, in a series of the whole business that had passed the
      Office touching the matter, and so answered all questions given me about
      it, that I did not perceive but they were fully satisfied with me and the
      business as to our Office: and then Commissioner Pett (who was by at all
      my discourse, and this held till within an hour after candlelight, for I
      had candles brought in to read my papers by) was to answer for himself, we
      having lodged all matters with him for execution. But, Lord! what a
      tumultuous thing this Committee is, for all the reputation they have of a
      great council, is a strange consideration; there being as impertinent
      questions, and as disorderly proposed, as any man could make. But
      Commissioner Pett, of all men living, did make the weakest defence for
      himself: nothing to the purpose, nor to satisfaction, nor certain; but
      sometimes one thing and sometimes another, sometimes for himself and
      sometimes against him; and his greatest failure was, that I observed, from
      his [not] considering whether the question propounded was his part to
      answer or no, and the thing to be done was his work to do: the want of
      which distinction will overthrow him; for he concerns himself in giving an
      account of the disposal of the boats, which he had no reason at all to do,
      or take any blame upon him for them. He charged the not carrying up of
      "The Charles" upon the Tuesday, to the Duke of Albemarle; but I see the
      House is mighty favourable to the Duke of Albemarle, and would give little
      weight to it. And something of want of armes he spoke, which Sir J.
      Duncomb answered with great imperiousness and earnestness; but, for all
      that, I do see the House is resolved to be better satisfied in the
      business of the unreadiness of Sherenesse, and want of armes and
      ammunition there and every where: and all their officers were here to-day
      attending, but only one called in, about armes for boats, to answer
      Commissioner Pett. None of my brethren said anything but me there, but
      only two or three silly words my Lord Bruncker gave, in answer to one
      question about the number of men there were in the King's Yard at the
      time. At last, the House dismissed us, and shortly after did adjourne the
      debate till Friday next: and my cozen Pepys did come out and joy me in my
      acquitting myself so well, and so did several others, and my
      fellow-officers all very brisk to see themselves so well acquitted; which
      makes me a little proud, but yet not secure but we may yet meet with a
      back-blow which we see not. So, with our hearts very light, Sir W. Pen and
      I in his coach home, it being now near eight o'clock, and so to the
      office, and did a little business by the post, and so home, hungry, and
      eat a good supper, and so, with my mind well at ease, to bed. My wife not
      very well of those.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and Sir W. Pen and I in his coach to White Hall, there to attend
      the Duke of York; but come a little too late, and so missed it: only spoke
      with him, and heard him correct my Lord Barkeley, who fell foul on Sir
      Edward Spragg, who, it seems, said yesterday to the House, that if the
      Officers of the Ordnance had done as much work at Shereness in ten weeks
      as "The Prince" did in ten days, he could have defended the place against
      the Dutch: but the Duke of York told him that every body must have
      liberty, at this time, to make their own defence, though it be to the
      charging of the fault upon any other, so it be true; so I perceive the
      whole world is at work in blaming one another. Thence Sir W. Pen and I
      back into London; and there saw the King, with his kettle-drums and
      trumpets, going to the Exchange, to lay the first stone of the first
      pillar of the new building of the Exchange; which, the gates being shut, I
      could not get in to see: but, with Sir W. Pen, to Captain Cocke's to drink
      a dram of brandy, and so he to the Treasury office about Sir G. Carteret's
      accounts, and I took coach and back again toward Westminster; but in my
      way stopped at the Exchange, and got in, the King being newly gone; and
      there find the bottom of the first pillar laid. And here was a shed set
      up, and hung with tapestry, and a canopy of state, and some good victuals
      and wine, for the King, who, it seems, did it; and so a great many people,
      as Tom Killigrew, and others of the Court there, and there I did eat a
      mouthful and drink a little, and do find Mr. Gawden in his gowne as
      Sheriffe, and understand that the King hath this morning knighted him upon
      the place, which I am mightily pleased with; and I think the other
      Sheriffe, who is Davis, the little fellow, my schoolfellow,&mdash;the
      bookseller, who was one of Audley's' Executors, and now become Sheriffe;
      which is a strange turn, methinks. Here mighty merry (there being a good
      deal of good company) for a quarter of an hour, and so I away and to
      Westminster Hall, where I come just as the House rose; and there, in the
      Hall, met with Sir W. Coventry, who is in pain to defend himself in the
      business of tickets, it being said that the paying of the ships at Chatham
      by ticket was by his direction, and he hath wrote to me to find his
      letters, and shew them him, but I find none; but did there argue the case
      with him, and I think no great blame can be laid on us for that matter,
      only I see he is fearfull. And he tells me his mistake in the House the
      other day, which occasions him much trouble, in shewing of the House the
      Duke of Albemarle's letter about the good condition of Chatham, which he
      is sorry for, and, owns as a mistake, the thing not being necessary to
      have been done; and confesses that nobody can escape from such error, some
      times or other. He says the House was well satisfied with my Report
      yesterday; and so several others told me in the Hall that my Report was
      very good and satisfactory, and that I have got advantage by it in the
      House: I pray God it may prove so! And here, after the Hall pretty empty,
      I did walk a few turns with Commissioner Pett, and did give the poor weak
      man some advice for his advantage how to better his pleading for himself,
      which I think he will if he can remember and practise, for I would not
      have the man suffer what he do not deserve, there being enough of what he
      do deserve to lie upon him. Thence to Mrs. Martin's, and there staid till
      two o'clock, and drank and talked, and did give her L3 to buy my
      goddaughter her first new gowne.... and so away homeward, and in my way
      met Sir W. Pen in Cheapside, and went into his coach, and back again and
      to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Black Prince" again: which is
      now mightily bettered by that long letter being printed, and so delivered
      to every body at their going in, and some short reference made to it in
      heart in the play, which do mighty well; but, when all is done, I think it
      the worst play of my Lord Orrery's. But here, to my great satisfaction, I
      did see my Lord Hinchingbroke and his mistress, with her father and
      mother; and I am mightily pleased with the young lady, being handsome
      enough&mdash;and, indeed, to my great liking, as I would have her. I could
      not but look upon them all the play; being exceeding pleased with my good
      hap to see them, God bring them together! and they are now already mighty
      kind to one another, and he is as it were one of their family. The play
      done I home, and to the office a while, and then home to supper, very
      hungry, and then to my chamber, to read the true story, in Speed, of the
      Black Prince, and so to bed. This day, it was moved in the House that a
      day might be appointed to bring in an impeachment against the Chancellor,
      but it was decried as being irregular; but that, if there was ground for
      complaint, it might be brought to the Committee for miscarriages, and, if
      they thought good, to present it to the House; and so it was carried. They
      did also vote this day thanks to be given to the Prince and Duke of
      Albemarle, for their care and conduct in the last year's war, which is a
      strange act; but, I know not how, the blockhead Albemarle hath strange
      luck to be loved, though he be, and every man must know it, the heaviest
      man in the world, but stout and honest to his country. This evening late,
      Mr. Moore come to me to prepare matters for my Lord Sandwich's defence;
      wherein I can little assist, but will do all I can; and am in great fear
      of nothing but the damned business of the prizes, but I fear my Lord will
      receive a cursed deal of trouble by it.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning very busy, and at noon
      took Mr. Hater home with me to dinner, and instantly back again to write
      what letters I had to write, that I might go abroad with my wife, who was
      not well, only to jumble her, and so to the Duke of York's playhouse; but
      there Betterton not being yet well, we would not stay, though since I hear
      that Smith do act his part in "The Villaine," which was then acted, as
      well or better than he, which I do not believe; but to Charing Cross,
      there to see Polichinelli. But, it being begun, we in to see a Frenchman,
      at the house, where my wife's father last lodged, one Monsieur Prin, play
      on the trump-marine,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The trumpet marine is a stringed instrument having a triangular-
     shaped body or chest and a long neck, a single string raised on a
     bridge and running along the body and neck.  It was played with a
     bow.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which he do beyond belief; and, the truth is, it do so far outdo a trumpet
      as nothing more, and he do play anything very true, and it is most
      admirable and at first was a mystery to me that I should hear a whole
      concert of chords together at the end of a pause, but he showed me that it
      was only when the last notes were 5ths or 3rds, one to another, and then
      their sounds like an Echo did last so as they seemed to sound all
      together. The instrument is open at the end, I discovered; but he would
      not let me look into it, but I was mightily pleased with it, and he did
      take great pains to shew me all he could do on it, which was very much,
      and would make an excellent concert, two or three of them, better than
      trumpets can ever do, because of their want of compass. Here we also saw
      again the two fat children come out of Ireland, and a brother and sister
      of theirs now come, which are of little ordinary growth, like other
      people. But, Lord! how strange it is to observe the difference between the
      same children, come out of the same little woman's belly! Thence to
      Mile-End Greene, and there drank, and so home bringing home night with us,
      and so to the office a little, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and all the morning close till two o'clock, till I had not time
      to eat my dinner, to make our answer ready for the Parliament this
      afternoon, to shew how Commissioner Pett was singly concerned in the
      executing of all orders from Chatham, and that we did properly lodge all
      orders with him. Thence with Sir W. Pen to the Parliament Committee, and
      there we all met, and did shew, my Lord Bruncker and I, our commissions
      under the Great Seal in behalf of all the rest, to shew them our duties,
      and there I had no more matters asked me, but were bid to withdraw, and
      did there wait, I all the afternoon till eight at, night, while they were
      examining several about the business of Chatham again, and particularly my
      Lord Bruncker did meet with two or three blurs that he did not think of.
      One from Spragg, who says that "The Unity" was ordered up contrary to his
      order, by my Lord Bruncker and Commissioner Pett. Another by Crispin, the
      waterman, who said he was upon "The Charles;" and spoke to Lord Bruncker
      coming by in his boat, to know whether they should carry up "The Charles,"
      they being a great many naked men without armes, and he told them she was
      well as she was. Both these have little in them indeed, but yet both did
      stick close against him; and he is the weakest man in the world to make
      his defence, and so is like to have much fault laid on him therefrom.
      Spragg was in with them all the afternoon, and hath much fault laid on him
      for a man that minded his pleasure, and little else of his whole charge. I
      walked in the lobby, and there do hear from Mr. Chichly that they were
      (the Commissioners of the Ordnance) shrewdly put to it yesterday, being
      examined with all severity and were hardly used by them, much otherwise
      than we, and did go away with mighty blame; and I am told by every body
      that it is likely to stick mighty hard upon them: at which every body is
      glad, because of Duncomb's pride, and their expecting to have the thanks
      of the House whereas they have deserved, as the Parliament apprehends, as
      bad as bad can be. Here is great talk of an impeachment brought in against
      my Lord Mordaunt, and that another will be brought in against my Lord
      Chancellor in a few days. Here I understand for certain that they have
      ordered that my Lord Arlington's letters, and Secretary Morrice's letters
      of intelligence, be consulted, about the business of the Dutch fleete's
      coming abroad, which is a very high point, but this they have done, but in
      what particular manner I cannot justly say, whether it was not with the
      King's leave first asked. Here late, as I have said, and at last they
      broke up, and we had our commissions again, and I do hear how Birch is the
      high man that do examine and trouble every body with his questions, and
      they say that he do labour all he can to clear Pett, but it seems a
      witness has come in tonight, C. Millett, who do declare that he did
      deliver a message from the Duke of Albemarle time enough for him to carry
      up "The Charles," and he neglected it, which will stick very hard, it
      seems, on him. So Sir W. Pen and I in his coach home, and there to supper,
      a good supper, and so weary, and my eyes spent, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and we met all this morning at Sir W. Pen's roome, the office
      being fowle with the altering of our garden door. There very busy, and at
      noon home, where Mrs. Pierce and her daughter's husband and Mr. Corbet
      dined with me. I had a good dinner for them, and mighty merry. Pierce and
      I very glad at the fate of the officers of Ordnance, that they are like to
      have so much blame on them. Here Mrs. Pierce tells me that the two
      Marshalls at the King's house are Stephen Marshall's, the great
      Presbyterian's daughters: and that Nelly and Beck Marshall, falling out
      the other day, the latter called the other my Lord Buckhurst's whore. Nell
      answered then, "I was but one man's whore, though I was brought up in a
      bawdy-house to fill strong waters to the guests; and you are a whore to
      three or four, though a Presbyter's praying daughter!" which was very
      pretty. Mrs. Pierce is still very pretty, but paints red on her face,
      which makes me hate her, that I thank God I take no pleasure in her at all
      more. After much mirth and good company at dinner, I to the office and
      left them, and Pendleton also, who come in to see my wife and talk of
      dancing, and there I at the office all the afternoon very busy, and did
      much business, with my great content to see it go off of hand, and so
      home, my eyes spent, to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Lord's day). Up, and to my office, there, with W. Hewer, to dictate
      a long letter to the Duke of York, about the bad state of the office, it
      being a work I do think fit for the office to do, though it be to no
      purpose but for their vindication in these bad times; for I do now learn
      many things tending to our safety which I did not wholly forget before,
      but do find the fruits of, and would I had practised them more, as, among
      other things, to be sure to let our answers to orders bear date presently
      after their date, that we may be found quick in our execution. This did us
      great good the other day before the Parliament. All the morning at this,
      at noon home to dinner, with my own family alone. After dinner, I down to
      Deptford, the first time that I went to look upon "The Maybolt," which the
      King hath given me, and there she is; and I did meet with Mr. Uthwayte,
      who do tell me that there are new sails ordered to be delivered her, and a
      cable, which I did not speak of at all to him. So, thereupon, I told him I
      would not be my own hindrance so much as to take her into my custody
      before she had them, which was all I said to him, but desired him to take
      a strict inventory of her, that I might not be cheated by the master nor
      the company, when they come to understand that the vessel is gone away,
      which he hath promised me, and so away back again home, reading all the
      way the book of the collection of oaths in the several offices of this
      nation, which is worth a man's reading, and so away home, and there my boy
      and I to sing, and at it all the evening, and to supper, and so to bed.
      This evening come Sir J. Minnes to me, to let me know that a
      Parliament-man hath been with him, to tell him that the Parliament intend
      to examine him particularly about Sir W. Coventry's selling of places, and
      about my Lord Bruncker's discharging the ships at Chatham by ticket: for
      the former of which I am more particularly sorry that that business of
      [Sir] W. Coventry should come up again; though this old man tells me, and,
      I believe, that he can say nothing to it.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and by water to White Hall (calling at Michell's and drank a
      dram of strong water, but it being early I did not see his wife), and
      thence walked to Sir W. Coventry's lodging, but he was gone out, and so
      going towards St. James's I find him at his house which is fitting for
      him; and there I to him, and was with him above an hour alone, discoursing
      of the matters of the nation, and our Office, and himself. He owns that he
      is, at this day, the chief person aymed at by the Parliament&mdash;that
      is, by the friends of my Lord Chancellor, and also by the Duke of
      Albemarle, by reason of his unhappy shewing of the Duke of Albemarle's
      letter, the other day, in the House; but that he thinks that he is not
      liable to any hurt they can fasten on him for anything, he is so well
      armed to justify himself in every thing, unless in the old business of
      selling places, when he says every body did; and he will now not be
      forward to tell his own story, as he hath been; but tells me he is grown
      wiser, and will put them to prove any thing, and he will defend himself:
      besides that, he will dispute the statute, thinking that it will not be
      found to reach him. We did talk many things, which, as they come into my
      mind now, I shall set down without order: that he is weary of public
      employment; and neither ever designed, nor will ever, if his commission
      were brought to him wrapt in gold, would he accept of any single place in
      the State, as particularly Secretary of State; which, he says, the world
      discourses Morrice is willing to resign, and he thinks the King might have
      thought of him, but he would not, by any means, now take it, if given him,
      nor anything, but in commission with others, who may bear part of the
      blame; for now he observes well, that whoever did do anything singly are
      now in danger, however honest and painful they were, saying that he
      himself was the only man, he thinks, at the council-board that spoke his
      mind clearly, as he thought, to the good of the King; and the rest, who
      sat silent, have nothing said to them, nor are taken notice of. That the
      first time the King did take him so closely into his confidence and
      ministry of affairs was upon the business of Chatham, when all the
      disturbances were there, and in the kingdom; and then, while everybody was
      fancying for himself, the King did find him to persuade him to call for
      the Parliament, declaring that it was against his own proper interest,
      forasmuch as [it was] likely they would find faults with him, as well as
      with others, but that he would prefer the service of the King before his
      own: and, thereupon, the King did take him into his special notice, and,
      from that time to this, hath received him so; and that then he did see the
      folly and mistakes of the Chancellor in the management of things, and saw
      that matters were never likely to be done well in that sort of conduct,
      and did persuade the King to think fit of the taking away the seals from
      the Chancellor, which, when it was done, he told me that he himself, in
      his own particular, was sorry for it; for, while he stood, there was he
      and my Lord Arlington to stand between him and harm: whereas now there is
      only my Lord Arlington, and he is now down, so that all their fury is
      placed upon him but that he did tell the King, when he first moved it,
      that, if he thought the laying of him, W. Coventry, aside, would at all
      facilitate the removing of the Chancellor, he would most willingly submit
      to it, whereupon the King did command him to try the Duke of York about
      it, and persuade him to it, which he did, by the King's command,
      undertake, and compass, and the Duke of York did own his consent to the
      King, but afterwards was brought to be of another mind for the Chancellor,
      and now is displeased with him, and [so is] the Duchesse, so that she will
      not see him; but he tells me the Duke of York seems pretty kind, and hath
      said that he do believe that W. Coventry did mean well, and do it only out
      of judgment. He tells me that he never was an intriguer in his life, nor
      will be, nor of any combination of persons to set up this, or fling down
      that, nor hath, in his own business, this Parliament, spoke to three
      members to say any thing for him, but will stand upon his own defence, and
      will stay by it, and thinks that he is armed against all they can [say],
      but the old business of selling places, and in that thinks they cannot
      hurt him. However, I do find him mighty willing to have his name used as
      little as he can, and he was glad when I did deliver him up a letter of
      his to me, which did give countenance to the discharging of men by ticket
      at Chatham, which is now coming in question; and wherein, I confess, I am
      sorry to find him so tender of appearing, it being a thing not only good
      and fit, all that was done in it, but promoted and advised by him. But he
      thinks the House is set upon wresting anything to his prejudice that they
      can pick up. He tells me he did never, as a great many have, call the
      Chancellor rogue and knave, and I know not what; but all that he hath
      said, and will stand by, is, that his counsels were not good, nor the
      manner of his managing of things. I suppose he means suffering the King to
      run in debt; for by and by the King walking in the parke, with a great
      crowd of his idle people about him, I took occasion to say that it was a
      sorry thing to be a poor King, and to have others to come to correct the
      faults of his own servants, and that this was it that brought us all into
      this condition. He answered that he would never be a poor King, and then
      the other would mend of itself. "No," says he, "I would eat bread and
      drink water first, and this day discharge all the idle company about me,
      and walk only with two footmen; and this I have told the King, and this
      must do it at last." I asked him how long the King would suffer this. He
      told me the King must suffer it yet longer, that he would not advise the
      King to do otherwise; for it would break out again worse, if he should
      break them up before the core be come up. After this, we fell to other
      talk, of my waiting upon him hereafter, it may be, to read a chapter in
      Seneca, in this new house, which he hath bought, and is making very fine,
      when we may be out of employment, which he seems to wish more than to
      fear, and I do believe him heartily. Thence home, and met news from Mr.
      Townsend of the Wardrobe that old Young, the yeoman taylor, whose place my
      Lord Sandwich promised my father, is dead. Upon which, resolving presently
      that my father shall not be troubled with it, but I hope I shall be able
      to enable him to end his days where he is, in quiet, I went forth thinking
      to tell Mrs. Ferrers (Captain Ferrers's wife), who do expect it after my
      father, that she may look after it, but upon second thoughts forbore it,
      and so back again home, calling at the New Exchange, and there buying "The
      Indian Emperour," newly printed, and so home to dinner, where I had Mr.
      Clerke, the sollicitor, and one of the Auditor's clerks to discourse about
      the form of making up my accounts for the Exchequer, which did give me
      good satisfaction, and so after dinner, my wife, and Mercer, who grows
      fat, and Willett, and I, to the King's house, and there saw "The
      Committee," a play I like well, and so at night home and to the office,
      and so to my chamber about my accounts, and then to Sir W. Pen's to speak
      with Sir John Chichly, who desired my advice about a prize which he hath
      begged of the King, and there had a great deal of his foolish talk of
      ladies and love and I know not what, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and at the office, my Lord Bruncker and I close together till
      almost 3 after noon, never stirring, making up a report for the Committee
      this afternoon about the business of discharging men by ticket, which it
      seems the House is mighty earnest in, but is a foolery in itself, yet
      gives me a great deal of trouble to draw up a defence for the Board, as if
      it was a crime; but I think I have done it to very good purpose. Then to
      my Lady Williams's, with her and my Lord, and there did eat a snapp of
      good victuals, and so to Westminster Hall, where we find the House not up,
      but sitting all this day about the method of bringing in the charge
      against my Lord Chancellor; and at last resolved for a Committee to draw
      up the heads, and so rose, and no Committee to sit tonight. Here Sir W.
      Coventry and Lord Bruncker and I did in the Hall (between the two Courts
      at the top of the Hall) discourse about a letter of [Sir] W. Coventry's to
      Bruncker, whereon Bruncker did justify his discharging men by ticket, and
      insists on one word which Sir W. Coventry would not seem very earnest to
      have left out, but I did see him concerned, and did after labour to
      suppress the whole letter, the thing being in itself really impertinent,
      but yet so it is that [Sir] W. Coventry do not desire to have his name
      used in this business, and I have prevailed with Bruncker for it. Thence
      Bruncker and I to the King's House, thinking to have gone into a box
      above, for fear of being seen, the King being there, but the play being 3
      acts done we would not give 4s., and so away and parted, and I home, and
      there after a little supper to bed, my eyes ill, and head full of thoughts
      of the trouble this Parliament gives us.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. All the morning till past noon preparing over again our report this
      afternoon to the Committee of Parliament about tickets, and then home to
      eat a bit, and then with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, where we did a very
      little business with the Duke of York at our usual meeting, only I
      perceive that he do leave all of us, as the King do those about him, to
      stand and fall by ourselves, and I think is not without some cares himself
      what the Parliament may do in matters wherein his honour is concerned.
      Thence to the Parliament-house; where, after the Committee was sat, I was
      called in; and the first thing was upon the complaint of a dirty slut that
      was there, about a ticket which she had lost, and had applied herself to
      me for another.... I did give them a short and satisfactory answer to
      that; and so they sent her away, and were ashamed of their foolery, in
      giving occasion to 500 seamen and seamen's wives to come before them, as
      there was this afternoon. But then they fell to the business of tickets,
      and I did give them the best answer I could, but had not scope to do it in
      the methodical manner which I had prepared myself for, but they did ask a
      great many broken rude questions about it, and were mightily hot whether
      my Lord Bruncker had any order to discharge whole ships by ticket, and
      because my answer was with distinction, and not direct, I did perceive
      they were not so fully satisfied therewith as I could wish they were. So
      my Lord Bruncker was called in, and they could fasten nothing on him that
      I could see, nor indeed was there any proper matter for blame, but I do
      see, and it was said publicly in the House by Sir T. Clerges that Sir W.
      Batten had designed the business of discharging men by ticket and an order
      after the thing was done to justify my Lord Bruncker for having done it.
      But this I did not owne at all, nor was it just so, though he did indeed
      do something like it, yet had contributed as much to it as any man of the
      board by sending down of tickets to do it. But, Lord! to see that we
      should be brought to justify ourselves in a thing of necessity and profit
      to the King, and of no profit or convenience to us, but the contrary. We
      being withdrawn, we heard no more of it, but there staid late and do hear
      no more, only my cozen Pepys do tell me that he did hear one or two
      whisper as if they thought that I do bogle at the business of my Lord
      Bruncker, which is a thing I neither did or have reason to do in his
      favour, but I do not think it fit to make him suffer for a thing that
      deserves well. But this do trouble me a little that anything should stick
      to my prejudice in any of them, and did trouble me so much that all the
      way home with Sir W. Pen I was not at good ease, nor all night, though
      when I come home I did find my wife, and Betty Turner, the two Mercers,
      and Mrs. Parker, an ugly lass, but yet dances well, and speaks the best of
      them, and W. Batelier, and Pembleton dancing; and here I danced with them,
      and had a good supper, and as merry as I could be, and so they being gone
      we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up, and all the morning at the office, and at noon Mr. Creed and
      Yeabsly dined with me (my wife gone to dine with Mrs. Pierce and see a
      play with her), and after dinner in comes Mr. Turner, of Eynsbury, lately
      come to town, and also after him Captain Hill of the "Coventry," who lost
      her at Barbadoes, and is come out of France, where he hath been long
      prisoner. After a great deal of mixed discourse, and then Mr. Turner and I
      alone a little in my closet, talking about my Lord Sandwich (who I hear is
      now ordered by the King to come home again), we all parted, and I by
      water, calling at Michell's, and saw and once kissed su wife, but I do
      think that he is jealous of her, and so she dares not stand out of his
      sight; so could not do more, but away by water to the Temple, and there,
      after spending a little time in my bookseller's shop, I to Westminster;
      and there at the lobby do hear by Commissioner Pett, to my great
      amazement, that he is in worse condition than before, by the coming in of
      the Duke of Albemarle's and Prince Rupert's Narratives' this day; wherein
      the former do most severely lay matters upon him, so as the House this day
      have, I think, ordered him to the Tower again, or something like it; so
      that the poor man is likely to be overthrown, I doubt, right or wrong, so
      infinite fond they are of any thing the Duke of Albemarle says or writes
      to them! I did then go down, and there met with Colonel Reames and cozen
      Roger Pepys; and there they do tell me how the Duke of Albemarle and the
      Prince have laid blame on a great many, and particularly on our Office in
      general; and particularly for want of provision, wherein I shall come to
      be questioned again in that business myself; which do trouble me. But my
      cozen Pepys and I had much discourse alone: and he do bewail the
      constitution of this House, and says there is a direct caball and faction,
      as much as is possible between those for and those against the Chancellor,
      and so in other factions, that there is nothing almost done honestly and
      with integrity; only some few, he says, there are, that do keep out of all
      plots and combinations, and when their time comes will speak and see right
      done, if possible; and that he himself is looked upon to be a man that
      will be of no faction, and so they do shun to make him; and I am glad of
      it. He tells me that he thanks God he never knew what it was to be tempted
      to be a knave in his life; till he did come into the House of Commons,
      where there is nothing done but by passion, and faction, and private
      interest. Reames did tell me of a fellow last night (one Kelsy, a
      commander of a fire-ship, who complained for want of his money paid him)
      did say that he did see one of the Commissioners of the Navy bring in
      three waggon-loads of prize-goods into Greenwich one night; but that the
      House did take no notice of it, nor enquire; but this is me, and I must
      expect to be called to account, and answer what I did as well as I can. So
      thence away home, and in Holborne, going round, it being dark, I espied
      Sir D. Gawden's coach, and so went out of mine into his; and there had
      opportunity to talk of the business of victuals, which the Duke of
      Albemarle and Prince did complain that they were in want of the last year:
      but we do conclude we shall be able to show quite the contrary of that;
      only it troubles me that we must come to contend with these great persons,
      which will overrun us. So with some disquiet in my mind on this account I
      home, and there comes Mr. Yeabsly, and he and I to even some accounts,
      wherein I shall be a gainer about L200, which is a seasonable profit, for
      I have got nothing a great while; and he being gone, I to bed.
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      November 1st. Up betimes, and down to the waterside (calling and drinking
      a dram of the bottle at Michell's, but saw not Betty), and thence to White
      Hall and to Sir W. Coventry's lodging, where he and I alone a good while,
      where he gives me the full of the Duke of Albemarle's and Prince's
      narratives, given yesterday by the House, wherein they fall foul of him
      and Sir G. Carteret in something about the dividing of the fleete, and the
      Prince particularly charging the Commissioners of the Navy with
      negligence, he says the Commissioners of the Navy whereof Sir W. Coventry
      is one. He tells me that he is prepared to answer any particular most
      thoroughly, but the quality of the persons do make it difficult for him,
      and so I do see is in great pain, poor man, though he deserves better than
      twenty such as either of them, for his abilities and true service to the
      King and kingdom. He says there is incoherences, he believes, to be found
      between their two reports, which will be pretty work to consider. The Duke
      of Albemarle charges W. Coventry that he should tell him, when he come
      down to the fleete with Sir G. Carteret, to consult about dividing the
      fleete, that the Dutch would not be out in six weeks, which W. Coventry
      says is as false as is possible, and he can prove the contrary by the Duke
      of Albemarle's own letters. The Duke of Albemarle says that he did upon
      sight of the Dutch call a council of officers, and they did conclude they
      could not avoid fighting the Dutch; and yet we did go to the enemy, and
      found them at anchor, which is a pretty contradiction. And he tells me
      that Spragg did the other day say in the House, that the Prince, at his
      going from the Duke of Albemarle with his fleete, did tell him that if the
      Dutch should come on, the Duke was to follow him, the Prince, with his
      fleete, and not fight the Dutch. Out of all this a great deal of good
      might well be picked. But it is a sad consideration that all this picking
      of holes in one another's coats&mdash;nay, and the thanks of the House to
      the Prince and the Duke of Albemarle, and all this envy and design to ruin
      Sir W. Coventry&mdash;did arise from Sir W. Coventry's unfortunate mistake
      the other day, in producing of a letter from the Duke of Albemarle,
      touching the good condition of all things at Chatham just before the Dutch
      come up, and did us that fatal mischiefe; for upon this they are resolved
      to undo him, and I pray God they do not. He tells me upon my demanding it
      that he thinks the King do not like this their bringing these narratives,
      and that they give out that they would have said more but that the King
      hath hindered them, that I suppose is about my Lord Sandwich. He is
      getting a copy of the Narratives, which I shall then have, and so I parted
      from him and away to White Hall, where I met Mr. Creed and Yeabsly, and
      discoursed a little about Mr. Yeabsly's business and accounts, and so I to
      chapel and there staid, it being All-Hallows day, and heard a fine anthem,
      made by Pelham (who is come over) in France, of which there was great
      expectation, and indeed is a very good piece of musique, but still I
      cannot call the Anthem anything but instrumentall musique with the voice,
      for nothing is made of the words at all. I this morning before chapel
      visited Sir G. Carteret, who is vexed to see how things are likely to go,
      but cannot help it, and yet seems to think himself mighty safe. I also
      visited my Lord Hinchingbroke, at his chamber at White Hall, where I found
      Mr. Turner, Moore, and Creed, talking of my Lord Sandwich, whose case I
      doubt is but bad, and, I fear, will not escape being worse, though some of
      the company did say otherwise. But I am mightily pleased with my Lord
      Hinchingbroke's sobriety and few words. After chapel I with Creed to the
      Exchange, and after much talk he and I there about securing of some money
      either by land or goods to be always at our command, which we think a
      thing advisable in this critical time, we parted, and I to the Sun Taverne
      with Sir W. Warren (with whom I have not drank many a day, having for some
      time been strange to him), and there did put it to him to advise me how to
      dispose of my prize, which he will think of and do to my best advantage.
      We talked of several other things relating to his service, wherein I
      promise assistance, but coldly, thinking it policy to do so, and so, after
      eating a short dinner, I away home, and there took out my wife, and she
      and I alone to the King's playhouse, and there saw a silly play and an old
      one, "The Taming of a Shrew," and so home and I to my office a little, and
      then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning; at noon home, and
      after dinner my wife and Willett and I to the King's playhouse, and there
      saw "Henry the Fourth:" and contrary to expectation, was pleased in
      nothing more than in Cartwright's speaking of Falstaffe's speech about
      "What is Honour?" The house full of Parliament-men, it being holyday with
      them: and it was observable how a gentleman of good habit, sitting just
      before us, eating of some fruit in the midst of the play, did drop down as
      dead, being choked; but with much ado Orange Moll did thrust her finger
      down his throat, and brought him to life again. After the play, we home,
      and I busy at the office late, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, and thither comes Roger
      Pepys to our pew, and thence home to dinner, whither comes by invitation
      Mr. Turner, the minister, and my cozen Roger brought with him Jeffrys, the
      apothecary at Westminster, who is our kinsman, and we had much discourse
      of Cottenhamshire, and other things with great pleasure. My cozen Roger
      did tell me of a bargain which I may now have in Norfolke, that my
      she-cozen, Nan Pepys, is going to sell, the title whereof is very good,
      and the pennyworth is also good enough; but it is out of the way so of my
      life, that I shall never enjoy it, nor, it may be, see it, and so I shall
      have nothing to do with it. After dinner to talk, and I find by discourse
      Mr. Turner to be a man mighty well read in the Roman history, which is
      very pleasant. By and by Roger went, and Mr. Turner spent an hour talking
      over my Lord Sandwich's condition as to this Parliament, which we fear may
      be bad, and the condition of his family, which can be no better, and then
      having little to comfort ourselves but that this humour will not last
      always in the Parliament, and that [it] may well have a great many more as
      great men as he enquired into, and so we parted, and I to my chamber, and
      there busy all the evening, and then my wife and I to supper, and so to
      bed, with much discourse and pleasure one with another.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up betimes, and by water with Sir R. Ford (who is going to
      Parliament) to Westminster; and there landing at the New Exchange stairs,
      I to Sir W. Coventry: and there he read over to me the Prince's and the
      Duke of Albemarle's Narratives; wherein they are very severe against him
      and our Office. But [Sir] W. Coventry do contemn them; only that their
      persons and qualities are great, and so I do perceive [he] is afeard of
      them, though he will not confess it. But he do say that, if he can get out
      of these briars, he will never trouble himself with Princes nor Dukes
      again. He finds several things in their Narratives, which are both
      inconsistent and foolish, as well as untrue, especially as to what the
      Duke of Albemarle avers of his knowing of the enemy's being abroad sooner
      than he says it, which [Sir] W. Coventry will shew him his own letter
      against him, for I confess I do see so much, that, were I but well
      possessed of what I should have in the world, I think I could willingly
      retreat, and trouble myself no more with it. Thence home, and there met
      Sir H. Cholmly, and he and I to the Excise Office to see what tallies are
      paying, and thence back to the Old Exchange, by the way talking of news,
      and he owning Sir W. Coventry, in his opinion, to be one of the worthiest
      men in the nation, as I do really think he is. He tells me he do think
      really that they will cut off my Lord Chancellor's head, the Chancellor at
      this day showing as much pride as is possible to those few that venture
      their fortunes by coming to see him; and that the Duke of York is troubled
      much, knowing that those that fling down the Chancellor cannot stop there,
      but will do something to him, to prevent his having it in his power
      hereafter to avenge himself and father-in-law upon them. And this Sir H.
      Cholmly fears may be by divorcing the Queen and getting another, or
      declaring the Duke of Monmouth legitimate; which God forbid! He tells me
      he do verily believe that there will come in an impeachment of High
      Treason against my Lord of Ormond; among other things, for ordering the
      quartering of soldiers in Ireland on free quarters; which, it seems, is
      High Treason in that country, and was one of the things that lost the Lord
      Strafford his head, and the law is not yet repealed; which, he says, was a
      mighty oversight of him not to have it repealed, which he might with ease
      have done, or have justified himself by an Act. From the Exchange I took a
      coach, and went to Turlington, the great spectacle-maker, for advice, who
      dissuades me from using old spectacles, but rather young ones, and do tell
      me that nothing can wrong my eyes more than for me to use reading-glasses,
      which do magnify much. Thence home, and there dined, and then abroad and
      left my wife and Willett at her tailor's, and I to White Hall, where the
      Commissioners of the Treasury do not sit, and therefore I to Westminster
      to the Hall, and there meeting with Col. Reames I did very cheaply by him
      get copies of the Prince's and Duke of Albemarle's Narratives, which they
      did deliver the other day to the House, of which I am mighty glad, both
      for my present information and for my future satisfaction. So back by
      coach, and took up my wife, and away home, and there in my chamber all the
      evening among my papers and my accounts of Tangier to my great
      satisfaction, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner, and
      thence out with my wife and girle, and left them at her tailor's, and I to
      the Treasury, and there did a little business for Tangier, and so took
      them up again, and home, and when I had done at the office, being post
      night, I to my chamber, and there did something more, and so to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to Westminster, where to the Parliament door, and there spoke
      with Sir G. Downing, to see what was done yesterday at the Treasury for
      Tangier, and it proved as good as nothing, so that I do see we shall be
      brought to great straits for money there. He tells me here that he is
      passing a Bill to make the Excise and every other part of the King's
      Revenue assignable on the Exchequer, which indeed will be a very good
      thing. This he says with great glee as an act of his, and how poor a thing
      this was in the beginning, and with what envy he carried it on, and how my
      Lord Chancellor could never endure him for it since he first begun it. He
      tells me that the thing the House is just now upon is that of taking away
      the charter from the Company of Woodmongers, whose frauds, it seems, have
      been mightily laid before them. He tells me that they are like to fly very
      high against my Lord Chancellor. Thence I to the House of Lords, and there
      first saw Dr. Fuller, as Bishop of Lincoln, to sit among the Lords. Here I
      spoke with the Duke of York and the Duke of Albemarle about Tangier; but
      methinks both of them do look very coldly one upon another, and their
      discourse mighty cold, and little to the purpose about our want of money.
      Thence homeward, and called at Allestry's, the bookseller, who is
      bookseller to the Royal Society, and there did buy three or four books,
      and find great variety of French and foreign books. And so home and to
      dinner, and after dinner with my wife to a play, and the girl&mdash;"Macbeth,"
      which we still like mightily, though mighty short of the content we used
      to have when Betterton acted, who is still sick. So home, troubled with
      the way and to get a coach, and so to supper and to bed. This day, in the
      Paynted-chamber, I met and walked with Mr. George Montagu, who thinks it
      may go hard with my Lord Sandwich, but he says the House is offended with
      Sir W. Coventry much, and that he do endeavour to gain them again in the
      most precarious manner in all things that is possible.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and at the office hard all the morning, and at noon resolved with
      Sir W. Pen to go see "The Tempest," an old play of Shakespeare's, acted, I
      hear, the first day; and so my wife, and girl, and W. Hewer by themselves,
      and Sir W. Pen and I afterwards by ourselves; and forced to sit in the
      side balcone over against the musique-room at the Duke's house, close by
      my Lady Dorset and a great many great ones. The house mighty full; the
      King and Court there and the most innocent play that ever I saw; and a
      curious piece of musique in an echo of half sentences, the echo repeating
      the former half, while the man goes on to the latter; which is mighty
      pretty. The play [has] no great wit, but yet good, above ordinary plays.
      Thence home with [Sir] W. Pen, and there all mightily pleased with the
      play; and so to supper and to bed, after having done at the office.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Called up betimes by Sir H. Cholmly, and he and I to good purpose
      most of the morning&mdash;I in my dressing-gown with him, on our Tangier
      accounts, and stated them well; and here he tells me that he believes it
      will go hard with my Lord Chancellor. Thence I to the office, where met on
      some special, business; and here I hear that the Duke of York is very ill;
      and by and by word brought us that we shall not need to attend to-day the
      Duke of York, for he is not well, which is bad news. They being gone, I to
      my workmen, who this day come to alter my office, by beating down the
      wall, and making me a fayre window both there, and increasing the window
      of my closet, which do give me some present trouble; but will be mighty
      pleasant. So all the whole day among them to very late, and so home weary,
      to supper, and to bed, troubled for the Duke of York his being sick.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up and to my workmen, who are at work close again, and I at the
      office all the morning, and there do hear by a messenger that Roger Pepys
      would speak with me, so before the office up I to Westminster, and there
      find the House very busy, and like to be so all day, about my Lord
      Chancellor's impeachment, whether treason or not, where every body is
      mighty busy. I spoke with my cozen Roger, whose business was only to give
      me notice that Carcasse hath been before the Committee; and to warn me of
      it, which is a great courtesy in him to do, and I desire him to continue
      to do so. This business of this fellow, though it may be a foolish thing,
      yet it troubles me, and I do plainly see my weakness that I am not a man
      able to go through trouble, as other men, but that I should be a miserable
      man if I should meet with adversity, which God keep me from! He desirous
      to get back into the House, he having his notes in his hand, the lawyers
      being now speaking to the point of whether treason or not treason, the
      article of advising the King to break up the Parliament, and to govern by
      the sword. Thence I down to the Hall, and there met Mr. King, the
      Parliament-man for Harwich, and there he did shew, and let me take a copy
      of, all the articles against my Lord Chancellor, and what members they
      were that undertook to bring witnesses to make them good, of which I was
      mighty glad, and so away home, and to dinner and to my workmen, and in the
      afternoon out to get Simpson the joyner to come to work at my office, and
      so back home and to my letters by the post to-night, and there, by W. Pen,
      do hear that this article was overvoted in the House not to be a ground of
      impeachment of treason, at which I was glad, being willing to have no
      blood spilt, if I could help it. So home to supper, and glad that the
      dirty bricklayers' work of my office is done, and home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Mighty cold, and with my wife to church, where a lazy
      sermon. Here was my Lady Batten in her mourning at church, but I took no
      notice of her. At noon comes Michell and his wife to dine with us, and
      pretty merry. I glad to see her still. After dinner Sir W. Pen and I to
      White Hall, to speak with Sir W. Coventry; and there, beyond all we looked
      for, do hear that the Duke of York hath got, and is full of, the
      small-pox; and so we to his lodgings; and there find most of the family
      going to St. James's, and the gallery doors locked up, that nobody might
      pass to nor fro and a sad house, I am sure. I am sad to consider the
      effects of his death, if he should miscarry; but Dr. Frazier tells me that
      he is in as good condition as a man can be in his case. The eruption
      appeared last night; it seems he was let blood on Friday. Thence, not
      finding [Sir] W. Coventry, and going back again home, we met him coming
      with the Lord Keeper, and so returned and spoke with him in White Hall
      Garden, two or three turns, advising with him what we should do about
      Carcasse's bringing his letter into the Committee of Parliament, and he
      told us that the counsel he hath too late learned is, to spring nothing in
      the House, nor offer anything, but just what is drawn out of a man: that
      this is the best way of dealing with a Parliament, and that he hath paid
      dear, and knows not how much more he may pay, for not knowing it sooner,
      when he did unnecessarily produce the Duke of Albemarle's letter about
      Chatham, which if demanded would have come out with all the advantages in
      the world to Sir W. Coventry, but, as he brought it out himself, hath
      drawn much evil upon him. After some talk of this kind, we back home, and
      there I to my chamber busy all the evening, and then to supper and to bed,
      my head running all night upon our businesses in Parliament and what
      examinations we are likely to go under before they have done with us,
      which troubles me more than it should a wise man and a man the best able
      to defend himself, I believe, of our own whole office, or any other, I am
      apt to think.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and to Simpson at work in my office, and thence with Sir G.
      Carteret (who come to talk with me) to Broad Streete, where great crowding
      of people for money, at which he blamed himself. Thence with him and Lord
      Bruncker to Captain Cocke's (he out of doors), and there drank their
      morning draught, and thence [Sir] G. Carteret and I toward the Temple in
      coach together; and there he did tell me how the King do all he can in the
      world to overthrow my Lord Chancellor, and that notice is taken of every
      man about the King that is not seen to promote the ruine of the
      Chancellor; and that this being another great day in his business, he
      dares not but be there. He tells me that as soon as Secretary Morrice
      brought the Great Seale from my Lord Chancellor, Bab. May fell upon his
      knees, and catched the King about the legs, and joyed him, and said that
      this was the first time that ever he could call him King of England, being
      freed from this great man: which was a most ridiculous saying. And he told
      me that, when first my Lord Gerard, a great while ago, come to the King,
      and told him that the Chancellor did say openly that the King was a lazy
      person and not fit to govern, which is now made one of the things in the
      people's mouths against the Chancellor, "Why," says the King, "that is no
      news, for he hath told me so twenty times, and but the other day he told
      me so;" and made matter of mirth at it: but yet this light discourse is
      likely to prove bad to him. I 'light at the Temple, and went to my
      tailor's and mercer's about a cloake, to choose the stuff, and so to my
      bookseller's and bought some books, and so home to dinner, and Simpson my
      joyner with me, and after dinner, my wife, and I, and Willett, to the
      King's play-house, and there saw "The Indian Emperour," a good play, but
      not so good as people cry it up, I think, though above all things Nell's
      ill speaking of a great part made me mad. Thence with great trouble and
      charge getting a coach (it being now and having been all this day a most
      cold and foggy, dark, thick day), we home, and there I to my office, and
      saw it made clean from top to bottom, till I feared I took cold in walking
      in a damp room while it is in washing, and so home to supper and to bed.
      This day I had a whole doe sent me by Mr. Hozier, which is a fine present,
      and I had the umbles of it for dinner. This day I hear Kirton, my
      bookseller, poor man, is dead, I believe, of grief for his losses by the
      fire.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to the Office, where sat all the morning; and there hear the
      Duke of York do yet do very well with his smallpox: pray God he may
      continue to do so! This morning also, to my astonishment, I hear that
      yesterday my Lord Chancellor, to another of his Articles, that of
      betraying the King's councils to his enemies, is voted to have matter
      against him for an impeachment of High Treason, and that this day the
      impeachment is to be carried up to the House of Lords which is very high,
      and I am troubled at it; for God knows what will follow, since they that
      do this must do more to secure themselves against any that will revenge
      this, if it ever come in their power! At noon home to dinner, and then to
      my office, and there saw every thing finished, so as my papers are all in
      order again and my office twice as pleasant as ever it was, having a noble
      window in my closet and another in my office, to my great content, and so
      did business late, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and down to the Old Swan, and so to Westminster; where I find
      the House sitting, and in a mighty heat about Commissioner Pett, that they
      would have him impeached, though the Committee have yet brought in but
      part of their Report: and this heat of the House is much heightened by Sir
      Thomas Clifford telling them, that he was the man that did, out of his own
      purse, employ people at the out-ports to prevent the King of Scots to
      escape after the battle of Worcester. The House was in a great heat all
      this day about it; and at last it was carried, however, that it should be
      referred back to the Committee to make further enquiry. I here spoke with
      Roger Pepys, who sent for me, and it was to tell me that the Committee is
      mighty full of the business of buying and selling of tickets, and to
      caution me against such an enquiry (wherein I am very safe), and that they
      have already found out Sir Richard Ford's son to have had a hand in it,
      which they take to be the same as if the father had done it, and I do
      believe the father may be as likely to be concerned in it as his son. But
      I perceive by him they are resolved to find out the bottom of the business
      if it be possible. By and by I met with Mr. Wren, who tells me that the
      Duke of York is in as good condition as is possible for a man, in his
      condition of the smallpox. He, I perceive, is mightily concerned in the
      business of my Lord Chancellor, the impeachment against whom is gone up to
      the House of Lords; and great differences there are in the Lords' House
      about it, and the Lords are very high one against another. Thence home to
      dinner, and as soon as dinner done I and my wife and Willet to the Duke of
      York's, house, and there saw the Tempest again, which is very pleasant,
      and full of so good variety that I cannot be more pleased almost in a
      comedy, only the seamen's part a little too tedious. Thence home, and
      there to my chamber, and do begin anew to bind myself to keep my old vows,
      and among the rest not to see a play till Christmas but once in every
      other week, and have laid aside L10, which is to be lost to the poor, if I
      do. This I hope in God will bind me, for I do find myself mightily wronged
      in my reputation, and indeed in my purse and business, by my late
      following of my pleasure for so long time as I have done. So to supper and
      then to bed. This day Mr. Chichly told me, with a seeming trouble, that
      the House have stopped his son Jack (Sir John) his going to France, that
      he may be a witness against my Lord Sandwich: which do trouble me, though
      he can, I think, say little.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. At the office close all the morning. At noon, all my clerks with me
      to dinner, to a venison pasty; and there comes Creed, and dined with me,
      and he tells me how high the Lords were in the Lords' House about the
      business of the Chancellor, and that they are not yet agreed to impeach
      him. After dinner, he and I, and my wife and girl, the latter two to their
      tailor's, and he and I to the Committee of the Treasury, where I had a
      hearing, but can get but L6000 for the pay of the garrison, in lieu of
      above L16,000; and this Alderman Backewell gets remitted there, and I am
      glad of it. Thence by coach took up my wife and girl, and so home, and set
      down Creed at Arundell House, going to the Royal Society, whither I would
      be glad to go, but cannot. Thence home, and to the Office, where about my
      letters, and so home to supper, and to bed, my eyes being bad again; and
      by this means, the nights, now-a-days, do become very long to me, longer
      than I can sleep out.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and to Alderman Backewell's
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Edward Backwell, goldsmith and alderman of the City of London.  He
     was a man of considerable wealth during the Commonwealth.  After the
     Restoration he negotiated Charles II.'s principal money
     transactions.  He was M.P. for Wendover in the parliament of 1679,
     and in the Oxford parliament of 1680.  According to the writer of
     the life in the "Diet.  of Nat.  Biog. "his heirs did not ultimately
     suffer any pecuniary loss by the closure of the Exchequer.  Mr.
     Hilton Price stated that Backwell removed to Holland in 1676, and
     died therein 1679; but this is disproved by the pedigree in
     Lipscomb's "Hist. of Bucks," where the date of his death is given
     as 1683, as well as by the fact that he sat for Wendover in 1679 and
     1680, as stated above.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and there discoursed with him about the remitting of this L6000 to
      Tangier, which he hath promised to do by the first post, and that will be
      by Monday next, the 18th, and he and I agreed that I would take notice of
      it that so he may be found to have done his best upon the desire of the
      Lords Commissioners. From this we went to discourse of his condition, and
      he with some vain glory told me that the business of Sheernesse did make
      him quite mad, and indeed might well have undone him; but yet that he did
      the very next day pay here and got bills to answer his promise to the King
      for the Swedes Embassadors (who were then doing our business at the treaty
      at Breda) L7000, and did promise the Bankers there, that if they would
      draw upon him all that he had of theirs and L10,000 more, he would answer
      it. He told me that Serjeant Maynard come to him for a sum of money that
      he had in his hands of his, and so did many others, and his answer was,
      What countrymen are you? And when they told him, why then, says he, here
      is a tally upon the Receiver of your country for so [much], and to yours
      for so much, and did offer to lay by tallies to the full value of all that
      he owed in the world, and L40,000 more for the security thereof, and not
      to touch a penny of his own till the full of what he owed was paid, which
      so pleased every body that he hath mastered all, so that he hath lent the
      Commissioners of the Treasury above L40,000 in money since that business,
      and did this morning offer to a lady who come to give him notice that she
      should need her money L3000, in twenty days, he bid her if she pleased
      send for it to-day and she should have it. Which is a very great thing,
      and will make them greater than ever they were, I am apt to think, in some
      time. Thence to Westminster, and there I walked with several, and do hear
      that there is to be a conference between the two Houses today; so I
      stayed: and it was only to tell the Commons that the Lords cannot agree to
      the confining or sequestring of the Earle of Clarendon from the
      Parliament, forasmuch as they do not specify any particular crime which
      they lay upon him and call Treason. This the House did receive, and so
      parted: at which, I hear, the Commons are like to grow very high, and will
      insist upon their privileges, and the Lords will own theirs, though the
      Duke of Buckingham, Bristoll, and others, have been very high in the House
      of Lords to have had him committed. This is likely to breed ill blood.
      Thence I away home, calling at my mercer's and tailor's, and there find,
      as I expected, Mr. Caesar and little Pelham Humphreys, lately returned
      from France, and is an absolute Monsieur, as full of form, and confidence,
      and vanity, and disparages everything, and everybody's skill but his own.
      The truth is, every body says he is very able, but to hear how he laughs
      at all the King's musick here, as Blagrave and others, that they cannot
      keep time nor tune, nor understand anything; and that Grebus, the
      Frenchman, the King's master of the musick, how he understands nothing,
      nor can play on any instrument, and so cannot compose: and that he will
      give him a lift out of his place; and that he and the King are mighty
      great! and that he hath already spoke to the King of Grebus would make a
      man piss. I had a good dinner for them, as a venison pasty and some fowl,
      and after dinner we did play, he on the theorbo. Mr. Caesar on his French
      lute, and I on the viol, but made but mean musique, nor do I see that this
      Frenchman do so much wonders on the theorbo, but without question he is a
      good musician, but his vanity do offend me. They gone, towards night, I to
      the office awhile, and then home and to my chamber, where busy till by and
      by comes Mr. Moore, and he staid and supped and talked with me about many
      things, and tells me his great fear that all things will go to ruin among
      us, for that the King hath, as he says Sir Thomas Crew told him, been
      heard to say that the quarrel is not between my Lord Chancellor and him,
      but his brother and him; which will make sad work among us if that be once
      promoted, as to be sure it will, Buckingham and Bristoll being now the
      only counsel the King follows, so as Arlington and Coventry are come to
      signify little. He tells me they are likely to fall upon my Lord Sandwich;
      but, for my part, sometimes I am apt to think they cannot do him much
      harm, he telling me that there is no great fear of the business of
      Resumption! By and by, I got him to read part of my Lord Cooke's chapter
      of treason, which is mighty well worth reading, and do inform me in many
      things, and for aught I see it is useful now to know what these crimes
      are. And then to supper, and after supper he went away, and so I got the
      girl to comb my head, and then to bed, my eyes bad. This day, Poundy, the
      waterman, was with me, to let me know that he was summonsed to bear
      witness against me to Prince Rupert's people (who have a commission to
      look after the business of prize-goods) about the business of the
      prize-goods I was concerned in: but I did desire him to speak all he knew,
      and not to spare me, nor did promise nor give him any thing, but sent him
      away with good words, to bid him say all he knew to be true. This do not
      trouble me much.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. At the office all the morning, and at noon took my Lord Bruncker
      into the garden, and there told him of his man Carcasses proceedings
      against the Office in the House of Commons. I did [not] desire nor advise
      him anything, but in general, that the end of this might be ruin to the
      Office, but that we shall be brought to fencing for ourselves, and that
      will be no profit to the office, but let it light where it would I thought
      I should be as well as any body. This I told him, and so he seeming to be
      ignorant of it, and not pleased with it, we broke off by Sir Thos. Harvy's
      coming to us from the Pay Office, whither we had sent a smart letter we
      had writ to him this morning about keeping the clerks at work at the
      making up the books, which I did to place the fault somewhere, and now I
      let him defend himself. He was mighty angry, and particularly with me, but
      I do not care, but do rather desire it, for I will not spare him, that we
      shall bear the blame, and such an idle fellow as he have L500 a year for
      nothing. So we broke off, and I home to dinner, and then to the office,
      and having spent the afternoon on letters, I took coach in the evening,
      and to White Hall, where there is to be a performance of musique of
      Pelham's before the King. The company not come; but I did go into the
      musique-room, where Captain Cocke and many others; and here I did hear the
      best and the smallest organ go that ever I saw in my life, and such a one
      as, by the grace of God, I will have the next year, if I continue in this
      condition, whatever it cost me. I never was so pleased in my life. Thence,
      it being too soon, I to Westminster Hall, it being now about 7 at night,
      and there met Mr. Gregory, my old acquaintance, an understanding
      gentleman; and he and I walked an hour together, talking of the bad
      prospect of the times; and the sum of what I learn from him is this: That
      the King is the most concerned in the world against the Chancellor, and
      all people that do not appear against him, and therefore is angry with the
      Bishops, having said that he had one Bishop on his side (Crofts ), and but
      one: that Buckingham and Bristoll are now his only Cabinet Council;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The term Cabinet Council, as stated by Clarendon, originated thus,
     in 1640: "The bulk and burden of the state affairs lay principally
     upon the shoulders of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of
     Strafford, and the Lord Cottington; some others being joined to
     them, as the Earl of Northumberland for ornament, the Bishop of
     London for his place, the two Secretaries, Sir H. Vane and Sir
     Francis Windebank, for service and communication of intelligence:
     only the Marquis of Hamilton, indeed, by his skill and interest,
     bore as great a part as he had a mind to do, and had the skill to
     meddle no further than he had a mind.  These persons made up the
     committee of state, which was reproachfully after called the junto,
     and enviously then in the Court the Cabinet Council" ("History of
     the Rebellion," vol. i., p. 211, edit. 1849).]
</pre>
    <p>
      and that, before the Duke of York fell sick, Buckingham was admitted to
      the King of his Cabinet, and there stayed with him several hours, and the
      Duke of York shut out. That it is plain that there is dislike between the
      King and Duke of York, and that it is to be feared that the House will go
      so far against the Chancellor, that they must do something to undo the
      Duke of York, or will not think themselves safe. That this Lord Vaughan,
      that is so great against the Chancellor, is one of the lewdest fellows of
      the age, worse than Sir Charles Sidly; and that he was heard to swear, God
      damn him, he would do my Lord Clarendon's business. That he do find that
      my Lord Clarendon hath more friends in both Houses than he believes he
      would have, by reason that they do see what are the hands that pull him
      down; which they do not like. That Harry Coventry was scolded at by the
      King severely the other day; and that his answer was that, if he must not
      speak what he thought in this business in Parliament, he must not come
      thither. And he says that by this very business Harry Coventry hath got
      more fame and common esteem than any gentleman in England hath at this
      day, and is an excellent and able person. That the King, who not long ago
      did say of Bristoll, that he was a man able in three years to get himself
      a fortune in any kingdom in the world, and lose all again in three months,
      do now hug him, and commend his parts every where, above all the world.
      How fickle is this man [the King], and how unhappy we like to be! That he
      fears some furious courses will be taken against the Duke of York; and
      that he hath heard that it was designed, if they cannot carry matters
      against the Chancellor, to impeach the Duke of York himself, which God
      forbid! That Sir Edward Nicholas, whom he served while Secretary, is one
      of the best men in the world, but hated by the Queen-Mother, for a service
      he did the old King against her mind and her favourites; and that she and
      my Lady Castlemayne did make the King to lay him aside: but this man says
      that he is one of the most perfect heavenly and charitable men in the
      whole world. That the House of Commons resolve to stand by their
      proceedings, and have chosen a Committee to draw up the reasons thereof to
      carry to the Lords; which is likely to breed great heat between them. That
      the Parliament, after all this, is likely to give the King no money; and,
      therefore, that it is to be wondered what makes the King give way to so
      great extravagancies, which do all tend to the making him less than he is,
      and so will, every day more and more: and by this means every creature is
      divided against the other, that there never was so great an uncertainty in
      England, of what would, be the event of things, as at this day; nobody
      being at ease, or safe. Being full of his discourse, and glad of the
      rencontre, I to White Hall; and there got into the theater-room, and there
      heard both the vocall and instrumentall musick, where the little fellow'
      stood keeping time; but for my part, I see no great matter, but quite the
      contrary in both sorts of musique. The composition I believe is very good,
      but no more of delightfulness to the eare or understanding but what is
      very ordinary. Here was the King and Queen, and some of the ladies; among
      whom none more jolly than my Lady Buckingham, her Lord being once more a
      great man. Thence by coach home and to my office, ended my letters, and
      then home to supper, and, my eyes being bad, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). Up, and to church with my wife. A dull sermon of Mr.
      Mills, and then home, without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to
      read, and I to the office, enter my journall to this day, and so home with
      great content that it is done, but with sorrow to my eyes. Then home, and
      got my wife to read to me out of Fuller's Church History, when by and by
      comes Captain Cocke, who sat with me all the evening, talking, and I find
      by him, as by all others, that we are like to expect great confusions, and
      most of our discourse was the same, and did agree with that the last
      night, particularly that about the difference between the King and the
      Duke of York which is like to be. He tells me that he hears that Sir W.
      Coventry was, a little before the Duke of York fell sick, with the Duke of
      York in his closet, and fell on his knees, and begged his pardon for what
      he hath done to my Lord Chancellor; but this I dare not soon believe. But
      he tells me another thing, which he says he had from the person himself
      who spoke with the Duke of Buckingham, who, he says, is a very sober and
      worthy man, that he did lately speak with the Duke of Buckingham about his
      greatness now with the King, and told him-"But, sir, these things that the
      King do now, in suffering the Parliament to do all this, you know are not
      fit for the King to suffer, and you know how often you have said to me
      that the King was a weak man, and unable to govern, but to be governed,
      and that you could command him as you listed; why do you suffer him to go
      on in these things?"&mdash;"Why," says the Duke of Buckingham, "I do
      suffer him to do this, that I may hereafter the better command him." This
      he swears to me the person himself to whom the Duke of Buckingham said
      this did tell it him, and is a man of worth, understanding, and credit. He
      told me one odd passage by the Duke of Albemarle, speaking how hasty a man
      he is, and how for certain he would have killed Sir W. Coventry, had he
      met him in a little time after his shewing his letter in the House. He
      told me that a certain lady, whom he knows, did tell him that, she being
      certainly informed that some of the Duke of Albemarle's family did say
      that the Earl of Torrington was a bastard, [she] did think herself
      concerned to tell the Duke of Albemarle of it, and did first tell the
      Duchesse, and was going to tell the old man, when the Duchesse pulled her
      back by the sleeve, and hindered her, swearing to her that if he should
      hear it, he would certainly kill the servant that should be found to have
      said it, and therefore prayed her to hold her peace. One thing more he
      told me, which is, that Garraway is come to town, and is thinking how to
      bring the House to mind the public state of the nation and to put off
      these particular piques against man and man, and that he propounding this
      to Sir W. Coventry, Sir W. Coventry did give no encouragement to it: which
      he says is that by their running after other men he may escape. But I do
      believe this is not true neither. But however I am glad that Garraway is
      here, and that he do begin to think of the public condition in reference
      to our neighbours that we are in, and in reference to ourselves, whereof I
      am mightily afeard of trouble. So to supper, and he gone and we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and all the morning at my office till 3 after noon with Mr.
      Hater about perfecting my little pocket market book of the office, till my
      eyes were ready to fall out of my head, and then home to dinner, glad that
      I had done so much, and so abroad to White Hall, to the Commissioners of
      the Treasury, and there did a little business with them, and so home,
      leaving multitudes of solicitors at their door, of one sort or other,
      complaining for want of such despatch as they had in my Lord Treasurer's
      time, when I believe more business was despatched, but it was in his
      manner to the King's wrong. Among others here was Gresham College coming
      about getting a grant of Chelsey College for their Society, which the
      King, it seems, hath given them his right in; but they met with some other
      pretences, I think; to it, besides the King's. Thence took up my wife,
      whom I had left at her tailor's, and home, and there, to save my eyes, got
      my wife at home to read again, as last night, in the same book, till W.
      Batelier come and spent the evening talking with us, and supped with us,
      and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. To the office, and thence before noon I, by the Board's direction,
      to the Parliament House to speak with Sir R. Brookes about the meaning of
      an order come to us this day to bring all the books of the office to the
      Committee. I find by him that it is only about the business of an order of
      ours for paying off the ships by ticket, which they think I on behalf of
      my Lord Bruncker do suppress, which vexes me, and more at its occasioning
      the bringing them our books. So home and to dinner, where Mr. Shepley with
      me, newly come out of the country, but I was at little liberty to talk to
      him, but after dinner with two contracts to the Committee, with Lord
      Bruncker and Sir T. Harvy, and there did deliver them, and promised at
      their command more, but much against my will. And here Sir R. Brookes did
      take me alone, and pray me to prevent their trouble, by discovering the
      order he would have. I told him I would suppress none, nor could, but this
      did not satisfy him, and so we parted, I vexed that I should bring on
      myself this suspicion. Here I did stand by unseen, and did hear their
      impertinent yet malicious examinations of some rogues about the business
      of Bergen, wherein they would wind in something against my Lord Sandwich
      (it was plain by their manner of examining, as Sir Thomas Crew did
      afterwards observe to me, who was there), but all amounted to little I
      think. But here Sir Thomas Crew and W. Hewer, who was there also, did tell
      me that they did hear Captain Downing give a cruel testimony against my
      Lord Bruncker, for his neglect, and doing nothing, in the time of straits
      at Chatham, when he was spoke to, and did tell the Committee that he,
      Downing, did presently after, in Lord Bruncker's hearing, tell the Duke of
      Albemarle, that if he might advise the King, he should hang both my Lord
      Bruncker and Pett. This is very hard. Thence with W. Hewer and our
      messenger, Marlow, home by coach, and so late at letters, and then home to
      supper, and my wife to read and then to bed. This night I wrote to my
      father, in answer to a new match which is proposed (the executor of Ensum,
      my sister's former servant) for my sister, that I will continue my mind of
      giving her L500, if he likes of the match. My father did also this week,
      by Shepley, return me up a 'guinny, which, it seems, upon searching the
      ground, they have found since I was there. I was told this day that Lory
      Hide,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Laurence Hyde, second son of Lord Chancellor Clarendon (1614-1711).
     He held many important offices, and was First Lord of the Treasury,
     1679-84; created Earl of Rochester in 1681, and K.G. 1685.]
</pre>
    <p>
      second son of my Lord Chancellor, did some time since in the House say,
      that if he thought his father was guilty but of one of the things then
      said against him, he would be the first that should call for judgement
      against him: which Mr. Waller, the poet, did say was spoke like the old
      Roman, like Brutus, for its greatness and worthiness.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and all the morning at my office shut up with Mr. Gibson, I
      walking and he reading to me the order books of the office from the
      beginning of the war, for preventing the Parliament's having them in their
      hands before I have looked them over and seen the utmost that can be said
      against us from any of our orders, and to my great content all the morning
      I find none. So at noon home to dinner with my clerks, who have of late
      dined frequently with me, and I do purpose to have them so still, by that
      means I having opportunity to talk with them about business, and I love
      their company very well. All the morning Mr. Hater and the boy did shut up
      themselves at my house doing something towards the finishing the abstract
      book of our contracts for my pocket, which I shall now want very much.
      After dinner I stayed at home all the afternoon, and Gibson with me; he
      and I shut up till about ten at night. We went through all our orders, and
      towards the end I do meet with two or three orders for our discharging of
      two or three little vessels by ticket without money, which do plunge me;
      but, however, I have the advantage by this means to study an answer and to
      prepare a defence, at least for myself. So he gone I to supper, my mind
      busy thinking after our defence in this matter, but with vexation to think
      that a thing of this kind, which in itself brings nothing but trouble and
      shame to us, should happen before all others to become a charge against
      us. This afternoon Mr. Mills come and visited me, and stayed a little with
      me (my wife being to be godmother to his child to-morrow), and among other
      talk he told me how fully satisfactory my first Report was to the House in
      the business of Chatham: which I am glad to hear; and the more, for that I
      know that he is a great creature of Sir R. Brookes's.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home,
      where my wife not very well, but is to go to Mr. Mills's child's
      christening, where she is godmother, Sir J. Minnes and Sir R. Brookes her
      companions. I left her after dinner (my clerks dining with me) to go with
      Sir J. Minnes, and I to the office, where did much business till after
      candlelight, and then my eyes beginning to fail me, I out and took coach
      to Arundell House, where the meeting of Gresham College was broke up; but
      there meeting Creed, I with him to the taverne in St. Clement's
      Churchyard, where was Deane Wilkins, Dr. Whistler, Dr. Floyd, a divine
      admitted, I perceive, this day, and other brave men; and there, among
      other things of news, I do hear, that upon the reading of the House of
      Commons's Reasons of the manner of their proceedings in the business of my
      Lord Chancellor, the Reasons were so bad, that my Lord Bristoll himself
      did declare that he would not stand to what he had, and did still, advise
      the Lords to concur to, upon any of the Reasons of the House of Commons;
      but if it was put to the question whether it should be done on their
      Reasons, he would be against them; and indeed it seems the Reasons&mdash;however
      they come to escape the House of Commons, which shews how slightly the
      greatest matters are done in this world, and even in Parliaments were none
      of them of strength, but the principle of them untrue; they saying, that
      where any man is brought before a judge, accused of Treason in general,
      without specifying the particular, the judge do there constantly and is
      obliged to commit him. Whereas the question being put by the Lords to my
      Lord Keeper, he said that quite the contrary was true: and then, in the
      Sixth Article (I will get a copy of them if I can) there are two or three
      things strangely asserted to the diminishing of the King's power, as is
      said, at least things that heretofore would not have been heard of. But
      then the question being put among the Lords, as my Lord Bristoll advised,
      whether, upon the whole matter and Reasons that had been laid before them,
      they would commit my Lord Clarendon, it was carried five to one against
      it; there being but three Bishops against him, of whom Cosens and Dr.
      Reynolds were two, and I know not the third. This made the opposite Lords,
      as Bristoll and Buckingham, so mad, that they declared and protested
      against it, speaking very broad that there was mutiny and rebellion in the
      hearts of the Lords, and that they desired they might enter their
      dissents, which they did do, in great fury. So that upon the Lords sending
      to the Commons, as I am told, to have a conference for them to give their
      answer to the Commons's Reasons, the Commons did desire a free conference:
      but the Lords do deny it; and the reason is, that they hold not the
      Commons any Court, but that themselves only are a Court, and the Chief
      Court of judicature, and therefore are not to dispute the laws and method
      of their own Court with them that are none, and so will not submit so much
      as to have their power disputed. And it is conceived that much of this
      eagerness among the Lords do arise from the fear some of them have, that
      they may be dealt with in the same manner themselves, and therefore do
      stand upon it now. It seems my Lord Clarendon hath, as is said and
      believed, had his horses several times in his coach, ready to carry him to
      the Tower, expecting a message to that purpose; but by this means his case
      is like to be laid by. From this we fell to other discourse, and very
      good; among the rest they discourse of a man that is a little frantic,
      that hath been a kind of minister, Dr. Wilkins saying that he hath read
      for him in his church, that is poor and a debauched man, that the College'
      have hired for 20s. to have some of the blood of a sheep let into his
      body; and it is to be done on Saturday next.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This was Arthur Coga, who had studied at Cambridge, and was said to
     be a bachelor of divinity.  He was indigent, and "looked upon as a
     very freakish and extravagant man."  Dr. King, in a letter to the
     Hon.  Robert Boyle, remarks "that Mr. Coga was about thirty-two
     years of age; that he spoke Latin well, when he was in company,
     which he liked, but that his brain was sometimes a little too warm."
     The experiment was performed on November 23rd, 1667, by Dr. King, at
     Arundel House, in the presence of many spectators of quality, and
     four or five physicians.  Coga wrote a description of his own case
     in Latin, and when asked why he had not the blood of some other
     creature, instead of that of a sheep, transfused into him, answered,
     "Sanguis ovis symbolicam quandam facultatem habet cum sanguine
     Christi, quia Christus est agnus Dei" (Birch's "History of the Royal
     Society," vol. ii., pp. 214-16).  Coga was the first person in
     England to be experimented upon; previous experiments were made by
     the transfusion of the blood of one dog into another.  See November
     14th, 1666 (vol. vi., p. 64).]
</pre>
    <p>
      They purpose to let in about twelve ounces; which, they compute, is what
      will be let in in a minute's time by a watch. They differ in the opinion
      they have of the effects of it; some think it may have a good effect upon
      him as a frantic man by cooling his blood, others that it will not have
      any effect at all. But the man is a healthy man, and by this means will be
      able to give an account what alteration, if any, he do find in himself,
      and so may be usefull. On this occasion, Dr. Whistler told a pretty story
      related by Muffet, a good author, of Dr. Caius, that built Keys College;
      that, being very old, and living only at that time upon woman's milk, he,
      while he fed upon the milk of an angry, fretful woman, was so himself; and
      then, being advised to take it of a good-natured, patient woman, he did
      become so, beyond the common temper of his age. Thus much nutriment, they
      observed, might do. Their discourse was very fine; and if I should be put
      out of my office, I do take great content in the liberty I shall be at of
      frequenting these gentlemen's company. Broke up thence and home, and there
      to my wife in her chamber, who is not well (of those), and there she tells
      me great stories of the gossiping women of the parish&mdash;what this, and
      what that woman was; and, among the rest, how Mrs. Hollworthy is the
      veriest confident bragging gossip of them all, which I should not have
      believed; but that Sir R. Brookes, her partner, was mighty civil to her,
      and taken with her, and what not. My eyes being bad I spent the evening
      with her in her chamber talking and inventing a cypher to put on a piece
      of plate, which I must give, better than ordinary, to the Parson's child,
      and so to bed, and through my wife's illness had a bad night of it, and
      she a worse, poor wretch!
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up betimes, and drinking my morning draught of strong water with
      Betty Michell, I had not opportunity para baiser la, I by water to White
      Hall, and there met Creed, and thence with him to Westminster Hall, where
      we talked long together of news, and there met with Cooling, my Lord
      Chamberlain's Secretary, and from him learn the truth of all I heard last
      night; and understand further, that this stiffness of the Lords is in no
      manner of kindness to my Lord Chancellor, for he neither hath, nor do, nor
      for the future likely can oblige any of them, but rather the contrary; but
      that they do fear what the consequence may be to themselves, should they
      yield in his case, as many of them have reason. And more, he shewed me how
      this is rather to the wrong and prejudice of my Lord Chancellor; for that
      it is better for him to come to be tried before the Lords, where he can
      have right and make interest, than, when the Parliament is up, be
      committed by the King, and tried by a Court on purpose made by the King,
      of what Lords the King pleases, who have a mind to have his head. So that
      my Lord [Cornbury] himself, his son, he tells me, hath moved, that if they
      have Treason against my Lord of Clarendon, that they would specify it and
      send it up to the Lords, that he might come to his trial; so full of
      intrigues this business is! Having now a mind to go on and to be rid of
      Creed, I could not, but was forced to carry him with me to the Excise
      Office, and thence to the Temple, and there walked a good while in the
      Temple church, observing the plainness of Selden's tomb, and how much
      better one of his executors hath, who is buried by him, and there I parted
      with him and took coach and home, where to dinner.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to
      dinner, and all the afternoon also busy till late preparing things to
      fortify myself and fellows against the Parliament; and particularly myself
      against what I fear is thought, that I have suppressed the Order of the
      Board by which the discharging the great ships off at Chatham by tickets
      was directed; whereas, indeed, there was no such Order. So home at night
      to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). In my chamber all the morning (having lain long in bed)
      till Mr. Shepley come to dine with me, and there being to return to
      Hinchinbroke speedily, I did give him as good account how matters go here
      as I could. After dinner, he being gone, I to the office, and there for
      want of other of my clerks, sent to Mr. Gibbs, whom I never used till now,
      for the writing over of my little pocket Contract-book; and there I
      laboured till nine at night with him, in drawing up the history of all
      that hath passed concerning tickets, in order to the laying the whole, and
      clearing myself and Office, before Sir R. Brookes; and in this I took
      great pains, and then sent him away, and proceeded, and had W. Hewer come
      to me, and he and I till past twelve at night in the Office, and he, which
      was a good service, did so inform me in the consequences of my writing
      this report, and that what I said would not hold water, in denying this
      Board to have ever ordered the discharging out of the service whole ships
      by ticket, that I did alter my whole counsel, and fall to arme myself with
      good reasons to justify the Office in so doing, which hath been but rare,
      and having done this, I went, with great quiet in my mind, home, though
      vexed that so honest a business should bring me so much trouble; but
      mightily was pleased to find myself put out of my former design; and so,
      after supper, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and all the morning finishing my letter to Sir Robert Brookes,
      which I did with great content, and yet at noon when I come home to dinner
      I read it over again after it was sealed and delivered to the messenger,
      and read it to my clerks who dined with me, and there I did resolve upon
      some alteration, and caused it to be new writ, and so to the office after
      dinner, and there all the afternoon mighty busy, and at night did take
      coach thinking to have gone to Westminster, but it was mighty dark and
      foul, and my business not great, only to keep my eyes from reading by
      candle, being weary, but being gone part of my way I turned back, and so
      home, and there to read, and my wife to read to me out of Sir Robert
      Cotton's book about warr, which is very fine, showing how the Kings of
      England have raised money by the people heretofore upon the people, and
      how they have played upon the kings also. So after supper I to bed. This
      morning Sir W. Pen tells me that the House was very hot on Saturday last
      upon the business of liberty of speech in the House, and damned the vote
      in the beginning of the Long Parliament against it; I so that he fears
      that there may be some bad thing which they have a mind to broach, which
      they dare not do without more security than they now have. God keep us,
      for things look mighty ill!
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, all the morning at the office, and then home to dinner, where
      dined Mr. Clerke, solicitor, with me, to discourse about my Tangier
      accounts, which I would fain make up, but I have not time. After dinner,
      by coach as far as the Temple, and there saw a new book, in folio, of all
      that suffered for the King in the late times, which I will buy, it seems
      well writ, and then back to the Old Exchange, and there at my goldsmith's
      bought a basin for my wife to give the Parson's child, to which the other
      day she was godmother. It cost me; L10 14s. besides graving, which I do
      with the cypher of the name, Daniel Mills, and so home to the office, and
      then home to supper and hear my wife read, and then to bed. This
      afternoon, after dinner, come to me Mr. Warren, and there did tell me that
      he come to pay his debt to me for the kindness I did him in getting his
      last ship out, which I must also remember was a service to the King,
      though I did not tell him so, as appeared by my advising with the board,
      and there writing to Sir W. Coventry to get the pass for the ship to go
      for it to Genoa. Now that which he had promised me for the courtesy was I
      take it 100 pieces or more, I think more, and also for the former courtesy
      I had done for the getting of his first ship out for this hemp he did
      promise me a consideration upon the return of the goods, but I never did
      to this day demand any thing of him, only about a month ago he told me
      that now his ship was come, and he would come out of my debt, but told me
      that whereas he did expect to have had some profit by the voyage, it had
      proved of loss to him, by the loss of some ships, or some accidents, I
      know not what, and so that he was not able to do what he intended, but
      told me that he would present me with sixty pieces in gold. I told him I
      would demand nothing of his promises, though they were much greater, nor
      would have thus much, but if he could afford to give me but fifty pieces,
      it should suffice me. So now he brought something in a paper, which since
      proves to be fifty pieces. But before I would take them I told him that I
      did not insist on anything, and therefore prayed him to consult his
      ability before he did part with them: and so I refused them once or twice
      till he did the third time offer them, and then I took them, he saying
      that he would present me with as many more if I would undertake to get him
      L500 paid on his bills. I told him I would by no means have any promise of
      the kind, nor would have any kindness from him for any such service, but
      that I should do my utmost for nothing to do him that justice, and would
      endeavour to do what I could for him, and so we parted, he owning himself
      mightily engaged to me for my kind usage of him in accepting of so small a
      matter in satisfaction of all that he owed me; which I enter at large for
      my justification if anything of this should be hereafter enquired after.
      This evening also comes to me to my closet at the Office Sir John Chichly,
      of his own accord, to tell me what he shall answer to the Committee, when,
      as he expects, he shall be examined about my Lord Sandwich; which is so
      little as will not hurt my Lord at all, I know. He do profess great
      generousness towards my Lord, and that this jealousy of my Lord's of him
      is without ground, but do mightily inveigh against Sir Roger Cuttance, and
      would never have my Lord to carry him to sea again, as being a man that
      hath done my Lord more hurt than ever he can repair by his ill advice, and
      disobliging every body. He will by no means seem to crouch to my Lord, but
      says that he hath as good blood in his veins as any man, though not so
      good a title, but that he will do nothing to wrong or prejudice my Lord,
      and I hope he will not, nor I believe can; but he tells me that Sir E.
      Spragg and Utber are the men that have done my Lord the most wrong, and
      did bespatter him the most at Oxford, and that my Lord was misled to
      believe that all that was there said was his, which indeed it was not, and
      says that he did at that time complain to his father of this his
      misfortune. This I confess is strange to me touching these two men, but
      yet it may well enough as the world goes, though I wonder I confess at the
      latter of the two, who always professes great love to my Lord. Sir Roger
      Cuttance was with me in the morning, and there gives me an account so
      clear about Bergen and the other business against my Lord, as I do not see
      what can be laid to my Lord in either, and tells me that Pen, however he
      now dissembles it, did on the quarter deck of my Lord's ship, after he
      come on board, when my Lord did fire a gun for the ships to leave pursuing
      the enemy, Pen did say, before a great many, several times, that his heart
      did leap in his belly for joy when he heard the gun, and that it was the
      best thing that could be done for securing the fleet. He tells me also
      that Pen was the first that did move and persuade my Lord to the breaking
      bulke, as a thing that was now the time to do right to the commanders of
      the great ships, who had no opportunity of getting anything by prizes, now
      his Lordship might distribute to everyone something, and he himself did
      write down before my Lord the proportions for each man. This I am glad of,
      though it may be this dissembling fellow may, twenty to one, deny it.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and all the morning at my Lord Bruncker's lodgings with Sir J.
      Minnes and [Sir] W. Pen about Sir W. Warren's accounts, wherein I do not
      see that they are ever very likely to come to an understanding of them, as
      Sir J. Minnes hath not yet handled them. Here till noon, and then home to
      dinner, where Mr. Pierce comes to me, and there, in general, tells me how
      the King is now fallen in and become a slave to the Duke of Buckingham,
      led by none but him, whom he, Mr. Pierce, swears he knows do hate the very
      person of the King, and would, as well as will, certainly ruin him. He do
      say, and I think with right, that the King do in this do the most
      ungrateful part of a master to a servant that ever was done, in this
      carriage of his to my Lord Chancellor: that, it may be, the Chancellor may
      have faults, but none such as these they speak of; that he do now really
      fear that all is going to ruin, for he says he hears that Sir W. Coventry
      hath been, just before his sickness, with the Duke of York, to ask his
      forgiveness and peace for what he had done; for that he never could
      foresee that what he meant so well, in the councilling to lay by the
      Chancellor, should come to this. As soon as dined, I with my boy Tom to my
      bookbinder's, where all the afternoon long till 8 or 9 at night seeing him
      binding up two or three collections of letters and papers that I had of
      him, but above all things my little abstract pocket book of contracts,
      which he will do very neatly. Then home to read, sup, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and at the office all this morning, and then home to dinner, and
      then by coach sent my wife to the King's playhouse, and I to White Hall,
      there intending, with Lord Bruncker, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir T. Harvy to
      have seen the Duke of York, whom it seems the King and Queen have visited,
      and so we may now well go to see him. But there was nobody could speak
      with him, and so we parted, leaving a note in Mr. Wren's chamber that we
      had been there, he being at the free conference of the two Houses about
      this great business of my Lord Chancellor's, at which they were at this
      hour, three in the afternoon, and there they say my Lord Anglesey do his
      part admirablyably, and each of us taking a copy of the Guinny Company's
      defence to a petition against them to the Parliament the other day. So I
      away to the King's playhouse, and there sat by my wife, and saw "The
      Mistaken Beauty," which I never, I think, saw before, though an old play;
      and there is much in it that I like, though the name is but improper to it&mdash;at
      least, that name, it being also called "The Lyer," which is proper enough.
      Here I met with Sir. Richard Browne, who wondered to find me there,
      telling the that I am a man of so much business, which character, I thank
      God, I have ever got, and have for a long time had and deserved, and yet
      am now come to be censured in common with the office for a man of
      negligence. Thence home and to the office to my letters, and then home to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Waked about seven o'clock this morning with a noise I supposed I
      heard, near our chamber, of knocking, which, by and by, increased: and I,
      more awake, could, distinguish it better. I then waked my wife, and both
      of us wondered at it, and lay so a great while, while that increased, and
      at last heard it plainer, knocking, as if it were breaking down a window
      for people to get out; and then removing of stools and chairs; and
      plainly, by and by, going up and down our stairs. We lay, both of us,
      afeard; yet I would have rose, but my wife would not let me. Besides, I
      could not do it without making noise; and we did both conclude that
      thieves were in the house, but wondered what our people did, whom we
      thought either killed, or afeard, as we were. Thus we lay till the clock
      struck eight, and high day. At last, I removed my gown and slippers safely
      to the other side of the bed over my wife: and there safely rose, and put
      on my gown and breeches, and then, with a firebrand in my hand, safely
      opened the door, and saw nor heard any thing. Then (with fear, I confess)
      went to the maid's chamber-door, and all quiet and safe. Called Jane up,
      and went down safely, and opened my chamber door, where all well. Then
      more freely about, and to the kitchen, where the cook-maid up, and all
      safe. So up again, and when Jane come, and we demanded whether she heard
      no noise, she said, "yes, and was afeard," but rose with the other maid,
      and found nothing; but heard a noise in the great stack of chimnies that
      goes from Sir J. Minnes through our house; and so we sent, and their
      chimnies have been swept this morning, and the noise was that, and nothing
      else. It is one of the most extraordinary accidents in my life, and gives
      ground to think of Don Quixote's adventures how people may be surprised,
      and the more from an accident last night, that our young gibb-cat
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A male cat.  "Gib" is a contraction of the Christian name Gilbert
     (Old French), "Tibert".

                         "I am melancholy as a gib-cat"

                              Shakespeare, I Henry IV, act i., sc. 3.

     Gib alone is also used, and a verb made from it&mdash;"to gib," or act
     like a cat.]
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    <p>
      did leap down our stairs from top to bottom, at two leaps, and frighted
      us, that we could not tell well whether it was the cat or a spirit, and do
      sometimes think this morning that the house might be haunted. Glad to have
      this so well over, and indeed really glad in my mind, for I was much
      afeard, I dressed myself and to the office both forenoon and afternoon,
      mighty hard putting papers and things in order to my extraordinary
      satisfaction, and consulting my clerks in many things, who are infinite
      helps to my memory and reasons of things, and so being weary, and my eyes
      akeing, having overwrought them to-day reading so much shorthand, I home
      and there to supper, it being late, and to bed. This morning Sir W. Pen
      and I did walk together a good while, and he tells me that the Houses are
      not likely to agree after their free conference yesterday, and he fears
      what may follow.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and then by coach to
      Arundel House, to the election of Officers for the next year; where I was
      near being chosen of the Council, but am glad I was not, for I could not
      have attended, though, above all things, I could wish it; and do take it
      as a mighty respect to have been named there. The company great, and the
      elections long, and then to Cary House, a house now of entertainment, next
      my Lord Ashly's; and there, where I have heretofore heard Common Prayer in
      the time of Dr. Mossum, we after two hours' stay, sitting at the table
      with our napkins open, had our dinners brought, but badly done. But here
      was good company. I choosing to sit next Dr. Wilkins, Sir George Ent, and
      others whom I value, there talked of several things. Among others Dr.
      Wilkins, talking of the universal speech, of which he hath a book coming
      out, did first inform me how man was certainly made for society, he being
      of all creatures the least armed for defence, and of all creatures in the
      world the young ones are not able to do anything to help themselves, nor
      can find the dug without being put to it, but would die if the mother did
      not help it; and, he says, were it not for speech man would be a very mean
      creature. Much of this good discourse we had. But here, above all, I was
      pleased to see the person who had his blood taken out. He speaks well, and
      did this day give the Society a relation thereof in Latin, saying that he
      finds himself much better since, and as a new man, but he is cracked a
      little in his head, though he speaks very reasonably, and very well. He
      had but 20s. for his suffering it, and is to have the same again tried
      upon him: the first sound man that ever had it tried on him in England,
      and but one that we hear of in France, which was a porter hired by the
      virtuosos. Here all the afternoon till within night. Then I took coach and
      to the Exchange, where I was to meet my wife, but she was gone home, and
      so I to Westminster Hall, and there took a turn or two, but meeting with
      nobody to discourse with, returned to Cary House, and there stayed and saw
      a pretty deception of the sight by a glass with water poured into it, with
      a stick standing up with three balls of wax upon it, one distant from the
      other. How these balls did seem double and disappear one after another,
      mighty pretty! Here Mr. Carcasse did come to me, and brought first Mr.
      Colwall, our Treasurer, and then Dr. Wilkins to engage me to be his
      friend, and himself asking forgiveness and desiring my friendship, saying
      that the Council have now ordered him to be free to return to the Office
      to be employed. I promised him my friendship, and am glad of this
      occasion, having desired it; for there is nobody's ill tongue that I fear
      like his, being a malicious and cunning bold fellow. Thence, paying our
      shot, 6s. apiece, I home, and there to the office and wrote my letters,
      and then home, my eyes very sore with yesterday's work, and so home and
      tried to make a piece by my eare and viall to "I wonder what the grave,"
      &amp;c., and so to supper and to bed, where frighted a good while and my
      wife again with noises, and my wife did rise twice, but I think it was Sir
      John Minnes's people again late cleaning their house, for it was past I
      o'clock in the morning before we could fall to sleep, and so slept. But I
      perceive well what the care of money and treasure in a man's house is to a
      man that fears to lose it. My Lord Anglesey told me this day that he did
      believe the House of Commons would, the next week, yield to the Lords;
      but, speaking with others this day, they conclude they will not, but that
      rather the King will accommodate it by committing my Lord Clarendon
      himself. I remember what Mr. Evelyn said, that he did believe we should
      soon see ourselves fall into a Commonwealth again. Joseph Williamson I
      find mighty kind still, but close, not daring to say anything almost that
      touches upon news or state of affairs.
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    <p>
      December 1st (Lord's day). Up, and after entering my journal for 2 or 3
      days, I to church, where Mr. Mills, a dull sermon: and in our pew there
      sat a great lady, which I afterwards understood to be my Lady Carlisle,
      that made her husband a cuckold in Scotland, a very fine woman indeed in
      person. After sermon home, where W. Hewer dined with us, and after dinner
      he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters to see what
      matters can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein. In the
      evening comes Mr. Pelling and the two men that were with him formerly, the
      little man that sings so good a base (Wallington) and another that
      understands well, one Pigott, and Betty Turner come and sat and supped
      with us, and we spent the evening mighty well in good musique, to my great
      content to see myself in condition to have these and entertain them for my
      own pleasure only. So they gone, we to bed.
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    <p>
      2nd. Up, and then abroad to Alderman Backewell's (who was sick of a cold
      in bed), and then to the Excise Office, where I find Mr. Ball out of
      humour in expectation of being put out of his office by the change of the
      farm of the excise. There comes Sir H. Cholmly, and he and I to
      Westminster, and there walked up and down till noon, where all the
      business is that the Lords' answer is come down to the Commons, that they
      are not satisfied in the Commons' Reasons: and so the Commons are hot, and
      like to sit all day upon the business what to do herein, most thinking
      that they will remonstrate against the Lords. Thence to Lord Crew's, and
      there dined with him; where, after dinner, he took me aside, and bewailed
      the condition of the nation, how the King and his brother are at a
      distance about this business of the Chancellor, and the two Houses
      differing. And he do believe that there are so many about the King like to
      be concerned and troubled by the Parliament, that they will get him to
      dissolve or prorogue the Parliament; and the rather, for that the King is
      likely, by this good husbandry of the Treasury, to get out of debt, and
      the Parliament is likely to give no money. Among other things, my Lord
      Crew did tell me, with grief, that he hears that the King of late hath not
      dined nor supped with the Queen, as he used of late to do. After a little
      discourse, Mr. Caesar, he dining there, did give us some musique on his
      lute (Mr. John Crew being there) to my great content, and then away I, and
      Mr. Caesar followed me and told me that my boy Tom hath this day declared
      to him that he cared not for the French lute and would learn no more,
      which Caesar out of faithfulness tells me that I might not spend any more
      money on him in vain. I shall take the boy to task about it, though I am
      contented to save my money if the boy knows not what is good for himself.
      So thanked him, and indeed he is a very honest man I believe, and away
      home, there to get something ready for the Lords Commissioners of the
      Treasury, and so took my wife and girle and set them at Unthanke's, and I
      to White Hall, and there with the Commissioners of the Treasury, who I
      find in mighty good condition to go on in payment of the seamen off, and
      thence I to Westminster Hall, where I met with my cozen Roger and walked a
      good while with him; he tells me of the high vote of the Commons this
      afternoon, which I also heard at White Hall, that the proceedings of the
      Lords in the case of my Lord Clarendon are an obstruction to justice, and
      of ill precedent to future times. This makes every body wonder what will
      be the effect of it, most thinking that the King will try him by his own
      Commission. It seems they were mighty high to have remonstrated, but some
      said that was too great an appeale to the people. Roger is mighty full of
      fears of the consequence of it, and wishes the King would dissolve them.
      So we parted, and I bought some Scotch cakes at Wilkinson's in King
      Street, and called my wife, and home, and there to supper, talk, and to
      bed. Supped upon these cakes, of which I have eat none since we lived at
      Westminster. This night our poor little dogg Fancy was in a strange fit,
      through age, of which she has had five or six.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, by candlelight, the only time I think I have done so this winter,
      and a coach being got over night, I to Sir W. Coventry's, the first time I
      have seen him at his new house since he come to lodge there. He tells me
      of the vote for none of the House to be of the Commission for the Bill of
      Accounts; which he thinks is so great a disappointment to Birch and others
      that expected to be of it, that he thinks, could it have been [fore]seen,
      there would not have been any Bill at all. We hope it will be the better
      for all that are to account; it being likely that the men, being few, and
      not of the House, will hear reason. The main business I went about was
      about. Gilsthrop, Sir W. Batten's clerk; who, being upon his death-bed,
      and now dead, hath offered to make discoveries of the disorders of the
      Navy and of L65,000 damage to the King: which made mighty noise in the
      Commons' House; and members appointed to go to him, which they did; but
      nothing to the purpose got from him, but complaints of false musters, and
      ships being refitted with victuals and stores at Plymouth, after they come
      fitted from other ports; but all this to no purpose, nor more than we
      know, and will owne. But the best is, that this loggerhead should say
      this, that understands nothing of the Navy, nor ever would; and hath
      particularly blemished his master by name among us. I told Sir W. Coventry
      of my letter to Sir R. Brookes, and his answer to me. He advises me, in
      what I write to him, to be as short as I can, and obscure, saving in
      things fully plain; for all that he do is to make mischief; and that the
      greatest wisdom in dealing with the Parliament in the world is to say
      little, and let them get out what they can by force: which I shall
      observe. He declared to me much of his mind to be ruled by his own
      measures, and not to go so far as many would have him to the ruin of my
      Lord Chancellor, and for which they do endeavour to do what they can
      against [Sir] W. Coventry. "But," says he, "I have done my do in helping
      to get him out of the administration of things, for which he is not fit;
      but for his life or estate I will have nothing to say to it: besides that,
      my duty to my master the Duke of York is such, that I will perish before I
      will do any thing to displease or disoblige him, where the very necessity
      of the kingdom do not in my judgment call me." Thence I home and to the
      office, where my Lord Anglesey, and all the discourse was yesterday's vote
      in the Commons, wherein he told us that, should the Lords yield to what
      the Commons would have in this matter, it were to make them worse than any
      justice of Peace (whereas they are the highest Court in the Kingdom) that
      they cannot be judges whether an offender be to be committed or bailed,
      which every justice of Peace do do, and then he showed me precedents plain
      in their defence. At noon home to dinner, and busy all the afternoon, and
      at night home, and there met W. Batelier, who tells me the first great
      news that my Lord Chancellor is fled this day. By and by to Sir W. Pen's,
      where Sir R. Ford and he and I met, with Mr. Young and Lewes, about our
      accounts with my Lady Batten, which prove troublesome, and I doubt will
      prove to our loss. But here I hear the whole that my Lord Chancellor is
      gone, and left a paper behind him for the House of Lords, telling them the
      reason of him retiring, complaining of a design for his ruin. But the
      paper I must get: only the thing at present is great, and will put the
      King and Commons to some new counsels certainly. So home to supper and to
      bed. Sir W. Pen I find in much trouble this evening, having been called to
      the Committee this afternoon, about the business of prizes. Sir Richard
      Ford told us this evening an odd story of the basenesse of the late Lord
      Mayor, Sir W. Bolton, in cheating the poor of the City, out of the
      collections made for the people that were burned, of L1800; of which he
      can give no account, and in which he hath forsworn himself plainly, so as
      the Court of Aldermen have sequestered him from their Court till he do
      bring in an account, which is the greatest piece of roguery that they say
      was ever found in a Lord Mayor. He says also that this day hath been made
      appear to them that the Keeper of Newgate, at this day, hath made his
      house the only nursery of rogues, and whores, and pickpockets, and thieves
      in the world; where they were bred and entertained, and the whole society
      met: and that, for the sake of the Sheriffes, they durst not this day
      committ him, for fear of making him let out the prisoners, but are fain to
      go by artifice to deal with him. He tells me, also, speaking of the new
      street that is to be made from Guild Hall down to Cheapside, that the
      ground is already, most of it, bought. And tells me of one particular, of
      a man that hath a piece of ground lieing in the very middle of the street
      that must be; which, when the street is cut out of it, there will remain
      ground enough, of each side, to build a house to front the street. He
      demanded L700 for the ground, and to be excused paying any thing for the
      melioration of the rest of his ground that he was to keep. The Court
      consented to give him L700, only not to abate him the consideration: which
      the man denied; but told them, and so they agreed, that he would excuse
      the City the L700, that he might have the benefit of the melioration
      without paying any thing for it. So much some will get by having the City
      burned! But he told me that in other cases ground, by this means, that was
      not 4d. a-foot before, will now, when houses are built, be worth 15s.
      a-foot. But he tells me that the common standard now reckoned on between
      man and man, in places where there is no alteration of circumstances, but
      only the houses burnt, there the ground, which, with a house on it, did
      yield L100 a-year, is now reputed worth L33 6s. 8d.; and that this is the
      common market-price between one man and another, made upon a good and
      moderate medium.
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    <p>
      4th. At the office all the morning. At noon to dinner, and presently with
      my wife abroad, whom and her girle I leave at Unthanke's, and so to White
      Hall in expectation of waiting on the Duke of York to-day, but was
      prevented therein, only at Mr. Wren's chamber there I hear that the House
      of Lords did send down the paper which my Lord Chancellor left behind him,
      directed to the Lords, to be seditious and scandalous; and the Commons
      have voted that it be burned by the hands of the hangman, and that the
      King be desired to agree to it. I do hear, also, that they have desired
      the King to use means to stop his escape out of the nation. Here I also
      heard Mr. Jermin, who was there in the chamber upon occasion of Sir Thomas
      Harvy's telling him of his brother's having a child, and thereby taking
      away his hopes (that is, Mr. Jermin's) of L2000 a year. He swore, God damn
      him, he did not desire to have any more wealth than he had in the world,
      which indeed is a great estate, having all his uncle's, my Lord St.
      Alban's, and my Lord hath all the Queen-Mother's. But when Sir Thos. Harvy
      told him that "hereafter you will wish it more;"&mdash;"By God," answers
      he, "I won't promise what I shall do hereafter." Thence into the House,
      and there spied a pretty woman with spots on her face, well clad, who was
      enquiring for the guard chamber; I followed her, and there she went up,
      and turned into the turning towards the chapel, and I after her, and upon
      the stairs there met her coming up again, and there kissed her twice, and
      her business was to enquire for Sir Edward Bishop, one of the serjeants at
      armes. I believe she was a woman of pleasure, but was shy enough to me,
      and so I saw her go out afterwards, and I took a hackney coach, and away.
      I to Westminster Hall, and there walked, and thence towards White Hall by
      coach, and spying Mrs. Burroughs in a shop did stop and 'light and speak
      to her; and so to White Hall, where I 'light and went and met her coming
      towards White Hall, but was upon business, and I could not get her to go
      any whither and so parted, and I home with my wife and girle (my wife not
      being very well, of a great looseness day and night for these two days).
      So home, my wife to read to me in Sir R. Cotton's book of warr, which is
      excellent reading, and particularly I was mightily pleased this night in
      what we read about the little profit or honour this kingdom ever gained by
      the greatest of its conquests abroad in France. This evening come Mr.
      Mills and sat with us a while, who is mighty kind and good company, and
      so, he gone, I to supper and to bed. My wife an unquiet night. This day
      Gilsthrop is buried, who hath made all the late discourse of the great
      discovery of L65,000, of which the King bath been wronged.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. At the office all the morning, do hear that Will Pen, Sir W. Pen's
      son, is come from Ireland, but I have not seen him yet. At noon to the
      'Change, where did little, but so home again and to dinner with my clerks
      with me, and very good discourse and company they give me, and so to the
      office all the afternoon till late, and so home to supper and to bed. This
      day, not for want, but for good husbandry, I sent my father, by his
      desire, six pair of my old shoes, which fit him, and are good; yet,
      methought, it was a thing against my mind to have him wear my old things.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to the Duke of York, the first time that I
      have seen him, or we waited on him, since his sickness; and, blessed be
      God! he is not at all the worse for the smallpox, but is only a little
      weak yet. We did much business with him, and so parted. My Lord Anglesey
      told me how my Lord Northampton brought in a Bill into the House of Lords
      yesterday, under the name of a Bill for the Honour and Privilege of the
      House, and Mercy to my Lord Clarendon: which, he told me, he opposed,
      saying that he was a man accused of treason by the House of Commons; and
      mercy was not proper for him, having not been tried yet, and so no mercy
      needful for him. However, the Duke of Buckingham and others did desire
      that the Bill might be read; and it, was for banishing my Lord Clarendon
      from all his Majesty's dominions, and that it should be treason to have
      him found in any of them: the thing is only a thing of vanity, and to
      insult over him, which is mighty poor I think, and so do every body else,
      and ended in nothing, I think. By and by home with Sir J. Minnes, who
      tells me that my Lord Clarendon did go away in a Custom-house boat, and is
      now at Callis (Calais): and, I confess, nothing seems to hang more heavy
      than his leaving of this unfortunate paper behind him, that hath angered
      both Houses, and hath, I think, reconciled them in that which otherwise
      would have broke them in pieces; so that I do hence, and from Sir W.
      Coventry's late example and doctrine to me, learn that on these sorts of
      occasions there is nothing like silence; it being seldom any wrong to a
      man to say nothing, but, for the most part, it is to say anything. This
      day, in coming home, Sir J. Minnes told me a pretty story of Sir Lewes
      Dives, whom I saw this morning speaking with him, that having escaped once
      out of prison through a house of office, and another time in woman's
      apparel, and leaping over a broad canal, a soldier swore, says he, this is
      a strange jade.... He told me also a story of my Lord Cottington, who,
      wanting a son, intended to make his nephew his heir, a country boy; but
      did alter his mind upon the boy's being persuaded by another young heir,
      in roguery, to crow like a cock at my Lord's table, much company being
      there, and the boy having a great trick at doing that perfectly. My Lord
      bade them take away that fool from the table, and so gave over the
      thoughts of making him his heir, from this piece of folly. So home, and
      there to dinner, and after dinner abroad with my wife and girle, set them
      down at Unthanke's, and I to White Hall to the Council chamber, where I
      was summoned about the business of paying of the seamen, where I heard my
      Lord Anglesey put to it by Sir W. Coventry before the King for altering
      the course set by the Council; which he like a wise man did answer in few
      words, that he had already sent to alter it according to the Council's
      method, and so stopped it, whereas many words would have set the
      Commissioners of the Treasury on fire, who, I perceive, were prepared for
      it. Here I heard Mr. Gawden speak to the King and Council upon some
      business of his before them, but did it so well, in so good words and to
      the purpose, that I could never have expected from a man of no greater
      learning. So went away, and in the Lobby met Mr. Sawyer, my old chamber
      fellow, and stayed and had an hour's discourse of old things with him, and
      I perceive he do very well in the world, and is married he tells me and
      hath a child. Then home and to the office, where Captain Cocke come to me;
      and, among other discourse, tells me that he is told that an impeachment
      against Sir W. Coventry will be brought in very soon. He tells me, that
      even those that are against my Lord Chancellor and the Court, in the
      House, do not trust nor agree one with another. He tells me that my Lord
      Chancellor went away about ten at night, on Saturday last; and took boat
      at Westminster, and thence by a vessel to Callis, where he believes he now
      is: and that the Duke of York and Mr. Wren knew of it, and that himself
      did know of it on Sunday morning: that on Sunday his coach, and people
      about it, went to Twittenham, and the world thought that he had been
      there: that nothing but this unhappy paper hath undone him and that he
      doubts that this paper hath lost him everywhere that his withdrawing do
      reconcile things so far as, he thinks the heat of their fury will be over,
      and that all will be made well between the two [royal] brothers: that
      Holland do endeavour to persuade the King of France to break peace with
      us: that the Dutch will, without doubt, have sixty sail of ships out the
      next year; so knows not what will become of us, but hopes the Parliament
      will find money for us to have a fleete. He gone, I home, and there my
      wife made an end to me of Sir K. Cotton's discourse of warr, which is
      indeed a very fine book. So to supper and to bed. Captain Cocke did this
      night tell me also, among other discourses, that he did believe that there
      are jealousies in some of the House at this day against the Commissioners
      of the Treasury, that by their good husbandry they will bring the King to
      be out of debt and to save money, and so will not be in need of the
      Parliament, and then do what he please, which is a very good piece of news
      that there is such a thing to be hoped, which they would be afeard of.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. All the morning at the office, and at noon home to dinner with my
      clerks, and while we were at dinner comes Willet's aunt to see her and my
      wife; she is a very fine widow and pretty handsome, but extraordinary well
      carriaged and speaks very handsomely and with extraordinary understanding,
      so as I spent the whole afternoon in her company with my wife, she
      understanding all the things of note touching plays and fashions and Court
      and everything and speaks rarely, which pleases me mightily, and seems to
      love her niece very well, and was so glad (which was pretty odde) that
      since she came hither her breasts begin to swell, she being afeard before
      that she would have none, which was a pretty kind of content she gave
      herself. She tells us that Catelin is likely to be soon acted, which I am
      glad to hear, but it is at the King's House. But the King's House is at
      present and hath for some days been silenced upon some difference
      [between] Hart and Moone. She being gone I to the office, and there late
      doing business, and so home to supper and to bed. Only this evening I must
      remember that my Lady Batten sent for me, and it was to speak to me before
      her overseers about my bargain with Sir W. Batten about the prize, to
      which I would give no present answer, but am well enough contented that
      they begin the discourse of it, and so away to the office again, and then
      home to supper and to bed. Somebody told me this, that they hear that
      Thomson, with the wooden leg, and Wildman, the Fifth-Monarchy man, a great
      creature of the Duke of Buckingham's, are in nomination to be
      Commissioners, among others, upon the Bill of Accounts.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). All the morning at my chamber doing something towards
      the settling of my papers and accounts, which have been out of order a
      great while. At noon to dinner, where W. How with us, and after dinner, he
      being gone, I to my chamber again till almost night, and then took boat,
      the tide serving, and so to White Hall, where I saw the Duchesse of York,
      in a fine dress of second mourning for her mother, being black, edged with
      ermine, go to make her first visit to the Queene since the Duke of York
      was sick; and by and by, she being returned, the Queene come and visited
      her. But it was pretty to observe that Sir W. Coventry and I, walking an
      hour and more together in the Matted Gallery, he observed, and so did I,
      how the Duchesse, as soon as she spied him, turned her head a one side.
      Here he and I walked thus long, which we have not done a great while
      before. Our discourse was upon everything: the unhappiness of having our
      matters examined by people that understand them not; that it was better
      for us in the Navy to have men that do understand the whole, and that are
      not passionate; that we that have taken the most pains are called upon to
      answer for all crimes, while those that, like Sir W. Batten and Sir J.
      Minnes, did sit and do nothing, do lie still without any trouble; that, if
      it were to serve the King and kingdom again in a war, neither of us could
      do more, though upon this experience we might do better than we did; that
      the commanders, the gentlemen that could never be brought to order, but
      undid all, are now the men that find fault and abuse others; that it had
      been much better for the King to have given Sir J. Minnes and Sir W.
      Batten L1000 a-year to have sat still, than to have had them in his
      business this war: that the serving a Prince that minds not his business
      is most unhappy for them that serve him well, and an unhappiness so great
      that he declares he will never have more to do with a war, under him. That
      he hath papers which do flatly contradict the Duke of Albemarle's
      Narrative; and that he hath been with the Duke of Albemarle and shewed him
      them, to prevent his falling into another like fault: that the Duke of
      Albemarle seems to be able to answer them; but he thinks that the Duke of
      Albemarle and the Prince are contented to let their Narratives sleep, they
      being not only contradictory in some things (as he observed about the
      business of the Duke of Albemarle's being to follow the Prince upon
      dividing the fleete, in case the enemy come out), but neither of them to
      be maintained in others. That the business the other night of my Lord
      Anglesey at the Council was happily got over for my Lord, by his dexterous
      silencing it, and the rest, not urging it further; forasmuch as, had the
      Duke of Buckingham come in time enough, and had got it by the end, he,
      would have toused him in it; Sir W. Coventry telling me that my Lord
      Anglesey did, with such impudence, maintain the quarrel against the
      Commons and some of the Lords, in the business of my Lord Clarendon, that
      he believes there are enough would be glad but of this occasion to be
      revenged of him. He tells me that he hears some of the Thomsons are like
      to be of the Commission for the Accounts, and Wildman, which he much
      wonders at, as having been a false fellow to every body, and in prison
      most of the time since the King's coming in. But he do tell me that the
      House is in such a condition that nobody can tell what to make of them,
      and, he thinks, they were never in before; that every body leads, and
      nobody follows; and that he do now think that, since a great many are
      defeated in their expectation of being of the Commission, now they would
      put it into such hands as it shall get no credit from: for, if they do
      look to the bottom and see the King's case, they think they are then bound
      to give the King money; whereas, they would be excused from that, and
      therefore endeavour to make this business of the Accounts to signify
      little. I spoke with him about my Lord Sandwich's business, in which he is
      very friendly, and do say that the unhappy business of the prizes is it
      that hath brought all this trouble upon him, and the only thing that made
      any thing else mentioned, and it is true. So having discoursed with him, I
      spent some time with Sir Stephen Fox about the business of our adjusting
      the new method of the Excise between the Guards household and Tangier, the
      Lords Commissioners of the Treasury being now resolved to bring all their
      management into a course of payment by orders, and not by tallies, and I
      am glad of it, and so by water home late, and very dark, and when come
      home there I got my wife to read, and then come Captain Cocke to me; and
      there he tells me, to my great satisfaction, that Sir Robert Brookes did
      dine with him today; and that he told him, speaking of me, that he would
      make me the darling of the House of Commons, so much he is satisfied
      concerning me. And this Cocke did tell me that I might give him thanks for
      it; and I do think it may do me good, for he do happen to be held a
      considerable person, of a young man, both for sobriety and ability. Then
      to discourse of business of his own about some hemp of his that is come
      home to receive it into the King's stores, and then parted, and by and by
      my wife and I to supper, she not being well, her flux being great upon
      her, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. All the morning busy at the office, doing very considerable business,
      and thither comes Sir G. Carteret to talk with me; who seems to think
      himself safe as to his particular, but do doubt what will become of the
      whole kingdom, things being so broke in pieces. He tells me that the King
      himself did the other day very particularly tell the whole story of my
      Lord Sandwich's not following the Dutch ships, with which he is charged;
      and shews the reasons of it to be the only good course he could have
      taken, and do discourse it very knowingly. This I am glad of, though, as
      the King is now, his favour, for aught I see, serves very little in stead
      at this day, but rather is an argument against a man; and the King do not
      concern himself to relieve or justify any body, but is wholly negligent of
      everybody's concernment. This morning I was troubled with my Lord
      Hinchingbroke's sending to borrow L200 of me; but I did answer that I had
      none, nor could borrow any; for I am resolved I will not be undone for any
      body, though I would do much for my Lord Sandwich&mdash;for it is to
      answer a bill of exchange of his, and I perceive he hath made use of all
      other means in the world to do it, but I am resolved to serve him, but not
      ruin myself, as it may be to part with so much of the little I have by me
      to keep if I should by any turn of times lose the rest. At noon I to the
      'Change, and there did a little business, and among other things called at
      Cade's, the stationer, where he tells me how my Lord Gerard is troubled
      for several things in the House of Commons, and in one wherein himself is
      concerned; and, it seems, this Lord is a very proud and wicked man, and
      the Parliament is likely to order him. Then home to dinner, and then a
      little abroad, thinking to have gone to the other end of the town, but it
      being almost night I would not, but home again, and there to my chamber,
      and all alone did there draw up my answer to Sir Rob. Brookes's letter,
      and when I had done it went down to my clerks at the office for their
      opinion which at this time serves me to very good purpose, they having
      many things in their heads which I had not in the businesses of the office
      now in dispute. Having done with this, then I home and to supper very
      late, and to bed. My [wife] being yet very ill of her looseness, by which
      she is forced to lie from me to-night in the girl's chamber.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and all the morning at the office, and then home with my people
      to dinner, and very merry, and then to my office again, where did much
      business till night, that my eyes begun to be sore, and then forced to
      leave off, and by coach set my wife at her tailor's and Willet, and I to
      Westminster Hall, and there walked a good while till 8 at night, and there
      hear to my great content that the King did send a message to the House
      to-day that he would adjourne them on the 17th instant to February; by
      which time, at least, I shall have more respite to prepare things on my
      own behalf, and the Office, against their return. Here met Mr. Hinxton,
      the organist, walking, and I walked with him; and, asking him many
      questions, I do find that he can no more give an intelligible answer to a
      man that is not a great master in his art, than another man. And this
      confirms me that it is only want of an ingenious man that is master in
      musique, to bring musique to a certainty, and ease in composition. Having
      done this, I home, taking up my wife and girle, and there to supper and to
      bed, having finished my letters, among which one to Commissioner
      Middleton, who is now coming up to town from Portsmouth, to enter upon his
      Surveyorship.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. By coach to White Hall, and there attended the Duke of York, as we
      are wont, who is now grown pretty well, and goes up and down White Hall,
      and this night will be at the Council, which I am glad of. Thence to
      Westminster Hall, and there walked most of the morning, and among others
      did there meet my cozen Roger Pepys, who intends to go to Impington on
      this day s'ennight, the Parliament break up the night before. Here I met
      Rolt and Sir John Chichly, and Harris, the player, and there we talked of
      many things, and particularly of "Catiline," which is to be suddenly acted
      at the King's house; and there all agree that it cannot be well done at
      that house, there not being good actors enow: and Burt' acts Cicero, which
      they all conclude he will not be able to do well. The King gives them L500
      for robes, there being, as they say, to be sixteen scarlett robes. Thence
      home to dinner, and would have had Harris home with me, but it was too
      late for him to get to the playhouse after it, and so home to dinner, and
      spent the afternoon talking with my wife and people at home till the
      evening, and then comes Sir W. Warren to talk about some business of his
      and mine: and he, I find, would have me not to think that the Parliament,
      in the mind they are in, and having so many good offices in their view to
      dispose of, will leave any of the King's officers in, but will rout all,
      though I am likely to escape as well as any, if any can escape; and I
      think he is in the right, and I do look for it accordingly. Then we fell
      to discourse of my little vessel, "The Maybolt," and he thinks that it
      will be best for me to employ her for a voyage to Newcastle for coles,
      they being now dear, and the voyage not long, nor dangerous yet; and I
      think I shall go near to do so. Then, talking of his business, I away to
      the office, where very busy, and thither comes Sir W. Pen, and he and I
      walked together in the garden, and there told me what passed to-day with
      him in the Committee, by my Lord Sandwich's breaking bulk of the prizes;
      and he do seem to me that he hath left it pretty well understood by them,
      he saying that what my Lord did was done at the desire, and with the
      advice, of the chief officers of the fleete, and that it was no more than
      admirals heretofore have done in like cases, which, if it be true that he
      said it, is very well, and did please me well. He being gone, I to my
      office again and there late, and so weary home.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Rose before day, and took coach, by daylight, and to Westminster to
      Sir G. Downing's, and there met Sir Stephen Fox, and thence he and I to
      Sir Robert Longs to discourse the business of our orders for money, he for
      the guards, and I for Tangier, and were a little angry in our concerns,
      one against the other, but yet parted good friends, and I think I got
      ground by it. Thence straight to the office, and there sat all the
      morning, and then home to dinner, and after dinner I all alone to the Duke
      of York's house, and saw "The Tempest," which, as often as I have seen it,
      I do like very well, and the house very full. But I could take little
      pleasure more than the play, for not being able to look about, for fear of
      being seen. Here only I saw a French lady in the pit, with a tunique, just
      like one of ours, only a handkercher about her neck; but this fashion for
      a woman did not look decent. Thence walked to my bookseller's, and there
      he did give me a list of the twenty who were nominated for the Commission
      in Parliament for the Accounts: and it is strange that of the twenty the
      Parliament could not think fit to choose their nine, but were fain to add
      three that were not in the list of the twenty, they being many of them
      factious people and ringleaders in the late troubles; so that Sir John
      Talbott did fly out and was very hot in the business of Wildman's being
      named, and took notice how he was entertained in the bosom of the Duke of
      Buckingham, a Privy-counsellor; and that it was fit to be observed by the
      House, and punished. The men that I know of the nine I like very well;
      that is, Mr. Pierrepont, Lord Brereton, and Sir William Turner; and I do
      think the rest are so, too; but such as will not be able to do this
      business as it ought to be, to do any good with. Here I did also see their
      votes against my Lord Chiefe Justice Keeling, that his proceedings were
      illegal, and that he was a contemner of Magna Charta (the great preserver
      of our lives, freedoms, and properties) and an introduction to arbitrary
      government; which is very high language, and of the same sound with that
      in the year 1640. I home, and there wrote my letters, and so to supper and
      to bed. This day my Lord Chancellor's letter was burned at the 'Change.'
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, lying long all alone (my wife lying for these two or three days
      of sickness alone), thinking of my several businesses in hand, and then
      rose and to the office, being in some doubt of having my cozen Roger and
      Lord Hinchinbroke and Sir Thos. Crew by my cozens invitation at dinner
      to-day, and we wholly unprovided. So I away to Westminster, to the
      Parliament-door, to speak with Roger: and here I saw my Lord Keeling go
      into the House to the barr, to have his business heard by the whole House
      to-day; and a great crowd of people to stare upon him. Here I hear that
      the Lords' Bill for banishing and disabling my Lord Clarendon from bearing
      any office, or being in the King's dominions, and its being made felony
      for any to correspond with him but his own children, is brought to the
      Commons: but they will not agree to it, being not satisfied with that as
      sufficient, but will have a Bill of Attainder brought in against him: but
      they make use of this against the Lords, that they, that would not think
      there was cause enough to commit him without hearing, will have him
      banished without hearing. By and by comes out my cozen Roger to me, he
      being not willing to be in the House at the business of my Lord Keeling,
      lest he should be called upon to complain against him for his abusing him
      at Cambridge, very wrongfully and shamefully, but not to his reproach, but
      to the Chief justice's in the end, when all the world cried shame upon him
      for it. So he with me home, and Creed, whom I took up by the way, going
      thither, and they to dine with me, and pretty merry, and among other
      pieces of news, it is now fresh that the King of Portugall is deposed, and
      his brother made King; and that my Lord Sandwich is gone from Madrid with
      great honour to Lisbon, to make up, at this juncture, a peace to the
      advantage, as the Spaniard would have it, of Spain. I wish it may be for
      my Lord's honour, if it be so; but it seems my Lord is in mighty
      estimation in Spain. After dinner comes Mr. Moore, and he and I alone a
      while, he telling me my Lord Sandwich's credit is like to be undone, if
      the bill of L200 my Lord Hinchingbroke wrote to me about be not paid
      to-morrow, and that, if I do not help him about it, they have no way but
      to let it be protested. So, finding that Creed hath supplied them with
      L150 in their straits, and that this is no bigger sum, I am very willing
      to serve my Lord, though not in this kind; but yet I will endeavour to get
      this done for them, and the rather because of some plate that was lodged
      the other day with me, by my Lady's order, which may be in part of
      security for my money, as I may order it, for, for ought I see, there is
      no other to be hoped for. This do trouble me; but yet it is good luck that
      the sum is no bigger. He gone, I with my cozen Roger to Westminster Hall;
      and there we met the House rising: and they have voted my Lord Chief
      Justice Keeling's proceedings illegal; but that, out of particular respect
      to him, and the mediation of a great many, they have resolved to proceed
      no further against him. After a turn or two with my cozen, I away with Sir
      W. Warren, who met me here by my desire, and to Exeter House, and there to
      counsel, to Sir William Turner, about the business of my bargain with my
      Lady Batten; and he do give me good advice, and that I am safe, but that
      there is a great many pretty considerations in it that makes it necessary
      for me to be silent yet for a while till we see whether the ship be safe
      or no; for she is drove to the coast of Holland, where she now is in the
      Texell, so that it is not prudence for me yet to resolve whether I will
      stand by the bargain or no, and so home, and Sir W. Warren and I walked
      upon Tower Hill by moonlight a great while, consulting business of the
      office and our present condition, which is but bad, it being most likely
      that the Parliament will change all hands, and so let them, so I may keep
      but what I have. Thence home, and there spent the evening at home with my
      wife and entering my journal, and so to supper and to bed, troubled with
      my parting with the L200, which I must lend my Lord Sandwich to answer his
      bill of exchange.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up and to the office, where busy, and after dinner also to the
      office again till night, when Mr. Moore come to me to discourse about the
      L200 I must supply my Lord Hinchingbroke, and I promised him to do it,
      though much against my will. So home, to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where I heard a German preach, in a
      tone hard to be understood, but yet an extraordinary good sermon, and
      wholly to my great content. So home, and there all alone with wife and
      girle to dinner, and then I busy at my chamber all the afternoon, and
      looking over my plate, which indeed is a very fine quantity, God knows,
      more than ever I expected to see of my own, and more than is fit for a man
      of no better quality than I am. In the evening comes Mrs. Turner to visit
      us, who hath been long sick, and she sat and supped with us, and after
      supper, her son Francke being there, now upon the point of his going to
      the East Indys, I did give him "Lex Mercatoria," and my wife my old pair
      of tweezers, which are pretty, and my book an excellent one for him. Most
      of our talk was of the great discourse the world hath against my Lady
      Batten, for getting her husband to give her all, and disinherit his eldest
      son; though the truth is, the son, as they say, did play the knave with
      his father when time was, and the father no great matter better with him,
      nor with other people also. So she gone, we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and to several places, to pay what I owed. Among others, to my
      mercer, to pay for my fine camlott cloak, which costs me, the very stuff,
      almost L6; and also a velvet coat-the outside cost me above L8. And so to
      Westminster, where I find the House mighty busy upon a petition against my
      Lord Gerard, which lays heavy things to his charge, of his abusing the
      King in his Guards; and very hot the House is upon it. I away home to
      dinner alone with wife and girle, and so to the office, where mighty busy
      to my great content late, and then home to supper, talk with my wife, and
      to bed. It was doubtful to-day whether the House should be adjourned
      to-morrow or no.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to the office, where very busy all the morning, and then in
      the afternoon I with Sir W. Pen and Sir T. Harvy to White Hall to attend
      the Duke of York, who is now as well as ever, and there we did our usual
      business with him, and so away home with Sir W. Pen, and there to the
      office, where pretty late doing business, my wife having been abroad all
      day with Mrs. Turner buying of one thing or other. This day I do hear at
      White Hall that the Duke of Monmouth is sick, and in danger of the
      smallpox. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and to my goldsmith's in the morning, to look after the
      providing of L60 for Mr. Moore, towards the answering of my Lord
      Sandwich's bill of exchange, he being come to be contented with my lending
      him L60 in part of it, which pleases me, I expecting to have been forced
      to answer the whole bill; and this, which I do do, I hope to secure out of
      the plate, which was delivered into my custody of my Lord's the other day
      by Mr. Cooke, and which I did get Mr. Stokes, the goldsmith, last night to
      weigh at my house, and there is enough to secure L100. Thence home to the
      office, and there all the morning by particular appointment with Sir W.
      Pen, Sir R. Ford, and those that are concerned for my Lady Batten (Mr.
      Wood, Young, and Lewes), to even the accounts of our prize business, and
      at noon broke up, and to dinner, every man to his own home, and to it till
      late at night again, and we did come to some end, and I am mightily put to
      it how to order the business of my bargaine, but my industry is to keep it
      off from discourse till the ship be brought home safe, and this I did do,
      and so we broke up, she appearing in our debts about L1500, and so we
      parted, and I to my business, and home to my wife, who is troubled with
      the tooth ake, and there however I got her to read to me the History of
      Algiers, which I find a very pretty book, and so to supper with much
      pleasure talking, and to bed. The Parliament not adjourned yet.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to the Office, where Commissioner Middleton first took place
      at the Board as Surveyor of the Navy; and indeed I think will be an
      excellent officer; I am sure much beyond what his predecessor was. At
      noon, to avoid being forced to invite him to dinner, it being his first
      day, and nobody inviting him, I did go to the 'Change with Sir W. Pen in
      his coach, who first went to Guildhall, whither I went with him, he to
      speak with Sheriff Gawden&mdash;I only for company; and did here look up
      and down this place, where I have not been before since the fire; and I
      see that the city are got a pace on in the rebuilding of Guildhall. Thence
      to the 'Change, where I stayed very little, and so home to dinner, and
      there find my wife mightily out of order with her teeth. At the office all
      the afternoon, and at night by coach to Westminster, to the Hall, where I
      met nobody, and do find that this evening the King by message (which he
      never did before) hath passed several bills, among others that for the
      Accounts, and for banishing my Lord Chancellor, and hath adjourned the
      House to February; at which I am glad, hoping in this time to get leisure
      to state my Tangier Accounts, and to prepare better for the Parliament's
      enquiries. Here I hear how the House of Lords, with great severity, if not
      tyranny, have ordered poor Carr, who only erred in the manner of the
      presenting his petition against my Lord Gerard, it being first printed
      before it was presented; which was, it, seems, by Colonel Sands's going
      into the country, into whose hands he had put it: the poor man is ordered
      to stand in the pillory two or three times, and his eares cut, and be
      imprisoned I know not how long. But it is believed that the Commons, when
      they meet, will not be well pleased with it; and they have no reason, I
      think. Having only heard this from Mrs. Michell, I away again home, and
      there to supper and to bed, my wife exceeding ill in her face with the
      tooth ake, and now her face has become mightily swelled that I am mightily
      troubled for it.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and all the morning at the office with Sir R. Ford and the same
      company as on Wednesday about my Lady Batten's accounts. At noon home to
      dinner, where my poor wife in bed in mighty pain, her left cheek so
      swelled as that we feared it would break, and so were fain to send for Mr.
      Hollier, who come, and seems doubtful of the defluxions of humours that
      may spoil her face, if not timely cured. He laid a poultice to it and
      other directions, and so away, and I to the office, where on the same
      accounts very late, and did come pretty near a settlement. So at night to
      Sir W. Pen's with Sir R. Ford, and there was Sir D. Gawden, and there we
      only talked of sundry things; and I have found of late, by discourse, that
      the present sort of government is looked upon as a sort of government that
      we never had yet&mdash;that is to say, a King and House of Commons against
      the House of Lords; for so indeed it is, though neither of the two first
      care a fig for one another, nor the third for them both, only the Bishops
      are afeard of losing ground, as I believe they will. So home to my poor
      wife, who is in mighty pain, and her face miserably swelled: so as I was
      frighted to see it, and I was forced to lie below in the great chamber,
      where I have not lain many a day, and having sat up with her, talking and
      reading and pitying her, I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. At the office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner with my
      Clerks and Creed, who among other things all alone, after dinner, talking
      of the times, he tells me that the Nonconformists are mighty high, and
      their meetings frequented and connived at; and they do expect to have
      their day now soon; for my Lord of Buckingham is a declared friend to
      them, and even to the Quakers, who had very good words the other day from
      the King himself: and, what is more, the Archbishop of Canterbury is
      called no more to the Cabal, nor, by the way, Sir W. Coventry; which I am
      sorry for, the Cabal at present being, as he says, the King, and Duke of
      Buckingham, and Lord Keeper, the Duke of Albemarle, and Privy Seale. The
      Bishops, differing from the King in the late business in the House of
      Lords, having caused this and what is like to follow, for every body is
      encouraged nowadays to speak, and even to preach, as I have heard one of
      them, as bad things against them as ever in the year 1640; which is a
      strange change. He gone, I to the office, where busy till late at night,
      and then home to sit with my wife, who is a little better, and her cheek
      asswaged. I read to her out of "The History of Algiers," which is mighty
      pretty reading, and did discourse alone about my sister Pall's match,
      which is now on foot with one Jackson, another nephew of Mr. Phillips's,
      to whom he hath left his estate.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd (Lord's day). Up, and my wife, poor wretch, still in pain, and then
      to dress myself and down to my chamber to settle some papers, and thither
      come to me Willet with an errand from her mistress, and this time I first
      did give her a little kiss, she being a very pretty humoured girle, and so
      one that I do love mightily. Thence to my office, and there did a little
      business, and so to church, where a dull sermon, and then home, and Cozen
      Kate Joyce come and dined with me and Mr. Holliard; but by chance I
      offering occasion to him to discourse of the Church of Rome, Lord! how he
      run on to discourse with the greatest vehemence and importunity in the
      world, as the only thing in the world that he is full of, and it was good
      sport to me to see him so earnest on so little occasion. She come to see
      us and to tell me that her husband is going to build his house again, and
      would borrow of me L300, which I shall upon good security be willing to
      do, and so told her, being willing to have some money out of my hands upon
      good security. After dinner up to my wife again, who is in great pain
      still with her tooth, and there, they gone, I spent the most of the
      afternoon and night reading and talking to bear her company, and so to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up before day, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry's, and with him to
      White Hall, and there walked a great while with him in the garden till the
      Commissioners of the Treasury met, and there talked over many businesses,
      and particularly he tells me that by my desire he hath moved the Duke of
      York that Sir J. Minnes might be removed from the Navy, at least the
      Controller's place, and his business put on my Lord Brouncker and Sir W.
      Pen; that the Committee for Accounts are good sober men, and such as he
      thinks we shall have fair play from; that he hopes that the kingdom will
      escape ruin in general, notwithstanding all our fears, and yet I find he
      do seem not very confident in it. So to the Commissioners of the Treasury,
      and there I had a dispute before them with Sir Stephen Fox about our
      orders for money, who is very angry, but I value it not. But, Lord! to see
      with what folly my Lord Albemarle do speak in this business would make a
      man wonder at the good fortune of such a fool. Thence meeting there with
      Creed, he and I to the Exchange, and there I saw Carr stand in the pillory
      for the business of my Lord Gerard, which is supposed will make a hot
      business in the House of Commons, when they shall come to sit again, the
      Lords having ordered this with great injustice, as all people think, his
      only fault being the printing his petition before, by accident, his
      petition be read in the House. Here walked up and down the Exchange with
      Creed, and then home to dinner, and there hear by Creed that the Bishops
      of Winchester and of Rochester, and the Dean of the Chapel, and some other
      great prelates, are suspended: and a cloud upon the Archbishop ever since
      the late business in the House of Lords; and I believe it will be a heavy
      blow to the Clergy. This noon I bought a sermon of Dr. Floyd's, which
      Creed read a great part of to me and Mr. Hollier, who dined with me, but
      as well writ and as good, against the Church of Rome, as ever I read; but,
      Lord! how Hollier, poor man, was taken with it. They gone I to the office,
      and there very late with Mr. Willson and my people about the making of a
      new contract for the victualler, which do and will require a great deal of
      pains of me, and so to supper and to bed, my wife being pretty well all
      this day by reason of her imposthume being broke in her cheek into her
      mouth. This day, at the 'Change, Creed shewed me Mr. Coleman, of whom my
      wife hath so good an opinion, and says that he is as very a rogue for
      women as any in the world; which did disquiet me, like a fool, and run in
      my mind a great while.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and all the morning at the office, and at noon with my clerks to
      dinner, and then to the office again, busy at the office till six at
      night, and then by coach to St. James's, it being about six at night; my
      design being to see the ceremonys, this night being the eve of Christmas,
      at the Queen's chapel. But it being not begun I to Westminster Hall, and
      there staid and walked, and then to the Swan, and there drank and talked,
      and did banter a little Frank, and so to White Hall, and sent my coach
      round, I through the Park to chapel, where I got in up almost to the rail,
      and with a great deal of patience staid from nine at night to two in the
      morning, in a very great crowd; and there expected, but found nothing
      extraordinary, there being nothing but a high masse. The Queen was there,
      and some ladies. But, Lord! what an odde thing it was for me to be in a
      crowd of people, here a footman, there a beggar, here a fine lady, there a
      zealous poor papist, and here a Protestant, two or three together, come to
      see the shew. I was afeard of my pocket being picked very much.... Their
      musique very good indeed, but their service I confess too frivolous, that
      there can be no zeal go along with it, and I do find by them themselves
      that they do run over their beads with one hand, and point and play and
      talk and make signs with the other in the midst of their masse. But all
      things very rich and beautiful; and I see the papists have the wit, most
      of them, to bring cushions to kneel on, which I wanted, and was mightily
      troubled to kneel. All being done, and I sorry for my coming, missing of
      what I expected; which was, to have had a child born and dressed there,
      and a great deal of do: but we broke up, and nothing like it done: and
      there I left people receiving the Sacrament: and the Queen gone, and
      ladies; only my Lady Castlemayne, who looked prettily in her
      night-clothes, and so took my coach, which waited, and away through Covent
      Garden, to set down two gentlemen and a lady, who come thither to see
      also, and did make mighty mirth in their talk of the folly of this
      religion. And so I stopped, having set them down and drank some burnt wine
      at the Rose Tavern door, while the constables come, and two or three
      Bellmen went by,
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. It being a fine, light, moonshine morning, and so home round the
      city, and stopped and dropped money at five or six places, which I was the
      willinger to do, it being Christmas-day, and so home, and there find my
      wife in bed, and Jane and the maids making pyes, and so I to bed, and
      slept well, and rose about nine, and to church, and there heard a dull
      sermon of Mr. Mills, but a great many fine people at church; and so home.
      Wife and girl and I alone at dinner&mdash;a good Christmas dinner, and all
      the afternoon at home, my wife reading to me "The History of the Drummer
      of Mr. Mompesson," which is a strange story of spies, and worth reading
      indeed. In the evening comes Mr. Pelling, and he sat and supped with us;
      and very good company, he reciting to us many copies of good verses of Dr.
      Wilde, who writ "Iter Boreale," and so to bed, my boy being gone with W.
      Hewer and Mr. Hater to Mr. Gibson's in the country to dinner and lie there
      all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up and to Westminster, and there to the Swan, and by chance met Mr.
      Spicer and another 'Chequer clerk, and there made them drink, and there
      talked of the credit the 'Chequer is now come to and will in a little
      time, and so away homeward, and called at my bookseller's, and there
      bought Mr. Harrington's works, "Oceana," &amp;c., and two other books,
      which cost me L4, and so home, and there eat a bit, and then with my wife
      to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Surprizall;" which did not
      please me to-day, the actors not pleasing me; and especially Nell's acting
      of a serious part, which she spoils. Here met with Sir W. Pen, and sat by
      him, and home by coach with him, and there to my office a while, and then
      home to supper and to bed. I hear this day that Mrs. Stewart do at this
      day keep a great court at Somerset House, with her husband the Duke of
      Richmond, she being visited for her beauty's sake by people, as the Queen
      is, at nights; and they say also that she is likely to go to Court again,
      and there put my Lady Castlemayne's nose out of joynt. God knows that
      would make a great turn. This day I was invited to have gone to my cozen
      Mary Pepys' burial, my uncle Thomas' daughter, but could not.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there walked with Creed in the
      Matted gallery till by and by a Committee for Tangier met: the Duke of
      York there; and there I did discourse over to them their condition as to
      money, which they were all mightily, as I could desire, satisfied with,
      but the Duke of Albemarle, who takes the part of the Guards against us in
      our supplies of money, which is an odd consideration for a dull, heavy
      blockhead as he is, understanding no more of either than a goose: but the
      ability and integrity of Sir W. Coventry, in all the King's concernments,
      I do and must admire. After the Committee up, I and Sir W. Coventry walked
      an hour in the gallery, talking over many businesses, and he tells me that
      there are so many things concur to make him and his Fellow Commissioners
      unable to go through the King's work that he do despair of it, every body
      becoming an enemy to them in their retrenchments, and the King unstable,
      the debts great and the King's present occasions for money great and many
      and pressing, the bankers broke and every body keeping in their money,
      while the times are doubtful what will stand. But he says had they come in
      two years ago they doubt not to have done what the King would by this
      time, or were the King in the condition as heretofore, when the Chancellor
      was great, to be able to have what sums of money they pleased of the
      Parliament, and then the ill administration was such that instead of
      making good use of this power and money he suffered all to go to ruin. But
      one such sum now would put all upon their legs, and now the King would
      have the Parliament give him money when they are in an ill humour and will
      not be willing to give any, nor are very able, and besides every body
      distrusts what they give the King will be lost; whereas six months hence,
      when they see that the King can live without them, and is become steady,
      and to manage what he has well, he doubts not but their doubts would be
      removed, and would be much more free as well as more able to give him
      money. He told me how some of his enemies at the Duke of York's had got
      the Duke of York's commission for the Commissioners of his estate changed,
      and he and Brouncker and Povy left out: that this they did do to disgrace
      and impose upon him at this time; but that he, though he values not the
      thing, did go and tell the Duke of York what he heard, and that he did not
      think that he had given him any reason to do this, out of his belief that
      he would not be as faithful and serviceable to him as the best of those
      that have got him put out. Whereupon the Duke of York did say that it
      arose only from his not knowing whether now he would have time to regard
      his affairs; and that, if he should, he would put him into the commission
      with his own hand, though the commission be passed. He answered that he
      had been faithful to him, and done him good service therein, so long as he
      could attend it; and if he had been able to have attended it more, he
      would not have enriched himself with such and such estates as my Lord
      Chancellor hath got, that did properly belong to his Royal Highness, as
      being forfeited to the King, and so by the King's gift given to the Duke
      of York. Hereupon the Duke of York did call for the commission, and hath
      since put him in. This he tells me he did only to show his enemies that he
      is not so low as to be trod on by them, or the Duke hath any so bad
      opinion of him as they would think. Here we parted, and I with Sir H.
      Cholmly went and took a turn into the Park, and there talked of several
      things, and about Tangier particularly, and of his management of his
      business, and among other discourse about the method he will leave his
      accounts in if he should suddenly die, he says there is nothing but what
      is easily understood, but only a sum of L500 which he has entered given to
      E. E. S., which in great confidence he do discover to me to be my Lord
      Sandwich, at the beginning of their contract for the Mole, and I suppose
      the rest did the like, which was L1500, which would appear a very odd
      thing for my Lord to be a profiter by the getting of the contract made for
      them. But here it puts me into thoughts how I shall own my receiving of
      L200 a year from him, but it is his gift, I never asked of him, and which
      he did to Mr. Povy, and so there is no great matter in it. Thence to other
      talk. He tells me that the business of getting the Duchess of Richmond to
      Court is broke off, the Duke not suffering it; and thereby great trouble
      is brought among the people that endeavoured it, and thought they had
      compassed it. And, Lord! to think that at this time the King should mind
      no other cares but these! He tells me that my Lord of Canterbury is a
      mighty stout man, and a man of a brave, high spirit, and cares not for
      this disfavour that he is under at Court, knowing that the King cannot
      take away his profits during his life, and therefore do not value it.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This character of Archbishop Sheldon does not tally with the
     scandal that Pepys previously reported of him.  Burnet has some
     passages of importance on this in his "Own Time," Book II. He
     affirms that Charles's final decision to throw over Clarendon was
     caused by the Chancellor's favouring Mrs. Stewart's marriage with
     the Duke of Richmond.  The king had a conference with Sheldon on the
     removal of Clarendon, but could not convert the archbishop to his
     view.  Lauderdale told Burnet that he had an account of the
     interview from the king.  "The king and Sheldon had gone into such
     expostulations upon it that from that day forward Sheldon could
     never recover the king's confidence."]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence I home, and there to my office and wrote a letter to the Duke of
      York from myself about my clerks extraordinary, which I have employed this
      war, to prevent my being obliged to answer for what others do without any
      reason demand allowance for, and so by this means I will be accountable
      for none but my own, and they shall not have them but upon the same terms
      that I have, which is a profession that with these helps they will answer
      to their having performed their duties of their places. So to dinner, and
      then away by coach to the Temple, and then for speed by water thence to
      White Hall, and there to our usual attending the Duke of York, and did
      attend him, where among other things I did present and lodge my letter,
      and did speed in it as I could wish. Thence home with Sir W. Pen and Comm.
      Middleton by coach, and there home and to cards with my wife, W. Hewer,
      Mercer, and the girle, and mighty pleasant all the evening, and so to bed
      with my wife, which I have not done since her being ill for three weeks or
      thereabouts.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning, at noon home, and
      there to dinner with my clerks and Mr. Pelting, and had a very good
      dinner, among others a haunch of venison boiled, and merry we were, and I
      rose soon from dinner, and with my wife and girle to the King's house, and
      there saw "The Mad Couple," which is but an ordinary play; but only Nell's
      and Hart's mad parts are most excellently done, but especially hers: which
      makes it a miracle to me to think how ill she do any serious part, as, the
      other day, just like a fool or changeling; and, in a mad part, do beyond
      all imitation almost. [It pleased us mightily to see the natural affection
      of a poor woman, the mother of one of the children brought on the stage:
      the child crying, she by force got upon the stage, and took up her child
      and carried it away off of the stage from Hart.] Many fine faces here
      to-day. Thence home, and there to the office late, and then home to supper
      and to bed. I am told to-day, which troubles me, that great complaint is
      made upon the 'Change, among our merchants, that the very Ostend little
      pickaroon men-of-war do offer violence to our merchant-men, and search
      them, beat our masters, and plunder them, upon pretence of carrying
      Frenchmen's goods. Lord! what a condition are we come to, and that so soon
      after a war!
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). Up, and at my chamber all the day, both morning and
      afternoon (only a little at dinner with my wife alone), upon the settling
      of my Tangier accounts towards the evening of all reckonings now against
      the new year, and here I do see the great folly of letting things go long
      unevened, it being very hard for me and dangerous to state after things
      are gone out of memory, and much more would be so should I have died in
      this time and my accounts come to other hands, to understand which would
      never be. At night comes Mrs. Turner to see us; and there, among other
      talk, she tells me that Mr. William Pen, who is lately come over from
      Ireland, is a Quaker again, or some very melancholy thing; that he cares
      for no company, nor comes into any which is a pleasant thing, after his
      being abroad so long, and his father such a hypocritical rogue, and at
      this time an Atheist. She gone, I to my very great content do find my
      accounts to come very even and naturally, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up before day, and by coach to Westminster, and there first to Sir
      H. Cholmly, and there I did to my great content deliver him up his little
      several papers for sums of money paid him, and took his regular receipts
      upon his orders, wherein I am safe. Thence to White Hall, and there to
      visit Sir G. Carteret, and there was with him a great while, and my Lady
      and they seem in very good humour, but by and by Sir G. Carteret and I
      alone, and there we did talk of the ruinous condition we are in, the King
      being going to put out of the Council so many able men; such as my Lord
      Anglesey, Ashly, Hopis, Secretary Morrice (to bring in Mr. Trevor), and
      the Archbishop of Canterbury, and my Lord Bridgewater. He tells me that
      this is true, only the Duke of York do endeavour to hinder it, and the
      Duke of York himself did tell him so: that the King and the Duke of York
      do not in company disagree, but are friendly; but that there is a core in
      their hearts, he doubts, which is not to be easily removed; for these men
      do suffer only for their constancy to the Chancellor, or at least from the
      King's ill-will against him: that they do now all they can to vilify the
      clergy, and do accuse Rochester [Dolben]... and so do raise scandals, all
      that is possible, against other of the Bishops. He do suggest that
      something is intended for the Duke of Monmouth, and it may be, against the
      Queene also: that we are in no manner sure against an invasion the next
      year: that the Duke of Buckingham do rule all now, and the Duke of York
      comes indeed to the Caball, but signifies little there. That this new
      faction do not endure, nor the King, Sir W. Coventry; but yet that he is
      so usefull that they cannot be without him; but that he is not now called
      to the Caball. That my Lord of Buckingham, Bristoll, and Arlington, do
      seem to agree in these things; but that they do not in their hearts trust
      one another, but do drive several ways, all of them. In short, he do bless
      himself that he is no more concerned in matters now; and the hopes he hath
      of being at liberty, when his accounts are over, to retire into the
      country. That he do give over the kingdom for wholly lost. So after some
      other little discourse, I away, meeting with Mr. Cooling. I with him by
      coach to the Wardrobe, where I never was since the fire in Hatton Garden,
      but did not 'light: and he tells me he fears that my Lord Sandwich will
      suffer much by Mr. Townsend's being untrue to him, he being now unable to
      give the Commissioners of the Treasury an account of his money received by
      many thousands of pounds, which I am troubled for. Thence to the Old
      Exchange together, he telling me that he believes there will be no such
      turning out of great men as is talked of, but that it is only to fright
      people, but I do fear there may be such a thing doing. He do mightily
      inveigh against the folly of the King to bring his matters to wrack thus,
      and that we must all be undone without help. I met with Cooling at the
      Temple-gate, after I had been at both my booksellers and there laid out
      several pounds in books now against the new year. From the 'Change (where
      I met with Captain Cocke, who would have borrowed money of me, but I had
      the grace to deny him, he would have had 3 or L400) I with Cocke and Mr.
      Temple (whose wife was just now brought to bed of a boy, but he seems not
      to be at all taken with it, which is a strange consideration how others do
      rejoice to have a child born), to Sir G. Carteret's, in Lincoln's Inn
      Fields, and there did dine together, there being there, among other
      company, Mr. Attorney Montagu, and his fine lady, a fine woman. After
      dinner, I did understand from my Lady Jemimah that her brother
      Hinchingbroke's business was to be ended this day, as she thinks, towards
      his match, and they do talk here of their intent to buy themselves some
      new clothes against the wedding, which I am very glad of. After dinner I
      did even with Sir G. Carteret the accounts of the interest of the money
      which I did so long put out for him in Sir R. Viner's hands, and by it I
      think I shall be a gainer about L28, which is a very good reward for the
      little trouble I have had in it. Thence with Sir Philip Carteret to the
      King's playhouse, there to see "Love's Cruelty," an old play, but which I
      have not seen before; and in the first act Orange Moll come to me, with
      one of our porters by my house, to tell me that Mrs. Pierce and Knepp did
      dine at my house to-day, and that I was desired to come home. So I went
      out presently, and by coach home, and they were just gone away so, after a
      very little stay with my wife, I took coach again, and to the King's
      playhouse again, and come in the fourth act; and it proves to me a very
      silly play, and to everybody else, as far as I could judge. But the jest
      is, that here telling Moll how I had lost my journey, she told me that
      Mrs. Knepp was in the house, and so shews me to her, and I went to her,
      and sat out the play, and then with her to Mrs. Manuel's, where Mrs.
      Pierce was, and her boy and girl; and here I did hear Mrs. Manuel and one
      of the Italians, her gallant, sing well. But yet I confess I am not
      delighted so much with it, as to admire it: for, not understanding the
      words, I lose the benefit of the vocalitys of the musick, and it proves
      only instrumental; and therefore was more pleased to hear Knepp sing two
      or three little English things that I understood, though the composition
      of the other, and performance, was very fine. Thence, after sitting and
      talking a pretty while, I took leave and left them there, and so to my
      bookseller's, and paid for the books I had bought, and away home, where I
      told my wife where I had been. But she was as mad as a devil, and nothing
      but ill words between us all the evening while we sat at cards&mdash;W.
      Hewer and the girl by&mdash;even to gross ill words, which I was troubled
      for, but do see that I must use policy to keep her spirit down, and to
      give her no offence by my being with Knepp and Pierce, of which, though
      she will not own it, yet she is heartily jealous. At last it ended in few
      words and my silence (which for fear of growing higher between us I did
      forbear), and so to supper and to bed without one word one to another.
      This day I did carry money out, and paid several debts. Among others, my
      tailor, and shoemaker, and draper, Sir W. Turner, who begun to talk of the
      Commission of accounts, wherein he is one; but though they are the
      greatest people that ever were in the nation as to power, and like to be
      our judges, yet I did never speak one word to him of desiring favour, or
      bidding him joy in it, but did answer him to what he said, and do resolve
      to stand or fall by my silent preparing to answer whatever can be laid to
      me, and that will be my best proceeding, I think. This day I got a little
      rent in my new fine camlett cloak with the latch of Sir G. Carteret's
      door; but it is darned up at my tailor's, that it will be no great blemish
      to it; but it troubled me. I could not but observe that Sir Philip
      Carteret would fain have given me my going into a play; but yet, when he
      come to the door, he had no money to pay for himself, I having refused to
      accept of it for myself, but was fain; and I perceive he is known there,
      and do run upon the score for plays, which is a shame; but I perceive
      always he is in want of money.
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     [The practice of gallants attending the theatre without payment is
     illustrated by Mr. Lowe in his "Betterton," from Shadwell's "True
     Widow":

          "1st Doorkeeper.  Pray, sir, pay me: my masters will make me
          pay it.

          3d Man.  Impudent rascal, do you ask me for money?  Take that,
          sirrah.

          2nd Doorkeeper.  Will you pay me, sir?

          4th Man.  No; I don't intend to stay.

          2nd Doorkeeper.  So you say every day, and see two or three
          acts for nothing."]
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    <p>
      In the pit I met with Sir Ch. North, formerly Mr. North, who was with my
      Lord at sea; and he, of his own accord, was so silly as to tell me he is
      married; and for her quality (being a Lord's daughter, my Lord Grey), and
      person, and beauty, and years, and estate, and disposition, he is the
      happiest man in the world. I am sure he is an ugly fellow; but a good
      scholar and sober gentleman; and heir to his father, now Lord North, the
      old Lord being dead.
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    <p>
      31st. Up, without words to my wife, or few, and those not angry, and so to
      White Hall, and there waited a long time, while the Duke of York was with
      the King in the Caball, and there I and Creed stayed talking without, in
      the Vane-Room, and I perceive all people's expectation is, what will be
      the issue of this great business of putting these great Lords out of the
      council and power, the quarrel, I perceive, being only their standing
      against the will of the King in the business of the Chancellor. Anon the
      Duke of York comes out, and then to a committee of Tangier, where my Lord
      Middleton did come to-day, and seems to me but a dull, heavy man; but he
      is a great soldier, and stout, and a needy Lord, which will still keep
      that poor garrison from ever coming to be worth anything to the King.
      Here, after a short meeting, we broke up, and I home to the office, where
      they are sitting, and so I to them, and having done our business rose, and
      I home to dinner with my people, and there dined with me my uncle Thomas,
      with a mourning hat-band on, for his daughter Mary, and here I and my
      people did discourse of the Act for the accounts,
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     ["An Act for taking the Accompts of the several sums of money therein
     menconed, 19 and 20 Car.  II., c.  I.  The commissioners were
     empowered to call before them all Treasurers, Receivers,
     Paymasters, Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy and
     Ordnance respectively, Pursers, Mustermasters and Clerks of the
     Cheque, Accomptants, and all Officers and Keepers of his Majesties
     Stores and Provisions for Warr as well for Land as Sea, and all
     other persons whatsoever imployed in the management of the said Warr
     or requisite for the discovery of any frauds relating thereunto,"
     &amp;c., &amp;c.  ("Statutes of the Realm," vol. v., pp.  624,627).]
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      which do give the greatest power to these people, as they report that have
      read it (I having not yet read it, and indeed its nature is such as I have
      no mind to go about to read it, for fear of meeting matter in it to
      trouble me), that ever was given to any subjects, and too much also. After
      dinner with my wife and girl to Unthanke's, and there left her, and I to
      Westminster, and there to Mrs. Martin's, and did hazer con elle what I
      desired, and there did drink with her, and find fault with her husband's
      wearing of too fine clothes, by which I perceive he will be a beggar, and
      so after a little talking I away and took up my wife again, and so home
      and to the office, where Captain Perryman did give me an account, walking
      in the garden, how the seamen of England are discouraged by want of money
      (or otherwise by being, as he says, but I think without cause, by their
      being underrated) so far as that he thinks the greatest part are gone
      abroad or going, and says that it is known that there are Irish in the
      town, up and down, that do labour to entice the seamen out of the nation
      by giving them L3 in hand, and promise of 40s. per month, to go into the
      King of France's service, which is a mighty shame, but yet I believe is
      true. I did advise with him about my little vessel, "The Maybolt," which
      he says will be best for me to sell, though my employing her to Newcastle
      this winter, and the next spring, for coles, will be a gainful trade, but
      yet make me great trouble, but I will think of it, and so to my office,
      ended my letters, and so home to supper and to bed, good friends with my
      wife. Thus ends the year, with great happiness to myself and family as to
      health and good condition in the world, blessed be God for it! only with
      great trouble to my mind in reference to the publick, there being little
      hopes left but that the whole nation must in a very little time be lost,
      either by troubles at home, the Parliament being dissatisfied, and the
      King led into unsettled councils by some about him, himself considering
      little, and divisions growing between the King and Duke of York; or else
      by foreign invasion, to which we must submit if any, at this bad point of
      time, should come upon us, which the King of France is well able to do.
      These thoughts, and some cares upon me, concerning my standing in this
      Office when the Committee of Parliament shall come to examine our Navy
      matters, which they will now shortly do. I pray God they may do the
      kingdom service therein, as they will have sufficient opportunity of doing
      it!
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     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS, DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1667 N.S., COMPLETE:

     20s. in money, and what wine she needed, for the burying him
     A gainful trade, but yet make me great trouble
     Act of Council passed, to put out all Papists in office
     Advantage a man of the law hath over all other people
     And a deal of do of which I am weary
     Angling with a minikin, a gut-string varnished over
     Anthem anything but instrumentall musique with the voice
     Archbishop is a wencher, and known to be so
     As he called it, the King's seventeenth whore abroad
     Baker's house in Pudding Lane, where the late great fire begun
     Beginnings of discontents take so much root between us
     Being taken with a Psalmbook or Testament
     Better now than never
     Bill against importing Cattle from Ireland
     Bold to deliver what he thinks on every occasion
     Bring me a periwig, but it was full of nits
     But do it with mighty vanity and talking
     But my wife vexed, which vexed me
     Buying his place of my Lord Barkely
     Buying up of goods in case there should be war
     Cast stones with his horne crooke
     Certainly Annapolis must be defended,&mdash;where is Annapolis?
     Chief Court of judicature (House of Lords)
     Clap of the pox which he got about twelve years ago
     Come to us out of bed in his furred mittens and furred cap
     Commons, where there is nothing done but by passion, and faction
     Confidence, and vanity, and disparages everything
     Consider that this is all the pleasure I live for in the world
     Court full of great apprehensions of the French
     Court is in a way to ruin all for their pleasures
     Credit of this office hath received by this rogue's occasion
     Dash the brains of it out before the King's face
     Declared he will never have another public mistress again
     Desk fastened to one of the armes of his chayre
     Did take me up very prettily in one or two things that I said
     Dinner, an ill and little mean one, with foul cloth and dishes
     Disquiet all night, telling of the clock till it was daylight
     Do outdo the Lords infinitely (debates in the Commons)
     Dog, that would turn a sheep any way which
     Dutch fleets being in so many places
     Eat some of the best cheese-cakes that ever I eat in my life
     Enough existed to build a ship (Pieces of the true Cross)
     Enviously, said, I could not come honestly by them
     Erasmus "de scribendis epistolis"
     Every body leads, and nobody follows
     Father, who to supper and betimes to bed at his country hours
     Feared she hath from some [one] or other of a present
     Fell a-crying for joy, being all maudlin and kissing one another
     Fool's play with which all publick things are done
     For I will not be inward with him that is open to another
     For I will be hanged before I seek to him, unless I see I need
     Found to be with child, do never stir out of their beds
     Give the King of France Nova Scotia, which he do not like
     Gold holds up its price still
     Good purpose of fitting ourselves for another war (A Peace)
     Had his hand cut off, and was hanged presently!
     Had the umbles of it for dinner
     Hates to have any body mention what he had done the day before
     Hath given her the pox, but I hope it is not so
     Have not any awe over them from the King's displeasure (Commons)
     He was charged with making himself popular
     He is not a man fit to be told what one hears
     He will do no good, he being a man of an unsettled head
     He is a man of no worth in the world but compliment
     Heeling her on one side to make her draw little water
     History of this day's growth, we cannot tell the truth
     House of Lords is the last appeal that a man can make
     How do the children?
     Hugged, it being cold now in the mornings....
     Hunt up and down with its mouth if you touch the cheek
     I would not enquire into anything, but let her talk
     I am not a man able to go through trouble, as other men
     I having now seen a play every day this week
     I perceive no passion in a woman can be lasting long
     I did get her hand to me under my cloak
     I love the treason I hate the traitor
     I find her painted, which makes me loathe her (cosmetics)
     If the word Inquisition be but mentioned
     Ill-bred woman, would take exceptions at anything any body said
     Ill sign when we are once to come to study how to excuse
     Just set down to dinner, and I dined with them, as I intended
     King do resolve to declare the Duke of Monmouth legitimate
     King is at the command of any woman like a slave
     King the necessity of having, at least, a show of religion
     King is offended with the Duke of Richmond's marrying
     King of France did think other princes fit for nothing
     King governed by his lust, and women, and rogues about him
     King's service is undone, and those that trust him perish
     Kingdom will fall back again to a commonwealth
     Know yourself to be secure, in being necessary to the office
     Lady Castlemayne's nose out of joynt
     Lady Castlemayne is compounding with the King for a pension
     Liberty of speech in the House
     Little content most people have in the peace
     Little worth of this world, to buy it with so much pain
     Looks to lie down about two months hence
     Make a man wonder at the good fortune of such a fool
     Mazer or drinking-bowl turned out of some kind of wood
     Mean, methinks, and is as if they had married like dog and bitch
     Mirrors which makes the room seem both bigger and lighter
     Mr. William Pen a Quaker again
     Mrs. Stewart's sending the King his jewels again
     Much difficulty to get pews, I offering the sexton money
     Musique in the morning to call up our new-married people
     Must yet pay to the Poll Bill for this pension (unreceived)
     My wife will keep to one another and let the world go hang
     My intention to learn to trill
     My people do observe my minding my pleasure more than usual
     My wife this night troubled at my leaving her alone so much
     Necessary, and yet the peace is so bad in its terms
     Never laughed so in all my life.  I laughed till my head ached
     Never was known to keep two mistresses in his life (Charles II.)
     Never, while he lives, truckle under any body or any faction
     Never to keep a country-house, but to keep a coach
     New medall, where, in little, there is Mrs. Steward's face
     Night the Dutch burned our ships the King did sup with Castlemayne
     No man knowing what to do, whether to sell or buy
     Nobody knows which side will be uppermost
     Nobody being willing to trust us for anything
     Nor offer anything, but just what is drawn out of a man
     Not more than I expected, nor so much by a great deal as I ought
     Not thinking them safe men to receive such a gratuity
     Now above six months since (smoke from the cellars)
     Officers are four years behind-hand unpaid
     Only because she sees it is the fashion (She likes it)
     Outdo for neatness and plenty anything done by any of them
     Painful to keep money, as well as to get it
     Pit, where the bears are baited
     Poll Bill
     Pressing in it as if none of us had like care with him
     Prince's being trepanned, which was in doing just as we passed
     Proud that she shall come to trill
     Receive the applications of people, and hath presents
     Reparation for what we had embezzled
     Run over their beads with one hand, and point and play and talk
     Said to die with the cleanest hands that ever any Lord Treasurer
     Saying, that for money he might be got to our side
     Says of wood, that it is an excrescence of the earth
     Seems she hath had long melancholy upon her
     Sermon ended, and the church broke up, and my amours ended also
     Sermon upon Original Sin, neither understood by himself
     Sermon without affectation or study
     Shame such a rogue should give me and all of us this trouble
     She has this silly vanity that she must play
     Sick of it and of him for it
     Silence; it being seldom any wrong to a man to say nothing
     Singing with many voices is not singing
     So every thing stands still for money
     Some ends of my own in what advice I do give her
     Sorry thing to be a poor King
     Spares not to blame another to defend himself
     Sparrowgrass
     Speaks rarely, which pleases me mightily
     Spends his time here most, playing at bowles
     Sport to me to see him so earnest on so little occasion
     Street ordered to be continued, forty feet broad, from Paul's
     Supper and to bed without one word one to another
     Suspect the badness of the peace we shall make
     Swear they will not go to be killed and have no pay
     Take pins out of her pocket to prick me if I should touch her
     The pleasure of my not committing these things to my memory
     The world do not grow old at all
     The gates of the City shut, it being so late
     Their condition was a little below my present state
     Then home, and merry with my wife
     They are all mad; and thus the kingdom is governed!
     They want where to set their feet, to begin to do any thing
     Think never to see this woman&mdash;at least, to have her here more
     Though he knows, if he be not a fool, that I love him not
     Through my wife's illness had a bad night of it, and she a worse
     To my joy, I met not with any that have sped better than myself
     Troubled to think what trouble a rogue may without cause give
     Uncertainty of all history
     Used to make coal fires, and wash my foul clothes
     Very great tax; but yet I do think it is so perplexed
     Voyage to Newcastle for coles
     We find the two young ladies come home, and their patches off
     Weary of it; but it will please the citizens
     Weigh him after he had done playing
     What way a man could devise to lose so much in so little time
     What I said would not hold water
     Whatever I do give to anybody else, I shall give her
     Where a piece of the Cross is
     Which he left him in the lurch
     Whip this child till the blood come, if it were my child!
     Who continues so ill as not to be troubled with business
     Whom, in mirth to us, he calls Antichrist
     Whose red nose makes me ashamed to be seen with him
     Wise man's not being wise at all times
     Wise men do prepare to remove abroad what they have
     Wonders that she cannot be as good within as she is fair without
     Wretch, n., often used as an expression of endearment
     Yet let him remember the days of darkness
     Young fellow, with his hat cocked like a fool behind
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      JANUARY 1667-1668
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    <p>
      January 1st. Up, and all the morning in my chamber making up some accounts
      against this beginning of the new year, and so about noon abroad with my
      wife, who was to dine with W. Hewer and Willet at Mrs. Pierces, but I had
      no mind to be with them, for I do clearly find that my wife is troubled at
      my friendship with her and Knepp, and so dined with my Lord Crew, with
      whom was Mr. Browne, Clerk of the House of Lords, and Mr. John Crew. Here
      was mighty good discourse, as there is always: and among other things my
      Lord Crew did turn to a place in the Life of Sir Philip Sidney, wrote by
      Sir Fulke Greville, which do foretell the present condition of this
      nation, in relation to the Dutch, to the very degree of a prophecy; and is
      so remarkable that I am resolved to buy one of them, it being, quite
      throughout, a good discourse. Here they did talk much of the present
      cheapness of corne, even to a miracle; so as their farmers can pay no
      rent, but do fling up their lands; and would pay in corne: but, which I
      did observe to my Lord, and he liked well of it, our gentry are grown so
      ignorant in every thing of good husbandry, that they know not how to
      bestow this corne: which, did they understand but a little trade, they
      would be able to joyne together, and know what markets there are abroad,
      and send it thither, and thereby ease their tenants and be able to pay
      themselves. They did talk much of the disgrace the Archbishop is fallen
      under with the King, and the rest of the Bishops also. Thence I after
      dinner to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "Sir Martin
      Mar-all;" which I have seen so often, and yet am mightily pleased with it,
      and think it mighty witty, and the fullest of proper matter for mirth that
      ever was writ; and I do clearly see that they do improve in their acting
      of it. Here a mighty company of citizens, 'prentices, and others; and it
      makes me observe, that when I begun first to be able to bestow a play on
      myself, I do not remember that I saw so many by half of the ordinary
      'prentices and mean people in the pit at 2s. 6d. a-piece as now; I going
      for several years no higher than the 12d. and then the 18d. places,
      though, I strained hard to go in then when I did: so much the vanity and
      prodigality of the age is to be observed in this particular. Thence I to
      White Hall, and there walked up and down the house a while, and do hear
      nothing of anything done further in this business of the change of
      Privy-counsellors: only I hear that Sir G. Savile, one of the Parliament
      Committee of nine, for examining the Accounts, is by the King made a Lord,
      the Lord Halifax; which, I believe, will displease the Parliament. By and
      by I met with Mr. Brisband; and having it in my mind this Christmas to (do
      what I never can remember that I did) go to see the manner of the gaming
      at the Groome-Porter's, I having in my coming from the playhouse stepped
      into the two Temple-halls, and there saw the dirty 'prentices and idle
      people playing; wherein I was mistaken, in thinking to have seen gentlemen
      of quality playing there, as I think it was when I was a little child,
      that one of my father's servants, John Bassum, I think, carried me in his
      arms thither. I did tell Brisband of it, and he did lead me thither,
      where, after staying an hour, they begun to play at about eight at night,
      where to see how differently one man took his losing from another, one
      cursing and swearing, and another only muttering and grumbling to himself,
      a third without any apparent discontent at all: to see how the dice will
      run good luck in one hand, for half an hour together, and another have no
      good luck at all: to see how easily here, where they play nothing but
      guinnys, a L100 is won or lost: to see two or three gentlemen come in
      there drunk, and putting their stock of gold together, one 22 pieces, the
      second 4, and the third 5 pieces; and these to play one with another, and
      forget how much each of them brought, but he that brought the 22 thinks
      that he brought no more than the rest: to see the different humours of
      gamesters to change their luck, when it is bad, how ceremonious they are
      as to call for new dice, to shift their places, to alter their manner of
      throwing, and that with great industry, as if there was anything in it: to
      see how some old gamesters, that have no money now to spend as formerly,
      do come and sit and look on, as among others, Sir Lewis Dives, who was
      here, and hath been a great gamester in his time: to hear their cursing
      and damning to no purpose, as one man being to throw a seven if he could,
      and, failing to do it after a great many throws, cried he would be damned
      if ever he flung seven more while he lived, his despair of throwing it
      being so great, while others did it as their luck served almost every
      throw: to see how persons of the best quality do here sit down, and play
      with people of any, though meaner; and to see how people in ordinary
      clothes shall come hither, and play away 100, or 2 or 300 guinnys, without
      any kind of difficulty: and lastly, to see the formality of the
      groome-porter, who is their judge of all disputes in play and all quarrels
      that may arise therein, and how his under-officers are there to observe
      true play at each table, and to give new dice, is a consideration I never
      could have thought had been in the world, had I not now seen it. And
      mighty glad I am that I did see it, and it may be will find another
      evening, before Christmas be over, to see it again, when I may stay later,
      for their heat of play begins not till about eleven or twelve o'clock;
      which did give me another pretty observation of a man, that did win mighty
      fast when I was there. I think he won L100 at single pieces in a little
      time. While all the rest envied him his good fortune, he cursed it,
      saying, "A pox on it, that it should come so early upon me, for this
      fortune two hours hence would be worth something to me, but then, God damn
      me, I shall have no such luck." This kind of prophane, mad entertainment
      they give themselves. And so I, having enough for once, refusing to
      venture, though Brisband pressed me hard, and tempted me with saying that
      no man was ever known to lose the first time, the devil being too cunning
      to discourage a gamester; and he offered me also to lend me ten pieces to
      venture; but I did refuse, and so went away, and took coach and home about
      9 or to at night, where not finding my wife come home, I took the same
      coach again, and leaving my watch behind me for fear of robbing, I did go
      back and to Mrs. Pierces, thinking they might not have broken up yet, but
      there I find my wife newly gone, and not going out of my coach spoke only
      to Mr. Pierce in his nightgown in the street, and so away back again home,
      and there to supper with my wife and to talk about their dancing and
      doings at Mrs. Pierces to-day, and so to bed.
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      2nd. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes by coach to White Hall, and there attended
      the King and the Duke of York in the Duke of York's lodgings, with the
      rest of the Officers and many of the Commanders of the fleete, and some of
      our master shipwrights, to discourse the business of having the topmasts
      of ships made to lower abaft of the mainmast; a business I understand not,
      and so can give no good account; but I do see that by how much greater the
      Council, and the number of Counsellors is, the more confused the issue is
      of their councils; so that little was said to the purpose regularly, and
      but little use was made of it, they coming to a very broken conclusion
      upon it, to make trial in a ship or two. From this they fell to other talk
      about the fleete's fighting this late war, and how the King's ships have
      been shattered; though the King said that the world would not have it that
      about ten or twenty ships in any fight did do any service, and that this
      hath been told so to him himself, by ignorant people. The Prince, who was
      there, was mightily surprised at it, and seemed troubled: but the King
      told him that it was only discourse of the world. But Mr. Wren whispered
      me in the eare, and said that the Duke of Albemarle had put it into his
      Narrative for the House, that not above twenty-five ships fought in the
      engagement wherein he was, but that he was advised to leave it out; but
      this he did write from sea, I am sure, or words to that effect: and did
      displease many commanders, among others, Captain Batts, who the Duke of
      York said was a very stout man, all the world knew; and that another was
      brought into his ship that had been turned out of his place when he was a
      boatswain, not long before, for being a drunkard. This the Prince took
      notice of, and would have been angry, I think, but they let their
      discourse fall: but the Duke of York was earnest in it. And the Prince
      said to me, standing by me, "God damn me, if they will turn out every man
      that will be drunk, they must turn out all the commanders in the fleete.
      What is the matter if he be drunk, so when he comes to fight he do his
      work? At least, let him be punished for his drunkenness, and not put out
      of his command presently." This he spoke, very much concerned for this
      idle fellow, one Greene. After this the King began to tell stories of the
      cowardice of the Spaniards in Flanders, when he was there, at the siege of
      Mardike and Dunkirke; which was very pretty, though he tells them but
      meanly. This being done I to Westminster Hall, and there staid a little:
      and then home, and by the way did find with difficulty the Life of Sir
      Philip Sidney (the book I mentioned yesterday). And the bookseller told me
      that he had sold four, within this week or two, which is more than ever he
      sold in all his life of them; and he could not imagine what should be the
      reason of it: but I suppose it is from the same reason of people's
      observing of this part therein, touching his prophesying our present
      condition here in England in relation to the Dutch, which is very
      remarkable. So home to dinner, where Balty's wife is come to town; she
      come last night and lay at my house, but being weary was gone to bed
      before I come home, and so I saw her not before. After dinner I took my
      wife and her girl out to the New Exchange, and there my wife bought
      herself a lace for a handkercher, which I do give her, of about L3, for a
      new year's gift, and I did buy also a lace for a band for myself, and so
      home, and there to the office busy late, and so home to my chamber, where
      busy on some accounts, and then to supper and to bed. This day my wife
      shows me a locket of dyamonds worth about L40, which W. Hewer do press her
      to accept, and hath done for a good while, out of his gratitude for my
      kindness and hers to him. But I do not like that she should receive it, it
      not being honourable for me to do it; and so do desire her to force him to
      take it back again, he leaving it against her will yesterday with her. And
      she did this evening force him to take it back, at which she says he is
      troubled; but, however, it becomes me more to refuse it, than to let her
      accept of it. And so I am well pleased with her returning it him. It is
      generally believed that France is endeavouring a firmer league with us
      than the former, in order to his going on with his business against Spayne
      the next year; which I am, and so everybody else is, I think, very glad
      of, for all our fear is, of his invading us. This day, at White Hall, I
      overheard Sir W. Coventry propose to the King his ordering of some
      particular thing in the Wardrobe, which was of no great value; but yet, as
      much as it was, it was of profit to the King and saving to his purse. The
      King answered to it with great indifferency, as a thing that it was no
      great matter whether it was done or no. Sir W. Coventry answered: "I see
      your Majesty do not remember the old English proverb, 'He that will not
      stoop for a pin, will never be worth a pound.'" And so they parted, the
      King bidding him do as he would; which, methought, was an answer not like
      a King that did intend ever to do well.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. At the office all the morning with Mr. Willson and my clerks,
      consulting again about a new contract with the Victualler of the Navy, and
      at noon home to dinner, and then to the office again, where busy all the
      afternoon preparing something for the Council about Tangier this evening.
      So about five o'clock away with it to the Council, and there do find that
      the Council hath altered its times of sitting to the mornings, and so I
      lost my labour, and back again by coach presently round by the city wall,
      it being dark, and so home, and there to the office, where till midnight
      with Mr. Willson and my people to go through with the Victualler's
      contract and the considerations about the new one, and so home to supper
      and to bed, thinking my time very well spent.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and there to the office, where we sat all the morning; at noon
      home to dinner, where my clerks and Mr. Clerke the sollicitor with me, and
      dinner being done I to the office again, where all the afternoon till late
      busy, and then home with my mind pleased at the pleasure of despatching my
      business, and so to supper and to bed, my thoughts full, how to order our
      design of having some dancing at our house on Monday next, being
      Twelfth-day. It seems worth remembering that this day I did hear my Lord
      Anglesey at the table, speaking touching this new Act for Accounts, say
      that the House of Lords did pass it because it was a senseless,
      impracticable, ineffectual, and foolish Act; and that my Lord Ashly having
      shown this that it was so to the House of Lords, the Duke of Buckingham
      did stand up and told the Lords that they were beholden to my Lord Ashly,
      that having first commended them for a most grave and honourable assembly,
      he thought it fit for the House to pass this Act for Accounts because it
      was a foolish and simple Act: and it seems it was passed with but a few in
      the House, when it was intended to have met in a grand Committee upon it.
      And it seems that in itself it is not to be practiced till after this
      session of Parliament, by the very words of the Act, which nobody
      regarded, and therefore cannot come in force yet, unless the next meeting
      they do make a new Act for the bringing it into force sooner; which is a
      strange omission. But I perceive my Lord Anglesey do make a mere
      laughing-stock of this Act, as a thing that can do nothing considerable,
      for all its great noise.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). Up, and being ready, and disappointed of a coach, it
      breaking a wheel just as it was coming for me, I walked as far as the
      Temple, it being dirty, and as I went out of my doors my cozen Anthony
      Joyce met me, and so walked part of the way with me, and it was to see
      what I would do upon what his wife a little while since did desire, which
      was to supply him L350 to enable him to go to build his house again. I
      (who in my nature am mighty unready to answer no to anything, and thereby
      wonder that I have suffered no more in my life by my easiness in that kind
      than I have) answered him that I would do it, and so I will, he offering
      me good security, and so it being left for me to consider the manner of
      doing it we parted. Taking coach as I said before at the Temple, I to
      Charing Cross, and there went into Unthanke's to have my shoes wiped,
      dirty with walking, and so to White Hall, where I visited the
      Vice-Chamberlain, who tells me, and so I find by others, that the business
      of putting out of some of the Privy-council is over, the King being at
      last advised to forbear it; for whereas he did design it to make room for
      some of the House of Commons that are against him, thereby to gratify
      them, it is believed that it will but so much the more fret the rest that
      are not provided for, and raise a new stock of enemies by them that are
      displeased, and so all they think is over: and it goes for a pretty saying
      of my Lord Anglesey's up and down the Court, that he should lately say to
      one of them that are the great promoters of this putting him and others
      out of the Council, "Well," says he, "and what are we to look for when we
      are outed? Will all things be set right in the nation?" The other said
      that he did believe that many things would be mended: "But," says my Lord,
      "will you and the rest of you be contented to be hanged, if you do not
      redeem all our misfortunes and set all right, if the power be put into
      your hands?" The other answered, "No, I would not undertake that:"&mdash;"Why,
      then," says my Lord, "I and the rest of us that you are labouring to put
      out, will be contented to be hanged, if we do not recover all that is
      past, if the King will put the power into our hands, and adhere wholly to
      our advice;" which saying as it was severe, so generally people have so
      little opinion of those that are likely to be uppermost that they do
      mightily commend my Lord Anglesey for this saying. From the
      Vice-Chamberlain up and down the house till Chapel done, and then did
      speak with several that I had a mind to, and so intending to go home, my
      Lady Carteret saw and called me out of her window, and so would have me
      home with her to Lincoln's Inn Fields to dinner, and there we met with my
      Lord Brereton, and several other strangers, to dine there; and I find him
      a very sober and serious, able man, and was in discourse too hard for the
      Bishop of Chester, who dined there; and who, above all books lately wrote,
      commending the matter and style of a late book, called "The Causes of the
      Decay of Piety," I do resolve at his great commendation to buy it. Here
      dined also Sir Philip Howard, a Barkeshire Howard, whom I did once hear
      swear publickly and loud in the matted gallery that he had not been at a
      wench in so long a time. He did take occasion to tell me at the table that
      I have got great ground in the Parliament, by my ready answers to all that
      was asked me there about the business of Chatham, and they would never let
      me be out of employment, of which I made little; but was glad to hear him,
      as well as others, say it. And he did say also, relating to Commissioner
      Pett, that he did not think that he was guilty of anything like a fault,
      that he was either able or concerned to amend, but only the not carrying
      up of the ships higher, he meant; but he said, three or four miles lower
      down, to Rochester Bridge, which is a strange piece of ignorance in a
      Member of Parliament at such a time as this, and after so many
      examinations in the house of this business; and did boldly declare that he
      did think the fault to lie in my Lord Middleton, who had the power of the
      place, to secure the boats that were made ready by Pett, and to do
      anything that he thought fit, and was much, though not altogether in the
      right, for Spragg, that commanded the river, ought rather to be charged
      with the want of the boats and the placing of them. After dinner, my Lord
      Brereton very gentilely went to the organ, and played a verse very
      handsomely. Thence after dinner away with Sir G. Carteret to White Hall,
      setting down my Lord Brereton at my Lord Brouncker's, and there up and
      down the house, and on the Queen's side, to see the ladies, and there saw
      the Duchesse of York, whom few pay the respect they used, I think, to her;
      but she bears all out, with a very great deal of greatness; that is the
      truth of it. And so, it growing night, I away home by coach, and there set
      my wife to read, and then comes Pelling, and he and I to sing a little,
      and then sup and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, leaving my wife to get her ready, and the maids to get a supper
      ready against night for our company; and I by coach to White Hall, and
      there up and down the house, and among others met with Mr. Pierce, by whom
      I find, as I was afeard from the folly of my wife, that he understood that
      he and his wife was to dine at my house to-day, whereas it was to sup; and
      therefore I, having done my business at court, did go home to dinner, and
      there find Mr. Harris, by the like mistake, come to dine with me. However,
      we did get a pretty dinner ready for him; and there he and I to discourse
      of many things, and I do find him a very excellent person, such as in my
      whole [acquaintances] I do not know another better qualified for converse,
      whether in things of his own trade, or of other kinds, a man of great
      understanding and observation, and very agreeable in the manner of his
      discourse, and civil as far as is possible. I was mightily pleased with
      his company; and after dinner did take coach with him, and my wife and
      girl, to go to a play, and to carry him thither to his own house. But I
      'light by the way to return home, thinking to have spoke with Mrs.
      Bagwell, who I did see to-day in our entry, come from Harwich, whom I have
      not seen these twelve months, I think, and more, and voudrai avoir hazer
      alcun with her, sed she was gone, and so I took coach and away to my wife
      at the Duke of York's house, in the pit, and so left her; and to Mrs.
      Pierce, and took her and her cozen Corbet, Knepp and little James, and
      brought them to the Duke's house; and, the house being full, was forced to
      carry them to a box, which did cost me 20s., besides oranges, which
      troubled me, though their company did please me. Thence, after the play,
      stayed till Harris was undressed, there being acted "The Tempest," and so
      he withall, all by coach, home, where we find my house with good fires and
      candles ready, and our Office the like, and the two Mercers, and Betty
      Turner, Pendleton, and W. Batelier. And so with much pleasure we into the
      house, and there fell to dancing, having extraordinary Musick, two
      viollins, and a base viollin, and theorbo, four hands, the Duke of
      Buckingham's musique, the best in towne, sent me by Greeting, and there we
      set in to dancing. By and by to my house, to a very good supper, and
      mighty merry, and good musick playing; and after supper to dancing and
      singing till about twelve at night; and then we had a good sack posset for
      them, and an excellent cake, cost me near 20s., of our Jane's making,
      which was cut into twenty pieces, there being by this time so many of our
      company, by the coming in of young Goodyer and some others of our
      neighbours, young men that could dance, hearing of our dancing; and anon
      comes in Mrs. Turner, the mother, and brings with her Mrs. Hollworthy,
      which pleased me mightily. And so to dancing again, and singing, with
      extraordinary great pleasure, till about two in the morning, and then
      broke up; and Mrs. Pierce and her family, and Harris and Knepp by coach
      home, as late as it was. And they gone, I took Mrs. Turner and Hollworthy
      home to my house, and there gave wine and sweetmeats; but I find Mrs.
      Hollworthy but a mean woman, I think, for understanding, only a little
      conceited, and proud, and talking, but nothing extraordinary in person, or
      discourse, or understanding. However, I was mightily pleased with her
      being there, I having long longed for to know her, and they being gone, I
      paid the fiddlers L3 among the four, and so away to bed, weary and
      mightily pleased, and have the happiness to reflect upon it as I do
      sometimes on other things, as going to a play or the like, to be the
      greatest real comfort that I am to expect in the world, and that it is
      that that we do really labour in the hopes of; and so I do really enjoy
      myself, and understand that if I do not do it now I shall not hereafter,
      it may be, be able to pay for it, or have health to take pleasure in it,
      and so fill myself with vain expectation of pleasure and go without it.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, weary, about 9 o'clock, and then out by coach to White Hall to
      attend the Lords of the Treasury about Tangier with Sir Stephen Fox, and
      having done with them I away back again home by coach time enough to
      dispatch some business, and after dinner with Sir W. Pen's coach (he being
      gone before with Sir D. Gawden) to White Hall to wait on the Duke of York,
      but I finding him not there, nor the Duke of York within, I away by coach
      to the Nursery, where I never was yet, and there to meet my wife and
      Mercer and Willet as they promised; but the house did not act to-day; and
      so I was at a loss for them, and therefore to the other two playhouses
      into the pit, to gaze up and down, to look for them, and there did by this
      means, for nothing, see an act in "The Schoole of Compliments" at the Duke
      of York's house, and "Henry the Fourth" at the King's house; but, not
      finding them, nor liking either of the plays, I took my coach again, and
      home, and there to my office to do business, and by and by they come home,
      and had been at the King's House, and saw me, but I could [not] see them,
      and there I walked with them in the garden awhile, and to sing with Mercer
      there a little, and so home with her, and taught her a little of my "It is
      decreed," which I have a mind to have her learn to sing, and she will do
      it well, and so after supper she went away, and we to bed, and there made
      amends by sleep for what I wanted last night.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and it being dirty, I by coach (which I was forced to go to the
      charge for) to White Hall, and there did deliver the Duke of York a
      memorial for the Council about the case of Tangiers want of money; and I
      was called in there and my paper was read. I did not think fit to say
      much, but left them to make what use they pleased of my paper; and so went
      out and waited without all the morning, and at noon hear that there is
      something ordered towards our help, and so I away by coach home, taking up
      Mr. Prin at the Court-gate, it raining, and setting him down at the
      Temple: and by the way did ask him about the manner of holding of
      Parliaments, and whether the number of Knights and Burgesses were always
      the same? And he says that the latter were not; but that, for aught he can
      find, they were sent up at the discretion, at first, of the Sheriffes, to
      whom the writs are sent, to send up generally the Burgesses and citizens
      of their county: and he do find that heretofore the Parliament-men being
      paid by the country, several burroughs have complained of the Sheriffes
      putting them to the charge of sending up Burgesses; which is a very
      extraordinary thing to me, that knew not this, but thought that the number
      had been known, and always the same. Thence home to the office, and so
      with my Lord Brouncker and his mistress, Williams, to Captain Cocke's to
      dinner, where was Temple and Mr. Porter, and a very good dinner, and
      merry. Thence with Lord Brouncker to White Hall to the Commissioners of
      the Treasury at their sending for us to discourse about the paying of
      tickets, and so away, and I by coach to the 'Change, and there took up my
      wife and Mercer and the girl by agreement, and so home, and there with
      Mercer to teach her more of "It is decreed," and to sing other songs and
      talk all the evening, and so after supper I to even my journall since
      Saturday last, and so to bed. Yesterday Mr. Gibson, upon his discovering
      by my discourse to him that I had a willingness, or rather desire, to have
      him stay with me, than go, as he designed, on Sir W. Warren's account, to
      sea, he resolved to let go the design and wait his fortune with me, though
      I laboured hard to make him understand the uncertainty of my condition or
      service, but however he will hazard it, which I take mighty kindly of him,
      though troubled lest he may come to be a loser by it, but it will not be
      for want of my telling him what he was to think on and expect. However, I
      am well pleased with it, with regard to myself, who find him mighty
      understanding and acquainted with all things in the Navy, that I should,
      if I continue in the Navy, make great use of him.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and to the office, having first been visited by my cozen Anthony
      Joyce about the L350 which he desires me to lend him, and which I have a
      mind enough to do, but would have it in my power to call it out again in a
      little time, and so do take a little further time to consider it. So to
      the office, where all the morning busy, and so home at noon to dinner with
      my people, where Mr. Hollier come and dined with me, and it is still
      mighty pleasant to hear him talk of Rome and the Pope, with what hearty
      zeal and hatred he talks against him. After dinner to the office again,
      where busy till night, very busy, and among other things wrote to my
      father about lending Anthony Joyce the money he desires; and I declare
      that I would do it as part of Pall's portion, and that Pall should have
      the use of the money till she be married, but I do propose to him to think
      of Mr. Cumberland rather than this Jackson that he is upon; and I confess
      I have a mighty mind to have a relation so able a man, and honest, and so
      old an acquaintance as Mr. Cumberland. I shall hear his answer by the next
      [post]. At night home and to cards with my wife and girle, and to supper
      late, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and with Sir Denis Gawden, who called me, to White Hall, and
      there to wait on the Duke of York with the rest of my brethren, which we
      did a little in the King's Greenroom, while the King was in Council: and
      in this room we found my Lord Bristoll walking alone; which, wondering at,
      while the Council was sitting, I was answered that, as being a Catholique,
      he could not be of the Council, which I did not consider before. After
      broke up and walked a turn or two with Lord Brouncker talking about the
      times, and he tells me that he thinks, and so do every body else, that the
      great business of putting out some of the Council to make room for some of
      the Parliament men to gratify and wheedle them is over, thinking that it
      might do more hurt than good, and not obtain much upon the Parliament
      either. This morning there was a Persian in that country dress, with a
      turban, waiting to kiss the King's hand in the Vane-room, against he come
      out: it was a comely man as to features, and his dress, methinks, very
      comely. Thence in Sir W. Pen's coach alone (he going with Sir D. Gawden)
      to my new bookseller's, Martin's; and there did meet with Fournier,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [George Fournier, a Jesuit, born at Caen in 1569, was the author of
     several nautical works.  His chief one, "L'Hydrographie," was
     published at Paris in folio in 1663.  A second edition appeared in
     1667.]
</pre>
    <p>
      the Frenchman, that hath wrote of the Sea and Navigation, and I could not
      but buy him, and also bespoke an excellent book, which I met with there,
      of China. The truth is, I have bought a great many books lately to a great
      value; but I think to buy no more till Christmas next, and those that I
      have will so fill my two presses that I must be forced to give away some
      to make room for them, it being my design to have no more at any time for
      my proper library than to fill them. Thence home and to the Exchange,
      there to do a little business, where I find everybody concerned whether we
      shall have out a fleete this next year or no, they talking of a peace
      concluded between France and Spayne, so that the King of France will have
      nothing to do with his army unless he comes to us; but I do not see in the
      world how we shall be able to set out a fleete for want of money to buy
      stores and pay men, for neither of which we shall be any more trusted. So
      home to dinner, and then with my wife and Deb. to the King's house, to see
      "Aglaura," which hath been always mightily cried up; and so I went with
      mighty expectation, but do find nothing extraordinary in it at all, and
      but hardly good in any degree. So home, and thither comes to us W.
      Batelier and sat with us all the evening, and to cards and supper, passing
      the evening pretty pleasantly, and so late at night parted, and so to bed.
      I find him mightily troubled at the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury
      opposing him in the business he hath a patent for about the business of
      Impost on wine, but I do see that the Lords have reason for it, it being a
      matter wherein money might be saved to his Majesty, and I am satisfied
      that they do let nothing pass that may save money, and so God bless them!
      So he being gone we to bed. This day I received a letter from my father,
      and another from my cozen Roger Pepys, who have had a view of Jackson's
      evidences of his estate, and do mightily like of the man, and his
      condition and estate, and do advise me to accept of the match for my
      sister, and to finish it as soon as I can; and he do it so as, I confess,
      I am contented to have it done, and so give her her portion; and so I
      shall be eased of one care how to provide for her, and do in many respects
      think that it may be a match proper enough to have her married there, and
      to one that may look after my concernments if my father should die and I
      continue where I am, and there[fore] I am well pleased with it, and so to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Lay some time, talking with my wife in bed about Pall's business,
      and she do conclude to have her married here, and to be merry at it; and
      to have W. Hewer, and Batelier, and Mercer, and Willet bridemen and
      bridemaids, and to be very merry; and so I am glad of it, and do resolve
      to let it be done as soon as I can. So up, and to the office, where all
      the morning busy, and thence home to dinner, and from dinner with Mercer,
      who dined with us, and wife and Deb. to the King's house, there to see
      "The Wild-goose Chase," which I never saw, but have long longed to see it,
      being a famous play, but as it was yesterday I do find that where I expect
      most I find least satisfaction, for in this play I met with nothing
      extraordinary at all, but very dull inventions and designs. Knepp come and
      sat by us, and her talk pleased me a little, she telling me how Mis Davis
      is for certain going away from the Duke's house, the King being in love
      with her; and a house is taken for her, and furnishing; and she hath a
      ring given her already worth L600: that the King did send several times
      for Nelly, and she was with him, but what he did she knows not; this was a
      good while ago, and she says that the King first spoiled Mrs. Weaver,
      which is very mean, methinks, in a prince, and I am sorry for it, and can
      hope for no good to the State from having a Prince so devoted to his
      pleasure. She told me also of a play shortly coming upon the stage, of Sir
      Charles Sidly's, which, she thinks, will be called "The Wandering Ladys,"
      a comedy that, she thinks, will be most pleasant; and also another play,
      called "The Duke of Lerma;" besides "Catelin," which she thinks, for want
      of the clothes which the King promised them, will not be acted for a good
      while. Thence home, and there to the office and did some business, and so
      with my wife for half an hour walking in the moonlight, and it being cold,
      frosty weather, walking in the garden, and then home to supper, and so by
      the fireside to have my head combed, as I do now often do, by Deb., whom I
      love should be fiddling about me, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Lord's day). Up, and to dress myself, and then called into my wife's
      chamber, and there she without any occasion fell to discourse of my
      father's coming to live with us when my sister marries. This, she being
      afeard of declaring an absolute hatred to him since his falling out with
      her about Coleman's being with her, she declares against his coming
      hither, which I not presently agreeing to, she declared, if he come, she
      would not live with me, but would shame me all over the city and court,
      which I made slight of, and so we fell very foul; and I do find she do
      keep very bad remembrances of my former unkindness to her, and do mightily
      complain of her want of money and liberty, which I will rather hear and
      bear the complaint of than grant the contrary, and so we had very hot work
      a great while: but at last I did declare as I intend, that my father shall
      not come, and that he do not desire and intend it; and so we parted with
      pretty good quiet, and so away, and being ready went to church, where
      first I saw Alderman Backewell and his lady come to our church, they
      living in Mark Lane; and I could find in my heart to invite her to sit
      with us, she being a fine lady. I come in while they were singing the 19th
      Psalm, while the sexton was gathering to his box, to which I did give 5s.,
      and so after sermon home, my wife, Deb., and I all alone and very kind,
      full of good discourses, and after dinner I to my chamber, ordering my
      Tangier accounts to give to the Auditor in a day or two, which should have
      been long ago with him. At them to my great content all the afternoon till
      supper, and after supper with my wife, W. Hewer and Deb. pretty merry till
      12 at night, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and Mr. Gibbs comes to me, and I give him instructions about the
      writing fair my Tangier accounts against to-morrow. So I abroad with Sir
      W. Pen to White Hall, and there did with the rest attend the Duke of York,
      where nothing extraordinary; only I perceive there is nothing yet declared
      for the next, year, what fleete shall be abroad. Thence homeward by coach
      and stopped at Martin's, my bookseller, where I saw the French book which
      I did think to have had for my wife to translate, called "L'escholle des
      filles,"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["L'Escole des Filles," by Helot, was burnt at the foot of the
     gallows in 1672, and the author himself was burnt in effigy.]
</pre>
    <p>
      but when I come to look in it, it is the most bawdy, lewd book that ever I
      saw, rather worse than "Putana errante," so that I was ashamed of reading
      in it, and so away home, and there to the 'Change to discourse with Sir H.
      Cholmly, and so home to dinner, and in the evening, having done some
      business, I with my wife and girl out, and left them at Unthanke's, while
      I to White Hall to the Treasury Chamber for an order for Tangier, and so
      back, took up my wife, and home, and there busy about my Tangier accounts
      against tomorrow, which I do get ready in good condition, and so with
      great content to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. At the office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, and after
      dinner with Mr. Clerke and Gibson to the Temple (my wife and girle going
      further by coach), and there at the Auditor's did begin the examining my
      Tangier accounts, and did make a great entry into it and with great
      satisfaction, and I am glad I am so far eased. So appointing another day
      for further part of my accounts, I with Gibson to my bookseller, Martin,
      and there did receive my book I expected of China, a most excellent book
      with rare cuts; and there fell into discourse with him about the burning
      of Paul's when the City was burned; his house being in the church-yard.
      And he tells me that it took fire first upon the end of a board that,
      among others, was laid upon the roof instead of lead, the lead being broke
      off, and thence down lower and lower: but that the burning of the goods
      under St. Fayth's arose from the goods taking fire in the church-yard, and
      so got into St. Fayth's Church; and that they first took fire from the
      Draper's side, by some timber of the houses that were burned falling into
      the church. He says that one warehouse of books was saved under Paul's;
      and he says that there were several dogs found burned among the goods in
      the church-yard, and but one man, which was an old man, that said he would
      go and save a blanket which he had in the church, and, being a weak old
      man, the fire overcome him, and was burned. He says that most of the
      booksellers do design to fall a-building again the next year; but he says
      that the Bishop of London do use them most basely, worse than any other
      landlords, and says he will be paid to this day the rent, or else he will
      not come to treat with them for the time to come; and will not, on that
      condition either, promise them any thing how he will use them; and, the
      Parliament sitting, he claims his privilege, and will not be cited before
      the Lord Chief justice, as others are there, to be forced to a fair
      dealing. Thence by coach to Mrs. Pierce's, where my wife and Deb. is; and
      there they fell to discourse of the last night's work at Court, where the
      ladies and Duke of Monmouth and others acted "The Indian Emperour;"
      wherein they told me these things most remark able: that not any woman but
      the Duchesse of Monmouth and Mrs. Cornwallis did any thing but like fools
      and stocks, but that these two did do most extraordinary well: that not
      any man did any thing well but Captain O'Bryan, who spoke and did well,
      but, above all things, did dance most incomparably. That she did sit near
      the players of the Duke's house; among the rest, Mis Davis, who is the
      most impertinent slut, she says, in the world; and the more, now the King
      do show her countenance; and is reckoned his mistress, even to the scorne
      of the whole world; the King gazing on her, and my Lady Castlemayne being
      melancholy and out of humour, all the play, not smiling once. The King, it
      seems, hath given her a ring of L700, which she shews to every body, and
      owns that the King did give it her; and he hath furnished a house for her
      in Suffolke Street most richly, which is a most infinite shame. It seems
      she is a bastard of Colonell Howard, my Lord Berkshire, and that he do
      pimp to her for the King, and hath got her for him; but Pierce says that
      she is a most homely jade as ever she saw, though she dances beyond any
      thing in the world. She tells me that the Duchesse of Richmond do not yet
      come to the Court, nor hath seen the King, nor will not, nor do he own his
      desire of seeing her; but hath used means to get her to Court, but they do
      not take. Thence home, and there I to my chamber, having a great many
      books brought me home from my bookbinder's, and so I to the new setting of
      my books against the next year, which costs me more trouble than I
      expected, and at it till two o'clock in the morning, and then to bed, the
      business not being yet done to my mind. This evening come Mr. Mills and
      his wife to see and sit and talk with us, which they did till 9 o'clock at
      night, and then parted, and I to my books.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, and then to the Office again, where we met about some business of
      D. Gawden's till candle-light; and then, as late as it was, I down to
      Redriffe, and so walked by moonlight to Deptford, where I have not been a
      great while, and my business I did there was only to walk up and down
      above la casa of Bagwell, but could not see her, it being my intent to
      have spent a little time con her, she being newly come from her husband;
      but I did lose my labour, and so walked back again, but with pleasure by
      the walk, and I had the sport to see two boys swear, and stamp, and fret,
      for not being able to get their horse over a stile and ditch, one of them
      swearing and cursing most bitterly; and I would fain, in revenge, have
      persuaded him to have drove his horse through the ditch, by which I
      believe he would have stuck there. But the horse would not be drove, and
      so they were forced to go back again, and so I walked away homeward, and
      there reading all the evening, and so to bed. This afternoon my Lord
      Anglesey tells us that it is voted in Council to have a fleete of 50 ships
      out; but it is only a disguise for the Parliament to get some money by;
      but it will not take, I believe, and if it did, I do not think it will be
      such as he will get any of, nor such as will enable us to set out such a
      fleete.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, after talking with my wife with pleasure, about her learning on
      the flageolet a month or two again this winter, and all the rest of the
      year her painting, which I do love, and so to the office, where sat all
      the morning, and here Lord Anglesey tells us again that a fleete is to be
      set out; and that it is generally, he hears, said, that it is but a
      Spanish rhodomontado; and that he saying so just now to the Duke of
      Albemarle, who come to town last night, after the thing was ordered, he
      told him a story of two seamen: one wished all the guns of the ship were
      his, and that they were silver; and says the other, "You are a fool, for,
      if you can have it for wishing, why do you not wish them gold?"&mdash;"So,"
      says he, "if a rhodomontado will do any good, why do you not say 100
      ships?" And it is true; for the Dutch and French are said to make such
      preparations as 50 sail will do no good. At noon home to dinner with my
      gang of clerks, in whose society I am mightily pleased, and mightily with
      Mr. Gibson's talking;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Richard Gibson, so frequently noticed by Pepys, was a clerk in the
     Navy Office.  His collection of papers relating to the navy of
     England A.D. 1650-1702, compiled, as he states, from the Admiralty
     books in the Navy Office, are in the British Museum.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      he telling me so many good stories relating to the warr and practices of
      commanders, which I will find a time to recollect; and he will be an
      admirable help to my writing a history of the Navy, if ever I do. So to
      the office, where busy all the afternoon and evening, and then home. My
      work this night with my clerks till midnight at the office was to examine
      my list of ships I am making for myself and their dimensions, and to see
      how it agrees or differs from other lists, and I do find so great a
      difference between them all that I am at a loss which to take, and
      therefore think mine to be as much depended upon as any I can make out of
      them all. So little care there has been to this day to know or keep any
      history of the Navy.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and by coach to White Hall to attend the Council there, and here
      I met first by Mr. Castle the shipwright, whom I met there, and then from
      the whole house the discourse of the duell yesterday between the Duke of
      Buckingham, Holmes, and one Jenkins, on one side, and my Lord of
      Shrewsbury, Sir John Talbot, and one Bernard Howard, on the other side:
      and all about my Lady Shrewsbury,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Anna Maria, daughter of Robert Brudenel, second Earl of Cardigan.
     Walpole says she held the Duke of Buckingham's horse, in the habit
     of a page, while he was fighting the duel with her husband.  She
     married, secondly, George Rodney Bridges, son of Sir Thomas Bridges
     of Keynsham, Somerset, Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles IL, and
     died April 20th, 1702.  A portrait of the Countess of Shrewsbury, as
     Minerva, by Lely.]
</pre>
    <p>
      who is a whore, and is at this time, and hath for a great while been, a
      whore to the Duke of Buckingham. And so her husband challenged him, and
      they met yesterday in a close near Barne-Elmes, and there fought: and my
      Lord Shrewsbury is run through the body, from the right breast through the
      shoulder: and Sir John Talbot all along up one of his armes; and Jenkins
      killed upon the place, and the rest all, in a little measure, wounded.
      This will make the world think that the King hath good councillors about
      him, when the Duke of Buckingham, the greatest man about him, is a fellow
      of no more sobriety than to fight about a whore. And this may prove a very
      bad accident to the Duke of Buckingham, but that my Lady Castlemayne do
      rule all at this time as much as ever she did, and she will, it is
      believed, keep all matters well with the Duke of Buckingham: though this
      is a time that the King will be very backward, I suppose, to appear in
      such a business. And it is pretty to hear how the King had some notice of
      this challenge a week or two ago, and did give it to my Lord Generall to
      confine the Duke, or take security that he should not do any such thing as
      fight: and the Generall trusted to the King that he, sending for him,
      would do it, and the King trusted to the Generall; and so, between both,
      as everything else of the greatest moment do, do fall between two stools.
      The whole House full of nothing but the talk of this business; and it is
      said that my Lord Shrewsbury's case is to be feared, that he may die too;
      and that may make it much the worse for the Duke of Buckingham: and I
      shall not be much sorry for it, that we may have some sober man come in
      his room to assist in the Government. Here I waited till the Council rose,
      and talked the while, with Creed, who tells me of Mr. Harry Howard's'
      giving the Royal Society a piece of ground next to his house, to build a
      College on, which is a most generous act. And he tells me he is a very
      fine person, and understands and speaks well; and no rigid Papist neither,
      but one that would not have a Protestant servant leave his religion, which
      he was going to do, thinking to recommend himself to his master by it;
      saying that he had rather have an honest Protestant than a knavish
      Catholique. I was not called into the Council; and, therefore, home, first
      informing myself that my Lord Hinchingbroke hath been married this week to
      my Lord Burlington's daughter; so that that great business is over; and I
      mighty glad of it, though I am not satisfied that I have not a Favour sent
      me, as I see Attorney Montagu and the Vice-Chamberlain have. But I am
      mighty glad that the thing is done. So home, and there alone with my wife
      and Deb. to dinner, and after dinner comes Betty Turner, and I carried
      them to the New Exchange, and thence I to White Hall and did a little
      business at the Treasury, and so called them there, and so home and to
      cards and supper, and her mother come and sat at cards with us till past
      12 at night, and then broke up and to bed, after entering my journall,
      which made it one before I went to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. At the office all the morning busy sitting. At noon home to dinner,
      where Betty Turner dined with us, and after dinner carried my wife, her
      and Deb. to the 'Change, where they bought some things, while I bought
      "The Mayden Queene," a play newly printed, which I like at the King's
      house so well, of Mr. Dryden's, which he himself, in his preface, seems to
      brag of, and indeed is a good play. So home again, and I late at the
      office and did much business, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Lord's day). My wife the last night very ill of those, and waked me
      early, and hereupon I up and to church, where a dull sermon by our
      lecturer, and so home to dinner in my wife's chamber, which she is a
      little better. Then after dinner with Captain Perryman down to Redriffe,
      and so walked to Deptford, where I sent for Mr. Shish out of the Church to
      advise about my vessel, "The Maybolt," and I do resolve to sell,
      presently, for any thing rather than keep her longer, having already lost
      L100 in her value, which I was once offered and refused, and the ship left
      without any body to look to her, which vexes me. Thence Perryman and I
      back again, talking of the great miscarriages in the Navy, and among the
      principal that of having gentlemen commanders. I shall hereafter make use
      of his and others' help to reckon up and put down in writing what is fit
      to be mended in the Navy after all our sad experience therein. So home,
      and there sat with my wife all the evening, and Mr. Pelting awhile talking
      with us, who tells me that my Lord Shrewsbury is likely to do well, after
      his great wound in the late dwell. He gone, comes W. Hewer and supped with
      me, and so to talk of things, and he tells me that Mr. Jessop is made
      Secretary to the Commissions of Parliament for Accounts, and I am glad,
      and it is pretty to see that all the Cavalier party were not able to find
      the Parliament nine Commissioners, or one Secretary, fit for the business.
      So he gone, I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and all the morning at the office very busy, and at noon by
      coach to Westminster, to the 'Chequer, about a warrant for Tangier money.
      In my way both coming and going I did stop at Drumbleby's, the pipe-maker,
      there to advise about the making of a flageolet to go low and soft; and he
      do shew me a way which do do, and also a fashion of having two pipes of
      the same note fastened together, so as I can play on one, and then echo it
      upon the other, which is mighty pretty. So to my Lord Crew's to dinner,
      where we hear all the good news of our making a league now with Holland
      against the French power coming over them, or us which is the first good
      act that hath been done a great while, and done secretly, and with great
      seeming wisdom; and is certainly good for us at this time, while we are in
      no condition to resist the French, if they should come over hither; and
      then a little time of peace will give us time to lay up something, which
      these Commissioners of the Treasury are doing; and the world do begin to
      see that they will do the King's work for him, if he will let them. Here
      dined Mr. Case, the minister, who, Lord! do talk just as I remember he
      used to preach, and did tell a pretty story of a religious lady, Queen of
      Navarre;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, sister of Francis I. of
     France.  The "pretty story" was doubtless from her "Heptameron," a
     work imitating in title and matter the "Decameron" of Boccaccio.
     She is said to be the heroine of some of the adventures.  It is fair
     to add that she wrote also the "Miroir dune Ame Pecheresse,"
     translated into English by Queen Elizabeth, the title of whose book
     was "A Godly Medytacyon of the Christian Soules," published by John
     Bale in 1548.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and my Lord also told a good story of Mr. Newman, the Minister in New
      England, who wrote the Concordance, of his foretelling his death and
      preaching a funeral sermon, and did at last bid the angels do their
      office, and died. It seems there is great presumption that there will be a
      Toleration granted: so that the Presbyterians do hold up their heads; but
      they will hardly trust the King or the Parliament what to yield them,
      though most of the sober party be for some kind of allowance to be given
      them. Thence and home, and then to the 'Change in the evening, and there
      Mr. Cade told me how my Lord Gerard is likely to meet with trouble, the
      next sitting of Parliament, about [Carr] being set in the pillory; and I
      am glad of it; and it is mighty acceptable to the world to hear, that,
      among other reductions, the King do reduce his Guards, which do please
      mightily. So to my bookbinder's with my boy, and there did stay late to
      see two or three things done that I had a mind to see done, and among
      others my Tangier papers of accounts, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and while at the office comes news from Kate Joyce that if I
      would see her husband alive, I must come presently. So, after the office
      was up, I to him, and W. Hewer with me, and find him in his sick bed (I
      never was at their house, this Inne, before) very sensible in discourse
      and thankful for my kindness to him, and his breath rattled in his
      throate, and they did lay pigeons to his feet while I was in the house,
      and all despair of him, and with good reason. But the story is that it
      seems on Thursday last he went sober and quiet out of doors in the morning
      to Islington, and behind one of the inns, the White Lion, did fling
      himself into a pond, was spied by a poor woman and got out by some people
      binding up hay in a barn there, and set on his head and got to life, and
      known by a woman coming that way; and so his wife and friends sent for. He
      confessed his doing the thing, being led by the Devil; and do declare his
      reason to be, his trouble that he found in having forgot to serve God as
      he ought, since he come to this new employment: and I believe that, and
      the sense of his great loss by the fire, did bring him to it, and so
      everybody concludes. He stayed there all that night, and come home by
      coach next morning, and there grew sick, and worse and worse to this day.
      I stayed awhile among the friends that were there, and they being now in
      fear that the goods and estate would be seized on, though he lived all
      this while, because of his endeavouring to drown himself, my cozen did
      endeavour to remove what she could of plate out of the house, and desired
      me to take my flagons; which I was glad of, and did take them away with me
      in great fear all the way of being seized; though there was no reason for
      it, he not being dead, but yet so fearful I was. So home, and there eat my
      dinner, and busy all the afternoon, and troubled at this business. In the
      evening with Sir D. Gawden, to Guild Hall, to advise with the Towne-Clerke
      about the practice of the City and nation in this case: and he thinks that
      it cannot be found self-murder; but if it be, it will fall, all the
      estate, to the King. So we parted, and I to my cozens again; where I no
      sooner come but news was brought down from his chamber that he was
      departed. So, at their entreaty, I presently took coach to White Hall, and
      there find Sir W. Coventry; and he carried me to the King, the Duke of
      York being with him, and there told my story which I had told him:
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This was not the only time that Pepys took trouble to save the
     estate of a friend who had committed suicide.  In the "Caveat Book"
     in the Record Office, p. 42 of the volume for 1677, is the following
     entry: "That no grant pass of the Estate of Francis Gurney of Maldon
     in Essex, who drowned himself in his own well on Tuesday night ye
     12th of this instant August, at the desire of Samuel Pepys, Esquire,
     August 20, 1677."]
</pre>
    <p>
      and the King, without more ado, granted that, if it was found, the estate
      should be to the widow and children. I presently to each Secretary's
      office, and there left caveats, and so away back again to my cozens,
      leaving a chimney on fire at White Hall, in the King's closet; but no
      danger. And so, when I come thither, I find her all in sorrow, but she and
      the rest mightily pleased with my doing this for them; and, indeed, it was
      a very great courtesy, for people are looking out for the estate, and the
      coroner will be sent to, and a jury called to examine his death. This
      being well done to my and their great joy, I home, and there to my office,
      and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, mightily busy all the morning at the office. At noon with Lord
      Brouncker to Sir D. Gawden's, at the Victualling-Office, to dinner, where
      I have not dined since he was Sheriff: He expected us; and a good dinner,
      and much good company; and a fine house, and especially two rooms, very
      fine, he hath built there. His lady a good lady; but my Lord led himself
      and me to a great absurdity in kissing all the ladies, but the finest of
      all the company, leaving her out, I know not how; and I was loath to do
      it, since he omitted it. Here little Chaplin dined, who is like to be
      Sheriff the next year; and a pretty humoured little man he is. I met here
      with Mr. Talents, the younger, of Magdalene College, Chaplain here to the
      Sheriff; which I was glad to see, though not much acquainted with him.
      This day come the first demand from the Commissioners of Accounts to us,
      and it contains more than we shall ever be able to answer while we live,
      and I do foresee we shall be put to much trouble and some shame, at least
      some of us. Thence stole away after dinner to my cozen Kate's, and there
      find the Crowner's jury sitting, but they could not end it, but put off
      the business to Shrove Tuesday next, and so do give way to the burying of
      him, and that is all; but they all incline to find it a natural death,
      though there are mighty busy people to have it go otherwise, thinking to
      get his estate, but are mistaken. Thence, after sitting with her and
      company a while, comforting her: though I can find she can, as all other
      women, cry, and yet talk of other things all in a breath. So home, and
      thereto cards with my wife, Deb., and Betty Turner, and Batelier, and
      after supper late to sing. But, Lord! how did I please myself to make
      Betty Turner sing, to see what a beast she is as to singing, not knowing
      how to sing one note in tune; but, only for the experiment, I would not
      for 40s. hear her sing a tune: worse than my wife a thousand times, so
      that it do a little reconcile me to her. So late to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. At the Office all the morning; and at noon find the Bishop of
      Lincolne come to dine with us; and after him comes Mr. Brisband; and there
      mighty good company. But the Bishop a very extraordinary good-natured man,
      and one that is mightily pleased, as well as I am, that I live so near
      Bugden, the seat of his bishopricke, where he is like to reside: and,
      indeed, I am glad of it. In discourse, we think ourselves safe for this
      year, by this league with Holland, which pleases every body, and, they
      say, vexes France; insomuch that D'Estrades; the French Embassador in
      Holland, when he heard it, told the States that he would have them not
      forget that his master is at the head of 100,000 men, and is but 28 years
      old; which was a great speech. The Bishop tells me he thinks that the
      great business of Toleration will not, notwithstanding this talk, be
      carried this Parliament; nor for the King's taking away the Deans' and
      Chapters' lands to supply his wants, they signifying little to him, if he
      had them, for his present service. He gone, I mightily pleased with his
      kindness, I to the office, where busy till night, and then to Mrs.
      Turner's, where my wife, and Deb., and I, and Batelier spent the night,
      and supped, and played at cards, and very merry, and so I home to bed. She
      is either a very prodigal woman, or richer than she would be thought, by
      her buying of the best things, and laying out much money in new-fashioned
      pewter; and, among other things, a new-fashioned case for a pair of
      snuffers, which is very pretty; but I could never have guessed what it was
      for, had I not seen the snuffers in it.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up before day to my Tangier accounts, and then out and to a
      Committee of Tangier, where little done but discourse about reduction of
      the charge of the garrison, and thence to Westminster about orders at the
      Exchequer, and at the Swan I drank, and there met with a pretty ingenious
      young Doctor of physic, by chance, and talked with him, and so home to
      dinner, and after dinner carried my wife to the Temple, and thence she to
      a play, and I to St. Andrew's church, in Holburne, at the 'Quest House,
      where the company meets to the burial of my cozen Joyce; and here I staid
      with a very great rabble of four or five hundred people of mean condition,
      and I staid in the room with the kindred till ready to go to church, where
      there is to be a sermon of Dr. Stillingfleete, and thence they carried him
      to St. Sepulchre's. But it being late, and, indeed, not having a black
      cloak to lead her [Kate Joyce] with, or follow the corps, I away, and saw,
      indeed, a very great press of people follow the corps. I to the King's
      playhouse, to fetch my wife, and there saw the best part of "The Mayden
      Queene," which, the more I see, the more I love, and think one of the best
      plays I ever saw, and is certainly the best acted of any thing ever the
      House did, and particularly Becke Marshall, to admiration. Found my wife
      and Deb., and saw many fine ladies, and sat by Colonell Reames, who
      understands and loves a play as well as I, and I love him for it. And so
      thence home; and, after being at the Office, I home to supper, and to bed,
      my eyes being very bad again with overworking with them.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning, and then at noon
      to the 'Change with Mr. Hater, and there he and I to a tavern to meet
      Captain Minors, which we did, and dined; and there happened to be Mr.
      Prichard, a ropemaker of his acquaintance, and whom I know also, and did
      once mistake for a fiddler, which sung well, and I asked him for such a
      song that I had heard him sing, and after dinner did fall to discourse
      about the business of the old contract between the King and the East India
      Company for the ships of the King that went thither, and about this did
      beat my brains all the afternoon, and then home and made an end of the
      accounts to my great content, and so late home tired and my eyes sore, to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to Church, and at noon home to
      dinner. No strangers there; and all the afternoon and evening very late
      doing serious business of my Tangier accounts, and examining my East India
      accounts, with Mr. Poynter, whom I employed all this day, to transcribe it
      fair; and so to supper, W. Hewer with us, and so the girl to comb my head
      till I slept, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. It being weather like the beginning of a frost and the ground dry, I
      walked as far as the Temple, and there took coach and to White Hall, but
      the Committee not being met I to Westminster, and there I do hear of the
      letter that is in the pamphlet this day of the King of France, declaring
      his design to go on against Flanders, and the grounds of it, which do set
      us mightily at rest. So to White Hall, and there a committee of Tangier,
      but little done there, only I did get two or three little jobs done to the
      perfecting two or three papers about my Tangier accounts. Here Mr. Povy do
      tell me how he is like to lose his L400 a-year pension of the Duke of
      York, which he took in consideration of his place which was taken from
      him. He tells me the Duchesse is a devil against him, and do now come like
      Queen Elizabeth, and sits with the Duke of York's Council, and sees what
      they do; and she crosses out this man's wages and prices, as she sees fit,
      for saving money; but yet, he tells me, she reserves L5000 a-year for her
      own spending; and my Lady Peterborough, by and by, tells me that the
      Duchesse do lay up, mightily, jewells. Thence to my Lady Peterborough's,
      she desiring to speak with me. She loves to be taken dressing herself, as
      I always find her; and there, after a little talk, to please her, about
      her husband's pension, which I do not think he will ever get again, I away
      thence home, and all the afternoon mighty busy at the office, and late,
      preparing a letter to the Commissioners of Accounts, our first letter to
      them, and so home to supper, where Betty Turner was (whose brother Frank
      did set out toward the East Indies this day, his father and mother gone
      down with him to Gravesend), and there was her little brother Moses, whom
      I examined, and he is a pretty good scholar for a child, and so after
      supper to talk and laugh, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and to the office, and there with W. Griffin talking about
      getting the place to build a coach-house, or to hire one, which I now do
      resolve to have, and do now declare it; for it is plainly for my benefit
      for saving money. By and by the office sat, and there we concluded on our
      letter to the Commissioners of Accounts and to the several officers of
      ours about the work they are to do to answer their late great demands. At
      noon home to dinner, and after dinner set my wife and girl down at the
      Exchange, and I to White Hall; and, by and by, the Duke of York comes, and
      we had a little meeting, Anglesey, W. Pen, and I there, and none else:
      and, among other things, did discourse of the want of discipline in the
      fleete, which the Duke' of York confessed, and yet said that he, while he
      was there, did keep it in a good measure, but that it was now lost when he
      was absent; but he will endeavour to have it again. That he did tell the
      Prince and Duke of Albemarle they would lose all order by making such and
      such men commanders, which they would, because they were stout men: he
      told them that it was a reproach to the nation, as if there were no sober
      men among us, that were stout, to be had. That they did put out some men
      for cowards that the Duke of York had put in, but little before, for stout
      men; and would now, were he to go to sea again, entertain them in his own
      division, to choose: and did put in an idle fellow, Greene, who was hardly
      thought fit for a boatswain by him: they did put him from being a
      lieutenant to a captain's place of a second-rate ship; as idle a drunken
      fellow, he said, as any was in the fleete. That he will now desire the
      King to let him be what he is, that is, Admirall; and he will put in none
      but those that he hath great reason to think well of; and particularly
      says, that; though he likes Colonell Legg well, yet his son that was, he
      knows not how, made a captain after he had been but one voyage at sea, he
      should go to sea another apprenticeship, before ever he gives him a
      command. We did tell him of the many defects and disorders among the
      captains, and I prayed we might do it in writing to him, which he liked;
      and I am glad of an opportunity of doing it. Thence away, and took up wife
      and girl, and home, and to the office, busy late, and so to supper and to
      bed. My wife this day hears from her father and mother: they are in
      France, at Paris; he, poor good man! I think he is, gives her good counsel
      still, which I always observed of him, and thankful for my small charities
      to him. I could be willing to do something for them, were I sure not to
      bring them over again hither. Coming home, my wife and I went and saw Kate
      Joyce, who is still in mighty sorrow, and the more from something that Dr.
      Stillingfleete should simply say in his sermon, of her husband's manner of
      dying, as killing himself.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up betimes, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry, whom I found in his
      chamber, and there stayed an hour and talked with him about several things
      of the Navy, and our want of money, which they indeed do supply us with a
      little, but in no degree likely to enable us to go on with the King's
      service. He is at a stand where to have more, and is in mighty pain for
      it, declaring that he believes there never was a kingdom so governed as
      this was in the time of the late Chancellor and the Treasurer, nobody
      minding or understanding any thing how things went or what the King had in
      his Treasury, or was to have, nothing in the world of it minded. He tells
      me that there are still people desirous to overthrow him; he resolving to
      stick at nothing nor no person that stands in his way against bringing the
      King out of debt, be it to retrench any man's place or profit, and that he
      cares not, for rather than be employed under the King, and have the King
      continue in this condition of indigence, he desires to be put out from
      among them, thinking it no honour to be a minister in such a government.
      He tells me he hath no friends in the whole Court but my Lord Keeper and
      Sir John Duncomb. He tells me they have reduced the charges of Ireland
      above L70,000 a-year, and thereby cut off good profits from my Lord
      Lieutenant; which will make a new enemy, but he cares not. He tells me
      that Townsend, of the Wardrobe, is the eeriest knave and bufflehead that
      ever he saw in his life, and wonders how my Lord Sandwich come to trust
      such a fellow, and that now Reames and&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;are put
      in to be overseers there, and do great things, and have already saved a
      great deal of money in the King's liverys, and buy linnen so cheap, that
      he will have them buy the next cloth he hath, for shirts. But then this is
      with ready money, which answers all. He do not approve of my letter I drew
      and the office signed yesterday to the Commissioners of Accounts, saying
      that it is a little too submissive, and grants a little too much and too
      soon our bad managements, though we lay on want of money, yet that it will
      be time enough to plead it when they object it. Which was the opinion of
      my Lord Anglesey also; so I was ready to alter it, and did so presently,
      going from him home, and there transcribed it fresh as he would have it,
      and got it signed, and to White Hall presently and shewed it him, and so
      home, and there to dinner, and after dinner all the afternoon and till 12
      o'clock at night with Mr. Gibson at home upon my Tangier accounts, and did
      end them fit to be given the last of them to the Auditor to-morrow, to my
      great content. This evening come Betty Turner and the two Mercers, and W.
      Batelier, and they had fiddlers, and danced, and kept a quarter,&mdash;[A
      term for making a noise or disturbance.]&mdash;which pleased me, though it
      disturbed me; but I could not be with them at all. Mr. Gibson lay at my
      house all night, it was so late.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, it being fast day for the King's death, and so I and Mr. Gibson
      by water to the Temple, and there all the morning with Auditor Wood, and I
      did deliver in the whole of my accounts and run them over in three hours
      with full satisfaction, and so with great content thence, he and I, and
      our clerks, and Mr. Clerke, the solicitor, to a little ordinary in
      Hercules-pillars Ally&mdash;the Crowne, a poor, sorry place, where a
      fellow, in twelve years, hath gained an estate of, as he says, L600
      a-year, which is very strange, and there dined, and had a good dinner, and
      very good discourse between them, old men belonging to the law, and here I
      first heard that my cozen Pepys, of Salisbury Court, was Marshal to my
      Lord Cooke when he was Lord Chief justice; which beginning of his I did
      not know to be so low: but so it was, it seems. After dinner I home,
      calling at my bookbinder's, but he not within. When come home, I find Kate
      Joyce hath been there, with sad news that her house stands not in the
      King's liberty, but the Dean of Paul's; and so, if her estate be
      forfeited, it will not be in the King's power to do her any good. So I
      took coach and to her, and there found her in trouble, as I cannot blame
      her. But I do believe this arises from somebody that hath a mind to fright
      her into a composition for her estate, which I advise her against; and,
      indeed, I do desire heartily to be able to do her service, she being,
      methinks, a piece of care I ought to take upon me, for our fathers' and
      friends' sake, she being left alone, and no friend so near as me, or so
      able to help her. After having given her my advice, I home, and there to
      my office and did business, and hear how the Committee for Accounts are
      mighty active and likely to examine every thing, but let them do their
      worst I am to be before them with our contract books to-morrow. So home
      from the office, to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up; and by coach, with W. Griffin with me, and our Contract-books,
      to Durham Yard, to the Commissioners for Accounts; the first time I ever
      was there; and staid awhile before I was admitted to them. I did observe a
      great many people attending about complaints of seamen concerning tickets,
      and, among others, Mr. Carcasse, and Mr. Martin, my purser. And I observe
      a fellow, one Collins, is there, who is employed by these Commissioners
      particularly to hold an office in Bishopsgate Street, or somewhere
      thereabouts, to receive complaints of all people about tickets: and I
      believe he will have work enough. Presently I was called in, where I found
      the whole number of Commissioners, and was there received with great
      respect and kindness; and did give them great satisfaction, making it my
      endeavour to inform them what it was they were to expect from me, and what
      was the duty of other people; this being my only way to preserve myself,
      after all my pains and trouble. They did ask many questions, and demanded
      other books of me, which I did give them very ready and acceptable answers
      to; and, upon the whole, I observe they do go about their business like
      men resolved to go through with it, and in a very good method; like men of
      understanding. They have Mr. Jessop, their secretary: and it is pretty to
      see that they are fain to find out an old-fashioned man of Cromwell's to
      do their business for them, as well as the Parliament to pitch upon such,
      for the most part, in the list of people that were brought into the House,
      for Commissioners. I went away, with giving and receiving great
      satisfaction; and so away to White Hall to the Commissioners of the
      Treasury; where, waiting some time, I there met with Colonel Birch; and he
      and I fell into discourse; and I did give him thanks for his kindness to
      me in the Parliament-house, both before my face and behind my back. He
      told me that he knew me to be a man of the old way for taking pains, and
      did always endeavour to do me right, and prevent any thing that was moved
      that might tend to my injury; which I was obliged to him for, and thanked
      him. Thence to talk of other things, and the want of money and he told me
      of the general want of money in the country; that land sold for nothing,
      and the many pennyworths he knows of lands and houses upon them, with good
      titles in his country, at 16 years' purchase: "and," says he, "though I am
      in debt, yet I have a mind to one thing, and that is a Bishop's lease;"
      but said, "I will yet choose such a lease before any other, yes," says he,
      plainly, "because I know they cannot stand, and then it will fall into the
      King's hands, and I in possession shall have an advantage by it." "And,"
      says he, "I know they must fall, and they are now near it, taking all the
      ways they can to undo themselves, and showing us the way;" and thereupon
      told the a story of the present quarrel between the Bishop and Deane of
      Coventry and Lichfield; the former of which did excommunicate the latter,
      and caused his excommunication to be read in the Church while he was
      there; and, after it was read, the Deane made the service be gone through
      with, though himself, an excommunicate, was present, which is contrary to
      the Canon, and said he would justify the quire therein against the Bishop;
      and so they are at law in the Arches about it; which is a very pretty
      story. He tells me that the King is for Toleration, though the Bishops be
      against it: and that he do not doubt but it will be carried in Parliament;
      but that he fears some will stand for the tolerating of Papists with the
      rest; and that he knows not what to say, but rather thinks that the sober
      party will be without it, rather than have it upon those terms; and I do
      believe so. Here we broke off, and I home to dinner, and after dinner set
      down my wife and Deb. at the 'Change, and I to make a visit to Mr.
      Godolphin
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [William Godolphin, descended from a younger branch of that family,
     which was afterwards ennobled in the person of Sidney, Earl
     Godolphin, Lord Treasurer.  William Godolphin was of Christ Church,
     Oxford, and graduated M.A., January 14th, 1660-61.  He was
     afterwards secretary to Sir H. Bennet (Lord Arlington), and M.P. for
     Camelford.  He was a great favourite at Court, and was knighted on
     August 28th, 1668.  In the spring of 1669 he returned to Spain as
     Envoy Extraordinary, and in 1671 he became Ambassador.  On July
     11th, 1696, he died at Madrid, having been for some years a Roman
     Catholic.]
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      at his lodgings, who is lately come from Spain from my Lord Sandwich, and
      did, the other day, meeting me in White Hall, compliment me mightily, and
      so I did offer him this visit, but missed him, and so back and took up my
      wife and set her at Mrs. Turner's, and I to my bookbinder's, and there,
      till late at night, binding up my second part of my Tangier accounts, and
      I all the while observing his working, and his manner of gilding of books
      with great pleasure, and so home, and there busy late, and then to bed.
      This day Griffin did, in discourse in the coach, put me in the head of the
      little house by our garden, where old goodman Taylor puts his brooms and
      dirt, to make me a stable of, which I shall improve, so as, I think, to be
      able to get me a stable without much charge, which do please me mightily.
      He did also in discourse tell me that it is observed, and is true, in the
      late fire of London, that the fire burned just as many Parish-Churches as
      there were hours from the beginning to the end of the fire; and, next,
      that there were just as many Churches left standing as there were taverns
      left standing in the rest of the City that was not burned, being, I think
      he told me, thirteen in all of each: which is pretty to observe.
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      FEBRUARY 1667-1668
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    <p>
      February 1st. Up, and to the office pretty betimes, and the Board not
      meeting as soon as I wished, I was forced to go to White Hall in
      expectation of a Committee for Tangier, but when I come it was put off,
      and so home again to the office, and sat till past two o'clock; where at
      the Board some high words passed between Sir W. Pen and I, begun by me,
      and yielded to by him, I being in the right in finding fault with him for
      his neglect of duty. At noon home to dinner, and after dinner out with my
      wife, thinking to have gone to the Duke of York's playhouse, but was, to
      my great content in the saving my vow, hindered by coming a little too
      late; and so, it being a fine day, we out to Islington, and there to the
      old house and eat cheese-cakes and drank and talked, and so home in the
      evening, the ways being mighty bad, so as we had no pleasure in being
      abroad at all almost, but only the variety of it, and so to the office,
      where busy late, and then home to supper and to bed, my head mighty full
      of business now on my hands: viz., of finishing my Tangier Accounts; of
      auditing my last year's Accounts; of preparing answers to the
      Commissioners of Accounts; of drawing up several important letters to the
      Duke of York and the Commissioners of the Treasury; the marrying of my
      sister; the building of a coach and stables against summer, and the
      setting many things in the Office right; and the drawing up a new form of
      Contract with the Victualler of the Navy, and several other things, which
      pains, however, will go through with, among others the taking care of Kate
      Joyce in that now she is in at present for saving her estate.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd (Lord's day). Wife took physick this day, I all day at home, and all
      the morning setting my books in order in my presses, for the following
      year, their number being much increased since the last, so as I am fain to
      lay by several books to make room for better, being resolved to keep no
      more than just my presses will contain. At noon to dinner, my wife coming
      down to me, and a very good dinner we had, of a powdered leg of pork and a
      loin of lamb roasted, and with much content she and I and Deb. After
      dinner, my head combed an hour, and then to work again, and at it, doing
      many things towards the setting my accounts and papers in order, and so in
      the evening Mr. Pelling supping with us, and to supper, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and to the office, where with my clerks all the morning very busy
      about several things there wherein I was behindhand. At noon home to
      dinner, and thence after dinner to the Duke of York's house, to the play,
      "The Tempest," which we have often seen, but yet I was pleased again, and
      shall be again to see it, it is so full of variety, and particularly this
      day I took pleasure to learn the tune of the seaman's dance, which I have
      much desired to be perfect in, and have made myself so. So home with my
      wife and Deb., and there at the office met to my trouble with a warrant
      from the Commissioners of Accounts for my attending them and Cocke two
      days hence, which I apprehend by Captain Cocke's being to go also, to be
      about the prizes. But, however, there is nothing of crime can be laid to
      my charge, and the worst that can be is to refund my L500 profit, and who
      can help it. So I resolve not to be troubled at it, though I fear I cannot
      bear it so, my spirit being very poor and mean as to the bearing with
      trouble that I do find of myself. So home, and there to my chamber and did
      some business,&mdash;and thence to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and to the office, where a full Board sat all the morning, busy
      among other things concerning a solemn letter we intend to write to the
      Duke of York about the state of the things of the Navy, for want of money,
      though I doubt it will be to little purpose. After dinner I abroad by
      coach to Kate Joyce's, where the jury did sit where they did before, about
      her husband's death, and their verdict put off for fourteen days longer,
      at the suit of somebody, under pretence of the King; but it is only to get
      money out of her to compound the matter. But the truth is, something they
      will make out of Stillingfleete's sermon, which may trouble us, he
      declaring, like a fool, in his pulpit, that he did confess that his losses
      in the world did make him do what he did. This do vex me to see how
      foolish our Protestant Divines are, while the Papists do make it the duty
      of Confessor to be secret, or else nobody would confess their sins to
      them. All being put off for to-day, I took my leave of Kate, who is
      mightily troubled at it for her estate sake, not for her husband; for her
      sorrow for that, I perceive, is all over. I home, and, there to my office
      busy till the evening, and then home, and there my wife and Deb. and I and
      Betty Turner, I employed in the putting new titles to my books, which we
      proceeded on till midnight, and then being weary and late to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and I to Captain Cocke's, where he and I did discourse of our
      business that we are to go about to the Commissioners of Accounts about
      our prizes, and having resolved to conceal nothing but to confess the
      truth, the truth being likely to do us most good, we parted, and I to
      White Hall, where missing of the Commissioners of the Treasury, I to the
      Commissioners of Accounts, where I was forced to stay two hours before I
      was called in, and when come in did take an oath to declare the truth to
      what they should ask me, which is a great power; I doubt more than the Act
      do, or as some say can, give them, to force a man to swear against
      himself; and so they fell to enquire about the business of prize-goods,
      wherein I did answer them as well as I could, answer them in everything
      the just truth, keeping myself to that. I do perceive at last, that, that
      they did lay most like a fault to me was, that I did buy goods upon my
      Lord Sandwich's declaring that it was with the King's allowance, and my
      believing it, without seeing the King's allowance, which is a thing I will
      own, and doubt not to justify myself in. That that vexed me most was,
      their having some watermen by, to witness my saying that they were rogues
      that they had betrayed my goods, which was upon some discontent with one
      of the watermen that I employed at Greenwich, who I did think did discover
      the goods sent from Rochester to the Custom-House officer; but this can do
      me no great harm. They were inquisitive into the minutest particulars, and
      the evening great information; but I think that they can do me no hurt, at
      the worst, more than to make me refund, if it must be known, what profit I
      did make of my agreement with Captain Cocke; and yet, though this be all,
      I do find so poor a spirit within me, that it makes me almost out of my
      wits, and puts me to so much pain, that I cannot think of anything, nor do
      anything but vex and fret, and imagine myself undone, so that I am ashamed
      of myself to myself, and do fear what would become of me if any real
      affliction should come upon me. After they had done with me, they called
      in Captain Cocke, with whom they were shorter; and I do fear he may answer
      foolishly, for he did speak to me foolishly before he went in; but I hope
      to preserve myself, and let him shift for himself as well as he can. So I
      away, walked to my flageolet maker in the Strand, and there staid for
      Captain Cocke, who took me up and carried me home, and there coming home
      and finding dinner done, and Mr. Cooke, who come for my Lady Sandwich's
      plate, which I must part with, and so endanger the losing of my money,
      which I lent upon my thoughts of securing myself by that plate. But it is
      no great sum&mdash;but L60: and if it must be lost, better that, than a
      greater sum. I away back again, to find a dinner anywhere else, and so I,
      first, to the Ship Tavern, thereby to get a sight of the pretty mistress
      of the house, with whom I am not yet acquainted at all, and I do always
      find her scolding, and do believe she is an ill-natured devil, that I have
      no great desire to speak to her. Here I drank, and away by coach to the
      Strand, there to find out Mr. Moore, and did find him at the Bell Inn, and
      there acquainted him with what passed between me and the Commissioners
      to-day about the prize goods, in order to the considering what to do about
      my Lord Sandwich, and did conclude to own the thing to them as done by the
      King's allowance, and since confirmed. Thence to other discourse, among
      others, he mightily commends my Lord Hinchingbroke's match and Lady,
      though he buys her L10,000 dear, by the jointure and settlement his father
      makes her; and says that the Duke of York and Duchess of York did come to
      see them in bed together, on their wedding-night, and how my Lord had
      fifty pieces of gold taken out of his pocket that night, after he was in
      bed. He tells me that an Act of Comprehension is likely to pass this
      Parliament, for admitting of all persuasions in religion to the public
      observation of their particular worship, but in certain places, and the
      persons therein concerned to be listed of this, or that Church; which, it
      is thought, will do them more hurt than good, and make them not own, their
      persuasion. He tells me that there is a pardon passed to the Duke of
      Buckingham, my Lord of Shrewsbury, and the rest, for the late duell and
      murder;
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<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The royal pardon was thus announced in the "Gazette" of February
     24th, 1668: "This day his Majesty was pleased to declare at the
     Board, that whereas, in contemplation of the eminent services
     heretofore done to his Majesty by most of the persons who were
     engaged in the late duel, or rencounter, wherein William Jenkins was
     killed, he Both graciously pardon the said offence: nevertheless, He
     is resolved from henceforth that on no pretence whatsoever any
     pardon shall be hereafter granted to any person whatsoever for
     killing of any man, in any duel or rencounter, but that the course
     of law shall wholly take place in all such cases."  The warrant for
     a pardon to George, Duke of Buckingham, is dated January 27th, 1668;
     and on the following day was issued, "Warrant for a grant to
     Francis, Earl of Shrewsbury, of pardon for killing William Jenkins,
     and for all duels, assaults, or batteries on George, Duke of
     Buckingham, Sir John Talbot, Sir Robert Holmes, or any other,
     whether indicted or not for the same, with restitution of lands,
     goods, &amp;c."  ("Calendar of State Papers," 1667-68, pp. 192,193).]
</pre>
    <p>
      which he thinks a worse fault than any ill use my late Lord Chancellor
      ever put the Great Seal to, and will be so thought by the Parliament, for
      them to be pardoned without bringing them to any trial: and that my Lord
      Privy-Seal therefore would not have it pass his hand, but made it go by
      immediate warrant; or at least they knew that he would not pass it, and so
      did direct it to go by immediate warrant, that it might not come to him.
      He tells me what a character my Lord Sandwich hath sent over of Mr.
      Godolphin, as the worthiest man, and such a friend to him as he may be
      trusted in any thing relating to him in the world; as one whom, he says,
      he hath infallible assurances that he will remaine his friend which is
      very high, but indeed they say the gentleman is a fine man. Thence, after
      eating a lobster for my dinner, having eat nothing to-day, we broke up,
      here coming to us Mr. Townsend of the Wardrobe, who complains of the
      Commissioners of the Treasury as very severe against my Lord Sandwich, but
      not so much as they complain of him for a fool and a knave, and so I let
      him alone, and home, carrying Mr. Moore as far as Fenchurch Street, and I
      home, and there being vexed in my mind about my prize businesses I to my
      chamber, where my wife and I had much talk of W. Hewer, she telling me
      that he is mightily concerned for my not being pleased with him, and is
      herself mightily concerned, but I have much reason to blame him for his
      little assistance he gives me in my business, not being able to copy out a
      letter with sense or true spelling that makes me mad, and indeed he is in
      that regard of as little use to me as the boy, which troubles me, and I
      would have him know it,&mdash;and she will let him know it. By and by to
      supper, and so to bed, and slept but ill all night, my mind running like a
      fool on my prize business, which according to my reason ought not to
      trouble me at all.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning,, and among other things
      Sir H. Cholmly comes to me about a little business, and there tells me how
      the Parliament, which is to meet again to-day, are likely to fall heavy on
      the business of the Duke of Buckingham's pardon; and I shall be glad of
      it: and that the King hath put out of the Court the two Hides, my Lord
      Chancellor's two sons, and also the Bishops of Rochester and Winchester,
      the latter of whom should have preached before him yesterday, being Ash
      Wednesday, and had his sermon ready, but was put by; which is great news:
      He gone, we sat at the office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner,
      and my wife being gone before, I to the Duke of York's playhouse; where a
      new play of Etherige's, called "She Would if she Could;" and though I was
      there by two o'clock, there was 1000 people put back that could not have
      room in the pit: and I at last, because my wife was there, made shift to
      get into the 18d. box, and there saw; but, Lord! how full was the house,
      and how silly the play, there being nothing in the world good in it, and
      few people pleased in it. The King was there; but I sat mightily behind,
      and could see but little, and hear not all. The play being done, I into
      the pit to look (for) my wife, and it being dark and raining, I to look my
      wife out, but could not find her; and so staid going between the two doors
      and through the pit an hour and half, I think, after the play was done;
      the people staying there till the rain was over, and to talk with one
      another. And, among the rest, here was the Duke of Buckingham to-day
      openly sat in the pit; and there I found him with my Lord Buckhurst, and
      Sidly, and Etherige, the poet; the last of whom I did hear mightily find
      fault with the actors, that they were out of humour, and had not their
      parts perfect, and that Harris did do nothing, nor could so much as sing a
      ketch in it; and so was mightily concerned while all the rest did, through
      the whole pit, blame the play as a silly, dull thing, though there was
      something very roguish and witty; but the design of the play, and end,
      mighty insipid. At last I did find my wife staying for me in the entry;
      and with her was Betty Turner, Mercer, and Deb. So I got a coach, and a
      humour took us, and I carried them to Hercules Pillars, and there did give
      them a kind of a supper of about 7s., and very merry, and home round the
      town, not through the ruines; and it was pretty how the coachman by
      mistake drives us into the ruines from London-wall into Coleman Street:
      and would persuade me that I lived there. And the truth is, I did think
      that he and the linkman had contrived some roguery; but it proved only a
      mistake of the coachman; but it was a cunning place to have done us a
      mischief in, as any I know, to drive us out of the road into the ruines,
      and there stop, while nobody could be called to help us. But we come safe
      home, and there, the girls being gone home, I to the office, where a while
      busy, my head not being wholly free of my trouble about my prize business,
      I home to bed. This evening coming home I did put my hand under the coats
      of Mercer and did touch her thigh, but then she did put by my hand and no
      hurt done, but talked and sang and was merry.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and to the office, to the getting of my books in order, to carry
      to the Commissioners of Accounts this morning. This being done, I away
      first to Westminster Hall, and there met my cozen, Roger Pepys, by his
      desire, the first time I have seen him since his coming to town, the
      Parliament meeting yesterday and adjourned to Monday next; and here he
      tells me that Mr. Jackson, my sister's servant, is come to town, and hath
      this day suffered a recovery on his estate, in order to the making her a
      settlement. The young man is gone out of the Hall, so I could not now see
      him, but here I walked a good while with my cozen, and among other things
      do hear that there is a great triall between my Lord Gerard and Carr
      to-day, who is indicted for his life at the King's Bench, for running from
      his colours; but all do say that my Lord Gerard, though he designs the
      ruining of this man, will not get any thing by it. Thence to the
      Commissioners of Accounts, and there presented my books, and was made to
      sit down, and used with much respect, otherwise than the other day, when I
      come to them as a criminal about the business of the prizes. I sat here
      with them a great while, while my books were inventoried. And here do hear
      from them by discourse that they are like to undo the Treasurer's
      instruments of the Navy by making it a rule that they shall repay all
      money paid to wrong parties, which is a thing not to be supported by these
      poor creatures the Treasurer's instruments, as it is also hard for seamen
      to be ruined by their paying money to whom they please. I know not what
      will be the issue of it. I find these gentlemen to sit all day, and only
      eat a bit of bread at noon, and a glass of wine; and are resolved to go
      through their business with great severity and method. Thence I, about two
      o'clock, to Westminster Hall, by appointment, and there met my cozen Roger
      again, and Mr. Jackson, who is a plain young man, handsome enough for
      Pall, one of no education nor discourse, but of few words, and one
      altogether that, I think, will please me well enough. My cozen had got me
      to give the odd sixth L100 presently, which I intended to keep to the
      birth of the first child: and let it go&mdash;I shall be eased of the
      care, and so, after little talk, we parted, resolving to dine together at
      my house tomorrow. So there parted, my mind pretty well satisfied with
      this plain fellow for my sister, though I shall, I see, have no pleasure
      nor content in him, as if he had been a man of reading and parts, like
      Cumberland, and to the Swan, and there sent for a bit of meat and eat and
      drank, and so to White Hall to the Duke of York's chamber, where I find
      him and my fellows at their usual meeting, discoursing about securing the
      Medway this year, which is to shut the door after the horse is stole.
      However, it is good. Having done here, my Lord Brouncker, and W. Pen, and
      I, and with us Sir Arnold Breames, to the King's playhouse, and there saw
      a piece of "Love in a Maze," a dull, silly play, I think; and after the
      play, home with W. Pen and his son Lowther, whom we met there, and then
      home and sat most of the evening with my wife and Mr. Pelting, talking, my
      head being full of business of one kind or other, and most such as do not
      please me, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and to the office, where sat all day, and at noon home, and there
      find cozen Roger and Jackson by appointment come to dine with me, and
      Creed, and very merry, only Jackson hath few words, and I like him never
      the worse for it. The great talk is of Carr's coming off in all his
      trials, to the disgrace of my Lord Gerard, to that degree, and the ripping
      up of so many notorious rogueries and cheats of my Lord's, that my Lord,
      it is thought, will be ruined; and, above all things, do skew the madness
      of the House of Commons, who rejected the petition of this poor man by a
      combination of a few in the House; and, much more, the base proceedings
      (just the epitome of all our publick managements in this age), of the
      House of Lords, that ordered him to stand in the pillory for those very
      things, without hearing and examining what he hath now, by the seeking of
      my Lord Gerard himself, cleared himself of, in open Court, to the gaining
      himself the pity of all the world, and shame for ever to my Lord Gerard.
      We had a great deal of good discourse at table, and after dinner we four
      men took coach, and they set me down at the Old Exchange, and they home,
      having discoursed nothing today with cozen or Jackson about our business.
      I to Captain Cocke's, and there discoursed over our business of prizes,
      and I think I shall go near to state the matter so as to secure myself
      without wrong to him, doing nor saying anything but the very truth. Thence
      away to the Strand, to my bookseller's, and there staid an hour, and
      bought the idle, rogueish book, "L'escholle des filles;" which I have
      bought in plain binding, avoiding the buying of it better bound, because I
      resolve, as soon as I have read it, to burn it, that it may not stand in
      the list of books, nor among them, to disgrace them if it should be found.
      Thence home, and busy late at the office, and then home to supper and to
      bed. My wife well pleased with my sister's match, and designing how to be
      merry at their marriage. And I am well at ease in my mind to think that
      that care will be over. This night calling at the Temple, at the
      Auditor's, his man told me that he heard that my account must be brought
      to the view of the Commissioners of Tangier before it can be passed, which
      though I know no hurt in it, yet it troubled me lest there should be any
      or any designed by them who put this into the head of the Auditor, I
      suppose Auditor Beale, or Creed, because they saw me carrying my account
      another way than by them.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office
      doing business, and also reading a little of "L'escholle des filles,"
      which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to
      read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world. At noon home to
      dinner, where by appointment Mr. Pelting come and with him three friends,
      Wallington, that sings the good base, and one Rogers, and a gentleman, a
      young man, his name Tempest, who sings very well indeed, and understands
      anything in the world at first sight. After dinner we into our
      dining-room, and there to singing all the afternoon. (By the way, I must
      remember that Pegg Pen was brought to bed yesterday of a girl; and, among
      other things, if I have not already set it down, that hardly ever was
      remembered such a season for the smallpox as these last two months have
      been, people being seen all up and down the streets, newly come out after
      the smallpox.) But though they sang fine things, yet I must confess that I
      did take no pleasure in it, or very little, because I understood not the
      words, and with the rests that the words are set, there is no sense nor
      understanding in them though they be English, which makes me weary of
      singing in that manner, it being but a worse sort of instrumental musick.
      We sang until almost night, and drank mighty good store of wine, and then
      they parted, and I to my chamber, where I did read through "L'escholle des
      filles," a lewd book, but what do no wrong once to read for information
      sake.... And after I had done it I burned it, that it might not be among
      my books to my shame, and so at night to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and by coach to Westminster, and there made a visit to Mr.
      Godolphin, at his chamber; and I do find him a very pretty and able
      person, a man of very fine parts, and of infinite zeal to my Lord
      Sandwich; and one that says he is, he believes, as wise and able a person
      as any prince in the world hath. He tells me that he meets with unmannerly
      usage by Sir Robert Southwell, in Portugall, who would sign with him in
      his negociations there, being a forward young man: but that my Lord
      mastered him in that point, it being ruled for my Lord here, at a hearing
      of a Committee of the Council. He says that if my Lord can compass a peace
      between Spain and Portugall, and hath the doing of it and the honour
      himself, it will be a thing of more honour than ever any man had, and of
      as much advantage. Thence to Westminster Hall, where the Hall mighty full:
      and, among other things, the House begins to sit to-day, and the King
      come. But, before the King's coming, the House of Commons met; and upon
      information given them of a Bill intended to be brought in, as common
      report said, for Comprehension, they did mightily and generally inveigh
      against it, and did vote that the King should be desired by the House (and
      the message delivered by the Privy-counsellers of the House) that the laws
      against breakers of the Act of Uniformity should be put in execution: and
      it was moved in the House that, if any people had a mind to bring any new
      laws into the House, about religion, they might come, as a proposer of new
      laws did in Athens, with ropes about their necks. By and by the King comes
      to the Lords' House, and there tells them of his league with Holland, and
      the necessity of a fleete, and his debts; and, therefore, want of money;
      and his desire that they would think of some way to bring in all his
      Protestant subjects to a right understanding and peace one with another;
      meaning the Bill of Comprehension. The Commons coming to their House, it
      was moved that the vote passed this morning might be suspended, because of
      the King's speech, till the House was full and called over, two days
      hence: but it was denied, so furious they are against this Bill: and
      thereby a great blow either given to the King or Presbyters, or, which is
      the rather of the two, to the House itself, by denying a thing desired by
      the King, and so much desired by much the greater part of the nation.
      Whatever the consequence be, if the King be a man of any stomach and heat,
      all do believe that he will resent this vote. Thence with Creed home to my
      house to dinner, where I met with Mr. Jackson, and find my wife angry with
      Deb., which vexes me. After dinner by coach away to Westminster; taking up
      a friend of Mr. Jackson's, a young lawyer, and parting with Creed at White
      Hall. They and I to Westminster Hall, and there met Roger Pepys, and with
      him to his chamber, and there read over and agreed upon the Deed of
      Settlement to our minds: my sister to have L600 presently, and she to be
      joyntured in L60 per annum; wherein I am very well satisfied. Thence I to
      the Temple to Charles Porter's lodgings, where Captain Cocke met me, and
      after long waiting, on Pemberton,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Francis Pemberton, afterwards knighted, and made Lord Chief Justice
     of the King's Bench in 1679.  His career was a most singular one, he
     having been twice removed from the Bench, and twice imprisoned by
     the House of Commons.  He twice returned to the bar, and after his
     second return he practised with great success as a serjeant for the
     next fourteen years till his death, June 10th, 1697.  Evelyn says,
     "He was held to be the most learned of the judges and an honest man"
     ("Diary," October 4th, 1683).]
</pre>
    <p>
      an able lawyer, about the business of our prizes, and left the matter with
      him to think of against to-morrow, this being a matter that do much
      trouble my mind, though there be no fault in it that I need fear the
      owning that I know of. Thence with Cocke home to his house and there left
      him, and I home, and there got my wife to read a book I bought to-day, and
      come out to-day licensed by Joseph Williamson for Lord Arlington, shewing
      the state of England's affairs relating to France at this time, and the
      whole body of the book very good and solid, after a very foolish
      introduction as ever I read, and do give a very good account of the
      advantage of our league with Holland at this time. So, vexed in my mind
      with the variety of cares I have upon me, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. At the office all the morning, where comes a damned summons to
      attend the Committee of Miscarriages to-day, which makes me mad, that I
      should by my place become the hackney of this Office, in perpetual trouble
      and vexation, that need it least. At noon home to dinner, where little
      pleasure, my head being split almost with the variety of troubles upon me
      at this time, and cares, and after dinner by coach to Westminster Hall,
      and sent my wife and Deb. to see "Mustapha" acted. Here I brought a book
      to the Committee, and do find them; and particularly Sir Thomas Clarges,
      mighty hot in the business of tickets, which makes me mad to see them bite
      at the stone, and not at the hand that flings it, and here my Lord
      Brouncker unnecessarily orders it that he is called in to give opportunity
      to present his report of the state of the business of paying by ticket,
      which I do not think will do him any right, though he was made believe
      that it did operate mightily, and that Sir Fresh. Hollis did make a mighty
      harangue and to much purpose in his defence, but I believe no such effects
      of it, for going in afterward I did hear them speak with prejudice of it,
      and that his pleading of the Admiral's warrant for it now was only an
      evasion, if not an aspersion upon the Admirall, and therefore they would
      not admit of this his report, but go on with their report as they had
      resolved before. The orders they sent for this day was the first order
      that I have yet met with about this business, and was of my own single
      hand warranting, but I do think it will do me no harm, and therefore do
      not much trouble myself with it, more than to see how much trouble I am
      brought to who have best deported myself in all the King's business.
      Thence with Lord Brouncker, and set him down at Bow Streete, and so to the
      Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw the last act for nothing, where I
      never saw such good acting of any creature as Smith's part of Zanger; and
      I do also, though it was excellently acted by&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;-,
      do yet want Betterton mightily. Thence to the Temple, to Porter's chamber,
      where Cocke met me, and after a stay there some time, they two and I to
      Pemberton's chamber, and there did read over the Act of calling people to
      account, and did discourse all our business of the prizes; and, upon the
      whole, he do make it plainly appear, that there is no avoiding to give
      these Commissioners satisfaction in everything they will ask; and that
      there is fear lest they may find reason to make us refund for all the
      extraordinary profit made by those bargains; and do make me resolve rather
      to declare plainly, and, once for all, the truth of the whole, and what my
      profit hath been, than be forced at last to do it, and in the meantime
      live in gain, as I must always do: and with this resolution on my part I
      departed, with some more satisfaction of mind, though with less hopes of
      profit than I expected. It was pretty here to see the heaps of money upon
      this lawyer's table; and more to see how he had not since last night spent
      any time upon our business, but begun with telling us that we were not at
      all concerned in that Act; which was a total mistake, by his not having
      read over the Act at all. Thence to Porter's chamber, where Captain Cocke
      had fetched my wife out of the coach, and there we staid and talked and
      drank, he being a very generous, good-humoured man, and so away by coach,
      setting Cocke at his house, and we with his coach home, and there I to the
      office, and there till past one in the morning, and so home to supper and
      to bed, my mind at pretty good ease, though full of care and fear of loss.
      This morning my wife in bed told me the story of our Tom and Jane:&mdash;how
      the rogue did first demand her consent to love and marry him, and then,
      with pretence of displeasing me, did slight her; but both he and she have
      confessed the matter to her, and she hath charged him to go on with his
      love to her, and be true to her, and so I think the business will go on,
      which, for my love to her, because she is in love with him, I am pleased
      with; but otherwise I think she will have no good bargain of it, at least
      if I should not do well in my place. But if I do stand, I do intend to
      give her L50 in money, and do them all the good I can in my way.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning drawing up my narrative
      of my proceedings and concernments in the buying of prize-goods, which I
      am to present to the Committee for Accounts; and being come to a
      resolution to conceal nothing from them, I was at great ease how to draw
      it up without any inventions or practise to put me to future pain or
      thoughts how to carry on, and now I only discover what my profit was, and
      at worst I suppose I can be made but to refund my profit and so let it go.
      At noon home to dinner, where Mr. Jackson dined with me, and after dinner
      I (calling at the Excise Office, and setting my wife and Deb. at her
      tailor's) did with Mr. Jackson go to find my cozen Roger Pepys, which I
      did in the Parliament House, where I met him and Sir Thomas Crew and Mr.
      George Montagu, who are mighty busy how to save my Lord's name from being
      in the Report for anything which the Committee is commanded to report to
      the House of the miscarriages of the late war. I find they drive furiously
      still in the business of tickets, which is nonsense in itself and cannot
      come to any thing. Thence with cozen Roger to his lodgings, and there
      sealed the writings with Jackson, about my sister's marriage: and here my
      cozen Roger told me the pleasant passage of a fellow's bringing a bag of
      letters to-day, into the lobby of the House, and left them, and withdrew
      himself without observation. The bag being opened, the letters were found
      all of one size, and directed with one hand: a letter to most of the
      Members of the House. The House was acquainted with it, and voted they
      should be brought in, and one opened by the Speaker; wherein if he found
      any thing unfit to communicate, to propose a Committee to be chosen for
      it. The Speaker opening one, found it only a case with a libell in it,
      printed: a satire most sober and bitter as ever I read; and every letter
      was the same. So the House fell a-scrambling for them like boys: and my
      cozen Roger had one directed to him, which he lent me to read. So away,
      and took up my wife, and setting Jackson down at Fetter Lane end, I to the
      old Exchange to look Mr. Houblon, but, not finding him, did go home, and
      there late writing a letter to my Lord Sandwich, and to give passage to a
      letter of great moment from Mr. Godolphin to him, which I did get speedy
      passage for by the help of Mr. Houblon, who come late to me, and there
      directed the letter to Lisbon under cover of his, and here we talked of
      the times, which look very sad and distracted, and made good mirth at this
      day's passage in the House, and so parted; and going to the gate with him,
      I found his lady and another fine lady sitting an hour together, late at
      night, in their coach, while he was with me, which is so like my wife,
      that I was mighty taken with it, though troubled for it. So home to supper
      and to bed. This day Captain Cocke was with the Commissioners of Accounts
      to ask more time for his bringing in his answer about the prize goods, and
      they would not give him 14 days as he asks, but would give only two days,
      which was very hard, I think, and did trouble me for fear of their
      severity, though I have prepared my matter so as to defy it.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, and thence with my wife and Deb. to White Hall, setting, them at
      her tailor's, and I to the Commissioners of the Treasury, where myself
      alone did argue the business of the East India Company against their whole
      Company on behalf of the King before the Lords Commissioners, and to very
      good effect, I think, and with reputation. That business being over, the
      Lords and I had other things to talk about, and among the rest, about our
      making more assignments on the Exchequer since they bid us hold, whereat
      they were extraordinary angry with us, which troubled me a little, though
      I am not concerned in it at all. Waiting here some time without, I did
      meet with several people, among others Mr. Brisband, who tells me in
      discourse that Tom Killigrew hath a fee out of the Wardrobe for cap and
      bells,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Lord Chamberlain's Records contain a copy of a warrant dated
     July 12th, 1661, "to deliver to Mr. Killegrew thirty yards of
     velvett, three dozen of fringe, and sixteene yards of Damaske for
     the year 1661."  The heading of this entry is "Livery for ye jester"
     (Lowe's "Betterton," p. 70).]
</pre>
    <p>
      under the title of the King's Foole or jester; and may with privilege
      revile or jeere any body, the greatest person, without offence, by the
      privilege of his place. Thence took up my wife, and home, and there busy
      late at the office writing letters, and so home to supper and to bed. The
      House was called over to-day. This morning Sir G. Carteret come to the
      Office to see and talk with me: and he assures me that to this day the
      King is the most kind man to my Lord Sandwich in the whole world; that he
      himself do not now mind any publick business, but suffers things to go on
      at Court as they will, he seeing all likely to come to ruin: that this
      morning the Duke of York sent to him to come to make up one of a Committee
      of the Council for Navy Affairs; where, when he come, he told the Duke of
      York that he was none of them: which shews how things are now-a-days
      ordered, that there should be a Committee for the Navy; and the Lord
      Admiral not know the persons of it! And that Sir G. Carteret and my Lord
      Anglesey should be left out of it, and men wholly improper put into it. I
      do hear of all hands that there is a great difference at this day between
      my Lord Arlington and Sir W. Coventry, which I am sorry for.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Valentine's day). Up, being called up by Mercer, who come to be my
      Valentine, and so I rose and my wife, and were merry a little, I staying
      to talk, and did give her a guinny in gold for her Valentine's gift. There
      comes also my cozen Roger Pepys betimes, and comes to my wife, for her to
      be his Valentine, whose Valentine I was also, by agreement to be so to her
      every year; and this year I find it is likely to cost L4 or L5 in a ring
      for her, which she desires. Cozen Roger did come also to speak with Sir W.
      Pen, who was quoted, it seems, yesterday by Sir Fr. Hollis to have said
      that if my Lord Sandwich had done so and so, we might have taken all the
      Dutch prizes at the time when he staid and let them go. But Sir W. Pen did
      tell us he should say nothing in it but what would do my Lord honour, and
      he is a knave I am able to prove if he do otherwise. He gone, I to my
      Office, to perfect my Narrative about prize-goods; and did carry it to the
      Commissioners of Accounts, who did receive it with great kindness, and
      express great value of, and respect to me: and my heart is at rest that it
      is lodged there, in so full truth and plainness, though it may hereafter
      prove some loss to me. But here I do see they are entered into many
      enquiries about prizes, by the great attendance of commanders and others
      before them, which is a work I am not sorry for. Thence I away, with my
      head busy, but my heart at pretty good ease, to the Old Exchange, and
      there met Mr. Houblon. I prayed him to discourse with some of the
      merchants that are of the Committee for Accounts, to see how they do
      resent my paper, and in general my particular in the relation to the
      business of the Navy, which he hath promised to do carefully for me and
      tell me. Here it was a mighty pretty sight to see old Mr. Houblon, whom I
      never saw before, and all his sons about him, all good merchants. Thence
      home to dinner, and had much discourse with W. Hewer about my going to
      visit Colonel Thomson, one of the Committee of Accounts, who, among the
      rest, is mighty kind to me, and is likely to mind our business more than
      any; and I would be glad to have a good understanding with him. Thence
      after dinner to White Hall, to attend the Duke of York, where I did let
      him know, too, the troublesome life we lead, and particularly myself, by
      being obliged to such attendances every day as I am, on one Committee or
      another. And I do find the Duke of York himself troubled, and willing not
      to be troubled with occasions of having his name used among the
      Parliament, though he himself do declare that he did give directions to
      Lord Brouncker to discharge the men at Chatham by ticket, and will own it,
      if the House call for it, but not else. Thence I attended the King and
      Council, and some of the rest of us, in a business to be heard about the
      value of a ship of one Dorrington's:&mdash;and it was pretty to observe
      how Sir W. Pen making use of this argument against the validity of an
      oath, against the King, being made by the master's mate of the ship, who
      was but a fellow of about 23 years of age&mdash;the master of the ship,
      against whom we pleaded, did say that he did think himself at that age
      capable of being master's mate of any ship; and do know that he, himself,
      Sir W: Pen, was so himself, and in no better degree at that age himself:
      which word did strike Sir W. Pen dumb, and made him open his mouth no
      more; and I saw the King and Duke of York wink at one another at it. This
      done, we into the gallery; and there I walked with several people, and
      among others my Lord Brouncker, who I do find under much trouble still
      about the business of the tickets, his very case being brought in; as is
      said, this day in the Report of the Miscarriages. And he seems to lay much
      of it on me, which I did clear and satisfy him in; and would be glad with
      all my heart to serve him in, and have done it more than he hath done for
      himself, he not deserving the least blame, but commendations, for this. I
      met with my cozen Roger Pepys and Creed; and from them understand that the
      Report was read to-day of the Miscarriages, wherein my Lord Sandwich is
      [named] about the business I mentioned this morning; but I will be at
      rest, for it can do him no hurt. Our business of tickets is soundly up,
      and many others: so they went over them again, and spent all the morning
      on the first, which is the dividing of the fleete; wherein hot work was,
      and that among great men, Privy-Councillors, and, they say, Sir W.
      Coventry; but I do not much fear it, but do hope that it will shew a
      little, of the Duke of Albemarle and the Prince to have been advisers in
      it: but whereas they ordered that the King's Speech should be considered
      today, they took no notice of it at all, but are really come to despise
      the King in all possible ways of chewing it. And it was the other day a
      strange saying, as I am told by my cozen Roger Pepys, in the House, when
      it was moved that the King's speech should be considered, that though the
      first part of the Speech, meaning the league that is there talked of, be
      the only good publick thing that hath been done since the King come into
      England, yet it might bear with being put off to consider, till Friday
      next, which was this day. Secretary Morrice did this day in the House,
      when they talked of intelligence, say that he was allowed but L70 a-year
      for intelligence,&mdash;[Secret service money]&mdash;whereas, in
      Cromwell's time, he [Cromwell] did allow L70,000 a-year for it; and was
      confirmed therein by Colonel Birch, who said that thereby Cromwell carried
      the secrets of all the princes of Europe at his girdle. The House is in a
      most broken condition; nobody adhering to any thing, but reviling and
      finding fault: and now quite mad at the Undertakers, as they are commonly
      called, Littleton, Lord Vaughan, Sir R. Howard, and others that are
      brought over to the Court, and did undertake to get the King money; but
      they despise, and would not hear them in the House; and the Court do do as
      much, seeing that they cannot be useful to them, as was expected. In
      short, it is plain that the King will never be able to do any thing with
      this Parliament; and that the only likely way to do better, for it cannot
      do worse, is to break this and call another Parliament; and some do think
      that it is intended. I was told to-night that my Lady Castlemayne is so
      great a gamester as to have won L5000 in one night, and lost L25,000 in
      another night, at play, and hath played L1000 and L1500 at a cast. Thence
      to the Temple, where at Porter's chamber I met Captain Cocke, but lost our
      labour, our Counsellor not being within, Pemberton, and therefore home and
      late at my office, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up betimes, and with Captain Cocke my coach to the Temple to his
      Counsel again about the prize goods in order to the drawing up of his
      answer to them, where little done but a confirmation that our best
      interest is for him to tell the whole truth, and so parted, and I home to
      the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, and after
      dinner all the afternoon and evening till midnight almost, and till I had
      tired my own backe, and my wife's, and Deb.'s, in titleing of my books for
      the present year, and in setting them in order, which is now done to my
      very good satisfaction, though not altogether so completely as I think
      they were the last year, when my mind was more at leisure to mind it. So
      about midnight to bed, where my wife taking some physic overnight it
      wrought with her, and those coming upon her with great gripes, she was in
      mighty pain all night long, yet, God forgive me! I did find that I was
      most desirous to take my rest than to ease her, but there was nothing I
      could do to do her any good with.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, where all the morning making a
      catalogue of my books, which did find me work, but with great pleasure, my
      chamber and books being now set in very good order, and my chamber washed
      and cleaned, which it had not been in some months before, my business and
      trouble having been so much. At noon Mr. Holliard put in, and dined with
      my wife and me, who was a little better to-day. His company very good. His
      story of his love and fortune, which hath been very good and very bad in
      the world, well worth hearing. Much discourse also about the bad state of
      the Church, and how the Clergy are come to be men of no worth in the
      world; and, as the world do now generally discourse, they must be
      reformed; and I believe the Hierarchy will in a little time be shaken,
      whether they will or no; the King being offended with them, and set upon
      it, as I hear. He gone, after dinner to have my head combed, and then to
      my chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wife
      not being well, I did lie below stairs in our great chamber, where I slept
      well.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning till noon getting some
      things more ready against the afternoon for the Committee of Accounts,
      which did give me great trouble, to see how I am forced to dance after
      them in one place, and to answer Committees of Parliament in another. At
      noon thence toward the Committee, but meeting with Sir W. Warren in Fleet
      Street he and I to the Ordinary by Temple Bar and there dined together,
      and to talk, where he do seem to be very high now in defiance of the
      Board, now he says that the worst is come upon him to have his accounts
      brought to the Committee of Accounts, and he do reflect upon my late
      coldness to him, but upon the whole I do find that he is still a cunning
      fellow, and will find it necessary to be fair to me, and what hath passed
      between us of coldness to hold his tongue, which do please me very well.
      Thence to the Committee, where I did deliver the several things they
      expected from me, with great respect and show of satisfaction, and my mind
      thereby eased of some care. But thence I to Westminster Hall, and there
      spent till late at night walking to and again with many people, and there
      in general I hear of the great high words that were in the House on
      Saturday last, upon the first part of the Committee's Report about the
      dividing of the fleete; wherein some would have the counsels of the King
      to be declared, and the reasons of them, and who did give them; where Sir
      W. Coventry laid open to them the consequences of doing that, that the
      King would never have any honest and wise men ever to be of his Council.
      They did here in the House talk boldly of the King's bad counsellors, and
      how they must be all turned out, and many of them, and better; brought in:
      and the proceedings of the Long-Parliament in the beginning of the war
      were called to memory: and the King's bad intelligence was mentioned,
      wherein they were bitter against my Lord Arlington, saying, among other
      things, that whatever Morrice's was, who declared he had but L750 a-year
      allowed him for intelligence, the King paid too dear for my Lord
      Arlington's, in giving him L10,000 and a barony for it. Sir W. Coventry
      did here come to his defence, in the business of the letter that was sent
      to call back Prince Rupert, after he was divided from the fleete, wherein
      great delay was objected; but he did show that he sent it at one in the
      morning, when the Duke of York did give him the instructions after supper
      that night, and did clear himself well of it: only it was laid as a fault,
      which I know not how he removes, of not sending it by an express, but by
      the ordinary post; but I think I have heard he did send it to my Lord
      Arlington's; and that there it lay for some hours; it coming not to Sir
      Philip Honiwood's hand at Portsmouth till four in the afternoon that day,
      being about fifteen or sixteen hours in going; and about this, I think, I
      have heard of a falling out between my Lord Arlington, heretofore, and W.
      Coventry. Some mutterings I did hear of a design of dissolving the
      Parliament; but I think there is no ground for it yet, though Oliver would
      have dissolved them for half the trouble and contempt these have put upon
      the King and his councils. The dividing of the fleete, however, is, I
      hear, voted a miscarriage, and the not building a fortification at
      Sheernesse: and I have reason every hour to expect that they will vote the
      like of our paying men off by ticket; and what the consequence of that
      will be I know not, but I am put thereby into great trouble of mind. I did
      spend a little time at the Swan, and there did kiss the maid, Sarah. At
      noon home, and there up to my wife, who is still ill, and supped with her,
      my mind being mighty full of trouble for the office and my concernments
      therein, and so to supper and talking with W. Hewer in her chamber about
      business of the office, wherein he do well understand himself and our
      case, and it do me advantage to talk with him and the rest of my people. I
      to bed below as I did last night.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up by break of day, and walked down to the old Swan, where I find
      little Michell building, his booth being taken down, and a foundation laid
      for a new house, so that that street is like to be a very fine place. I
      drank, but did not see Betty, and so to Charing Cross stairs, and thence
      walked to Sir W. Coventry's,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir William Coventry's love of money is said by Sir John Denham to
     have influenced him in promoting naval officers, who paid him for
     their commissions.

               "Then Painter! draw cerulian Coventry
               Keeper, or rather Chancellor o' th' sea
               And more exactly to express his hue,
               Use nothing but ultra-mariuish blue.
               To pay his fees, the silver trumpet spends,
               And boatswain's whistle for his place depends.
               Pilots in vain repeat their compass o'er,
               Until of him they learn that one point more
               The constant magnet to the pole doth hold,
               Steel to the magnet, Coventry to gold.
               Muscovy sells us pitch, and hemp, and tar;
               Iron and copper, Sweden; Munster, war;
               Ashley, prize; Warwick, custom;
               Cart'ret, pay;
               But Coventry doth sell the fleet away."&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      and talked with him, who tells me how he hath been persecuted, and how he
      is yet well come off in the business of the dividing of the fleete, and
      the sending of the letter. He expects next to be troubled about the
      business of bad officers in the fleete, wherein he will bid them name whom
      they call bad, and he will justify himself, having never disposed of any
      but by the Admiral's liking. And he is able to give an account of all
      them, how they come recommended, and more will be found to have been
      placed by the Prince and Duke of Albemarle than by the Duke of York during
      the war, and as no bad instance of the badness of officers he and I did
      look over the list of commanders, and found that we could presently
      recollect thirty-seven commanders that have been killed in actuall service
      this war. He tells me that Sir Fr. Hollis is the main man that hath
      persecuted him hitherto, in the business of dividing the fleete, saying
      vainly that the want of that letter to the Prince hath given him that,
      that he shall remember it by to his grave, meaning the loss of his arme;
      when, God knows! he is as idle and insignificant a fellow as ever come
      into the fleete. He tells me that in discourse on Saturday he did repeat
      Sir Rob. Howard's words about rowling out of counsellors, that for his
      part he neither cared who they rowled in, nor who they rowled out, by
      which the word is become a word of use in the House, the rowling out of
      officers. I will remember what, in mirth, he said to me this morning, when
      upon this discourse he said, if ever there was another Dutch war, they
      should not find a Secretary; "Nor," said I, "a Clerk of the Acts, for I
      see the reward of it; and, thanked God! I have enough of my own to buy me
      a good book and a good fiddle, and I have a good wife;"&mdash;"Why," says
      he, "I have enough to buy me a good book, and shall not need a fiddle,
      because I have never a one of your good wives." I understand by him that
      we are likely to have our business of tickets voted a miscarriage, but
      [he] cannot tell me what that will signify more than that he thinks they
      will report them to the King and there leave them, but I doubt they will
      do more. Thence walked over St. James's Park to White Hall, and thence to
      Westminster Hall, and there walked all the morning, and did speak with
      several Parliament-men-among others, Birch, who is very kind to me, and
      calls me, with great respect and kindness, a man of business, and he
      thinks honest, and so long will stand by me, and every such man, to the
      death. My business was to instruct them to keep the House from falling
      into any mistaken vote about the business of tickets, before they were
      better informed. I walked in the Hall all the morning with my Lord
      Brouncker, who was in great pain there, and, the truth is, his business
      is, without reason, so ill resented by the generality of the House, that I
      was almost troubled to be seen to walk with him, and yet am able to
      justify him in all, that he is under so much scandal for. Here I did get a
      copy of the report itself, about our paying off men by tickets; and am
      mightily glad to see it, now knowing the state of our case, and what we
      have to answer to, and the more for that the House is like to be kept by
      other business to-day and to-morrow, so that, against Thursday, I shall be
      able to draw up some defence to put into some Member's hands, to inform
      them, and I think we may [make] a very good one, and therefore my mind is
      mightily at ease about it. This morning they are upon a Bill, brought in
      to-day by Sir Richard Temple, for obliging the King to call Parliaments
      every three years; or, if he fail, for others to be obliged to do it, and
      to keep him from a power of dissolving any Parliament in less than forty
      days after their first day of sitting, which is such a Bill as do speak
      very high proceedings, to the lessening of the King; and this they will
      carry, and whatever else they desire, before they will give any money; and
      the King must have money, whatever it cost him. I stepped to the Dog
      Tavern, and thither come to me Doll Lane, and there we did drink together,
      and she tells me she is my valentine.... Thence, she being gone, and
      having spoke with Mr. Spicer here, whom I sent for hither to discourse
      about the security of the late Act of 11 months' tax on which I have
      secured part of my money lent to Tangier. I to the Hall, and there met Sir
      W. Pen, and he and I to the Beare, in Drury Lane, an excellent ordinary,
      after the French manner, but of Englishmen; and there had a good
      fricassee, our dinner coming to 8s., which was mighty pretty, to my great
      content; and thence, he and I to the King's house, and there, in one of
      the upper boxes, saw "Flora's Vagarys," which is a very silly play; and
      the more, I being out of humour, being at a play without my wife, and she
      ill at home, and having no desire also to be seen, and, therefore, could
      not look about me. Thence to the Temple, and there we parted, and I to see
      Kate Joyce, where I find her and her friends in great ease of mind, the
      jury having this day given in their verdict that her husband died of a
      feaver. Some opposition there was, the foreman pressing them to declare
      the cause of the feaver, thinking thereby to obstruct it: but they did
      adhere to their verdict, and would give no reason; so all trouble is now
      over, and she safe in her estate, which I am mighty glad of, and so took
      leave, and home, and up to my wife, not owning my being at a play, and
      there she shews me her ring of a Turky-stone set with little sparks of
      dyamonds,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The turquoise.  This stone was sometimes referred to simply as the
     turkey, and Broderip ("Zoological Recreations") conjectured that the
     bird (turkey) took its name from the blue or turquoise colour of the
     skin about its head.]
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    <p>
      which I am to give her, as my Valentine, and I am not much troubled at it.
      It will cost me near L5&mdash;she costing me but little compared with
      other wives, and I have not many occasions to spend on her. So to my
      office, where late, and to think upon my observations to-morrow, upon the
      report of the Committee to the Parliament about the business of tickets,
      whereof my head is full, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning drawing up an answer to
      the Report of the Committee for miscarriages to the Parliament touching
      our paying men by tickets, which I did do in a very good manner I think.
      Dined with my clerks at home, where much good discourse of our business of
      the Navy, and the trouble now upon us, more than we expected. After dinner
      my wife out with Deb., to buy some things against my sister's wedding, and
      I to the office to write fair my business I did in the morning, and in the
      evening to White Hall, where I find Sir W. Coventry all alone, a great
      while with the Duke of York, in the King's drawing-room, they two talking
      together all alone, which did mightily please me. Then I did get Sir W.
      Coventry (the Duke of York being gone) aside, and there read over my
      paper, which he liked and corrected, and tells me it will be hard to
      escape, though the thing be never so fair, to have it voted a miscarriage;
      but did advise me and my Lord Brouncker, who coming by did join with us,
      to prepare some members in it, which we shall do. Here I do hear how La
      Roche, a French captain, who was once prisoner here, being with his ship
      at Plymouth, hath played some freakes there, for which his men being beat
      out of the town, he hath put up his flag of defiance, and also, somewhere
      thereabout, did land with his men, and go a mile into the country, and did
      some pranks, which sounds pretty odd, to our disgrace, but we are in
      condition now to bear any thing. But, blessed be God! all the Court is
      full of the good news of my Lord Sandwich's having made a peace between
      Spain and Portugall, which is mighty great news, and, above all, to my
      Lord's honour, more than any thing he ever did; and yet I do fear it will
      not prevail to secure him in Parliament against incivilities there.
      Thence, took up my wife at Unthanke's, and so home, and there my mind
      being full of preparing my paper against to-morrow for the House, with an
      address from the office to the House, I to the office, very late, and then
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and to the office a while, and thence to White Hall by coach
      with Mr. Batelier with me, whom I took up in the street. I thence by water
      to Westminster Hall, and there with Lord Brouncker, Sir T. Harvy, Sir J.
      Minnes, did wait all the morning to speak to members about our business,
      thinking our business of tickets would come before the House to-day, but
      we did alter our minds about the petition to the House, sending in the
      paper to them. But the truth is we were in a great hurry, but it fell out
      that they were most of the morning upon the business of not prosecuting
      the first victory; which they have voted one of the greatest miscarriages
      of the whole war, though they cannot lay the fault anywhere yet, because
      Harman is not come home. This kept them all the morning, which I was glad
      of. So down to the Hall, where my wife by agreement stayed for me at Mrs.
      Michell's, and there was Mercer and the girl, and I took them to
      Wilkinson's the cook's in King Street (where I find the master of the
      house hath been dead for some time), and there dined, and thence by one
      o'clock to the King's house: a new play, "The Duke of Lerma," of Sir
      Robert Howard's: where the King and Court was; and Knepp and Nell spoke
      the prologue most excellently, especially Knepp, who spoke beyond any
      creature I ever, heard. The play designed to reproach our King with his
      mistresses, that I was troubled for it, and expected it should be
      interrupted; but it ended all well, which salved all. The play a well-writ
      and good play, only its design I did not like of reproaching the King, but
      altogether a very good and most serious play. Thence home, and there a
      little to the office, and so home to supper, where Mercer with us, and
      sang, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. At the office all the morning to get a little business done, I
      having, and so the whole office, been put out of doing any business there
      for this week by our trouble in attending the Parliament. Hither comes to
      me young Captain Beckford, the slopseller, and there presents me a little
      purse with gold in it, it being, as he told me, for his present to me, at
      the end of the last year. I told him I had not done him any service I knew
      of. He persisted, and I refused, but did at several denials; and telling
      him that it was not an age to take presents in, he told me he had reason
      to present me with something, and desired me to accept of it, which, at
      his so urging me, I did, and so fell to talk of his business, and so
      parted. I do not know of any manner of kindness I have done him this last
      year, nor did expect any thing. It was therefore very welcome to me, but
      yet I was not fully satisfied in my taking it, because of my submitting
      myself to the having it objected against me hereafter, and the rather
      because this morning Jacke Fen come and shewed me an order from the
      Commissioners of Accounts, wherein they demand of him an account upon oath
      of all the sums of money that have been by him defalked or taken from any
      man since their time, of enquiry upon any payments, and if this should, as
      it is to be feared, come to be done to us, I know not what I shall then
      do, but I shall take counsel upon it. At noon by coach towards
      Westminster, and met my Lord Brouncker, and W. Pen, and Sir T. Harvey, in
      King's Street, coming away from the Parliament House; and so I to them,
      and to the French ordinary, at the Blue Bells, in Lincolne's Inn Fields,
      and there dined and talked. And, among other things, they tell me how the
      House this day is still as backward for giving any money as ever, and do
      declare they will first have an account of the disposals of the last
      Poll-bill, and eleven months' tax: and it is pretty odde that the very
      first sum mentioned in the account brought in by Sir Robert Long, of the
      disposal of the Poll-bill money, is L5000 to my Lord Arlington for
      intelligence; which was mighty unseasonable, so soon after they had so
      much cried out against his want of intelligence. The King do also own but
      L250,000, or thereabouts, yet paid on the Poll-bill, and that he hath
      charged L350,000 upon it. This makes them mad; for that the former
      Poll-bill, that was so much less in its extent than the last, which took
      in all sexes and qualities, did come to L350,000. Upon the whole, I
      perceive they are like to do nothing in this matter to please the King, or
      relieve the State, be the case never so pressing; and, therefore, it is
      thought by a great many that the King cannot be worse if he should
      dissolve them: but there is nobody dares advise it, nor do he consider any
      thing himself. Thence, having dined for 20s., we to the Duke of York at
      White Hall, and there had our usual audience, and did little but talk of
      the proceedings of the Parliament, wherein he is as much troubled as we;
      for he is not without fears that they do ayme at doing him hurt; but yet
      he declares that he will never deny to owne what orders he hath given to
      any man to justify him, notwithstanding their having sent to him to desire
      his being tender to take upon him the doing any thing of that kind. Thence
      with Brouncker and T. Harvey to Westminster Hall, and there met with
      Colonel Birch and Sir John Lowther, and did there in the lobby read over
      what I have drawn up for our defence, wherein they own themselves mightily
      satisfied; and Birch, like a particular friend, do take it upon him to
      defend us, and do mightily do me right in all his discourse. Here walked
      in the Hall with him a great while, and discoursed with several members,
      to prepare them in our business against to-morrow, and meeting my cozen
      Roger Pepys, he showed me Granger's written confession,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys here refers to the extraordinary proceedings which occurred
     between Charles, Lord Gerard, and Alexander Fitton, of which a
     narrative was published at the Hague in 1665.  Granger was a witness
     in the cause, and was afterwards said to be conscience-stricken from
     his perjury.  Some notice of this case will be found in North's
     "Examen," p. 558; but the copious and interesting note in Ormerod's
     "History of Cheshire," Vol.  iii., p.  291, will best satisfy the
     reader, who will not fail to be struck by the paragraph with which
     it is closed-viz., "It is not improbable that Alexander Fitton, who,
     in the first instance, gained rightful possession of Gawsworth under
     an acknowledged settlement, was driven headlong into unpremeditated
     guilt by the production of a revocation by will which Lord Gerard
     had so long concealed.  Having lost his own fortune in the
     prosecution of his claims, he remained in gaol till taken out by
     James II. to be made Chancellor of Ireland (under which character
     Hume first notices him), was knighted, and subsequently created Lord
     Gawsworth after the abdication of James, sat in his parliament in
     Dublin in 1689, and then is supposed to have accompanied his fallen
     master to France.  Whether the conduct of Fitton was met, as he
     alleges, by similar guilt on the part of Lord Gerard, God only can
     judge; but his hand fell heavily on the representatives of that
     noble house.  In less than half a century the husbands of its two
     co-heiresses, James, Duke of Hamilton, and Charles, Lord Mohun, were
     slain by each other's hands in a murderous duel arising out of a
     dispute relative to the partition of the Fitton estates, and
     Gawsworth itself passed to an unlineal hand, by a series of
     alienations complicated beyond example in the annals of this
     country."&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      of his being forced by imprisonment, &amp;c., by my Lord Gerard, most
      barbarously to confess his forging of a deed in behalf of Fitton, in the
      great case between him [Fitton] and my Lord Gerard; which business is
      under examination, and is the foulest against my Lord Gerard that ever any
      thing in the world was, and will, all do believe, ruine him; and I shall
      be glad of it. Thence with Lord Brouncker and T. Harvey as far as the New
      Exchange, and there at a draper's shop drawing up a short note of what
      they are to desire of the House for our having a hearing before they
      determine any thing against us, which paper is for them to show to what
      friends they meet against to-morrow, I away home to the office, and there
      busy pretty late, and here comes my wife to me, who hath been at Pegg
      Pen's christening, which, she says, hath made a flutter and noise; but was
      as mean as could be, and but little company, just like all the rest that
      that family do. So home to supper and to bed, with my head full of a
      defence before the Parliament tomorrow, and therein content myself very
      well, and with what I have done in preparing some of the members thereof
      in order thereto.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and by coach through Ducke Lane, and there did buy Kircher's
      Musurgia, cost me 35s., a book I am mighty glad of, expecting to find
      great satisfaction in it. Thence to Westminster Hall and the lobby, and up
      and down there all the morning, and to the Lords' House, and heard the
      Solicitor-General plead very finely, as he always do; and this was in
      defence of the East India Company against a man that complains of wrong
      from them, and thus up and down till noon in expectation of our business
      coming on in the House of Commons about tickets, but they being busy about
      my Lord Gerard's business I did give over the thoughts of ours coming on,
      and so with my wife, and Mercer, and Deb., who come to the Hall to me, I
      away to the Beare, in Drury Lane, and there bespoke a dish of meat; and,
      in the mean time, sat and sung with Mercer; and, by and by, dined with
      mighty pleasure, and excellent meat, one little dish enough for us all,
      and good wine, and all for 8s., and thence to the Duke's playhouse, and
      there saw "Albumazar," an old play, this the second time of acting. It is
      said to have been the ground of B. Jonson's "Alchymist;" but, saving the
      ridicuiousnesse of Angell's part, which is called Trinkilo, I do not see
      any thing extraordinary in it, but was indeed weary of it before it was
      done. The King here, and, indeed, all of us, pretty merry at the mimique
      tricks of Trinkilo. So home, calling in Ducke Lane for the book I bought
      this morning, and so home, and wrote my letters at the office, and then
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). Up, and, being desired by a messenger from Sir G.
      Carteret, I by water over to Southwarke, and so walked to the Falkon, on
      the Bank-side, and there got another boat, and so to Westminster, where I
      would have gone into the Swan; but the door was locked; and the girl could
      not let me in, and so to Wilkinson's in King Street, and there wiped my
      shoes, and so to Court, where sermon not yet done I met with Brisband; and
      he tells me, first, that our business of tickets did come to debate
      yesterday, it seems, after I was gone away, and was voted a miscarriage in
      general. He tells me in general that there is great looking after places,
      upon a presumption of a great many vacancies; and he did shew me a fellow
      at Court, a brother of my Lord Fanshaw's, a witty but rascally fellow,
      without a penny in his purse, that was asking him what places there were
      in the Navy fit for him, and Brisband tells me, in mirth, he told him the
      Clerke of the Acts, and I wish he had it, so I were well and quietly rid
      of it; for I am weary of this kind of trouble, having, I think, enough
      whereon to support myself. By and by, chapel done, I met with Sir W.
      Coventry, and he and I walked awhile together in the Matted Gallery; and
      there he told me all the proceedings yesterday: that the matter is found,
      in general, a miscarriage, but no persons named; and so there is no great
      matter to our prejudice yet, till, if ever, they come to particular
      persons. He told me Birch was very industrious to do what he could, and
      did, like a friend; but they were resolved to find the thing, in general,
      a miscarriage; and says, that when we shall think fit to desire its being
      heard, as to our own defence, it will be granted. He tells me how he hath,
      with advantage, cleared himself in what concerns himself therein, by his
      servant Robson, which I am glad of. He tells me that there is a letter
      sent by conspiracy to some of the House, which he hath seen, about the
      matter of selling of places, which he do believe he shall be called upon
      to-morrow for: and thinks himself well prepared to defend himself in it;
      and then neither he, nor his friends for him, are afeard of anything to
      his prejudice. Thence by coach, with Brisband, to Sir G. Carteret's, in
      Lincoln's Inn Fields, and there dined: a good dinner and good company; and
      after dinner he and I alone, discoursing of my Lord Sandwich's matters;
      who hath, in the first business before the House, been very kindly used
      beyond expectation, the matter being laid by, till his coming home and old
      Mr. Vaughan did speak for my Lord, which I am mighty glad of. The business
      of the prizes is the worst that can be said, and therein I do fear
      something may lie hard upon him; but, against this, we must prepare the
      best we can for his defence. Thence with G. Carteret to White Hall, where
      I, finding a meeting of the Committee of the Council for the Navy, his
      Royal Highness there, and Sir W. Pen, and, some of the Brethren of the
      Trinity House to attend, I did go in with them; and it was to be informed
      of the practice heretofore, for all foreign nations, at enmity one with
      another, to forbear any acts of hostility to one another, in the presence
      of any of the King of England's ships, of which several instances were
      given: and it is referred to their further enquiry, in order to the giving
      instructions accordingly to our ships now, during the war between Spain
      and France. Would to God we were in the same condition as heretofore, to
      challenge and maintain this our dominion! Thence with W. Pen homeward, and
      quite through to Mile End, for a little ayre; the days being now pretty
      long, but the ways mighty dirty, and here we drank at the Rose, the old
      house, and so back again, talking of the Parliament and our trouble with
      them and what passed yesterday. Going back again, Sir R. Brookes overtook
      us coming to town; who hath played the jacke with us all, and is a fellow
      that I must trust no more, he quoting me for all he hath said in this
      business of tickets; though I have told him nothing that either is not
      true, or I afeard to own. But here talking, he did discourse in this
      stile: "We,"&mdash;and "We" all along,&mdash;"will not give any money, be
      the pretence never so great, nay, though the enemy was in the River of
      Thames again, till we know what is become of the last money given;" and I
      do believe he do speak the mind of his fellows, and so let them, if the
      King will suffer it. He gone, we home, and there I to read, and my belly
      being full of my dinner to-day, I anon to bed, and there, as I have for
      many days, slept not an hour quietly, but full of dreams of our defence to
      the Parliament and giving an account of our doings. This evening, my wife
      did with great pleasure shew me her stock of jewells, encreased by the
      ring she hath made lately as my Valentine's gift this year, a Turky stone'
      set with diamonds: and, with this and what she had, she reckons that she
      hath above L150 worth of jewells, of one kind or other; and I am glad of
      it, for it is fit the wretch should have something to content herself
      with.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and to my office, where most of the morning, entering my journal
      for the three days past. Thence about noon with my wife to the New
      Exchange, by the way stopping at my bookseller's, and there leaving my
      Kircher's Musurgia to be bound, and did buy "L'illustre Bassa," in four
      volumes, for my wife. Thence to the Exchange and left her; while meeting
      Dr. Gibbons there, he and I to see an organ at the Dean of Westminster's
      lodgings at the Abby, the Bishop of Rochester's; where he lives like a
      great prelate, his lodgings being very good; though at present under great
      disgrace at Court, being put by his Clerk of the Closet's place. I saw his
      lady, of whom the 'Terrae Filius' of Oxford was once so merry;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A scholar appointed to make a satirical and jesting speech at an
     Act in the University of Oxford.  Mr. Christopher Wordsworth gives,
     in his "Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth
     Century," 1874, a list of terra-filii from 1591 to 1713 (pp. 296-
     298, 680).  The 'terrae filius' was sometimes expelled the
     university on account of the licence of his speech.  The practice
     was discontinued early in the eighteenth century.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and two children, whereof one a very pretty little boy, like him, so fat
      and black. Here I saw the organ; but it is too big for my house, and the
      fashion do not please me enough; and therefore will not have it. Thence to
      the 'Change back again, leaving him, and took my wife and Deb. home, and
      there to dinner alone, and after dinner I took them to the Nursery,&mdash;[Theatre
      company of young actors in training.]&mdash;where none of us ever were
      before; where the house is better and the musique better than we looked
      for, and the acting not much worse, because I expected as bad as could be:
      and I was not much mistaken, for it was so. However, I was pleased well to
      see it once, it being worth a man's seeing to discover the different
      ability and understanding of people, and the different growth of people's
      abilities by practise. Their play was a bad one, called "Jeronimo is Mad
      Again," a tragedy. Here was some good company by us, who did make mighty
      sport at the folly of their acting, which I could not neither refrain from
      sometimes, though I was sorry for it. So away hence home, where to the
      office to do business a while, and then home to supper and to read, and
      then to bed. I was prettily served this day at the playhouse-door, where,
      giving six shillings into the fellow's hand for us three, the fellow by
      legerdemain did convey one away, and with so much grace faced me down that
      I did give him but five, that, though I knew the contrary, yet I was
      overpowered by his so grave and serious demanding the other shilling, that
      I could not deny him, but was forced by myself to give it him. After I
      come home this evening comes a letter to me from Captain Allen, formerly
      Clerk of the Ropeyard at Chatham, and whom I was kind to in those days,
      who in recompense of my favour to him then do give me notice that he hears
      of an accusation likely to be exhibited against me of my receiving L50 of
      Mason, the timber merchant, and that his wife hath spoke it. I am mightily
      beholden to Captain Allen for this, though the thing is to the best of my
      memory utterly false, and I do believe it to be wholly so, but yet it
      troubles me to have my name mentioned in this business, and more to
      consider how I may be liable to be accused where I have indeed taken
      presents, and therefore puts me on an enquiry, into my actings in this
      kind and prepare against a day of accusation.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, having lain the last night the first night that I have lain with
      my wife since she was last ill, which is about eight days. To the office,
      where busy all the morning. At noon comes W. Howe to me, to advise what
      answer to give to the business of the prizes, wherein I did give him the
      best advice I could; but am sorry to see so many things, wherein I doubt
      it will not be prevented but Sir Roger Cuttance and Mr. Pierce will be
      found very much concerned in goods beyond the distribution, and I doubt my
      Lord Sandwich too, which troubles me mightily. He gone I to dinner, and
      thence set my wife at the New Exchange, and I to Mr. Clerke, my solicitor,
      to the Treasury chamber, but the Lords did not sit, so I by water with him
      to the New Exchange, and there we parted, and I took my wife and Deb. up,
      and to the Nursery, where I was yesterday, and there saw them act a
      comedy, a pastorall, "The Faythful Shepherd," having the curiosity to see
      whether they did a comedy better than a tragedy; but they do it both
      alike, in the meanest manner, that I was sick of it, but only for to
      satisfy myself once in seeing the manner of it, but I shall see them no
      more, I believe. Thence to the New Exchange, to take some things home that
      my wife hath bought, a dressing-box, and other things for her chamber and
      table, that cost me above L4, and so home, and there to the office, and
      tell W. Hewer of the letter from Captain Allen last night, to give him
      caution if any thing should be discovered of his dealings with anybody,
      which I should for his sake as well, or more than for my own, be sorry
      for; and with great joy I do find, looking over my memorandum books, which
      are now of great use to me, and do fully reward me for all my care in
      keeping them, that I am not likely to be troubled for any thing of the
      kind but what I shall either be able beforehand to prevent, or if
      discovered, be able to justify myself in, and I do perceive, by Sir W.
      Warren's discourse, that they [the House] do all they can possibly to get
      out of him and others, what presents they have made to the Officers of the
      Navy; but he tells me that he hath denied all, though he knows that he is
      forsworn as to what relates to me. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and by water to Charing Cross stairs, and thence to W. Coventry
      to discourse concerning the state of matters in the Navy, where he
      particularly acquainted me with the trouble he is like to meet with about
      the selling of places, all carried on by Sir Fr. Hollis, but he seems not
      to value it, being able to justify it to be lawful and constant practice,
      and never by him used in the least degree since he upon his own motion did
      obtain a salary of L500 in lieu thereof. Thence to the Treasury Chamber
      about a little business, and so home by coach, and in my way did meet W.
      Howe going to the Commissioners of Accounts. I stopped and spoke to him,
      and he seems well resolved what to answer them, but he will find them very
      strict, and not easily put off: So home and there to dinner, and after
      dinner comes W. Howe to tell me how he sped, who says he was used civilly,
      and not so many questions asked as he expected; but yet I do perceive
      enough to shew that they do intend to know the bottom of things, and where
      to lay the great weight of the disposal of these East India goods, and
      that they intend plainly to do upon my Lord Sandwich. Thence with him by
      coach and set him down at the Temple, and I to Westminster Hall, where, it
      being now about six o'clock, I find the House just risen; and met with Sir
      W. Coventry and the Lieutenant of the Tower, they having sat all day; and
      with great difficulty have got a vote for giving the King L300,000, not to
      be raised by any land-tax. The sum is much smaller than I expected, and
      than the King needs; but is grounded upon Mr. Wren's reading our estimates
      the other day of L270,000, to keep the fleete abroad, wherein we demanded
      nothing for setting and fitting of them out, which will cost almost
      L200,000, I do verily believe: and do believe that the King hath no cause
      to thank Wren for this motion. I home to Sir W. Coventry's lodgings, with
      him and the Lieutenant of the Tower, where also was Sir John Coventry, and
      Sir John Duncomb, and Sir Job Charleton. And here a great deal of good
      discourse: and they seem mighty glad to have this vote pass, which I did
      wonder at, to see them so well satisfied with so small a sum, Sir John
      Duncomb swearing, as I perceive he will freely do, that it was as much as
      the nation could beare. Among other merry discourse about spending of
      money, and how much more chargeable a man's living is now more than it was
      heretofore, Duncomb did swear that in France he did live of L100 a year
      with more plenty, and wine and wenches, than he believes can be done now
      for L200, which was pretty odd for him, being a Committee-man's son, to
      say. Having done here, and supped, where I eat very little, we home in Sir
      John Robinson's coach, and there to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. All the morning at the office, and at noon home to dinner, and
      thence with my wife and Deb. to the King's House, to see "The Virgin
      Martyr," the first time it hath been acted a great while: and it is mighty
      pleasant; not that the play is worth much, but it is finely acted by Becke
      Marshall. But that which did please me beyond any thing in, the whole
      world was the wind-musique when the angel comes down, which is so sweet
      that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it
      made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my
      wife; that neither then, nor all the evening going home, and at home, I
      was able to think of any thing, but remained all night transported, so as
      I could not believe that ever any musick hath that real command over the
      soul of a man as this did upon me: and makes me resolve to practice
      wind-musique, and to make my wife do the like.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and
      after dinner with Sir W. Pen to White Hall, where we and the rest of us
      presented a great letter of the state of our want of money to his Royal
      Highness. I did also present a demand of mine for consideration for my
      travelling-charges of coach and boat-hire during the war, which, though
      his Royal Highness and the company did all like of, yet, contrary to my
      expectation, I find him so jealous now of doing any thing extraordinary,
      that he desired the gentlemen that they would consider it, and report
      their minds in it to him. This did unsettle my mind a great while, not
      expecting this stop: but, however, I shall do as well, I know, though it
      causes me a little stop. But that, that troubles me most is, that while we
      were thus together with the Duke of York, comes in Mr. Wren from the
      House, where, he tells us, another storm hath been all this day almost
      against the Officers of the Navy upon this complaint,&mdash;that though
      they have made good rules for payment of tickets, yet that they have not
      observed them themselves, which was driven so high as to have it urged
      that we should presently be put out of our places: and so they have at
      last ordered that we shall be heard at the bar of the House upon this
      business on Thursday next. This did mightily trouble me and us all; but me
      particularly, who am least able to bear these troubles, though I have the
      least cause to be concerned in it. Thence, therefore, to visit Sir H.
      Cholmly, who hath for some time been ill of a cold; and thence walked
      towards Westminster, and met Colonel Birch, who took me back to walk with
      him, and did give me an account of this day's heat against the Navy
      Officers, and an account of his speech on our behalf, which was very good;
      and indeed we are much beholden to him, as I, after I parted with him, did
      find by my cozen Roger, whom I went to: and he and I to his lodgings. And
      there he did tell me the same over again; and how much Birch did stand up
      in our defence; and that he do see that there are many desirous to have us
      out of the Office; and the House is so furious and passionate, that he
      thinks nobody can be secure, let him deserve never so well. But now, he
      tells me, we shall have a fair hearing of the House, and he hopes justice
      of them: but, upon the whole, he do agree with me that I should hold my
      hand as to making any purchase of land, which I had formerly discoursed
      with him about, till we see a little further how matters go. He tells me
      that that made them so mad to-day first was, several letters in the House
      about the Fanatickes, in several places, coming in great bodies, and
      turning people out of the churches, and there preaching themselves, and
      pulling the surplice over the Parsons' heads: this was confirmed from
      several places; which makes them stark mad, especially the hectors and
      bravadoes of the House, who shew all the zeal on this occasion. Having
      done with him, I home vexed in my mind, and so fit for no business, but
      sat talking with my wife and supped with her; and Nan Mercer come and sat
      all the evening with us, and much pretty discourse, which did a little
      ease me, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and walked to Captain Cocke's, where Sir G. Carteret promised to
      meet me and did come to discourse about the prize-business of my Lord
      Sandwich's, which I perceive is likely to be of great ill consequence to
      my Lord, the House being mighty vehement in it. We could say little but
      advise that his friends should labour to get it put off, till he comes. We
      did here talk many things over, in lamentation of the present posture of
      affairs, and the ill condition of all people that have had anything to do
      under the King, wishing ourselves a great way off: Here they tell me how
      Sir Thomas Allen hath taken the Englishmen out of "La Roche," and taken
      from him an Ostend prize which La Roche had fetched out of our harbours;
      and at this day La Roche keeps upon our coasts; and had the boldness to
      land some men and go a mile up into the country, and there took some goods
      belonging to this prize out of a house there; which our King resents, and,
      they say, hath wrote to the King of France about; and everybody do think a
      war will follow; and then in what a case we shall be for want of money,
      nobody knows. Thence to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at
      noon home to dinner, and to the office again in the afternoon, where we
      met to consider of an answer to the Parliament about the not paying of
      tickets according to our own orders, to which I hope we shall be able to
      give a satisfactory answer, but that the design of the House being
      apparently to remove us, I do question whether the best answer will
      prevail with them. This done I by coach with my wife to Martin, my
      bookseller's, expecting to have had my Kercher's Musurgia, but to my
      trouble and loss of trouble it was not done. So home again, my head full
      of thoughts about our troubles in the office, and so to the office. Wrote
      to my father this post, and sent him now Colvill's&mdash;[The Goldsmith.]&mdash;note
      for L600 for my sister's portion, being glad that I shall, I hope, have
      that business over before I am out of place, and I trust I shall be able
      to save a little of what I have got, and so shall not be troubled to be at
      ease; for I am weary of this life. So ends this month, with a great deal
      of care and trouble in my head about the answerings of the Parliament, and
      particularly in our payment of seamen by tickets.
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    <p>
      March 1st (Lord's day). Up very betimes, and by coach to Sir W.
      Coventry's; and there, largely carrying with me all my notes and papers,
      did run over our whole defence in the business of tickets, in order to the
      answering the House on Thursday next; and I do think, unless they be set
      without reason to ruin us, we shall make a good defence. I find him in
      great anxiety, though he will not discover it, in the business of the
      proceedings of Parliament; and would as little as is possible have his
      name mentioned in our discourse to them; and particularly the business of
      selling places is now upon his hand to defend himself in; wherein I did
      help him in his defence about the flag-maker's place, which is named in
      the House. We did here do the like about the complaint of want of victuals
      in the fleete in the year 1666, which will lie upon me to defend also. So
      that my head is full of care and weariness in my employment. Thence home,
      and there my mind being a little lightened by my morning's work in the
      arguments I have now laid together in better method for our defence to the
      Parliament, I to talk with my wife; and in lieu of a coach this year, I
      have got my wife to be contented with her closet being made up this
      summer, and going into the country this summer for a month or two, to my
      father's, and there Mercer and Deb. and Jane shall go with her, which I
      the rather do for the entertaining my wife, and preventing of fallings out
      between her and my father or Deb., which uses to be the fate of her going
      into the country. After dinner by coach to Westminster, and there to St.
      Margaret's church, thinking to have seen Betty Michell, but she was not
      there, but met her father and mother and with them to her father's house,
      where I never was before, but was mighty much made of, with some good
      strong waters, which they have from their son Michell, and mighty good
      people they are. Thence to Mrs. Martin's, where I have not been also a
      good while, and with great difficulty, company being there, did get an
      opportunity to hazer what I would con her, and here I was mightily taken
      with a starling which she hath, that was the King's, which he kept in his
      bedchamber; and do whistle and talk the most and best that ever I heard
      anything in my life. Thence to visit Sir H. Cholmly, who continues still
      sick of his cold, and thence calling, but in vain, to speak with Sir G.
      Carteret at his house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where I spoke with nobody,
      but home, where spent the evening talking with W. Hewer about business of
      the House, and declaring my expectation of all our being turned out.
      Hither comes Carcasse to me about business, and there did confess to me of
      his own accord his having heretofore discovered as a complaint against Sir
      W. Batten, Sir W. Pen and me that we did prefer the paying of some men to
      man "The Flying Greyhound" to others, by order under our hands. The thing
      upon recollection I believe is true, and do hope no great matter can be
      made of it, but yet I would be glad to have my name out of it, which I
      shall labour to do; in the mean time it weighs as a new trouble on my
      mind, and did trouble me all night. So without supper to bed, my eyes
      being also a little overwrought of late that I could not stay up to read.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up and betimes to the office, where I did much business, and several
      come to me, and among others I did prepare Mr. Warren, and by and by Sir
      D. Gawden, about what presents I have had from them, that they may not
      publish them, or if they do, that in truth I received none on the account
      of the Navy but Tangier, and this is true to the former, and in both that
      I never asked any thing of them. I must do the like with the rest. Mr.
      Moore was with me, and he do tell me, and so W. Hewer tells me, he hears
      this morning that all the town is full of the discourse that the Officers
      of the Navy shall be all turned out, but honest Sir John Minnes, who, God
      knows, is fitter to have been turned out himself than any of us, doing the
      King more hurt by his dotage and folly than all the rest can do by their
      knavery, if they had a mind to it. At noon home to dinner, where was
      Mercer, and very merry as I could be with my mind so full of business, and
      so with my wife, her and the girl, to the King's house to see the "Virgin
      Martyr" again, which do mightily please me, but above all the musique at
      the coming down of the angel, which at this hearing the second time, do
      still commend me as nothing ever did, and the other musique is nothing to
      it. Thence with my wife to the 'Change, and so, calling at the Cocke ale
      house, we home, and there I settle to business, and with my people
      preparing my great answer to the Parliament for the office about tickets
      till past 1 a o'clock at night, and then home to supper and to bed,
      keeping Mr. Gibson all night with me. This day I have the news that my
      sister was married on Thursday last to Mr. Jackson; so that work is, I
      hope, well over.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up betimes to work again, and then met at the Office, where to our
      great business of this answer to the Parliament; where to my great
      vexation I find my Lord Brouncker prepared only to excuse himself, while
      I, that have least reason to trouble myself, am preparing with great pains
      to defend them all: and more, I perceive, he would lodge the beginning of
      discharging ships by ticket upon me; but I care not, for I believe I shall
      get more honour by it when the Parliament, against my will, shall see how
      the whole business of the Office was done by me. At noon rose and to
      dinner. My wife abroad with Mercer and Deb. buying of things, but I with
      my clerks home to dinner, and thence presently down with Lord Brouncker,
      W. Pen, T. Harvy, T. Middleton, and Mr. Tippets, who first took his place
      this day at the table, as a Commissioner, in the room of Commissioner
      Pett. Down by water to Deptford, where the King, Queene, and Court are to
      see launched the new ship built by Mr. Shish, called "The Charles." 2 God
      send her better luck than the former! Here some of our brethren, who went
      in a boat a little before my boat, did by appointment take opportunity of
      asking the King's leave that we might make full use of the want of money,
      in our excuse to the Parliament for the business of tickets, and other
      things they will lay to our charge, all which arose from nothing else: and
      this the King did readily agree to, and did give us leave to make our full
      use of it. The ship being well launched, I back again by boat, setting
      [Sir] T. Middleton and Mr. Tippets on shore at Ratcliffe, I home and there
      to my chamber with Mr. Gibson, and late up till midnight preparing more
      things against our defence on Thursday next to my content, though vexed
      that all this trouble should be on me. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up betimes and with Sir W. Pen in his coach to White Hall, there to
      wait upon the Duke of York and the Commissioners of the Treasury, [Sir] W.
      Coventry and Sir John Duncombe, who do declare that they cannot find the
      money we demand, and we that less than what we demand will not set out the
      fleet intended, and so broke up, with no other conclusion than that they
      would let us have what they could get and we would improve that as well as
      we could. So God bless us, and prepare us against the consequences of
      these matters. Thence, it being a cold wet day, I home with Sir J. Minnes
      in his coach, and called by the way at my bookseller's and took home with
      me Kercher's Musurgia&mdash;very well bound, but I had no comfort to look
      upon them, but as soon as I come home fell to my work at the office,
      shutting the doors, that we, I and my clerks, might not be interrupted,
      and so, only with room for a little dinner, we very busy all the day till
      night that the officers met for me to give them the heads of what I
      intended to say, which I did with great discontent to see them all rely on
      me that have no reason at all to trouble myself about it, nor have any
      thanks from them for my labour, but contrarily Brouncker looked mighty
      dogged, as thinking that I did not intend to do it so as to save him. This
      troubled me so much as, together with the shortness of the time and
      muchness of the business, did let me be at it till but about ten at night,
      and then quite weary, and dull, and vexed, I could go no further, but
      resolved to leave the rest to to-morrow morning, and so in full discontent
      and weariness did give over and went home, with[out] supper vexed and
      sickish to bed, and there slept about three hours, but then waked, and
      never in so much trouble in all my life of mind, thinking of the task I
      have upon me, and upon what dissatisfactory grounds, and what the issue of
      it may be to me.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. With these thoughts I lay troubling myself till six o'clock,
      restless, and at last getting my wife to talk to me to comfort me, which
      she at last did, and made me resolve to quit my hands of this Office, and
      endure the trouble of it no longer than till I can clear myself of it. So
      with great trouble, but yet with some ease, from this discourse with my
      wife, I up, and to my Office, whither come my clerks, and so I did huddle
      the best I could some more notes for my discourse to-day, and by nine
      o'clock was ready, and did go down to the Old Swan, and there by boat,
      with T. H[ater] and W. H[ewer] with me, to Westminster, where I found
      myself come time enough, and my brethren all ready. But I full of thoughts
      and trouble touching the issue of this day; and, to comfort myself, did go
      to the Dog and drink half-a-pint of mulled sack, and in the Hall
      [Westminster] did drink a dram of brandy at Mrs. Hewlett's; and with the
      warmth of this did find myself in better order as to courage, truly. So we
      all up to the lobby; and between eleven and twelve o'clock, were called
      in, with the mace before us, into the House, where a mighty full House;
      and we stood at the bar, namely, Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes, Sir T. Harvey,
      and myself, W. Pen being in the House, as a Member. I perceive the whole
      House was full, and full of expectation of our defence what it would be,
      and with great prejudice. After the Speaker had told us the
      dissatisfaction of the House, and read the Report of the Committee, I
      began our defence most acceptably and smoothly, and continued at it
      without any hesitation or losse, but with full scope, and all my reason
      free about me, as if it had been at my own table, from that time till past
      three in the afternoon; and so ended, without any interruption from the
      Speaker; but we withdrew. And there all my Fellow-Officers, and all the
      world that was within hearing, did congratulate me, and cry up my speech
      as the best thing they ever heard; and my Fellow-Officers overjoyed in it;
      we were called in again by and by to answer only one question, touching
      our paying tickets to ticket-mongers; and so out; and we were in hopes to
      have had a vote this day in our favour, and so the generality of the House
      was; but my speech, being so long, many had gone out to dinner and come in
      again half drunk; and then there are two or three that are professed
      enemies to us and every body else; among others, Sir T. Littleton, Sir
      Thomas Lee, Mr. Wiles, the coxcomb whom I saw heretofore at the
      cock-fighting, and a few others; I say, these did rise up and speak
      against the coming to a vote now, the House not being full, by reason of
      several being at dinner, but most because that the House was to attend the
      King this afternoon, about the business of religion, wherein they pray him
      to put in force all the laws against Nonconformists and Papists; and this
      prevented it, so that they put it off to to-morrow come se'nnight.
      However, it is plain we have got great ground; and everybody says I have
      got the most honour that any could have had opportunity of getting; and so
      with our hearts mightily overjoyed at this success, we all to dinner to
      Lord Brouncker's&mdash;that is to say, myself, T. Harvey, and W. Pen, and
      there dined; and thence with Sir Anthony Morgan, who is an acquaintance of
      Brouncker's, a very wise man, we after dinner to the King's house, and
      there saw part of "The Discontented Colonel," but could take no great
      pleasure in it, because of our coming in in the middle of it. After the
      play, home with W. Pen, and there to my wife, whom W. Hewer had told of my
      success, and she overjoyed, and I also as to my particular; and, after
      talking awhile, I betimes to bed, having had no quiet rest a good while.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up betimes, and with Sir D. Gawden to Sir W, Coventry's chamber:
      where the first word he said to me was, "Good-morrow, Mr. Pepys, that must
      be Speaker of the Parliament-house:" and did protest I had got honour for
      ever in Parliament. He said that his brother, that sat by him, admires me;
      and another gentleman said that I could not get less than L1000 a-year if
      I would put on a gown and plead at the Chancery-bar; but, what pleases me
      most, he tells me that the Sollicitor-Generall did protest that he thought
      I spoke the best of any man in England. After several talks with him
      alone, touching his own businesses, he carried me to White Hall, and there
      parted; and I to the Duke of York's lodgings, and find him going to the
      Park, it being a very fine morning, and I after him; and, as soon as he
      saw me, he told me, with great satisfaction, that I had converted a great
      many yesterday, and did, with great praise of me, go on with the discourse
      with me. And, by and by, overtaking the King, the King and Duke of York
      come to me both; and he&mdash;[The King]&mdash;said, "Mr. Pepys, I am very
      glad of your success yesterday;" and fell to talk of my well speaking; and
      many of the Lords there. My Lord Barkeley did cry the up for what they had
      heard of it; and others, Parliament-men there, about the King, did say
      that they never heard such a speech in their lives delivered in that
      manner. Progers, of the Bedchamber, swore to me afterwards before
      Brouncker, in the afternoon, that he did tell the King that he thought I
      might teach the Sollicitor-Generall. Every body that saw me almost come to
      me, as Joseph Williamson and others, with such eulogys as cannot be
      expressed. From thence I went to Westminster Hall, where I met Mr. G.
      Montagu, who come to me and kissed me, and told me that he had often
      heretofore kissed my hands, but now he would kiss my lips: protesting that
      I was another Cicero, and said, all the world said the same of me. Mr.
      Ashburnham, and every creature I met there of the Parliament, or that knew
      anything of the Parliament's actings, did salute me with this honour:&mdash;Mr.
      Godolphin;&mdash;Mr. Sands, who swore he would go twenty mile, at any
      time, to hear the like again, and that he never saw so many sit four hours
      together to hear any man in his life, as there did to hear me; Mr.
      Chichly,&mdash;Sir John Duncomb,&mdash;and everybody do say that the
      kingdom will ring of my abilities, and that I have done myself right for
      my whole life: and so Captain Cocke, and others of my friends, say that no
      man had ever such an opportunity of making his abilities known; and, that
      I may cite all at once, Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower did tell me that Mr.
      Vaughan did protest to him, and that, in his hearing it, said so to the
      Duke of Albemarle, and afterwards to W. Coventry, that he had sat
      twenty-six years in Parliament and never heard such a speech there before:
      for which the Lord God make me thankful! and that I may make use of it not
      to pride and vain-glory, but that, now I have this esteem, I may do
      nothing that may lessen it! I spent the morning thus walking in the Hall,
      being complimented by everybody with admiration: and at noon stepped into
      the Legg with Sir William Warren, who was in the Hall, and there talked
      about a little of his business, and thence into the Hall a little more,
      and so with him by coach as far as the Temple almost, and there 'light, to
      follow my Lord Brouncker's coach, which I spied, and so to Madam
      Williams's, where I overtook him, and agreed upon meeting this afternoon,
      and so home to dinner, and after dinner with W. Pen, who come to my house
      to call me, to White Hall, to wait on the Duke of York, where he again and
      all the company magnified me, and several in the Gallery: among others, my
      Lord Gerard, who never knew me before nor spoke to me, desires his being
      better acquainted with me; and [said] that, at table where he was, he
      never heard so much said of any man as of me, in his whole life. We waited
      on the Duke of York, and thence into the Gallery, where the House of Lords
      waited the King's coming out of the Park, which he did by and by; and
      there, in the Vane-room, my Lord Keeper delivered a message to the King,
      the Lords being about him, wherein the Barons of England, from many good
      arguments, very well expressed in the part he read out of, do demand
      precedence in England of all noblemen of either of the King's other two
      kingdoms, be their title what it will; and did shew that they were in
      England reputed but as Commoners, and sat in the House of Commons, and at
      conferences with the Lords did stand bare. It was mighty worth my hearing:
      but the King did only say that he would consider of it, and so dismissed
      them. Thence Brouncker and I to the Committee of Miscarriages sitting in
      the Court of Wards, expecting with Sir D. Gawden to have been heard
      against Prince Rupert's complaints for want of victuals. But the business
      of Holmes's charge against Sir Jer. Smith, which is a most shameful
      scandalous thing for Flag officers to accuse one another of, and that this
      should be heard here before men that understand it not at all, and after
      it hath been examined and judged in before the King and Lord High Admirall
      and other able seamen to judge, it is very hard. But this business did
      keep them all the afternoon, so we not heard but put off to another day.
      Thence, with the Lieutenant of the Tower, in his coach home; and there,
      with great pleasure, with my wife, talking and playing at cards a little&mdash;she,
      and I, and W. Hewer, and Deb., and so, after a little supper, I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, at noon home to dinner,
      where Mercer with us, and after dinner she, my wife, Deb., and I, to the
      King's playhouse, and there saw "The Spanish Gipsys," the second time of
      acting, and the first that I saw it. A very silly play, only great variety
      of dances, and those most excellently done, especially one part by one
      Hanes, only lately come thither from the Nursery, an understanding fellow,
      but yet, they say, hath spent L1000 a-year before he come thither. This
      day my wife and I full of thoughts about Mrs. Pierces sending me word that
      she, and my old company, Harris and Knipp, would come and dine with us
      next Wednesday, how we should do-to receive or put them off, my head
      being, at this time, so full of business, and my wife in no mind to have
      them neither, and yet I desire it. Come to no resolution tonight. Home
      from the playhouse to the office, where I wrote what I had to write, and
      among others to my father to congratulate my sister's marriage, and so
      home to supper a little and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). At my sending to desire it, Sir J. Robinson, Lieutenant
      of the Tower, did call me with his coach, and carried me to White Hall,
      where met with very many people still that did congratulate my speech the
      other day in the House of Commons, and I find all the world almost rings
      of it. Here spent the morning walking and talking with one or other, and
      among the rest with Sir W. Coventry, who I find full of care in his own
      business, how to defend himself against those that have a mind to choke
      him; and though, I believe, not for honour and for the keeping his
      employment, but for his safety and reputation's sake, is desirous to
      preserve himself free from blame, and among other mean ways which himself
      did take notice to me to be but a mean thing he desires me to get
      information against Captain Tatnell, thereby to diminish his testimony,
      who, it seems, hath a mind to do W. Coventry hurt: and I will do it with
      all my heart; for Tatnell is a very rogue. He would be glad, too, that I
      could find anything proper for his taking notice against Sir F. Hollis. At
      noon, after sermon, I to dinner with Sir G. Carteret to Lincoln's Inn
      Fields, where I find mighty deal of company&mdash;a solemn day for some of
      his and her friends, and dine in the great dining-room above stairs, where
      Sir G. Carteret himself, and I, and his son, at a little table by, the
      great table being full of strangers. Here my Lady Jem. do promise to come,
      and bring my Lord Hinchingbroke and his lady some day this week, to dinner
      to me, which I am glad of. After dinner, I up with her husband, Sir Philip
      Carteret, to his closet, where, beyond expectation, I do find many pretty
      things, wherein he appears to be ingenious, such as in painting, and
      drawing, and making of watches, and such kind of things, above my
      expectation; though, when all is done, he is a shirke, who owns his owing
      me L10 for his lady two or three years ago, and yet cannot provide to pay
      me. The company by and by parted, and G. Carteret and I to White Hall,
      where I set him down and took his coach as far as the Temple, it raining,
      and there took a hackney and home, and so had my head combed, and then to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up betimes, and anon with Sir W. Warren, who come to speak with me,
      by coach to White Hall, and there met Lord Brouncker: and he and I to the
      Commissioners of the Treasury, where I find them mighty kind to me, more,
      I think, than was wont. And here I also met Colvill, the goldsmith; who
      tells me, with great joy, how the world upon the 'Change talks of me; and
      how several Parliamentmen, viz., Boscawen and Major [Lionel] Walden, of
      Huntingdon, who, it seems, do deal with him, do say how bravely I did
      speak, and that the House was ready to have given me thanks for it; but
      that, I think, is a vanity. Thence I with Lord Brouncker, and did take up
      his mistress, Williams, and so to the 'Change, only to shew myself, and
      did a little business there, and so home to dinner, and then to the office
      busy till the evening, and then to the Excize Office, where I find Mr.
      Ball in a mighty trouble that he is to be put out of his place at
      Midsummer, the whole Commission being to cease, and the truth is I think
      they are very fair dealing men, all of them. Here I did do a little
      business, and then to rights home, and there dispatched many papers, and
      so home late to supper and to bed, being eased of a great many thoughts,
      and yet have a great many more to remove as fast as I can, my mind being
      burdened with them, having been so much employed upon the public business
      of the office in their defence before the Parliament of late, and the
      further cases that do attend it.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and to the office betimes, where all the morning. At noon home
      to dinner with my clerks, and after dinner comes Kate Joyce, who tells me
      she is putting off her house, which I am glad of, but it was pleasant that
      she come on purpose to me about getting a ticket paid, and in her way
      hither lost her ticket, so that she is at a great loss what to do.&mdash;There
      comes in then Mrs. Mercer, the mother, the first time she has been here
      since her daughter lived with us, to see my wife, and after a little talk
      I left them and to the office, and thence with Sir D. Gawden to
      Westminster Hall, thinking to have attended the Committee about the
      Victualling business, but they did not meet, but here we met Sir R.
      Brookes, who do mightily cry up my speech the other day, saying my
      fellow-officers are obliged to me, as indeed they are. Thence with Sir D.
      Gawden homewards, calling at Lincolne's Inn Fields: but my Lady Jemimah
      was not within: and so to Newgate, where he stopped to give directions to
      the jaylor about a Knight, one Sir Thomas Halford brought in yesterday for
      killing one Colonel Temple, falling out at a taverne. So thence as far as
      Leadenhall, and there I 'light, and back by coach to Lincoln's Inn Fields;
      but my Lady was not come in, and so I am at a great loss whether she and
      her brother Hinchingbroke and sister will dine with me to-morrow or no,
      which vexes me. So home; and there comes Mr. Moore to me, who tells me
      that he fears my Lord Sandwich will meet with very great difficulties to
      go through about the prizes, it being found that he did give orders for
      more than the King's letter do justify; and then for the Act of
      Resumption, which he fears will go on, and is designed only to do him
      hurt, which troubles me much. He tells me he believes the Parliament will
      not be brought to do anything in matters of religion, but will adhere to
      the Bishops. So he gone, I up to supper, where I find W. Joyce and Harman
      come to see us, and there was also Mrs. Mercer and her two daughters, and
      here we were as merry as that fellow Joyce could make us with his mad
      talking, after the old wont, which tired me. But I was mightily pleased
      with his singing; for the rogue hath a very good eare, and a good voice.
      Here he stayed till he was almost drunk, and then away at about ten at
      night, and then all broke up, and I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and betimes to the office, where busy till 8 o'clock, and then
      went forth, and meeting Mr. Colvill, I walked with, him to his building,
      where he is building a fine house, where he formerly lived, in Lumbard
      Street: and it will be a very fine street. Thence walked down to the Three
      Cranes and there took boat to White Hall, where by direction I waited on
      the Duke of York about office business, and so by water to Westminster,
      where walking in the Hall most of the morning, and up to my Lady Jem. in
      Lincoln's Inn Fields to get her to appoint the day certain when she will
      come and dine with me, and she hath appointed Saturday next. So back to
      Westminster; and there still walked, till by and by comes Sir W. Coventry,
      and with him Mr. Chichly and Mr. Andrew Newport, I to dinner with them to
      Mr. Chichly's, in Queene Street, in Covent Garden. A very fine house, and
      a man that lives in mighty great fashion, with all things in a most
      extraordinary manner noble and rich about him, and eats in the French
      fashion all; and mighty nobly served with his servants, and very civilly;
      that I was mighty pleased with it: and good discourse. He is a great
      defender of the Church of England, and against the Act for Comprehension,
      which is the work of this day, about which the House is like to sit till
      night. After dinner, away with them back to Westminster, where, about four
      o'clock, the House rises, and hath done nothing more in the business than
      to put off the debate to this day month. In the mean time the King hath
      put out his proclamations this day, as the House desired, for the putting
      in execution the Act against Nonconformists and Papists, but yet it is
      conceived that for all this some liberty must be given, and people will
      have it. Here I met with my cozen Roger Pepys, who is come to town, and
      hath been told of my performance before the House the other day, and is
      mighty proud of it, and Captain Cocke met me here to-day, and told me that
      the Speaker says he never heard such a defence made; in all his life, in
      the House; and that the Sollicitor-Generall do commend me even to envy. I
      carried cozen Roger as far as the Strand, where, spying out of the coach
      Colonel Charles George Cocke, formerly a very great man, and my father's
      customer, whom I have carried clothes to, but now walks like a poor sorry
      sneake, he stopped, and I 'light to him. This man knew me, which I would
      have willingly avoided, so much pride I had, he being a man of mighty
      height and authority in his time, but now signifies nothing. Thence home,
      where to the office a while and then home, where W. Batelier was and
      played at cards and supped with us, my eyes being out of order for
      working, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, at noon home, and
      after dinner with wife and Deb., carried them to Unthanke's, and I to
      Westminster Hall expecting our being with the Committee this afternoon
      about Victualling business, but once more waited in vain. So after a turn
      or two with Lord Brouncker, I took my wife up and left her at the 'Change
      while I to Gresham College, there to shew myself; and was there greeted by
      Dr. Wilkins, Whistler, and others, as the patron of the Navy Office, and
      one that got great fame by my late speech to the Parliament. Here I saw a
      great trial of the goodness of a burning glass, made of a new figure, not
      spherical (by one Smithys, I think, they call him), that did burn a glove
      of my Lord Brouncker's from the heat of a very little fire, which a
      burning glass of the old form, or much bigger, could not do, which was
      mighty pretty. Here I heard Sir Robert Southwell give an account of some
      things committed to him by the Society at his going to Portugall, which he
      did deliver in a mighty handsome manner.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [At the meeting of the Royal Society on March 12th, 1668, "Mr.
     Smethwick's glasses were tried again; and his telescope being
     compared with another longer telescope, and the object-glasses
     exchanged, was still found to exceed the other in goodness; and his
     burning concave being compared with a spherical burning-glass of
     almost twice the diameter, and held to the fire, it burnt gloves,
     whereas the other spherical ones would not burn at all."&mdash;"Sir
     Robert Southwell being lately returned from Portugal, where he had
     been ambassador from the king, and being desired to acquaint the
     society with what he had done with respect to the instructions,
     which he had received from them before his departure from England,
     related, that he had lodged the astronomical quadrant, which the
     society had sent to Portugal to make observations with there, with a
     body of men at Lisbon, who had applied themselves among other kinds
     of literature to mathematics" (Birch's "History of the Royal
     Society," vol.  ii., p.  256).]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence went away home, and there at my office as long as my eyes would
      endure, and then home to supper, and to talk with Mr. Pelling, who tells
      me what a fame I have in the City for my late performance; and upon the
      whole I bless God for it. I think I have, if I can keep it, done myself a
      great deal of repute. So by and by to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up betimes to my office, where to fit myself for attending the
      Parliament again, not to make any more speech, which, while my fame is
      good, I will avoid, for fear of losing it; but only to answer to what
      objections will be made against us. Thence walked to the Old Swan and
      drank at Michell's, whose house is going up apace. Here I saw Betty, but
      could not baiser la, and so to Westminster, there to the Hall, where up to
      my cozen Roger Pepys at the Parliament door, and there he took me aside,
      and told me how he was taken up by one of the House yesterday, for moving
      for going on with the King's supply of money, without regard to the
      keeping pace therewith, with the looking into miscarriages, and was told
      by this man privately that it did arise because that he had a kinsman
      concerned therein; and therefore he would prefer the safety of his kinsman
      to the good of the nation, and that there was great things against us and
      against me, for all my fine discourse the other day. But I did bid him be
      at no pain for me; for I knew of nothing but what I was very well prepared
      to answer; and so I think I am, and therefore was not at all disquieted by
      this. Thence he to the House, and I to the Hall, where my Lord Brouncker
      and the rest waiting till noon and not called for by the House, they being
      upon the business of money again, and at noon all of us to Chatelin's, the
      French house in Covent Garden, to dinner&mdash;Brouncker, J. Minnes, W.
      Pen, T. Harvey, and myself&mdash;and there had a dinner cost us 8s. 6d.
      a-piece, a damned base dinner, which did not please us at all, so that I
      am not fond of this house at all, but do rather choose the Beare. After
      dinner to White Hall to the Duke of York, and there did our usual
      business, complaining of our standing still in every-respect for want of
      money, but no remedy propounded, but so I must still be. Thence with our
      company to the King's playhouse, where I left them, and I, my head being
      full of to-morrow's dinner, I to my Lord Crew's, there to invite Sir
      Thomas Crew; and there met with my Lord Hinchingbroke and his lady, the
      first time I spoke to her. I saluted her; and she mighty civil and; with
      my Lady Jemimah, do all resolve to be very merry to-morrow at my house. My
      Lady Hinchingbroke I cannot say is a beauty, nor ugly; but is altogether a
      comely lady enough, and seems very good-humoured, and I mighty glad of the
      occasion of seeing her before to-morrow. Thence home; and there find one
      laying of my napkins against tomorrow in figures of all sorts, which is
      mighty pretty; and, it seems, it is his trade, and he gets much money by
      it; and do now and then furnish tables with plate and linnen for a feast
      at so much, which is mighty pretty, and a trade I could not have thought
      of. I find my wife upon the bed not over well, her breast being broke out
      with heat, which troubles her, but I hope it will be for her good. Thence
      I to Mrs. Turner, and did get her to go along with me to the French
      pewterer's, and there did buy some new pewter against to-morrow; and
      thence to White Hall, to have got a cook of her acquaintance, the best in
      England, as she says. But after we had with much ado found him, he could
      not come, nor was Mr. Gentleman in town, whom next I would have had, nor
      would Mrs. Stone let her man Lewis come, whom this man recommended to me;
      so that I was at a mighty loss what in the world to do for a cooke,
      Philips being out of town. Therefore, after staying here at Westminster a
      great while, we back to London, and there to Philips's, and his man
      directed us to Mr. Levett's, who could not come, and he sent to two more,
      and they could not; so that, at last, Levett as a great kindness did
      resolve he would leave his business and come himself, which set me in
      great ease in my mind, and so home, and there with my wife setting all
      things in order against to-morrow, having seen Mrs. Turner at home, and so
      late to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up very betimes, and with Jane to Levett's, there to conclude upon
      our dinner; and thence to the pewterer's, to buy a pewter sesterne,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A pewter cistern was formerly part of the furniture of a well-
     appointed dining-room; the plates were rinsed in it, when necessary,
     during the meal.  A magnificent silver cistern is still preserved in
     the dining-room at Burghley House, the seat of the Marquis of
     Exeter.  It is said to be the largest piece of plate in England, and
     was once the subject of a curious wager.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which I have ever hitherto been without, and so up and down upon several
      occasions to set matters in order, and that being done I out of doors to
      Westminster Hall, and there met my Lord Brouncker, who tells me that our
      business is put off till Monday, and so I was mighty glad that I was eased
      of my attendance here, and of any occasion that might put me out of
      humour, as it is likely if we had been called before the Parliament.
      Therefore, after having spoke with Mr. Godolphin and cozen Roger, I away
      home, and there do find everything in mighty good order, only my wife not
      dressed, which troubles me. Anon comes my company, viz., my Lord
      Hinchingbroke and his lady, Sir Philip Carteret and his, lady, Godolphin
      and my cozen Roger, and Creed: and mighty merry; and by and by to dinner,
      which was very good and plentifull: (I should have said, and Mr. George
      Montagu), who come at a very little warning, which was exceeding kind of
      him. And there, among other things, my Lord had Sir Samuel Morland's late
      invention for casting up of sums of L. s. d.;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The same as Morland's so-called calculating machine.  Sir Samuel
     published in 1673 "The Description and Use of two Arithmetick
     Instruments, together with a short Treatise of Arithmetic, as
     likewise a Perpetual Almanack and severall useful tables."]
</pre>
    <p>
      which is very pretty, but not very useful. Most of our discourse was of my
      Lord Sandwich and his family, as being all of us of the family; and with
      extraordinary pleasure all the afternoon, thus together eating and looking
      over my closet: and my Lady Hinchingbroke I find a very sweet-natured and
      well-disposed lady, a lover of books and pictures, and of good
      understanding. About five o'clock they went; and then my wife and I abroad
      by coach into Moorefields, only for a little ayre, and so home again,
      staying no where, and then up to her chamber, there to talk with pleasure
      of this day's passages, and so to bed. This day I had the welcome news of
      our prize being come safe from Holland, so as I shall have hopes, I hope,
      of getting my money of my Lady Batten, or good part of it.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). Up and walked, it being fine dry weather, to Sir W.
      Coventry's, overtaking my boy Ely (that was), and he walked with me, being
      grown a man, and I think a sober fellow. He parted at Charing Cross, and I
      to Sir W. Coventry's, and there talked with him about the Commissioners of
      Accounts, who did give in their report yesterday to the House, and do lay
      little upon us as aggravate any thing at present, but only do give an
      account of the dissatisfactory account they receive from Sir G. Carteret,
      which I am sorry for, they saying that he tells them not any time when he
      paid any sum, which is fit for them to know for the computing of interest,
      but I fear he is hardly able to tell it. They promise to give them an
      account of the embezzlement of prizes, wherein I shall be something
      concerned, but nothing that I am afeard of, I thank God. Thence walked
      with W. Coventry into the Park, and there met the King and the Duke of
      York, and walked a good while with them: and here met Sir Jer. Smith, who
      tells me he is like to get the better of Holmes, and that when he is come
      to an end of that, he will do Hollis's business for him, in the House, for
      his blasphemies, which I shall be glad of. So to White Hall, and there
      walked with this man and that man till chapel done, and, the King dined
      and then Sir Thomas Clifford, the Comptroller, took me with him to dinner
      to his lodgings, where my Lord Arlington and a great deal of good and
      great company; where I very civilly used by them, and had a most excellent
      dinner: and good discourse of Spain, Mr. Godolphin being there;
      particularly of the removal of the bodies of all the dead Kings of Spain
      that could be got together, and brought to the Pantheon at the Escuriall,
      when it was finished, and there placed before the altar, there to lie for
      ever; and there was a sermon made to them upon this text, "Arida ossa,
      audite verbum Dei;" and a most eloquent sermon, as they say, who say they
      have read it. After dinner, away hence, and I to Mrs. Martin's, and there
      spent the afternoon, and did hazer con elle, and here was her sister and
      Mrs. Burrows, and so in the evening got a coach and home, and there find
      Mr. Pelting and W. Hewer, and there talked and supped, Pelting being gone,
      and mightily pleased with a picture that W. Hewer brought hither of
      several things painted upon a deale board, which board is so well painted
      that in my whole life I never was so well pleased or surprized with any
      picture, and so troubled that so good pictures should be painted upon a
      piece of bad deale. Even after I knew that it was not board, but only the
      picture of a board, I could not remove my fancy. After supper to bed,
      being very sleepy, and, I bless God, my mind being at very good present
      rest.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, to set my papers and books in order, and put up my plate since
      my late feast, and then to Westminster, by water, with Mr. Hater, and
      there, in the Hall, did walk all the morning, talking with one or other,
      expecting to have our business in the House; but did now a third time wait
      to no purpose, they being all this morning upon the business of Barker's
      petition about the making void the Act of Settlement in Ireland, which
      makes a great deal of hot work: and, at last, finding that by all men's
      opinion they could not come to our matter today, I with Sir W. Pen home,
      and there to dinner, where I find, by Willet's crying, that her mistress
      had been angry with her: but I would take no notice of it. Busy all the
      afternoon at the office, and then by coach to the Excize Office, but lost
      my labour, there being nobody there, and so back again home, and after a
      little at the office I home, and there spent the evening with my wife
      talking and singing, and so to bed with my mind pretty well at ease. This
      evening W. Pen and Sir R. Ford and I met at the first's house to talk of
      our prize that is now at last come safe over from Holland, by which I hope
      to receive some if not all the benefit of my bargain with W. Batten for my
      share in it, which if she had miscarried I should have doubted of my Lady
      Batten being left little able to have paid me.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up betimes and to the office, where all the morning busy, and then
      at noon home to dinner, and so again to the office awhile, and then abroad
      to the Excize-Office, where I met Mr. Ball, and did receive the paper I
      went for; and there fell in talk with him, who, being an old cavalier, do
      swear and curse at the present state of things, that we should be brought
      to this, that we must be undone and cannot be saved; that the Parliament
      is sitting now, and will till midnight, to find how to raise this
      L300,000, and he doubts they will not do it so as to be seasonable for the
      King: but do cry out against our great men at Court; how it is a fine
      thing for a Secretary of State to dance a jigg, and that it was not so
      heretofore; and, above all, do curse my Lord of Bristoll, saying the worst
      news that ever he heard in his life, or that the Devil could ever bring
      us, was this Lord's coming to prayers the other day in the House of Lords,
      by which he is coming about again from being a Papist, which will undo
      this nation; and he says he ever did say, at the King's first coming in,
      that this nation could not be safe while that man was alive. Having done
      there, I away towards Westminster, but seeing by the coaches the House to
      be up, I stopped at the 'Change (where, I met Mrs. Turner, and did give
      her a pair of gloves), and there bought several things for my wife, and so
      to my bookseller's, and there looked for Montaigne's Essays,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This must have been Florio's translation, as Cotton's was not
     published until 1685.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which I heard by my Lord Arlington and Lord Blaney so much commended, and
      intend to buy it, but did not now, but home, where at the office did some
      business, as much as my eyes would give leave, and so home to supper,
      Mercer with us talking and singing, and so to bed. The House, I hear, have
      this day concluded upon raising L100,000 of the L300,000 by wine, and the
      rest by a poll-[tax], and have resolved to excuse the Church, in
      expectation that they will do the more of themselves at this juncture; and
      I do hear that Sir W. Coventry did make a speech in behalf of the Clergy.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up betimes to Westminster, where met with cozen Roger and Creed and
      walked with them, and Roger do still continue of the mind that there is no
      other way of saving this nation but by dissolving this Parliament and
      calling another; but there are so many about the King that will not be
      able to stand, if a new Parliament come, that they will not persuade the
      King to it. I spent most of the morning walking with one or other, and
      anon met Doll Lane at the Dog tavern, and there je did hater what I did
      desire with her... and I did give her as being my valentine 20s. to buy
      what elle would. Thence away by coach to my bookseller's, and to several
      places to pay my debts, and to Ducke Lane, and there bought Montaigne's
      Essays, in English, and so away home to dinner, and after dinner with W.
      Pen to White Hall, where we and my Lord Brouncker attended the Council, to
      discourse about the fitness of entering of men presently for the manning
      of the fleete, before one ship is in condition to receive them. W.
      Coventry did argue against it: I was wholly silent, because I saw the
      King, upon the earnestness of the Prince, was willing to it, crying very
      sillily, "If ever you intend to man the fleete, without being cheated by
      the captains and pursers, you may go to bed, and resolve never to have it
      manned;" and so it was, like other things, over-ruled that all volunteers
      should be presently entered. Then there was another great business about
      our signing of certificates to the Exchequer for [prize] goods, upon the
      L1,20,000 Act, which the Commissioners of the Treasury did all oppose, and
      to the laying fault upon us. But I did then speak to the justifying what
      we had done, even to the angering of Duncomb and Clifford, which I was
      vexed at: but, for all that, I did set the Office and myself right, and
      went away with the victory, my Lord Keeper saying that he would not advise
      the Council to order us to sign no more certificates. But, before I began
      to say anything in this matter, the King and the Duke of York talking at
      the Council-table, before all the Lords, of the Committee of Miscarriages,
      how this entering of men before the ships could be ready would be reckoned
      a miscarriage; "Why," says the King, "it is then but Mr. Pepys making of
      another speech to them;" which made all the Lords, and there were by also
      the Atturny and Sollicitor-Generall, look upon me. Thence Sir W. Coventry,
      W. Pen and I, by hackney-coach to take a little ayre in Hyde Parke, the
      first time I have been there this year; and we did meet many coaches going
      and coming, it being mighty pleasant weather; and so, coming back again, I
      'light in the Pell Mell; and there went to see Sir H. Cholmly, who
      continues very ill of his cold. And there come in Sir H. Yelverton, whom
      Sir H. Cholmly commended me to his acquaintance, which the other received,
      but without remembering to me, or I him, of our being school-fellows
      together; and I said nothing of it. But he took notice of my speech the
      other day at the bar of the House; and indeed I perceive he is a wise man
      by his manner of discourse, and here he do say that the town is full of
      it, that now the Parliament hath resolved upon L300,000, the King, instead
      of fifty, will set out but twenty-five ships, and the Dutch as many; and
      that Smith is to command them, who is allowed to have the better of Holmes
      in the late dispute, and is in good esteem in the Parliament, above the
      other. Thence home, and there, in favour to my eyes, stayed at home,
      reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife,
      which shews her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse
      to suffer her to write what she writes to him, and of him.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The Life of the thrice noble, high, and puissant Prince, William
     Cavendish, Duke...  of Newcastle," by his duchess, of which the
     first edition, in folio, was published in 1667.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Betty Turner sent my wife the book to read, and it being a fair print, to
      ease my eyes, which would be reading, I read that. Anon comes Mrs. Turner
      and sat and talked with us, and most about the business of Ackworth,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [William Acworth, storekeeper at Woolwich, was accused of converting
     stores to his own use (see "Calendar of State Papers," 1667-68, p.
     279).]
</pre>
    <p>
      which comes before us to-morrow, that I would favour it, but I do not
      think, notwithstanding all the friendship I can shew him, that he can
      escape, and therefore it had been better that he had followed the advice I
      sent him the other day by Mrs. Turner, to make up the business. So parted,
      and I to bed, my eyes being very bad; and I know not how in the world to
      abstain from reading.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and betimes to the Old Swan, and by water to White Hall, and
      thence to W. Coventry's, where stayed but a little to talk with him, and
      thence by water back again, it being a mighty fine, clear spring morning.
      Back to the Old Swan, and drank at Michell's, whose house goes up apace,
      but I could not see Betty, and thence walked all along Thames Street,
      which I have not done since it was burned, as far as Billingsgate; and
      there do see a brave street likely to be, many brave houses being built,
      and of them a great many by Mr. Jaggard; but the raising of the street
      will make it mighty fine. So to the office, where busy all the morning. At
      noon home to dinner, and thence to the office, very busy till five
      o'clock, and then to ease my eyes I took my wife out and Deb. to the
      'Change, and there bought them some things, and so home again and to the
      office, ended my letters, and so home to read a little more in last
      night's book, with much sport, it being a foolish book, and so to supper
      and to bed. This afternoon I was surprized with a letter without a name to
      it, very well writ, in a good stile, giving me notice of my cozen Kate
      Joyce's being likely to ruin herself by marriage, and by ill reports
      already abroad of her, and I do fear that this keeping of an inne may
      spoil her, being a young and pretty comely woman, and thought to be left
      well. I did answer the letter with thanks and good liking, and am resolved
      to take the advice he gives me, and go see her, and find out what I can:
      but if she will ruin herself, I cannot help it, though I should be
      troubled for it.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up betimes, and to my Office, where we had a meeting extraordinary
      to consider of several things, among others the sum of money fit to be
      demanded ready money, to enable us to set out 27 ships, every body being
      now in pain for a fleete, and everybody endeavouring to excuse themselves
      for the not setting out of one, and our true excuse is lack of money. At
      it all the morning, and so at noon home to dinner with my clerks, my wife
      and Deb. being busy at work above in her chamber getting things ready and
      fine for her going into the country a week or two hence. I away by coach
      to White Hall, where we met to wait on the Duke of York, and, soon as
      prayers were done, it being Good Friday, he come to us, and we did a
      little business and presented him with our demand of money, and so broke
      up, and I thence by coach to Kate Joyce's, being desirous and in pain to
      speak with her about the business that I received a letter yesterday, but
      had no opportunity of speaking with her about it, company being with her,
      so I only invited her to come and dine with me on Sunday next, and so away
      home, and for saving my eyes at my chamber all the evening pricking down
      some things, and trying some conclusions upon my viall, in order to the
      inventing a better theory of musique than hath yet been abroad; and I
      think verily I shall do it. So to supper with my wife, who is in very good
      humour with her working, and so am I, and so to bed. This day at Court I
      do hear that Sir W. Pen do command this summer's fleete; and Mr. Progers
      of the Bedchamber, as a secret, told me that the Prince Rupert is troubled
      at it, and several friends of his have been with him to know the reason of
      it; so that he do pity Sir W. Pen, whom he hath great kindness for, that
      he should not at any desire of his be put to this service, and thereby
      make the Prince his enemy, and contract more envy from other people. But I
      am not a whit sorry if it should be so, first for the King's sake, that
      his work will be better done by Sir W. Pen than the Prince, and next that
      Pen, who is a false rogue, may be bit a little by it.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up betimes to the office, and there we sat all the morning, at noon
      home with my clerks, a good dinner, and then to the Office, and wrote my
      letters, and then abroad to do several things, and pay what little scores
      I had, and among others to Mrs. Martin's, and there did give 20s. to Mrs.
      Cragg, her landlady, who was my Valentine in the house, as well as Doll
      Lane.... So home and to the office, there to end my letters, and so home,
      where Betty Turner was to see my wife, and she being gone I to my chamber
      to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd (Easter day). I up, and walked to the Temple, and there got a coach,
      and to White Hall, where spoke with several people, and find by all that
      Pen is to go to sea this year with this fleete; and they excuse the
      Prince's going, by saying it is not a command great enough for him. Here I
      met with Brisband, and, after hearing the service at the King's chapel,
      where I heard the Bishop of Norwich, Dr. Reynolds, the old presbyterian,
      begin a very plain sermon, he and I to the Queen's chapel, and there did
      hear the Italians sing; and indeed their musick did appear most admirable
      to me, beyond anything of ours: I was never so well satisfied in my life
      with it. So back to White Hall, and there met Mr. Pierce, and adjusted
      together how we should spend to-morrow together, and so by coach I home to
      dinner, where Kate Joyce was, as I invited her, and had a good dinner,
      only she and us; and after dinner she and I alone to talk about her
      business, as I designed; and I find her very discreet, and she assures me
      she neither do nor will incline to the doing anything towards marriage,
      without my advice, and did tell me that she had many offers, and that
      Harman and his friends would fain have her; but he is poor, and hath poor
      friends, and so it will not be advisable: but that there is another, a
      tobacconist, one Holinshed, whom she speaks well of, to be a plain, sober
      man, and in good condition, that offers her very well, and submits to me
      my examining and inquiring after it, if I see good, which I do like of it,
      for it will be best for her to marry, I think, as soon as she can&mdash;at
      least, to be rid of this house; for the trade will not agree with a young
      widow, that is a little handsome, at least ordinary people think her so.
      Being well satisfied with her answer, she anon went away, and I to my
      closet to make a few more experiments of my notions in musique, and so
      then my wife and I to walk in the garden, and then home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and after discoursing with my wife about many things touching
      this day's dinner, I abroad, and first to the taverne to pay what I owe
      there, but missed of seeing the mistress of the house, and there bespoke
      wine for dinner, and so away thence, and to Bishopsgate Streete, thinking
      to have found a Harpsicon-maker that used to live there before the fire,
      but he is gone, and I have a mind forthwith to have a little Harpsicon
      made me to confirm and help me in my musique notions, which my head is
      now-a-days full of, and I do believe will come to something that is very
      good. Thence to White Hall, expecting to have heard the Bishop of
      Lincolne, my friend, preach, for so I understood he would do yesterday,
      but was mistaken, and therefore away presently back again, and there find
      everything in good order against dinner, and at noon come Mr. Pierce and
      she, and Mrs. Manuel, the Jew's wife, and Mrs. Corbet, and Mrs. Pierces
      boy and girl. But we are defeated of Knepp, by her being forced to act
      to-day, and also of Harris, which did trouble me, they being my chief
      guests. However, I had an extraordinary good dinner, and the better
      because dressed by my own servants, and were mighty merry; and here was
      Mr. Pelling by chance come and dined with me; and after sitting long at
      dinner, I had a barge ready at Tower-wharfe, to take us in, and so we
      went, all of us, up as high as Barne-Elms, a very fine day, and all the
      way sang; and Mrs. Manuel sings very finely, and is a mighty discreet,
      sober-carriaged woman, that both my wife and I are mightily taken with
      her, and sings well, and without importunity or the contrary. At
      Barne-Elms we walked round, and then to the barge again, and had much
      merry talk, and good singing; and come before it was dark to the New
      Exchange stairs, and there landed, and walked up to Mrs. Pierces, where we
      sat awhile, and then up to their dining-room. And so, having a violin and
      theorbo, did fall to dance, here being also Mrs. Floyd come hither, and by
      and by Mr. Harris. But there being so few of us that could dance, and my
      wife not being very well, we had not much pleasure in the dancing: there
      was Knepp also, by which with much pleasure we did sing a little, and so,
      about ten o'clock, I took coach with my wife and Deb., and so home, and
      there to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up pretty betimes, and so there comes to me Mr. Shish, to desire my
      appearing for him to succeed Mr. Christopher Pett, lately dead, in his
      place of Master-Shipwright of Deptford and Woolwich, which I do resolve to
      promote what I can. So by and by to White Hall, and there to the Duke of
      York's chamber, where I understand it is already resolved by the King and
      Duke of York that Shish shall have the place. From the Duke's chamber Sir
      W. Coventry and I to walk in the Matted Gallery; and there, among other
      things, he tells me of the wicked design that now is at last contriving
      against him, to get a petition presented from people that the money they
      have paid to W. Coventry for their places may be repaid them back; and
      that this is set on by Temple and Hollis of the Parliament, and, among
      other mean people in it, by Captain Tatnell: and he prays me that I will
      use some effectual way to sift Tatnell what he do, and who puts him on in
      this business, which I do undertake, and will do with all my skill for his
      service, being troubled that he is still under this difficulty. Thence up
      and down Westminster by Mrs. Burroughes her mother's shop, thinking to
      have seen her, but could not, and therefore back to White Hall, where
      great talk of the tumult at the other end of the town, about Moore-fields,
      among the 'prentices, taking the liberty of these holydays to pull down
      bawdy-houses.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [It was customary for the apprentices of the metropolis to avail
     themselves of their holidays, especially on Shrove Tuesday, to
     search after women of ill fame, and to confine them during the
     season of Lent.  See a "Satyre against Separatists," 1642.

          "Stand forth, Shrove Tuesday, one a' the silenc'st bricklayers;
          'Tis in your charge to pull down bawdy-houses."

                    Middleton's Inner Temple Masque, 1619,
                         Works, ed.  Bullen, vii., 209.]
</pre>
    <p>
      And, Lord! to see the apprehensions which this did give to all people at
      Court, that presently order was given for all the soldiers, horse and
      foot, to be in armes! and forthwith alarmes were beat by drum and trumpet
      through Westminster, and all to their colours, and to horse, as if the
      French were coming into the town! So Creed, whom I met here, and I to
      Lincolne's Inn-fields, thinking to have gone into the fields to have seen
      the 'prentices; but here we found these fields full of soldiers all in a
      body, and my Lord Craven commanding of them, and riding up and down to
      give orders, like a madman. And some young men we saw brought by soldiers
      to the Guard at White Hall, and overheard others that stood by say, that
      it was only for pulling down the bawdy-houses; and none of the bystanders
      finding fault with them, but rather of the soldiers for hindering them.
      And we heard a justice of the Peace this morning say to the King, that he
      had been endeavouring to suppress this tumult, but could not; and that,
      imprisoning some [of them] in the new prison at Clerkenwell, the rest did
      come and break open the prison and release them; and that they do give out
      that they are for pulling down the bawdy-houses, which is one of the
      greatest grievances of the nation. To which the King made a very poor,
      cold, insipid answer: "Why, why do they go to them, then?" and that was
      all, and had no mind to go on with the discourse. Mr. Creed and I to
      dinner to my Lord Crew, where little discourse, there being none but us at
      the table, and my Lord and my Lady Jemimah, and so after dinner away,
      Creed and I to White Hall, expecting a Committee of Tangier, but come too
      late. So I to attend the Council, and by and by were called in with Lord
      Brouncker and Sir W. Pen to advise how to pay away a little money to most
      advantage to the men of the yards, to make them dispatch the ships going
      out, and there did make a little speech, which was well liked, and after
      all it was found most satisfactory to the men, and best for the king's
      dispatch, that what money we had should be paid weekly to the men for
      their week's work until a greater sum could be got to pay them their
      arrears and then discharge them. But, Lord! to see what shifts and what
      cares and thoughts there was employed in this matter how to do the King's
      work and please the men and stop clamours would make a man think the King
      should not eat a bit of good meat till he has got money to pay the men,
      but I do not see the least print of care or thoughts in him about it at
      all. Having done here, I out and there met Sir Fr. Hollis, who do still
      tell me that, above all things in the world, he wishes he had my tongue in
      his mouth, meaning since my speech in Parliament. He took Lord Brouncker
      and me down to the guards, he and his company being upon the guards
      to-day; and there he did, in a handsome room to that purpose, make us
      drink, and did call for his bagpipes, which, with pipes of ebony, tipt
      with silver, he did play beyond anything of that kind that ever I heard in
      my life; and with great pains he must have obtained it, but with pains
      that the instrument do not deserve at all; for, at the best, it is mighty
      barbarous musick. So home and there to my chamber, to prick out my song,
      "It is Decreed," intending to have it ready to give Mr. Harris on
      Thursday, when we meet, for him to sing, believing that he will do it more
      right than a woman that sings better, unless it were Knepp, which I cannot
      have opportunity to teach it to. This evening I come home from White Hall
      with Sir W. Pen, who fell in talk about his going to sea this year, and
      the difficulties that arise to him by it, by giving offence to the Prince,
      and occasioning envy to him, and many other things that make it a bad
      matter, at this time of want of money and necessaries, and bad and uneven
      counsels at home,&mdash;for him to go abroad: and did tell me how much
      with the King and Duke of York he had endeavoured to be excused, desiring
      the Prince might be satisfied in it, who hath a mind to go; but he tells
      me they will not excuse him, and I believe it, and truly do judge it a
      piece of bad fortune to W. Pen.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and walked to White Hall, there to wait on the Duke of York,
      which I did: and in his chamber there, first by hearing the Duke of York
      call me by my name, my Lord Burlington did come to me, and with great
      respect take notice of me and my relation to my Lord Sandwich, and express
      great kindness to me; and so to talk of my Lord Sandwich's concernments.
      By and by the Duke of York is ready; and I did wait for an opportunity of
      speaking my mind to him about Sir J. Minnes, his being unable to do the
      King any service, which I think do become me to do in all respects, and
      have Sir W. Coventry's concurrence therein, which I therefore will seek a
      speedy opportunity to do, come what will come of it. The Duke of York and
      all with him this morning were full of the talk of the 'prentices, who are
      not yet [put] down, though the guards and militia of the town have been in
      armes all this night, and the night before; and the 'prentices have made
      fools of them, sometimes by running from them and flinging stones at them.
      Some blood hath been spilt, but a great many houses pulled down; and,
      among others, the Duke of York was mighty merry at that of Damaris Page's,
      the great bawd of the seamen; and the Duke of York complained merrily that
      he hath lost two tenants, by their houses being pulled down, who paid him
      for their wine licenses L15 a year. But here it was said how these idle
      fellows have had the confidence to say that they did ill in contenting
      themselves in pulling down the little bawdyhouses, and did not go and pull
      down the great bawdy-house at White Hall. And some of them have the last
      night had a word among them, and it was "Reformation and Reducement." This
      do make the courtiers ill at ease to see this spirit among people, though
      they think this matter will not come to much: but it speaks people's
      minds; and then they do say that there are men of understanding among
      them, that have been of Cromwell's army: but how true that is, I know not.
      Thence walked a little to Westminster, but met with nobody to spend any
      time with, and so by coach homeward, and in Seething Lane met young Mrs.
      Daniel, and I stopt, and she had been at my house, but found nobody
      within, and tells me that she drew me for her Valentine this year, so I
      took her into the coach, and was going to the other end of the town,
      thinking to have taken her abroad, but remembering that I was to go out
      with my wife this afternoon,... and so to a milliner at the corner shop
      going into Bishopsgate and Leadenhall Street, and there did give her eight
      pair of gloves, and so dismissed her, and so I home and to dinner, and
      then with my wife to the King's playhouse to see "The Storme," which we
      did, but without much pleasure, it being but a mean play compared with
      "The Tempest," at the Duke of York's house, though Knepp did act her part
      of grief very well. Thence with my wife and Deb. by coach to Islington, to
      the old house, and there eat and drank till it was almost night, and then
      home, being in fear of meeting the 'prentices, who are many of them yet,
      they say, abroad in the fields, but we got well home, and so I to my
      chamber a while, and then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up betimes to the office, where by and by my Lord Brouncker and I
      met and made an end of our business betimes. So I away with him to Mrs.
      Williams's, and there dined, and thence I alone to the Duke of York's
      house, to see the new play, called "The Man is the Master," where the
      house was, it being not above one o'clock, very full. But my wife and Deb.
      being there before, with Mrs. Pierce and Corbet and Betty Turner, whom my
      wife carried with her, they made me room; and there I sat, it costing me
      8s. upon them in oranges, at 6d. a-piece. By and by the King come; and we
      sat just under him, so that I durst not turn my back all the play. The
      play is a translation out of French, and the plot Spanish, but not
      anything extraordinary at all in it, though translated by Sir W. Davenant,
      and so I found the King and his company did think meanly of it, though
      there was here and there something pretty: but the most of the mirth was
      sorry, poor stuffe, of eating of sack posset and slabbering themselves,
      and mirth fit for clownes; the prologue but poor, and the epilogue little
      in it but the extraordinariness of it, it being sung by Harris and another
      in the form of a ballet. Thence, by agreement, we all of us to the Blue
      Balls, hard by, whither Mr. Pierce also goes with us, who met us at the
      play, and anon comes Manuel, and his wife, and Knepp, and Harris, who
      brings with him Mr. Banister, the great master of musique; and after much
      difficulty in getting of musique, we to dancing, and then to a supper of
      some French dishes, which yet did not please me, and then to dance and
      sing; and mighty merry we were till about eleven or twelve at night, with
      mighty great content in all my company, and I did, as I love to do, enjoy
      myself in my pleasure as being the height of what we take pains for and
      can hope for in this world, and therefore to be enjoyed while we are young
      and capable of these joys. My wife extraordinary fine to-day, in her
      flower tabby suit, bought a year and more ago, before my mother's death
      put her into mourning, and so not worn till this day: and every body in
      love with it; and indeed she is very fine and handsome in it. I having
      paid the reckoning, which come to almost L4., we parted: my company and
      William Batelier, who was also with us, home in a coach, round by the
      Wall, where we met so many stops by the Watches, that it cost us much time
      and some trouble, and more money, to every Watch, to them to drink; this
      being encreased by the trouble the 'prentices did lately give the City, so
      that the Militia and Watches are very strict at this time; and we had like
      to have met with a stop for all night at the Constable's watch, at
      Mooregate, by a pragmatical Constable; but we come well home at about two
      in the morning, and so to bed. This noon, from Mrs. Williams's, my Lord
      Brouncker sent to Somersett House to hear how the Duchess of Richmond do;
      and word was brought him that she is pretty well, but mighty full of the
      smallpox, by which all do conclude she will be wholly spoiled, which is
      the greatest instance of the uncertainty of beauty that could be in this
      age; but then she hath had the benefit of it to be first married, and to
      have kept it so long, under the greatest temptations in the world from a
      King, and yet without the least imputation. This afternoon, at the play,
      Sir Fr. Hollis spoke to me as a secret, and matter of confidence in me,
      and friendship to Sir W. Pen, who is now out of town, that it were well he
      were made acquainted that he finds in the House of Commons, which met this
      day, several motions made for the calling strictly again upon the
      Miscarriages, and particularly in the business of the Prises, and the not
      prosecuting of the first victory, only to give an affront to Sir W. Pen,
      whose going to sea this year do give them matter of great dislike. So
      though I do not much trouble myself for him, yet I am sorry that he should
      have this fall so unhappily without any fault, but rather merit of his own
      that made him fitter for this command than any body else, and the more for
      that this business of his may haply occasion their more eager pursuit
      against the whole body of the office.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and walked to the waterside, and thence to White Hall to the
      Duke of York's chamber, where he being ready he went to a Committee of
      Tangier, where I first understand that my Lord Sandwich is, in his coming
      back from Spayne, to step over thither, to see in what condition the place
      is, which I am glad of, hoping that he will be able to do some good there,
      for the good of the place, which is so much out of order. Thence to walk a
      little in Westminster Hall, where the Parliament I find sitting, but spoke
      with nobody to let me know what they are doing, nor did I enquire. Thence
      to the Swan and drank, and did baiser Frank, and so down by water back
      again, and to the Exchange a turn or two, only to show myself, and then
      home to dinner, where my wife and I had a small squabble, but I first this
      day tried the effect of my silence and not provoking her when she is in an
      ill humour, and do find it very good, for it prevents its coming to that
      height on both sides which used to exceed what was fit between us. So she
      become calm by and by and fond, and so took coach, and she to the mercer's
      to buy some lace, while I to White Hall, but did nothing, but then to
      Westminster Hall and took a turn, and so to Mrs. Martin's, and there did
      sit a little and talk and drink, and did hazer con her, and so took coach
      and called my wife at Unthanke's, and so up and down to the Nursery, where
      they did not act, then to the New Cockpit, and there missed, and then to
      Hide Parke, where many coaches, but the dust so great, that it was
      troublesome, and so by night home, where to my chamber and finished my
      pricking out of my song for Mr. Harris ("It is decreed"), and so a little
      supper, being very sleepy and weary since last night, and so by to o'clock
      to bed and slept well all night. This day, at noon, comes Mr. Pelling to
      me, and shews me the stone cut lately out of Sir Thomas Adams' (the old
      comely Alderman's) body, which is very large indeed, bigger I think than
      my fist, and weighs above twenty-five ounces and, which is very
      miraculous, he never in all his life had any fit of it, but lived to a
      great age without pain, and died at last of something else, without any
      sense of this in all his life. This day Creed at White Hall in discourse
      told me what information he hath had, from very good hands, of the
      cowardice and ill-government of Sir Jer. Smith and Sir Thomas Allen, and
      the repute they have both of them abroad in the Streights, from their
      deportment when they did at several times command there; and that, above
      all Englishmen that ever were there, there never was any man that behaved
      himself like poor Charles Wager, whom the very Moores do mention, with
      teares sometimes.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy, and at noon home
      to dinner with my clerks; and though my head full of business, yet I had a
      desire to end this holyday week with a play; and so, with my wife and
      Deb., to the King's house, and there saw "The Indian Emperour," a very
      good play indeed, and thence directly home, and to my writing of my
      letters, and so home to supper and to bed for fearing my eyes. Our
      greatest business at the office to-day is our want of money for the
      setting forth of these ships that are to go out, and my people at dinner
      tell me that they do verily doubt that the want of men will be so great,
      as we must press; and if we press, there will be mutinies in the town; for
      the seamen are said already to have threatened the pulling down of the
      Treasury Office; and if they do once come to that, it will not be long
      before they come to ours.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). Up, and I to Church, where I have not been these many
      weeks before, and there did first find a strange Reader, who could not
      find in the Service-book the place for churching women, but was fain to
      change books with the clerke: and then a stranger preached, a seeming able
      man; but said in his pulpit that God did a greater work in raising of an
      oake-tree from an akehorne, than a man's body raising it, at the last day,
      from his dust (shewing the possibility of the Resurrection): which was,
      methought, a strange saying. At home to dinner, whither comes and dines
      with me W. Howe, and by invitation Mr. Harris and Mr. Banister, most
      extraordinary company both, the latter for musique of all sorts, the
      former for everything: here we sang, and Banister played on the theorbo,
      and afterwards Banister played on his flageolet, and I had very good
      discourse with him about musique, so confirming some of my new notions
      about musique that it puts me upon a resolution to go on and make a scheme
      and theory of musique not yet ever made in the world. Harris do so commend
      my wife's picture of Mr. Hales's, that I shall have him draw Harris's
      head; and he hath also persuaded me to have Cooper draw my wife's, which,
      though it cost L30, yet I will have done. Thus spent the afternoon most
      deliciously, and then broke up and walked with them as far as the Temple,
      and there parted, and I took coach to Westminster, but there did nothing,
      meeting nobody that I had a mind to speak with, and so home, and there
      find Mr. Pelling, and then also comes Mrs. Turner, and supped and talked
      with us, and so to bed. I do hear by several that Sir W. Pen's going to
      sea do dislike the Parliament mightily, and that they have revived the
      Committee of Miscarriages to find something to prevent it; and that he
      being the other day with the Duke of Albemarle to ask his opinion touching
      his going to sea, the Duchess overheard and come in to him, and asks W.
      Pen how he durst have the confidence to offer to go to sea again, to the
      endangering the nation, when he knew himself such a coward as he was,
      which, if true, is very severe.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up betimes, and so to the office, there to do business till about to
      o'clock, and then out with my wife and Deb. and W. Hewer by coach to
      Common-garden Coffee-house, where by appointment I was to meet Harris;
      which I did, and also Mr. Cooper, the great painter, and Mr. Hales: and
      thence presently to Mr. Cooper's house, to see some of his work, which is
      all in little, but so excellent as, though I must confess I do think the
      colouring of the flesh to be a little forced, yet the painting is so
      extraordinary, as I do never expect to see the like again. Here I did see
      Mrs. Stewart's picture as when a young maid, and now just done before her
      having the smallpox: and it would make a man weep to see what she was
      then, and what she is like to be, by people's discourse, now. Here I saw
      my Lord Generall's picture, and my Lord Arlington and Ashly's, and several
      others; but among the rest one Swinfen, that was Secretary to my Lord
      Manchester, Lord Chamberlain, with Cooling, done so admirably as I never
      saw any thing: but the misery was, this fellow died in debt, and never
      paid Cooper for his picture; but, it being seized on by his creditors,
      among his other goods, after his death, Cooper himself says that he did
      buy it, and give L25 out of his purse for it, for what he was to have had
      but L30. Being infinitely satisfied with this sight, and resolving that my
      wife shall be drawn by him when she comes out of the country, I away with
      Harris and Hales to the Coffee-house, sending my people away, and there
      resolve for Hales to begin Harris's head for me, which I will be at the
      cost of. After a little talk, I away to White Hall and Westminster, where
      I find the Parliament still bogling about the raising of this money: and
      every body's mouth full now; and Mr. Wren himself tells me that the Duke
      of York declares to go to sea himself this year; and I perceive it is only
      on this occasion of distaste of the Parliament against W. Pen's going, and
      to prevent the Prince's: but I think it is mighty hot counsel for the Duke
      of York at this time to go out of the way; but, Lord! what a pass are all
      our matters come to! At noon by appointment to Cursitor's Alley, in
      Chancery Lane, to meet Captain Cocke and some other creditors of the Navy,
      and their Counsel, Pemberton, North, Offly, and Charles Porter; and there
      dined, and talked of the business of the assignments on the Exchequer of
      the L1,250,000 on behalf of our creditors; and there I do perceive that
      the Counsel had heard of my performance in the Parliamenthouse lately, and
      did value me and what I said accordingly. At dinner we had a great deal of
      good discourse about Parliament: their number being uncertain, and always
      at the will of the King to encrease, as he saw reason to erect a new
      borough. But all concluded that the bane of the Parliament hath been the
      leaving off the old custom of the places allowing wages to those that
      served them in Parliament, by which they chose men that understood their
      business and would attend it, and they could expect an account from, which
      now they cannot; and so the Parliament is become a company of men unable
      to give account for the interest of the place they serve for. Thence, the
      meeting of the Counsel with the King's Counsel this afternoon being put
      off by reason of the death of Serjeant Maynard's lady, I to White Hall,
      where the Parliament was to wait on the King; and they did: and it was to
      be told that he did think fit to tell them that they might expect to be
      adjourned at Whitsuntide, and that they might make haste to raise their
      money; but this, I fear, will displease them, who did expect to sit as
      long as they pleased, and whether this be done by the King upon some new
      counsel I know not, for the King must be beholding to them till they do
      settle this business of money. Great talk to-day as if Beaufort was come
      into the Channel with about 20 ships, and it makes people apprehensive,
      but yet the Parliament do not stir a bit faster in the business of money.
      Here I met with Creed, expecting a Committee of Tangier, but the Committee
      met not, so he and I up and down, having nothing to do, and particularly
      to the New Cockpit by the King's Gate in Holborne, but seeing a great deal
      of rabble we did refuse to go in, but took coach and to Hide Park, and
      there till all the tour was empty, and so he and I to the Lodge in the
      Park, and there eat and drank till it was night, and then carried him to
      White Hall, having had abundance of excellent talk with him in reproach of
      the times and managements we live under, and so I home, and there to talk
      and to supper with my wife, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up pretty betimes and to the office, where we sat all the morning,
      and at noon I home to dinner, where uncle Thomas dined with me, as he do
      every quarter, and I paid him his pension; and also comes Mr. Hollier a
      little fuddled, and so did talk nothing but Latin, and laugh, that it was
      very good sport to see a sober man in such a humour, though he was not
      drunk to scandal. At dinner comes a summons for this office and the
      Victualler to attend a Committee of Parliament this afternoon, with Sir D.
      Gawden, which I accordingly did, with my papers relating to the sending of
      victuals to Sir John Harman's fleete; and there, Sir R. Brookes in the
      chair, we did give them a full account, but, Lord! to see how full they
      are and immoveable in their jealousy that some means are used to keep
      Harman from coming home, for they have an implacable desire to know the
      bottom of the not improving the first victory, and would lay it upon
      Brouncker. Having given them good satisfaction I away thence, up and down,
      wanting a little to see whether I could get Mrs. Burroughes out, but elle
      being in the shop ego did speak con her much, she could not then go far,
      and so I took coach and away to Unthanke's, and there took up my wife and
      Deb., and to the Park, where, being in a hackney, and they undressed, was
      ashamed to go into the tour, but went round the park, and so with pleasure
      home, where Mr. Pelting come and sat and talked late with us, and he being
      gone, I called Deb. to take pen, ink, and paper and write down what things
      come into my head for my wife to do in order to her going into the
      country, and the girl, writing not so well as she would do, cried, and her
      mistress construed it to be sullenness, and so away angry with her too,
      but going to bed she undressed me, and there I did give her good advice
      and baiser la, elle weeping still.
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    <p>
      April 1st. Up, and to dress myself, and call as I use Deb. to brush and
      dress me..., and I to my office, where busy till noon, and then out to
      bespeak some things against my wife's going into the country to-morrow,
      and so home to dinner, my wife and I alone, she being mighty busy getting
      her things ready for her journey, I all the afternoon with her looking
      after things on the same account, and then in the afternoon out and all
      alone to the King's house, and there sat in an upper box, to hide myself,
      and saw "The Black Prince," a very good play; but only the fancy, most of
      it, the same as in the rest of my Lord Orrery's plays; but the dance very
      stately; but it was pretty to see how coming after dinner and with no
      company with me to talk to, and at a play that I had seen, and went to now
      not for curiosity but only idleness, I did fall asleep the former part of
      the play, but afterward did mind it and like it very well. Thence called
      at my bookseller's, and took Mr. Boyle's Book of Formes, newly reprinted,
      and sent my brother my old one. So home, and there to my chamber till anon
      comes Mr. Turner and his wife and daughter, and Pelting, to sup with us
      and talk of my wife's journey to-morrow, her daughter going with my wife;
      and after supper to talk with her husband about the Office, and his place,
      which, by Sir J. Minnes's age and inability, is very uncomfortable to him,
      as well as without profit, or certainty what he shall do, when Sir J.
      Minnes dies, which is a sad condition for a man that hath lived so long in
      the Office as Mr. Turner hath done. But he aymes, and I advise him to it,
      to look for Mr. Ackworth's place, in case he should be removed. His wife
      afterwards did take me into my closet, and give me a cellar
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     quickly"
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      of waters of her own distilling for my father, to be carried down with my
      wife and her daughter to-morrow, which was very handsome. So broke up and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, after much pleasant talk with my wife, and upon some alterations
      I will make in my house in her absence, and I do intend to lay out some
      money thereon. So she and I up, and she got her ready to be gone, and by
      and by comes Betty Turner and her mother, and W. Batelier, and they and
      Deb., to whom I did give 10s. this morning, to oblige her to please her
      mistress (and ego did baiser her mouche), and also Jane, and so in two
      coaches set out about eight o'clock towards the carrier, there for to take
      coach for my father's, that is to say, my wife and Betty Turner, Deb., and
      Jane; but I meeting my Lord Anglesey going to the Office, was forced to
      'light in Cheapside, and there took my leave of them (not baisado Deb.,
      which je had a great mind to), left them to go to their coach, and I to
      the office, where all the morning busy, and so at noon with my other
      clerks (W. Hewer being a day's journey with my wife) to dinner, where Mr.
      Pierce come and dined with me, and then with Lord Brouncker (carrying his
      little kinswoman on my knee, his coach being full), to the Temple, where
      my Lord and I 'light and to Mr. Porter's chamber, where Cocke and his
      counsel, and so to the attorney's, whither the Sollicitor-Generall come,
      and there, their cause about their assignments on the L1,250,000 Act was
      argued, where all that was to be said for them was said, and so answered
      by the Sollicitor-Generall beyond what I expected, that I said not one
      word all my time, rather choosing to hold my tongue, and so mind my
      reputation with the Sollicitor-Generall, who did mightily approve of my
      speech in Parliament, than say anything against him to no purpose. This I
      believe did trouble Cocke and these gentlemen, but I do think this best
      for me, and so I do think that the business will go against them, though
      it is against my judgment, and I am sure against all justice to the men to
      be invited to part with their goods and be deceived afterward of their
      security for payment. Thence with Lord Brouncker to the Royall Society,
      where they were just done; but there I was forced to subscribe to the
      building of a College, and did give L40; and several others did subscribe,
      some greater and some less sums; but several I saw hang off: and I doubt
      it will spoil the Society, for it breeds faction and ill-will, and becomes
      burdensome to some that cannot, or would not, do it. Here, to my great
      content, I did try the use of the Otacousticon,&mdash;[Ear trumpet.]&mdash;which
      was only a great glass bottle broke at the bottom, putting the neck to my
      eare, and there I did plainly hear the dashing of the oares of the boats
      in the Thames to Arundell gallery window, which, without it, I could not
      in the least do, and may, I believe, be improved to a great height, which
      I am mighty glad of. Thence with Lord Brouncker and several of them to the
      King's Head Taverne by Chancery Lane, and there did drink and eat and
      talk, and, above the rest, I did hear of Mr. Hooke and my Lord an account
      of the reason of concords and discords in musique, which they say is from
      the equality of vibrations; but I am not satisfied in it, but will at my
      leisure think of it more, and see how far that do go to explain it. So
      late at night home with Mr. Colwell, and parted, and I to the office, and
      then to Sir W. Pen to confer with him, and Sir R. Ford and Young, about
      our St. John Baptist prize, and so home, without more supper to bed, my
      family being now little by the departure of my wife and two maids.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and Captain Perryman come to me to tell me how Tatnell told him
      that this day one How is to charge me before the Commissioners of Prizes
      to the value of L8000 in prizes, which I was troubled to hear, so fearful
      I am, though I know that there is not a penny to be laid to my charge that
      I dare not own, or that I have not owned under my hand, but upon
      recollection it signifies nothing to me, and so I value it not, being sure
      that I can have nothing in the world to my hurt known from the business.
      So to the office, where all the morning to despatch business, and so home
      to dinner with my clerks, whose company is of great pleasure to me for
      their good discourse in any thing of the navy I have a mind to talk of.
      After dinner by water from the Tower to White Hall, there to attend the
      Duke of York as usual, and particularly in a fresh complaint the
      Commissioners of the Treasury do make to him, and by and by to the Council
      this day of our having prepared certificates on the Exchequer to the
      further sum of near L50,000, and soon as we had done with the Duke of York
      we did attend the Council; and were there called in, and did hear Mr.
      Sollicitor [General] make his Report to the Council in the business; which
      he did in a most excellent manner of words, but most cruelly severe
      against us, and so were some of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury,
      as men guilty of a practice with the tradesmen, to the King's prejudice. I
      was unwilling to enter into a contest with them; but took advantage of two
      or three words last spoke, and brought it to a short issue in good words,
      that if we had the King's order to hold our hands, we would, which did end
      the matter: and they all resolved we should have it, and so it ended: and
      so we away; I vexed that I did not speak more in a cause so fit to be
      spoke in, and wherein we had so much advantage; but perhaps I might have
      provoked the Sollicitor and the Commissioners of the Treasury, and
      therefore, since, I am not sorry that I forbore. Thence my Lord Brouncker
      and I to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw the latter part of
      "The Master and the Man," and thence by coach to Duck Lane, to look out
      for Marsanne, in French, a man that has wrote well of musique, but it is
      not to be had, but I have given order for its being sent for over, and I
      did here buy Des Cartes his little treatise of musique, and so home, and
      there to read a little, and eat a little, though I find that my having so
      little taste do make me so far neglect eating that, unless company invite,
      I do not love to spend time upon eating, and so bring emptiness and the
      Cholique. So to bed. This day I hear that Prince Rupert and Holmes do go
      to sea: and by this there is a seeming friendship and peace among our
      great seamen; but the devil a bit is there any love among them, or can be.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up betimes, and by coach towards White Hall, and took Aldgate Street
      in my way, and there called upon one Hayward, that makes virginalls, and
      did there like of a little espinette, and will have him finish it for me;
      for I had a mind to a small harpsichon, but this takes up less room, and
      will do my business as to finding out of chords, and I am very well
      pleased that I have found it. Thence to White Hall, and after long waiting
      did get a small running Committee of Tangier, where I staid but little,
      and little done but the correcting two or three egregious faults in the
      Charter for Tangier after it had so long lain before the Council and been
      passed there and drawn up by the Atturney Generall, so slightly are all
      things in this age done. Thence home to the office by water, where we sat
      till noon, and then I moved we might go to the Duke of York and the King
      presently to get out their order in writing that was ordered us yesterday
      about the business of certificates, that we might be secure against the
      tradesmen who (Sir John Banks by name) have told me this day that they
      will complain in Parliament against us for denying to do them right. So we
      rose of a sudden, being mighty sensible of this inconvenience we are
      liable to should we delay to give them longer, and yet have no order for
      our indemnity. I did dine with Sir W. Pen, where my Lady Batten did come
      with desire of meeting me there, and speaking with me about the business
      of the L500 we demand of her for the Chest. She do protest, before God,
      she never did see the account, but that it was as her husband in his
      life-time made it, and he did often declare to her his expecting L500, and
      that we could not deny it him for his pains in that business, and that he
      hath left her worth nothing of his own in the world, and that therefore
      she could pay nothing of it, come what will come, but that he hath left
      her a beggar, which I am sorry truly for, though it is a just judgment
      upon people that do live so much beyond themselves in housekeeping and
      vanity, as they did. I did give her little answer, but generally words
      that might not trouble her, and so to dinner, and after dinner Sir W. Pen
      and I away by water to White Hall, and there did attend the Duke of York,
      and he did carry us to the King's lodgings: but he was asleep in his
      closet; so we stayed in the Green-Roome, where the Duke of York did tell
      us what rules he had, of knowing the weather, and did now tell us we
      should have rain before to-morrow, it having been a dry season for some
      time, and so it did rain all night almost; and pretty rules he hath, and
      told Brouncker and me some of them, which were such as no reason seems
      ready to be given. By and by the King comes out, and he did easily agree
      to what we moved, and would have the Commissioners of the Navy to meet us
      with him to-morrow morning: and then to talk of other things; about the
      Quakers not swearing, and how they do swear in the business of a late
      election of a Knight of the Shire of Hartfordshire in behalf of one they
      have a mind to have; and how my Lord of Pembroke says he hath heard him
      (the Quaker) at the tennis-court swear to himself when he loses: and told
      us what pretty notions my Lord Pembroke hath of the first chapter of
      Genesis, how Adam's sin was not the sucking (which he did before) but the
      swallowing of the apple, by which the contrary elements begun to work in
      him, and to stir up these passions, and a great deal of such fooleries,
      which the King made mighty mockery at. Thence my Lord Brouncker and I into
      the Park in his coach, and there took a great deal of ayre, saving that it
      was mighty dusty, and so a little unpleasant. Thence to Common Garden with
      my Lord, and there I took a hackney and home, and after having done a few
      letters at the office, I home to a little supper and so to bed, my eyes
      being every day more and more weak and apt to be tired.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, and there to the writing fair
      some of my late musique notions, and so to church, where I have not been a
      good while, and thence home, and dined at home, with W. Hewer with me; and
      after dinner, he and I a great deal of good talk touching this Office, how
      it is spoiled by having so many persons in it, and so much work that is
      not made the work of any one man, but of all, and so is never done; and
      that the best way to have it well done, were to have the whole trust in
      one, as myself, to set whom I pleased to work in the several businesses of
      the Office, and me to be accountable for the whole, and that would do it,
      as I would find instruments: but this is not to be compassed; but
      something I am resolved to do about Sir J. Minnes before it be long. Then
      to my chamber again, to my musique, and so to church; and then home, and
      thither comes Captain Silas Taylor to me, the Storekeeper of Harwich,
      where much talk, and most of it against Captain Deane, whom I do believe
      to be a high, proud fellow; but he is an active man, and able in his way,
      and so I love him. He gone, I to my musique again, and to read a little,
      and to sing with Mr. Pelling, who come to see me, and so spent the
      evening, and then to supper and to bed. I hear that eight of the
      ringleaders in the late tumults of the 'prentices at Easter are condemned
      to die.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Four were executed on May 9th, namely, Thomas Limmerick, Edward
     Cotton, Peter Massenger, and Richard Beasley.  They were drawn,
     hanged, and quartered at Tyburn, and two of their heads fixed upon
     London Bridge ("The London Gazette," No. 259).  See "The Tryals of
     such persons as under the notion of London Apprentices were
     tumultuously assembled in Moore Fields, under colour of pulling down
     bawdy-houses," 4to., London, 1668.  "It is to be observed," says
     "The London Gazette,"  "to the just vindication of the City, that
     none of the persons apprehended upon the said tumult were found to
     be apprentices, as was given out, but some idle persons, many of
     them nursed in the late Rebellion, too readily embracing any
     opportunity of making their own advantages to the disturbance of the
     peace, and injury of others."]
</pre>
    <p>
      6th. Betimes I to Alderman Backewell, and with him to my Lord Ashly's,
      where did a little business about Tangier, and to talk about the business
      of certificates, wherein, contrary to what could be believed, the King and
      Duke of York themselves, in my absence, did call for some of the
      Commissioners of the Treasury, and give them directions about the business
      [of the certificates], which I, despairing to do any thing on a Sunday,
      and not thinking that they would think of it themselves, did rest
      satisfied, and stayed at home all yesterday, leaving it to do something in
      this day; but I find that the King and Duke of York had been so pressing
      in it, that my Lord Ashly was more forward with the doing of it this day,
      than I could have been. And so I to White Hall with Alderman Backewell in
      his coach, with Mr. Blany; my Lord's Secretary: and there did draw up a
      rough draught of what order I would have, and did carry it in, and had it
      read twice and approved of, before my Lord Ashly and three more of the
      Commissioners of the Treasury, and then went up to the Council-chamber,
      where the Duke of York, and Prince Rupert, and the rest of the Committee
      of the Navy were sitting: and I did get some of them to read it there: and
      they would have had it passed presently, but Sir John Nicholas desired
      they would first have it approved by a full Council: and, therefore, a
      Council Extraordinary was readily summoned against the afternoon, and the
      Duke of York run presently to the King, as if now they were really set to
      mind their business, which God grant! So I thence to Westminster, and
      walked in the Hall and up and down, the House being called over to-day,
      and little news, but some talk as if the agreement between France and
      Spain were like to be, which would be bad for us, and at noon with Sir
      Herbert Price to Mr. George Montagu's to dinner, being invited by him in
      the hall, and there mightily made of, even to great trouble to me to be so
      commended before my face, with that flattery and importunity, that I was
      quite troubled with it. Yet he is a fine gentleman, truly, and his lady a
      fine woman; and, among many sons that I saw there, there was a little
      daughter that is mighty pretty, of which he is infinite fond: and, after
      dinner, did make her play on the gittar and sing, which she did mighty
      prettily, and seems to have a mighty musical soul, keeping time with most
      excellent spirit. Here I met with Mr. Brownlow, my old schoolfellow, who
      come thither, I suppose, as a suitor to one of the young ladies that were
      there, and a sober man he seems to be. But here Mr. Montagu did tell me
      how Mr. Vaughan, in that very room, did say that I was a great man, and
      had great understanding, and I know not what, which, I confess, I was a
      little proud of, if I may believe him. Here I do hear, as a great secret,
      that the King, and Duke of York and Duchesse, and my Lady Castlemayne, are
      now all agreed in a strict league, and all things like to go very current,
      and that it is not impossible to have my Lord Clarendon, in time, here
      again. But I do hear that my Lady Castlemayne is horribly vexed at the
      late libell,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["The Poor Whores' Petition to the most splendid, illustrious,
     serene and eminent Lady of Pleasure the Countess of Castlemayne,
     &amp;c., signed by us, Madam Cresswell and Damaris Page, this present
     25th day of March, 1668."  This sham petition occasioned a pretended
     answer, entitled, "The Gracious Answer of the Most Illustrious Lady
     of Pleasure, the Countess of Castlem....  to the Poor Whores'
     Petition."  It is signed, "Given at our Closset, in King Street,
     Westminster, die Veneris, April 24, 1668.  Castlem...."
     Compare Evelyn, April 2nd, 1668.]
</pre>
    <p>
      the petition of the poor whores about the town, whose houses were pulled
      down the other day. I have got one of them, but it is not very witty, but
      devilish severe against her and the King and I wonder how it durst be
      printed and spread abroad, which shews that the times are loose, and come
      to a great disregard of the King, or Court, or Government. Thence I to
      White Hall to attend the Council, and when the Council rose we find my
      order mightily enlarged by the Sollicitor Generall, who was called
      thither, making it more safe for him and the Council, but their order is
      the same in the command of it that I drew, and will I think defend us
      well. So thence, meeting Creed, he and I to the new Cocke-pitt by the
      King's gate, and there saw the manner of it, and the mixed rabble of
      people that come thither; and saw two battles of cocks, wherein is no
      great sport, but only to consider how these creatures, without any
      provocation, do fight and kill one another, and aim only at one another's
      heads, and by their good will not leave till one of them be killed; and
      thence to the Park in a hackney coach, so would not go into the tour, but
      round about the Park, and to the House, and there at the door eat and
      drank; whither come my Lady Kerneagy, of whom Creed tells me more
      particulars; how her Lord, finding her and the Duke of York at the King's
      first coming in too kind, did get it out of her that he did dishonour him,
      and so bid her continue..., which is the most pernicious and full piece of
      revenge that ever I heard of; and he at this day owns it with great glory,
      and looks upon the Duke of York and the world with great content in the
      ampleness of his revenge. Thence (where the place was now by the last
      night's rain very pleasant, and no dust) to White Hall, and set Creed
      down, and I home and to my chamber, and there about my musique notions
      again, wherein I take delight and find great satisfaction in them, and so,
      after a little supper, to bed. This day, in the afternoon, stepping with
      the Duke of York into St. James's Park, it rained: and I was forced to
      lend the Duke of York my cloak, which he wore through the Park.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and at the office all the morning, where great hurry to be made
      in the fitting forth of this present little fleet, but so many rubs by
      reason of want of money, and people's not believing us in cases where we
      had money unless (which in several cases, as in hiring of vessels, cannot
      be) they be paid beforehand, that every thing goes backward instead of
      forward. At noon comes Mr. Clerke, my solicitor, and the Auditor's men
      with my account drawn up in the Exchequer way with their queries, which
      are neither many nor great, or hard to answer upon it, and so dined with
      me, and then I by coach to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The
      English Monsieur;"' sitting for privacy sake in an upper box: the play
      hath much mirth in it as to that particular humour. After the play done, I
      down to Knipp, and did stay her undressing herself; and there saw the
      several players, men and women go by; and pretty to see how strange they
      are all, one to another, after the play is done. Here I saw a wonderful
      pretty maid of her own, that come to undress her, and one so pretty that
      she says she intends not to keep her, for fear of her being undone in her
      service, by coming to the playhouse. Here I hear Sir W. Davenant is just
      now dead; and so who will succeed him in the mastership of the house is
      not yet known. The eldest Davenport is, it seems, gone from this house to
      be kept by somebody; which I am glad of, she being a very bad actor. I
      took her then up into a coach and away to the Park, which is now very fine
      after some rain, but the company was going away most, and so I took her to
      the Lodge, and there treated her and had a deal of good talk, and now and
      then did baiser la, and that was all, and that as much or more than I had
      much mind to because of her paint. She tells me mighty news, that my Lady
      Castlemayne is mightily in love with Hart of their house: and he is much
      with her in private, and she goes to him, and do give him many presents;
      and that the thing is most certain, and Becke Marshall only privy to it,
      and the means of bringing them together, which is a very odd thing; and by
      this means she is even with the King's love to Mrs. Davis. This done, I
      carried her and set her down at Mrs. Manuel's, but stayed not there
      myself, nor went in; but straight home, and there to my letters, and so
      home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and at my office all the morning, doing business, and then at
      noon home to dinner all alone. Then to White Hall with Sir J. Minnes in
      his coach to attend the Duke of York upon our usual business, which was
      this day but little, and thence with Lord Brouncker to the Duke of York's
      playhouse, where we saw "The Unfortunate Lovers," no extraordinary play,
      methinks, and thence I to Drumbleby's, and there did talk a great deal
      about pipes; and did buy a recorder, which I do intend to learn to play
      on, the sound of it being, of all sounds in the world, most pleasing to
      me. Thence home, and to visit Mrs. Turner, where among other talk, Mr.
      Foly and her husband being there, she did tell me of young Captain
      Holmes's marrying of Pegg Lowther last Saturday by stealth, which I was
      sorry for, he being an idle rascal, and proud, and worth little, I doubt;
      and she a mighty pretty, well-disposed lady, and good fortune. Her mother
      and friends take on mightily; but the sport is, Sir Robert Holmes do seem
      to be mad too with his brother, and will disinherit him, saying that he
      hath ruined himself, marrying below himself, and to his disadvantage;
      whereas, I said, in this company, that I had married a sister lately, with
      little above half that portion, that he should have kissed her breech
      before he should have had her, which, if R. Holmes should hear, would make
      a great quarrel; but it is true I am heartily sorry for the poor girl that
      is undone by it. So home to my chamber, to be fingering of my Recorder,
      and getting of the scale of musique without book, which I at last see is
      necessary for a man that would understand musique, as it is now taught to
      understand, though it be a ridiculous and troublesome way, and I know I
      shall be able hereafter to show the world a simpler way; but, like the old
      hypotheses in philosophy, it must be learned, though a man knows a better.
      Then to supper, and to bed. This morning Mr. Christopher Pett's widow and
      daughter come to me, to desire my help to the King and Duke of York, and I
      did promise, and do pity her.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning sitting, then at noon
      home to dinner with my people, and so to the office again writing of my
      letters, and then abroad to my bookseller's, and up and down to the Duke
      of York's playhouse, there to see, which I did, Sir W. Davenant's corpse
      carried out towards Westminster, there to be buried. Here were many
      coaches and six horses, and many hacknies, that made it look, methought,
      as if it were the buriall of a poor poet. He seemed to have many children,
      by five or six in the first mourning-coach, all boys. And there I left
      them coming forth, and I to the New Exchange, there to meet Mrs.
      Burroughs, and did take her in a carosse and carry elle towards the Park,
      kissing her..., but did not go into any house, but come back and set her
      down at White Hall, and did give her wrapt in paper for my Valentine's
      gift for the last year before this, which I never did yet give her
      anything for, twelve half-crowns, and so back home and there to my office,
      where come a packet from the Downes from my brother Balty, who, with
      Harman, is arrived there, of which this day come the first news. And now
      the Parliament will be satisfied, I suppose, about the business they have
      so long desired between Brouncker and Harman about not prosecuting the
      first victory. Balty is very well, and I hope hath performed his work
      well, that I may get him into future employment. I wrote to him this
      night, and so home, and there to the perfecting my getting the scale of
      musique without book, which I have done to perfection backward and
      forward, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Friday) All the morning at Office. At noon with W. Pen to Duke of
      York, and attended Council. So to piper and Duck Lane, and there kissed
      bookseller's wife, and bought Legend. So home, coach. Sailor. Mrs. Hannam
      dead. News of Peace. Conning my gamut.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The entries from April 10th to April 19th are transcribed from
     three leaves (six pages) of rough notes, which are inserted in the
     MS. The rough notes were made to serve for a sort of account book,
     but the amounts paid are often not registered in the fair copy when
     he came to transcribe his notes into the Diary.]
</pre>
    <p>
      12th (Sunday). Dined at Brouncker's, and saw the new book. Peace. Cutting
      away sails.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Monday). Spent at Michel's 6d.; in the Folly, 1s.;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Folly was a floating house of entertainment on the Thames,
     which at this time was a fashionable resort.]
</pre>
    <p>
      oysters, 1s.; coach to W. Coventry about Mrs. Pett, 1s.; thence to
      Commissioners of Treasury, and so to Westminster Hall by water, 6d. With
      G. Montagu and Roger Pepys, and spoke with Birch and Vaughan, all in
      trouble about the prize business. So to Lord Crew's (calling for a low
      pipe by the way), where Creed and G. M. and G. C. come, 1s. So with Creed
      to a play. Little laugh, 4s. Thence towards the Park by coach, 2s. 6d.
      Come home, met with order of Commissioners of Accounts, which put together
      with the rest vexed me, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Tuesday). Up betimes by water to the Temple. In the way read the
      Narrative about prizes; and so to Lord Crew's bedside, and then to
      Westminster, where I hear Pen is, and sent for by messenger last night.
      Thence to Commissioners of Accounts and there examined, and so back to
      Westminster Hall, where all the talk of committing all to the Tower, and
      Creed and I to the Quaker's, dined together. Thence to the House, where
      rose about four o'clock; and, with much ado, Pen got to Thursday to bring
      in his answer; so my Lord escapes to-day. Thence with Godage and G.
      Montagu to G. Carteret's, and there sat their dinner-time: and hear
      myself, by many Parliament-men, mightily commended. Thence to a play,
      "Love's Cruelty," and so to my Lord Crew's, who glad of this day's time
      got, and so home, and there office, and then home to supper and to bed, my
      eyes being the better upon leaving drinking at night. Water, 1s. Porter,
      6d. Water, 6d. Dinner, 3s. 6d. Play part, 2s. Oranges, 1s. Home coach, 1s.
      6d.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. After playing a little upon my new little flageolet, that is so soft
      that pleases me mightily, betimes to my office, where most of the morning.
      Then by coach, 1s., and meeting Lord Brouncker, 'light at the Exchange,
      and thence by water to White Hall, 1s., and there to the Chapel, expecting
      wind musick and to the Harp-and-Ball, and drank all alone, 2d. Back, and
      to the fiddling concert, and heard a practice mighty good of Grebus, and
      thence to Westminster Hall, where all cry out that the House will be
      severe with Pen; but do hope well concerning the buyers, that we shall
      have no difficulty, which God grant! Here met Creed, and, about noon, he
      and I, and Sir P. Neale to the Quaker's, and there dined with a silly
      Executor of Bishop Juxon's, and cozen Roger Pepys. Business of money goes
      on slowly in the House. Thence to White Hall by water, and there with the
      Duke of York a little, but stayed not, but saw him and his lady at his
      little pretty chapel, where I never was before: but silly devotion, God
      knows! Thence I left Creed, and to the King's playhouse, into a corner of
      the 18d. box, and there saw "The Maid's Tragedy," a good play. Coach, 1s.:
      play and oranges, 2s. 6d. Creed come, dropping presently here, but he did
      not see me, and come to the same place, nor would I be seen by him. Thence
      to my Lord Crew's, and there he come also after, and there with Sir T.
      Crew bemoaning my Lord's folly in leaving his old interest, by which he
      hath now lost all. An ill discourse in the morning of my Lord's being
      killed, but this evening Godolphin tells us here that my Lord is well.
      Thence with Creed to the Cock ale-house, and there spent 6d., and so by
      coach home, 2s. 6d., and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Th[ursday]. Greeting's book, is. Begun this day to learn the
      Recorder. To the office, where all the morning. Dined with my clerks: and
      merry at Sir W. Pen's crying yesterday, as they say, to the King, that he
      was his martyr. So to White Hall by coach to Commissioners of [the]
      Treasury about certificates, but they met not, 2s. To Westminster by
      water. To Westminster Hall, where I hear W. Pen is ordered to be
      impeached, 6d. There spoke with many, and particularly with G. Montagu:
      and went with him and Creed to his house, where he told how W. Pen hath
      been severe to Lord Sandwich; but the Coventrys both labouring to save
      him, by laying it on Lord Sandwich, which our friends cry out upon, and I
      am silent, but do believe they did it as the only way to save him. It
      could not be carried to commit him. It is thought the House do coole: W.
      Coventry's being for him, provoked Sir R. Howard and his party; Court, all
      for W. Pen. Thence to White Hall, but no meeting of the Commissioners, and
      there met Mr. Hunt, and thence to Mrs. Martin's, and, there did what I
      would, she troubled for want of employ for her husband, spent on her 1s.
      Thence to the Hall to walk awhile and ribbon, spent is. So [to] Lord
      Crew's, and there with G. Carteret and my Lord to talk, and they look upon
      our matters much the better, and by this and that time is got, 1s. So to
      the Temple late, and by water, by moonshine, home, 1s. Cooks, 6d. Wrote my
      letters to my Lady Sandwich, and so home, where displeased to have my maid
      bring her brother, a countryman, to lye there, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Friday). Called up by Balty's coming, who gives me a good account of
      his voyage, and pleases me well, and I hope hath got something. This
      morning paid the Royall Society L1 6s., and so to the office all the
      morning. At noon home to dinner with my people, and there much pretty
      discourse of Balty's. So by coach to White Hall: the coachman on Ludgate
      Hill 'lighted, and beat a fellow with a sword, 2s. 6d. Did little business
      with the Duke of York. Hear that the House is upon the business of Harman,
      who, they say, takes all on himself. Thence, with Brouncker, to the King's
      house, and saw "The Surprizall," where base singing, only Knepp,' who
      come, after her song in the clouds, to me in the pit, and there, oranges,
      2s. After the play, she, and I, and Rolt, by coach, 6s. 6d., to
      Kensington, and there to the Grotto, and had admirable pleasure with their
      singing, and fine ladies listening to us: with infinite pleasure, I
      enjoyed myself: so to the tavern there, and did spend 16s. 6d., and the
      gardener 2s. Mighty merry, and sang all the way to the town, a most
      pleasant evening, moonshine, and set them at her house in Covent Garden,
      and I home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Saturday). Up, and my bookseller brought home books, bound&mdash;the
      binding comes to 17s. Advanced to my maid Bridget L1. Sir W. Pen at the
      Office, seemingly merry. Do hear this morning that Harman is committed by
      the Parliament last night, the day he come up, which is hard; but he took
      all upon himself first, and then when a witness come in to say otherwise,
      he would have retracted; and the House took it so ill, they would commit
      him. Thence home to dinner with my clerks, and so to White Hall by water,
      1s., and there a short Committee for Tangier, and so I to the King's
      playhouse, 1s., and to the play of the "Duke of Lerma," 2s. 6d., and
      oranges, 1s. Thence by coach to Westminster, 1s., and the House just up,
      having been about money business, 1s. So home by coach, 3s., calling in
      Duck Lane, and did get Des Cartes' Musique in English,' and so home and
      wrote my letters, and then to my chamber to save my eyes, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Sunday). Lay long. Roger Pepys and his son come, and to Church with
      me, where W. Pen was, and did endeavour to shew himself to the Church.
      Then home to dinner, and Roger Pepys did tell me the whole story of
      Harman, how he prevaricated, and hath undoubtedly been imposed on, and
      wheedled; and he is called the miller's man that, in Richard the Third's
      time, was hanged for his master.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The story alluded to by Pepys, which belongs not to the reign of
     Richard III., but to that of Edward VI., occurred during a seditious
     outbreak at Bodmin, in Cornwall, and is thus related by Holinshed:
     "At the same time, and neare the same place [Bodmin], dwelled a
     miller, that had beene a greate dooer in that rebellion, for whom
     also Sir Anthonie Kingston sought: but the miller being thereof
     warned, called a good tall fellow that he had to his servant, and
     said unto him, 'I have business to go from home; if anie therefore
     come to ask for me, saie thou art the owner of the mill, and the man
     for whom they shall so aske, and that thou hast kept this mill for
     the space of three yeares; but in no wise name me.'  The servant
     promised his maister so to doo.  And shortlie after, came Sir
     Anthonie Kingston to the miller's house, and calling for the miller,
     the servant came forth, and answered that he was the miller.  'How
     long,' quoth Sir Anthonie, 'hast thou kept this mill?' He answered,
     'Three years.'&mdash;'Well, then,' said he, 'come on: thou must go with
     me;' and caused his men to laie hands on him, and to bring him to
     the next tree, saieing to him, 'Thou hast been a busie knave, and
     therefore here shalt thou hang.'  Then cried the fellow out, and
     saide that he was not the miller, but the miller's man.  'Well,
     then,' said Sir Anthonie, 'thou art a false knave to be in two
     tales: therefore,' said he, 'hang him up;' and so incontinentlie
     hanged he was indeed.  After he was dead, one that was present told
     Sir Anthonie, 'Surelie, sir, this was but the miller's man.'&mdash;'What
     then!' said he, 'could he ever have done his maister better service
     than to hang for him?'"&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      So after dinner I took them by water to White Hall, taking in a very
      pretty woman at Paul's Wharf, and there landed we, and I left Roger Pepys
      and to St. Margaret's Church, and there saw Betty, and so to walk in the
      Abbey with Sir John Talbot, who would fain have pumped me about the
      prizes, but I would not let him, and so to walk towards Michell's to see
      her, but could not, and so to Martin's, and her husband was at home, and
      so took coach and to the Park, and thence home and to bed betimes. Water
      1s., coach 5s. Balty borrowed L2.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up betimes and to the getting ready my answer to the Committee of
      Accounts to several questions, which makes me trouble, though I know of no
      blame due to me from any, let them enquire what they can out.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The first part of the entry for April 20th is among the rough
     notes, and stands as follows:  "Monday 20.  Up and busy about answer
     to Committee of Accounts this morning about several questions which
     vexed me though in none I have reason to be troubled.  But the
     business of The Flying Greyhound begins to find me some care, though
     in that I am wholly void of blame."  This may be compared with the
     text.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I to White Hall, and there hear how Henry Brouncker is fled, which, I
      think, will undo him: but what good it will do Harman I know not, he hath
      so befooled himself; but it will be good sport to my Lord Chancellor to
      hear how his great enemy is fain to take the same course that he is. There
      met Robinson, who tells me that he fears his master, W. Coventry, will
      this week have his business brought upon the stage again, about selling of
      places, which I shall be sorry for, though the less, since I hear his
      standing for Pen the other day, to the prejudice, though not to the wrong,
      of my Lord Sandwich; and yet I do think what he did, he did out of a
      principle of honesty. Thence to Committee of Accounts, and delivered my
      paper, and had little discourse, and was unwilling to stay long with them
      to enter into much, but away and glad to be from them, though very civil
      to me, but cunning and close I see they are. So to Westminster Hall, and
      there find the Parliament upon the Irish business, where going into the
      Speaker's chamber I did hear how plainly one lawyer of counsel for the
      complainants did inveigh by name against all the late Commissioners there.
      Thence with Creed, thinking, but failed, of dining with Lord Crew, and so
      he and I to Hercules Pillars, and there dined, and thence home by coach,
      and so with Jack Fenn to the Chamberlain of London to look after the state
      of some Navy assignments that are in his hands, and thence away, and
      meeting Sir William Hooker, the Alderman, he did cry out mighty high
      against Sir W. Pen for his getting such an estate, and giving L15,000 with
      his daughter, which is more, by half, than ever he did give; but this the
      world believes, and so let them. Thence took coach and I all alone to Hyde
      Park (passing through Duck Lane among the booksellers, only to get a sight
      of the pretty little woman I did salute the other night, and did in
      passing), and so all the evening in the Park, being a little unwilling to
      be seen there, and at night home, and thereto W. Pen's and sat and talked
      there with his wife and children a good while, he being busy in his
      closet, I believe preparing his defence in Parliament, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and at the office all the morning, at noon dined at home, and
      thence took Mrs. Turner out and carried her to the King's house, and saw
      "The Indian Emperour;" and after that done, took Knepp out, and to
      Kensington; and there walked in the garden, and then supped, and mighty
      merry, there being also in the house Sir Philip Howard, and some company,
      and had a dear reckoning, but merry, and away, it being quite night, home,
      and dark, about 9 o'clock or more, and in my coming had the opportunity
      the first time in my life to be bold with Knepp..., and so left her at
      home, and so Mrs. Turner and I home to my letters and to bed. Here hear
      how Sir W. Pen's impeachment was read, and agreed to, in the House this
      day, and ordered to be engrossed; and he suspended the House&mdash;[From
      sitting as a member pending the impeachment.-B.]&mdash;Harman set at
      liberty; and Brouncker put out of the House, and a writ for a new
      election, and an impeachment ordered to be brought in against him, he
      being fled!
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Sir Charles Berkeley, jun. was chosen in his room.  In the sea-
     fight off Southwold Bay on June 3rd, 1665, the English triumphed
     over the Dutch, but the very considerable victory was not followed
     up.  During the night, while the Duke of York slept, Henry
     Brouncker, his groom of the bedchamber, ordered the lieutenant to
     shorten sail, by which means the progress of the whole fleet was
     retarded, the Duke of York's being the leading ship.  The duke
     affirmed that he first heard of Brouncker's unjustifiable action in
     July, and yet he kept the culprit in his service for nearly two
     years after the offence had come to his knowledge.  After Brouncker
     had been dismissed from the duke's service, the House of Commons
     ejected him.  The whole matter is one of the unsolved difficulties
     of history.  See Lister's "Life of Clarendon," ii., 334 335]
</pre>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and all the morning at my office busy. At noon, it being washing
      day, I toward White Hall, and stopped and dined all alone at Hercules
      Pillars, where I was mighty pleased to overhear a woman talk to her
      counsel how she had troubled her neighbours with law, and did it very
      roguishly and wittily. Thence to White Hall, and there we attended the
      Duke of York as usual; and I did present Mrs. Pett, the widow, and her
      petition to the Duke of York, for some relief from the King. Here was
      to-day a proposition made to the Duke of York by Captain Von Hemskirke for
      L20,000, to discover an art how to make a ship go two foot for one what
      any ship do now, which the King inclines to try, it costing him nothing to
      try; and it is referred to us to contract with the man. Thence to attend
      the Council about the business of certificates to the Exchequer, where the
      Commissioners of the Treasury of different minds, some would, and my Lord
      Ashly would not have any more made out, and carried it there should not.
      After done here, and the Council up, I by water from the Privy-stairs to
      Westminster Hall; and, taking water, the King and the Duke of York were in
      the new buildings; and the Duke of York called to me whither I was going?
      and I answered aloud, "To wait on our maisters at Westminster;" at which
      he and all the company laughed; but I was sorry and troubled for it
      afterwards, for fear any Parliament-man should have been there; and will
      be a caution to me for the time to come. Met with Roger Pepys, who tells
      me they have been on the business of money, but not ended yet, but will
      take up more time. So to the fishmonger's, and bought a couple of
      lobsters, and over to the 'sparagus garden, thinking to have met Mr.
      Pierce, and his wife and Knepp; but met their servant coming to bring me
      to Chatelin's, the French house, in Covent Garden, and there with musick
      and good company, Manuel and his wife, and one Swaddle, a clerk of Lord
      Arlington's, who dances, and speaks French well, but got drunk, and was
      then troublesome, and here mighty merry till ten at night, and then I
      away, and got a coach, and so home, where I find Balty and his wife come
      to town, and did sup with them, and so they to bed. This night the Duke of
      Monmouth and a great many blades were at Chatelin's, and I left them
      there, with a hackney-coach attending him.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon comes
      Knepp and Mrs. Pierce, and her daughter, and one Mrs. Foster, and dined
      with me, and mighty merry, and after dinner carried them to the Tower, and
      shewed them all to be seen there, and, among other things, the Crown and
      Scepters and rich plate, which I myself never saw before, and indeed is
      noble, and I mightily pleased with it. Thence by water to the Temple, and
      thereto the Cocke alehouse, and drank, and eat a lobster, and sang, and
      mighty merry. So, almost night, I carried Mrs. Pierce home, and then Knepp
      and I to the Temple again, and took boat, it being darkish, and to Fox
      Hall, it being now night, and a bonfire burning at Lambeth for the King's
      coronation-day. And there she and I drank;.... and so back, and led her
      home, it being now ten at night; and so got a link; and, walking towards
      home, just at my entrance into the ruines at St. Dunstan's, I was met by
      two rogues with clubs, who come towards us. So I went back, and walked
      home quite round by the wall, and got well home, and to bed weary, but
      pleased at my day's pleasure, but yet displeased at my expence, and time I
      lose.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up betimes, and by water to White Hall, to the Duke of York, and
      there hear that this day Hopis and Temple purpose to bring in the petition
      against Sir W. Coventry, which I am sorry for, but hope he will get out of
      it. Here I presented Mrs. Pett and her condition to Mr. Wren for his
      favour, which he promised us. Thence to Lord Brouncker and sat and talked
      with him, who thinks the Parliament will, by their violence and delay in
      money matters, force the King to run any hazard, and dissolve them. Thence
      to Ducke Lane, and there did overlook a great many of Monsieur Fouquet's
      library, that a bookseller hath bought, and I did buy one Spanish [work],
      "Los Illustres Varones."
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Nicholas Fouquet, "Surintendant des Finances" in France, had built
     at Vaux a house which surpassed in magnificence any palace belonging
     to Louis XIV., prior to the erection of Versailles, and caused much
     envy to all the Court, especially to Colbert.  Fouquet died at
     Pignerol in 1680, after nineteen years' incarceration; and whilst
     Pepys was buying his books in London, Colbert had become prime
     minister in France, and Colbert's brother ambassador in England.
     The 'viper' had caught the 'squirrel'!&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Here did I endeavour to see my pretty woman that I did baiser in las
      tenebras a little while depuis. And did find her sofa in the book[shop],
      but had not la confidence para alter a elle. So lost my pains. But will
      another time, and so home and to my office, and then to dinner. After
      dinner down to the Old Swan, and by the way called at Michell's, and there
      did see Betty, and that was all, for either she is shy or foolish, and su
      mardi hath no mind para laiser me see su moher. To White Hall by water,
      and there did our business with the Duke of York, which was very little,
      only here I do hear the Duke of York tell how Sir W. Pen's impeachment was
      brought into the House of Lords to-day; and spoke with great kindness of
      him: and that the Lords would not commit him till they could find
      precedent for it, and did incline to favour him. Thence to the King's
      playhouse, and there saw a piece of "Beggar's Bush," which I have not seen
      some years, and thence home, and there to Sir W. Pen's and supped and sat
      talking there late, having no where else to go, and my eyes too bad to
      read right, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and with Sir J. Minnes to my Lord Brouncker, and with him all of
      us to my Lord Ashly to satisfy him about the reason of what we do or have
      done in the business of the tradesmen's certificates, which he seems
      satisfied with, but is not, but I believe we have done what we can
      justify, and he hath done what he cannot in stopping us to grant them, and
      I believe it will come into Parliament and make trouble. So home and there
      at the office all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and thence after
      dinner to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "Sir Martin
      Marr-all," which, the more I see, the more I like, and thence to
      Westminster Hall, and there met with Roger Pepys; and he tells me that
      nothing hath lately passed about my Lord Sandwich, but only Sir Robert
      Carr did speak hardly of him. But it is hoped that nothing will be done
      more, this meeting of Parliament, which the King did, by a message
      yesterday, declare again, should rise the 4th of May, and then only
      adjourne for three months: and this message being only adjournment, did
      please them mightily, for they are desirous of their power mightily.
      Thence homeward by the Coffee House in Covent Garden, thinking to have met
      Harris here but could not, and so home, and there, after my letters, I
      home to have my hair cut by my sister Michell and her husband, and so to
      bed. This day I did first put off my waste-coate, the weather being very
      hot, but yet lay in it at night, and shall, for a little time.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's day). Lay long, and then up and to Church, and so home, where
      there come and dined with me Harris, Rolt, and Bannister, and one Bland,
      that sings well also, and very merry at dinner, and, after dinner, to sing
      all the afternoon. But when all was done, I did begin to think that the
      pleasure of these people was not worth so often charge and cost to me, as
      it hath occasioned me. They being gone I and Balty walked as far as
      Charing Cross, and there got a coach and to Hales's the painter, thinking
      to have found Harris sitting there for his picture, which is drawing for
      me. But he, and all this day's company, and Hales, were got to the Crown
      tavern, at next door, and thither I to them and stayed a minute, leaving
      Captain Grant telling pretty stories of people that have killed
      themselves, or been accessory to it, in revenge to other people, and to
      mischief other people, and thence with Hales to his house, and there did
      see his beginning of Harris's picture, which I think will be pretty like,
      and he promises a very good picture. Thence with Balty away and got a
      coach and to Hide Park, and there up and down and did drink some milk at
      the Lodge, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and Captain Deane come to see me, and he and I toward
      Westminster together, and I set him down at White Hall, while I to
      Westminster Hall, and up to the Lords' House, and there saw Sir W. Pen go
      into the House of Lords, where his impeachment was read to him, and he
      used mighty civilly, the Duke of York being there; and two days hence, at
      his desire, he is to bring in his answer, and a day then to be appointed
      for his being heard with Counsel. Thence down into the Hall, and with
      Creed and Godolphin walked; and do hear that to-morrow is appointed, upon
      a motion on Friday last, to discourse the business of my Lord Sandwich,
      moved by Sir R. Howard, that he should be sent for, home; and I fear it
      will be ordered. Certain news come, I hear, this day, that the Spanish
      Plenipotentiary in Flanders will not agree to the peace and terms we and
      the Dutch have made for him and the King of France; and by this means the
      face of things may be altered, and we forced to join with the French
      against Spain, which will be an odd thing. At noon with Creed to my Lord
      Crew's, and there dined; and here was a very fine-skinned lady dined, the
      daughter of my Lord Roberts, and also a fine lady, Mr. John Parkhurst his
      wife, that was but a boy the other day. And after dinner there comes in my
      Lady Roberts herself, and with her Mr. Roberts's daughter, that was Mrs.
      Boddevill, the great beauty, and a fine lady indeed, the first time I saw
      her. My Lord Crew, and Sir Thomas, and I, and Creed, all the afternoon
      debating of my Lord Sandwich's business, against to-morrow, and thence I
      to the King's playhouse, and there saw most of "The Cardinall," a good
      play, and thence to several places to pay my debts, and then home, and
      there took a coach and to Mile End to take a little ayre, and thence home
      to Sir W. Pen's, where I supped, and sat all the evening; and being
      lighted homeward by Mrs. Markham, I blew out the candle and kissed her,
      and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up betimes, and to Sir W. Coventry's by water, but lost my labour,
      so through the Park to White Hall, and thence to my Lord Crew's to advise
      again with him about my Lord Sandwich, and so to the office, where till
      noon, and then I by coach to Westminster Hall, and there do understand
      that the business of religion, and the Act against Conventicles, have so
      taken them up all this morning, and do still, that my Lord Sandwich's
      business is not like to come on to-day, which I am heartily glad of. This
      law against Conventicles is very severe; but Creed, whom I met here, do
      tell me that, it being moved that Papists' meetings might be included, the
      House was divided upon it, and it was carried in the negative; which will
      give great disgust to the people, I doubt. Thence with Creed to Hercules
      Pillars by the Temple again, and there dined he and I all alone, and
      thence to the King's house, and there did see "Love in a Maze," wherein
      very good mirth of Lacy, the clown, and Wintersell, the country-knight,
      his master. Thence to the New Exchange to pay a debt of my wife's there,
      and so home, and there to the office and walk in the garden in the dark to
      ease my eyes, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and to my office, where all the morning busy. At noon dined at
      home, and my clerks with me, and thence I to White Hall, and there do hear
      how Sir W. Pen hath delivered in his answer; and the Lords have sent it
      down to the Commons, but they have not yet read it, nor taken notice of
      it, so as, I believe, they will by design defer it till they rise, that so
      he, by lying under an impeachment, may be prevented in his going to sea,
      which will vex him, and trouble the Duke of York. Did little business with
      the Duke of York, and then Lord Brouncker and I to the Duke of York's
      playhouse, and there saw "Love in a Tubb;" and, after the play done, I
      stepped up to Harris's dressing-room, where I never was, and there I
      observe much company come to him, and the Witts, to talk, after the play
      is done, and to assign meetings. Mine was to talk about going down to see
      "The Resolution," and so away, and thence to Westminster Hall, and there
      met with Mr. G. Montagu, and walked and talked; who tells me that the best
      fence against the Parliament's present fury is delay, and recommended it
      to me, in my friends' business and my own, if I have any; and is that,
      that Sir W. Coventry do take, and will secure himself; that the King will
      deliver up all to the Parliament; and being petitioned the other day by
      Mr. Brouncker to protect him, with teares in his eyes, the King did say he
      could not, and bid him shift for himself, at least till the House is up.
      Thence I away to White Hall, and there took coach home with a stranger I
      let into the coach, to club with me for it, he going into London, I set
      him down at the lower end of Cheapside, and I home, and to Sir W. Pen's,
      and there sat, and by and by, it being now about nine o'clock at night, I
      heard Mercer's voice, and my boy Tom's singing in the garden, which
      pleased me mightily, I longing to see the girl, having not seen her since
      my wife went; and so into the garden to her and sang, and then home to
      supper, and mightily pleased with her company, in talking and singing, and
      so parted, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon Sir J. Minnes and I
      to the Dolphin Tavern, there to meet our neighbours, all of the Parish,
      this being Procession-day, to dine. And did; and much very good discourse;
      they being, most of them, very able merchants as any in the City: Sir
      Andrew Rickard, Mr. Vandeputt, Sir John Fredericke, Harrington, and
      others. They talked with Mr. Mills about the meaning of this day, and the
      good uses of it; and how heretofore, and yet in several places, they do
      whip a boy at each place they stop at in their procession. Thence I to the
      Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Tempest," which still pleases
      me mightily, and thence to the New Exchange, and then home, and in the way
      stopped to talk with Mr. Brisband, who gives me an account of the rough
      usage Sir G. Carteret and his Counsel had the other day, before the
      Commissioners of Accounts, and what I do believe we shall all of us have,
      in a greater degree than any he hath had yet with them, before their three
      years are out, which are not yet begun, nor God knows when they will, this
      being like to be no session of Parliament, when they now rise. So home,
      and there took up Mrs. Turner and carried her to Mile End and drank, and
      so back talking, and so home and to bed, I being mighty cold, this being a
      mighty cold day, and I had left off my waistcoat three or four days. This
      evening, coming home in the dusk, I saw and spoke to our Nell, Pain's
      daughter, and had I not been very cold I should have taken her to Tower
      hill para together et toker her. Thus ends this month; my wife in the
      country, myself full of pleasure and expence; and some trouble for my
      friends, my Lord Sandwich, by the Parliament, and more for my eyes, which
      are daily worse and worse, that I dare not write or read almost any thing.
      The Parliament going in a few days to rise; myself so long without
      accounting now, for seven or eight months, I think, or more, that I know
      not what condition almost I am in, as to getting or spending for all that
      time, which troubles me, but I will soon do it. The kingdom in an ill
      state through poverty; a fleete going out, and no money to maintain it, or
      set it out; seamen yet unpaid, and mutinous when pressed to go out again;
      our Office able to do little, nobody trusting us, nor we desiring any to
      trust us, and yet have not money for any thing, but only what particularly
      belongs to this fleete going out, and that but lamely too. The Parliament
      several months upon an Act for L300,000, but cannot or will not agree upon
      it, but do keep it back, in spite of the King's desires to hasten it, till
      they can obtain what they have a mind, in revenge upon some men for the
      late ill managements; and he is forced to submit to what they please,
      knowing that, without it, he shall have no money, and they as well, that,
      if they give the money, the King will suffer them to do little more; and
      then the business of religion do disquiet every body, the Parliament being
      vehement against the Nonconformists, while the King seems to be willing to
      countenance them. So we are all poor, and in pieces&mdash;God help us!
      while the peace is like to go on between Spain and France; and then the
      French may be apprehended able to attack us. So God help us!
    </p>
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    <p>
      May 1st, 1668. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy. Then to
      Westminster Hall, and there met Sir W. Pen, who labours to have his answer
      to his impeachment, and sent down from the Lords' House, read by the House
      of Commons; but they are so busy on other matters, that he cannot, and
      thereby will, as he believes, by design, be prevented from going to sea
      this year. Here met my cozen Thomas Pepys of Deptford, and took some turns
      with him; who is mightily troubled for this Act now passed against
      Conventicles, and in few words, and sober, do lament the condition we are
      in, by a negligent Prince and a mad Parliament. Thence I by coach to the
      Temple, and there set him down, and then to Sir G. Carteret's to dine, but
      he not being at home, I back again to the New Exchange a little, and
      thence back again to Hercules Pillars, and there dined all alone, and then
      to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Surprizall;" and a disorder in
      the pit by its raining in, from the cupola at top, it being a very foul
      day, and cold, so as there are few I believe go to the Park to-day, if
      any. Thence to Westminster Hall, and there I understand how the Houses of
      Commons and Lords are like to disagree very much, about the business of
      the East India Company and one Skinner; to the latter of which the Lords
      have awarded L5000 from the former, for some wrong done him heretofore;
      and the former appealing to the Commons, the Lords vote their petition a
      libell; and so there is like to follow very hot work. Thence by water, not
      being able to get a coach, nor boat but a sculler, and that with company,
      is being so foul a day, to the Old Swan, and so home, and there spent the
      evening, making Balty read to me, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon with Lord Brouncker in
      his coach as far as the Temple, and there 'light and to Hercules Pillars,
      and there dined, and thence to the Duke of York's playhouse, at a little
      past twelve, to get a good place in the pit, against the new play, and
      there setting a poor man to keep my place, I out, and spent an hour at
      Martin's, my bookseller's, and so back again, where I find the house quite
      full. But I had my place, and by and by the King comes and the Duke of
      York; and then the play begins, called "The Sullen Lovers; or, The
      Impertinents," having many good humours in it, but the play tedious, and
      no design at all in it. But a little boy, for a farce, do dance
      Polichinelli, the best that ever anything was done in the world, by all
      men's report: most pleased with that, beyond anything in the world, and
      much beyond all the play. Thence to the King's house to see Knepp, but the
      play done; and so I took a hackney alone, and to the park, and there spent
      the evening, and to the lodge, and drank new milk. And so home to the
      Office, ended my letters, and, to spare my eyes, home, and played on my
      pipes, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where I saw Sir A. Rickard, though he
      be under the Black Rod, by order of the Lords' House, upon the quarrel
      between the East India Company and Skinner, which is like to come to a
      very great heat between the two Houses. At noon comes Mr. Mills and his
      wife, and Mr. Turner and his wife, by invitation to dinner, and we were
      mighty merry, and a very pretty dinner, of my Bridget and Nell's dressing,
      very handsome. After dinner to church again.... So home and with Sir W.
      Pen took a hackney, and he and I to Old Street, to a brew-house there, to
      see Sir Thomas Teddiman, who is very ill in bed of a fever, got, I
      believe, by the fright the Parliament have put him into, of late. But he
      is a good man, a good seaman, and stout. Thence Pen and I to Islington,
      and there, at the old house, eat, and drank, and merry, and there by
      chance giving two pretty fat boys each of them a cake, they proved to be
      Captain Holland's children, whom therefore I pity. So round by Hackney
      home, having good discourse, he [Pen] being very open to me in his talk,
      how the King ought to dissolve this Parliament, when the Bill of Money is
      passed, they being never likely to give him more; how he [the King] hath
      great opportunity of making himself popular by stopping this Act against
      Conventicles; and how my Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, if the Parliament
      continue, will undoubtedly fall, he having managed that place with so much
      self-seeking, and disorder, and pleasure, and some great men are designing
      to overthrow [him], as, among the rest, my Lord Orrery; and that this will
      try the King mightily, he being a firm friend to my Lord Lieutenant. So
      home; and to supper a little, and then to bed, having stepped, after I
      come home, to Alderman Backewell's about business, and there talked a
      while with him and his wife, a fine woman of the country, and how they had
      bought an estate at Buckeworth, within four mile of Brampton.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up betimes, and by water to Charing Cross, and so to W. Coventry, and
      there talked a little with him, and thence over the Park to White Hall,
      and there did a little business at the Treasury, and so to the Duke, and
      there present Balty to the Duke of York and a letter from the Board to him
      about him, and the Duke of York is mightily pleased with him, and I doubt
      not his continuance in employment, which I am glad of. Thence with Sir H.
      Cholmly to Westminster Hall talking, and he crying mightily out of the
      power the House of Lords usurps in this business of the East India
      Company. Thence away home and there did business, and so to dinner, my
      sister Michell and I, and thence to the Duke of York's house, and there
      saw "The Impertinents" again, and with less pleasure than before, it being
      but a very contemptible play, though there are many little witty
      expressions in it; and the pit did generally say that of it. Thence, going
      out, Mrs. Pierce called me from the gallery, and there I took her and Mrs.
      Corbet by coach up and down, and took up Captain Rolt in the street; and
      at last, it being too late to go to the Park, I carried them to the Beare
      in Drury Lane, and there did treat them with a dish of mackrell, the first
      I have seen this year, and another dish, and mighty merry; and so carried
      her home, and thence home myself, well pleased with this evening's
      pleasure, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner and
      Creed with me, and after dinner he and I to the Duke of York's playhouse;
      and there coming late, he and I up to the balcony-box, where we find my
      Lady Castlemayne and several great ladies; and there we sat with them, and
      I saw "The Impertinents" once more, now three times, and the three only
      days it hath been acted. And to see the folly how the house do this day
      cry up the play more than yesterday! and I for that reason like it, I
      find, the better, too; by Sir Positive At-all, I understand, is meant Sir
      Robert Howard. My Lady [Castlemaine] pretty well pleased with it; but here
      I sat close to her fine woman, Willson, who indeed is very handsome, but,
      they say, with child by the King. I asked, and she told me this was the
      first time her Lady had seen it, I having a mind to say something to her.
      One thing of familiarity I observed in my Lady Castlemayne: she called to
      one of her women, another that sat by this, for a little patch off her
      face, and put it into her mouth and wetted it, and so clapped it upon her
      own by the side of her mouth, I suppose she feeling a pimple rising there.
      Thence with Creed to Westminster Hall, and there met with cozen Roger, who
      tells me of the great conference this day between the Lords and Commons,
      about the business of the East India Company, as being one of the
      weightiest conferences that hath been, and managed as weightily. I am
      heartily sorry I was not there, it being upon a mighty point of the
      privileges of the subjects of England, in regard to the authority of the
      House of Lords, and their being condemned by them as the Supreme Court,
      which, we say, ought not to be, but by appeal from other Courts. And he
      tells me that the Commons had much the better of them, in reason and
      history there quoted, and believes the Lords will let it fall. Thence to
      walk in the Hall, and there hear that Mrs. Martin's child, my
      god-daughter, is dead, and so by water to the Old Swan, and thence home,
      and there a little at Sir W. Pen's, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to the office, and thence to White Hall, but come too late to
      see the Duke of York, with whom my business was, and so to Westminster
      Hall, where met with several people and talked with them, and among other
      things understand that my Lord St. John is meant by Mr. Woodcocke, in "The
      Impertinents."
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
        ["Whilst Positive walks, like Woodcock in the park,
          Contriving projects with a brewer's clerk."

     Andrew Marvell's "Instructions to a Painter," part iii., to which is
     subjoined the following note: "Sir Robert Howard, and Sir William
     Bucknell, the brewer."&mdash;Works, ed.  by Capt.  E. Thompson, vol.
     iii., p. 405.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Here met with Mrs. Washington, my old acquaintance of the Hall, whose
      husband has a place in the Excise at Windsor, and it seems lives well. I
      have not seen her these 8 or 9 years, and she begins to grow old, I
      perceive, visibly. So time do alter, and do doubtless the like in myself.
      This morning the House is upon the City Bill, and they say hath passed it,
      though I am sorry that I did not think to put somebody in mind of moving
      for the churches to be allotted according to the convenience of the
      people, and not to gratify this Bishop, or that College. Thence by water
      to the New Exchange, where bought a pair of shoe-strings, and so to Mr.
      Pierces, where invited, and there was Knepp and Mrs. Foster and here
      dined, but a poor, sluttish dinner, as usual, and so I could not be
      heartily merry at it: here saw her girl's picture, but it is mighty far
      short of her boy's, and not like her neither; but it makes Hales's picture
      of her boy appear a good picture. Thence to White Hall, walked with
      Brisband, who dined there also, and thence I back to the King's playhouse,
      and there saw "The Virgin Martyr," and heard the musick that I like so
      well, and intended to have seen Knepp, but I let her alone; and having
      there done, went to Mrs. Pierces back again, where she was, and there I
      found her on a pallet in the dark..., that is Knepp. And so to talk; and
      by and by did eat some curds and cream, and thence away home, and it being
      night, I did walk in the dusk up and down, round through our garden, over
      Tower Hill, and so through Crutched Friars, three or four times, and once
      did meet Mercer and another pretty lady, but being surprized I could say
      little to them,, although I had an opportunity of pleasing myself with
      them, but left them, and then I did see our Nell, Payne's daughter, and
      her je did desire venir after me, and so elle did see me to, Tower Hill to
      our back entry there that comes upon the degres entrant into nostra
      garden..., and so parted, and je home to put up things against to-morrow's
      carrier for my wife; and, among others, a very fine salmon-pie, sent me by
      Mr. Steventon, W. Hewer's uncle, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to dinner,
      and thither I sent for Mercer to dine with me, and after dinner she and I
      called Mrs. Turner, and I carried them to the Duke of York's house, and
      there saw "The Man's the Master," which proves, upon my seeing it again, a
      very good play. Thence called Knepp from the King's house, where going in
      for her, the play being done, I did see Beck Marshall come dressed, off of
      the stage, and looks mighty fine, and pretty, and noble: and also Nell, in
      her boy's clothes, mighty pretty. But, Lord! their confidence! and how
      many men do hover about them as soon as they come off the stage, and how
      confident they are in their talk! Here I did kiss the pretty woman newly
      come, called Pegg, that was Sir Charles Sidly's mistress, a mighty pretty
      woman, and seems, but is not, modest. Here took up Knepp into our coach,
      and all of us with her to her lodgings, and thither comes Bannister with a
      song of hers, that he hath set in Sir Charles Sidly's play for her, which
      is, I think, but very meanly set; but this he did, before us, teach her,
      and it being but a slight, silly, short ayre, she learnt it presently. But
      I did get him to prick me down the notes of the Echo in "The Tempest,"
      which pleases me mightily. Here was also Haynes, the incomparable dancer
      of the King's house, and a seeming civil man, and sings pretty well, and
      they gone, we abroad to Marrowbone, and there walked in the garden, the
      first time I ever was there; and a pretty place it is, and here we eat and
      drank and stayed till 9 at night, and so home by moonshine.... And so set
      Mrs. Knepp at her lodging, and so the rest, and I home talking with a
      great deal of pleasure, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. Towards noon I to
      Westminster and there understand that the Lords' House did sit till eleven
      o'clock last night, about the business in difference between them and the
      Commons, in the matter of the East India Company. Here took a turn or two,
      and up to my Lord Crew's, and there dined; where Mr. Case, the minister, a
      dull fellow in his talk, and all in the Presbyterian manner; a great deal
      of noise and a kind of religious tone, but very dull. After dinner my Lord
      and I together. He tells me he hears that there are great disputes like to
      be at Court, between the factions of the two women, my Lady Castlemayne
      and Mrs. Stewart, who is now well again, and the King hath made several
      public visits to her, and like to come to Court: the other is to go to
      Barkeshire-house, which is taken for her, and they say a Privy-Seal is
      passed for L5000 for it. He believes all will come to ruin. Thence I to
      White Hall, where the Duke of York gone to the Lords' House, where there
      is to be a conference on the Lords' side to the Commons this afternoon,
      giving in their Reasons, which I would have been at, but could not; for,
      going by direction to the Prince's chamber, there Brouncker, W. Pen, and
      Mr. Wren, and I, met, and did our business with the Duke of York. But,
      Lord! to see how this play of Sir Positive At-all,&mdash;["The
      Impertinents."]&mdash;in abuse of Sir Robert Howard, do take, all the
      Duke's and every body's talk being of that, and telling more stories of
      him, of the like nature, that it is now the town and country talk, and,
      they say, is most exactly true. The Duke of York himself said that of his
      playing at trap-ball is true, and told several other stories of him. This
      being done, Brouncker, Pen, and I to Brouncker's house, and there sat and
      talked, I asking many questions in mathematics to my Lord, which he do me
      the pleasure to satisfy me in, and here we drank and so spent an hour, and
      so W. Pen and I home, and after being with W. Pen at his house an hour, I
      home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning we sat. Here I first
      hear that the Queene hath miscarryed of a perfect child, being gone about
      ten weeks, which do shew that she can conceive, though it be unfortunate
      that she cannot bring forth. Here we are told also that last night the
      Duchesse of Monmouth, dancing at her lodgings, hath sprained her thigh.
      Here we are told also that the House of Commons sat till five o'clock this
      morning, upon the business of the difference between the Lords and them,
      resolving to do something therein before they rise, to assert their
      privileges. So I at noon by water to Westminster, and there find the King
      hath waited in the Prince's chamber these two hours, and the Houses are
      not ready for him. The Commons having sent this morning, after their long
      debate therein the last night, to the Lords, that they do think the only
      expedient left to preserve unity between the two Houses is, that they do
      put a stop to any proceedings upon their late judgement against the East
      India Company, till their next meeting; to which the Lords returned answer
      that they would return answer to them by a messenger of their own, which
      they not presently doing, they were all inflamed, and thought it was only
      a trick, to keep them in suspense till the King come to adjourne them;
      and, so, rather than lose the opportunity of doing themselves right, they
      presently with great fury come to this vote: "That whoever should assist
      in the execution of the judgement of the Lords against the Company, should
      be held betrayers of the liberties of the people of England, and of the
      privileges of that House." This the Lords had notice of, and were mad at
      it; and so continued debating without any design to yield to the Commons,
      till the King come in, and sent for the Commons, where the Speaker made a
      short but silly speech, about their giving Him L300,000; and then the
      several Bills, their titles were read, and the King's assent signified in
      the proper terms, according to the nature of the Bills, of which about
      three or four were public Bills, and seven or eight private ones, the
      additional Bills for the building of the City and the Bill against
      Conventicles being none of them. The King did make a short, silly speech,
      which he read, giving them thanks for the money, which now, he said, he
      did believe would be sufficient, because there was peace between his
      neighbours, which was a kind of a slur, methought, to the Commons; and
      that he was sorry for what he heard of difference between the two Houses,
      but that he hoped their recesse would put them into a way of
      accommodation; and so adjourned them to the 9th of August, and then
      recollected himself, and told them the 11th; so imperfect a speaker he is.
      So the Commons went to their House, and forthwith adjourned; and the Lords
      resumed their House, the King being gone, and sat an hour or two after,
      but what they did, I cannot tell; but every body expected they would
      commit Sir Andrew Rickard, Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Mr. Boone, and Mr.
      Wynne, who were all there, and called in, upon their knees, to the bar of
      the House; and Sir John Robinson I left there, endeavouring to prevent
      their being committed to the Tower, lest he should thereby be forced to
      deny their order, because of this vote of the Commons, whereof he is one,
      which is an odde case.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This "odd case" was that of Thomas Skinner and the East India
     Company.  According to Ralph, the Commons had ordered Skinner, the
     plaintiff, into the custody of the Serjeant-at-Arms, and the Lords
     did the same by Sir Samuel Barnadiston, deputy-governor of the
     company, as likewise Sir Andrew Rickard, Mr. Rowland Gwynn, and Mr.
     Christopher Boone.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence I to the Rose Taverne in Covent Garden, and there sent for a pullet
      and dined all alone, being to meet Sir W. Pen, who by and by come, and he
      and I into the King's house, and there "The Mayd's Tragedy," a good play,
      but Knepp not there; and my head and eyes out of order, the first from my
      drinking wine at dinner, and the other from my much work in the morning.
      Thence parted, and I towards the New Exchange and there bought a pair of
      black silk stockings at the hosier's that hath the very pretty woman to
      his wife, about ten doors on this side of the 'Change, and she is indeed
      very pretty, but I think a notable talking woman by what I heard to others
      there. Thence to Westminster Hall, where I hear the Lords are up, but what
      they have done I know not, and so walked toward White Hall and thence by
      water to the Tower, and so home and there to my letters, and so to Sir W.
      Pen's; and there did talk with Mrs. Lowther, who is very kind to me, more
      than usual, and I will make use of it. She begins to draw very well, and I
      think do as well, if not better, than my wife, if it be true that she do
      it herself, what she shews me, and so to bed, and my head akeing all night
      with the wine I drank to-day, and my eyes ill. So lay long, my head pretty
      well in the morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Up, and to the office, there to do, business till
      church time, when Mr. Shepley, newly come to town, come to see me, and we
      had some discourse of all matters, and particularly of my Lord Sandwich's
      concernments, and here did by the by as he would seem tell me that my Lady&mdash;[Lady
      Sandwich.]&mdash;had it in her thoughts, if she had occasion, to, borrow
      L100 of me, which I did not declare any opposition to, though I doubt it
      will be so much lost. But, however, I will not deny my Lady, if she ask
      it, whatever comes of it, though it be lost; but shall be glad that it is
      no bigger sum. And yet it vexes me though, and the more because it brings
      into my head some apprehensions what trouble I may here after be brought
      to when my Lord comes home, if he should ask me to come into bonds with
      him, as I fear he will have occasions to make money, but I hope I shall
      have the wit to deny it. He being gone, I to church, and so home, and
      there comes W. Hewer and Balty, and by and by I sent for Mercer to come
      and dine with me, and pretty merry, and after dinner I fell to teach her
      "Canite Jehovae," which she did a great part presently, and so she away,
      and I to church, and from church home with my Lady Pen; and, after being
      there an hour or so talking, I took her, and Mrs. Lowther, and old Mrs.
      Whistler, her mother-in-law, by water with great pleasure as far as
      Chelsy, and so back to Spring Garden, at Fox-hall, and there walked, and
      eat, and drank, and so to water again, and set down the old woman at home
      at Durham Yard:' and it raining all the way, it troubled us; but, however,
      my cloak kept us all dry, and so home, and at the Tower wharf there we did
      send for a pair of old shoes for Mrs. Lowther, and there I did pull the
      others off and put them on, elle being peu shy, but do speak con mighty
      kindness to me that she would desire me pour su mari if it were to be
      done..... Here staid a little at Sir W. Pen's, who was gone to bed, it
      being about eleven at night, and so I home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and to my office, where alone all the morning. About noon comes
      to me my cousin Sarah, and my aunt Livett, newly come out of
      Gloucestershire, good woman, and come to see me; I took them home, and
      made them drink, but they would not stay dinner, I being alone. But here
      they tell me that they hear that this day Kate Joyce was to be married to
      a man called Hollingshed, whom she indeed did once tell me of, and desired
      me to enquire after him. But, whatever she said of his being rich, I do
      fear, by her doing this without my advice, it is not as it ought to be;
      but, as she brews, let her bake. They being gone, I to dinner with Balty
      and his wife, who is come to town to-day from Deptford to see us, and
      after dinner I out and took a coach, and called Mercer, and she and I to
      the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Tempest," and between two
      acts, I went out to Mr. Harris, and got him to repeat to me the words of
      the Echo, while I writ them down, having tried in the play to have wrote
      them; but, when I had done it, having done it without looking upon my
      paper, I find I could not read the blacklead. But now I have got the words
      clear, and, in going in thither, had the pleasure to see the actors in
      their several dresses, especially the seamen and monster, which were very
      droll: so into the play again. But there happened one thing which vexed
      me, which is, that the orange-woman did come in the pit, and challenge me
      for twelve oranges, which she delivered by my order at a late play, at
      night, to give to some ladies in a box, which was wholly untrue, but yet
      she swore it to be true. But, however, I did deny it, and did not pay her;
      but, for quiet, did buy 4s. worth of oranges of her, at 6d. a-piece. Here
      I saw first my Lord Ormond since his coming from Ireland, which is now
      about eight days. After the play done, I took Mercer by water to Spring
      Garden; and there with great pleasure walked, and eat, and drank, and
      sang, making people come about us, to hear us, and two little children of
      one of our neighbours that happened to be there, did come into our arbour,
      and we made them dance prettily. So by water, with great pleasure, down to
      the Bridge, and there landed, and took water again on the other side; and
      so to the Tower, and I saw her home, I myself home to my chamber, and by
      and by to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to the office, where we sat, and sat all the morning. Here
      Lord Anglesey was with us, and in talk about the late difference between
      the two Houses, do tell us that he thinks the House of Lords may be in an
      error, at least, it is possible they may, in this matter of Skinner; and
      he doubts they may, and did declare his judgement in the House of Lords
      against their proceedings therein, he having hindered 100 originall causes
      being brought into their House, notwithstanding that he was put upon
      defending their proceedings: but that he is confident that the House of
      Commons are in the wrong, in the method they take to remedy an error of
      the Lords, for no vote of theirs can do it; but, in all like cases, the
      Commons have done it by petition to the King, sent up to the Lords, and by
      them agreed to, and so redressed, as they did in the Petition of Right. He
      says that he did tell them indeed, which is talked of, and which did vex
      the Commons, that the Lords were "Judices nati et Conciliarii nati;" but
      all other judges among us are under salary, and the Commons themselves
      served for wages; and therefore the Lords, in reason, were the freer
      judges. At noon to dinner at home, and after dinner, where Creed dined
      with me, he and I, by water to the Temple, where we parted, and I both to
      the King's and Duke of York's playhouses, and there went through the
      houses to see what faces I could spy that I knew, and meeting none, I away
      by coach to my house, and then to Mrs. Mercer's, where I met with her two
      daughters, and a pretty-lady I never knew yet, one Mrs. Susan Gayet, a
      very pretty black lady, that speaks French well, and is a Catholick, and
      merchant's daughter, by us, and here was also Mrs. Anne Jones, and after
      sitting and talking a little, I took them out, and carried them through
      Hackney to Kingsland, and there walked to Sir G. Whitmore's house, where I
      have not been many a day; and so to the old house at Islington, and eat,
      and drank, and sang, and mighty merry; and so by moonshine with infinite
      pleasure home, and there sang again in Mercer's garden. And so parted, I
      having there seen a mummy in a merchant's warehouse there, all the middle
      of the man or woman's body, black and hard. I never saw any before, and,
      therefore, it pleased me much, though an ill sight; and he did give me a
      little bit, and a bone of an arme, I suppose, and so home, and there to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and so to Sir H. Cholmly's, who not
      being up I made a short visit to Sir W. Coventry, and he and I through the
      Park to White Hall, and thence I back into the Park, and there met Sir H.
      Cholmly, and he and I to Sir Stephen Fox's, where we met and considered
      the business of the Excise, how far it is charged in reference to the
      payment of the Guards and Tangier. Thence he and I walked to Westminster
      Hall and there took a turn, it being holyday, and so back again, and I to
      the mercer's, and my tailor's about a stuff suit that I am going to make.
      Thence, at noon, to Hercules Pillars, and there dined all alone, and so to
      White Hall, some of us attended the Duke of York as usual, and so to
      attend the Council about the business of Hemskirke's project of building a
      ship that sails two feet for one of any other ship, which the Council did
      agree to be put in practice, the King to give him, if it proves good,
      L5000 in hand, and L15,000 more in seven years, which, for my part, I
      think a piece of folly for them to meddle with, because the secret cannot
      be long kept. So thence, after Council, having drunk some of the King's
      wine and water with Mr. Chevins, my Lord Brouncker, and some others, I by
      water to the Old Swan, and there to Michell's, and did see her and drink
      there, but he being there je ne baiser la; and so back again by water to
      Spring Garden all alone, and walked a little, and so back again home, and
      there a little to my viall, and so to bed, Mrs. Turner having sat and
      supped with me. This morning I hear that last night Sir Thomas Teddiman,
      poor man! did die by a thrush in his mouth: a good man, and stout and
      able, and much lamented; though people do make a little mirth, and say, as
      I believe it did in good part, that the business of the Parliament did
      break his heart, or, at least, put him into this fever and disorder, that
      caused his death.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and to the office, where we sat all the morning, and at noon
      home to dinner with my people, but did not stay to dine out with them, but
      rose and straight by water to the Temple, and so to Penny's, my tailor's,
      where by and by by agreement Mercer, and she, to my great content, brings
      Mrs. Gayet, and I carried them to the King's house; but, coming too soon,
      we out again to the Rose taverne, and there I did give them a tankard of
      cool drink, the weather being very hot, and then into the playhouse again,
      and there saw "The Country Captain," a very dull play, that did give us no
      content, and besides, little company there, which made it very unpleasing.
      Thence to the waterside, at Strand bridge, and so up by water and to
      Fox-hall, where we walked a great while, and pleased mightily with the
      pleasure thereof, and the company there, and then in, and eat and drank,
      and then out again and walked, and it beginning to be dark, we to a corner
      and sang, that everybody got about us to hear us; and so home, where I saw
      them both at their doors, and, full of the content of this afternoon's
      pleasure, I home and to walk in the garden a little, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and betimes to White Hall, and there met with Sir H. Cholmly at
      Sir Stephen Fox's, and there was also the Cofferer, and we did there
      consider about our money and the condition of the Excise, and after much
      dispute agreed upon a state thereof and the manner of our future course of
      payments. Thence to the Duke of York, and there did a little navy business
      as we used to do, and so to a Committee for Tangier, where God knows how
      my Lord Bellasses's accounts passed; understood by nobody but my Lord
      Ashly, who, I believe, was mad to let them go as he pleased. But here Sir
      H. Cholmly had his propositions read, about a greater price for his work
      of the Mole, or to do it upon account, which, being read, he was bid to
      withdraw. But, Lord! to see how unlucky a man may be, by chance; for,
      making an unfortunate minute when they were almost tired with the other
      business, the Duke of York did find fault with it, and that made all the
      rest, that I believe he had better have given a great deal, and had
      nothing said to it to-day; whereas, I have seen other things more
      extravagant passed at first hearing, without any difficulty. Thence I to
      my Lord Brouncker's, at Mrs. Williams's, and there dined, and she did shew
      me her closet, which I was sorry to see, for fear of her expecting
      something from me; and here she took notice of my wife's not once coming
      to see her, which I am glad of; for she shall not&mdash;a prating, vain,
      idle woman. Thence with Lord Brouncker to Loriners'-hall,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Loriners, or Lorimers (bit-makers), of London are by reputation
     an ancient mistery, but they were first incorporated by letters
     patent of 10 Queen Anne (December 3rd, 1711).  Their small hall was
     at the corner of Basinghall Street in London Wall.  The company has
     no hall now.]
</pre>
    <p>
      by Mooregate, a hall I never heard of before, to Sir Thomas Teddiman's
      burial, where most people belonging to the sea were. And here we had
      rings: and here I do hear that some of the last words that he said were,
      that he had a very good King, God bless him! but that the Parliament had
      very ill rewarded him for all the service he had endeavoured to do them
      and his country; so that, for certain, this did go far towards his death.
      But, Lord! to see among [the company] the young commanders, and Thomas
      Killigrew and others that come, how unlike a burial this was, O'Brian
      taking out some ballads out of his pocket, which I read, and the rest come
      about me to hear! and there very merry we were all, they being new
      ballets. By and by the corpse went; and I, with my Lord Brouncker, and Dr.
      Clerke, and Mr. Pierce, as far as the foot of London-bridge; and there we
      struck off into Thames Street, the rest going to Redriffe, where he is to
      be buried. And we 'light at the Temple, and there parted; and I to the
      King's house, and there saw the last act of "The Committee," thinking to
      have seen Knepp there, but she did not act. And so to my bookseller's, and
      there carried home some books-among others, "Dr. Wilkins's Reall
      Character," and thence to Mrs. Turner's, and there went and sat, and she
      showed me her house from top to bottom, which I had not seen before, very
      handsome, and here supped, and so home, and got Mercer, and she and I in
      the garden singing till ten at night, and so home to a little supper, and
      then parted, with great content, and to bed. The Duchesse of Monmouth's
      hip is, I hear, now set again, after much pain. I am told also that the
      Countess of Shrewsbury is brought home by the Duke of Buckingham to his
      house, where his Duchess saying that it was not for her and the other to
      live together in a house, he answered, Why, Madam, I did think so, and,
      therefore, have ordered your coach to be ready, to carry you to your
      father's, which was a devilish speech, but, they say, true; and my Lady
      Shrewsbury is there, it seems.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up; and to the Office, where we sat all the morning; and at noon,
      home with my people to dinner; and thence to the Office all the afternoon,
      till, my eyes weary, I did go forth by coach to the King's playhouse, and
      there saw the best part of "The Sea Voyage," where Knepp I see do her part
      of sorrow very well. I afterwards to her house; but she did not come
      presently home; and there je did kiss her ancilla, which is so mighty
      belle; and I to my tailor's, and to buy me a belt for my new suit against
      to-morrow; and so home, and there to my Office, and afterwards late
      walking in the garden; and so home to supper, and to bed, after Nell's
      cutting of my hair close, the weather being very hot.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). Up, and put on my new stuff-suit, with a shoulder-belt,
      according to the new fashion, and the bands of my vest and tunique laced
      with silk lace, of the colour of my suit: and so, very handsome, to
      Church, where a dull sermon and of a stranger, and so home; and there I
      find W. Howe, and a younger brother of his, come to dine with me; and
      there comes Mercer, and brings with her Mrs. Gayet, which pleased me
      mightily; and here was also W. Hewer, and mighty merry; and after dinner
      to sing psalms. But, Lord! to hear what an excellent base this younger
      brother of W. Howe's sings, even to my astonishment, and mighty pleasant.
      By and by Gayet goes away, being a Catholick, to her devotions, and Mercer
      to church; but we continuing an hour or two singing, and so parted; and I
      to Sir W. Pen's, and there sent for a hackney-coach; and he and she [Lady
      Pen] and I out, to take the gyre. We went to Stepney, and there stopped at
      the Trinity House, he to talk with the servants there against to-morrow,
      which is a great day for the choice of a new Master, and thence to Mile
      End, and there eat and drank, and so home; and I supped with them&mdash;that
      is, eat some butter and radishes, which is my excuse for not eating any
      other of their victuals, which I hate, because of their sluttery: and so
      home, and made my boy read to me part of Dr. Wilkins's new book of the
      "Real Character;" and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and to my office, where most of the morning doing business and
      seeing my window-frames new painted, and then I out by coach to my Lord
      Bellasses, at his new house by my late Lord Treasurer's, and there met him
      and Mr. Sherwin, Auditor Beale, and Creed, about my Lord's accounts, and
      here my Lord shewed me his new house, which, indeed, is mighty noble, and
      good pictures&mdash;indeed, not one bad one in it. Thence to my tailor's,
      and there did find Mercer come with Mrs. Horsfield and Gayet according to
      my desire, and there I took them up, it being almost twelve o'clock, or a
      little more, and carried them to the King's playhouse, where the doors
      were not then open; but presently they did open; and we in, and find many
      people already come in, by private ways, into the pit, it being the first
      day of Sir Charles Sidly's new play, so long expected, "The Mullberry
      Guarden," of whom, being so reputed a wit, all the world do expect great
      matters. I having sat here awhile, and eat nothing to-day, did slip out,
      getting a boy to keep my place; and to the Rose Tavern, and there got half
      a breast of mutton, off of the spit, and dined all alone. And so to the
      play again, where the King and Queen, by and by, come, and all the Court;
      and the house infinitely full. But the play, when it come, though there
      was, here and there, a pretty saying, and that not very many neither, yet
      the whole of the play had nothing extraordinary in it, at all, neither of
      language nor design; insomuch that the King I did not see laugh, nor
      pleased the whole play from the beginning to the end, nor the company;
      insomuch that I have not been less pleased at a new play in my life, I
      think. And which made it the worse was, that there never was worse musick
      played&mdash;that is, worse things composed, which made me and Captain
      Rolt, who happened to sit near me, mad. So away thence, very little
      satisfied with the play, but pleased with my company. I carried them to
      Kensington, to the Grotto, and there we sang, to my great content, only
      vexed, in going in, to see a son of Sir Heneage Finch's beating of a poor
      little dog to death, letting it lie in so much pain that made me mad to
      see it, till, by and by, the servants of the house chiding of their young
      master, one of them come with a thong, and killed the dog outright
      presently. Thence to Westminster palace, and there took boat and to Fox
      Hall, where we walked, and eat, and drank, and sang, and very merry. But I
      find Mrs. Horsfield one of the veriest citizen's wives in the world, so
      full of little silly talk, and now and then a little sillily bawdy, that I
      believe if you had her sola a man might hazer all with her. So back by
      water to Westminster Palace, and there got a coach which carried us as far
      as the Minorys, and there some thing of the traces broke, and we forced to
      'light, and walked to Mrs. Horsfield's house, it being a long and bad way,
      and dark, and having there put her in a doors, her husband being in bed,
      we left her and so back to our coach, where the coachman had put it in
      order, but could not find his whip in the dark a great while, which made
      us stay long. At last getting a neighbour to hold a candle out of their
      window Mercer found it, and so away we home at almost 12 at night, and
      setting them both at their homes, I home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and called on Mr. Pierce, who tells me that after all this ado
      Ward is come to town, and hath appeared to the Commissioners of Accounts
      and given such answers as he thinks will do every body right, and let the
      world see that their great expectations and jealousies have been vain in
      this matter of the prizes. The Commissioners were mighty inquisitive
      whether he was not instructed by letters or otherwise from hence from my
      Lord Sandwich's friends what to say and do, and particularly from me,
      which he did wholly deny, as it was true, I not knowing the man that I
      know of. He tells me also that, for certain, Mr. Vaughan is made Lord
      Chief justice, which I am glad of. He tells me, too; that since my Lord of
      Ormond's coming over, the King begins to be mightily reclaimed, and sups
      every night with great pleasure with the Queene: and yet, it seems, he is
      mighty hot upon the Duchess of Richmond; insomuch that, upon Sunday was
      se'nnight, at night, after he had ordered his Guards and coach to be ready
      to carry him to the Park, he did, on a sudden, take a pair of oars or
      sculler, and all alone, or but one with him, go to Somersett House, and
      there, the garden-door not being open, himself clamber over the walls to
      make a visit to her, which is a horrid shame. He gone, I to the office,
      where we sat all the morning, Sir W. Pen sick of the gout comes not out.
      After dinner at home, to White Hall, it being a very rainy day, and there
      a Committee for Tangier, where I was mightily pleased to see Sir W.
      Coventry fall upon my Lord Bellasses' business of the 3d. in every piece
      of it which he would get to himself, making the King pay 4s. 9d, while he
      puts them off for 4s. 6d., so that Sir W. Coventry continues still the
      same man for the King's good. But here Creed did vex me with saying that I
      ought first to have my account past by the Commissioners of Tangier before
      in the Exchequer. Thence W. Coventry and I in the Matted gallery, and
      there he did talk very well to me about the way to save the credit of the
      officers of the Navy, and their places too, by making use of this interval
      of Parliament to be found to be mending of matters in the Navy, and that
      nothing but this will do it, and gives an instance in themselves of the
      Treasury, whereof himself and Sir John Duncombe all the world knows have
      enemies, and my Lord Ashly a man obnoxious to most, and Sir Thomas
      Clifford one that as a man suddenly rising and a creature of my Lord
      Arlington's hath enemies enough (none of them being otherwise but the Duke
      of Albemarle), yet with all this fault they hear nothing of the business
      of the Treasury, but all well spoken of there. He is for the removal of
      Sir John Minnes, thinking that thereby the world will see a greater change
      in the hands than now they do; and I will endeavour it, and endeavour to
      do some good in the office also. So home by coach, and to the office,
      where ended my letters, and then home, and there got Balty to read to me
      out of Sorbiere's Observations in his Voyage into England, and then to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and with Colonell Middleton, in a new coach he hath made him,
      very handsome, to White Hall, where the Duke of York having removed his
      lodgings for this year to St. James's, we walked thither; and there find
      the Duke of York coming to White Hall, and so back to the Council-chamber,
      where the Committee of the Navy sat; and here we discoursed several
      things; but, Lord! like fools; so as it was a shame to see things of this
      importance managed by a Council that understand nothing of them: and,
      among other things, one was about this building of a ship with Hemskirke's
      secret, to sail a third faster than any other ship; but he hath got Prince
      Rupert on his side, and by that means, I believe, will get his conditions
      made better than he would otherwise, or ought indeed. Having done there, I
      met with Sir Richard Browne, and he took me to dinner with him to a new
      tavern, above Charing Cross, where some clients of his did give him a good
      dinner, and good company; among others, one Bovy, a solicitor, and lawyer
      and merchant all together, who hath travelled very much, did talk some
      things well; but only he is a "Sir Positive:" but the talk of their
      travels over the Alps very fine. Thence walked to the King's playhouse,
      and saw "The Mulberry Garden" again, and cannot be reconciled to it, but
      only to find here and there an independent sentence of wit, and that is
      all. Here met with Creed; and took him to Hales's, and there saw the
      beginnings of Harris's head which he draws for me, which I do not yet
      like. So he and I down to the New Exchange, and there cheapened ribbands
      for my wife, and so down to the Whey house and drank some and eat some
      curds, which did by and by make my belly ake mightily. So he and I to
      White Hall, and walked over the Park to the Mulberry-Garden,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [On the site of the present Buckingham Palace and gardens.
     Originally a garden of mulberry trees, planted by James I. in 1609
     with the intention of cultivating the manufacture of English silks.]
</pre>
    <p>
      where I never was before; and find it a very silly place, worse than
      Spring-garden, and but little company, and those a rascally, whoring,
      roguing sort of people, only a wilderness here, that is somewhat pretty,
      but rude. Did not stay to drink, but walked an hour and so away to Charing
      Cross, and there took coach and away home, in my way going into
      Bishopsgate Street, to bespeak places for myself and boy to go to
      Cambridge in the coach this week, and so to Brampton, to see my wife. So
      home, and to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and busy to send some things into the country, and then to the
      Office, where meets me Sir Richard Ford, who among other things
      congratulates me, as one or two did yesterday, [on] my great purchase; and
      he advises me rather to forbear, if it be not done, as a thing that the
      world will envy me in: and what is it but my cozen Tom Pepys's buying of
      Martin Abbey, in Surry! which is a mistake I am sorry for, and yet do fear
      that it may spread in the world to my prejudice. All the morning at the
      office, and at noon my clerks dined with me, and there do hear from them
      how all the town is full of the talk of a meteor, or some fire, that did
      on Saturday last fly over the City at night, which do put me in mind that,
      being then walking in the dark an hour or more myself in the garden, after
      I had done writing, I did see a light before me come from behind me, which
      made me turn back my head; and I did see a sudden fire or light running in
      the sky, as it were towards Cheapside ward, and it vanished very quick,
      which did make me bethink myself what holyday it was, and took it for some
      rocket, though it was much brighter than any rocket, and so thought no
      more of it, but it seems Mr. Hater and Gibson going home that night did
      meet with many clusters of people talking of it, and many people of the
      towns about the city did see it, and the world do make much discourse of
      it, their apprehensions being mighty full of the rest of the City to be
      burned, and the Papists to cut our throats. Which God prevent! Thence
      after dinner I by coach to the Temple, and there bought a new book of
      songs set to musique by one Smith of Oxford, some songs of Mr. Cowley's,
      and so to Westminster, and there to walk a little in the Hall, and so to
      Mrs. Martin's, and there did hazer cet que je voudrai mit her, and drank
      and sat most of the afternoon with her and her sister, and here she
      promises me her fine starling, which was the King's, and speaks finely,
      which I shall be glad of, and so walked to the Temple, meeting in the
      street with my cozen Alcocke, the young man, that is a good sober youth, I
      have not seen these four or five years, newly come to town to look for
      employment: but I cannot serve him, though I think he deserves well, and
      so I took coach and home to my business, and in the evening took Mrs.
      Turner and Mercer out to Mile End and drank, and then home, and sang; and
      eat a dish of greene pease, the first I have seen this year, given me by
      Mr. Gibson, extraordinary young and pretty, and so saw them at home, and
      so home to bed. Sir W. Pen continues ill of the gout.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and all the morning at the office busy. At noon home with my
      people to dinner, where good discourse and merry. After dinner comes Mr.
      Martin, the purser, and brings me his wife's starling, which was formerly
      the King's bird, that do speak and whistle finely, which I am mighty proud
      of and shall take pleasure in it. Thence to the Duke of York's house to a
      play, and saw Sir Martin Marr-all, where the house is full; and though I
      have seen it, I think, ten times, yet the pleasure I have is yet as great
      as ever, and is undoubtedly the best comedy ever was wrote. Thence to my
      tailor's and a mercer's for patterns to carry my wife of cloth and silk
      for a bed, which I think will please her and me, and so home, and fitted
      myself for my journey to-morrow, which I fear will not be pleasant,
      because of the wet weather, it raining very hard all this day; but the
      less it troubles me because the King and Duke of York and Court are at
      this day at Newmarket, at a great horse-race, and proposed great pleasure
      for two or three days, but are in the same wet. So from the office home to
      supper, and betimes to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up by four o'clock; and, getting my things ready, and recommending
      the care of my house to W. Hewer, I with my boy Tom, whom I take with me,
      to the Bull, in Bishopsgate Street, and there, about six, took coach, he
      and I, and a gentleman and his man, there being another coach also, with
      as many more, I think, in it; and so away to Bishop's Stafford, and there
      dined, and changed horses and coach, at Mrs. Aynsworth's; but I took no
      knowledge of her. Here the gentleman and I to dinner, and in comes Captain
      Forster, an acquaintance of his, he that do belong to my Lord Anglesey,
      who had been at the late horse-races at Newmarket, where the King now is,
      and says that they had fair weather there yesterday, though we here, and
      at London, had nothing but rain, insomuch that the ways are mighty full of
      water, so as hardly to be passed. Here I hear Mrs. Aynsworth is going to
      live at London: but I believe will be mistaken in it; for it will be found
      better for her to be chief where she is, than to have little to do at
      London. There being many finer than she there. After dinner away again and
      come to Cambridge, after much bad way, about nine at night; and there, at
      the Rose, I met my father's horses, with a man, staying for me. But it is
      so late, and the waters so deep, that I durst not go to-night; but after
      supper to bed; and there lay very ill, by reason of some drunken scholars
      making a noise all night, and vexed for fear that the horses should not be
      taken up from grass, time enough for the morning. Well pleased all this
      journey with the conversation of him that went with me, who I think is a
      lawyer, and lives about Lynne, but his name I did not ask.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). I up, at between two and three in the morning, and,
      calling up my boy, and father's boy, we set out by three o'clock, it being
      high day; end so through the water with very good success, though very
      deep almost all the way, and got to Brampton, where most of them in bed,
      and so I weary up to my wife's chamber, whom I find in bed, and pretended
      a little not well, and indeed she hath those upon her, but fell to talk
      and mightily pleased both of us, and upgot the rest, Betty Turner and
      Willet and Jane, all whom I was glad to see, and very merry, and got me
      ready in my new stuff clothes that I send down before me, and so my wife
      and they got ready too, while I to my father, poor man, and walked with
      him up and down the house&mdash;it raining a little, and the waters all
      over Portholme and the meadows, so as no pleasure abroad. Here I saw my
      brothers and sister Jackson, she growing fat, and, since being married, I
      think looks comelier than before: but a mighty pert woman she is, and I
      think proud, he keeping her mighty handsome, and they say mighty fond, and
      are going shortly to live at Ellington of themselves, and will keep
      malting, and grazing of cattle. At noon comes Mr. Phillips and dines with
      us, and a pretty odd-humoured man he seems to be; but good withal, but of
      mighty great methods in his eating and drinking, and will not kiss a woman
      since his wife's death. After dinner my Lady Sandwich sending to see
      whether I was come, I presently took horse, and find her and her family at
      chapel; and thither I went in to them, and sat out the sermon, where I
      heard Jervas Fullwood, now their chaplain, preach a very good and seraphic
      kind of sermon, too good for an ordinary congregation. After sermon, I
      with my Lady, and my Lady Hinchingbroke, and Paulina, and Lord
      Hinchingbroke, to the dining-room, saluting none of them, and there sat
      and talked an hour or two, with great pleasure and satisfaction, to my
      Lady, about my Lord's matters; but I think not with that satisfaction to
      her, or me, that otherwise would, she knowing that she did design
      tomorrow, and I remaining all the while in fear, of being asked to lend
      her some money, as I was afterward, when I had taken leave of her, by Mr.
      Shepley, L100, which I will not deny my Lady, and am willing to be found
      when my Lord comes home to have done something of that kind for them, and
      so he riding to Brampton and supping there with me he did desire it of me
      from my Lady, and I promised it, though much against my will, for I fear
      it is as good as lost. After supper, where very merry, we to bed, myself
      very weary and to sleep all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Waked betimes, and lay long.... and there fell to talking, and by
      and by rose, it being the first fair day, and yet not quite fair, that we
      have had some time, and so up, and to walk with my father again in the
      garden, consulting what to do with him and this house when Pall and her
      husband go away; and I think it will be to let it, and he go live with
      her, though I am against letting the house for any long time, because of
      having it to retire to, ourselves. So I do intend to think more of it
      before I resolve. By and by comes Mr. Cooke to see me and so spent the
      morning, and he gone by and by at noon to dinner, where Mr. Shepley come
      and we merry, all being in good humour between my wife and her people
      about her, and after dinner took horse, I promising to fetch her away
      about fourteen days hence, and so calling all of us, we men on horseback,
      and the women and my father, at Goody Gorum's, and there in a frolic
      drinking I took leave, there going with me and my boy, my two brothers,
      and one Browne, whom they call in mirth Colonell, for our guide, and also
      Mr. Shepley, to the end of Huntingdon, and another gentleman who
      accidentally come thither, one Mr. Castle; and I made them drink at the
      Chequers, where I observed the same tapster, Tom, that was there when I
      was a little boy and so we, at the end of the town, took leave of Shepley
      and the other gentleman, and so we away and got well to Cambridge, about
      seven to the Rose, the waters not being now so high as before. And here
      'lighting, I took my boy and two brothers, and walked to Magdalene
      College: and there into the butterys, as a stranger, and there drank my
      bellyfull of their beer, which pleased me, as the best I ever drank: and
      hear by the butler's man, who was son to Goody Mulliner over against the
      College, that we used to buy stewed prunes of, concerning the College and
      persons in it; and find very few, only Mr. Hollins and Pechell, I think,
      that were of my time. But I was mightily pleased to come in this condition
      to see and ask, and thence, giving the fellow something, away walked to
      Chesterton, to see our old walk, and there into the Church, the bells
      ringing, and saw the place I used to sit in, and so to the ferry, and
      ferried over to the other side, and walked with great pleasure, the river
      being mighty high by Barnewell Abbey: and so by Jesus College to the town,
      and so to our quarters, and to supper, and then to bed, being very weary
      and sleepy and mightily pleased with this night's walk.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up by four o'clock; and by the time we were ready, and had eat, we
      were called to the coach, where about six o'clock we set out, there being
      a man and two women of one company, ordinary people, and one lady alone,
      that is tolerably handsome, but mighty well spoken, whom I took great
      pleasure in talking to, and did get her to read aloud in a book she was
      reading, in the coach, being the King's Meditations;&mdash;[The
      meditations on death, and prayers used by Charles I. shortly before his
      execution]&mdash;and then the boy and I to sing, and so about noon come to
      Bishop's Stafford, to another house than what we were at the other day,
      and better used. And here I paid for the reckoning 11s., we dining
      together, and pretty merry; and then set out again, sleeping most part of
      the way; and got to Bishopsgate Street before eight o'clock, the waters
      being now most of them down, and we avoiding the bad way in the forest by
      a privy way, which brought us to Hodsden; and so to Tibalds, that road,
      which was mighty pleasant. So home, where we find all well, and brother
      Balty and his wife looking to the house, she mighty fine, in a new
      gold-laced 'just a cour'. I shifted myself, and so to see Mrs. Turner, and
      Mercer appearing over the way, called her in, and sat and talked, and then
      home to my house by and by, and there supped and talked mighty merry, and
      then broke up and to bed, being a little vexed at what W. Hewer tells me
      Sir John Shaw did this day in my absence say at the Board, complaining of
      my doing of him injury and the board permitting it, whereas they had more
      reason to except against his attributing that to me alone which I could
      not do but with their condent and direction, it being to very good service
      to the King, and which I shall be proud to have imputed to me alone. The
      King I hear come to town last night.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and to the office, where some time upon Sir D. Gawden's
      accounts, and then I by water to Westminster for some Tangier orders, and
      so meeting with Mr. Sawyers my old chamber-fellow, he and I by water
      together to the Temple, he giving me an account of the base, rude usage,
      which he and Sir G. Carteret had lately, before the Commissioners of
      Accounts, where he was, as Counsel to Sir G. Carteret, which I was sorry
      to hear, they behaving themselves like most insolent and ill-mannered men.
      Thence by coach to the Exchange, and there met with Sir H. Cholmly at
      Colvill's; and there did give him some orders, and so home, and there to
      the office again, where busy till two o'clock, and then with Sir D. Gawden
      to his house, with my Lord Brouncker and Sir J. Minnes, to dinner, where
      we dined very well, and much good company, among others, a Dr., a fat man,
      whom by face I know, as one that uses to sit in our church, that after
      dinner did take me out, and walked together, who told me that he had now
      newly entered himself into Orders, in the decay of the Church, and did
      think it his duty so to do, thereby to do his part toward the support and
      reformation thereof; and spoke very soberly, and said that just about the
      same age Dr. Donne did enter into Orders. I find him a sober gentleman,
      and a man that hath seen much of the world, and I think may do good.
      Thence after dinner to the office, and there did a little business, and so
      to see Sir W. Pen, who I find still very ill of the goute, sitting in his
      great chair, made on purpose for persons sick of that disease, for their
      ease; and this very chair, he tells me, was made for my Lady Lambert!
      Thence I by coach to my tailor's, there to direct about the making of me
      another suit, and so to White Hall, and through St. James's Park to St.
      James's, thinking to have met with Mr. Wren, but could not, and so
      homeward toward the New Exchange, and meeting Mr. Creed he and I to drink
      some whey at the whey-house, and so into the 'Change and took a walk or
      two, and so home, and there vexed at my boy's being out of doors till ten
      at night, but it was upon my brother Jackson's business, and so I was the
      less displeased, and then made the boy to read to me out of Dr. Wilkins
      his "Real Character," and particularly about Noah's arke, where he do give
      a very good account thereof, shewing how few the number of the several
      species of beasts and fowls were that were to be in the arke, and that
      there was room enough for them and their food and dung, which do please me
      mightily and is much beyond what ever I heard of the subject, and so to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, to set right some little matters of my Tangier accounts, and so
      to the office, where busy all the morning, and then home with my people to
      dinner, and after dinner comes about a petition for a poor woman
      whose-ticket she would get paid, and so talked a little and did baiser
      her, and so to the office, being pleased that this morning my bookseller
      brings me home Marcennus's book of musick,' which costs me L3 2s.; but is
      a very fine book. So to the office and did some business, and then by
      coach to the New Exchange, and there by agreement at my bookseller's shop
      met Mercer and Gayet, and took them by water, first to one of the
      Neat-houses, where walked in the garden, but nothing but a bottle of wine
      to be had, though pleased with seeing the garden; and so to Fox Hall,
      where with great pleasure we walked, and then to the upper end of the
      further retired walk, and there sat and sang, and brought great many
      gallants and fine people about us, and, upon the bench, we did by and by
      eat and drink what we had, and very merry: and so with much pleasure to
      the Old Swan, and walked with them home, and there left them, and so I
      home to my business at the office a little, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Betimes up, and up to my Tangier accounts, and then by water to the
      Council Chamber, and there received some directions from the Duke of York
      and the Committee of the Navy there about casting up the charge of the
      present summer's fleete, that so they may come within the bounds of the
      sum given by the Parliament. But it is pretty to see how Prince Rupert and
      other mad, silly people, are for setting out but a little fleete, there
      being no occasion for it; and say it will be best to save the money for
      better uses. But Sir W. Coventry did declare that, in wisdom, it was
      better to do so; but that, in obedience to the Parliament, he was [for]
      setting out the fifty sail talked on, though it spent all the money, and
      to little purpose; and that this was better than to leave it to the
      Parliament to make bad construction of their thrift, if any trouble should
      happen. Thus wary the world is grown! Thence back again presently home,
      and did business till noon: and then to Sir G. Carteret's to dinner, with
      much good company, it being the King's birthday, and many healths drunk:
      and here I did receive another letter from my Lord Sandwich, which
      troubles me to see how I have neglected him, in not writing, or but once,
      all this time of his being abroad; and I see he takes notice, but yet
      gently, of it, that it puts me to great trouble, and I know not how to get
      out of it, having no good excuse, and too late now to mend, he being
      coming home. Thence home, whither, by agreement, by and by comes Mercer
      and Gayet, and two gentlemen with them, Mr. Monteith and Pelham, the
      former a swaggering young handsome gentleman, the latter a sober citizen
      merchant. Both sing, but the latter with great skill-the other, no skill,
      but a good voice, and a good basse, but used to sing only tavern tunes;
      and so I spent all this evening till eleven at night singing with them,
      till I was tired of them, because of the swaggering fellow with the base,
      though the girl Mercer did mightily commend him before to me. This night
      je had agreed par' alter at Deptford, there par' avoir lain con the moher
      de Bagwell, but this company did hinder me.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and put on a new summer black bombazin suit, and so to the
      office; and being come now to an agreement with my barber, to keep my
      perriwig in good order at 20s. a-year, I am like to go very spruce, more
      than I used to do. All the morning at the office and at noon home to
      dinner, and so to the King's playhouse, and there saw "Philaster;" where
      it is pretty to see how I could remember almost all along, ever since I
      was a boy, Arethusa, the part which I was to have acted at Sir Robert
      Cooke's; and it was very pleasant to me, but more to think what a
      ridiculous thing it would have been for me to have acted a beautiful
      woman. Thence to Mr. Pierces, and there saw Knepp also, and were merry;
      and here saw my little Lady Katherine Montagu come to town, about her
      eyes, which are sore, and they think the King's evil, poor, pretty lady.
      Here I was freed from a fear that Knepp was angry or might take advantage
      to declare the essay that je did the other day, quand je was con her ...
      Thence to the New Exchange, and there met Harris and Rolt, and one
      Richards, a tailor and great company-keeper, and with these over to Fox
      Hall, and there fell into the company of Harry Killigrew, a rogue newly
      come back out of France, but still in disgrace at our Court, and young
      Newport and others, as very rogues as any in the town, who were ready to
      take hold of every woman that come by them. And so to supper in an arbour:
      but, Lord! their mad bawdy talk did make my heart ake! And here I first
      understood by their talk the meaning of the company that lately were
      called Ballets; Harris telling how it was by a meeting of some young
      blades, where he was among them, and my Lady Bennet
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Evidently adopted as a cant expression.  The woman here alluded to
     was a procuress well known in her day, and described in the "Tatler"
     (No. 84) as "the celebrated Madam Bennet."  We further learn, from
     the "Spectator" (No. 266), that she was the Lady B. to whom
     Wycherley addressed his ironical dedication of "The Plain Dealer,"
     which is considered as a masterpiece of raillery.  It is worthy of
     remark that the fair sex may justly complain of almost every word in
     the English language designating a woman having, at some time or
     another, been used as a term of reproach; for we find Mother, Madam,
     Mistress, and Miss, all denoting women of bad character; and here
     Pepys adds the title of my Lady to the number, and completes the
     ungracious catalogue.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and her ladies; and their there dancing naked, and all the roguish things
      in the world. But, Lord! what loose cursed company was this, that I was in
      to-night, though full of wit; and worth a man's being in for once, to know
      the nature of it, and their manner of talk, and lives. Thence set Rolt and
      some of [them] at the New Exchange, and so I home, and my business being
      done at the office, I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st (Lord's day). Up, and to church in the morning. At noon I sent for
      Mr. Mills and his wife and daughter to dine, and they dined with me, and
      W. Hewer, and very good company, I being in good humour. They gone to
      church, comes Mr. Tempest, and he and I sang a psalm or two, and so
      parted, and I by water to the New Exchange, and there to Mrs. Pierces,
      where Knepp, and she, and W. Howe, and Mr. Pierce, and little Betty, over
      to Fox Hall, and there walked and supped with great pleasure. Here was
      Mrs. Manuel also, and mighty good company, and good mirth in making W.
      Howe spend his six or seven shillings, and so they called him altogether
      "Cully." So back, and at Somerset-stairs do understand that a boy is newly
      drowned, washing himself there, and they cannot find his body. So seeing
      them home, I home by water, W. Howe going with me, and after some talk he
      lay at my house, and all to bed. Here I hear that Mrs. Davis is quite gone
      from the Duke of York's house, and Gosnell comes in her room, which I am
      glad of. At the play at Court the other night, Mrs. Davis was there; and
      when she was to come to dance her jigg, the Queene would not stay to see
      it, which people do think it was out of displeasure at her being the
      King's whore, that she could not bear it. My Lady Castlemayne is, it
      seems, now mightily out of request, the King coming little to her, and
      thus she mighty melancholy and discontented.
    </p>
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      JUNE 1668
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    <p>
      June 1st. Up and with Sir J. Minnes to Westminster, and in the Hall there
      I met with Harris and Rolt, and carried them to the Rhenish wine-house,
      where I have not been in a morning&mdash;nor any tavern, I think, these
      seven years and more. Here I did get the words of a song of Harris that I
      wanted. Here also Mr. Young and Whistler by chance met us, and drank with
      us. Thence home, and to prepare business against the afternoon, and did
      walk an hour in the garden with Sir W. Warren, who do tell me of the great
      difficulty he is under in the business of his accounts with the
      Commissioners of Parliament, and I fear some inconveniences and troubles
      may be occasioned thereby to me. So to dinner, and then with Sir J. Minnes
      to White Hall, and there attended the Lords of the Treasury and also a
      committee of Council with the Duke of York about the charge of this year's
      fleete, and thence I to Westminster and to Mrs. Martin's, and did hazer
      what je would con her, and did once toker la thigh de su landlady, and
      thence all alone to Fox Hall, and walked and saw young Newport, and two
      more rogues of the town, seize on two ladies, who walked with them an hour
      with their masks on; perhaps civil ladies; and there I left them, and so
      home, and thence to Mr. Mills's, where I never was before, and here find,
      whom I indeed saw go in, and that did make me go thither, Mrs. Hallworthy
      and Mrs. Andrews, and here supped, and, extraordinary merry till one in
      the morning, Mr. Andrews coming to us: and mightily pleased with this
      night's company and mirth I home to bed. Mrs. Turner, too, was with us.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon home to dinner,
      and there dined with me, besides my own people, W. Batelier and Mercer,
      and we very merry. After dinner, they gone, only Mercer and I to sing a
      while, and then parted, and I out and took a coach, and called Mercer at
      their back-door, and she brought with her Mrs. Knightly, a little pretty
      sober girl, and I carried them to Old Ford, a town by Bow, where I never
      was before, and there walked in the fields very pleasant, and sang: and so
      back again, and stopped and drank at the Gun, at Mile End, and so to the
      Old Exchange door, and did buy them a pound of cherries, cost me 2s., and
      so set them down again; and I to my little mercer's Finch, that lives now
      in the Minories, where I have left my cloak, and did here baiser su moher,
      a belle femme, and there took my cloak which I had left there, and so by
      water, it being now about nine o'clock, down to Deptford, where I have not
      been many a day, and there it being dark I did by agreement aller a la
      house de Bagwell, and there after a little playing and baisando we did go
      up in the dark a su camera... and to my boat again, and against the tide
      home. Got there by twelve o'clock, taking into my boat, for company, a man
      that desired a passage&mdash;a certain western bargeman, with whom I had
      good sport, talking of the old woman of Woolwich, and telling him the
      whole story.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and to the office, where busy till g o'clock, and then to White
      Hall, to the Council-chamber, where I did present the Duke of York with an
      account of the charge of the present fleete, to his satisfaction; and this
      being done, did ask his leave for my going out of town five or six days,
      which he did give me, saying, that my diligence in the King's business was
      such, that I ought not to be denied when my own business called me any
      whither. Thence with Sir D. Gawden to Westminster, where I did take a turn
      or two, and met Roger Pepys, who is mighty earnest for me to stay from
      going into the country till he goes, and to bring my people thither for
      some time: but I cannot, but will find another time this summer for it.
      Thence with him home, and there to the office till noon, and then with
      Lord Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes, and Sir G. Carteret, upon whose accounts
      they have been this day to the Three Tuns to dinner, and thence back again
      home, and after doing a little business I by coach to the King's house,
      and there saw good, part of "The Scornfull Lady," and that done, would
      have takn out Knepp, but she was engaged, and so to my Lord Crew's to
      visit him; from whom I learn nothing but that there hath been some
      controversy at the Council-table, about my Lord Sandwich's signing, where
      some would not have had him, in the treaty with Portugall; but all, I
      think, is over in it. Thence by coach to Westminster to the Hall, and
      thence to the Park, where much good company, and many fine ladies; and in
      so handsome a hackney I was, that I believe Sir W. Coventry and others,
      who looked on me, did take me to be in one of my own, which I was a little
      troubled for. So to the lodge, and drank a cup of new milk, and so home,
      and there to Mrs. Turner's, and sat and talked with her, and then home to
      bed, having laid my business with W. Hewer to go out of town Friday next,
      with hopes of a great deal of pleasure.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to
      dinner, where Mr. Clerke, the solicitor, dined with me and my clerks.
      After dinner I carried and set him down at the Temple, he observing to me
      how St. Sepulchre's church steeple is repaired already a good deal, and
      the Fleet Bridge is contracted for by the City to begin to be built this
      summer, which do please me mightily. I to White Hall, and walked through
      the Park for a little ayre; and so back to the Council-chamber, to the
      Committee of the Navy, about the business of fitting the present fleete,
      suitable to the money given, which, as the King orders it, and by what
      appears, will be very little; and so as I perceive the Duke of York will
      have nothing to command, nor can intend to go abroad. But it is pretty to
      see how careful these great men are to do every thing so as they may
      answer it to the Parliament, thinking themselves safe in nothing but where
      the judges, with whom they often advise, do say the matter is doubtful;
      and so they take upon themselves then to be the chief persons to interpret
      what is doubtful. Thence home, and all the evening to set matters in order
      against my going to Brampton to-morrow, being resolved upon my journey,
      and having the Duke of York's leave again to-day; though I do plainly see
      that I can very ill be spared now, there being much business, especially
      about this, which I have attended the Council about, and I the man that am
      alone consulted with; and, besides, my Lord Brouncker is at this time ill,
      and Sir W. Pen. So things being put in order at the Office, I home to do
      the like there; and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Friday).
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The rough notes for the journal from this time to the 17th of June
     are contained on five leaves, inserted in the book; and after them
     follow several pages left blank for the fair copy which was never
     made.]
</pre>
    <p>
      At Barnet, for milk, 6d. On the highway, to menders of the highway, 6d.
      Dinner at Stevenage, 5s. 6d.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Saturday). Spent at Huntingdon with Bowles, and Appleyard, and
      Shepley, 2s.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Sunday). My father, for money lent, and horse-hire L1 11s.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Monday). Father's servants (father having in the garden told me bad
      stories of my wife's ill words), 14s.; one that helped at the horses, 2s.;
      menders of the highway, 2s. Pleasant country to Bedford, where, while they
      stay, I rode through the town; and a good country-town; and there,
      drinking, 1s. We on to Newport; and there 'light, and I and W. Hewer to
      the Church, and there give the boy 1s. So to Buckingham, a good old town.
      Here I to see the Church, which very good, and the leads, and a school in
      it: did give the sexton's boy 1s. A fair bridge here, with many arches:
      vexed at my people's making me lose so much time; reckoning, 13s. 4d.
      Mighty pleased with the pleasure of the ground all the day. At night to
      Newport Pagnell; and there a good pleasant country-town, but few people in
      it. A very fair&mdash;and like a Cathedral&mdash;Church; and I saw the
      leads, and a vault that goes far under ground, and here lay with Betty
      Turner's sparrow: the town, and so most of this country, well watered. Lay
      here well, and rose next day by four o'clock: few people in the town: and
      so away. Reckoning for supper, 19s. 6d.; poor, 6d. Mischance to the coach,
      but no time lost.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Tuesday). When come to Oxford, a very sweet place: paid our guide, L1
      2s. 6d.; barber, 2s. 6d.; book, Stonage, 4s.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This must have been either Inigo Jones's "The most notable
     Antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stonehenge," printed in
     1655, or "Chorea Gigantum, or the most famous Antiquity of Great
     Britain, vulgarly called Stones Heng, standing on Salisbury Plain,
     restor'd to the Danes," by Walter Charleton, M.D., and published in
     1663.]
</pre>
    <p>
      To dinner; and then out with my wife and people, and landlord: and to him
      that showed us the schools and library, 10s.; to him that showed us All
      Souls' College, and Chichly's picture, 5s. So to see Christ Church with my
      wife, I seeing several others very fine alone, with W. Hewer, before
      dinner, and did give the boy that went with me 1s. Strawberries, 1s. 2d.
      Dinner and servants, L1 0s. 6d. After come home from the schools, I out
      with the landlord to Brazen-nose College;&mdash;to the butteries, and in
      the cellar find the hand of the Child of Hales,... long. Butler, 2s.
      Thence with coach and people to Physic-garden, 1s. So to Friar Bacon's
      study: I up and saw it, and give the man 1s. Bottle of sack for landlord,
      2s. Oxford mighty fine place; and well seated, and cheap entertainment. At
      night come to Abingdon, where had been a fair of custard; and met many
      people and scholars going home; and there did get some pretty good musick,
      and sang and danced till supper: 5s.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Wednesday). Up, and walked to the Hospitall:&mdash;[Christ's
      Hospital]&mdash;very large and fine; and pictures of founders, and the
      History' of the Hospitall; and is said to be worth; L700 per annum; and
      that Mr. Foly was here lately to see how their lands were settled; and
      here, in old English, the story of the occasion of it, and a rebus at the
      bottom. So did give the poor, which they would not take but in their box,
      2s. 6d. So to the inn, and paid the reckoning and what not, 13s. So forth
      towards Hungerford, led this good way by our landlord, one Heart, an old
      but very civil and well-spoken man, more than I ever heard, of his
      quality. He gone, we forward; and I vexed at my people's not minding the
      way. So come to Hungerford, where very good trouts, eels, and crayfish.
      Dinner: a mean town. At dinner there, 12s. Thence set out with a guide,
      who saw us to Newmarket-heath, and then left us, 3s. 6d. So all over the
      Plain by the sight of the steeple, the Plain high and low, to Salisbury,
      by night; but before I come to the town, I saw a great fortification, and
      there 'light, and to it and in it; and find it prodigious, so as to
      frighten me to be in it all alone at that time of night, it being dark. I
      understand, since, it to be that, that is called Old Sarum. Come to the
      George Inne, where lay in a silk bed; and very good diet. To supper; then
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Thursday). Up, and W. Hewer and I up and down the town, and find it
      a very brave place. The river goes through every street; and a most
      capacious market-place. The city great, I think greater than Hereford. But
      the Minster most admirable; as big, I think, and handsomer than
      Westminster: and a most large Close about it, and houses for the Officers
      thereof, and a fine palace for the Bishop. So to my lodging back, and took
      out my wife and people to shew them the town and Church; but they being at
      prayers, we could not be shown the Quire. A very good organ; and I looked
      in, and saw the Bishop, my friend Dr. Ward. Thence to the inne; and there
      not being able to hire coach-horses, and not willing to use our own, we
      got saddle-horses, very dear. Boy that went to look for them, 6d. So the
      three women behind W. Hewer, Murford, and our guide, and I single to
      Stonage; over the Plain and some great hills, even to fright us. Come
      thither, and find them as prodigious as any tales I ever heard of them,
      and worth going this journey to see. God knows what their use was! they
      are hard to tell, but yet maybe told. Give the shepherd-woman, for leading
      our horses, 4d. So back by Wilton, my Lord Pembroke's house, which we
      could not see, he being just coming to town; but the situation I do not
      like, nor the house promise much, it being in a low but rich valley. So
      back home; and there being 'light, we to the Church, and there find them
      at prayers again, so could not see the Quire; but I sent the women home,
      and I did go in, and saw very many fine tombs, and among the rest some
      very ancient, of the Montagus.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The Montacutes, from whom Lord Sandwich's family claimed descent:
     &mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      So home to dinner; and, that being done, paid the reckoning, which was so
      exorbitant; and particular in rate of my horses, and 7s. 6d. for bread and
      beer, that I was mad, and resolve to trouble the master about it, and get
      something for the poor; and come away in that humour: L2 5s. 6d. Servants,
      1s. 6d.; poor, 1s.; guide to the Stones, 2s.; poor woman in the street,
      1s.; ribbands, 9d.; washwoman, 1s.; sempstress for W. Hewer, 3s.; lent W.
      Hewer, 3s. Thence about six o'clock, and with a guide went over the smooth
      Plain indeed till night; and then by a happy mistake, and that looked like
      an adventure, we were carried out of our way to a town where we would lye,
      since we could not go so far as we would. And there with great difficulty
      come about ten at night to a little inn, where we were fain to go into a
      room where a pedlar was in bed, and made him rise; and there wife and I
      lay, and in a truckle-bed Betty Turner and Willett. But good beds, and the
      master of the house a sober, understanding man, and I had good discourse
      with him about this country's matters, as wool, and corne, and other
      things. And he also merry, and made us mighty merry at supper, about
      manning the new ship, at Bristol, with none but men whose wives do master
      them; and it seems it is become in reproach to some men of estate that are
      such hereabouts, that this is become common talk. By and by to bed, glad
      of this mistake, because, it seems, had we gone on as we intended, we
      could not have passed with our coach, and must have lain on the Plain all
      night. This day from Salisbury I wrote by the post my excuse for not
      coming home, which I hope will do, for I am resolved to see the Bath, and,
      it may be, Bristol.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th (Friday). Up, finding our beds good, but lousy; which made us merry.
      We set out, the reckoning and servants coming to 9s. 6d.; my guide
      thither, 2s.; coachman, advanced, 10s. So rode a very good way, led to my
      great content by our landlord to Philips-Norton, with great pleasure,
      being now come into Somersetshire; where my wife and Deb. mightily joyed
      thereat,&mdash;[They were natives of that county.-B.]&mdash;I commending
      the country, as indeed it deserves. And the first town we came to was
      Brekington, where, we stopping for something for the horses, we called two
      or three little boys to us, and pleased ourselves with their manner of
      speech, and did make one of them kiss Deb., and another say the Lord's
      Prayer (hallowed be thy kingdom come). At Philips-Norton I walked to the
      Church, and there saw a very ancient tomb of some Knight Templar, I think;
      and here saw the tombstone whereon there were only two heads cut, which,
      the story goes, and credibly, were two sisters, called the Fair Maids of
      Foscott, that had two bodies upward and one belly, and there lie buried.
      Here is also a very fine ring of six bells, and they mighty tuneable.
      Having dined very well, 10s., we come before night to the Bath; where I
      presently stepped out with my landlord, and saw the baths, with people in
      them. They are not so large as I expected, but yet pleasant; and the town
      most of stone, and clean, though the streets generally narrow. I home, and
      being weary, went to bed without supper; the rest supping.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Saturday). Up at four o'clock, being by appointment called up to the
      Cross Bath, where we were carried one after one another, myself, and wife,
      and Betty Turner, Willet, and W. Hewer. And by and by, though we designed
      to have done before company come, much company come; very fine ladies; and
      the manner pretty enough, only methinks it cannot be clean to go so many
      bodies together in the same water. Good conversation among them that are
      acquainted here, and stay together. Strange to see how hot the water is;
      and in some places, though this is the most temperate bath, the springs so
      hot as the feet not able to endure. But strange to see, when women and men
      herein, that live all the season in these waters, that cannot but be
      parboiled, and look like the creatures of the bath! Carried away, wrapped
      in a sheet, and in a chair, home; and there one after another thus
      carried, I staying above two hours in the water, home to bed, sweating for
      an hour; and by and by, comes musick to play to me, extraordinary good as
      ever I heard at London almost, or anywhere: 5s. Up, to go to Bristol,
      about eleven o'clock, and paying my landlord that was our guide from
      Chiltern, 10s., and the serjeant of the bath, 10s., and the man that
      carried us in chairs, 3s. 6d. Set out towards Bristoll, and come thither
      (in a coach hired to spare our own horses); the way bad, but country good,
      about two o'clock, where set down at the Horse'shoe, and there, being
      trimmed by a very handsome fellow, 2s., walked with my wife and people
      through the city, which is in every respect another London, that one can
      hardly know it, to stand in the country, no more than that. No carts, it
      standing generally on vaults, only dog-carts.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["They draw all their heavy goods here on sleds, or sledges, which
     they call 'gee hoes,' without wheels, which kills a multitude of
     horses."  Another writer says, "They suffer no carts to be used in
     the city, lest, as some say, the shake occasioned by them on the
     pavement should affect the Bristol milk (the sherry) in the vaults,
     which is certainly had here in the greatest perfection."  An order
     of Common Council occurs in 1651 to prohibit the use of carts and
     waggons-only suffering drays.  "Camden in giving our city credit for
     its cleanliness in forming 'goutes,' says they use sledges here
     instead of carts, lest they destroy the arches beneath which are the
     goutes."&mdash;Chilcott's New Guide to Bristol, &amp;c.,]
</pre>
    <p>
      So to the Three..Crowns Tavern I was directed; but, when I come in, the
      master told me that he had newly given over the selling of wine; it seems,
      grown rich; and so went to the Sun; and there Deb. going with W. Hewer and
      Betty Turner to see her uncle [Butts], and leaving my wife with the
      mistress of the house, I to see the quay, which is a most large and noble
      Vlace; and to see the new ship building by Bally, neither he nor Furzer
      being in town. It will be a fine ship. Spoke with the foreman, and did
      give the boys that kept the cabin 2s. Walked back to the Sun, where I find
      Deb. come back, and with her, her uncle, a sober merchant, very good
      company, and so like one of our sober, wealthy, London merchants, as
      pleased me mightily. Here we dined, and much good talk with him, 7s. 6d.:
      a messenger to Sir John Knight, who was not at home, 6d. Then walked with
      him [Butts] and my wife and company round the quay, and to the ship; and
      he shewed me the Custom-house, and made me understand many things of the
      place, and led us through Marsh Street, where our girl was born. But,
      Lord! the joy that was among the old poor people of the place, to see Mrs.
      Willet's daughter, it seems her mother being a brave woman and mightily
      beloved! And so brought us a back way by surprize to his house, where a
      substantial good house, and well furnished; and did give us good
      entertainment of strawberries, a whole venison-pasty, cold, and plenty of
      brave wine, and above all Bristoll milk,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A sort of rum punch (milk punch), which, and turtle, were products
     of the trade of Bristol with the West Indies.  So Byron says in the
     first edition of his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers"

              "Too much in turtle Bristol's sons delight,
               Too much oer bowls of rack prolong the night."

     These lines will not be found in the modern editions; but the
     following are substituted:

              "Four turtle feeder's verse must needs he flat,
               Though Bristol bloat him with the verdant fat."

     Lord Macaulay says of the collations with which the sugar-refiners
     of   Bristol regaled their visitors: "The repast was dressed in the
     furnace, And was accompanied by a rich brewage made of the best
     Spanish wine, and celebrated over the whole kingdom as Bristol milk"
     ("Hist. of England," vol. i., p. 335)&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      where comes in another poor woman, who, hearing that Deb. was here, did
      come running hither, and with her eyes so lull of tears, and heart so full
      of joy, that she could not speak when she come in, that it made me weep
      too: I protest that I was not able to speak to her, which I would have
      done, to have diverted her tears. His wife a good woman, and so sober and
      substantiall as I was never more pleased anywhere. Servant-maid, 2s. So
      thence took leave, and he with us through the city, where in walking I
      find the city pay him great respect, and he the like to the meanest, which
      pleased me mightily. He shewed us the place where the merchants meet here,
      and a fine Cross yet standing, like Cheapside. And so to the Horseshoe,
      where paid the reckoning, 2s. 6d. We back, and by moonshine to the Bath
      again, about ten-o'clock: bad way; and giving the coachman 1s., went all
      of us to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Sunday). Up, and walked up and down the town, and saw a pretty good
      market-place, and many good streets, and very fair stone-houses. And so to
      the great Church, and there saw Bishop Montagu's tomb;
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [James Montagu, Bishop of Bath and Wells in 1608, and of Winchester
     in 1616&mdash;died 1618.  He was uncle to the Earl of Sandwich, whose
     mother was Pepys's aunt.  Hence Pepys's curiosity respecting the
     tomb.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and, when placed, did there see many brave people come, and, among others,
      two men brought in, in litters, and set down in the chancel to hear: but I
      did not know one face. Here a good organ; but a vain, pragmatical fellow
      preached a ridiculous, affected sermon, that made me angry, and some
      gentlemen that sat next me, and sang well. So home, walking round the
      walls of the City, which are good, and the battlements all whole. The
      sexton of the church is. So home to dinner, and after dinner comes Mr.
      Butts again to see me, and he and I to church, where the same idle fellow
      preached; and I slept most of the sermon. Thence home, and took my wife
      out and the girls, and come to this church again, to see it, and look over
      the monuments, where, among others, Dr. Venner and Pelting, and a lady of
      Sir W. Walter's; he lying with his face broken. So to the fields a little
      and walked, and then home and had my head looked [at], and so to supper,
      and then comes my landlord to me, a sober understanding man, and did give
      me a good account of the antiquity of this town and Wells; and of two
      Heads, on two pillars, in Wells church. But he a Catholick. So he gone, I
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Monday). Up, and with Mr. Butts to look into the baths, and find the
      King and Queen's full of a mixed sort, of good and bad, and the Cross only
      almost for the gentry. So home and did the like with my wife, and did pay
      my guides, two women, 5s.; one man, 2s. 6d.; poor, 6d.; woman to lay my
      foot-cloth, 1s. So to our inne, and there eat and paid reckoning, L1 8s.
      6d.; servants, 3s.; poor, 1s.; lent the coach man, 10s. Before I took
      coach, I went to make a boy dive in the King's bath, 1s. I paid also for
      my coach and a horse to Bristol, L1 1s. 6d. Took coach, and away, without
      any of the company of the other stage-coaches, that go out of this town
      to-day; and rode all day with some trouble, for fear of being out of our
      way, over the Downes, where the life of the shepherds is, in fair weather
      only, pretty. In the afternoon come to Abebury, where, seeing great stones
      like those of Stonage standing up, I stopped, and took a countryman of
      that town, and he carried me and shewed me a place trenched in, like Old
      Sarum almost, with great stones pitched in it, some bigger than those at
      Stonage in figure, to my great admiration: and he told me that most people
      of learning, coming by, do come and view them, and that the King did so:
      and that the Mount cast hard by is called Selbury, from one King Seall
      buried there, as tradition says. I did give this man 1s. So took coach
      again, seeing one place with great high stones pitched round, which, I
      believe, was once some particular building, in some measure like that of
      Stonage. But, about a mile off, it was prodigious to see how full the
      Downes are of great stones; and all along the vallies, stones of
      considerable bigness, most of them growing certainly out of the ground so
      thick as to cover the ground, which makes me think the less of the wonder
      of Stonage, for hence they might undoubtedly supply themselves with
      stones, as well as those at Abebury. In my way did give to the poor and
      menders of the highway 3s. Before night, come to Marlborough, and lay at
      the Hart; a good house, and a pretty fair town for a street or two; and
      what is most singular is, their houses on one side having their
      pent-houses supported with pillars, which makes it a good walk. My wife
      pleased with all, this evening reading of "Mustapha" to me till supper,
      and then to supper, and had musique whose innocence pleased me, and I did
      give them 3s. So to bed, and lay well all night, and long, so as all the
      five coaches that come this day from Bath, as well as we, were gone out of
      the town before six.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Tuesday). So paying the reckoning, 14s. 4d., and servants, 2s., poor
      1s., set out; and overtook one coach and kept a while company with it,
      till one of our horses losing a shoe, we stopped and drank and spent 1s.
      So on, and passing through a good part of this county of Wiltshire, saw a
      good house of Alexander Popham's, and another of my Lord Craven's, I think
      in Barkeshire. Come to Newbery, and there dined, which cost me, and
      musick, which a song of the old courtier of Queen Elizabeth's, and how he
      was changed upon the coming in of the King, did please me mightily, and I
      did cause W. Hewer to write it out, 3s. 6d. Then comes the reckoning,
      forced to change gold, 8s. 7d.; servants and poor, 1s. 6d. So out, and
      lost our way, which made me vexed, but come into it again; and in the
      evening betimes come to Reading, and there heard my wife read more of
      "Mustapha," and then to supper, and then I to walk about the town, which
      is a very great one, I think bigger than Salsbury: a river runs through
      it, in seven branches, and unite in one, in one part of the town, and runs
      into the Thames half-a-mile off one odd sign of the Broad Face. W. Hewer
      troubled with the headake we had none of his company last night, nor all
      this day nor night to talk. Then to my inn, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Wednesday). Rose, and paying the reckoning, 12s. 6d.; servants and
      poor, 2s. 6d.; musick, the worst we have had, coming to our chamber-door,
      but calling us by wrong names, we lay; so set out with one coach in
      company, and through Maydenhead, which I never saw before, to Colebrooke
      by noon; the way mighty good; and there dined, and fitted ourselves a
      little to go through London, anon. Somewhat out of humour all day,
      reflecting on my wife's neglect of things, and impertinent humour got by
      this liberty of being from me, which she is never to be trusted with; for
      she is a fool. Thence pleasant way to London, before night, and find all
      very well, to great content; and there to talk with my wife, and saw Sir
      W. Pen, who is well again. I hear of the ill news by the great fire at
      Barbados. By and by home, and there with my people to supper, all in
      pretty good humour, though I find my wife hath something in her gizzard,
      that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will
      not, for my content-sake, give it. So I to bed, glad to find all so well
      here, and slept well.
    </p>
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          [The rough notes end here.]
</pre>
    <p>
      18th. Up betimes and to the office, there to set my papers in order and
      books, my office having been new whited and windows made clean, and so to
      sit, where all the morning, and did receive a hint or two from my Lord
      Anglesey, as if he thought much of my taking the ayre as I have done; but
      I care not a turd; but whatever the matter is, I think he hath some
      ill-will to me, or at least an opinion that I am more the servant of the
      Board than I am. At noon home to dinner, where my wife still in a
      melancholy, fusty humour, and crying, and do not tell me plainly what it
      is; but I by little words find that she hath heard of my going to plays,
      and carrying people abroad every day, in her absence; and that I cannot
      help but the storm will break out, I think, in a little time. After dinner
      carried her by coach to St. James's, where she sat in the coach till I to
      my Lady Peterborough's, who tells me, among other things, her Lord's good
      words to the Duke of York lately, about my Lord Sandwich, and that the
      Duke of York is kind to my Lord Sandwich, which I am glad to hear: my
      business here was about her Lord's pension from Tangier. Here met with
      Povy, who tells me how hard Creed is upon him, though he did give him,
      about six months since, I think he said, fifty pieces in gold; and one
      thing there is in his accounts that I fear may touch me, but I shall help
      it, I hope. So my wife not speaking a word, going nor coming, nor willing
      to go to a play, though a new one, I to the Office, and did much business.
      At night home, where supped Mr. Turner and his wife, and Betty and Mercer
      and Pelling, as merry as the ill, melancholy humour that my wife was in,
      would let us, which vexed me; but I took no notice of it, thinking that
      will be the best way, and let it wear away itself. After supper, parted,
      and to bed; and my wife troubled all night, and about one o'clock goes out
      of the bed to the girl's bed, which did trouble me, she crying and
      sobbing, without telling the cause. By and by she comes back to me, and
      still crying; I then rose, and would have sat up all night, but she would
      have me come to bed again; and being pretty well pacified, we to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. When between two and three in the morning we were waked with my
      maids crying out, "Fire, fire, in Markelane!" So I rose and looked out,
      and it was dreadful; and strange apprehensions in me, and us all, of being
      presently burnt. So we all rose; and my care presently was to secure my
      gold, and plate, and papers, and could quickly have done it, but I went
      forth to see where it was; and the whole town was presently in the
      streets; and I found it in a new-built house that stood alone in
      Minchin-lane, over against the Cloth-workers'-hall, which burned
      furiously: the house not yet quite finished; and the benefit of brick was
      well seen, for it burnt all inward, and fell down within itself; so no
      fear of doing more hurt. So homeward, and stopped at Mr. Mills's, where he
      and she at the door, and Mrs. Turner, and Betty, and Mrs. Hollworthy, and
      there I stayed and talked, and up to the church leads, and saw the fire,
      which spent itself, till all fear over. I home, and there we to bed again,
      and slept pretty well, and about nine rose, and then my wife fell into her
      blubbering again, and at length had a request to make to me, which was,
      that she might go into France, and live there, out of trouble; and then
      all come out, that I loved pleasure and denied her any, and a deal of do;
      and I find that there have been great fallings out between my father and
      her, whom, for ever hereafter, I must keep asunder, for they cannot
      possibly agree. And I said nothing, but, with very mild words and few,
      suffered her humour to spend, till we begun to be very quiet, and I think
      all will be over, and friends, and so I to the office, where all the
      morning doing business. Yesterday I heard how my Lord Ashly is like to
      die, having some imposthume in his breast, that he hath been fain to be
      cut into the body.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Such an operation was performed in this year, after a consultation
     of medical men, and chiefly by Locke's advice, and the wound was
     afterwards always kept open, a silver pipe being inserted.  This
     saved Lord Ashley's life, and gave him health"&mdash;Christie's Life of
     the first Earl of Shaftesbury, vol. ii., p. 34.  'Tapski' was a name
     given to Shaftesbury in derision, and vile defamers described the
     abscess, which had originated in a carriage accident in Holland, as
     the result of extreme dissipation.  Lines by Duke, a friend and
     imitator of Dryden:

              "The working ferment of his active mind,
               In his weak body's cask with pain confined,
               Would burst the rotten vessel where 'tis pent,
               But that 'tis tapt to give the treason vent."]
</pre>
    <p>
      At noon home to dinner, and thence by coach to White Hall, where we
      attended the Duke of York in his closet, upon our usual business. And
      thence out, and did see many of the Knights of the Garter, with the King
      and Duke of York, going into the Privychamber, to elect the Elector of
      Saxony into that Order, who, I did hear the Duke of York say, was a good
      drinker: I know not upon what score this compliment is done him. Thence
      with W. Pen, who is in great pain of the gowte, by coach round by Holborne
      home, he being at every kennel full of pain. Thence home, and by and by
      comes my wife and Deb. home, have been at the King's playhouse to-day,
      thinking to spy me there; and saw the new play, "Evening Love," of
      Dryden's, which, though the world commends, she likes not. So to supper
      and talk, and all in good humour, and then to bed, where I slept not well,
      from my apprehensions of some trouble about some business of Mr. Povy's he
      told me of the other day.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and talked with my wife all in good humour, and so to the
      office, where all the morning, and then home to dinner, and so she and I
      alone to the King's house, and there I saw this new play my wife saw
      yesterday, and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good
      as "The Maiden Queen," or "The Indian Emperour," of his making, that I was
      troubled at it; and my wife tells me wholly (which he confesses a little
      in the epilogue) taken out of the "Illustre Bassa." So she to Unthanke's
      and I to Mr. Povy, and there settled some business; and here talked of
      things, and he thinks there will be great revolutions, and that Creed will
      be a great man, though a rogue, he being a man of the old strain, which
      will now be up again. So I took coach, and set Povy down at Charing Cross,
      and took my wife up, and calling at the New Exchange at Smith's shop, and
      kissed her pretty hand, and so we home, and there able to do nothing by
      candlelight, my eyes being now constantly so bad that I must take present
      advice or be blind. So to supper, grieved for my eyes, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and home and dined with my wife and
      Deb. alone, but merry and in good humour, which is, when all is done, the
      greatest felicity of all, and after dinner she to read in the "Illustre
      Bassa" the plot of yesterday's play, which is most exactly the same, and
      so to church I alone, and thence to see Sir W. Pen, who is ill again, and
      then home, and there get my wife to read to me till supper, and then to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and with Balty to St. James's, and there presented him to Mr.
      Wren about his being Muster-Master this year, which will be done. So up to
      wait on the Duke of York, and thence, with W. Coventry, walked to White
      Hall good discourse about the Navy, where want of money undoes us. Thence
      to the Harp and Ball I to drink, and so to the Coffee-house in Covent
      Garden; but met with nobody but Sir Philip Howard, who shamed me before
      the whole house there, in commendation of my speech in Parliament, and
      thence I away home to dinner alone, my wife being at her tailor's, and
      after dinner comes Creed, whom I hate, to speak with me, and before him
      comes Mrs. Daniel about business.... She gone, Creed and I to the King's
      playhouse, and saw an act or two of the new play ["Evening's Love"] again,
      but like it not. Calling this day at Herringman's, he tells me Dryden do
      himself call it but a fifth-rate play. Thence with him to my Lord
      Brouncker's, where a Council of the Royall Society; and there heard Mr.
      Harry Howard's' noble offers about ground for our College, and his
      intentions of building his own house there most nobly. My business was to
      meet Mr. Boyle, which I did, and discoursed about my eyes; and he did give
      me the best advice he could, but refers me to one Turberville, of
      Salsbury, lately come to town, which I will go to.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Daubigny Turberville, of Oriel College; created M.D. at
     Oxford,1660.  He was a physician of some eminence, and, dying at
     Salisbury on the 21st April, 1696, aged eighty-five, he was buried
     in the cathedral, where his monument remains.  Cassan, in his "Lives
     of the Bishops of Sarum," part iii., p. 103, has reprinted an
     interesting account of Turberville, from the "Memoir of Bishop Seth
     Ward," published in 1697, by Dr. Walter Pope.  Turberville was born
     at Wayford, co. Somerset, in 1612, and became an expert oculist; and
     probably Pepys received great benefit from his advice, as his vision
     does not appear to have failed during the many years that he lived
     after discontinuing the Diary.  The doctor died rich, and
     subsequently to his decease his sister Mary, inheriting all his
     prescriptions, and knowing how to use them, practised as an oculist
     in London with good reputation.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence home, where the streets full, at our end of the town, removing
      their wine against the Act begins, which will be two days hence, to raise
      the price. I did get my store in of Batelier this night. So home to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon home to dinner, and
      so to the office again all the afternoon, and then to Westminster to Dr.
      Turberville about my eyes, whom I met with: and he did discourse, I
      thought, learnedly about them; and takes time before he did prescribe me
      any thing, to think of it. So I away with my wife and Deb., whom I left at
      Unthanke's, and so to Hercules Pillars, and there we three supped on cold
      powdered beef, and thence home and in the garden walked a good while with
      Deane, talking well of the Navy miscarriages and faults. So home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and Creed and Colonell Atkins come to me about sending coals to
      Tangier: and upon that most of the morning. Thence Creed and I to Alderman
      Backewell's about Tangier business of money, and thence I by water
      (calling and drinking, but not baisado, at Michell's) to Westminster, but
      it being holyday did no business, only to Martin's... and so home again by
      water, and busy till dinner, and then with wife, Mercer, Deb., and W.
      Hewer to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Impertinents," a
      pretty good play; and so by water to Spring Garden, and there supped, and
      so home, not very merry, only when we come home, Mercer and I sat and sung
      in the garden a good while, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and to the office all the morning, and after dinner at home to
      the office again, and there all the afternoon very busy till night, and
      then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. All the morning doing business at the office. At noon, with my
      Fellow-Officers, to the Dolphin, at Sir G. Carteret's charge, to dinner,
      he having some accounts examined this morning. All the afternoon we all at
      Sir W. Pen's with him about the Victuallers' accounts, and then in the
      evening to Charing Cross, and there took up my wife at her tailor's, and
      so home and to walk in the garden, and then to sup and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. At the office all the morning, at noon dined at home, and then my
      wife, and Deb., and I to the King's playhouse, and saw "The Indian
      Queene," but do not doat upon Nan Marshall's acting therein, as the world
      talks of her excellence therein. Thence with my wife to buy some linnen,
      L13 worth, for sheets, &amp;c., at the new shop over against the New
      Exchange; [and the master, who is] come out of London&mdash;[To the
      Strand.]&mdash;since the fire, says his and other tradesmen's retail trade
      is so great here, and better than it was in London, that they believe they
      shall not return, nor the city be ever so great for retail as heretofore.
      So home and to my business, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, and then home to dinner, where Betty
      Turner, Mercer, and Captain Deane, and after dinner to sing, Mr. Pelting
      coming. Then, they gone, Deane and I all the afternoon till night to talk
      of navy matters and ships with great pleasure, and so at night, he gone, I
      to supper, Pelling coming again and singing a while, then to bed. Much
      talk of the French setting out their fleete afresh; but I hear nothing
      that our King is alarmed at it, at all, but rather making his fleete less.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Called up by my Lady Peterborough's servant about some business of
      hers, and so to the office. Thence by and by with Sir J. Minnes toward St.
      James's, and I stop at Dr. Turberville's, and there did receive a
      direction for some physic, and also a glass of something to drop into my
      eyes: who gives me hopes that I may do well. Thence to St. James's, and
      thence to White Hall, where I find the Duke of York in the
      Council-chamber; where the Officers of the Navy were called in about Navy
      business, about calling in of more ships; the King of France having, as
      the Duke of York says, ordered his fleete to come in, notwithstanding what
      he had lately ordered for their staying abroad. Thence to the Chapel, it
      being St. Peter's day, and did hear an anthem of Silas Taylor's making; a
      dull, old-fashioned thing, of six and seven parts, that nobody could
      understand: and the Duke of York, when he come out, told me that he was a
      better store-keeper than anthem-maker, and that was bad enough, too. This
      morning Mr. May' shewed me the King's new buildings at White Hall, very
      fine; and among other things, his ceilings, and his houses of office. So
      home to dinner, and then with my wife to the King's playhouse&mdash;"The
      Mulberry Garden," which she had not seen. So by coach to Islington, and
      round by Hackney home with much pleasure, and to supper and bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and at the Office all the morning: then home to dinner, where a
      stinking leg of mutton, the weather being very wet and hot to keep meat
      in. Then to the Office again, all the afternoon: we met about the
      Victualler's new contract. And so up, and to walk all the evening with my
      wife and Mrs. Turner in the garden, till supper, about eleven at night;
      and so, after supper, parted, and to bed, my eyes bad, but not worse, only
      weary with working. But, however, I very melancholy under the fear of my
      eyes being spoiled, and not to be recovered; for I am come that I am not
      able to readout a small letter, and yet my sight good for the little while
      I can read, as ever they were, I think.
    </p>
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      JULY 1668
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    <p>
      July 1st. Up; and all the morning we met at the office about the
      Victualler's contract. At noon home to dinner, my Cozen Roger, come newly
      to town, dined with us, and mighty importunate for our coming down to
      Impington, which I think to do, this Sturbridge fair. Thence I set him
      down at the Temple, and Commissioner Middleton dining the first time with
      me, he and I to White Hall, and so to St. James's, where we met; and much
      business with the Duke of York. And I find the Duke of York very hot for
      regulations in the Navy; and, I believe, is put on it by W. Coventry; and
      I am glad of it; and particularly, he falls heavy on Chatham-yard,, and is
      vexed that Lord Anglesey did, the other day, complain at the Council-table
      of disorders in the Navy, and not to him. So I to White Hall to a
      Committee of Tangier; and there vexed, with the importunity and clamours
      of Alderman Backewell, for my acquittance for money supplied by him to the
      garrison, before I have any order for paying it: so home, calling at
      several places-among others, the 'Change, and on Cooper, to know when my
      wife shall come to sit for her picture, which will be next week, and so
      home and to walk with my wife, and then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Called up by a letter from W. Coventry telling me that the
      Commissioners of Accounts intend to summons me about Sir W. Warren's
      Hamburg contract, and so I up and to W. Coventry's (he and G. Carteret
      being the party concerned in it), and after conference with him about it
      to satisfaction I home again to the office. At noon home to dinner, and
      then all the afternoon busy to prepare an answer to this demand of the
      Commissioners of Accounts, and did discourse with Sir W. Warren about it,
      and so in the evening with my wife and Deb. by coach to take ayre to
      Mile-end, and so home and I to bed, vexed to be put to this frequent
      trouble in things we deserve best in.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Betimes to the office, my head full of this business. Then by coach
      to the Commissioners of Accounts at Brooke House, the first time I was
      ever there, and there Sir W. Turner in the chair; and present, Lord
      Halifax, Thoms[on], Gregory, Dunster, and Osborne. I long with them, and
      see them hot set on this matter; but I did give them proper and safe
      answers. Halifax, I perceive, was industrious on my side, in behalf of his
      uncle Coventry, it being the business of fir W. Warren. Vexed only at
      their denial of a copy of what I set my hand to, and swore. Here till
      almost two o'clock, and then home to dinner, and set down presently what I
      had done and said this day, and so abroad by water to Eagle Court in the
      Strand, and there to an alehouse: met Mr. Pierce, the Surgeon, and Dr.
      Clerke, Waldron, Turberville, my physician for the eyes, and Lowre, to
      dissect several eyes of sheep and oxen, with great pleasure, and to my
      great information. But strange that this Turberville should be so great a
      man, and yet, to this day, had seen no eyes dissected, or but once, but
      desired this Dr. Lowre to give him the opportunity to see him dissect
      some. Thence to Unthanke's, to my wife, and carried her home, and there
      walked in the garden, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and to see Sir W. Coventry, and give him account of my doings
      yesterday, which he well liked of, and was told thereof by my Lord Halifax
      before; but I do perceive he is much concerned for this business. Gives me
      advice to write a smart letter to the Duke of York about the want of money
      in the Navy, and desire him to communicate it to the Commissioners of the
      Treasury; for he tells me he hath hot work sometimes to contend with the
      rest for the Navy, they being all concerned for some other part of the
      King's expenses, which they would prefer to this, of the Navy. He shewed
      me his closet, with his round table, for him to sit in the middle, very
      convenient; and I borrowed several books of him, to collect things out of
      the Navy, which I have not, and so home, and there busy sitting all the
      morning, and at noon dined, and then all the afternoon busy, till night,
      and then to Mile-End with my wife and girl, and there drank and eat a joie
      of salmon, at the Rose and Crown, our old house; and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th (Lord's day). About four in the morning took four pills of Dr.
      Turberville's prescribing, for my eyes, and they wrought pretty well most
      of the morning, and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of
      Wilkins's Reall Character. At noon comes W. Hewer and Pelling, and young
      Michell and his wife, and dined with us, and most of the afternoon
      talking; and then at night my wife to read again, and to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to St. James's, and there attended the Duke of York, and was
      there by himself told how angry he was, and did declare to my Lord
      Anglesey, about his late complaining of things of the Navy to the King in
      Council, and not to him; and I perceive he is mightily concerned at it,
      and resolved to reform things therein. Thence with W. Coventry walked in
      the Park together a good while, he mighty kind to me. And hear many pretty
      stories of my Lord Chancellor's being heretofore made sport of by Peter
      Talbot the priest, in his story of the death of Cardinall Bleau;
    </p>
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     [It is probable these stories, in ridicule of Clarendon, are nowhere
     recorded.  Cardinal Jean Balue was the minister of Louis XI. of
     France.  The reader will remember him in Sir W. Scott's "Quentin
     Durward."  He was confined for eleven years in an iron cage invented
     by himself in the Chateau de Loches, and died soon after he regained
     his liberty.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      by Lord Cottington, in his 'Dolor de las Tyipas';
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Gripes.  It was a joke against Lord Cottington that whenever he was
     seriously ill he declared himself a Roman Catholic, when he was well
     again he returned to the Protestant faith.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and Tom Killigrew, in his being bred in Ram Ally, and now bound prentice
      to Lord Cottington, going to Spain with L1000, and two suits of clothes.
      Thence home to dinner, and thence to Mr. Cooper's, and there met my wife
      and W. Hewer and Deb.; and there my wife first sat for her picture: but he
      is a most admirable workman, and good company. Here comes Harris, and
      first told us how Betterton is come again upon the stage: whereupon my
      wife and company to the [Duke's] house to see "Henry the Fifth;" while I
      to attend the Duke of York at the Committee of the Navy, at the Council,
      where some high dispute between him and W. Coventry about settling
      pensions upon all Flag-Officers, while unemployed: W. Coventry against it,
      and, I think, with reason. Thence I to the playhouse, and saw a piece of
      the play, and glad to see Betterton; and so with wife and Deb. to
      Spring-garden, and eat a lobster, and so home in the evening and to bed.
      Great doings at Paris, I hear, with their triumphs for their late
      conquests! The Duchesse of Richmond sworn last week of the queen's
      Bedchamber, and the King minding little else but what he used to do&mdash;about
      his women.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and to the office, where Kate Joyce come to me about some tickets
      of hers, but took no notice to me of her being married, but seemed mighty
      pale, and doubtful what to say or do, expecting, I believe, that I should
      begin; and not finding me beginning, said nothing, but, with trouble in
      her face, went away. At the office all the morning, and after dinner also
      all the afternoon, and in the evening with my wife and Deb. and Betty
      Turner to Unthanke's, where we are fain to go round by Newgate, because of
      Fleet Bridge being under rebuilding. They stayed there, and I about some
      business, and then presently back and brought them home and supped and
      Mrs. Turner, the mother, comes to us, and there late, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Betimes by water to Sir W. Coventry, and there discoursed of several
      things; and I find him much concerned in the present enquiries now on foot
      of the Commissioners of Accounts, though he reckons himself and the rest
      very safe, but vexed to see us liable to these troubles, in things wherein
      we have laboured to do best. Thence, he being to go out of town to-morrow,
      to drink Banbury waters, I to the Duke of York, to attend him about
      business of the Office; and find him mighty free to me, and how he is
      concerned to mend things in the Navy himself, and not leave it to other
      people. So home to dinner; and then with my wife to Cooper's, and there
      saw her sit; and he do do extraordinary things indeed. So to White Hall;
      and there by and by the Duke of York comes to the Robe-chamber, and spent
      with us three hours till night, in hearing the business of the
      Master-Attendants of Chatham, and the Store-keeper of Woolwich; and
      resolves to displace them all; so hot he is of giving proofs of his
      justice at this time, that it is their great fate now, to come to be
      questioned at such a time as this. Thence I to Unthanke's, and took my
      wife and Deb. home, and to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and after noon to
      the office again till night, mighty busy getting Mr. Fist to come and help
      me, my own clerks all busy, and so in the evening to ease my eyes, and
      with my wife and Deb. and Betty Turner, by coach to Unthanke's and back
      again, and then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and to attend the Council, but all in vain, the Council spending
      all the morning upon a business about the printing of the Critickes, a
      dispute between the first Printer, one Bee that is dead, and the
      Abstractor, who would now print his Abstract, one Poole. So home to
      dinner, and thence to Haward's to look upon an Espinette, and I did come
      near the buying one, but broke off. I have a mind to have one. So to
      Cooper's; and there find my wife and W. Hewer and Deb., sitting, and
      painting; and here he do work finely, though I fear it will not be so like
      as I expected: but now I understand his great skill in musick, his playing
      and setting to the French lute most excellently; and speaks French, and
      indeed is an excellent man. Thence, in the evening, with my people in a
      glass hackney-coach to the park, but was ashamed to be seen. So to the
      lodge, and drank milk, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. At the office all the morning. After dinner to the King's playhouse,
      to see an old play of Shirly's, called "Hide Parker" the first day acted;
      where horses are brought upon the stage but it is but a very moderate
      play, only an excellent epilogue spoke by Beck Marshall. Thence home and
      to my office, and then to supper and to bed, and overnight took some
      pills,
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Which work with me pretty betimes, being Lord's day, and so I within
      all day. Busy all the morning upon some accounts with W. Hewer, and at
      noon, an excellent dinner, comes Pelling and W. Howe, and the latter staid
      and talked with me all the afternoon, and in the evening comes Mr. Mills
      and his wife and supped and talked with me, and so to bed. This last night
      Betty Michell about midnight cries out, and my wife goes to her, and she
      brings forth a girl, and this afternoon the child is christened, and my
      wife godmother again to a Betty.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and to my office, and thence by water to White Hall to attend
      the Council, but did not, and so home to dinner, and so out with my wife,
      and Deb., and W. Hewer towards Cooper's, but I 'light and walked to Ducke
      Lane, and there to the bookseller's; at the Bible, whose moher je have a
      mind to, but elle no erat dentro, but I did there look upon and buy some
      books, and made way for coming again to the man, which pleases me. Thence
      to Reeves's, and there saw some, and bespoke a little perspective, and was
      mightily pleased with seeing objects in a dark room. And so to Cooper's,
      and spent the afternoon with them; and it will be an excellent picture.
      Thence my people all by water to Deptford, to see Balty, while I to buy my
      espinette,
    </p>
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     [Espinette is the French term for a small harpsichord, at that time
     called in England a spinet.  It was named from a fancied resemblance
     of its quill plectra to spines or thorns.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which I did now agree for, and did at Haward's meet with Mr. Thacker, and
      heard him play on the harpsicon, so as I never heard man before, I think.
      So home, it being almost night, and there find in the garden Pelling, who
      hath brought Tempest, Wallington, and Pelham, to sings and there had most
      excellent musick late, in the dark, with great pleasure. Made them drink
      and eat; and so with much pleasure to bed, but above all with little
      Wallington. This morning I was let blood, and did bleed about fourteen
      ounces, towards curing my eyes.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and to my office, where sat all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, and thence all the afternoon hard at the office, we meeting about
      the Victualler's new contract; and so into the garden, my Lady Pen, Mrs.
      Turner and her daughter, my wife and I, and there supped in the dark and
      were merry, and so to bed. This day Bossc finished his copy of my picture,
      which I confess I do not admire, though my wife prefers him to Browne; nor
      do I think it like. He do it for W. Hewer, who hath my wife's also, which
      I like less. This afternoon my Lady Pickering come to see us: I busy, saw
      her not. But how natural it is for us to slight people out of power, and
      for people out of power to stoop to see those that while in power they
      contemned!
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and all the morning busy at the office to my great content,
      attending to the settling of papers there that I may have the more rest in
      winter for my eyes by how much I do the more in the settling of all things
      in the summer by daylight. At noon home to dinner, where is brought home
      the espinette I bought the other day of Haward; costs me L5. So to St.
      James's, where did our ordinary business with the Duke of York. So to
      Unthanke's to my wife, and with her and Deb. to visit Mrs. Pierce, whom I
      do not now so much affect, since she paints. But stayed here a while, and
      understood from her how my Lady Duchesse of Monmouth is still lame, and
      likely always to be so, which is a sad chance for a young [lady] to get,
      only by trying of tricks in dancing. So home, and there Captain Deane come
      and spent the evening with me, to draw some finishing lines on his fine
      draught of "The Resolution," the best ship, by all report, in the world,
      and so to bed. Wonderful hot all day and night, and this the first night
      that I remember in my life that ever I could lie with only a sheet and one
      rug. So much I am now stronger than ever I remember myself, at least since
      before I had the stone.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and to the office, where Yeabsly and Lanyon come to town and to
      speak with me about a matter wherein they are accused of cheating the King
      before the Lords' Commissioners of Tangier, and I doubt it true, but I
      have no hand in it, but will serve them what I can. All the morning at the
      office, and at noon dined at home, and then to the office again, where we
      met to finish the draft of the Victualler's contract, and so I by water
      with my Lord Brouncker to Arundell House, to the Royall Society, and there
      saw an experiment of a dog's being tied through the back, about the spinal
      artery, and thereby made void of all motion; and the artery being loosened
      again, the dog recovers. Thence to Cooper's, and saw his advance on my
      wife's picture, which will be indeed very fine. So with her to the
      'Change, to buy some things, and here I first bought of the sempstress
      next my bookseller's, where the pretty young girl is, that will be a great
      beauty. So home, and to supper with my wife in the garden, it being these
      two days excessively hot, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and fitted myself to discourse before the Council about business
      of tickets. So to White Hall, where waited on the Duke of York, and then
      the Council about that business; and I did discourse to their liking, only
      was too high to assert that nothing could be invented to secure the King
      more in the business of tickets than there is; which the Duke of
      Buckingham did except against, and I could have answered, but forbore; but
      all liked very well. Thence home, and with my wife and Deb. to the King's
      House to see a play revived called The&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;, a sorry mean
      play, that vexed us to sit in so much heat of the weather to hear it.
      Thence to see Betty Michell newly lain in, and after a little stay we took
      water and to Spring Garden, and there walked, and supped, and staid late,
      and with much pleasure, and to bed. The weather excessive hot, so as we
      were forced to lie in two beds, and I only with a sheet and rug, which is
      colder than ever I remember I could bear.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. At the office all the morning. At noon dined at home and Creed with
      me, who I do really begin to hate, and do use him with some reservedness.
      Here was also my old acquaintance, Will Swan, to see me, who continues a
      factious fanatick still, and I do use him civilly, in expectation that
      those fellows may grow great again. Thence to the office, and then with my
      wife to the 'Change and Unthanke's, after having been at Cooper's and sat
      there for her picture, which will be a noble picture, but yet I think not
      so like as Hales's is. So home and to my office, and then to walk in the
      garden, and home to supper and to bed. They say the King of France is
      making a war again, in Flanders, with the King of Spain; the King of Spain
      refusing to give him all that he says was promised him in the treaty.
      Creed told me this day how when the King was at my Lord Cornwallis's when
      he went last to Newmarket, that being there on a Sunday, the Duke of
      Buckingham did in the afternoon to please the King make a bawdy sermon to
      him out of Canticles, and that my Lord Cornwallis did endeavour to get the
      King a whore, and that must be a pretty girl the daughter of the parson of
      the place, but that she did get away, and leaped off of some place and
      killed herself, which if true is very sad.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th (Lord's day). Up, and to my chamber, and there I up and down in the
      house spent the morning getting things ready against noon, when come Mr.
      Cooper, Hales, Harris, Mr. Butler, that wrote Hudibras, and Mr. Cooper's
      cozen Jacke; and by and by comes Mr. Reeves and his wife, whom I never saw
      before: and there we dined: a good dinner, and company that pleased me
      mightily, being all eminent men in their way. Spent all the afternoon in
      talk and mirth, and in the evening parted, and then my wife and I to walk
      in the garden, and so home to supper, Mrs. Turner and husband and daughter
      with us, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and to the office, where Mrs. Daniel comes.... All the morning
      at the office. Dined at home, then with Mr. Colvill to the new Excise
      Office in Aldersgate Street, and thence back to the Old Exchange, to see a
      very noble fine lady I spied as I went through, in coming; and there took
      occasion to buy some gloves, and admire her, and a mighty fine fair lady
      indeed she was. Thence idling all the afternoon to Duck Lane, and there
      saw my bookseller's moher, but get no ground there yet; and here saw Mrs.
      Michell's daughter married newly to a bookseller, and she proves a comely
      little grave woman. So to visit my Lord Crew, who is very sick, to great
      danger, by an irisipulus;&mdash;[Erysipelas.]&mdash;the first day I heard
      of it, and so home, and took occasion to buy a rest for my espinette at
      the ironmonger's by Holborn Conduit, where the fair pretty woman is that I
      have lately observed there, and she is pretty, and je credo vain enough.
      Thence home and busy till night, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and to St. James's, but lost labour, the Duke abroad. So home to
      the office, where all the morning, and so to dinner, and then all the
      afternoon at the office, only went to my plate-maker's, and there spent an
      hour about contriving my little plates,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This passage has been frequently quoted as referring to Pepys's.
     small bookplate, with his initials S. P. and two anchors and ropes
     entwined; but if looked at carefully with the further reference on
     the 27th, it will be seen that it merely describes the preparation
     of engravings of the four dockyards.]
</pre>
    <p>
      for my books of the King's four Yards. At night walked in the garden, and
      supped and to bed, my eyes bad.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. All the morning at the office. Dined at home, and then to White Hall
      with Symson the joyner, and after attending at the Committee of the Navy
      about the old business of tickets, where the only expedient they have
      found is to bind the Commanders and Officers by oaths. The Duke of York
      told me how the Duke of Buckingham, after the Council the other day, did
      make mirth at my position, about the sufficiency of present rules in the
      business of tickets; and here I took occasion to desire a private
      discourse with the Duke of York, and he granted it to me on Friday next.
      So to shew Symson the King's new lodgings for his chimnies, which I desire
      to have one built in that mode, and so I home, and with little supper, to
      bed. This day a falling out between my wife and Deb., about a hood lost,
      which vexed me.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and all day long, but at dinner, at the Office, at work, till I
      was almost blind, which makes my heart sad.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and by water to St. James's, having, by the way, shewn Symson
      Sir W. Coventry's chimney-pieces, in order to the making me one; and
      there, after the Duke of York was ready, he called me to his closet; and
      there I did long and largely show him the weakness of our Office, and did
      give him advice to call us to account for our duties, which he did take
      mighty well, and desired me to draw up what I would have him write to the
      Office. I did lay open the whole failings of the Office, and how it was
      his duty to find them, and to find fault with them, as Admiral, especially
      at this time, which he agreed to, and seemed much to rely on what I said.
      Thence to White Hall, and there waited to attend the Council, but was not
      called in, and so home, and after dinner back with Sir J. Minnes by coach,
      and there attended, all of us, the Duke of York, and had the hearing of
      Mr. Pett's business, the Master-Shipwright at Chatham, and I believe he
      will be put out. But here Commissioner. Middleton did, among others, shew
      his good-nature and easiness to the Masters-Attendants, by mitigating
      their faults, so as, I believe, they will come in again. So home, and to
      supper and to bed, the Duke of York staying with us till almost night.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and at the Office all the morning; and at noon, after dinner, to
      Cooper's, it being a very rainy day, and there saw my wife's picture go
      on, which will be very fine indeed. And so home again to my letters, and
      then to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th (Lord's day). Up, and all the morning and after dinner, the afternoon
      also, with W. Hewer in my closet, setting right my Tangier Accounts, which
      I have let alone these six months and more, but find them very right, and
      is my great comfort. So in the evening to walk with my wife, and to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Busy all the morning at my office. At noon dined, and then I out of
      doors to my bookseller in Duck Lane, but su moher not at home, and it was
      pretty here to see a pretty woman pass by with a little wanton look, and
      je did sequi her round about the street from Duck Lane to Newgate Market,
      and then elle did turn back, and je did lose her. And so to see my Lord
      Crew, whom I find up; and did wait on him; but his face sore, but in hopes
      to do now very well again. Thence to Cooper's, where my wife's picture
      almost done, and mighty fine indeed. So over the water with my wife, and
      Deb., and Mercer, to Spring-Garden, and there eat and walked; and observe
      how rude some of the young gallants of the town are become, to go into
      people's arbours where there are not men, and almost force the women;
      which troubled me, to see the confidence of the vice of the age: and so we
      away by water, with much pleasure home. This day my plate-maker comes with
      my four little plates of the four Yards, cost me L5, which troubles me,
      but yet do please me also.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. All the morning at the office, and after dinner with my wife and
      Deb. to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Slighted Maid,"
      but a mean play; and thence home, there being little pleasure now in a
      play, the company being but little. Here we saw Gosnell, who is become
      very homely, and sings meanly, I think, to what I thought she did.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Busy all the morning at the office. So home to dinner, where Mercer,
      and there comes Mr. Swan, my old acquaintance, and dines with me, and
      tells me, for a certainty, that Creed is to marry Betty Pickering, and
      that the thing is concluded, which I wonder at, and am vexed for. So he
      gone I with my wife and two girls to the King's house, and saw "The Mad
      Couple," a mean play altogether, and thence to Hyde Parke, where but few
      coaches, and so to the New Exchange, and thence by water home, with much
      pleasure, and then to sing in the garden, and so home to bed, my eyes for
      these four days being my trouble, and my heart thereby mighty sad.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and by water to White Hall. There met with Mr. May, who was
      giving directions about making a close way for people to go dry from the
      gate up into the House, to prevent their going through the galleries;
      which will be very good. I staid and talked with him about the state of
      the King's Offices in general, and how ill he is served, and do still find
      him an excellent person, and so back to the office. So close at my office
      all the afternoon till evening, and then out with my wife to the New
      Exchange, and so back again.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up, and at my office all the morning. About noon with Mr. Ashburnham
      to the new Excise Office, and there discoursed about our business, and I
      made him admire my drawing a thing presently in shorthand: but, God knows!
      I have paid dear for it, in my eyes. Home and to dinner, and then my wife
      and Deb. and I, with Sir J. Minnes, to White Hall, she going hence to the
      New Exchange, and the Duke of York not being in the way, Sir J. Minnes and
      I to her and took them two to the King's house, to see the first day of
      Lacy's "Monsieur Ragou," now new acted. The King and Court all there, and
      mighty merry&mdash;a farce. Thence Sir J. Minnes giving us, like a
      gentleman, his coach, hearing we had some business, we to the Park, and so
      home. Little pleasure there, there being little company, but mightily
      taken with a little chariot that we saw in the street, and which we are
      resolved to have ours like it. So home to walk in the garden a little, and
      then to bed. The month ends mighty sadly with me, my eyes being now past
      all use almost; and I am mighty hot upon trying the late printed
      experiment of paper tubes.
    </p>
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     [An account of these tubulous spectacles ("An easy help for decayed
     sight") is given in "The Philosophical Transactions," No. 37, pp.
     727,731 (Hutton's Abridgment, vol. i., p. 266).  See Diary, August
     12th and 23rd, post.]
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    <p>
      August 1st. All the morning at the office. After dinner my wife, and Deb.,
      and I, to the King's house again, coming too late yesterday to hear the
      prologue, and do like the play better now than before; and, indeed, there
      is a great deal of true wit in it, more than in the common sort of plays,
      and so home to my business, and at night to bed, my eyes making me sad.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. (Lord's day). Up and at home all the morning, hanging, and removing
      of some pictures, in my study and house. At noon Pelling dined with me.
      After dinner, I and Tom, my boy, by water up to Putney, and there heard a
      sermon, and many fine people in the church. Thence walked to Barne Elmes,
      and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me several
      things, being now-a-days unable to read myself anything, for above two
      lines together, but my eyes grow weary. Home about night, and so to supper
      and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and by water to White Hall and St. James's, where I did much
      business, and about noon meeting Dr. Gibbons, carried him to the Sun
      taverne, in King Street, and there made him, and some friends of his,
      drink; among others, Captain Silas Taylor, and here did get Gibbons to
      promise me some things for my flageolets. So to the Old Exchange, and then
      home to dinner, and so, Mercer dining with us, I took my wife and her and
      Deb. out to Unthanke's, while I to White Hall to the Commissioners of the
      Treasury, and so back to them and took them out to Islington, where we met
      with W. Joyce and his wife and boy, and there eat and drank, and a great
      deal of his idle talk, and so we round by Hackney home, and so to sing a
      little in the garden, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and to my office a little, and then to White Hall about a
      Committee for Tangier at my Lord Arlington's, where, by Creed's being out
      of town, I have the trouble given me of drawing up answers to the
      complaints of the Turks of Algiers, and so I have all the papers put into
      my hand. Here till noon, and then back to the Office, where sat a little,
      and then to dinner, and presently to the office, where come to me my Lord
      Bellassis, Lieutenant-Colonell Fitzgerald, newly come from Tangier, and
      Sir Arthur Basset, and there I received their informations, and so, they
      being gone, I with my clerks and another of Lord Brouncker's, Seddon, sat
      up till two in the morning, drawing up my answers and writing them fair,
      which did trouble me mightily to sit up so long, because of my eyes.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. So to bed about two o'clock, and then up about seven and to White
      Hall, where read over my report to Lord Arlington and Berkeley, and then
      afterward at the Council Board with great good liking, but, Lord! how it
      troubled my eyes, though I did not think I could have done it, but did do
      it, and was not very bad afterward. So home to dinner, and thence out to
      the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Guardian;" formerly the
      same, I find, that was called "Cutter of Coleman Street;" a silly play.
      And thence to Westminster Hall, where I met Fitzgerald; and with him to a
      tavern, to consider of the instructions for Sir Thomas Allen, against his
      going to Algiers; he and I being designed to go down to Portsmouth by the
      Council's order, and by and by he and I went to the Duke of York, who
      orders me to go down to-morrow morning. So I away home, and there bespeak
      a coach; and so home and to bed, my wife being abroad with the Mercers
      walking in the fields, and upon the water.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Waked betimes, and my wife, at an hour's warning, is resolved to go
      with me, which pleases me, her readiness. But, before ready, comes a
      letter from Fitzgerald, that he is seized upon last night by an order of
      the General's by a file of musqueteers, and kept prisoner in his chamber.
      The Duke of York did tell me of it to-day: it is about a quarrel between
      him and Witham, and they fear a challenge: so I to him, and sent my wife
      by the coach round to Lambeth. I lost my labour going to his lodgings, and
      he in bed: and, staying a great while for him, I at last grew impatient,
      and would stay no longer; but to St. James's to Mr. Wren, to bid him "God
      be with you!" and so over the water to Fox Hall; and there my wife and
      Deb. come and took me up, and we away to Gilford, losing our way for three
      or four mile, about Cobham. At Gilford we dined; and, I shewed them the
      hospitall there of Bishop Abbot's, and his tomb in the church, which, and
      the rest of the tombs there, are kept mighty clean and neat, with curtains
      before them. So to coach again, and got to Lippock,2 late over Hindhead,
      having an old man, a guide, in the coach with us; but got thither with
      great fear of being out of our way, it being ten at night. Here good,
      honest people; and after supper, to bed....
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and to coach, and with a guide to Petersfield, where I find Sir
      Thomas Allen and Mr. Tippets come; the first about the business, the
      latter only in respect to me; as also Fitzgerald, who come post all last
      night, and newly arrived here. We four sat down presently to our business,
      and in an hour despatched all our talk; and did inform Sir Thomas Allen
      well in it, who, I perceive, in serious matters, is a serious man: and
      tells me he wishes all we are told be true, in our defence; for he finds
      by all, that the Turks have, to this day, been very civil to our
      merchant-men everywhere; and, if they would have broke with us, they never
      had such an opportunity over our rich merchant-men, as lately, coming out
      of the Streights. Then to dinner, and pretty merry: and here was Mr.
      Martin, the purser, and dined with us, and wrote some things for us. And
      so took coach again back; Fitzgerald with us, whom I was pleased with all
      the day, with his discourse of his observations abroad, as being a great
      soldier and of long standing abroad: and knows all things and persons
      abroad very well&mdash;I mean, the great soldiers of France, and Spain,
      and Germany; and talks very well. Come at night to Gilford, where the Red
      Lyon so full of people, and a wedding, that the master of the house did
      get us a lodging over the way, at a private house, his landlord's, mighty
      neat and fine; and there supped and talked with the landlord and his wife:
      and so to bed with great content, only Fitzgerald lay at the Inne. So to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and I walked out, and met Uncle Wight, whom I sent to last night,
      and Mr. Wight coming to see us, and I walked with them back to see my aunt
      at Katherine Hill, and there walked up and down the hill and places,
      about: but a dull place, but good ayre, and the house dull. But here I saw
      my aunt, after many days not seeing her&mdash;I think, a year or two; and
      she walked with me to see my wife. And here, at the Red Lyon, we all dined
      together, and mighty merry, and then parted: and we home to Fox Hall,
      where Fitzgerald and I 'light, and by water to White Hall, where the Duke
      of York being abroad, I by coach and met my wife, who went round, and
      after doing at the office a little, and finding all well at home, I to
      bed. I hear that Colbert, the French Ambassador, is come, and hath been at
      Court incognito. When he hath his audience, I know not.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). Up, and walked to Holborne, where got John Powell's
      coach at the Black Swan, and he attended me at St. James's, where waited
      on the Duke of York: and both by him and several of the Privy-Council,
      beyond expectation, I find that my going to Sir Thomas Allen was looked
      upon as a thing necessary: and I have got some advantage by it, among
      them. Thence to White Hall, and thence to visit Lord Brouncker, and back
      to White Hall, where saw the Queen and ladies; and so, with Mr. Slingsby,
      to Mrs. Williams's, thinking to dine with Lord Brouncker there, but did
      not, having promised my wife to come home, though here I met Knepp, to my
      great content. So home; and, after dinner, I took my wife and Deb. round
      by Hackney, and up and down to take the ayre; and then home, and made
      visits to Mrs. Turner, and Mrs. Mercer, and Sir W. Pen, who is come from
      Epsom not well, and Sir J. Minnes, who is not well neither. And so home to
      supper, and to set my books a little right, and then to bed. This day
      Betty Michell come and dined with us, the first day after her lying in,
      whom I was glad to see.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and thence to Sir W. Coventry, but
      he is gone out of town this morning, so thence to my Lord Arlington's
      house, the first time I there since he come thither, at Goring House, a
      very fine, noble place; and there he received me in sight of several Lords
      with great respect. I did give him an account of my journey; and here,
      while I waited for him a little, my Lord Orrery took notice of me, and
      begun discourse of hangings, and of the improvement of shipping: I not
      thinking that he knew me, but did then discover it, with a mighty
      compliment of my abilities and ingenuity, which I am mighty proud of; and
      he do speak most excellently. Thence to Westminster Hall, and so by coach
      to the old Exchange, and there did several businesses, and so home to
      dinner, and then abroad to Duck Lane, where I saw my belle femme of the
      book vendor, but had no opportunity para hazer con her. So away to
      Cooper's, where I spent all the afternoon with my wife and girl, seeing
      him-make an end of her picture, which he did Jo my great content, though
      not so great as, I confess, I expected, being not satisfied in the
      greatness of the resemblance, nor in the blue garment: but it is most
      certainly a most rare piece of work, as to the painting. He hath L30 for
      his work&mdash;and the chrystal, and case, and gold case comes to L8 3s.
      4d.; and which I sent him this night, that I might be out of debt. Thence
      my people home, and I to Westminster Hall about a little business, and so
      by water home [to] supper, and my wife to read a ridiculous book I bought
      today of the History of the Taylors' Company,
    </p>
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     [The title of this book was, "The Honour of the Merchant Taylors."
     Wherein is set forth the noble acts, valliant deeds, and heroick
     performances of Merchant Taylors in former ages; their honourable
     loves, and knightly adventures, their combating of foreign enemies
     and glorious successes in honour of the English nation: together
     with their pious....]
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    <p>
      and all the while Deb. did comb my head, and I did toker her with my main
      para very great pleasure, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and by water to Sir W. Coventry to visit him, whom I find yet
      troubled at the Commissioners of Accounts, about this business of Sir W.
      Warren, which is a ridiculous thing, and can come to nothing but contempt,
      and thence to Westminster Hall, where the Parliament met enough to
      adjourne, which they did, to the 10th of November next, and so by water
      home to the office, and so to dinner, and thence at the Office all the
      afternoon till night, being mightily pleased with a little trial I have
      made of the use of a tube-spectacall of paper, tried with my right eye.
      This day I hear that, to the great joy of the Nonconformists, the time is
      out of the Act against them, so that they may meet: and they have declared
      that they will have a morning lecture
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [During the troubled reign of Charles I., the House of Commons gave
     parishioners the right of appointing lecturers at the various
     churches without the consent of rector or vicar, and this naturally
     gave rise to many quarrels.  In the early period of the war between
     the king and the parliament, a course of sermons or lectures was
     projected in aid of the parliamentary cause.  These lectures, which
     were preached by eminent Presbyterian divines at seven o'clock on
     the Sunday mornings, were commenced in the church of St. Mary
     Magdalen in Milk Street, but were soon afterwards removed to St.
     Giles's, Cripplegate.  After the Restoration the lectures were
     collected in four volumes, and published under the title of the
     "Cripplegate Morning Exercises," vol. i. in 1661; vol. ii. in 1674;
     vol. iii. in 1682; and vol. iv. in 1690.  In addition there were two
     volumes which form a supplement to the work, viz., "The Morning
     Exercises methodized," preached at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, edited
     by the Rev. Thomas Case in 1660, and the "Exercises against Popery,"
     preached in Southwark, and published in 1675 (see Demon's "Records
     of St. Giles's, Crinnlegate," 1883, pp. 55-56).]
</pre>
    <p>
      up again, which is pretty strange; and they are connived at by the King
      every where, I hear, in City and country. So to visit W. Pen, who is yet
      ill, and then home, where W. Batelier and Mrs. Turner come and sat and
      supped with us, and so they gone we to bed. This afternoon my wife, and
      Mercer, and Deb., went with Pelting to see the gypsies at Lambeth, and
      have their fortunes told; but what they did, I did not enquire.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and all the morning busy at my office. Thence to the Excise
      Office, and so to the Temple to take counsel about Major Nicholls's
      business for the King. So to several places about business, and among
      others to Drumbleby's about the mouths for my paper tubes, and so to the
      'Change and home. Met Captain Cocke, who tells me that he hears for
      certain the Duke of York will lose the authority of an Admiral, and be
      governed by a Committee: and all our Office changed; only they are in
      dispute whether I shall continue or no, which puts new thoughts in me, but
      I know not whether to be glad or sorry. Home to dinner, where Pelting
      dines with us, and brings some partridges, which is very good meat; and,
      after dinner, I, and wife, and Mercer, and Deb., to the Duke of York's
      house, and saw "Mackbeth," to our great content, and then home, where the
      women went to the making of my tubes, and I to the office, and then come
      Mrs. Turner and her husband to advise about their son, the Chaplain, who
      is turned out of his ship, a sorrow to them, which I am troubled for, and
      do give them the best advice I can, and so they gone we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and Greeting comes, and there he and I tried some things of Mr.
      Locke's for two flageolets, to my great content, and this day my wife
      begins again to learn of him; for I have a great mind for her to be able
      to play a part with me. Thence I to the Office, where all the afternoon
      [morning??], and then to dinner, where W. Howe dined with me, who tells me
      for certain that Creed is like to speed in his match with Mrs. Betty
      Pickering. Here dined with me also Mr. Hollier, who is mighty vain in his
      pretence to talk Latin. So to the Office again all the afternoon till
      night, very busy, and so with much content home, and made my wife sing and
      play on the flageolet to me till I slept with great pleasure in bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and by water to White Hall and St. James's, and to see Sir W.
      Coventry, and discourse about business of our Office, telling him my
      trouble there, to see how things are ordered. I told him also what Cocke
      told me the other day, but he says there is not much in it, though he do
      know that this hath been in the eye of some persons to compass for the
      turning all things in the navy, and that it looks so like a popular thing
      as that he thinks something may be done in it, but whether so general or
      no, as I tell it him, he knows not. Thence to White Hall, and there wait
      at the Council-chamber door a good while, talking with one or other, and
      so home by water, though but for a little while, because I am to return to
      White Hall. At home I find Symson, putting up my new chimney-piece, in our
      great chamber, which is very fine, but will cost a great deal of money,
      but it is not flung away. So back to White Hall, and after the council up,
      I with Mr. Wren, by invitation, to Sir Stephen Fox's to dinner, where the
      Cofferer and Sir Edward Savage; where many good stories of the antiquity
      and estates of many families at this day in Cheshire, and that part of the
      kingdom, more than what is on this side, near London. My Lady [Fox] dining
      with us; a very good lady, and a family governed so nobly and neatly as do
      me good to see it. Thence the Cofferer, Sir Stephen, and I to the
      Commissioners of the Treasury about business: and so I up to the Duke of
      York, who enquired for what I had promised him, about my observations of
      the miscarriages of our Office;
    </p>
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     [This refers to the letter on the affairs of the office which Pepys
     prepared, and respecting which, and the proceedings which grew out
     of it, so many references are made in future pages of the Diary.]
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    <p>
      and I told him he should have it next week, being glad he called for it;
      for I find he is concerned to do something, and to secure himself thereby,
      I believe: for the world is labouring to eclipse him, I doubt; I mean, the
      factious part of the Parliament. The Office met this afternoon as usual,
      and waited on him; where, among other things, he talked a great while of
      his intentions of going to Dover soon, to be sworn as Lord Warden, which
      is a matter of great ceremony and state, and so to the Temple with Mr.
      Wren, to the Attorney's chamber, about business, but he abroad, and so I
      home, and there spent the evening talking with my wife and piping, and
      pleased with our chimney-piece, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy, and after dinner
      with my wife, Mercer, and Deb., to the King's playhouse, and there saw
      "Love's Mistresse" revived, the thing pretty good, but full of variety of
      divertisement. So home and to my business at the office, my eyes bad
      again, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). All the morning at my Office with W. Hewer, there
      drawing up my Report to the Duke of York, as I have promised, about the
      faults of this Office, hoping thereby to have opportunity of doing myself
      [something]. At noon to dinner, and again with him to work all the
      afternoon till night, till I was weary and had despatched a good deal of
      business, and so to bed after hearing my wife read a little.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and so to St. James's, and thence
      with Mr. Wren by appointment in his coach to Hampstead, to speak with the
      Atturney-general, whom we met in the fields, by his old route and house;
      and after a little talk about our business of Ackeworth, went and saw the
      Lord Wotton's house and garden, which is wonderfull fine: too good for the
      house the gardens are, being, indeed, the most noble that ever I saw, and
      brave orange and lemon trees. Thence to Mr. Chichley's by invitation, and
      there dined with Sir John, his father not coming home. And while at dinner
      comes by the French Embassador Colbert's mules, the first I eversaw, with
      their sumpter-clothes mighty rich, and his coaches, he being to have his
      entry to-day: but his things, though rich, are not new; supposed to be the
      same his brother
    </p>
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     [A mistake of Pepys's.  Colbert de Croissy, then in England, had
     himself been the French Plenipotentiary at Aix-la-Chapelle.&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      had the other day, at the treaty at Aix-la-Chapelle, in Flanders. Thence
      to the Duke of York's house, and there saw "Cupid's Revenge," under the
      new name of "Love Despised," that hath something very good in it, though I
      like not the whole body of it. This day the first time acted here. Thence
      home, and there with Mr. Hater and W. Hewer late, reading over all the
      principal officers' instructions in order to my great work upon my hand,
      and so to bed, my eyes very ill.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and to my office about my great business betimes, and so to the
      office, where all the morning. At noon dined, and then to the office all
      the afternoon also, and in the evening to Sir W. Coventry's, but he not
      within, I took coach alone to the Park, to try to meet him there, but did
      not; but there were few coaches, but among the few there were in two
      coaches our two great beauties, my Lady Castlemayne and Richmond; the
      first time I saw the latter since she had the smallpox. I had much
      pleasure to see them, but I thought they were strange one to another.
      Thence going out I met a coach going, which I thought had Knepp in it, so
      I went back, but it was not she. So back to White Hall and there took
      water, and so home, and busy late about my great letter to the Duke of
      York, and so to supper and to bed....
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up betimes, and all day and afternoon without going out, busy upon
      my great letter to the Duke of York, which goes on to my content. W. Hewer
      and Gibson I employ with me in it. This week my people wash, over the
      water, and so I little company at home. In the evening, being busy above,
      a great cry I hear, and go down; and what should it be but Jane, in a fit
      of direct raving, which lasted half-an-hour. Beyond four or five of our
      strength to keep her down; and, when all come to all, a fit of jealousy
      about Tom, with whom she is in love. So at night, I, and my wife, and W.
      Hewer called them to us, and there I did examine all the thing, and them,
      in league. She in love, and he hath got her to promise him to marry, and
      he is now cold in it, so that I must rid my hands of them, which troubles
      me, and the more because my head is now busy upon other greater things. I
      am vexed also to be told by W. Hewer that he is summoned to the
      Commissioners of Accounts about receiving a present of L30 from Mr. Mason,
      the timber merchant, though there be no harm in it, that will appear on
      his part, he having done them several lawful kindnesses and never demanded
      anything, as they themselves have this day declared to the Commissioners,
      they being forced up by the discovery of somebody that they in confidence
      had once told it to. So to supper vexed and my head full of care, and so
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Betimes at my business again, and so to the office, and dined with
      Brouncker and J. Minnes, at Sir W. Pen's at a bad pasty of venison, and so
      to work again, and at it till past twelve at night, that I might get my
      great letter
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In the Pepysian Library is a MS. (No. 2242), entitled, "Papers
     conteyning my addresse to his Royall Highnesse James Duke of Yorke,
     Lord High Admirall of England, &amp;c., by letter dated the 20th of
     August, 1668, humbly tendering him my advice touching the present
     State of the Office of the Navy, with his Royall Highness's
     proceedings upon the same, and their result."]
</pre>
    <p>
      to the Duke of York ready against to-morrow, which I shall do, to my great
      content. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up betimes, and with my people again to work, and finished all
      before noon: and then I by water to White Hall, and there did tell the
      Duke of York that I had done; and he hath to my great content desired me
      to come to him at Sunday next in the afternoon, to read it over, by which
      I have more time to consider and correct it. So back home and to the
      'Change, in my way calling at Morris', my vintner's, where I love to see
      su moher, though no acquaintance accostais this day con her. Did several
      things at the 'Change, and so home to dinner. After dinner I by coach to
      my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and there did spend a little time and
      regarder su moher, and so to St. James's, where did a little ordinary
      business; and by and by comes Monsieur Colbert, the French Embassador, to
      make his first visit to the Duke of York, and then to the Duchess: and I
      saw it: a silly piece of ceremony, he saying only a few formal words. A
      comely man, and in a black suit and cloak of silk, which is a strange
      fashion, now it hath been so long left off: This day I did first see the
      Duke of York's room of pictures of some Maids of Honour, done by Lilly:
      good, but not like.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The set of portraits known as "King Charles's Beauties," formerly
     in Windsor Castle, but now at Hampton Court.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      Thence to Reeves's, and bought a reading-glass, and so to my bookseller's
      again, there to buy a Book of Martyrs,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The popular name of John Fox's "Acts and Monuments," first
     published in 1562-63.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which I did agree for; and so, after seeing and beginning acquaintance con
      his femme, but very little, away home, and there busy very late at the
      correcting my great letter to the Duke of York, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up betimes, at it again with great content, and so to the Office,
      where all the morning, and did fall out with W. Pen about his slight
      performance of his office, and so home to dinner, fully satisfied that
      this Office must sink or the whole Service be undone. To the office all
      the afternoon again, and then home to supper and to bed, my mind being
      pretty well at ease, my great letter being now finished to my full
      content; and I thank God I have opportunity of doing it, though I know it
      will set the Office and me by the ears for ever. This morning Captain
      Cocke comes, and tells me that he is now assured that it is true, what he
      told me the other day, that our whole Office will be turned out, only me,
      which, whether he says true or no, I know not, nor am much concerned,
      though I should be better contented to have it thus than otherwise. This
      afternoon, after I was weary in my business of the office, I went forth to
      the 'Change, thinking to have spoke with Captain Cocke, but he was not
      within. So I home, and took London-bridge in my way; walking down Fish
      Street and Gracious Street, to see how very fine a descent they have now
      made down the hill, that it is become very easy and pleasant, and going
      through Leaden-Hall, it being market-day, I did see a woman catched, that
      had stolen a shoulder of mutton off of a butcher's stall, and carrying it
      wrapt up in a cloth, in a basket. The jade was surprised, and did not deny
      it, and the woman so silly, as to let her go that took it, only taking the
      meat.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). Up betimes, my head busy in my great letter, and I did
      first hang up my new map of Paris in my green room, and changed others in
      other places. Then to Captain Cocke's, thinking to have talked more of
      what he told me yesterday, but he was not within. So back to church, and
      heard a good sermon of Mr. Gifford's at our church, upon "Seek ye first
      the kingdom of Heaven and its righteousness, and all these things shall be
      added to you." A very excellent and persuasive, good and moral sermon.
      Shewed, like a wise man, that righteousness is a surer moral way of being
      rich, than sin and villainy. Then home to dinner, where Mr. Pelting, who
      brought us a hare, which we had at dinner, and W. Howe. After dinner to
      the Office, Mr. Gibson and I, to examine my letter to the Duke of York,
      which, to my great joy, I did very well by my paper tube, without pain to
      my eyes. And I do mightily like what I have therein done; and did,
      according to the Duke of York's order, make haste to St. James's, and
      about four o'clock got thither: and there the Duke of York was ready, to
      expect me, and did hear it all over with extraordinary content; and did
      give me many and hearty thanks, and in words the most expressive tell me
      his sense of my good endeavours, and that he would have a care of me on
      all occasions; and did, with much inwardness,&mdash;[i.e., intimacy.]&mdash;tell
      me what was doing, suitable almost to what Captain Cocke tells me, of
      designs to make alterations in the Navy; and is most open to me in them,
      and with utmost confidence desires my further advice on all occasions: and
      he resolves to have my letter transcribed, and sent forthwith to the
      Office. So, with as much satisfaction as I could possibly, or did hope
      for, and obligation on the Duke of York's side professed to me, I away
      into the Park, and there met Mr. Pierce and his wife, and sister and
      brother, and a little boy, and with them to Mulberry Garden, and spent I
      18s. on them, and there left them, she being again with child, and by it,
      the least pretty that ever I saw her. And so I away, and got a coach, and
      home, and there with my wife and W. Hewer, talking all the evening, my
      mind running on the business of the Office, to see what more I can do to
      the rendering myself acceptable and useful to all and to the King. We to
      supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning upon considerations on
      the Victualler's contract, and then home to dinner, where my wife is upon
      hanging the long chamber where the girl lies, with the sad stuff that was
      in the best chamber, in order to the hanging that with tapestry. So to
      dinner, and then to the office again, where all the afternoon till night,
      we met to discourse upon the alterations which are propounded to be made
      in the draft of the victualler's contract which we did lately make, and
      then we being up comes Mr. Child, Papillion and Littleton, his partners,
      to discourse upon the matter with me, which I did, and spent all the
      evening with them at the office, and so, they being gone, I to supper and
      talk with my wife, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and by water to St. James's, and there, with Mr. Wren, did
      discourse about my great letter, which the Duke of York hath given him:
      and he hath set it to be transcribed by Billings, his man, whom, as he
      tells me, he can most confide in for secresy, and is much pleased with it,
      and earnest to have it be; and he and I are like to be much together in
      the considering how to reform the Office, and that by the Duke of York's
      command. Thence I, mightily pleased with this success, away to the Office,
      where all the morning, my head full of this business. And it is pretty how
      Lord Brouncker this day did tell me how he hears that a design is on foot
      to remove us out of the Office: and proposes that we two do agree to draw
      up a form of a new constitution of the Office, there to provide remedies
      for the evils we are now under, so that we may be beforehand with the
      world, which I agreed to, saying nothing of my design; and, the truth is,
      he is the best man of them all, and I would be glad, next myself, to save
      him; for, as he deserves best, so I doubt he needs his place most. So home
      to dinner at noon, and all the afternoon busy at the office till night,
      and then with my mind full of business now in my head, I to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning almost, busy about
      business against the afternoon, and we met a little to sign two or three
      things at the Board of moment, and thence at noon home to dinner, and so
      away to White Hall by water. In my way to the Old Swan, finding a great
      many people gathered together in Cannon Street about a man that was
      working in the ruins, and the ground did sink under him, and he sunk in,
      and was forced to be dug out again, but without hurt. Thence to White
      Hall, and it is strange to say with what speed the people employed do pull
      down Paul's steeple, and with what ease: it is said that it, and the choir
      are to be taken down this year, and another church begun in the room
      thereof, the next. At White Hall we met at the Treasury chamber, and there
      before the Lords did debate our draft of the victualling contract with the
      several bidders for it, which were Sir D. Gawden, Mr. Child and his
      fellows, and Mr. Dorrington and his, a poor variety in a business of this
      value. There till after candle-lighting, and so home by coach with Sir D.
      Gawden, who, by the way, tells me how the City do go on in several things
      towards the building of the public places, which I am glad to hear; and
      gives hope that in a few years it will be a glorious place; but we met
      with several stops and new troubles in the way in the streets, so as makes
      it bad to travel in the dark now through the City. So I to Mr. Batelier's
      by appointment, where I find my wife, and Deb., and Mercer; Mrs. Pierce
      and her husband, son, and daughter; and Knepp and Harris, and W. Batelier,
      and his sister Mary, and cozen Gumbleton, a good-humoured, fat young
      gentleman, son to the jeweller, that dances well; and here danced all
      night long, with a noble supper; and about two in the morning the table
      spread again for a noble breakfast beyond all moderation, that put me out
      of countenance, so much and so good. Mrs. Pierce and her people went home
      betimes, she being big with child; but Knepp and the rest staid till
      almost three in the morning, and then broke up.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Knepp home with us, and I to bed, and rose about six, mightily
      pleased with last night's mirth, and away by water to St. James's, and
      there, with Mr. Wren, did correct his copy of my letter, which the Duke of
      York hath signed in my very words, without alteration of a syllable.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [A copy of this letter is in the British Museum, Harl.  MS. 6003.
     See July 24th, ante, and August 29th, Post.  In the Pepysian
     Collection are the following: An Inquisition, by his Royal Highness
     the Duke of York, when Lord High Admiral of England, into the
     Management of the Navy, 1668, with his Regulations thereon, fol.
     Also Mr. Pepys's Defence of the same upon an Inquisition thereunto
     by Parliament, 1669, fol.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      And so pleased therewith, I to my Lord Brouncker, who I find within, but
      hath business, and so comes not to the Office to-day. And so I by water to
      the Office, where we sat all the morning; and, just as the Board rises,
      comes the Duke of York's letter, which I knowing, and the Board not being
      full, and desiring rather to have the Duke of York deliver it himself to
      us, I suppressed it for this day, my heart beginning to falsify in this
      business, as being doubtful of the trouble it may give me by provoking
      them; but, however, I am resolved to go through it, and it is too late to
      help it now. At noon to dinner to Captain Cocke's, where I met with Mr.
      Wren; my going being to tell him what I have done, which he likes, and to
      confer with Cocke about our Office; who tells me that he is confident the
      design of removing our Officers do hold, but that he is sure that I am
      safe enough. Which pleases me, though I do not much shew it to him, but as
      a thing indifferent. So away home, and there met at Sir Richard Ford's
      with the Duke of York's Commissioners about our Prizes, with whom we shall
      have some trouble before we make an end with them, and hence, staying a
      little with them, I with my wife, and W. Batelier, and Deb.; carried them
      to Bartholomew Fayre, where we saw the dancing of the ropes and nothing
      else, it being late, and so back home to supper and to bed, after having
      done at my office.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Busy at the office till toward 10 o'clock, and then by water to
      White Hall, where attending the Council's call all the morning with Lord
      Brouncker, W. Pen, and the rest, about the business of supernumeraries in
      the fleete, but were not called in. But here the Duke of York did call me
      aside, and told me that he must speak with me in the afternoon, with Mr.
      Wren, for that now he hath got the paper from my Lord Keeper about the
      exceptions taken against the management of the Navy; and so we are to
      debate upon answering them. At noon I home with W. Coventry to his house;
      and there dined with him, and talked freely with him; and did acquaint him
      with what I have done, which he is well pleased with, and glad of: and do
      tell me that there are endeavours on foot to bring the Navy into new, but,
      he fears, worse hands. After much talk with great content with him, I
      walked to the Temple, and staid at Starky's, my bookseller's (looking over
      Dr. Heylin's new book of the Life of Bishop Laud, a strange book of the
      Church History of his time), till Mr. Wren comes, and by appointment we to
      the Atturney General's chamber, and there read and heard the witnesses in
      the business of Ackeworth, most troublesome and perplexed by the counter
      swearing of the witnesses one against the other, and so with Mr. Wren away
      thence to St. [James's] for his papers, and so to White Hall, and after
      the Committee was done at the Council chamber about the business of
      Supernumeraries, wherein W. Pen was to do all and did, but like an
      ignorant illiterate coxcomb, the Duke of York fell to work with us, the
      Committee being gone, in the Council-chamber; and there, with his own
      hand, did give us his long letter, telling us that he had received several
      from us, and now did give us one from him, taking notice of our several
      duties and failures, and desired answer to it, as he therein desired; this
      pleased me well; and so fell to other business, and then parted. And the
      Duke of York, and Wren, and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of
      York's closet in White Hall; and there read over this paper of my Lord
      Keeper's, wherein are laid down the faults of the Navy, so silly, and the
      remedies so ridiculous, or else the same that are now already provided,
      that we thought it not to need any answer, the Duke of York being able
      himself to do it: that so it makes us admire the confidence of these men
      to offer things so silly, in a business of such moment. But it is a most
      perfect instance of the complexion of the times! and so the Duke of York
      said himself, who, I perceive, is mightily concerned in it, and do, again
      and again, recommend it to Mr. Wren and me together, to consider upon
      remedies fit to provide for him to propound to the King, before the rest
      of the world, and particularly the Commissioners of Accounts, who are men
      of understanding and order, to find our faults, and offer remedies of
      their own, which I am glad of, and will endeavour to do something in it.
      So parted, and with much difficulty, by candle-light, walked over the
      Matted Gallery, as it is now with the mats and boards all taken up, so
      that we walked over the rafters. But strange to see what hard matter the
      plaister of Paris is, that is there taken up, as hard as stone! And pity
      to see Holben's work in the ceiling blotted on, and only whited over!
      Thence; with much ado, by several coaches home, to supper and to bed. My
      wife having been this day with Hales, to sit for her hand to be mended, in
      her picture.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and all the morning at the Office, where the Duke of York's long
      letter was read, to their great trouble, and their suspecting me to have
      been the writer of it. And at noon comes, by appointment, Harris to dine
      with me and after dinner he and I to Chyrurgeon's-hall, where they are
      building it new, very fine; and there to see their theatre; which stood
      all the fire, and, which was our business, their great picture of
      Holben's, thinking to have bought it, by the help of Mr. Pierce, for a
      little money: I did think to give L200 for it, it being said to be worth
      L1000; but it is so spoiled that I have no mind to it, and is not a
      pleasant, though a good picture. Thence carried Harris to his playhouse,
      where, though four o'clock, so few people there at "The Impertinents," as
      I went out; and do believe they did not act, though there was my Lord
      Arlington and his company there. So I out, and met my wife in a coach, and
      stopped her going thither to meet me; and took her, and Mercer, and Deb.,
      to Bartholomew Fair, and there did see a ridiculous, obscene little
      stage-play, called "Marry Andrey;" a foolish thing, but seen by every
      body; and so to Jacob Hall's dancing of the ropes; a thing worth seeing,
      and mightily followed, and so home and to the office, and then to bed.
      Writing to my father to-night not to unfurnish our house in the country
      for my sister, who is going to her own house, because I think I may have
      occasion myself to come thither; and so I do, by our being put out of the
      Office, which do not at all trouble me to think of.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Lord's day). Walked to St. James's and Pell Mell, and read over,
      with Sir W. Coventry, my long letter to the Duke of York, and which the
      Duke of York hath, from mine, wrote to the Board, wherein he is mightily
      pleased, and I perceive do put great value upon me, and did talk very
      openly on all matters of State, and how some people have got the bit into
      their mouths, meaning the Duke of Buckingham and his party, and would
      likely run away with all. But what pleased me mightily was to hear the
      good character he did give of my Lord Falmouth for his generosity,
      good-nature, desire of public good, and low thoughts of his own wisdom;
      his employing his interest in the King to do good offices to all people,
      without any other fault than the freedom he, do learn in France of
      thinking himself obliged to serve his King in his pleasures: and was W.
      Coventry's particular friend: and W. Coventry do tell me very odde
      circumstances about the fatality of his death, which are very strange.
      Thence to White Hall to chapel, and heard the anthem, and did dine with
      the Duke of Albemarle in a dirty manner as ever. All the afternoon, I
      sauntered up and down the house and Park. And there was a Committee for
      Tangier met, wherein Lord Middleton would, I think, have found fault with
      me for want of coles; but I slighted it, and he made nothing of it, but
      was thought to be drunk; and I see that he hath a mind to find fault with
      me and Creed, neither of us having yet applied ourselves to him about
      anything: but do talk of his profits and perquisites taken from him, and
      garrison reduced, and that it must be increased, and such things, as; I
      fear, he will be just such another as my Lord Tiviott and the rest, to
      ruin that place. So I to the Park, and there walk an hour or two; and in
      the King's garden, and saw the Queen and ladies walk; and I did steal some
      apples off the trees; and here did see my Lady Richmond, who is of a noble
      person as ever I saw, but her face worse than it was considerably by the
      smallpox: her sister' is also very handsome. Coming into the Park, and the
      door kept strictly, I had opportunity of handing in the little, pretty,
      squinting girl of the Duke of York's house, but did not make acquaintance
      with her; but let her go, and a little girl that was with her, to walk by
      themselves. So to White Hall in the evening, to the Queen's side, and
      there met the Duke of York; and he did tell me and W. Coventry, who was
      with me, how that Lord Anglesey did take notice of our reading his long
      and sharp letter to the Board; but that it was the better, at least he
      said so. The Duke of York, I perceive, is earnest in it, and will have
      good effects of it; telling W. Coventry that it was a letter that might
      have come from the Commissioners of Accounts, but it was better it should
      come first from him. I met Lord Brouncker, who, I perceive, and the rest,
      do smell that it comes from me, but dare not find fault with it; and I am
      glad of it, it being my glory and defence that I did occasion and write
      it. So by water home, and did spend the evening with W. Hewer, telling him
      how we are all like to be turned out, Lord Brouncker telling me this
      evening that the Duke of Buckingham did, within few hours, say that he had
      enough to turn us all out which I am not sorry for at all, for I know the
      world will judge me to go for company; and my eyes are such as I am not
      able to do the business of my Office as I used, and would desire to do,
      while I am in it. So with full content, declaring all our content in being
      released of my employment, my wife and I to bed, and W. Hewer home, and so
      all to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up, and to my office, there to set my journal for all the last week,
      and so by water to Westminster to the Exchequer, and thence to the Swan,
      and there drank and did baiser la fille there, and so to the New Exchange
      and paid for some things, and so to Hercules Pillars,' and there dined all
      alone, while I sent my shoe to have the heel fastened at Wotton's, and
      thence to White Hall to the Treasury chamber, where did a little business,
      and thence to the Duke of York's playhouse and there met my wife and Deb.
      and Mary Mercer and Batelier, where also W. Hewer was, and saw "Hamlet,"
      which we have not seen this year before, or more; and mightily pleased
      with it; but, above all, with Betterton, the best part I believe, that
      ever man acted. Thence to the Fayre, and saw "Polichinelle," and so home,
      and after a little supper to bed. This night lay the first night in Deb.'s
      chamber, which is now hung with that that hung our great chamber, and is
      now a very handsome room. This day Mrs. Batelier did give my wife a mighty
      pretty Spaniel bitch [Flora], which she values mightily, and is pretty;
      but as a new comer, I cannot be fond of her.
    </p>
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      SEPTEMBER 1668
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    <p>
      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,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [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.]
</pre>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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,"
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["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.]
</pre>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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&mdash;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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.&mdash;[And
      that he might tell Mrs. Pepys.&mdash;B.]
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [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."&mdash;i.e., Richard Flecknoe.]
</pre>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [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.]
</pre>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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
    </p>
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     [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."]
</pre>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Tuesday, Michaelmas day). Up, and to the Office, where all the
      morning.
    </p>
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      OCTOBER 1668
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     [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.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
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     [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.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      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;
    </p>
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     [It was probably for this payment that the tally was obtained, the
     loss of which caused Pepys so much anxiety.  See November 26th,
     1668]
</pre>
    <p>
      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.
      ...
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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&mdash;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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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, &amp;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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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, &amp;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!
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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
    </p>
    <p>
      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
    </p>
    <p>
      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,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This useful instrument, used for copying maps, plans, drawings, &amp;c.
     either of the same size, or larger or smaller than the originals, is
     now named a pantograph.]
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    <p>
      which I must have one of, shewing me his practice thereon, by a map of
      England.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
    </p>
    <p>
      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.
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    <p>
      November 1st (Lord's day). Up, and with W. Hewer at my chamber all this
      morning, going further in my great business for the Duke of York, and so
      at noon to dinner, and then W. Hewer to write fair what he had writ, and
      my wife to read to me all the afternoon, till anon Mr. Gibson come, and he
      and I to perfect it to my full mind, and so to supper and to bed, my mind
      yet at disquiet that I cannot be informed how poor Deb. stands with her
      mistress, but I fear she will put her away, and the truth is, though it be
      much against my mind and to my trouble, yet I think that it will be fit
      that she should be gone, for my wife's peace and mine, for she cannot but
      be offended at the sight of her, my wife having conceived this jealousy of
      me with reason, and therefore for that, and other reasons of expense, it
      will be best for me to let her go, but I shall love and pity her. This
      noon Mr. Povy sent his coach for my wife and I to see, which we like
      mightily, and will endeavour to have him get us just such another.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and a cold morning, by water through bridge without a cloak, and
      there to Mr. Wren at his chamber at White Hall, the first time of his
      coming thither this year, the Duchess coming thither tonight, and there he
      and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up
      about the several answers of the officers of this Office to the Duke of
      York's reflections, and did debate a little what advice to give the Duke
      of York when he comes to town upon it. Here come in Lord Anglesy, and I
      perceive he makes nothing of this order for his suspension, resolving to
      contend and to bring it to the Council on Wednesday when the King is come
      to town to-morrow, and Mr. Wren do join with him mightily in it, and do
      look upon the Duke of York as concerned more in it than he. So to visit
      Creed at his chamber, but his wife not come thither yet, nor do he tell me
      where she is, though she be in town, at Stepney, at Atkins's. So to Mr.
      Povy's to talk about a coach, but there I find my Lord Sandwich, and
      Peterborough, and Hinchingbroke, Charles Harbord, and Sidney Montagu; and
      there I was stopped, and dined mighty nobly at a good table, with one
      little dish at a time upon it, but mighty merry. I was glad to see it: but
      sorry, methought, to see my Lord have so little reason to be merry, and
      yet glad, for his sake, to have him cheerful. After dinner up, and looked
      up and down the house, and so to the cellar; and thence I slipt away,
      without taking leave, and so to a few places about business, and among
      others to my bookseller's in Duck Lane, and so home, where the house still
      full of dirt by painters and others, and will not be clean a good while.
      So to read and talk with my wife till by and by called to the office about
      Sir W. Warren's business, where we met a little, and then home to supper
      and to bed. This day I went, by Mr. Povy's direction, to a coachmaker near
      him, for a coach just like his, but it was sold this very morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and all the morning at the Office. At noon to dinner, and then to
      the Office, and there busy till 12 at night, without much pain to my eyes,
      but I did not use them to read or write, and so did hold out very well. So
      home, and there to supper, and I observed my wife to eye my eyes whether I
      did ever look upon Deb., which I could not but do now and then (and to my
      grief did see the poor wretch look on me and see me look on her, and then
      let drop a tear or two, which do make my heart relent at this minute that
      I am writing this with great trouble of mind, for she is indeed my
      sacrifice, poor girle); and my wife did tell me in bed by the by of my
      looking on other people, and that the only way is to put things out of
      sight, and this I know she means by Deb., for she tells me that her Aunt
      was here on Monday, and she did tell her of her desire of parting with
      Deb., but in such kind terms on both sides that my wife is mightily taken
      with her. I see it will be, and it is but necessary, and therefore, though
      it cannot but grieve me, yet I must bring my mind to give way to it. We
      had a great deal of do this day at the Office about Clutterbucke,&mdash;[See
      note to February 4th, 1663-64]&mdash;I declaring my dissent against the
      whole Board's proceedings, and I believe I shall go near to shew W. Pen a
      very knave in it, whatever I find my Lord Brouncker.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and by coach to White Hall; and there I find the King and Duke of
      York come the last night, and every body's mouth full of my Lord
      Anglesey's suspension being sealed; which it was, it seems, yesterday; so
      that he is prevented in his remedy at the Council; and, it seems, the two
      new Treasurers did kiss the King's hand this morning, brought in by my
      Lord Arlington. They walked up and down together the Court this day, and
      several people joyed them; but I avoided it, that I might not be seen to
      look either way. This day also I hear that my Lord Ormond is to be
      declared in Council no more Deputy Governor of Ireland, his commission
      being expired: and the King is prevailed with to take it out of his hands;
      which people do mightily admire, saying that he is the greatest subject of
      any prince in Christendome, and hath more acres of land than any, and hath
      done more for his Prince than ever any yet did. But all will not do; he
      must down, it seems, the Duke of Buckingham carrying all before him. But
      that, that troubles me most is, that they begin to talk that the Duke of
      York's regiment is ordered to be disbanded; and more, that undoubtedly his
      Admiralty will follow: which do shake me mightily, and I fear will have
      ill consequences in the nation, for these counsels are very mad. The Duke
      of York do, by all men's report, carry himself wonderfull submissive to
      the King, in the most humble manner in the world; but yet, it seems,
      nothing must be spared that tends to, the keeping out of the Chancellor;
      and that is the reason of all this. The great discourse now is, that the
      Parliament shall be dissolved and another called, which shall give the
      King the Deane and Chapter lands; and that will put him out of debt. And
      it is said that Buckingham do knownly meet daily with Wildman and other
      Commonwealth-men; and that when he is with them, he makes the King believe
      that he is with his wenches; and something looks like the Parliament's
      being dissolved, by Harry Brouncker's being now come back, and appears
      this day the first day at White Hall; but hath not been yet with the King,
      but is secure that he shall be well received, I hear. God bless us, when
      such men as he shall be restored! But that, that pleases me most is, that
      several do tell me that Pen is to be removed; and others, that he hath
      resigned his place; and particularly Spragg tells me for certain that he
      hath resigned it, and is become a partner with Gawden in the Victualling:
      in which I think he hath done a very cunning thing; but I am sure I am
      glad of it; and it will be well for the King to have him out of this
      Office. Thence by coach, doing several errands, home and there to dinner,
      and then to the Office, where all the afternoon till late at night, and so
      home. Deb. hath been abroad to-day with her friends, poor girle, I believe
      toward the getting of a place. This day a boy is sent me out of the
      country from Impington by my cozen Roger Pepys' getting, whom I visited
      this morning at his chamber in the Strand and carried him to Westminster
      Hall, where I took a turn or two with him and Sir John Talbot, who talks
      mighty high for my Lord of Ormond: and I perceive this family of the
      Talbots hath been raised by my Lord. When I come home to-night I find Deb.
      not come home, and do doubt whether she be not quite gone or no, but my
      wife is silent to me in it, and I to her, but fell to other discourse, and
      indeed am well satisfied that my house will never be at peace between my
      wife and I unless I let her go, though it grieves me to the heart. My wife
      and I spent much time this evening talking of our being put out of the
      Office, and my going to live at Deptford at her brother's, till I can
      clear my accounts, and rid my hands of the town, which will take me a year
      or more, and I do think it will be best for me to do so, in order to our
      living cheap, and out of sight.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and Willet come home in the morning, and, God forgive me! I could
      not conceal my content thereat by smiling, and my wife observed it, but I
      said nothing, nor she, but away to the office. Presently up by water to
      White Hall, and there all of us to wait on the Duke of York, which we did,
      having little to do, and then I up and down the house, till by and by the
      Duke of York, who had bid me stay, did come to his closet again, and there
      did call in me and Mr. Wren; and there my paper, that I have lately taken
      pains to draw up, was read, and the Duke of York pleased therewith; and we
      did all along conclude upon answers to my mind for the Board, and that
      that, if put in execution, will do the King's business. But I do now more
      and more perceive the Duke of York's trouble, and that he do lie under
      great weight of mind from the Duke of Buckingham's carrying things against
      him; and particularly when I advised that he would use his interest that a
      seaman might come into the room of W. Pen, who is now declared to be gone
      from us to that of the Victualling, and did shew how the Office would now
      be left without one seaman in it, but the Surveyour and the Controller,
      who is so old as to be able to do nothing, he told me plainly that I knew
      his mind well enough as to seamen, but that it must be as others will. And
      Wren did tell it me as a secret, that when the Duke of York did first tell
      the King about Sir W. Pen's leaving of the place, and that when the Duke
      of York did move the King that either Captain Cox or Sir Jer. Smith might
      succeed him, the King did tell him that that was a matter fit to be
      considered of, and would not agree to either presently; and so the Duke of
      York could not prevail for either, nor knows who it shall be. The Duke of
      York did tell me himself, that if he had not carried it privately when
      first he mentioned Pen's leaving his place to the King, it had not been
      done; for the Duke of Buckingham and those of his party do cry out upon
      it, as a strange thing to trust such a thing into the hands of one that
      stands accused in Parliament: and that they have so far prevailed upon the
      King that he would not have him named in Council, but only take his name
      to the Board; but I think he said that only D. Gawden's name shall go in
      the patent; at least, at the time when Sir Richard Browne asked the King
      the names of D. Gawden's security, the King told him it was not yet
      necessary for him to declare them. And by and by, when the Duke of York
      and we had done, and Wren brought into the closet Captain Cox and James
      Temple About business of the Guiney Company, and talking something of the
      Duke of Buckingham's concernment therein, and says the Duke of York, "I
      will give the Devil his due, as they say the Duke of Buckingham hath paid
      in his money to the Company," or something of that kind, wherein he would
      do right to him. The Duke of York told me how these people do begin to
      cast dirt upon the business that passed the Council lately, touching
      Supernumeraries, as passed by virtue of his authority there, there being
      not liberty for any man to withstand what the Duke of York advises there;
      which, he told me, they bring only as an argument to insinuate the putting
      of the Admiralty into Commission, which by all men's discourse is now
      designed, and I perceive the same by him. This being done, and going from
      him, I up and down the house to hear news: and there every body's mouth
      full of changes; and, among others, the Duke of York's regiment of Guards,
      that was raised during the late war at sea, is to be disbanded: and also,
      that this day the King do intend to declare that the Duke of Ormond is no
      more Deputy of Ireland, but that he will put it into Commission. This day
      our new Treasurers did kiss the King's hand, who complimented them, as
      they say, very highly, that he had for a long time been abused in his
      Treasurer, and that he was now safe in their hands. I saw them walk up and
      down the Court together all this morning; the first time I ever saw
      Osborne, who is a comely gentleman. This day I was told that my Lord
      Anglesey did deliver a petition on Wednesday in Council to the King,
      laying open, that whereas he had heard that his Majesty had made such a
      disposal of his place, which he had formerly granted him for life upon a
      valuable consideration, and that, without any thing laid to his charge,
      and during a Parliament's sessions, he prayed that his Majesty would be
      pleased to let his case be heard before the Council and the judges of the
      land, who were his proper counsel in all matters of right: to which, I am
      told, the King, after my Lord's being withdrawn, concluded upon his giving
      him an answer some few days hence; and so he was called in, and told so,
      and so it ended. Having heard all this I took coach and to Mr. Povy's,
      where I hear he is gone to the Swedes Resident in Covent Garden, where he
      is to dine. I went thither, but he is not come yet, so I to White Hall to
      look for him, and up and down walking there I met with Sir Robert Holmes,
      who asking news I told him of Sir W. Pen's going from us, who ketched at
      it so as that my heart misgives me that he will have a mind to it, which
      made me heartily sorry for my words, but he invited me and would have me
      go to dine with him at the Treasurer's, Sir Thomas Clifford, where I did
      go and eat some oysters; which while we were at, in comes my Lord Keeper
      and much company; and so I thought it best to withdraw. And so away, and
      to the Swedes Agent's, and there met Mr. Povy; where the Agent would have
      me stay and dine, there being only them, and Joseph Williamson, and Sir
      Thomas Clayton; but what he is I know not. Here much extraordinary noble
      discourse of foreign princes, and particularly the greatness of the King
      of France, and of his being fallen into the right way of making the
      kingdom great, which [none] of his ancestors ever did before. I was
      mightily pleased with this company and their discourse, so as to have been
      seldom so much in all my life, and so after dinner up into his upper room,
      and there did see a piece of perspective, but much inferior to Mr. Povy's.
      Thence with Mr. Povy spent all the afternoon going up and down among the
      coachmakers in Cow Lane, and did see several, and at last did pitch upon a
      little chariott, whose body was framed, but not covered, at the widow's,
      that made Mr. Lowther's fine coach; and we are mightily pleased with it,
      it being light, and will be very genteel and sober: to be covered with
      leather, and yet will hold four. Being much satisfied with this, I carried
      him to White Hall; and so by coach home, where give my wife a good account
      of my day's work, and so to the office, and there late, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and presently my wife up with me, which she professedly now do
      every day to dress me, that I may not see Willet, and do eye me, whether I
      cast my eye upon her, or no; and do keep me from going into the room where
      she is among the upholsters at work in our blue chamber. So abroad to
      White Hall by water, and so on for all this day as I have by mistake set
      down in the fifth day after this mark.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [In the margin here is the following: "Look back one leaf
     for my mistake."]
</pre>
    <p>
      In the room of which I should have said that I was at the office all the
      morning, and so to dinner, my wife with me, but so as I durst not look
      upon the girle, though, God knows, notwithstanding all my protestations I
      could not keep my mind from desiring it. After dinner to the office again,
      and there did some business, and then by coach to see Roger Pepys at his
      lodgings, next door to Arundell House, a barber's; and there I did see a
      book, which my Lord Sandwich hath promised one to me of, "A Description of
      the Escuriall in Spain;" which I have a great desire to have, though I
      took it for a finer book when he promised it me. With him to see my cozen
      Turner and The., and there sat and talked, they being newly come out of
      the country; and here pretty merry, and with The. to shew her a coach at
      Mr. Povy's man's, she being in want of one, and so back again with her,
      and then home by coach, with my mind troubled and finding no content, my
      wife being still troubled, nor can be at peace while the girle is there,
      which I am troubled at on the other side. We past the evening together,
      and then to bed and slept ill, she being troubled and troubling me in the
      night with talk and complaints upon the old business. This is the day's
      work of the 5th, though it stands under the 6th, my mind being now so
      troubled that it is no wonder that I fall into this mistake more than ever
      I did in my life before.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and at the office all the morning, and so to it again after
      dinner, and there busy late, choosing to employ myself rather than go home
      to trouble with my wife, whom, however, I am forced to comply with, and
      indeed I do pity her as having cause enough for her grief. So to bed, and
      there slept ill because of my wife. This afternoon I did go out towards
      Sir D. Gawden's, thinking to have bespoke a place for my coach and horses,
      when I have them, at the Victualling Office; but find the way so bad and
      long that I returned, and looked up and down for places elsewhere, in an
      inne, which I hope to get with more convenience than there.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th (Lord's day). Up, and at my chamber all the morning, setting papers to
      rights, with my boy; and so to dinner at noon. The girle with us, but my
      wife troubled thereat to see her, and do tell me so, which troubles me,
      for I love the girle. At my chamber again to work all the afternoon till
      night, when Pelling comes, who wonders to find my wife so dull and
      melancholy, but God knows she hath too much cause. However, as pleasant as
      we can, we supped together, and so made the boy read to me, the poor girle
      not appearing at supper, but hid herself in her chamber. So that I could
      wish in that respect that she was out of the house, for our peace is broke
      to all of us while she is here, and so to bed, where my wife mighty
      unquiet all night, so as my bed is become burdensome to me.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and I did by a little note which I flung to Deb. advise her that
      I did continue to deny that ever I kissed her, and so she might govern
      herself. The truth is that I did adventure upon God's pardoning me this
      lie, knowing how heavy a thing it would be for me to the ruin of the poor
      girle, and next knowing that if my wife should know all it were impossible
      ever for her to be at peace with me again, and so our whole lives would be
      uncomfortable. The girl read, and as I bid her returned me the note,
      flinging it to me in passing by. And so I abroad by [coach] to White Hall,
      and there to the Duke of York to wait on him, who told me that Sir W. Pen
      had been with him this morning, to ask whether it would be fit for him to
      sit at the Office now, because of his resolution to be gone, and to become
      concerned in the Victualling. The Duke of York answered, "Yes, till his
      contract was signed:" Thence I to Lord Sandwich's, and there to see him;
      but was made to stay so long, as his best friends are, and when I come to
      him so little pleasure, his head being full of his own business, I think,
      that I have no pleasure [to] go to him. Thence to White Hall with him, to
      the Committee of Tangier; a day appointed for him to give an account of
      Tangier, and what he did, and found there, which, though he had admirable
      matter for it, and his doings there were good, and would have afforded a
      noble account, yet he did it with a mind so low and mean, and delivered in
      so poor a manner, that it appeared nothing at all, nor any body seemed to
      value it; whereas, he might have shewn himself to have merited
      extraordinary thanks, and been held to have done a very great service:
      whereas now, all that cost the King hath been at for his journey through
      Spain thither, seems to be almost lost. After we were up, Creed and I
      walked together, and did talk a good while of the weak report my Lord
      made, and were troubled for it; I fearing that either his mind and
      judgment are depressed, or that he do it out of his great neglect, and so
      my fear that he do all the rest of his affairs accordingly. So I staid
      about the Court a little while, and then to look for a dinner, and had it
      at Hercules-Pillars, very late, all alone, costing me 10d. And so to the
      Excise Office, thinking to meet Sir Stephen Fox and the Cofferer, but the
      former was gone, and the latter I met going out, but nothing done, and so
      I to my bookseller's, and also to Crow's, and there saw a piece of my bed,
      and I find it will please us mightily. So home, and there find my wife
      troubled, and I sat with her talking, and so to bed, and there very
      unquiet all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and my wife still every day as ill as she is all night, will
      rise to see me out doors, telling me plainly that she dares not let me see
      the girle, and so I out to the office, where all the morning, and so home
      to dinner, where I found my wife mightily troubled again, more than ever,
      and she tells me that it is from her examining the girle and getting a
      confession now from her of all.... which do mightily trouble me, as not
      being able to foresee the consequences of it, as to our future peace
      together. So my wife would not go down to dinner, but I would dine in her
      chamber with her, and there after mollifying her as much as I could we
      were pretty quiet and eat, and by and by comes Mr. Hollier, and dines
      there by himself after we had dined, and he being gone, we to talk again,
      and she to be troubled, reproaching me with my unkindness and perjury, I
      having denied my ever kissing her. As also with all her old kindnesses to
      me, and my ill-using of her from the beginning, and the many temptations
      she hath refused out of faithfulness to me, whereof several she was
      particular in, and especially from my Lord Sandwich, by the sollicitation
      of Captain Ferrers, and then afterward the courtship of my Lord
      Hinchingbrooke, even to the trouble of his lady. All which I did
      acknowledge and was troubled for, and wept, and at last pretty good
      friends again, and so I to my office, and there late, and so home to
      supper with her, and so to bed, where after half-an-hour's slumber she
      wakes me and cries out that she should never sleep more, and so kept
      raving till past midnight, that made me cry and weep heartily all the
      while for her, and troubled for what she reproached me with as before, and
      at last with new vows, and particularly that I would myself bid the girle
      be gone, and shew my dislike to her, which I will endeavour to perform,
      but with much trouble, and so this appeasing her, we to sleep as well as
      we could till morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and my wife with me as before, and so to the Office, where, by a
      speciall desire, the new Treasurers come, and there did shew their Patent,
      and the Great Seal for the suspension of my Lord Anglesey: and here did
      sit and discourse of the business of the Office: and brought Mr.
      Hutchinson with them, who, I hear, is to be their Paymaster, in the room
      of Mr. Waith. For it seems they do turn out every servant that belongs to
      the present Treasurer: and so for Fenn, do bring in Mr. Littleton, Sir
      Thomas's brother, and oust all the rest. But Mr. Hutchinson do already see
      that his work now will be another kind of thing than before, as to the
      trouble of it. They gone, and, indeed, they appear, both of them, very
      intelligent men, I home to dinner, and there with my people dined, and so
      to my wife, who would not dine with [me] that she might not have the girle
      come in sight, and there sat and talked a while with her and pretty quiet,
      I giving no occasion of offence, and so to the office [and then by coach
      to my cozen Roger Pepys, who did, at my last being with him this day
      se'nnight, move me as to the supplying him with L500 this term, and L500
      the next, for two years, upon a mortgage, he having that sum to pay, a
      debt left him by his father, which I did agree to, trusting to his honesty
      and ability, and am resolved to do it for him, that I may not have all I
      have lie in the King's hands. Having promised him this I returned home
      again, where to the office], and there having done, I home and to supper
      and to bed, where, after lying a little while, my wife starts up, and with
      expressions of affright and madness, as one frantick, would rise, and I
      would not let her, but burst out in tears myself, and so continued almost
      half the night, the moon shining so that it was light, and after much
      sorrow and reproaches and little ravings (though I am apt to think they
      were counterfeit from her), and my promise again to discharge the girle
      myself, all was quiet again, and so to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and she with me as heretofore, and so I to the Office, where all
      the morning, and at noon to dinner, and Mr. Wayth, who, being at my office
      about business, I took him with me to talk and understand his matters, who
      is in mighty trouble from the Committee of Accounts about his contracting
      with this Office for sayle-cloth, but no hurt can be laid at his door in
      it, but upon us for doing it, if any, though we did it by the Duke of
      York's approval, and by him I understand that the new Treasurers do intend
      to bring in all new Instruments, and so having dined we parted, and I to
      my wife and to sit with her a little, and then called her and Willet to my
      chamber, and there did, with tears in my eyes, which I could not help,
      discharge her and advise her to be gone as soon as she could, and never to
      see me, or let me see her more while she was in the house, which she took
      with tears too, but I believe understands me to be her friend, and I am
      apt to believe by what my wife hath of late told me is a cunning girle, if
      not a slut. Thence, parting kindly with my wife, I away by coach to my
      cozen Roger, according as by mistake (which the trouble of my mind for
      some days has occasioned, in this and another case a day or two before) is
      set down in yesterday's notes, and so back again, and with Mr. Gibson late
      at my chamber making an end of my draught of a letter for the Duke of
      York, in answer to the answers of this Office, which I have now done to my
      mind, so as, if the Duke likes it, will, I think, put an end to a great
      deal of the faults of this Office, as well as my trouble for them. So to
      bed, and did lie now a little better than formerly, but with little, and
      yet with some trouble.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and with Sir W. Pen by coach to White Hall, where to the Duke of
      York, and there did our usual business; and thence I to the Commissioners
      of the Treasury, where I staid, and heard an excellent case argued between
      my Lord Gerard and the Town of Newcastle, about a piece of ground which
      that Lord hath got a grant of, under the Exchequer Seal, which they were
      endeavouring to get of the King under the Great Seal. I liked mightily the
      Counsel for the town, Shaftow, their Recorder, and Mr. Offly. But I was
      troubled, and so were the Lords, to hear my Lord fly out against their
      great pretence of merit from the King, for their sufferings and loyalty;
      telling them that they might thank him for that repute which they have for
      their loyalty, for that it was he that forced them to be so, against their
      wills, when he was there: and, moreover, did offer a paper to the Lords to
      read from the Town, sent in 1648; but the Lords would not read it; but I
      believe it was something about bringing the King to trial, or some such
      thing, in that year. Thence I to the Three Tuns Tavern, by Charing Cross,
      and there dined with W. Pen, Sir J. Minnes, and Commissioner Middleton;
      and as merry as my mind could be, that hath so much trouble upon it at
      home. And thence to White Hall, and there staid in Mr. Wren's chamber with
      him, reading over my draught of a letter, which Mr. Gibson then attended
      me with; and there he did like all, but doubted whether it would be
      necessary for the Duke to write in so sharp a style to the Office, as I
      had drawn it in; which I yield to him, to consider the present posture of
      the times and the Duke of York and whether it were not better to err on
      that hand than the other. He told me that he did not think it was
      necessary for the Duke of York to do so, and that it would not suit so
      well with his nature nor greatness; which last, perhaps, is true, but then
      do too truly shew the effects of having Princes in places, where order and
      discipline should be. I left it to him to do as the Duke of York pleases;
      and so fell to other talk, and with great freedom, of public things; and
      he told me, upon my several inquiries to that purpose, that he did believe
      it was not yet resolved whether the Parliament should ever meet more or
      no, the three great rulers of things now standing thus:&mdash;The Duke of
      Buckingham is absolutely against their meeting, as moved thereto by his
      people that he advises with, the people of the late times, who do never
      expect to have any thing done by this Parliament for their religion, and
      who do propose that, by the sale of the Church-lands, they shall be able
      to put the King out of debt: my Lord Keeper is utterly against putting
      away this and choosing another Parliament, lest they prove worse than
      this, and will make all the King's friends, and the King himself, in a
      desperate condition: my Lord Arlington know not which is best for him,
      being to seek whether this or the next will use him worst. He tells me
      that he believes that it is intended to call this Parliament, and try them
      with a sum of money; and, if they do not like it, then to send them going,
      and call another, who will, at the ruin of the Church perhaps, please the
      King with what he will for a time. And he tells me, therefore, that he do
      believe that this policy will be endeavoured by the Church and their
      friends&mdash;to seem to promise the King money, when it shall be
      propounded, but make the King and these great men buy it dear, before they
      have it. He tells me that he is really persuaded that the design of the
      Duke of Buckingham is, by bringing the state into such a condition as, if
      the King do die without issue, it shall, upon his death, break into pieces
      again; and so put by the Duke of York, who they have disobliged, they
      know, to that degree, as to despair of his pardon. He tells me that there
      is no way to rule the King but by brisknesse, which the Duke of Buckingham
      hath above all men; and that the Duke of York having it not, his best way
      is what he practices, that is to say, a good temper, which will support
      him till the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington fall out, which cannot
      be long first, the former knowing that the latter did, in the time of the
      Chancellor, endeavour with the Chancellor to hang him at that time, when
      he was proclaimed against. And here, by the by, he told me that the Duke
      of Buckingham did, by his friends, treat with my Lord Chancellor, by the
      mediation of Matt. Wren and Matt. Clifford, to fall in with my Lord
      Chancellor; which, he tells me, he did advise my Lord Chancellor to accept
      of, as that, that with his own interest and the Duke of York's, would
      undoubtedly have assured all to him and his family; but that my Lord
      Chancellor was a man not to be advised, thinking himself too high to be
      counselled: and so all is come to nothing; for by that means the Duke of
      Buckingham became desperate, and was forced to fall in with Arlington, to
      his [the Chancellor's] ruin. Thence I home, and there to talk, with great
      pleasure all the evening, with my wife, who tells me that Deb, has been
      abroad to-day, and is come home and says she has got a place to go to, so
      as she will be gone tomorrow morning. This troubled me, and the truth is,
      I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this girl, which I should not
      doubt to have if je could get time para be con her. But she will be gone
      and I not know whither. Before we went to bed my wife told me she would
      not have me to see her or give her her wages, and so I did give my wife
      L10 for her year and half a quarter's wages, which she went into her
      chamber and paid her, and so to bed, and there, blessed be God! we did
      sleep well and with peace, which I had not done in now almost twenty
      nights together. This afternoon I went to my coachmaker and Crow's, and
      there saw things go on to my great content. This morning, at the
      Treasury-chamber, I did meet Jack Fenn, and there he did shew me my Lord
      Anglesey's petition and the King's answer: the former good and stout, as I
      before did hear it: but the latter short and weak, saying that he was not,
      by what the King had done, hindered from taking the benefit of his laws,
      and that the reason he had to suspect his mismanagement of his money in
      Ireland, did make him think it unfit to trust him with his Treasury in
      England, till he was satisfied in the former.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and had a mighty mind to have seen or given her a little money,
      to which purpose I wrapt up 40s. in paper, thinking to have given her a
      little money, but my wife rose presently, and would not let me be out of
      her sight, and went down before me into the kitchen, and come up and told
      me that she was in the kitchen, and therefore would have me go round the
      other way; which she repeating and I vexed at it, answered her a little
      angrily, upon which she instantly flew out into a rage, calling me dog and
      rogue, and that I had a rotten heart; all which, knowing that I deserved
      it, I bore with, and word being brought presently up that she was gone
      away by coach with her things, my wife was friends, and so all quiet, and
      I to the Office, with my heart sad, and find that I cannot forget the
      girl, and vexed I know not where to look for her. And more troubled to see
      how my wife is by this means likely for ever to have her hand over me,
      that I shall for ever be a slave to her&mdash;that is to say, only in
      matters of pleasure, but in other things she will make [it] her business,
      I know, to please me and to keep me right to her, which I will labour to
      be indeed, for she deserves it of me, though it will be I fear a little
      time before I shall be able to wear Deb, out of my mind. At the Office all
      the morning, and merry at noon, at dinner; and after dinner to the Office,
      where all the afternoon, doing much business, late. My mind being free of
      all troubles, I thank God, but only for my thoughts of this girl, which
      hang after her. And so at night home to supper, and then did sleep with
      great content with my wife. I must here remember that I have lain with my
      moher as a husband more times since this falling out than in I believe
      twelve months before. And with more pleasure to her than I think in all
      the time of our marriage before.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th (Lord's day). Up, and after long lying with pleasure talking with my
      wife, and then up to look up and down our house, which will when our
      upholster hath done be mighty fine, and so to my chamber, and there did do
      several things among my papers, and so to the office to write down my
      journal for 6 or 7 days, my mind having been so troubled as never to get
      the time to do it before, as may appear a little by the mistakes I have
      made in this book within these few days. At noon comes Mr. Shepley to dine
      with me and W. Howe, and there dined and pretty merry, and so after dinner
      W. Howe to tell me what hath happened between him and the Commissioners of
      late, who are hot again, more than ever, about my Lord Sandwich's business
      of prizes, which I am troubled for, and the more because of the great
      security and neglect with which, I think, my Lord do look upon this
      matter, that may yet, for aught I know, undo him. They gone, and Balty
      being come from the Downs, not very well, is come this day to see us, I to
      talk with him, and with some pleasure, hoping that he will make a good
      man. I in the evening to my Office again, to make an end of my journall,
      and so home to my chamber with W. Hewer to settle some papers, and so to
      supper and to bed, with my mind pretty quiet, and less troubled about Deb.
      than I was, though yet I am troubled, I must confess, and would be glad to
      find her out, though I fear it would be my ruin. This evening there come
      to sit with us Mr. Pelling, who wondered to see my wife and I so dumpish,
      but yet it went off only as my wife's not being well, and, poor wretch,
      she hath no cause to be well, God knows.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there at the robe chamber at a
      Committee for Tangier, where some of us&mdash;my Lord Sandwich, Sir W.
      Coventry, and myself, with another or two&mdash;met to debate the business
      of the Mole, and there drew up reasons for the King's taking of it into
      his own hands, and managing of it upon accounts with Sir H. Cholmley. This
      being done I away to Holborne, about Whetstone's Park, where I never was
      in my life before, where I understand by my wife's discourse that Deb. is
      gone, which do trouble me mightily that the poor girle should be in a
      desperate condition forced to go thereabouts, and there not hearing of any
      such man as Allbon, with whom my wife said she now was, I to the Strand,
      and there by sending Drumbleby's boy, my flageolet maker, to Eagle Court,
      where my wife also by discourse lately let fall that he did lately live, I
      find that this Dr. Allbon is a kind of poor broken fellow that dare not
      shew his head nor be known where he is gone, but to Lincoln's Inn Fields I
      went to Mr. Povy's, but missed him, and so hearing only that this Allbon
      is gone to Fleet Street, I did only call at Martin's, my bookseller's, and
      there bought "Cassandra," and some other French books for my wife's
      closet, and so home, having eat nothing but two pennyworths of oysters,
      opened for me by a woman in the Strand, while the boy went to and again to
      inform me about this man, and therefore home and to dinner, and so all the
      afternoon at the office, and there late busy, and so home to supper, and
      pretty pleasant with my wife to bed, rested pretty well.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to the Office all the morning, where the new Treasurers
      come, their second time, and before they sat down, did discourse with the
      Board, and particularly my Lord Brouncker, about their place, which they
      challenge, as having been heretofore due, and given to their predecessor;
      which, at last, my Lord did own hath been given him only out of courtesy
      to his quality, and that he did not take it as a right at the Board: so
      they, for the present, sat down, and did give him the place, but, I think,
      with an intent to have the Duke of York's directions about it. My wife and
      maids busy now, to make clean the house above stairs, the upholsters
      having done there, in her closet and the blue room, and they are mighty
      pretty. At my office all the afternoon and at night busy, and so home to
      my wife, and pretty pleasant, and at mighty ease in my mind, being in
      hopes to find Deb., and without trouble or the knowledge of my wife. So to
      supper at night and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Lay long in bed talking with my wife, she being unwilling to have me
      go abroad, saying and declaring herself jealous of my going out for fear
      of my going to Deb., which I do deny, for which God forgive me, for I was
      no sooner out about noon but I did go by coach directly to Somerset House,
      and there enquired among the porters there for Dr. Allbun, and the first I
      spoke with told me he knew him, and that he was newly gone into Lincoln's
      Inn Fields, but whither he could not tell me, but that one of his fellows
      not then in the way did carry a chest of drawers thither with him, and
      that when he comes he would ask him. This put me into some hopes, and I to
      White Hall, and thence to Mr. Povy's, but he at dinner, and therefore I
      away and walked up and down the Strand between the two turnstiles, hoping
      to see her out of a window, and then employed a porter, one Osberton, to
      find out this Doctor's lodgings thereabouts, who by appointment comes to
      me to Hercules pillars, where I dined alone, but tells me that he cannot
      find out any such, but will enquire further. Thence back to White Hall to
      the Treasury a while, and thence to the Strand, and towards night did meet
      with the porter that carried the chest of drawers with this Doctor, but he
      would not tell me where he lived, being his good master, he told me, but
      if I would have a message to him he would deliver it. At last I told him
      my business was not with him, but a little gentlewoman, one Mrs. Willet,
      that is with him, and sent him to see how she did from her friend in
      London, and no other token. He goes while I walk in Somerset House, walk
      there in the Court; at last he comes back and tells me she is well, and
      that I may see her if I will, but no more. So I could not be commanded by
      my reason, but I must go this very night, and so by coach, it being now
      dark, I to her, close by my tailor's, and she come into the coach to me,
      and je did baiser her.... I did nevertheless give her the best council I
      could, to have a care of her honour, and to fear God, and suffer no man
      para avoir to do con her as je have done, which she promised. Je did give
      her 20s. and directions para laisser sealed in paper at any time the name
      of the place of her being at Herringman's, my bookseller in the 'Change,
      by which I might go para her, and so bid her good night with much content
      to my mind, and resolution to look after her no more till I heard from
      her. And so home, and there told my wife a fair tale, God knows, how I
      spent the whole day, with which the poor wretch was satisfied, or at least
      seemed so, and so to supper and to bed, she having been mighty busy all
      day in getting of her house in order against to-morrow to hang up our new
      hangings and furnishing our best chamber.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, with my heart full of joy to
      think in what a safe condition all my matters now stand between my wife
      and Deb, and me, and at noon running up stairs to see the upholsters, who
      are at work upon hanging my best room, and setting up my new bed, I find
      my wife sitting sad in the dining room; which enquiring into the reason
      of, she begun to call me all the false, rotten-hearted rogues in the
      world, letting me understand that I was with Deb. yesterday, which,
      thinking it impossible for her ever to understand, I did a while deny, but
      at last did, for the ease of my mind and hers, and for ever to discharge
      my heart of this wicked business, I did confess all, and above stairs in
      our bed chamber there I did endure the sorrow of her threats and vows and
      curses all the afternoon, and, what was worse, she swore by all that was
      good that she would slit the nose of this girle, and be gone herself this
      very night from me, and did there demand 3 or L400 of me to buy my peace,
      that she might be gone without making any noise, or else protested that
      she would make all the world know of it. So with most perfect confusion of
      face and heart, and sorrow and shame, in the greatest agony in the world I
      did pass this afternoon, fearing that it will never have an end; but at
      last I did call for W. Hewer, who I was forced to make privy now to all,
      and the poor fellow did cry like a child, [and] obtained what I could not,
      that she would be pacified upon condition that I would give it under my
      hand never to see or speak with Deb, while I live, as I did before with
      Pierce and Knepp, and which I did also, God knows, promise for Deb. too,
      but I have the confidence to deny it to the perjury of myself. So, before
      it was late, there was, beyond my hopes as well as desert, a durable
      peace; and so to supper, and pretty kind words, and to bed, and there je
      did hazer con eile to her content, and so with some rest spent the night
      in bed, being most absolutely resolved, if ever I can master this bout,
      never to give her occasion while I live of more trouble of this or any
      other kind, there being no curse in the world so great as this of the
      differences between myself and her, and therefore I do, by the grace of
      God, promise never to offend her more, and did this night begin to pray to
      God upon my knees alone in my chamber, which God knows I cannot yet do
      heartily; but I hope God will give me the grace more and more every day to
      fear Him, and to be true to my poor wife. This night the upholsters did
      finish the hanging of my best chamber, but my sorrow and trouble is so
      great about this business, that it puts me out of all joy in looking upon
      it or minding how it was.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. This morning up, with mighty kind words between my poor wife and I;
      and so to White Hall by water, W. Hewer with me, who is to go with me
      every where, until my wife be in condition to go out along with me
      herself; for she do plainly declare that she dares not trust me out alone,
      and therefore made it a piece of our league that I should alway take
      somebody with me, or her herself, which I am mighty willing to, being, by
      the grace of God, resolved never to do her wrong more. We landed at the
      Temple, and there I bid him call at my cozen Roger Pepys's lodgings, and I
      staid in the street for him, and so took water again at the Strand stairs;
      and so to White Hall, in my way I telling him plainly and truly my
      resolutions, if I can get over this evil, never to give new occasion for
      it. He is, I think, so honest and true a servant to us both, and one that
      loves us, that I was not much troubled at his being privy to all this, but
      rejoiced in my heart that I had him to assist in the making us friends,
      which he did truly and heartily, and with good success, for I did get him
      to go to Deb. to tell her that I had told my wife all of my being with her
      the other night, that so if my wife should send she might not make the
      business worse by denying it. While I was at White Hall with the Duke of
      York, doing our ordinary business with him, here being also the first time
      the new Treasurers. W. Hewer did go to her and come back again, and so I
      took him into St. James's Park, and there he did tell me he had been with
      her, and found what I said about my manner of being with her true, and had
      given her advice as I desired. I did there enter into more talk about my
      wife and myself, and he did give me great assurance of several particular
      cases to which my wife had from time to time made him privy of her loyalty
      and truth to me after many and great temptations, and I believe them
      truly. I did also discourse the unfitness of my leaving of my employment
      now in many respects to go into the country, as my wife desires, but that
      I would labour to fit myself for it, which he thoroughly understands, and
      do agree with me in it; and so, hoping to get over this trouble, we about
      our business to Westminster Hall to meet Roger Pepys, which I did, and did
      there discourse of the business of lending him L500 to answer some
      occasions of his, which I believe to be safe enough, and so took leave of
      him and away by coach home, calling on my coachmaker by the way, where I
      like my little coach mightily. But when I come home, hoping for a further
      degree of peace and quiet, I find my wife upon her bed in a horrible rage
      afresh, calling me all the bitter names, and, rising, did fall to revile
      me in the bitterest manner in the world, and could not refrain to strike
      me and pull my hair, which I resolved to bear with, and had good reason to
      bear it. So I by silence and weeping did prevail with her a little to be
      quiet, and she would not eat her dinner without me; but yet by and by into
      a raging fit she fell again, worse than before, that she would slit the
      girl's nose, and at last W. Hewer come in and come up, who did allay her
      fury, I flinging myself, in a sad desperate condition, upon the bed in the
      blue room, and there lay while they spoke together; and at last it come to
      this, that if I would call Deb. whore under my hand and write to her that
      I hated her, and would never see her more, she would believe me and trust
      in me, which I did agree to, only as to the name of whore I would have
      excused, and therefore wrote to her sparing that word, which my wife
      thereupon tore it, and would not be satisfied till, W. Hewer winking upon
      me, I did write so with the name of a whore as that I did fear she might
      too probably have been prevailed upon to have been a whore by her carriage
      to me, and therefore as such I did resolve never to see her more. This
      pleased my wife, and she gives it W. Hewer to carry to her with a sharp
      message from her. So from that minute my wife begun to be kind to me, and
      we to kiss and be friends, and so continued all the evening, and fell to
      talk of other matters, with great comfort, and after supper to bed. This
      evening comes Mr. Billup to me, to read over Mr. Wren's alterations of my
      draught of a letter for the Duke of York to sign, to the Board; which I
      like mighty well, they being not considerable, only in mollifying some
      hard terms, which I had thought fit to put in. From this to other
      discourse; and do find that the Duke of York and his master, Mr. Wren, do
      look upon this service of mine as a very seasonable service to the Duke of
      York, as that which he will have to shew to his enemies in his own
      justification, of his care of the King's business; and I am sure I am
      heartily glad of it, both for the King's sake and the Duke of York's, and
      my own also; for, if I continue, my work, by this means, will be the less,
      and my share in the blame also. He being gone, I to my wife again, and so
      spent the evening with very great joy, and the night also with good sleep
      and rest, my wife only troubled in her rest, but less than usual, for
      which the God of Heaven be praised. I did this night promise to my wife
      never to go to bed without calling upon God upon my knees by prayer, and I
      begun this night, and hope I shall never forget to do the like all my
      life; for I do find that it is much the best for my soul and body to live
      pleasing to God and my poor wife, and will ease me of much care as well as
      much expense.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, with great joy to my wife and me, and to the office, where W.
      Hewer did most honestly bring me back the part of my letter to Deb.
      wherein I called her whore, assuring me that he did not shew it her, and
      that he did only give her to understand that wherein I did declare my
      desire never to see her, and did give her the best Christian counsel he
      could, which was mighty well done of him. But by the grace of God, though
      I love the poor girl and wish her well, as having gone too far toward the
      undoing her, yet I will never enquire after or think of her more, my peace
      being certainly to do right to my wife. At the Office all the morning; and
      after dinner abroad with W. Hewer to my Lord Ashly's, where my Lord
      Barkeley and Sir Thomas Ingram met upon Mr. Povy's account, where I was in
      great pain about that part of his account wherein I am concerned, above
      L150, I think; and Creed hath declared himself dissatisfied with it, so
      far as to desire to cut his "Examinatur" out of the paper, as the only
      condition in which he would be silent in it. This Povy had the wit to
      yield to; and so when it come to be inquired into, I did avouch the truth
      of the account as to that particular, of my own knowledge, and so it went
      over as a thing good and just&mdash;as, indeed, in the bottom of it, it
      is; though in strictness, perhaps, it would not so well be understood.
      This Committee rising, I, with my mind much satisfied herein, away by
      coach home, setting Creed into Southampton Buildings, and so home; and
      there ended my letters, and then home to my wife, where I find my house
      clean now, from top to bottom, so as I have not seen it many a day, and to
      the full satisfaction of my mind, that I am now at peace, as to my poor
      wife, as to the dirtiness of my house, and as to seeing an end, in a great
      measure, to my present great disbursements upon my house, and coach and
      horses.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd (Lord's day). My wife and I lay long, with mighty content; and so
      rose, and she spent the whole day making herself clean, after four or five
      weeks being in continued dirt; and I knocking up nails, and making little
      settlements in my house, till noon, and then eat a bit of meat in the
      kitchen, I all alone. And so to the Office, to set down my journall, for
      some days leaving it imperfect, the matter being mighty grievous to me,
      and my mind, from the nature of it; and so in, to solace myself with my
      wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy; and so, after
      supper, to bed. This day my boy's livery is come home, the first I ever
      had, of greene, lined with red; and it likes me well enough.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and called upon by W. Howe, who went, with W. Hewer with me, by
      water, to the Temple; his business was to have my advice about a place he
      is going to buy&mdash;the Clerk of the Patent's place, which I understand
      not, and so could say little to him, but fell to other talk, and setting
      him in at the Temple, we to White Hall, and there I to visit Lord
      Sandwich, who is now so reserved, or moped rather, I think, with his own
      business, that he bids welcome to no man, I think, to his satisfaction.
      However, I bear with it, being willing to give him as little trouble as I
      can, and to receive as little from him, wishing only that I had my money
      in my purse, that I have lent him; but, however, I shew no discontent at
      all. So to White Hall, where a Committee of Tangier expected, but none
      met. I met with Mr. Povy, who I discoursed with about publick business,
      who tells me that this discourse which I told him of, of the Duke of
      Monmouth being made Prince of Wales, hath nothing in it; though he thinks
      there are all the endeavours used in the world to overthrow the Duke of
      York. He would not have me doubt of my safety in the Navy, which I am
      doubtful of from the reports of a general removal; but he will endeavour
      to inform me, what he can gather from my Lord Arlington. That he do think
      that the Duke of Buckingham hath a mind rather to overthrow all the
      kingdom, and bring in a Commonwealth, wherein he may think to be General
      of their Army, or to make himself King, which, he believes, he may be led
      to, by some advice he hath had with conjurors, which he do affect. Thence
      with W. Hewer, who goes up and down with me like a jaylour, but yet with
      great love and to my great good liking, it being my desire above all
      things to please my wife therein. I took up my wife and boy at Unthank's,
      and from there to Hercules Pillars, and there dined, and thence to our
      upholster's, about some things more to buy, and so to see our coach, and
      so to the looking-glass man's, by the New Exchange, and so to buy a
      picture for our blue chamber chimney, and so home; and there I made my boy
      to read to me most of the night, to get through the Life of the Archbishop
      of Canterbury. At supper comes Mary Batelier, and with us all the evening,
      prettily talking, and very innocent company she is; and she gone, we with
      much content to bed, and to sleep, with mighty rest all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner,
      where Mr. Gentleman, the cook, and an old woman, his third or fourth wife,
      come and dined with us, to enquire about a ticket of his son's, that is
      dead; and after dinner, I with Mr. Hosier to my closet, to discourse of
      the business of balancing Storekeeper's accounts, which he hath taken
      great pains in reducing to a method, to my great satisfaction; and I shall
      be glad both for the King's sake and his, that the thing may be put in
      practice, and will do my part to promote it. That done, he gone, I to the
      Office, where busy till night; and then with comfort to sit with my wife,
      and get her to read to me, and so to supper, and to bed, with my mind at
      mighty ease.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and by coach with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry; but he gone out,
      I to White Hall, and there waited on Lord Sandwich, which I have little
      encouragement to do, because of the difficulty of seeing him, and the
      little he hath to say to me when I do see him, or to any body else, but
      his own idle people about him, Sir Charles Harbord, &amp;c. Thence walked
      with him to White Hall, where to the Duke of York; and there the Duke, and
      Wren, and I, by appointment in his closet, to read over our letter to the
      Office, which he heard, and signed it, and it is to my mind, Mr. Wren
      having made it somewhat sweeter to the Board, and yet with all the advice
      fully, that I did draw it up with. He [the Duke] said little more to us
      now, his head being full of other business; but I do see that he do
      continue to put a value upon my advice; and so Mr. Wren and I to his
      chamber, and there talked: and he seems to hope that these people, the
      Duke of Buckingham and Arlington, will run themselves off of their legs;
      they being forced to be always putting the King upon one idle thing or
      other, against the easiness of his nature, which he will never be able to
      bear, nor they to keep him to, and so will lose themselves. And, for
      instance of their little progress, he tells me that my Lord of Ormond is
      like yet to carry it, and to continue in his command in Ireland; at least,
      they cannot get the better of him yet. But he tells me that the Keeper is
      wrought upon, as they say, to give his opinion for the dissolving of the
      Parliament, which, he thinks, will undo him in the eyes of the people. He
      do not seem to own the hearing or fearing of any thing to be done in the
      Admiralty, to the lessening of the Duke of York, though he hears how the
      town talk's full of it. Thence I by coach home, and there find my cozen
      Roger come to dine with me, and to seal his mortgage for the L500 I lend
      him; but he and I first walked to the 'Change, there to look for my uncle
      Wight, and get him to dinner with us. So home, buying a barrel of oysters
      at my old oyster-woman's, in Gracious Street, but over the way to where
      she kept her shop before. So home, and there merry at dinner; and the
      money not being ready, I carried Roger Pepys to Holborn Conduit, and there
      left him going to Stradwick's, whom we avoided to see, because of our long
      absence, and my wife and I to the Duke of York's house, to see "The
      Duchesse of Malfy," a sorry play, and sat with little pleasure, for fear
      of my wife's seeing me look about, and so I was uneasy all the while,
      though I desire and resolve never to give her trouble of that kind more.
      So home, and there busy at the Office a while, and then home, where my
      wife to read to me, and so to supper, and to bed. This evening, to my
      great content, I got Sir Richard Ford to give me leave to set my coach in
      his yard.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, where I was to have delivered
      the Duke of York's letter of advice to the Board, in answer to our several
      answers to his great letter; but Lord Brouncker not being there, and
      doubtful to deliver it before the new Treasurers, I forbore it to next
      sitting. So home at noon to dinner, where I find Mr. Pierce and his wife
      but I was forced to shew very little pleasure in her being there because
      of my vow to my wife; and therefore was glad of a very bad occasion for my
      being really troubled, which is, at W. Hewer's losing of a tally of L1000,
      which I sent him this day to receive of the Commissioners of Excise. So
      that though I hope at the worst I shall be able to get another, yet I made
      use of this to get away as soon as I had dined, and therefore out with him
      to the Excise Office to make a stop of its payment, and so away to the
      coachmaker's and several other places, and so away home, and there to my
      business at the office, and thence home, and there my wife to read to me,
      and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and with W. Hewer to see W. Coventry again, but missed him
      again, by coming too late, the man of [all] the world that I am resolved
      to preserve an interest in. Thence to White Hall, and there at our usual
      waiting on the Duke of York; and that being done, I away to the Exchequer,
      to give a stop, and take some advice about my lost tally, wherein I shall
      have some remedy, with trouble, and so home, and there find Mr. Povy, by
      appointment, to dine with me; where a pretty good dinner, but for want of
      thought in my wife it was but slovenly dressed up; however, much pleasant
      discourse with him, and some serious; and he tells me that he would, by
      all means, have me get to be a Parliament-man the next Parliament, which
      he believes there will be one, which I do resolve of. By and by comes my
      cozen Roger, and dines with us; and, after dinner, did seal his mortgage,
      wherein I do wholly rely on his honesty, not having so much as read over
      what he hath given me for it, nor minded it, but do trust to his integrity
      therein. They all gone, I to the office and there a while, and then home
      to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and all the morning at the Office, where, while I was sitting,
      one comes and tells me that my coach is come. So I was forced to go out,
      and to Sir Richard Ford's, where I spoke to him, and he is very willing to
      have it brought in, and stand there; and so I ordered it, to my great
      content, it being mighty pretty, only the horses do not please me, and,
      therefore, resolve to have better. At noon home to dinner, and so to the
      office again all the afternoon, and did a great deal of business, and so
      home to supper and to bed, with my mind at pretty good ease, having this
      day presented to the Board the Duke of York's letter, which, I perceive,
      troubled Sir W. Pen, he declaring himself meant in that part, that
      concerned excuse by sickness; but I do not care, but am mightily glad that
      it is done, and now I shall begin to be at pretty good ease in the Office.
      This morning, to my great content, W. Hewer tells me that a porter is
      come, who found my tally in Holborne, and brings it him, for which he
      gives him 20s.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th (Lord's day). Lay long in bed with pleasure with my wife, with whom I
      have now a great deal of content, and my mind is in other things also
      mightily more at ease, and I do mind my business better than ever and am
      more at peace, and trust in God I shall ever be so, though I cannot yet
      get my mind off from thinking now and then of Deb., but I do ever since my
      promise a while since to my wife pray to God by myself in my chamber every
      night, and will endeavour to get my wife to do the like with me ere long,
      but am in much fear of what she lately frighted me with about her being a
      Catholique; and I dare not, therefore, move her to go to church, for fear
      she should deny me; but this morning, of her own accord, she spoke of
      going to church the next Sunday, which pleases me mightily. This morning
      my coachman's clothes come home; and I like the livery mightily, and so I
      all the morning at my chamber, and dined with my wife, and got her to read
      to me in the afternoon, till Sir W. Warren, by appointment, comes to me,
      who spent two hours, or three, with me, about his accounts of Gottenburgh,
      which are so confounded, that I doubt they will hardly ever pass without
      my doing something, which he desires of me, and which, partly from fear,
      and partly from unwillingness to wrong the King, and partly from its being
      of no profit to me, I am backward to give way to, though the poor man do
      indeed deserve to be rid of this trouble, that he hath lain so long under,
      from the negligence of this Board. We afterwards fell to other talk, and
      he tells me, as soon as he saw my coach yesterday, he wished that the
      owner might not contract envy by it; but I told him it was now manifestly
      for my profit to keep a coach, and that, after employments like mine for
      eight years, it were hard if I could not be justly thought to be able to
      do that.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Though our journalist prided himself not a little upon becoming
     possessed of a carriage, the acquisition was regarded with envy and
     jealousy by his enemies, as will appear by the following extract
     from the scurrilous pamphlet, "A Hue and Cry after P. and H. and
     Plain Truth (or a Private Discourse between P. and H.)," in which
     Pepys and Hewer are severely handled: "There is one thing more you
     must be mightily sorry for with all speed.  Your presumption in your
     coach, in which you daily ride, as if you had been son and heir to
     the great Emperor Neptune, or as if you had been infallibly to have
     succeeded him in his government of the Ocean, all which was
     presumption in the highest degree.  First, you had upon the fore
     part of your chariot, tempestuous waves and wrecks of ships; on your
     left hand, forts and great guns, and ships a-fighting; on your right
     hand was a fair harbour and galleys riding, with their flags and
     pennants spread, kindly saluting each other, just like P[epys] and
     H[ewer]. Behind it were high curled waves and ships a-sinking, and
     here and there an appearance of some bits of land."]
</pre>
    <p>
      He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read, and made an end of
      the Life of Archbishop Laud, which is worth reading, as informing a man
      plainly in the posture of the Church, and how the things of it were
      managed with the same self-interest and design that every other thing is,
      and have succeeded accordingly. So to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up betimes, and with W. Hewer, who is my guard, to White Hall, to a
      Committee of Tangier, where the business of Mr. Lanyon
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [John Lanyon, agent of the Navy Commissioners at Plymouth.  The
     cause of complaint appears to have been connected with his contract
     for Tangier.  In 1668 a charge was made against Lanyon and Thomas
     Yeabsley that they had defrauded the king in the freighting of the
     ship "Tiger" ("Calendar of State Papers," 1668-69, p. 138).]
</pre>
    <p>
      took up all the morning; and where, poor man! he did manage his business
      with so much folly, and ill fortune to boot, that the Board, before his
      coming in, inclining, of their own accord, to lay his cause aside, and
      leave it to the law, but he pressed that we would hear it, and it ended to
      the making him appear a very knave, as well as it did to me a fool also,
      which I was sorry for. Thence by water, Mr. Povy, Creed, and I, to
      Arundell House, and there I did see them choosing their Council, it being
      St. Andrew's-day; and I had his Cross
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The cross of St. Andrew, like that of St. Patrick, is a saltire.
     The two, combined with the red cross of St. George, form the Union
     flag.]
</pre>
    <p>
      set on my hat, as the rest had, and cost me 2s., and so leaving them I
      away by coach home to dinner, and my wife, after dinner, went the first
      time abroad to take the maidenhead of her coach, calling on Roger Pepys,
      and visiting Mrs. Creed, and my cozen Turner, while I at home all the
      afternoon and evening, very busy and doing much work, to my great content.
      Home at night, and there comes Mrs. Turner and Betty to see us, and supped
      with us, and I shewed them a cold civility for fear of troubling my wife,
      and after supper, they being gone, we to bed. Thus ended this month, with
      very good content, that hath been the most sad to my heart and the most
      expenseful to my purse on things of pleasure, having furnished my wife's
      closet and the best chamber, and a coach and horses, that ever I yet knew
      in the world: and do put me into the greatest condition of outward state
      that ever I was in, or hoped ever to be, or desired: and this at a time
      when we do daily expect great changes in this Office: and by all reports
      we must, all of us, turn out. But my eyes are come to that condition that
      I am not able to work: and therefore that, and my wife's desire, make me
      have no manner of trouble in my thoughts about it. So God do his will in
      it!
    </p>
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    <h2>
      DECEMBER 1668
    </h2>
    <p>
      December 1st. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and at
      noon with my people to dinner, and so to the office, very busy till night,
      and then home and made my boy read to me Wilkins's Reall Character, which
      do please me mightily, and so after supper to bed with great pleasure and
      content with my wife. This day I hear of poor Mr. Clerke, the solicitor,
      being dead, of a cold, after being not above two days ill, which troubles
      me mightily, poor man!
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and at the office all the morning upon some accounts of Sir D.
      Gawden, and at noon abroad with W. Hewer, thinking to have found Mr. Wren
      at Captain Cox's, to have spoke something to him about doing a favour for
      Will's uncle Steventon, but missed him. And so back home and abroad with
      my wife, the first time that ever I rode in my own coach, which do make my
      heart rejoice, and praise God, and pray him to bless it to me and continue
      it. So she and I to the King's playhouse, and there sat to avoid seeing
      Knepp in a box above where Mrs. Williams happened to be, and there saw
      "The Usurper;" a pretty good play, in all but what is designed to resemble
      Cromwell and Hugh Peters, which is mighty silly. The play done, we to
      White Hall; where my wife staid while I up to the Duchesse's and Queen's
      side, to speak with the Duke of York: and here saw all the ladies, and
      heard the silly discourse of the King, with his people about him, telling
      a story of my Lord Rochester's having of his clothes stole, while he was
      with a wench; and his gold all gone, but his clothes found afterwards
      stuffed into a feather bed by the wench that stole them. I spoke with the
      Duke of York, just as he was set down to supper with the King, about our
      sending of victuals to Sir Thomas Allen's fleet hence to Cales [Cadiz] to
      meet him. And so back to my wife in my coach, and so with great content
      and joy home, where I made my boy to make an end of the Reall Character,
      which I begun a great while ago, and do please me infinitely, and indeed
      is a most worthy labour, and I think mighty easy, though my eyes make me
      unable to attempt any thing in it. To-day I hear that Mr. Ackworth's cause
      went for him at Guildhall, against his accusers, which I am well enough
      pleased with.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up betimes, and by water with W. Hewer to White Hall, and there to
      Mr. Wren, who gives me but small hopes of the favour I hoped for Mr.
      Steventon, Will's uncle, of having leave, being upon the point of death,
      to surrender his place, which do trouble me, but I will do what I can. So
      back again to the Office, Sir Jer. Smith with me; who is a silly, prating,
      talking man; but he tells me what he hears, that Holmes and Spragg now
      rule all with the Duke of Buckingham, as to seabusiness, and will be great
      men: but he do prophesy what will be the fruit of it; so I do. So to the
      Office, where we sat all the morning; and at noon home to dinner, and then
      abroad again, with my wife, to the Duke of York's playhouse, and saw "The
      Unfortunate Lovers;" a mean play, I think, but some parts very good, and
      excellently acted. We sat under the boxes, and saw the fine ladies; among
      others, my Lady Kerneguy, a who is most devilishly painted. And so home,
      it being mighty pleasure to go alone with my poor wife, in a coach of our
      own, to a play, and makes us appear mighty great, I think, in the world;
      at least, greater than ever I could, or my friends for me, have once
      expected; or, I think, than ever any of my family ever yet lived, in my
      memory, but my cozen Pepys in Salisbury Court. So to the office, and
      thence home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and with W. Hewer by water to White Hall, and there did wait as
      usual upon the Duke of York, where, upon discoursing something touching
      the Ticket-Office, which by letter the Board did give the Duke of York
      their advice, to be put upon Lord Brouncker, Sir J. Minnes did foolishly
      rise up and complain of the Office, and his being made nothing of; and
      this before Sir Thomas Littleton, who would be glad of this difference
      among us, which did trouble me mightily; and therefore I did forbear to
      say what I otherwise would have thought fit for me to say on this
      occasion, upon so impertinent a speech as this doting fool made&mdash;but,
      I say, I let it alone, and contented myself that it went as I advised, as
      to the Duke of York's judgment, in the thing disputed. And so thence away,
      my coach meeting me there and carrying me to several places to do little
      jobs, which is a mighty convenience, and so home, where by invitation I
      find my aunt Wight, who looked over all our house, and is mighty pleased
      with it, and indeed it is now mighty handsome, and rich in furniture. By
      and by comes my uncle, and then to dinner, where a venison pasty and very
      merry, and after dinner I carried my wife and her to Smithfield, where
      they sit in the coach, while Mr. Pickering, who meets me there, and I, and
      W. Hewer, and a friend of his, a jockey, did go about to see several pairs
      of horses, for my coach; but it was late, and we agreed on none, but left
      it to another time: but here I do see instances of a piece of craft and
      cunning that I never dreamed of, concerning the buying and choosing of
      horses. So Mr. Pickering, to whom I am much beholden for his kindness
      herein, and I parted; and I with my people home, where I left them, and I
      to the office, to meet about some business of Sir W. Warren's accounts,
      where I vexed to see how ill all the Comptroller's business is likely to
      go on, so long as ever Sir J. Minnes lives; and so troubled I was, that I
      thought it a good occasion for me to give my thoughts of it in writing,
      and therefore wrote a letter at the Board, by the help of a tube, to Lord
      Brouncker, and did give it him, which I kept a copy of, and it may be of
      use to me hereafter to shew, in this matter. This being done, I home to my
      aunt, who supped with us, and my uncle also: and a good-humoured woman she
      is, so that I think we shall keep her acquaintance; but mighty proud she
      is of her wedding-ring, being lately set with diamonds; cost her about
      L12: and I did commend it mightily to her, but do not think it very
      suitable for one of our quality. After supper they home, and we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, after a little talk with my wife, which troubled me, she being
      ever since our late difference mighty watchful of sleep and dreams, and
      will not be persuaded but I do dream of Deb., and do tell me that I speak
      in my dreams and that this night I did cry, Huzzy, and it must be she, and
      now and then I start otherwise than I used to do, she says, which I know
      not, for I do not know that I dream of her more than usual, though I
      cannot deny that my thoughts waking do run now and then against my will
      and judgment upon her, for that only is wanting to undo me, being now in
      every other thing as to my mind most happy, and may still be so but for my
      own fault, if I be catched loving any body but my wife again. So up and to
      the office, and at noon to dinner, and thence to office, where late,
      mighty busy, and despatching much business, settling papers in my own
      office, and so home to supper, and to bed. No news stirring, but that my
      Lord of Ormond is likely to go to Ireland again, which do shew that the
      Duke of Buckingham do not rule all so absolutely; and that, however, we
      shall speedily have more changes in the Navy: and it is certain that the
      Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses, in many places, and among
      others the house that was heretofore Sir G. Carteret's, in Leadenhall
      Streete, and have ready access to the King. And now the great dispute is,
      whether this Parliament or another; and my great design, if I continue in
      the Navy, is to get myself to be a Parliament-man.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church; which pleases me
      mightily, I being full of fear that she would never go to church again,
      after she had declared to me that she was a Roman Catholique. But though I
      do verily think she fears God, and is truly and sincerely righteous, yet I
      do see she is not so strictly so a Catholique as not to go to church with
      me, which pleases me mightily. Here Mills made a lazy sermon, upon Moses's
      meeknesse, and so home, and my wife and I alone to dinner, and then she to
      read a little book concerning speech in general, a translation late out of
      French; a most excellent piece as ever I read, proving a soul in man, and
      all the ways and secrets by which nature teaches speech in man, which do
      please me most infinitely to read. By and by my wife to church, and I to
      my Office to complete my Journall for the last three days, and so home to
      my chamber to settle some papers, and so to spend the evening with my wife
      and W. Hewer talking over the business of the Office, and particularly my
      own Office, how I will make it, and it will become, in a little time, an
      Office of ease, and not slavery, as it hath for so many years been. So to
      supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up by candlelight, the first time I have done so this winter, but I
      had lost my labour so often to visit Sir W. Coventry, and not visited him
      so long, that I was resolved to get time enough, and so up, and with W.
      Hewer, it being the first frosty day we have had this winter, did walk it
      very well to W. Coventry's, and there alone with him an hour talking of
      the Navy, which he pities, but says he hath no more mind to be found
      meddling with the Navy, lest it should do it hurt, as well as him, to be
      found to meddle with it. So to talk of general things: and telling him
      that, with all these doings, he, I thanked God, stood yet; he told me,
      Yes, but that he thought his continuing in, did arise from his enemies my
      Lord of Buckingham and Arlington's seeing that he cared so little if he
      was out; and he do protest to me that he is as weary of the Treasury, as
      ever he was of the Navy. He tells me that he do believe that their heat is
      over almost, as to the Navy, there being now none left of the old stock
      but my Lord Brouncker, J. Minnes, who is ready to leave the world, and
      myself. But he tells me that he do foresee very great wants and great
      disorders by reason thereof; insomuch, as he is represented to the King by
      his enemies as a melancholy man, and one that is still prophesying ill
      events, so as the King called him Visionaire, which being told him, he
      said he answered the party, that, whatever he foresaw, he was not afeard
      as to himself of any thing, nor particularly of my Lord Arlington, so much
      as the Duke of Buckingham hath been, nor of the Duke of Buckingham, so
      much as my Lord Arlington at this time is. But he tells me that he hath
      been always looked upon as a melancholy man; whereas, others that would
      please the King do make him believe that all is safe: and so he hath heard
      my Lord Chancellor openly say to the King, that he was now a glorious
      prince, and in a glorious condition, because of some one accident that
      hath happened, or some one rub that hath been removed; "when," says W.
      Coventry, "they reckoned their one good meal, without considering that
      there was nothing left in the cup board for to-morrow." After this and
      other discourse of this kind, I away, and walked to my Lord Sandwich's,
      and walked with him to White Hall, and took a quarter of an hour's walk in
      the garden with him, which I had not done for so much time with him since
      his coming into England; and talking of his own condition, and
      particularly of the world's talk of his going to Tangier. I find, if his
      conditions can be made profitable and safe as to money, he would go, but
      not else; but, however, will seem not averse to it, because of
      facilitating his other accounts now depending, which he finds hard to get
      through, but yet hath some hopes, the King, he says, speaking very kindly
      to him. Thence to a Committee of Tangier, and so with W. Hewer to
      Westminster to Sir R. Longs office, and so to the Temple, but did nothing,
      the Auditor not being within, and so home to dinner, and after dinner out
      again with my wife to the Temple, and up and down to do a little business,
      and back again, and so to my office, and did a little business, and so
      home, and W. Hewer with me, to read and talk, and so to supper, and then
      to bed in mighty good humour. This afternoon, passing through Queen's
      Street, I saw pass by our coach on foot Deb., which, God forgive me, did
      put me into some new thoughts of her, and for her, but durst not shew
      them, and I think my wife did not see her, but I did get my thoughts free
      of her soon as I could.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and Sir H. Cholmly betimes with me, about some accounts and
      moneys due to him: and he gone, I to the Office, where sat all the
      morning; and here, among other things, breaks out the storm W. Hewer and I
      have long expected from the Surveyor,&mdash;[Colonel Middleton.]&mdash;about
      W. Hewer's conspiring to get a contract, to the burdening of the stores
      with kerseys and cottons, of which he hath often complained, and lately
      more than ever; and now he did it by a most scandalous letter to the
      Board, reflecting on my Office: and, by discourse, it fell to such high
      words between him and me, as can hardly ever be forgot; I declaring I
      would believe W. Hewer as soon as him, and laying the fault, if there be
      any, upon himself; he, on the other hand, vilifying of my word and W.
      Hewer's, calling him knave, and that if he were his clerk, he should lose
      his ears. At last, I closed the business for this morning with making the
      thing ridiculous, as it is, and he swearing that the King should have
      right in it, or he would lose his place. The Office was cleared of all but
      ourselves and W. Hewer; but, however, the world did by the beginning see
      what it meant, and it will, I believe, come to high terms between us,
      which I am sorry for, to have any blemish laid upon me or mine, at this
      time, though never so unduly, for fear of giving occasion to my real
      discredit: and therefore I was not only all the rest of the morning vexed,
      but so went home to dinner, where my wife tells me of my Lord Orrery's new
      play "Tryphon," at the Duke of York's house, which, however, I would see,
      and therefore put a bit of meat in our mouths, and went thither; where,
      with much ado, at half-past one, we got into a blind hole in the 18d.
      place, above stairs, where we could not hear well, but the house infinite
      full, but the prologue most silly, and the play, though admirable, yet no
      pleasure almost in it, because just the very same design, and words, and
      sense, and plot, as every one of his plays have, any one of which alone
      would be held admirable, whereas so many of the same design and fancy do
      but dull one another; and this, I perceive, is the sense of every body
      else, as well as myself, who therefore showed but little pleasure in it.
      So home, mighty hot, and my mind mightily out of order, so as I could not
      eat any supper, or sleep almost all night, though I spent till twelve at
      night with W. Hewer to consider of our business: and we find it not only
      most free from any blame of our side, but so horrid scandalous on the
      other, to make so groundless a complaint, and one so shameful to him, that
      it could not but let me see that there is no need of my being troubled;
      but such is the weakness of my nature, that I could not help it, which
      vexes me, showing me how unable I am to live with difficulties.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and to the Office, but did little there, my mind being still
      uneasy, though more and more satisfied that there is no occasion for it;
      but abroad with my wife to the Temple, where I met with Auditor Wood's
      clerk, and did some business with him, and so to see Mr. Spong, and found
      him out by Southampton Market, and there carried my wife, and up to his
      chamber, a bye place, but with a good prospect of the fields; and there I
      had most infinite pleasure, not only with his ingenuity in general, but in
      particular with his shewing me the use of the Parallelogram, by which he
      drew in a quarter of an hour before me, in little, from a great, a most
      neat map of England&mdash;that is, all the outlines, which gives me
      infinite pleasure, and foresight of pleasure, I shall have with it; and
      therefore desire to have that which I have bespoke, made. Many other
      pretty things he showed us, and did give me a glass bubble, to try the
      strength of liquors with.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This seems to refer to the first form of the Hon. Robert Boyle's
     hydrometer, which he described in a paper in the "Philosophical
     Transactions" for June, 1675, under the title of a "New Essay
     instrument."  In this paper the author refers to a glass instrument
     exhibited many years before by himself, "consisting of a bubble
     furnished with a long and slender stem, which was to be put into
     several liquors to compare and estimate their specific gravity."
     Boyle describes this glass bubble in a paper in "Philosophical
     Transactions," vol. iv., No. 50, p. 1001, 1669, entitled, "The
     Weights of Water in Water with ordinary Balances and Weights."]
</pre>
    <p>
      This done, and having spent 6d. in ale in the coach, at the door of the
      Bull Inn, with the innocent master of the house, a Yorkshireman, for his
      letting us go through his house, we away to Hercules Pillars, and there
      eat a bit of meat: and so, with all speed, back to the Duke of York's
      house, where mighty full again; but we come time enough to have a good
      place in the pit, and did hear this new play again, where, though I better
      understood it than before, yet my sense of it and pleasure was just the
      same as yesterday, and no more, nor any body else's about us. So took our
      coach and home, having now little pleasure to look about me to see the
      fine faces, for fear of displeasing my wife, whom I take great comfort
      now, more than ever, in pleasing; and it is a real joy to me. So home, and
      to my Office, where spent an hour or two; and so home to my wife, to
      supper and talk, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and to the Office, where busy all the morning: Middleton not
      there, so no words or looks of him. At noon, home to dinner; and so to the
      Office, and there all the afternoon busy; and at night W. Hewer home with
      me; and we think we have got matter enough to make Middleton appear a
      coxcomb. But it troubled me to have Sir W. Warren meet me at night, going
      out of the Office home, and tell me that Middleton do intend to complain
      to the Duke of York: but, upon consideration of the business, I did go to
      bed, satisfied that it was best for me that he should; and so my trouble
      was over, and to bed, and slept well.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and with W. Hewer by water to Somerset House; and there I to my
      Lord Brouncker, before he went forth to the Duke of York, and there told
      him my confidence that I should make Middleton appear a fool, and that it
      was, I thought, best for me to complain of the wrong he hath done; but
      brought it about, that my Lord desired me I would forbear, and promised
      that he would prevent Middleton till I had given in my answer to the
      Board, which I desired: and so away to White Hall, and there did our usual
      attendance and no word spoke before the Duke of York by Middleton at all;
      at which I was glad to my heart, because by this means I have time to draw
      up my answer to my mind. So with W. Hewer by coach to Smithfield, but met
      not Mr. Dickering, he being not come, and so he [Will] and I to a cook's
      shop, in Aldersgate Street; and dined well for 19 1/2 d., upon roast beef,
      pleasing ourselves with the infinite strength we have to prove Middleton a
      coxcomb; and so, having dined, we back to Smithfield, and there met
      Dickering, and up and down all the afternoon about horses, and did see the
      knaveries and tricks of jockeys. Here I met W. Joyce, who troubled me with
      his impertinencies a great while, and the like Mr. Knepp, who, it seems,
      is a kind of a jockey, and would fain have been doing something for me,
      but I avoided him, and the more for fear of being troubled thereby with
      his wife, whom I desire but dare not see, for my vow to my wife. At last
      went away and did nothing, only concluded upon giving L50 for a fine pair
      of black horses we saw this day se'nnight; and so set Mr. Dickering down
      near his house, whom I am much beholden to, for his care herein, and he
      hath admirable skill, I perceive, in this business, and so home, and spent
      the evening talking and merry, my mind at good ease, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to
      dinner, and so the like mighty busy, late, all the afternoon, that I might
      be ready to go to the drawing up of my answer to Middleton to-morrow, and
      therefore home to supper and to bed. I hear this day that there is fallen
      down a new house, not quite finished, in Lumbard Street, and that there
      have been several so, they making use of bad mortar and bricks; but no
      hurt yet, as God hath ordered it. This day was brought home my pair of
      black coach-horses, the first I ever was master of. They cost me L50, and
      are a fine pair.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th (Lord's day). Up, and with W. Hewer to the Office, where all the
      morning, and then home to a little dinner, and presently to it again all
      alone till twelve at night, drawing up my answer to Middleton, which I
      think I shall do to very good purpose&mdash;at least, I satisfy myself
      therein; and so to bed, weary with walking in my Office dictating to him
      [Hewer]. In the night my wife very ill, vomited, but was well again by and
      by.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and by water to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, where,
      among other things, a silly account of a falling out between Norwood, at
      Tangier, and Mr. Bland, the mayor, who is fled to Cales [Cadiz]. His
      complaint is ill-worded, and the other's defence the most ridiculous that
      ever I saw; and so everybody else that was there, thought it; but never
      did I see so great an instance of the use of grammar, and knowledge how to
      tell a man's tale as this day, Bland having spoiled his business by
      ill-telling it, who had work to have made himself notorious by his
      mastering Norwood, his enemy, if he had known how to have used it. Thence
      calling Smith, the Auditor's clerk at the Temple, I by the Exchange home,
      and there looked over my Tangier accounts with him, and so to dinner, and
      then set him down again by a hackney, my coachman being this day about
      breaking of my horses to the coach, they having never yet drawn. Left my
      wife at Unthank's, and I to the Treasury, where we waited on the Lords
      Commissioners about Sir D. Gawden's matters, and so took her up again at
      night, and home to the office, and so home with W. Hewer, and to talk
      about our quarrel with Middleton, and so to supper and to bed. This day I
      hear, and am glad, that the King hath prorogued the Parliament to October
      next; and, among other reasons, it will give me time to go to France, I
      hope.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and to the Office, where sat all the morning, and the new
      Treasurers there; and, for my life, I cannot keep Sir J. Minnes and others
      of the Board from shewing our weakness, to the dishonour of the Board,
      though I am not concerned but it do vex me to the heart to have it before
      these people, that would be glad to find out all our weaknesses. At noon
      Mrs. Mary Batelier with us, and so, after dinner, I with W. Hewer all the
      afternoon till night beginning to draw up our answer to Middleton, and it
      proves troublesome, because I have so much in my head at a time to say,
      but I must go through with it. So at night to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. I did the like all day long, only a little at dinner, and so to work
      again, and were at it till 2 in the morning, and so W. Hewer, who was with
      me all day, home to his lodging, and I to bed, after we had finished it.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and set my man Gibson and Mr. Fists to work to write it over
      fair, while I all the morning at the office sitting. At noon home to them,
      and all the afternoon looking over them and examining with W. Hewer, and
      so about to at night I to bed, leaving them to finish the writing it fair,
      which they did by sitting up most of the night, and so home to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. All the morning at the office about Sir W. Warren's accounts, my
      mind full of my business, having before we met gone to Lord Brouncker, and
      got him to read over my paper, who owns most absolute content in it, and
      the advantage I have in it, and the folly of the Surveyor. At noon home to
      dinner; and then again to the office a while, and so by hackney coach to
      Brooke House, and there spoke with Colonel Thomson, I by order carrying
      them [the Commissioners of Accounts] our Contract-books, from the
      beginning to the end of the late war. I found him finding of errors in a
      ship's book, where he shewed me many, which must end in the ruin, I doubt,
      of the Controller, who found them not out in the pay of the ship, or the
      whole Office. But I took little notice of them to concern myself in them,
      but so leaving my books I home to the Office, where the office met, and
      after some other business done, fell to mine, which the Surveyor begun to
      be a little brisk at the beginning; but when I come to the point to touch
      him, which I had all the advantages in the world to do, he become as calm
      as a lamb, and owned, as the whole Board did, their satisfaction, and
      cried excuse: and so all made friends; and their acknowledgment put into
      writing, and delivered into Sir J. Minnes's hand, to be kept there for the
      use of the Board, or me, when I shall call for it; they desiring it might
      be so, that I might not make use of it to the prejudice of the Surveyor,
      whom I had an advantage over, by his extraordinary folly in this matter.
      But, besides this, I have no small advantage got by this business, as I
      have put several things into my letter which I should otherwise have
      wanted an opportunity of saying, which pleases me mightily. So Middleton
      desiring to be friends, I forgave him; and all mighty quiet, and fell to
      talk of other stories, and there staid, all of us, till nine or ten at
      night, more than ever we did in our lives before, together. And so home,
      where I have a new fight to fight with my wife, who is under new trouble
      by some news she hath heard of Deb.'s being mighty fine, and gives out
      that she has a friend that gives her money, and this my wife believes to
      be me, and, poor wretch! I cannot blame her, and therefore she run into
      mighty extremes; but I did pacify all, and were mighty good friends, and
      to bed, and I hope it will be our last struggle from this business, for I
      am resolved never to give any new occasion, and great peace I find in my
      mind by it. So to supper, she and I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon, eating
      very little dinner, my wife and I by hackney to the King's playhouse, and
      there, the pit being full, satin a box above, and saw "Catiline's
      Conspiracy," yesterday being the first day: a play of much good sense and
      words to read, but that do appear the worst upon the stage, I mean, the
      least diverting, that ever I saw any, though most fine in clothes; and a
      fine scene of the Senate, and of a fight, that ever I saw in my life. But
      the play is only to be read, and therefore home, with no pleasure at all,
      but only in sitting next to Betty Hall, that did belong to this house, and
      was Sir Philip Howard's mistress; a mighty pretty wench, though my wife
      will not think so; and I dare neither commend, nor be seen to look upon
      her, or any other now, for fear of offending her. So, our own coach coming
      for us, home, and to end letters, and so home, my wife to read to me out
      of "The Siege of Rhodes," and so to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife to church, and then home, and
      there found W. Joyce come to dine with me, as troublesome a talking
      coxcombe as ever he was, and yet once in a year I like him well enough. In
      the afternoon my wife and W. Hewer and I to White Hall, where they set me
      down and staid till I had been with the Duke of York, with the rest of us
      of the Office, and did a little business, and then the Duke of York in
      good humour did fall to tell us many fine stories of the wars in Flanders,
      and how the Spaniards are the [best] disciplined foot in the world; will
      refuse no extraordinary service if commanded, but scorn to be paid for it,
      as in other countries, though at the same time they will beg in the
      streets: not a soldier will carry you a cloak-bag for money for the world,
      though he will beg a penny, and will do the thing, if commanded by his
      Commander. That, in the citadel of Antwerp, a soldier hath not a liberty
      of begging till he hath served three years. They will cry out against
      their King and Commanders and Generals, none like them in the world, and
      yet will not hear a stranger say a word of them but he will cut his
      throat. That, upon a time, some of the Commanders of their army exclaiming
      against their Generals, and particularly the Marquis de Caranen, the
      Confessor of the Marquis coming by and hearing them, he stops and gravely
      tells them that the three great trades of the world are, the lawyers, who
      govern the world; the churchmen, who enjoy the world; and a sort of fools
      whom they call souldiers, who make it their work to defend the world. He
      told us, too, that Turenne being now become a Catholique, he is likely to
      get over the head of Colbert, their interests being contrary; the latter
      to promote trade
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [This reminds us of the famous reply, 'Laissez nous affaire', made
     to Colbert by the French merchants, whose interests he thought to
     promote by laws and regulations.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and the sea, which, says the Duke of York, is that that we have most cause
      to fear; and Turenne to employ the King and his forces by land, to
      encrease his conquests. Thence to the coach to my wife, and so home, and
      there with W. Hewer to my office and to do some business, and so set down
      my Journall for four or five days, and then home to supper and read a
      little, and to bed. W. Hewer tells me to-day that he hears that the King
      of France hath declared in print, that he do intend this next summer to
      forbid his Commanders to strike&mdash;[Strike topsails]&mdash;to us, but
      that both we and the Dutch shall strike to him; and that he hath made his
      captains swear it already, that they will observe it: which is a great
      thing if he do it, as I know nothing to hinder him.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. My own coach carrying me and my boy Tom, who goes with me in the
      room of W. Hewer, who could not, and I dare not go alone, to the Temple,
      and there set me down, the first time my fine horses ever carried me, and
      I am mighty proud of them, and there took a hackney and to White Hall,
      where a Committee of Tangier, but little to do, and so away home, calling
      at the Exchange and buying several little things, and so home, and there
      dined with my wife and people and then she, and W. Hewer, and I by
      appointment out with our coach, but the old horses, not daring yet to use
      the others too much, but only to enter them, and to the Temple, there to
      call Talbot Pepys, and took him up, and first went into Holborne, and
      there saw the woman that is to be seen with a beard. She is a little plain
      woman, a Dane: her name, Ursula Dyan; about forty years old; her voice
      like a little girl's; with a beard as much as any man I ever saw, black
      almost, and grizly; they offered to shew my wife further satisfaction if
      she desired it, refusing it to men that desired it there, but there is no
      doubt but by her voice she is a woman; it begun to grow at about seven
      years old, and was shaved not above seven months ago, and is now so big as
      any man's almost that ever I saw; I say, bushy and thick. It was a strange
      sight to me, I confess, and what pleased me mightily. Thence to the Duke's
      playhouse, and saw "Macbeth." The King and Court there; and we sat just
      under them and my Lady Castlemayne, and close to the woman that comes into
      the pit, a kind of a loose gossip, that pretends to be like her, and is
      so, something. And my wife, by my troth, appeared, I think, as pretty as
      any of them; I never thought so much before; and so did Talbot and W.
      Hewer, as they said, I heard, to one another. The King and Duke of York
      minded me, and smiled upon me, at the handsome woman near me but it vexed
      me to see Moll Davis, in the box over the King's and my Lady Castlemayne's
      head, look down upon the King, and he up to her; and so did my Lady
      Castlemayne once, to see who it was; but when she saw her, she looked like
      fire; which troubled me. The play done, took leave of Talbot, who goes
      into the country this Christmas, and so we home, and there I to work at
      the office late, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. At the office all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, thinking
      to meet with Langford about my father's house in Fleet Streete, but I come
      too late, and so home to dinner, and all the afternoon at the office busy,
      and at night home to supper and talk, and with mighty content with my
      wife, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Met at the Office all the morning, and at noon to the 'Change, and
      there met with Langford and Mr. Franke, the landlord of my father's house
      in Fleet Streete, and are come to an arbitration what my father shall give
      him to be freed of his lease and building the house again. Walked up and
      down the 'Change, and among others discoursed with Sir John Bankes, who
      thinks this prorogation will please all but the Parliament itself, which
      will, if ever they meet, be vexed at Buckingham, who yet governs all. He
      says the Nonconformists are glad of it, and, he believes, will get the
      upperhand in a little time, for the King must trust to them or nobody; and
      he thinks the King will be forced to it. He says that Sir D. Gawden is
      mightily troubled at Pen's being put upon him, by the Duke of York, and
      that he believes he will get clear of it, which, though it will trouble me
      to have Pen still at the Office, yet I shall think D. Gawden do well in
      it, and what I would advise him to, because I love him. So home to dinner,
      and then with my wife alone abroad, with our new horses, the beautifullest
      almost that ever I saw, and the first time they ever carried her, and me
      but once; but we are mighty proud of them. To her tailor's, and so to the
      'Change, and laid out three or four pounds in lace, for her and me; and so
      home, and there I up to my Lord Brouncker, at his lodgings, and sat with
      him an hour, on purpose to talk over the wretched state of this Office at
      present, according to the present hands it is made up of; wherein he do
      fully concur with me, and that it is our part not only to prepare for
      defending it and ourselves, against the consequences of it, but to take
      the best ways we can, to make it known to the Duke of York; for, till Sir
      J. Minnes be removed, and a sufficient man brought into W. Pen's place,
      when he is gone, it is impossible for this Office ever to support itself.
      So home, and to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. A cold day. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning alone at
      the Office, nobody meeting, being the eve of Christmas. At noon home to
      dinner, and then to the Office busy, all the afternoon, and at night home
      to supper, and it being now very cold, and in hopes of a frost, I begin
      this night to put on a waistcoat, it being the first winter in my whole
      memory that ever I staid till this day before I did so. So to bed in
      mighty good humour with my wife, but sad, in one thing, and that is for my
      poor eyes.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Christmas-day). Up, and continued on my waistcoat, the first day
      this winter, and I to church, where Alderman Backewell, coming in late, I
      beckoned to his lady to come up to us, who did, with another lady; and
      after sermon, I led her down through the church to her husband and coach,
      a noble, fine woman, and a good one, and one my wife shall be acquainted
      with. So home, and to dinner alone with my wife, who, poor wretch! sat
      undressed all day, till ten at night, altering and lacing of a noble
      petticoat: while I by her, making the boy read to me the Life of Julius
      Caesar, and Des Cartes' book of Musick
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ["Musicae Compendium."  By Rene Des Cartes, Amsterdam, 1617;
     rendered into English, London, 1653, 4to.  The translator, whose
     name did not appear on the title, was William, Viscount Brouncker,
     Pepys's colleague, who proved his knowledge of music by the
     performance.]
</pre>
    <p>
      &mdash;the latter of which I understand not, nor think he did well that
      writ it, though a most learned man. Then, after supper, I made the boy
      play upon his lute, which I have not done twice before since he come to
      me; and so, my mind in mighty content, we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Lay long with pleasure, prating with my wife, and then up, and I a
      little to the Office, and my head busy setting some papers and accounts to
      rights, which being long neglected because of my eyes will take me up much
      time and care to do, but it must be done. So home at noon to dinner, and
      then abroad with my wife to a play, at the Duke of York's house, the house
      full of ordinary citizens. The play was "Women Pleased," which we had
      never seen before; and, though but indifferent, yet there is a good design
      for a good play. So home, and there to talk, and my wife to read to me,
      and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th (Lord's day). Walked to White Hall and there saw the King at chapel;
      but staid not to hear anything, but went to walk in the Park, with W.
      Hewer, who was with me; and there, among others, met with Sir G. Downing,
      and walked with him an hour, talking of business, and how the late war was
      managed, there being nobody to take care of it, and telling how, when he
      was in Holland, what he offered the King to do, if he might have power,
      and they would give him power, and then, upon the least word, perhaps of a
      woman, to the King, he was contradicted again, and particularly to the
      loss of all that we lost in Guinny. He told me that he had so good spies,
      that he hath had the keys taken out of De Witt's
    </p>
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     [The celebrated John de Witt, Grand Pensionary of Holland, who,
     a few years afterwards, was massacred, with his brother Cornelius,
     by the Dutch mob, enraged at their opposition to the elevation of
     William of Orange to the Stadtholdership, when the States were
     overrun by the French army, and the Dutch fleets beaten at sea by
     the English.  The murder of the De Witts forms one of the main
     incidents of Alexandre Dumas's "Black Tulip."]
</pre>
    <p>
      pocket when he was a-bed, and his closet opened, and papers brought to
      him, and left in his hands for an hour, and carried back and laid in the
      place again, and keys put into his pocket again. He says that he hath
      always had their most private debates, that have been but between two or
      three of the chief of them, brought to him in an hour after, and an hour
      after that, hath sent word thereof to the King, but nobody here regarded
      them. But he tells me the sad news, that he is out of all expectations
      that ever the debts of the Navy will be paid, if the Parliament do not
      enable the King to do it by money; all they can hope for to do out of the
      King's revenue being but to keep our wheels a-going on present services,
      and, if they can, to cut off the growing interest: which is a sad story,
      and grieves me to the heart. So home, my coach coming for me, and there
      find Balty and Mr. How, who dined with me; and there my wife and I fell
      out a little about the foulness of the linen of the table, but were
      friends presently, but she cried, poor heart! which I was troubled for,
      though I did not give her one hard word. Dinner done, she to church, and
      W. How and I all the afternoon talking together about my Lord Sandwich's
      suffering his business of the prizes to be managed by Sir R. Cuttance, who
      is so deep in the business, more than my Lord knows of, and such a
      loggerhead, and under such prejudice, that he will, we doubt, do my Lord
      much wrong. In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and
      spent the evening with much pleasure, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, called up by drums and trumpets; these things and boxes [??]
      having cost me much money this Christmas already, and will do more. My
      wife down by water to see her mother, and I with W. Hewer all day together
      in my closet making some advance in the settling of my accounts, which
      have been so long unevened that it troubles me how to set them right,
      having not the use of my eyes to help me. My wife at night home, and tells
      me how much her mother prays for me and is troubled for my eyes; and I am
      glad to have friendship with them, and believe they are truly glad to see
      their daughter come to live so well as she do. So spent the night in
      talking, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and at the Office all the morning, and at noon to dinner, and
      there, by a pleasant mistake, find my uncle and aunt Wight, and three more
      of their company, come to dine with me to-day, thinking that they had been
      invited, which they were not; but yet we did give them a pretty good
      dinner, and mighty merry at the mistake. They sat most of the afternoon
      with us, and then parted, and my wife and I out, thinking to have gone to
      a play, but it was too far begun, and so to the 'Change, and there she and
      I bought several things, and so home, with much pleasure talking, and then
      to reading, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and vexed a little to be forced to pay 40s. for a glass of my
      coach, which was broke the other day, nobody knows how, within the door,
      while it was down; but I do doubt that I did break it myself with my
      knees. After dinner, my wife and I to the Duke's playhouse, and there did
      see King Harry the Eighth; and was mightily pleased, better than I ever
      expected, with the history and shows of it. We happened to sit by Mr.
      Andrews, our neighbour, and his wife, who talked so fondly to his little
      boy. Thence my wife and I to the 'Change; but, in going, our neere horse
      did fling himself, kicking of the coachbox over the pole; and a great deal
      of trouble it was to get him right again, and we forced to 'light, and in
      great fear of spoiling the horse, but there was no hurt. So to the
      'Change, and then home, and there spent the evening talking, and so to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up, and at the Office all the morning. At noon Capt. Ferrers and Mr.
      Sheres
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Henry Sheres accompanied Lord Sandwich in his embassy to Spain, and
     returned to England in September, 1667, bearing letters from the
     ambassador (see September 8th, 22nd, 27th).  He was an officer in
     the Ordnance, and served under Lord Dartmouth at the demolition of
     the Mole at Tangier in 1683.  He was knighted about 1684.  He
     translated Polybius (2 vols. 8vo., 1693), and also some of the
     "Dialogues" of Lucian, included in the translation published in 1711
     (3 vols. 8vo.).  Pepys bequeathed him a ring, and he died about
     1713.]
</pre>
    <p>
      come to me to dinner, who did, and pretty pleased with their talk of
      Spayne; but my wife did not come down, I suppose because she would not,
      Captain Ferrers being there, to oblige me by it. They gone, after dinner,
      I to the office, and then in the evening home, being the last day of the
      year, to endeavour to pay all bills and servants' wages, &amp;c., which I
      did almost to L5 that I know that I owe in the world, but to the publique;
      and so with great pleasure to supper and to bed, and, blessed be God! the
      year ends, after some late very great sorrow with my wife by my folly, yet
      ends, I say, with great mutual peace and content, and likely to last so by
      my care, who am resolved to enjoy the sweet of it, which I now possess, by
      never giving her like cause of trouble. My greatest trouble is now from
      the backwardness of my accounts, which I have not seen the bottom of now
      near these two years, so that I know not in what condition I am in the
      world, but by the grace of God, as far as my eyes will give me leave, I
      will do it.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS, DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, 1668 N.S., COMPLETE:

     A book the Bishops will not let be printed again
     Act against Nonconformists and Papists
     All things to be managed with faction
     And will not kiss a woman since his wife's death
     And the woman so silly, as to let her go that took it
     And they did lay pigeons to his feet
     As all other women, cry, and yet talk of other things
     At work, till I was almost blind, which makes my heart sad
     Beating of a poor little dog to death, letting it lie
     Being very poor and mean as to the bearing with trouble
     Being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest
     Best fence against the Parliament's present fury is delay
     Bite at the stone, and not at the hand that flings it
     Bookseller's, and there looked for Montaigne's Essays
     Bought Montaigne's Essays, in English
     Bristol milk (the sherry) in the vaults
     Burned it, that it might not be among my books to my shame
     Business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale
     But get no ground there yet
     But this the world believes, and so let them
     But what they did, I did not enquire
     But if she will ruin herself, I cannot help it
     Calling me dog and rogue, and that I had a rotten heart
     Cannot get suitably, without breach of his honour
     Cannot be clean to go so many bodies together in the same water
     Carry them to a box, which did cost me 20s., besides oranges
     Caustic attack on Sir Robert Howard
     City to be burned, and the Papists to cut our throats
     City pay him great respect, and he the like to the meanest
     Coach to W. Coventry about Mrs. Pett, 1s.
     Come to see them in bed together, on their wedding-night
     Cost me L5, which troubles me, but yet do please me also
     Craft and cunning concerning the buying and choosing of horses
     Declared, if he come, she would not live with me
     Did see the knaveries and tricks of jockeys
     Disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola
     Doe from Cobham, when the season comes, bucks season being past
     Down to the Whey house and drank some and eat some curds
     Eat some butter and radishes
     Endangering the nation, when he knew himself such a coward
     Espinette is the French term for a small harpsichord
     Ever have done his maister better service than to hang for him?
     Family governed so nobly and neatly as do me good to see it
     Fear what would become of me if any real affliction should come
     Fear that the goods and estate would be seized (after suicide)
     Fears some will stand for the tolerating of Papists
     Force a man to swear against himself
     Forced to change gold, 8s. 7d.; servants and poor, 1s. 6d.
     Forgetting many things, which her master beat her for
     Frequent trouble in things we deserve best in
     Glad to be at friendship with me, though we hate one another
     Greater number of Counsellors is, the more confused the issue
     Hath not a liberty of begging till he hath served three years
     Have me get to be a Parliament-man the next Parliament
     He that will not stoop for a pin, will never be worth a pound
     He told me that he had so good spies
     How natural it is for us to slight people out of power
     I know not how in the world to abstain from reading
     I have a good mind to have the maidenhead of this girl
     I could have answered, but forbore
     I away with great content, my mind being troubled before
     I know not whether to be glad or sorry
     In my nature am mighty unready to answer no to anything
     Inventing a better theory of musique
     It may be, be able to pay for it, or have health
     King, "it is then but Mr. Pepys making of another speech to them"
     L'escholle des filles, a lewd book
     Lady Castlemayne do rule all at this time as much as ever
     Laissez nous affaire&mdash;Colbert
     Little company there, which made it very unpleasing
     Little pleasure now in a play, the company being but little
     Live of L100 a year with more plenty, and wine and wenches
     Made him admire my drawing a thing presently in shorthand
     Making their own advantages to the disturbance of the peace
     My wife having a mind to see the play "Bartholomew-Fayre"
     My wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits
     My wife, coming up suddenly, did find me embracing the girl
     My wife's neglect of things, and impertinent humour
     My heart beginning to falsify in this business
     Never saw so many sit four hours together to hear any man
     No pleasure&mdash;only the variety of it
     No man was ever known to lose the first time
     Nonconformists do now preach openly in houses
     Not eat a bit of good meat till he has got money to pay the men
     Offered to shew my wife further satisfaction if she desired
     Parliament being vehement against the Nonconformists
     Pictures of some Maids of Honor: good, but not like
     Presbyterian style and the Independent are the best
     Resolve never to give her trouble of that kind more
     Resolved to go through it, and it is too late to help it now
     Ridiculous nonsensical book set out by Will. Pen, for the Quaker
     Rough notes were made to serve for a sort of account book
     Saw two battles of cocks, wherein is no great sport
     Saw "Mackbeth," to our great content
     Seeing that he cared so little if he was out
     She loves to be taken dressing herself, as I always find her
     Should alway take somebody with me, or her herself
     Shows how unfit I am for trouble
     Sir, your faithful and humble servant
     Slabbering themselves, and mirth fit for clownes
     So out, and lost our way, which made me vexed
     So time do alter, and do doubtless the like in myself
     Suffered her humour to spend, till we begun to be very quiet
     Tell me that I speak in my dreams
     The factious part of the Parliament
     The manner of the gaming
     The most ingenious men may sometimes be mistaken
     The devil being too cunning to discourage a gamester
     Their ladies in the box, being grown mighty kind of a sudden
     There being no curse in the world so great as this
     There setting a poor man to keep my place
     This kind of prophane, mad entertainment they give themselves
     Though I know it will set the Office and me by the ears for ever
     To be enjoyed while we are young and capable of these joys
     Tried the effect of my silence and not provoking her
     Trouble, and more money, to every Watch, to them to drink
     Troubled me, to see the confidence of the vice of the age
     Turn out every man that will be drunk, they must turn out all
     Uncertainty of beauty
     Up, finding our beds good, but lousy; which made us merry
     Vexed me, but I made no matter of it, but vexed to myself
     Weather being very wet and hot to keep meat in.
     When he was seriously ill he declared himself a Roman Catholic
     Where I expect most I find least satisfaction
     Where a pedlar was in bed, and made him rise
     Whip a boy at each place they stop at in their procession
     Whom I find in bed, and pretended a little not well
     With hangings not fit to be seen with mine
     Without importunity or the contrary
     Work that is not made the work of any one man
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      JANUARY 1668-1669
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    <p>
      January 1st. Up, and presented from Captain Beckford with a noble silver
      warming-pan, which I am doubtful whether to take or no. Up, and with W.
      Hewer to the New Exchange, and then he and I to the cabinet-shops, to look
      out, and did agree, for a cabinet to give my wife for a New-year's gift;
      and I did buy one cost me L11, which is very pretty, of walnutt-tree, and
      will come home to-morrow. So back to the old Exchange, and there met my
      uncle Wight; and there walked, and met with the Houblons, and talked with
      them&mdash;gentlemen whom I honour mightily: and so to my uncle's, and met
      my wife; and there, with W. Hewer, we dined with our family, and had a
      very good dinner, and pretty merry and after dinner, my wife and I with
      our coach to the King's playhouse, and there in a box saw "The Mayden
      Queene." Knepp looked upon us, but I durst not shew her any countenance;
      and, as well as I could carry myself, I found my wife uneasy there, poor
      wretch! therefore, I shall avoid that house as much as I can. So back to
      my aunt's, and there supped and talked, and staid pretty late, it being
      dry and moonshine, and so walked home, and to bed in very good humour.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, at the office all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, where
      I find my cabinet come home, and paid for it, and it pleases me and my
      wife well. So after dinner busy late at the office, and so home and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd (Lord's day). Up, and busy all the morning, getting rooms and dinner
      ready for my guests, which were my uncle and aunt Wight, and two of their
      cousins, and an old woman, and Mr. Mills and his wife; and a good dinner,
      and all our plate out, and mighty fine and merry, only I a little vexed at
      burning a new table-cloth myself, with one of my trencher-salts. Dinner
      done, I out with W. Hewer and Mr. Spong, who by accident come to dine with
      me, and good talk with him: to White Hall by coach, and there left him,
      and I with my Lord Brouncker to attend the Duke of York, and then up and
      down the House till the evening, hearing how the King do intend this
      frosty weather, it being this day the first, and very hard frost, that
      hath come this year, and very cold it is. So home; and to supper and read;
      and there my wife and I treating about coming to an allowance to my wife
      for clothes; and there I, out of my natural backwardness, did hang off,
      which vexed her, and did occasion some discontented talk in bed, when we
      went to bed; and also in the morning, but I did recover all in the
      morning.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Lay long, talking with my wife, and did of my own accord come to an
      allowance of her of L30 a-year for all expences, clothes and everything,
      which she was mightily pleased with, it being more than ever she asked or
      expected, and so rose, with much content, and up with W. Hewer to White
      Hall, there to speak with Mr. Wren, which I did about several things of
      the office entered in my memorandum books, and so about noon, going
      homeward with W. Hewer, he and I went in and saw the great tall woman that
      is to be seen, who is but twenty-one years old, and I do easily stand
      under her arms. Then, going further, The. Turner called me, out of her
      coach where her mother, &amp;c., was, and invited me by all means to dine
      with them, at my cozen Roger's mistress's, the widow Dickenson! So, I went
      to them afterwards, and dined with them, and mighty handsomely treated,
      and she a wonderful merry, good-humoured, fat, but plain woman, but I
      believe a very good woman, and mighty civil to me. Mrs. Turner, the
      mother, and Mrs. Dyke, and The., and Betty was the company, and a
      gentleman of their acquaintance. Betty I did long to see, and she is
      indifferent pretty, but not what the world did speak of her; but I am
      mighty glad to have one so pretty of our kindred. After dinner, I walked
      with them, to shew them the great woman, which they admire, as well they
      may; and so back with them, and left them; and I to White Hall, where a
      Committee of Tangier met, but little to do there, but I did receive an
      instance of the Duke of York's kindness to me, and the whole Committee,
      that they would not order any thing about the Treasurer for the
      Corporation now in establishing, without my assent, and considering
      whether it would be to my wrong or no. Thence up and down the house, and
      to the Duke of York's side, and there in the Duchess's presence; and was
      mightily complimented by my Lady Peterborough, in my Lord Sandwich's
      presence, whom she engaged to thank me for my kindness to her and her
      Lord.... By and by I met my Lord Brouncker; and he and I to the Duke of
      York alone, and discoursed over the carriage of the present Treasurers, in
      opposition to, or at least independency of, the Duke of York, or our
      Board, which the Duke of York is sensible of, and all remember, I believe;
      for they do carry themselves very respectlessly of him and us. We also
      declared our minds together to the Duke of York about Sir John Minnes's
      incapacity to do any service in the Office, and that it is but to betray
      the King to have any business of trust committed to his weakness. So the
      Duke of York was very sensible of it and promised to speak to the King
      about it. That done, I with W. Hewer took up my wife at Unthank's, and so
      home, and there with pleasure to read and talk, and so to supper, and put
      into writing, in merry terms, our agreement between my wife and me, about
      L30 a-year, and so to bed. This was done under both our hands merrily, and
      put into W. Hewer's to keep.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and to the office all the morning, the frost and cold continuing.
      At noon home with my people to dinner; and so to work at the office again;
      in the evening comes Creed to me, and tells me his wife is at my house. So
      I in, and spent an hour with them, the first time she hath been here, or I
      have seen her, since she was married. She is not overhandsome, though a
      good lady, and one I love. So after some pleasant discourse, they gone, I
      to the Office again, and there late, and then home to supper to my wife,
      who is not very well of those, and so sat talking till past one in the
      morning, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th (Twelfth day). Up, and to look after things against dinner to-day for
      my guests, and then to the Office to write down my journall for five or
      six days backward, and so home to look after dinner, it being now almost
      noon. At noon comes Mrs. Turner and Dyke, and Mrs. Dickenson, and then
      comes The. and Betty Turner, the latter of which is a very pretty girl;
      and then Creed and his wife, whom I sent for, by my coach. These were my
      guests, and Mrs. Turner's friend, whom I saw the other day, Mr. Wicken,
      and very merry we were at dinner, and so all the afternoon, talking, and
      looking up and down my house; and in the evening I did bring out my cake&mdash;a
      noble cake, and there cut it into pieces, with wine and good drink: and
      after a new fashion, to prevent spoiling the cake, did put so many titles
      into a hat, and so drew cuts; and I was the Queene; and The. Turner, King&mdash;Creed,
      Sir Martin Marr-all; and Betty, Mrs. Millicent: and so we were mighty
      merry till it was night; and then, being moonshine and fine frost, they
      went home, I lending some of them my coach to help to carry them, and so
      my wife and I spent the rest of the evening in talk and reading, and so
      with great pleasure to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning, and then at noon
      home to dinner, and thence my wife and I to the King's playhouse, and
      there saw "The Island Princesse," the first time I ever saw it; and it is
      a pretty good play, many good things being in it, and a good scene of a
      town on fire. We sat in an upper box, and the jade Nell come and sat in
      the next box; a bold merry slut, who lay laughing there upon people; and
      with a comrade of hers of the Duke's house, that come in to see the play.
      Thence home and to the office to do some business, and so home to supper
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and with Colonel Middleton, in his coach, and Mr. Tippets to
      White Hall; and there attended the Duke of York with the rest, where the
      Duke was mighty plain with the Treasurers, according to the advice my Lord
      Brouncker and I did give him the other night, and he did it fully; and so
      as, I believe, will make the Treasurers carefull of themselves, unless
      they do resolve upon defying the Duke of York. Thence with W. Hewer home,
      and to dinner, and so out again, my wife and I and Mr. Hater to White
      Hall, where she set us down, and she up and down to buy things, while we
      at the Treasury-Chamber, where I alone did manage the business of "The
      Leopard" against the whole Committee of the East India Company, with Mr.
      Blackburne with them; and to the silencing of them all, to my no great
      content. Thence walked to my wife, and so set out for home in our coach,
      it being very cold weather, and so to the office to do a little business,
      and then home to my wife's chamber, my people having laid the cloth, and
      got the rooms all clean above-stairs to-night for our dinner to-morrow,
      and therefore I to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and at the office all the morning, and at noon, my Lord
      Brouncker, Mr. Wren, Joseph Williamson, and Captain Cocke, dined with me;
      and, being newly sat down, comes in, by invitation of Williamson's, the
      Lieutenant of the Tower, and he brings in with him young Mr. Whore, whose
      father, of the Tower, I know.&mdash;And here I had a neat dinner, and all
      in so good manner and fashion, and with so good company, and everything to
      my mind, as I never had more in my life&mdash;the company being to my
      heart's content, and they all well pleased. So continued, looking over my
      books and closet till the evening, and so I to the Office and did a good
      deal of business, and so home to supper and to bed with my mind mightily
      pleased with this day's management, as one of the days of my life of
      fullest content.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th (Lord's day). Accidentally talking of our maids before we rose, I
      said a little word that did give occasion to my wife to fall out; and she
      did most vexatiously, almost all the morning, but ended most perfect good
      friends; but the thoughts of the unquiet which her ripping up of old
      faults will give me, did make me melancholy all day long. So about noon,
      past 12, we rose, and to dinner, and then to read and talk, my wife and I
      alone, for Balty was gone, who come to dine with us, and then in the
      evening comes Pelting to sit and talk with us, and so to supper and pretty
      merry discourse, only my mind a little vexed at the morning's work, but
      yet without any appearance. So after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and with W. Hewer, my guard, to White Hall, where no Committee
      of Tangier met, so up and down the House talking with this and that man,
      and so home, calling at the New Exchange for a book or two to send to Mr.
      Shepley and thence home, and thence to the 'Change, and there did a little
      business, and so walked home to dinner, and then abroad with my wife to
      the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Joviall Crew," but ill acted to
      what it was heretofore, in Clun's time, and when Lacy could dance. Thence
      to the New Exchange, to buy some things; and, among others, my wife did
      give me my pair of gloves, which, by contract, she is to give me in her
      L30 a-year. Here Mrs. Smith tells us of the great murder thereabouts, on
      Saturday last, of one Captain Bumbridge, by one Symons, both of her
      acquaintance; and hectors that were at play, and in drink: the former is
      killed, and is kinsman to my Lord of Ormond, which made him speak of it
      with so much passion, as I overheard him this morning, but could not make
      anything of it till now, but would they would kill more of them. So home;
      and there at home all the evening; and made Tom to prick down some little
      conceits and notions of mine, in musique, which do mightily encourage me
      to spend some more thoughts about it; for I fancy, upon good reason, that
      I am in the right way of unfolding the mystery of this matter, better than
      ever yet.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to the Office, where, by occasion of a message from the
      Treasurers that their Board found fault with Commissioner Middleton, I
      went up from our Board to the Lords of the Treasury to meet our
      Treasurers, and did, and there did dispute the business, it being about
      the matter of paying a little money to Chatham Yard, wherein I find the
      Treasurers mighty supple, and I believe we shall bring them to reason,
      though they begun mighty upon us, as if we had no power of directing them,
      but they, us. Thence back presently home, to dinner, where I discern my
      wife to have been in pain about where I have been, but said nothing to me,
      but I believe did send W. Hewer to seek me, but I take no notice of it,
      but am vexed. So to dinner with my people, and then to the Office, where
      all the afternoon, and did much business, and at it late, and so home to
      supper, and to bed. This day, meeting Mr. Pierce at White Hall, he tells
      me that his boy hath a great mind to see me, and is going to school again;
      and Dr. Clerke, being by, do tell me that he is a fine boy; but I durst
      not answer anything, because I durst not invite him to my house, for fear
      of my wife; and therefore, to my great trouble, was forced to neglect that
      discourse. But here Mr. Pierce, I asking him whither he was going, told me
      as a great secret that he was going to his master's mistress, Mrs.
      Churchill, with some physic; meaning for the pox I suppose, or else that
      she is got with child. This evening I observed my wife mighty dull, and I
      myself was not mighty fond, because of some hard words she did give me at
      noon, out of a jealousy at my being abroad this morning, which, God knows,
      it was upon the business of the Office unexpectedly: but I to bed, not
      thinking but she would come after me. But waking by and by out of a
      slumber, which I usually fall into presently after my coming into the bed,
      I found she did not prepare to come to bed, but got fresh candles, and
      more wood for her fire, it being mighty cold, too. At this being troubled,
      I after a while prayed her to come to bed, all my people being gone to
      bed; so, after an hour or two, she silent, and I now and then praying her
      to come to bed, she fell out into a fury, that I was a rogue, and false to
      her. But yet I did perceive that she was to seek what to say, only she
      invented, I believe, a business that I was seen in a hackney coach with
      the glasses up with Deb., but could not tell the time, nor was sure I was
      he. I did, as I might truly, deny it, and was mightily troubled, but all
      would not serve. At last, about one o'clock, she come to my side of the
      bed, and drew my curtaine open, and with the tongs red hot at the ends,
      made as if she did design to pinch me with them, at which, in dismay, I
      rose up, and with a few words she laid them down; and did by little and,
      little, very sillily, let all the discourse fall; and about two, but with
      much seeming difficulty, come to bed, and there lay well all night, and
      long in bed talking together, with much pleasure, it being, I know,
      nothing but her doubt of my going out yesterday, without telling her of my
      going, which did vex her, poor wretch! last night, and I cannot blame her
      jealousy, though it do vex me to the heart.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. So up and by coach to Sir W. Coventry's, but he gone out, so I to
      White Hall, and thence walked out into the Park, all in the snow, with the
      Duke of York and the rest, and so home, after visiting my Lady
      Peterborough, and there by invitation find Mr. Povy, and there was also
      Talbot Pepys, newly come from Impington, and dined with me; and after
      dinner and a little talk with Povy about publick matters, he gone, and I
      and my wife and Talbot towards the Temple, and there to the King's
      playhouse, and there saw, I think, "The Maiden Queene," and so home and to
      supper and read, and to bed. This day come home the instrument I have so
      long longed for, the Parallelogram.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up and to the office, where all the morning busy, and so home to
      dinner, where Goodgroome with us, and after dinner a song, and then to the
      office, where busy till night, and then home to work there with W. Hewer
      to get ready some Tangier papers against to-morrow, and so to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry, where with him a good while in
      his chamber, talking of one thing or another; among others, he told me of
      the great factions at Court at this day, even to the sober engaging of
      great persons, and differences, and making the King cheap and ridiculous.
      It is about my Lady Harvy's being offended at Doll Common's acting of
      Sempronia, to imitate her; for which she got my Lord Chamberlain, her
      kinsman, to imprison Doll: when my Lady Castlemayne made the King to
      release her, and to order her to act it again, worse than ever, the other
      day, where the King himself was: and since it was acted again, and my Lady
      Harvy provided people to hiss her and fling oranges at her: but, it seems
      the heat is come to a great height, and real troubles at Court about it.
      Thence he and I out of doors, but he to Sir J. Duncomb, and I to White
      Hall through the Park, where I met the King and the Duke of York, and so
      walked with them, and so to White Hall, where the Duke of York met the
      office and did a little business; and I did give him thanks for his favour
      to me yesterday, at the Committee of Tangier, in my absence, Mr. Povy
      having given me advice of it, of the discourse there of doing something as
      to the putting the payment of the garrison into some undertaker's hand,
      Alderman Backewell, which the Duke of York would not suffer to go on,
      without my presence at the debate. And he answered me just thus: that he
      ought to have a care of him that do the King's business in the manner that
      I do, and words of more force than that. Then down with Lord Brouncker to
      Sir R. Murray, into the King's little elaboratory, under his closet, a
      pretty place; and there saw a great many chymical glasses and things, but
      understood none of them. So I home and to dinner, and then out again and
      stop with my wife at my cozen Turner's where I staid and sat a while, and
      carried The. and my wife to the Duke of York's house, to "Macbeth," and
      myself to White Hall, to the Lords of the Treasury, about Tangier
      business; and there was by at much merry discourse between them and my
      Lord Anglesey, who made sport of our new Treasurers, and called them his
      deputys, and much of that kind. And having done my own business, I away
      back, and carried my cozen Turner and sister Dyke to a friend's house,
      where they were to sup, in Lincoln's Inn Fields; and I to the Duke of
      York's house and saw the last two acts, and so carried The. thither, and
      so home with my wife, who read to me late, and so to supper and to bed.
      This day The. Turner shewed me at the play my Lady Portman, who has grown
      out of my knowledge.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and to the office all the morning, dined at home with my people,
      and so all the afternoon till night at the office busy, and so home to
      supper and to bed. This morning Creed, and in the afternoon comes Povy, to
      advise with me about my answer to the Lords [Commissioners] of Tangier,
      about the propositions for the Treasurership there, which I am not much
      concerned for. But the latter, talking of publick things, told me, as Mr.
      Wren also did, that the Parliament is likely to meets again, the King
      being frighted with what the Speaker hath put him in mind of&mdash;his
      promise not to prorogue, but only to adjourne them. They speak mighty
      freely of the folly of the King in this foolish woman's business, of my
      Lady Harvy. Povy tells me that Sir W. Coventry was with the King alone, an
      hour this day; and that my Lady Castlemayne is now in a higher command
      over the King than ever&mdash;not as a mistress, for she scorns him, but
      as a tyrant, to command him: and says that the Duchess of York and the
      Duke of York are mighty great with her, which is a great interest to my
      Lord Chancellor's' family; and that they do agree to hinder all they can
      the proceedings of the Duke of Buckingham and Arlington: and so we are in
      the old mad condition, or rather worse than any; no man knowing what the
      French intend to do the next summer.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th (Lord's day). To church myself after seeing every thing fitted for
      dinner, and so, after church, home, and thither comes Mrs. Batelier and
      her two daughters to dinner to us; and W. Hewer and his mother, and Mr.
      Spong. We were very civilly merry, and Mrs. Batelier a very discreet
      woman, but mighty fond in the stories she tells of her son Will. After
      dinner, Mr. Spong and I to my closet, there to try my instrument
      Parallelogram, which do mighty well, to my full content; but only a little
      stiff, as being new. Thence, taking leave of my guests, he and I and W.
      Hewer to White Hall, and there parting with Spong, a man that I mightily
      love for his plainness and ingenuity, I into the Court, and there up and
      down and spoke with my Lords Bellassis and Peterborough about the business
      now in dispute, about my deputing a Treasurer to pay the garrison at
      Tangier, which I would avoid, and not be accountable, and they will serve
      me therein. Here I met Hugh May, and he brings me to the knowledge of Sir
      Henry Capell, a Member of Parliament, and brother of my Lord of Essex, who
      hath a great value, it seems, for me; and they appoint a day to come and
      dine with me, and see my books, and papers of the Office, which I shall be
      glad to shew them, and have opportunity to satisfy them therein. Here all
      the discourse is, that now the King is of opinion to have the Parliament
      called, notwithstanding his late resolutions for proroguing them; so
      unstable are his councils, and those about him. So staying late talking in
      the Queen's side, I away, with W. Hewer home, and there to read and talk
      with my wife, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up by candlelight, and with W. Hewer walked to the Temple, and
      thence took coach and to Sir William Coventry's, and there discoursed the
      business of my Treasurer's place, at Tangier, wherein he consents to my
      desire, and concurs therein, which I am glad of, that I may not be
      accountable for a man so far off. And so I to my Lord Sandwich's, and
      there walk with him through the garden, to White Hall, where he tells me
      what he had done about this Treasurer's place, and I perceive the whole
      thing did proceed from him: that finding it would be best to have the
      Governor have nothing to do with the pay of the garrison, he did propose
      to the Duke of York alone that a pay-master should be there; and that
      being desirous to do a courtesy to Sir Charles Harbord, and to prevent the
      Duke of York's looking out for any body else, he did name him to the Duke
      of York. That when he come the other day to move this to the Board of
      Tangier, the Duke of York, it seems, did readily reply, that it was fit to
      have Mr. Pepys satisfied therein first, and that it was not good to make
      places for persons. This my Lord in great confidence tells me, that he do
      take very ill from the Duke of York, though nobody knew the meaning of
      these words but him; and that he did take no notice of them, but bit his
      lip, being satisfied that the Duke of York's care of me was as desirable
      to him, as it could be to have Sir Charles Harbord: and did seem
      industrious to let me see that he was glad that the Duke of York and he
      might come to contend who shall be the kindest to me, which I owned as his
      great love, and so I hope and believe it is, though my Lord did go a
      little too far in this business, to move it so far, without consulting me.
      But I took no notice of that, but was glad to see this competition come
      about, that my Lord Sandwich is apparently jealous of my thinking that the
      Duke of York do mean me more kindness than him. So we walked together, and
      I took this occasion to invite him to dinner one day to my house, and he
      readily appointed Friday next, which I shall be glad to have over to his
      content, he having never yet eat a bit of my bread. Thence to the Duke of
      York on the King's side, with our Treasurers of the Navy, to discourse
      some business of the Navy, about the pay of the yards, and there I was
      taken notice of, many Lords being there in the room, of the Duke of York's
      conference with me; and so away, and meeting Mr. Sidney Montagu and
      Sheres, a small invitation served their turn to carry them to London,
      where I paid Sheres his L100, given him for his pains in drawing the plate
      of Tangier fortifications, &amp;c., and so home to my house to dinner,
      where I had a pretty handsome sudden dinner, and all well pleased; and
      thence we three and my wife to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw
      "The Witts," a medley of things, but some similes mighty good, though ill
      mixed; and thence with my wife to the Exchange and bought some things, and
      so home, after I had been at White Hall, and there in the Queen's
      withdrawing-room invited my Lord Peterborough to dine with me, with my
      Lord Sandwich, who readily accepted it. Thence back and took up my wife at
      the 'Change, and so home. This day at noon I went with my young gentlemen
      (thereby to get a little time while W. Hewer went home to bid them get a
      dinner ready) to the Pope's Head tavern, there to see the fine painted
      room which Rogerson told me of, of his doing; but I do not like it at all,
      though it be good for such a publick room.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon eat a mouthful, and
      so with my wife to Madam Turner's, and find her gone, but The. staid for
      us; and so to the King's house, to see "Horace;" this the third day of its
      acting&mdash;a silly tragedy; but Lacy hath made a farce of several dances&mdash;between
      each act, one: but his words are but silly, and invention not
      extraordinary, as to the dances; only some Dutchmen come out of the mouth
      and tail of a Hamburgh sow. Thence, not much pleased with the play, set
      them at home in the Strand; and my wife and I home, and there to do a
      little business at the Office, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up; and my wife, and I, and W. Hewer to White Hall, where she set us
      down; and there I spoke with my Lord Peterborough, to tell him of the day
      for his dining with me being altered by my Lord Sandwich from Friday to
      Saturday next. And thence heard at the Council-board the City, by their
      single counsel Symson, and the company of Strangers Merchants, a debate
      the business of water-baylage; a tax demanded upon all goods, by the City,
      imported and exported: which these Merchants oppose, and demanding leave
      to try the justice of the City's demand by a Quo Warranto, which the City
      opposed, the Merchants did quite lay the City on their backs with great
      triumph, the City's cause being apparently too weak: but here I observed
      Mr. Gold, the merchant, to speak very well, and very sharply, against the
      City. Thence to my wife at Unthanke's, and with her and W. Hewer to
      Hercules Pillars, calling to do two or three things by the way, end there
      dined, and thence to the Duke of York's house, and saw "Twelfth Night," as
      it is now revived; but, I think, one of the weakest plays that ever I saw
      on the stage. This afternoon, before the play, I called with my wife at
      Dancre's, the great landscape-painter, by Mr. Povy's advice; and have
      bespoke him to come to take measure of my dining-room panels, and there I
      met with the pretty daughter of the coalseller's, that lived in Cheapside,
      and now in Covent Garden, who hath her picture drawn here, but very
      poorly; but she is a pretty woman, and now, I perceive, married, a very
      pretty black woman. So, the play done, we home, my wife letting fall some
      words of her observing my eyes to be mightily employed in the playhouse,
      meaning upon women, which did vex me; but, however, when we come home, we
      were good friends; and so to read, and to supper, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up, and walked to the Temple, it being frosty, and there took coach,
      my boy Tom with me, and so to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, where
      they met, and by and by and till twelve at noon upon business, among
      others mine, where my desire about being eased of appointing and standing
      accountable for a Treasurer there was well accepted, and they will think
      of some other way. This I was glad of, finding reason to doubt that I
      might in this (since my Lord Sandwich made me understand what he had said
      to the Duke of York herein) fear to offend either the Duke of York by
      denying it, for he seemed on Sunday night last, when I first made known my
      desire to him herein to be a little amused at it, though I knew not then
      the reason, or else offend my Lord Sandwich by accepting it, or denying it
      in a manner that might not forward his desire for Sir Charles Harbord, but
      I thank God I did it to my great content without any offence, I think, to
      either. Thence in my own coach home, where I find Madam Turner, Dyke, and
      The., and had a good dinner for them, and merry; and so carried them to
      the Duke of York's house, all but Dyke, who went away on other business;
      and there saw "The Tempest;" but it is but ill done by Gosnell, in lieu of
      Moll Davis. Thence set them at home, and my wife and I to the 'Change, and
      so home, where my wife mighty dogged, and I vexed to see it, being
      mightily troubled, of late, at her being out of humour, for fear of her
      discovering any new matter of offence against me, though I am conscious of
      none; but do hate to be unquiet at home. So, late up, silent, and not
      supping, but hearing her utter some words of discontent to me with
      silence, and so to bed, weeping to myself for grief, which she discerning,
      come to bed, and mighty kind, and so with great joy on both sides to
      sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and with W. Hewer to White Hall, and there attended the Duke of
      York, and thence to the Exchange, in the way calling at several places on
      occasions relating to my feast to-morrow, on which my mind is now set; as
      how to get a new looking-glass for my dining-room, and some pewter, and
      good wine, against to-morrow; and so home, where I had the looking-glass
      set up, cost me L6 7s. 6d. And here at the 'Change I met with Mr. Dancre,
      the famous landscape painter, with whom I was on Wednesday; and he took
      measure of my panels in my dining-room, where, in the four, I intend to
      have the four houses of the King, White Hall, Hampton Court, Greenwich,
      and Windsor. He gone, I to dinner with my people, and so to my office to
      dispatch a little business, and then home to look after things against
      to-morrow, and among other things was mightily pleased with the fellow
      that come to lay the cloth, and fold the napkins, which I like so well, as
      that I am resolved to give him 40s. to teach my wife to do it. So to
      supper, with much kindness between me and my wife, which, now-a-days, is
      all my care, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and again to look after the setting things right against dinner,
      which I did to very good content. So to the office, where all the morning
      till noon, when word brought me to the Board that my Lord Sandwich was
      come; so I presently rose, leaving the Board ready to rise, and there I
      found my Lord Sandwich, Peterborough, and Sir Charles Harbord; and
      presently after them comes my Lord Hinchingbroke, Mr. Sidney, and Sir
      William Godolphin. And after greeting them, and some time spent in talk,
      dinner was brought up, one dish after another, but a dish at a time, but
      all so good; but, above all things, the variety of wines, and excellent of
      their kind, I had for them, and all in so good order, that they were
      mightily pleased, and myself full of content at it: and indeed it was, of
      a dinner of about six or eight dishes, as noble as any man need to have, I
      think; at least, all was done in the noblest manner that ever I had any,
      and I have rarely seen in my life better anywhere else, even at the Court.
      After dinner, my Lords to cards, and the rest of us sitting about them and
      talking, and looking on my books and pictures, and my wife's drawings,
      which they commend mightily; and mighty merry all day long, with exceeding
      great content, and so till seven at night; and so took their leaves, it
      being dark and foul weather. Thus was this entertainment over, the best of
      its kind, and the fullest of honour and content to me, that ever I had in
      my life: and shall not easily have so good again. The truth is, I have
      some fear that I am more behind-hand in the world for these last two
      years, since I have not, or for some time could not, look after my
      accounts, which do a little allay my pleasure. But I do trust in God I am
      pretty well yet, and resolve, in a very little time, to look into my
      accounts, and see how they stand. So to my wife's chamber, and there
      supped, and got her cut my hair and look my shirt, for I have itched
      mightily these 6 or 7 days, and when all comes to all she finds that I am
      lousy, having found in my head and body about twenty lice, little and
      great, which I wonder at, being more than I have had I believe these 20
      years. I did think I might have got them from the little boy, but they did
      presently look him, and found none. So how they come I know not, but
      presently did shift myself, and so shall be rid of them, and cut my hair
      close to my head, and so with much content to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th (Lord's day). An order brought me in bed, for the Principal Officers
      to attend the King at my Lord Keeper's this afternoon, it being resolved
      late the last night; and, by the warrant, I find my Lord Keeper did not
      then know the cause of it, the messenger being ordered to call upon him,
      to tell it him by the way, as he come to us. So I up, and to my Office to
      set down my Journall for yesterday, and so home, and with my wife to
      Church, and then home, and to dinner, and after dinner out with my wife by
      coach, to cozen Turner's, where she and The. gone to church, but I left my
      wife with Mrs. Dyke and Joyce Norton, whom I have not seen till now since
      their coming to town: she is become an old woman, and with as cunning a
      look as ever, and thence I to White Hall, and there walked up and down
      till the King and Duke of York were ready to go forth; and here I met
      Will. Batelier, newly come post from France, his boots all dirty. He
      brought letters to the King, and I glad to see him, it having been
      reported that he was drowned, for some days past, and then, he being gone,
      I to talk with Tom Killigrew, who told me and others, talking about the
      playhouse, that he is fain to keep a woman on purpose at 20s. a week to
      satisfy 8 or 10 of the young men of his house, whom till he did so he
      could never keep to their business, and now he do. By and by the King
      comes out, and so I took coach, and followed his coaches to my Lord
      Keeper's, at Essex House, where I never was before, since I saw my old
      Lord Essex lie in state when he was dead; a large, but ugly house. Here
      all the Officers of the Navy attended, and by and by were called in to the
      King and Cabinet, where my Lord, who was ill, did lie upon the bed, as my
      old Lord Treasurer, or Chancellor, heretofore used to; and the business
      was to know in what time all the King's ships might be repaired, fit for
      service. The Surveyor answered, in two years, and not sooner. I did give
      them hopes that, with supplies of money suitable, we might have them all
      fit for sea some part of the summer after this. Then they demanded in what
      time we could set out forty ships. It was answered, as they might be
      chosen of the newest and most ready, we could, with money, get forty ready
      against May. The King seemed mighty full that we should have money to do
      all that we desired, and satisfied that, without it, nothing could be
      done: and so, without determining any thing, we were dismissed; and I
      doubt all will end in some little fleete this year, and those of hired
      merchant-men, which would indeed be cheaper to the King, and have many
      conveniences attending it, more than to fit out the King's own; and this,
      I perceive, is designed, springing from Sir W. Coventry's counsel; and the
      King and most of the Lords, I perceive, full of it, to get the King's
      fleete all at once in condition for service. Thence I with Mr. Wren in his
      coach to my cozen Turner's for discourse sake, and in our way he told me
      how the business of the Parliament is wholly laid aside, it being
      overruled now, that they shall not meet, but must be prorogued, upon this
      argument chiefly, that all the differences between the two Houses, and
      things on foot, that were matters of difference and discontent, may be
      laid aside, and must begin again, if ever the House shall have a mind to
      pursue them. They must begin all anew. Here he set me down, and I to my
      cozen Turner, and stayed and talked a little; and so took my wife, and
      home, and there to make her read, and then to supper, and to bed. At
      supper come W. Batelier and supped with us, and told us many pretty things
      of France, and the greatness of the present King.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and to the Committee of Tangier, where little done, and thence I
      home by my own coach, and busy after dinner at my office all the afternoon
      till late at night, that my eyes were tired. So home, and my wife shewed
      me many excellent prints of Nanteuil's and others, which W. Batelier hath,
      at my desire, brought me out of France, of the King, and Colbert, and
      others, most excellent, to my great content. But he hath also brought a
      great many gloves perfumed, of several sorts; but all too big by half for
      her, and yet she will have two or three dozen of them, which vexed me, and
      made me angry. So she, at last, to please me, did come to take what alone
      I thought fit, which pleased me. So, after a little supper, to bed, my
      eyes being very bad.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and to the office, where busy sitting all the morning. Then to
      the Office again, and then to White Hall, leaving my wife at Unthanke's;
      and I to the Secretary's chamber, where I was, by particular order, this
      day summoned to attend, as I find Sir D. Gawden also was. And here was the
      King and the Cabinet met; and, being called in, among the rest I find my
      Lord Privy Seale, whom I never before knew to be in so much play, as to be
      of the Cabinet. The business is, that the Algerines have broke the peace
      with us, by taking some Spaniards and goods out of an English ship, which
      had the Duke of York's pass, of which advice come this day; and the King
      is resolved to stop Sir Thomas Allen's fleete from coming home till he
      hath amends made him for this affront, and therefore sent for us to advise
      about victuals to be sent to that fleete, and some more ships; wherein I
      answered them to what they demanded of me, which was but some few mean
      things; but I see that on all these occasions they seem to rely most upon
      me. And so, this being done, I took coach and took up my wife and straight
      home, and there late at the office busy, and then home, and there I find
      W. Batelier hath also sent the books which I made him bring me out of
      France. Among others, L'Estat, de France, Marnix, &amp;c., to my great
      content; and so I was well pleased with them, and shall take a time to
      look them over: as also one or two printed musick-books of songs; but my
      eyes are now too much out of tune to look upon them with any pleasure,
      therefore to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and with Sir John Minnes in his coach to White Hall, where first
      we waited on the Lords of the Treasury about finishing the Victualling
      Contract; and there also I was put to it to make good our letter
      complaining against my Lord Anglesey's failing us in the payment of the
      moneys assigned us upon the Customs, where Mr. Fenn was, and I know will
      tell my Lord; but it is no matter, I am over shy already, and therefore
      must not fear. Then we up to a Committee of the Council for the Navy,
      about a business of Sir D. Gawden's relating to the Victualling, and
      thence I by hackney to the Temple to the Auditor's man, and with him to a
      tavern to meet with another under-auditor to advise about the clearing of
      my Lord Bellasses' accounts without injuring myself and perplexing my
      accounts, and so thence away to my cozen Turner's, where I find Roger
      Pepys come last night to town, and here is his mistress, Mrs. Dickenson,
      and by and by comes in Mr. Turner, a worthy, sober, serious man&mdash;I
      honour him mightily. And there we dined, having but an ordinary dinner;
      and so, after dinner, she, and I, and Roger, and his mistress, to the Duke
      of York's playhouse, and there saw "The Five Hours' Adventure," which hath
      not been acted a good while before, but once, and is a most excellent
      play, I must confess. My wife and The. come after us, after they had been
      to buy some things abroad, and so after the play done we to see them home,
      and then home ourselves, and my wife to read to me, and so to supper and
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and to the office, where all the afternoon, also after dinner,
      and there late dispatching much business, and then home to supper with my
      wife, and to get her to read to me, and here I did find that Mr. Sheres
      hath, beyond his promise, not only got me a candlestick made me, after a
      form he remembers to have seen in Spain, for keeping the light from one's
      eyes, but hath got it done in silver very neat, and designs to give it me,
      in thanks for my paying him his L100 in money, for his service at Tangier,
      which was ordered him; but I do intend to force him to make me [pay] for
      it. But I yet, without his direction, cannot tell how it is to be made use
      of. So after a little reading to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and with W. Hewer in Colonel Middleton's coach to White Hall,
      and there to the Duke of York, to attend him, where among other things I
      did give a severe account of our proceedings, and what we found, in the
      business of Sir W. Jenings's demand of Supernumeraries. I thought it a
      good occasion to make an example of him, for he is a proud, idle fellow;
      and it did meet with the Duke of York's acceptance and well-liking; and he
      did call him in, after I had done, and did not only give him a soft
      rebuke, but condemns him to pay both their victuals and wages, or right
      himself of the purser. This I was glad of, and so were all the rest of us,
      though I know I have made myself an immortal enemy by it. Thence home by
      hackney, calling Roger Pepys at the Temple gate in the bookseller's shop,
      and to the Old Exchange, where I staid a little to invite my uncle Wight,
      and so home, and there find my aunt Wight and her husband come presently,
      and so to dinner; and after dinner Roger, and I, and my wife, and aunt, to
      see Mr. Cole; but he nor his wife was within, but we looked upon his
      picture of Cleopatra, which I went principally to see, being so much
      commended by my wife and aunt; but I find it a base copy of a good
      originall, that vexed me to hear so much commended. Thence to see Creed's
      wife, and did so, and staid a while, where both of them within; and here I
      met Mr. Bland, newly come from Gales [Cadiz] after his differences with
      Norwood. I think him a foolish, light-headed man; but certainly he hath
      been abused in this matter by Colonel Norwood. Here Creed shewed me a copy
      of some propositions, which Bland and others, in the name of the
      Corporation of Tangier, did present to Norwood, for his opinion in, in
      order to the King's service, which were drawn up very humbly, and were
      really good things; but his answer to them was in the most shitten proud,
      carping, insolent, and ironically-prophane stile, that ever I saw in my
      life, so as I shall never think the place can do well, while he is there.
      Here, after some talk, and Creed's telling us that he is upon taking the
      next house to his present lodgings, which is next to that that my cozen
      Tom Pepys once lived in, in Newport Street, in Covent Garden; and is in a
      good place, and then, I suppose, he will keep his coach. So, setting Roger
      down at the Temple, who tells me that he is now concluded in all matters
      with his widow, we home, and there hired my wife to make an end of Boyle's
      Book of Formes, to-night and to-morrow; and so fell to read and sup, and
      then to bed. This day, Mr. Ned Pickering brought his lady to see my wife,
      in acknowledgment of a little present of oranges and olives, which I sent
      her, for his kindness to me in the buying of my horses, which was very
      civil. She is old, but hath, I believe, been a pretty comely woman:
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Lay long in bed, it being a fast-day for the murder of the late
      King; and so up and to church, where Dr. Hicks made a dull sermon; and so
      home, and there I find W. Batelier and Balty, and they dined with us, and
      I spent all the afternoon with my wife and W. Batelier talking, and then
      making them read, and particularly made an end of Mr. Boyle's Book of
      Formes, which I am glad to have over, and then fell to read a French
      discourse, which he hath brought over with him for me, to invite the
      people of France to apply themselves to Navigation, which it do very well,
      and is certainly their interest, and what will undo us in a few years, if
      the King of France goes on to fit up his Navy, and encrease it and his
      trade, as he hath begun. At night to supper, and after supper, and W.
      Batelier gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, called "The
      State of England," which promises well, and is worth reading, and so after
      a while to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st (Lord's day). Lay long talking with pleasure, and so up and I to
      church, and there did hear the Doctor that is lately turned Divine, I have
      forgot his name, I met him a while since at Sir D. Gawden's at dinner, Dr.
      Waterhouse! He preaches in a devout manner of way, not elegant nor very
      persuasive, but seems to mean well, and that he would preach holily; and
      was mighty passionate against people that make a scoff of religion. And,
      the truth is, I did observe Mrs. Hollworthy smile often, and many others
      of the parish, who, I perceive, have known him, and were in mighty
      expectation of hearing him preach, but could not forbear smiling, and she
      particularly upon me, and I on her. So home to dinner: and before dinner
      to my Office, to set down my journal for this week, and then home to
      dinner; and after dinner to get my wife and boy, one after another, to
      read to me: and so spent the afternoon and the evening, and so after
      supper to bed. And thus endeth this month, with many different days of
      sadness and mirth, from differences between me and my wife, from her
      remembrance of my late unkindness to her with Willet, she not being able
      to forget it, but now and then hath her passionate remembrance of it as
      often as prompted to it by any occasion; but this night we are at present
      very kind. And so ends this month.
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    <p>
      February 1st. Up, and by water from the Tower to White Hall, the first
      time that I have gone to that end of the town by water, for two or three
      months, I think, since I kept a coach, which God send propitious to me;
      but it is a very great convenience. I went to a Committee of Tangier, but
      it did not meet, and so I meeting Mr. Povy, he and I away to Dancre's, to
      speak something touching the pictures I am getting him to make for me. And
      thence he carried me to Mr. Streeter's, the famous history-painter over
      the way, whom I have often heard of, but did never see him before; and
      there I found him, and Dr. Wren, and several Virtuosos, looking upon the
      paintings which he is making for the new Theatre at Oxford: and, indeed,
      they look as if they would be very fine, and the rest think better than
      those of Rubens in the Banqueting-house at White Hall, but I do not so
      fully think so. But they will certainly be very noble; and I am mightily
      pleased to have the fortune to see this man and his work, which is very
      famous; and he a very civil little man, and lame, but lives very
      handsomely. So thence to my Lord Bellassis, and met him within: my
      business only to see a chimney-piece of Dancre's doing, in distemper, with
      egg to keep off the glaring of the light, which I must have done for my
      room: and indeed it is pretty, but, I must confess, I do think it is not
      altogether so beautiful as the oyle pictures; but I will have some of one,
      and some of another. Thence set him down at Little Turnstile, and so I
      home, and there eat a little dinner, and away with my wife by coach to the
      King's playhouse, thinking to have seen "The Heyresse," first acted on
      Saturday last; but when we come thither, we find no play there; Kinaston,
      that did act a part therein, in abuse to Sir Charles Sedley, being last
      night exceedingly beaten with sticks, by two or three that assaulted him,
      so as he is mightily bruised, and forced to keep his bed. So we to the
      Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw "She Would if She Could," and so
      home and to my office to business, and then to supper and to bed. This
      day, going to the play, The. Turner met us, and carried us to her mother,
      at my Lady Mordaunt's; and I did carry both mother and daughter with us to
      the Duke of York's playhouse, at next door.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and home to dinner at
      noon, where I find Mr. Sheres; and there made a short dinner, and carried
      him with us to the King's playhouse, where "The Heyresse,"
      not-withstanding Kinaston's being beaten, is acted; and they say the King
      is very angry with Sir Charles Sedley for his being beaten, but he do deny
      it. But his part is done by Beeston, who is fain to read it out of a book
      all the while, and thereby spoils the part, and almost the play, it being
      one of the best parts in it; and though the design is, in the first
      conception of it, pretty good, yet it is but an indifferent play, wrote,
      they say, by my Lord Newcastle. But it was pleasant to see Beeston come in
      with others, supposing it to be dark, and yet he is forced to read his
      part by the light of the candles: and this I observing to a gentleman that
      sat by me, he was mightily pleased therewith, and spread it up and down.
      But that, that pleased me most in the play is, the first song that Knepp
      sings, she singing three or four; and, indeed, it was very finely sung, so
      as to make the whole house clap her. Thence carried Sheres to White Hall,
      and there I stepped in, and looked out Mr. May, who tells me that he and
      his company cannot come to dine with me to-morrow, whom I expected only to
      come to see the manner of our Office and books, at which I was not very
      much displeased, having much business at the Office, and so away home, and
      there to the office about my letters, and then home to supper and to bed,
      my wife being in mighty ill humour all night, and in the morning I found
      it to be from her observing Knepp to wink and smile on me; and she says I
      smiled on her; and, poor wretch! I did perceive that she did, and do on
      all such occasions, mind my eyes. I did, with much difficulty, pacify her,
      and were friends, she desiring that hereafter, at that house, we might
      always sit either above in a box, or, if there be [no] room, close up to
      the lower boxes.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. So up, and to the Office till noon, and then home to a little dinner,
      and thither again till night, mighty busy, to my great content, doing a
      great deal of business, and so home to supper, and to bed; I finding this
      day that I may be able to do a great deal of business by dictating, if I
      do not read myself, or write, without spoiling my eyes, I being very well
      in my eyes after a great day's work.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and at the office all the morning. At noon home with my people to
      dinner, and then after dinner comes Mr. Spong to see me, and brings me my
      Parallelogram, in better order than before, and two or three draughts of
      the port of Brest, to my great content, and I did call Mr. Gibson to take
      notice of it, who is very much pleased therewith; and it seems this
      Parallelogram is not, as Mr. Sheres would, the other day, have persuaded
      me, the same as a Protractor, which do so much the more make me value it,
      but of itself it is a most usefull instrument. Thence out with my wife and
      him, and carried him to an instrument-maker's shop in Chancery Lane, that
      was once a 'Prentice of Greatorex's, but the master was not within, and
      there he [Gibson] shewed me a Parallelogram in brass, which I like so well
      that I will buy, and therefore bid it be made clean and fit for me. And so
      to my cozen Turner's, and there just spoke with The., the mother not being
      at home; and so to the New Exchange, and thence home to my letters; and so
      home to supper and to bed. This morning I made a slip from the Office to
      White Hall, expecting Povy's business at a Committee of Tangier, at which
      I would be, but it did not meet, and so I presently back.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up betimes, by coach to Sir W. Coventry's, and with him by coach to
      White Hall, and there walked in the garden talking of several things, and
      by my visit to keep fresh my interest in him; and there he tells me how it
      hath been talked that he was to go one of the Commissioners to Ireland,
      which he was resolved never to do, unless directly commanded; for he told
      me that for to go thither, while the Chief Secretary of State was his
      professed enemy, was to undo himself; and, therefore, it were better for
      him to venture being unhappy here, than to go further off, to be undone by
      some obscure instructions, or whatever other way of mischief his enemies
      should cut out for him. He mighty kind to me, and so parted, and thence
      home, calling in two or three places&mdash;among others, Dancre's, where I
      find him beginning of a piece for me, of Greenwich, which will please me
      well, and so home to dinner, and very busy all the afternoon, and so at
      night home to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and thence after dinner
      to the King's playhouse, and there,&mdash;in an upper box, where come in
      Colonel Poynton and Doll Stacey, who is very fine, and, by her
      wedding-ring, I suppose he hath married her at last,&mdash;did see "The
      Moor of Venice:" but ill acted in most parts; Mohun, which did a little
      surprise me, not acting Iago's part by much so well as Clun used to do;
      nor another Hart's, which was Cassio's; nor, indeed, Burt doing the Moor's
      so well as I once thought he did. Thence home, and just at Holborn Conduit
      the bolt broke, that holds the fore-wheels to the perch, and so the horses
      went away with them, and left the coachman and us; but being near our
      coachmaker's, and we staying in a little ironmonger's shop, we were
      presently supplied with another, and so home, and there to my letters at
      the office, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). My wife mighty peevish in the morning about my lying
      unquietly a-nights, and she will have it that it is a late practice, from
      my evil thoughts in my dreams,....and mightily she is troubled about it;
      but all blew over, and I up, and to church, and so home to dinner, where
      she in a worse fit, which lasted all the afternoon, and shut herself up,
      in her closet, and I mightily grieved and vexed, and could not get her to
      tell me what ayled her, or to let me into her closet, but at last she did,
      where I found her crying on the ground, and I could not please her; but I
      did at last find that she did plainly expound it to me. It was, that she
      did believe me false to her with Jane, and did rip up three or four silly
      circumstances of her not rising till I come out of my chamber, and her
      letting me thereby see her dressing herself; and that I must needs go into
      her chamber and was naught with her; which was so silly, and so far from
      truth, that I could not be troubled at it, though I could not wonder at
      her being troubled, if she had these thoughts, and therefore she would lie
      from me, and caused sheets to be put on in the blue room, and would have
      Jane to lie with her lest I should come to her. At last, I did give her
      such satisfaction, that we were mighty good friends, and went to bed
      betimes .....
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and dressed myself; and by coach, with W. Hewer and my wife, to
      White Hall, where she set us two down; and in the way, our little boy, at
      Martin, my bookseller's shop, going to 'light, did fall down; and, had he
      not been a most nimble boy (I saw how he did it, and was mightily pleased
      with him for it), he had been run over by the coach. I to visit my Lord
      Sandwich; and there, while my Lord was dressing himself, did see a young
      Spaniard, that he hath brought over with him, dance, which he is admired
      for, as the best dancer in Spain, and indeed he do with mighty mastery;
      but I do not like his dancing as the English, though my Lord commends it
      mightily: but I will have him to my house, and show it my wife. Here I met
      with Mr. Moore, who tells me the state of my Lord's accounts of his
      embassy, which I find not so good as I thought: for, though it be passed
      the King and his Cabal (the Committee for Foreign Affairs as they are
      called), yet they have cut off from L9000 full L8000, and have now sent it
      to the Lords of the Treasury, who, though the Committee have allowed the
      rest, yet they are not obliged to abide by it. So that I do fear this
      account may yet be long ere it be passed&mdash;much more, ere that sum be
      paid: I am sorry for the family, and not a little for what it owes me. So
      to my wife, took her up at Unthank's, and in our way home did shew her the
      tall woman in Holborne, which I have seen before; and I measured her, and
      she is, without shoes, just six feet five inches high, and they say not
      above twenty-one years old. Thence home, and there to dinner, and my wife
      in a wonderful ill humour; and, after dinner, I staid with her alone,
      being not able to endure this life, and fell to some angry words together;
      but by and by were mighty good friends, she telling me plain it was still
      about Jane, whom she cannot believe but I am base with, which I made a
      matter of mirth at; but at last did call up Jane, and confirm her
      mistress's directions for her being gone at Easter, which I find the wench
      willing to be, but directly prayed that Tom might go with her, which I
      promised, and was but what I designed; and she being thus spoke with, and
      gone, my wife and I good friends, and mighty kind, I having promised, and
      I will perform it, never to give her for the time to come ground of new
      trouble; and so I to the Office, with a very light heart, and there close
      at my business all the afternoon. This day I was told by Mr. Wren, that
      Captain Cox, Master-Attendant at Deptford, is to be one of us very soon,
      he and Tippets being to take their turns for Chatham and Portsmouth, which
      choice I like well enough; and Captain Annesley is to come in his room at
      Deptford. This morning also, going to visit Roger Pepys, at the
      potticary's in King's Street, he tells me that Roger is gone to his
      wife's, so that they have been married, as he tells me, ever since the
      middle of last week: it was his design, upon good reasons, to make no
      noise of it; but I am well enough contented that it is over. Dispatched a
      great deal of business at the office, and there pretty late, till finding
      myself very full of wind, by my eating no dinner to-day, being vexed, I
      was forced to go home, and there supped W. Batelier with us, and so with
      great content to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and all the morning busy at the office, and after dinner abroad
      with my wife to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The Island
      Princesse," which I like mighty well, as an excellent play: and here we
      find Kinaston to be well enough to act again, which he do very well, after
      his beating by Sir Charles Sedley's appointment; and so thence home, and
      there to my business at the Office, and after my letters done, then home
      to supper and to bed, my mind being mightily eased by my having this
      morning delivered to the Office a letter of advice about our answers to
      the Commissioners of Accounts, whom we have neglected, and I have done
      this as a record in my justification hereafter, when it shall come to be
      examined.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and with my wife and W. Hewer, she set us down at White Hall,
      where the Duke of York was gone a-hunting: and so, after I had done a
      little business there, I to my wife, and with her to the plaisterer's at
      Charing Cross, that casts heads and bodies in plaister: and there I had my
      whole face done; but I was vexed first to be forced to daub all my face
      over with pomatum: but it was pretty to feel how soft and easily it is
      done on the face, and by and by, by degrees, how hard it becomes, that you
      cannot break it, and sits so close, that you cannot pull it off, and yet
      so easy, that it is as soft as a pillow, so safe is everything where many
      parts of the body do bear alike. Thus was the mould made; but when it came
      off there was little pleasure in it, as it looks in the mould, nor any
      resemblance whatever there will be in the figure, when I come to see it
      cast off, which I am to call for a day or two hence, which I shall long to
      see. Thence to Hercules Pillars, and there my wife and W. Hewer and I
      dined, and back to White Hall, where I staid till the Duke of York come
      from hunting, which he did by and by, and, when dressed, did come out to
      dinner; and there I waited: and he did tell me that to-morrow was to be
      the great day that the business of the Navy would be dis coursed of before
      the King and his Caball, and that he must stand on his guard, and did
      design to have had me in readiness by, but that upon second thoughts did
      think it better to let it alone, but they are now upon entering into the
      economical part of the Navy. Here he dined, and did mightily magnify his
      sauce, which he did then eat with every thing, and said it was the best
      universal sauce in the world, it being taught him by the Spanish
      Embassador; made of some parsley and a dry toast, beat in a mortar,
      together with vinegar, salt, and a little pepper: he eats it with flesh,
      or fowl, or fish: and then he did now mightily commend some new sort of
      wine lately found out, called Navarre wine, which I tasted, and is, I
      think, good wine: but I did like better the notion of the sauce, and by
      and by did taste it, and liked it mightily. After dinner, I did what I
      went for, which was to get his consent that Balty might hold his
      Muster-Master's place by deputy, in his new employment which I design for
      him, about the Storekeeper's accounts; which the Duke of York did grant
      me, and I was mighty glad of it. Thence home, and there I find Povy and W.
      Batelier, by appointment, met to talk of some merchandize of wine and
      linnen; but I do not like of their troubling my house to meet in, having
      no mind to their pretences of having their rendezvous here, but, however,
      I was not much troubled, but went to the office, and there very busy, and
      did much business till late at night, and so home to supper, and with
      great pleasure to bed. This day, at dinner, I sent to Mr. Spong to come to
      me to Hercules Pillars, who come to us, and there did bring with him my
      new Parallelogram of brass, which I was mightily pleased with, and paid
      for it 25s., and am mightily pleased with his ingenious and modest
      company.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and to the office, where sat all the morning, and at noon home
      and heard that the last night Colonel Middleton's wife died, a woman I
      never saw since she come hither, having never been within their house
      since. Home at noon to dinner, and thence to work all the afternoon with
      great pleasure, and did bring my business to a very little compass in my
      day book, which is a mighty pleasure, and so home to supper and get my
      wife to read to me, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and my wife with me to White Hall, and Tom, and there she sets
      us down, and there to wait on the Duke of York, with the rest of us, at
      the Robes, where the Duke of York did tell us that the King would have us
      prepare a draught of the present administration of the Navy, and what it
      was in the late times, in order to his being able to distinguish between
      the good and the bad, which I shall do, but to do it well will give me a
      great deal of trouble. Here we shewed him Sir J. Minnes's propositions
      about balancing Storekeeper's accounts; and I did shew him Hosier's, which
      did please him mightily, and he will have it shewed the Council and King
      anon, to be put in practice. Thence to the Treasurer's; and I and Sir J.
      Minnes and Mr. Tippets down to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury,
      and there had a hot debate from Sir Thomas Clifford and my Lord Ashly (the
      latter of which, I hear, is turning about as fast as he can to the Duke of
      Buckingham's side, being in danger, it seems, of being otherwise out of
      play, which would not be convenient for him), against Sir W. Coventry and
      Sir J. Duncomb, who did uphold our Office against an accusation of our
      Treasurers, who told the Lords that they found that we had run the King in
      debt L50,000 or more, more than the money appointed for the year would
      defray, which they declared like fools, and with design to hurt us, though
      the thing is in itself ridiculous. But my Lord Ashly and Clifford did most
      horribly cry out against the want of method in the Office. At last it come
      that it should be put in writing what they had to object; but I was
      devilish mad at it, to see us thus wounded by our own members, and so away
      vexed, and called my wife, and to Hercules Pillars, Tom and I, there
      dined; and here there coming a Frenchman by with his Shew, we did make him
      shew it us, which he did just as Lacy acts it, which made it mighty
      pleasant to me. So after dinner we away and to Dancre's, and there saw our
      picture of Greenwich in doing, which is mighty pretty, and so to White
      Hall, my wife to Unthank's, and I attended with Lord Brouncker the King
      and Council, about the proposition of balancing Storekeeper's accounts and
      there presented Hosier's book, and it was mighty well resented and
      approved of. So the Council being up, we to the Queen's side with the King
      and Duke of York: and the Duke of York did take me out to talk of our
      Treasurers, whom he is mighty angry with: and I perceive he is mighty
      desirous to bring in as many good motions of profit and reformation in the
      Navy as he can, before the Treasurers do light upon them, they being
      desirous, it seems, to be thought the great reformers: and the Duke of
      York do well. But to my great joy he is mighty open to me in every thing;
      and by this means I know his whole mind, and shall be able to secure
      myself, if he stands. Here to-night I understand, by my Lord Brouncker,
      that at last it is concluded on by the King and Buckingham that my Lord of
      Ormond shall not hold his government of Ireland, which is a great stroke,
      to shew the power of Buckingham and the poor spirit of the King, and
      little hold that any man can have of him. Thence I homeward, and calling
      my wife called at my cozen Turner's, and there met our new cozen Pepys
      (Mrs. Dickenson), and Bab. and Betty' come yesterday to town, poor girls,
      whom we have reason to love, and mighty glad we are to see them; and there
      staid and talked a little, being also mightily pleased to see Betty
      Turner, who is now in town, and her brothers Charles and Will, being come
      from school to see their father, and there talked a while, and so home,
      and there Pelling hath got me W. Pen's book against the Trinity.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Entitled, "The Sandy Foundation Shaken; or those...  doctrines
     of one God subsisting in three distinct and separate persons; the
     impossibility of God's pardoning sinners without a plenary
     satisfaction, the justification of impure persons by an imputative
     righteousness, refuted from the authority of Scripture testimonies
     and right reason, etc.  London, 1668."  It caused him to be
     imprisoned in the Tower.  "Aug. 4, 1669.  Young Penn who wrote the
     blasphemous book is delivered to his father to be transported"
     ("Letter to Sir John Birkenhead, quoted by Bishop Kennett in his MS.
     Collections, vol. lxxxix., p. 477).]
</pre>
    <p>
      I got my wife to read it to me; and I find it so well writ as, I think, it
      is too good for him ever to have writ it; and it is a serious sort of
      book, and not fit for every body to read. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and all the morning at the office, and at noon home to dinner,
      and thence to the office again mighty busy, to my great content, till
      night, and then home to supper and, my eyes being weary, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). Up, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry, and there, he
      taking physic, I with him all the morning, full of very good discourse of
      the Navy and publick matters, to my great content, wherein I find him
      doubtful that all will be bad, and, for his part, he tells me he takes no
      more care for any thing more than in the Treasury; and that, that being
      done, he goes to cards and other delights, as plays, and in summertime to
      bowles. But here he did shew me two or three old books of the Navy, of my
      Lord Northumberland's' times, which he hath taken many good notes out of,
      for justifying the Duke of York and us, in many things, wherein, perhaps,
      precedents will be necessary to produce, which did give me great content.
      At noon home, and pleased mightily with my morning's work, and coming
      home, I do find a letter from Mr. Wren, to call me to the Duke of York
      after dinner. So dined in all haste, and then W. Hewer and my wife and I
      out, we set her at my cozen Turner's while we to White Hall, where the
      Duke of York expected me; and in his closet Wren and I. He did tell me how
      the King hath been acquainted with the Treasurers' discourse at the Lords
      Commissioners of the Treasury, the other day, and is dissatisfied with our
      running him in debt, which I removed; and he did, carry me to the King,
      and I did satisfy him also; but his satisfaction is nothing worth, it
      being easily got, and easily removed; but I do purpose to put in writing
      that which shall make the Treasurers ashamed. But the Duke of York is
      horrid angry against them; and he hath cause, for they do all they can to
      bring dishonour upon his management, as do vainly appear in all they do.
      Having done with the Duke of York, who do repose all in me, I with Mr.
      Wren to his, chamber, to talk; where he observed, that these people are
      all of them a broken sort of people, that have not much to lose, and
      therefore will venture all to make their fortunes better: that Sir Thomas
      Osborne is a beggar, having 11 of L1200 a-year, but owes above L10,000.
      The Duke of Buckingham's condition is shortly this: that he hath about
      L19,600 a-year, of which he pays away about L7,000 a-year in interest,
      about L2000 in fee-farm rents to the King, about L6000 wages and pensions,
      and the rest to live upon, and pay taxes for the whole. Wren says, that
      for the Duke of York to stir in this matter, as his quality might justify,
      would but make all things worse, and that therefore he must bend, and
      suffer all, till time works it out: that he fears they will sacrifice the
      Church, and that the King will take anything, and so he will hold up his
      head a little longer, and then break in pieces. But Sir W. Coventry did
      today mightily magnify my late Lord Treasurer, for a wise and solid,
      though infirm man: and, among other things, that when he hath said it was
      impossible in nature to find this or that sum of money, and my Lord
      Chancellor hath made sport of it, and tell the King that when my Lord hath
      said it [was] impossible, yet he hath made shift to find it, and that was
      by Sir G. Carteret's getting credit, my Lord did once in his hearing say
      thus, which he magnifies as a great saying&mdash;that impossible would be
      found impossible at last; meaning that the King would run himself out,
      beyond all his credit and funds, and then we should too late find it
      impossible; which is, he says, now come to pass. For that Sir W. Coventry
      says they could borrow what money they would, if they had assignments, and
      funds to secure it with, which before they had enough of, and then must
      spend it as if it would never have an end. From White Hall to my cozen
      Turner's, and there took up my wife; and so to my uncle Wight's, and there
      sat and supped, and talked pretty merry, and then walked home, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and with Tom to White Hall; and there at a Committee of Tangier,
      where a great instance of what a man may lose by the neglect of a friend:
      Povy never had such an opportunity of passing his accounts, the Duke of
      York being there, and everybody well disposed, and in expectation of them;
      but my Lord Ashly, on whom he relied, and for whose sake this day was
      pitched on, that he might be sure to be there, among the rest of his
      friends, staid too long, till the Duke of York and the company thought
      unfit to stay longer and so the day lost, and God knows when he will ever
      have so good a one again, as long as he lives; and this was the man of the
      whole company that he hath made the most interest to gain, and now most
      depended upon him. So up and down the house a while, and then to the
      plaisterer's, and there saw the figure of my face taken from the mould:
      and it is most admirably like, and I will have another made, before I take
      it away, and therefore I away and to the Temple, and thence to my cozen
      Turner's, where, having the last night been told by her that she had drawn
      me for her Valentine, I did this day call at the New Exchange, and bought
      her a pair of green silk stockings and garters and shoe-strings, and two
      pair of jessimy gloves, all coming to about 28s., and did give them her
      this noon. At the 'Change, I did at my bookseller's shop accidentally fall
      into talk with Sir Samuel Tuke about trees, and Mr. Evelyn's garden; and I
      do find him, I think, a little conceited, but a man of very fine discourse
      as any I ever heard almost, which I was mighty glad of. I dined at my
      cozen Turner's, and my wife also and her husband there, and after dinner,
      my wife and I endeavoured to make a visit to Ned Pickering; but he not at
      home, nor his lady; and therefore back again, and took up my cozen Turner,
      and to my cozen Roger's lodgings, and there find him pretty well again,
      and his wife mighty kind and merry, and did make mighty much of us, and I
      believe he is married to a very good woman. Here was also Bab. and Betty,
      who have not their clothes yet, and therefore cannot go out, otherwise I
      would have had them abroad to-morrow; but the poor girls mighty kind to
      us, and we must skew them kindness also. Here in Suffolk Street lives Moll
      Davis; and we did see her coach come for her to her door, a mighty pretty
      fine coach. Here we staid an hour or two, and then carried Turner home,
      and there staid and talked a while, and then my wife and I to White Hall;
      and there, by means of Mr. Cooling, did get into the play, the only one we
      have seen this winter: it was "The Five Hours' Adventure:" but I sat so
      far I could not hear well, nor was there any pretty woman that I did see,
      but my wife, who sat in my Lady Fox's pew
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [We may suppose that pews were by no means common at this time
     within consecrated walls, from the word being applied indifferently
     by Pepys to a box in a place of amusement, and two days afterwards
     to a seat at church.  It would appear, from other authorities, that
     between 1646 and 1660 scarcely any pews had been erected; and Sir C.
     Wren is known to have objected to their introduction into his London
     churches.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      with her. The house very full; and late before done, so that it was past
      eleven before we got home. But we were well pleased with seeing it, and so
      to supper, where it happened that there was no bread in the house, which
      was an unusual case, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, my head full of
      business of the office now at once on my hands, and so at noon home to
      dinner, where I find some things of W. Batelier's come out of France,
      among which some clothes for my wife, wherein she is likely to lead me to
      the expence of so much money as vexed me; but I seemed so, more than I at
      this time was, only to prevent her taking too much, and she was mighty
      calm under it. But I was mightily pleased with another picture of the King
      of France's head, of Nanteuil's, bigger than the other which he brought
      over, that pleases me infinitely: and so to the Office, where busy all the
      afternoon, though my eyes mighty bad with the light of the candles last
      night, which was so great as to make my eyes sore all this day, and do
      teach me, by a manifest experiment, that it is only too much light that do
      make my eyes sore. Nevertheless, with the help of my tube, and being
      desirous of easing my mind of five or six days journall, I did venture to
      write it down from ever since this day se'nnight, and I think without
      hurting my eyes any more than they were before, which was very much, and
      so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and with W. Hewer with me to Lincoln's Inn, by appointment, to
      have spoke with Mr. Pedley about Mr. Goldsborough's business and Mr.
      Weaver's, but he was gone out, and so I with Mr. Castle, the son-in-law of
      Weaver, to White Hall to look for him, but did not find him, but here I
      did meet with several and talked, and do hear only that the King dining
      yesterday at the Dutch Embassador's, after dinner they drank, and were
      pretty merry; and, among the rest of the King's company, there was that
      worthy fellow my lord of Rochester, and Tom Killigrew, whose mirth and
      raillery offended the former so much, that he did give Tom Killigrew a box
      on the ear in the King's presence, which do much give offence to the
      people here at Court, to see how cheap the King makes himself, and the
      more, for that the King hath not only passed by the thing, and pardoned it
      to Rochester already, but this very morning the King did publickly walk up
      and down, and Rochester I saw with him as free as ever, to the King's
      everlasting shame, to have so idle a rogue his companion. How Tom
      Killigrew takes it, I do not hear. I do also this day hear that my Lord
      Privy Seale do accept to go Lieutenant into Ireland; but whether it be
      true or no, I cannot tell. So calling at my shoemaker's, and paying him to
      this day, I home to dinner, and in the afternoon to Colonel Middleton's
      house, to the burial of his wife, where we are all invited, and much more
      company, and had each of us a ring: and so towards evening to our church,
      where there was a sermon preached by Mills, and so home. At church there
      was my Lord Brouncker and Mrs. Williams in our pew, the first time they
      were ever there or that I knew that either of them would go to church. At
      home comes Castle to me, to desire me to go to Mr. Pedly, this night, he
      being to go out of town to-morrow morning, which I, therefore, did, by
      hackney-coach, first going to White Hall to meet with Sir W. Coventry, but
      missed him. But here I had a pleasant rencontre of a lady in mourning,
      that, by the little light I had, seemed handsome. I passing by her, I did
      observe she looked back again and again upon me, I suffering her to go
      before, and it being now duske. I observed she went into the little
      passage towards the Privy Water-Gate, and I followed, but missed her; but
      coming back again, I observed she returned, and went to go out of the
      Court. I followed her, and took occasion, in the new passage now built,
      where the walke is to be, to take her by the hand, to lead her through,
      which she willingly accepted, and I led her to the Great Gate, and there
      left her, she telling me, of her own accord, that she was going as far as,
      Charing Cross; but my boy was at the gate, and so je durst not go out con
      her, which vexed me, and my mind (God forgive me) did run apres her toute
      that night, though I have reason to thank God, and so I do now, that I was
      not tempted to go further. So to Lincoln's Inn, where to Mr. Pedly, with
      whom I spoke, and did my business presently: and I find him a man of very
      good language, and mighty civil, and I believe very upright: and so home,
      where W. Batelier was, and supped with us, and I did reckon this night
      what I owed him; and I do find that the things my wife, of her own head,
      hath taken (together with my own, which comes not to above L5), comes to
      above L22. But it is the last, and so I am the better contented; and they
      are things that are not trifles, but clothes, gloves, shoes, hoods, &amp;c.
      So after supper, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and to the Office, and at noon home, expecting to have this day
      seen Bab. and Betty Pepys here, but they come not; and so after dinner my
      wife and I to the Duke of York's house, to a play, and there saw "The Mad
      Lover," which do not please me so well as it used to do, only Betterton's
      part still pleases me. But here who should we have come to us but Bab. and
      Betty and Talbot, the first play they were yet at; and going to see us,
      and hearing by my boy, whom I sent to them, that we were here, they come
      to us hither, and happened all of us to sit by my cozen Turner and The.,
      and we carried them home first, and then took Bab. and Betty to our house,
      where they lay and supped, and pretty merry, and very fine with their new
      clothes, and good comely girls they are enough, and very glad I am of
      their being with us, though I would very well have been contented to have
      been without the charge. So they to bed and we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and after seeing the girls, who lodged in our bed, with their
      maid Martha, who hath been their father's maid these twenty years and
      more, I with Lord Brouncker to White Hall, where all of us waited on the
      Duke of York; and after our usual business done, W. Hewer and I to look my
      wife at the Black Lion, Mercer's, but she is gone home, and so I home and
      there dined, and W. Batelierand W. Hewer with us. All the afternoon I at
      the Office, while the young people went to see Bedlam, and at night home
      to them and to supper, and pretty merry, only troubled with a great cold
      at this time, and my eyes very bad ever since Monday night last that the
      light of the candles spoiled me. So to bed. This morning, among other
      things, talking with Sir W. Coventry, I did propose to him my putting in
      to serve in Parliament, if there should, as the world begins to expect, be
      a new one chose: he likes it mightily, both for the King's and Service's
      sake, and the Duke of York's, and will propound it to the Duke of York:
      and I confess, if there be one, I would be glad to be in.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and all the morning at the office, and then home to dinner, and
      after dinner out with my wife and my two girls to the Duke of York's
      house, and there saw "The Gratefull Servant," a pretty good play, and
      which I have forgot that ever I did see. And thence with them to Mrs.
      Gotier's, the Queen's tire-woman, for a pair of locks for my wife; she is
      an oldish French woman, but with a pretty hand as most I have seen; and so
      home, and to supper, W. Batelier and W. Hewer with us, and so my cold
      being great, and greater by my having left my coat at my tailor's to-night
      and come home in a thinner that I borrowed there, I went to bed before
      them and slept pretty well.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). Up, and with my wife and two girls to church, they very
      fine; and so home, where comes my cozen Roger and his wife, I having sent
      for them, to dine with us, and there comes in by chance also Mr. Shepley,
      who is come to town with my Lady Paulina, who is desperately sick, and is
      gone to Chelsey, to the old house where my Lord himself was once sick,
      where I doubt my Lord means to visit hers more for young Mrs. Beck's sake
      than for hers. Here we dined with W. Batelier, and W. Hewer with us, these
      two, girls making it necessary that they be always with us, for I am not
      company light enough to be always merry with them and so sat talking all
      the afternoon, and then Shepley went: away first, and then my cozen Roger
      and his wife. And so I, to my Office, to write down my Journall, and so
      home to my chamber and to do a little business there, my papers being in
      mighty disorder, and likely so to continue while these girls are with us.
      In the evening comes W. Batelier and his sisters and supped and talked
      with us, and so spent the evening, myself being somewhat out of order
      because of my eyes, which have never been well since last Sunday's reading
      at Sir W. Coventry's chamber, and so after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and betimes to White Hall; but there the Duke of York is gone
      abroad a-hunting, and therefore after a little stay there I into London,
      with Sir H. Cholmly, talking all the way of Tangier matters, wherein I
      find him troubled from some reports lately from Norwood (who is his great
      enemy and I doubt an ill man), of some decay of the Mole, and a breach
      made therein by the sea to a great value. He set me down at the end of
      Leadenhall Street, and so I home, and after dinner, with my wife, in her
      morning-gown, and the two girls dressed, to Unthanke's, where my wife
      dresses herself, having her gown this day laced, and a new petticoat; and
      so is indeed very fine. And in the evening I do carry them to White Hall,
      and there did without much trouble get into the playhouse, there in a good
      place among the Ladies of Honour, and myself also sat in the pit; and
      there by and by come the King and Queen, and they begun "Bartholomew
      Fayre." But I like no play here so well as at the common playhouse;
      besides that, my eyes being very ill since last Sunday and this day
      se'nnight, with the light of the candles, I was in mighty pain to defend
      myself now from the light of the candles. After the play done, we met with
      W. Batelier and W. Hewer and Talbot Pepys, and they follow us in a
      hackney-coach: and we all stopped at Hercules' Pillars; and there I did
      give them the best supper I could, and pretty merry; and so home between
      eleven and twelve at night, and so to bed, mightily well pleased with this
      day's work.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up: and to the Office, where all the morning, and then home, and put
      a mouthfull of victuals in my mouth; and by a hackney-coach followed my
      wife and the girls, who are gone by eleven o'clock, thinking to have seen
      a new play at the Duke of York's house. But I do find them staying at my
      tailor's, the play not being to-day, and therefore I now took them to
      Westminster Abbey, and there did show them all the tombs very finely,
      having one with us alone, there being other company this day to see the
      tombs, it being Shrove Tuesday; and here we did see, by particular favour,
      the body of Queen Katherine of Valois; and I had the upper part of her
      body in my hands, and I did kiss her mouth, reflecting upon it that I did
      kiss a Queen,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Pepys's attachment to the fair sex extended even to a dead queen.
     The record of this royal salute on his natal day is very
     characteristic.  The story told him in Westminster Abbey appears to
     have been correct; for Neale informs us ("History of Westminster
     Abbey," vol. ii., p. 88) that near the south side of Henry V.'s tomb
     there was formerly a wooden chest, or coffin, wherein part of the
     skeleton and parched body of Katherine de Valois, his queen (from
     the waist upwards), was to be seen.  She was interred in January,
     1457, in the Chapel of Our Lady, at the east end of this church; but
     when that building was pulled down by her grandson, Henry VII., her
     coffin was found to be decayed, and her body was taken up, and
     placed in a chest, near her first husband's tomb.  "There," says
     Dart, "it hath ever since continued to be seen, the bones being
     firmly united, and thinly clothed with flesh, like scrapings of
     tanned leather."  This awful spectacle of frail mortality was at
     length removed from the public gaze into St. Nicholas's Chapel, and
     finally deposited under the monument of Sir George Villiers, when
     the vault was made for the remains of Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of
     Northumberland, in December, 1776.&mdash;B.]
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    <p>
      and that this was my birth-day, thirty-six years old, that I did first
      kiss a Queen. But here this man, who seems to understand well, tells me
      that the saying is not true that says she was never buried, for she was
      buried; only, when Henry the Seventh built his chapel, it was taken up and
      laid in this wooden coffin; but I did there see that, in it, the body was
      buried in a leaden one, which remains under the body to this day. Thence
      to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there, finding the play begun, we
      homeward to the Glass-House,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Glass House Alley, Whitefriars and Blackfriars, marked the site for
     some years: The Whitefriars Glass Works of Messrs.  Powell and Sons
     are on the old site, now Temple Street.]
</pre>
    <p>
      and there shewed my cozens the making of glass, and had several things
      made with great content; and, among others, I had one or two
      singing-glasses made, which make an echo to the voice, the first that ever
      I saw; but so thin, that the very breath broke one or two of them. So
      home, and thence to Mr. Batelier's, where we supped, and had a good
      supper, and here was Mr. Gumbleton; and after supper some fiddles, and so
      to dance; but my eyes were so out of order, that I had little pleasure
      this night at all, though I was glad to see the rest merry, and so about
      midnight home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Lay long in bed, both being sleepy and my eyes bad, and myself
      having a great cold so as I was hardly able to speak, but, however, by and
      by up and to the office, and at noon home with my people to dinner, and
      then I to the office again, and there till the evening doing of much
      business, and at night my wife sends for me to W. Hewer's lodging, where I
      find two best chambers of his so finely furnished, and all so rich and
      neat, that I was mightily pleased with him and them and here only my wife,
      and I, and the two girls, and had a mighty neat dish of custards and
      tarts, and good drink and talk. And so away home to bed, with infinite
      content at this his treat; for it was mighty pretty, and everything mighty
      rich.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. All the morning at the office. At noon home and eat a bit myself,
      and then followed my wife and girls to the Duke of York's house, and there
      before one, but the house infinite full, where, by and by, the King and
      Court come, it being a new play, or an old one new vamped, by Shadwell,
      called "The Royall Shepherdesse;" but the silliest for words and design,
      and everything, that ever I saw in my whole life, there being nothing in
      the world pleasing in it, but a good martial dance of pikemen, where
      Harris and another do handle their pikes in a dance to admiration; but
      never less satisfied with a play in my life. Thence to the office I, and
      did a little business, and so home to supper with my girls, and pretty
      merry, only my eyes, which continue very bad, and my cold, that I cannot
      speak at all, do trouble me.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Was forced to send my excuse to the Duke of York for my not
      attending him with my fellows this day because of my cold, and was the
      less troubled because I was thereby out of the way to offer my proposals
      about Pursers till the Surveyor hath delivered his notions, which he is to
      do to-day about something he has to offer relating to the Navy in general,
      which I would be glad to see and peruse before I offer what I have to say.
      So lay long in bed, and then up and to my office, and so to dinner, and
      then, though I could not speak, yet I went with my wife and girls to the
      King's playhouse, to shew them that, and there saw "The Faithfull
      Shepherdesse." But, Lord! what an empty house, there not being, as I could
      tell the people, so many as to make up above L10 in the whole house! The
      being of a new play at the other house, I suppose, being the cause, though
      it be so silly a play that I wonder how there should be enough people to
      go thither two days together, and not leave more to fill this house. The
      emptiness of the house took away our pleasure a great deal, though I liked
      it the better; for that I plainly discern the musick is the better, by how
      much the house the emptier. Thence home, and again to W. Hewer's, and had
      a pretty little treat, and spent an hour or two, my voice being wholly
      taken away with my cold, and so home and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and at the office all the morning, where I could speak but a
      little. At noon home to dinner, and all the afternoon till night busy at
      the office again, where forced to speak low and dictate. But that that
      troubles me most is my eyes, which are still mighty bad night and day, and
      so home at night to talk and sup with my cozens, and so all of us in
      mighty good humour to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the
      Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putting it into
      my hands to read; but, Lord! it is a poor, silly thing ever to think to
      bring it in practice, in the King's Navy. It is to have the Captains to
      account for all stores and victuals; but upon so silly grounds, to my
      thinking; and ignorance of the present instructions of Officers, that I am
      ashamed to hear it. However, I do take a copy of it, for my future use and
      answering; and so to church, where, God forgive me! I did most of the time
      gaze on the fine milliner's wife, in Fenchurch Street, who was at our
      church to-day; and so home to dinner. And after dinner to write down my
      Journall; and then abroad by coach with my cozens, to their father's,
      where we are kindly received, but he is an great pain for his man Arthur,
      who, he fears, is now dead, having been desperately sick, and speaks so
      much of him that my cozen, his wife, and I did make mirth of it, and call
      him Arthur O'Bradly. After staying here a little, and eat and drank, and
      she gave me some ginger-bread made in cakes, like chocolate, very good,
      made by a friend, I carried him and her to my cozen Turner's, where we
      staid, expecting her coming from church; but she coming not, I went to her
      husband's chamber in the Temple, and thence fetched her, she having been
      there alone ever since sermon staying till the evening to walk home on
      foot, her horses being ill. This I did, and brought her home. And after
      talking there awhile, and agreeing to be all merry at my house on Tuesday
      next, I away home; and there spent the evening talking and reading, with
      my wife and Mr. Pelling, and yet much troubled with my cold, it hardly
      suffering me to speak, we to bed.
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    <p>
      March 1st. Up, and to White Hall to the Committee of Tangier, but it did
      not meet. But here I do hear first that my Lady Paulina Montagu did die
      yesterday; at which I went to my Lord's lodgings, but he is shut up with
      sorrow, and so not to be spoken with: and therefore I returned, and to
      Westminster Hall, where I have not been, I think, in some months. And here
      the Hall was very full, the King having, by Commission to some Lords this
      day, prorogued the Parliament till the 19th of October next: at which I am
      glad, hoping to have time to go over to France this year. But I was most
      of all surprised this morning by my Lord Bellassis, who, by appointment,
      met me at Auditor Wood's, at the Temple, and tells me of a duell designed
      between the Duke of Buckingham and my Lord Halifax, or Sir W. Coventry;
      the challenge being carried by Harry Saville, but prevented by my Lord
      Arlington, and the King told of it; and this was all the discourse at
      Court this day. But I, meeting Sir W. Coventry in the Duke of York's
      chamber, he would not own it to me, but told me that he was a man of too
      much peace to meddle with fighting, and so it rested: but the talk is full
      in the town of the business. Thence, having walked some turns with my
      cozen Pepys, and most people, by their discourse, believing that this
      Parliament will never sit more, I away to several places to look after
      things against to-morrow's feast, and so home to dinner; and thence, after
      noon, my wife and I out by hackneycoach, and spent the afternoon in
      several places, doing several things at the 'Change and elsewhere against
      to-morrow; and, among others, I did also bring home a piece of my face
      cast in plaister, for to make a wizard upon, for my eyes. And so home,
      where W. Batelier come, and sat with us; and there, after many doubts, did
      resolve to go on with our feast and dancing to-morrow; and so, after
      supper, left the maids to make clean the house, and to lay the cloth, and
      other things against to-morrow, and we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and at the office till noon, when home, and there I find my
      company come, namely, Madam Turner, Dyke, The., and Betty Turner, and Mr.
      Bellwood, formerly their father's clerk, but now set up for himself&mdash;a
      conceited, silly fellow, but one they make mightily of&mdash;my cozen
      Roger Pepys, and his wife, and two daughters. I had a noble dinner for
      them, as I almost ever had, and mighty merry, and particularly myself
      pleased with looking on Betty Turner, who is mighty pretty. After dinner,
      we fell one to one talk, and another to another, and looking over my
      house, and closet, and things; and The. Turner to write a letter to a lady
      in the country, in which I did, now and then, put in half a dozen words,
      and sometimes five or six lines, and then she as much, and made up a long
      and good letter, she being mighty witty really, though
      troublesome-humoured with it. And thus till night, that our musick come,
      and the Office ready and candles, and also W. Batelier and his sister
      Susan come, and also Will. Howe and two gentlemen more, strangers, which,
      at my request yesterday, he did bring to dance, called Mr. Ireton and Mr.
      Starkey. We fell to dancing, and continued, only with intermission for a
      good supper, till two in the morning, the musick being Greeting, and
      another most excellent violin, and theorbo, the best in town. And so with
      mighty mirth, and pleased with their dancing of jigs afterwards several of
      them, and, among others, Betty Turner, who did it mighty prettily; and,
      lastly, W. Batelier's "Blackmore and Blackmore Mad;" and then to a
      country-dance again, and so broke up with extraordinary pleasure, as being
      one of the days and nights of my life spent with the greatest content; and
      that which I can but hope to repeat again a few times in my whole life.
      This done, we parted, the strangers home, and I did lodge my cozen Pepys
      and his wife in our blue chamber. My cozen Turner, her sister, and The.,
      in our best chamber; Bab., Betty, and Betty Turner, in our own chamber;
      and myself and my wife in the maid's bed, which is very good. Our maids in
      the coachman's bed; the coachman with the boy in his settlebed, and Tom
      where he uses to lie. And so I did, to my great content, lodge at once in
      my house, with the greatest ease, fifteen, and eight of them strangers of
      quality. My wife this day put on first her French gown, called a Sac,
      which becomes her very well, brought her over by W. Batelier.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, after a very good night's rest, and was called upon by Sir H.
      Cholmly, who was with me an hour, and though acquainted did not stay to
      talk with my company I had in the house, but away, and then I to my
      guests, and got them to breakfast, and then parted by coaches; and I did,
      in mine, carry my she-cozen Pepys and her daughters home, and there left
      them, and so to White Hall, where W. Hewer met me; and he and I took a
      turn in St. James's Park, and in the Mall did meet Sir W. Coventry and Sir
      J. Duncomb, and did speak with them about some business before the Lords
      of the Treasury; but I did find them more than usually busy, though I knew
      not then the reason of it, though I guess it by what followed to-morrow.
      Thence to Dancre's, the painter's, and there saw my picture of Greenwich,
      finished to my very good content, though this manner of distemper do make
      the figures not so pleasing as in oyle. So to Unthanke's, and there took
      up my wife, and carried her to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there saw
      an old play, the first time acted these forty years, called "The Lady's
      Tryall," acted only by the young people of the house; but the house very
      full. But it is but a sorry play, and the worse by how much my head is out
      of humour by being a little sleepy and my legs weary since last night. So
      after the play we to the New Exchange, and so called at my cozen Turner's;
      and there, meeting Mr. Bellwood, did hear how my Lord Mayor, being invited
      this day to dinner at the Reader's at the Temple, and endeavouring to
      carry his sword up, the students did pull it down, and forced him to go
      and stay all the day in a private Councillor's chamber, until the Reader
      himself could get the young gentlemen to dinner; and then my Lord Mayor
      did retreat out of the Temple by stealth, with his sword up. This do make
      great heat among the students; and my Lord Mayor did send to the King, and
      also I hear that Sir Richard Browne did cause the drums to beat for the
      Train-bands, but all is over, only I hear that the students do resolve to
      try the Charter of the City. So we home, and betimes to bed, and slept
      well all night.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and a while at the office, but thinking to have Mr. Povy's
      business to-day at the Committee for Tangier, I left the Board and away to
      White Hall, where in the first court I did meet Sir Jeremy Smith, who did
      tell me that Sir W. Coventry was just now sent to the Tower, about the
      business of his challenging the Duke of Buckingham, and so was also Harry
      Saville to the Gate-house; which, as [he is] a gentleman, and of the Duke
      of York's bedchamber, I heard afterwards that the Duke of York is mightily
      incensed at, and do appear very high to the King that he might not be sent
      thither, but to the Tower, this being done only in contempt to him. This
      news of Sir W. Coventry did strike me to the heart, and with reason, for
      by this and my Lord of Ormond's business, I do doubt that the Duke of
      Buckingham will be so flushed, that he will not stop at any thing, but be
      forced to do any thing now, as thinking it not safe to end here; and, Sir
      W. Coventry being gone, the King will have never a good counsellor, nor
      the Duke of York any sure friend to stick to him; nor any good man will be
      left to advise what is good. This, therefore, do heartily trouble me as
      any thing that ever I heard. So up into the House, and met with several
      people; but the Committee did not meet; and the whole House I find full of
      this business of Sir W. Coventry's, and most men very sensible of the
      cause and effects of it. So, meeting with my Lord Bellassis, he told me
      the particulars of this matter; that it arises about a quarrel which Sir
      W. Coventry had with the Duke of Buckingham about a design between the
      Duke and Sir Robert Howard, to bring him into a play at the King's house,
      which W. Coventry not enduring, did by H. Saville send a letter to the
      Duke of Buckingham, that he had a desire to speak with him. Upon which,
      the Duke of Buckingham did bid Holmes, his champion ever since my Lord
      Shrewsbury's business,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Charles II. wrote to his sister (Henrietta, Duchess of Orleans), on
     March 7th, 1669: "I am not sorry that Sir Will. Coventry has given
     me this good occasion by sending my Lord of Buckingham a challenge
     to turne him out of the Councill.  I do intend to turn him allso out
     of the Treasury.  The truth of it is, he has been a troublesome man
     in both places and I am well rid of him" (Julia Cartwright's
     "Madame," 1894, p.  283).]
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    <p>
      go to him to know the business; but H. Saville would not tell it to any
      but himself, and therefore did go presently to the Duke of Buckingham, and
      told him that his uncle Coventry was a person of honour, and was sensible
      of his Grace's liberty taken of abusing him, and that he had a desire of
      satisfaction, and would fight with him. But that here they were
      interrupted by my Lord Chamberlain's coming in, who was commanded to go to
      bid the Duke of Buckingham to come to the King, Holmes having discovered
      it. He told me that the King did last night, at the Council, ask the Duke
      of Buckingham, upon his honour, whether he had received any challenge from
      W. Coventry? which he confessed that he had; and then the King asking W.
      Coventry, he told him that he did not owne what the Duke of Buckingham had
      said, though it was not fit for him to give him a direct contradiction.
      But, being by the King put upon declaring, upon his honour, the matter, he
      answered that he had understood that many hard questions had upon this
      business been moved to some lawyers, and that therefore he was unwilling
      to declare any thing that might, from his own mouth, render him obnoxious
      to his Majesty's displeasure, and, therefore, prayed to be excused: which
      the King did think fit to interpret to be a confession, and so gave
      warrant that night for his commitment to the Tower. Being very much
      troubled at this, I away by coach homewards, and directly to the Tower,
      where I find him in one Mr. Bennet's house, son to Major Bayly, one of the
      Officers of the Ordnance, in the Bricke Tower:
    </p>
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     [The Brick Tower stands on the northern wall, a little to the west
     of Martin tower, with which it communicates by a secret passage.
     It was the residence of the Master of the Ordnance, and Raleigh was
     lodged here for a time.]
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    <p>
      where I find him busy with my Lord Halifax and his brother; so I would not
      stay to interrupt them, but only to give him comfort, and offer my service
      to him, which he kindly and cheerfully received, only owning his being
      troubled for the King his master's displeasure, which, I suppose, is the
      ordinary form and will of persons in this condition. And so I parted, with
      great content, that I had so earlily seen him there; and so going out, did
      meet Sir Jer. Smith going to meet me, who had newly been with Sir W.
      Coventry. And so he and I by water to Redriffe, and so walked to Deptford,
      where I have not been, I think, these twelve months: and there to the
      Treasurer's house, where the Duke of York is, and his Duchess; and there
      we find them at dinner in the great room, unhung; and there was with them
      my Lady Duchess of Monmouth, the Countess of Falmouth, Castlemayne,
      Henrietta Hide' (my Lady Hinchingbroke's sister), and my Lady
      Peterborough. And after dinner Sir Jer. Smith and I were invited down to
      dinner with some of the Maids of Honour, namely, Mrs. Ogle, Blake, and
      Howard, which did me good to have the honour to dine with, and look on;
      and the Mother of the Maids, and Mrs. Howard, the mother of the Maid of
      Honour of that name, and the Duke's housekeeper here. Here was also
      Monsieur Blancfort, Sir Richard Powell, Colonel Villers, Sir Jonathan
      Trelawny, and others. And here drank most excellent, and great variety,
      and plenty of wines, more than I have drank, at once, these seven years,
      but yet did me no great hurt. Having dined and very merry, and
      understanding by Blancfort how angry the Duke of York was, about their
      offering to send Saville to the Gate-house, among the rogues; and then,
      observing how this company, both the ladies and all, are of a gang, and
      did drink a health to the union of the two brothers, and talking of others
      as their enemies, they parted, and so we up; and there I did find the Dupe
      of York and Duchess, with all the great ladies, sitting upon a carpet, on
      the ground, there being no chairs, playing at "I love my love with an A,
      because he is so and so: and I hate him with an A, because of this and
      that:" and some of them, but particularly the Duchess herself, and my Lady
      Castlemayne, were very witty. This done, they took barge, and I with Sir
      J. Smith to Captain Cox's; and there to talk, and left them and other
      company to drink; while I slunk out to Bagwell's; and there saw her, and
      her mother, and our late maid Nell, who cried for joy to see me, but I had
      no time for pleasure then nor could stay, but after drinking I back to the
      yard, having a month's mind para have had a bout with Nell, which I
      believe I could have had, and may another time. So to Cox's, and thence
      walked with Sir J. Smith back to Redriffe; and so, by water home, and
      there my wife mighty angry for my absence, and fell mightily out, but not
      being certain of any thing, but thinks only that Pierce or Knepp was
      there, and did ask me, and, I perceive, the boy, many questions. But I did
      answer her; and so, after much ado, did go to bed, and lie quiet all
      night; but [she] had another bout with me in the morning, but I did make
      shift to quiet her, but yet she was not fully satisfied, poor wretch! in
      her mind, and thinks much of my taking so much pleasure from her; which,
      indeed, is a fault, though I did not design or foresee it when I went.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and by water to White Hall, where did a little business with the
      Duke of York at our usual attending him, and thence to my wife, who was
      with my coach at Unthanke's, though not very well of those upon her, and
      so home to dinner, and after dinner I to the Tower, where I find Sir W.
      Coventry with abundance of company with him; and after sitting awhile, and
      hearing some merry discourse, and, among others, of Mr. Brouncker's being
      this day summoned to Sir William Morton, one of the judges, to give in
      security for his good behaviour, upon his words the other day to Sir John
      Morton, a Parliament-man, at White Hall, who had heretofore spoke very
      highly against Brouncker in the House, I away, and to Aldgate, and walked
      forward towards White Chapel, till my wife overtook me with the coach, it
      being a mighty fine afternoon; and there we went the first time out of
      town with our coach and horses, and went as far as Bow, the spring
      beginning a little now to appear, though the way be dirty; and so, with
      great pleasure, with the fore-part of our coach up, we spent the
      afternoon. And so in the evening home, and there busy at the Office
      awhile, and so to bed, mightily pleased with being at peace with my poor
      wife, and with the pleasure we may hope to have with our coach this
      summer, when the weather comes to be good.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, only before the Office
      I stepped to Sir W. Coventry at the Tower, and there had a great deal of
      discourse with him; among others, of the King's putting him out of the
      Council yesterday, with which he is well contented, as with what else they
      can strip him of, he telling me, and so hath long done, that he is weary
      and surfeited of business; but he joins with me in his fears that all will
      go to naught, as matters are now managed. He told me the matter of the
      play that was intended for his abuse, wherein they foolishly and sillily
      bring in two tables like that which he hath made, with a round hole in the
      middle, in his closet, to turn himself in; and he is to be in one of them
      as master, and Sir J. Duncomb in the other, as his man or imitator: and
      their discourse in those tables, about the disposing of their books and
      papers, very foolish. But that, that he is offended with, is his being
      made so contemptible, as that any should dare to make a gentleman a
      subject for the mirth of the world: and that therefore he had told Tom
      Killigrew that he should tell his actors, whoever they were, that did
      offer at any thing like representing him, that he would not complain to my
      Lord Chamberlain, which was too weak, nor get him beaten, as Sir Charles
      Sidly is said to do, but that he would cause his nose to be cut. He told
      me the passage at the Council much like what my Lord Bellassis told me. He
      told me how that the Duke of Buckingham did himself, some time since,
      desire to join with him, of all men in England, and did bid him propound
      to himself to be Chief Minister of State, saying that he would bring it
      about, but that he refused to have anything to do with any faction; and
      that the Duke of Buckingham did, within these few days, say that, of all
      men in England, he would have chosen W. Coventry to have joined entire
      with. He tells me that he fears their prevailing against the Duke of York;
      and that their violence will force them to it, as being already beyond his
      pardon. He repeated to me many examples of challenging of
      Privy-Councillors and others; but never any proceeded against with that
      severity which he is, it never amounting to others to more than a little
      confinement. He tells me of his being weary of the Treasury, and of the
      folly, ambition, and desire of popularity of Sir Thomas Clifford; and yet
      the rudeness of his tongue and passions when angry. This and much more
      discourse being over I with great pleasure come home and to the office,
      where all the morning, and at noon home to dinner, and thence to the
      office again, where very hard at work all the afternoon till night, and
      then home to my wife to read to me, and to bed, my cold having been now
      almost for three days quite gone from me. This day my wife made it appear
      to me that my late entertainment this week cost me above L12, an expence
      which I am almost ashamed of, though it is but once in a great while, and
      is the end for which, in the most part, we live, to have such a merry day
      once or twice in a man's life.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th (Lord's day). Up, and to the office, busy till church time, and then
      to church, where a dull sermon, and so home to dinner, all alone with my
      wife, and then to even my Journall to this day, and then to the Tower, to
      see Sir W. Coventry, who had H. Jermin and a great many more with him, and
      more, while I was there, come in; so that I do hear that there was not
      less than sixty coaches there yesterday, and the other day; which I hear
      also that there is a great exception taken at, by the King and the Duke of
      Buckingham, but it cannot be helped. Thence home, and with our coach out
      to Suffolk Street, to see my cozen Pepys, but neither the old nor young at
      home. So to my cozen Turner's, and there staid talking a little, and then
      back to Suffolk Street, where they not being yet come home I to White
      Hall, and there hear that there are letters come from Sir Thomas Allen,
      that he hath made some kind of peace with Algiers; upon which the King and
      Duke of York, being to go out of town to-morrow, are met at my Lord
      Arlington's: so I there, and by Mr. Wren was desired to stay to see if
      there were occasion for their speaking with me, which I did, walking
      without, with Charles Porter,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Charles Porter "was the son of a prebend[ary] in Norwich, and a
     'prentice boy in the city in the rebellious times.  When the
     committee house was blown up, he was very active in that rising, and
     after the soldiers came and dispersed the rout, he, as a rat among
     joint stools, shifted to and fro among the shambles, and had forty
     pistols shot at him by the troopers that rode after him to kill him
     [24th April, 1648].  In that distress he had the presence of mind to
     catch up a little child that, during the rout, was frighted, and
     stood crying in the streets, and, unobserved by the troopers, ran
     away with it.  The people opened a way for him, saying, 'Make room
     for the poor child.' Thus he got off, and while search was made for
     him in the market-place, got into the Yarmouth ferry, and at
     Yarmouth took ship and went to Holland....  In Holland he
     trailed a pike, and was in several actions as a common soldier.  At
     length he kept a cavalier eating-house; but, his customers being
     needy, he soon broke, and came for England, and being a genteel
     youth, was taken in among the chancery clerks, and got to be under a
     master....  His industry was great; and he had an acquired
     dexterity and skill in the forms of the court; and although he was a
     bon companion, and followed much the bottle, yet he made such
     dispatches as satisfied his clients, especially the clerks, who knew
     where to find him.  His person was florid, and speech prompt and
     articulate.  But his vices, in the way of women and the bottle, were
     so ungoverned, as brought him to a morsel....  When the Lord
     Keeper North had the Seal, who from an early acquaintance had a
     kindness for him which was well known, and also that he was well
     heard, as they call it, business flowed in to him very fast, and yet
     he could scarce keep himself at liberty to follow his business....
     At the Revolution, when his interest fell from, and his debts began
     to fall upon him, he was at his wits' end....  His character for
     fidelity, loyalty, and facetious conversation was without
     exception"&mdash;Roger North's Lives of the Norths (Lord Keeper
     Guilford), ed.  Jessopp, vol. i., pp. 381-2.  He was originally made
     Lord Chancellor of Ireland in the reign of James II., during the
     viceroyalty of Lord Clarendon, 1686, when he was knighted.  "He
     was," says Burnet, "a man of ready wit, and being poor was thought a
     person fit to be made a tool of.  When Clarendon was recalled,
     Porter was also displaced, and Fitton was made chancellor, a man who
     knew no other law than the king's pleasure" ("Own Time").  Sir
     Charles Porter was again made Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1690,
     and in this same year he acted as one of the Lords Justices.  This
     note of Lord Braybrooke's is retained and added to, but the
     reference may after all be to another Charles Porter.  See vol.
     iii., p. 122, and vol. vi., p. 98.]
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    <p>
      talking of a great many things: and I perceive all the world is against
      the Duke of Buckingham his acting thus high, and do prophesy nothing but
      ruin from it: But he do well observe that the church lands cannot
      certainly come to much, if the King shall [be] persuaded to take them;
      they being leased out for long leases. By and by, after two hours' stay,
      they rose, having, as Wren tells me, resolved upon sending six ships to
      the Streights forthwith, not being contented with the peace upon the terms
      they demand, which are, that all our ships, where any Turks or Moores
      shall be found slaves, shall be prizes; which will imply that they, must
      be searched. I hear that to-morrow the King and the Duke of York set out
      for Newmarket, by three in the morning; to some foot and horse-races, to
      be abroad ten or twelve days: So I away, without seeing the Duke of York;
      but Mr. Wren showed me the Order of Council about the balancing the
      Storekeeper's accounts, passed the Council in the very terms I drew it,
      only I did put in my name as he that presented the book of Hosier's
      preparing, and that is left out&mdash;I mean, my name&mdash;which is no
      great matter. So to my wife to Suffolk Streete, where she was gone, and
      there I found them at supper, and eat a little with them, and so home, and
      there to bed, my cold pretty well gone.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and with W. Hewer by hackney coach to White Hall, where the King
      and the Duke of York is gone by three in the morning, and had the
      misfortune to be overset with the Duke of York, the Duke of Monmouth, and
      the Prince, at the King's Gate' in Holborne; and the King all dirty, but
      no hurt. How it come to pass I know not, but only it was dark, and the
      torches did not, they say, light the coach as they should do. I thought
      this morning to have seen my Lord Sandwich before he went out of town, but
      I come half an hour too late; which troubles me, I having not seen him
      since my Lady Palls died. So W. Hewer and I to the Harp-and-Ball, to drink
      my morning draught, having come out in haste; and there met with King, the
      Parliament-man, with whom I had some impertinent talk. And so to the Privy
      Seal Office, to examine what records I could find there, for my help in
      the great business I am put upon, of defending the present constitution of
      the Navy; but there could not have liberty without order from him that is
      in present waiting, Mr. Bickerstaffe, who is out of town. This I did after
      I had walked to the New Exchange and there met Mr. Moore, who went with me
      thither, and I find him the same discontented poor man as ever. He tells
      me that Mr. Shepley is upon being turned away from my Lord's family, and
      another sent down, which I am sorry for; but his age and good fellowship
      have almost made him fit for nothing. Thence, at Unthanke's my wife met
      me, and with our coach to my cozen Turner's and there dined, and after
      dinner with my wife alone to the King's playhouse, and there saw "The
      Mocke Astrologer," which I have often seen, and but an ordinary play; and
      so to my cozen Turner's again, where we met Roger Pepys, his wife, and two
      daughters, and there staid and talked a little, and then home, and there
      my wife to read to me, my eyes being sensibly hurt by the too great lights
      of the playhouse. So to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and to the Tower; and there find Sir W. Coventry alone, writing
      down his journal, which, he tells me, he now keeps of the material things;
      upon which I told him, and he is the only man I ever told it to, I think,
      that I kept it most strictly these eight or ten years; and I am sorry
      almost that I told it him, it not being necessary, nor may be convenient
      to have it known. Here he showed me the petition he had sent to the King
      by my Lord Keeper, which was not to desire any admittance to employment,
      but submitting himself therein humbly to his Majesty; but prayed the
      removal of his displeasure, and that he might be set free. He tells me
      that my Lord Keeper did acquaint the King with the substance of it, not
      shewing him the petition; who answered, that he was disposing of his
      employments, and when that was done, he might be led to discharge him: and
      this is what he expects, and what he seems to desire. But by this
      discourse he was pleased to take occasion to shew me and read to me his
      account, which he hath kept by him under his own hand, of all his
      discourse, and the King's answers to him, upon the great business of my
      Lord Clarendon, and how he had first moved the Duke of York with it twice,
      at good distance, one after another, but without success; shewing me
      thereby the simplicity and reasons of his so doing, and the manner of it;
      and the King's accepting it, telling him that he was not satisfied in his
      management, and did discover some dissatisfaction against him for his
      opposing the laying aside of my Lord Treasurer, at Oxford, which was a
      secret the King had not discovered. And really I was mighty proud to be
      privy to this great transaction, it giving me great conviction of the
      noble nature and ends of Sir W. Coventry in it, and considerations in
      general of the consequences of great men's actions, and the uncertainty of
      their estates, and other very serious considerations. From this to other
      discourse, and so to the Office, where we sat all the morning, and after
      dinner by coach to my cozen Turner's, thinking to have taken the young
      ladies to a play; but The. was let blood to-day; and so my wife and I
      towards the King's playhouse, and by the way found Betty [Turner], and
      Bab., and Betty Pepys staying for us; and so took them all to see
      "Claricilla," which do not please me almost at all, though there are some
      good things in it. And so to my cozen Turner's again, and there find my
      Lady Mordaunt, and her sister Johnson; and by and by comes in a gentleman,
      Mr. Overbury, a pleasant man, who plays most excellently on the
      flagelette, a little one, that sounded as low as one of mine, and mighty
      pretty. Hence by and by away, and with my wife, and Bab. and Betty Pepys,
      and W. Hewer, whom I carried all this day with me, to my cozen
      Stradwick's, where I have not been ever since my brother Tom died, there
      being some difference between my father and them, upon the account of my
      cozen Scott; and I was glad of this opportunity of seeing them, they being
      good and substantial people, and kind, and here met my cozen Roger and his
      wife, and my cozen Turner, and here, which I never did before, I drank a
      glass, of a pint, I believe, at one draught, of the juice of oranges, of
      whose peel they make comfits; and here they drink the juice as wine, with
      sugar, and it is very fine drink; but, it being new, I was doubtful
      whether it might not do me hurt. Having staid a while, my wife and I back,
      with my cozen Turner, etc., to her house, and there we took our leaves of
      my cozen Pepys, who goes with his wife and two daughters for Impington
      tomorrow. They are very good people, and people I love, and am obliged to,
      and shall have great pleasure in their friendship, and particularly in
      hers, she being an understanding and good woman. So away home, and there
      after signing my letters, my eyes being bad, to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and by hackney-coach to Auditor Beale's Office, in Holborne, to
      look for records of the Navy, but he was out of the way, and so forced to
      go next to White Hall, to the Privy Seal; and, after staying a little
      there, then to Westminster, where, at the Exchequer, I met with Mr.
      Newport and Major Halsey; and, after doing a little business with Mr.
      Burges, we by water to White Hall, where I made a little stop: and so with
      them by coach to Temple Bar, where, at the Sugar Loaf we dined, and W.
      Hewer with me; and there comes a companion of theirs, Colonel Vernon, I
      think they called him; a merry good fellow, and one that was very plain in
      cursing the Duke of Buckingham, and discoursing of his designs to ruin us,
      and that ruin must follow his counsels, and that we are an undone people.
      To which the others concurred, but not so plain, but all vexed at Sir W.
      Coventry's being laid aside: but Vernon, he is concerned, I perceive, for
      my Lord Ormond's being laid aside; but their company, being all old
      cavaliers, were very pleasant to hear how they swear and talk. But Halsey,
      to my content, tells me that my Lord Duke of Albemarle says that W.
      Coventry being gone, nothing will be well done at the Treasury, and I
      believe it; but they do all talk as that Duncombe, upon some pretence or
      other, must follow him. Thence to Auditor Beale's, his house and office,
      but not to be found, and therefore to the Privy Seale at White Hall,
      where, with W. Hewer and Mr. Gibson, who met me at the Temple, I spent the
      afternoon till evening looking over the books there, and did find several
      things to my purpose, though few of those I designed to find, the books
      being kept there in no method at all. Having done there, we by water home,
      and there find my cozen Turner and her two daughters come to see us; and
      there, after talking a little, I had my coach ready, and my wife and I,
      they going home, we out to White Chapel to take a little ayre, though yet
      the dirtiness of the road do prevent most of the pleasure, which should
      have been from this tour. So home, and my wife to read to me till supper,
      and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. Up, and to Sir W. Coventry, to the Tower, where I walked and talked
      with him an hour alone, from one good thing to another: who tells me that
      he hears that the Commission is gone down to the King, with a blank to
      fill, for his place in the Treasury: and he believes it will be filled
      with one of our Treasurers of the Navy, but which he knows not, but he
      believes it will be Osborne. We walked down to the Stone Walk, which is
      called, it seems, my Lord of Northumberland's walk, being paved by some
      one of that title, that was prisoner there: and at the end of it, there is
      a piece of iron upon the wall, with, his armes upon it, and holes to put
      in a peg, for every turn that they make upon that walk. So away to the
      Office, where busy all the morning, and so to dinner, and so very busy all
      the afternoon, at my Office, late; and then home tired, to supper, with
      content with my wife, and so to bed, she pleasing me, though I dare not
      own it, that she hath hired a chambermaid; but she, after many
      commendations, told me that she had one great fault, and that was, that
      she was very handsome, at which I made nothing, but let her go on; but
      many times to-night she took occasion to discourse of her handsomeness,
      and the danger she was in by taking her, and that she did doubt yet
      whether it would be fit for her, to take her. But I did assure her of my
      resolutions to have nothing to do with her maids, but in myself I was glad
      to have the content to have a handsome one to look on.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and abroad, with my own coach, to Auditor Beale's house, and
      thence with W. Hewer to his Office, and there with great content spent all
      the morning looking over the Navy accounts of several years, and the
      several patents of the Treasurers, which was more than I did hope to have
      found there. About noon I ended there, to my great content, and giving the
      clerks there 20s. for their trouble, and having sent for W. Howe to me to
      discourse with him about the Patent Office records, wherein I remembered
      his brother to be concerned, I took him in my coach with W. Hewer and
      myself towards Westminster; and there he carried me to Nott's, the famous
      bookbinder, that bound for my Lord Chancellor's library; and here I did
      take occasion for curiosity to bespeak a book to be bound, only that I
      might have one of his binding. Thence back to Graye's Inne: and, at the
      next door, at a cook's-shop of Howe's acquaintance, we bespoke dinner, it
      being now two o'clock; and in the meantime he carried us into Graye's
      Inne, to his chamber, where I never was before; and it is very pretty, and
      little, and neat, as he was always. And so, after a little stay, and
      looking over a book or two there, we carried a piece of my Lord Coke with
      us, and to our dinner, where, after dinner, he read at my desire a chapter
      in my Lord Coke about perjury, wherein I did learn a good deal touching
      oaths, and so away to the Patent Office; in Chancery Lane, where his
      brother Jacke, being newly broke by running in debt, and growing an idle
      rogue, he is forced to hide himself; and W. Howe do look after the Office,
      and here I did set a clerk to look out some things for me in their books,
      while W. Hewer and I to the Crowne Offices where we met with several good
      things that I most wanted, and did take short notes of the dockets, and so
      back to the Patent Office, and did the like there, and by candle-light
      ended. And so home, where, thinking to meet my wife with content, after my
      pains all this day, I find her in her closet, alone, in the dark, in a hot
      fit of railing against me, upon some news she has this day heard of Deb.'s
      living very fine, and with black spots, and speaking ill words of her
      mistress, which with good reason might vex her; and the baggage is to
      blame, but, God knows, I know nothing of her, nor what she do, nor what
      becomes of her, though God knows that my devil that is within me do wish
      that I could. Yet God I hope will prevent me therein, for I dare not trust
      myself with it if I should know it; but, what with my high words, and
      slighting it, and then serious, I did at last bring her to very good and
      kind terms, poor heart! and I was heartily glad of it, for I do see there
      is no man can be happier than myself, if I will, with her. But in her fit
      she did tell me what vexed me all the night, that this had put her upon
      putting off her handsome maid and hiring another that was full of the
      small pox, which did mightily vex me, though I said nothing, and do still.
      So down to supper, and she to read to me, and then with all possible
      kindness to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and to the Tower, to see Sir W. Coventry, and with him talking
      of business of the Navy, all alone, an hour, he taking physic. And so away
      to the Office, where all the morning, and then home to dinner, with my
      people, and so to the Office again, and there all the afternoon till
      night, when comes, by mistake, my cozen Turner, and her two daughters,
      which love such freaks, to eat some anchovies and ham of bacon with me,
      instead of noon, at dinner, when I expected them. But, however, I had done
      my business before they come, and so was in good humour enough to be with
      them, and so home to them to supper, and pretty merry, being pleased to
      see Betty Turner, which hath something mighty pretty. But that which put
      me in good humour, both at noon and night, is the fancy that I am this day
      made a Captain of one of the King's ships, Mr. Wren having this day sent
      me, the Duke of York's commission to be Captain of "The Jerzy," in order
      to my being of a Court-martiall for examining the loss of "The Defyance,"
      and other things; which do give me occasion of much mirth, and may be of
      some use to me, at least I shall get a little money by it for the time I
      have it; it being designed that I must really be a Captain to be able to
      sit in this Court. They staid till about eight at night, and then away,
      and my wife to read to me, and then to bed in mighty good humour, but for
      my eyes.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th (Lord's day). Up, and to my office with Tom, whom I made to read to
      me the books of Propositions in the time of the Grand Commission, which I
      did read a good part of before church, and then with my wife to church,
      where I did see my milliner's wife come again, which pleased me; but I
      durst not be seen to mind her for fear of my wife's seeing me, though the
      woman I did never speak twenty words to, and that but only in her
      husband's shop. But so fearful I am of discontenting my wife, or giving
      her cause of jealousy. But here we heard a most excellent good sermon of
      Mr. Gifford's, upon the righteousness of Scribes and Pharisees. So home to
      dinner and to work again, and so till dinner, where W. Howe come and dined
      with me, and staid and read in my Lord Cooke upon his chapter of perjury
      again, which pleased me, and so parted, and I to my office, and there made
      an end of the books of Propositions, which did please me mightily to hear
      read, they being excellently writ and much to the purpose, and yet so as I
      think I shall make good use of his defence of our present constitution.
      About four o'clock took coach to visit my cozen Turner, and I out with her
      to make a visit, but the lady she went to see was abroad. So back and to
      talk with her and her daughters, and then home, and she and I to walk in
      the garden, the first time this year, the weather being mighty temperate;
      and then I to write down my Journall for the last week, my eyes being very
      bad, and therefore I forced to find a way to use by turns with my tube,
      one after another, and so home to supper and to bed. Before I went from my
      office this night I did tell Tom my resolution not to keep him after Jane
      was gone, but shall do well by him, which pleases him; and I think he will
      presently marry her, and go away out of my house with her.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and by water with W. Hewer to the Temple; and thence to the
      Rolls, where I made inquiry for several rolls, and was soon informed in
      the manner of it: and so spent the whole morning with W. Hewer, he taking
      little notes in short-hand, while I hired a clerk there to read to me
      about twelve or more several rolls which I did call for: and it was great
      pleasure to me to see the method wherein their rolls are kept; that when
      the Master of the Office, one Mr. Case, do call for them, who is a man
      that I have heretofore known by coming to my Lord of Sandwich's, he did
      most readily turn to them. At noon they shut up; and W. Hewer and I did
      walk to the Cocke, at the end of Suffolke Streete, where I never was, a
      great ordinary, mightily cried up, and there bespoke a pullett; which
      while dressing, he and I walked into St. James's Park, and thence back,
      and dined very handsome, with a good soup, and a pullet, for 4s. 6d. the
      whole. Thence back to the Rolls, and did a little more business: and so by
      water to White Hall, whither. I went to speak with Mr. Williamson, that if
      he hath any papers relating to the Navy I might see them, which he
      promises me: and so by water home, with great content for what I have this
      day found, having got almost as much as I desire of the history of the
      Navy, from 1618 to 1642, when the King and Parliament fell out. So home,
      and did get my wife to read, and so to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and to the office, after having visited Sir W. Coventry at the
      Tower, and walked with him upon the Stone Walk, alone, till other company
      come to him, and had very good discourse with him. At noon home, where my
      wife and Jane gone abroad, and Tom, in order to their buying of things for
      their wedding, which, upon my discourse the last night, is now resolved to
      be done, upon the 26th of this month, the day of my solemnity for my
      cutting of the stone, when my cozen Turner must be with us. My wife,
      therefore, not at dinner; and comes to me Mr. Evelyn of Deptford, a worthy
      good man, and dined with me, but a bad dinner; who is grieved for, and
      speaks openly to me his thoughts of, the times, and our ruin approaching;
      and all by the folly of the King. His business to me was about some ground
      of his, at Deptford, next to the King's yard: and after dinner we parted.
      My sister Michell coming also this day to see us, whom I left there, and I
      away down by water with W. Hewer to Woolwich, where I have not been I
      think more than a year or two, and here I saw, but did not go on board, my
      ship "The Jerzy," she lying at the wharf under repair. But my business was
      to speak with Ackworth, about some old things and passages in the Navy,
      for my information therein, in order to my great business now of stating
      the history of the Navy. This I did; and upon the whole do find that the
      late times, in all their management, were not more husbandly than we; and
      other things of good content to me. His wife was sick, and so I could not
      see her. Thence, after seeing Mr. Sheldon, I to Greenwich by water, and
      there landed at the King's house, which goes on slow, but is very pretty.
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The old palace at Greenwich had just been pulled down, and a new
     building commenced by Charles II., only one wing of which was
     completed, at the expense of L36,000, under the auspices of Webb,
     Inigo Jones's kinsman and executor.  In 1694 the unfinished edifice
     was granted by William and Mary to trustees for the use and service
     of a Naval Hospital; and it has been repeatedly enlarged and
     improved till it has arrived at its present splendour.&mdash;B.]
</pre>
    <p>
      I to the Park, there to see the prospect of the hill, to judge of Dancre's
      picture, which he hath made thereof for me: and I do like it very well:
      and it is a very pretty place. Thence to Deptford, but staid not, Uthwayte
      being out of the way: and so home, and then to the Ship Tavern, Morrice's,
      and staid till W. Hewer fetched his uncle Blackburne by appointment to me,
      to discourse of the business of the Navy in the late times; and he did do
      it, by giving me a most exact account in writing, of the several turns in
      the Admiralty and Navy, of the persons employed therein, from the
      beginning of the King's leaving the Parliament, to his Son's coming in, to
      my great content; and now I am fully informed in all I at present desire.
      We fell to other talk; and I find by him that the Bishops must certainly
      fall, and their hierarchy; these people have got so much ground upon the
      King and kingdom as is not to be got again from them: and the Bishops do
      well deserve it. But it is all the talk, I find, that Dr. Wilkins, my
      friend, the Bishop of Chester, shall be removed to Winchester, and be Lord
      Treasurer. Though this be foolish talk, yet I do gather that he is a
      mighty rising man, as being a Latitudinarian, and the Duke of Buckingham
      his great friend. Here we staid talking till to at night, where I did
      never drink before since this man come to the house, though for his pretty
      wife's sake I do fetch my wine from this, whom I could not nevertheless
      get para see to-night, though her husband did seem to call for her. So
      parted here and I home, and to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and by water to see Mr. Wren, and then Mr. Williamson, who did
      shew me the very original bookes of propositions made by the Commissioners
      for the Navy, in 1618, to my great content; but no other Navy papers he
      could now shew me. Thence to Westminster by water and to the Hall, where
      Mrs. Michell do surprize me with the news that Doll Lane is suddenly
      brought to bed at her sister's lodging, and gives it out that she is
      married, but there is no such thing certainly, she never mentioning it
      before, but I have cause to rejoice that I have not seen her a great
      while, she having several times desired my company, but I doubt to an evil
      end. Thence to the Exchequer, where W. Hewer come to me, and after a
      little business did go by water home, and there dined, and took my wife by
      a hackney to the King's playhouse, and saw "The Coxcomb," the first time
      acted, but an old play, and a silly one, being acted only by the young
      people. Here met cozen Turner and The. So parted there from them, and home
      by coach and to my letters at the office, where pretty late, and so to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and to see Sir W. Coventry, and walked with him a good while in
      the Stone Walk: and brave discourse about my Lord Chancellor, and his ill
      managements and mistakes, and several things of the Navy, and thence to
      the office, where we sat all the morning, and so home to dinner, where my
      wife mighty finely dressed, by a maid that she hath taken, and is to come
      to her when Jane goes; and the same she the other day told me of, to be so
      handsome. I therefore longed to see her, but did not till after dinner,
      that my wife and I going by coach, she went with us to Holborne, where we
      set her down. She is a mighty proper maid, and pretty comely, but so so;
      but hath a most pleasing tone of voice, and speaks handsomely, but hath
      most great hands, and I believe ugly; but very well dressed, and good
      clothes, and the maid I believe will please me well enough. Thence to
      visit Ned Pickering and his lady, and Creed and his wife, but the former
      abroad, and the latter out of town, gone to my Lady Pickering's in
      Northamptonshire, upon occasion of the late death of their brother, Oliver
      Pickering, a youth, that is dead of the smallpox. So my wife and I to
      Dancre's to see the pictures; and thence to Hyde Park, the first time we
      were there this year, or ever in our own coach, where with mighty pride
      rode up and down, and many coaches there; and I thought our horses and
      coach as pretty as any there, and observed so to be by others. Here staid
      till night, and so home, and to the office, where busy late, and so home
      to supper and to bed, with great content, but much business in my head of
      the office, which troubles me.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and by water to White Hall, there to the Lords of the Treasury,
      and did some business, and here Sir Thomas Clifford did speak to me, as
      desirous that I would some time come and confer with him about the Navy,
      which I am glad of, but will take the direction of the Duke of York before
      I do it, though I would be glad to do something to secure myself, if I
      could, in my employment. Thence to the plaisterer's, and took my face, and
      my Lord Duke of Albemarle's, home with me by coach, they being done to my
      mind; and mighty glad I am of understanding this way of having the
      pictures of any friends. At home to dinner, where Mr. Sheres dined with
      us, but after dinner I left him and my wife, and with Commissioner
      Middleton and Kempthorne to a Court-martiall, to which, by virtue of my
      late Captainship, I am called, the first I was ever at; where many
      Commanders, and Kempthorne president. Here was tried a difference between
      Sir L. Van Hemskirke, the Dutch Captain who commands "The Nonsuch," built
      by his direction, and his Lieutenant; a drunken kind of silly business. We
      ordered the Lieutenant to ask him pardon, and have resolved to lay before
      the Duke of York what concerns the Captain, which was striking of his
      Lieutenant and challenging him to fight, which comes not within any
      article of the laws martiall. But upon discourse the other day with Sir W.
      Coventry, I did advise Middleton, and he and I did forbear to give
      judgment, but after the debate did withdraw into another cabin, the Court
      being held in one of the yachts, which was on purpose brought up over
      against St. Katharine's, it being to be feared that this precedent of our
      being made Captains, in order to the trying of the loss of "The Defyance,"
      wherein we are the proper persons to enquire into the want of instructions
      while ships do lie in harbour, evil use might be hereafter made of the
      precedent by putting the Duke of Buckingham, or any of these rude fellows
      that now are uppermost, to make packed Courts, by Captains made on purpose
      to serve their turns. The other cause was of the loss of "The Providence"
      at Tangier, where the Captain's being by chance on shore may prove very
      inconvenient to him, for example's sake, though the man be a good man, and
      one whom, for Norwood's sake, I would be kind to; but I will not offer any
      thing to the excusing such a miscarriage. He is at present confined, till
      he can bring better proofs on his behalf of the reasons of his being on
      shore. So Middleton and I away to the Office; and there I late busy,
      making my people, as I have done lately, to read Mr. Holland's' Discourse
      of the Navy, and what other things I can get to inform me fully in all;
      and here late, about eight at night, comes Mr. Wren to me, who had been at
      the Tower to Coventry. He come only to see how matters go, and tells me,
      as a secret, that last night the Duke of York's closet was broken open,
      and his cabinets, and shut again, one of them that the rogue that did it
      hath left plate and a watch behind him, and therefore they fear that it
      was only for papers, which looks like a very malicious business in design,
      to hurt the Duke of York; but they cannot know that till the Duke of York
      comes to town about the papers, and therefore make no words of it. He
      gone, I to work again, and then to supper at home, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up, and to the Tower, to W. Coventry, and there walked with him
      alone, on the Stone Walk, till company come to him; and there about the
      business of the Navy discoursed with him, and about my Lord Chancellor and
      Treasurer; that they were against the war [with the Dutch] at first,
      declaring, as wise men and statesmen, at first to the King, that they
      thought it fit to have a war with them at some time or other, but that it
      ought not to be till we found the Crowns of Spain and France together by
      the Bares, the want of which did ruin our war. But then he told me that, a
      great deal before the war, my Lord Chancellor did speak of a war with some
      heat, as a thing to be desired, and did it upon a belief that he could
      with his speeches make the Parliament give what money he pleased, and do
      what he would, or would make the King desire; but he found himself soon
      deceived of the Parliament, they having a long time before his removal
      been cloyed with his speeches and good words, and were come to hate him.
      Sir W. Coventry did tell me it, as the wisest thing that ever was said to
      the King by any statesman of his time, and it was by my Lord Treasurer
      that is dead, whom, I find, he takes for a very great statesman&mdash;that
      when the King did shew himself forward for passing the Act of Indemnity,
      he did advise the King that he would hold his hand in doing it, till he
      had got his power restored, that had been diminished by the late times,
      and his revenue settled in such a manner as he might depend on himself,
      without resting upon Parliaments,&mdash;and then pass it. But my Lord
      Chancellor, who thought he could have the command of Parliaments for ever,
      because for the King's sake they were awhile willing to grant all the King
      desired, did press for its being done; and so it was, and the King from
      that time able to do nothing with the Parliament almost. Thence to the
      office, where sat all the forenoon, and then home to dinner, and so to the
      office, where late busy, and so home, mightily pleased with the news
      brought me to-night, that the King and Duke of York are come back this
      afternoon, and no sooner come, but a warrant was sent to the Tower for the
      releasing Sir W. Coventry; which do put me in some hopes that there may
      be, in this absence, some accommodation made between the Duke of York and
      the Duke of Buckingham and; Arlington. So home, to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st (Lord's day). Up, and by water over to Southwarke; and then, not
      getting a boat, I forced to walk to Stangate; and so over to White Hall,
      in a scull; where up to the Duke of York's dressing-room, and there met
      Harry Saville, and understand that Sir W. Coventry is come to his house
      last night. I understand by Mr. Wren that his friends having, by Secretary
      Trevor and my Lord Keeper, applied to the King upon his first coming home,
      and a promise made that he should be discharged this day, my Lord
      Arlington did anticipate them, by sending a warrant presently for his
      discharge which looks a little like kindness, or a desire of it; which God
      send! though I fear the contrary: however, my heart is glad that he is
      out. Thence up and down the House. Met with Mr. May, who tells me the
      story of his being put by Sir John Denham's place, of Surveyor of the
      King's Works, who it seems, is lately dead, by the unkindness of the Duke
      Buckingham, who hath brought in Dr. Wren: though, he tells me, he hath
      been his servant for twenty years together in all his wants and dangers,
      saving him from want of bread by his care and management, and with a
      promise of having his help in his advancement, and an engagement under his
      hand for L1000 not yet paid, and yet the Duke of Buckingham so ungrateful
      as to put him by: which is an ill thing, though Dr. Wren is a worthy man.
      But he tells me that the King is kind to him, and hath promised him a
      pension of L300 a-year out of the Works; which will be of more content to
      him than the place, which, under their present wants of money, is a place
      that disobliges most people, being not able to do what they desire to
      their lodgings. Here meeting with Sir H. Cholmly and Povy, that tell me
      that my Lord Middleton is resolved in the Cabal that he shall not go to
      Tangier; and that Sir Edward Harlow [Harley], whom I know not, is
      propounded to go, who was Governor of Dunkirke, and, they say, a most
      worthy brave man, which I shall be very glad of. So by water (H. Russell
      coming for me) home to dinner, where W. Howe comes to dine with me; and
      after dinner propounds to me my lending him L500, to help him to purchase
      a place&mdash;the Master of the Patent Office, of Sir Richard Piggott. I
      did give him a civil answer, but shall think twice of it; and the more,
      because of the changes we are like to have in the Navy, which will not
      make it fit for me to divide the little I have left more than I have done,
      God knowing what my condition is, I having not attended, and now not being
      able to examine what my state is, of my accounts, and being in the world,
      which troubles me mightily. He gone, I to the office to enter my journall
      for a week. News is lately come of the Algerines taking L3000 in money,
      out of one of our Company's East India ships, outward bound, which will
      certainly make the war last; which I am sorry for, being so poor as we
      are, and broken in pieces. At night my wife to read to me, and then to
      supper, where Pelling comes to see and sup with us, and I find that he is
      assisting my wife in getting a licence to our young people to be married
      this Lent, which is resolved shall be done upon Friday next, my great day,
      or feast, for my being cut of the stone. So after supper to bed, my eyes
      being very bad.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and by water, with W. Newer, to White Hall, there to attend the
      Lords of the Treasury; but, before they sat, I did make a step to see Sir
      W. Coventry at his house, where, I bless God! he is come again; but in my
      way I met him, and so he took me into his coach and carried me to White
      Hall, and there set me down where he ought not&mdash;at least, he hath not
      yet leave to come, nor hath thought fit to ask it, hearing that Henry
      Saville is not only denied to kiss the King's hand, but the King, being
      asked it by the Duke of York, did deny it, and directed that the Duke
      shall not receive him, to wait upon him in his chamber, till further
      orders. Sir W. Coventry told me that he was going to visit Sir John
      Trevor, who hath been kind to him; and he shewed me a long list of all his
      friends that he must this week make visits to, that come to visit him in
      the Tower; and seems mighty well satisfied with his being out of business,
      but I hope he will not long be so; at least, I do believe that all must go
      to rat if the King do not come to see the want of such a servant. Thence
      to the Treasury-Chamber, and there all the morning to my great grief, put
      to do Sir G. Downing's work of dividing the Customes for this year,
      between the Navy, the Ordnance and Tangier: but it did so trouble my eyes,
      that I had rather have given L20 than have had it to do; but I did thereby
      oblige Sir Thomas Clifford and Sir J. Duncombe, and so am glad of the
      opportunity to recommend myself to the former for the latter I need not,
      he loving me well already. At it till noon, here being several of my
      brethren with me but doing nothing, but I all. But this day I did also
      represent to our Treasurers, which was read here, a state of the charge of
      the Navy, and what the expence of it this year would likely be; which is
      done so as it will appear well done and to my honour, for so the Lords did
      take it: and I oblige the Treasurers by doing it, at their request. Thence
      with W. Hewer at noon to Unthanke's, where my wife stays for me and so to
      the Cocke, where there was no room, and thence to King Street, to several
      cook's shops, where nothing to be had; and at last to the corner shop,
      going down Ivy Lane, by my Lord of Salisbury's, and there got a good
      dinner, my wife, and W. Newer, and I: and after dinner she, with her
      coach, home; and he and I to look over my papers for the East India
      Company, against the afternoon: which done, I with them to White Hall, and
      there to the Treasury-Chamber, where the East India Company and three
      Councillors pleaded against me alone, for three or four hours, till seven
      at night, before the Lords; and the Lords did give me the conquest on
      behalf of the King, but could not come to any conclusion, the Company
      being stiff: and so I think we shall go to law with them. This done, and
      my eyes mighty bad with this day's work, I to Mr. Wren's, and then up to
      the Duke of York, and there with Mr. Wren did propound to him my going to
      Chatham to-morrow with Commissioner Middleton, and so this week to make
      the pay there, and examine the business of "The Defyance" being lost, and
      other businesses, which I did the rather, that I might be out of the way
      at the wedding, and be at a little liberty myself for a day, or two, to
      find a little pleasure, and give my eyes a little ease. The Duke of York
      mightily satisfied with it; and so away home, where my wife troubled at my
      being so late abroad, poor woman! though never more busy, but I satisfied
      her; and so begun to put things in order for my journey to-morrow, and so,
      after supper, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Up, and to my office to do a little business there, and so, my
      things being all ready, I took coach with Commissioner Middleton, Captain
      Tinker, and Mr. Huchinson, a hackney coach, and over the bridge, and so
      out towards Chatham, and; dined at Dartford, where we staid an hour or
      two, it being a cold day; and so on, and got to Chatham just at night,
      with very good discourse by the way, but mostly of matters of religion,
      wherein Huchinson his vein lies. After supper, we fell to talk of spirits
      and apparitions, whereupon many pretty, particular stories were told, so
      as to make me almost afeard to lie alone, but for shame I could not help
      it; and so to bed and, being sleepy, fell soon to rest, and so rested
      well.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and walked abroad in the garden, and find that Mrs. Tooker has
      not any of her daughters here as I expected and so walked to the yard,
      leaving Middleton at the pay, and there I only walked up and down the
      yard, and then to the Hill-House, and there did give order for the coach
      to be made ready; and got Mr. Gibson, whom I carried with me, to go with
      me and Mr. Coney, the surgeon, towards Maydston which I had a mighty mind
      to see, and took occasion, in my way, at St. Margett's, to pretend to call
      to see Captain Allen to see whether Mrs. Jowles, his daughter, was there;
      and there his wife come to the door, he being at London, and through a
      window, I spied Jowles, but took no notice of he but made excuse till
      night, and then promised to come and see Mrs. Allen again, and so away, it
      being a mighty cold and windy, but clear day; and had the pleasure of
      seeing the Medway running, winding up and down mightily, and a very fine
      country; and I went a little out of the way to have visited Sir John
      Bankes, but he at London; but here I had a sight of his seat and house,
      the outside, which is an old abbey just like Hinchingbroke, and as good at
      least, and mighty finely placed by the river; and he keeps the grounds
      about it, and walls and the house, very handsome: I was mightily pleased
      with the sight of it. Thence to Maydstone, which I had a mighty mind to
      see, having never been there; and walked all up and down the town, and up
      to the top of the steeple, and had a noble view, and then down again: and
      in the town did see an old man beating of flax, and did step into the barn
      and give him money, and saw that piece of husbandry which I never saw, and
      it is very pretty: in the street also I did buy and send to our inne, the
      Bell, a dish of fresh fish. And so, having walked all round the town, and
      found it very pretty, as most towns I ever saw, though not very big, and
      people of good fashion in it, we to our inne to dinner, and had a good
      dinner; and after dinner a barber come to me, and there trimmed me, that I
      might be clean against night, to go to Mrs. Allen. And so, staying till
      about four o'clock, we set out, I alone in the coach going and coming; and
      in our way back, I 'light out of the way to see a Saxon monument,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [Kits-Cotty House, a cromlech in Aylesford parish, Kent, on a
     hillside adjacent to the river Medway, three and a half miles N. by
     W. of Maidstone.  It consists of three upright stones and an
     overlying one, and forms a small chamber open in front.  It is
     supposed to have been the centre of a group of monuments indicating
     the burial-place of the Belgian settlers in this part of Britain.
     Other stones of a similar character exist in the neighbourhood.]
</pre>
    <p>
      as they say, of a King, which is three stones standing upright, and a
      great round one lying on them, of great bigness, although not so big as
      those on Salisbury Plain; but certainly it is a thing of great antiquity,
      and I mightily glad to see it; it is near to Aylesford, where Sir John
      Bankes lives. So homeward, and stopped again at Captain Allen's, and there
      'light, and sent the coach and Gibson home, and I and Coney staid; and
      there comes to us Mrs. Jowles, who is a very fine, proper lady, as most I
      know, and well dressed. Here was also a gentleman, one Major Manly, and
      his wife, neighbours; and here we staid, and drank, and talked, and set
      Coney and him to play while Mrs. Jowles and I to talk, and there had all
      our old stories up, and there I had the liberty to salute her often, and
      pull off her glove, where her hand mighty moist, and she mighty free in
      kindness to me, and je do not at all doubt that I might have had that that
      I would have desired de elle had I had time to have carried her to Cobham,
      as she, upon my proposing it, was very willing to go, for elle is a whore,
      that is certain, but a very brave and comely one. Here was a pretty cozen
      of hers come in to supper also, of a great fortune, daughter-in-law to
      this Manly, mighty pretty, but had now such a cold, she could not speak.
      Here mightily pleased with Mrs. Jowles, and did get her to the street
      door, and there to her su breasts, and baiser her without any force, and
      credo that I might have had all else, but it was not time nor place. Here
      staid till almost twelve at night, and then with a lanthorn from thence
      walked over the fields, as dark as pitch, and mighty cold, and snow, to
      Chatham, and Mr. Coney with great kindness to me: and there all in bed
      before I come home, and so I presently to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Up, and by and by, about eight o'clock, come Rear-Admiral Kempthorne
      and seven Captains more, by the Duke of York's order, as we expected, to
      hold the Court-martiall about the loss of "The Defyance;" and so presently
      we by boat to "The Charles," which lies over against Upnor Castle, and
      there we fell to the business; and there I did manage the business, the
      Duke of York having, by special order, directed them to take the
      assistance of Commissioner Middleton and me, forasmuch as there might be
      need of advice in what relates to the government of the ships in harbour.
      And so I did lay the law open to them, and rattle the Master Attendants
      out of their wits almost; and made the trial last till seven at night, not
      eating a bit all the day; only when we had done examination, and I given
      my thoughts that the neglect of the Gunner of the ship was as great as I
      thought any neglect could be, which might by the law deserve death, but
      Commissioner Middleton did declare that he was against giving the sentence
      of death, we withdrew, as not being of the Court, and so left them to do
      what they pleased; and, while they were debating it, the Boatswain of the
      ship did bring us out of the kettle a piece of hot salt beef, and some
      brown bread and brandy; and there we did make a little meal, but so good
      as I never would desire to eat better meat while I live, only I would have
      cleaner dishes. By and by they had done, and called us down from the
      quarterdeck; and there we find they do sentence that the Gunner of "The
      Defyance" should stand upon "The Charles" three hours with his fault writ
      upon his breast, and with a halter about his neck, and so be made
      incapable of any office. The truth is, the man do seem, and is, I believe,
      a good man; but his neglect, in trusting a girl to carry fire into his
      cabin, is not to be pardoned. This being done, we took boat and home; and
      there a good supper was ready for us, which should have been our dinner.
      The Captains, desirous to be at London, went away presently for Gravesend,
      to get thither by this night's tide; and so we to supper, it having been a
      great snowy and mighty cold, foul day; and so after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, and with Middleton all the morning at the Docke, looking over
      the storehouses and Commissioner Pett's house, in order to Captain Cox's
      coming to live there in his stead, as Commissioner. But it is a mighty
      pretty house; and pretty to see how every thing is said to be out of
      repair for this new man, though L10 would put it into as good condition in
      every thing as it ever was in, so free every body is of the King's money.
      By and by to Mr. Wilson's, and there drank, but did not see his wife, nor
      any woman in the yard, and so to dinner at the Hill-House; and after
      dinner, till eight at night, close, Middleton and I, examining the
      business of Mr. Pett, about selling a boat, and we find him a very knave;
      and some other quarrels of his, wherein, to justify himself, he hath made
      complaints of others. This being done, we to supper, and so to talk,
      Commissioner Middleton being mighty good company upon a journey, and so to
      bed, thinking how merry my people are at this time, putting Tom and Jane
      to bed, being to have been married this day, it being also my feast for my
      being cut of the stone, but how many years I do not remember, but I think
      it to be about ten or eleven.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and did a little business, Middleton and I, then; after drinking
      a little buttered ale, he and Huchinson and: I took coach, and, exceeding
      merry in talk, to Dartford: Middleton finding stories of his own life at
      Barbadoes, and up and down at Venice, and elsewhere, that are mighty
      pretty, and worth hearing; and he is a strange good companion, and; droll
      upon the road, more than ever I could have thought to have been in him.
      Here we dined and met Captain Allen of Rochester, who dined with us, and
      so went on his journey homeward, and we by and by took coach again and got
      home about six at night, it being all the morning as cold, snowy, windy,
      and rainy day, as any in the whole winter past, but pretty clear in the
      afternoon. I find all well, but my wife abroad with Jane, who was married
      yesterday, and I to the office busy, till by and by my wife comes home,
      and so home, and there hear how merry they were yesterday, and I glad at
      it, they being married, it seems, very handsomely, at Islington; and dined
      at the old house, and lay in our blue chamber, with much company, and
      wonderful merry. The Turner and Mary Batelier bridesmaids, and Talbot
      Pepys and W. Hewer bridesmen. Anon to supper and to bed, my head a little
      troubled with the muchness of the business I have upon me at present. So
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th (Lord's day). Lay long talking with pleasure with my wife, and so up
      and to the Office with Tom, who looks mighty smug upon his marriage, as
      Jane also do, both of whom I did give joy, and so Tom and I at work at the
      Office all the morning, till dinner, and then dined, W. Batelier with us;
      and so after dinner to work again, and sent for Gibson, and kept him also
      till eight at night, doing much business. And so, that being done, and my
      journal writ, my eyes being very bad, and every day worse and worse, I
      fear: but I find it most certain that stronge drinks do make my eyes sore,
      as they have done heretofore always; for, when I was in the country, when
      my eyes were at the best, their stronge beere would make my eyes sore: so
      home to supper, and by and by to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and by water to White Hall; and there to the Duke of York, to
      shew myself, after my journey to Chatham, but did no business to-day with
      him: only after gone from him, I to Sir T. Clifford's; and there, after an
      hour's waiting, he being alone in his closet, I did speak with him, and
      give him the account he gave me to draw up, and he did like it very well:
      and then fell to talk of the business of the Navy and giving me good
      words, did fall foul of the constitution [of the Board], and did then
      discover his thoughts, that Sir J. Minnes was too old, and so was Colonel
      Middleton, and that my Lord Brouncker did mind his mathematics too much. I
      did not give much encouragement to that of finding fault with my
      fellow-officers; but did stand up for the constitution, and did say that
      what faults there were in our Office would be found not to arise from the
      constitution, but from the failures of the officers in whose hands it was.
      This he did seem to give good ear to; but did give me of myself very good
      words, which pleased me well, though I shall not build upon them any
      thing. Thence home; and after dinner by water with Tom down to Greenwich,
      he reading to me all the way, coming and going, my collections out of the
      Duke of York's old manuscript of the Navy, which I have bound up, and do
      please me mightily. At Greenwich I come to Captain Cocke's, where the
      house full of company, at the burial of James Temple, who, it seems, hath
      been dead these five days here I had a very good ring, which I did give my
      wife as soon as I come home. I spent my time there walking in the garden,
      talking with James Pierce, who tells me that he is certain that the Duke
      of Buckingham had been with his wenches all the time that he was absent,
      which was all the last week, nobody knowing where he was. The great talk
      is of the King's being hot of late against Conventicles, and to see
      whether the Duke of Buckingham's being returned will turn the King, which
      will make him very popular: and some think it is his plot to make the King
      thus, to shew his power in the making him change his mind. But Pierce did
      tell me that the King did certainly say, that he that took one stone from
      the Church, did take two from his Crown. By and by the corpse come out;
      and I, with Sir Richard Browne and Mr. Evelyn, in their coach to the
      church, where Mr. Plume preached. But I, in the midst of the sermon, did
      go out, and walked all alone, round to Deptford, thinking para have seen
      the wife of Bagwell, which I did at her door, but I could not conveniently
      go into her house, and so lost my labour: and so to the King's Yard, and
      there my boat by order met me; and home, where I made my boy to finish the
      my manuscript, and so to supper and to bed my new chamber-maid, that comes
      in the room of Jane; is come, Jane and Tom lying at their own lodging this
      night: the new maid's name is Matt, a proper and very comely maid... This
      day also our cook-maid Bridget went away, which I was sorry for; but, just
      at her going she was found to be a thief, and so I was the less trouble
      for it; but now our whole house will, in a manner, be new which, since
      Jane is gone, I am not at all sorry for, for that my late differences with
      my wife about poor Deb. will not be remembered. So to bed after supper,
      and to sleep with great content.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and to Sir W. Coventry, to see and discourse with him; and he
      tells me that he hath lately been with my Lord Keeper, and had much
      discourse about the Navy; and particularly he tells me that he finds they
      are divided touching me and my Lord Brouncker; some are for removing; and
      some for keeping us. He told my Lord Keeper that it would cost the King
      L10,000 before he hath made another as fit to serve him in the Navy as I
      am; which, though I believe it is true, yet I am much pleased to have that
      character given me by W. Coventry, whatever be the success of it. But I
      perceive they do think that I know too much, and shall impose upon
      whomever shall come next, and therefore must be removed, though he tells
      me that Sir T. Clifford is inclined well enough to me, and Sir T. Osborne;
      by what I have lately done, I suppose. This news do a little trouble me,
      but yet, when I consider it, it is but what I ought not to be much
      troubled for, considering my incapacity, in regard to my eyes, to continue
      long at this work, and this when I think of and talk with my wife do make
      me the less troubled for it. After some talk of the business of the navy
      more with him, I away and to the Office, where all the morning; and Sir W.
      Pen, the first time that he hath been here since his being last sick,
      which, I think, is two or three months; and I think will be the last that
      he will be here as one of the Board, he now inviting us all to dine with
      him, as a parting dinner, on Thursday next, which I am glad of, I am sure;
      for he is a very villain. At noon home to dinner, where, and at the
      office, all the afternoon, troubled at what I have this morning heard, at
      least my mind full of thoughts upon it, and so at night after supper to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up, and by water to Sir W. Coventry's, there to talk with him about
      business of the Navy, and received from him direction what to advise the
      Duke of York at this time, which was, to submit and give way to the King's
      naming a man or two, that the people about him have a mind should be
      brought into the Navy, and perhaps that may stop their fury in running
      further against the whole; and this, he believes, will do it. After much
      discourse with him, I walked out with him into St. James's Park, where,
      being afeard to be seen with him, he having not leave yet to kiss the
      King's hand, but notice taken, as I hear, of all that go to him, I did
      take the pretence of my attending the Tangier Committee, to take my leave,
      though to serve him I should, I think, stick at nothing. At the Committee,
      this morning, my Lord Middleton declares at last his being ready to go, as
      soon as ever money can be made ready to pay the garrison: and so I have
      orders to get money, but how soon I know not. Thence home, and there find
      Mr Sheres, for whom I find my moher of late to talk with mighty kindness;
      and particularly he hath shewn himself to be a poet, and that she do
      mightily value him for. He did not stay to dine with us, but we to dinner;
      and then, in the afternoon, my wife being very well dressed by her new
      maid, we abroad, to make a visit to Mrs. Pickering; but she abroad again,
      and so we never yet saw her. Thence to Dancre's, and there, saw our
      pictures which are in doing; and I did choose a view of Rome instead of
      Hampton Court; and mightily pleased I shall be in them. Here were Sir
      Charles Cotterell and his son bespeaking something; both ingenious men.
      Thence my wife and I to the Park; and pretty store of company; and so home
      with great content the month, my mind in pretty good content for all
      things, but the designs on foot to bring alterations in the Office, which
      troubles me.
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    <p>
      April 1st. Up, and with Colonel Middleton, at the desire of Rear-Admiral
      Kempthorne, the President, for our assisting them, to the Court-martiall
      on board a yacht in the River here, to try the business of the Purser's
      complaints, Baker against Trevanion, his Commander, of "The Dartmouth."
      But, Lord! to see what wretched doings there were among all the Commanders
      to ruin the Purser, and defend the Captain in all his rogueries, be it to
      the prejudice of the King or Purser, no good man could bear! I confess I
      was pretty high, which did not at least the young gentlemen Commander
      like; and Middleton did the like. But could not bring it to any issue this
      day, sitting till two o'clock; and therefore we being sent for, went to
      Sir W. Pen's by invitation to dine; where my wife was, and my Lord
      Brouncker and his mistress, and Sir J. Minnes and his niece; and here a
      bad dinner, and little mirth, I being little pleased with my host.
      However, I made myself sociable; and so, after dinner, my wife and I, with
      my Lord Brouncker and his mistress, they set us down at my cozen Turner's,
      and there we staid awhile and talked; and particularly here we met with
      Dr. Ball, the Parson of the Temple, who did tell me a great many pretty
      stories about the manner of the Parsons being paid for their preaching at
      Paul's heretofore, and now, and the ground of the Lecture, and heretofore
      the names of the founders thereof, which were many, at some 5s., some 6s.
      per annum towards it: and had their names read in the pulpit every sermon
      among those holy persons that the Church do order a collect for, giving
      God thanks for. By and by comes by my desire Commissioner Middleton's
      coach and horses for us, and we went with it towards the Park, thinking to
      have met The. Turner and Betty, but did not; so turned back again to their
      lodging, and there found them and Mr. Batelier, and there, after a little
      talk, we took leave, and carry Batelier home with us. So to supper, and so
      to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd. Up, and by water to White Hall, and there with the Office attended
      the Duke of York, and staid in White Hall till about noon, and so with W.
      Hewer to the Cocke, and there he and I dined alone with great content, he
      reading to me, for my memory's sake, my late collections of the history of
      the Navy, that I might represent the same by and by to the Duke of York;
      and so, after dinner, he and I to White Hall, and there to the Duke of
      York's lodgings, whither he, by and by, by his appointment come: and alone
      with him an hour in his closet, telling him mine and W. Coventry's advice
      touching the present posture of the Navy, as the Duke of Buckingham and
      the rest do now labour to make changes therein; and that it were best for
      him to suffer the King to be satisfied with the bringing in of a man or
      two which they desire. I did also give the Duke of York a short account of
      the history of the Navy, as to our Office, wherewith he was very well
      satisfied: but I do find that he is pretty stiff against their bringing in
      of men against his mind, as the Treasures were, and particularly against
      Child's' coming in, because he is a merchant. After much discourse with
      him, we parted; and [he to] the Council, while I staid waiting for his
      telling me when I should be ready to give him a written account of the
      administration of the Navy. This caused me to wait the whole afternoon,
      till night. In the mean time, stepping to the Duchess of York's side to
      speak with Lady Peterborough; I did see the young Duchess,
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      a little child in hanging sleeves; dance most finely, so as almost to
      ravish me, her ears were so good: taught by a Frenchman that did
      heretofore teach the King, and all the King's children, and the
      Queen-Mother herself, who do still dance well. Thence to the council door
      and Mr. Chevins took me into the back stairs, and they with his friend,
      Mr. Fowkes, for whom he is very solicitous in some things depending in
      this Office, he did make me, with some others that he took in (among
      others, Alderman Back well), eat a pickled herring, the largest I ever
      saw, and drink variety of wines till I was almost merry; but I did keep in
      good tune; and so, after the Council was up, I home; and there find my
      wife not yet come home from Deptford, he she hath been all this day to see
      her mother, but she come and by, and so to talk, and supper, and to bed.
      This night I did bring home from the King's potticary's, in White Hall by
      Mr. Cooling's direction, a water that he says did him mighty good for his
      eyes. I pray God it may do me good; but, by his description, his disease
      was the same as mine, and this do encourage me to use it.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and to the Council of War again, with Middleton: but the
      proceedings of the Commanders so devilishly bad, and so professedly
      partial to the Captain, that I could endure it no longer, but took
      occasion to pretend business at the Office, and away, and Colonel
      Middleton with me, who was of the same mind, and resolved to declare our
      minds freely to the Duke of York about it. So to the office, where we sat
      all the morning. Then home to dinner, and so back to the office, where
      busy late till night, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th (Lord's day). Up, and to church, where Alderman Backewell's wife, by
      my invitation with my head, come up with her mother, and sat with us, and
      after sermon I did walk with them home, and there left them, and home to
      dinner, and after dinner with Sir J. Minnes and T. Middleton to White
      Hall, by appointment; and at my Lord Arlington's the Office did attend the
      King and Cabal, to discourse the further quantity of victuals fit to be
      declared for, which was 2,000 men for six months; and so without more ado
      or stay, there, hearing no news but that Sir Thomas Allen is to be
      expected every hour at home with his fleete, or news of his being gone
      back to Algier, and so home, where got my wife to read to me; and so after
      supper to bed. The Queen-Mother hath been of late mighty ill, and some
      fears of her death.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and by coach, it being very cold, to White Hall, expecting a
      meeting of Tangier, but it did not. But, however, did wait there all the
      morning, and, among other things, I spent a little time with Creed walking
      in the garden, and talking about our Office, and Child's coming in to be a
      Commissioner; and, being his friend, I did think he might do me a kindness
      to learn of him what the Duke of Buckingham and the faction do design
      touching me, and to instil good words concerning me, which he says, and I
      believe he will: and it is but necessary; for I have not a mind indeed at
      this time to be put out of my Office, if I can make any shift that is
      honourable to keep it; but I will not do it by deserting the Duke of York.
      At noon by appointment comes Mr. Sheres, and he and I to Unthanke's, where
      my wife stays for us in our coach, and Betty Turner with her; and we to
      the Mulberry Garden, where Sheres is to treat us with a Spanish Olio,
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      by a cook of his acquaintance that is there, that was with my Lord in
      Spain: and without any other company, he did do it, and mighty nobly; and
      the Olio was indeed a very noble dish, such as I never saw better, or any
      more of. This, and the discourse he did give us of Spain, and description
      of the Escuriall, was a fine treat. So we left other good things, that
      would keep till night, for a collation; and, with much content, took coach
      again, and went five or six miles towards Branford, the Prince of Tuscany,
      who comes into England only to spend money and see our country, comes into
      the town to-day, and is much expected; and we met him, but the coach
      passing by apace, we could not see much of him but he seems a very jolly
      and good comely man. By the way, we overtook Captain Ferrers upon his fine
      Spanish horse, and he is a fine horse indeed; but not so good, I think, as
      I have seen some. He did ride by us most of the way, and with us to the
      Park, and there left us, where we passed the evening, and meeting The.
      Turner, Talbot, W. Batelier, and his sister, in a coach, we anon took them
      with us to the Mulberry Garden; and there, after a walk, to supper upon
      what was left at noon; and very good; only Mr. Sheres being taken suddenly
      ill for a while, did spoil our mirth; but by and by was well again, and we
      mighty merry: and so broke up, and left him at Charing Cross, and so
      calling only at my cozen Turner's, away home, mightily pleased with the
      day's work, and this day come another new mayd, for a middle mayd, but her
      name I know not yet; and, for a cookmaid, we have, ever since Bridget
      went, used a blackmoore of Mr. Batelier's, Doll, who dresses our meat
      mighty well, and we mightily pleased with her. So by and by to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and to the Office, and thence to the Excise Office about some
      business, and so back to the office and sat till late, end thence to Mr.
      Batelier's to dinner, where my cozen Turner and both her daughters, and
      Talbot Pepys and my wife, and a mighty fine dinner. They at dinner before
      I come; and, when I had dined, I away home, and thence to White Hall,
      where the Board waited on the Duke of York to discourse about the
      disposing of Sir Thomas Allen's fleete, which is newly come home to
      Portsmouth; and here Middleton and I did in plain terms acquaint the Duke
      of York what we thought and had observed in the late Court-martiall, which
      the Duke did give ear to; and though he thinks not fit to revoke what is
      already done in this case by a Court-martiall, yet it shall bring forth
      some good laws in the behaviour of Captains to their under Officers for
      the time to come. Thence home, and there, after a while at the Office, I
      home, and there come home my wife, who hath been with Batelier's late, and
      been dancing with the company, at which I seemed a little troubled, not
      being sent for thither myself, but I was not much so, but went to bed well
      enough pleased.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and by coach to my cozen Turner's, and invited them to dine at
      the Cocke to-day, with my wife and me; and so to the Lords of the
      Treasury, where all the morning, and settled matters to their liking about
      the assignments on the Customes, between the Navy Office and Victualler,
      and to that end spent most of the morning there with D. Gawden, and thence
      took him to the Cocke, and there left him and my clerk Gibson together
      evening their reckonings, while I to the New Exchange to talk with Betty,
      my little sempstress; and so to Mrs. Turner's, to call them to dinner, but
      my wife not come, I back again, and was overtaken by a porter, with a
      message from my wife that she was ill, and could not come to us: so I back
      again to Mrs. Turner's, and find them gone; and so back again to the
      Cocke, and there find Mr. Turner, Betty, and Talbot Pepys, and they dined
      with myself Sir D. Gawden and Gibson, and mighty merry, this house being
      famous for good meat, and particularly pease-porridge and after dinner
      broke up, and they away; and I to the Council-Chamber, and there heard the
      great complaint of the City, tried against the gentlemen of the Temple,
      for the late riot, as they would have it, when my Lord Mayor was there.
      But, upon hearing the whole business, the City was certainly to blame to
      charge them in this manner as with a riot: but the King and Council did
      forbear to determine any thing it, till the other business of the title
      and privilege be decided which is now under dispute at law between them,
      whether Temple be within the liberty of the City or no. But I, sorry to
      see the City so ill advised as to complain in a thing where their proofs
      were so weak. Thence to my cousin Turner's, and thence with her and her
      daughters, and her sister Turner, I carrying Betty in my lap, to Talbot's
      chamber at the Temple, where, by agreement, the poor rogue had a pretty
      dish of anchovies and sweetmeats for them; and hither come Mr. Eden, who
      was in his mistress's disfavour ever since the other night that he come in
      thither fuddled, when we were there. But I did make them friends by my
      buffoonery, and bringing up a way of spelling their names, and making
      Theophila spell Lamton, which The. would have to be the name of Mr. Eden's
      mistress, and mighty merry we were till late, and then I by coach home,
      and so to bed, my wife being ill of those, but well enough pleased with my
      being with them. This day I do hear that Betty Turner is to be left at
      school at Hackney, which I am mightily pleased with; for then I shall, now
      and then, see her. She is pretty, and a girl for that, and her relations,
      I love.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and to White Hall, to the King's side, to find Sir T. Clifford,
      where the Duke of York come and found me, which I was sorry for, for fear
      he should think I was making friends on that side. But I did put it off
      the best I could, my being there: and so, by and by, had opportunity alone
      to shew Sir T. Clifford the fair account I had drawn up of the Customes,
      which he liked, and seemed mightily pleased with me; and so away to the
      Excise-Office, to do a little business there, and so to the Office, where
      all the morning. At noon home to dinner, and then to the office again till
      the evening, and then with my wife by coach to Islington, to pay what we
      owe there, for the late dinner at Jane's wedding; and so round by
      Kingsland and Hogsden home, pleased with my wife's singing with me, by the
      way, and so to the office again a little, and then home to supper and to
      bed. Going this afternoon through Smithfield, I did see a coach run over
      the coachman's neck, and stand upon it, and yet the man rose up, and was
      well after it, which I thought a wonder.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th. Up, and by water to White Hall, end there, with the Board, attended
      the Duke of York, and Sir Thomas Allen with us (who come to town
      yesterday); and it is resolved another fleete shall go to the Streights
      forthwith, and he command it. But his coming home is mighty hardly talked
      on by the merchants, for leaving their ships there to the mercy of the
      Turks: but of this more in my White-Booke. Thence out, and slipped out by
      water to Westminster Hall and there thought to have spoke with Mrs.
      Martin, but she was not there, nor at home. So back again, and with W.
      Hewer by coach home and to dinner, and then to the office, and out again
      with W. Hewer to the Excise-Office, and to several places; among others,
      to Mr. Faythorne's, to have seen an instrument which he was said to have,
      for drawing perspectives, but he had it not: but here I did see his
      work-house, and the best things of his doing he had by him, and so to
      other places among others to Westminster Hall, and I took occasion to make
      a step to Mrs. Martin's, the first time I have been with her since her
      husband went last to sea, which is I think a year since.... But, Lord! to
      hear how sillily she tells the story of her sister Doll's being a widow
      and lately brought to bed; and her husband, one Rowland Powell, drowned,
      sea with her husband, but by chance dead at sea, cast When God knows she
      hath played the whore, and forced at this time after she was brought to
      bed, this story. Thence calling at several places by the home, and there
      to the office, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Up, and to the Excise-Office, and thence to White Hall a little, and
      so back again to the 'Change, but nobody there, it being over, and so
      walked home to dinner, and after dinner comes Mr. Seymour to visit me, a
      talking fellow: but I hear by him that Captain Trevanion do give it out
      every where, that I did overrule the whole Court-martiall against him, as
      long as I was there; and perhaps I may receive, this time, some wrong by
      it: but I care not, for what I did was out of my desire of doing justice.
      So the office, where late, and then home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th (Lord's day. Easter day). Up, and to Church; where Alderman
      Backewell's wife, and mother, and boy, and another gentlewoman, did come,
      and sit in our pew; but no women of our own there, and so there was room
      enough. Our Parson made a dull sermon, and so home to dinner; and, after
      dinner, my wife and I out by coach, and Balty with us, to Loton, the
      landscape-drawer, a Dutchman, living in St. James's Market, but there saw
      no good pictures. But by accident he did direct us to a painter that was
      then in the house with him, a Dutchman, newly come over, one Evarelst, who
      took us to his lodging close by, and did shew us a little flower-pot of
      his doing, the finest thing that ever, I think, I saw in my life; the
      drops of dew hanging on the leaves, so as I was forced, again and again,
      to put my finger to it, to feel whether my eyes were deceived or no. He do
      ask L70 for it: I had the vanity to bid him L20; but a better picture I
      never saw in my whole life; and it is worth going twenty miles to see it.
      Thence, leaving Balty there, I took my wife to St. James's, and there
      carried her to the Queen's Chapel, the first time I ever did it; and heard
      excellent musick, but not so good as by accident I did hear there
      yesterday, as I went through the Park from White Hall to see Sir W.
      Coventry, which I have forgot to set down in my journal yesterday. And
      going out of the Chapel, I did see the Prince of Tuscany' come out, a
      comely, black, fat man, in a mourning suit; and my wife and I did see him
      this afternoon through a window in this Chapel. All that Sir W. Coventry
      yesterday did tell me new was, that the King would not yet give him leave
      to come to kiss his hand; and he do believe that he will not in a great
      while do it, till those about him shall see fit, which I am sorry for.
      Thence to the Park, my wife and I; and here Sir W. Coventry did first see
      me and my wife in a coach of our own; and so did also this night the Duke
      of York, who did eye my wife mightily. But I begin to doubt that my being
      so much seen in my own coach at this time, may be observed to my
      prejudice; but I must venture it now. So home, and by night home, and so
      to my office, and there set down my journal, with the help of my left eye
      through my tube, for fourteen days' past; which is so much, as, I hope, I
      shall not run in arrear again, but the badness of my eyes do force me to
      it. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and by water to White Hall, where I of the whole Office attended
      the Duke of York at his meeting with Sir Thomas Allen and several
      flag-officers, to consider of the manner of managing the war with Algiers;
      and, it being a thing I was wholly silent in, I did only observe; and find
      that; their manner of discourse on this weighty affair was very mean and
      disorderly, the Duke of York himself being the man that I thought spoke
      most to the purpose. Having done here, I up and down the house, talking
      with this man and that, and: then meeting Mr. Sheres, took him to see the
      fine flower-pot I saw yesterday, and did again offer L20 for it; but he
      [Verelst] insists upon L50. Thence I took him to St. James's, but there
      was no musique, but so walked to White Hall, and, by and by to my wife at
      Unthanke's, and with her was Jane, and so to the Cocke, where they, and I,
      and Sheres, and Tom dined, my wife having a great desire to eat of their
      soup made of pease, and dined very well, and thence by water to the
      Bear-Garden, and there happened to sit by Sir Fretcheville Hollis, who is
      still full of his vain-glorious and prophane talk. Here we saw a prize
      fought between a soldier and country fellow, one Warrell, who promised the
      least in his looks, and performed the most of valour in his boldness and
      evenness of mind, and smiles in all he did, that ever I saw and we were
      all both deceived and infinitely taken with him. He did soundly beat the
      soldier, and cut him over the head. Thence back to White Hall, mightily
      pleased, all of us, with this sight, and particularly this fellow, as a
      most extraordinary man for his temper and evenness in fighting. And there
      leaving Sheres, we by our own coach home, and after sitting an hour,
      thrumming upon my viall, and singing, I to bed, and left my wife to do
      something to a waistcoat and petticoat she is to wear to-morrow. This
      evening, coming home, we overtook Alderman Backewell's coach and his lady,
      and followed them to their house, and there made them the first visit,
      where they received us with extraordinary civility, and owning the
      obligation. But I do, contrary to my expectation, find her something a
      proud and vain-glorious woman, in telling the number of her servants and
      family and expences: he is also so, but he was ever of that strain. But
      here he showed me the model of his houses that he is going to build in
      Cornhill and Lumbard Street; but he hath purchased so much there, that it
      looks like a little town, and must have cost him a great deal of money.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and at the Office a good while, and then, my wife going down the
      River to spend the day with her mother at Deptford, I abroad, and first to
      the milliner's in Fenchurch Street, over against Rawlinson's, and there,
      meeting both him and her in the shop, I bought a pair of gloves, and fell
      to talk, and found so much freedom that I stayed there the best part of
      the morning till towards noon, with great pleasure, it being a holiday,
      and then against my will away and to the 'Change, where I left W. Hewer,
      and I by hackney-coach to the Spittle, and heard a piece of a dull sermon
      to my Lord Mayor and Aldermen, and thence saw them all take horse and ride
      away, which I have not seen together many a-day; their wives also went in
      their coaches; and, indeed, the sight was mighty pleasing. Thence took
      occasion to go back to this milliner's [in Fenchurch Street], whose name I
      now understand to be Clerke; and there, her husband inviting me up to the
      balcony, to see the sight go by to dine at Clothworker's-Hall, I did go up
      and there saw it go by: and then; there being a good piece of cold roast
      beef upon the tables and one Margetts, a young merchant that lodges there,
      and is likely to marry a sister of hers, I staid and eat, and had much
      good conversation with her, who hath the vanity to talk of her great
      friends and father, one Wingate, near Welling;, that hath been a
      Parliament-man. Here also was Stapely: the rope-merchant, and dined with
      us; and, after spending most of the afternoon also, I away home, and there
      sent for W. Hewer, and he and I by water to White Hall to loop among other
      things, for Mr. May, to unbespeak his dining with me to-morrow. But here
      being in the court-yard, God would have it, I spied Deb., which made my
      heart and head to work, and I presently could not refrain, but sent W.
      Hewer away to look for Mr. Wren (W. Hewer, I perceive, did see her, but
      whether he did see me see her I know not, or suspect my sending him away I
      know not, but my heart could not hinder me), and I run after her and two
      women and a man, more ordinary people, and she in her old clothes, and
      after hunting a little, find them in the lobby of the chapel below stairs,
      and there I observed she endeavoured to avoid me, but I did speak to her
      and she to me, and did get her pour dire me ou she demeurs now, and did
      charge her para say nothing of me that I had vu elle, which she did
      promise, and so with my heart full of surprize and disorder I away, and
      meeting with Sir H. Cholmley walked into the Park with him and back again,
      looking to see if I could spy her again in the Park, but I could not. And
      so back to White Hall, and then back to the Park with Mr. May, but could
      see her, no more, and so with W. Hewer, who I doubt by my countenance
      might see some disorder in me, we home by water, and there I find Talbot
      Pepys, and Mrs. Turner, and Betty, come to invite us to dinner on
      Thursday; and, after drinking, I saw them to the water-side, and so back
      home through Crutched Friars, and there saw Mary Mercer, and put off my
      hat to her, on the other side of the way, but it being a little darkish
      she did not, I think, know me well, and so to my office to put my papers
      in order, they having been removed for my closet to be made clean, and so
      home to my wife, who is come home from Deptford. But, God forgive me, I
      hardly know how to put on confidence enough to speak as innocent, having
      had this passage to-day with Deb., though only, God knows, by accident.
      But my great pain is lest God Almighty shall suffer me to find out this
      girl, whom indeed I love, and with a bad amour, but I will pray to God to
      give me grace to forbear it. So home to supper, where very sparing in my
      discourse, not giving occasion of any enquiry where I have been to-day, or
      what I have done, and so without any trouble to-night more than my fear,
      we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and with W. Hewer to White Hall, and there I did speak with the
      Duke of York, the Council sitting in the morning, and it was to direct me
      to have my business ready of the Administration of the Office against
      Saturday next, when the King would have a hearing of it. Thence home, W.
      Hewer with me, and then out with my own coach to the Duke of York's
      play-house, and there saw "The Impertinents," a play which pleases me well
      still; but it is with great trouble that I now see a play, because of my
      eyes, the light of the candles making it very troublesome to me. After the
      play; my wife and I towards the Park, but it being too late we to Creed's,
      and there find him and her [his wife] together alone, in their new house,
      where I never was before, they lodging before at the next door, and a
      pretty house it is; but I do not see that they intend to keep any coach.
      Here they treat us like strangers, quite according to the fashion&mdash;nothing
      to drink or eat, which is a thing that will spoil our ever having any
      acquaintance with them; for we do continue the old freedom and kindness of
      England to all our friends. But they do here talk mightily of my Lady
      Paulina making a very good end, and being mighty religious in her
      lifetime; and hath left many good notes of sermons and religion; wrote
      with her own hand, hand, which nobody ever knew of; which I am glad of:
      but she was always a peevish lady. Thence home, and there to talk and to
      supper and to bed, all being very safe as to my seeing of poor Deb.
      yesterday.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and to the office, and thence before the office sat to the
      Excise Office with W. Hewer, but found some occasion to go another way to
      the Temple upon business, and I by Deb.'s direction did know whither in
      Jewen Street to direct my hackney coachman, while I staid in the coach in
      Aldgate Street, to go thither just to enquire whether Mrs. Hunt, her aunt,
      was in town, who brought me word she was not; thought this was as much as
      I could do at once, and therefore went away troubled through that I could
      do no more but to the office I must go and did, and there all the morning,
      but coming thither I find Bagwell's wife, who did give me a little note
      into my hand, wherein I find her para invite me para meet her in
      Moorfields this noon, where I might speak with her, and so after the
      office was up, my wife being gone before by invitation to my cozen
      Turner's to dine, I to the place, and there, after walking up and down by
      the windmills, I did find her and talk with her, but it being holiday and
      the place full of people, we parted, leaving further discourse and doing
      to another time. Thence I away, and through Jewen Street, my mind, God
      knows, running that way, but stopped not, but going down Holborne hill, by
      the Conduit, I did see Deb. on foot going up the hill. I saw her, and she
      me, but she made no stop, but seemed unwilling to speak to me; so I away
      on, but then stopped and 'light, and after her and overtook her at the end
      of Hosier lane in Smithfield, and without standing in the street desired
      her to follow me, and I led her into a little blind alehouse within the
      walls, and there she and I alone fell to talk and baiser la and toker su
      mammailles, but she mighty coy, and I hope modest.... I did give her in a
      paper 20s., and we did agree para meet again in the Hall at Westminster on
      Monday next; and so giving me great hopes by her carriage that she
      continues modest and honest, we did there part, she going home and I to
      Mrs. Turner's, but when I come back to the place where I left my coach it
      was gone, I having staid too long, which did trouble me to abuse the poor
      fellow, so that taking another coach I did direct him to find out the
      fellow and send him to me. At my cozen Turner's I find they are gone all
      to dinner to Povy's, and thither I, and there they were all, and W.
      Batelier and his sister, and had dined; but I had good things brought me,
      and then all up and down the house, and mightily pleased to see the fine
      rooms: but, the truth is, there are so many bad pictures, that to me make
      the good ones lose much of the pleasure in seeing them. The. and Betty
      Turner in new flowered tabby gowns, and so we were pretty merry, only my
      fear upon me for what I had newly done, do keep my content in. So, about
      five or six o'clock, away, and I took my wife and the two Bateliers, and
      carried them homeward, and W. Batelier 'lighting, I carried the women
      round by Islington, and so down Bishopsgate Street home, and there to talk
      and sup, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th. Up, and to my chamber, where with Mr. Gibson all the morning, and
      there by noon did almost finish what I had to write about the
      Administration of the Office to present to the Duke of York, and my wife
      being gone abroad with W. Hewer, to see the new play to-day, at the Duke
      of York's house, "Guzman," I dined alone with my people, and in the
      afternoon away by coach to White Hall; and there the Office attended the
      Duke of York; and being despatched pretty soon, and told that we should
      not wait on the King, as intended, till Sunday, I thence presently to the
      Duke of York's playhouse, and there, in the 18d. seat, did get room to see
      almost three acts of the play; but it seemed to me but very ordinary.
      After the play done, I into the pit, and there find my wife and W. Hewer;
      and Sheres got to them, which, so jealous is my nature, did trouble me,
      though my judgment tells me there is no hurt in it, on neither side; but
      here I did meet with Shadwell, the poet, who, to my great wonder, do tell
      me that my Lord of [Orrery] did write this play, trying what he could do
      in comedy, since his heroique plays could do no more wonders. This do
      trouble me; for it is as mean a thing, and so he says, as hath been upon
      the stage a great while; and Harris, who hath no part in it, did come to
      me, and told me in discourse that he was glad of it, it being a play that
      will not take. Thence home, and to my business at the office, to finish
      it, but was in great pain about yesterday still, lest my wife should have
      sent her porter to enquire anything, though for my heart I cannot see it
      possible how anything could be discovered of it, but yet such is fear as
      to render me full of doubt and disgust. At night to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. At noon at home to
      dinner, and there find Mr. Pierce, the surgeon, and he dined with us; and
      there hearing that "The Alchymist" was acted, we did go, and took him with
      us to the King's house; and it is still a good play, having not been acted
      for two or three years before; but I do miss Clun, for the Doctor. But
      more my eyes will not let me enjoy the pleasure I used to have in a play.
      Thence with my wife in hackney to Sir W. Coventry's, who being gone to the
      Park we drove after him, and there met him coming out, and followed him
      home, and there sent my wife to Unthanke's while I spent on hour with him
      reading over first my draught of the Administration of the Navy, which he
      do like very well; and so fell to talk of other things, and among the rest
      of the story of his late disgrace, and how basely and in what a mean
      manner the Duke of Buckingham hath proceeded against him&mdash;not like a
      man of honour. He tells me that the King will not give other answer about
      his coming to kiss his hands, than "Not yet." But he says that this that
      he desires, of kissing the King's hand, is only to show to the world that
      he is not discontented, and not in any desire to come again into play,
      though I do perceive that he speaks this with less earnestness than
      heretofore: and this, it may be, is, from what he told me lately, that the
      King is offended at what is talked, that he hath declared himself desirous
      not to have to do with any employment more. But he do tell me that the
      leisure he hath yet had do not at all begin to be burdensome to him, he
      knowing how to spend his time with content to himself; and that he hopes
      shortly to contract his expence, so as that he shall not be under any
      straits in that respect neither; and so seems to be in very good condition
      of content. Thence I away over the Park, it being now night, to White
      Hall, and there, in the Duchess's chamber, do find the Duke of York; and,
      upon my offer to speak with him, he did come to me, and withdrew to his
      closet, and there did hear and approve my paper of the Administration of
      the Navy, only did bid me alter these words, "upon the rupture between the
      late King and the Parliament," to these, "the beginning of the late
      Rebellion;" giving it me as but reason to shew that it was with the
      Rebellion that the Navy was put by out of its old good course, into that
      of a Commission. Having done this, we fell to other talk; he with great
      confidence telling me how matters go among our adversaries, in reference
      to the Navy, and that he thinks they do begin to flag; but then, beginning
      to talk in general of the excellency of old constitutions, he did bring
      out of his cabinet, and made me read it, an extract out of a book of my
      late Lord of Northumberland's, so prophetic of the business of Chatham, as
      is almost miraculous. I did desire, and he did give it me to copy out,
      which pleased me mightily, and so, it being late, I away and to my wife,
      and by hackney; home, and there, my eyes being weary with reading so much:
      but yet not so much as I was afeard they would, we home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th (Lord's day). Up, and all the morning till 2 o'clock at my Office,
      with Gibson and Tom, about drawing up fair my discourse of the
      Administration of the Navy, and then, Mr. Spong being come to dine with
      me, I in to dinner, and then out to my Office again, to examine the fair
      draught; and so borrowing Sir J. Minnes's coach, he going with Colonel
      Middleton, I to White Hall, where we all met and did sign it and then to
      my Lord Arlington's, where the King, and the Duke of York, and Prince
      Rupert, as also Ormond and the two Secretaries, with my Lord Ashly and Sir
      T. Clifton was. And there, by and by, being called in, Mr. Williamson did
      read over our paper, which was in a letter to the Duke of York, bound up
      in a book with the Duke of York's Book of Instructions. He read it well;
      and, after read, we were bid to withdraw, nothing being at all said to it.
      And by and by we were called in again, and nothing said to that business;
      but another begun, about the state of this year's action, and our wants of
      money, as I had stated the same lately to our Treasurers; which I was bid,
      and did largely, and with great content, open. And having so done, we all
      withdrew, and left them to debate our supply of money; to which, being
      called in, and referred to attend on the Lords of the Treasury, we all
      departed. And I only staid in the House till the Council rose; and then to
      the Duke of York, who in the Duchess's chamber come to me, and told me
      that the book was there left with my Lord Arlington, for any of the Lords
      to view that had a mind, and to prepare and present to the King what they
      had to say in writing, to any part of it, which is all we can desire, and
      so that rested. The Duke of York then went to other talk; and by and by
      comes the Prince of Tuscany to visit him, and the Duchess; and I find that
      he do still remain incognito, and so intends to do all the time he stays
      here, for avoiding trouble to the King and himself, and expence also to
      both. Thence I to White Hall Gate, thinking to have found Sir J. Minnes's
      coach staying for me; but, not being there, and this being the first day
      of rain we have had many a day, the streets being as dusty as in summer, I
      forced to walk to my cozen Turner's, and there find my wife newly gone
      home, which vexed me, and so I, having kissed and taken leave of Betty,
      who goes to Putney to school to-morrow, I walked through the rain to the
      Temple, and there, with much ado, got a coach, and so home, and there to
      supper, and Pelling comes to us, and after much talk, we parted, and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. Up, and with Tom (whom, with his wife, I, and my wife, had this
      morning taken occasion to tell that I did intend to give him L40 for
      himself, and L20 to his wife, towards their setting out in the world, and
      that my wife would give her L20 more, that she might have as much to begin
      with as he) by coach to White Hall, and there having set him work in the
      Robe Chamber, to write something for me, I to Westminster Hall, and there
      walked from 10 o'clock to past 12, expecting to have met Deb., but whether
      she had been there before, and missing me went away, or is prevented in
      coming, and hath no mind to come to me (the last whereof, as being most
      pleasing, as shewing most modesty, I should be most glad of), I know not,
      but she not then appearing, I being tired with walking went home, and my
      wife being all day at Jane's, helping her, as she said, to cut out linen
      and other things belonging to her new condition, I after dinner out again,
      and, calling for my coach, which was at the coachmaker's, and hath been
      for these two or three days, to be new painted, and the window-frames gilt
      against May-day, went on with my hackney to White Hall, and thence by
      water to Westminster Hall, and there did beckon to Doll Lane, now Mrs.
      Powell, as she would have herself called, and went to her sister Martin's
      lodgings, the first time I have been there these eight or ten months, I
      think, and her sister being gone to Portsmouth to her Y husband, I did
      stay and talk and drink with Doll.... So away:; and to White Hall, and
      there took my own coach, which was now come, and so away home, and there
      to do business, and my wife being come home we to talk and to sup, there
      having been nothing yet like discovery in my wife of what hath lately
      passed with me about Deb., and so with great content to bed
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up; and to the Office, and my wife abroad with Mary Batelier, with
      our own coach, but borrowed Sir J Minnes's coachman, that so our own might
      stay at home, to attend at dinner; our family being mightily disordered by
      our little boy's falling sick the last night; and we fear it will prove
      the small-pox. At noon comes my guest, Mr. Hugh May, and with him Sir
      Henry Capell, my old Lord Capel's son, and Mr. Parker; and I had a pretty
      dinner for them; and both before and after dinner had excellent discourse;
      and shewed them my closet and my Office, and the method of it to their
      great content; and more extraordinary, manly discourse and opportunity of
      shewing myself, and learning from others, I have not, in ordinary
      discourse, had in my life, they being all persons of worth, but especially
      Sir H. Capell, whose being a Parliament-man, and hearing my discourse in
      the Parliament-house, hath, as May tells me, given him along desire to
      know and discourse with me. In the afternoon we walked to the Old
      Artillery-Ground' near the Spitalfields, where I never was before, but
      now, by Captain Deane's invitation, did go to see his new gun tryed, this
      being the place where the Officers of the Ordnance do try all their great
      guns; and when we come, did find that the trial had been made; and they
      going away with extraordinary report of the proof of his gun, which, from
      the shortness and bigness, they do call Punchinello. But I desired Colonel
      Legg to stay and give us a sight of her performance, which he did, and
      there, in short, against a gun more than as long and as heavy again, and
      charged with as much powder again, she carried the same bullet as strong
      to the mark, and nearer and above the mark at a point blank than theirs,
      and is more easily managed, and recoyles no more than that, which is a
      thing so extraordinary as to be admired for the happiness of his
      invention, and to the great regret of the old Gunners and Officers of the
      Ordnance that were there, only Colonel Legg did do her much right in his
      report of her. And so, having seen this great and first experiment, we all
      parted, I seeing my guests into a hackney coach, and myself, with Captain
      Deane, taking a hackney coach, did go out towards Bow, and went as far as
      Stratford, and all the way talking of this invention, and he offering me a
      third of the profit of the invention; which, for aught I know, or do at
      present think, may prove matter considerable to us: for either the King
      will give him a reward for it, if he keeps it to himself, or he will give
      us a patent to make our profit of it: and no doubt but it will be of
      profit to merchantmen and others, to have guns of the same force at half
      the charge. This was our talk: and then to talk of other things, of the
      Navy in general: and, among other things, he did tell me that he do hear
      how the Duke of Buckingham hath a spite at me, which I knew before, but
      value it not: and he tells me that Sir T. Allen is not my friend; but for
      all this I am not much troubled, for I know myself so usefull that, as I
      believe, they will not part with me; so I thank God my condition is such
      that I can; retire, and be able to live with comfort, though not with
      abundance. Thus we spent the evening with extraordinary good discourse, to
      my great content, and so home to the Office, and there did some business,
      and then home, where my wife do come home, and I vexed at her staying out
      so late, but she tells me that she hath been at home with M. Batelier a
      good while, so I made nothing of it, but to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. Up; and with my own coach as far as the Temple, and thence sent it
      to my cozen Turner, who, to ease her own horses, that are going with her
      out of town, do borrow mine to-day. So I to Auditor Wood's, and thereto
      meet, and met my Lord Bellassis upon some business of his accounts, and
      having done that did thence go to St. James's, and attended the Duke of
      York a little, being the first time of my waiting on him at St. James's
      this summer, whither he is now newly gone and thence walked to White Hall;
      and so, by and by, to the Council-Chamber, and heard a remarkable cause
      pleaded between the Farmers of the Excise of Wiltshire, in complaint
      against the justices of Peace of Salisbury: and Sir H. Finch was for the
      former. But, Lord! to see how he did with his admirable eloquence order
      the matter, is not to be conceived almost: so pleasant a thing it is to
      hear him plead. Then at noon by coach home, and thither by and by comes
      cozen Turner, and The., and Joyce, in their riding-clod: they being come
      from their lodgings to her husbands chamber, at the Temple, and there do
      lie, and purpose to go out of town on Friday next; and here I had a good
      dinner for them. After dinner by water to White Hall, where the Duke of
      York did meet our Office, and went with us to the Lords Commissioners of
      the Treasury; and there we did go over all the business of the state I had
      drawn up, of this year's action and expence, which I did do to their
      satisfaction, and convincing them of the necessity of providing more
      money, if possible, for us. Thence the Duke of York being gone, I did
      there stay walking with Sir H. Cholmly in the Court, talking of news;
      where he told me, that now the great design of the Duke of Buckingham is
      to prevent the meeting, since he cannot bring about with the King the
      dissolving, of this Parliament, that the King may not need it; and
      therefore my Lord St. Albans is hourly expected with great offers of a
      million of money,&mdash;[From Louis XIV. See April 28th]&mdash;to buy our
      breach with the Dutch: and this, they do think, may tempt the King to take
      the money, and thereby be out of a necessity of calling the Parliament
      again, which these people dare not suffer to meet again: but this he
      doubts, and so do I, that it will be to the ruin of the nation if we fall
      out with Holland. This we were discoursing when my boy comes to tell me
      that his mistress was at the Gate with the coach, whither I went, and
      there find my wife and the whole company. So she, and Mrs. Turner, and
      The., and Talbot, in mine: and Joyce, W. Batelier, and I, in a hackney, to
      Hyde Park, where I was ashamed to be seen; but mightily pleased, though
      troubled, with a drunken coachman that did not remember when we come to
      'light, where it was that he took us up; but said at Hammersmith, and
      thither he was carrying of us when we come first out of the Park. So I
      carried them all to Hercules-Pillars, and there did treat them: and so,
      about ten at night, parted, and my wife, and I, and W. Batelier, home; and
      he gone, we to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, and Captain Deane with us; and very good discourse, and
      particularly about my getting a book for him to draw up his whole theory
      of shipping, which, at my desire, he hath gone far in, and hath shewn me
      what he hath done therein, to admiration. I did give him a Parallelogram,
      which he is mightily taken with; and so after dinner to the Office, where
      all the afternoon till night late, and then home. Vexed at my wife's not
      being come home, she being gone again abroad with M. Batelier, and come
      not home till ten at night, which vexed me, so that I to bed, and lay in
      pain awake till past one, and then to sleep.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd. Going to rise, without saying anything, my wife stopped me; and,
      after a little angry talk, did tell me how she spent all day yesterday
      with M. Batelier and her sweetheart, and seeing a play at the New Nursery,
      which is set up at the house in Lincoln's Inn Fields, which was formerly
      the King's house. So that I was mightily pleased again, and rose a with
      great content; and so by water to White Hall, and there to the
      Council-Chamber, and heard two or three causes: among others, that of the
      complaint of Sir Philip Howard and Watson, the inventors, as they pretend,
      of the business of varnishing and lackerworke, against the Company of
      Painters, who take upon them to do the same thing; where I saw a great
      instance of the weakness of a young Counsel not used to such an audience,
      against the Solicitor-General and two more able Counsel used to it. Though
      he had the right of, his side, and did prevail for what he pretended to
      against the rest, yet it was with much disadvantage and hazard. Here, also
      I heard Mr. Papillion' make his defence to the King, against some
      complaints of the Farmers of Excise; but it was so weak, and done only by
      his own seeking, that it was to his injury more than profit, and made his
      case the worse, being ill managed, and in a cause against the King. Thence
      at noon, the Council rising, I to Unthanke's, and there by agreement met
      my wife, and with her to the Cocke, and did give her a dinner, but yet
      both of us but in an ill humour, whatever was the matter with her, but
      thence to the King's playhouse, and saw "The Generous Portugalls," a play
      that pleases me better and better every time we see it; and, I thank God!
      it did not trouble my eyes so much as I was afeard it would. Here, by
      accident, we met Mr. Sheres, and yet I could not but be troubled, because
      my wife do so delight to talk of him, and to see him. Nevertheless, we
      took him with us to our mercer's, and to the Exchange, and he helped me to
      choose a summer-suit of coloured camelott, coat and breeches, and a
      flowered tabby vest very rich; and so home, where he took his leave, and
      down to Greenwich, where he hath some friends; and I to see Colonel
      Middleton, who hath been ill for a day or two, or three; and so home to
      supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, and at noon home to
      dinner, Mr. Sheres dining with us by agreement; and my wife, which
      troubled me, mighty careful to have a handsome dinner for him; but yet I
      see no reason to be troubled at it, he being a very civil and worthy man,
      I think; but only it do seem to imply some little neglect of me. After
      dinner to the King's house, and there saw "The General" revived&mdash;a
      good play, that pleases me well, and thence, our coach coming for us, we
      parted and home, and I busy late at the office, and then home to supper
      and to bed. Well pleased to-night to have Lead, the vizard-maker, bring me
      home my vizard, with a tube fastened in it, which, I think, will do my
      business, at least in a great measure, for the easing of my eyes.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th (Lord's day). Up, and to my Office awhile, and thither comes Lead
      with my vizard, with a tube fastened within both eyes; which, with the
      help which he prompts me to, of a glass in the tube, do content me
      mightily. So to church, where a stranger made a dull sermon, but I
      mightily pleased to looks upon Mr. Buckworth's little pretty daughters,
      and so home to, dinner, where W. Howe come and dined with us; and then I
      to my Office, he being gone, to write down my journal for the last twelve
      days: and did it with the help of my vizard and tube fixed to it, and do
      find it mighty manageable, but how helpfull to my eyes this trial will
      shew me. So abroad with my wife, in the afternoon, to the Park, where very
      much company, and the weather very pleasant. I carried my wife to the
      Lodge, the first time this year, and there in our coach eat a cheese-cake
      and drank a tankard of milk. I showed her this day also first the Prince
      of Tuscany, who was in the Park, and many very fine ladies, and so home,
      and after supper to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. Up, having lain long, and then by coach with W. Hewer to the Excise
      Office, and so to Lilly's, the Varnishes; who is lately dead, and his wife
      and brother keep up the trade, and there I left my French prints to be put
      on boards:, and, while I was there, a fire burst out in a chimney of a
      house over against his house, but it was with a gun quickly put out. So to
      White Hall, and did a little business there at the Treasury chamber, and
      so homeward, calling at the laceman's for some lace for my new suit, and
      at my tailor's, and so home, where to dinner, and Mr. Sheres dined, with
      us, who come hither to-day to teach my wife the rules of perspective; but
      I think, upon trial, he thinks it too hard to teach her, being ignorant of
      the principles of lines. After dinner comes one Colonel Macnachan, one
      that I see often at Court, a Scotchman, but know him not; only he brings
      me a letter from my Lord Middleton, who, he says, is in great distress for
      L500 to relieve my Lord Morton with, but upon, what account I know not;
      and he would have me advance it without order upon his pay for Tangier,
      which I was astonished at, but had the grace to deny him with an excuse.
      And so he went away, leaving me a little troubled that I was thus driven,
      on a sudden, to do any thing herein; but Creed, coming just now to see me,
      he approves of what I have done. And then to talk of general matters, and,
      by and by, Sheres being gone, my wife, and he, and I out, and I set him
      down at Temple Bar, and myself and wife went down the Temple upon seeming
      business, only to put him off, and just at the Temple gate I spied Deb.
      with another gentlewoman, and Deb. winked on me and smiled, but
      undiscovered, and I was glad to see her. So my wife and I to the 'Change,
      about things for her; and here, at Mrs. Burnett's shop, I am told by
      Betty, who was all undressed, of a great fire happened in Durham-Yard last
      night, burning the house of one Lady Hungerford, who was to come to town
      to it this night; and so the house is burned, new furnished, by
      carelessness of the girl sent to take off a candle from a bunch of
      candles, which she did by burning it off, and left the rest, as is
      supposed, on fire. The King and Court were here, it seems, and stopped the
      fire by blowing up of the next house. The King and Court went out of town
      to Newmarket this morning betimes, for a week. So home, and there to my
      chamber, and got my wife to read to me a little, and so to supper and to
      bed. Coming home this night I did call at the coachmaker's, and do resolve
      upon having the standards of my coach gilt with this new sort of varnish,
      which will come but to 40s.; and, contrary to my expectation, the doing of
      the biggest coach all over comes not to above L6, which is [not] very
      much.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning. At noon home to
      dinner, and then to the Office again, where the afternoon busy till late,
      and then home, and got my wife to read to me in the Nepotisme,
    </p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
     [The work here mentioned is a bitter satire against the Court Rome,
     written in Italian, and attributed to Gregorio Leti.  It was first
     printed in 1667, without the name or place of printer, but it is
     from the press of the Elzevirs.  The book obtained by Pepys was
     probably the anonymous English translation, "Il Nipotismo di Roma:
     or the history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV.
     to the death the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts.  Written
     originally Italian in the year 1667 and Englished by W. A. London,
     1669" 8vo. From this work the word Nepotism is derived, and is
     applied to the bad practice of statesmen, when in power, providing
     lucrative places for their relations.]
</pre>
    <p>
      which is very pleasant, and so to supper and to bed. This afternoon was
      brought to me a fresh Distringas upon the score of the Tangier accounts
      which vexes me, though I hope it will not turn to my wrong.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. Up, and was called upon by Sir H. Cholmly to discourse about some
      accounts of his, of Tangier: and then other talk; and I find by him that
      it is brought almost effect ([through] the late endeavours of the Duke of
      York Duchess, the Queen-Mother, and my Lord St. Albans, together with some
      of the contrary faction, my Lord Arlington), that for a sum of money we
      shall enter into a league with the King of France, wherein, he says, my
      Lord Chancellor&mdash;[Clarendon; then an exile in France.]&mdash;is also
      concerned; and that he believes that, in the doing hereof, it is meant
      that he [Clarendon] shall come again, and that this sum of money will so
      help the King that he will not need the Parliament; and that, in that
      regard it will be forwarded by the Duke of Buckingham and his faction, who
      dread the Parliament. But hereby we must leave the Dutch, and that I doubt
      will undo us; and Sir H. Cholmly says he finds W. Coventry do think the
      like. Lady Castlemayne is instrumental in this matter, and, he say never
      more great with the King than she is now. But this a thing that will make
      the Parliament and kingdom mad, and will turn to our ruine: for with this
      money the King shall wanton away his time in pleasures, and think nothing
      of the main till it be too late. He gone, I to the office, where busy till
      noon, and then home to dinner, where W. Batelier dined with us, and pretty
      merry, and so I to the office again. This morning Mr. Sheres sent me, in
      two volumes, Mariana his History of Spaine, in Spanish, an excellent book;
      and I am much obliged for it to him.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. Up, and to the Office, where all the morning, and at noon dined at
      home, and then to the Office again, there to despatch as much business as
      I could, that I might be at liberty to-morrow to look after my many things
      that I have to do, against May-day. So at night home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th. Up, and by coach to the coachmaker's: and there I do find a great
      many ladies sitting in the body of a coach that must be ended by
      to-morrow: they were my Lady Marquess of Winchester, Bellassis, and other
      great ladies; eating of bread and butter, and drinking ale. I to my coach,
      which is silvered over, but no varnish yet laid on, so I put it in a way
      of doing; and myself about other business, and particularly to see Sir W.
      Coventry, with whom I talked a good while to my great content; and so to
      other places-among others, to my tailor's: and then to the belt-maker's,
      where my belt cost me 55s., of the colour of my new suit; and here,
      understanding that the mistress of the house, an oldish woman in a hat
      hath some water good for the eyes, she did dress me, making my eyes smart
      most horribly, and did give me a little glass of it, which I will use, and
      hope it will do me good. So to the cutler's, and there did give Tom, who
      was with me all day a sword cost me 12s. and a belt of my owne; and set my
      own silver-hilt sword a-gilding against to-morrow. This morning I did
      visit Mr. Oldenburgh, and did see the instrument for perspective made by
      Dr. Wren, of which I have one making by Browne; and the sight of this do
      please me mightily. At noon my wife come to me at my tailor's, and I sent
      her home and myself and Tom dined at Hercules' Pillars; and so about our
      business again, and particularly to Lilly's, the varnisher about my
      prints, whereof some of them are pasted upon the boards, and to my full
      content. Thence to the frame-maker's one Morris, in Long Acre, who shewed
      me several forms of frames to choose by, which was pretty, in little bits
      of mouldings, to choose by. This done, I to my coach-maker's, and there
      vexed to see nothing yet done to my coach, at three in the afternoon; but
      I set it in doing, and stood by it till eight at night, and saw the
      painter varnish which is pretty to see how every doing it over do make it
      more and more yellow; and it dries as fast in the sun as it can be laid on
      almost; and most coaches are, now-a-days done so, and it is very pretty
      when laid on well, and not pale, as some are, even to shew the silver.
      Here I did make the workmen drink, and saw my coach cleaned and oyled;
      and, staying among poor people there in the alley, did hear them call
      their fat child Punch, which pleased me mightily that word being become a
      word of common use for all that is thick and short. At night home, and
      there find my wife hath been making herself clean against to-morrow; and,
      late as it was, I did send my coachman and horses to fetch home the coach
      to-night, and so we to supper, myself most weary with walking and standing
      so much, to see all things fine against to-morrow, and so to bed. God give
      a blessing to it! Meeting with Mr. Sheres, he went with me up and down to
      several places, and, among others, to buy a perriwig, but I bought none;
      and also to Dancre's, where he was about my picture of Windsor, which is
      mighty pretty, and so will the prospect of Rome be.
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    <p>
      May 1st. Up betimes. Called up by my tailor, and there first put on a
      summer suit this year; but it was not my fine one of flowered tabby vest,
      and coloured camelott tunique, because it was too fine with the gold lace
      at the hands, that I was afeard to be seen in it; but put on the stuff
      suit I made the last year, which is now repaired; and so did go to the
      Office in it, and sat all the morning, the day looking as if it would be
      fowle. At noon home to dinner, and there find my wife extraordinary fine,
      with her flowered tabby gown that she made two years ago, now laced
      exceeding pretty; and, indeed, was fine all over; and mighty earnest to
      go, though the day was very lowering; and she would have me put on my fine
      suit, which I did. And so anon we went alone through the town with our new
      liveries of serge, and the horses' manes and tails tied with red ribbons,
      and the standards there gilt with varnish, and all clean, and green
      refines, that people did mightily look upon us; and, the truth is, I did
      not see any coach more pretty, though more gay, than ours, all the day.
      But we set out, out of humour&mdash;I because Betty, whom I expected, was
      not come to go with us; and my wife that I would sit on the same seat with
      her, which she likes not, being so fine: and she then expected to meet
      Sheres, which we did in the Pell Mell, and, against my will, I was forced
      to take him into the coach, but was sullen all day almost, and little
      complaisant: the day also being unpleasing, though the Park full of
      coaches, but dusty and windy, and cold, and now and then a little
      dribbling rain; and, what made it worst, there were so many
      hackney-coaches as spoiled the sight of the gentlemen's; and so we had
      little pleasure. But here was W. Batelier and his sister in a borrowed
      coach by themselves, and I took them and we to the lodge; and at the door
      did give them a syllabub, and other things, cost me 12s., and pretty
      merry. And so back to the coaches, and there till the evening, and then
      home, leaving Mr. Sheres at St. James's Gate, where he took leave of us
      for altogether, he; being this night to set out for Portsmouth post, in
      his way to Tangier, which troubled my wife mightily, who is mighty, though
      not, I think, too fond of him. But she was out of humour all the evening,
      and I vexed at her for it, and she did not rest almost all the night, so
      as in the night I was forced; to take her and hug her to put her to rest.
      So home, and after a little supper, to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      2nd (Lord's day). Up, and by water to White Hall, and there visit my Lord
      Sandwich, who, after about two months' absence at Hinchingbroke, come to
      town last night. I saw him, and very kind; and I am glad he is so, I
      having not wrote to him all the time, my eyes indeed not letting me. Here
      with Sir Charles Herbert [Harbord], and my Lord Hinchingbroke, and Sidney,
      we looked upon the picture of Tangier, designed: by Charles Herbert
      [Harbord], and drawn by Dancre, which my Lord Sandwich admires, as being
      the truest picture that ever he's saw in his life: and it is indeed very
      pretty, and I will be at the cost of having one of them. Thence with them
      to White Hall, and there walked out the sermon, with one or other; and
      then saw the Duke of York after sermon, and he talked to me a little; and
      so away back by water home, and after dinner got my wife to read, and then
      by coach, she and I, to the Park, and there spent the evening with much
      pleasure, it proving clear after a little shower, and we mighty fine as
      yesterday, and people mightily pleased with our coach, as I perceived; but
      I had not on my fine suit, being really afeard to wear it, it being so
      fine with the gold lace, though not gay. So home and to supper, and my
      wife to read, and Tom, my Nepotisme, and then to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      3rd. Up, and by coach to my Lord Brouncker's, where Sir G. Carteret did
      meet Sir J. Minnes and me, to discourse upon Mr. Deering's business, who
      was directed, in the time of the war, to provide provisions at Hamburgh,
      by Sir G. Carteret's direction; and now G. Carteret is afeard to own it,
      it being done without written order. But by our meeting we do all begin to
      recollect enough to preserve Mr. Deering, I think, which, poor silly man!
      I shall be glad of, it being too much he should suffer for endeavouring to
      serve us. Thence to St. James's, where the Duke of York was playing in the
      Pell Mell; and so he called me to him most part of the time that he
      played, which was an hour, and talked alone to me; and, among other
      things, tells me how the King will not yet be got to name anybody in the
      room of Pen, but puts it off for three or four days; from whence he do
      collect that they are brewing something for the Navy, but what he knows
      not; but I perceive is vexed that things should go so, and he hath reason;
      for he told me that it is likely they will do in this as in other things&mdash;resolve
      first, and consider it and the fitness of it afterward. Thence to White
      Hall, and met with Creed, and I took him to the Harp and Balls, and there
      drank a cup of ale, he and I alone, and discoursed of matters; and I
      perceive by him that he makes no doubt but that all will turn to the old
      religion, for these people cannot hold things in their hands, nor prevent
      its coming to that; and by his discourse fits himself for it, and would
      have my Lord Sandwich do so, too, and me. After a little talk with him,
      and particularly about the ruinous condition of Tangier, which I have a
      great mind to lay before the Duke of York, before it be too late, but dare
      not, because of his great kindness to Lord Middleton, we parted, and I
      homeward; but called at Povy's, and there he stopped me to dinner, there
      being Mr. Williamson, the Lieutenant of the Tower, Mr. Childe, and several
      others. And after dinner, Povy and I together to talk of Tangier; and he
      would have me move the Duke of York in it, for it concerns him
      particularly, more than any, as being the head of us; and I do think to do
      it. Thence home, and at the office busy all the afternoon, and so to
      supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      4th. Up, and to the office, and then my wife being gone to see her mother
      at Deptford, I before the office sat went to the Excise Office, and thence
      being alone stepped into Duck Lane, and thence tried to have sent a porter
      to Deb.'s, but durst not trust him, and therefore having bought a book to
      satisfy the bookseller for my stay there, a 12d. book, Andronicus of Tom
      Fuller, I took coach, and at the end of Jewen Street next Red Cross Street
      I sent the coachman to her lodging, and understand she is gone for
      Greenwich to one Marys's, a tanner's, at which I, was glad, hoping to have
      opportunity to find her out; and so, in great fear of being seen, I to the
      office, and there all the morning, dined at home, and presently after
      dinner comes home my wife, who I believe is jealous of my spending the
      day, and I had very good fortune in being at home, for if Deb. had been to
      have been found it is forty to one but I had been abroad, God forgive me.
      So the afternoon at the office, and at night walked with my wife in the
      garden, and my Lord Brouncker with us, who is newly come to W. Pen's
      lodgings; and by and by comes Mr. Hooke; and my Lord, and he, and I into
      my Lord's lodgings, and there discoursed of many fine things in
      philosophy, to my great content, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      5th. Up, and thought to have gone with Lord Brouncker to Mr. Hooke this
      morning betimes; but my Lord is taken ill of the gout, and says his new
      lodgings have infected him, he never having had any symptoms of it till
      now. So walked to Gresham College, to tell Hooke that my Lord could not
      come; and so left word, he being abroad, and I to St. James's, and thence,
      with the Duke of York, to White Hall, where the Board waited on him all
      the morning: and so at noon with Sir Thomas Allen, and Sir Edward Scott,
      and Lord Carlingford, to the Spanish Embassador's, where I dined the first
      time. The Olio not so good as Sheres's. There was at the table himself and
      a Spanish Countess, a good, comely, and witty lady-three Fathers and us.
      Discourse good and pleasant. And here was an Oxford scholar in a Doctor of
      Law's gowne, sent from the College where the Embassador lay, when the
      Court was there, to salute him before his return to Spain: This man,
      though a gentle sort of scholar, yet sat like a fool for want of French or
      Spanish, but [knew] only Latin, which he spoke like an Englishman to one
      of the Fathers. And by and by he and I to talk, and the company very merry
      at my defending Cambridge against Oxford: and I made much use of my French
      and Spanish here, to my great content. But the dinner not extraordinary at
      all, either for quantity or quality. Thence home, where my wife ill of
      those upon the maid's bed, and troubled at my being abroad. So I to the
      office, and there till night, and then to her, and she read to me the
      Epistle of Cassandra, which is very good indeed; and the better to her,
      because recommended by Sheres. So to supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      6th. Up, and by coach to Sir W. Coventry's, but he gone out. I by water
      back to the Office, and there all the morning; then to dinner, and then to
      the Office again, and anon with my wife by coach to take the ayre, it
      being a noble day, as far as the Greene Man, mightily pleased with our
      journey, and our condition of doing it in our own coach, and so home, and
      to walk in the garden, and so to supper and to bed, my eyes being bad with
      writing my journal, part of it, to-night.
    </p>
    <p>
      7th. Up, and by coach to W. Coventry's; and there to talk with him a great
      deal with great content; and so to the Duke of York, having a great mind
      to speak to him about Tangier; but, when I come to it, his interest for my
      Lord Middleton is such that I dare not. So to the Treasury chamber, and
      then walked home round by the Excise Office, having by private vows last
      night in prayer to God Almighty cleared my mind for the present of the
      thoughts of going to Deb. at Greenwich, which I did long after. I passed
      by Guildhall, which is almost finished, and saw a poor labourer carried
      by, I think, dead with a fall, as many there are, I hear. So home to
      dinner, and then to the office a little, and so to see my Lord Brouncker,
      who is a little ill of the gout; and there Madam Williams told me that she
      heard that my wife was going into France this year, which I did not deny,
      if I can get time, and I pray God I may. But I wondering how she come to
      know it, she tells me a woman that my wife spoke to for a maid, did tell
      her so, and that a lady that desires to go thither would be glad to go in
      her company. Thence with my wife abroad, with our coach, most pleasant
      weather; and to Hackney, and into the marshes, where I never was before,
      and thence round about to Old Ford and Bow; and coming through the latter
      home, there being some young gentlewomen at a door, and I seeming not to
      know who they were, my wife's jealousy told me presently that I knew well
      enough it was that damned place where Deb. dwelt, which made me swear very
      angrily that it was false, as it was, and I carried [her] back again to
      see the place, and it proved not so, so I continued out of humour a good
      while at it, she being willing to be friends, so I was by and by, saying
      no more of it. So home, and there met with a letter from Captain Silas
      Taylor, and, with it, his written copy of a play that he hath wrote, and
      intends to have acted.&mdash;It is called "The Serenade, or
      Disappointment," which I will read, not believing he can make any good of
      that kind. He did once offer to show Harris it, but Harris told him that
      he would judge by one Act whether it were good or no, which is indeed a
      foolish saying, and we see them out themselves in the choice of a play
      after they have read the whole, it being sometimes found not fit to act
      above three times; nay, and some that have been refused at one house is
      found a good one at the other. This made Taylor say he would not shew it
      him, but is angry, and hath carried it to the other house, and he thinks
      it will be acted there, though he tells me they are not yet agreed upon
      it. But I will find time to get it read to me, and I did get my wife to
      begin a little to-night in the garden, but not so much as I could make any
      judgment of it. So home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      8th. Up, and to the Office, and there comes Lead to me, and at last my
      vizards are done, and glasses got to put in and out, as I will; and I
      think I have brought it to the utmost, both for easiness of using and
      benefit, that I can; and so I paid him 15s. for what he hath done now
      last, in the finishing them, and they, I hope, will do me a great deal of
      ease. At the Office all the morning, and this day, the first time, did
      alter my side of the table, after above eight years sitting on that next
      the fire. But now I am not able to bear the light of the windows in my
      eyes, I do begin there, and I did sit with much more content than I had
      done on the other side for a great while, and in winter the fire will not
      trouble my back. At noon home to dinner, and after dinner all the
      afternoon within, with Mr. Hater, Gibson, and W. Hewer, reading over and
      drawing up new things in the Instructions of Commanders, which will be
      good, and I hope to get them confirmed by the Duke of York, though I
      perceive nothing will effectually perfect them but to look over the whole
      body of the Instructions, of all the Officers of a ship, and make them all
      perfect together. This being done, comes my bookseller, and brings me home
      bound my collection of papers, about my Addresse to the Duke of York in
      August, which makes me glad, it being that which shall do me more right
      many years hence than, perhaps, all I ever did in my life: and therefore I
      do, both for my own and the King's sake, value it much. By and by also
      comes Browne, the mathematical instrument maker, and brings me home my
      instrument for perspective, made according to the description of Dr.
      Wren's, in the late Transactions; and he hath made it, I think, very well,
      and that, that I believe will do the thing, and therein gives me great
      content; but have I fear all the content that must be received by my eyes
      is almost lost. So to the office, and there late at business, and then
      home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      9th (Lord's day). Up; and, after dressing in my best suit with gold
      trimming, I to the Office, and there with Gibson and Tom finishing against
      to-morrow my notes upon Commanders' Instructions; and, when church-time,
      to church with my wife, leaving them at work. Dr. Mills preached a dull
      sermon, and so we home to dinner; and thence by coach to St. Andrew's,
      Holborne, thinking to have heard Dr. Stillingfleete preach, but we could
      not get a place, and so to St. Margaret's, Westminster, and there heard a
      sermon, and did get a place, the first we have heard there these many
      years, and here at a distance I saw Betty Michell, but she is become much
      a plainer woman than she was a girl. Thence towards the Park, but too soon
      to go in, so went on to Knightsbridge, and there eat and drank at "The
      World's End," where we had good things, and then back to the Park, and
      there till night, being fine weather, and much company, and so home, and
      after supper to bed. This day I first left off both my waistcoats by day,
      and my waistcoat by night, it being very hot weather, so hot as to make me
      break out, here and there, in my hands, which vexes me to see, but is good
      for me.
    </p>
    <p>
      10th. Troubled, about three in the morning, with my wife's calling her
      maid up, and rising herself, to go with her coach abroad, to gather
      May-dew, which she did, and I troubled for it, for fear of any hurt, going
      abroad so betimes, happening to her; but I to sleep again, and she come
      home about six, and to bed again all well, and I up and with Mr. Gibson by
      coach to St. James's, and thence to White Hall, where the Duke of York met
      the Office, and there discoursed of several things, particularly the
      Instructions of Commanders of ships. But here happened by chance a
      discourse of the Council of Trade, against which the Duke of York is
      mightily displeased, and particularly Mr. Child, against whom he speaking
      hardly, Captain Cox did second the Duke of York, by saying that he was
      talked of for an unfayre dealer with masters of ships, about freight: to
      which Sir T. Littleton very hotly and foolishly replied presently, that he
      never heard any honest man speak ill of Child; to which the Duke of York
      did make a smart reply, and was angry; so as I was sorry to hear it come
      so far, and that I, by seeming to assent to Cox, might be observed too
      much by Littleton, though I said nothing aloud, for this must breed great
      heart-burnings. After this meeting done, the Duke of York took the
      Treasurers into his closet to chide them, as Mr. Wren tells me; for that
      my Lord Keeper did last night at the Council say, when nobody was ready to
      say any thing against the constitution of the Navy, that he did believe
      the Treasurers of the Navy had something to say, which was very foul on
      their part, to be parties against us. They being gone, Mr. Wren [and I]
      took boat, thinking to dine with my Lord of Canterbury; but, when we come
      to Lambeth, the gate was shut, which is strictly done at twelve o'clock,
      and nobody comes in afterwards: so we lost our labour, and therefore back
      to White Hall, and thence walked my boy Jacke with me, to my Lord Crew,
      whom I have not seen since he was sick, which is eight months ago, I think
      and there dined with him: he is mightily broke. A stranger a country
      gentleman, was with him: and he pleased with my discourse accidentally
      about the decay of gentlemen's families in the country, telling us that
      the old rule was, that a family might remain fifty miles from London one
      hundred years, one hundred miles from London two hundred years, and so
      farther, or nearer London more or less years. He also told us that he hath
      heard his father say, that in his time it was so rare for a country
      gentleman to come to London, that, when he did come, he used to make his
      will before he set out. Thence: to St. James's, and there met the Duke of
      York, who told me, with great content, that he did now think he should
      master our adversaries, for that the King did tell him that he was;
      satisfied in the constitution of the Navy, but that it was well to give
      these people leave to object against it, which they having not done, he
      did give order to give warrant to the Duke of York to direct Sir Jeremy
      Smith to be a Commissioner of the Navy in the room of Pen; which, though
      he be an impertinent fellow, yet I am glad of it, it showing that the
      other side is not so strong as it was: and so, in plain terms, the Duke of
      York did tell me, that they were every day losing ground; and particularly
      that he would take care to keep out Child: at all which I am glad, though
      yet I dare not think myself secure, as the King may yet be wrought upon by
      these people to bring changes in our Office, and remove us, ere it be
      long. Thence I to White Hall, an there took boat to Westminster, and to
      Mrs. Martin's, who is not come to town from her husband at Portsmouth. So
      drank only at Cragg's with Doll, and so to the Swan, and there baiser a
      new maid that is there, and so to White Hall again, to a Committee of
      Tangier, where I see all things going to rack in the business of the
      Corporation, and consequently in the place, by Middleton's going. Thence
      walked a little with Creed, who tells me he hears how fine my horses and
      coach are, and advises me to avoid being noted for it, which I was vexed
      to hear taken notice of, it being what I feared and Povy told me of my
      gold-lace sleeves in the Park yesterday, which vexed me also, so as to
      resolve never to appear in Court with them, but presently to have them
      taken off, as it is fit I should, and so to my wife at Unthanke's, and
      coach, and so called at my tailor's to that purpose, and so home, and
      after a little walk in the garden, home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      11th. My wife again up by four o'clock, to go to gather May-dew; and so
      back home by seven, to bed, and by and by I up and to the office, where
      all the morning, and dined at noon at home with my people, and so all the
      afternoon. In the evening my wife and I all alone, with the boy, by water,
      up as high as Putney almost, with the tide, and back again, neither
      staying going nor coming; but talking, and singing, and reading a foolish
      copy of verses upon my Lord Mayor's entertaining of all the bachelors,
      designed in praise to my Lord Mayor, and so home and to the office a
      little, and then home to bed, my eyes being bad. Some trouble at Court for
      fear of the Queen's miscarrying; she being, as they all conclude, far gone
      with child.
    </p>
    <p>
      12th. Up, and to Westminster Hall, where the term is, and this the first
      day of my being there, and here by chance met Roger Pepys, come to town
      the last night: I was glad to see him. After some talk with him and
      others, and among others Sir Charles Harbord and Sidney Montagu, the
      latter of whom is to set out to-morrow towards Flanders and Italy, I
      invited them to dine with me to-morrow, and so to Mrs. Martin's lodging,
      who come to town last night, and there je did hazer her, she having been a
      month, I think, at Portsmouth with her husband, newly come home from the
      Streights. But, Lord! how silly the woman talks of her great entertainment
      there, and how all the gentry come to visit her, and that she believes her
      husband is worth L6 or L700, which nevertheless I am glad of, but I doubt
      they will spend it a fast. Thence home, and after dinner my wife and I to
      the Duke of York's playhouse, and there, in the side balcony, over against
      the musick, did hear, but not see, a new play, the first day acted, "The
      Roman Virgin," an old play, and but ordinary, I thought; but the trouble
      of my eyes with the light of the candles did almost kill me. Thence to my
      Lord Sandwich's, and there had a promise from Sidney to come and dine with
      me to-morrow; and so my wife and I home in our coach, and there find my
      brother John, as I looked for, come to town from Ellington, where, among
      other things, he tell me the first news that my [sister Jackson] is with
      child, and fat gone, which I know not whether it did more trouble or
      please me, having no great care for my friends to have children; though I
      love other people's. So, glad to see him, we to supper, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      13th. Up, and to the office, where all the morning, it being a rainy foul
      day. But at noon comes my Lord Hinchingbroke, and Sidney, and Sir Charles
      Harbord, and Roger Pepys, and dined with me; and had a good dinner, and
      very merry with; us all the afternoon, it being a farewell to Sidney; and
      so in the evening they away, and I to my business at the Office and so to
      supper, and talk with my brother, and so to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      14th. Up, and to St. James's to the Duke of York, and thence to White
      Hall, where we met about office business, and then at noon with Mr. Wren
      to Lambeth, to dinner with the Archbishop of Canterbury; the first time I
      was ever there and I have long longed for it; where a noble house, and
      well furnished with good pictures and furniture, and noble attendance in
      good order, and great deal of company, though an ordinary day; and
      exceeding great cheer, no where better, or so much, that ever I think I
      saw, for an ordinary table: and the Bishop mighty kind to me, particularly
      desiring my company another time, when less company there. Most of the
      company gone, and I going, I heard by a gentleman of a sermon that was to
      be there; and so I staid to hear it, thinking it serious, till by and by
      the gentleman told me it was a mockery, by one Cornet Bolton, a very
      gentleman-like man, that behind a chair did pray and preach like a
      Presbyter Scot that ever I heard in my life, with all the possible
      imitation in grimaces and voice. And his text about the hanging up their
      harps upon the willows: and a serious good sermon too, exclaiming against
      Bishops, and crying up of my good Lord Eglinton, a till it made us all
      burst; but I did wonder to have the Bishop at this time to make himself
      sport with things of this kind, but I perceive it was shewn him as a
      rarity; and he took care to have the room-door shut, but there were about
      twenty gentlemen there, and myself, infinitely pleased with the novelty.
      So over to White Hall, to a little Committee of Tangier; and thence
      walking in the Gallery, I met Sir Thomas Osborne, who, to my great
      content, did of his own accord fall into discourse with me, with so much
      professions of value and respect, placing the whole virtue of the Office
      of the Navy upon me, and that for the Comptroller's place, no man in
      England was fit for it but me, when Sir J. Minnes, as he says it is
      necessary, is removed: but then he knows not what to do for a man in my
      place; and in discourse, though I have no mind to the other, I did bring
      in Tom Hater to be the fittest man in the world for it, which he took good
      notice of. But in the whole I was mightily pleased, reckoning myself now
      fifty per cent. securer in my place than I did before think myself to be.
      Thence to Unthanke's, and there find my wife, but not dressed, which vexed
      me, because going to the Park, it being a most pleasant day after
      yesterday's rain, which lays all the dust, and most people going out
      thither, which vexed me. So home, sullen; but then my wife and I by water,
      with my brother, as high as Fulham, talking and singing, and playing the
      rogue with the Western barge-men, about the women of Woolwich, which mads
      them, an so back home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      15th. Up, and at the Office all the morning. Dined at home and Creed with
      me home, and I did discourse about evening some reckonings with him in the
      afternoon; but I could not, for my eyes, do it, which troubled me, and
      vexed him that would not; but yet we were friends, I advancing him more
      without it, and so to walk all the afternoon together in the garden; and I
      perceive still he do expect a change in of matters, especially as to
      religion, and fits himself for it by professing himself for it in his
      discourse. He gone, I to my business at my Office, and so at night home to
      supper, and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      16th (Lord's day). My wife and I at church, our pew filled with Mrs.
      Backewell, and six more that she brought with her, which vexed me at her
      confidence. Dined at home and W. Batelier with us, and I all the afternoon
      drawing up a foul draught of my petition to the Duke of York, about my
      eyes, for leave to spend three or four months out of the Office, drawing
      it so as to give occasion to a voyage abroad which I did, to my pretty
      good liking; and then with my wife to Hyde Park, where a good deal of
      company, and good weather, and so home to supper and to bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      17th. Up, and to several places doing business, and the home to dinner,
      and then my wife and I and brother John by coach to the King's playhouse,
      and saw "The Spanish Curate" revived, which is a pretty good play, but my
      eyes troubled with seeing it, mightily. Thence carried them and Mr.
      Gibson, who met me at my Lord Brouncker's with a fair copy of my petition,
      which I thought to shew the Duke of York this night, but could not, and
      therefore carried them to the Park, where they had never been, and so home
      to supper and to bed. Great the news now of the French taking St. Domingo,
      in Spaniola, from the Spaniards, which troubles us, that they should have
      it, and have the honour of taking it, when we could not.
    </p>
    <p>
      18th. Up, and to St. James's and other places, and then to the office,
      where all the morning. At noon home and dined in my wife's chamber, she
      being much troubled with the tooth-ake, and I staid till a surgeon of hers
      come, one Leeson, who hath formerly drawn her mouth, and he advised her to
      draw it: so I to the Office, and by and by word is come that she hath
      drawn it, which pleased me, it being well done. So I home, to comfort her,
      and so back to the office till night, busy, and so home to supper and to
      bed.
    </p>
    <p>
      19th. With my coach to St. James's; and there finding the Duke of York
      gone to muster his men, in Hyde Park, I alone with my boy thither, and
      there saw more, walking out of my coach as other gentlemen did, of a
      soldier's trade, than ever I did in my life: the men being mighty fine,
      and their Commanders, particularly the Duke of Monmouth; but me-thought
      their trade but very easy as to the mustering of their men, and the men
      but indifferently ready to perform what was commanded, in the handling of
      their arms. Here the news was first talked of Harry Killigrew's being
      wounded in nine places last night, by footmen, in the highway, going from
      the Park in a hackney-coach towards Hammersmith, to his house at Turnham
      Greene: they being supposed to be my Lady Shrewsbury's men, she being by,
      in her coach with six horses; upon an old grudge of his saying openly that
      he had lain with her. Thence by and by to White Hall, and there I waited
      upon the King and Queen all dinner-time, in the Queen's lodgings, she
      being in her white pinner and apron, like a woman with child; and she
      seemed handsomer plain so, than dressed. And by and by, dinner done, I
      out, and to walk in the Gallery, for the Duke of York's coming out; and
      there, meeting Mr. May, he took me down about four o'clock to Mr.
      Chevins's lodgings, and all alone did get me a dish of cold chickens, and
      good wine; and I dined like a prince, being before very hungry and empty.
      By and by the Duke of York comes, and readily took me to his closet, and
      received my petition, and discoursed about my eyes, and pitied me, and
      with much kindness did give me his consent to be absent, and approved of
      my proposition to go into Holland to observe things there, of the Navy;
      but would first ask the King's leave, which he anon did, and did tell me
      that the King would be a good master to me, these were his words, about my
      eyes, and do like of my going into Holland, but do advise that nobody
      should know of my going thither, but pretend that I did go into the
      country somewhere, which I liked well. Glad of this, I home, and thence
      took out my wife, and to Mr. Holliard's about a swelling in her cheek, but
      he not at home, and so round by Islington and eat and drink, and so home,
      and after supper to bed. In discourse this afternoon, the Duke of York did
      tell me that he was the most amazed at one thing just now, that ever he
      was in his life, which was, that the Duke of Buckingham did just now come
      into the Queen's bed-chamber, where the King was, and much mixed company,
      and among others, Tom Killigrew, the father of Harry, who was last night
      wounded so as to be in danger of death, and his man is quite dead; and
      [Buckingham] there in discourse did say that he had spoke with some one
      that was by (which all the world must know that it must be his whore, my
      Lady Shrewsbury), who says that they did not mean to hurt, but beat him,
      and that he did run first at them with his sword; so that he do hereby
      clearly discover that he knows who did it, and is of conspiracy with them,
      being of known conspiracy with her, which the Duke of York did seem to be
      pleased with, and said it might, perhaps, cost him his life in the House
      of Lords; and I find was mightily pleased with it, saying it was the most
      impudent thing, as well as the most foolish, that ever he knew man do in
      all his life.
    </p>
    <p>
      20th. Up and to the Office, where all the morning. At noon, the whole
      Office&mdash;Brouncker, J. Minnes, T. Middleton, Samuel Pepys, and Captain
      Cox to dine with the Parish, at the Three Tuns, this day being
      Ascension-day, where exceeding good discourse among the merchants, and
      thence back home, and after a little talk with my wife, to my office did a
      great deal of business, and so with my eyes might weary, and my head full
      of care how to get my accounts and business settled against my journey,
      home to supper, and bed. Yesterday, at my coming home, I found that my
      wife had, on a sudden, put away Matt upon some falling out, and I doubt my
      wife did call her ill names by my wife's own discourse; but I did not
      meddle to say anything upon it, but let her go, being not sorry, because
      now we may get one that speaks French, to go abroad with us.
    </p>
    <p>
      21st. I waited with the Office upon the Duke of York in the morning. Dined
      at home, where Lewis Phillips the friend of his, dined with me. In the
      afternoon at the Office. In the evening visited by Roger Pepys and Philip
      Packer and so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      22nd. Dined at home, the rest of the whole day at office.
    </p>
    <p>
      23rd (Lord's day). Called up by Roger Pepys and his son who to church with
      me, and then home to dinner. In the afternoon carried them to Westminster,
      and myself to James's, where, not finding the Duke of York, back home, and
      with my wife spent the evening taking the ayre about Hackney, with great
      pleasure, and places we had never seen before.
    </p>
    <p>
      24th. To White Hall, and there all the morning, and they home, and giving
      order for some business and setting my brother to making a catalogue of my
      books, I back again to W. Hewer to White Hall, where I attended the Duke
      of York and was by him led to [the King], who expressed great sense of my
      misfortune in my eyes, and concernment for their recovery; and accordingly
      signified, not only his assent to desire therein, but commanded me to give
      them rest summer, according to my late petition to the Duke of York. W.
      Hewer and I dined alone at the Swan; and thence having thus waited on the
      King, spent till four o'clock in St. James's Park, when I met my wife at
      Unthanke's, and so home.
    </p>
    <p>
      25th. Dined at home; and the rest of the day, morning and afternoon, at
      the Office.
    </p>
    <p>
      26th. To White Hall, where all the morning. Dined with Mr. Chevins, with
      Alderman Backewell, and Spragg. The Court full of the news from Captain
      Hubbert, of "The Milford," touching his being affronted in the Streights,
      shot at, and having eight men killed him by a French man-of-war, calling
      him "English dog," and commanding him to strike, which he refused, and, as
      knowing himself much too weak for him, made away from him. The Queen, as
      being supposed with child, fell ill, so as to call for Madam Nun, Mr.
      Chevins's sister, and one of her women, from dinner from us; this being
      the last day of their doubtfulness touching her being with child; and they
      were therein well confirmed by her Majesty's being well again before
      night. One Sir Edmund Bury Godfry, a woodmonger and justice of Peace in
      Westminster, having two days since arrested Sir Alexander Frazier for
      about L30 in firing, the bailiffs were apprehended, committed to the
      porter's lodge, and there, by the King's command, the last night severely
      whipped; from which the justice himself very hardly escaped, to such an
      unusual degree was the King moved therein. But he lies now in the lodge,
      justifying his act, as grounded upon the opinion of several of the judges,
      and, among others, my Lord Chief-Justice; which makes the King very angry
      with the Chief-Justice, as they say; and the justice do lie and justify
      his act, and says he will suffer in the cause for the people, and do
      refuse to receive almost any nutriment. The effects of it may be bad to
      the Court. Expected a meeting of Tangier this afternoon, but failed. So
      home, met by my wife at Unthanke's.
    </p>
    <p>
      27th. At the office all the morning, dined at home, Mr. Hollier with me.
      Presented this day by Mr. Browne with a book of drawing by him, lately
      printed, which cost me 20s. to him. In the afternoon to the Temple, to
      meet with Auditor Aldworth about my interest account, but failed meeting
      him. To visit my cozen Creed, and found her ill at home, being with child,
      and looks poorly. Thence to her husband, at Gresham College, upon some
      occasions of Tangier; and so home, with Sir John Bankes with me, to Mark
      Lane.
    </p>
    <p>
      28th. To St. James's, where the King's being with the Duke of York
      prevented a meeting of the Tangier Commission. But, Lord! what a deal of
      sorry discourse did I hear between the King and several Lords about him
      here! but very mean methought. So with Creed to the Excise Office, and
      back to White Hall, where, in the Park, Sir G. Carteret did give me an
      account of his discourse lately, with the Commissioners of Accounts, who
      except against many things, but none that I find considerable; among
      others, that of the Officers of the Navy selling of the King's goods, and
      particularly my providing him with calico flags, which having been by
      order, and but once, when necessity, and the King's apparent profit,
      justified it, as conformable to my particular duty, it will prove to my
      advantage that it be enquired into. Nevertheless, having this morning
      received from them a demand of an account of all monies within their
      cognizance, received and issued by me, I was willing, upon this hint, to
      give myself rest, by knowing whether their meaning therein might reach
      only to my Treasurership for Tangier, or the monies employed on this
      occasion. I went, therefore, to them this afternoon, to understand what
      monies they meant, where they answered me, by saying, "The eleven months'
      tax, customs, and prizemoney," without mentioning, any more than I
      demanding, the service they respected therein; and so, without further
      discourse, we parted, upon very good terms of respect, and with few words,
      but my mind not fully satisfied about the monies they mean. At noon Mr.
      Gibson and I dined at the Swan, and thence doing this at Brook house, and
      thence caking at the Excise Office for an account of payment of my tallies
      for Tangier, I home, and thence with my wife and brother spent the evening
      on the water, carrying our supper with us, as high as Chelsea; so home,
      making sport with the Westerne bargees, and my wife and I singing, to my
      great content.
    </p>
    <p>
      29th. The King's birth-day. To White Hall, where all very gay; and
      particularly the Prince of Tuscany very fine, and is the first day of his
      appearing out of mourning, since he come. I heard the Bishop of
      Peterborough' preach but dully; but a good anthem of Pelham's. Home to
      dinner, and then with my wife to Hyde Park, where all the evening; great
      store of company, and great preparations by the Prince of Tuscany to
      celebrate the night with fire-works, for the King's birth-day. And so
      home.
    </p>
    <p>
      30th (Whitsunday). By water to White Hall, and thence to Sir W. Coventry,
      where all the morning by his bed-side, he being indisposed. Our discourse
      was upon the notes I have lately prepared for Commanders' Instructions;
      but concluded that nothing will render them effectual, without an
      amendment in the choice of them, that they be seamen, and not gentleman
      above the command of the Admiral, by the greatness of their relations at
      Court. Thence to White Hall, and dined alone with Mr. Chevins his sister:
      whither by and by come in Mr. Progers and Sir Thomas Allen, and by and by
      fine Mrs. Wells, who is a great beauty; and there I had my full gaze upon
      her, to my great content, she being a woman of pretty conversation. Thence
      to the Duke of York, who, with the officers of the Navy, made a good
      entrance on my draught of my new Instructions to Commanders, as well
      expressing general [views] of a reformation among them, as liking of my
      humble offers towards it. Thence being called by my wife, Mr. Gibson and
      I, we to the Park, whence the rain suddenly home.
    </p>
    <p>
      31st. Up very betimes, and so continued all the morning with W. Hewer,
      upon examining and stating my accounts, in order to the fitting myself to
      go abroad beyond sea, which the ill condition of my eyes, and my neglect
      for a year or two, hath kept me behindhand in, and so as to render it very
      difficult now, and troublesome to my mind to do it; but I this day made a
      satisfactory entrance therein. Dined at home, and in the afternoon by
      water to White Hall, calling by the way at Michell's, where I have not
      been many a day till just the other day, and now I met her mother there
      and knew her husband to be out of town. And here je did baiser elle, but
      had not opportunity para hazer some with her as I would have offered if je
      had had it. And thence had another meeting with the Duke of York, at White
      Hall, on yesterday's work, and made a good advance: and so, being called
      by my wife, we to the Park, Mary Batelier, and a Dutch gentleman, a friend
      of hers, being with us. Thence to "The World's End," a drinking-house by
      the Park; and there merry, and so home late.
    </p>
    <p>
      And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes
      in the keeping of my journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having
      done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in
      my hand; and, therefore, whatever comes of it, I must forbear: and,
      therefore, resolve, from this time forward, to have it kept by my people
      in long-hand, and must therefore be contented to set down no more than is
      fit for them and all the world to know; or, if there be any thing, which
      cannot be much, now my amours to Deb. are past, and my eyes hindering me
      in almost all other pleasures, I must endeavour to keep a margin in my
      book open, to add, here and there, a note in short-hand with my own hand.
    </p>
    <p>
      And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see
      myself go into my grave: for which, and all the discomforts that will
      accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!
    </p>
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      May 31, 1669.
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    <p>
      First issue of this edition June, 1896. Reprinted 1897.
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    <p>
      In the present volume the Diary is completed, and we here take leave of a
      writer who has done so much to interest and enlighten successive
      generations of English readers, and who is now for the first time
      presented to the world as he really drew his own portrait day by day.
    </p>
    <p>
      No one who has followed the daily notes of Samuel Pepys from January,
      1660, to May, 1669, but must feel sincere regret at their abrupt
      conclusion, more particularly as the writer lays down his pen while in an
      unhappy temper.
    </p>
    <p>
      It is evident from the tone of his later utterances that Pepys thought
      that he was going blind, a belief which was happily falsified. The holiday
      tour in which Charles II. and James, Duke of York, took so much interest
      appears to have had its desired effect in restoring the Diarist to health.
    </p>
    <p>
      The rest of his eventful life must be sought in the history of the English
      Navy which he helped to form, and in his numerous letters, which on some
      future occasion the present editor hopes to annotate. The details to be
      obtained from these sources form, however, but a sorry substitute for the
      words written in the solitude of his office by Pepys for his own eye
      alone, and we cannot but feel how great is the world's loss in that he
      never resumed the writing of his journal. All must agree with Coleridge
      when he wrote on the margin of a copy of the Diary: "Truly may it be said
      that this was a greater and more grievous loss to the mind's eye of
      posterity than to the bodily organs of Pepys himself. It makes me restless
      and discontented to think what a Diary equal in minuteness and truth of
      portraiture to the preceding from 1669 to 1688 or 1690 would have been for
      the true causes, process and character of the Revolution."
    </p>
    <p>
      Most works of this nature are apt to tire when they are extended over a
      certain length of time, but Pepys's pages are always fresh, and most
      readers wish for more. For himself the editor can say that each time he
      has read over the various proofs he has read with renewed interest, so
      that it is with no ordinary feelings of regret that he comes to the end of
      his task, and he believes that every reader will feel the same regret that
      he has no more to read.
    </p>
    <p>
      In reviewing the Diary it is impossible not to notice the growth of
      historical interest as it proceeds. In the earlier period we find Pepys
      surrounded by men not otherwise known, but as the years pass, and his
      position becomes more assured, we find him in daily communication with the
      chief men of his day, and evidently every one who came in contact with him
      appreciated his remarkable ability. The survival of the Diary must ever
      remain a marvel. It could never have been intended for the reading of
      others, but doubtless the more elaborate portraits of persons in the later
      pages were intended for use when Pepys came to write his projected history
      of the Navy.
    </p>
    <p>
      The only man who is uniformly spoken well of in the Diary is Sir William
      Coventry, and many of the characters introduced come in for severe
      castigation. It is therefore the more necessary to remember that many of
      the judgments on men were set down hastily, and would probably have been
      modified had occasion offered. At all events, we know that, however much
      he may have censured them, Pepys always helped on those who were dependent
      upon him.
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      H. R. W. <br /> <br />
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