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Title: Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jul/Aug 1663

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                THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A.  F.R.S.

            CLERK OF THE ACTS AND SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY

   TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SHORTHAND MANUSCRIPT IN THE PEPYSIAN LIBRARY
MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE BY THE REV. MYNORS BRIGHT M.A. LATE FELLOW
                      AND PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE

                              (Unabridged)

                      WITH LORD BRAYBROOKE'S NOTES

                        EDITED WITH ADDITIONS BY

                        HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A.



                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                              JULY & AUGUST
                                  1663


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,

     [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.]

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:--[not true]--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.



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,

     [Antoine, Duc de Gramont, marshal of France, who died July 12th,
     1678, aged seventy-four.  His memoirs have been published.]

and afterwards by the Cardinall,--[Mazarin]-- 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.


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.

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.



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:

"I wonder your Majesty," says she, "can have the patience to sit so long
a-dressing?"--"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,
&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--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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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, &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, &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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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, &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.



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.



20th.  Up and to my office, and then walked to Woolwich, reading Bacon's
"Faber fortunae,"

     [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.]

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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



26th (Lord's-day).  Up and to the Wells,


     [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.]

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.



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, &c.,
Prelats, &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, &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.



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.



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, &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.



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.



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.






                          DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
                                 AUGUST
                                  1663


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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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,

     [A large birdcage, in which the birds can fly about; French
     'voliere'.  Ben Jonson uses the word volary.]

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,

     [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.]

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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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, &c., till
the evening, and after that in my closet till late, and quite tired with
business, home to supper and to bed.



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.



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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And so to bed and there entertained her with great content
Apprehend about one hundred Quakers
Being cleansed of lice this day by my wife
Conceited, but that's no matter to me
Fear it may do him no good, but me hurt
Fearful that I might not go far enough with my hat off
He having made good promises, though I fear his performance
My wife has got too great head to be brought down soon
So much is it against my nature to owe anything to any body
Sporting in my fancy with the Queen
Things being dear and little attendance to be had we went away
Towzing her and doing what I would, but the last thing of all.  .  .  .




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